The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-04-19

Children Crushed to Death and
| Many Other Persons seriously In
jured at Railway Station In Eng
land.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
New YORK, April 1s.-Yates' letter for
! the Tribune from London saws: The
Queens visit to Darmstadt is to be strictly
private. Peremptory orders have been
issued prohibiting court functions and
military display. The Queen will visit
the Prince and Princess Louise of Batten-
burg at Schloss- Heilenburg, near Jugen-
helm, and the Count and Countess of
Erbach at Schloss-Schonberge in the
same neighborhood. During her visit
she will go to the mausoleum at Rosen-
hope, where the late Grand Duke and
Princess Alice are buried
| The Queens visit at Darmstadt will
probably lead to a reconciliation between
her and Prince Alexander of Battenberg,
who has been in deep disgrace
since his morganatic marriage. The
Prince has been placed in COM
| Portable circumstance by an arrange
ment which he has concluded with
ne has life pension of g. 900 a year.
| When the Prince left Bulgaria, in 1886, it
was agreed that he should receive SlO0, 900,
and that the Government should pur-
chase his estate, palace, furniture, plate
and general pharaphernalia. Out of the
SlOO,oOO he owed $4,000, so he had only
$4,000 left, and had undertaken to pro-
vide for his youngest brother, Francis
Joseph. Prince Alexander of Hess left
his second son &15,O00, but 10000 will
| only come to him on the death of his
| mother, the Princess of Battenberg.
| Prince Alexander has been urging his
! claims on the Government at Belgrade
for nearly five years.
| Emperor William intends to pay
strictly private visit to England at the
! end OF July, coming in his yacht Hohen-
zollern direct to Cowes, and staying there
Tor the squadron regatta week. The En-
perOr will probably arrive at COweS Oh
July Both. lie will remain at Solent for a
week, living on board his yacht. There
| Will be no festivities or functions OF any
kind, but the Emperor will dine at Os-
| borne with the Queen two or three times
| during his stay, and will probably visit
the Duke of Connaught at Portsmouth.
! There is no foundation whatever for the
! report that he will visit some large CEN
! terS of commerce. He will not even como
| to London, but will possibly proceed
! down the channel as tar as Davenport, in
order to visit the Duke of Edinburgh
! The Emperor's yacht Meteor has ar
rived at Gossport from Kiel, after a rough
| passage, and Will be thoroughly over
| hauled and reftted during the next two
/ weeks.
1 hear that the King of Saxony, Grand
! Duke of Baden. Duke of SaXe-Coburg
and Gotha, and other German sovereign
Princes have sent joint protest to En-
peror William against his recent policy,
more particularly against the education
| bill. This practically means that there
will be an end to Prussian dictation in
the federal council, which in Prince Bis
marc!<'s day voted precisely as he
wished. This revival of particularism in
| Germany will be another and very severe
blow to the Emperor'S fast waning pres
| tige. The only German sovereign who
has supported the Emperor lately is the
King Of Wurtemburg, who has private
reasons for wishing to keep himself in
high favor at Berlin, but his opinion car
rles no weight when opposed by that of
the King OF Saxony, and by the Grand
/ Duke of Baden and the Duke of Sake
| Coburg and Gotha. The last of these
| perSonageS, who is Boyen of the German
| Prince, has not visited Berlin since Bis
marck's retirement.
tits now definitely settled that the re-
turn visit of the Queen Regent of the
Netherlands and her daughter to the
| Court OF Berlin, is to take place toward
| the end of next month, when they will
be entertained at Potsdam by the
| Emperor and Empress with all imagin-
able splendor There is no secret at Ber-
| lin that the great wish of the German
| Court is to arrange marriage between
| the Queen of Netherlands and Prince
| Frederick OF Russia, eldest son of Prince
| Albrecht, Regent OF Brunswick, who was
/ born in 1874 and has Dutch blood in his
| veins. His grandmother was the wealthy
and celebrated Princess Marianne of
! Netherlands, who was aunt to the late
| King William. Prince Albrecht is one of
! the richest members of the Hohenzollern
! family. He inherited the largest estates
| in Holland and the palace at Hague from
1 his mother. He and his family usually
! pass Il couple ofmonths every summer at
| Scheveningen.
| The Queen Regent gladly postponed
/ her visit to the German court, as Queen
/ Wilhlmina is a delicate, nervous eXcita-
/ bic child, and state functions and cere-
moHials are not good for her, and it is
! therefore desired to keep her from them
as much as possible for several years to
come.
The Russian Government has closed
the factory established about year ago,
! near st. Petersburg, for manufacturing
smokeless powder, which was made
/ there by French experts according to the
| latest French system. The experiment
! turned out to be a complete failure,as the
| powder was declared to be interior to
! that previously manufactured after an
earlier receipt. The Government has
now contracted with the Schulselsbcrg
] Powder Company, whose factory is
twenty miles from st. Petersburg, for
supply of so, 100000 pounds of smokeless
powder, which will cost 4S,000,09G rou-
! bIeS. This sum will make a grieyous
item to the next years budget.