Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-06
NEWS FROM FATHERLAND
A Brief Resume Of the Most I'm.
portant Happenings In the
German Empire.
I monument Of King Friedrich the


Great has been unveiled at Torgan.
TO save her friends trouble after her
death Nine. Marie Jaszay, the famous
tragedienne of the Budapest National
theater. has ordered her own grave
stone.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been sick for several days. Her ply
sicians have declared that those who
expected an heir to the throne have
been sadly disappointed.
The directors of the general electric
company of Berlin proposes a divi-
dend Of IA per cent. At the same time
they recommend that 100000 be
added to the capital stock.
The Rothschilds and the Gutmanns
gave $4,000 each to the aerial navy Of
ria-Hungary, and the government
Is in hopes that this example will be
followed by many other patriots.
Oskar Won Norman, of Plathe, died
at his castle. AS a member of the
reichstag he was strongly attached to
the conservative party; but at his
death he was praised by men Of all
parties as patriotic and public-spir-
tied citizen.
Sorrento, Italy.-Princess Maria
Theresa, archduchess of AUSTRIA Este,
died suddenly here. She was the wife
of Prince Ludwig, heir to the throne of
Bavaria, to whom she was married in
1868. Princess Maria Theresa was
born in 1849.
Kaiser Wilhelm addressed a number
Of scientists in Berlin on the i'm.
portance of preventing catastrophes in
mines. He said that science ought to
be able to find some means of warning
the miners in case of the accumulation
Of fire damp in mines.
A ship Of a. brand new type was
quietly launched near Berlin the other
day. The vessel turns some good old
theories all topsy-turvy. Besides
safety and easy steering, the designer
aims at the greatest possible speed.
A select assembly of men attended the
launching of this curiosity.
Stuttgart.-An hour before the time
ret for the international balloon race
for the Gordon-Bennett cup the Amer.
lean balloon Kansas City II. exploded
while being filled. No one was in.
/ jured, although the pilot, John Watts,
was standing near by. The cause OF
the explosion has not been learned.
Kaiser Wilhelm has turned large
| number of old German manuscripts
over to the royal library in Berlin
They had been given to the monarch
! by Sir Max Waechter, one of the most
prominent men in the public life OF
England. Sir Waechter had bought
the manuscripts from an English col
lection. He Is native of Stettin.
Kaiser Franz Joseph wrote a per
bonal letter to Cardinal Kopp OF
Breslau on the occasion of his jubilee
thanking him for the faithful perform
pnce of his duties, and giving him the
! brilliants Of the grand cross of the
order of st. Stephen. Cardinal Kopr
lives In Breslau, Germany, but part oil
his archbishopric extends into Austria
An attempt to obtain from Duchess
Talleyrand (Anna Gould) the sum Of
e106,500 has been declared to be
founded on extortion and usury by the
imperial court Of Leipzig. A rea
estate company having claims against
the Due de Talleyrand sent a repre-
sentative to the duke and duchess
when they were staying at a Berlin
hotel in 1911 and forced the duchess
to sign note for the amount By
threatening her with arrest. The
court decided that the note was moi
valid.
Hundreds Of Berlin housewife.
Joined in a wild riot because The
butchers in the municipal markets re
fused to handle meat imported 80 az
] to reduce the cost of living They
btormed the butcher stalls and seizeG
all the native-raised meat, trampled II
on the ground and fought with thu
butchers. The police were forced tt
close the market to stop the riot
Prices are so high in Berlin that thu
government recently gave permission
to the city authorities to bring in ant
sell meats from abroad at the city mar
kets to control the prices. The mum
cipality declares its intention of pun
lshing the butchers by canceling theil
licenses.
President Taft, in recommending co
operative banks for the farmers of thi,
country made the following remark.