The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11

The news in the Morning Post and
other London papers to the effect thai
Germany offered the United States a
cable station in the Caroline islands
confirms what the Associated Press
correspondent cabled some time ago,
but no such offer has been renewed re
Gently. Ii is fact well known to the
German and American governments
that Spain. at the beginning of the war,
offered to sell to Germany all her pos
sessions in the far east, including the
Philippine islands Germany then re-
piled substantially that she could not
accept the offer. as Spain no Longer
had the islands to give away. but adj
ding that Germany would agree to take
all Spain's possessions in the South Sea
which the United States left her. off
her hands. This conditional bargain
was made during the early stages of
the war, and was renewed in the au-
tumn at the end of hoStilities. 1t has
now been ratified.
The offer to exchange cable stations
will probably be renewed as soon as
Germany's title to the Caroline Islands
is perfected.
Germans Released at Apia.
The foreign office officials confirm
the correspondence to the Associated
Press relative TO the release of Herr
Marquardt and Herr Hoffnagel, the
Germans at Apia, Samoa, who were ar
rested in connection with the disturb
ances there. All of the official repre-
sentatives from Apia lately are to the
effect that things are assuming prom
ising aspect there. and it is confidently
expected .here the commissioners Will
arrive at a satisfactory settlement.
The anti-strike bill continues to ex-
cite the laboring classes TO an unusual
degree. There We're nineteen protest
meetings in Berlin and its vicinity this
week. at which the socialist reichstag
delegations received ovations. Similar
crowded meetings have taken place in
other cities. From the tone of the
press it does not seem likely that the
reichstag will pass the measure, and
certainly not in its present shape.
The circular of the minister of edu-
cation. DIR. Bose, forbidding corporal
punishment by teachers in the public
schools of Prussia, except by the prin-
cipal of the school, has created quite
stir. The matter has been the subject
of a debate in the diet. where a reso-
luton was introduced prohibiting cor
pOral punishment entirely. The con-
servatives and centrists. however.
urged that such punishment is needed
in order to maintain discipline. DR..
negatives and the teachers felt it to be
interference with their time-hOnored
privileges to be denied the right of
judging when corporal punishment is
required. The resolution was finally
rejected by large vote.
An Eye On France.
Recent events in France have been
keenly watched here. The Auteuil riot
is pointed out as striking proof of the
internal decomposition of the republic.
as well as of gross lack of royalty and
discipline on the part of the police.
Fresh reports say the chamber of
commerce of Gladbach has unanimous
ly rejected the invitation of the Phila-
delphia museum of commerce to CO.
operate with it. The influential Rhen-
ish and Westphalian Zeitung calls the
invitation native attempt to induce
the German Michael to come and be
skinned" and a number of other pa
perS endorse this statement, claiming
the Americans are already doing
enough espionage upon German indus
tries. The agrarian newspapers con-
tinue to cite the alleged discovery and
seizure of trichinous American meats.
Such cases are reported this week from
Hof, Bavaria, Brunswick, Hildesheim,
Alona and Bochum.
Professor. Stiles, the scientific at
tache of the United States embassy. is
the cases. OF course, they
are generally used TO prejudice cOnsum-
ers against American meats. Two large
lots of damaged hams, weighing alto