The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-23
ANOTHER COLONIAL SCANDAL. Is
ON THE VERGE OF BEING
Exploded.
THE AGRAR|ANS DEEPLY ANGERED.
BY the Rejection of the Oleomargarine
Bill-Empress Augustus Royal Per-
sonage May Be Seen Daily
Astride of a Bike.

Berlin, July 1S.-(Copyrighted, 1896,
by the Associated Press.)-Another CO.
| lonial scandal is on the point of eXplod-
ing. Herr Won Puttkamer, governor of
the German Camaroons, is accused of
having committed many acts of inhu-
mainly and cruelty similar to those al
legged against Whelan and Leist, and for
which these officials were ordered to be
dismissed from the colonial service.
Won Puttkamer's accusers are Won
Stettin, late vice governor, and Goez-
brecht, the same British journalist who
exposed the abuses in the Camaroons
under Whelan and Lest \ large num-
Der of affdavits of eye witnesses and
victims of Won Puttkamers brutality are
now in the possession of German pa
per and will soon be published. The
| evidence is so strong that it will be inn
| possible to evade an official investiga-
| ton.
Won Puttkamer, who was appointed to
| his office only eleven months ago, is ac-
cused of having committed the most hor-
rible atrocities upon both male and te-
male natives of the Cameroons, of vile
excuses and of financial speculation of
| a shady character. Rumors of this have
| been current in colonial circles for some
time. Additional evidence is in the
| hands of two members of the left and it
will be laid before the reichstag when
| that body re-assembles, in the form of
an Interpolation of the government.
| The rejection of the oleOmargarine
bill by the federal council has deeply
angered the Agrarian party. The
Deutschlager's Zetung, the organ of the
federation of husbandry, bitterly re-
proaches the government for its failure
to support suffering Agrarians with
either big means or little means.
A bill will be introduced in the diet to
| increase all the salaries of governmental
| employees in Prussia. This would in
volve n total of 20,000,000 marks to
start with. A similar bill will be in
PRODUCED in the bundesrath and in the
reichstag to increase the salaries of i'm
perial officials and likewise those of the
army officers from the grade of first
| lieutenant upward.
A cavalry captain named Baron Won
Ehardt and First Lieut.. Won Kamptz
of the garrison at Dusseldorf have been
dismissed from the army because they
refused to accept challenge to fight
duel with pistols, which was sent to
them by notorious scoundrel
Both officers published the facts as
an advertisement in Il Dusseldorf news
paper.
Empress August and six of the impe-
rial princesses may be seen daily prac-
ticing bicycle riding in the park at Will
helmsruhe. This is new sport for the
empress, but under the tuition of her
two elder sons, both of whom are expert
bicyclists. and on machine especially
! hill fn,, hn. tl,., .' IN
she is making rapid progress.
Mrs. Evans, wife of Capt X. *.
Evans, the military attache of the United
States legation, made II bicycle trip to
IIerringsdorf and back, II distance of
400 miles, this week. The United
States ambassador Mr.. Edwin II. Uhl,
and his family made trip to the sea-
shore for few days this week.
| During the intensely hot weather of
the past week the maneuvres, drills and
marches of the army in various parts of
Germany were attended with many fatal
cases of sunstroke. At Maence the long
and Eighty-eghth regiments was at
tended by forty-eight cases of sunstroke,
of which sixteen were Immediately fatal.
In the maneuvers at Caputh, thirteen
soldiers fell dead. Similar cases are
reported from South Germany.
The Reichsanzeiger publishes n state
ment of the fiscal operations of the gov
eminent for the year 1886. showing
an excess in the revenues of the empire
amounting to 26,227,3S7 marks over the
estimate, of which some 1857. 706
marks will be used to cover increased
| expenditures and 13,000,000 marks APP
piled to reducing the imperial debt.
| The contagious disease of the eyes,
the origin and characteristics of which
are puzzling the physicians, is spreading
in upper Silesia. At Beuthen it became
necessary to close the high school and n
number of other schools have been closed
throughout the province. The victims
of this disease are rendered totally blind.
| Herr Richter, the commissioner of the
Paris exposition of 1900, was the first
of the commissioners on the spot and
met with a cordial reception from the Of
ficers of the exposition.
Herr Richter reports that the space
allowed Germany, while not as much as
was occupied by this country at the Co
lumbar exposition in Chicago in 1898,
is more than has been given any foreign
nation. The emperor intends to make
the section more valuable than that at
| Chicago.
The appropriation for the Paris expo
sition is much larger than that made for
| Chicago which makes the proposed inn
provement possible.
Thunder storms, hurricanes and hail
storms have devastated various districts
in Germany during the past week, es-
pecially in Hesse, Mecklenberg, Mosele
regions and around Colmar.
Professor Eseling, president of the vet
Urinary surgeons college, will start for
| the United States next week. He is
| commissioned by the Berlin criminal
court to examine the mare Bethel, which
X. Kneebs, the American horseman, is
alleged to have raced in this country
under the name of Nellie Kneebs. The
mare is now on Kneebs' stud farm in
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