Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-27

with a view of deepening and strength ening the canal to guard against further landsldes. The members of the canal committee express confidence that the opening of the canal will be complete success.
 The plan of the kaiser's marquee at Holtenau has been recast and great hall in which grand festival will be held is in course of erection on the Kiel side of the canal.
 The original idea was the construction of a large tent, after the model from thd old war ship Noibe. The kaiser de- vised d marquee on the model of a ship of the seventeenth century, and infrusted Herr Gruner, the Berlin architect, to carry out the work upon the lines which the emperor laid down. The mast of the old ship Molthe will be used as bow spirit, and three other immense nasts will assist in supporting and adornlng the marquee, which will measure 40 feet in lenghth by 130 feet in width. The dini ing saloon will be 320 feet long and 70 feet wide, and the marquee will be lighted by electric lamps throughout A feature of the night will be a torch light procession through the streets of kiel in which 1000 men will take part Esx-Prelnier Stambouloff of Bulgaria was expected to come to Berlin to con suit a German physician in regard 10 his afIlctionS, which include kidney dis ease or diabetes, before taking course of the waters at Carlsbad. Iele- grams received from Sofia today say that although the carpenters treatment is a matter of life or death the goyern- ment refused to permit him to leave the country.
 He is kept prisoner in his own house, which is guarded by gendarmes. The German and other European representa- tives have again personally interceded with the government in his behalf, but,as before, without success. Prince Ferdi- nand, when designing to injure the statesman who gave him his throne throws off the responsibility of Stambou- loffs treatment by absenting himself from Bulgaria. Upon Stambouloff ap- plying for passport, Prince Ferdinand started for France under the pretence that he had been summoned to see his sick uncle The Due d'Aumale and his mother, Princess Clementine of Saxe- Coburg, left Munich at the same siple and joined him at Chantilly. M. Stam- boulof writes to his personal friends in Berlin and Vienna that his life is in danger and that if he does not die from the disease he is suffering with he will be murdered. It is said that the long confinement and illness has caused his mind to become morbid. His friends do not believe in the existence of a plot to kill him, but at the same time they de- nounce the harshness of his treatment.
 Herr Schippel, a socialist member of the reichstag, undertook to address SOClallStlC meeting In BerI1n Fr1Qay on the subject of bimetallism, of which he Is in favor, when the police appeared and demanded that the ladies, of whom there were a number present, should with draw. The grounds taken by the police were that the gathering was a political reunion of doubtful character. Herr Schippel and others protested against the action of the police, whereupon the latter summarily dissolved the meeting. The crowd hissed the police and num- Der of them were arrested, but were af terward released. The affair has caused general indignation.
 The Lokal Anzeiger publishes a dis patch from Cracow which says the chol- era has broken out in Volhynia, and ex- tensive measures have been taken to prevent the disease from crossing the frontier.
 Prince Max of Saxony. nephew of the king of Saxony, is about to be conse- crated dean at Eichstadt, Bavaria. The prince Is of an intensely religious turn of mind.
 Lieutenant von skrasbenski, who mysteriously vanished from his regi- ment at Metz in 1894, has been discov- cred travelling under an assumed name as an actor attached to a migratory troup in Silesia. He was arrested on the stage as deSerter.
 It is announced that the lists of yachts desiring to pass through the Baltic canal will be closed on June 6.
 The renewed demand on the part of the British board of agriculture for the removal of German restrictions upon the importation of live stock has met with an unfavorable response. The German experts who were sent to England re- port that the foot and mouth disease which prevailed there has not been en- tirely suppressed.
 Lieutenant Kessel, who became nota- ble through his arrest in Paris early this year as suspected spy, has now been convicted by court martial in Carls- ruhe of embezzlement, and has been sen- tenced to three years imprisonment
 The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia will attend the opening of the Baltic canal as an expression of the czars thanks to Germany for her cooperation with Rus sia in the joint protest against Japan's retention of Chinese mainland territory.