The record-union., 1895-11-18

rates of interest offered in Vienna,
where bourSe operatives had been
plunging recklessly, had very anX-
ious time until the panic was checked
by the Credit Install and other Aus
trian houses, which began buying all
the good securities that were offered.
The settlement on the Vienna bourse,
which began on Saturday, wiped out
some of the weaker exchanges, includ-
ing concerns run on the American
''bucket-shop" plan, among them the
house of Freund, the leading bucket
shop speculator who was found on
the Prater Friday night with d bullet
from a revolver in his brain. He had
killed himself on the eve of the settle
ment.
The ex- Empress Frederick is going
to spend her birthday, November 21st,
with her daughter, Princess Frederick
of Hesse at Rumpeinheim.
The Emperor has promised to be pres
ert at tho inauguration of the National
monument of the Ky1fhauser, which
ceremony viii shortly take place.
The Merchants Guild of Stettin has
presented 4 memorial to the Govern
lncnt TO the effect that since the open
ing of the Baltic-North Sea canal ship
ping at the port of Stettin has suf-
fered greatly in consequence Of the high
tolls charged by the canal.
Doctor Ahlwert, the anti-Semetic
leader and Jew batter, is making ar
rangements to sail for the United
States in December, for the purpose OF
delivering lectures in all of the large
American cities. He goes 10 America
upon the invitation Of a committee Of
American German citizens of Milwau-
kee
The Centrist partysin the Reichstag
have presented an Illuminated address
70 DR.. Ernest Lieber, member of the
Reichstag fer Wieshaden, congratu-
Iating him upon the completion of his
twenty fifth year of service in the Ger
man parliament.
Herman Denath, purveyor of the Ber-
lin court, has absconded to the United
States. leaving an aggregate indebted
ness of half million marks.
The Kreuse-Zeitung asserts that the
military encourage of the Emperor is
actively intriguing against General
Rronsart Won SchellendOrf, the German
Minister of War, who is pledged to carry
out a scheme of militia reforms, in
troducirg a bill in the EeichStaS for
that purpose or resign. The General is
now charged with entertaining desire
TO hinder military reforms and the En-
l~rors military aides are determined
that he shall keep his pledge. The
I[reuse-Zeitung declares that it has
Generals Won Hahnke Witticher and
Plessen, or that they are concerned in
the affair, which might also cOmpro-
mise Prince Hohenlohe.
The boiler of the German steamer
Schwerin exploded while the vessel was
passing through the Baltic-NOrth Sea
Canal, killing a fireman.
A te deum was sung in the chapel of
the Russian Embassy here to-day in
Thanksgiving for the birth of the Prin-
cess olga of Russia to the Gar and
CzaTina. Only the officials of the en-
basSy and the members of the Russian
Colony In Berlin were present.
4 baZar was held here by the Ameri-
car Girls Club of Berlin in the Kurten-
bcrstrasse last week for the benefit of
the club and the American church. 1t
was a conspicuous pecuniary and social
success.
United States Vice-Consul thinner
man gave a dinner to Secretaries Cole
man and Jackson and Mrs. Jackson at
the Palace Hotel yesterday.