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jy i' it i : I1 VOL. XII. NO.' 196. WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1899. PRICE 5 CENTS. . I A WIFT WITNESS Makes Out a Strong i lendant SOME'WHOLESALE CHARGES By Cuignet Against a Foreign Official Likely to Bring on International "Complications Several Sensational Facts Brought OutMajor Henry's forgery Known to the Officials Before His Con fessionThe Leakage of Information From the YVar Ministry Continued After Dreyfus' f Imprisonment. 1 Jtennes, August 19. Tto special in cident occurred' this morning when the trial of Captain Dreyfus was resumed " at tfhe Lyeee. ' .; The first witness called was Major Cuignet, formerly attached to the, min istry of war The major was not in Hniformi, as he is- not at present at tached Xo any corps. mony toy stating that while on head- quarters staff he 'gave Dreyfus a gen- &ral scheme for the mining of railroads, ."V-owing to the latter's persistent re quests for such information. Dreyfus, the witness said, took copious notes ' and when his house was searched these notes were not discovered'. He does not know what became of them.' iAfber launching the above declara tion, which -he apparently considered to be weighty evidence of the treachery of Dreyfus, Major Cuignet proceeded to recount in detail the task which General Gonse assigned to hint in May, ' 1898, of classifying the documents ii the Dreyfus,' Esterhazy and I Picquart cases. f' - ,. T . !, , kI The first question1 I will ask; here,"' said the witness: "Is Dreyfus guilty?" My conviction) of his guilt is based on three grounds : "1. His confessions to' Captain Le "brunRenault., "2. The -techoiical nature of the .con tents of the bordereau. 4j "3. The results of the examination of the secret dossier. 1 "I will add to these three points .the evidence of the expert BertilIon(kuigh : ter) as in Jdir&t proof and the oceans employed .by the Dreyfus family to se- 5e?rV?mttti0 I Pr- ' test that jai campaign has been under taken against .justice, truth and .our country." The major's outburst of heroics evoked synical smilss and indications of dissent, coupled with marks of dis sent from the assembled generals. The witness next spoke of the -secret dossier of the war ministry, containing formation relating ,to the interview stween M. Trarieux, .former minister of justice, and' Count Ternielli, .the Italian ambassador, "which country," said Ouignet, 'benefitted by the treach ery." Regarding the confessions said to have been made to Captain. Lebrun Renault, the witness said he still be lieved they werle authentic. Continuing, the witness reasserted that the bordereau was written- by Dreyfus at the end of August, and in- cidental'ly, the miajtir protested against Colonel Picquart's .insinuations against du Paty de Clam.. He then, returned to the secret dossier of the war Office, from which), he declartrd, the court was euro to draw Independen't deductions. "The first portion; Of the dossier," he said, "shows that in 1893 there was A constanU leakage! in the ministry of war. We 'have Ihad proofs of the plans lof fortificationsdi reaching th hand's of a foreign power." i . ' v The witness then invited' the court's special attention to the document in which, he said, vrouldrbe found amplt proof of the prisoner'3 guilt. DPwEYFUS DENOUNCES THE WIT NESS. . ; . At this stage of the proceedings' Dreyfus rose and interrupted the wit ness shouting: 'That is a manifest lie." Another documen't of the dossier, ac cording to Major Cuignet, showed be . yond dispute that jthe bordereau actu ally passed through the hands of Col onel Schwartzkoppen. This, to, the witness, established the authenticity of the bordereau, an' examination of "vhich he pointed out,: prored Schwartz koppen' and Pannizzardi had the clos est 'relations in all matters of espion age, .; (Referring next to the dispatch of Colonel Schneider, former Austrian military attache at Paris, denouncing as a forgery a letter purporting to have been writfeai by the attache, in which he was represented as referring to ef forts being made by Schwartzkoppen and Pennizzardi to conceal' their rela v with Dreyfus, the witness main-, kwized that General Mercier's state ets on the subject were correct and proved The intelligence depart ment, he added, had other documents from the same attache. - Major Cuignet said he noticed the importance of Colonel Schneider's rep resentation had not escaped the court, "nor those who are fightihg so hard for the rehabilitation of -Dreyfus." 'I "heard it said-," the witness con a tinued, "that .an' emphatic denial has been addressed to lis alleging tiiat the report is a forgery. I do not know what truth there is in ithis denial. It is said to be dated) from) Ems, and we, Jn France know that telegram from e Case Against the De-j Dreyfus. - Ems are not always authentic, I will simply point out to the court that the document in quof'Ura was handed to the court toy M. Chamoih, repres anting the minister of war, and that the docu ment is included in a po?:lon of the secret dossier, the authenticity of which has never been questional, and that it is, therefore, to the French government . to which the denial is addressed. ! "I beg to add) that If r.hifi denial to ; Jthe French government is maintained we are in a. position to prove beyond dispute the authenticity of the report' in question. The author of this report, is, I know, of a very inferior position compared' with his friends. Perhaps he cannot do otherwise than deny; but he must kmow that this document is not the only one of his which we have in our hands. I cannot enumerate them, but we have particularly a letter from his government, written on official paper, asking him to obtain official in formation' regarding a vessel of the French navy and another letter yin; Which he is asked to request the French government officially for three cavalry sabres of a certain pattern. These sabres were asked for and grant ed through the intermediary of the third bureau. t "Finally, we . have a memorandum wOf the toast proposed by him at the N fo.i n.n f are well dinner to his comrade : and friend, Agent "A," (Schwartzkoppen). The author of the report, now alleged to be false, referred to it several' times in the midst 'of his toast. In order to recall to him the term of his toast and to show that our documents are au thentic, I will recall only the last phrase. 'After expressing regrets at the departure of "A" andt telling (him we should have the best recollections of Jhimv he added, and I quote textu ally: 'For at long time to oonre In all the armies of the world, in America and Asia, "A" will long be the talked about and it 'will be said "A" was quite unique-, " Major Ouignet's statement was ap parently desigmed: to prove the acute ness of the intelligence department and to elicit a; vigorous denial. Major Carriere, the government's commissary, said' he thought it desir able to remark, as the representative of the g0Vernm4t, that he must not be understood to endorse all Major Cuig net had said with, reference to a foreign military officer who at present moment held' a diplomatic appointment in France. (Sensation.) THE WITNESS CAUGHT. . Replying to M. Demange Major Cuig net insisted that if Henry committed forgery "it was in the interest of th country." ' 7 To this statement, the counsel re torted: ."You did not say that to the court of cassation." At the request of M. Demange, the major's deposition before the court of cassation relating to Henry's ' motives aordi Paty de Clam's share in the prepa ration' of the forgery was read It showed that Cuignet emphatically de clared hefore the court of cassation that lie was convinced an investigationi would) easily show t!hat Paty de Clam was the principal1 author of the Henry forgery. The witness claimed ho thought he was doing his duty "in sayinig all that is in my mind." "Do youi adhere," asked1 counsel, "to all you said before the "full court of cassation?" -; This question greatly confused the witness, who attempted to explain by saying " he was "only .-arguing at that' time," and that it was not for him to judge Paty de Clam. " DREYFUS CONTRADICTS THE WITNESS. . When Dreyfus was asked if he wished to reply to this witness "he declared1 he had never asked1 Major Cuignet for doc uments except by the desire of his chief. Major Bertin, "All the details which Major Cuignet has given on this subject', saidi the prisoner, "sprang out of his own imagination and are due to the same state of mind ,which prompts unreasoning ; bitterness even against an innocent man1." DU PATY DE ODAM "CATJLED AND FAILED." The name of Major du Paty de Clam was then called; whereupon. Major Car rier e said Paty de Claim had been offi cially informed that. his presence was .necessary to the court-martial and it was hoped he would be able to come as soon as possible, but the govern ment commissary had heard nothtog from him since this notification! was sent. . At the request of M. Demange, it was decided' to notify Paty deClam that the court-martial! was ready to hear his deposition. j GENERAL BOTSDEFFRE TESTL FrES. ! General de'Boisdeff re, former chief of the general staff of the French ar my, then advanced to the witness box and took the customary oath to tell the truth. The general remarked! that in view oT the exhaustive evidence already given he would' try to be brief. He hurriedly reviewed the leakage in the ministry of war, the discovery of the bordereau, the arrest and trial of Drey fus and the latter's alleged confessions, before the ceremony of degradation, to Captain Lebrun-Renault. Witness said' he believed! the confessions were genuine. He next referred to Colonel Picquart's appearance in the intelli gence department, although the wit ness had hesitated to appoint him be cause he thought Pic quart too self-confident and not sufficiently deferential towards his chiefs. "It has been, said," continued Gen eral de Boidsdeffre, "that a secret pack age of papers was shown die judges of thie court-martial of 1894 I nositivelv assert that, so far as I am concerned, tions of Colonel Picquart and corrob I never orderedl Colonel Picauart to orated' General Mercier'si evidence in Picquart to convey any envelop to Colonel Mam-el." The general next described the in terview between himself and! Colonel Picquart when the 1 attar first men tioned Esterhazey, without, however, connecting him with- the Dreyfus af fair. Witness discredited! Colonel Pic-' quart's statement that the latter asked Mm (witness) hot to mention' the in vesigation to General Gonse, General de tBoisdeifre, whose evidence was attentively followed, especially by the members of the court-martial, then related the incidents of his interviews with Picquart, how he sent Picquart to see General Gonse, and General Gonse's subsequent letter to the wit ness, advising a coMinuance of the in vestigations regarding1 Esterhazey, but adding that the affair must not be mixed up with the Dreyfus affair. As Colonel Picquart persisted in trying to hurry matters he was meglectisng his other duties, the witness proposed to the minister of war to send' him, not in disgrace, on a mission to Tonking, but the minister of war, the general asserted:, found another mission for him. . . ESTERHAZBY'S CONFESSION DE NOUNCED AS A LIE. Everything, the general added', went quietly for a year, until M. Scheurer Kestner intervened. This was follow ed "by the denunciation of Esterhazey by Mattheu Dreyfus and the inquiry into Esterhazey's proceedings. "At that time," the witoes said, "I was convinced of the guilt of Dreyfus and this conviction is as strong today as ever." (Sensation): "I regard it as an abomniable crime," continuedi the general, "to have endeavored to substitute for nim a man of straw, "however, disreputable toe may have Teen and whatever his offense, which, in any case, would not lessen the guilt of Dreyfus. My conviction is the same as at the commencement of the affair. Esterhazey, it is true, atn, a certain pyscologicaJ andi sirtgularly well clios en moment confessed' to have written the bordereaui, but he has made many other statements. He is always telling lies. What is certain is that he could never have delivered: the documents enumerated in the bordereau." Then the witness briefly referred' to the trial and acquittal of Esterhazey and the latter's threats to proclaim "himself a tool) of 'the general staff, af ter which the general alluded t the Henry forgery and M. Cavaignac's in terrogations of Henry. "You know the result," said he, ap parently much moved'. "I will not tell you what I suffered at that moment. As soon as everything was ended I tenedered my resignationi, but was ask ed to withdraw it I was told every j one could' make a mistake, hut I re plied that while ever-" one was liable to err. every one ha? not the misfor 'tune, as I had', to assort to a jury that -a document wasi genuine when in reali ty It was forged; that every one ought to stand by one's word, and! that when a man happened: to experience such m misfortune there was nothing left for "him but to go away and from that mo ment 1 have held aloof." (Sensation). LEAKAGE AFTER DREYFUS' IM PRISONMENT. Replying to the court," General de Boisdeff re admitted' that the leakage at the headquarters continued) after1 he condemnation of Dreyfus. It ceased for a year, but in 1895 a paper was dis covered proving the communication to , o. rK, r0,n , relating to the distribution of the ar- tillerya-nd showing that a foreign gov- ernment was perfectly acquainted' with -w , , : . .,, the changes mlde. Picquart explained how expjenditures tAnswerhig a question put by a mem- were regulated in the intelligence de ber of a courtHmartial relative to the Partment, nd the days sitting ended ,mflwi, fjni Mr- 'With a colloquy between Picquart and cier, tne rormer minster or war, anu M. Casimer Perier, (formerly president of the French republic) witness replied that he certainly hod an interview with General Mercier early; in January dur ing the course of which Mercier , re marked, in regard to the representa tions of a foreign ambassador to the president of the republic: "It is not going to happen! this time either. You can sleep in peace. The incident has been settled." At the conclusion of General de Boisdeffre's testimony, Dreyfus on be ing asked the usual question replied! that he had nothing to say. GENERAL GONZE ON THE STAND. After a 'brief suspension of the sit ting of the court, General Gonse, who was under-chief of the general' staff, was called to the witness stand. He ex plained; the motives which influenced his actions during the post few years and said he believed1 he was "animated by the loftiest aim, namely the pro tection! of the army against the crimi nal attacks made on it from all sidea." General Gonse said that in spite of Esterhazey'a statement it was impossi ble for him- to have written the borde reau, and still' more impossible for him tc have secured the information con tained therein. He added that no traces of indiscretion were discovered during all the proceedings aginst Es terhazeyv f General Gonse denied that Esterhazey had received! money from the intelli gence department and, describing the "strange behavior," of Dreyfus and his "frequent acts of indiscretion,' the witness begged the court to summon the secretary of the ministry of war who surprised the prisoner prying in the offices at a time when there was no business ;going on there. The general defended Guenee and re ferred to-another spy as an "honorable j man" whose name he could no: give, j as having .furnished' military head quarters with valuable! information. The witness asserted! that while the name of Dreyfus was often mentioned in the documents in the possession! f the; intelligence departmet his inno cence was no where hinted at. The general then proceeded to de fend' Paty de Clam from the insinua in regard to the alleged confessions made to Captain Debrun-Renault. The general denied several state ments made by Picquart, and referred to the alleged! number of arrests or dered by Picquart on "unfounded charg es of espionage." Considerable comment was aroused by the fact that, contrary to the pro visions of the law requiring the tes timony to be verbal and1 without notes, General Gonse, adjusting his eye-glass es, proceeded to consult a large note book and frequently refreshed his memory. ' 0 THE HENRY FORGERY KNOWN. Dealing with the Henry forgery, General Gonse said: 'I can say it was already known. General Roget spoke to me about it at least eight days be fore Henry confessed." (Sensation). The witness disputed' Magistrate Ber tulus' account of the interview wit'hx Henry, .put admitted that when he, General Gonse, handed Henry his forg ery the patter insisted it must not be shown to Picquart (Sensation) . Replying to M. Demange, witness admitted' Jhe had ordered Colonel Pic quart noi to concern himself with the handwriting of the bordereau when he commenced his -investigation of Es-' terhazey. . 'Then," asked M. Demange sharply, "when you saw his handwritings .were identical with the writing of the bor dereau,' did that make no impression . on you." . - "Evidently," replied the witness, "the two handwritings had a great re semblance." When Dreyfus was asked the regu lar question he said: "I will reply di rectly: to the secretary of the ministry ; of war who said he eaw me in the offi ; ces after service hours. As regards General Gonse, I am surprised that the : general officer repeats dinner-table gos sip. -There is known to be imsurmount ; able difficulty in introducing any one : into the ministry of war, and it is ab ; solutely impossible for an officer to bring any one into the ministry." To this the general replied: "No doubt it is difficult" Colomel Jouaust: "No doubt it is difficult, but it is not imposslbla The . ministry can be entered easily enough , at certain hours. Dreyfus was in a po : sitlon to know that." (Sensation). The prisoner: "I will reply to Sec retary Kerret, who has told a lie.. What I have to say to General Gonse is that . every time a friend came to see me at , the ministry even when a French offi j cer, I was obliged to descend to the i floor below and even members of thes : chamber of deputies who calledi on me ! could not 'enter the ministry. It was consequently absolutely impossible u der ordinary circumstances for a subal tern to bring any one into the minis try." V- General Gonse declared that permits could easily be obtained. v PICQUART BE-EXAMINED. Colonel Picquart re-entered the wit ness box in order to reply to allegations as to the way he performed his duties. Be denied a number of General Gonse's assertions regarding the arrests which the witness ordered'. Counsel for the defense, after em phasizing the fact that even in the opinion of General de Boisdeff re there was a connection- between the Ester hazey and Dreyfus, affairs, asked! the president of the court to request Col- onfel Picquart to - give information in- 6"- , iiaLt e been expended for the surveil- General Billot as to the expenditures of secret service funds. The court adjourned until Monday. Jndice TlacHiiA Selected, oeau of tbe LaiwScbool (Special to The Messenger.) Rleigh, N. C, Aug., 19. Judge Mac Rae, of Raleigh, was elected dean of the law school Of the university. He takes charge September 1st, the executive committee to elect other law professors. Governor Russell, will probably ap point B. J. Wootten, of Wilmington, an officer In the volunteer regiment for Manila. Work of tbe JDLormona in tbe outb Chattanooga, Tenn., August 19. The report of President Rich, of the Mor mon Society, shows that 490 elders are laibormg in the southern field and dur ing last week they walked 9,260 miles, visited 3,500 f amilies and held 950 meet ings. The report says Sn the Georgia conference sixty-seven elders are at work,and during the week they walked 909 miles and visited 169 families. They were refused entertainment thirty-seven times. All weak places In your system ef fectually closed against disease by De Witt's Little Early Risers. They cleans the bowels, promptly euro chronic constipation, regulate the liver, and fill you with new life, and vigor. Small, pleasant, sure; never gripe. It R. Bellamy. CONFLICT As to What Will Be the of Oaptain SENSATIONAL RUMORS AFLOAT Such as Orders for the Withdrawal of the Case and the Arrest of Cien-' erai Mercier Orisi nal Documents Charged to Dreyfus, but in Esterhazey's Handwriting in Possession of Panizzardi. The Proceedings of Yesterday's Session Criticised bv Kmily Crawford " Status of Vienna, August 19.--The Allegemeine Zeitung says: "Colonel Panizzardi, former military attache of the Italian embassy in Paris, has in his possession the identical notes on Madagascar, i which is specified in the bordereau in the Dreyfus affair. It Is in Esterhazey's handwriting and the paper is 'similar to that of the bordereau. It, was- sent to Colonel Schwartzkoppen, attache of the German embassy, who had it cop ied. The copy waa sent to Berlin and the original to Colonel Panizzardi that he might have a copy. This he did, but he forgot to return the original to his brother attache." London, August 20. The Paris cor respondent of The Sunday Special says: "The government, I understand, has decided to arrest General Mercier. It is rumored that orders will be given to withdraw the case against 'Dreyfus, it having been proved that the docu ments relied upon to establish his guilt are forgeries." London, August 19. Thomas Terrell, Q. C, one of the leading jurists in Eng land, who has attended some of the sessions of the Dreyfus court-martial, .says: "There is an air of unreality "about the whole proceedings. Dreyfus alone seems to be in earnest. No fierce con flicts of intellect occur between counsel as would be the case in England, and in my opinion the president of the court has already decided the question in favor of acquittal. This appears to be the case f rom his evident anxiety to preserve an air of complete impartiali ty and, though on occasions he is un able to conceal his hostility to the de fence, bis intention plainly is to ac cuit. : - - ".'. '' -,: v . " -4:'. : ; jThe jcourt-onartial isLas,jfair as a spe cial jury sitting without legal assist ance can .be. ' The opinions it will form must be feeble1 and its judgment can not have the least weight to the legal mind. Much prejudice is confounded with patriotism on both sides, but in structions from the superior officials of state will outweigh considerations of legal evidence." AUSTRIA TO TAKB A HAND. London, August 20. The Observer publishes the following dispatch from Vienna: , "It is probable that a formal contra diction of the statements of the French general3 at Rennes, regarding the Schneider letter will be communicated to the French government with a re quest that the generals in ; question publicly withdraw them. Such action by Austria-Hungary would break the ice for the German and Italian gov ernments (Copyright toy Associated Press.) Rennes, August 19. Opinions differ as to what the judgment of the Dreyfus tribunal will be. Town -people who know well General Germain and Gen eral Lucas, of this army corps, think the decision will be against the accus ed. On the other hand, at the Hotel Modere, which is now the great con versational news center. kthe idea pre vails of a reluctant judgment in .his favor. The tribunal certainly shares the feel ings of the military witnesses, but there are signs of coming around. I noticed a member of the court-martial wa'tching Dreyfus today with an ex pression of compassionate interest. Then, again, Colonel Jouaust, the pres ident, did not rebuke him for apostro phizing Captain Cuignet, who led the procession of military witnesses today, nor order him, as he was wont, not to speak until he was addressed. Mai tre Demange is more hopeful, al though acknowledging the perverse, use the nationalists make of the Schneider and Panizzardi telegrams to inflame patriotic sentiment. That party now demands the full publication of the se cret dossier, so as to heap disgrace on the military attaches and the illustri ous German prince involved, a prince who lived long in Paris. ' I should not be surprised at a tie. This would, enable the prisoner to leave court a free man, but would show that half the Judges believed him guilty. The Schneider letter or telegram is resented by all but the Dreyfusftes as an attempt to cast odium on the French army. It ought to benefit the prisoner, but does not. Military men say it would set the face of the court-martial harder against him. - The, majority seem to adopt Captain Cuignet's opinion. It is thought, though not expressed thus: That the military attaches have behaved abominally in the Dreyfus affair; that the French gov ernment is in possession of numerous specimens of Schneider's' handwriting; that the document on which General Mercier relied will bear every test and that it has been accepted toy every min ister of war since 1894 and been com pared with letters written to six of them by Colonel Schneider. Captain Cuignet spoke with a hollow voice, quite different from that in which some days ago he made his virulent at tack on Dreyfus. His attitude, how ever, was as assertive as before, though his danguage was less so. He Is a fair, sandy haired man, with a big red moustache and a resonant, metallic voice, good for command. He Is among the few military witnesses who have deposed while standing. Today his task was to destroy the ef fect of the questions of Maitre De mange and to set up again ithe demolish ed theory of General Mercier . Cuignet was in the., fourth bureau! of OF VIEWS Outcome of the Trial Dreyfus. Her Review of the the Case. the general staff when Dreyfus was in another bureau, but not under his or? ders. They were both engaged In' cal culating what work invasion would throw on the railways, but were en gaged on different lines. Dreyfus, he said, constantly came to him for. infor- , m'ation, which he had no cause to do f Cuignet kept refusing, until, he was tired out N-by. the Importunities of the accused. Then, by degrees, he gave him, Cuignet deposed, all the notes he himself had made. : Dreyfus, according to the witness, never returned the notes. When search was made at his home they were not found. What had become ' of .them? Dreyfus was not the man to cast them away. Cuignet's insinuation was that they were sent to Berlin. The conclu sion was far-fetched, but the members of the court-martial made a note of it. Cuignet Vthen defended Esterhazey against Picquart, and next against Du Paty de Clam. He gave fresh peeps at the secret military dossier, in which are so many ordinary letters from women, opinions on public men, and tittle-tattle of a spicy-source. Cuignet said he was sorry the court had not examined this voluminous dossier, which proved a deal of light, sometimes crude light "on spies of different-cutegories, in cluding military attaches." The latter, he remarked, were far from being the only spies regularly kept up by foreign governments. It was Only natural, he argued, that the military attaches should accuse Ester hazey, but they knew the traitor had been in the very heart of the citadel, in the general staff. "The traitor!" he exclaimed, 'is not Esterhazey, but Dreyfus!" ' Here Captain Dreyfus lost his self control. Starting to hie feet, he vio lently apostrophized Cuignet, but Cuig net d2d not seem stum? to anger. Cold as a toad, he went on with his invec tive the diction clear, measured and slow. He constantly drank sweetened., water to moistan his palate. No new fact was brought forward toy Captain Cuignet and every one tlrl of him. . General de Boisdeff re was also a wit ness. He denied that Colonel Picquart, on the occasion of the first Dreyfus trial, was sent with secret papers to the president of the court-martial. Here was a cautious witness, .but he had to support tne other generals.. He eulo gized the suicide Henry as "worth? of the fullest confidence,'. and spoke oC Picquart as "the organizer of the Drey fus agitation." Boisdeffre declared him self convinced1 of the guilt of the ac cused. Really that guilt might be the' subject of a chorus of generals in an opera bouffe. Picquart, .he accused of wishing to substitute a man of straw for the, real traitor. He argued on thisv wise: The three years Dreyfus spoke of on the day of his degradation hadi passed. Proscription for the crime of treason would, therefore, protect a man of straw from legal consequences. As he was, Picquart thought, a scamp, no great injury would be done him fcy throwing on him the odium that Drev fus deserved. Nevertheless he (the witness) had learned of Picquart's scheme, black and abominable. But why follow General de Boisdeffre? Why "follow General Gonse ? Why fol low General Billotr the others in their long-winded disquisitions? Colonel Pic quart at the end was allowed to defend himself against the malignant insinu ations and assertions of all. Until ,'Maitres Demange and Labor! speak,, one should risk no opinion as to the outcome. General Billot thinks there will be many fluctuations before the trial is over, but he confidently ex pects a verdict of guilty. The government seems more neutral since the foreign minister, M. Delcasse; returned from his visit to Count Mu ravieff. EMILY CRAWFORD. The 'Afro American t'ouuell Chicago, August 19. The Afro-American council resumed its sessions (today with the committee on resolutions deep in earnest conference and the remain der of the bodV awaiting the result of. the committee's deliberations. Numerous resolutions more or less in condemnaion of the national adminis tration,' it is said, were shelved durins the night. It was resolved to send a cable to Captain Dreyfus expressing the sympathy of the colored people for a man who had suffered much on ac count of racial prejudice - Booker T. Washington was bitterly denounced by !Rev. R. C. Ransom,, pas tor of Bethel church, in which the con-' Zenr?n Ss Delnff held, and also by B.' y-J?ton, of Indianapolis. Wash ington has .been In fthe city, but has refused to attend the sessions of the convention. Ransom and Thornton de nounced Washington as a traitor and a trimmer, and the audience gave song assent to the denunciations. 'A1 address was issued at the close of the convention to the American people, covering practically the same ground? has been covered in many' of the reso lutions passed during- the meeting. "It denounced lynch law, demanded bet ter protection for the colored man at the ballot box and in labor unions, and. set forth a long list of grievances. fKodol pyspepsla Cure cures dyspep sia because its ingredients are such' that It can't help doing so. "The pub lic can rejy upon. It as a master reme- yor. borders arising from im- :r -oww. Mvmca iix. x nomas, M. D Jn American Journal Of Health - .. ..
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