The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-31
TIE GUELPH FUND
The Handling of it VIII Cause
Won BOetticher to RESIGN.
GETTING ON IN THE WORLD
A Berlin shylOck COmpels Many Army Officers.
Who Are His Debtors, to Attend Reeep-
ton to His Daughter-The Scandal.

lDPSSieA4 W , he Observation-Disclosures ClblPI
BERLIN, March 3O.-Minister Won Boetti.
cher is about to take leave of absence and
Will be away till autumn for the sake of
his health. He win then resign. owing To
the recent unpleasantness arising from the
/ supposed borrowings from the GuelDh
1und- Nobody in Germany, except a few
extreme radicals like Herr Richter. believes
ne ever received 35O,O 900 marks out of the
Guelph fund, but the situation is so painful
that 1t can hardly fail to lead to his resigua-
ton. That the Emperor and Caprivi did
not accept Boetticher's offer to retire a
fortnight ago is due partly to their wish to
snow the world that the esteem in which
they hold the minister remains unaltered.
and partly to their aversion to even the ap-
pearance of lending any assistance to the
private intrigues against him.
Inc affair mas stirred up such deep irri-
tatlon ali over Germany that the appica-
| tlon OF the interest as well as the admins
tratlon OF the Guelph fund will hereafter
nave TO be changed. The government is
J ALREADY preparing DILL on the subject for
| the Prusslan landtag. There is, however.
no foundation for the assertion that the
Iund Is to be handed over TO the Duke of
| Cumberland The latter's father King
! George, of Hanover, himself determined in,
| accord with Prussia, that the fund should
be entalIed and kept in public place of do
! post IN Prussia, that is, under the care of
| the Pfussian law court, and that the inter-
est only should be paid to his heirs Owing
! TO the subsequent sequestration Of the fund
| TINS way OF dlsposing of the interest has
| not yet been carried out. 1t is not even
now PUBLICLY known where the fund is
! Kept, and conjectures on this point are too
vague to be worth reproduction
| Ihere are curious rumOrs current as to
the pas5 application of the interest of the
Iund According to one story an ex-chief
| OF the secret political police on one Occa-
sion received a douceur of 80. 600 marks
/ CISCO sterling) from this source, but this
| would account for a mere trife of the
amount which Prussia has had from the
fund Tor the past quarter of century. The
annual interest alone must be upwards Of
$1,000 900 sterling.
A bill will be introduced in the next Ba-
varian diet providing for the recognition of
all marriages legally entered into by Ba-
VarlanS residing IN foreign countries The
government has expressed it's assent to this
bill, which will have an important bearing
on the status at home of Bavarians living
/ in America.
A disgraceful riot occurred on Good Fri
/ day in the Greenwald forest near Berlin
| between two parties of excursionists A
/ band of five men calling themselves the
| Biting club fell upou a quiet group of ex-
| cursionists, biting off their ears. noses and
fingers. In the melee which ensued over
/ fifty men, women and children were in
jured by blows from walking sticks and
other weapons.
An eXtraoT binary railway accident &C.
cured near the Zabrowicz stationin Suesia,
! through passenger train running into
funeral procession which was crossing the
| line. The hearse was shattered to pieces.
1 fI1T r,f4iv 10. l-.ar4N 49,
open. Four people were killed and eight
others seriously injured.
| The Eighth army corps is to be modified
shortly on full war strength in order to
prove its efficiency in case of an outbreak
of hOstilities.
The Kaiser and his military council have
before them long list of officers of high
! and low degree who recently appeared in
full uniform at a ball given at the house
warming OF usurer, or as they call him
| ''halSabschnelder,n named Abrahams The
latter's new palatial residence has been
built upon the ruined careers of a host
of young aristocrats and army men, and
Abrahams, who is very smart
man, thought the time had arrived when
his daughter might aspire, in spite of her
i'll breeding and lowly origin, to a position
in society among ladies of rank To set
the ball rolling, Abrahams called upon each
of his debtors and under promise of greater
leniency or further advances as the case
might be- induced them TO appear at his
ball en- grande tenue such as they are only
allowed to wear at great court receptions.
when infantry officers have to appear in
white wooden trousers and cavalry men
with the broad stripes usually worn only
by generals. 1t was said, for the purpose Of
meeting some friends from the country
who had never seen such spectacle and
who had TO be obliged as they were real
bankers in the money lending concern.
When the officers arrived they found the
house lit up and swarming with hired
walters whom they had met with before AZ
popular restaurants and hotels. They also
encountered to their surprise number az
comrades and in many cases superiOrz
though each of them had been assured he
was the only invited army man. Abraharg
received them with q big diamonGO on his IN
usually clean shirt front and smile while
assuring his friends it was only q littla
joke after all. At dinner the highest in
social rank among the officers Were placed
next TO Abrahrms' daughter, while Mother
Abrahams was attended by a real live
prince, who holds an important command
in the body guard of hussars. Aside from
Abrahams' female relations there were a
number of young and pretty women, made
known only by their Christian names. One
or two of the elder officers went to their
host to demonstrate with him, but AbrA-
hams said: "Those gentlemen who obieos
to my hospitality are at liberty to Withdraw,
bat must beware of consequence The
threat worked like charm and the Door
deluded victims had to bear their disgrace.
About two hundred and fifty officers are
implicated in the affair, some of them per-
sonal friends of the Emperor, others dis-
tinguished by birth or special talents. TIA
deliberations of the military council will
probably result in saving these gentlemen
from being degraded by rearranging their
financial affairs and at the same time giving
them wholesome lesson. Abrahams will
be prosecuted for usury if that can be done
j without damaging the reputation Of his
. victims.
While the admittance of women to the
study of the higher branches OF science and
art has been pooh-poohed in the reichstsg,
the diet of the little principaliJy of Reuss
: Gera has lent an ear to the women Fighters
and its tiny parliament has instructed the
! minister to open negotiations with neigh
boring governments for joint consideration
, of the matter. 1t seems strange that, in
! the mighty fatherland with it's $4,000. 600
inhabitants, little insignificant territory
commanding scarce one hundred and TWEEN
; ty thousand souls, should take the lead in
2 this progressive movement.
: Condition OF the Mississippi
/ WASHINGTON, March 30.-Colonel Ernest
g member of the Mississippi river commits
Q sion. has just returned from two weeRs'
trip in the south. He said this morning
n thof tho c0mmi Ssi0n f0und tho ri1ror. roe-,