Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
A RUSSIAN PL0TTER.
His lntrigues to Embroil Germany
and Turkey Make Trouble.
A MOVEMENT AGAINST SENATORS
Bismarck Warns the Dreibund Not to Ask
Too Much From Italy.
CONTINENTAL ENEMIES OF SILVER

! COPYRIGHT, 1892 BY n. Y. Y.'AssocIArRD PRESS. J
BERLIN, May 21.-The absorbing topic
OF conversation in American society here is
the expulsion from the country of the
Russian, Herr Wesselitzka, director of the
AUgeJnetne Correspondent, for circulating
alarming reports concerning the Sultan of
| Turkeys health The Turkish Ambassador
held several interviews with Chancellor
Won Caprivi, and insisted upon summary
treatment being meted out to the author of
| the reports.
Herr Wesselitzka's wife, nee Monroe, is
q native Of Central New York. She be-
longs to a good family. Herr Wesselitska
and his wife, together with Mrs. Monroe
and two of his wife's sisters, lived in a
fashionable house in the Unter-den-Linden.
They entertained the cream of the Amer
lean colony. General Count Won Walder-
see and the Countess, who is an American
by birth, and many officers of the guards
were frequent guests of the Wesselitzkas.
The Conspirator's Career in Austria.
The police some time ago suspected that
Herr Wesselltzka was engaged in pam
Slavist intrigues, and an inquiry into his
antecedents showed that he had previously
been expelled from Austrian territory for
his close connection with the Insurgents in
Bosnia at the time of the Austrian occupa-
tion. The Prussan officials declare now
that he was schemng to destroy the entente
between Berlin and Constantinople to the
advantage of Russia
The event in the Landtag during the past
week was the announcement, made by Herr
Herrfurth, Minister of the Interior, that at
the next session the Government would In
troduce bill for the redistribution of the
seats. 1t is generally conceded that it is
triumph for the Progressists When Prince
Bismark was in power he stubbornly re-
sisted similar demands, foreseeing that they
would inevitably result to the advan-
tage of the Socialists.
Crusade against the Upper House.
The Progressists are organizing a strong
agitation to abolish the extra vote power of
the richer classes, while the Freisinnige lei
t,n,g leads the attack upon the Upper
House of the Prussian Diet In the course
of a trenchant article, that paper says it is
impossible to reform the Upper House, and
that it must be abolished. 1t only DELAYS
legislation. Its talented members should
be elected to the Lower House, where their |
abilities could be utilized.
The rumors of the rapprochement be- |
tween the Emperor and Prince Bismarck, |
in consequence of the reported felicitous |
telegram the Emperor sent to Count Her |
bert Bismarck on the occasion of his be- |
trothal to Countess Margaret Hoyos,
daughter of Count Hoyos, gain little Gre
dence here. This telegram was said to be |
as follows: ''Many thanks for your kind |
news, and sincere congratulations upon your |
engagement to Countess Margaret Hoyos."
Statements from reliable source throw |
doubt upon the alleged congratulations
Bismarck's Warning to the Drribund.
An article by Prince Bismarck in the |
Hamburger Naclrichten has provoked a storm |
OF comments, and is likely to exercise en-
ormous influence in Italy. It declares that |
Italy should not be forced, in her present |
financial weakness, to increase her military
strength, but she should be allowed to give
the Dreibund what assistance she can The
tenor of the article shows that Prince Bis
marck apprehends that, unless the burdens
are lightened, a strong reaction of public
opinion will occur in Italy, forcing King
Humbert to withdraw from the Dreibund.
The article afirms that Italy's adherence to
the Dreibund mainly depends upon the
protection she expects to receive from a
British feet in the event of war with
France.
Prince Bismarck's utterance, while Joy
fully received in Italy, has had bad effect
in Austria, where any reduction in Italy's
blIcuSIH Will culal1 corresponding luCEe&Sc |
in her own army.
Another AlsacN-Lorraine Trouble.
There is strong feeling in Germany
against the fetes of the French Gymnastic
Society," which occur at Nancy in June
The preparations for these fetes indicate
that they will take on an anti German char
acter. Invitations have been sent to all the
European Universities except those of Ger
many. A circular addressed to those in
Alsace-LorraIne specially invites their at
tendance, in order to demonstrate that
Nancy's, not Strassburg's University, is the
true Alsace-Lorraine institution. The
event takes on additional Importance owing
to the fact that President Carnot will at
tend the fetes.
Government circles in Berlin and Vienna
observe a very cool attitude toward the In
Monetary Conference. The
Politische Correspondent says there is lack of
4 concrete programme which may lead to
the conference being used for purposes of
agitation. IT is question, it adds, whether
The European States having gold coinage
system would do well to take part in the
conference at all.
Danger in American Dried AppIes
Mr.. Phelps, the American Minister, has
received a letter from the official chemist at
Hamburg declaring that half of the i'm
ported American dried apples contain zinc.
He advises that the driers use sheet iron
instead of zinc plates in the evaporating
process, saving that otherwise they will lose
he entire German trade.
The American Legation here calls at
ention to the trouble of Americans of
German birth revisiting Germany. owing to
heir failure to bring their naturalization
papers. The legation is unable to protect
hem or issue passports to them unless they
produce their papers.
CoBDEN1TEs STICK TO FREE TRADE