Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
FIGURES MAY LIE,
Those Furnished by Caprivi
and Private Parties Don't
Seem to Agree on
GERMANY'S CROP OUTLOOK.
Most EKorbitant Prices for Bread, at
ANY Rate, Are Charged.
THE LONDON BACCARAT SCANDAL
Turning London Military Circles Against
the Prince of Wales
LCCTSTl NnE EOP PEErGCE UEppEWS
GERMANY'S CROP OUTLOOK.
THE LONDON BACCARAT SCANDAL
Turning London Military Circles Against
the Prince of Wales.
ASSISTANCE FOR REFUGEE HEBREWS

copyright 1881 by the New York Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 13.-Undaunted by the
overwhelming majority which supported
Chancellor Won Caprivi ON the cereal duties
questions in the Landtag, the members of the
Freisinnge party last evening held a mass
meeting, at which the party leaders, amid
iervid acelamation, announced their inten-
tion of prosecuting more vigorously than
ever the anti-grain duties agitation.
The figures published by the Liberal
press, showing that the stores of cereals in
Germany were nearly exhausted, elected
the official statistics given in to-day's issue
of the ReichSdnzeigG-, which aim to prove
that the grain harvest of 1890 was not short,
but on the contrary, was better than that of
1889, being equal to the average harvest of
the last ten years. The figures are admit
tedly based on rough computations.
The Government Figures Disputed.
Allowing that the figures of the Reichsdn-
zeigcr are right, there remains the fact that
high price of bread presses heavily upon the
working classes The declarations of Chan
ceIlor Won Caprivi, that the crops of Ger
many are in better condition than is gen.
erailv supposed, have been contradicted by
reliable reports from several quarters of the
empire, received by telegraph to-day. These
reports arc to the effect that in Western
Russia severe cold weather and night frosts
during the current week have ruined the
crops kilograms from Vienna announce
that there has been a heavy fall of snow in
the eastern Alps, covering the plains of
SJyria.
it is understood that Chancellor Won Cap
rivi to-day, becoming dissatisfied with the
reports upon which he has based his asser-
lions, has asked the customs officers and
other functionaries to furnish fresh state
ments. In the meantime memorials from
Munich, Hamburg, Dresden and other
eenters reach the Chancellor, protesting the
necessity of a reduction of the tariff on
grain.
Shocked by the Baccarat Revelations.
Military and social circles are equally
amazed at the revelations regarding the con-
ditions of society in England. The admis-
sion that the Prince of Wales has been in
volved in gambling scandal is the princi-
pal topic OF conversation. AT all the
military casinos and clubs the action of the
Prince in the affair is emphatically con-
demned. Il is impossible, it is stated, to
conceive of high Prussian officer condon-
ing the offense of cheating at cards, or of
screening a person who had been found
guilty of such an act, and no instance is
known in the army where an officer has par
leyed publicly or privately regarding a
similar charge.
The papers draw comparisons between
the habits OF the Prince of Wales and those |
of Emperor William, whose strong condem- |
nation OF gambling in the German army has |
greatly assisted to check the practice of
playing for high stakes. The Emperor, ii
has long been known, entertains no warm
feeling toward the Prince of Wales.
Princess Neglected for Other Women.
The RJciase Journal goes so far, in alluding
the relations of the Princess of Wales to-
ward her husband, as to say that she is
neglected for women of doubtful an
tecedents and finds her sole consolation in |
the respect with which the English people |
surround her.
The suit for libel now being tried at |
Bochum continues to excite the country. |
The prosecution has asked the Esson tri- |
bunal to sentence Editor Fuscangel to two |
wears and Lunemann to one year, respec- |
lively, for accusing Herr Baare, the Di- |
rector of the BOchum Iron Works, and the |
friend and financial advisor of Prince Bis |
marck, with falsifying his incomes for the I
uIpest VI escaping tlC lnCoIlc ldA- 1Hc
Craver charge, that Herr Baare for 16 years |
has been sending out from his works steel |
rails which haven't been properly tested, and |
which bear a forgery of the Government |
stamp that could not be affixed by Gov |
ernmenJ officials under the circumstances, |
though declared by the public prosecutor
not to have been proved, remains the sub
ject OF keen general discussion.
Charges Against Krupp's Rival.
The Bochum Iron Works is the largest
factory of the kind in Germany, except the
Hrupp, and exports many thousand tons of
rails and locomotive aXles. The suspicion
which has been aroused that Herr Baare
has originated a system of supplying Ger
man and foreign railways with poor mate
rial fraudulently stamped as having been
tested will not be set at rest with
out an open Government inquiry, which
certain officials are accused of trying to
prevent.
The Post asserts that the French Govern
mcnt's demand that the Car make definite
declaration as 10 the attitude which he
would assume in the event of a Franco
German war, has obtained only the vaguest
committing Russia to nothing.
Assistance for Refugee Hebrews.
Conferences Of Hebrews have been held
national Emigration Committee for the pur-
pose Of supervising emigration of Hebrews
from Russia. Only refugees who have been
compelled to leave their homes will be as
sisted, and these will be all sent to their
ultimate places Of settlement. At these
conferences ample evidence was adduced to
show that the exodus is reaching immense
1t has little effect upon Ger
many and England, however, the food of
tending towards the United
States.
The new trial which was secured by Emel
Seifert, the American-German adventurer
who was recently sentenced to two years
for defrauding Mrs. Nc
juire, of Detroit, has been postponed, pend
ing the arrival of Mrs. Mcclure, who has
by cable her intention of return
ing and giving further testimony against
he prisoner.