The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
GERMANY AND CHILLI
The Former Has Not Offered Her
Good Offices as Mediator.
THE EMPEROR TO HIS GENERALS
Advised to Become Acquainted With the
Latest Military ImprOvements-France
Meeting With Poor Success.

BERLIN, Jan 2.-TCopyright 1892 by the
New York Associated Press. REPORTS
have reached here by cable that the Ger
man minister had offered the good offices
of Germany as mediator between Chill and
the United States. These reports have
been semi-officially denied. The Foreign
department does not think it necessary to
telegraph the minister asking how the ru
NOR, started as no instructions warranting
interference have been sent him.
Bleak winds and drenching rains ushered
in the new year. Such miserable weather,
of course had some effect on the celebration
of this day. The court functions were the
same as usual. At a levee where all the
commanding generals, government officials
and court officers filed past the throne,
the Emperor wore the
GALA UNIFORM OF A PRUssIAN GENERAL,
with the ribbon of the Order of the Black
Eagle. The Empress was attired in a
magnificent court robe. She also wore the
ribbon of the Black Eagle and the decora-
tions of many other orders. AT noon the
Emperor rode to the arsenal to perform the
usual New Years ceremony of giving the
parole to the troops. Every body here eX-
pected him to make important utterances
on this occasion, but he said nothing be-
yond few words in addressing group of
officers. He advised them TO speedily &C
quire knowledge of the power and use Of
the latest military improvements,
| THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT Is TOO LATE
in trying to meet the driebund's zolverein
| by commerce al alliances with various Eu-
ropean states. The overtures made from
! Paris to Sweden, Denmark Greece and
Italy are perfectly known in Berlin. These
| oVertures, TIL now, nave resulted in nothing
further than an agreement with Greece and
Denmark, both of these allies of Russia
getting the minimum French tariff in ex-
change for favored nation" treatment TO
! France. Negotiations for treaty with
! Italy have ceased With Swed en-, France
stands better chance, but nothing the
Paris government can do can weaken the
drie bund'S Zolverein, which ere long will
include Belgium, Holland, Roumania and
Servia, and probably Spain.
FOR THE SOLID VOTE OF THE CENTRIsTs
in the reichstag, which enable the govern
ment to pass the commercial treaties, that
party is about to obtain the long-desired
concession granting the clergy greater con
troll of instruction in primary schools.
ship, will submit to the landtag a project
comforting power on the clergy to examine
candidates for leadership on religious
questions. Catholics regard the concession
as one which will enable the clergy to con-
troll the schools through teachers. The
project will cause bitter fight IN the land
tag, as the Conservatives hold it will per
vert the character of the volksschule.
Influenza has claimed another victim
among the diplomats in this city Marqui!
de Penafel, ambassador of Portugal Il
, Germany, died here to-day from tina
disease.
ADvICEs FROM ST. PETERSBURG
are that the illness of the Czarina is Low
fever, partly due to worrying over the plO
against the Gar in which high court ant
imperial personages are suspected. Private
, letters state some of these plots aimed a
obtaining a constitution by which tn
mobiles and landholders will appoint mem
bers of the assembly.
!, Rumors are current negotiations are pro
. ceeding to obtain the adhesion of Russi
to a commercial convention, but there is u
. foundation for them.
Among New Year articles appearing Il
the German press is one in the NGtionO
Zsitung which specially comments on the
GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN UNION
J. as JQe decisive IaCCOF vi Tue CENTURY.
q The Frankfort Gdzdtte announces in
: mense quantities of wheat and rye hav
- | been stored in the Rhine fortresses. Tn
q wheat, 1T says, was chiefly imported.
The American legation here is busy wit
the cases of American citizens of Germa
a birth who have been arrested in TIL
country for desertion from the army
American Minister Phelps finds the GOV
II eminent ready to acCede to any reasonab
A a nd IN
even when the laws would permit Of the
retention, but it would be better if me
liable TO prosecution on this charge woul
e remain in their adopted country.