The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-09-26
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penInas In the Land OF the Kaiser
Timely Items for tho German
Readers.

complete charge and will be assisted
by four directors, who in all proba-
| bihty will be Americans. He will make
his headquarters in Berlin, while his
assistants will travel throughout the
empire giving pointers to athletes who
are likely to make the Olympic games
| to be held in the recently erected sta
dunn at Berlin. Germany has sought
the services of Or. Kraeuzelein for
over half q year. but the athletic di
rector held out because he desired to
take up dental work. which he had
followed intermittently in the last ten
years. He returned recently from a
years tour of Europe, where he had
studied advanced dentistry 1t is I'M
derstood one offer was made 10 DR.
kraenzelein early in the year and this
offer was improved upon recently. II
| is said that GraenZelein will receive
about $4,000 for his five years sery-
| ice
Berlin appears to be an extraordi-
narily healthy place for the aged
who thrive there in remarkably large
| numbers. A feature of the figures is
| the much greater number Of old wom-
| en- in proportion to old men. and with
| every decade above seventy the pro-
| portion increases astonishiugly In
| Berlin the number of men between
| seventy and eighty is 12.S9S, while
! the number of women is 25204 For
| Greater Berlin the figures are 20,049
and 81, $50 respectively. OF persons
| between eighty and ninety, women
are in an enormous majority. For
Berlin the figures are 2,036 men and
! 5.311 women. and for Greater Berlin,
3,169 men and 1910 women. Berlin
has large number of non-agenarians
and Of these three out of every four
are women. In Greater Berlin there
are 364 women who have passed their
ninetieth birthday, but only Ill men.
Judging from the official returns
just published Austria Hungary's con
sumption Of beer seems to be steadily
decreasing. The total output for 1912
was 14,764,0 900 barrels which was
| nearly five per cent less than the
preceding year.
The Landshut reichstag district in
Lower Bayern returned the Centrum
candidate to the reichstag, so that
the election did not change the polit-
ical complexion of that body.
Grape vine lice have been seen in
large numbers in Austria, HessenNas-
sau and Rheingau. Energetic meas
ures have been taken TO prevent the
spreading Of the dreaded pest.
Count Bernstorff, the German am
bassador in Washington, has induced
the German government TO Teconsid
err its decision not to take part in
the Panama exposition III San Fran
cisco. Nothing will be done, how
ever, until congress has disposed of
the tariff one way or the other.
Behring'S for kalin in Hanover led
to the discovery of a vein Of petro-
leum at a depth of 1000 feet. Since
the beginning Of this month 300 bar
day. Spectators lost no time in buy
ing land around the pace. The Ma
toinal-Zeitung is responsible for this
information
Brieg-Two more officers of the
German armys flying corps were kill
ed in an aeroplane accident here.
Lieutenant Won Eckenbrecher and
Lieutenant Prinz, both young men,
were testing new aeroplane over the
military aerodrome when the left
wing collapsed. The ayiatOrs were
crushed to death
Strassburg Another German mill
tary aviator, non-commissioned Off
Ger named Kahl, died as the result Of
injuries received in an aeroplane ac-
cident He was making a trial flight
when his machine fell 100 feet. The
fuel tank burst and he was fatally
burned
The Berlin police spent "A hours Of
feverish Investigations and eXamina-
lions, all brought about because an
American woman threw bouquet OF
roses from a hotel window as Kaiser
Wilhelm was passing on his way TO
the military maneuvers at Tempelhof
field. The bouquet bore ticket in
scribed ITO the great German EN-
peroT."
The closing OF the accounts OF the
city government Of Berlin for the
past year shows that the city has
been well managed from financial
point of view, the surplus being over
100000. Some of the departments
managed by the city are exceeding
ly profitable The city authorities are
naturally iubilant over the result.
The competition for designs for a
new German embassy building at
Washington by the government was
won by Prof Bruno Moehring, tbs
leading architect Of Bering.
Water With the Ration