The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-22
EXPELLED FROM GERMANY.

Herr Wesselitzkn, Who Has an Am erican
Wife, Forced to Leave the Fatheriand.
copyright. 1892 by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN. May 21.-The absorbing topic Of
conversation in American society here is
the expulsion from the country of the Rus
sian, Herr Wesselitzks, director of the ALI
gemeine Correspondent. for circulating
alarming reports concerning the Sultan
of Turkeys health. The Turkish
ambassador held several interviews with
Chancellor Won Caprlvi and insisted upon
summary treatment being melted out to the
author of the reports. Herr Wesselitza's
wife. nee Monroe. is q native of central
New York. She belonged to Q good family.
Herr Wesselitzka and his wife, together
with Mrs. Monroe and two of his wife's
sisters, lived In q fashionable house in the
Inter den Linden. They entertained the
cream OF the American COLONY. Gen.
Count Won Waldersee and the Countess.
who is an American by birth. and many Of
ticers of the guards. were frequent guests of
the Wesselitzkas. The police some time
ago suspected that Herr Wesselitzka was
engaged In pan-Slavist intrigues. and an in
curry into his antecedepts showed that he
n00 YkGNI " pOCh OApOAiCo huN-
trian territory for his close connection
with the insurgents In Bohemia at the time
of the Austrian occupation. The Prussian
officials declare now that he was scheminR
to destroy the ~intente between Berlin and
Co~nstantinople, TO the advantage of Rus
STA.
Tho rumors Of the rapprochement be-
tween the Emperor and Prince Bismarck
in consequence of the reported felicito6s
telegram the Emperor sent to CoBnt Her
hRrf RIamQrk on thu OCPQainn nf Nia hR-
trothal to Countess Margaret HOyos.
daughter of Counti Hoyos. gains little cre-
dence here. This telegram was said TO be
as follows: Many thanks tor yOur kind
news and sincere congratulations upon
your engagement to Countess Margaret
Hoyos.D statements from a reliable source
throw doubt upon the alleged congratula-
tiOns.
A report circulated by the Paris press to
the effect that the health of the Emperor
Is precariOus is entirely unfounded.
Government circles In Berlin and Vienna
observe very cool attitude toward the IN
terDational monetary conference. The
Politische Correspondent says that there
Is a lack of a concrete programme, which
may lead 10 the conference being used tor
purposes of agitation. 1t Is a question. IT
adds. whether tine European states having
q gOld-coinage system would do we'll to
take part In the conference at ali.
Mr.. Phelps, the American minister, has
received O letter from the official chemist
at Hamburg. declaring that half the inn
ported American dried apples contain zine.
he advises that the dryers use sheet-Iron
instead of zinc plates In the evaporation
process. saying that. otherwise. they will
lose the entire German trade. The recent
heavy rams have improved the German
crops.
The American legation here calls atten-
ton TO the trouble of Americans of Ger
man birth revisiting Germany owing 70
their failure to bring their naturalization
papers. The legation is unable TO protect
them or issue passports to them unless they
produce their papers.
Herr Lauter, the manage of Krupp's
great gun factory. is about TO start for the
United States TO arrange for the traDspor-
tation of the big guns that Herr KrupD
will EXHIBIT at the Chicago fair.