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'"''- - Xi fee - -C ': I: -Circulation yesterday, 40,883 "Fair, cooler: jjbrtliwesterlywinas, ywfcffSBfl becoming variable. WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, EEBRTJAEY 13, 1898. TsT0. 1.397. THREE CENTS. SBSSifil un h-rjnii'-i17T?t-:ri ABBbrJCiE?,aS vrs'Sz 'Li w I b 1 B H H B B B?? MipiBipffipMi a i Miwa DBEYFUS IS IIBGEIT Picquart Admits He Was Con demned for Another's Crime. DISCLOSED AT ZOLA'S TRIAL Tlie Colonel Had Just Been Insulted The 31ot DiamatfcDay of AH 'JTie Lie Posses und a Tnel to Follow Billot, Minister of "War, 3Iay Resign. (Special cable Copyrighted.) Pari?, Feb. 12. The point reached to night In the trial or 31. Zola is a para dox. It is generally admitted that the de fendant has proved his case, yet he will probably be condemned. Even a majority of his enemies have been convinced, as much by the silence of the army authorities when question ed as by the direct testimony of other witnesses, that Dreyfus was found guilty upon evidence secretly submitted to his judges. It is admitted that this is utterly il legal, yet public opinion is still so strongly perverted that the gross out rape upon the first principles of justice Is openly excused and defended, and the resentment against 31. Zola for de nouncing the authorities, who are guil ty, is scarcely lessened. The incidents of the trial should not dls-tract attention from the astounding crisis which has seized the public mind of France, and which portends evils and calamities that none can estimate. The bald truth is this: It is openly ad mitted to-day that the prisoner on the Isle du DIable Avas illegally condemned, and that the government had full knowledge of the fact. The people now believe it, yet the French government and a majority of the French people are opposing every obstacle in their power to righting that great wrong. It may be admitted that there have been some expressions of sympathy during the past day or two with the man who dared to accuse the high au thorities of the French army who were the authors of the outrage, but this change in public sentiment is confined to a small chits, and the great revul sion of feeling liich was expected is entirely Inciting. One reason, and an important one, is the prostitution of the French press. Its venality goes so far as shameless dis tortion and suppression of the truth in regard to the actual proceedings in the court. Testimony tending to substan tiate 31. Zola's charges has been sys tematically omitted, discredited or misiepresented by a majority of the newspapers of Paris. Perhaps the com mon people are not so much to blame in these circumstances for persisting in their prejudices, although even the most garbled reports permit a being of intelligence to perceive that it is im possible to justify the condemnation of Dreyfus. There is no doubt that the govern ment bitterly regrets its prosecution of M. Zola. Its determination, in which the judges have striven to co-operate to keeD the Dreyfus case out of the pro ceedings, has not only been a failure, but has served to suggest even graver scandals than probably exisl. The manner in which 31. Labori, who is a talented young lawyer, has taken advantage of this weakness of the prosecution has been a marvel to the bench and bar. Even antagonistic spec tators have been unable to restrain their admiration of his dramatic turn of the enemy's -weapons- upon them selves. To-day's session was perhaps the most dramatic of the week, and comprised by itself a melancholy ex posure of the infamy which has been committed and is now defended In the name of France. One witness exclaim ed at the close of yesterday's session: "Military justice is not civil justice." and it Is safe to say that as a result of those revelations military justice, so called, w 111 not survive the nineteenth century, even in France. Col. Pjcquart, under the spur of a gross insult from a brother officer, in open court, retold to-day in plainest language how the highest authorities of the army first tried to suppress his evidence thai another committed the crime charged to Dreyfus, and when he persisted, opposed and finally traduced him. r- CoL Picquart assumed the witness stand at noon. He asserted that Zola went too far in accusing the members of the Esterhazy court-martial of vio lating justice. The fault, he said, be longed to those who presented the case, the documents put in evidence being all favorable to the accused. A. member of the court-martial, Coi. Picquart, declared, had said that the case as presented, had made him (Pic quart), and not Esterhazy, the real de scendant. , 31. Gonse, 31. Henri, an advocate, and 31. Leblois, also an advocate, were call ed' to the witness stand and contra dicted certain minor points of the tes timony, which Col. Picquart gave ves terday. Calls Picquart a Liar. 31. Henri lost his temper in the cours of his examination and cried: "Picquart is a liar." Col. Picquait leaped to his feet and attempted to spring on 3L Henri, but was prevented. Col. Picquart made a heroic endeav or to appear calm, "while 31. Labori ad dressed the court saying. "This is the second time this witness has been insulting in this trial. I ap peal to Col. Picquart to make a full i evelation." Colonel Picquart, his voice shaking with Intense emotion, said: "You have seen these officers, Henri, Lauth and Gribelin, come here bringing odious charges against me without proofs, and finally denouncing me as a liar. I will tHl you why. These are the men who rrranufactuied the Esterhazy affair, as it jR-as presented to the court-martial. ' "They also engineered with Major Paty De Clam the previous affair. It was they who forbade 'fresh inquiry into the Dreyfus affair when in the course of my duty, by reason of fresh discoveries in regard to Esterhazy. I revealed the mistake that had been made. "It is because I persisted in pursuing the inquiry that they have attacked my honor as a man and an ofllcer. It Is I for this that tomorrow, peihaps, I shall be diiven from the army, which I love." Then there followed another scene, when 31. Labori intimated that 31. Hen ri's testimony was not true. Henri left the witness box and sprang toward the lawyer, shouting: "I will not permit my word to be ques tioned." 3L Labori replied that he did not ques tion 31. Henri's honor, but his version did not agree with that of his brother officers, and therefore he concluded that the witness was mistaken. The court finally intervened and re fused to permit any rurther puisult of this line of inquiry, which bore directly upon the Dreyfus case. 3L Demenge, who was the defendant's I lawyer in the Dreyfus court- martial, was the next witness. As he had not spoken through out the agitation during the past two years there was intense interest in what lie might say. This interest was fully justified by his levelation, which he made in spite of the effort of the pres ident to check his words. He affirmed fiist that Mathieu Drey fus had followed his advice in de nouncing Esterhazy and then had en countered obstacles which convinced the witness that the government was opposed to throwing light upon thc affair and would combat a re-opening of the Dreyfus case, even although it was proved that his conviction was il legal. He, thereupon, advised the I Dreyfus family to postpone further proceedings until the present excite ment subsided, because the false issue of the honor of the army had been raised and it would be impossible to obtain justice. 31. Labori asked the witness if Drey fus had been condemned legally. 31. ivm.'iige replied: "It is absolutely certain that he was not legally condemned. There was communicated to me a statement by a member of the Dreyfus courl-marti.il that a secret piece of evidence of which I and my client were ignorant, was submitted to them." As 31. Demenge made this answer the president sat back in his chair in angry discomfiture, and a gre.it murmur arose in the crowded court room while 31. La bori waited a moment for the effect of the witness' words to pass away, ZolaS Friend Heard. A large force of cavalry cleared the streets near the Palace of Justice when the session ended. The crowds were the greatest that have yet assembled during the trial, but they contented themselves with the usual cries. The advocates of 3L Zola were sufficiently numerous and their cry, 'Long live the republic," being in contradistinction to the enemies' cry of "Long live the army." There is no doubt that there will be a real duel between Col. Picquart and 31. Henri, growing out of today's incident, as soon as the former., is released from the technical arrest in which he has been held pending a decision of the court of inquiry which considered his alleged indiscretion last week: 31. Henri succeeded Col. Picquart as the head of the secret service division of the war department a few days ago. 3I3L Zola and Labori have been almost exhausted by the strain of the week's trial, but are in excellent spirits. Both feel that their real object has already been accomplished, irrespective of the result of the trial, and that time will bring their fullest justification even at the hands of the fickle, deceiv ed French people. An interesting point of French judiciary methods proved valuable today. A juror was ill. There are six supplementary jurors who listen to the evidence the same as the regular jurors. One of them took tl vacant place and the trial proceeded without interruption. It is impossible to refrain from in stancing a flagrant case of prostitution of journalism by the French press. The Petit Temps, a pony edition of the semi-official government organ, pub lishes tonight a full report of the evi- dence of 3131. Bertillion and Jaures and one or two more unimportant wit nesses, but not a single word of the grave revelations in the -testimony of 31. Demange, Col. Picquart, 31. Henri and others appears in the paper. It is scarcely surprising in these circum stances that the blindfolded French public commit themselves to error and injustice. " There was a short, sharp debate in the chamber of deputies today on an interpellation respecting the Dreyfus affair. Gen. Billot, 3Hnister of "War, demanded a postponement of the dis cussion until a verdict should be ren dered in the Zola case. He continued with great heat: "For the sixth time since November, 189G, the 3Iinister of War declares to the chamber that Dreyfus was judged and condemned justly by his peers. Drevfus is a traitor and is truiltv. Tf' ! ever the madness of nassion accom plishes a revision of the Dreyfus de cision" you can looli elsewhere for a minister of war. Gen. Billot will not remain in the ministry." By a vote of 47S to 72 the chamber de cided to postpone the debate on the interpellation- until the Zola trial was finished. ENGLAND'S TROUBLES. The Ministry Beset by Doubts and Suspicions. (Special cable -Copyrighted.) London, Feb. 12. The British public had hoped that the opening of parlia ment would illuminate the darkness enshrouding the political horizon. "What scanty rays of light were s,hed you have already heard. Tlie only people, even partially satisfied are a portion -of the government's opponents. The outcry of the Tory press, which greet ed the news of the Talienwan surren der, was renewed on "Wednesday, anti today's (Saturday) Review laments: "It is impossible now to disguise the fact that our diplomacy has lately sus tained a series of humiliating checks. It really seems as if Labouehere was right when he declared that Lord Sal isbury and he were the only two little Englanders left." The news of the admiralty's coal corner in the far East and today's an nouncqment of the Burma Railway concession have done something to mollify the rank and file of the Tory party, while the fact that Japan has intimated to China that she will not wait for the installment of the war in demnity has caused some hope that Great Britain is utilizing Japan in thi.l fashion in order to compel Peking to reopen the loan negotiations, still the Tories are full of resentment at what they consider Lord Salisbury's betray al of the country's honor. Th fact is that Ihra situation is every where as grave as ever,, andthe mild attitude of the opposition leaders Is only explicable by the rumor that Lord Salisbury has given the earl of Kim berly a confidential resume of the situ ation abroad and a statement of tho preparations made for meeting all eventualities. The West African question grows more difficult. It is certain the colonial secretary, Chamberlain, and Lord Sal isbury are stubbornly and diametrically opposed jon this point, the former be ing desirous of meeting France in tho most uncompromising fashion. Th condition of things now readied may be indicated by a remark credited to Sir Charles Dilke that if the Goyern. ment does not retreat ignomlnlously from the position it has taken up in "West Africa It will be extremely diffi cult to avert war with France. Tliiq is doubtless an exaggerated "view of the situation, but it is equally doubtlesu that Lord Salisbury is skating on th thinnest ice with danger marked every, where. A stern-wheel steamer destined for the Yukon was successfully launched at Queen's Ferry on Thursday. She in named the Research. She embodies thn intentions and aspirations of what i. probably tho most capable and besl equipped party leaving England dur ing the coming season to seek fortune in the Klondike. She draws two feel and six-Jnches of water, with a speed of ten knots. She will carry stores for fifteen months, and the most elaboratn mlning outfits. She has a commodious deckhouse, in which twenty-two men expect to pass the next winter com fortably. So confident of success aro , they that they have constructed a spe cially designed bullion tank for storing the gold they say they are sure to find. A unique copy of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems in the origlna4 paper covers fetched H45 guineas at an Edinburgh sale on 3Ionday. The edi tion was one of COO published in 177C at three shillings. Burns's profit on tho transaction amounted to 20. 3Iore than usual Interest has been taken in this year's, preparation for tho Oxford-Cambridge boat race, Cam bridge starting early. Their energies were bent to a vigorous effort to stem the tide of misfortune. For a timo everything promised well under thl coaching of Fletcher, one of the best modern Oxonian oarsmen. Now dis sension has broken out in the crew, and Bell and Howell, the only two old blues left, and perhaps the strongest oars at Cambridge, have refused to continue in the boat. Coach Lehmann presided at the captain's meeting yesterday. "Ward, captain of the Cambiidge boat, complained of Bell's and Howell's re fusal, and inducing a member of their college to refuse to row. Howell de nied the charge, and Lehmann at tempted, without success, to smooth over the difficulties. A few years back the angry discontent in the university led to some reform. It is regrettable to find a place like Cambridge display ing the unsportsmanlike spirit which has lately been too prominent in all branches of athletics in this country. THE LONDON TIMES' FOLLY. It Lack of Discretion ninclcs; li Chinese Loan. New York, Feb. 12. "Lord Salisbury, as became an astute diplomatist, talked light heartedly to the House of Lords this week of what he called the curious Talienwan legend," says the t.ndon correspondent of the New York Even ing Post. "The fact is, however," con tinues the correspondent, "that this question of making Talienwan a treaty port has been a matter of the gravest International difficulty during the past few weeks. The British loan to China would have gone through, Russia would have been effectually checkmated In her designs to shut the trade of the rest of the world out of 3Ianchuria, but for the indiscreet Impulsiveness, to use a mild word, of the Times newspaper. "The facts, which reached me from unquestionable sources, are that when Lord Salisbury realized that Russia's hold on Port Arthur would mean the ultimate shutting of the door against British and all other enterprise except Russia, in North China, and when China asked fof'a ,loan, he informed the Chinese council in strict secrecy through Sir Claude 3Iacdonald that England would require as one 'condition the opening of Talienwan as a treaty port, thereby forever preventing Russia from shutting the trade of the world out of the Llaotung peninsula. That was on January 15. On January 16, by some strange means, some suggest through the Chinese embassy here, which is quite equal to this kind of thing, the Items of the proposed deal reached the Times and one other London journal. This other journal, realizing that if It were published Russia at once would coerce China into refusal, took the item to the foreign office, and yielding to earnest solicitation, on the grounds of national interests, withheld the news from the public The Times, on the other, hand, published It as a telegram from Pekin, with the result that Russia at once bullied China into a refusal. "Lord Salisburyfeeling that he could not go to war to force a loan on China, had to accept the refusal, and England lost what would have been a trump card in the strenuous game now pro ceeding between London and St. Pe tersburg; Then, to make matters worse, thf Times came out with a sec ond telegram, that the Talienwan con dition had been withdrawn, thus set ting English public opinion angrily buzzing round the government's ears for weakly yielding to Russia, though the Times itself, no doubt unwittingly, had been tlie real cause of England's backdown- - "Of course, the government was fu- rious with the Times, which, to cover up its action, published a later mes sage from Pekin, with4the astounding explanation that Chinese diplomatists do not understand tlie necessity for se crecy in such matters. To-day's news suggests that Lord' Salisbury is meet ing witli more success in his other moves Jn China. The"perml8sion se cured from the Chinese council for an extension of the Burmese Railway into Yunnan Is a great point gained for British trade and 'for free commerce generally, and Is gained in some way at the expense of France, who long has wished to tap southern China through Tonquin. In official quarters to-day there is, moreover, tajk of the British loan to China going through, after all, on British conditions. "All this, however, leaves English public opin'on profoundly nervous ovc2 the fact that Russia. Germany and France have secured new and definite footholds in China, which may at any moment be developed into occupations, ultimately becoming annexationiT, with as effectual a ringed fence of tariffs against the rest of the world as France has erected in 3fadagascar. AIL Eng land has secured Is Russian and Ger man pledges to keep Open ports, but experience in 3Iadugaacar and else where shows that pledges of this kind are not worth the paner they are writ ten on when annexation ensues. Eng land will not light without grave prov ocation. Indeed, shta has not the 200, 000 men necessary to make an effect ual display of force, now, then, can she checkmate the itussian, German and French selfish game of grab, and keep China open for the commerce of the whole world?" YALE 3IEN APPLAUD ZOLA. Bain Postpones a Demonstration of Enthusiastic Students. New Haven. Feb. 12. Yale boys weic cheated out of their pet plan of holding a gigantic Zola demonstration this after noon. AH the morning was spent by the seniors who loom in Yanderbllt Hall in preparing transparencies labslled "Viva Zola" and other expressions of enthu siasm for the French novelist and ie formor. Some of the transparencies contained red-hot epithets againsa Major Esterhazy and others eulogized Drey fus. The march was to start at 2 o'clock, but a heavy rain was falling, and tlie Idea was given up till Monday, when, it was stated, it will surely take place. The seniors, after parading Green and St. Jolm streets, will pause in front of the Fiench Catholle Church, where an address will be delivered, extolling Zola. oirrporiuxos ok Klondike. Immense Piorits Anticipated From the Spring Gleaning. Portland. Ore.. Feb. 12. The steamer Oregon-arrived from Skaguay last evening, oringiyg news from Dawson of January 3. It brought down a par ty of six, who had with them about J30.000. A. D. Nash, one of tJie party, said: "There are plenty ot supplies, in Daw son to last until the opening of spring. "Tlie latest strike was made on Rose bud Creek, which Hows into the Yu kon, six miles above Sixty 3Iile Creek. I estimate the spring clean-up will be between $10,000,000 and 512,000,000." Gen. 3Ierriam and one hundred tons of Government relief supplies will go on the Oregon 3Iondr.y. HOISTED HIS DEATH SIGNAL. Pathetlc; Incident Aboard Ship OfX Brunswick, Ga. Brunswick, Ga., Fb. 12. A singular incident accompanied the fatal fall into the sea from an outlying vessel here this morning. Just three minutes be fore Alvin Du'elus met his death he was told to "set the flag." Being a new man, he left it hanging at half mast. Tlie captain noticed the mistake and told him to put the flag on top of the mast, adding. "There Is nobody dead on board this ship." The young sailor said, "Aye. aye, sir," but saw he was needed at the an chor and said lie would raise the flag as soon as he got through. But he never finished. He lost ills life while at work on the anchor. The captain of the ship said it was tlie first time that he ever knew a man to announce his own death, the raising of the flag being equivalent to that. IN 1IONOK OF THE FLAG. National AssoeiaiioiuEIects Officers and Adopts Itesolutious. New York, Feb. 12. The American National Flag Association, which has for its object the pieservation of the national colors, and the prevention of their use for advertising- purposes, met today in the city hall. A motion was adopted in favor of mak ing it a misdeameanar to destroy or In any way mutllato the national colors or the coat of arms of America. A resolution for preventing the use of the flag for political purposes during a campaign was defeated. The following officers of the associa tion were elected: President. Col. Ralph E. Prime; first vice president, Gen. O. O . Howard; second vice president. Col. Fred D. Grant; secretary, Gen. Thomas Wilson; assistant secietary. Col. E. H.TIall, and treasurer. 3IajorJ. Langdon Ward. -THOOPS SAIL FOR SKAGUAY. Departure uC tliij Klondike Itelief Expedition From Scuttle. Seattle. Wash., Feb. 12. The ship Lu cille, under convoy of the tug Sea Lion, departed for Skaguay tcmight.- This ves sel was chartered by the .Government to carry lroop3 and provisions, constitut ing the Yukon-Klondike lellef expedi tion. There wereillO pack mules, ISO ex perienced Government' packers, and a detachment of regulars under the com mand of two officers., The dredger Pauline Warner and the steamer Alpha sailed tonight with twenty-one men, haiJhig from New Yoi k city. Their destination is southeastern Alaska, and then westward: TANNEH'S VOICE FOR CUBA. The Governor of Illinois Echoes tlie Country' Sentiment. Springfield. Ills., Feb. 12 Gov. Tan ner issued a proclamation yesterday ask ing aid for starving" Cubans. He 'con cludes by saying": ? f "It Istir5e. to,,end the war by recogniz ing' the Cuban"Republic and insisting that the freedom. andT independence of the Cuban people shall be respected throughout the world." Coall-Coalt Coal! 55.2."S psr ",24U, delivered, Uaytun Move, egg, and nut. Powhatan Coal Co., 1 11(58 C st. mv.; 'phoue 02Q; or dealers generally. fel3-tr ' IVY BUSINESS COLLEGE-Sth audK. None better; S2C a yean day or night. RESCUED IN MIDQOEAN Thrilling Experience of the Veendam's Passengers. THE ST. LOUIS JUST IN TIME A, Dei diet Disables the nollnnd American T.iuer und She Begins to 31ake Wutcsr Hapidry Cool Con duet of the Captain Saves -.,i--Set on File and Abandoned. New York, Feb. 12. The steamship Veendam, of the Holland-American Line, bound from Rotterdam for New York, stove a hole in her hott last Sunday either with her own shaft or by hitting a submerged derelict. After a terrific tussle with the pumps, in spite of which the water that poured into her kept gaining on the workers and when she was within, at the most, five hours of sinking, Providence sent along the American Liner St. Louis. In the dead of night, with the sea whipped and to.ssed by a tempest, the passengers and crew, 212 in number, were trans ferred in safety, not a soul lost, or hurt in the slightest. The Veendam's captain, the last man to leave his ship, piled higli in her cabin the chairs and tables and other furni ture, and throwing kerosene oil over the maps, fired the ship. The St. Louis sailed off just at the gray dawn of last 31onday, leaving the doomed ship almost on her beam ends with smoke curling up from her hatchways and sheets of flame licking eagerly what little woodwork there was left to burn. The St. Louis got here early this morning. She signaled the observer at Sandy Hook that she had aboard tlie Veendam's passengers and crew. He sent the news to New York. The Veen dam was not due until Tuesday and the arrival of her passengers three days ahead of time and the news that she had been wrecked was so astonishing a combination that her agents could not believe the report at first. The Veendam was a nine-day boat, behind the times as an Atlantic liner, but In her day, when she was known as the Baltic and was one of the White Star fleet, she was one of the finest boats that floated. She was the best passenger steamer that the Holland American Line had. She left Rotterdam on February 3, She had nine cabin passengers. They were Dr. and 3Irs. Galowitz, 3L Kap teyn, and Miss 3rary Arlinger, in the first cabin, and 3Ir. Kronwell and Miss Bertha von Fekete. of Budapest: 3Ir. Frank Lohrnan, of Boston; 31rs. Fanny Golub. and "William Bleling. in the se- cond. She had also IIS steerage pas- Poh Roads refused to report the nouiln.t sengers. She was three days' out from tion favorably to the Senile duriu" the Rotterdam on Sunday last, and was t iast ios-ion or Cnngrcw, but it wa not SrllaJf dT.?eWseeSa ? " I ""?, fT " ?" P from recent gales and the Veendam Mre "McU t,,e ff'nt brought on cer- nltehed and rolled as she nlnuc-hed hr way westward, it was half past 5 o'clock in the evening, and dusk had just begun to settle over the ocean. The ship's lights were run up. For half an hour before this the officers had noticed bits of floating wreckage, and the passengers who had seen them, too, speculated on what boat had been wrecked. Suddenly the ship seemed to tilt up forward. The same instant there was a fearful crash aft that racked the boat from stem to stem. Then there was another and then silence for an instant, followed a moment later by the roar and hiss of escaping steam from the exhaust pipes. This is what tlie passengers heard. Down in the engine room, when the smash came, the steady kerchug of the engines gave way to a whirr and a buzz of deafening magnitude. The en gines raced like lightning. The shaft had broken and the engines, with full head of steam and no steadying strain, leaped ahead. The engineers opened the safety valves. But above the roar of the escaping steam they could hear the splash and spurt of water in the after part of the ship. They knew the boat was aleak, but did not for an in stant suspect how badly. An investigation was set on foot in stantly. The passengers, overcome by fright at first and screaming in a panic stricken way, were calmed by the slow-, ing dowh of the ship and the assurance of the officers that there was not any thing wrong. The engineers, headed by the chief, made their way down to the shaft tunnel and tried to enter it. They were swept back by a "rush of water. Again and again they dived at the opening, but gave up thd attempt eventually. The water in the after compartment became ankle-deep, then knee-deep, then waist-deep. The par tition btwen the after-compaytm,ent and the compartment next forward strained and burst out with the mighty pressure. The pumps were set to work, hjit tlie water gained a foot in an hour. The steamship settled aft perceptibly. The passengers began to lalize the dan ger. The women in the steerage set ujj a wailing, the children -cried, and some of the men screamed. The cabin pass engers shared in the fright. The cap tain had his hands full directing the men under him and putting the steer age passengers at work. He called the passengers around him now and told them that the ship had met with an ac cident and that she was leaking. "Now," he said, "if you people will be reasonable and calm and stop your noise T will guarantee that I'll get you into port or land you aboard some oth er vessel safely If you don't I won't guarantee anything, and everyone of us will go to the bottom." This is not the captain's exact lang age, but is In substance what he said. The men at the pumps puffed and strained. Tlie steampumps sent out their huge volumes of water. Still, inch by inch, the water in the hold gained. A second hour pased. The engineers re ported that the water had gained an other foot, and .the hole had enlarged. "The water will be up Id the fires in a few minutes," reported the engineers. The donkey engine was started, in order to be ready to run the pumps when that should happen. The' water 'had broken through the second bulkhead, and now there were three compartments flood ed, and it was only a question of a few minutes when tlie sea would have com plete possession of the engine room, the coal bunkers, and the fire room. If it got any further than. that the'Chances of the boat keeping afloat at all were slim, in deed. This few minutes the engineer used in. shoring- up the bulkhead of the next compai tment. The male emigrants who were not at the hand pumps were formed into bucket brigades, and -set to work bailing out the boat. A third hour passed. The engineer (Continued on Third Page.) HAS LEE DESIGNED? A Rumor to This Effect in Circula tion Last Night. It was rumored in this city late last night that Consul General Lee has re signed. No information as to the correctness of the rumor could be obtained. Nothing Is known about it at the White House. WILL PLEAD JUSTIFICATION. XMan of Defends Jn the T.attiuser Trngedy Unfolded. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb. 12. The com plete plan of the defense of Sheriff 3fartin and his deputies has been un folded. The prosecution has fifty wit nesses yet to call. This will occupy most of .the next week. The motion to take the case from the jury will be omitted. "The commonwealth lias not made out a case," said Counsel Lenahan, for the defense, "but we have decided that, as the side of the deputies has never been heard in court, or in the newspa pers, each defendant shall be given a public hearing. We shall prove com plete justification. "Two hundred witnesses will be call ed by the defense to prove that the strikers had terrorized the neighbor hood for two weeks; that many citi zens had their houses barricaded for fear of the strikers: that at West Ha zelton the greatest forbearance was used; that at Lattimer the sheriff ad vanced 100 yards ahead of the depu ties' line to meet the strikers, forty of whom dragged him Into a ditch, while the others rushed at the deputies, brandishing clubs and stones; that two strikers, having got behind the depu ties, waved the mob on and fired the first shot wounding Deputy Emback; that the deputies had to run for their lives or stand and have their guns tak en away from them and be shot with them or shoot; that in the excitement, some deputies lost their heads and tired oftener than "they-thought they did." Attorney Scarlett, for the prosecu tion, says a good case has been made out, as the act of one deputy is the act of all, and illegal killing has been proven 3Iiss 3Iary Kohler, who was a r.ar vant girl at Lattimer, saw the begin ning of the shooting and ran into the house. She said the people were afraid when they heard the strikers were coming and some of them left their homes and fled to the mountains. Other evidence given today was sim ilar to that submitted heretofore. FOIJ HIS .MOTHER'S SAKE. President 31 cKiuley Will 3rake a Xo.tmiitei V 1'onitfoit Su re. Perry, 0. T., Feb. l:.'. It is a matter ot some -surprise in Oklahoma, that the President has not s-ent to the Senate the nomination of G. A. UJedler, who was appointed pohtiua-ter of Oklahoma City nearly a year ago. The Coomuiittee on l'ostoffices and lal" mcinoers ot tile committee. Senator Chandler, who led the fight against Biedler than, has not changed his views on the question of his confirmation. The President has been made aware ot this condition, anil only the other day intimated to a member of the House that if it was mtessary hi would not end the'! nomination to the Senate until the clos ing days of this seion, at which time it would he too late for them to take ad verse action. It is ia id that 3Irs. ifcKinley, the Presidents mother, on her dpathbeil, asked the President to see to it that "good old Brother Biedltr" was not disturbed ia the position which he held as poMmater of Oklahoma City. So the probabilities are, unless Senator Chandler can he pre vailed upon to withdraw his opposition to Bieiller's confirmation, the nomination will necr be sent to that body for confirma tion, hut will b2 made out at the adjourn ment of each sjssionot Congress, and thus Biedler will le enabled to continue hold ing the office of postmaster during the remainder of this Adniinhtration. VON DKH AIIE IN JAIL. Placed by Hf "Xldnnpei" Behind Bui's in IMUshurg. rittsburg, Feb. 1.-Chris Vou der Abe was cnt to jail at 6 o'clock tonight. Von der Ahe and his attorneys had waited all diy, either for .some one to arrive from St. Louis to release Chris, or fortlipmto send the money which is needed to square up the judgment against him. Neither arrived,' and Vou der Ahe will stay In jail at least until Monday, when, he thinks, the money will arrive. There was sume talk of appealing to the "United States Supreme Court, but it was decided lo pay tlie money and to depend upon the State of .Missouri to demand the punishment of dos damned kid napers," asiT'hrls calls them. A.VOIir AT EVANS. An Indiana G. A. quest His Terre Haute. Ind.. talion composed of It. Battalion Re- Itcniovnl. Feb. 12. The bat- repiesenta tives of the-.G. A. R. of this county adopted resolutions condemning Commissioner of Pensions Evans for his mling that re jected applicants cannot lenew their claims within a year, unless they present new evidence within ninety days. The G. A. R- at Newport, Vermillion county, adopted i -solutions filing. on President McKiniey to remove the commissioner. Couftliouhe and Kccurit Burned. Dallas. Tex., Feb. 12. The Lee county courthouse, at Glddiugs, was burned last night, and only a small portion of the records was saved. Th; fire is believed to have been the work of Incendiaries, whoJ wished to destroy Indictinentsuind evidence against criminals soon to Come to trial The property loss is estimated at .GO.ilOu New Movement of the Heart. Paris, Feb. 12. Pi of. .Bouchard has discovered a new movement of the heart by means of the Roentgen rays. It is a lhythmic dilation during respiration, and is not connected with tlie ordinary movements of the heart.' It appears to arise from a diminution of Hie pressure la the interior of the thoracic cage dur ing inspiration. Fresh Fronrtlie Workshops. Finest and handsomest of Spring Neck wear. Especially rlclr Ascots. Jn. silks and .satins, 50c. Auerbach's, 6"a Pa. avet It UN 0LTIII1 10 SPHII Our State Department Sends an Imperative Message. A REPLY IS RECEIVED Minister Woodford Instructed to Say That u Disavowal of Xe Lome'.s "Utterance Is Expected By Thin Gore rn ment at Once Judge Day ReeclvcH a Long Cable gram in Answer to the Demand Not Yet Tianslnted, But Believed to Contain an Expression of He gret and Apology Will Be 3Iulo Public Today. An ultimatum was sent to the Span ish government yesterday, and it is be lieved a reply has already been receiv ed. The answer was not translated last night, but its contents will be made known to-day. The foregoing paragraph contains Jn brief the developments of the past twenty-four hours in the De Lome in cident. The President, after a conference with Judge Day, Assistant Secretary of Stats, directed him to send an impera tive dispatch to Gen. Woodford, tbe American minister at 3radrid, to de mand of Spain an immediate disavowal of the sentiments expressed in the no torious letter written by Dupuy de Lome. Tie cablegram was sent at once, and it Avas terse and to the point, and contained instructions to the minister to make the earliest possible reply. This reply was received late last night and will be made public to-day. The cablegram was sent to the home of Chief Clerk 3Iichaelr but arrived too late to be translated from cipher into English. It will make about 300 wordc?. and while its contents are not knowm. it is believed to be an assurance- froirr GenJWoodfcrd that the Spanish govern ment expresses regret at the written utterances of Dupuy de Lome. This was particularly true of the referBfio to autonomy and reciprocity in the tet ter. The dispatch to Gen. Woodrord st forth that the seventy-two hours tlwt it is customary to give offending na tions to make explanatory remarks had passed, and that further delay by tlio Spanish government would be con strued as an acquiescence in the views of the late Spanish minister. The action of the President in order ing this message sent Is looked upon by the few persons made aware of It an an ultimatum to Spain, and that it Spain ignored it or did not properly disavow the insulting letter a serious crisis would follow. It was known to all who have follow ed the diplomatic controversy cretl by the letter of Dupuy de Lome that the President's patience was exhausted when no word of regret or apology from Spain was placed before him yes terday morning. He sent for Judge Day as soon as that official reached his office, and after a brief conference with him it was de cided to send the imperative demand mentioned to Gen. Woodford. This ac tion, it Is said, Is fully warranted by the contemptuous manner in which the Spanish government has acted in re spect to this Government in the silence it ha3 maintained concerning the In sulting letter of the former Spanish minister. Authorities on diplomatic matters say that this indifference on the part of Spain is a greater insult to this nation than the obnoxious Ietter was that the minister wrote. The Spanish government, it is said, should have disavowed the sentiments of the letter immediately after being placed in possession of the information it con tained, and should not have waited for any request on the part of the Ameri can Government for such a disavowal. That Spain was brought to a proper consideration of the affair is undoubted, because of the dispatch received last night from 3Iinister Woodford. It is believed that this dispatch contains a disavowal, and if It does not, and a proper explanation is not made, the State Department will cable Gen. Wood ford to come home, and all friendly in tercourse will cease between the two nations. While the President feels keenly the uncalled for reflections cast upon him personally in the letter written by Dupuy de Lome, he feels much worse over the reference to autonomy and re ciprocity, and the dispatch sent to Gen. Woodford was peremptory in the de mand that Spain should disavow the sentiments of Dupuy de Lome in this respect. The President feels that there sh ut not be the faintest doubt as to the k tentions of Spain in respect to auton. my and reciprocity, vital questions u- , Cuba, and he has firmly determined that the Spanish government shall make perfectly clear to the American people whether or not the sentiments expressed by Dupuy de Lome relative to these questions are the sentiments of the Spanish government. The facts contained in the cablegram received last night will be made known to-day, and then, if it is learned that the Spanish government refuses to comply with the demands made by this government, an exciting issue will confront the people of America. One of the most prominent men in the Senate yesterday said that the President should have recognized the letter of De Lome as an official expres sion, and the moment that individual admitted the authenticity of the let ter, the President should have-adted upon De Lome's admission that -the.- war was a failure and that Spain could IContluuod on Third Tage.) t ij. ;TU ,.&- ..:.-.-' .;