Omaha daily bee., 1895-07-14
HAVl E A ROYAL GOOD TINE
Kaiser's Trip to tie NOrthland Proving Ex-
ceptionally Enjoyable
SHIP OWNERS COMPLAINING Bitterly
Charges for Use of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Canal Claimed to lie Excessive-Re-
lations Between Bismarck and tho
Emperor Again Strained.

Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated PrcssD
BERLIN, July 13.-Poltical affairs will be
in comatose state for the next six months,
Notwithstanding the Bundesrath and the
Prussian Diet have adjourned after an almost
barren session. In the meanwhile the en-
peror is having a good time in Sweden where
King Oscar and his family took great pains
to display their friendship for the German
emperor There was an impressive scene on
the German yacht Hohenzollern Tuesday
night, when King Oscar Dade farewell to
Emperor William. The yacht was illuminate
by a large number of fairy electric lamps.
The monarchs, after conversng familiarly.
walked to the gangway, with King Oscar
leaning upon Emperor Williams shoulders.
There was an affecting leavetakng King
Oscar saying "Auf wiedersehen in Berln."
The Hohenzollern next week cruises along
the coast Of Norrland as far as Bispgaard,
and thence on excursion to Indalself will be
made.
A charitable act of the empress Of Germany
has just become known. She has sent the
sick and destitute peasant poetess, Johanna
AmbrosuS of eastern Prussia, to Switzerland,
in order that she may benefit by the fresh air
of that country, and will provide for her dur
ing the remainder of her life
PRINCES TOURING AFOOG.
The two eldest of the imperial princes
are now making a tour of south Germany on
foot. as far as Constance, and thence through
the eastern cantons They are travelling
under the names of Counts Ravenburg and
are accompanied by their tutor, Colonel
Defines, and Lieutenant Reich. While staying
a few hours at Pattlingen the crown prince
missed his footing and narrowly escaped fall
ing into the River Neckar
marck and the emperor continue to be
strained. AS further proof of this fact, it de-
serves mention that Count Won Rantzau,
Prince Bismarck's son-in-law, has resigned
his mission as German minister to The
Hague. and has left the state service entirely
in order 10 devote himself wholly to Prince
Bismarck at Friedrichsruh, at the latter's re-
quest
The plan for erecting gigantic Bismarck
monument at Blankenseve, near Hamburg.
on the steep shore overlooking the Elbe, Is
taking shape. The monument itself VIII be
thirty meters high. The committee having
the work in hand is made up Of about 100
of the leading men throughout Germany and
the sum of 100000 marks is needed to COM
plate it. The funds necessary to erect the
monument will be raised by popular sub
scription. The site has been presented to
the committee by the owner Of the land, a
wealthy merchant at Hamburg.
On Friday next, the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the declaration of war by France
against Prussia, the Berlin students will
commemorate the day with a patriotic cele-
bration and delegates from academic socie-
ties of the other universities will take part
in the celebration.
On August IS next, the anniversary Of the
battle of st. Prival. in which the Guard du
Corps suffered most severely, big celebra-
ton will be held by the First brigade OF
Guards at Potsdam, at which the emperor has
promised to be present. Tents will be
erected for the occasion in the Potsdam Lust
garten and there will be iluminatons and
dancing. The officers and veterans will be
present at the banquet during the afternoon
in front of the cannons which were taken
during the battle.
A monument to King Luis II. of Bavaria
has Just been erected at Lindenhof The
monument was modelled by an American,
Miss Denny, to whom the king sat shortly
before his suicide.
SHIP OWNERS COMPLAIN.
Ship owners are loudly complaining at the
high tariff charged vessels passing through
the Kaiser Wilhelm canal During the first
week Of July seventy-siX craft of various
sizes passed through the newly opened water
way and one English steamer paid LOG
marks in tolls. smaller steamer of 600 tons
paid 4S5 marks and in winter 1t is proposed
to raise the tariff 25 per cent. DR.. Boysen
secretary of the Kie Chamber of Commerce.
has asked the canal management to lower
the tariff, fearing that the passage of the
canal will never become popular until this Is
done. Up to September next 1000 men will
be kept at work finishing the embankments
Carl Wesselky, a leading actor of the Ma
tional theater, has become a ravng maniac
He was first attacked with insanity while
performing in a sensational drama entitled
"At the Madhouse." The unfortunate man
has been removed to an asylum at Daldorf
DIR. Tomascewski. a regimental surgeon
belonging to the Landwehr. residing at
Schmegel, has been dismissed from the army
on account of his refusal to fight a duel with
an apothecary named Samisch belonging to
the same town.
Leon Cavillo has finished patriotic Prus-
sian opera. entitled Roland of Berlin" and
intends to submit the score in person to the
emperor, who reshaped the libretto by Tau
tiert.
The exports to the United States from
Frankfort ont the Main for the last quarter
have increased 1890 marks, as compared
with the same period Of 1894
Captain r. K. Evans, the United States
military attache, has gone to Switzerland on
a vacation
Farmer Killed at a Church Social
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July 13.-Dur,ng
a row at church social on Big Cabett creek
last night Burt Davis a well-to-do farmer,