The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-06
EMPEROR INCENSED AT THE
SCANDAL DEVELOPED IN THE
LUETZOw TRIAL.
SWEEP OF THE INTRlGUERs.
FIFTEEN PERSONS ARE IN A
FAIR WAY TO GO TO
JAIL.
HAMBURG STRIKE MUST BE ENDED
At the End of the Week the Govern
ment VIII Compel an Arbitra-
tiOn Agreement

BERLIN, Dec 5.-Public attention
during the past week has been equally
divided between the lockers strike and
the LuetZow-Leckert trial The latter
interests the emperor particularly, and
special reports have been made to him
by Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein, the minister of
foreign affairs. The foreign office had
a corps of shorthand reporters to take
testimony verbatim, with the view to
prosecutions against other persons in
vowed in intrigues of the present and
past cabinets The foreign office and
Prince Hohenlohe are determined to
make a clean sweep Of the intriguers
and prosecute all the culprits.
About fifteen persons, including
newspaper men, detectives and Of
ficials of various offices are likely to be
arraigned and sent to Jail on the
charge of blackmail. His majesty is
especially incensed at the fact, Incl
dentally brought out in the trial. that
his confidence in certain persons has
been misplaced or abused in the past,
and the emperor will require very sat-
isfactory explanations of Count Won
Eulenberg's connection with the mat
ter. Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein
also intends to weed out a number of
unreliable minor officials with which
the foreign office has been honey
combed. In addition the editors of sew
eral Berlin newspapers and a string of
correspondents who have been posing
as repositories of special condolences
from high places will also be branded
as impOsters.
The lockers strike is generally re-
garded as having been instigated by
British agitators acting in the interests
of British shippers. The whole indus
trial press is voicing this conviction,
and the whole Socialist press refutes it.
A large ship owner declares that he
has ample proof of this charge.
The emperor is having special re-
ports of the strike developments sent
to him and he has expressed the opin-
ion to Prince Hohenlohe that if the
strike is not settled at the end of the
coming week, the impetial govern
ment is to intervene and insist upon
arbitration.
The budget debate in the reichstag
was not as heated and interesting as
those Of previous years, and the at
tendance was small. The most strik-
ing feature of the debates was Herr
ment and Herr Rickert's charge, sup
ported by proof, that the cabinet is
divided on the most essential points
AS to the navy, Herr Richter said it
Is governed by three powers, the naval
department, the private naval cabinet
OF the emperor and the emperor him
self. and that each has arrived at
different conclusion.
A crank named Neumann from
Strasburg, tried, on Tuesday to gain
fOrcible access to the emperor at Pots
dam, under the impression that his
majesty was able to communicate to
him exact information about an i'm
aginary murder. He was sent to an
asylum
Emperor William, on Tuesday, at
tended the first performance of Wilber
Bruch's new drama, Henry ", Of
Germany" and personally congratu-
lated the poet.
Prince Henry. of Prussia. who on
w WedneSday, started on fortnight,s
cruise in Scandinavian waters with a
small squadron of iron-clads, Is to
have command of the home fleet which
is to be formed next spring It will
consist of six divisions, of which an
iron clad and two despatch boats will
form the first and an iron-cIad and
the reserve divisions of the German
ocean, Baltic and Dantzic and torpedo
boats and watch boats. other diyi-
Si0nS
The emperor has not approved of the
sentence imposed upon Lieut. Bruse-
Witz four years Imprisonment in a
fortress and dismissal from the army,
for killing a mechanic, by running him
through the back with his sword Some
new and ugly evidence is said to have
come to the surface and his majesty
has ordered the case to be reopened
with new trial Part Of the fresh
fhnFaT esaS = E. ~
ing antecedents of Brusewitz and the
rest is reported to show the fact.
which was not disclosed at the trial.
that the officer ran the man through
the body after listening to the apologies
of his victim and appeals for mercy.
The first annual official report of
the Baltic canal has just been issued.
1t shows that 1884 vessels passed
through it, with a tonnage of /, ,505, ,9S3.