The record-union., 1896-08-31

America under the present economic
conditions. Among the resolutions
adopted Were those condemning the
practice of dueling among officers of the
army and navy, and deploring the fact
that no Christian power has effectively
espoused the cause of the Armenians.
Resolutions were also passed advo-
eating the repeal of the anti-Jesuit law
and the prohibition CT the employment
of married women in factories.
The International Womens Congress
which is to sit in September now counts
SOC delegates as certain to be present,
including Florence Routledge of the
British Women's Trades Union League.
The "Tageblatt" is still pursuing the
question of the safe guarding of Ger
| man interests in Samoa In an article
published yesterday the paper says
| that in consequence of American in
trigues in Samoa the German cruisers
| Ruzzard and Fake and the dispatch
boat Move have been ordered to Apia.
| For the first time since 1870 French
visitors have begun to return to the
Baden races, once their favorite resort.
The renewed prestige of the Baden
r7eeting was chiefly due to the largely
increased sum of money which has been
| expended for this years meeting.
FRINGE Egon Won Fuerstenburg and the
Prince of Wales appeared on the course
two days, side by side, with Prince
| Hermann of Sake Weimar, who was
a guest of the Count and Countess Fes-
tetics at Hamilton Palace. A large
number of Americans were present at
the races.
Lieutenant Harlan Of the Prussian
| ChlanS who was the victor of a noted
| long distance ride, was killed a day or
two ago by being thrown from his
| horse. He was the son of a Mr. Harlan,
former United States Consul in Ger
many, who is now living in retirement
in Dresden.
| DR.. Barth, the noted Radical Union
| ist leader in the RelchStag, sailed for
| New York from Bremen on August 10Th
on board the steamship Havel. He goes
| to America for the purpose of watch
| ing the Presidential campaign and the
election. DR.. Barth is especially inter-
ested in the currency and the tariff
questions
The American theosophists, Mesdames
Tingley and Wright and Messrs. Har-
grove and Patterson, had a warm re-
| ception upon their arrival here at the
hands of the representative theoso-
rhists of Germany The theosophists
Of Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Nurem-
| burg and Breslau have sent delegates
to the Theosophist Convention.
! The Emperor gave a prolonged audi
ence on Friday and another on Sunday
/ fn bol faiy
Minister of Foreign Affairs. The inter-
view resulted among other things in a
resolve not to assent to Great Britain s
conversion of the protectorate over
Zanzibar into a crown colony. 1t was
| so agreed that in view of the fact that
| it might prejudice German Consular
rights to act otherwise, Seyyid Khalid,
the usurping Sultan, who escaped from
| the burning palace at Zanzibar and
took refuge at the German Consulate
should be surrendered to the British
| authorities if he is guaranteed treat
ment as a Prince and a prisoner of
war.
| The Berlin Bourse, for the first time
in a quarter of century, has decided
not to close its doors on the occasion of
the anniversary of the battle of Sedan.
| The Disconto GeseIlschaft is at the
| head of a syndicate formed for the pur-
pose of establishing a new bank in
Venezuela, to which institution will be
assigned the receipts from the Venezue-
| Ian customs The scheme has for it's
object the conversion of the internal
debt
Lieutenant c. E. Vreland, naval at
| a. y
| here, has returned to his post at the
Embassy from Rome. He VIII be re-
| leved in September by Lieutenant Me
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