The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-03
KAISER TO CZAR.


The Grand Ausumnal Auieary Parade Q
Ihe German Forcee-Dooth Of Q Famous
German reAchsr-Ru10gsa - toSecrotary
Shsrmsn's Early Rseirsment-Anosher
Cause for O1tcry Against the 0srmaa
1lilitary-Severs Commsnts Of German
Prsss On the Dineley Bill.
Berlin, July 3l.-Emperor william
reached Kiel on board the imperial
yacht Hchenzollern yesterday. On
Tuesday next. accompanied by the en-
press and by the entire feet. under
command Of Prince Henry. Of Prussia,
his majesty will start for st. Peters,
burg to visit the Czar. Prince Hohen-
lohe will join the emperor at Peterhof.
The municipal authorities Of st. Pc
teIsburg will signalize the visit by pre-
senting to their majesties slices OF
| bread on a silved dish and salt in a
silver cellar. both richly ornamented
in the Russian style and engraved with
the joint arms Of st. Petersburg and
Germany. Upon the rim of the dish is
the following inscription: ITO their
| majesties, the emperor and empress Of
| Germany"
The grand autumn military maneu-
| vers at Hamburg will begin on Sep
| tember End and will continue to the
| 10th. The prince Of Wales will be
| among the guests of the kaiser at the
| principal reviews. He has modified his
| plans and will take a course of the
waters next month at Marienbad in
stead Of at Homburg, as hitherto.
| Dv A~fH,
| of the celebrated school at Frankfort,
died suddenly at Interlaken last Mon
| day. He was SO years Of age and until
/ a few years ago was head master Of
| the we'll known school at Bonn, where
| many prominent Americans and En-
glishmen have been educated. He was
a leading authority on educational
matters throughout Germany.
| The empress has varied the monOtOny
| of her stay at TegernZe by visit to
Munich. She was accompanied by the
| five princes, visited all the sights and
| lunched with the prime regent, who
proposed her majesty's health.
Prince Oscar celebrated his ninth
birthday on Tuesday at Tegernze from
which place the empress and her chill
dren will return today to Berlin.
The rumOrs rife in London concern
| ing the possible retirement Of Secre-
tary Sherman are echoed here, even
in official German and American cir
cles, but with this difference, that Mr..
Sherman is to be succeeded. not by
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, but by Ambassa-
dor White. Gossip even goes so far
| as to attribute Mr.. Whites hesitation
to leave the Kaiserhof hotel for perma-
nent quarters to the possibility Of his
having soon to reurn to Washington.
The comments of the German press
| upon the Dingley tariff bill are ex-
tremely acrid, but great satisfaction is
expressed at the fact that large guam
titles Of German goods were sent to
the United States in anticipation Of
the event. While wishing to revenge
themselves upon the Americans the
most chauvenistic journals are not
blind to the fact that reprisals on the
part of Germany would surely prove
boomerangs.
General Count Won Blumenthal, the
only surviving commander of the army
of 187O-'71, completed today a term of
seventy years service.
Prince Bismarck is in excellent
health. On Wednesday he received
Prince Schoenaich- -Carolath, the new
commander Of the Halberstadt Curiras-
siers, Of which regiment the prince is
honorary colonel.
Owing to the financial failure Of the
Berlin opposition of 1896 the commit
| Tee '.IIy announced lndt the CU per
cent. guarantee fund would have to be
sacrificed. This resulted in a large
meeting of the signers Of the guaran-
tee on Monday. The meeting declared
unanimously that it did not recognize
the right Of the committee to adopt
such a measure and a desperate effort
will be made to place the responsible
ties upon the shoulders of the commit
tee.
| Tho c,,ppocod ;nforno, mo- china u,b;ob
exploded in mail bag during the
transfer of mails at the Pottsdam rail.
way station early in the week turned
out to be only package Of large tor.
pedOes of the kind used by cyclists tC
frighten dogs.
The whole liberal press is in arm:
against the act OF a sentry, who killed
an escaped soldier under peculiarly
: atrOciOuS circumstances. The mar
: Saremba had overstepped the boun.
daries of the fortification at Dantzif
and was being taken to the guarl
house when he broke away and ran
The sentry fired and the bullet passed
: through Saremba's head and two wall.
; Of an iron kiosk. burying itself in
brick wall. This certainly proves tn,
efficacy of the German guns, but tn.
, incident adds fuel to the flames of pop
ular resentment against military Sc
verify
United States Consul General Chas
de Kay will return to New York in Sep
tember.