The San Francisco call., 1895-07-15

the initiative of the German Bimetalllc
League. The French and English leagues
have already promised to send delegates.
Another madhouse scandal similar to the
Mariaburg affair has arisen in Bremen IN
the Protestant hospital conducted tby the
Rev. Mr.. Bodelschwings. The charges
against the institution are made by Herr
SchuttZe, the director of the Bremen DO
lice, as the result of an investigation by DR..
Scholz, who asserts that he has personal
knowledge that cruelties even greater than
those practiced upon the patients in the
Mariaburg institution have been common
in the Bremen hospital for a long time.
The managers of the institution have made
energetic denials of these charges, but DR..
Scholz persists in his charges, and the di-
rector of the police at Scholz's instigation,
has laid his information before maglS-
trate and demanded public inquiry.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has made
his temperance at Carlsbad, which cir
cumstance is regarded as indicating some
thing important concerning the admins
tration at Sofia. 1t is one of the peculiari-
ties of Ferdinand that when he is about to
alter any of the rules, regulations or GUS
toms of the Bulgarian Government he i'm
mediately gets out of the country,
leaving his Ministers to face whatever pop
ular displeasure may arise. Consequently,
whenever he leaves Sofia it is assumed that
there is to be another change, the response
bility for which he desires to shirk. 1t is
reported and generally believed that he
had authorized Bishop Clement, the head
of the Bulgarian mission now at st. Peters
burg, to inform the Gar that he (Ferdi
mandy is ready to make any sacrifice, even
his personal conversion to the Greek faith
in order to reconcile the relations of Bull
garia with Russia.
Prince Lobanoff-R f-Rostovsky, the Russian
Foreign Minister, received the mission on
Friday and the st. Petersburg Government
has permitted the statement to be sent out
by telegraph that Prince Lobanoff asked
Bishop Clement if there was any danger
that ex-Premier Stambouloff would return
to power, and that the Bishop replied that
there was. Indeed, he gave the Prince to
understand that the danger would exist as
long as Russia and Bulgaria renamed un-
reconciled.
Prince Lobanoff is reported to have re-
sponded that he was in favor of a policy of
reconc iliation, and further said that the
Gar had no personal feeling against Prince
Ferdinand. The Bulgarian mission will
be received by the Czar on Wednesday.
The general opinion in diplomatic circles
is that the submission of Bulgaria to
Russia will change the whole situation in
the East.
A marriage has been arranged between
Prince Maximilian of Baden, heir Of the
Grand Duke of Baden, and Princess Vic
toria of Schleswig- -Holstein, daughter of
Prince Christian. The pair met at Wind
sor recently and the Queen gave her as
sent to the betrothal.
The ship which was sunk in the Baltic
Canal yesterday lies upon her side near
the right bank of the waterway. Canal
pilots are notified that the passage of the
canal is open, but that extreme care must
be observed.
The Archbishop of Freiberg has issued
circular to the German Bishops calling
upon all Catholics to assist in the estab-
lishment of university at Freiberg in
Saxony. The university will be the
only purely Catholic institution of the
kind in Germany, although there are sew
eral notable ones in Baden, Bonn and Tu-
bingen, which have Catholic faculties in
charge. The Pope has given his hearty
approval to the plan. The studies in the
university willinclude theology, philology,
sociology, civil and canon law, natural
science, historic science and philosophy.
The Catholic press hail the establishment
of the university and call attention to its
Importance.
The lawn tennis tournament between
army and navy officers will open to-mor-
row at Homburg under the patronage of
the Emperor, Prince Albert of Schleswig-
Holstein and Vice-Admiral Valois The
Emperor has ordered the erection of COW
cred lawn tennis court at Potsdam, so that
the games may be played in the winter
months. His passion for the game has set
the fashion.
The crowds of Americans at Homburg
include Mr.. B. Postley, wife and daugh-
ters Mr.. T. Stllman and family; Mr.. W.
S. Pyle and wife; Mr.. c. w. Webster and
wife; Mr.. Kissam and wife and Mr.. Scar
isbrick and wife, all of New York; and
Mrs. NJ. Rothschild and family, and Mrs.
Courtney of Chicago.