The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
BITS FROM BERLIN.
NEWSY GOSSIP OF THE GREAT
GERMAN CITY.
Political and Social Circles Again
Badly Stirred Up-M. H. De
Young Said to Be Chasing an
Ambassadorship.

Young Said to Be Chasing an
Ambassadorship.
Berlin, Jan. 30.-The emperor, deslr-
ing to be present at the christening OF
the newborn son to his brother, Prince
Henry of Prussia, at Kiel, left to Chan
celIor Hohenlohe the duty of receiving
Count Muravieff, the new Russian for
eign minister, who has arrived mere
from Paris. The chancellor will enter
tain Count Muravieff at banquet to-
morrow and the kaiser, who VIII re-
turn to Berlin from Kiel tomorrow.
will receive him tomorrow evening or
early Monday morning. Upon his ar
rival here today, the count offered to
go to Kiel at once, in order to nave
an audience there, but the emperor,
upon being apprised of the desire Oh
the Russian foreign minister, sent a
telegram saying that it was his in
tention to return to Berlin at once, and
see the visitor in conjunction with
Prince Hohenlohe. The importance OF
Count Muravieff's visit is not oVerrat-
ed. here, as it was upon the occasion
of his arrival in Paris where the eX-
ultations of the press and in unofhclal
circles were somewhat farcical in view
of the fact that his visit was mere
act of courtesy. 1t is also felt here
that the shortneSS of the minister S
stay in Paris dispoSes of the idea that
any change in the relations between
France and Russia under the present
entente was discussed. Count Mura-
vieff got two informal luncheons and
one official dinner in Paris, and made
at the latter a nice little speech, in
which he alluded to NJ. HanotauX, the
French minister of foreign affairs, as
his dear colleague, and then came
away. Nobody here regards the meet
ing of Count Muravieff with President
Faure and NJ. HanoJauX in Paris as
having any particular significance, but
in any event, the emperor and Prince
Hohenlohe will have the last word
with him.
Just now political and social circles
in Berlin abound with scandalouS ru-
mors involving, among other names,
those of General Bonsart Won Schel-
lendorf, formerly minister of war, and
Herr Won Koeller, late Prussian min
lister of the interior The emperor gave
an audience to Herr Won Koeller on
Thursday and it is reported that af-
terward he received General BronSart
Schellendorf While nothing definite
is Of course. known as to the subject
of the conversation between the en-
peror and the late war minister 1t is
generally understood that the confer
ence was in refernce to the coming
trial of Major Won Tausch, formerly
of the political police, who is now in
Jail awaiting trial for alleged forgery
and perjury in connection with the
LuetZow libelS, and General BronsartS
knowledge of his practices. No known
fact links the eX-War minister with any
of Tausch's acts, but it is rumored
that the emperor has ordered an in
curry into that particular phase of the
scandal. Another story has been in
circulation to the effect that Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Gaede, department direc-
tor of the ministry of war, is to be
tried by military court for the evil
dence he gave in the recent trial of
Baron Won Luetzow and his journals
tic associates for libeling Count Won
Gutenberg, Prince Alex Won Hoheniohe
and Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein,
but this story has been absolutely de-
MED. Still another rumor has been fly
ing around that DR.. Lucanus, chief of
the emperor'S civil cabinet, had been
suspended from office for two months,
pending an inquiry into his connection
with the doctored version of the
cars toast upon the occasion of the
Russian emperor'S past visit to BreS-
lau, but being acquitted of any con-
with the order of the Black Eagle.
This solution of the charges, or at
least suspicion, against DR.. Lucanus
being a solution solatium, the rumor
hardly appears creditable. In connec-
ton with ali these rumors, the Vos-
Sische Zeitung makes the statement
that the emperor caused the name of
Count Herbert Bismarck to be strick-
en- from the list of guests at the re-
-l,r- # tIoa 4 80
lister Won Wedel to Lieutenant Won
Bismarck-Bohlen a cousin of Count
Herbert, because of his connection
with the Tausch intrigues, but this
story is not believed anywhere.
In November last DR.. Stoecker, for
merly court CHAPLAIN, was fined 600
marks for libeling the Rev DR.. Witte
StOecker appealed from the judgment
of the court, and in his appeal ac-
cused DR.. Witte of having forged a let
ter signing Stoecker's name to it, in
which Witte was charged with having
obtained orders and titles for wealthy
Jews. The trial of the appeal took
place this week and occupied two days.
resulting in the jury finding a verdict
that Witte was not guilty of the for
gerry charged. The court, thereupon;
fined Stoecker 400 marks more. The
court room was crowded during the
trial. and a host of witnesses were ex-
among them Baron Won Ham
merstein, the former conservative
leader and chief editor of the Kreuz
Zeltung, who is now undergoing a
term of Imprisonment for forgery and
and Baron Won Lieut.
gov and Herr Leckert, who are also
serving sentences for hbeling Prince
Nj. H. De Young of San Francisco.
who has been staying here with his
family, has started for Washington,
leaving his family in Berlin. 1t is be-
lieved in American circles in this CITY
that he is going to Canton, Ohio to
endeavor TO secure the appointment
as United States ambassador to Ger
many.