The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05

lows: THUS the first step IS taken to free
Germany from the British cable monopoly
which VIII ;. in the event q war might become
With reference to the gambling debate in
the Reichstag, a story is told showing the
Emperors intense hatred Of gambling.
When he was crown prince and In command
of the Garde dn Corps. he strictly proaib-
tied 1t and old Emperor William asked him
| replied: LAS long as you intrust me with
the command of the regiment I
viii not do SO. would rather ask
| showed that, in spite of the fEmperors eff
| forts gambling is still much in vogue among
the officers of the German army.
The Leipzig Neuste Nachrichten says a
| lot of private letters from the late Prince
Bismarck to General Won Manteufel, then
governor of the Reichland. containing spicy
items of court and political gossip, were
| sold, on Won AIanteufePs death, to a Berlin
| banker having profitable business relations
with the Emperor and court The banker,
| 1t is added, paid 10000 marks for the let
| ters. A Leipzig writer recently wanted to
| use the letters for & historical work, and
| the banker at first promised to lend them.
| Later however, he refused, on the plea that
/ it would cost him his valuable clientele,
| having received an intimation from the
court chamberlain to that effect. The Bis
marck press chronicles this regretfully and
adds that third volume of Bismarck me-
moirs really exists giving sensational nm in
| manuscript. it appears, was sent to England
| before Bismarck died.
Hans Won Kroecher. retired officer of
| the guards and a nephew of the president
| of the Prussian Diet, has been arrested on
| the charge that, being director CT the Club
| der Harmlosen, he inveigled a number of
wealthy young officers into gambling.
| Prince Henry XVIII of Reuss, commanding
| the Fourteenth Division of the Seventh
Army Corps, at Dusseldorf, has been re-
tired suddenly and ordered to leave the
| country within three months and it is be-
| lieved that this action is due TO recent
mysterious gambling incident.
At the intimate court ball on Wednesday,
invitations to which were much coveted, as
it is considered a special distinction to at
tend, Mr.. White, who retired before the
| dancing began, and Mr.. ]. B. Jackson, sec
| rotary of the United States embassy and
| Mrs Jackson, and the latter's niece, Miss
/ Rutter, were among those present. The
| Emperor was very gracious to them. and
| the venerable Grand Duke of Baden had a
| long conversation with Mr. White relating
| many curious anecdotes of the old Emperor
| and the late Prince Bismarck Emperor
| William had a young French 'cellist, Paul
| Barzellaire, play at the court and presented
| him with diamond breastpin, representing
the imperial monogram:
His Majesty this week, ordered that the
park and gardens surrounding Mon Bijou
Chateau, in the center of Berlin, be closed
to the public This is due to d startling in
cident which has only just become known.
Last Sunday the Emperor and Empress left
the church opposite the palace and walked
| towards the carriage which was waiting
| for them just inside Mon Bijou Park. An
| enormous crowd had assembled and was so
| dense that their Majestes had great diff
| Guilty in reaching the vehicle. When they
| succeeded in doing so the coachman was UNI
able to drive off, being henfmed in on all
and
| obliged to listen to the personal comments
| Of the populace and it Is claimed that in
sulting epithets were flung at the imperial
made a line through the crowd and their
Majesties drove off amid hooting and cat
| calls.
The Emperor is engaged in preparations
for public performances of a drama show
/ ing the places he visited during his Eastern
! photographs taken by his orders during the
| tour. The performances will be given at the
Schauspielhaus and the receipts will be de-
/ voted to charity.
The colonel commanding the Nnety-sev-
enth Regiment married an English woman
and was induced by the latter to introduce
/ the British fashion of officers wearing CT
| william clothing when off duty. He lately in
| vited the officers of his regiment to dinner,
| prescribing black evening dress. This
reached the ears of the Emperor, who repri-
/ ton. -
There were forty-eight trials for lese
majesty in January, and sentences totaling
seventeen years in prison were inflicted. A
| Socialist paper calculated that 1900 years
| of Imprisonment have been pronounced in
| the German courts for lese majesty during
| the past ten years.
The Rev. Mr.. Dickie, pastor of the Amer
| lean church here, has sailed for the United
| States, in order to try to raise the rest of
the money needed to build the church.
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The correspondent of the Associated Press
hears, on reliable authority, that the Ger
man military authorities have ordered the
| introduction into the army of a new model
| repeating rife, which the government works
| are already manufacturing.
Cosima Wagner, the widow of Richard
Wagner, the dramatic composer. is danger
ously i'll of pneumonia at Vienna. Cosima
| Wagner is the daughter of List. the plan
list and composer, and was formerly the
wife Of Herr Won Bulow. She married Wag-
| ner in 1870 His first wife died in 1856.