Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-09-25
news FROM Fk1AERlAND
A Brief Resume Of tho Most I'M
portant Happenings In tho
German Empire.


cial Democrats of Germany was held
at Chemnitz. Over 500 delegates were
In attendance.
DR.. X. A. Martin Kirschner, formerly
Lord Mayor of Berlin, died on his es'
tate near the capital from heart dis
ease.
Dr. Kirschner was born in 1912 and
was Lord Mayor of Berlin from 1899
until May of the present year, when
he resigned.
The city councils Of Germany do
not seem to be q bit afraid of inter
fering with private business. The city
council of Koln voted $12,500 for buy
ing foreign beef cattle, and the city
council of Jena voted $4,000 for the
establishment of a central store fol
selling food products cheap.
The city government of Koln import
ed beef cattle from Denmark, and
though the butchers Of the city were
strongly opposed to this move they
were compelled to sell the Danish
product at reasonable prices. The city
administration is also contemplating
the importation of large quantities OF
rabbits from Australia.
The imperial Office of the interior Of
Germany has come to the conclusion
that frozen meat may safely be i'm
ported into Germany If placed under
rigid system of inspection. Large
quantities OF such meat can be had
in Australia and Argentina. The city
government is making preparations for
handling such meat on a large scale.
The poor state of the Kaiser's
health has been alarming Europe the
last few weeks. His recovery has
elected signs of relief from London to
Constantinople. The Kaiser is q
known quantity. His acts can be
pretty we'll predicted. The Kaiser is
strong on preparation for war. But
since the death of Car Alexander III
he has been the greatest pacificist in
! Europe The system may force his
hand some sad day, but If so, his own
disposition must be overridden. There
fore the long life Of the Kaiser ia
pretty generally desired in Europe.
| If he is not popular in the European
| Chancellaries, he is well understood,
whereas they fear the accession OF the
Crown Prince who is young, and has
the natural rashness of youth.
The fourteenth Eucharistic congress-
at Vienna closed with eucharistio
procession through the streets from
| St. Stephens cathedral to Hofhaus
palace, where in the presence of the
emperor, his heir Franz Ferdinand.
their entire court and probably $4,000
people, low mass was celebrated with
all the pomp of the Catholic church.
At the procession's head were 157 car
dinals, archbishops, bishops and other
clerical dignitaries, 1000 officers of
the Austrian army and all the highest
officials of state. The Austrian aris-
| tocracy has spared neither pains nor
expense to make the 1912 eucharistic
congress the greatest in the history.
They have lavished enormous sums,
paid for scores of special trains which
carried visitors to the congress free
and in many instances have brought
entire villages to Vienna from remote
| parts OF Inc country.
The University of California mani
tested excellent judgment by propos-
ing that the next Nobel peace prize
be given to Kaiser Wilhelm. This
suggestion made the Paris Midi lose
its head, as indicated by the following
Gallo diatribe: For the University of
California the Apostle Of Peace is the
man of Kiel, Tangier and Agadir; the
man of powder dry and sword sharp;
the man who increases without neces-
sity by one hundred thousand fighting
men his provocative army, and who
ceaselessly burdens German taxpay-
ers with the cost Of more and more
battleships; who has not allowed q
day to pass for twenty years without
cracking the whip in our ears. The
President Of the University of Cali
fornia who takes the responsibility for
this colossal buffoonery is not called
Mark Twain, nor is he the professor
of class In wit and humor. He must
be some Teuton immigrant. The Yam
kee universities are full of these false
Americans, recently naturalized and
speaking with . pronounced Hamburg
accent. They are as graceful as bears
dancing on their hind legs. They inn
port German science just as others
Of their compatriots import beer and
sausages. They innoculate the rising
American generation with a fierce dis
like Of the French language and htera-
ture. They disf1gure the scholastic
curriculum. The result of this Ger.
man immigration and culture is that
now the travelling Yankee marks him.
self off from the travelling Englishman.
not only by nasal twang, but by q
marked German air. This is noticed
in all the European hotels. The
American of today bears the same re,
lation to the Englishman as the cart
horse does to the thoroughbred. He
looks upon William the Second as a
species Of Charlemange, wherein again
he differs greatly from the English
man.
One man was dying and five were
missing when the torpedo boat G-171
was rammed and sunk by the battle
ship Zahringen in a series Of night
mapeuyers of Helgoland. 1t was sup
posed that the torpedo boat, under
cover Of darkness, was attempting to
get up alongside the battleship
when the larger craft made an up.
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