The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-04
OBITUARY.
Franz Leo Waldeck.

Franz Leo Waldeck a distinguished liberal states
man of Prussia, died recently at Berlin. He was
born the 3lst of july 1902 at Munster, the capt.
tai of the province of Westphalia. After passing
through regular academic course he studied uris-
prudence at Gottingen for three years. and was ap-
pointed to several important official positions in the
different cities Of Westphala. In 1916 he took up his
residence in Berlin, where he was appointed judge
Of one of the higher courts. He was inspired by a
profound sympathy with the democratic spirit of the
Prussian civil code, and his devotion to
the cause of popular rights earned for
him the name OF the peasant king"
The revolutionary movement Of 1S4S enabled him to
press his favorite ideas with greater force than
before, and he began to take an active part in
tional politics. He was elected in four different
places as representative to the Prussian National
Assembly, where he at once made his mark as a
radical leader and an advocate for the rights OF the
people. His extensive legal requirements secured
his appointment as chairman Of the committee for
the revision of the Constitution and to his foresight
and resolution the most valuable liberal provisions
of the new form mainly due. In the spring of
ls49 Waldeck was accused by some of his political
opponents Of conspiracy against the Government,
but after an examination which lasted seven
months he was acquitted and the charges
were shown to be without the slightest foundation in
reality In the same year he retired from public
life and devoted himself to his judicial duties and to
literary pursuits In 1860 although advanced in
liie he again became a member of the Legislature
and prominent member OF the democratic party
Old age and innrmities, however, led him to gradu-
ally withdraw from public life although to the last
he was in full sympathy with the liberal and pro-
gressye ideas of the age and held fast to his hope
of a German democratic unity, founded on popular
education popular intelligence, ana popular free
dom.
CaptaIu Charles Duncan Cameron, r. X. G.. y.
A telegram from Zurich, Switzerland, announces
that Captain Charles Duncan Cameron, formerly
British Consul at Massowah, Abyssina, whose
imprisonment by King Theodore occasioned the
late Abyssinian war, died yesterday at Geneva,
where he had gone for the benefit OF his health.
Captain Cameron was the son OF an oficer OF The
British army, and was himself commissioned as an
ensign in the 45th Regiment in May 1916. He served
| in the Kafir war in 1s4647 and for his services
| received the Kafiir war medal In 1851 he was en-
ployed on diplomatic services in the Zulu country
| He acted as Kaffir magistrate at Kiptira, in
the Natal District, and commanded the native
irregulars in the Kaf1r wars OF 1S52-3 Afterwards
he was appointed to the stah of Lieutenant-G
| Sir Fenwick Williams, her British Majestys Com
missioner with the army in the East and whilst so
employed in Turkey he received the rank of cap
tain on the 27th of March, 1885, and was appointed
| by General Williams to superintend the works Of
| the fortihcations then in course of erection at
Erzeroum. Whilst at Kars, he volunteered to sally
from the fortress to obtain provisions for the stary
| ing garrison. After the fall of Kars he was de-
tached on special service to Trebizond. In 1858 he
passed an examination before the Ci7n
Service Commissioners, and obtained an
| honorary certificate for proficiency in the
German, Swedish, Turkish and Latin
languages. In April, 1855, he was appointed Vice.
Consul at Redoubt Kae. He was elected a Fellow
of the ROYAL Geographical Society in November,
1855 and was appointed Consul for Abyssinia, to
reside at Massowah, on the 3Oth OF june 1880. He
was accompanied by the Duke OF Saxe-Coburg in
his expedition into the interior in April 1852, and
proceeded to Gondar, for the purpose OF presenting
a letter and presents from Queen Victoria TO King
Theodore in june 1862. Captain Cameron was i'm
prisoned by Theodore on January, 1854. He was
rescued by the British army under General Napier
in 1865 Captain Oameron's health wasmuch broken
by his long Imprisonment, and his death is mainly "a
be attributed TO the sunerngs he endured While in
| the hands Of Theodore.