The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-12
NEWSY NOTES FROM
OVER TIN OCEAN.
Return to Berlin of the Greenland
Explorers.
THE EMPEROR'S BOAR HUNT
1t Was Mere Display and Farcica
in the Extreme.
Peixoto Purchasing War Vessels in Ger
many "A Decree Important to the
Schleswig-H oIslein Family-The
New Gambling Frauds.

Berlin, Nov. 11.-[Copyright. 1898. by
the Associated Press winter has
fairly set in in the mountain districts
of Germany, and snow is already quite
Deep. causing much delay to the postal
service.
1t was field day of the Berlin Geo
graphical society yesterday. when
banquet was given by Doctors Won
Drygolaflzi, Won Hoeffen and Slade,
who have just returned from an ex-
ploring trip into Greenland. The ex-
petition returned bearing a mass of
valuable material, which is now being
sifted and classed.
The newly unearthed gambling
frauds will shortly occupy the atten-
ton of the criminal tribunal of Han
over.
Regarding the new tax and bills, it
is noted that instead of 60,000,000 marks
demanded by ex-Minister Maltseohan,
Herr McNuel demands 10000 900 marks
extra. the 4O,000,00 marks demanded
being occasioned by new commercial
treaties. In radical circles, however,
it is asserted that this extra amount
is intended for a reserve fund to cover
the alleged projected increases in the
army ana navy expenditures.
The Reichsanzeiger has published
the imperial decree promulgated at the
request of Duke Ernst of Schleswig-
Holstein, (whose sister, Princess Au-
gusta Victoria, of Schleswig-H olstein,
is the present empress of Germany
which recognizes the ducal line of the
Schleswig-H olsteins as the former
reigning house of the German empire
Tne decree is important, as it gives
that branch of the Schleswig-Holstein
family to which Duke Ernst belongs
equality in rank with the actual reign
ing German houses and evidently is
with the idea. of facilitating advan-
tageous marriages for the empress
younger sisters. Princess Victoria Fred
erick, Fedora Louise and Fedora Ade-
laide.
The Tageblatt publishes alleged cir
cumstances of the emperor'S recent
boar-hunting expedition in Huberstock.
ST. Herbert's Day hunt, the Tageblatt
declares, was a mere court display
which in no way reflected credit upon
the royal sportsman. The boar, it is
said, was deprived of it's tusks and
muzzled, taken to the scene of the hunt
enclosed in a box and when released,
unfortunately, the animal trotted
peacefully away until the emperor
overlook and transf1xed the wild"
boar with a spear.
The reports that President Peixoto,
of Brazil, is endeavoring to purchase
war vessels in. Germany received par
tial confirmation today, when it was
announced that Peixoto had succeeded
in purchasing five war ships from the
Scheihak ship building yard near Dant-
zig The vessels purchased are fast
tWin-screW torpedo boats, capable of
steaming eighteen knots per hour.
The engagement of the brother of
the empress of Germany, Duke Ernst.
of Schleswig- Holstein, to the Princess
Sibyll, of Carolath Beuthan, is an
-nounced.
The new explosive invented by DR..
Ochs, who was formerly connected
with the Krupp works, has caused a
fall in dynamite trust shares The in
vention consists of an explosive car
fridge formed out of glass containing A
few grammes of water, which by cleo
tricity is conveyed through the plat
mum contact and decomposed into it's
element, vapor oxygen, which pro-
duces the explosive gas.