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Show FROM BEYOND THE OCEAN, THE LAND Of THE MAHDI. Khartoum In Rutnn The People Dlssatis-tied Dlssatis-tied Hardships of the CaptiTes. London, Jan. 4. Telegrams have been received here from Kongo which confirm the r.tateiueuts made Iiy Father Ohrwalder. He said that dirty Kiiropcans were still in tho hands of the Mahdi ut Otndurman. They are loaded with manacles and cruelly beaten. q telling their mode of life while in captivity. cap-tivity. Father Mhrwaldcr said that the Jlaluli granted no provision for the subsist, cuce of the captives, but allowed them SUffl-cicnt SUffl-cicnt liberty to earn a living as best they rould. Father Ohrwalder lived by tailoring and wearing, and the sisters by baking and telling bread. During the last eighteen jnonths the fugitives lived in mud huts, but previously their only shelter was made with their own hands from canes nnd maize stalks. They describe Khartoum as all destroyed, excepting only the Austrian church and General tiordou's palace, and they say that vegetation lis covering the sites ot the houses. During two years famine and smallpox made fearful ravages in the foudan. Maize rose to teu times its normal nor-mal value, but now food is plentiful and heap. Advices from that country coroborate F'ather ( Mirwaldcr's report of the waning power of the dervishes In the southwr-trru part Of the Soudan. They state that fre- ((Uriit conllicts havo occurred between the Mahdists and native chiefs, and the latter are often victorious. Father Ohrwalder aud the Sisters traveled direct from Korosko to I latro, and a dtapati h from the laat named city slated that the priest, in speaking of affairs in the Soudan, had said that the numerous widows of the mahdl are complaining that Khatlf a Abdal-lah Abdal-lah docs not provide them with the maintenance mainte-nance befitting their station, and their grievance griev-ance has been supported by Khalifa Shcrif. The latter also opposes Abdullah's scheme of making the rnahtliship succession hereditary, heredi-tary, instead as provided for by Mahommed. These dimensions rtr,. weakening the power f mahdistu, and Father Ohrwalder says that the people would welcome any change to relieve them of its tyranny. The Cope Submits. Home, Jan. 4 Count Do Hchainc, the J'rcm h ambassador to the Vatican, had an interview today with the pope. They came to complete accord regarding the future mutual mu-tual policy. The pope accepted France's terms for conciliation, Including the cessation cessa-tion of episcopal letters to the archbishop of Aix and the suppression of the Catholic electoral elec-toral catechisms. Leopold I-, Not Bteka Bm ssEt.s, Jan. 4. Tho alarming reports Concerning the health ot King Leopold, which have been circulated, are. entirely without foundation in fact. It is officially announced today that his majesty is epiite recovered from his recent attack of Influenza. The l'nlted .states Not In It. Brussels, Jan. 4. The plenipotentiaries of the powers hud a meeting here and signed the protocols of the slaver) act, which goes Into operation sixty days hence. The. United btates was not represented. Tried to Commit Suicide. Paris, Jan. I. Dcmaupassanl, well known French author, who is seeking at Cannes to recover from the nervous disorders from which he is suffering, made two futile attempts at-tempts to commit suicide last Friday night. Miners strike. BtJtUV, Jan. 4. The miners of the Holz-aj'pel Holz-aj'pel district, near Wiesbaden, struck, vroops are keeping order. |