Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-28
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copyrighted by Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 24.-At the ceremony of
the unwilling of the monument to
Elector George William, in Sieges-
Alice Saturday, the emperor looked
hale and hearty, with rudy cheeks.
The ceremony was brief. There were
no speeches but the occasion was rem
dered memorable by his majesty at the
close. Stepping briskly up to Herr
Kirscher, chief burgomaster Of Ber
lin, and shaking hands with him
cordially he handed him his long ex
pected confirmation, consisting of
documents with big seals attached.
The emperor congratulated the burgo-
master and said he wished him many
years of successful administration of
Berlin adding, loud enough to be heard
some distance: "A city for which !
feel great affection and entertain high
est hopes, which l know you will help
me to realize" Thus ends happily
this matter which, for a long time, has
kept the emperor and the city of Ber
lin on a quasi war footing. Crisp,
cold, white Christmas weather prevails
here. The spree is frozen solid The
change in public opinion in favor of
Great Britain continues. Even the
Hamburger Nachrichten, which has
hitherto been intensely anti-British,
prints a communication from the
Hamburg Merchant, protesting against
Blinden Englaenderhass blind An
giophObia). The papers are full of COM
munications from literary writer's on
the subject of the war. The Neuste
Nachrichten today contains an article
pointing out that the military success
of the beers is eXplainable because the
beers are armed with the best modern
rifles and know how to use them.
The papers also continue to discuss the
problem as to what will be Great
Britain's position hereafter, since they
claim her total collapse as a military
power has been proven by this war.
The usually we'll informed Kreuz lei
tung contains a letter from a high per-
sonage at st. Petersburg, claiming that
the question as to whether it is ad-
visable to use Great Britain'S present
powerlessness against her is again be-
ing seriously considered in Russian
government circles; that the mil
itary party is urging the lines
for an Asiatic advance. 1t
can be asserted on high author
ity, that, as concerns Germany, no
such step will be Joined in under any
circumstances but that full neutrality
will be maintained to the end.
German politics continue as mixed
as ever. The whole conservative par
ty, including the court sympathizers, is
exerting itself to the utmost to impress
the emperor's mind with the fact that
Prince Hohenlohe is the foe of the
agricultural interests, that the con-
servatives have lost all confidence in
him; and that it will be impossible for
the government to rule against that
party. In order to carry out this pro-
gram, the united conservative press
wages war against Prince HohenlOhe,
but the statements made are WOrded
cunningly tuat the emperor may not
take offense. His majesty is regularly
made to see clippings of all these anti
chancellor arguments but, thus far,
they have not produced the desired
effect. Prince Hohenlohe desires to
conclude his days as chancellor and
the emperor cOncurs in this desire.
During 1900, the North German Lloyd
of Bremen will plan lines to Singa-
pore, Herbertshoehe, Sidney, Samoa,
Hong Kong, POnpae and Friedrich
Welshafen, while the Jaluit COM
pany will start line, MAX
ing the circuit of Carolines
and Mariannes. A sensational trial
has been ended by the sentencing of
Herr Joachin Gehlsen, editor of a Char
lottenburg paper, to Is months in Jail
for the systematic Matchmaking of fl
nanrially insecure banks and similar
institutions. Herr Gehlsen, during
Prince Bismarck's time, headed a press
campaign against the prince, instigated
by number of the court clique enc
mics. The latest administrative
measure against Prussian public teach
ers is an order forbidding them to go
hunting on the ground that it is an i'm
moral pastime. Former Lieutenant
Bruesewitz, who, as a German officer,
murdered civilian workman. has gone
TO join the beers. \ private letter
from him says he has been appointed
commander of a battery in the Trans
vaai