Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-03-13
NEWS FROM FATnERLAND.
A Brief Resume Of the Most I'M
portant Happenings In the
German Empire.

Parseval XII, the new military air.
| ship, made sixteen-hour trial trip.
| The weather was most unfavorable,
but the result was simply splendid.
Potsdam-One hundred and seven.
ty-five soldiers in the school for non
commissioned officers here were taken
i'll with all of the symptoms of poison.
! ing. It is believed all will recover.
The authorities believe that opponents
of the military system were response
| BILE.
| A dispatch from Fulda says: The
districts surrounding this city have
been in state of virtual war for a
week, owing to the presence of band
of gipsies who, after committing three
murders, sought refuge in the forests.
They have killed or wounded several
of the police attempting their arrest.
August Bebel, the leader of the So
cial Democrats in the German reich.
stag, was badly cornered the other day.
| He asserted that he had never said
| that Social Democrat might, il made
|
the kaiser. But it was proven most
conclusively then and there that he
had said so. This was a severe blow
to his leadership.
Herr Jagow, head Of the Berlin po-
| lice, sent out the following note to the
proprietors of taxicabs: 1T again
comes to my knowledge that the public
are complaining of the absence of
rugs for wrapping up persons driving
in taxicabs. beg the proprietors in
their own interest to provide such
rugs, as almost at any time of the
year 1t is necessary to have them in
readiness for use."
Baron Fuchs, a member of the reichs
| rat of Austria Hungary, made the sen.
sational assertion that Italy is arming
against Austria and threatening the
| present status of the Austrian posses
sions. Three hundred thousand 1tal-
| ians, armed to the teeth said he,
stand on the frontier of the Tyrol.
| AS soon as the war in Tripoli is ended
the king Of Italy must either fight Aus
| tria or go into exile.''
The American government has taken
| preliminary steps to get part way even
with Germany on trade. Notice has
been sent to Berlin that the American
state department looks upon certain
benefits to German exporters as equiv
alent to bounty, and that, when those
articles enter the United States, they
are properly subject to an additional
| customs tax equal to the amount of
the bounty. This new step is expected
to increase the tension between the
two governments.
The following statement came from
! Paris: French and German diplomats
and members of the French and Ger
man cabinets are considering plans for
meeting between President Fallieres.
and the German emperor, according to-
report current in well-informed quar-
tiers. The meeting, like the visit of,
Viscount Haldane, British secretary
OF war, to Berlin, would represent an
other effort to solidify the peace of
Europe and be an indication to the.
world that France is ready to do.
everything possible in the interest of
world harmony. The idea is that
President Fallieres should 20 to Bel
fort, the French fortress town on the.
frontier, in September next, and that.
the emperor should cross the frontier
to greet the French president.
According to the Kolnische Zeitung.
Kaiser Wilhelm has refused to receive.
the president and second vice presi--
dent OF the reichstag, who had inquired
when they might announce to him per-
sonally that the reichstag had organ
lied. The president of the reichstag:
is Johannes Kaempf, Radical deputy.
who succeeded DR.. SPAIN of the Cler-
ical center, who resigned the presi-
dency because he would not act with
the Socialist. Philip schiedemann.,
elected first vice president. Heinrich
Dove. also Radical, is second vice
president, being elected in place of the
National Liberal, Or. Paasche, who re-
signed. First Vice President Schiede-
mann declined to take part in the pro-
posed official visit to the court on &C
count of his socialistic beliefs.
The most important art auction ever
held In Germany took place in the.
Lepka auction rooms in Berlin when
the collection of old masters belonging
to the estate Of the late Edward F..
Weber, leading merchant of Ham,
burg, was put up for sale. Collectors
and dealers from all parts of Europe.
ana America We're in attendance and
the bidding for some of the more noted
canvases was very spirited, Francois
kleinberger, an art dealer of Paris
gave $147,500 for the splendid seVirein
and Child" by Andrea Mantesna-
Charles Sedelmeyer, another Partisan.
dealer, acquired two Rembrandt pic
lures, The Presentation of Christ in:
the Temple" and "A Portrait of a
Boy for $56,25o and $29,25o, respect
lively. The ultimate destination of.
these, like that of Andrea Mantegna's
Virgin and Child" is understood to.
be the United States. The total real
lied by the sale Of the collection.
amount to more than $1,oo0,0oo.
Wealthy New York, people have
placed $125,000 at the disposal of DR..
Lewis H. Marks, for the purpose of
founding an American scientific insti-
tute In Germany, the chief object of
which will be the making of expert
ments with a view of combating tu-
berculosis, typhus and blood poisoning
through infection. It has not been de-
cide6 whofhor tho {rc%;%,<. -.,,