Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — TROUBLE IN SAMOA. [ARTICLE]

TROUBLE IN SAMOA.

Ualietoa Returns, Dispossesses Tamasese and Insults the Germans. The latest news from Samoa is causing astir throughout Germany, and if the advices which have been received there through the German channels are jonflmed, there is reason to fear new md serious complications which may sntirely undo the work of the recent Samoan conference in Berlin. According to these accounts, King Malietoa, who has been brought back to Apia by t German man-of-war, with the express understanding that the status quo should be maintained until the treaty drafted by the conference could be ratified by the United States Senate,has entirelyjrepudiated this agreement. Immediately upon his landing he gathered his followers together, and compelled King Tamisese to hand over to him the prison and the police force of Apia. He dismissed the German police superintendent, Herr Von Wol fiendorfi,and released from prison several natives who had been arrested by his order. At last accounts the entire municipal government of Apia was in the hands of Malietoa, whose men were patrolling the city, armed, and Tamasese, though nominally King, kept himself, perforce, very secluded. What excites the Germans still more than this breach of faith on the part of Malietoa is the gratuitous insult heaped upon the German Emperor at a sort of national fete held in Apia by Malietoa and hiß followers. On this occasion the “dead-baby dance" of the Samoans took place, only, instead of the traditional dead baby, Malietoa’s followers carried in the procession a bust of Emperor William I, which, in all likelihood, had been washed ashore from the wreck of the German war-ship Eber. When the German consul heard of this insult he promptly made a demand upon Malietoa for this bust, and it is now m his posses-