The San Francisco call., 1899-07-23
BILL TO RESTRICT
THE NEWSPA ERS
Measure Draws Forth
Criticism.
HOT WEATHER IN GERMANY
MANY PEOPLE OF ONE DISTRICT
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Announcement That Chief Justice
Chambers Is to Leave Samoa
Received With Satisfaction
at Berlin.
MANY PEOPLE OF ONE DISTRICT
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Copyrighted. 1899, by the Associated Press.


BERLIN, July 22.-The week has been
almost devoid of political events. The
newspapers have been threshing over the
old straw of the canal, anti-strike and
other bills, but without saying anything
new. The bill for protecting the rights of
authors, composers and artists was pub
lished this week. 1t is a tentative meas
ure. put out for the purpose of drawing
criticism, which will be taken into ac-
count when the bill is presented in the
ReiChstag. Several points have already
called forth strong criticism. such as the
provision to punish the publication of pri-
Vate letters without the authority of the
writer's The printing Of unpublished pub
lie documents Is also made punishable.
Many of the newspapers assert that these
provisions are aimed at the FOrwaerts,
which has shown surprising ability in the
direction Of securing public documents ana
letters
Berlin is in the midst of a vacation
season. The exodus to the mountains and
seaside continues in the usual proportions.
those going by night trains to Switzerland
finding il almost impossible to secure
sleeping berths.
The week has been Unusually hot and
humid. Heavy rain and hail storms have
occurred in various parts of the country.
infiicting much damage to the crops Many
people have been killed by lightning, two
a
number were also injured in Berlin. The
river HaveI at Pottsburg has been filled
to it's banks for several days, and thou
sands of fish were killed by lightning.
Floods are reported in the Spreewald, and
in the lOWlands of the Nistula the hay
crop has been ruined for the second time
this season. IN Wurtemburg the crops
have been almost totally destroyed. The
thunder at Hanover was the most severe
experienced for thirty years Many peo-
pie in that district were struck and killed
by lightning. In Riesngebeirge, SileSia,
some deaths from sunStrOlie were also re-
ported. One hundred draft dogs in Ber-
lin were sunstruck during the week and
brought to the veterinary stations by the
police.
The announcement that Chief Justice
Chambers is to leave Samoa is received
with great satisfaction by all sections of
the German press. The newspapers have
tool of Z. b. S. MaXSe, the British Consul
at Apia and especially hostile to the Ger
mans in the island. His retirement there
fore had been regarded as necessary to
the restoration of normal conditions. With
the retirement of Judge Chambers the
newspapers say the new officials at Apia
will have an easier task.
The Chamber of Commerce of Upper
Franconia has petitoned the Bavarian
Minister to use his influence with the
Government to secure lower duties on
looking glass in the United States when
commercial treaties are arranged and
asks for a reduction of 20 per cent The
chamber points out that the expectation
Of looking glass from the Fichtei-Gebirge
region has diminished more than half
since the Dingley tariff went into effect
and expresses fear that expectation will
soon be crushed out of existence
Germany has been excluding cattle SO
rigidIy that the difference in prices has
now become so great as to offer lucra-
tive business for smugglers. who are most
active on the German-Dutch frontier. The
called the Governments attention to the
danger of the disease in German herds
from smuggled cattle. 1t is announced
that the Government Will further
strengthen the customs guards.
The Kreuz Zeitung returned this week
ing them loathsOme and highly dangerous
The Agrarian Deutsche Tages Zeitung
sharply attacks American insurance COM
Danies in Chicago. In a letter signed by
Ernest Benninghoven the Government is
advised before admitting American COM
panies with reckless business methods to
inquire of German companies whether
such methods would not prove destructive.
The degenerating methods of great
would have a corrupting influence on the
insurance business of Prussia. The Gov
ernment is therefore asked to keep them
The newspapers have revived the So
called American duel story. A medical
student hanged himself in Gruenwald the
other day, leaving a letter to his parents
in which he conveyed the impression that
he had been under a sort of obligation to
stitutes an american duel in which all
Germans believe.
The first new war vessel constructed un-
der last years naval bill was launched
this week. II is a scouting cruiser, with
engines of 5000 horsepower and a speed of
q knots
Tho Chamber Of the Grand Duchy of
Henz has passed law legalizing crema
The bicycle costume has become so pop
ular with Berlin ladies that a society is
being organized to encourage the wearing
of rational dress on the streets.
The total German exports to the United
States for the fiscal year Just closed
amounted to SS3, 791, against $74 22S ,487 in
1898. The Gotha Chamber of Commerce S
report says the toy industry of the duchy
is suffering seriously because the usual
orders from the United States have fallen
off The dimnution was first noticed in
1885, Prices have been reduced.
Advances made furniture and pianos with
or without removal. J. Noonan 7-1023 Mission.