The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-21

Liberal newspapers that SleCle escapcu WITH
such light punishment. Schmidts father be-
gan. last week. proceedings against Sicglo Tor
tho recovery of damages.
The organs Of the Independent Social Dem
ocrats have made n sensation by publishing
an article in which they accuse the loading
Social Democrats in Parliament and on the
Central Committee Of the party OF having en-
bczzled 10000 marks of the party funds.
Among the mon specifically charged with cor
ruption are Bebel. Aucr. and Singer. They
arc said to have applied tho money in 1ues-
ton to settling tho private debts OF the
members of the committee. and have in
creased their revenues by receiving subsidies
from tho police The advice OF the old leaders
that the Social Democrats abstain from all
riots and make no demonstration on May Day.
the Independents say. was bought and paid
for by tho city police. Meetings are held
nightly to discuss these charges. and the ac-
cuscrs and accused meet to defend their re-
spective sides. The meetings end invariably
in FREQ fights. the bittcrest ordinations and
determinations. and occa sionally In the calling
in of the police to prevent bloodshed. Besides
the leaders mentioned tho men accused Of
hribe taking are Secretary Fischer. Koerner.
the Rackow brothers. karpell. Wolff. Heinrich.
Fritzschke. Braumann. and Goeriki.
The Emperor has promised Baron Strumm.
or King Striel John. as tho Radicals call him.
to visit the Hemitz pit this spring. and de-
sccnd in the miners cnge so as to get clear
idea OF the position and habits Of the work
ingmen there. The visit will be made proba
bly, about the time of the May mannuvres.
After seeing the pit and tho coal galleries.
the Emperor will be entertained by Strumm
at Castle Halbcrg.
1t is reported that Prince Albert heir pre-
sumptive to the throne Of W0rttemburg will
marry n daughter of the Prince Regent Luit-
pold of Bavaria
Ernst Possart. the tragedian. has returned
from tho scene OF his earlier triumphs in
Munich after an absence of many years. which
was due. It is said. to scandal. He has been
received with great enthusiasm.
A sergeant OF the Seventeenth Infantry tried
to arrest Second Lieutenant Kiefer for dis
graceful conduct last week at the Zwiebriicken
barracks. kiefer frightened him Off with re-
volver and made his escape. Officers are out
after him. He is under sentence from tho
militarytribunal in W1rburg to Imprisonment
for thirteen months.
The seventh German chess congress will he
held in Dresden in July. About 400 competi-
tors will take part. There will be master. first
class. and second class problem tournaments
and fifteen games blindfold.
Eighty five large nj ercantile firms. assembled
in the Bavarian Industrial Museum. decided
yesterday to eXpend 10000 marks in making
a collective exhibit at Chicago. The Barmen
Chamber Of Commerce has called upon its
Worlds Fair Committee to reconvene and re-
consider it's decision adverse to an exhibit Mt
the Fair. In Vienna the imperial Government
has indicated to the Department Of Trade and
Commerce its desire to encourage every effort
toward more comprehensive representation at
the Fair than has yet been contemplated.
The Director Of the Public Works in I.hheck
has submitted to the Senate plans for joining
the Elbo and Trave at an estimated cost Of
1S.OOO0OO marks.
Fritz Rathner. II years old. while fishing
through hole in the ice near Wronke. Prus-
sian Poland. hooked big pike. While trying
to lift the fish from the water he was bitten by
it in the wrist. The bite severed an artery.
and a little later Rathner's parents found him
dead on the ice from the loss Of blood.
Stonemason Fuerst quarrecd with his wife
at Lippspring yesterday. and threatened to
kill her. She took refuge behind their ten
year-od child. Fuerst seized the child and
strangled it while his wife screamed for help.
A crowd gathered while the police were taking
Fuerst to Jail and made desperate attempts to
drag him away and lynch him. Ten persons
wero seriously wounded by tho police while
defending their prisoner with drawn swords.
Widow Berndt. wealthy property owner
enbach. Siesia. for numbering her husband
and three children in 1883. She put arsenic in
the soup she cooked for their dinner