Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-11
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

DR.. Thurber has been appointed pastor of
the American church in the Rue Berri. Paris.
The Eiffel tower at Paris is now 225 metres
high. The men at work on the top enjoy sun
shine while fog prevails beneath.
1t is stated that Mr.. Gladstone's recent letter
with reference to the position of the pope was
part of a concerted effort on foot in Rome to
persuade the vatican that Mr.. Gladstone if re-
turned to power, would promote a European
congress to settle the questions at issue between
Italy and the papacy.
President Carnot gave a grand banquet in
Paris last evening in honor of all of the for
eign ambassadors and diplomatic representa-
tives.
DIR. Junker, the well-known German ex-
plorer. says he is positive that Stanley's expe-
dltion as not been annihilated.
1t is rumored in German court circles that
Princess Louise, sister of the empress, has
been betrothed to Prince Leopold of Prussia.
The Detasche WOche1tbIdf, free conservative
organ, declares that Prince Bismarcks report
on the Geffcken affair resulted in his defeat
and that the Morier incident IS a still uglier
echo of the diary affair. Things having gone
so far, II says the continuance of Morier at St
Petersburg Will be a severe blow TO German
diplomacy and difficult to explain away.
NJ. Carnot, president of France, is a first-class
carpenter and can handle the saw and plane as
well as any mechanic. 1t was at Chabanais. in
the Charente, where his father possessed a
chateau, that he learned the trade. Carnot.
ST., insisted that all his children should learn
some occupation. There is no telling" he
used to say; You may want it some day, for we
live in strange times" So Carnot, IT, was put
to the bench, and, according to his professor.
one NJ. Delarge. who is still living, acquitted
himself most honorably.
The German aOthoritias have forb;llo,, Al q,
circulation by post in Germany of the Iatrnn-
sigeort, Henri Rochefort's paper. NJ. Rochefort
declares that he is fattered by the action of
the German government.
Kuhn, the man who is charged with having
murdered a man in Wisconsin, and who was
arrested on the steamer Lord Cough at Queens
town, was rearraigned in court in London yes
terday. His solicitor urged that the identity
of the prisoner had not been proved. Kuhn
was remanded for a week in order to enable
proofs of his identity to be secured
Admiral Krantz, French minister Of marine.
has submitted to the cabinet dispatch from the
governor of Obock, stating that he and the cap
tain of French man-of-war have taken meas
ures to repress the slave trade of the Red sea.
The French Senate has reelected NJ. lie
Roger president Of that body. One hundred
and eighty votes were cast for him. Sixteen
blank ballots were cast
WHICH cases VI 1duu6r, MI. C0Q0OQ
and Mr.. John O'Connor. members of parlia-
ment. who were summoned 10 appear yester-
day before the Tipperary Qreland) court to
answer charges under the crimes act were
called, the defendants failed to answer. The
court issued warrants for their arrest.
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Held for Margaretta Schneider's Murder
A TORN BANK NOTE FURNISHES IMPORTANT rEsTI-
MoNY AGAINST KUNIGUNDE BErz.
In Baltimore last night the coroners jury
held Kunigunde Betz, alias Ida, for the muir
der of Margaretta Schneider, the old woman
who was found terribly cut and dying in her
house on Wednesday. The accused lived as a
servant with the deceased for about two weeks.
The most conclusive evidence against her was
a mutilated IS note which she endeavored to
have exchanged at the custom house, the mis-
sing pieces of which were produced by Mrs.
Edward Shuman, granddaughter of the dead
woman and proprietress of the house in which
the deed was done. She testified that her hus-
band had torn the note and left portions Of ii
in Philadelphia, where she had gone after Civ
ing her grandmother the portion the Betz
woman had tried TO have redeemed The
pieces were found in Philadelphia and fitted
exactly. The prisoner retains her air Of stohd
indifference.