The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

so. Besides the long journey from Sian
Fu TO Pedn, now that the snow is on
the ground, is almost impossible with
the vehicles in use In those primitive
districts. Starving out the court is not
feasible. The allies will be unable to
carry out such a measure. However,
even if it was possible the provinces
would rise in body for the courts de-
Tense.
The worst feature is that the court
has lost confidence i'll Lii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching, who have demonstrate
ed their Importance to deal properly with
the invading powers. Under these cir,
cTmstances 1t is certain the Chinese
troubles cannot be adjusted before spring
or later
KAISER DOESN'T GET THE NEWS.
Baron Won Wangenheils assertion IT
the reichstag that Emperor William IS
Systematically misinforned is still dis
cussed by the press. The Cologne Volks-
zettung says editorially that it is motor
1ous that his majesty does not read the
papers repeating the various parties but
only daily extracts made by personal
employees. Thus" the paper adds. de
pending entirely upon the personal pre-
JUDGES OF his encourage he sees only such
clippings as his encourage wants and is
necessarily getting wrong Impressions
The Volkszeitung strongly admonishes
the emperor to hereafter devote half an
hour daily to glancing personally over
the leading organs of each party, saying
that then he must really feel the pulsa
OF the nation
The disproportionately large share
which the Socialistic members Of the
reichstag have had in the debates since
the reichstag reconvened arouses much
press comment.
The Deutsche Tages Zeitung says: 'It
sounds strange, but it cannot be denied,
that the Socialists already dominate the
parliamentary proceedings"
During the coming week several CEN
trist bills will come up. Among them,
Monday, will be bill demanding that
the government take steps to provide
against coal famine and prepare meas
ures restricting trusts and syndicates
Herr Lfebers' so-ca-led tolerance BILL"
intended to give Catholics and other re-
ligious minorities wider liberty of wor-
ship, will be introduced in the reichstag
and the government will introduce the
invalid pensioners bill, Which increases
the pension Of from 40 to 70 per cent of
the younger army officers to an even
100 marks per month.
OPPOSE AMERICAN MEAT
The trade in American meats is more
and mors restricted throughout Ger
many A striking case has developed
at Gera, where a large business firm,
that of Boyer, has been ruined by the
authorities of the principality of Reuss
forbidding the official inspection of his
American meats. Yet Boyer was unable
to sell them without a certificate of in
spection.
A qufnquennial census of the empire be-
gan this noon. The items are age. sex,
business description, dwelling, civil
status, religion, mother tongue, birth
place and deformities
Special United States Treasury Agent
Particle has investigated several cases
of differentiation in Coburg this week.
Otto Bostwick, of Glauchau the larg-
est manufacturer of Henrietta cloth in
the world, who exported ten to twelve
millions of marks worth of his goods
to the United States but who was
charged with systema tically under-val-
uins, upon which his American exports
greatly declined, has submitted to Barren
Won Richthoff, the secretary for foreign
affairs, a strong protest on the subject,
and is also agitating in the reichstag
for retaliatory tariff against the United
States. The correspondent of the As
ISOLATED Press hears DR.. Won Holeben,
the German ambassador to the United
States, will be instructed to present pro-
tests in connection with the case.
An American electrical engineer named
murray, VINO was mixed up In the In
nocent's club trial as victim, is the
husband of the American prlma donna,
Nihita. Murray represented here an
American pump company. Both Murray
and his wife have disappeared. It is
supposed they are in the South of
France. Murray is suffering from
quick consumption. Mrs Murray has
not yet recovered her voice, which she
lost consequent upon being run over in
Paris
Mrs. White, wife of the United States
ambassador, lectured this afternoon at
the American Womans club upon the
island of Foehr, where she spent the
summer. and upon Friesian customs and
antiquities there.
The Duke of Loubat has donated to
the Berlin museum of ethnology a val
liable collection of Central American an
Equities.