The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25


prematurely, at the same time pub
fishing an article applauding them
as reforms which were likely to be
approved by the Government. DR.. Won
Boetticher became enraged at this and as
a consequence DR.. Won Boediker, after
stormy interview with the Minister OF the
Interior, obtained several weeks leave OF
absence, ostensibly on account of illness,
and is now recruiting his officially I'M
paired health and awaiting the issue OF his
quarrel with his superior. DIR. Grieseman
is also i'll and has been suspended from his
functions as editor of the North German
Gazette. The Reichsanzeiger, the Official
journal, states that there is no prospect
that the reforms published in the Gazette
will become a law and declares that they
were made public through a grave in
discretion. DR.. Grieseman is actually Ill,
the excitement caused by the affair having
brought on a stroke of apoplexy, from
which he is slowly recovering.
A soiree was held here last week under
the direction of the Rev. DR.. Fry for the
benefit of the English and American
Episcopal Church here. 1t was complete
success in every respect.
The Sonneberg Gazette challenges the
accuracy of the accusations made by Mr..
Dwight J. Particle, United States Consul
at Sonneberg, that German firms are max
ing fraudulent customs declarations. The
Gazette especially attacks Mr.. Partello's
statement IN an interview with him pub
Iished in a New York newspaper that upon
his return to Sonneberg his examinations
designed to prevent fraudulent declara-
tions will be more vigorously prosecuted
and more extensive in detail than hereto
fore. The Gazette demands that Mr.. Par
tello give the names of the German firms
that are practicing the frauds he alleges,
declaring that the insinuations are grossly
unfair and ought not to be tolerated. The
best newspapers have taken up the subject
of Mr.. Partello's charge and second the
demands of the Sonneberg Gazette that
Mr.. Particle give the names of the Ger
man firms against which he makes accusa-
tions.
Count Herbert Bismarck has lately been
stumplng Prussian Saxony in the interest
of the Agrarians. In one of his speeches
he defended the grain bill drafted by Count
Kanitz, and in another speech he came out
in favor of bimetallism, protective tariffs
and the introduction of an eight-hour
day upon all of the imperial docks
and wharves, to go into effect April
1, 1896 At present the employees
work ten hours. An eight-hour day, he
urged, running from o'clock IN the morn-
ing until o'clock in the afternoon, with
quarter OF an hour for breakfast and the
same length of time for dinner, closing the
work at o'clock, would give the men time
for daylight recreation. He strongly urged
a trial OF this system, which, if it should
prove to be detrimental after trial of six
months duration, could be abandoned and
the existing system resumed.
The Empress took the elder four of
the Princes last evening to the Berlin
shops to allow them to do their own
Christmas shopping.
Each Prince paid for the articles of his
choosing out of his own pocket-money, and
the salesmen say they are inclined to drive
hard bargains and are especially emphatic
in exacting whatever change may be due
them. Prince Adalbert, rummaging in
basket filled with fancy goods, found
lucky pig, intended for card-players in the
game of ''all fours" and raised terrible
outcry when his mother refused to permit
him to purchase it.
Prince Henry of Prussia rode bicycle
distance of eighteen miles, from Darms.adt.
to Rumpenheim, on Thursday. to congratu-
late his mother, ex-Empress Frederick, on
her birthday.
The Government has ordered an inquiry
into the causes of suicides among firemen
Ae&0
ers, and the inquiry is likely to extend to
an investigation of the causes of the gen.
eral increase of suicides, which has become
very noticeable.
The chess master, Steinitz, is giving a
chess tournament here prior to his depar-
ture for st. Petersburg.
Ex-Chancellor Caprivi is visiting Berlin.
He maintains the strictest privacy and
receives no visitors.
Heavy snowstorms are reported in the
vicinity of Lemberg. The railways are all
blockaded and traffic is almost wholly
suspended.
DR.. Lindau, the German representative
on the Turkish debt commission, is here
negotiating upon Turkish tobacco.
A syndicate of Berlin and Frankfort
capitalists has concluded arrangements for
the conversion of the Russian railway
loans, amounting to 165,000O0O marks.
This arrangement implies the placing of
large orders in Germany for supplies of
railway material. 1t is the first great
Russo-German financial operation that has
been entered into since 1886, and proves
conclusively the renewal Of friendly rela-
tions between Germany and Russia.