Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-03-06
NEWS FROM FATHERLlND
A Brief Resume Of the Most I'm.
portant Happenings In the
German Empire.

The federal council of Switzerland
has asked for 100000 for improv-
ing the defenses.
Berlin. = The German aviator,
Schpidt, died from the effects of
fall of 100 feet while he was flying In
his biplane.
Viscount Haldane's visit to Berlin
was greeted with cheers by the social
lists in the reichstag, while the other
parties took the matter coolly.
"Junius, Jr," writer in maya
zine, actresses a letter to Uncle Sam"
advising him to abdicate the Monroe
doctrine in favor of Germany's occu-
patton, of southern Brazil.
The inhabitants of several villages
gary are being kept almost prisoners
in their houses by numerous wolves
which the intense cold has driven out
of the high-lying forests. A number
Of cattle and other domestic animals
have fallen a prey to their depreda.
tons.
Referring to the kaiser's admission
that he advised even his servants to
vote against the socialists in the
kaiser district in Berlin, Ulk has this:
Kaiser (peering out from under an
automobile, where he has gone with
repairing tools, and addressing the
chauffeur)-"Nowg go and vote at once,
Schulze. I can do this alone"
| Replying to the Austrian offer to
attempt reconciliation between Tur-
key and Italy. the Ottoman govern
ment, according to a satirist, was rude
enough to suggest that before en-
barking on such an enterprise Austria
should effect reconciliation among
| the Germans, Czechs, Poles, Ruthen-
lans, Hungarians and Croatians.
By court decision in Germany two
pedestrians were awarded damages
from the driver (owper) of an auto
mobile because the latter, though he
had not been driving fast, was held
not to have observed due caution to
avoid splashing mud upon the two
pedestrians, and the case is exciting
much comment in both automobile and
anti-automobile circles.
Indignation is running high in aris-
| tocratic German circles against the
! ever swelling invasion of the German
court by rich Americans, and de-
mand is made that the kaiser put his
foot down against it, not only be-
cause the manners of some of the
Americans presented do not come up
to the German court standard, but
also because the ambitious free-born
sons and daughters of Uncle Sam
crowd out many deserving Germans
who ought to have prior right to be
admitted to the presence of their
ruler.
The Election poet figures quite
prominently in the recent elections in
Germany, most of the rhymed TRADES
being directed against the conserva-
tive "Blue-Black Block" A Mecklen-
burg election poet named Hahnemann
furnished entertainment for the whole
country. lawsuit against him
brought out the fact that he had been
paid IS for writing badly rhymed
attack upon the conservative cand1-
date. When cross-examined he ad-
mitted that for SO he had written for
the conservatives reply to this at
tack, beginning with the words, Thy
shameless verse, work of a hireling
SCRIBE"
A German literary society of Jena
has been presented with $4,000 and
a valuable plot of ground for the
building of a home for aged and sick
authors. Apropos of this enterprise,
statistics are published to show the
Woeful state of the writing profession
In Germany. According to income tax
statistics In Prussia alone, of $500
authors, only % earn more than $1,000
q year, and only II over $4,000; 1854
earn under $1,000, 2,071 of these earn
under $1,000 and 1,761 under $3.50;
/ 1900 earn under $500, 1905 under
$4OO and 973 earn under $3.50. Three
hundred and seven professional au-
thors gave their whole income from
all sources as under 5000 a year.
Count Alois Lexa Won Aehrenthaf,
the bismarck of AUSTRIA" died in
his palace. With his passing came a
| distinct triumph for clerical party rule
| in Austria. His successor, Count
Leopold Won Berchthold, former am
bassador to Russia, was gazetted as
the count lay dying, and will assume
charge of the foreign relations of the
dual monarchy Immediately. Count
Won Aehrenthal was So years old and
had been in the Austrian foreign serv-
Ice for more than thirty years. The
death of Won Aehrenthal, admittedly
one OF the cleverest diplomats in Eu-
rope, takes from the pathway of the
Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the
throne, his bitterest opponent. The
clericals demanded Won Aehrenthars
scalp two months ago and, working
through the archduke, who is an ard
ent Catholic, they made the lot of
the foreign minister so unpleasant
that he was seized with what proved
to be his fatal illness. With the pass
Ing of the foreign minister, it is now
certain the influence of Archduke
Ferdinand will be greatly increased
and the army and navy of Austria
will be augmented Immediately.
Princess August Wilhelm, the en-
peror's daughter-in-law, is one of the
contributors to the exhibition of table
arrangement and decoration which has
Just been opened in Berlin. Her ex-
hibit is Supper table in a refined
country house." and its principal fea-
ture is vast green porcelain basket
designed and modelled by herself.