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Show Hons II IBUEIIE Officers of Rhine Republic and German Authorities Get in Clash. By PAUL WILLIAMS. (CMoaco Tribune Cubic, Copyricht.) MAYKXCf-:, Juno 8. The RhSneland i republic, the most s!r-k'y Infant amon? i ib nation?, clashed bc-ro today with the I rrman autborltif?, who. with boots and i !':ss fts-'.sied Its rcprosentatlves out of ! the distrb-t overnrr.ent hcadquarters. An Aniorioan ob.rver assertoJ the "l:f?' I v,-as conipirtoly knocke J out of the re-! re-! public and Its morale now is nearly mini;?. re: baps the hostilities mean another job for tho peai'e corferenoe. The president of the district, of which Mayeneo Is the center, ha? ieen recalled by the Per1. In government, wliich Intends lo reti'.ace Iilm with a man more aecepta-1 aecepta-1 lo to t.'ie Centrum party. The oftice tenipn.Trily U aciiu. I r. Porten. "provisional "pro-visional prsido'i t" of the republic, saw 1 an op'-ninc. With several mem'; era of t ho c.r.'tr and a few friends not more tbun a 'oz- n, nil i.-rinan at the gov- j rrnment h-il'ditu: t'ds morTilns. he was r.-.ct by tho cu stodian, a former r ipta n j i in th" Ofvrnnn nrniv. '1'r. Porten ex- ' phiiin-d b ? p.rtv do--ired lr take po?o- sion. 1 1 was a-'ied to wait until the j , r-i(o,oin consulted tlie ofllee of General! ; M-i'v-i:j. ! 'I'b. -o ti e rusindian wis told, perhips ; ! (, Ir.s firprUe the milltnrv Jidministra- 1 1 tion bill ro i-or.erm vlih Pr. bor'iMi. T'e nisio'l-'in WiMii bark to the h-.ii'dint: and I in pi.pt.-' Ptmi.i n tol 1 ibo partv there I was no(hi"c doir . The repubb.-'ins at-1 at-1 -r.nl . .! T" fo; ,-e t 1 former rn;?s-?n .mt;m and bis several nsistants. Tbe porson'il ciountors resubo-l in the ex-pnnonts ex-pnnonts of tbe new wvornrft bein : r p re ii. Tboy rot re.ited In eon fusion. ; nr. Porton cot nwav oarlv in the fn':is wiiboiit : grratm. Some of his followers wcro not f-o fortunate. In view of the at M Hide totla v of the 1' rencii military. !t is now pos'ble that tho warrant of the Prussian irnvernniont. : i huririnir lr. Porton with treason, will I ij MTVr 1. |