The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-31

speaker continued, was the effort TO Grad
icate their language He further asserted
that a German teacher at Buchholz was
dismissed for attending Polish meeting
and said ii was a crime merely to listen to
the Polish tongue.
There has been a long-standing dispute
between Afghanistan and the Indian gov
eminent concerning the transfer through
British territory of a large quantity OF
German-made guns and ammunition, which
was landed some time ago at the lndlan
port of Karachi, and is now lying at Pesn-
awar. awaiting transportation TO CaDul.
According to "A dispatch from hswar
published in the London Daily Mail the In
dian government has finally declined to al
low its removal, and this decision Is ex-
pected TO cause trouble with Afghanistan.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin confirms the
report that deputation OF German offlcers'
headed by Field Marshal Count Won Wal
dersee may attend the unwilling of the
Frederick the Great statue at Washington.
In official quarters il is admitted that Count
Won Waldersee may go to the United
States, but This, it is added, has not yet
been decided. The date of his proposed de-
parture is also UNCERTAIN. June has been
mentioned, but that month is regarded as
being too late in the summer and the
yelling probably will be postponed until
autumn.
The first attempt to supply incoming
| steamers with a news service was made on
Friday, when Reuters Telegram Company
filed with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
/ Company one hundred words of news for
/ the Cunard Line steamer WHICH
! left New York on Saturday last and which
| arrived at Queenstown Friday. The
/ wireless company thus far Will only at
/ tempt to transmit messages twenty TO
/ thirty miles from Browhead, so the news
/ only reached the steamer few hours be-
/ fore her arrival at Queenstown. News also
was sent TO the steamer Minnetonka In
| the same manner.
According to a dispatch from Tangier,
! published in the London Morning Leader,
! the Moorish pretender, Blu Hamara, sent a
] challenge 10 the Sultan accusing him OF
| cowardlce in remaining within the walls OF
| Fez where it was impossible to attack nam
| because Fee is a holy city, and calling on
| him TO give battle outside of the city,. Inc
| and has ordered the concentration of
| troops. The correspondent Of the Times at
| Tangier telegraphs that the Sultan is about
| to send his uncle, Maulai Arafa, to the Al
| gerian frontier to prevent the spread of the
| rebellion to that part of the country,
| France having threatened the Sultan with
/ active measures to protect Algeria from the
danger of a fanatical rising, even though
such measures involve the invasion or
Moorish territory.
There was stormy scene In the Austrian
! Reichsrath Thursday over the sugar ques-
| ton, forcing the suspension of the sitting:
| A number of sugar refiners met in one OF
the committee rooms without authorization,
with the object of placing their views be-
| fore the legislato tors, and the majority OF the
members of the Reichsrath Indignantly de-
nounced this as an attempt to establish a
| parliament WITHIN a parliament. Inc mouse
| was soon in a state of pandemonium, filled
| with the shouts of denunciatiOn on the part
| of the members, who wildly gesticulated
| and hurled threats at those who had permit
ted the "desecration of the parliamentary
! precincts" The sitting was finally sus-
| pended in order to allow of the intruders
| being turned out of the house. A number
| of members of the Peoples party and So
cialists invaded the committee room occu-
! pied by the sugar refiners, shouting: "Out
| with the riffraff." Most occupants left the
room. Those who refused to go were eject
ed by force.