The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-17
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

An epidemic of cholera is raging at Ker-
bella, south of Bagdad. From Dec 9 to Dec.
IL 17e deaths from the disease were re-
corded.
About 1900 Jews at Kishineff are asking
for aid to emigrate to Argentina or to Can
ada. They want tracts of land to establish
colonies.
1t was announced on reliable authority
at Belfast yesterday that twenty-six bat
talions of volunteers will shortly be raised
in Ireland. Hitherto the government had
refused to extend the volunteer movement
to Ireland.
King Christian and Prince waldemar Of
Denmark arrived at Berlin last night and
were conveyed in a royal carriage to the
Schloss. The King and prince will take
lunch Tomorrow with Emperor William in
the new palace at Potsdam.
Santos Dumont will start from Paris for
st. Louis in a fortnight to arrange for the
installation of his huge dirigibie balloon.
generators and to learn the quality of the
gas preliminary to taking part in the dirigi-
bic competition.
Garnine U~rcinoli, twenty-five years old,
has been condemned by the Court Of As
sizes at Avelino. Italy, to seventeen months
imprisonment for trying to poison a priest
named Preziosi by putting corrosive subli-
mate in the wine which the priest used in
celebrating mass.
The Rail- Cabinet Of Greece has resigned
the premier being unable to find sufficient
support I'm the Chamber of Deputies to car
~ out Ills policy. fOTmeT premier lneOtO-
kis. who has been intrusted with the task
of forming a new Cabinet. has asked for a
respite of twenty-four hours.
In order to further effect the separation
of church and state. the French govern
ment commission charged with the consid-
Grafton of the question has adopted the pro-
visions of a measure which proposes the
suppression of public appropriations for the
support of the church and the ~abrogation
of the laws under which religious edifices
receive immunity from taxation.
Emperor Francis Joseph yesterday re-
ceived the Austro-Hungarian delegations.
The speech from the throne was chiefly
notable for its strong afir nation of the
Emperors determination to maintain the
Dreibund. by a renewal of the triple alli-
ance,'' he said, this well-proved basis of
our policy. which we have determined to
maintain henceforth, has been consolidated
for the future"
NJ. Victor MERCER, the senior member of
the commission on revision of the Dreyfus
case, has been unable to complete his re-
port on the examination of documents SUBJ
mitted by the minister of justice, and the
postponed for another week. 1t Is not ex-
| pected the report of the commission will
be submitted to the minister of justice be-
fore the end of the month.
victorien Sardou, in an interview. denies
that the sensational inquisition scenes in
his new play, La Sorciere," produced by
Sarah Bernhard Wednesday night. were
Intended to have a bearing on recent po-
litical and religious events. He SAYS he
conceived the play years before the present
religious issues and adds that the piece
grew out of his hatred of religious perse-
cution and love of tolerance"
The Berlin Wagner Society has published
an indignant protest against the produc-
ton of "Parsifaf' in New York, declaring
that Richard Wagner's holy legacy to art.
whose production he designed to reserve
for the consecrated temple Of art, which
he created. is thrown away upon auditors
in the land OF dollars, who possess no con-
ception of the true essence of Wagner and
probably never will possess any" The So
ciety does not ~criticise the American court
for its decision In the matter. but expressed
the most profound indignation over the
proclamation of this most precious jewel of
Wagnerian art" and refers TO the great
pain felt here that German artists have
been found who are SO lost to shame as to
aid In this act of d~esecratiOn."