The Indianapolis journal., 1903-01-16
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.


Bradlee Strong, of New York; against her
former husband. Lord Francis Hope. for
$4,000, has been settled for 5000.
Members of leading firms representing
South African interests held an important
meeting in London Thursday and
definitely decided upon a war con-
tribution of 50,000,000, payable in
three annual installments of $4,000
600 and covered by a loan not redeemable
before ten years. The first S50,000.OO0 will
be issued in 1904. Baron Rothschild was
appointed to choose the date of the issue.
An announcement of the agreement ar
rived at was cabled to Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain at Johannesburg. His ac-
ceptance is anticipated.
Baron d. Estournelles de Constant, MEM
Der of the Chamber of Deputies and of The
Hague arbitration tribunal, has contributed
article to the Revue Bleue of Paris on
President Roosevelt and arbitration, in
which he says: 1.-The American peril has
become the American remedy. She threat
ened with material competitions; her
moral competition will save us at the same
time ii saves civilization. President Roose-
welt has realized our most generous hopes.
He is the veritable statesman of the twen-
tieth century and as such he deserves well
of his own country and of all parts of the
globe"
The Berlin sensation of the day is a
page exposure of Voerwartz, the Socialist
obtain possession of important government
circulars and information of what pur-
ports to be an attempt on the part of the
political police to bribe one of its employees
to reveal the secrets of the office. The en-
ploye referred to, man named Stofen,
was offered SIS monthly for his services.
He accepted the first bribe and turned the
money over to his paper which has warned
the police agents that all the information
possible on this and other subjects would
be published.
Advices received at Tangier from Fez are
to the effect that there is no probability
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tender to the throne being dispatched until
until the Sultan has mustered larger force
which he will lead personally. There was a
renewal of the fighting on Thursday be-
tween the factions outside of Tangier. The
house of a British subject was threatened
with attack. The Sultan's deputy sent
troops to protect this property whereupon
fired one village. Most all the Europeans
now in Tangier followed Thursdays opera
tions on horseback
The announcement that arrangements
had been made to publish daily papers on
Atlantic steamers supplied with wireless
telegraph system seems to be founded on
a plan. which goes into effect within a
fortnight, to send news bulletins to certain
steamers approaching the English coast
These messages will be sent from a wire-
less station now nearly completed at Brow
head. The Marconi company will only
undertake to send messages distances of
forty miles seaward and for the present,
at least, there will be no daily newspapers
published on board ships. News bulletins
will simply be displayed in various parts
of the steamers.
kilograms from Stockholm confirm the
distressing accounts of famine in northern
Sweden. About 10000 people are involved
in the famine, which extends from the
sixty-first to sixty-seventh degree north
latitude and from the Gulf Of Bothnia and
the Russian border far into the interior.
The starving people are eating pine bark
which is dried, ground to powder, mixed
with stewed Iceland moss and made into
a kind of famine bread. Coincident with
the failure of The crop is the extreme
scarcity of fish. The fishermen return
from their expeditions empty handed
Even ptarmigan, usually found in great
numbers in the stricken district, have al
most completely disappeared. 1t is esti-
mated that the expenditure of about
s6300,000 will be necessary to save the
population from decimation.