Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22


cans in the latter country to create an up
rising. Royal circles in Europe are much
worried concerning the situation. Bis
marck has written Lord Salisbury 10 be as
smicaOle as possible.
IcOP1RIeHT, 1855, By THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATED
PREss.l
BERLIN, December 21.-The Emperor has
been so i'll as to be compelled to keep his
bed since Thursday morning. He arose for
the first time to-day, and received official re-
ports. His malsdv was catarrh which
provoked q recurrence Of the old trouble
with his ear There is also In his throat
more than the usual trou bic experienced In
such cases.
An injudicious note on the subject was
printed in the National ZeituRg. 1t is in
tended, of course, to ease the public, but
had an entirely different effect and caused
almost incessant inquiries to be made at the
palace. The Emperor forbade the publica-
tiOn of bulletins, received in his bedroom
the leading officials who called and treated
his illness in iesting spirit.
This trouble originated in cold caught
while the Emperor watched the effect of a
night alarm in the garrison at PotsGam, one
of his military smusements being to test the
rapidity with which the various regiments
can be turned out at unexpected moments.
But that is not His Msjesty's only military
amusement. At the field maneuvers at
Bornsted a regiment of cavalry was sud-
denly ordered TO advance at full gallop.
Il rode helter skelter down the badly
lighted streets of Potsdam. Some Of the
horses were killed and several of the towns
people were ridden down and badly hurt.
This caused much public irritation and was
one of the reasons why there was very little
sympathy with the Emperor in his illness
among his people in that part Of the empire.
For many days now the attention of the
continent has been centered upon the de-
velopments in Brazil and the threatened
coutre de coup in Portugal Long daily
dispatches from Lisbon and Madrid have
confirmed the intelligence recently given
that Portugal is likely to follow the example
set BY Brazil.
AN UNEASY FEELING.
The Government here shares the uneasi-
ness felt in every chancellery in Europe.
If Portugal takes fire the movement of the
Portuguese republicans will, it is believed,
be the signal for rising in Spain, and this
will be followed by agitation in Italy, and
by general upheaval of the social forces
throughout Europe.
The militant attitude of the Portuguese
Government toward England over the Zam-
besi district is recognized here as necessary
to strengthen the position of the King of
Portugal at home, where any accidental
failure of strength at this moment would be
made much of in the interest Of the radical
party. Prince Bismarck, according to a re-
port 1fost in ministerial circles, has writ
ten directly to the Marquis of Salisbury ex-
pressing the hope that nothing will be done
TO humiIiate the Portuguese Ministry, in
view OF the imperial catastrophe in Brazil
and the position of the monarchy in Portu-
gal face 10 face with similar forces to those
that cast down Dom Pedro.
APPEALING FOR FoRBEARANcE.
An article in the National Zeitung ap-
pealing TO the forbearance of the English
Government says that Serpa Pinto, like
other agents of Portugal, may go beyond
bis instructions, but statesman, looking
beyond the cause, will see that other inter-
ests than those relating to the possession of
consideration. The youth of the Prince
who has just assembled the Portuguese
throne, his relationship to Queen Victoria
and the conservative tendency of the Mar
quis of Salisbury's policy should altogether
assure such a calm adjustment of the dis
pute as will not add to the difficulties in the
way Of King Carlos.
The Zeitung's article indicates that Prince
Bismarck favors the English claims in this
difference between the powers. The official
bias is evidently toward England. This is
due chiefly to the intimate relations OF the
courts and the concurrence iG foreign
policy, but also it is furthered BY the at
tempts of the French press to foment an
irritation in Portugal against England.
A JEALOUS OFFICER
Some German official experience with
Serpa Pinto goes a certain way toward con-
firming the opinion that the Portuguese
have made mistake. Serpa Pinto was the
officer who, while Portuguese Consul at
Zanzibar, caused the capture of the Sultan's
yscht by q Portuguese cruiser. German
Intervention in that case at first supported
Pinto.
The justice or injustice of England's de-
mands is regarded as Of no importance to the
Government here, and little interest is felt
save in the possibility that the dispute, If it
is pressed against the King, may afford the
Republicans in Lisbon lever with which |
70 overthrow the monarchy. In that phase
the case causes some anxiety.
The advices received at Hamburg from
the Province of Rio Grande de Sui, in Bra
I'll, are entirely contrary to the opinion that
the German colonists desire the protection
of the Fatherland. They appear to be con-
tent to await events. and hopeful that fed |
Grated Republic will increase the general
prosperity.
ALL FOR THE REPUBLIC.
They desire to see fully developed self |
government or State sovereignty in the prov
ince, and believe that a republican eonsti- |
tutional convention will grant this, and will |
accord TO them an enlarged control of the |
proyincial finances ALI this accorded thev |
count upon,'the growth in the New World of |
a great German free State. The official |
world here is disappointed by this adhesion |
of the colonists TO the Republic
The miners strike still remains unset |
tied. Several pits in the Saar district are /
out pIacards to-day proelaiming that all |
men who have not returned to their work |
BY Monday viii be treated as having re-
iected the terms offered them.
Anarchists from Liege, in Belgium, have /
been inciting the men to refuse the terms. /
Some arrests of these men have been made, /
but this has failed to overcome the agitation. |
Many police agents from here have been /
sent through all the districts where the |
trouble is to watch the operations of this
Anarchist propaganda.
SOCIALISTS AT WORK.
Although the strikes are not directly
trsceable to the operations of the Socialists
the Government is possessed of information
tbaf tbev are fomeuted through a Socialist