The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10
FETES AND THE LIKE
The Week in Berlin Turns Out a
Couple Of Sensations.
SWEARING IN THE RECRUITS
German Political Talk-England Is
Wondering How 1t Is All Co
ing to End In Turkey
and Armenia.

Copyrighted 1895 by Associated Press.
Berlin, Nov. 9.-This has been another
week of court fetes and court ceremo-
nies. Two somewhat sensational in
cidents occurred on Monday at the
swearing of the recruits at Potsdam.
One of the recruits, a man named Kali
wells, a Mennonite from Dalkehmon,
East Prussia, refused to take the oath
and was Immediately arrested by order
of the emperor and carried OF to
dungeon. AS this occurred in the pres
ence of the King of Portugal, who was
visiting his imperial majesty, and as
the king failed to grasp the meaning
OF the incident, the matter was ex-
plained to him in French by the en-
peror himself.
The second incident consisted in the
extraordinary remarks of the Evangen-
cal pastor, who warned the recruits
that they must not only think or
"Wacht am Rhein." but also of "Wacht
am Weichsel" This utterance leveled
against Russia has caused a great deal
of surprise, and it is rumored that the
Russian embassy has reported the mat
ter to st. Petersburg.
At the swearing in of the Berlin
Spanda and Charlottenberg recruits on
Thursday the public was vigorously ex-
cluded, a Gordon of police preventing all
approach to the spot where the cere-
mony took place. This precautionary
| measure has been severely commented
upon: but II was due to the special or
| der of the emperor who, moreover, YER
bally expressed his satisfaction to the
police president, and distributed 19 dec
orations to various police officers who
sions and upon this occasion.
The agrarians are resuming active
agitation in view of the approach OF
! the reopening of the reichstag. Their
speakers are touring the country, de-
claring that the palliative measures
proposed by the government are not
satisfactory and that Count Won Ka-
nitz's proposal for a state grain mo-
nopoly will also suffice to relieve the
depression in agriculture. Moreover,
| they demand that the government
adopt the principal of bimetallism. The
1 agrarians are encouraged in this agita-
| ton by the hesitating opposition OF the
| government. The Prussian minister of
| husbandry only recently declared that
| the government was considering how
| to prevent further fall in silver.
| The proposed reforms in the manner
| Of conducting military trials, after
| hanging fire for a number of years,
| have come to the front again and will
| be brought before the reichstag this
winter. The emperor does not favor
| publicity in such trials; but the min
lister for war. General Bronsart Won
| Schellendorf, yielding to pressure
brought to bear upon his department
| throughout Germany, has abandoned
| his opposition to the measure within
the bundesrath, and 1t is expected that
a bill decreeing comprehensive changes
| will be passed by the reichstag.
The Sunday, Wednesday and Thurs
| day issues OF the socialist organ, Vor-
waerts, were seized by the police and
charges of les majestic have been pre-
ferred against three of the editors OF
the paper. One of the incriminating
| articles was headed, "Gnade Wemm-
gnade Gebueht," directly attacking the
emperor for pardoning two police SER
geants who bru,ally treated two citi
zens, and another article ridiculed the
divine right theory.