Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-08
PRINCE BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION
WITHDRAWN.
The Much-Talked Of BetrOthal to
Take Place in June at
Charlottenbnrg.
Opinions Of the People Expressed by
the Newspapers-0nly One Of the
Court Intrigues.
Flood Sufferers About P0sen-Large Emil
grafton to America-General BOu-
hangers Candidacy-0ther
Notes.

Copyright. 1883 by the New York Associated Press)
BERLIN, April 7.-Prince Alexander, of
Battenburg, comes to Charlottenburg next
Thursday, and his betrothal to Princess
Victoria takes place early in June.
Prince Bismarck has withdrawn his
resignation solely from the consideration
would speedily lead to the break up of
German unity. Nothing since the acces-
sion of Emperor Frederick has occurred
that has so strongly animated the Prussian
conservatives against the empress as the
marriage question. 1t now becomes known
that the empress will impel her helpless
husband to thwart Prince Bis
marck, without regard to the
respect due to the late emperor
or to the national safety. The policy of
the conservatives at this time represents
the genuine feelings of the whole German
people. All of the radical newspapers,
such as the Vissische Zeitung which treats
the Battenberg question with distain as
of no consequence to Germany, solely say
that Battenberg is only one cord i'll the
general discord struck by the party of the
empress.
The reticence of the Berlin press in re-
ferring to court intrigues has been greater
than was required by Difference to the en-
peror and leading officers of state. Mat
tiers have been concealed or only furtively
alluded to which ought to be discussed
with the fullest publicity. The Batten-
burg marriage is only one of number of
court intrigues.
An official statement, as sometimes now
happen through Vienna, says that in con-
sequence of a memorandum laid before the
-, IL
the difficulties which, from a political
point of view, stand in the way of a matri-
moniai alliance between Prince AleXan-
der, Of Battenberg. and Princess Victoria,
1t has been arranged that the affair shall
be postponed until the political objections
now raised shall cease to operate. The
establishment of settled order in Bulgaria
and the removal Of all possibility of Alex
ander raising the rallying cry will deprive
the marriage of all political importance.
The visit of the queen Of England
to Charlottenburg, therefore, will take
place as arranged, but the bethrotral will
not be publicly brought forward on the
occasion. This is an official statement
and simply means that Prince Bismarck's
advice has been over ruled. The queen of
England comes here with her Battenberg
proteges to carry out her family projects
without regard for the sentiment of the
German nobility or German people, and
equally regardless that her daughter the
empress, thwarts the policy of the minis
ter who made her empress, without whom
imperial Germany might cease to be.
Nothing in Prince Bismarcks life is so
honorable, so full of self-command and
and loyalty to Germany as his
temporary submission to the emperor's
regimen. He has the enthusiastic
support of Count Won Molke and other
leaders of the army and the leaders of the
conservative and national liberal parties,
and even the begrudged approval OF the
progressive chiefs. The chancellor does
not, therefore, rely on the military party
He has the support of the whole country,
and of the royal heads of the German fed
Grafton and is absolute master of the stu
alton.
The emperor's condition gave rise to Sc
rious alarm yesterday. Both his cough
and spittlngs were augmented, and he suf-
ferred from nervous excitement. Today's
bulletin says that for several nights he
The malady from which he is now suf-
fering, appears to be moving from the
back bone of the larynx to the front
which is regarded by physicians as a
favorable symptom. because the danger of
the disease attacking the Rsophagus will
be thus averted.
The empress will go to Posen on Mon
day to inquire into the condition of the
sufferers by the floods. Dreadful accounts
haYe been received from Posen. Twenty
five villages are in ruins and Ii. 900 persons
are without shelter. When the dyke at
Wharf.-The gave way large number of lives
were lost The loss in live stock is in
calculable. The fund raised by subscrip-
ton in Berlin for the relief of the sufferers
is Insignificant in comparison with the
losses. A famine is threatened in Silescla
and Posen and the number of persons
emigrating to America will soon be
enormously increased.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, April THE government is
concerned in regard to to the Berlin crisis.
1t fears the growing irritation in Germany
against the empress and her mother,
Queen Victoria, will extend to the British
nation, resulting in the destruction of the
cordial relations now existing between the
two empires 1t Is stated that Lord Sails
bury has begged the queen to desist from
in the controversy over the
marriage of Prince Alexander and Prin-
cess Victoria.
Transatlantic steamship companies are
stopping the booking of Irish emigrants.
because the number of applicants for
passages are greater than can be accommo-
dated.
A Times correspondent at Berlin hears
that the difficulty between the emperor
and Prince Bismarck, arising from the pro-
Batenberg and Princess Victoria has been
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