The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-26

at Madrid on Sunday by the authorities
or the Jesuit convent which she had beer
induced to enter, now announces her in
tent1on to re-enter the institution on at
tanning her majority.
The manifestations. at Oporto, against
the clericals continue. The police are do
ing everything possible to overcome the
disorder. crowd assembled before the
obliged to appear on the balcony with his
wife, They were loudly acclaimed The
police dispersed the manifestations. A few
arrests were made.
The court-martial which has been sit
ting at Cape Town to fix the responsibility
for the loss of the british second-cIass
cruiser Sybille, which was wrecked last
month near Lambert's bay. has sentenced
First Lieutenant Holland and Lieutenant
Cayley to be dismissed ship and TO for
felt two years seniority. The other officers
We're reprimanded.
Ell Liberal, of Madrid. publishes an in
terview with Senior Pi Margall. in which
the chief of the Republican Federal party
asserts that the people of Spain "have
raised the religious question because they
are tired of seeing the development of re-
iigious communities in Spain" especially
i'm the presence of the action of France
against religious associations.
The danger of trouble in the Balkans
seems to have passed. says the Vienna
correspondent of the London Times. but
it has required the plainest possible speak
ing on the part of Russia, supported by
both Austria and Great Britain, to pre-
vent an outbreak in Macedonia. There is
reason to believe also that Prince Ferdi-
nand has been admonished from an ex-
allied quarter"
wonderful discovery of gold is re-
ported in the Samoan islands. Black sand
running as high $40 ton is said to
have been found on the island of Upoia. II
is said that a company has been formed
and an S00-tOn schooner bought to work the
sand and carry the product to Sydney.
Nickel and tin ore are also declared to ex-
list in large quantities I'm Samoa. The COM
pany will send these ores to San Francisco.
According to the New York Tribune's
London correspondent, a great scheme of
and If the stories which have been widely
circulated prove to be correct, much time
will be occupied in its consideration. II
is said the British government proposes
to increase the standing army to $50 600
men, but ii is hardly credible that such
q proposal will be made, as ii would mean
almost the doubling Of the strength of
the regular forces.
surprising fact that there is no fire de-
partment in that city where untold millions
are stored up in the shape of inffammables.
1t seems the naphtha interests appropriate
ed five or six thousand rOubles for fire
extinguishing apparatus several years ago,
but the matter rested there, because no.
body knew precisely where 10 locate the
engine house, and the question of procur-
ing state property Tor site has never
been settled.
The Victoria memorial. says the New
York Tribune's London correspondent, is
headed by Archbishop Temple, Lord SAL
! isbury and Lord Rosebery, and will be
organized on broad lines. so as to include
all classes in the United Kingdom and
| India, Australia, Canada and other self
governing colonies The American Society
in London has taken measures for join
ing In the movement, and enabling Ameri-
cans everywhere to express their apprecia-
ton for the character of the Queen
Mr.. Clorston, superintendent of the Royal
Edinburgh Asylum, the largest in Scot
land, in reporting yesterday to the annual
meeting of the board of directors. as
cribed the increased number of additions to
the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants
during the recent period of brisk trade and
high wages. He also asserted that alco-
holic lunatics, judging from the admissions
TO the asylum. had increased from an aver
age OF l5x per cent, covering the years
between 1874 and ISIS, 10 241z per cent. In
1900. A consumptive race, Mi. Clouston de-
clares, might be cured in two generations.
but II would take one hundred years TO cure
drink-sodden race.