The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09
RIDICULOUS STORIES
French Yarns About the Emperor
Officially Denied. 49,
HIS MAJESTY's HEALTH is GOOD
German Papers Carping About the Fair
Government Circles Favor lt-switzer-
land Will Not Join the Dreibund.

BERLIN. Aug. s.-[Copyright, 1891, by
the New York Associated Press. For the
first time since the French press began
transcending its previous records Of
scandalous mendacities about Emperor
William, the government has deemed it
necessary to issue semi official notice re-
garding the alarmist reports about the
Emperor's health. No German newspaper
had gone beyond alluding to the ridiculous
stories of the Emperor's epileptlc fits, brain
disorders and host of other maladies
ascriDed to him, until the Cologne Gazette
stated the annual review of the
gardes du corps would not take place
until the Emperor had rested for
fortnight after bis arrival at
Kiel. Some minor organs thereupon
announced that the grand cavalry
maneuvres at Bromberg. in which the En-
peror is especially interested, would not be
graced by his presence. The Emperor ar
rived at KEEL at 5 80 o'clock this evening
The Emperor remains on board his vessel.
The report of DIR. Leuthold who has been
attending the Emperor, is that the injury
10 MS limb is rapidly progressing to cure,
so that he will probably be able TO resume
partial use of his leg and foot within a
week. Official Geographic dispatches re-
ceived here during the course of the eve
ming indicate it is the intention of En-
peror William TO carry out the programme
which ne lad planned before the accident
occurred with the exception of witnessing
the Templehoff review on the 22nd. Later
he will go TO Schwarzensu TO meet En-
peror Francis Joseph and witness the
Austrian maneuvers.
The Borsen Courier follows the VOssisehe
ZeffIfun and TOUcbf1ff n earning az tina Chi
cago Worlds fair project, on the ground OF
the growth OF American hostility to every
body and everything outside the United
States. The Courier, dwelling on the
United States laws against psuper emil
grants, uses the amazing argument that
''pauper emigrants laid the foundation Of
the grandeur of the Republic. Despite
these occasional yelpings, the popularity OF
the fair seems certain. Imperial and OIL
cial circles have taken the enterprise into
favor, and the whole of Industrial Ger
many will follow. The American Worlds
fair commissioners concur in praising the
warmth of the official greeting extended to
them. This pleasant state OF affairs, they
declared, was largely due to the energetic
efforts of William Walter Phelps, United
States minister TO Germany.
Noses p. Handy, one of the members of
the commission, referring to the attacks
made by the Fossiehe ZsitIng, said they had
been inspired by some mlddlemen, here or
in New York, whose interest IL was to keep
American buyers from direct intercourse
with foreign manufacturers. ''If thess
meet through the fair" he said, "the bust
ness of the middlemeD will suffer"
Imperial Commissioner Herr Wormuth
said: Emperor William shows such an in
terest in inquiriDg into the arrangements
for German representation at the fair as to
suggest it is his intention to personally
grace the fair with.his presence" Among
German newspapers advocating the
largest possible display of German
products in Chicago the popular Klein jour
nal is prominent The Journal contends
Germany would be powerless in a war Of
commercial reprisals against America; re-
minds the people of the strength of the
German element in the United States and
says Germans ought not to renounce the
foremost place at the fair, which their nu-
merical superiority should assure them.
Projects 20 draw Switzerland into the
dreibund zollverein do not prosper. The
meeting Of the treaty delegates at Vienna
has been suspended, the Swiss government
refusing to make the concessions de-
manded.
Herr Steiger, chief engineer of the
Bochum association, has suicided. His
mind had become weakened since the scan
dal caused by the trial Of the officials OF
the company, charged with fraud in affix-
ing the government mark to inferior steel
rails which had not been legally inspected.