The Washington times., 1894-09-09
In KAISER WILLIAMS REALM
His Recent Speech Little Relished by
the Prassian Nobility.
BEHRING'S DIPHTHERIA CURE
At Children's Hospital in Paris 1t Reduced
Mortality FortY-fve Per Cent.-Rsstrict-
ing the Rights of the Press TO Prevent
the Spread Of Anarchism.
LcopyrIghted ls9l BY the Associated Press. !

Copyrighted 1894 by the Associated Press.l
BERLIN, Sept. S.-Emperor Williams speech
at Konigsberg on Thursday night at the close
OF the military maneuvers about South Alien
berg is, OF course, the sensation Of the hour
The Emperor is fond of taking all classes of
his subjects TO task when they diverge from
him in opinion. But no class has received
such rebuke as his rebelious mobiles and his
rebuke was scarcely rendered more palatabls
by thesolace afterWard administered when his
forgiving hand was proffered and the nobility
was urged as the faithful stay of the realm,
TO Join him in steady process OF repression
against all parties of disorder.
There was the same ring in the autocratic
Emperors last words was heard upon
previous occasions. and when viewed in the
light OF facts and results there is nothing in
them that can lead TO any marked political
action. The commercial treaty policy Of the
Emperor has been more than justified. nota-
bly, by the revival OF trade with Russia. as
shown within the last few days by official fig
ures, and by the transformation of the esti-
mated deficit in the budget into a surplus for
the ensuing financial year.
Early during this week the Emperor had a
conference with Count Won Eulenburg, the
Prussian premier and minister of the interior,
which lasted several hours. Upon that occa-
sion his majesty sanctioned Count Won Eulen-
burg's bill, restricting the right of public
assemblage and also restricting the rights of
the Prussian press. The premier pointed out
that, with the present Reichstag the repres-
siye measures advocated in the bill could not
pass through that assemblage. But, he added,
The diphtheria cure of DR.. Behring of Ber-
lin. disciple of Prot Koch, has been ex-
plotted at the Buda Pesth medical congress,
and was indorsed by many of the delegates
1lr cTr iE all lad
serum. BY successive and increased doses of
diphtheria virus injected into animals they
have gradually acquired immunity against
the malady.
The blood OF such animals injected into
other animals had the effect of comforting i'm
| munity upon the latter or healing them if suf-
fering from diphtheria. OF this blood DR..
| Behring extracted the serum, and has in
ected it into human beings with wonderful
results Profs. Huebner, of Berlin, and Roux.
! Of Paris, indorsed the cure at the congress.
Prof. RoUI said that he had applied it at the
| Children Hospital, in which, up to last year,
| 60 per cent. OF the cases Of diphtheria ended
| fatally This year, he added, he had inocu-
lated over 400 children with the serum, and
| the mortality sank from 90 to Is per cent.
After a few injections the malady changes
! almost instantly to fever and then soon dis
! appears.
Cholera is making progress. 1t is true that
| the last official report shows only fifty-three
new cases and twenty-one deaths, but the
danger lies in the greater spread not only in
| the Provinces of East Prussia and West Prus-
| sia, but Silesia Posen, Hesse, and Nassau are
| now affected, and at Breslau there are large
| number of suspects. The whole of the frontier
! of Posen. adjoining Russia, is closed. except
| at five points where all incomers are strictly
watched. In the district OF Oppeln, Upper
silesia, all religious pilgrimages have been
stopped.
Among the Americans now in Berlin is
Francis Kieckhoefe, of the State Department
at Washington, who is partly here on special
| business.
Robert F. Kneebs, the horse breeder and
! trainer. who on Thursday last was released
! on 81. 500 bail, after having been in prison
since May last on the charge of ringing"
trotting horses, would seem to have very good
cause for complaint for damages against his
former partner. Hefner, who is said to have
furnished Price Smith, who quarreled with
| Kneebs, with the information which led to the
charges being preferred against the latter
The amount OF Kneebs' bail was cabled to
this country from the United States by the
friends OF the so-long imprisoned horse
owner, and they have also furnished the
authorities with voluminous testimony from
the United States. including affldavits from a
| number of prominent citizens at Sioux CITY
and other places, testifying TO Kneebs' in
tegrity. The German ambassador at Wash
ington, Baron Won Saurma-Je Jeltsch, also testi-
fed to the good character of the American
| horse owner