The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-28
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

The Argentine government has accepted
in principle the proposal OF European bank
ers for the uniicatiOn OF all the public
Indebtedness.
The work of laying a new cable line be-
tween Emden, province of Hanover, Prus-
sia, and Bacton, county of Norfolk, Eng
land, will begin next Tuesday. This will be
the seventeenth Angio-German cable line
laid.
The German imperial statistical annual
asserts that Germany last year gained So
$40 tons of petroleum, as compared with the
previous years output. This is a great in
crease. Nearly all came from Wietze, on
the Aller.
The German imperial insurance depart
ment reports that IL, Zoo. 900 persons are now
insured in Germany. Last year 454, 451 acct
dents occurred and the sum of SO, $685. 32
marks was paid out for claims, as against
IS,6S0,632 marks in 1899.
The Portuguese government has issued
a decree closing the Jesuit Church on the
Rua QuelhaS and the church of the
Franciscan missionaries on the Rua Patro-
cinio in Lisbon, and also the church OF the
German Benedictines at Aveiro.
The Berlin Tageblatt's st. Petersburg
correspondent says the recall of Count
acknowledgements, Russian military at
tache at Paris, has been ordered and that
the Russian ambassador to France, Prince
Ouroussoff. will probably soon be recalled.
Before leaving Berlin for German East
Africa, Countess Won Goetzen. wife of Ma
ior Count Won Goetzen, the newly appoint
ed governor OF Darms-Salaam, was re-
ceived by Empress Augusta Victoria, with
whom she had an audience lasting an hour.
William Damian. who was arrested by
the Bavarian police, at Ludwigschafen, on
the charge of having committed crimes
similar TO those of Jack the Ripper" muir
dered two girls several years ago. He has
been proven clearly guilty of a number OF
recent outrages-
The White Star line steamer Majestic.
which left New York March 20, arrived at
Queenstown yesterday. John J. DAILY. the
mayor of Limerick, who was among the
passengers. seemed to expect TO be ar
rested. because OF his speeches in the
United States. but the authorities had no
intention of taking any notice of mis- utter
ances.
Prior to the opening of the Reichsrath,
at Vienna, yesterday, two army officers APP
preached a deputy named klofac and de-
manded explanations regarding recent re-
marks made by him considered insulting
TO the army. klofac referred the Of
ficers TO some of his friends. who subse-
oUently declined TO afford them any salts
faction.
ter as ever. There is frost and snow every
where. Seven To ten degrees of frost were
registered in the London suburbs early yes
terday morning. There is considerable
thickness of ice on the lakes. Heavy snow
storms have swept over northern France
and there are several inches of snow on
the streets of Paris.
Among the safeguards TO be utilized here
after FOR the safety of Emperor William
wien he appears in public will be four
~bodyguards on bicycles accompanying the
carriage. The ~coachman and foOtman will
be armed with revolvers. Experiments with
these arrangements are now in progress at
Berlin under the supervision of aids-dc-
camp of the Emperor.
The bubOnic plague situation at Cape
Town Is assuming a graver aspect. The
proportion OF European victims OF the dis
ease Is increasing. Among those attacked,
Yesterday, were three soldiers belonging TO
different corps. A native employed in the
navy died at SimOnstown- Eight other col
ored cases and two Of Europeans are re-
ported from there and one native has died.
In the course of the debate on the budget
at Calcutta yesterday Lord Curzon Of
Kedleston. viceroy OF India. in a f1rcibie
speech. spoke OF the necessity OF reform in
many directions. and congratulated the
Council on the surplus after a year OF
famine. He said the currency policy had
gained strength and stability and that the
iavens had ceased 10 croak concerning IL.
The Paris Journal des Debats,
ing on the Anglo-American Nfcaraguan
correspondence, says. What IL especially
brought out in II Is this political factor