The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
MAD BURGOMASTER SEEKS
 REVENGE ON THE PRINCE
By MALCOLM CLARK.

Berlin. October S.-An angry burgomas- ter, ruler of the town of Colmar, in All
 sace, is on the warpath against the kai- ser's most intimate friend, the millionaire prince and brewer, Egan Fuerstenberg,
 major in His Majestys cuirassiers, and swears that in spite of his high rank he will make the prince apologize for an act of rudeness which deprived the Mayor of the opportunity of spending couple of hours with the Kaiser
 It was during the recent manoeuvres that. Prince Fuersterberg, arriving at Col mar with the imperial party, grew furious when he found that his auto had not yet arrived. He was wearing his gorgeous white uniform as a major of curassiers of the guard, so in his capacity as an off, : ficer he immediately communicated for his personal use the nearest auto, which happened to belong to Herr Blumenthal, the burgomaster of Colmar.
 The owner was then engaged making speech of welcome to the Kaiser on
 behalf of the citizens. His chauffeur 1 objected to Prince Fuerstenburg's arbi- | trariness, suggested that the owners per mission should first be asked and finally appealed to the police for protection. The prince threatened to place the police as well as the chauffeur under arrest, and so carried his point and went off with the Kaiser in the Durgomaster' s car.
 The burgomaster, who was hot with rage, wrote a letter to the Kaiser ex- blaming why he was unable to accom- pany His Majesty. as planned in the pro- gramme but having received no answer. he is about to go to Berlin, and has sworn that he will not return until he
 has seen the Kaiser and got revenge for the insult
 In the meantime he has discharged the two policeman who refused to interfere when the auto was taken away.
 Prince Fuerstenburg, on his return to Colmar, offefed no apology to the burgo- master. but simply flung the chauffeur two-mark piece, saying: .'There, you dog, take that, and praise your lucky star you escaped punishment for nesitating to carry | out my orders"
 l The people of Berlin and the eastern provinces of Prussia are living in con stant dread of cholera, which is raging in the neighboring districts of Russia, and | the greatest precautions are being taken
 to prevent the fearful epidemic from en- tering Germany. No stations have yet been erected along the frontier, but the authorities are prepared to do so should any suspicious cases appear
 Emigrants leaving Russia for German
 ports are carefully examined, and the | s eatest care is taken to isolate them. The chief danger Is apprehended from raftsmen on the Vistula from whom two 1 years ago cholera was introduced into the eastern provinces of Prussia. The | authorities have issued notice to the l inhabitants not to feel alarmed, as every
 reasonable precaution Is being taken. | romantic remarriage has just taken
 place in the Berlin Charity hospital, where the Kaisers former friend, Prince l Gutenberg. is imprisoned, where a dying | officer was married to his divorced sWlIe
 The divorce occurred early in the year,
 but since the officer fell sick the woman [ has been a frequent visitor few days ago, when the physicians told the man
 that he had little chance of recovering, he
 expressed a desire to marry his former
 wife before his death.
 She gladly assented, and the other | evening at sunset, to the accompaniment
 of the bells of the hospital chapel
 minister appeared at the patients bed
 side and reunited the couple, who are
 the parents of a two-year-old girl.
 Alexander von Waldenburg German
 baron and dishwater in New fork
 hotel who couple of weeks ago left New
 York to claim a fortune of $5O0O and
 to establish his distant relationship with
 the Kaiser, is not the swindler many
 Americans thought him to be, and the
 story of his inheritance and blue blood
 is really true.
 Two years ago. as a result of an unhap-
 py love affair, 1t is thought, Edward Alexander Chauncer von Waldenburg
 shook the dust of Germany off his rect
 and boarded a Hamburg American liner
 bound for New York.
 He was well known here, and his dish