St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-03
AUTHORITIES BEGIN INQUIRY
Move to Provide Relief for
Families Of the Vietims--
Kaiser's Sympathy.
BARON WAS BELLIGERENT.
Quarrel Between Won Stumm
and Prof. Wagners Nearly
Led to a Duel.

BERLIN, Feb. 2.-The loss of the
Elbe with such terrible sacrifice of life
mas created great sorrow i'm Germany.
The rescued members of the crew of
the EIDE arrived in Bremen today, and
thelr examination by the proper author
ltieS was Immediately conducted in the
ofEces OF the North German LLOYD com.
pany and is proceeding this evening.
"A company has been formed under
the presidency of secretary of state for
the interior, DIR. Won Boetticher, TO pro.
vide means of relief for the families of
the poor people who were drowned.
Emperor William has given repeated
proofs of his sympathy with the suffer
ers. On Thursday his majesty sent an
aide Gle camp to the office of the North
German Lloyd company to express his
coincidence, and both he and the en-
press have sent kilograms of sympathy
TO the directors of the company at
Bremen. 1t is understood that he will
also give practical testimony of tie
pleasure he has felt at the kind treat
ment the survivors received at Lowe
stOft
The emperor in letter published in
the Reichsanzeiger thanks the, nation
Tor proofs of sympathy and devotion
furnished to him on his birthday. 1t is
notable fact in connection with the
emperor's birthday anniversary that
there was considerable decrease in
the extent of the voluntary illumina-
tons and feasting which were mostly
of official character. Some of the
Berlin newspapers, commenting on this.
spoke sharply against what they termed
increased bysantism" and advised The
emperor rather to rely on the grand
will OF the nation rather than the mum
Der of bayOne;S. In view OF the recent
disclosures Of official secrets by means
of private circulars, which have lallen
into the possession of the Worwaerts,
the Socialist organ, and which have
been published by that paper. an
amendment 10 the penal code has been
introduced in the Reichstag by Count
Won Room and other Conservatives to
make it felony for any governor or
any public official to give information
without permission upon any official
matters. the penalty to be imprison-
ment and fine up TO 5000 marks.
Emperor William warmly coDgratu-
lated the new rector of the Berlin uni
versity, Prof. Pfeiderer, upon his ad.
dress last Sunday, in which be spoke of
Catholicism and socialism as the two
great national dangers TO Germany.
The quarrel between Baron Won
public attention during the week. The
Va RI rly oil, hIl
professor and his followers, the Chris
tian socialists, in arecent speech in the
Ieiclstag. Prof. Waguers took him up
and branded his statements as wiliful
ISLANDERS. Stumm therefore challenged
WagnerS. who offered to submit the
matter to a court of honor, which the
baron refused to do. Since then both
sides have continued the fight in the
newspapers, and the district attorney of
Berlin has been requested to proceed
against the baron for feloniously isSu-
ing challenge. This has caused much
interest, as Stumm is all intimate friend
of the emperor.
During the discussion of the question
of the gOvernorship of Reichsland in
the reichstag, Prince Hohenlohe and
DR.. Won Puttkamer, the secretary of
state for AlSace Lorraine, made inter
esting statements which tended to show
that the attempt 10 foster agitation
among the inhabitants of the two prov
inces is still kept up by a number of
anti German societies OF France. 1t
was stated that $4,000 men and 1900
women were induced to emigrate into
France in 1891 by one society alone
which spent 100000 francs III the
work. Moreover, Hohenlohe announced
that Il Ligue DIES Palriotes was reorgan-
lied in Paris week ago, and both
speakers said that ii was impossible to
abandon the dictatorship paragraph in
the reichstag.
Under the protection of the emperor.
a company has been formed to erect
new and large thealer in Berlin, in
which classic dramas and tirst-class
concerts will be given at popular prices.
1t will be called the Deutsches Nokes
theater.
The emperor few days ago saved
man from being frozen to death. He
picked him up while out sleighing at
Charlottenburg, 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 advceS from ST. Peters
burg, the Russian finance department
will shortly promote a Russian Steam~
ship line between the Russian ports on
the Baltic and Black sea and New York
and Baltimore. to further direct connec-
tons with Russia and the United States.