The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-21

archist pestilence which nurses at her
bosom and Join the continental govern
ments in the adoption OF measures for
its total extinction.
The first International woman's con-
gress was opened here Saturday in the
great hall of the Berlin city buildings and
it's sessions will last a week Six hundred
women delegates are present and two
men are In attendance as representatives
of women in Buda-Pesth. The proceedings
yesterday were restricted to mere formal
tiles and to-day was devoted to a recep-
tion of the delegates. The matters of in
ternational Importance to bee discussed
are the woman's rights question, upon
which F.. G. French of Washington, and
Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall of Indianapolis
will speak, among others. The following
days will be devoted to the discussion Of
questions affecting the protection of chill
dren, early education in female schools,
employment of women, wages, hours and
kindred subjects. In the discussion upon
the subject Of working women's clubs,
Mrs. Thomas Kirkbridge of Philadelphia
and Mrs. Ormiston Chant of London will
speak, and these ladies with others will
also address the congress upon the fight
of woman against alcohol and other
themes, including womens suffrage and
provision for the orphan poor. 1t is quite
plain that the congress will have a big
committee have placed upon the agenda
book of the congress demands for wo-
mems suffrage and equal rights for wo-
men with men. A meeting of female
cialists has appointed special delegates to
the congress Considerable opposition is
expected in the congress. against the ques-
tion Of woman's rights and the admission
of certain delegates. The executive COM
mitt want to Quash the motions for dis
cuSSnR thpea pOasffOnS If DOSgiblp
The Kreuz Zeitung announces that the
conservatives of Germany are beginning
to share the Indignation of the people of
England at the sultan's 3nhuman govern
ment, but don tfavor the English demand
for the deposition of the sultan. The best
scheme to be followed, the paper thinks,
would be the formation OF an European
commission to control the sultan and his
ministers by making the appointment of
the latter as well as the appointment of
territorial governors subject to the appro
val of the ambassadors.
The czar and czarina are timed to ar
rive at Darmstadt on Oct TO- The kaiser
will not go to Darmstadt to meet them.
The rupture between the editors of the
Vorwaerts and Herr Liebknecht, the So
cialist leader in the Reichstag. continues.
Herr Fischer, one of the participants in
the quarrel urges halt, representing that
the display of the socialist dirty linen in
public would only be TO play into the enc
mys hand, and promises private settle,
ment Of the differences between Herr Lieb-
knecht and the editors.
The socialists have gained five seats in
the Prussian Landtag in the recent cleo
tions.
The ex-Empress Frederick who is now
at Friedrichsof IN the Taunus Hills, will
start for Balmoral TO visit her mother,
the.saueen. after the departure of the
czar and czarina
Lieberecht Won Kotze, the court cham
berlain and master OF ceremonies, who is
still a prisoner in the fortress at Glatz,
where he is confined for participating in
the duel which resulted in the death of
Baron Won Schrader, has resigned his Of
fee of master OF ceremonies, but the en-
peror has permitted him to retain the
office of court chamberlain and also to
hold his military position of captain in
the reserve cavalry.