The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-08-18
IN THE FATHER|.AND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most important Hap.
penings in the Land Of the Kaiser
Timely items for the German
Readers.

| Victor Keresztes, director of the
wagon factory at Matiasfold, Hungary,
took walk in his garden and noticed
/ that the cover had been removed from
| the ten-foot dung cistern. Looking
| down, he saw his servant girl, Marie
| Bazsik, lying unconscious at the bot
tom. He Immediately took a ladder
| and descended to take up the girl, but
! he was overcome by the poisonous gas,
| fell down and did not stir any more.
| His wife, who was also present, cried
for help, and soon young man from
| the neighborhood came and stepped
| down into the cistern. But he also
| collapsed before he could do anything.
| Now a number of persons arrived. By
means Of hooks they pulled out the
two men and the girl. A doctor was
| there promptly to work on the uncon-
scious persons, but only the young
man returned to life
Doctor Lorenz, formerly a Catholic
| priest at Kaiserslautern, died not long
as a priest, although he was well liked
| by his parishioners, because the clergy
| found him to be too tolerant towards
other denominations Then he became
editor of Centrum paper in Wies-
| baden. After his death the government
| Of Prussia asked his surviving sisters
| to return the Order of the Red Eagle
/ N q TIa h ioh
was said to have been awarded to him
| in 1888 on account Of fine funeral
| sermon which he preached on the
| death of Kaiser Friedrich. But Doctor
Lorenzo had never received the deco
ration. Nevertheless it was officially
announced at the time that-it had been
conferred on him.
Some women in Stuttgart seem to
have learned their methods of proceed
ure from the English suffragettes. The
| STEWARDSHIP Zeitung, in report of a
sOcialistic meeting devoted largely to
| an account Of the abuses of soldiers in
| the army, said that 1.-The expressions
Of the leading speakers were accompa-
| MED by hysterical cries of 'fie' from
| female figures without character"
| Shortly afterwards two women who
had attended the meeting called at the
Office of the paper and wished to see
| the responsible editor AS soon as
| they faced him they pulled out dog
whips, which they had concealed and
gave him a sound whipping, where
upon they departed.
The Berlin Vorwaerts has published
the annual report of the executive
! committee Of the Social Democratic
party There are still over one million
of registered members, and the red
week" alone brought 157 900 new mem
bers. But the paper complains that
the addition from the ranks of the
young people has been almost cut off.
the young peoples organizations being
suppressed and prosecuted everywhere
and patriotic societies Of different
kinds having greater attraction than
socialism. Many agitators were Sc
verely punished because they were
very aggressive during the red week"
Leipsig and vicinity were visited by
an earthquake few days ago. There
were three distinct shocks in the
course of two minutes In many houses
the doors flew open, tables and chairs
we're Jared, and the dishes in the
kitchens ratified The seismograph at
the university was thrown from its
levers at the beginning, SO that it did
not register the movements in salts
factory manner. The earthquake was
local. being noticed only as far south
as Ereiburg, Saxony, and Dessau, An
halt Absolutely no damage was done
At the drill grounds of Friedrichs
field, near Dusseldorf, a cripple was
noticed humping around on wooden
| leg and attracting attention by trying
to get to places where the public has
nothing to do. Finally he was arrested.
| Then it turned out that his artificial
| limb was hollow and contained impor-
! tant military papers and infantry
cartridges The spy refused to give
an account of himself, but he was GER
CdlUIy III LuS service Oh the FIeuCu
| government
! Captain Hacker, formerly a captain
in the navy, has been connected with
the airship navy at Friedrichhafen for
seven years, and during that time he
has made 700 trips with Zeppelin air
cruisers All of the trips were sue
| ~ ~. 4 -, l.,
SIS, 900 miles, or considerably more
than twice the distance around the
earth at the equator.
1t was stated some time ago that
Herr Willers, millionaire at Bochum,
had bought the Grossglockner noun
tain peak in the Austrian Alps. He
had already paid part of the price
/ when the sportsmen of Austria started
such an cutlery against the mountain
being shut off from the public that
| he found it prudent to give up the deal.
The highly unpopular tax on pleas
ure resorts brought the kingdom of
Prussia about s2,750,000 during the
| year 1928, of which amount Berlin
contributed over 100000
Burglars visited the EmmiSrofen eS-