The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-09-15
/ IN THE FATHERLAND
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.


penings in the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: Let
no citizen of the United States under
estimate the significance and impor-
lance to this country of the demand
OF Japan upon the kaiser for the sur
render of the German leased terrific
rles in China. 1t means that Great
Britain and it's Monaghan ally are de-
termined to control the commerce of
the Pacific ocean despite the right of
any other nation, of any other people.
Great Britain and Japan in alliance
broke down the naval and military
strength. Of Russia but ten years ago,
and the astute British statesmen pit
ted the Mongol then against the Slav,
just as they are now marshaling Slav
and Celt, Latin and MOngol, in the
same lines to crush the commercial as
plrations and industrial development
of Germany Great Britain has struck
German prestige and German prosper
lty great blow, but she has already
blasted Germany's hopes of competing
for the worlds trade. Russia, France
and Germany are all friendly nations
with the United States, but today the
United States is the only one that can
be classed as a commercial competitor
of Great Britain.
Budapest has been visited by de-
Struct1ve cyclone. In the course of
half an hour terrible damage was done.
All the parks of the city were devas-
tated, roofs were torn away, and a
great number of buildings were dam
aged. The roof of the royal opera was
wrecked. Two plates weighing 1000
pounds were torn off from the roof of
the basilica. Two towers of the Coro-
nation Church of Matthew were hurled
to the ground. Immediately after the
storm it was ascertained that eleven
persons had been killed, but the num-
Der of deaths is supposed to have been
much larger. The fine weather just
before the storm had lured many
people to take boat rides on the Dan
ube, and some of them were no doubt
lost. After the storm the streets
were covered with window lights,
bricks and other objects. Many trees
were uprooted, and those that remain
standing had many of their branches
torn off.
Frau Francillo Kaufman, the opera
singer, had an unpleasant experience
while staying at the Pyrmont water
ing place. On her way from the rail
way station to her lodging she saw a
butchers hired man pound an OK with
a stick to make him go. Having looked
at him for a little while she said:
That's enough" At the same mo-
ment the butcher himself came on his
wheel and ran against her. She could
plainly see that he did this inten-
tionally, and she was about to strike
him with her umbrella when he seized
her and began to choke her. She man
aged to scream, "Robber! Murderi
Thief" Soon there was crowd of
people at the scene. The butcher ran
to street car and got away. But she
sued both the butcher and his hired
man, and in order not to appear to be
a coward the butcher sued the opera
singer for calling him abusive and
disgraceful names.
Hugo Kohler and Georg Peurmann,
from Chemnitz, took a trip to the
Tschier mountain peak in Grodnertal
without a guide, and both Of them lost
their lives Hugo Helmschrott,
teacher from Munchen, fell 300 feet
from a precipice in the Tannheimer
mountains and was dashed to pieces.
Herr Jakobi and Herr MANI, mer
chants from Stuttgart, were lost in the
Allgauer mountains, and a few days
afterward they were both found dead.
Everything indicated that they had
been surprised by snowstorm, and
that they had persisted from exposure.
The Waterman at the mountain cabin
in the Texel mountains in the OetZtal
Alps found parts of the equipment of
one Hermann Willecke of Gebhards-
bergen, Braunschweig, who is sup
mountains last year.
Climbing among the central Alps Is
among the things forbidden by the mil
itary law under which Switzerland
now lives. The Swiss mountain
guides were among the first to be
called to the colors. Many American
amateur mountain climbers who were
not aware of this regulation found
themselves, in the early days OF the
warfare, stopped by armed sentinels
in the ST. Gothard region, and at all
points near the frontier
Frau Leopold Bodansky was one Of
the most beautiful women of Budapest.
she was going to lose her beauty, and
so great did her mental depression be-
come that her mind was unbalanced.
She was sent to hospital for nervous
people at Graz While staying at this
institution she began to suffer from
toothache. When the dentist told her
that one of her teeth had to be pulled
she suddenly became so terrified that
she broke loose from him, ran out
through window and was killed in
the fall