Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-11-13
On Receipt of Favorable Reports
American Securities Made
Things Lively.

Berlin, Nov. 7.-For many years past
no American election has excited such
universal attention in Germany as the
one just over. During the week preced-
ing the day of election the papers Of
every shade of opinion published daily
articles discussing the issues and candi-
dates the universal tenor being that, so
far as Germany's interests are concern
ed, it was choice between two evils, the
Mckinley evil being the smaller one
In financial circles here, especially, was
there great interest in the election, and
unheard of pains were taken to obtain
early and reliable information concern
ing the results. Several of the banks
and financiers received frequent cable
grams on Wednesday, and as the news
began to pour in, things began to get
lively on the stock exchange and the
brokers did good business in American
securities. Railroad shares climbed UP
three or more points by noon.
The new revelations of the Hamburger
Nachrichten continue to absorb a great
deal of interest.
The replies appearing in the Reichsan-
zeger were joint efforts of Chancellor
Prince Hohenlohe and Minister of For
eign Affairs Baron Marshal Won Bieber-
stein. Ex-Chancellor General Count Won
Caprivi, who remains in solitude on his
estate near Skyrow, has been repeatedly
urged by his friends to vindicate him.
self against the reproaches of the Ham
burger Nachrichten, but he has fatty re-
fused to do so, and means to adhere to
his reserved attitude.
bismarck Is Better.
pictaa
mood, although the presence of his
younger son, William, at Friedrichsruhe
during the past week has tended to mol
lily him. Physically Prince Bismarck is
better just now than he has been for
months.
News received here from FREDERICKSBURG
and Hamburg say that strict vigilance
is being maintained upon all the princes
movements and persons he receives, and
it is added that even his correspondence
is watched. This espionage presumably
is at the instance of the government, and
is being performed by a small corps of
the best detectives from Berlin, under
Lieutenant Bodmer of the political police.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, in an
other article today, says: Prince Bis
marck's adversaries are newspapers.
more than people. Former liberals have
been converted by social and semi-official
democracy, and the last named is the
chief fomenter of the hatred of Prince
Bismarck"
The correspondent of the Associated
Press here learns that the replies of the
Reichsanzieger to the Hamburger Mach
richten were intended more for the BEN
eft of the courts of Rome and Vienna
than Prince Bismarck. In both of these
quarters the wording of the exact terms
OF the RuSSo-German agreement conclud-
ed by Prince Bismarck is not known even
now, and there is a strong wish there
to be fully informed on the subject. The
German government maintains that the
secrecy enjoined when the treaty was
made is binding even today.
VIII Sail for Stockholm.
Under command of Prince Henry of
Prussia, German squadron will sail
within a fortnight for Stockholm and
Christiania. Prince Henry will have a
long interview with King Oscar, and he
has full power from Emperor William
to discuss the adhesion of Norway and
Sweden to the dreibund.
China has ordered torpedo destroyers
at Elbing. They are to have a speed of
30 knots, and will be completed within
year. i
The bye election to the reichstag In
West Observation-Disclosures has result
ed in the socialist, Pruess, replacing the
national liberal. Pruess received 1920
votes, and the conservative candidate re-
ccived $780,
Emperor William has been hunting deer
and boar in Gross-Stretlitz. There will
be a court chase on November Is and IA
nil o I'll o-t.,. 80
Vossische Zeitung, understood to be writ
ten by high foreign officer, is exciting
attention. The writer surveys the politi-
cal prospects and resources of the West
Indies and the Status of the Monroe doc
trine regarding them. He deprecates the
right of the United States to interfere
in the political affiliations Of the West
Indies, and speaks of the probable pur-
chase of the Danish West Indies by Ger
many in the future.
Secretary Olney's new regulation re-
garding the consular certificates under
oath of invoices, Is received with lively
satisfaction in German export circles
A book written by Evan Hall and ded-
Gated to the government has been pub
hshed.. 1t surveys the Importance of The
American elections toward Germany,
and assumes that fairly prohibitive tar
1T bill will be passed by the next con-
gress, and in view of the fact that Ger
many in 1895 imported American goods to
the value of 511, 900, 900 marks, he proposes
that early steps be taken to counterfeit
the injury to German Industries. He adj
Vocates denouncshg the most favorable
nation clause, and passing tariff para
graphs, and also to try in the main to
cooperate with the rest of Europe In
sweeping retaliatory measures against the
United States. The government has taxi
en- notice of the book, and a score of cop
les have been bought for use in different
foreign offices.