The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-09
AFTER EIGHT YEARS
The Baltic and North Sea Canal Com
pleted and Tested.
TRIAL TRIPS SUCCESSFUL
William Declines to Visit Any For
eisn Ships During the CeIebra-
tion-Women Not Wanted In
Politics-Asylum Outrages.
Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press

Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press
Berlin, June S.-The trial trips
through the Baltic and North sea canal
MADE this week by the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern and the Hamburg
American line steamer Palatia, with
the chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, the
Prussian minister for the interior.
Herr koeller, the imperial secretary of
state for the interior, DR.. Won Boet-
tieher and the minister for foreign af-
tairs, Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein,
on board, showed that the canal is in
conoltlon Tor the passage of a small
fleet on June 10 and 90 The Palatia
just touched bottom between Rends-
burg and Holtenau, but it was nothing
more serious than stirring up the mud.
According to programme. the Kaiser
Adler. with Emperor William on board.
viii head n procession Of I6 German
| and foreign vessels which will pass
through the canal during the even
irg OF June 10. The Marblehead will
represent the United States during the
passage of the Elbe from Hamburg 10
Brunsbuttel, and the canal will be
closed to traffic until after the cere.
monies are over
The great canal which joins the Bal
tic sea TO the German ocean cost about
S3S,5OO,000 and has been eight wears in
building. 1t intersects the peninsula
of Schleswig- Holstein from Brunsbut-
tel, near the mouth of the River Flhe
to Holtenau on Kiel bay and opposite
the city of Kiel, a distance Of about |
50 miles. The military advantage of |
the canal is in fact that henceforth |
IN time of war the German navy can |
not be divided and the provisioning of |
either the Baltic or the North shore
cannot be interrupted or rendered i'm
passable.
The agitation in France against the
french warships at Kiel hosting the
herman imperial flag bearing the sinis-
ter date 1857 has induced the emperor to
decide not to visit any foreign warships
during the celebration Of the opening
of the canal, as, If he visited any of
them, he would be compelled to visit
Hoche, the French flagship, which
would thereby be bound to hoist this
standard. The cause of the French
excitement about this matter appears
10 be due to the fact that Prince Bis
rnarck during the course Of a speech |
made in reply to the address of a depu-
tatlon in April last, said that the canal
had been proposed by him in 1867. but
mat nobody would listen to him until .
ne French war indemnity gave him :
he wherewithal to carry out the :
scheme. :
Ihe speech which Emperor William
$ to make at the Holtenan banquet on =
une p is awaited with curiosity. The !,
french Admiral Monard is to sit on =
us majesty's right hand, and the Rus I
ian Admiral Skrydleff is to sit on his 7
eft hand. Thus it will be difficult for !.
ne emperor to avoid special allusion I
france as the most honored guest 7
Another question affecting political ;,
lShts or women has just been decided :.
gainst them. An antiquated law still :,
xists which prohibits women scholars :
nd apprentices from joining a poIiti- "
al society. A few women recently =
ormed in Berlin a woman's agitation =
)mmlttee, having for it's object TO OBJ =
I'm FOR women equal political rights :,
18th men. The leaders of this move -
lent were arraigned by the public
rosecutor, and the magistrate before T,
hom they were brought sentenced the 70
omen to fines ranging from 30 to so :, :,
arks, and ordered the society dis =,
lived. H
The anti-Semite people, of which q,
rinces Ahlwardt and Boeckel are =. -
1uSIs' duopleu their platform at | 90
Getting this week. The chief plank. % %
Iturally, is propaganda to exclude 70,
ws from all public offices and hon -
s, and also from the press, law and 80
edicine. oi
A sensation has been created by the ",
regarding the barbarous T
Of lunatic inmates of the =,
of Mariaberg, made during -.
e trial of suit for slander brought ~, H.i
ainst Herman Mellage, an innkeeper W, ",
Schrarre. and Warnatzsch, a news &C,
per man, who published an exposure
the methods of the monks, whose Pc
thods became known on the escape ue
a Scotch priest. Father Forbes. To-
ose escape was facilitated by Herr pm
llage. The evidence shows that the eo
nks are illiterate men, totally un- sp'
ed TO be attendants in the asylum. MS
ey inflicted cruel personal punish wa
Mt. sometimes immersing the person. rin
I'd foremost, in ice cold water. After as
weeks hearing the accused were ac- spa
tied, as the public prosecutor ad- wo
ted that the allegations were justi- mil
mo