New-York tribune., 1897-07-18
TOPICS IN BERLIN.

Berlin. July IL.
PRICE or GERMAN BREADSTUFFs-The
Farmers Alliance has forwarded memo'""" "
tho Chancellor Prince Won Hohenlohe, 10 'ne oec
re, ries Of the Foreign and Interior departments
and 10 the entire Prussian Cabinet. urging the I'M
mediate exclusion OF foreign breadstuHs' inns eN
clusion TO continue for a period OF SIX "o"'ns' u
until the price OF home grain reaches mouera'e
level previously agreed upon
The Government the agrarans and the produc
ers are all placed In embarrassing predich"eh'
through the miscarriage Of the Government at
tempts to effect compromise win the s'iN's
produce exchanges In the leading German r,,i; Tvs
on the boards OF directors and yet have traSeIs III
futures attend the exchanges reguiar,y "s 49, 70
ask or expect for grain no market quotations be-
ing published This condition of things is seriously &
felt i'm connec ion with crops. especlaIy III ,e
rural districts where the small farmers are power
less and in the hands Of May Instead
OF rising s or 10 marks per ton. as Count n, Won
kanta the father Of the would be the
case. whereas Paris ard Budapest cereals nave IN
creased In price.
THE EMPREss's HOLIDAY.-The Empress and
her children are keony enjoying their stay at
Tegernsee. and she has abandoned her pro'ectea
visit to the Emperor at kiel OWING 70 .he vn io'e
favorable reports TO the condition OF MS eye
SOCIALIST DEPUTIES IN JAlL.-Eight out OF
forty-eight Socialists In the Reichstag. Including
hagen are serving terms of imprisonment for the
offence OF leze-najes;y. For similar offence
number of Russo-Polish students of the Technical
High School. at Charlottcnburg. were arrested yes
terday and taken to the Russian frontier. where
Among them the noted Nihilist Wi,scherwin,
have been several other arrests upon suspicion.
AS result Of close espionage or the artiiiiery
named Wagner and freshman named Estocq are
in custody Upon the Latter " we're ons sPee snd
a number Of letters written IN cipher.
PREPARATION TO MUENCH.-Baron Won MUnch
a member of the Reichstag. who had been declared
insane and deprived OF the control OF his estate and
fortune by order Of the courts has been restored to
his civil rights. the Court admitting that an error
had been committed.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS DISPLEASURE.-Em
peror William is greatly displeased with the decision
OF the Court Of Arbitration. which Icprives his
brother-in-law. Prince Adolf SchaumburG-Lippe. of
the right OF succession the regency in Lippe- Det
mold The regency is worth 10000 marks year
Prince Adolf is comparatively poor He has gone
back 10 Bonr resume his military duties The
Emperors telegram TO the Prince. after the decision
by the King Of Saxony In favor OF Count Lppe-
Chesterfield has caused great sensation among the
German particular!sts 1t contains the following
sentence: "De;mold could never have better and
worthier master and mistress than you two" Special
offence has been given by this reference 10 the
gossip In Court circles But the tenor of the whole
telegram and the fact that the Emperor addresses
his brother-ir-law with the familiarity OF private
correspondence shows that ne did not intend his dis
patch for publication
DR.. REIMBOLD ON MONARCHY.-Dr. REIN
bold. Of Weisbaden. the newly appointed professor
OF social science at the University OF Berlin took
occasion at farewell banquet rendered him make
sensational speech ridiculing the Governments
fear of Socialism. He said that the method Of gov
ernng now In vogue in Prussia danger for
Prussia and fer the whole OF Germany and pre-
dcted that the German people In the coming cleo
tions would show plainly that they intended 10 be
ruled no longer as at present. He con ,luded: Mon
archism Is powerless 10 accomplish radical reform
atory measures. Only free people. though
with strong government can accomplish radical
reforms"
AMBASSADOR WHITES VACATION.-Ambas-
sador White has been spending the week at Herngs-
dorf where he intends to pass most Of the summer
only coming to Berlin day two a time a
tend to pressing official business. Mr. Jackson the
secretary OF the legation. started to-day for Bay
reuih whore he Will remain for fortnight to at
tend the Wagner performances Military Attache
Allen has arrived here and gone 10 Heringsdorf
where he will spend a few weeks