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TERHAZY
Important Testimony
From French For
eign Office
Created a Sensation
Dreyfus Trial Yes
terday. in
Laborfs Attempt to Refute
the Generals Again
Blocked.
Schwarzkoppen and Fanizzardi Have
Not Yet Appeared Bit Dreyfus'
Friends Still Hope.
Rennes, Sept. 6. It will be sufficient
merely to name the events crowded
into today's session of the Dreyfus case
to indicaite the strain put upon the
nerves and emotions of the actors and
spectators of the great tragedy enact
ing here. The day began with a weak
arttempt by the generals to retrieve the
blunder of Monday in introducing the
witness Cernuschi. Major Carriere,
the government prosecutor, sought to
withdraw Cernuschi.- He announced
in the secret session that Cernuschi's
character proved, to be so bad on in
vestigation that the prosecution did
not desire to offer his evidence. Pres
ident Jouauet refused to permit (the
withdrawal of the witness and Cer
nuschi told his story. What it waa
has not transpired. It is known, how
ever, that ithe witness at length plead
ed illness and was put to -bed in his
hoter.
Then followed the examination of
fresh documents' from Paris, after
Which ex-Minister Trarieux returned
to the stand and delivered an address,
full of interruptions and dramatic in
cidents, in which he dealt with 'the Es-terhazy-Picquart
branch of the case.
Never in the course of this tenific
affair have the exalted conspirators
against justice submitted to such a
scourging as the eloquent ex-minister
of justice put upon them.
Paleologue, who represents the for
eign office at the trial, was called dur
ing one of the interruptions of Tra
rieux's speech. He frankly declared
there existed at the foreign office a
statement made by Count von Munster,
the German ambasador, on behalf of
his government, to Delcasse, minister
of foreign affairs, that the embassy
had constant dealings with E&terhazy
of the nature of those charged against
Dreyfus.
Then the generals tried to defend
themselves against this assault. Tney
had been allowed to resent and resisit
Trarieux's attacks point by point as
suited them, but when Labori attempt
ed to refute the generals in turn, he
was arbitrarily deprived of his privil
ege again and again, until finally,
quite exnaustea, me mwjei gave
the vain effort and sank into his chair.
Du Paty de Clam's long expected
deposition came and was a disappoint
ment.
The examination of witnesses is now
practica'.ly completed, unless Schwartz -
koppen and Panizzardi appear. .Drey
fus' friends tonight are still conndent
that a vindication of the prisoner will
come from Berlin and Rome.
THE COURT MARTIAL
Rennes, Sept. 6 Two hours of the
court-martial of Dreyfus was spen be
hind closed doors this morning When
the open session of the ootirt-majtaal
began. ! s
Senator Trarieux resumed his oepo-i-tion,
which had been interrupted by
tone ladiournment of the court! yester-
dia.v Trarieux declared aavigna.u'u .
perjurer, and that two omcers visuea
Savignaud before the court-martial
opened, Trarieux hinting that the offi
cers drilled Savignaud on the testimony
he should give.
Picquart arose' and denied Savig
naud' story.
A striking incident occurred when
Commandant Lauth -asserted that Pic
quart always showed the greatest con
tpmmti for officers of his bureau, assert
ing that once Picquart brought to the
general staff in the presence or met-
dn,mp Henrv and Dauth v aAwotman,
Ma a am, D , who was the wife of
Comfort
Glasses.
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a magistrate and, Lauth intimated,
was Picqueurti's mistress. Pisquart
arose and cried: "I protest absoiltitely."
At the same time there arose from the
spectators a chorus of indignant cries
of "canaille," "cochon" and "miser
able." The gendarmes were ordered
to suppress the Outbursts of indigna
tion which had been evoked b- Lau';ih
n publicly naming a woman in a scan
dalous connection.
General Zurlinden, formerly minister
of war, followed' Commandant Lauth
at the witness bar. General Zurlinden
said the minister of justice persuaded
him to send Picquart 'before the mili
tary court. Trarieux replied (to Zur
linden, reproaching him with Pic
quart's ten months in prison. Labori
asked a question of Zurlinden regard-
ng the Petit Bleu. Jouaust refused to
put the question on (the ground that
the court was engaged in the trial of
Dreyfus and not of the Picquart af
fair. Labori insisted, taking the ground
that the Petit Bleu demonstrated the
guilt of Esterh'azy and consequently
was very important for Dreyfus.
Labori asked that Palelogue, the ex
pert of the foreign office, be consulted
with referein-- to the reading before
the court of diplomatic documents,
which established irrefutably the au
thenticity of the Petit Bleu. Palelogue
said he did not know Ito what docu
ments Labori alluded. "The docu
ment," replied Labori, "in which is re
counted a conversation between Del
Casse, former prime minister, and
Couiit von Munster-Ledenburg, Ger
man minister to Paris, in the course of
which Munstber-Ledenburg said Colonel
Schwantzkoppen admitted he sent Es-
terhazy a number of telegraphic cards.
Palelogue responded that what Labori
said was quite true, and that the
documents belonged to the diplomatic
dossier. The declaration created a
marked sensation in court. At he
conclusion of Palelogue's testimony the
court , adjourned .
JEWS APPEAL TO GERMANY
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 6. Represent
ative Jews of Memphis today sent the
following cablegram to lEmperior Wil
liam of Germany: "Relying upon your
Imperial majesty's well known sense of
rlight, we Israelites of tibe city of Mem
phis, Tenn., respectfully petition you to
permit amy evidence .wiilhioj your knowl
edge and which mav subserve the in-
terests justice and 'truith in the Drey
fus case to be submitted to the court-
martiial sittings ait Renmies. We are em
boldened to make thie request from the
fact 'Bhat the whole civilized woTld is to
terested to the case on tatal."
THE FRENCH PLOTTERS
Paris, SeptL 6. The police are con
tinuing their searches of houses in the
provinces and numerous arrests have
been made in connection, with the roy
alist' plot. The charge against the per
sons arrested will be that they were
plotting against the government and
were attempting disturbances of the
public peace.
The convocation of the higa court
for the trial! of the plotters agaiust the
government has been set for September
18.
GUERIN'S QUIET DAY
Paris, Sept. 6. There were
no Hi.'s
Cihabrol, 'turbanoes today in Rue de
where Jules Guerin continues to defy
the government to arrest faim. Gueriii
set loose a small balloon containing let
ters, which .landed where friends igot
them. .
YELLOW FEVER AT KEY WEST
STEADILY INCREASING
Sixty two Cases There Now Six
Deaths to Date.
Jacksonville, Sept. 6. The yellow fev
er at Key West is steadily increasing.
A house to house canvass today reveal
ed 6ixty-two cases. One death occur
red today, making six up !to date. The
city is generally infected and a steady
increase in the epidemic is looked for.
Dr. Porter, in charge of the situation
at Key West, says that while the sit
uation is not discouraging a long
period of quarantine is probable.
The two batteries of artillery s a-
tioned at Key West, left there for New
York today on the steamer San Marco,
of the Mallory steamship line.
The batteries had been ordered to
Fort McPherson, but could not come on
account of the refusal of the steam
ship companies to accept, them as pas
sengers for the state of Florida by or
der of the state authorities. The troops
go direct to New York, where they will
land. Probably they will be ordered
to one of the New York forts.
ONE CASE AT MIAMI.
Miami, Fla., Sept. 6. There is a case
of yellow fever here. It became
known late last night, causing? a slight
panic, many people leaving for the
north. The victim arrived here on rhe
first of the month from Key West.
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KRUGER'S REPLY
I UNSATISFACTORY
Cabinet to Fix Limit to
Transvaal Nego
tiations. London, Sept. 6. It is understood
the cabinet will meet on Friday and fix
a time limit in which! the Transvaal
must accept or reject Chamberlain's
terms. It is known that Kruger's lat
est reply is unsatisfactory.
The Pall Mall Gazette says: "It is
feared that during the past twenty-four
hours the probability of war has be
come appreciably greater." This paper
prints no news except that received
yesterday to justify the assertion.
Advices from various sources indi
cate that the acute tension in parts of
South Africa continues. But unless
the Boers take the initiative, which at
present is improbable, it is pretty cer
tain the issue of peace or war lies sole
ly in the result of Friday's cabinet
council, hence public attention is cen
tered more upon signs of the times as
exhibited at the army station and dock
yards than in South Africa itself,
though news from there is eagerly
awaited, chiefly owing to - the uneasy
feeling that the Boers might end the
diplomatic tangle by raiding tihe Na
tal. The situation is similar to that pre
ceeding the Spanish-American war last
year, when a long period of tension
only resulted in war when the Maine
incident set things ablaze.
A few papers yesterday saw in the
Pakeman arrest another Maine explo
sion which is, of course, ridiculous, and
the affair is taken far too seriously.
Kruger certainly made a tactical er
ror in the arrest at this juncture, which
he has already discovered as is shown
by the foolish attempt to treat the
matter as a mistake on the part of Dr.
Smuts, the state attorney, who makes
the excuse that the arrest was simply
ordered by a subordinate official at Jo
hannesburg without instructions from
Pretoria.
Special cdrrespondents are drawing
harrowing pictures of Johannesburg
misery which are not substantiated by
private inf ormalion.
The fact, only admitted yesterday for
.the ftcstiime in print by the Globe, is
that ff 'Britain is compelled tq r fight
the-Boers she will undoubtedly take
away their independence as a punish
ment. Every one, from Chamberlain down,
is loud in the assertion that there is no
intention to undermine the Soujth Af
rican republic, but every one) knows
that war means 'the end of the Trans
vaal, just as last year it was tacitly
understood that war with Spain meant
the incorporation of Cuba eventually
in the United tSates.
HOSPITAL CORPS MEN
FOR PHILIPPINES
Their Enlistment Giving
Gen. Sternberg Some
Concern.
Washington, Sept. 6. The work of
providing hospital corpsmen and
trained nurses for the Philippines con
tinues to give the' medical department
some concern. Surgeon General Stern
berg is awaiting a cablegram from Ma
jor Woodhull, chief surgeon at Ma
nila, as to how many nurses will1 be
needed and the number of hospital
corps men required for the additional
regiments. There are now in Manila, or
on the way, 957 hospital corps men,
stewards, etc. Each of the ten regi
ments now under orders for the Philip
pines will have sixteen hospital corps
men, making an additional hundred.
According to calculations of the med
ical officers at 4he war department it
will be necessary to have two thous
and hospital corps men ready when the
fall campaign opens. A thousand re
main to be enlisted, but the recruiting
is progressing slowly.
For the additional ten regiments
3,204 men have been enlisted to date.
JIMINEZ ARRIVES.
Received With Open Arms at Pnerto
Plata-Peaceful Outlook.
Puerto Plata. Sent. 6. "General Juan
Isadro Jiminez has landed here, having
come from Cuba, touching ait Cape
hill commanding superb vfevvs o
Haytien on the way. He was received
ad the waterside by an ''immense
throng. His reception, arranged by
General Ramon Imibertt, was enthusias
tic. The news of Jiminez's arrival has
been sent into the interior,'' and it is
believed that settled order and peace
will soon be restored .
General Jiminez was accompanied by
fifty armed revolutionists, who were
taken on board the Georges Croise at
Cape Haytien. The populace hailed
him as the country's deliverer. A del
egation of a hundred officials and prom
inent merchants, headed by the gov
ernor of the city, went on board the
steamer to greet him, returning after
an absence of nine years. The en
tire population was at the wharf, and
escorted his carriage to headquarters,
where a reception was held this after
noon, thousands waiting for hours in
the intense heat to assure ihim of their
support. Last night there was a pop
ular demonsitiration with a procession
of soldiers and citizens and speeches of
welcome. Puerto Plata and Santiago
are Jiminez's strongholds. There is
some uncertainty reerardinsr oolitical
conditions in the 'southern districts, and
there are minora of other aspirants
planning ito beat General Jiminez in
that quarter.
The local press says:
"The coming of General Jiminez
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mpletes the evolution. There has
been no revolution. Tt is safe to ex
pect an immediate revival of business."
Sentiments like these are uttered on
all sides, and there is no discordant
note.
EXAS LYNCHERS
INDICTED FOR MURDER-
Eleven White Men Held for the Kill
ing of the Humphreys.
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 6. The Henderson
county grand jury at Athens yesterday
indicted eleven white men for murder.
They were charged with the lynching
of the three Humphreys.
A JUSTICE SENT TO JAIL
Chattanooga, Sept. 6. Esquire Will
iam J. Pearson, of the county court of
this county, was yesterday committed
to the county workhouse by Circuit
Court Judge Estelli to serve out a cost
bill of 175. Pearson was tried several
months ago on a charge of drunken
ness in office. The costs of the trial
were taxed to him, .Failing, JX2JP&Y
Judge Estell had Esquire Pearson
brought into court and summarily
committed him toi the county work
house to wrork out the amount of the
costs.
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Batteries: Garvin and Donhue;
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Boston - o 1
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Baltimore at New York.
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St. Louis 69 54
Cincinnati 66 52
Chicago 60 59
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Washington 41 77
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Umercurrent in Military
Circles Against His Con
tinuance.
Miles Says He Would Like
to o to the Phil
ippines. Has Had Several Conferences With
Root But Hasn't Asked to
be Sent.
Washington,. Sept. 6. A great deal of
pressure is being brought to bear on
the president and Secretary Root to re
call General Otis or at least to entrust
him only with purely civil duties.
Nothing has developed to show that the
administration is dissatisfied! with him.
There is an undercurrent of feeling in
military circles against tthe continu
ance of Otis as commander. The pres
ident and Secretary Root have not
been unmindful of this. The main ar
gument advanced by those wishing to
have Otis relieved is that the rebellion
must be crushed before the end of tthe
coming dry season. It is held that the
government must not risk the chance
of another long wait through the sec
ond rainy season with the insurrection
uneuppressed, and they declare much
risk will be taken if Otia is retained ,
The most consery&tSY othk H4
of the administration . corttend thai' Otis
must be sacrificed beeause he failed- to
put down the Insurrection in a " few
months of the dry season that remain
ed after the outbreak.
The friends of Miles are urging his
appointment to the command. They
contend that this would not be a re
flection on Otis, inasmuch as it is en
tirely proper for the highest command
er in the army to assume charge.
Miles had several conferences with
Root recently. It is believed they re
lated to the situation in the Philip
pines. He had two conferences with
Root the other day. Root refused to
talk and all Miles will say is that if it
is agreeable to the president he
would like to go to the Philippines. He
declares he has not asked to be sent.
WASHINGTON'S WELCOME.
How Dewey is to be Received at the
National Capital.
Washington, Sept. 6. The welcome to
ithe hero of Manila at the National Cap
ital will probably occur on Monday, Oct.
2, although the date will depend upon the
length Of the celebraiti'cwi lin. New York,
which is Still unsettled!. The principal
features of the reception in Washington,
as planned by the citizens, "with the co
operation of the President and Cabinet,
will be two iin number 'the presentation
of the sword voted by Congress and a
night parade.,, A public reception at ithe
Whlite House will be followed by dinner
to the Admiral by President McKinJey.
The sword will tie presented by Secre
tary Long, at ithe east front of the Capi
tol, in the presence of Mr. McKinley and
all the members of the Cabinet, late in
the afternoon, while the parade, consist
ling of organizations of all kinds, will be
accompanied by an illumination of Hha
city on a scale of beauty never before
witnessed in Washington.
FORTY PERSONS INJURED
Richmond. Sept. 6. The first section
of Norfolk and "Western passenger train
No. 4 was wrecked today near JNew
river. The first section of coaches
rooled down an embankment. Forty
persons were injured, some seriously.
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