The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-04
Interesting Foreign Items.

Mr.. Mccormick, the newly-appointed
United States ambassador to Russia, and
WIFE, wife; arrived in Berlin from Prague last
st. Petersburg Tuesday.
The frames of Shamrock III have now
been set up and the plating laid. The chal-
lenger will be ready for launching before
April the time first named. The Glasgow
Times suggests that ST. PatrickS day
would be an appropriate date for the
launching.
Finance Minister Villaverde of Spain, is
preparing for presentation to the Chamber
financial scheme providing for the free
coinage of gold and the absolute prohibition
of the coinage of silver. The budget sur
pluses will be employed in the Improvement
of the monetary circulation.
1t is officially announced that King Ed
ward has appointed Sir Francis Leveson
BERTHE, k c. B.. now assistant under secr9-
tary for foreign affairs, to succeed Lord
Currie of Hawley as British ambassador
at Rome. Lord Currie resigned his post
Dec. 19.
lamation issued by Argentina Anarchists
and aimed at Senior Quirno Costa, vice
president of Argentina, who is now in Bar
celona. The incentive for the attack on the
vice president was the recent expulsion of
Anarchists from the Argentine Republic.
Emperor William is sending the Crown
Prince Frederick William to Russia as an
educational experience. He probably will
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functions of the Russian court, Jan. a.
The Crown Prince has visited England and
Austria and 1t is not altogether in1proba BILE
he may visit the United States in 1904.
Thirteen Anarchists from Berlin. Crefeld
Treves, Essen and Coblentz have been ar
rested in Dusseldorf, where they were hold
ing a conference. The police, who acted
letter, closed the tavern where the Anarch.
lists met.
The appointment of George W Hueison
as provisional intendant of the royal
theaters in Berlin, succeeding Count Won
Hochberg. is regarded as being permanent
as Won Huelson is a great favorite of the
Emperor who has placed at his disposal
the palace of the late Prince George, OF
Hohenzollern, in Wilhelm strasse, until
October.
The London Spectator gives much prom.
inence to a lengthy letter from Sidney Lee
the well-known lecturer and writer and
Trask lecturer at Princeton University. de-
nying that the Anglo-German cooperation
In Venezuela is in any way due to the ac-
ton of King Edward. Mr.. Lee throws in.
teresting and authoritative light on the re.
lations between the King and his ministers
Wagner's heirs received total of slI5 OO(
in royalties during 1909 from his operas. ex.
elusive of the Bayreuth profits. "Lohen-
grim the most popular. yielded $4,000. II
was given 997 times in Germany. 40 times
i'm Holland. France and Italy and 312 times
in America and Great Britain. The
American managers paid, ii Is estimated
$4,000 for "Lohengrin alone. The mex
popular opera was "Tannhauser," which
netted $32,75o
United States Ambassador Storer pre
sented his credentials TO Emperor Franci.
Joseph at Vienna yesterday. The audience
was unusually prolonged. His Majesty
was most cordial and spoke in the kindest
ton of Presiden: Roosevelt who he re-
marked. had no easy task, and had deal
with difficult situations with wonderful
success. notably in the case of the Vene
zuelan troubles.
On the invitation of the Austrian premier
DIR. Won Koerber. a conference was held in
Vienna yesterday of German and Czecf
delegates from Bohemia and Morayia wifi
regard to a national compromise. The Mo
ravian Germans, however protested
against the common treatment of cues
DIR. Won Koerber agreed to treat the aues
tons separately at conference which ha,
been fixed for Jan. 5.
j. p. Prince. a cotton expert of Green
vile. Miss. sailed from Liverpool for Nj
geria. Africa. yesterday. to report on tn,
cotton-growins experiments in British
West Africa. He goes out under the ans
pieces of the British Cotton Growers Asso
by the governors of the West African col
onies. Ii Is expected that i'm the course o.
six months a regular supply of West Afri
can cotton will begin to reach the Man
chester market
The rapid increase of betting on hors,
racing in the United Kingdom, especiali,
among workingmen. and the evils arisin;
therefrom. are fully acknowledged In tn,
report OF the select committee OF the Hous,
OF Lords, issued yesterday, but the rem
edes are not far reaching. The committe,
finds that betting Is greatly facilitated b,
the universal practice of the newspapers II
tee is not prepared to recommend its prohi
bition. 1t would tend to encourage dis
honesty on the part Of bookmakers. 1t rec
ommends that all advertisements and cir