The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-17

teenth corps, mainly recruited in Al
SAGE, fraternized sincerely with the
men Of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
corps, who were from other parts OF
the empire.
The Alsatian press this week dwelt
on the emperor's Strasburg speech III a
way showing that his majesty's advice
to the clergy to keep good friends with
the empire has borne fruit.
Samoa still greatly exercises the
press. The opinion seems to be about
unanimous that if the new agreement
comes in force it must be modified. At
the foreign Office the officials are very
reticent regarding the matter. An Of
fetal empowered to speak told the AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent that
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, the Ger
man commissioner, who has been i'll at
Samoa, has been granted sick leave in
definitely. The propositions submitted
by the commissioners are now being
considered by the three governments,
and il is seriously hoped and expected
that all the points at issue will be fin
ally and amicably adjusted.
The terrific rain storms in the whole
eastern part of southern Germany did
great damage. The temperature drop
ped almost to the freezing point in
many localities. Much snow fell in the
y
The Iser rose suddenly. Munich was
overlooked and at the sports exposition
held in an island most of the build
ings were destroyed. The damage done
in Bavaria and Silesia was very large.
Troubles In Prussia.
The Prussian government continues
in a state of war with the Bund der
Landwirthe The emperor has ordered
all the officials who are members of the
organization be dropped from the court
list until further orders. His majesty
also intended to replace the majority Of
the high officials, notably the district
presidents by men not in open SYM
pathy with this organization, thirteen
of tl1irty-five such presidents being re-
tired.
The tone of the agrarian and conser-
vative press remains aggressive and
abusive of the cabinet, particularly of
Prince Hohenlohe. The Keeuez Zeitung
one of the most moderate of these,
promises the government a. lot of trou
BILE at the next legislative session.
The reorganization of the artillery
begins to go into effect Oct. l. By
the reorganization the number of field
artillery regiments is increased from
forty-eight to ninety-four, the effect
iveness of the regiments being reduced
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494 to 594. The expense is over Sc, 600, 600
marks with 100000 marks annually
in addition. The reorganization will
be fully completed by 1901.
Emperor Is Ungrammatical.
The Vorwaerts prints an article criti-
cizing the recent speeches of the en-
peror and shows up a number of gross
grammatical and other errors But it
pretendS to assume that these were due
to subsequent editing.
The Spanish ambassador, f. Mendez
de Vigo has been given the grand cross
of the Red Eagle in recognition of his
services in connection with GeTmany's
Baron Scnilling Won Canstatt, a high
court official Of the grand duchy of
Baden, has been ANONYMOUSLY dis
missed from Office because he seduced
a young lady and shattered her bro
Tiers arm in a duel, rendering him
cripple for life.
Baron Stephen Won Washington,
descendant of the English branch of the
whose mother was a.
duchess of Oldenburg, died at Palermo
this week.
Emperor William this week anent the
recent singing tournament at Cassell
and German singing generally, said it
was too artificial and too little melodi- |
Gus. He added that the German-Amer-
lean singing societies did this better
and that the Volkslied (national hymn)
ought to be more cultivated.