The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-20
IN FAThERLAND.
Bright Bits of News From Over the
Ocean.


Berlin, June 1s.-In spite of semi-offi-
Gal uehlaIs, there is no doubt that a
new shuffiing OF the cabinet has been de-
clded upon by the emperor DR.. Won
Boetticher, the vice president of the
council of ministers and imperial secre-
lary OF state for the interior, the vice
chancehor and Prince Hohenlohe's
inouthpiece in the reichstag and diet. has
intensely dissatisfied his majesty by re-
peated recent failure TO vigorously repre-
sent rthe government during important
deoates. emperor William is especially
incensed at the failure of DR.. Won Boet-
tlcher to reply to Herr Richter's terrible
arrangement of his majesty's policy and
acts in the reichstag on May IS DR..
MIGUEL. the minister of finance. will re-
place DR.. Won Boettecher with increased
prerogauves and functions. not only in
the Prussian. but in the imperial cabi-
net, which will cause him to be entrusted
with the task of advocating the imperial
measures of the government and espec-
tally the navy schemes, association bills
ETC., he being a plausible and eloquent
speaker, which the chancellor is not
Prince Hohenlohe will retain the chan
ceilorship, although he is anxious to re-
TIRE to private life, but he has permitted
himSef TO be persuaded to stick to his
post until the autumn or until the press
ing government measures are disposed Of
Dr. MIGUEL taking most of TIE burden of
the office upon himself DIR. Miquels
sphere OF duty will also be enlarged by
the creation of the office of the exchequer
with similar scope and influence to the
British chancellor of the exchequer
Baron Marschal Won Bieberstein. the
minister of foreign affairs. remains in
office for while longer, or at least until
suitable successor can be found. 1t is
an open secret that he has lost the favor
and TO some extent the confidence of the
emperor. 1t is understood that the post
OF minister for foreign affairs has been
offered to Count Won Gutenberg, the Ger
man ambassador to Vienna. and TO Count
H. IL -.
ambassador at London, and that they
have both declined
The forcible dissolution of the tempo
rary produce exchanges of Berlin, Stet-
tin, Halle and other Prussian cities by
the police, under the pretext of their be-
ing contrary to the bourse law has
caused much dissatisfaction among the
SPECTATORS. and has also created a cur
ious situation No produce quotations are
now published and no market prices of
cereals are given out anywhere. The
Berlin produce exchange has appealed to
higher courts and until definite decis-
ion is rendered things will continue as at
present The farmers are much excited.
as harvesting will soon commence. and
the. are perfectly in the dark as to the
prices to ask I'm ar~
The emperor has aroused further adj
verse comments by employing battalion
of hoenigsberg Sappers in erecting build
IRIS on his estate OF Therbude, eastern
Prussia.
The socialistic and Freisinninges will
bring the matter up in the reichstag.
Naval experts at KEEL are now testing
the practical uses of dragon-shaped air.
ships which may be put on board vessels
for use during naval engagements and
in accommodating Some of the balloons
rose 600 feet. remaining fast TO the deck
of the torpedo boats steaming Il knots
an hour, enab bling the balloonists to make
observations of stations of vessels at
great distances.
The observations were communicated by
telegraph or telephone from the balloons
to persons on the decks of the vessels
below, enabling them to change the
course Of the latter accordingly. The
whole series of experiments occupied n
fortnight.
At the initial reception of the new
United States ambassador A. D. White.
william wore a handsome uni
form Of the First Dragon Guards. Dur
ing the conversation. which lasted ten
his majesty referred to Mr..
Whites former stay in Berlin and spoke
in complimentary terms of the great
progress made by the United States since
then. and of the growing intimate rela-
tons between the countries.
Mr.. White and his family at the end of
the month. will go to Hamburg to drink
to Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer. proprietor of
the New York Stats Zeitung at Man
helm. They will then go to HerringsdOrf- ;
by-the-sea FOR the after-cure. Until he
finds suitable apartments. Mr. White will
stay AT Kaiserof. His reception by the
princes and other members of the royal
family he's been deferred until the au-
tumn-
Mr. Cramp of the Philadelphia ship /
building firm is now in Germany engaged T.
in investigating She recent progress made /
here in ship building.