The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
FIGHTING ON PAPER
BARON Won sTUMM AND PROF. WAC
EER STILL QUARRELING.
District Attorney Requested to Pro-
coed Against the Baron for Issuing
n ChaIIense-Thc ReichsIand.

Copyright, 1896, by the Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Feb. 1.-The quarrel between
Baron Won Stumm and Professor Wagner
has occupied public attention during the
week. The Baron made offensive remarks
about the Professor and his followers, the
Christian Socialists, in a recent speech in
the Reichstag. Professor Wagner took him
up and branded his statements as willful
ISLANDERS. Stumm thereupon challenged
Wagner, who offered to submit the matter
to a court of honor, which the Baron re-
fused to do. Since then both sides have
continued the light in the newspapers. and
the district attorney of Berlin has been re-
quested to proceed against the Baron for
feloniously issuing a challenge. This has
caused much interest, as Stumm is an inti-
mate friend of the Emperor.
During the suggestion of the question of
the governorship of the Reichsland in the
Reichstag, Prince Hohenlohe and DR.. Won
Puttkamer, the Secretary of State for
Alsace-Lorraine, made interesting state
ments which tended to show that the at
tempt to foster agitation among the lnnao-
itants Of the two provinces is still Kept up
by a number of anti-German societies or
France. 1t was stated that 5000 men ana
Il, 900 women were induced TO emigrate into
France in 1894 by one society alone, which
spent 1900, 600 francs i'll the work. More
over, Hoiienlohe announced that Ligue des
FdITlOIGS WAS IeOTSdElZcu III Il dIiS q Week
ago. and both speaker urged tnat it was
impossible to abandon the dictatorship para
graph in the Reichstag.
Reichsanzeiger, thanks the nation or the
proofs of sympathy and devotion furnished
him on his birthday; 1t is a notable fact
anniversary that there was a considerable
decrease in the extent of the voluntary IL
ly of an official character. Some of the Ber-
lin newspapers, commenting on this, spoke
sharply against what they termed in
creased Byzantinism," and advised the EN-
peror rather to rely on the good will Of the
nation than on the number of bayonets.
In view of the recent disclosures of Off
which have fallen into the possession of
the VOrwaerts, the Socialist organ. and
which nave been published by od tna Il pa hsen
introduced in the Reichstag by Count Won
Room and other Conservatives, to make it
a felony for any government or other pub
lie official to give information without per-
nilsson on any Official matters, the penalty
to be Imprisonment and a fine up to 5000
marks.
Emperor William warmly congratulated
the new rector of the Berlin University,
day, in which he spoke of Catholicism
and Socialism as the two great national
dangers to German.
Under the protection of the Emperor a
company has been formed to erect a new
and large theater in Berlin. in which classic
dramas and frst-ciass concerts ,e1 viii be given
Deutschesvolkes Theater.
The Emperor. a few days ago, saved a
man from being frozen to death. He picked
him up while out sleighing at Charlotten-
berg, lying insensible by the roadside, and
took him into his sleigh and delivered him
at the nearest police station, where the man
was restored.
According to advices from st. Petersburg
the Russian Finance Department will short
ly promote a Russian steamship line be-
tween the Russian ports on the Baltic and
Black sea and New York and Baltimore,
to further direct connections with Russia
and the United States.