The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-05

Andrew d. White the United States ami
bassador, has been elected member of the
Berlin Academy of Sciences.
The population of Bavaria, according TO
the census, is 6,150.000, or an increase of
3Sl.0O over the figures of the previous
census.
Emperor William has conferred the
Crown order, second class, on Director
Balm. of the Hamburg-American steam
ship Company.
1t has been definitely arranged that the
visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
to Ireland is to include Dublin at the time
of the Punchestown races.
DIR. Won MIGUEL the Prussian minister of
finance, has declared, according to the
Frankfurter Zeitung, that he will retire
from office during the coming spring.
Preparatory to the introduction of ma
chine guns, the German military boards
are experimenting with view of adapting
the ordinary army cartridges of the 1888
rifle to the guns.
The new year found the total public debt
of Norway to be 231, 100000 kroner. The
population of Christiania is decreasing be-
ing 225, 729, against 226,423 on JAN. l, 1900.
Emigration is partly responsible for this.
16725 persons having emigrated from Nor
way in 1900.
Emperor William has consented to a
change of the name Kaiser Wilhelm III of
the New York-Genoa division of the North
German Lloyd line to Hohenzollern. and
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of the greyhounds being constructed for
the company at the Vulcan yards at Stet-
tin.
The British Admiralty officials say 1t Is
not true a mutiny has occurred on board
the British battleship Barf1eur, as reported
from Hong-Kong. They say minor dis
turbance" took place on board the Barfeur,
duplicating few men. They were repudl-
ated by the rest. Three men are held under
arrest
The stories in the Paris newspapers to
the effect that the Newfoundland shore dis
r,lte had been settled by the exchange of
Gambia for French interests In Newfound-
land are said in London to be quite un-
founded Beyond conversations expressive
of a mutual desire for settlement nothing
has occurred, and no details whatever have
been discussed
The Saxon Ministry has issued a decree
recurring physicians, hospital managers
and clearinghouse keepers, as we'll as I'M
dertakers, to report all tuberculosis. The
decree directs also the dIsinfection of rooms
in which persons suffering from tubercu-
los!s die The German physicians are pre-
pairing petition asking the government to
permit cremation.
The directors of the London and Globe
Finance Corporation, limited, met in Lon
be sent to the shareholders. requesting
proxies and saying they are unable TO
announce the liabilities, lowing to the in
Vulnerable dealings and qualifications on
jan o. Negotiations are going on to get
funds to satisfy the claims or allow
gradual realization.
1t Is zero weather in Berlin. The Spree
was frozen over so suddenly that the lee
irclosed thirteen of the city's swans and
the fire department was called out TO re-
lease them. There have been severe snow
storms in eastern Galicia and southern
Russia, accompanied by gales. Consider
able property has been destroyed near
Odessa, where the trains are delayed by
deep snowdrifts. Black Sea vessels are
overdue. The Danube is frozen over at
Bucharest. and there Is skating IN north
Holland.
The new editor of the London Daily News
Is Rudolph c. Lehman. the famous uni
versity rowing coach, who came to America
a few years ago especially TO coach the
Harvard crew. Lehman married an Amer
lean woman, the daughter of the late Har-
rison Davis. He is a strong Radical I'm
politics and clever writer. He has n
large proprietary interest In the Daily
News H. w. Massingham. who resigned
the editorship of the Daily Chronicle rather
than sacrifice his anti-war convictions, Will
be the chief political and parliamentary
writer under Lehman.
Franz Bernhard. pretending to have a
doctors title from the Academy OF Illf-
nois,' was ordered by the police to remove
his title from hts sign. The case went into