Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-29
FIGHT FOR MONEY
FULL OF COMEDY
Chauffeur in Berlin Claims Fortune
that He Found in His
Vehicle.
OWNER OF THE CAB WANTS IT
Two Cities Also Claim a Share in the
Pickup"
KAISER AGAIN SCORES DIPLOMATS
Made Presentation of a Cruoifix to a
Catholic Prior.
SHOCKING STORY OF DEGENERACY
Accidental Breaking of "A Package In
the Mails Brought TO light an
Amazing Disregard Of Life
In Family.
OWNER OF THE CAB WANTS Il
Two Cities Also Claim a Share in the
Pickup"
KAISER AGAIN SCORES DIPLOMATS
Made Presentation of a Cruoifix to g
Catholic Prior.
SHOCKING STORY OF DEGENERAC,
BY MALCoMR CLARK.

BY MALCOMR CLARK.
| BERLIN. Jan. 2S-(Special to The Reel
! Two municipalities including this city,
/ vovcd in a struggle for a small fortune
/ which belongs to none Of them. The strug-
/ gle has comic opera features about it and
the story may in time find expression on
the stage.
/ Paul Kuglemann, a taXicah man who
Germs his living here, is wondering whether
he is destined TO be a capitalist or chauf-
feur. year ago he found in his car
"a O00 in cash and bank notes and Jewels
worth f5,4OO left by grateful fare
Kugelmann handed over the valuables to
the police administration Lost property
reverts to the finder If not claimed within
a year. The chauffeur was just about to
take possession when the owner OF the
tayicab interviewed with the contention that
the valuahles belonged to him and not to
the chauffeur
Then the city put ir a demand for f4OO.
! as the discovery took place within
its boundaries. The nelghboring munich
palty of Charlottenburg protested that It.
too was entitled to a portion of the pro-
ceeds, as the finder lives in Charlotten-
burg. Both municipalities base their
claims on the ground that Kugelmann has
inherited" a taxable fortune.
More Thrills from Kaiser.
The remarkable utterances Of the kaiser
in the course of a recent visit to a Bene-
dctine abbey and his gift OF huge, solid
silver crucifix to the prior, have exercised
foreign ministers everywhere. He is
clever hts culture is high, but he has a
side to his nature that sometimes puzzles
do not see why his pronouncetnent In
favor of Catholicism should astoniBh any
one, Is he not the head OF the Catholic
chIcrch in sPruaaia2 When Prince Max oil
saxony tried for the see Of strasburR WI.
liam took pleasure IN preferrlng his tutor
The hurhiberlo that turks IN the botton
OF the elnperOr's mind too often draWH at
} tention from hts shrewdly mettet-of-f FAC
! disposition. The speech 70 the prior vas
It appears not 81 mitch meant for him a.
I for the Catholic court of Vienna, and Il
help the management OF the countess o.
! Hohenberg in preparing for a match be
tween a Prussian princess and the arch
duke Charles Francis, second presumptiv,
, heir to the Imperial throne.
Amazing story of Degeneracy.
A postal packet which came undone OF
its way to Hamburg revealed an appalling
story of family degeneracy and misery
Apparently, the domestic discords OF tn,
Kottbus gymnasium professor, Her
Kothe and his wife, were the primary
cause OF the evil. Absence OF harmon!
in the household resulted IN four som
! being neglected. left TO their own re
sources and allowed TO grow UP withou
education in character
D One of them, who had distinguishes
himself by his reckless ways was sen
into the navy. in the hope that discipline
would act a corrective. But before tn
new influences had time to assert thei
sway, he was detected in populations an,
dismissed. While he was still over
whelmed with this disgrace, one OF hi
brothers, who had taken a divinity de
gree and had a position as tutor in silesia
presented himself before him at VII
) helmshRven, and, proffering a loaded re
volver, proposed that he should COMM
suicide at the same time stating that
was his parents wish that he should d
so. The wretehed youth agreed. and mad
Q an attempt to blow out his brains, bu
< only succeeded in completely destroyin
the sight OF both eyes. In the misery o
p MS DllnunesS ne was Louno Dy third o
u the brothers at Hamburg Together the
1 talked over his hopeless plight. and h
: expressed wish to put an end to his ex
istence. The apprentice therefore wrot
3 the fourth Of the brothers, who is a chem
list, asking him to provide a suitabl
n poison.
: Eventually a mortal dose OF cyanide Q
a potassium was sent off, and with Il letter
), which had been received about the al
- fair. This was the packet which burs
a from its wrapper in the post an
n so led TO the arrest OF the two broth
> ers. The court sentenced them to fiv
months Imprisonment,
Il Krupps Reaching Out.
The ministry Of marine is lending Il
countenance TO a scheme initiated b
!, Krupps to take over the ironworks
- MaTiupol end equip them with an armoU
"a plant, The money which is presumably
y be borrowed In London and Paris for n