The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-19

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Copyright by the Associated Press)
Berlin, October 16.-Soon after the new
United States tariff went into effect the
officials of the American embassy in
formed the German government that the
United States was willing to begin ne
gotiations for reciprocity treaty under
classes and 4. No answer Of any kind
has thus far been made, but prepara-
tions are actually making to open nego-
tiations, although the pace is very slow.
The question is being thoroughly con-
sidered in the imperial departments of the
interior and finance as well in the Ger
man foreign office, the officials of that
department Of the government being en-
gagged in compiling statistics for ascer-
tanning not only the effects Of the new
tariff of the United States upon the
different branches of German industry,
but with a view of the possibility of ex-
tending new branches or goods into the
German exports. One OF the principals
in conducting this work is Herr Wer-
mouth, the former German commissioner
at the worlds columbia exposition at
Chicago.
The fact that the cabinet crisis is still
on and is considered to only end with
the departure Of Prince Hohenlohe
necessarily retards the whole work of the
reciprocity treaty preliminaries.
The Dutsche Zeitung, leading
agrarian organ. after speaking Of the
continual flow of money from Europe to
America, says: IF it should prove that
the commercial intercourse between Eu-
rope and the United States continues as
at present to necessitate an overflow
of gold to America, and a chronic stiffen-
ing OF the European money market, the
European countries, which this year will
have to pay SOC, 600, 600 marks for Ameri-
can cereals in excess of their exports,
will be compelled to organize joint mea-
sures for self defense"
The sentence imposed on the editor of
the Hamburg Echo, Herr Reinhold
Stencil, who was committed to eight
months Imprisonment after being tried
ON the charge of lese majestic in assert
ing that King Leopold of Belgium had
habitually encouraged gambling, and who
has since been released on 5000 marks
bail, and the case of Herr Liebknecht,
the socialist leader whose appeal to the
supreme court against the sentence of
four months imprisonment passed upon
him in 1895 for lese majeste committed
in his speech at the opening Of the So
cialist congress at Breslau in October Of
that year has been dismissed, which
necessitates his undergoing the term of
imprisonment, continue to agitate the
newspapers, and periodicals of every
shade Of opinion demand that the reich
stag abolish section 1O3 Of the penal code.
under which Herr Stencil was convicted
During the past week snow has fallen
and cold weather has prevailed in west
ern Germany.
The condition of Prince Henry xXVI.
of Reuss, who is confined in a private
asylum for the insane in this city, is
rapidly growing worse, and the family
has begun proceedings to have him de-
clared irresponsible. 1t appears that
the prince, before he was placed in con-
tnement, did several sensational things.
He ordered Of a Berlin jeweler diamonds
and other jewelry to the value of 900 900
marks and the jewels have since disap-
peared He also presented his valet, a
man named Schneider, with a deed to a
house in Berlin, worth 100000 marks