The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-08
NEARLY 800 PERISHED
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE by INUNDA-
TIoNS IN EASTERN GERMANY.
Hotel ia the SiIesian Mountains Car
ried Down by a Landslide and
Its Killed.


to the local StaIlSt1cS, IL SONS were
killed in Silesia alone, and jaxony the
casualties will not fall short of $50. The
financial losses are over $50, 100000 marks.
At Pillnitz, the country residence of The
Queen of Saxony, the river Elbe rose so
fast that it flooded the lower floor of the
royal castle, forcing the King and Queen
to hurriedly flee from the place and seek
! refuge at Dresden. Prince Hohenlohe, the
imperial chancellor, who was then on his
way from his estate at Ausses to Berlin,
had to leave the train at Aussig and was
conveyed ten miles in a sedan chair TO an
other railroad station. Through a landslide
on the highest summit of the Silesian
mountains, the Hotel Schneekopfe was car
ried down and buried with all its occupants.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
granted thirty thousand forms from his
private purse feT the relief of the sufferers
and the Queen of Saxony has granted 10000
marks and the regent of Bavaria l5,OW
marks for the same purpose. Emperor Will
liam of Germany has not yet made a dona-
ton to, the people who have suffered from
the flood in the eastern parts of the coun-
try, although he has given $4,000 marks to
the flood sufferers in Alsace. The newspa-
pers are calling for special sessions of the
Reichstag and Diet SO that these bodies
may make extraordinary grants of money
for the relief of the suffering families; but,
as the suggestion was first a by the
and other Socialist newspapers,
it is being discouraged by the government
The municipality of Berlin has granted $780,
coo marks for the relief of the thousands
Of people rendered homeless and penniless
by the storms, and the city of Dresden has
voted 30O, 900 marks for the same good work.
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The German newspapers continue to dis
cuss the new United States tariff and to
call for reprisals, but the Associated Press
learns from the Foreign Office that the
government of Germany has no intention
OF beginning a tdrilt war. A nigh offlclal
of the Foreign Office said to the CORE
%spondent: There will be no tariff war, as
Germany is too weak to carry it out, ana
because a large part OF the American I'M
ports of food StuffS, as We'll as cotton ana
other raw materials, are indispensable 10
our industry. The formation OF "a large con-
tinental tariff union with its ram pointed
at the United States would miscarry, be-
cause of England'S opposition. AS a matter
of fact, our hands are tied, and even Baron
Won Thielmann, the German ambassador to
the United States, who has been named as
the successor of Count Posadowski-W ehner
as imperial secretary of state Tor the treas
ury, though his advice and intimate knowl-
edge of the American tariff and financial
affairs would be of great help to US during
the coming crisis, cannot change the facts
in the case"
The palpable effects of the new tariff are
already noticeable. The manufacturers OF
Solingen are complaining of lack of orders
and many factories have reduced the num-
Der of employees. In the Cuban and Chem
nitz districts there is already much lnduS-
trial distress. Similar complaints are made
elsewhere. The florists Association mas
sent a memorial to the imperial chance!-
lor protesting against the tariff as serl-
ously injuring the export trade OF SEEDS
and plants during the last Few weeks.
Before starting for Russia Emperor Will
liam received a number of threatening let
tiers from Nihilists and Panslavists. In
consequence Of this, one of the shrewdest
criminal commissioners, DR.. Henninger,
with a section of the Berlin political police,
was sent to Peterhof Palace a week ahead
of Emperor William, and this corps OF de-
t~ectives will m him everywhere
during his stay in Russia.
The past week has witnessed a number OF
fatal accidents on race courses. Count Won
Fech, a wealthy gentleman rider and at one
time the friend of the Barrison sisters, and
Lieutenant Bartels, also a gentleman rider,
were killed during a race at kreuznach.
At the Neuss races the most successful
gentleman rider in Germany, Lieutenant
Won Kaiser, was killed, and Captain Won
Suernomdt was seriously injured. Two
jockeys also met accidental deaths.
In Emperor Williams living apartments a
new air purifying apparatus is now in OPP
Grafton. 1t is the invention of Count Won
Puerckler, a high court official, and con-
sists of a method of injecting ozone into
the surrounding air and destroying germs
and glasses by a system of platinum wires
brought to a white heat by electricity
The Emperor recently discovered in ii
sailor of the Hohenzollern, named Obcr-
meyer, a native of Baden, a remarkable tall
emit for painting and sketching, and his
Ma ipSfU has sent him to the Art Academy
of Berlin, charging himself with the sailors
education.
The retiring minister for foreign affairs,
Baron Marshall Won Biebenstein, will be
appointed ambassador at an important post,
probably Rome, Washington or CONSTANT
NOBLE, in October. Baron Won Rotenham,
the under secretary for the Foreign Office,
will also receive a diplomatic appointment
The Independent Schuetzen Corps, of New
York. while at Coblentz, deposited a wreath
upon the Empress Augustus monument
and t~elegraphed the fact to the Grand
Duchess of Baden, daughter of the ex-
Empress. The Grand Duchess sent a very
appreciatiVe Acknowledgement TO Captain
Weber. AT Mayence, Coblentz ana else
where on the Rhine the visiting Schuetzen
corps was publicly feted. The German
American rif1emen won several prizes at
the Nuremburg national SndTP-SnooInS
tournament.
General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A, arrived
here from Carlsbad on Tuesday. He is re-
ceiving many official courtesies. The gem
eraI visited the extensive Cruson works at
Magdeburg, and was granted permission
to inspect the government works at Span
dau, and the naval yards at Kiel, as well
as some of the barracks and the Krupp
works at Essen. Secretary Jackson, of the
United States embassy here, gave a dinner
Thursday in honor of General Miles. The
United States military attache and the
other military attaches of Berlin were pres
ent. with Count Won B~ardenslepen, COM
manding the guards cavalry division. The
United States ambassador, Andrew ID.
White. to-day entertained General Miles at
dinner at the Kaiserhof. Baron Won ThieI-
mann and all the generals commanding the
guard corps and first army corps were in
vited. General Miles goes to Stockholm at
the end of the coming week, and thence to
Russia, to view the military institutions
of that country He will return here in
time for the autumn maneuvers.
The Japanese government has ordered
from the Vulcan works a battle ship of
$500 tons, which is TO cost il, o. 900 marks.
ambassador White gives a positive de-
NAL of the rumors that he is TO succeed Mr..
Sherman as secretary of state. Mr.. White
says no cvertures have been made to him
since his arrival in Berlin.
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