The Indianapolis journal., 1903-02-24
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

An imperial trade has been issued author
izng the Turkish minister of war TO pur-
chase ten additional Maxim rapid-fire
guns.
Naval Lieutenant Solari, a collaboration
of Marconi in his wireless telegraph work,
and Baroness Ida Di Rubini were married
at Turin, Italy. on Monday.
The Car has dismissed four Finnish
Governors for opposing the Russian policy.
The remaining three provinces or Finland
will in future have Russian Governors.
Austen Chamberlain, the postmaster gem
eral, in behalf of his father, the colonial
secretary, who is in South Africa, in
formed the House of Commons on Mon
day that the British Alaskan commissioners
will be selected after consultation with the
Dominion government.
The Russian Holy Synod has ordained
that Feb 49, old style. March 3. new style.
the anniversary of the emancipation or the
peasants, shall hereafter be celebrated in
the orthodox churches by elaborate thanks
giving services instead of by single re-
QUEEN mass. Thfs<is regarded as being
highly important action, particularly in
view of the present prominence OF the
peasant question.
Severe gales swept over Germany Satur-
day and Sunday and series of destructive
fires, spread by the wind. occurred. In the
village of Huertgen, near Duergen, seven
ty-two houses were burned, and at Kleinen-
berg, Rhenish Prussia, forty-four buildings
were destroyed. Smaller fires were reported
elsewhere, with some casualties. AT Dolina,
hundred houses were destroyed.
Princess Djemil Toussoun, sister of the
Khedive and wife of Prince Djemil Tous-
son, recently made an unsuccessful attempt
at self-destruction by taking poison. The
act is said to have been prompted by
jealousy. The princess subsequently left
Egypt on board one of the royal yachts,
refusing TO see her husband, says the New
York Heralds Cairo correspondent. Her
Highness went by way of Trieste to Vienna,
where. it is said. she is about to wed ar,
Austrian count. divorce already has
been granted.
The dinner given at London Monday
night by the American society in honor
of Washingtons birthday was the occa-
sion for brilliant assemblage at which
welcome was given TO ID. r. Francis,
president of the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition. The Duke of Devonshire and Lord
Londonderry, members of the Cabinet, Of
fcially voiced the good will of the British
| don and Bristol, lord Provost of Glasgow,
Lord Strathcona and Lord Rothschild, and
several members of the House of Commons
gave expression to hearty good wishes.
| Consul General Gowdy, at Paris, has
| opened an official investigation into the
| charges that valuable furs which belonged
| to the late Mrs. Charles j.. Fair were
| changed after her death for inferior ar
| ticles A box containing the furs had been
received at Paris from San francisco and
| the seals were broken to-day by Mr.. Gowdy
| in the presence of all those who had part
| i'm handling the articles up to the time of
| their shipment TO America. Edmund Kelly,
representing the Fair estate, and NM.
| Chanel and Grumwaldt, who appraised the
| original garments as being worth $21 200.
were among those present. When the box
| was opened a short cloak and a muff were
| disclosed, both of rather ordinary appear
ance Appraiser Chanel said positively that
| the articles were not those he had ap-
praised.