The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-09

President Cleveland to place less reliance
upon the argument that America needs
German wares.
The census of Germany, which was
taken last Monday, was the most careful
ard thorough ever known. The questions
asked involved every particular of en-
ployment, physical condition, nationality
and religion and everything calculated to
place the authorities in possession of all
the facts of social and individual life.
Many OF the newspapers complain, how
ever, that the system has become too in
quisltorlal. The sum of the results will
not be known for some time, but the fig
ures show the population of Berlin to be
l,674, liz, which is an increase of only
per cent during the last five years as COM
pared with an increase of 20 per cent in
the previous five years. AS the suburbs,
where the population overfows, are not
included in the city the return gives a
false impression of the spread OF the CAPT
tall
A meeting of the Brandenburg Rural
Economic Council was held on Wednes-
day, at which the Emperor approved the
proposal for the maintenance of the sugar
premiums and also limitation of the pro-
duction. The Posen delegates, however,
protested against the present form of the
sugar bill. Baron Won Hammerstein-Lox-
ten, Prussian Minister of Agriculture,
Domains and Forests, stated that the Gov
ernpent would enter into negotiations for
the suppression of sugar premiums. If the
Governments of Austria and France would
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concur. The Freisinnige Zeitung expresses
the opinion that only the United States
and England would benefit by the opera
ton of the sugar BILL The Tageblatt says
that under tariff war with America Ger
man sugar exporters would be severely
punished. The Handles Zeitung expresses
the hope that the new Minister of the
Interior will cause revision of the sugar
bill and withdraw the cancellation of the
licenses of American life insurance COM
panies to do business in Germany.
Six German delegates, including DR..
Arendt, Baron Won Mirbach and Herr Won
Kardorff, will attend the international
bimetallic conference to be held in Paris.
The committee of the Berlin Bourse has
been obliged to communicate with the
committee of the Vienna Bourse in regard
to the refusal of Austrian operators to pay
the differences due from them to Berlin
operators. Several firms in Vienna, who
were pinched by Wednesdays settlement,
paid up in Vienna, but dishonored their
engagements in Berlin. The Vienna COM
mittee, aware of the grave results which
would follow such a dishonest course,
forced the delinquent operators to COM
promise on the basis of reduction of 40
per cent of the amounts due. The credit
of Vienna dealers has through this Incl
dent suffered very much in the estimation
of German operators.
Charles de Kay, United States Consul
General here, has secured twelve charter
members of the fencing club which is form
ing in Berlin, including Professor Miller,
J. B. Jackson, secretary of the American
EN- bassy, and Lieutenant Vreland, the
American naval attache, Secretary Squires
United States Vice-Consul Zimmerman
and Lord Greville.
Herr Dove, the tailor who invented the
bullet-proof coat, is dying at Wiesbaden.
He has been married TO his companion on
the recent tours, Miss Drane, the cham
pion rifle shot.
The Vorwaerts, commenting on the
Posts references to Herr Won Koeller,
says: "We can only hope that Won Keel
Ter will remain in the Ministry of the in
terror, and would still more rejoice if he
should become Chancellor and Prussian
Premier with an entire Ministry of the
same mind"
The gales which have prevailed through
out Germany, with their resultant dis
asters, still continue. at Bremen, Ham
burg and KieI there have been numerous
shipping casualties, steamboat traffic has
ceased, and inland traffic is greatly i'm
peded. The rivers Fulda. SaaIe, Jagst,
Kocher and Kinzig have overlooked their
banks and inundated great tracts of land.
The loss of life and property has been
heavy. but details are difficult to obtain as
yet. At Oldenburg, a workshop was blown
down yesterday while twenty-five men
were at work within. Three were killed
and seven were seriously injured. The
Hankhausen Inn at Oldenburg was struck
by lightning and set on fire and destroyed
and three persons were burned to death.
The dykes of the Baltic-North Sea Canal
at Rendsburg, Holstein, have burst, and
other damage to the canal is reported. The
Copenhagen mail has been stopped, YES
sells not daring to venture out, and an i'm
mense loss of property in Jutland is re-
ported.