The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
BISMARCK's PEPPERY TONGUE.
The Ex-Chancellor's Crisp Utterances Criti


cised by Friends and Foes.
copyright 1892 by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN, Nov. 5.-The latest interviews
with BismLrck Goa tinue to excite interest
rather as outbursts of personal venom than
political manifestoes. He hits all round.
striking his dead as well as living adver-
saries. Referring to Prince GortschakOff.
whom he described as q malicious personal
enemy. Prince Bismarck says he was al
low ed lump sum from the Russian treasury
for official telegramA Instead of devotiDg
the money to this purpose he put 1t In
his own pocket and used the German Am
bassador and other officials as his tele-
graphic media with the Car. The Gear,
he added. told him that vanity had made
Prince Gortschskoff silly. Prince Bismarck
says that another old colleague of his.
Count Won Radowitz. proved that he could
not be trusted because he drank. After his
third glass of wine he gave his tongue rein
and blabbed all he knew. Referring to the
Prince applies coarse epithet 10 hebrews.
saying that Conservatives In setting out to
get state legislation against the Jews got
hold of the wrong vermin-killer.
Some of the Princes statements de-
nounced as fiction. The Vossische Zeitung
| calls them important mistakes. Herr
| Richters Freissinige Zeitung says his re-
marks are devoid of historic truth. Thus
his assertion that the late Emperor
| William wanted to annex a part of Saxony
| In 1866, and the story that General Won
Moltke urged an invasion in 1870 are both
| questioned. Among the episodes that
| Prince Bismarck tells now is one about
| Bonapartist agent who. in 1870 came
to him during the negotiations for
| peace and offered to 60 to Bordeaux
with half q dozen resOlnte men and
assassinate Gam BETA and other members
| of the provisional government. Then the
| Emperor was to be recalled. Germans hold
| ing the country until the en- pire was re-
established. Prince Bismarck believed the
| project was possible, but refused TO agree
] to il. thinking that monarchial France
| would he more dangerous to peace than q
| republic Again alluding to his aversion
to reappearing In the Relchstag. the Prince
| saws many of the members would treat him
| as though he was pest stricken, adding that
| Hamburg cholera patient would be better
| received than he. The newspapers concur
In their expressions of regret at the undig-
/ nified character of his utterances. Even
| the papers friendly TO him agree that his
language is unworthy of his past career.
Fed the Baby Pins.
| LONDON. Nov. Sat Walsham. in Nor
] folk. to-day. q nurse girl was charged with
| administering pins to the seven-months-old
| child of Robert Barcham. For some time
! it was noticed that the child was suffering
| intense pain. and ell the efforts of q physi-
clan to relieve it were useless. No one
could tell what the matter was until pins
were noticed in the chlId's exerets. Then
| the nurse girl was accused of forcing the
baby to swallow them. She at first denied
| it, claiming that the baby itself had swal-
| lowed them. She finally broke down. how
ever. and acknowledged that she had
| stuffed a number of pins in the mouth of
the little one The bs.y has already passed
| dozen pins. 1t is In critical condition.
Harrison's Efforts to Release Irishmen.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The in Interference of the
Washington government in behalf of the
h-American prisoners has not been we'll
received at the Home Office. Home
Secretary Asquith Is said to have re
| marked that it was gross
piece of impertInence. while Sir William
| Vernon Harcourt. who was Home Secretary
when the men were convicted, denounced
| the American government In even stronger
language. Mr.. Gladstone, however. was
|. in favor of treating the United States with
some consideration and accordingly a re-
specrful reply is to be sent TO President
Harrlson's appeal
Great strike of Cotton Spinners.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-The great strike of cot
ton-spinners was lnauRurated this after.
noon. Fiffy-five thousand persons are idle
The secretaries of the spinners and mas
ters associations and the masters and men
themselves are confident of victory. Both
aides are prepared for long struggle. and
| the end of the contest 10 hard to forcsee.
As far az money is concerned the spinnert
Arc in Q good position to stay out for very
long time. Mr.. Mawdsley promises that
each striker will be paid 10 chilling,
weekly, in addition to the allowances made