The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-30
Cable Notes.

The London County Council has sane
toned large extensions to the tramway sys-
tenn of London costing nearly &2,OOOOO0.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy accom-
panied by SignOr Prinetti, the minister of
foreign affairs, will start for Berlin Aug. %
TO visit Emperor William.
The Right Reverend Henry c. Potter,
accompanied by his daughter, is at Copen-
hagen. The bishop probably will be received
in audience by King Christian.
The new commercial treaty between
Great Britain and China was approved at a
conference held at the British Foreign
Office yesterday 1t is expected the govern
ment will now sanction the conclusion of
the treaty.
The Town Council of Dover has passed a
resolution to protest against the reported
intention of the military authorities to level
the famous Shakespeare cliff, one mile west
of Dover, because il interferes with the
range of new batteries.
A dispatch from Vienna says that the
Servian Cabinet, which resigned on July
"a has ended the crisis which resulted
from the resignation, by consenting 10 re-
main in office. The Cabinet resigned be-
cause of a government defeat in the cleo
ton of a president of the Skuptschina, or
national assembly.
Many pages of the British Court Gazette
are filled with General Kitchener on the
Boer war and his mention of men who dis
tinguished themselves while he was in COM
mand. The same issue commands the gen.
erals right to the title of Vscount Kitch-
ener of Khartoum and of the Vaal and of
Asphalt, in County Suffolk
The Bristol City Council has unanimously
decided to erect warehouses at the Bristol
docks for the Imperial Tobacco Company,
at a cost of $4,000. This action was
recommended TO the City Council by the
docks committee last week. The Imperial
Tobacco Company has decided to import
direct to Bristol instead of via Liverpool.
The German government succeeded in
getting the pig-irOn classes of the tariff bill
adopted by the tariff committee of the
Reichstag without amendment. but only
with strenuous opposition and long debate.
The Prussian minister of commerce, Herr
Moeller, assured the Liberals that their
fear of outside competition in the iron
| trade, owing to the retention of the Ger
man tariff. were utterly groundless.
Many American and English friends OF
| the family were present yesterday at a
| requiem mass said in St Marys Roman
| for the repose of the soul OF John w.
| Mackay The members of the family pres
ent were Clarence Mackay, the Princess
| Colonna, with her young son, and the
| daughter and two sons of the Countess
Telfner Mrs. Mackay, who is still pros
! trated. remained at home with her mother
| Mrs. HungerfOrd.
King Victor Emmanuel and the dowager
| Queen Marguerite together visited the
| Pantheon at Rome on Tuesday and Joined
in a solemn service In memory of King
| Humbert who was Killed TWO years ago.
! The service was strictly private After
this service there was a public one Many
wreaths were placed on the tomb among
/ them one sent by former United States Am
| bassador w. F. Draper, which was promi-
nenty placed. The crowd present was
very large, and as the heat was intense
many persons were Frustrated.
The inquest into the deaths OF victims OF
/ the Victoria street fire, London. on June
O. in which nine young girls were burned
/ to death was concluded yesterday, after
having occupied the attention of the press
/ and public for several weeks and having
subjected the London fire department Ia
I much unfaVOrable comment The ilry
/ found that the General Electric COMPANY
/ was guilty of gross neglect and of evasion
/ of the factory acts. Chief Wells's explana-
/ ton that the fire department had not ade-
! quate equipment was characterized as un-
/ satisfactory.