St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22
KAISER WILLIAM ILL.
Germany's Youthful and Err
ratio Ruler Compelled to
Keep His Bed.
A Catarrhal Fever PrOVOkeS
a Recurrence Of His Ear
Troubles.
The Threatened Revolution in
Portugal Causes Anxiety
Among Statesmen.
Fears Of a General Upheaval
Of Social Forces Through
out Europe.

his bed since Thursday morning. He
arose for the first time to-day and re-
eeived Official reports. His malady was
catarrhal fever, and provoked recur-
renee of the old trouble with his ear.
There was also in his throat more than
the usual trouble experienced in such
cases. An injudicious note on the sub
ject was printed in the National lei
tung. 1t was intended, of course, to re-
assure the public, but had an entirely
contrary effect, and caused almost in
cessant inquiries to be made at the pal
ace. The emperor forbade the publica-
ton of bulletins, received in his bed
room the leading officials who called,
and treated his illness in q jesting
spirit. This trouble originated in a
cold caught while the emperor watched
the effect of a night alarm in
the garrison at Potsdam, one of his
rapidity with which the various regi-
nents can be turned out at unexpected
mOmt hts. This is not his majeSty'S
only military amusement. At the field
maneuyerS at BOrnStadt a regiment of
cavalry was suddenly ordered to ad-
vance at full gallOp.
IT RODE HELTER-sKELTER
down the badly-lighted streets of Pots
dam. Several of the horses were killed
and several of the tOwnspeOple 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 foreign Office has been
centered upon the developments in Bra
iii and the threatened cOntre-coup in
Portugal. Long daily dispatches from
Lisbon and Madrid have confirmed the
intelligence recently given in this letter
that Portugal is likely to follow the eX-
ample set by Brazil. The government
here shares the uneasinesS felt in every
chancellory in Europe. Ii Portugal
takes fire, the movement of the POrtu-
gueSe Republicans will is believed, be
the signal for a 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 gov
eminent towards England over the
Zambesi dispute 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
terest to the Radical party. Prince
Bismarck, according to a report af1Oat
in ministerial circles, has written di-
rectly to the Marquis of Salisbury, eX-
pressing the hope that nothing will be
done to
HUMILIATE THE PORTUGUESE
ministry in view of the imperial cat
astrophe III Brazil and the position of
monarchy in Portugal face to face with
similar forces to those that east down
Dom Pedro. An article in the National
Zeitung appealing to the forbearance of
the English government. says that Maj.
Serpa Pinto. like other agents of POrtu-
gal, may go beyond his instructions, but
a statesman, looking beyond the special
cause, will see that other interests than
those relating to the possession of Afri-
can territory should have immediate
consideration. The youth of the prince
who has just assembled the Portuguese
throne, his relationship to Queen Vic
tOria. and the conservative tendency of
the Marquis of Salisbury'S policy should
altogether assure such calm adj
justment of the dispute as will not
add to the difficulties in the way
of King Carlos. The Zeitung's arti-
Gle indicates that Prince Bismarck
favOrS the English claims in this differ
ence between the powers. The official
bias is evidently toward England. This
is due chiefly to the intimate relations
of the courts and the general concur
renee in foreign policy, but also it is
furthered by the attempts OF the French
press to fOment an irritation in POrtu-
gal against England. Some German
official experience with Serpa Pinto
goes a certain way towards confirming
the opinion that the Portuguese
HAVE MADE A MISTAKE.
Serpa Pinto was the officer who. while
Portuguese consul at Zanzibar, caused
the capture of the sultan's yacht by a
Portuguese cruiser. German interven-
ton in that case at first supported
Pinto. but ended with the admission
that the sultan had been wronged, and
that the quarrel had originated ell
tirely in the reckless rashness of Serpa
Pinto. The justice or injustice
of England's demands 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
to proceed against the king, may afford
the republicans in Lisbon a lever with
which to overturn the monarchy. In
that phase the case causes some anxiety.
The advices received at Hamburg from
the province of Rio Grande Do Sui in
Brazil are entirely contrary to the Opin-
ion that the German colonists desire the
protection of the fatherland. They ap-
pear to be content to await events and
hopeful that federated republic will in
crease the general prosperity. They de-
sire to see fully developed self-govern-
ment or state sovereignty in the pro-
vince, and believe thata republican con-
stitutional convention will grant this
and will accord to them an enlarged con-
troll of the provincial finances. All this
accorded they 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 re.
mains unchanged. Several pits in the
Saar district are working. but more are
Idle. The directors sent out placards
to-day proc!aiming that all men who