Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
FRANCE IS CUT OUT.
The Paris Government Puts in Its
Oar Just Too Late to Save Its
Commercial Bacon.
CAN'T BREAK THE z0LLVEREIN.
Police and Fad Weather Fail to Suppress
New Year Roodlumism on the
Streets of ferlin.
PRAISE FOR THE AMERICAN UNION.
Revolutionary Plots Have Frightened the Czarina Into
Low Fever.
CAN'T BREAK THE z0LLVEREIN.
PRAISE FOR THE AMERICAN UNION.
Revolutionary Plots Have Frightened the Czarna Into
a Low Fever
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BERLIN, Jan. 2-Reports have reached
here by cable that the German Minister to
Chile had offered the good offices of Ger
many as mediator between Chile and the
United States. These reports have been
semi-oficiallv denied. The Foreign De-
partment does not think it necessary 10
telegraph to the Minister asking how the
rumor arose, as no instructions from his
Government warranting his interference
have been sent TO him, and the department
relies implicitly upon his discretion.
The French Government is too late in
irving to meet the Dreibund' sZollverein by
commercial alliances with various Euro
pean States. The overtures made from
Paris TO Sweden, Denmark, Greece and
Italy are perfectly known in Berlin. These
overtures till now have resulted in nothing
further than an agreement with Greece and
Denmark, both these allies of Russia getting
the minimum French tariff in exchange for
Favored nation" treatment TO France.
The ZoIlverein Is Too Solid.
The negotiations for a treaty with Italy
have in the meantime ceased, and it is not
AlhtiA lhat lutN VIII pc IenS"eu. " Ith
Sweden, France stands better chance, but
nothing the Paris Government now can do
can weaken the Dreibund's Zollverein,
which ere long will include Belgium, Hol-
land, Roumania and Servia, and probably
Spain.
For the solid vote of the Centrists in the
Reichstag, which enabled the Government
10 pass the commercial treaties, that party
is about to obtain the long-desired conces-
sion granting the clergy greater control of
the instruction IN primary schools. Count
Won Zedltz, Minister of Public Worship,
will submit to the Landtag project con-
ferring power on the clergy to examine can
didateS for leadership on religious ques-
tions. The Catholics regard the concession
as one which will enable the clergy to con-
troll the schools through the teachers. The
project will cause bitter fight in the Land
tag, as the Conservatives hold that it will
pervert the character of the Volksschule
Rumors are current that negotiations are
proceeding TO obtain the adhesion of Russia
to the Commercial Convention, but there is
no foundation for them. The Foreign Of
fee denies that the question of a reduction
of the Russian tariff has ever been mooted.
New Year Exubcrance in Berlin.
Bleak winds and drenching rains ushered
in the new year. Miserable weather, of
course, had some effect on the celebration.
The rowdy mobs which had been privileged
every New Years Eve to hold the leading
thOrcuChtares against quiet folks and to in
dulge in such practical jokes as crushing
theater hats, and carrying off the coats of
well-known passers-bv, found a partial
check in special reinforcements of police,
bat neither the inclement night nor the
strong force of police in the streets quite re-
strained the recurrence of the old-time riot
ing. Mounted constables rode along the
pavements dispensing the unruly groups
About 100 brawlers were arrested. They
are awaiting fine or Imprisonment.
The court functions on the day were the
same rs usual. AT the levee held subse
quently to the morning service. where all
the commanding generals, Governme mt
officials anl 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
wore a magnificent court robe She also
wore the ribbon of the Black Eagle and the
decorations of many other orders.
The Czarina Frightened Into a Fever
Advices from St Petersburg are that the
illness of the Czarina is low fever partly
due to worrying over the plot against the
Gar, in which the highest court and i'm
perlal personages are suspected OF being in
volved. Private letters state that some of
these plots are aimed at obtaining consti-
tuition by which the mobiles and landholders
will appoint the members of an assembly
Among the New Year articles appearing
in the German press is one in the National
Eating which specially comments upon the |
growth of the American Union as the de- |
cisive factor of the century. Il
The Frankfurt Gazette announces that i'm |
mense quantities of wheat and rye have |
been stored in the Rhine fortresses. The |
wheat, it says was chiefly imported.
The American legation here is busy with |
the cases of American citizens of German |
birth who have been arrested in this coun- |
try for desertion from the army. Minister |
Phelps finds the Government ready TO ac-
cede to any reasonable demand for the re-
lease of the returned deserters, even when
the laws would permit of their retention,
but it would be better if men liable to
prosecution on this charge should remain
in their adopted country.
MARK Twain will deliver lecture in
this city on January 13 for the benefit of the
Berlin American Church He and Murat
Halstead and Miss Halstead were given a
dinner yesterday bv Mr. and Mrs. j. B.