The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-15

DIR. CARL PETERS DENOUNCED N
THE ~REICHsTAG AGALs.
Letter Read from the African Explcr-
er DENYING That He Ordered His
Mistress Hanged.

OIL &c StIQltaA 1Oli(tp announced IN the
Reichstag to-day that in view of the
charges made by Herr Bebel. who accused
Dr.. Carl Peters, the explorer, of causing
a negro and negress to be hanged without
trial while he Was imperial commissioner
in Africa. during 1891. a fresh inquiry will
be held in the matter. DR.. Kayser added
that the government was not aware that
after DR.. Peters had proclaimed officially
that the negroes alluded to were hanged as
spies. the English bishop, Tucker, declined
TO receive Peters, saying he would have
nothing to do with a murderer" DR.. Kay
ser added that the previous evidence had
not established the guilt OF DR., Peters in
the eyes or the law.
Count Won Arnim then read a letter from
Dc. Peters, declaring that Herr Bebel's as
sertions were partly untrue and partly ex-
aggerated. The negro, he said, was tried
by eourt-martial for burglary. The negress
was never punished. She returned TO her
parents in September, 1891. 1t was another
negress, he explained, not his servant, who
after having been sentenced to be confined
in irons for six months, was condemned to
death in February. 1892. for attempting to
escape. DR.. Peters further denied that he
had been married to a nesress. according
TO Mohammedan rites.
Or. Kayser then read a statement in
which DIR. Peters admitted that the con-
demned neSress was his mistress
Herr Lenzmann declared that DR.. Peters
was a mailman or monster, and that he.
Leist and Wehlan should be punished ac-
DIR. Scoenstadt, the Minister of Justice,
pointed out that infOrmatiOns properly made
were necessary in order TO eriminally prose-
cute Herr Lest. and that they had not ar
rived in Germany until the latter had gone
10 America. The case or DIR. Peters, he con-
tinued. had not yet been examined, and tech
nicalities rendered a criminal prosecution of
Herr Wehian useless.
Herr Richter declared that DR.. Peters must
be deposed from his position as president of
the Colonial Society, claiming that his de-
malls Of his guilt were only Juggling with
favor in a high quarter by promoting the
agitation for a big German fleet. Continu-
usSf eI1adition Dr Psters vas nntbinn hut .
''brigand chief like DIR. Jameson and con-
cluded with a demand that the colonial
had been a failure in every respect, and
which had diminished the esteem in which
Germany was held abroad, should be con-
tracted to narrower limits.
Herr Bebel expressed the opinion that DR..
Kayser. as director Of the colonial depart
place, and Herr Luber said he was gratified
at the reopening of the inquiry into the con-
shown himself unworthy Of the German
name.
The Peters exposure has had a great ad-
verse effect on the colonial extension agita-
ton DR.. Peters is the head of the colonial
jingoes and one of the leaders of the agita-
ton for a large increase In the strength Of
has already announced that the revelations
will considerably modify the attitude of
that party towards the colonial policy of the
government. adding, that in future they VIII
be unable 10 give the same support to IL as
hitherto. DR.. Peters is now drawing 5000
marks from the excheQuer yearly and is
said to be doing nothing for it. Consequent
~. people are all the more inclined to be-
peciaTiy as his book on the German Emin
Pasha expedition showed that he treated
natives 6ru wa,9Id ana saI IL Is se pointed mm ouT tnat
hanged if he had been found guilty OF much
less.
The details OF Emperor williams Medi-
terranean trip are still kept secret, but II
IS understood that he will join the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern at Genoa, where his
Majesty may meet the Emperor of Austria
and King Humbert. Emperor William will
then make several trips, accompanied by
the Empress. and the HohenZolsern will
return to kel about the middle of May
i'm order to take his Majesty north again
during the summer.
Germany, throughout the week. has been
visited by snowstorms and heavy rains.
and as a result there are floods alnEcst ev-
erywhere. There is much snow in the
northeast and central parts of the country,
and telegraphic and telephone communica-
ton has been frequently interrupted. The
Alsation Diet has voted the sum of 10000
marks for the relief Of the sufferers from
the floods in that province, and the diets of
Baden and Nuremberg have done the
same for the relief of distress in their prov
inces. Thirteen people were drowned near
Basic, Switzerland. and several others were
drowned at Speyer, on the Rhine, which
river. with the Main, Necker and Moseile,
has overfiowed. A bridge was swept away
at Freiburg. Baden. browning nine persons
The hereditary, Grand Duke OF Baden was
An danoar Of drnurninO Tho Ein-fb don
at Baden, collapsed. and whole districts
were flooded. The Vistula has also over
flowed. and there has been much damage
done in the north
Prince Bismarck has consented to receive
on his birthday. April 1. a big torchlight
procession from HAMBURG.
1t is announced that Professor Koch will
shortly publish his latest discoveries in US
ing tgOerculin In ne treatment of con-
Ex-Chancellor Won Caprivi is writing his
memoirs. but they will not be published for
some time.
The hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenoerg.
who was offended at his recent treatment by
the Emperor on the occasion of the death
OF the Grand Duchess of OIden6urg, has
resumed command o.. me Nineteenth Cav
OF associations has been found against Herr
Kuer and forty-seven other Socialist lead
ers. Their trials will begin next week.
The SEVENTEEN birthday OF Herr Lieb-
knecht will be celebrated on March IS by the
Socialists throughout Germany. There will
be d grand eommers in ;his city.
The strike OF 1860 Berlin joiners was
ended this week. The workmen have OBJ
tanned higher pay and shorter hours.
The Chinese government has purchased
5000 Bavarian army rifles of the type of
1884 for 81 apiece.
Al the request of the state Department at
Washington the United States embassy here
has formally invited all the German uni
versities to send delegates to the Princeton
celebration in October. Some OF them, in
Guiding the University OF G0ttingen, have
accepted. The universities of Freiburg,
Rostock and ErlanSen have declined.
The military jubilee OF Prince George, of
Saxony. was grandly celebrated at Dresden.
lie received letters OF congratulation from
Emperor William and Emperor Francis Jo-
seph.
Herr Braun. editor Of the Vorwaerts. has
been declared innocent OF perjury in con-
nection with the theft of the imperial am
neSty decree.
IL is stated that a Roentgen's ray expert