The record-union., 1896-01-20

an, Washington. One of the German
Consuls in the United States, it ap-
pears, in certifying to the signatures
appended to the dispositions of some of
KntebS' witnesses, characterized the
witnesses as unworthy of belief, and
declared that their testimony was only
worth so many dollars, implying that
they were paid for what they had
swofn to, and had sworn to only what
they had been paid for. Such state
ment accompanying the documents re-
ceived here is held to be a breach of the
law The Consul, it is contended, had
no right to communicate to his Gov
ernment his personal ideas Of the char
acter of the American witnesses, nor
has he the right to take any other
course than to send the papers to Ber-
lin for what they were worth.
Kneebs has given notice of appeal
against the verdict, and pending the
decision of the Imperial Court upon
the appeal the mare, which has been
seized in accordance with the decision
of the jury, must be kept at the expense
of the court Kneebs says he was very
much surprised at the verdict of the
jury in his case, and declares that he
will produce the real Bethel, which is
now in America, before the Imperial
Court when the hearing of his appeal
comes up.
Herr H j. Gehelsen, once notorious
as the editor of an old Berlin paper
called the "Reichslocke" has returned
to Berlin after twenty years residence
in London, where he lived under the
name of J. B. Keller. Prince Bismarck
years ago, and Gehelsen disappeared
For ten years he acted as the London
correspondent of the semi-official Ber-
lin Post" Since his return to Berlin
he has resuscitated the "Reichsglocke"
and in recent articles has made dis
closures which involve Herr Tiede-
mann, an attache of the Foreign Of
flee, who is accused by Gehelsen of
having dictated articles to the editor
of the Berlin Post" He further prom
ises to publish proofs that a certain
German socialist leader was in close
connection with the late General Bou-
langer, their letters being exchanged
in London. Gehelsen knows a good deal
that is likely to add to the already nu-
merous political scandals.
The "Vorwaerts," the socialist or
gan, cnaracterizes as idle fiction the
Emperor's message delivered in the
White Hall Of the Schloss yesterday, in
which his majesty asserted that the
empire realized the hopes of the peo-
pie. Happily" the "Vorwaerts' says
'tthe present form of the empire is not
the last in the worlds histry. Out of
the anarchy of capitalism will arise the
order of socialism,"
The celebration which took place in
Dresden yesterday in honor of the
twenty-flfth anniversary of the found
ing of the empire was very imposing. In
the evening there was a grand torch
light process ion, in which 5000 per-
sons participated. The pepulace was
very enthusiastic, and the King, on
his appearance, received an ovation.
In Munich the celebration terminated
with a grand state banquet at which
Prince Regent Luitpold toasted the
Kaiser in the warmest terms. The En-
peror was heartily cheered.
The Emperor, at last evenings ban
quet al the White Hall of the Schloss,
congratulated Baron Hammerstein-
Loxten, Prussian Minister of Agricult-
ure, upon his anti-Agrarian speech in
the Reichstag in the dbate on Count
Won Kanitz's grain monopoly bill.
The banking firm of Muller & Thorn
son of Hamburg are about to effect a
lean of 100000 marks for the Gov
ernment of Guatemala for the purpose
of constructing a railway.
Mrs. E. H. Sunderland and Miss M.
r. Porter of the United States are Wis
iting the Berlin elementary schools for
the purpose of studying the system.