Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-05
Miss PlayfsllowS and an Investi-
: .tion Brings Out Startling Facts,
VARlAN SOCIETY NOW HAS SCANDAL
Royal Prince and Associates Involved in
Gambling Deal at Munich,
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS MAKING GAINS
Centerists' Candidate in westphRIlan N
Constituency Goes Down before
Socialist in spite of Fusion
by Opponents.

BERLIN, Aug. Especial Cablegram
to The Bee i'm various sausage manu-
featuring centers the German police have
discovered abuses which, If not 50 scan
dalous on large a scale as in Cnt-
cago should make importers of German
sausages and timed "delicacies' very
careful. Among these abuses is the large
and growing use Of horsefiesh. and in
Duisburg, the. Rhine, where large
quantities of sausage for export are manu-
factured, the police have happened on
large quantities of disgusting stun which
IL was intended to work into these arti-
cles. Russia and the eastern provinces
OF Prussia are the main sources of supply.
/ In some cases the old-fashioned jokes
about the sausage makers grinding up
the favorite cats and dogs of the children
for sausage meats are no longer reck-
Oned jokes, inasmuch as cases of this
kind are not infreauent. In fact, in one
case, at Duisburg in particular, it was
the destruction of the canine and feline
pets of the children and the protests of
the little ones to the grown-ups which
led to the investigation of certain sau-
sage factories, and will, 1t is stated. .'e-
| suit in a new order of things all around.
Bavarian society Scandal.
causing intense excitement in Bavarian
society. One royal prince, two dukes,
about twenty counts and many lesser
members of the nobility are involved IL
the scandal, which has overwhelm. many
leading Bavarian families with grst I'D
shame. The root of the whole evil cp-
pears to be a fashionable club a. NJ IulCh,
which is nothing less than a gambling re-
sort of the worst type. Heavy losses have
ruined many promising young officers OF
the Bavarian army, as well as numerous
young noblemen and members of the tNil
service. Some of them, unable 10 face
the disgrace of not paying debts incurred
at the card tables, resorted to all Sons
Of swindles to secure SUFFICIENT funds tc
enable them to continue attendance az the
, club.
Others committed suicide to escape tn,
. consequences of their folly. The suicides
include Count May Preysing. who was un
, able to pay gambling debts exceeding
$4,000.
Prince Francis Joseph of Bavaria, wht
was accustomed to play at the club, 4
: implicated in the scandal owing to the fac
r that a number of officers forged his sig
r nature to promissory notes, whereby the,
obtained large sums of money by fraud
; Investigations have shown that sums u
E 20 $25O,OOO have changed hands within tn
= club in one night. Some unscrupulou
] members resorted to systematic card sharp
ing in order to fleece inexperienced players
One young officer has been arrested in con
nection with the scandal but the precis
charge against him is not known
> War Long skirts.
The campaign against trailing skirts be
gun some weeks ago by the Nordhause
town council is being continued by tn
municipal authorities at several Silesia
o summer resorts. The local commissioner
e responsible for the administration of affair
/ at Salzbrunn issued a public appeal
y female visitors at this favorite health rt
y sort to abstain from wearing long skirt
II This appeal being disregarded, the locs
Y commissioners have now passed bylaws Ir
II f1icting penalties for the wearing of trai
e ing skirts. The local commissioners q
% Warmbrunn. also In Silesia, have followe
y precisely the same course
" The social democrats have scored a r,
= markable victory by the return of the
- candidate, Herr Haberland for the COZ
y stituency of ltena-Iserlohn, in Yves
!, phalia Although the radicals, Christian 81
- cialists and the national liberal electors
~ committees conjured their parties to vo
~ for the candidate of the center rather ths
=, for the socialist. the former has been s
"a nally defeated. There is CONSERVATION
:, the liberal and radical camps, as il is ey
IN dent that unless they close their ranks f
joint electoral action the socialists W
succeed in gaining further seats