The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-07
CRUELTY OF GERMAN OFFICER
CAUSES NATIVES IN EAST ARR
ca TO BE TORTURED.
Ordered Several Blacks Shot and a
Number Beaten to Death-Affairs
at Berlin.

Berlin, Jan. 6.-The correspondent Of
the Associated Press has exclusive in
formation that a worse case than that
Of Prince Arenberg, charged with kill
ing subordinate in South Africa
without provOcation. and fiendishly
IOrturing his victim while dying, is
pending IN German East Africa. the
culprlL being Captain Won Dannenberg
OF the colen1al troops, who ordered sew
eual blacks shot and Il number Of 9TH
eTs beaten to death amid tortUres. The
case VIII be brought up in, the reich
stag soon.
The correspondent here Of the Asso-
ciated Press interviewed Her.. Barth,
the FrefsSinnage leader, who said.
The Bundesrath incident viii cause
the heet bill to pass with a rush. 1t
VIII break the centrist opposition. No
party. not even the socialists, would
risk going before the country now in
opposition to the fleet bill. as it would
be swept away"
The government IS expected to hurry
forward the bill so as to take advan-
tage Cf the monetary situation. With
the recOny ering OF the diet the canal
Dill Tight viii be renewed. The gov
eTnment'S chances Of passing the new
bill have somewhat improved in the
meanwhile, but the conservatives re-
main obdurate in spite of conciIiatory
measures and utteranceS recently made
by Prince HOhenlOhe and DR.. Von
MIGUEL Strong recommendations have
! been prepared by the opponents of the
Dill, including the fact that the newly
| opened Dortmund-Ems canal mast be
closed for three months for extensive
| repairs showing the unTeliability Of
canals as vehicles Of communication.
This emperor is said to be determined
this time to dissolve the diet if the bill
Is again rejected
The raichstag after reconven1ng viii
soon consider a number of important
measures. including the meat inspec-
ton bill. Therefore, the agrarian press
opens the fight on American meat The
Deutsche Tages Zeitung severely
abuses the Hamburg chamber of COM
merce's annual report, in which the
hope is expressed that the anti-meat
measures would be stopped and that
the economic harmony with the United
States would be re-established.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press is reliably informed that the en-
peror means to reorganize and extend
the royal theatres in Berlin by the
erection Of q special Wagner theatre
/ here, planned under royal auspices. In
4 =
rebuilt next year and modernized for
dramas and smaller operas, the
Schauspeil- Haus VIII become a comedy
| stage and Krolls' will be enlarged for
a popular stage, giving the best per-
fOrmanCes at the cheapest prices.
which is the special wish Of the en-
perOT.
The correspondent Of the Associated
Press is authenticity informed that
The report that King Alexander Of Ser
Via is married to Princess Marie LOU
ise Of Cumberland, or anybody else, is
baSeless.
The American Presbyterian mission
at Batanga, CamaroOns. has sent the
| German government a letter Of thanks
for the efficient protection which the
| German colonial authorities afforded
the mission in 1893.
Plans for the American church in
Berlin. in which Mr.. Lefarge Of New
York drew uD after several nlOdifica-
tons do not find approval on the part
Of the Berlin building authorities, who
/ insist that, 70 render the building
safer, a German architect will have TO
change the plans accordingly.