The age-herald., 1899-08-13
DOrtnund-Ems Canal Has Been
 Opened SAMOA ATTRACTS ATTENTION England And America Are Still
 Abused. FOR FORMING A COMBINATION Prince Frederick Henry, Eldest Son of the Prince Regent of Brunswick, Has Reached His Majority -Is Over Six Feet Tall.
FOR FORMING A COMBINATION
Copyrighted 1899 by the ssociated Press

Copyrighted 1899 by the A ssociated Press
 Berlin, August 12.-The diet will reassemA ble on August 16, Prince Von Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, and Dr. Won Miquel, vice president of the council and minister of finance, will return in time to attend the sessions which will decide the fate of the canal bill and will throw the combined weight of their influence in fa- vor of the measure. The government now hopes the bill will pass by a sufficient ma- jority, especially since Emperor William took occasion at the opening of the Dort- mund-Ems canal to emphasize again the great need of such new net work of com- mundcation. t
 The ceremonies at the opening of the caS nal yesterday were quite imposing, and were intended to mark the importance of the waterway. The canal is 270 kilometers long, over feet deep and 93 feet wide at the top, and 57 feet wide at the bottom.
 It will enable vessels of 900 tons to go direct from the Baltic, Bremen and Hams burg to the new Dortmund river where they can discharge their cargoes 150 kilometers inland.
 Entire Cabinet Invited
 The whole cabinet has been invited to att tend the opening sitting and the chief members have interrupted their vacations and have rode hundreds of miles in order to be present.
 Samoa is still occupying a good deal of attention and the press is full of comment, the bulk of the criticism, however, being directed against England. ts
 The Kreuz zetung says: K
 Samoa is not object of sufficient im- portance for Germany to make 1t crucial point in her policy, but it is an object whereby she can measure how far politi- cal solidarity is feasible with England"
 The mouthpiece of the agrarians, the Deutsche Tags zeitung, in a bitter edi- torial, charges both England and the United States with showing systematic animosity toward Germany in the Samoa muddle from beginning to end, attacks the foreign office for yielding every point to these powers and says it would have been wiser to renounce from the start all claims to Samoa and have insisted on equivalent elsewhere
 The Cologne Gazette, however in an in- spired article takes these fault-inders severely to task and ridicules the notion that Germany is making enemies of all the powers over every trifiing difference. The paper claims that the agrarians stir up trouble with the United States in order to render impossible the conclusion of commercial treaties-and this for their own selfish ends.
 1Frederick, the Tall Boy
 Prince Frederick Henry, eldest son of the prince regent of Brunswick has att tained his majority. lie is the tallest of fba m feet 8 inches.
 A duel between two officers of the Tenth Uhlan regiment, Count Solms and Couat Shuenburg. fought this week nea1 Konitz, Prussia. The Count Solcaa Gaa mortally shot in the abdomen. The sscsige for the duel was jealousy. Both the Tar ticpants were among the emperoxe Sa- vorites.
 The entire Catholic press is dissatisfied with the Prussan government because it allowed three months to elapse in which the Cologne chapter could have selected successor to the late archbishop without submitting a list of candidates. Now successor must be agreed upon between the government and the pope.
 As to the fate of the emperor's pet meas ure, the canal bill and other measures of importance depend upon the good will of the Prussian ultra-Montanes, their press threatened that candidate will be ac- ceptable to the Cologne See who does not stand for the aim of the centrsts. etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqj xziihnjmmj
 A large and influential part of the Ger man press Is agitating for the legal regu- latioa of syndicates and trusts. The goy- ernment press says that the government intends to take up the matter soon
 The imperial government has prepared a bill for the reform of the manufacture and sale of wine. The bill in many re- spects Is more stringent than the present law and forbds outright tine making of artificial wines.
 The sem-oficial Post states that Ger many will seon lay Q cable to the new colony of Kiao-Chou. The representative of the Associated Press learns from gov ernment sources that the conditions in Snang-Tsung and the immediate vicinity of of Kiao-Chou have by no means improved in the last few months. kaum Is now foreby held by a strong German detaci- ment, but north of that point there is open rebellion and work on the two railroads has been stopped