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MWS OF THE WOfc&gj
SPAN'ISH-AM ERICAS ISL
The eighth infantry, now in CiflH
will recuperate at Fort Snelling.
Gen. Funston is in the hospital on
account of a wound received in Cuba.
Nine enlisted men were drowoed
near Manilla by the capsizing of a raft
The Associated Press shows that
Gen. Otis is too much of a blue pen
ciled
The Pennsylvania regiment was
mustered out at San Francisco and left
for home.
The transport Sherman, with the
first Claifornia volunteers, arrived at
San Francisco.
Lieutentant Drew of the twelfth in
fantry was killed while reconnoitering
near Angeles* Luzon.
A hundred Negros islanders in
trenched in the hills fought our troops
for an hour and a half.
The town of Angeles, In front of
General MacArthur, was set on tire by
retreating Filipinos.
Arrangements have been completed
for taking the census of Cuba. Gen
eral Linger will be in charge, and the
work must be completed by January
1, 1900.
It is estimated that the bodice of
2,500 victims of the Poro Rico hurri
cane have already been buried.
A fight between disappointed Cuban
soldiers and gendarmes resulted in five
deals. Ten others were wounded.
Major Russel B. Harrison, son of ex-
Presldent Benjamin Harrison, is ill
with yellow fever at. Santiago, Cuba.
Gen. Juan Isidro Jimlnez, aspirant to
the presidency of Santo Ikimingo, who
was arrested at Cienfuegoes, Cuba, has
been released.
A Tiondon News correspondent as
serts that in an interview Dewey said
that the Filipinos are capable of self
government and should be given it.
President Schurman of the Philip
pine commission Is quoted as saying
that the educated Filipino Is the equal
of any other civilized man in the world.
At a conference between the Presi
dent, Secretary Root and others It was
decided that Gen. Otis should not be
recalled and that every effort should be
made to capture Agulnaldo.
Gen. Merritt conferred with Presi
dent McKinley and said afterward that
there would be no “immediate change”
In the commanding officer of the army
in the Philippines.
The officers of the 10 additional regi
ments to lie organized for service In
the Philippines will le appointed this
week. Enlistments for the new regi
ments will protwbly begin next Mon-
day.
The board which examined the
causes of the grounding of the Unite,l
States cable ship Hooker, ashore near
the entrance to Manila bay. finds that
there were evidences of carelessness on
.the part of the navigator.
Victor W. Olinstead has been ap
pointed assistant director of the Cuban
census and will establish headquarters
at Santa Clara. Cuba. Colonel Ranger,
the director, will have his office In
Washington. The census Is to he com
pleted before Nov. 30.
The first Nebraska volunteers, who
reached Ran Francisco from Manilla
three weeks ago. will be brought home
on a special train at state epexnse.
D. E. Thompson has advanced $20,000
for the purpose and the remaining
$15,000 required has been subscribed
by citizens, Cudahy, the meat packer,
eontrtbnting $3,000.
DOMESTIC.
The tug combine elected officers.
Chicago September wheat 7tV6<\
Tho Fraternal Congress met in Chi
cago.
Ex-Judge Henry Hilton Is dead at
Saratoga.
Hot whins destroyed the growing
cotton in Texas.
Many searchers for gold In Alaska
have died of scurvey.
The Universal Peace union tH'gan its
annual meeting in Boston.
Three men "were killed by a boiler
epxlosion at Appleton. Wis.
Tramps murdered two Chicago Great
Western hrakemen in lowa.
The prices of meats have been ad
vanced again in New York.
War is again on between the sugar
trust and the Independent refiners.
Tho Milwaukee withdraws from the
Western Passenger association.
William J. Bryan declares that tho
silver issue cannot bo subordinated.
John D. Rockefeller's big project to
corner copper Is said to be a failure.
In New York Justice McAdam de
clared unconstitutional the Ahem law.
Stonemasons on Montana's new cap-
Itol struck against a St. Paul foreman.
St. Paul’s German Catholic church.
In Cln<:v.ntl, was nearly destroyed by
fire.
The IkHlge county (Minn.l capital
contest is decided in favor of Mantor
vlllc.
Genesee, the Rochester (N. Y.)
yacht, won the first race for the
(Snada’s cap.
The entire business part of Victor.
Colo., was destroyed by fire. |g>*s
$2,500,000.
Rev. Dr. Charles Howard Malcom
and Gen. Thoma- A. Davies of New
York died.
The Hearst third of the great Home
stake mine of Deed wood. S. n., is to be
sold In London.
Rise in rice of building materials
has causal a halt in the construction
of new buildings.
The secretary of agriculture says
the wheat crop will be 100.000.000 Hush
els lighter than in Is9s.
E. M Findlay of Augusta. 111., has
been selected as supervisor of the
ninth census district.
■Ji David Morse, nephew and assistant
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ji of York
at a state organi
sation and passew resolutions.
The army worm is creating havoc
with the crops about Burlington in
Kit Carson County, Colorado.
Sir Charles Tupper declares the
Americans are delaying the Alaskan
boundary negotiations for profit.
Leading democrats of Mr. Croker’s
district, the twenty-ninth, have re
volted against his authority.
New York butchers decided to make
general the fight against the beef trust
by enlisting butchers of other cities.
At Seattle the steamer Roanoke ar
rived from St. Michaels, Alaska, with
350 miners and $250,000 in gold dust.
Miss little I-ewis of New York is
suffering from malaria, which the doc
tors say was caused by mosquito bites.
Mayor Jones of Toledo has in pre
paration a letter announcing his inde
pendent candidacy for governor of
Ohio.
Tho fish commission steamer Alba
tross will make aa etcx"''< i d tour of
deep-sea investigation in the Pacific
ocean.
Consul-General Howe at Cape Town,
South Africa, reports a fine market
there for products of Americn manu
facture.
Princeton professors have returned
form an expedition to Patagonia, where
they found many skeletons of extinct
mammals.
The union reform party in Ohio
nominates a state ticxet, but Mayor
Jones of Toledo is not tho nominee for
governo.'.
Nearly forty persons are reported to
have been drowned and many houses
destroyed In a storm In North and
South Carolina.
lane I). Robertson, a Chicago con
tractor, has filed a petition in l>ank
ruptcy. The liabilities are $324,000,
assets nothing.
Colonel Johnson's canvass for the
office of commander of the G. A. R. is
said by his friends to be likely to result
in his election.
George Boucher, charged with killing
an unidentified man at St. Joseph,
Mich., was taken to St. Joseph after his
arrest in Chicago.
Yellow fever experts declare that
Sanarelli has discovered the bacillus of
the disease and a more powerful anti
serum may be produced.
Brian G. Hughes, practical joker,
pretended to find $50,000 in the Ash
bury Park surf and was fined $lO for
causing a disturbance.
A London hosiery firm has filed a
bankruptcy petition against the earl of
Yarmouth, who has been a society lion
at Newport this summer.
The Lake Michigan &. Like Superior
Transportation company hit the Chi
cago St. Paul lines by making a tre
mendous cut In freight rates.
Assistant Surgeon Heiser at Naples
has caliled that there (3 absolutely no
truth in the report that the plague had
appeared at Naples and Palmero.
The resignation of Thomas It. Reed
as congressman in tho first Maine dis
trict has been accepted by Governor
Powers and will take effect Sept. 4.
Tho forest tires in the Adlrondacks
are extinguished, or under control.
The fires have mostly been in waste
laods, no virgin forest being burned.
The supreme court of New York has
decided that, according to law r , negro
pupils may he excluded from public
schools where white children attend.
The New York Butchers’ Mutual
Protective Association adopted anew
scale of meat prices, making an ad
vance to consumers of 2 to 5 cents a
pound.
At a meeting of the National council
of the Daughters of Liberty the
charter fee was raised to $25. and the
regular report of the national councilor
was made.
The Rev. F. W. Sandford has founded
anew religious sect in Maine calling
itself The Holy Ghost and Us which
has obtained a marvelous hold on the
people.
About 4.000 masons in Havana held a
conference at which a strike was
agreed upon. They asked $3.50 a day
for ordinary work and $4.50 for spe
cial work.
Mrs. Anna Teeple. wife of Postmaster
Janies Teeple of Charlestown, and her
son, 9 years old, were drowned in the
Ohio river, nine miles above New At-
Iwny, Ind.
A riot between the soldiers of the
Thirty-second volunteer regiment and
the North Leavenworth negroes took
place and one man was wounded on
each side.
Llewellyn Stout who killed Harvey
H. Wurater, a telegraph operator and
station agent on the Philadelphia and
Heading railway, has been hanged at
Easton, Pa.
The towns of southeastern Alaska
have Issued a call for a territorial con
vention to lie held at Juneau. Oct. 9.
The convention will be composed of
seventy delegates.
At Tampa white caps brutally beat
Edward W. W. Crum of the Florida
Republican at Peck. His offense was
the appointment of a negro as his as
sistant in the postoffice.
Tho republican state campaign
opened at !xndon in a mammoth polit
ical demonstration and barbecue. Gen
eral Taylor, the candidate for governor,
was the principal speaker.
Peter Ijouiti and his 15-vear-old son.
who were under arest at Eieetic.
Ala., charged with shooting Hall Jor
dan. a respectable citizen, were taken
from Jail and lynched.
At Springfield, 111., the children of
Owen Ward a veteran of the Mexican
war. who died recently, have found
hidden in the wails of his dwelling
over $5,000 in gold aad specie.
Rev. Father Stephen, rector of the
monastery at Duuk v k, N. Y„ was
elected provincial of Order of the
Paselonist Fathers, now in session at
St. Paul's monastery in Pittsburg.
President McKinley has been elected
to represent the Columbus encampment
No. 78, Union Veteran Legion, at the
national encampment, to be held in
Baltimore Sept. 13, 14, and 15.
The soft ooai trust has options on all
mines in the Pittsburg district except
the Massillon Coal and Coke company,
about 100 properties in all. The cap
ital of the trust will be $64,000,000.
General Daniel Butterfield, who has
been seriously sick at Cold Spring, N.
Y., is now out of danger, but will not
be able to resume his work in connec
tion with the reception of Admiral
Dewey.
The stage between Salmon Lake and
Red Rock. Mont., was held up just in
side the state line. T. M. Reilly lost
more than S3O,O(Hi in gold dust, which
he was bringing to Dillon. The rob
bers escaped.
The Toledo Commercial, which has
been run as an independent paper, was
sold yesterday by George Hull to John
R. McLean, owner of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, acting through C. C. Stivers,
his business manager.
Governor Bushnell will go to Boston
to present a handsome silver .service
to the gunboat Marietta on behalf of
the citizens of the Ohio town. The gun
boat was named in honor of Marietta,
the oldest Ohio settlement.
The barn on the New York estate of
Horace Greeley was partly burned, and
Rev. Frank M. Clendemn, son-in-law
of Mr. Greeley, charges that it and the.
Church of Westchester, of which he is
rector, were set on fire.
One of the issues in the presidential
campaign next year will be President
McKinley’s leniency toward Captain
Carter, who was convicted by court
martial of appropriating to his own use
$1,700,000 of government money.
Owing to the constantly increasing
price of meat and the falling off of
trade in consequence the St. l/ouis
butchers are organizing to fight the so
called beef trust, which, they say, is
responsible for the higher prices.
In Chicago the bonds of Daniel
Coughlin, charged with jury bribing,
and at present a fugitive, and those of
his alleged co-conspirator. William
Armstrong, have been declared for
feited. Armstrong is in custody.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Daughters of St. George, one of the
best-known benevolent societies of wo
men in the world, was opened at Pitts
burg with about 60 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada.
The chairman of the committee on
invitation of the G. A. R. encampment,
which convenes Sept. 4 at Philadelphia,
received President McKinley's accept
ance of the invitation to review the
parade and attend the banquet Sept. 5.
The coolness between the Afro-
American council and Booker T. Wash
ington because the latter did not at
tend the sessions of the council has
resulted in Mrs. Washington’s name
being stricken from the council rolls.
Physicians do not generaly indorse
the recent findings of the Marine hos
pital commission as to the causes of
yellow fever. Drs. Reed and Carroll
are preparing a report along quite dif
ferent lines which will be awaited with
Interest.
The date has finally been set for the
reburial of the bodies of the followers
of John Brown, who met death with
the intrepid leader at Harper’s Ferry.
Va., in 1859. Tne ceremony will take
place Aug. 28. at 2 p. m., at North Elba,
N. Y.
It is proposed that a special session
of the North Dakota legislature be held
to apropriate $25,000 to bring the
troops of the state home from San
Francisco; the legislators raising the
amount by returning their "per dle*n”
to the state.
Baron von Herman, agricultural ex
pert of the German embassy, is just
back from a two-months’ visit to Ger
many. He states that there Is every
indication that the meat controversy
with the United States will soon be
satisfactorily settled.
Two hundred men of the flrst Geor
gia infantry were sent to Darien to
suppress an incipient riot and bring .a
negro charged with assault upon a
young girl. The crime was committed
several months ago. and recently the
negro tried to kill the girl.
Clayton C. Mason, a nephew of Sena
tor Mason of Illinois, died in Wash
ington from an overdose of morphine
taken hypodermically, presumably to
ease pain due to kidney trouble. Mason
was an employe at the capitol. His
widow is a resident of Chicago.
'Miss Viola Horlocker, who is under
a $5,000 bond, ehaged with having
attempted to take the life of Mrs.
Charles A. Morey at Hastings. Neb., by
sending her a box of poisoned candy
on April 10 last, is now in an insane
asylum at Jacksonville, 111.
The steamship City of Oolumuia has
been abandoned at sea. in a water
logged condition, and the crew of
thirty-eight men was left in Honolulu.
The City of Columbia sailed from San
Francisco Aug. It for Hongkong, with
a cargo of scrap iron. No lives were
lost.
Dr. Charles Forster Smith, professor
of Greek and classical philology In the
University of Wisconsin, and head of
the graduate department of the insti
tution, was badly injured by being
thrown from his bicycle while going
down a steep hill at Mt. Horeb. He
will recover.
Orville P. Curran western manager
for the Equitable Ufe Insurance com
pany and reputed to be worth about
$400,000. was made a defendant in a
breach of promise suit brought in a
Chicago court by Mrs, Virginia L.
Willard. Damages to the amous; of
$25,000 are asked.
Captain Francis W. Dickins, for some
time assistant chief and acting chief of
the bureau of navigation, navy depart
ment, is about to be detached from this
post, and, after a brief rest, will take
command of the battle ship Indiana,
succeeding-Captain H. C. Taylor, who
has asked to be relieved.
All last night a crowd of indignant
citizens beseiged the jail at Falls City,
Neb., hoping to secure “Short” Wilson,
who is under arrest for an assault up
on the 7-year-old daughter of a prom
inent merchant. If the citizens suc
ceed in overpowering the sheriffs
posse there will be a lynching.
Mrs. Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of Col
onel Ingersoll, has filed a bond as ad
ministratrix of the estate of her hus
band. Mrs. Ingersoll swears that to
the best of her knowledge and belief he
died intestate. The value of his per
sonal property is estimated to be about
SIO,OOO. He left a large life insurance.
Quay and his friends controlled the
Pennsylvania convention, which ef
fected the nomination of Lieutenant
Colonel James E. Barnet* of the tenth
Pennsylvania regiment for state treas
urer, J. Hay Brown of Lan -aster for
supreme judge, and Josiah R. Adams of
Philadelphia for superior court judge.
Caspar Bubert, a sculptor known by
his works all over the United States,
designer of several of the famous
group}’ in the decorations of public
buildings at Washington, was found
dead in his studio in New York City
from apoplexy. He had been working
on the Dewey arch at the time~of his
death.
Saturday a desperate fight occurred
in Natehetoches parish, La., between
Callie Brown, Robert Lee Brown and
Dr. W. H. Glover on one side and B. G.
Freeman on the other. Freeman shot
to kill, and with his first shots Callie
Brown and Dr. Glover fell dead upon
the floor. All the participants are men
of high standing, and the trouble grew
out of an old grudge.
In San Francisco letters of adminis
tration of the estate of John McKee
Verhoeff, who departed with the Peary
expedition for the north pole in 1891,
and who never retruned, have been
asked for by his brother, Harry Ver
hoeff. As near as can be ascertained,
Verhoeff died in August, 1892, on the
coast of Greenland. His estate consists
of personal property valued at $5,000,
the heirs being the petitioner and a sis
ter, Martha Verhoeff, who resides in
Louisville.
FOREIGN.
The Chilean misistry has resigned.
Rioting between Czechs and Germans
took place at Gradlitz, Bohemia.
French officers were shot down by
order of their comrades in the Soudan.
Forty thousand persons are said to
have died from facnine on the east
coast of Africa.
A sanitary cordon will be drawn
around Oporto. Portugal, where the bu
bonic plague prevails. '
General Mercier expresses the opin
ion that the Rennes court-martial will
surely convict Dreyfus.
Dock laborers on strike at Rouen
have renewed their rioting and many
arrests have ben made.
Anarchists rioted in the streets of
Paris and attacked churches. They
were dispersed with difficulty.
The khedive of Eqypt has decided to
take the “cure” at Graefenburg, Silesia,
where he will remain several weeks.
An English officer claims to have
discovered the mesquito that spreads
malaria. It hails from South Africa.
President Kruger’s reply to the Brit
ish demand is considered equal to a
positive refusal and war seems likely.
A Chicago committee met President
Diaz, of Mexico, at Chapuitepec castle
and formally invited him to visit Chi
cago.
Unveiling a monument to German
soldiers the kaiser paid an eloquent
tribute to the French who fell near
Metz.
Reports of Samoa indicate that the
early arrival of permanent officials
there is needed to prevent further
trouble. <
According to the present outlook, the'
hop crop in Alsace and Baden will be
a partial failure, both as concerns yield
and quality.
The mayor of Dublin and John Red
mond are said to be coming to this
country to stir up interest in the Par
nell statue fund.
The Shangha Mercury published a
communication from Pekin to the ef
fect that the emperor has developed
symptoms of insanity.
Prince Henry, brother of the German
kaiser, will visit America, it is said.
He may be invited by President Mc-
Kinley to visit Washington.
The Chinese authorities at Shanghai
say that the FVench have revived their
claim to the right of forming a settle
ment at Ranking based upon the treat"
of 1858.
President Kruger offered to give the
Transvaal outlanders more voice in
the government on condition that
Great Britain abandon her claim to su
zerainty.
A characteristic political pistol duel,
with fatal results, took place yesterday
at Lemberg between Lieutenants
Spreng and Urabl. At the first shot
Spreng fell dying.
Walter Wellman, leader of the Well
man polar expedition, which an-ived
in northern Norway August 17 on the
steamer Capella. having successfully
completed explorations in Franz Josef
Land, left Tromsoe for the south.
The newest Peruvian revolution at
Huanuco. under the leadership of Sen
or Durand, has assumed a more serious
phase and is giving the government
even more concern than did the Tquitos
rebellion, which subsided three weeks
ago.
A mission of Russian engineers and
their escorts were recently attacked by
Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the Chi
na-Rusian frontier, on the main Man
churia railway, and all were massa
cred. It is expected that Russia will
make reprisals.
Professor Edward Charles Pickering
of the Harvard observatory is in Ja
maica seeking a location for the larg
est telescope in the world, which is be
ing constructed at Cambridge, for ob
serving the new planet which is due
to pass close to the earth eighteen
months hence.
Baron Froich, a high German gov
ernment official, has become insolvent
and bankruptcy proceedings have been
commenced against him. It is claimed
that he misused his official position for
the purpose of launching a number of
industrial enterprises which have re
sulted in loss to all persons interested.
The defeat of the canal bills by the
Prussian diet was a stunning surprise
to Emperor William, who has 6aid to a
friend that to yield in the matter now
would amount to an abdication. A
long fight is anticipated, as a part of
the cabinet apparently does not share
the emperor’s enthusiasm for the ca
nals.
The bubonic plague has at last
reached European Russia. The gov
ernment has received an official report
that the vilage of Kolobohoffka, in
the government of Astrakhan, south
eastern Russia, is infected and that
twenty-one deaths have occurred.
Several eases also have been reported
from Italy.
The disturbances at Hilversum, Hol
land, where martial law was pro
claimed continued. The meb stoned
the troops, who ocupy the town, and
the cavalry charged on the rioters with
drawn sworde Finally the infantry
fired on the mob, killing one person
and wounding two others. Quiet was
restored at midnight.
Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Ire
land, signed the order releasing from
Maryborough jail James Fitzharris,
alias “Skin the Goat,” who in May,
1883, was sentenced to penal servitude
as an accomplice in the murder, May
6, 1882, in Phoenix park, Dublin, of
Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secre
tary for Ireland, and T. H. Burke, per
manent under secretary.
Baron von Heyking, the ltae German
minister at Pekin, has arrived in Ber
lin on leave of absence for a year. He
declares that Russia does not intend
to extend her possession in China. He
adds that a China-Japan treaty is im
possible, because of the mutual hatred.
News from the island of Montserrat
shows that an extremely deplorable
stare of affairs exists there, as the re
sult of the devastation of the hurri
cane. Assistance is urgently needed
to save the people from misery and
starvation. At St. Kitts and Antigua
great destitution prevails.
In the trial at Rennes Labori, Drey
fus’ counsel, forced General Mercier to
refuse to answer a question as to how
he became possessed of war department
secrets appertaining to the case after
he ceased to be minister. Col. Bretin,
who was Dreyfus’ chief in 1893 and
1894, admitted that his conversation
first suggested to Maitre Labori that
Dreyfus was innocent. Two infernal
machines containing gun-cotton were
sent to the residence of Maitre Labori.
counsel for Dreyfus. Another batch
of witnesses against Dreyfus testified
without giving any new evidence. Col.
Jouaust, president of the court-martial,
shows his hostility to Dreyfus in a
most offensive manner. Documents
are said to have been found proving
the Innocence of Dreyfus and the guilt
of Henry and Esierhazy. The French
authorities will not attempt to arrest
M. Guerin, president of the Anti-Semite
League. Anarchists rioting in Paris
brought forcibly to mind the com
mune. Mercier says Dreyfus is certain
to be convicted, and that the foreign
press has been bribed to favor him.
JUDGE WARHAM PARKS DEAD.
Well Known Oconomowoc Jurist Suc
cumbs to Paralysis.
Oconomowoc, Wis., Aug. 26.—Judge
Warham Parks died yesterday of pa
ralysis, aged 58 years. He was born in
Milwaukee, Nov. 5, 1840. At the be
ginning of the civil war ho enlisted at
Fond du Lac as second lieutenant in
the 3d Wisconsin infantry under Col.
C. S. Hamilton and served until the
close. For his services rendered he
was made major and was afterward
breveted colonel. Soon after being
mustered out of the army, Mr. Parks
came to Oconomowoc and began the
study of law in the oflice of Edwin
Hurlbut, his early education having
been acquired under Dr. De Koven at
Delafleld and through his own in
dividual efforts. In 1872 he married
Miss Helen Howell of La Porte, Ind.
Three children were born to them, two
of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Parks
died in April, 1891. The judge’s second
marriage took place June 25, 1892, to
Anne Elizabeth Taylor of Pawtucket,
R. I. After completing the study of
law Mr. Parks went west and located
near lake Pepin, but soon after re
turned and opened an office in Ocono
mowoc, where he built a large and
lucrative practice. He is survived by
a widow and one son. Howell, by his
firs* wife: a mother. Mrs. Rufas Parks,
and a sister. Miss Julia Parks of th.?
city. Another sister, Mrs. Graves, re
sides at Camden, N. J.
TURKEY'S TREASURY EMPTY.
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Berlin. Aug. 26.—The Local Anzeiger
publishes the following form Constan
tinople; "A financial crisis is immi
nent. The Ottoman exchequer is
empty. The finance minister has fled j
from those seeking payments and
taken refuge in his private residence,
and is now under the protection of the
police.” \
BELIEVES DREYFUS GUILTY
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Witness Regarded by Friends of Ac
cused as Prince of Quacks —Guerin,
President of Anti-Semite League,
Hangs Out Black Flag Which Is
Taken to Mean a Death.
Renees, Aug. 26.—At the'opening of J
today’s session of the
Beriillon, the handwriting expert, re- 1 !
sumed his testimony regarding the
handwriting of Dreyfus and his rea
sons for believing the artillery officer
guilty. ' IfM ji
Bertillon on the Stand.
Rennes, Aug. 26.—Bertillon, the
handwriting expert who is at the head
of the anthropometric department of
the police and a number of p<4ioe of
ficers were the witnesses in the Drey
fus trial Friday. The Dreyfusards re
fused to regard Bertillon as anything
but the prince of quacks. They cover
his remarks with ridicule and protest
that the admission of his fantastic talk
as evidence before tho, court-martial it
a disgrace to France. The Dreyfus
ards do not deceive themselves as to
the effect Bertillon’s testimony may
have upon the judges, who, they fear,
will be gulled by what the Dreyfusards
consider spurious. If the judges ac
cept Bertillon’s premises—that Drey
fus, as an expert spy, did not write his
ordinary hand but in close im
itation, even contriving to g>ve letters
the appearance 'of having been traced,
in order to be afble to repudiate them
as a forgery if detected,—the struc
ture built upon this ground
work may be scientifically correct. A
remarkable feature of Bertillon’s depo
sition was the neat and excitement he
put intowhat was expected to be a caMp,
dispassionate exposition of his theory.
He thundered and shouted and waved
his arms as though engaged in some
terrible dispute. The military wit
nesses, all of whom sit in a bunch,
leaving Colonels Picquart and Bertulus
severely isolated, followed Bertillon’s
statements with a grave, wise expres
sion of countenance upon which not
even the suspicion of a smile appeared,
as though they understood every word.
Dreyfus gazed at the scene with a look
of stupefaction. The clearest utter
ance of M. Bertillon, during the collide
of his demonstration, was that "the
handwriting of the bordereau “obeys a
geometrical rhythm, of which I dis
covered the equation in the prisoner's
blotting pad.”
The defense intends, in the event'of
Dreyfus being recondemned, to ask the
German government to communicate '
the Esterhazy documents to pro\A
Dreyfus’ innocence.
Hangs Out Black Flag.
Paris, Aug. 26.—A1l was quiet in the
vicinity of Guerin's house throughout*
the night, but at 4 o’clock this morn
ing a black flag appeared at a window.
Some days ago Guerin stated that m
the event of his death the party would
hoist a black flag. It is known that two
of the party have been ill, one seriously
from congestion of the lungs. Com
munication with the house is still
strictly forbidden. Guerin resumed
his watch on the roof at 5 o’clock this
morning.
M. Guerin and his followers,* who are
still besieged in the headquarters of the *
anti-semite league, created some ex
citement yesterday by distributing
from the windows of the building cir
culars denouncing the Jews. When the
police prevented the people from pick
ing up the circulars, the Guerinites
bombardthe police with bricks. *
The police deluged the walls in the
neighborhood of M. Guerin’s fort with
disinfectants, owing to the abominable
stench since the water supply was
off. At a late hour a reporter trie<Ljßj
revieuial the fortress of
was prevented t,y the
-as great 1 y in, . used and
slues at the poli . . but neithaiMH|
its mark.
Diplomatic Mail Opeqpd. f|j
London, Aug. 26.— The Mail’s Rom
special says: “Italy and German;
have obtained proofs that diplomat! *
correspondence passing between Pari
?.nd other places is systemticail;
opened. This has been the case sinci
the campaign against Dreyfus began A
the French war office having sought
proofs to strengthen the accusation
against him.” *
K\ '
EDMONTON TRAIL SURVIVORS.
Twelve of Them Reach Seattle Crip
pled and Destitute.
Seattle, Aug. 2G.—The steamer Cot
tage City arrived yesterday with 12
survivors of the Edmonton trail from
Wi angle, Alaska. Most of them are
destitute and badly crippled from
scurry and frost. News was brought
of a murder and suicide at Dawson
Harry Davis killed Nelie Wilson and
then lulled himself.
Wrangle, Alaska, Aug. 23, via Se
attle, Aug. 2d. —The Stricken river
steamer Stratheone has just arrived
with 32 survivors of the Edmonton
route. They are suffering frotr scurvy
and froien limbs. All arc broken
down, physically and financially.
At Oporto a meteorite crossed the
sky and a slight earthquake was felt at
the same time. f