Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Beron Rothschild Is Deed. [ARTICLE]

Beron Rothschild Is Deed.

Baron Wilhelm von Rothschild, head of the banking firm of that name, died at noon Friday at Frankfort. He was 78 years old, and was head of the Frankfort house of the Rothschilds for fifty years. He was an uncle of the three members of the London house and handled many of the largest German government loans. “There is but one power in Europe,” said a French writer, “and that is Rothschild. His satellites are a dozen otheT banking firms; his soldiers, his squires, all respectable men. of business and merchants, and his sword is speculation.”