The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
WILL VISIT THE CAR
EMPEROR AND EMPRESS of GER
MANY TO SAIL ON THURSDAY.
Unique Welcome Arranged by Au-
thOrities of st. Petcrsburg-Cause
of Egyptian Opthnlmia.

BERLIN. July 31-Emperor William
reached KfeI on board the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern yesterday. On Thursday
next accompanied by the Empress and
the entire fleet under command of Prince
Henry of Prussia, his Majesty will start
for st. Petersburg to visit the Car Prince
Hohenlohe will join the Emperor at Peter
hof The municipal authorities of st. Pc
tersburg will signalize the visit by pre-
senting to their Majesties slices of bread
on silver dish and salt in a silver salt
cellar, both richly ornamented in the Rus
sian style and engraved with the joint
arms of st. Petersburg and Germany.
Upon the rim of the dish is the following
inscription: ITO their Majesties, the EN-
peror and Empress of Germany
The grand autumn military maneuvers at
Hamburg will begin on Sept. and will
continue to the 10th. The Prince of Wales
will be among the guests of the Kaiser at
the principal reviews. He has modified his
plans and will take course of the waters
next month of Marienbad instead Of at
Hamburg as hitherto. This decision has
greatly elated the townsfolk at Marienbad
ana correspondingy depressed the liam
burg people, who had come to look on his
visit as an annual fixture.
Professor Hirschberg, the well-known
authority on opthalmia, has finished his
examination into the causes of Egyptian
opthalmia, which is now prevalent in many
parts of Prussia. In the course of his re-
port to the government, he says: THE old
opinion that heat and dust helped TO prOpa-
gate the disorder is no longer tenable The
disease is most prevalent along river val
feys and in bogs and in lake districts. 1t
is never found in the uplands. Out of the
1000 cases which have been examined I'M
STnRrViSiOn I have fO1ln1
to A Der cent. among the children in viii
lag@ schools, 10 to 10 per cent. in town
1NLoOIS etiIu . pet celtI III lSi 20
social dmf cn eondi fEfms9y Is an Improvement oi
DIR. Arthur Kortegarn head master of the
celebrated school at Frankfort, died sud
denly at Interlaken last Monday. He was
fifty-nine years of age, and until within
few years was head master of the we'll
known school at Bonn, where many proml-
nent Americans and Englishmen have been
educated. He was a leading authority on
educational matters throughout Germany.
The Empress has varied the monotony of
her stay at Tegernsee by visit to Munich.
She was accompanied by the five princes,
visited all the sights and lunched with the
prince regent who proposed her Majesty S
health. saying, II am deeply touched by
this distinguished visit which her Majesty
has been good enough to make me: beg
leave to propose her MajeStys health.
Prince Oscar celebrated his ninth birthday
on Tuesday at Tegernsee, from whence the
Empress and her children will return to
Berlin.
The rumors rife in London concerning the
possible retirement of Secretary Sherman
are echoed here even in official German
and American circles, but with this differ
ence-that Mr.. Sherman is to be succeeded,
not by Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, but by Embas-
sador White. Gossip even goes so far as to
attribute Mr.. Whites hesitation to leave
the Kaiserhof Hotel for permanent quarters
to the possibility of his having soon to re-
turn to Washington.
The comments of the German press on
the Dingley tariff law are extremely acrid,
but great satisfaction is expressed at the
fact that large quantities of German goods
were sent to the United States in anticipa-
ton of the event. While wishing to revenge
themselves on the Americans, the most
chauvanistic journals are not blind to the
fact that reprisals on the part of Germany
would surely prove boomerangs,
Gen. Count Won Blumenthal, the only sur
viving commander Of the army of 1901.
completed to-day a term OF seventy years
service.
Prince Bismarck is in excellent health.
On Wednesday he received Prince Schoe-
naich-C arolath, the new commander of the
Halberstadt Cuirassiers, of which regiment
the prince is honorary colonel
Owing to the financial failure of the Ber-
lin exposition of 1896, the committee re-
Gently announced that the so per cent. guar
antee fund would have to be sacrificed.
This resulted in large meeting of signers
of the guarantee on Monday The meeting
declared unanimously that it did not recog-
nize the right of the committee to adopt
such a measure and desperate effort Will
be made to place the responsibilities on the
shoulders of the committee
The supposed Internal machine which ex-
ploded in a mailbag during the transfer of
mails at the Pottsdam railway station,
early in the week, turned out to be only
a package of large torpedoes of the kind
used by cyclists to brighten dogs.
The whole Liberal press is in arms
against the act of a sentry, who killed an
escaping soldier under peculiarly atrocious
circumstances. The man Saremba had over
stepped the boundaries of the Notifications
at Dantzfg and was being taken to the
guardhouse when he broke away and ran.
The sentry fired and the bullet passed
through Sarembas head and two walls OF
an iron kiosk. burying itself IN brick wall.
This certainly proves the emclency OF the
German guns but the incident adds fuel
to the flames of popular resentment against
military severity.
United States Consul General Charles De
Kay will return to New York in September.
THE STREET-CAR CONDUCTOR.