Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
Recent Actions of German Ruler Are
Causing Some Anxiety Among
His Subjects.
ARCHABBOT IS GIVEN AN ORDER
Bodies of Two Lost Aeronauts Found
Frozen in a Lake.
WERE MISSING SINCE DECEMBER
Peasants Make Discovery and Many
View Strange Spectacle.
KING OF sAxoNY AS A FIREMAN
Best way TO Bring the Crown Prince
Home Now n source of Worry
Because of the Epidemic I'm
North China.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.


BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
BERLIN. Feb. 11.-(Special to The Bee)-
Many Germans entertain fear that the
emperor contemplates becoming a Cath
Ollie Recently he sent a>cordial letter Of
congratulation. on another occasion he for
bade an insulting reference to the pope
at the state church affair.
During his recent sojourn in Baden, he
called at the Benedictine Abbey Of Beuron.
Its archabbot is the Rt Rev schober. The
emperor, after congratulating him on the
work the abbey is doing, conferred upon
him the high order of the crown Of the
second class
Famous Old Convent Burned.
The many-century old Cistercian convent
Of the Holy Cross, at st. Bernardo well
in Bavaria. with all its splendid colec-
tions-works of art of the middle ages,
printings, sculptures and enthusiastically
was destroyed by fire. Hardly anything
was saved.
Lost AerOnauts Found Dead.
The fate OF two German aeronauts who
assembled from this city December 49, in
the balloon Hidebrandt, was only revealed
when their bodies, still in the car of the
balloon, were discovered under the frozen
surface Of a lake in the forest of Pomer-
ania.
When the Hlldebrandt left the car con-
tanned lawyer named Dr. Kohr, and his
friend, Herr Keidel II was Kohrs inten-
ton to sail to the north, for 300 miles
AS nothing was heard of the Hildebrandt
it was accepted that the balloonsts had
persisted in the North sea. In a village near
the coast a carter saw the balloon close
to the ground. He tried to seize the rope
but received instructions to release it, as
the aeronauts did not intend to land. They
threw out ballast; the balloon rose and
sailed towards the sea-
A few days later wayfarers skirting the
shores OF Lake Goehren, sixty miles from
here, discovered a peculiar hummock on
the frozen surface of the lake. On the Ice
lay snow several inches thick. On APP
preaching the object It was discovered that
it was the half-submerged balloon Nothing
could he done then, but next day the sur
rounding Ice being cleared away, the car
OF the balloon was seen attached to the
bag and resting on the bottom of the lake.
The bodies of the aeronauts were visible
through the ice. Standing upright was the
body OF DR.. Kohr. Leaning over the side
was the body Of his companion. Meanwhile
peasants made their way to the lake to
gaze with curiosity on the pathetic spec
tacle Of two bodies beneath the ice.
Deceived by Scenery.
Aeronautical experts believe the men,
finding themselves drifting towards the
Baltic sea desired to land, and large open
space which they observed among the for
ests must have seemed to them to be an
excellent place to descend
The lake was not only frozen over, but
the ice was covered with snow so that
there was nothing to indicate to the aero
nauts that 1t was not ordinary land.
The superstition, therefore, is that when
above the lake DR.. Kohr pulled the cord
and the balloon came down quickly, the
car striking the ice, which was thin, with
such force as to go through, dragging the
balloon with it, and the aeronauts were
plunged suddenly into ice-cold water, while
the remains of the envelope closed over
them and held them as in a trap from
which no escape was possible, though the
shore was only twenty yards away.
King as "A Fireman.
The spectacle OF a king acting as a fire
man was witnessed at Dresden, when the
king Of saxonys castle narrowly escaped
destruction by fire. HIS majesty person
ally directed the operations Of the fire bri-
gade. which was at work for three hours
fighting the flames BY the time the fire
men reached the scene the flames had con-
sumed the contents including valuable
paintings, antique furniture and Gobelin
tapestries.
sad Life story Ends.
The death OF Marie Gieditsch, who pois-
oned herself here last week, is the tragic
climax to an unhappy life. In 1855, when %
years old, she was captivated by a captain
OF cavalry. Her infatuation brought about
a breach with her family. When the cap
tain was promoted to major and trans
ferred to this city he took her with him.
This arrangement lasted for two years,
but then the officer took his mother under
his roof and Marie had to leave One day
she fired a couple Of shots at him The
bullets missed him, but she then stabbed
him with a knife, killing him. At the
trial she denied intent to kill and the court
sentenced her to five years Imprisonment.
After leaving prison she obtained a posi-
ton as housskeeper 10 a merchant who
was unaware OF her antecedents. At the
end OF the last year It seemed as II all
her life must be disclosed, as she had
been called as a witness In a Islander &C
ton. Sooner than face that she took poison.
diving In a few hOura