Show Von Mlqucl former Prussian Minister of Finance has Just died lie was the I eon ota poor French family and rose to the leading place In the Cabinet of the German empire and was held as the most powerful man In Germany next to the Kaiser himself He began life as a radical socialist and revolutionist was one of the Baden rebels In 1848 and was banished by the GovernmenD He sought refuge In Franco and became practically a professional conspirator but after that he became Minister of Finance and was the chief agent Jn putting into effect the measures directed direct-ed toward the suppression of the German Ger-man socialists In his youth he was 0 rank atheist He closed his life a member of the Evangelical church For years he stood next to Bismarck as I I the moat influential man In Germany I and one of the moat powerful In Europe Eu-rope lie fell from the favor of the Kaiser only last May |