The record-union., 1897-01-18

whom was recently married TO ProfeS-
sor Guy Thompson of Yale University
Countess Won Schwanenfeld presented
the ladies to the Misses Uhl and Master
Of Ceremonies Count Won Kanitz and
Baron Won Roeder presented the gen.
tlemen.
The guests in attendance included all
Of the foreign ambassadors with their
wives, the leading members of the for
eign Embassies, the leading officials of
, the Foreign Office, Minister of the In
terror Won der Horst Herr Thielan,
Minister of Public Works; General Won
Gossles, Minister of War; Count Posa-
| dowsky-Wehner, Minister of the I'm
perial Treasury; Count Won Eulenburg,
| Count Won Wedel, Prince and Princess
Radziwil and a number of military
chiefs
| Following the reception at the Ameri-
can Embassy came Count Won Wedels
| "polter abend'' muptial eve) given upon
| the occasion of the marriage of his
daughter to Count Won Bismarck k-Boh-
| len of the First Regiment of Foot
Guards The Emperor was present at
the wedding dinner and presented the
bride with a costly porcelain table.
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the French Embassy similar to that
| given by ambassador Uhl and there was
also a ball at the Austrian Embassy, fol-
/ lowed by a dinner at the Engllsh Eln-
bassy, besides number of arlstocratlc
! balls and other functions during the
| week.
| The Court MarshaPs programme OF
festivities during the carnival period
opened with the coronation and orders
fetes of to-day.
| Tomorrow will be the festival day of
| the Black Eagle order, which will bring
| together as notable an assemblage OF
high military and other dignitaries as
Germany will produce
On Wednesday there will be the grand
court held by the Imperial maJestles IN
| the royal castle and on the Kaiser
birthday, January 9th, there will be
reception at the royal castle followed by
a banquet and gala opera performance
at the ROYAL Theater. On Wednesday,
February Sd, the Kaiser and Kaiserin
will give a grand ball in the castle. On
February 10th their majesty's private
ball will take place The popular sub
scription ball is fixed for February 18th
lowing Wednesday another ball will be
given at the castle and on March "a
grand masked ball will be given, with
which the Kaiser and Kaiserin propose
to conclude their Berlin season. There
is also to be an unusual stream OF ar1s-
| tocratic private functions. Many we'll
known princely families who We're alb
sentees last season owing to discord
with the Kaiser and his encourage, have
re-appeared and Berlin Court trades
men are rejoicing thereat.
The trial of Major Baron Won Tausch,
! formerly Chief of the Political Police,
upon charges of forgery and perjury,
will not begin before the end of March.
| Almost daily new witnesses are coming
forward and new charges are cropping
up. A rather sensational article in the
| "Staatsburger Zeitung" seeks to prove
| that one of the principal lnformerS
against TauSch is the Berlin correSpon-
| dent of a Hanover paper, Herr ii. G
Keller. once a member of the staff OF
the ''Tageblatt." The "Staatsburger Eel
tung'' asserts that Herr Keller. besides
| rounding on Tausch, set to work to
| implicate in the case other Berlin jour
! nalists who were in no way connected
with it. The article reflects the petty
| iealousies, if not the corruption pre-
yalent in the ranks of Berlin journalism.
1t is not surprising that the report
gains credit that the Kaiser has set his
face against the whole system of Off
cial and semi official journalism and has
required all Ministers and leading Off
ciaIs to cease communicating with rep
| lie. E fcrNeA for a
tude were allowed to the expression of
opinion in the press and the actions for
lese majeste less frequently brought, the
| disappearance of INSPIRED articles
would be beneficial. Ministers have so
| long been accustomed to supply certain
! newspapers with views upon the ap-
| pearance of which other papers waited
| for the keynote of attack or defense as
| to make the entire cessation of their in
spiratiOn very embarrassing to some
! journalists.
| The reception of Count GolOuchowsky,
! the Austrian Minister of Foreign Ar
fairs, by the Emperor and Chancellor
! Prince Won Hohenlohe on Saturday was
| of the most cordial character, and it is
! believed the assurances which he will
| receive in regard to the status of the
! Dreibund Powers in view of certain
| European complications, the proposed
! increase of armaments and other mat
ters to obtain full information on which
was the purpose of his visit here, will
| be entirely satisfactory to the Austrian
| Government.
| The Austrian ambassador NJ. de
| Szogveny- Marich, will give banquet to
| Count CtOlouchOWSkV and Prince HO-
| henlOhe tomorrow.
J The report of the appointment of