The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-28
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Frau Krupp has given $4,000 to establish
benefit fund for the workmen In Essen In
memory of her late husband.
Three additional German cruisers have
been ordered to leave Kiel and proceed to
Venezuela. They will sail as soon as they
can be made ready for sea.
Lord Reay, chairman of the London
School Board since 1897. and president OF
been appointed first president of the British
Academy.
special dispatch received at Madrid
from Tangier, Morocco, announces that the
Benidir Kables have again taken up arms
and that they have surrounded Tetuan
and occupy all the approaches to that place.
Mr. Charles NJ. Schwab and party start
ed from Paris for Cannes last night. 1t
is reported that he hopes to resume his
active business life sooner than was expect
ed. He intends to spend the next few
weeks on his yacht in the vicinity Of
Cannes.
The convalescence of Andrew Carnegie is
reported to be progressing favorably, cables
the New York Tribune correspondent at
London. He has neither left his room nor
his bed. but Is reported to be doing well in
every respect, and is anxious to return to
America.
General Mannings. Of the British flying
column, relieved Bohotle, Somalaliland,
Nov. 19. He found S5 per cent. of the
men composing the garrison suffering from
mslarial fever. The Mad Mullah is in the
X.
advance Of the British.
nounces that Lieutenant Dekok and forty
five Dutch troops. on board barge on a
river in the interior. were recently attacked
by band or Achinese with the result that
the barge sank and the lieutenant and
twenty men were drowned.
The gold standard scheme for Siam has
become a law and the minis have been
closed to the free coinage of silver III sue
no -
arising from the mining OF ticals, Ga
Siamese silver coin worth so cents) will be
set aside as a special gold reserve fund, for
the purpose of establishing gold currency.
painter, has finished a painting OF
Frederick the Great in the year 177S.'' the
year in which Frederick recognized
American independence. The painting is
Won Mcneil has arranged to reserve the
rights OF reproduction for the benefit OF
German-American hospitals.
An inquiry instituted in the scandals con-
corning the late Herr Krupp at Capri
island is said to have completely cleared
Herr Krupp's character and that the gov
eminent will prosecute the newspapers
which made the defamatory statements. IL
is stated the accusations against Herr
Krupp have been traced TO a German
painter, resident in Capri, whose arrest
was ordered. The painter disappeared.
A serious agitation is threatened in Bar
celona over the outcome of the publica-
ton of DEGREES prohibiting the recitation
of the catechism I'm the Catalan language.
and making the teaching of the Spanish
language compulsory. Numerous protests,
couched in the Catalan, French and Eng
lish languages have been sent TO the min
lister of education. The students at Bar
celona made a demonstration yesterday
and were charged by the civil guard and
dispersed. The civil guard afterward &C.
cupied the university.
Francis Reubel Bryan, an American, has
beer found dead in his room. shot through
the heart, presumably by himself. says a
New York World dispatch from Paris. He
was seventy years OF age. and came