The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
SCORE OF WAR VESSELS
TO BE Constructed If THE kAIs-
ER'S PLAN DOES NOT FAIL.
Reichstag to Be Dissolved If lit Does
Not Pass the Naval BiII-''Im-
pudent" Bicyclists.

which is now being considered by the Cab
met. Both DR.. MIGUEL, the vice president
of the Council of Ministers, and the
Bundesrath have approved the measure, but
before it reaches the Reichstag it may still
be somewhat changed The bill asks for a
total appropriation OF 100000 marks, to
be distributed over seven years, and con-
templates the construction of a score of
vessels, of which ten are to be large ships.
II the Reichstag refuses to grant this
amount of money it will be sent home by
the government and new elections will be
ordered forthwith, in which the naval plans
of the Emperor will be made the principal
issue, in spite of the whole Agrarian par
tvs advice, which. in that case, fears de-
feat Against this government programme
there is already q great deal of opposition.
The entire Left including the Radicals, I'LL
tra-Liberals. Socialists and the Center par
ty are denouncing it in their newspapers.
The leader of the organ of the Center, the
Cologne Volks Zeitung, fatty refuses, in a
vigorous editorial, to lend hand in bind
ing the Reichstag in it's appropriations to a
period of seven years as ''abridgfng the
constitutional rights of that body" The
Center party, however, with one hundred
votes, is absolutely necessary to pass the
presses similar views.
The reports of the Turkish newspapers to
the effect that Turkey is negotiating with
Germany for special defensive alliance.
and that Turkey is on the point of joining
the Dreibund are denied emphatically at
the German Foreign Office. The CORE
spondent of the Associated Press, however.
learned from diplomatic circles that an
proaches to that effect have repeatedly
been made by Turkey during the past three
months, and there is a variance of opinion
on the subject between Emperor William
ana an baron Won Bulow on one side and
Prlnce Hohenlohe. the imperial chancellor,
on the other side, the latter distinctly re-
Jecting all such overtures.
The hurried arrival in Berlin of Count
Won MISUNDERSTANDING the German en-
bassador to France, and his subsequent
movements, have created a sensation. I'M
mediately after the ambassador arrived
here from Paris, on Monday, he had a
lengthy conference with DR.. MIGUEL, Prince
Hohenlohe being still away and the same
day ne started for Rominten to see the EN-
peror After the ambassadors return to
Berlin on Wednesday there was a special
session of the Cabinet and Count Won
Munster-Ledenburg then returned to Paris.
There are many surmiseS regarding the
mysterious movements of the ambassador
but nothing definite has been ascertained
concerning them
In Bavaria the Democratic Peasant Fed
Grafton is rapidly gaining strength. Dur
ing the past week two hitherto hostile
branches of the federation have united
and adopted a joint platform of the most
Tadlcal nature. 1t demands entire liberty of
association meeting and of the press, re-
form of the judiciary system complete
division of church and state. a diminution
OF the military burdens and the assumption
by the state of all rural mortgages. The
leaders OF this newly formed party expect to
sweep Bavaria at the next elections
The Emperor has poor sport at Rominten.
from which place he sent 1900 marks to the
poor of Buda-Pesth. His Majesty has pro-
hibited bicyclists having access to the
whole of Rominten districts and forests.
the reason being that on the day of his
Majestys arrival hordeS of bicyclists We're
impudent enough to race along the road
both in front and beside his carriage, scar
ing the horses and outspeeding them" En-
perOr William was so annoyed at this dis
respectful behavior on the part of the BIZ
cyclists that he summoned the first police
man he met and ordered the officer to ar
rest the worst offender.
At Woerishofen there is bitter strife
between DR.. Baumgarten and Prior Relic,
each trying to become sole successor of the
late Father Kneipp in the management of
the famous water cure establishments. The
result is that the newspapers, inhabitants
and patients are taking sides in the quarrel
and manifesto has just been published
against the prior. 1t is signed by 200 pa
tients, including many representatives of
principalities and some members of the roy
al families.
The students of Buda-Pesth University
have sent a fraternizing telegram to the
students of Berlin University, in which the
former refer f1atteringly to the recent pres
ence among them of the young, chivalrous,
hero Emperor" and touch on the tender
alliance of German and Hungarian hearts,"
The government is preparing bills provid-
ing for compulsory life insurance through
out the whole empire and for old-age in
surance for the laboring classes. Delegates
to the Central Insurance Bureau have been
asked to advise the. government in this mat
ter
Official statistics of the imports and ex-
ports of the empire show large increase
for August as compared with the same
month in 1895 and 1896. The eight months
of 1897 show an increase OF 2,414.S55 tons CT
imports over the same period of 1885, and
an increase of 1884, 426 tons over the first
eight months of 1895 and an increase of
147 40 and q 42S. 2S5 tons respectively, in ex-
ports over the same periods OF 1896 and 1897.
Herr Klefish. a wholesale dealer in hams
and pork at Cologne. is being tried for
regularly selling spoiled or trichinous goods.
Other dealers, Scholles Zorn & Co. and Os-
valid are also implicated Klefish, when
arrested claimed the goods were of Amer
lean origin and in their original packages.
The evidence al the trial disproved this. All
the spoiled hams 1,490 altogether, the pris-
oner. admitted, had been imported from
Servia.
Further inquiries made by the Frankfurt
ter Zeitung regarding the effects of the
United States tariff show that the Null
house prints are greatly affected and that
the chemical industry of Leipsic is little
injured, but the manufacture OF mechanical
and musical instruments has been severe
ly hit, and several of the largest houses are
about to establish branch factories in the
United States. The toy manufacturers of
Nuremberg, Sonneberg and Fuerth are Sc
riously affected.
The United States attaches who have just
returned from attending the jubilee of King
Oscar of Sweden and Norway We're the
cipients OF marked attention upon the part
of the King during their stay at Stockholm.
Miss Amy Crawford Peacock, grand
daughter of Mr.. Griscom, the Pennsylvania
banker was married in great state on
Wednesday last to Lieutenant Axtell Won
Den Knesebeck, of the Eleventh Regiment
of UhlandS. The groom is son OF Lieu
tenant General Won Den knesebeck. The
wedding was social event of Importance.
Miss Leonora Jackson, the young Amer
lean violinist who has just won the much
coveted music prize known as the Mendels-
sohn stipendium, formerly resided in Chi
cago She was sent to Berlin by Mrs.
CSrover Cleveland and other ladies then in
lotto in dor n sffl 1ar