The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-14

sinking. he was taken to the hospital
station in tie MoldenmaTEet Police Dis.
trict, and was attended by his mother aud
daughter. He was found to have two balls
in his brain. His death vas inevitable.
1t was, pbysiologically, surprising that he
should be alive at all.
Ee was found to be DR.. Charles Edouard
NooiliDg, Doctor of Philology, aged 80
years, and a native of Koliro, near Birn-
baum, Upon his person we're found many
tickets certifying his membership in DEM
ocratic Socialist clubs, as they were called.
In his room quantity OF arms and am
munition was discovered. When he re-
turned to consciousness he avowed that he
had cherished his design for eight days,
and had proceeded 10 such an extremity
because he thought the assassination
woald be q public benefit. His stoicism
atterwsrd gave way before the agony of
his aged mother, and he cried bitterly.
Nobiling was small OF stature, with a full
reddish board and coarse features He
was. however, Of excellent family, and wss
a scholar and gentleman. as those terms are
used under our present social system,
Two of his brothers were officers in the
German army. They had long disc Wned
him, of course, on accoant OF his socialistic
vsgaries. Upon the commission of his
great crime they changed their name, as
did the relatives of Hoedel.
was very serious for many week.. The
shock mentally was almost equal with his
physical injuries, and disastrous to his gen,
eral health. The reins of government we're
iatrusted to the Crown Prince by the advice
of his well-wishers, with the hope of remov.
ing further liability o. Williams sssassirs-
ton. The Emperor, with his immediate
associates went to Babelsburg aud notices.
were posted prominently around that park
hat anu ono vvIth0nt narn,faaioO
would be fired at by the sentinels, the in
tent being to quiet the natural alarm OF
the object of such relentless luminosity.
Whatever chance Hoedel had possessed
! looking to ultimate escape from the sever
est penalty OF the law vanished With the
act of the Doctor OF Philology. Hoedel
was brought to trial in July. The 9Th of
August, 1873, the decree sentencing Hoedel
to decapitstion was signed by the FRINGE
Regent, and the 9Th of the same month he
| was beheaded.
The Sd OF August, 1878, Nobiling at
| tempted to commit suicide with a pair Of
scissors. The 10th of October, after over
tour months of existence with two bGllets
in his brain, he died.
The most interesting movement IN Ger
| many in recent years has been its ecclesias-
teal contest with the Church CT Rome,
arising from the attitude adopted by the
| Roman Catholic clergy. william saw the
necessity of defining the relations between
i the rights of the State and those of the
| Church. The consequence of this step was
the refusal ey the Pope, in 1872, to receive
Cardinal Eohenlohe, the German Ambassa-
dor. In his usual retalliatory spirit,
William expelled the Jesuits from Ger
many. Then followed an alIocution by
the Pope asserting the supremacy of the
laws of the Church over those of the State.
What are known as tbs Falk laws we're
hen passed. They were so called from
the name OF the minister who introduced
them. Their general principle is that all
religious societies ara subject to the laws
and supervision of the State. The effect
OF this was that several Bishops, who re-
fused 10 submit their ecclesiastical arrange
ments to the inspection OF the Govern.
ment, and threatened to excommunicste
socb of the clergy rs should comply, were
expelled from Germany. A law was passed
in 1875, making marriage q civil rite The
Pope thereupon issued an encyclicsl letter
declaring the Falk laws invalid. With the
advent oil the new Pope Leo XlII., nego.
tiatlons followed with view to compro
misc, and this was in a measure Affected By
modification OF the obnoxious Falk law
in 1880, whereby i've of the more impor-
tant articles out of the twelve vera stricken
out, including those dispensing with edu
cationsl tests for the clergy and conferrinI
on William the right to rsinstste depose'
Bishops.
William was as eager tor amusemen
aHd as easily amused as q boy, and
after long day of varied festivities, woul
ssk whether that was all, in the most n
gretful way. Truly not only an iron consti
tuition, but healty and elastic spirit, mu;
be conceded to q man OF his great az
to whom his long labors and his Statistic
ambition left so fresh and child
like nature. His old doctor
almost as old as himself, aud th
only physician the Kaiser trusted t
regulate his daily life-reported to q ftien
the difficulty Re had in making him r:
member that he was no longer forty year
Of age. His appetite for forbidden delics
cies was as boyish as his appetite for ps
rades and fetes. Even when he was takfn
the "cure" at Ems and the strictest regi
men should be required OF him he was no
willing to do without q lobster for hi
daily breakfast. One wonders not onI
that he but his responsible physician hs
lived 30 long.
II one we're to pick out of all the FAM
lies in the world one which would by II
physical appearance do honor to tb
greatest of contemporary thrones on
could not find o better tnan this Hohen
zollern race. Their strength and mani
beauty are famous amid the royal house
of Europe, so generally far from health
or handsome. What the Emperor locke
like In well known-a perfect picture of
monarch and q soldier, the most spleudi
.osclmsn Of kiDsly old age one could cor
| oeiYe.