The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-09
TWO MILLION WOMEN
EAGER FOR HUSBANDS
Alarming Surplusage of Old
Maids as Well as Many Pretty
Widows in Germany.
CONDEMN BICYCLE RACER
Charge is Made that Jury in Cou-
Wcting Brauer Was Influenced
Too Much by Bad Name.
CONDEMN BICYCLE RACER
ny MALCOLM CLARKE
Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable TO The Tribune.
BERLIN. July s.--There is an alarm
ing surplusaGe OF women In the Ger
man empire.
females than single men. There are an
additional l.576.o0S widowed and divorced
women.
The sum Of husbandless rises there
fore. TO two millions and a half
That is why the German Is Dictator:
why there are more matrimonial newspa-
pers n Germany than anywhere else:
why. finally, every suitor demands, and
gets, A substantial ~mitg!ft' OF so many
thousand marks. although often he has
himself nor enough 10 buy hat.
Of the interior, speaking at the Housing
conference. drew gloomy picture OF the
condition OF the poorer classes In the
cities. At the same time he admitted
that the country population was also
growing less virile.
"Althoush." he said; "agrieuIsursl EN-
physical fitness In the military sense.
yet in consequence OF the undertaking
that Is Characteristic Of rural life. there
Is 10 be noticed on DIVER, Every year steady de-
even in the agricultural population"
Count Posedowsky ascribes this to the
country folk selling their own good prod
uce and buying inferior city food for
their Own consumption.
A ssnguinary encounter between police
and hooiigans took place In the Fried
.
nal shot policeman, waiter and him
self,
Foot passengers who heard screams
onee rop nelp tEo coming from s beer shop sun m
premises and found the proprietor
named Hochwsk. lying on the ground.
whilst three well dressed men bella bored
Ing beside him and were ondsavorins TO
stransle him with their hands.
When they were interrupted the crim-
1rCr Er,i,. a,.I al
ton to the police. One was felled I'M
mediately by a kick in the stomach the
effect OF which Will probably be ia tai
drawn % his ssber and sneesssailp eo aHnRWG,e de
Tended himself Until reinforccments ar
rvsd.
long sharp knife used ror sIicing ham,
and was about to slash IL across the
throat OF the prostrate policeman when 8
sssner-cut ear" IT. from one Of the rescuers feled
feet; bleeding from the long cut be-
hind the ear, and leaped upon the sg-
gressor with curved stilet1o, but an
other saber-cut across the skull stretched
him senscless.
Meantime the other four hooIigans,
who were mostly injured, had been driven
surrendered quietly.
These frock-costed and patent booted
hooligsns pretended 10 be tradesmen and
as members Of O. gang of panderers who
have long made the Upper Friedrich
strasse unsafe. The leader OF tho gang
was conveyed to a hospital
II is semi -officislly announced that
Herr Kruger. the eX-naval constructor,
mas been sentenced to three months
imprisonment in a fortress for commune
warshfp Nassau to Great Britain. In
aspportioning the penalty the court, IL
If stated, was guided by. the consldera-
through the communication, and also that
four months after the offense was COM
nlitteo the information in question ceased
10 be officially secret.
An enterprising cafetier recently an
nouneed that: beginning the follow
Ing Sunday, all his patrons would be at
sF A Wens sass we'll n the the 9pf cafe culStss %as
crowded and the cashier was pleased
with his idea, but he has not had the
last laugh The authorities mulcted him
in theatrical license for giving public
performances.
Two murder cases, which at the time
were much talked about, are recalled by
Crehl, who was arrested on suspicion
cf having caused the death OF a widow
called Hoffman,, who was killed in the
middle OF the day in her fiat. has been
released from custody.
The evidence against him seemed TO be
OF the nimsiest description. and all the
dictment.
The other case Is that of professional
cyclfst, named Brauer, who was twice
sentenced to death for the murder OF ar
Alsatian manufacturer. Herr Matthonet
from whom lie had blackmailed many
thousands From the published evidence
II was only possible to conclude that the
jury. In both Instances. had been un-
consciously biased by the infamous char
acter, OF Brauer and the local popularity
OF his victim. Brauer's counsel Is still
trying to procure a reopening of the case
The strike of decorators and paper.
hangers at kiel has produced curious
stress Of circumstances. lodged. fed. ant
guarded on board the Kaiser's Hohenzol.
leru. which Is undergoing internal re.
decoration In order to get the work or
the Hohenzollern done in time the BLACK
leg was. employed. and since he was
board and sleeps in the cabin usually
occupied by the lady of the bedchambe
TO the empress.
The agitation Of the Navy league fol
the construction of more large cruisers
and against the supposed intention OF thf
government 10 let the programme o.
capital ship construction sink after thi.
year from four ships year 10 two. Is re
garded in dominant political quarters AZ
at any rate tactical blunder. Thu
blessed the agitation. but has sine,
changed its mind. Herr Erzberger. fire,
lance OF the Center party. attacks th
League for preparing fresh internationa
TO dissociate himself from the action o
the league The Socialist press insist
that the apparent repudia ton OF TIL
league is only an electioneertng pretcnse
"WIND0W" IN A TUNNEL
IMPROVES SCENIC VIEW