New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

robberies to the ROYAL Secretary OF State, Matte
kowitz and to the ex-Nlinister of Agriculture and
Commerce Count Paul Szechenyi Preposterous as
these charges would have appeared IN the mouth OF
q subaltern official such as koi<an, they acquired
Importance when publicly made III court by
person of Polonyis standing, all the more as the
Iot,er offered TO prove that the two statesmen
verc the prncipals in the so-called kolan NAL
vorsations The trial of Kollan was at once ad.
iourned. and judicial committee OF Supreme Court
Judqes was appointed TO investigate the charges
against Count Szechenyi and Nj. Matlekowitz,
both of whom hold the rank OF PriVy Councillor
and stand high in the favor of the Emperor-king
pnhIic oninion is much divided TO the merits
Of the case.
Tho climax. however to the above mentioned
scandals IS TO be found in the grave charges of
malversation and fraud which have been brought
Inv the Hungarian Government against the famous
Bishop Strossmeycr, of DJakovar-chargeS which
have led to the legal sequcstratlon oil the vast
property of the episcopal see In question: and
which will result in the removal and internment
In some monastery of the unruly prelate. Among
the minor offences laid at his door Is that OF nav
ing transgressed the forest laws by hewing down
woods without the permission of the authorities,
of having neglected 10 plant young trees where
he cut down the old, and OF having let the deyas-
tated forests to the OF cattle. so that they
are now in such condition as to render repiantlng
impossible The oak forests, which formerly COW
cred an area OF more IMAM 9O,OOo aCreS, uaNc
been completely destroyed and the Church prop;
crty damaged thereby to the extent OF several
millions of dollars. The vast sums derived from
the sale of the timber have either been devoted
TO the personal enrichment OF the BISHOP ana ms
followers or else have been spent in fostering the
Pansavist agitation in the Slavonlc and Croatlan
provinces Of the Empire against the Government
of Francis Joseph. Bishop SrosSmeyer has for
many wears past been regarded as the apostle of
Pansavism in Austria, and was severely taken TO
task by the Kaiser year ago for his CislOyalty
in teaching the people of his diocese to look Tor
Guidance and instruction TO St Petersburg and
Moscow rather than to Vienna and Buda-l'eSth.
Among the long list of charges brought against the
aged but by no means venerable prcIate is dis
tinct and definite one of having appropriated TO
his own personal a sum OF $4,000 HORNS OF
trust money cOnfded TO his keeping, and the Gov
crnment is determined 10 avail itself thereof TO
activity IN behalf Of Russias propaganda in Auslro
Hungary.
Five Young New-YorlI doctors who are devotins
q few months to walking" the Vienna hospitals
were brought before the police magistrate OF the
Eighth District the day before yesterday, ana sen
fenced to the heaviest fines permissible by law for
their attem ut to paint the Austrian metropolis Il
scarlet hue in true Anne lean fashion. After dining
not wisely but too Well at famous restaurant
in the Leopoldstadt, they set forth on q regular
college razze-dazzlc They awoke all the honest
people from their slumbers, derided and lnsulted
the sTectaced police rang doorbells, cXtinguished
and smashed number of street lamps, ana hnaily
neceSstatod the summons of no less than twenty
of Vienna'S finest to convey them, frog fasmon,
to the police station By frog fashion mean
that they were carried, face downward, each by
four policemen, one in charge Of each arm and
shoulder. and one attending TO each leg. The
conduct of these young doctors has given the peo-
ple here a kind of vague notion that Buffalo Bills
show has come TO town, and the newspapers are
filed with Mortified references to Wilde's Amer