The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-14
ON TRIAL At POSEN
POLISH STUDENTS CHARGED WITH
MEMBERSHIP IN SECRET Pc
LISH SOCIETIES
RATIONAL SPIRIT OF POLAND
aas Not Been Entirely Killed, as
shown by the Proceedings in
Question and Other Recent
Developments.

BERLIN, July BIN the complete alb
sence of other political interests this
week, the great trial at Posen of the
thirteen Polish students charged with
belonging to secret political societies at
various German universities, organized to
promote the national aspirations OF Po-
land, attracts much attention. The ex-
animation of the accused students has
not, up to the present time, developed
any sensational features. They al
deny the charges Of participation, know
ingly, in Illegal soc eties. The most
Sensational feature cf this trial, so far,
has been the throwing up of their or-efs
by the leading lawyers for the defense,
protesting against the rig.d limitations
prescribed for them by the c3urt.
In connection with the Posen trial, the
German ne Wsp2pels print Information
concerning the Polish rational fand at
Rapperschwyl, Switzerland, whicA was
collected chiefly among American Poles.
This fund now amounts TO about $46,50
and continues to grow rapidly. The
newspapers, referring to the matter,
say:
The purpose of this fund, as stated
by the Polish managing committee s
that it is used at given moment with
all its power in support of decisive po-
litiCal action.
have in hand the collection of this fund
says the only institution openly working
for the Independence of Poland Is 1.-The
national fund"
Other Developments of the past week
indicate further Polish activity Be
sides the dec-Srcn of the German au-
thOrities to prosecute the sixty Polish
students at Thorl, III West Prussia,
charged also with being connected with
Polish political organizations, the Polish
voters in the bye-election at Duisburg,
on the Rhine refused to support the
Centrist candidate unless a pledge were
given to support the iGea Of holding Po-
lish religious services every Sunday in
the Catholic churches.
The German postal authorities, having
experimental for a year with the Alnerl-
can automatic telephone system in Ber-
lin, have decided permanently to estab-
lish this system
Felix Weingarlner, the composer, has
finished his musical drama callel Ores
tes.' The first production of the play
viii occur in Leipsic next winter.
Mrs. ]. Botsford, the wife of a Chi
cago banker, has died Of Brights dis
ease at a sanitarium here.
The trial of the Polish students at
Posen has adjourned to permit the com
mission conducting the trial to take the
testimony of students BOlewike at Cra-
COW and Milowski, at Zurich Detective
Schiller was sentenced today at Konitz
to two and one-half years in the peni-
tertiary, having been found guilty of
inducing witnesses to commit perjury
in the case against MoritZ Levy in s. p
tanlber, 1860, in connection with the case
of the boy Winter, who was killed at
Minitz under conditions which fostered
the belief that he mad fallen victim to
Jewish ritual murder.
Owing to existence Of the bubonic
plague at Constantinople the quarant ne
Office at Bremerhaven has announced
that all vessels from the Bosphorus the
Sea of Mawnora and ports of the Back
ana Aegean seas viii be subjected to
sanitary eXamina ion.