The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-09
His Injury Greatly Exagger-
ated by French Press.
GERMAN-AMERicAN COMMERCE.
The POpe's Adherence to French Re-
public Disheartens 0rleanists.
crowned Heads 70 Gather at Copen-
hagen-ParneiI's Last Adherents De-
sert-Iiiness of william Henry smith
The Duke of Cleveland Dying.

BERLIs, Aug. 8.-TAssociated Press,
copyrighted, 1891 For the first time
since the French press began transcend
ing its previous record of scandaious
mendacities about Emperor William the
government has deemed it necessary to
issue seni-ofhcial notice regarding the
alarmist reports about the emperor's
health. No German newspaper had gone
beyond ailuding to the ridiculous stories
OF the emperor's epileptie fits, brain dis
order and the host of other maladies
ascribed to him until the Cologne Gasette
stated that the annual review of the
Gardes du Corps would not take place
until the emperor had rested for fort
night after his arrival at KieI Some
minor organs thereupon announced that
the grand cavalry maneuvers at Brom-
berg, in which the emperor is especially
interested, would not be graced by his
presence.
The emperor arrived at Kiel at $50
O'Clock this evening The emperor re-
mained on board the vessel. ssfhe reupra
OF DR.. Luthold who has been attendsags
the emperor, is that the injury to the limb
is rapidly progressing to a cure, and that
he will probably be able to resume partial
use Of his leg and foot within week. Of
ficial telegraphic dispatches received here
in the course of the evening indicate that
it is the intention of Emperor William to
carry out the programme which he had
planned before the accident occurred, with
the exception of witnessing the Templehof
review on the 22d. Later he will go to
Schwarzenau to meet Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, and witness the Austrian maneuv-
ers.
Projects to draw Switzerland into the
dreibund zolleryerein do not prosper.
The meeting of delegates at Vienna has
been suspended, the Swiss government re-
fusing to make the concessions demanded.
Herr Steiger, chief engineer of the Bere-
hum Association, has suicided. His mind
had become weakened by the scandal
caused by the trial of officials of the COM
pany charged with fraud in affixing the
government mark to inferior steel rails
which had not been legally inspected.
Consul-General Edwards has jnst fin
ished statement showing that during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1891, the total
exports from the Berlin consular district
to the United States amounted to $50, 753,-
600. decrease of nearly So. SOC, 900 from last
year. Some apparent decreases in the
value of exports are due to the strict regu-
lations of the department as regards in
voicing goods at their place Of origin.
Sugar, for instance, was formerly all in
voiced from Magdeburg by sugar
brokers there, no matter whether
it came from Germany or from Austria.
Now Austrian sugar must be inyoiced
at the proper consulate there, hence the
seeming falling off in expectation of sugar
The increase in value of certain exports
also, is not always due to the increased
number of invoices, but frequently to the
exertions of our consular corps to prevent
undervaluations. Besides the reasons
given other extraordinary circumstances
prevent the possibility of judging the ef-
fects of the Mckinley bill by the figures
given. In anticipation of its passage
heavy shipments of all kinds of goods were
rushed across the ocean. The American
market is overstocked with goods, and in
consequence the first year of the bills ex-
istence will show a decrease in exports
from Germany to the United States.