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his bills for sale at so per cent. dis

count.
The Emperor gave a banquet at the
Schloss Thursday evening, at which the
Empress Frederick, his mother, Prince
and Princess Frederick of Hesse, Prince
and Princess Aribert of Anhalt and
others related to the imperial family
were present.
III. G. Squires, Second Secretary of the
United States Embassy, gave a dinner
last evening to the leaders of the Amer
1 lean colony in Berlin. Among the guests
were Messrs. Gordon, Cummings, Trow-
! bridge, Carter, Parsons, MacGee and
Murray and DIR. Nutal. On February
18th Mr.. Squires will give a farewell
dinner to Colonel Swain, the military
attache of the British Embassy, to
| which all of the military attaches to the
embassies and legations in Berlin, and
| all of the members of the staff of the
American Embassy have been invited.
! Louis Stern of New York, having had
the sentence of fourteen days imprison-
ment which was imposed upon him by
/ the court upon the charge of insulting
Baron Won Thuengen, the Deputy Com
missioner of the Spa at Kissingen, re-
voked by proclamation of amnesty pro-
mulgated recently by the Prince Regent
of Bavaria, lodged a claim for the re-
turn of the $4,000 marks bail, which he
forfeited by his failure to appear and
1 serve his sentence. The court has de-
cided that Mr.. Stern's claim is not we'll
founded, holding that his bail was for
feited by Stern's neglect to surrender
himself before his pardon was pro-
claimed. Mr.. Sterns friends now sug-
gest that he make an appeal directly to
the Prince Regent for the return of the
money
The body of Hon. Theodore Runyon,
late Embassador of the United States
to Germany will be removed tomorrow
from the vault in which it has been
temporarily resting, and conveyed to
the railway station, en- route for Bre-
men, whence it will be taken to New
York on board the steamer Havel,
which will sail on Tuesday The re-
moval and placing of the body on board
the steamer will be made without any
ceremony whatever. Mr. Haskins, SON
in-law of the late ambassador, will SUI
pervise the removal of the body, and
accompany it to New York
DR.. w. J. Leyds, Minister of the South
African Republic to Germany, France
and the Netherlands, was in Hamburg
yesterday, where he was given an en-
thusiastic reception by the Chamber of
Commerce and the municipal authori-
ties.
The ''Vossische Zeitung' prints an
article referring to the dispatch which
was sent to Sir Hercules Robinson,
Governor of Cape Colony, by Mr.. Cham
berlain, British Secretary of State for
the Colonies, reviewing the causes
which led to DR.. Jameson's raid,
enumerating the grievances of the Tit
landers; suggesting a scheme of reform,
including limited autonomy of the
Rand, etc. and inviting President
Kreuger to England to discuss the ques-
tions at issue.
After expressing opinions, seriatim,
upon the points contained in Mr.. Cham
berlain's message, the "Zeitung'' says
that the Boer minority is not bound to
sentence itself to death, but, on the con-
trary, it is bound to defend its position
with German obstinacy. President
Kreuger, the paper says, is certain to
reply to Mr. Chamberlain's dispatch in
accordance with the terms of the treaty
of 1884
Herr Hahn, editor of a newspaper at !
F,nden, Prussia, leaped from the Sec
ond-story window of his house yester- |
day, falling in front of passing street |
car, which passed over his body and |
killed him.