Ihe Weather To-day: ! CAROLINA* | GENERALLY FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 133. LEADS ALL NOHTOII CAROLINA MIES 1 lEIS Ml OKMIRI IT IS HIS NOW TO DESTROY 00 SAVE The Eyes of France on Ger many’s King. HE CAN SAVE DREYFUS TESTIMONY OF SOHWARTZKOF FEN ALL NEEDED. IT IS BELIEVED THE KAISER WILL ACT First Official Testimony to Esterhazy's Guilt. Labori Accuses Jouaust of Partiality, and Cheers Drown the Gen erals’ Murmurs. Rennes. Sept. 0. —Tin* salvation of Captain Dreyfus hangs on a word from Emperor William. This is the general opinion here tonight. If the Kaiser consents to allow Colonel Scfcwartz koppen, the German, military attache in Paris in 1894, to testify before the court martial, or to send a deposition, or, what is considered still more probable, to al low his deposition to be accompanied by the actual documents mentioned in the bordereau, then Dreyfus Is saved. If the Emperor, however, decides that it is not in the interests of Germany for Colonel Sehwartzkoppen to intervene then Dreyfus’ ease is hopeless and his eondemnation certain. Tonight the eyes of France are look ing across the frontier to Stuttgart, where the Kaiser is staying, and anx iously awaiting his decision. He is in the position of the spectators of a gladia torial combat in the Coliseum in ancient Rome, with Dreyfus lying at the foot of his antagonist and watching whether the Emperor points his thumb up or down. At a late hour this evening lie had given no sign either way, and Frenchmen are waiting with breathless interest the first indication of his will. To all intents and purposes Emperor William stands today the arbiter of the internal ireaeo of Frame, for everyone anticipates that King Humbert will fol low his lead. This is probably the ex planation of the delay. Emperor Wil liam has gone to Wurteinburg from Alsace-Lorraine, and King Humbert is at Tufin. Communication between the two monarchy is, therefore, somewhat complicated, and. as they will undoubt edly agree upon identical measures in replying to M. Labori’s appeal, it is possible that several days will elapse before their decision is known. The opinion generally held here is that the Emperor and King liunipert will al low Colonel Schwartzkoppen and Colo nel I’auizzardi to be examined by a rogatory commission and their deposi tion's to be sent to Rennes with supple mentary evidence from the originals ot Esterhazy’si 'treasonable communica tions. The Amti-Dreyfusards are extremely exasperated at what they characterize as M. Labori’s “trick.” lie had long Iks n seeking an excuse to invoke the interven tion of the German and Italian sover eigns, ami seized the appearance of Cor liusehi as his opportunity, declaring that the admission of the evidence of this foreigner justified his application regard ing Schwa rt z kopjK ii and Pandzzardii. M. Labori insisted that the appearance of ’(VriMisciui on the witness stand was quite without precedent, but the Anti- DreyPusards point m and with a cer tain amount of reason that the counsel for the defence were really the first to introduce foreign testimony, as they sunumoued the English journalist, Row land Strong, on the question of Ester hazy’s cwnfieessiion to haring written the bordereau. Anyway it can be, safely asserted that the admission of Cemnse'hi as a witness for the prosecution cianno as a veritable godsend to the defence’, giving them al most at the last moment a more or less legitimate 'basis for M. Labori's appli'ca tiotn to punmion the Gentian and Italian attaches. 'Hie Anti-Dreyfusards assert that the memliers of the court martial wi 11 ig nore the affirmations of Colonels Seihwnrtzk* pp<»n and Pauizaardi, ibecuuse they recognize that the testimony of these officers will be given by order, with a view to save their own spy, but in less prejudiced circles if is believed that tile court cajimot disregard: 'the solemn declarations of the two attaches wit li mit giving rise t to a still more grave situation in an internal ionial sense Ilian now prevails. Today’* public proceedings were mark ed by threw important episodes. The first was Generali /mrliiwlen’s admission that the erasure and resitfitution of Es terhazy's name in tlie Petit Bleu. could not have tieen f I’al co logne, sent to Esteriilaz.v the identical Petit Bleu for which Colonel Pieqnar. was detained 10 months on a charge of forgery. The third Was General Billot's msinuafiou that Enterh.r/y and Captain Dreyfus wore accompli' <■« which led to an imipasriojK'd prote-A'iitiion on the part of ffic accused and to a thrilling seem lietweeai M. Labor! and Colonel Jouaust. peeuMiikg iiu the advocate’s excited de nnneiafion of Colonel Jonanst’s treat ment of hinii, a deiitMieiiaftiioin tantamount, to an nceuisait inn of open partiality. General Zurlinden's admission that Colonel l’icquart could not have perpe trated the erasure in the Petit Bleu was a startling incident. Then the statement by M. Paleologue that Colonel Schwartzkoppen had ad mitted that it was almost certain that the Petit Bleu was sent by him or caused to be sent by him to Esterhazy, caused a sensation, as being the first official testimony to the treason of Esterhazy. And it was certainly a strong point in favor of Dreyfus, the importance of which was immediately seen by the prosecution and -shown sub sequently in General Billot’s broad in sinuation of complicity between Dreyfus and Esterhazy. From a spectacular point of view, however, the great event of the sitting was the battle royal between M. La bori and Colonel Jouaust over certiain questions which the advocate wished to put to General Billot. M. Labori lost control of himself under the influence of his deep feeling of indignation and his belief that Colonel Jouaust was de liberately gagging him in the interest of the military clique. His voice, which at first resounded through the court room, became choked with emotion. The spectators held their breath as he retorted defiantly to Colonel Jouaust’s refusal to put the questions, his words drowning Jouaust’s voice in an irresis tible torrent, whose force was heighten ed by his passionate gestures. The following is a detailed report of the proceedings: The secret examination of M. Eugene de Cernusehi. the Austrian refugee and witness for the prosecution, occupied the (Continued on Second Page.) NAME LLOYD LOWNDES REPUBLICANS OF MARYLAND NOMINATE THEIR STATE TICKET. Platform Favors Gold Standard, Declares again: f Trusts and Leaves Disposition of the Philippines to Congress. Baltimore, Md., Kept. G. —The .Mary land State Republican Convention met. at the Academy of Music today and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor—lion. IJoyd Dnvndes, of Alleghany comity. For Comptroller- Philips I*e Gold 8- boroogh. of Dorchester county. For Attorney General —Ex-<'nngross- man John V. L. Findlay, of Baltimore city. The nominations were all made by ac claim, vt ion. The platform endorses the present Na tional Administration, declares in favor of the gold standard, in favor of sup pressing the Filipino insurrection, the disjMJsitiou of the Philippines* to be made by Congress, and in favor of laws for the suppression of trusts which create monopoly. THEY SPAR OVER PENSIONS. Grand Army Men Rely on McKinley to Redress Their Grievance. Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 6.—The Grand Army encampment today elected Senior N ice Commander in Chief, \V. (’. John son as Commander-in-Chief to serve the uuexpired term of two days of the late Colonel Sexton, and selected Chicago for the next annual encampment. The day's proceedings included also numer ous addresses and reports and r. O’Malley at Harvey's Landing, yesterday. The Bishop lias been in the Scranton Dio cese for the past mouth, soliciting funds for tlie rebuilding of his cathedral in St. Augustine. The stricken prelate was removed to St. Mary's Parochial Resi dence this city today, and the Vicar General of the St. Augustine Diocese notified. The Bishop was tonight resting comijjj raldy. Woman is a eerature of moods and after she gets nmirried it is usually the imperative mood. ItALEIGII, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899. "HE KNOWS IN HIS SOOLTHATHE LIES" B, S, Sheppard’s Reply to C. M. Bernard. INFLUENCED BY NO ONE THE ATTACK HAD NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE, FROM THE WRATH OF AN OUTRAGED MAN Bernard, Flying, Knew the Cause of the At tack, and the Words of Denunciation Were Heard by Many By i tinders. Greenville, N. C., Sept. G. —( Special.V— After reading in yesterday’s papers the statements District Attorney Bernard made relative to the. attack on him Sat urday night, your correspondent had another interview with Mr. B. S. Shco pard, who gave the following for publi cation: “1 do not intend to dignify a dirty, mean wretch like Bernard with u news paper controversy, but I will not allow him to create the impression, as he is seeking to do, that my attack upon him was instigated or encouraged by his personal or political enemies. I solemn ly assert upon the honor of an 'inno cent and injured man that no human being had any information or intimation that I intended to attack him, and lie knows in his guilty soul he lies when tic says tht' act was instigated by his po litical and personal enemies. He also knows he lies when he says that I did not denounce him tit the time 1 fired upon him as the destroyer of my home. There were numbers of persons, black and white, standing near him, who heard it and will so testify. But he did not need me to tell him the cause of tlie attack. In his black and guilty heart he knows the cause, and when he was Heeing like a cowardly cur he knew he was fleeing from the wrath of an out raged man.” As further evidence that Mr. Sheppard was not “intlueneed by personal and po litical enemies of Bernard's” to make the assault, he showed a letter from his son, who is off at school and who has not been in Greenville in four years. This letter was dated the 4th ilist, and in part reads as follows: “Dear Father: “1 read this morning in the News and Observer that you had shot at Claude Bernard. It was no more than I had expected. Write me . and tell me all about it. You ought to have practiced shooting before you tried your hand. The paper said that all the p«*ople re gretted was that you missed your mark. What did they do about it, and where is (.Maude Bernard now? I was mad when I heard about it, that you did not kill him.” Numbers of parties at the depot at the time of the shooting say emphatically that Sheppard did accuse Bernard of mining his home. Your correspondent was present at the trial before the Jus tice and heard Sheppard face him with the charge while Bernard wias on the witness stand. There are many other false things in Bernard's statements. Your correspondent alone is the author of every telegram sent to the press from Greenville bearing upon the matter, and is in a position to substantiate every word that lias l»een sent. DEAD AMID ALASKA’S SNOWS. Seven Members of a Scientific Prospect ing Company of New York. Seattle, Washington, Sept. (I.—Otto Thews, of Primrose. lowa. >who Hi as ar rived here from Copper ltiver, Alasikta. brings news coanfuriuimg the reported deaths of seven mcu.lbers of the scientific prospecting company, Os New York. The dead are: Earnhardt, Miller, Al lormnn, Schul'tz, Peter Siegel, Biutncr aml Buifnigia rt mer. George Hooker, anot her niiemlber of tlhe party, gelt out alive, limit is badly crippled with scurvy, which can lied aiwiay the miajoinity of his companions. ißuuinrgart iiiar went out hunting and was mover seen again. The most affecting tin so was that of Butnoir, who was driven insane by his sufferings. IJiis weak comipauuioiis had to strap him dawn, 'but even then they courtd not restrain him. One miorning 'Thews, whose camp was near, f»un l Bnther sitting out in the miUw with his clothes and hat off. The thermometer was 45 degrees below zero. But nor was taken inside, but he died in a few hours. Thews also brings a gruesome story in connection with the find Os (the remains of a jeweler named Smith, who perished las! Novemils ron Yuhh*z Glacier, Every exposed portion of the body htad! born cati on by ra veins. TH E COTTON LOSS OP TEXAS. Galveston, Texas, Ke|ii. G. —The News will print tomorrow a report of the cot ton cron otf T' xas and the tonrlitories made up of 385 reports of an average date of September 3i'Ji. covering 154 Texas counties, and 23 points in tin- In dian and Oklahoma Tertriltonuis. These reports indicate ta decrease iTi the yield of Texas of 33.8 par cent, mud for Texas until the territories of 37.5 §*er cent, brought caused most of the loss. ESTABLISH A REPUBLIC. Then, Says Bryan, Let Them Work Out Their Own Destiny. Sam Francisco, Cab. Sept. G.—William •L Bryan at Woodward Pavilion, tonight stated that ho did not favor the with drawal of our troops from the Philip pines before a stable government Is es tablished 1 . Mr. Bryan during his address said he believed that our Government after es tablishing the Philippine Republic should extend to its people the same protection that it is mow giving to the Republics of Souith and Central America —protect ion from outside interference and unham pered freedom to work out their own destiny. TRADING CO. CHARTERED. Will Carry on Trade Between United States and Foreign Countries. Norfolk, Ya., Sept. G. —The Eastern ami Southern Trading Company was chartered here today with a minimum capital of $590,000, and a max ini urn of $1,000,000 to carry on a general im porting and exporting trade between the 'United States and foreign countries. Hippolyte L. Hardy, of New York, is President; Charles S. Knight and Charles R. Ilebnrd, both of New York, Secretary ami Treasurer in. the order named. BRITISII STEA MER ASIIOIIE. Key West, Fla.. Sept. G. —The Brit ish steamer Hannah M. Bell, Captain Storm, from Pensacola, September 2nd, for Venice, with a cargo of cotton, is reported ashore tat Marquesas Key, near here. ELEVEN DIE IN WRECKS SEVEN IN DINGESS IUNNEL ON NORFOLK AND WES’ERN ROAD. Four at Miller's StafTon on the Erie. Those on the Latter Road Killed at an Open Swi ch. Williamson. W. Va., Sept. 6.—Seven persons were killed by a freight train wreck today in Dingess tunnel on the Norfolk and Western railway. The dead are: FRANK R. ARCHER, brakeman. CHARLES BOOTH, brakeiuan. JOHN CHAFFIN, fireman. Four tramps, names unknown. PUH'GHED THROUGH THE CARS Meadville, Pa., ‘Kept. 3.—-An open switch caused a wreck on the Erie rail road at Miller’s station, a short distance above this city today in which three Mitidville men were killed and one in jured. A tramp was also killed and another injured. A west-bound freight train had taken the siding to allow train No. 5, vosti buled limited New York-Chieago ex press, to pass. The switch was left man. IT WILL RESULT IN AN ULTIMATUM The Meeting of the British Cabinet Council, THE BOERS MUST YIELD OR ENGLAND WILL AT ONCE DE CLARE WAR. PARLIAMENT SHOULD BE CONVOKED And War Supplies Voted. This is Hie Times’ Opinion, and it Adds That Further Delay is Dangerous. Receiving Transvaal’s Reply. London, Sept. G. —Today's news sheds no new light on the Transvaal crisis. The signs whlieli the English aim acus tomed to see just previous to a war con tinue, and firman these any mmnb"r of sensational deductions may be drawn. General opinion tends to tihe belief that the Cabinet council will result in an nl tiiuatnin followed by ;;m immediate backdown of the Boers or the Imme diate commencement of hostilities by Great Britain. The Standard referring 'to an abstract eif tlie reply of the Transvaal Govern ment to Mr. Chamberlain as given out by the Transvaal agent in Brussels, says: “The dCspatch is a positive insult tk» the British Government. Clearly we are wi t bin measurable distance of an ult i m at uni.” Scpitemlier 7. —(4 a. m.)—-Thc CMo.i’ial Office officials were busy until after 3 o'clock this morn ing. 1 HspaUehes have been i is- iig by special messengers I'.efWM m the Qwfo and Lord Sab.dmiy for tire last few days. The Times advisiss the Goverunieirt to nimvoke Faritsat ininn’d atHy if nec essary, ho Vote the nnHiksl supplies, add ing that “a further loss of time may he dangerous and hunti'lintim.g." Mile (’apt Town corn-pmidem;: of tin* Daily Mail says that three days ago J. 11. Hofnieyer, the Afrikaiub r leader in •Cape Colony, telegraphed President Kru ger, warning him that unless he complied 'with certain speiLticd com'.’.tacos war would be inevitable. Mr. Kruger rep Med. prk ‘lir'ising compliance. Early ithite micruing the C< Jonial Office began to reo m» the rcp'l.v < f t ie Tnih> vaal f New York, will Is* recommended by the committee for First Vice President. The nqiort of the Committee on Edu cation was presented by Chairman W il -1 km) C. Cornwell, of Buffalo. General Whiting, of Alabama, intro duced a resolution which wa* passed, recommending that tlu* Committee on Education be continued and that it i» • instructed to present to the Executive Council a plan for the organizatioir of such an institute as that ill London, de scribed by Mr. Cornwell. Robert McCurdy. Chairman of the Committee on Credits, presented his re l>ort. At the close of the reading of’the re ports, E. O. Leach, of New York. Vice President and Cashier of flu* National Union Bank, got the recognition of the Chair, and in a brief speech, presented a set of resolutions which endorse the gold standard. Mr. Leach said that resolutions would stay the hands of the members of Congress. Mr. Loach moved the adoi*ion of the resolutions. Colonel Myron T. Herrick, of Cleve land. in an enthusiastic speech seconded the motion. The resolution were voted upon by the assembly and unanimously adopted. A REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS. \ Washington. Sept. 3. Arevolutionary movement is mow in progress in Vene zuela. The information has come to the State Department from an unofficial source but one believed to oe trustwor try. The Navy Department today sent or ders to tin* Detroit which bus just ar rived at Philadelphia from New York to proceed at once to lgtguayra. Vene zuela. She will coal and start, on the voyage in the course of two or three days. The Detroit should make the run to 1 aiguayra inside of ten days. The presence of an American wan-lhip may have a good effect in maintaining the confidence of the resident Ameri cans and other foreigners in their safety. The extent of tin* disaffection is not known here, though it is said that ever since tlie last election there iiave liern unitterings on the part of a defeated candidate and his friends. HALF A MILLION BALES SHORT. Atlanta. Ga.. Kept. 3.—Commissioner of Agriculture O. B. Ktevens, who re turned to Atlanta today aft *r an in spection of the crops throughout Middle and Southwest Georgia, states that cot ton will be at least half u million bales short, and that in order to realize 75 per cent, of the crop of 1899, conditions will have to remain favorable for some time to come. NO DANGER AT NJJSW ORI.UVNN Washington. Sept. 3. A dispatch Inis been received from tin* commanding officer of the garrison at New Orleans, saying the situation there is not serious, and unless the yellow fever lavomes more of a menace than at present he does not 'believe it is advisable to move the troops. Acting tqioii this suggestion the order for removal has been held In u bey mice.