The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-29
FIRESIDE FACETS
FROM FATHERLAND
Brief Resume of the Most I'm
portant Happenings in the
German Empire.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The so-called city palace at Pots
dam will be the residence of Grown
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm after his
marriage. The walls and ceilings OF
the rooms will be restored to their
former condition.
Berlin, Dec. 1.-THE stage of the
Royal operahouse was piled with
wreaths of laurel as Ruggerio Leonca-
vallo was recalled for the last time
last night after the production of
Der Roland Won Berlin" Kaiser
Wilhelm stood up in his box applaud
ing, and the brilliant international
audience cried Bravo" Leoncavallo
said his majesty ought to have had
at least quarter of the applause as
his suggestions had been accepted in
the construction of every scene. The
production was richly staged at the
kaiser's private expense. The songs
will go round the world in few
months. At the close of the perform
ance Kaiser Wilhelm received Signor
Leoncavallo and his wife in the royal
box and conferred upon the composer
a decoration.
| 1t is announced authoritatively that
the report to the effect that Kaiser
Wilhelm, accompanied by the kaiser
in, will start on Mediterranean
voyage at the end of March is in
correct and that Il voyage at that
time is not contemplated. Alarmist
reports concerning Kaiser Wilhelm's
health were based upon rumors that
such trip would be taken. Med
| iterranean excursion is contemplated,
but at later date, on account of the
marriage of Crown Prince Friedrich
Wilhelm, which will occur in the lat
ter part of May.
Nine. Lii Braun. daughter of Gen.
Kretschner, one of the best known
woman socialists of Germany, has
suffered cruel disappointment in
being disinherited by her aunt, the
Baroness Clotilde van Hermann, on
account of her radical views. This
was in the nature of a great surprise
to Nine. Braun, who is well known
also in most of the American wo-
mems clubs, since she had not in any
way concealed her views, and had ev-
cry prospect of getting the large for
tune possessed by the baroness. The
latter in her explanation says that
she feared the money would be squan-
dered in wild and foolish sociaIistic
undertakings, but that che would
have left her will unchanged had it
not been for the fact that Nine.
Braun has published letters written
by her father rejecting on the char
acter of the German soldiers during
the war of 1870, and relating acts of
alleged cowardice and lack of disci
pline.
Mai. Gen. Balm, retired, writing Of
the new gun with which the German
artillery is being rearmed, says it has
rate of fire, unaimed. of twenty-five
shots per minute, and well aimed of
sixteen shots minute; that the new
batteries of four guns deliver an ac-
curate fire of sixty-four shots per
minute, against the present six gun
batteries, the highest average OF
which, unaimed, is seventy-two shots
a minute. The guns of the new bat
teries are protected by nickel steel
shields eight inches thick, shrapnel
and bullet proof at 450 yards, behind
which all the gunners can sit when
the pieces are in action. The am
munition wagons are also armOred.
The total number of typhoid fever
cases among the German troops in
Southwest Africa to Nov. 30 was ga,
of which 1874 died, 67 were sent home,
272 recovered in Africa, and AL are
in the hospitals.
Lieut.. Gen. Won Trotha, command
er-in-chief of the German forces in
German Southwest Africa, telegraph
ing from Windhoek, says fifty or
sixty dead Hottentots were found on
the field after the natives fight with
Col. Deimling's force Dec. s. The lat
ter captured 5000 head of cattle.
Thirty-six settlers have been muir
dered by Witbois in the southern part
of the colony since the rising, and
five settlers are missing.
1t is semi-officially announced that
Kaiser Franz Joseph will come to
Budapest in January and dissolve the
Hungarian landtag. 1t is also as
serted that a general election will
be ordered for Jan. 26 and that the
new landtag will meet Feb. IS.
Herr Karl Lueger, mayor of VII
emma, has been guilty of uttering
some pretty fiery opinions during his
lifetime, but his actions in organic
ing a band of young men from the
best social circles of the city to break
up the Socialist demonstrations in the
streets is one of the most extra
ordinary ever laid to his account.
Every member of this corps will fit
himself out at his own expense and
hold himself ready to rush to head
quarters at a moments notice on the
outbreak of the far too frequent dis
turbances. There is some question of
bringing up the matter in reichstag
but others advocate waiting until the
corps is really aetive.
Sir Thomas Barclay, the well
known English politician, will soon
lecture in Berlin on the friction be-
tween Germany and England. He
claims that his aim is to demonstrate
that this friction is groundless, and
his lecture will surely receive our
attention on the part of the Germans.
The imperial yacht club of Kiel is
going to compete for Kaiser Will
helms cup at regatta off Sandy
Hook May IS, 1905.
According to the budget of the
navy the force of the navy will be in.
creased from $4,000 to 10000 men