The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-01
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

King Edward has decided to open the
coming session of Parliament with full
state ceremony. The royal procession will
pass down the Mall the newly-selected
route, for the first time.
report is current in Paris that DR.. AL
bert Robin. the distinguished French spe-
cialist, has been called to Potsdam for
consultation with the physicians in at
tendance OH Emperor William.
William ]. Bryan lunched with the lord
mayor of Belfast Monday and subsequently
building yards and other large manufactur-
ing concerns. He proceeded tonight TO
Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The British War Office has decided to es-
tablish balloon stations In the Mediterrane-
an. Sections of the balloon corps have been
ordered to proceed to Malta and Gibraltar
early in December. Hitherto there have
been no permanent balloon establishments
In the British army outside of Aldershot
camp in England.
The American mails carried by the
steamer New York, which arrived at South
ampton Saturday, reached the London
Queenstown by the Cunard liner Umbria.
AS no mails are distributed in London on
Sunday, however, those brought by both
steamers were distributed simultaneously
Monday.
Severe weather continues throughout
Italy. For twenty-five years past there
has been no such barometrtc depression
as that recorded to-day in Rome. On the
sailors have been found. An Italian cut
ter has been wrecked and her crew of
seven lost. Near Evellino much damage
has been done.
Professor Rheinhold Begas. the sculptor.
once Emperor Williams favorite, but re-
puted of recent months to have lost the
Emperor's good will, yesterday received the
cross of the Hohenzolern Order set in dia-
monds, with an autograph letter from the
Emperor, thanking the professor for his
work in connection with the sarcophagus
OF the Empress Frederick.
The Austrian and Russian governments,
according the a Constantinople dispatch to
the Cologne Gazette, have selected NM.
POgatcher and Hartwig as their respective
assessors to supervise the carrying out OF
the Macedonian reforms. M. Pogatcher is
a former dragoman of the Austrian en-
bassy at ConstantinOple, and is now at
tached to the Foreign Office at Vienna NJ.
Hartwig is departmental chief of the
Foreign Office at st. Petersburg.
King Edwards entries at the Birming-
ham cattle show have been remarkably
successful. He was represented by three
Herefords. two short-horns and four Dew
ons. His Majesty has obtained four first
prizes for a Hereford steer, short-horn
heifer a Devonshire and a Devon heifer
Three second prizes have also been awarded
to the King. In addition he wins three
breed championships and two challenge
cups with the Hereford steer, the best beast
in the show.
Disturbances are reported i'm all the Rus
sian provinces of Armenia. says a London
dispatch. Conflicts are occurring every
or police. The chief cause is the decree
issued some time ago by which the prop
over to the government Alarming disaf-
lection Is reported among the working
classes in Kieff. The police force has been
largely increased. The Governor General
threatens summary punishment for persons
circulating rumors likely to accentuate ap-
prehension among the inhabitants
Arrangements have been made according
to a dispatch from Paris, for the services
of an American secret service agent to ac-
company President Loubet when he goes
to Italy on his return visit. The man whose
services, which are said to have been re-
auested. was with President Mckinley at
Buffalo and is wanted because of his
knowledge Of italian Anarchists known in
the United States From this the corre-
spondent infers that system of interna-
tional exchange of detectives has been ar
ranged for the purpose of more carefully
protecting state officials from Anarchists.
The incessant rains have been succeeded
by snowstorms, which to-day are general
throughout Great Britain and many parts
were recorded in the south of Scotland
Sunday night. Vessels are seeking refuge
in the harbors along the British coast. The
snowstorms are so severe in Belgium that
telegraphic and telephone communication
with Germany is interrupted. score of
lives have been lost among the crews of
the FSsSelo eoinpUSiii6 the rItHCH HSnlnS
fleet during the storms of the last few
days
German financers have now agreed to
advance the Countess Isabella Wosierska
Kwilecki, who was acquitted OF the charge
of having presented a false heir TO an
estate at Wroblewo. a substantial sum on a
mortgage on the Wroblewo estate Count
Hector Kwilecki, member of the Reichs-
tag. who with his father. Count Misjislaw
Kwilecki. contested as next of kin, the Ie-
gitimacy of the countesss son. not only
consented but even personally guaranteed
the loan. doing this in partial reparation
for his share of the recent prosecution of
the countess Count Kwilecki admitted in
court that he lived beyond his income. be-
ing man OF pleasure. and a loan became
possible upon the birth OF an heir, but 1t
members Of the Prussian House Of Lords.