The San Francisco call., 1896-05-24
The Infected Food Comes From
Mecklenburg Instead of
America.
a FAR-REACHING QUARANTINE
The Bars Put Up Against Sixty Dis
trictS-0ther Events in the
Kaiser's Realm.

BERLIN, GERMANY, May 23.-The food
purity scare, which has been so tenderly
fostered by agrarian politicians, has re-
ceived sensational flip this week by the
seizure of 400 pounds of food infected
with tuberculosis at the Berlin Trades
Exhibition, in the institution devoted to
the sale OF cheap food to the public, where
thousands of persons eat dinners daily
that cost penny head. The infected
meat came from Meckenburg and not
from America, which country the German
officials profess to regard as the place OF
origin of all of the deceased meats in the
world. In spite of the dictum of Baron
Hammerstein-Loften Prussian Minister OF
Agriculture, Domains and Forests, that it
is impossible to put Chinese wall around
Prussia to prevent the importation of
foreign animals the provincial governors
have one after another closed their boun-
dares against the adjoining provinces,
which are infected with foot and mouth
disease and ailments of that kind, and
now the empire of Prussian Silesia has
been closed against Russian hogs.
Tne Reichzanzeiger, the official organ,
publishes a notice issued by the Governor
OF Dusseldorf. in Rhenish Prussia, closing
the markets of that province against sixty
districts throughout the empire. among
which are Hamburg, Konigsburg, Breslau,
Magdeburg, Luenenburg, Wiesbsden, Co.
logne, Aachen, Dresden, Leipsic, CarIs-
ruhe and Mannheim, besides provinces
like Mecklenburg, SAKE Weimar, Bruins
wick, ETC. In fact, there never before has
been such a sweeping charge of infection
printed in Germany.
The Kaiser has been hunting for week
past in the woods of Prokelwitz, spending
his days in the chase and visiting the no.
blemen of the vicinity in their castles in
the evening. 1t is stated that the Empe-
ror's brother-in-law, Duke Ernest Gunter,
who recently opened his new chateau at
Prinkenau, has introduced the latest
French culinary novelty, black yolks of
ducks eggs, to the Kaiser.
The story goes that these yoIks are OBJ
tanned ty feeding ducks with acorns the
tannin contained in which, working upon
the iron properties of the yolk, makes the
yolk black.
During the Emperor's visit to Prokel-
witz large barn few miles away caught
fire. The Kaiser, upon learning of the
fire, drove Immediately to the scene and
personally directed the extinguishing of
the flames and the salvage of property and
did not leave until the fire was subdued.
affable mood upon the occasion of his re-
cent interview with Hon. Edwin E. Uhl,
the United States Embassador. He told
Mr.. Uhl that he had several times been in
South and Central America and regretted
exceedingly that he had never been in the
United States, which country he has al
ways had the greatest desire to see. He
had read a great deal about the United
States, he ssid, and in his conversation he
showed himself remarkably we'll informed
upon facts and conditions concerning the
North American Republic.
The death of Herr Otto Camphausen,
who was the Prussian Minister of Finance
during the period from 1869 to 1873, has
opened a controversy between Prince Bis
marck's organ, the Hamburger Nachrch-
ten, and the Liberal press. Prince Bis
marck, in answering the attacks made
upon him by the Liberal newspapers, SAYS
that Herr Camp mphausen resigned his office
in consequence of Parliamentary pressure
and opposition. and declares that Min
lister resigning his position under such Cir
cumstances has no right afterward to crit
icize his colleagues who remained on the
battlefield. 1t was Prince Bismarck's
adherence to this idea, the Nachrichten
says, that provoked his severe turn with
Herr Camphausen in the Prussian ParIia-
ment. Nevertheless. the overwhelming
consensus of opinion is to-day that Herr
Camphausen was the best Finance Minis
ter that Prussia ever had.
In consequence of the Emperor's con-
demnation of the party of Christian So
cialists, DR.. Burckha of Bremen has
taken up the cudgeIs in its defense In an
address delivered before a gathering of
Christian Socialists at Bremen DR.. Burck-
hardt declared that the Government, when
the Vorwaert-, the leading socialist or
gan, favored the subsidiZing of the Chris
tian Socialists by the provincial Cover
nors. placed funds at their disposal
The matter excites general attention,
and DR.. Burckhardt's declaration will
doubtless lead to the unearthing of scan
dal in the Reichstag
The Deutsche Tagzeitung learns that in
consequence of the demands of the shop
assistants that shops shall close at O. clock
each evening. the Bundesrath is consider
ing the question of regulating the number
of consecutive hours that shops may be
kept open, leaving it to the shopkeeper to
fix the hours of opening and closing.
The Berlin press is unanimous in its
approval of the attitude taken by Baron
Won Thielmann, German ambassador to
the United States in his controversy with
Secretary OF State Olney over the case of
Louis Stern of New York, whose bail of
$4,000 marks was forfeited at Munich. be-
cause of his failure to surrender hims to
serve the sentence of Imprisonment and
fine imposed upon him by the court for
insulting Baron Von Thorengen. Deputy
Commissioner of the Spa, at Kissingen,
last year.
Bob Kneebs, the American horseman,
who is in Jail here, pending the decision
OF the court upon his appeal from judg.
ment, under which he stands convicted OF
ringing horse on the Berlin trotting
track, has been taken TO the prison infirm-
ary, seriously i'll. 1T is believed that it |
will be nine months before all the docu-
ments in his case reach Berlin from
America.
DR.. Hans of Munich, whose strong play,