The age-herald., 1897-08-01
BREAD AND SALT
 ON SILVER DISHES Will Be Rendered tho Emperor and En-
 press of Germany IN HONOR OF THEIR COMING By the Municipal Authorities of St.
 Petersburg.
RUNOR OF sHERMAN's RESIGNATION
Again Stirred Up at the Germany vstaI- Bismarck in Excellent Health s0ent Tutor Dies SuddenIy-S sSJs
 Deadly BuII9f .

Bsrlln, July S1.-(Spe< S'Cable Le.ter) Emperor William reachsd kiel on Loard the imperial yacht Hohenzol.era yester- day On Thursday next, accompani-d by the empress and the fleet, unier com mand of Prince Henry, of Pruas.a his majesty will start for St. Petersburg to visit the czar. Prince Hohsnlohe Il jc.n the emperor al Peterhof. The muni- cipal authorities of St. >Pet5rsburg will s,gn4lize the visit by presenting to their majesti-s s.iots of bread on a silver dish a.l salt in silver salt cellar, both rich ly ornamentad in the Russian style al engraved with the joint arms of St. Pe- tereburg and Germany. Upon the rim of the dishes will be the following insc:ip- ton: "1o their maj.stits, the emp TOT and empress of Germany"
 The grand autumn mi llary manouvres si, Hamburg will begin on Sept. 2, and will continue to the 10th. The Prince of Wales will bs among the guests of the kaiser at the reviews. He has modified his plans and will take course of the waters next month at Marienbad instsad cf at HGmburg as hitherto.
 Dr. Arthur Kortagen, headmaster of the celebrated school al Frankfort, died suddenly al Interlaken last Monday He was 59 years of age and until within few years was hsaim2 2Ster of the we'll known schooa at Born. where many prominent Americans and Ergl shmen have been educated. He was leading authority on educational matters throughout Germany.
 Ths empress has varied the monJtony of her stay alt Tegernsee by a visit to Mu1dch. She was accompanied by the five princes, visited all sights and lunched with the prince regent, who proposed her msjesty's health.
 Prnols oscar celebrated his ninth br h. day Tuesday a Tegernsee, from which place hl:r majesty an1i children will rsturn to Berlin.
 The run1ors in the Lordon papers con cerEdnS the resignation of Secretary Saer- man Ire echoed here ia official and Amer jean circles, with this difference that Mf. sherman Is to be succeeded, not by Mir. Reid, but by Ambassador White. The gossip even goes. so far as to attribute MT. Whites hesitation at leaving the Kafserhof hc5sl for rsrmanant quarters tC the possibility of his having soon to ref''~n to Washington.
 The comments of the German press upon the Dingley tariff are extremely acrid but greai satisfa ction is expressed at the fact thlak large quantities of Ger mann goods were semd to the United Sta tes in anticipation of the event. While wish ing to rctaliate upon the Americans, the most ChSuvlni7tGc journals are not blind to the fact tllDt repr.i1als upon he pat , of Germany wouIl eurely prove a hoom- erang.
 CCutld Non Blum nthal, the oldest sur Viving general of the war of lS70-7i, com pleted seventy years of se.Viee today.
 Prince Bismarck is in excellent heaath. Today he received Prince Schonneick- Cailotha, tn n-w comm andsr of he Frsi- baster cuiraSsers, Of whic'a regiment he prince is honorary colonel.
 Owing to the finhncial failure of the Berlm expedition Of 1896 the conuni ee lacently annonlnced thiat the 50 per C. mt. guarantee fund would have 10 be sacri- feed. This resulted in a large meeti Ing; of signeis on McnI5ay. The meeting de- ctare1 unanimously lJhlltt it did not r C. ognize Ithe right of the committee to adopt such a measure, and desperante | effort win be made to pb1ce he respon- l siblitieS upon the shoulders of the com l mittee
 l The supposed inferrlal machine which exploded in mail bag during the trans | fer of mails at the Potsdam hallway sba- .ton early in The wee turned out 10 be 1 only a package of large eorpedoes of the l kind used by cyclists to frght.n dogs 1 The whole liberal press is in arms agairSt the ecit of a niry who killed an l escaping soldier unklcr peculiarly atro- l cicUis circumst anc s. The man Seremba. 1 had overatepDed the bcmnd.rles of lh4 l fortificabHons al Donl zig and wars being l taken to the guard house, wien he broke away and ranl The sel-ltry firtd and the 1 bullet passedn through Seremba's had
 and two waH,s of an Iron kiosk bu.ying ] itself In brick wall. Thi1 certainly proves the efficacy of he German guns
 but the irici6 r'i odds fuels O the fla mes of populor esCEtmept ngainet antillery severity
 U7ndted eIs1tes Consul -Goneral Chpr1 s Dekay will return to New York in Sep tember.