The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-17

BERLIN, Nov. 16.-(Copyrighted, 1895,
by the Associated Press 1.-THE crisis in
Turkey is watched here with close atten-
ton, and a remark uttered by Prince
Bismarck last week in conversation with
Count Won Kardoff the German silver
champion at Friedrichsruhe, 10 the effect
that Turkey is like d powder magazine,
whose explosion would set all Europe
ablaze, is much commented upon.
The representative in this city of the
Associated Press had a brief interview
on Thursday last with two diplomats who
are stationed at Berlin, one of them rep
resentnS great power. The latter said it
was not likely that a war or a revolution
IN turkey would take place before next
spring. That much, he added is taken
Tor granted by the powers. But it is
probable that the events will become crit
zeal in Turkey. Recent developments
have shown the sultan 10 be capable of
almost any coup d. etat and something
unexpected and unforeseen may occur at
any time. Continuing. the diplomat said:
Just now IT looks as if Russia, when
the crash comes, will be the best pre-
pared for the emergency and will be the
winner in the game"
Are Denounced.
Tie prosecutions for lese majestic,
which are becoming of almost daily oc-
currence, and which are based in some
cases upon frivolous grounds, are caus-
ing grave dissatisfaction among even the
conservative classes, While they are de-
nounced by many men recognized as
broad liberals, as not only oaching
upon liberty of speech and the press. but
as tending to serve rather than to COM
bat socialistic agitation. The complaint
among the ultra conservatives is that the
prosecutions only drag the imperial dig
nifty down into the mire and that the
proper course would be to treat the al
lacks with the scorn they deserve.
The strong conservative Post and the
Cologne Gazette, both staunch upholders
prosecution of Prof. Delbrooke for his
recent remarks in the PreuSSlsche Jahr-
buchen regarding the extreme zeal OF the
police in plunging into a petnIogglng
campaign against the socialists. THESE Ut
terances are so innocent OF any intent 10
insult the authorities, and are so clearly
written in the interests OF the STATE, tL ma
If the judges uphold the police conten-
ton, liberty of the press" will be merely
a farcial expression.
Are DumfOunded.
The extraordinary considerations which
led the judge to sentence Herr Liebknecht
at BreSlau, to four months imprison-
Inent for his recent speech at the open
ing of the socialist congress there, have
simply dumbfounded the Liberals here.
He said that Liebknecht had evidently
tried to frame his remarks so as not TO
involve the crime of lese majeste, and
he admitted that Liebknecht had not in
tended TO commit the offense. Yet, he
continued as there might have been
many persons among the audience who
would have found in the words an al
fusion to the emperor, he sentenced MIN 10
four months imprisonment.
At the coming session of the Prusslan
diet the government will introduce a bill
modifying the restrictions IN the exist
ing law governing associations After
The mode of the Bavarian law, women and
minors will henceforth be excluded from
political meetings, and the meaning OF
the words political meeting is TO be en-
larged and newly defined.
The police are trying TO discover VINO
shot, apparently from pure mallGe, Efi-
greyhound. a gift from the car, while
the animal was in his kennel at the new
palace. The dog was the emperor's IA
Vorite.
neutrality-suspicious..
The practical trial of the Hamburg
American lire steamship Normania, as
an auyiIIiarv cruiser. has been very sat
isfactory. Next year similar experiments
will be made with other ocean grey
hounds. and government contracts VIII
be entered into with the company OWL
ing them if the tests are successful
The United States consul. Dwight L.
Particle. since his return from America,
from the chamber o. Sonneberg, and
asked to explain his statements charging
the exporters of that town with dellb-
crate and systematic differentiation of
their goods. Mr.. Particle replied that the
charges and their proofs were hrst made
by the revenue officers Of New YORK, ana
he refused to retract his own statements.
The exports to America show an in
crease in nearly all the consular dis
tricts of Germany for, October The eX-
port from Berlin shows double the
amount for that month in 1894 and three
times the amount of october. 1898.
The news that the medals and diplo-
mas awarded TO German exhibitors at
the Chicago Worlds Fair, will not be
ready until February, has been badly re-
ceived in this country. The North Ger
man Gazette commenting upon this fact.
says: such a delay is unprecedented y
Dr. Fehelisen, the, well-known surgeon
and university professor, has resigned
and has accepted a call to San Francisco
Secretary Pierce, of the United States
embassy at St Petersburg. is now in in
this city on leave of absence. He will
spend the month of December in Italy
and win return to his post at the be-
ginning of the new year.
An American bazar was held this week
for the benefit of the American Girl
club. an adjunct of the American church
OF this city.