The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-23
IT WAS FAR FROM GAY
Influenza Spoils the Festivities
of Williams Court.
A NEW LOAN NECESSARY
Its Announcement Created a Sensation.
The Workmens' Rights OF Coalition
to Be Still Further Restricted.
To Stop Strikes.

| Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.
Berlin Jan 22-The court festivities
of the week, including two whiah are
usually the most imposing of the sea-
son, the decoration fete and the investi-
ture of the knights of the Red Eagle,
We're far from gay, owing to the alb
sence of the empress and other prin-
cesses and the prevalence of influenza
in court circles. The emperor himself
is far from WELL The number of deco
rations conferred was larger than ever
before, the total being 2,009 The Vor-
waerts remarks: 1T is evident that the
number Of mertorious cousins increases
year by year"
Among those decorated We're Baron
Won Thielmann. the minister for foreign
affairs, and Count William Bismarck,
both of whom received the star of the
Red Eagle. His majesty also sent deco
rations to the high officers Of Quinam
Pasha's army who were militarily edu-
Gated in Prussia.
There is much comment in Berlin
court circles at the news from Darn
lstadt Of the matrimonial difiicultles OF
the grand duke and Grand Duchess
Louise. a fortnight ago there was
terrible scene between them, the trouble
eliminating, it is asserted, III the grand
duke laying violent hands upon his WIFE,
and ejecting her from the room. The
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has
been repeatedly appealed to by his
daughter and letters of bitter complaints
have been sent to Queen Victoria by
both the duke and her majesty, profess
ing their inability to cure the trouble.
The czarina, who was also approached
on the subject, is said to side with her
brother, Duke Louis The quarrels are
said TO be largely due to the national
prejudice of Germans and English and
vice versa.
The announcement of the minister OF
finance DIR. Miguel. on Wednesday that
Notwithstanding the increased tax re-
ceipts and the large surplus, new Prus-
sian loans are necessary, has Gre
ated "A sensation. 1t is understood the
new loans will be largely used in inn
proving the rolling stock of the
roads.
The liberal left of the reichstag seems
to have been right in assuming that
Count Posadowski 0he minister of the
interior). means to further curtall the
coalition rights of workingmen. The
inquiry instituted by him among the
German state governments was the
first move iii that direction. 1t is m
tended to shape state legislation ana
practice in the different states uni
formly in such manner as to serve two
purposes, namely, to render extended
strikes more difficult and to enable the
authorities to have strict control
over strike leaders and labor delegates,
so as to gradually drive the latter out
| of the country. Ii would seem that the
! existing laws ought to be sufficient to
meet the requirements from the fact
! that during the week a labofer was
| Sentenced to a year in jail for the M
| timidation of a ''scab." While at Luz
! beck striker was sentenced to nine
| months in jail for tearing up the time
! slips of two 'scabs.'
From information which has reached
! the foreign office it appears that the
| German missionaries troubles in China
| are becoming widespread and are lead
! ing to new complications between the
| two governments. The Professionals, as
well as the Catholics. have been at
/ tackled Reports received by the Berlin
I Evangelical Mission society show that
! a critical state of affairs exists. Muir
! derouS attacks have been made upon
| three stations.
German emigration during 1897 was
! the lowest since 1874 1t was only 23,210
persons, against 32,11 in 1896, and has
steadily declined since 1893, when over
10000 persons emigrated.
The Colonial society has perfected an
organization for sending young German
women To Damaral. with the view of
\ marriage. The first batch sails from
Hamburg i'm February.
Throughout the Prussian provinces
historical work of William l.. entitled
| our Hero Emperor" which is greatly
approved by the present emperor, is
being peddled out by the police, who
are securing thousands of subscriptions
! by intimidating farmers. Herr Richter
next week in the diet will interpellatc
| the government on the subject.
In the Prussian diet Count Won Linz
burg Stirrum. discussing the budget,
severely attacked the government for
selling potassium from the state mines
so cheaply to foreign countries and 10
the United States. which treats our
product SO unfairly.
A petition sent to the reichstag by
the Winners association asking for the
abolition of the wine law OF 1892 states
that the law is great detriment to
honest wine growers, who cannot COM
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