The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-13
BUDGET FROM BERLIN
THE SOCIALISTS AND THEIR
RECENT CONVENTION
AT BRESLAU.
THE DUCHESS PAULINE MATRILDA


clan She Attended the Convention.
Wearing "A Flaming Red Blouse and
Applauding the Widest Utterances
of the Speakers-Her Romantic Mar
riage-QuestiOn of Sugar BOunties
Again Under Discussion.
Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press).
BERLIN, Oct. 12.-The Socialist Con
ventiOn at Breslau has been followed by
the general public with great deal more
interest than was the case with the con
ventiOn Of 1884 at Frankfort The
warning elements within the cialist
party have been sharply arrayed
against each other The younger,
more practical and moderate wing
of the party displayed great
strength. The convention was in accOr
dance with the special instructions issued
by Herr Won COeller, the Prussian Min
lister of the Interior, and was under Sc
we're police supervision. Consequently,
the noisy party demonstrations which
had been planned could not be carried
out. A sensational feature of the con-
vention was the presence of the Duchess
Pauline Mathilda of Wurtemberg, now
the wife of wealthy physician of
Breslau, named Willim. This lady, who
is decidedly eccentric, was attired in a
flaming red blouse, and she manifested
her intense socialism by frequently ap-
plaudiDg the most excited utterances of
the speakers.
The marriage of Duchess Pauline Ma
thilda of Wurtemberg to DR.. Willim,
was most romantic affair. The Doctor,
who Is handsome and amiable
man, was summoned to Carlsruhe to at
tend a member of the Ducal family of
Wurtemburg, who was seriously i'll.
This was in 1880, and the Duchess Pau
line, who was frequently thrown into
the society Of the doctor in the course of
his professional visits to the castle, fell
in love with him and finally notified her
family that she intended to marry the
good looking physician. At first
the family strongly opposed the match
tu5 when it was seen that the Duchess
would have her way in any case, a re
luctant consent was given to the mar
riage. AT the wedding ceremony the
clergyman who officiated pointed out the
different positions in life of the young
couple, remarking, incidentally, that the
Duchess had come down to the rank of
her husband. This caused the bride TO
exclaim warmly that she did not share
the clergyman's view of the case and
that on the contrary, she looked up to
her husband.
Contrary to general expectations, the
marriage has been a most happy one
and the Duchess assists her husband
very effectively in his practice, accom-
panying him especially in his visits to
poor patients and bestowing gifts upon
those she finds to be most in need Of
assistance.
All the persons arrested in connection
with the Cologne espionage case have
been taken to Leipsic where the will be
tried in the new Reichstag building.
The principal defendant is a man
named Paul SchOren, native of the
Duchy of Luxembourg but naturalized
Frenchman. He graduated in Paris at
the EcOle Centrale which he left with an
engi 3eers diploma Schoren, it appears,
had a. -pumber of Confederates in
Luxembourg; but, the most i'm
portant of them seemed to have
escaped to Switzerland, having in
some unexplained manner been warned
that they were under suspicion and that
their arrests were contemplated The
evidence against all the prisoners IN any
case suffices to insure their conviction.
The persons in custody are kept strictly
isolated in the prison at Leipsic.
The question of sugar tounties is again
under discussion, international negotia-
tions for the abolition of the export pre-
miums on beet sugar being vigorously
pushed, and it is hoped that France and
Austria will agree to this proposition.
If the negotiations fail, a re organization
of German sugar legislation is contem-
plated. AS the law stands, Germany is
bound to cease paying bounties in 1897.
The North German Gazette to night
makes the significant announcement that
Prince Lobanoff- Rostovsky, the Russian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, who arrived
here to day from Paris, will have an au-
dience with the Emperor of Hubertus-
stock, and that the Chancellor, Prince
Hohenlohe, will also be present there as
he reports to his majesty on current af-
fairs earlier in the day. Naturally, the
presence of the Chancellors of the two
empires at the Emperor's hunting seat is
regarded as something more than an or
dinary coincidence.