Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-09

animation at the Prusslan gynasimn.
This examination enables the SUCCESS
ful ones TO enter the universitlcs or
obtain other privileges In certain pros
fessions. The minister ovcrruled the
decision OF the provincial board OF ped
agogues, who refused the necessary
permission.
Dr. Bosses decision has caused great
rejoicing among the Prusslan advo-
Gates OF the higher education OF wo-
men.
Another question affecting the pres
ent rights OF women has Just been de-
oided against thdm. An hntiquatcd
law stlll exists which prohibits woman
scholars from Joining political So
cicty. A few women recently formed
In Berlin a woman's rights agitation
committee. having for Its object to OBJ
tain for women equal political rights.
Leaders OF this movement were ar
ralgned by the public prosecutor and
the magistrate before whom they were
brought sentenced the women TO fines
raining from 80 to 80 marks and ordered
the society dissolved.
The postal authorities OF Frankfort
cn-the-Main have decided that the gov
eminent need not pay damages for the
loss OF registered letters which sunk
with the steamer Elbe, as the United
States has not Joined In tho lnterna-
tlonal regulations OF 1891 bearing on
that question. Some exceptions, how
ever Will be made voluntarily.
The anti-Semites Peoples party, of
which Ahlwnrt and Boeckel are the
leaders. adopted their platform at a
meeting this week. It's chief plank
naturally 10 propaganda TO exclude
Jews from all public offices and hon
ors and also from the press, law ana
medicine. In addition, separate schools
for Jews, under state supervision ana
control, are demanded, The meeting
resolved that every person is 10 be re-
garded ag jew II his or her ancep.
tors for the past three generations in-
clude one person OF Jewish blood, Per-
sons who have married Jeweasep are
included in the same category In viow
OF the quantity OF Jews among the
members OF the aristocracy and In
banking and commercial circles. the
achievement or this program would
cause considerable Inconvenience
case OF perjury which was pending
against the Countess perpouoher nee.
DroesD the American lady whose
troubles have so long been before the
public, has been stricken on the ligte
the court being satisfied that the evi.
dence against her was OF the fiimsl.
est character. The countess Is the wife
OF Count Perpoucher, son OF ex-marshal
OF eX-Emperor William /.
The count early In April deposited
the sum OF 10000 marks as bail Tor
his wife, who had been arrested on
the charge OF perjury and Intimacy
with Dr. Bruno Vaught, who was be-
ing sued for divorce by his wife.
The countess was married I'm tho
United States In December. isg9 she
Will now sue her chief traduccr, a
teacher named Wiegandt, In Muehl-
hansen. for Islander.
The Berlin city council ratified tho
contract for the construction OF an
electric elevated city railroad.
A sensation has been created by
the revelations regarding the bnrbarous
treatment OF lunatlc inmates OF the
inonastry at Marburg. made during the
trial OF a suit for Islander brought
against Hcrren Mellegc, an inkeeper
of Scharre. and Wnrnatzeah, a news
paper man, who published an exposure
OF the methods OF the monks. whose
methods became known on the escape
OF the Scotch priest. Father Forbes
whose escape was facilitated by Herr
Mellnge. The evidence shows that they
are all iiliterate men, totally unit to
be In charge Of mn asylum. They In
ilicted corporal punishment, and some
timer immersed the patients headfore-
most In Ice cold water, and the chains
and other instruments OF torture APP
piled to the patients were produced In
court. After weeks hearing OF the