Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — Page 2

pR COUNTY DEMOCRAT. BABCOCK, Publisher. SsSELAtR. - - INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

M'MMt {Sergeant John Jaiksxn was shot ■BBU killed at Fort Douglas by Private BtEH. Carter, and the latter was then ■K'4Uld instantly killed while resisting Both belonged to the Ninth States cavalry. |Kn* National Steel Company has rouKKted tor 3t«» new coke ovens in the coke regions and also has mMatravted to take the entire production jjjgEthe 750 oven.- of the Oliver <k Snyder for a long term of years. Jaieenah. who killed hi- wife Kt Ilolwikcn last May because she refits jHKito live with hint, committed suicide in Km| in the Jersey City jail. He himself w ith a n >pe made of torn from his underclothing. Corpse of a mau found floating in ■|.Missouri river just above Kansas has been identified its that of Janik's KPeters, an inmate of the soldiers’ at Grand Island. Neb. There are that the man was murdered. Hraltss Mary Ellen Sig-lxe. only daughKgr of Captain Charles D. Sigsbee. cumHpnd< r of the battleship Maine when the Mjnol was destroyed in Havana harbor, Hjras secretly married in New York in ■SuremlH'r last to Balfour Kerr, a young I BpTke rumor that William Waldorf Astor KjfIII noon be raised to the British peerage Mbmimes what is impossible. A law pass■MJduring the reign of William 111. deMjrives the crown of the power of conKirring the rank of peer upon natural Ked aliens. IKThe dead bodies of two men. one white Kd, the other colored, were found at CogYtiml:i, N. J., near the New York. SusKpehanna ami Western Railroad tracks. Erhe white man has been identified as a Kian named Francis. and it is thought Be w«a killed by a train. I rWith a revolver in one hand and a Übanch of vaccine quills in the other Dr. ■E, A. Doyle, borough physician of HomeKteed, Pa., forced his way into the Foun[pain inn and vaccinated forty persons livBng there. Andrew Abids was found in Ethe place suffering with smallpox. r Edward Eckinger. living six miles Krathenst of Canton. Ohio, and his dough [Ser. Ruby, aged 3 years, were killed by Kis wife, she then ending her own life, | using carbolic acid, slashing her arms i With a razor and sending a load of shot Onto her heart to accomplish the suicide. r A trainload of s«l> horses which P«w|[*ll Bros. were taking from North YaIgKima. Wash., to Son th Omaha were unHjoadcd and watered at Billings. Mont. IjThey had had no water since leaving HBpokane, thirty hours previous. Soon gAfter drinking and eating the horses beto go into spasms. Half of the Korses died. p Twenty-two freight cars furnished fuel t lfor a smoldering fire in tunnel No. 4 on kShe Cincinnati Southern Railroad, near ||Bomcraet. Ky.. and the company was grtobligcd to operate passenger trains by Kray of Jellico and tin* Louisville ami H|(nahri!le road. The fin' was due to the Kgplosiou of a tank car containing oil and Ejgf a car of naphtha while the freight was Banning through the tunnel. B The standing of the clubs in the Na[Mona) League race is as follows: W. L. 'V. L. Emrooklyn ...01 33St. L0ui5....53 44 GO 34 Pittsburg 48 48 Philadelphia. 58 38 Louisville —4l 51 [PBaltiniore ...55 39 New Y0rk...37 54 EjOhicago 52 42 Washington. 35 62 [ Following is the standing of the clubs t in the Western League: W. L. IV. L. Detroit ~...48 44Buffalo 39 53 , -Grand Rap. .47 44Kansas City..3B 57

NEWS NUGGETS.

William C. Whitney declares that he is out of politics. Mrs. Emma Blunt. Minneapolis, Minn., is dead. She was the wife of Abbott associate editor of the Times. t , Maj. Marehand has been offered the ' -post of governor of the French settleanent on the Somali coast, and envoy ex- • traordinary to King Menelik of Abyssinia. The business portion of Carlisle. Ky.. I was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of h SOO,OOO. C. G. Rogers’ tobacco warejhouse, containing SttO.lMlO j>ounds of tobacco, worth s4o.o(lo.was burned. , The inquest into the death of Charles ’A. F. Autenreith. the supposed wealthy e Philadelphia banker, who committed sui‘cide by shooting himself, disclosed the fact that he was on the verge of financial ' ruin. t In a quarrel near Sibley. Mo.. David Elliott was shot ami killed hy his brother. Thomas H. Elliott. The shooting was done with an old-style muule-load- . Ing shotgun. The brothers quarreled | .'•ome time ago. ? A hurricane swept over the Island of ■ St. Croix. West Indies. Much damage | was done, but no death has l>een reportpad. The force of the storm was also ex- ; perienccd al St. Thomas, l»ut the damage done was slight The engine and a portion of a sonthB IhßQnd Dos Angeles express train on the ■* Bontbern Pacific Railread were derailed wear Don Palos, Cal. Engineer C. J. Ford is reporUsl te have been killed. None of the passengers lost his life. The steamer lowa was «nnk at Falls point, five miles below Monnt Vernon. Ind., and is a total lass. There were 001 passengers on lx»ard. and they had u narrow escape. One of the deck hands is missing. and it is thought he was lost. L At Amite City. La„ Adolphus, alias P •‘Echo.’’ Brown, colored, was shot nnd killed and Edgar and EdwaAl Barr severely flogged by a gang of armed men. , The last company of militia has left Cleveland, the authorities having decided that there is little probability of any further troublp in connection with the ft Noah Finley. the negro who robbed and attempted to kill Maj. IMrst at Dublin. ■■ has been sentenced to Im* hanged. the jury having been notified that if a HmdSct was not jreudered by a certain hour Fimeywouid be lynched.

EASTERN.

Maryland Democrats nominated John Walter Smith of Worcester County for Governor. , i The works of the Glens Falls, N. Y., Port hi nd Cement Company were burned, i causing a loss of $250,000. Col. Azof Smith Marvin, for many i years president of the Marvin Safe Com- [ pany, is dead at uis home in Brooklyn, aged 74 years. Herman Hauser, a former Chicago theatrical man, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and escaped, it is believed, without serious injury. Joseph Alford Smith. Philadelphia, Pa., died at the Forrest Home Wednesday, aged 80 years. He was dean of the colony of actors and actresses at the institution. .> Charles F. Autenrieth, a wealthy retired Philadelphia banker, was found dead in a bath tub in his house. He had shot himself. No motive Is known for the suicide. Davis Dalton, a swimming instructor, was drowned near Hog Island, N. Y., while giving an exhibition of swimming. Death was due to apoplexy. The body was recovered. The power house and ear sheds of the North Jersey Railway Company in Newark. N. J.. were destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $300,000. Nearly eighty cars were destroyed. Frederick W. Pope, the 14-year-old son of Charles A. Pope of Columbus, N. J., ia paralyzed as the result of an application of cocaine by a" dentist. He has also lost the power of speech. By an explosion of gas the art galleries of Durand Ar Ruel, in the old Lorillard mansion. Now Yovk, were wrecked. Paintings valued -at many thousands of dollars were damaged or burned. By the capsizing of a row boat on the Patapseo river, near Baltimore, the following persons were drowned: Andrew Deems, William J. Lyman. James Walsh, E«1 ward Garry and Mrs. Hoover. Two ears collided cn the Sea View Electric road between Wickford and Narragansett Pier, 11. I. Merritt L. Abbey. a motorman, was killed. Of the forty passengers only one was injured. Benj. 11. Snell, a pension office employe. 45 years of nge, killed Liza Weissenberger, a 13-year-old girl, in Washington, D. C. He had become infatuated with her and she scorned his attentions.

A trolley car containing upward of forty persons went over a trestle fiftj* feet high at Peck's mill stream, about five miles from Bridgeport, Conn. Thir-ty-five persons were killed and twelve injured. The tenth annual convention of the Young People's Christian Union was closed in Pittsburg with a missionary rally and a reminiscent meeting. It was announced that half of the $50,000 annual thank offerings had been raised. Charles Yager, aged 40 years, of Brandt, Pa., murdered his three small children by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. There seems to be no doubt that the father had gone insane during the night. Sigmund S. Albert, son of a prominent Hebrew merchant of Lancaster, Pa., has resigned from West Point military academy, having literally been driven from it by the persecution to which he was subjected by the cadets on account of his religious faith. New York Typographical Union, No. (i. has devoted all of its fund, estimated at S4O,tMA>. to support the union compositors who have struck in the Sun office. The printers walked out because they had learned that non-union printers were to be employed.

WESTERN.

Gov. Leslie M. Shaw was renominated by the lowa State convention at Des Moines. Henry Dodson, a young farmer near Gratiot, Ohio, was killed by lightning in an open field. Albert Berg, Secretary of the State of Minnesota, and Mrs. Lillian Daly were married at St. Paul. Mrs. Benjamin Grosscup, mother of Judge Grosscup of Chicago, died at Ashland, Ohio, aged 78. The will of Lloyd Tevis, filed in San Francisco, leaves the entire estate of SIS,OW,<AIO to the widow. Fire at Mexico, Mo., damaged Mart Wise's dry goods house $15,000. The insurance is placed at SIO,OOO. Rev. J. 11. Bomberger of Columbiana, Ohio, has declined the presidency of Heidelberg' University at Tiffin, Ohio. Clyde Jones, alias Clyde Johnson, the abduJtor of Miss Nellie Berger of Seymour, was captured near Freetown, Ind. Rev. George W. Pepper, the widely known army chaplain, minister, public speaker and ixditieian, died at Cleveland. He was '66 years old. John Schlenber, a jealous teamster of Cleveland, shot his wife four times and then sent a bullet through his heart. The woman died an hour later. The Republicans of the Eighth Missouri congressional district in convention at Jefferson City nominated J. W. Voshall for Congress by acclamation. Chaplain W. H. Milburn of the United States Senate was suustruck while delivering a lecture before the Epworth League assembly at Lincoln, Neb. Walter Cavanaugh and John Wilson, San Francisco, quarreled over the former's sister, with whom Wilson had been living. Cavanaugh was shot and killed. July freight traffic through the Soo canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., exceeded 4.000.0tM> tons, smashing all previous records, and surprising every one by its magnitude. , A. Sutherland, a merchant, was shot and instantly killed at Ardmore, 1. T., by E. W. Fairman. Fairman, who in under arrest, claims Sutherland slandered Mrs. Fairman. Judge Dorsey W. Shackelford of Booneville has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Missouri district, to succeed the late Richard P. Bland. I Rioters resumed their disturbances at Cleveland by blowing up a car with nitroglycerin in Jennings avenue. None of the passengers was injured. The car was badly damaged. The Continental Match Company’s factory at Detroit, owned chiefly by Edwin GouU of New York, has been closed. It has. It ia stated, been transferred to the Diamond Match Company. Dr. C W Adams, who was one of the founders of tha University Medical Col-

dean of the faculty, died on the street from an overdose of chloral. Robert Law, a young farmer near Yankton, 8. D„ attempted suicide by hanging. His sister Ellen found him hanging from a limb, apparently dead. She ent him down and he will recover. James H. Turple, one of the bestknown residents of Lafayette, Ind., committed suicide by plunging headforemost from the third-story window of the Hotel Lahr. There is no known reason for the act. Clay H. Stinnett, one of the Indian Territory’s most prominent citizens, was shot and instantly killed near Ardmore while attempting to separate two men who were fighting. Bender Henson, the slayer, made his escape. At Deadwood, S. D„ the Detroit and Deadwood Mining Company struck gold ore averaging $32 a ton, which makes the second good strike in a month. This company is owned by New York, Chicago and Detroit people. Karl Kristensen and Mrs. Mary Terry, alias Mrs. Kristensen, alias Nellie Brown, have been arrested in San Francisco for passing counterfeit silver money. A complete counterfeiter’s outfit was found in their rooms. During a dance at Wellsville, Ohio, the floor of the room gave way and 200 persons were precipitated into the cellar, a distance of twelve feet. Many persons were injured, several had bones broken, but no one was fatally hurt. The products of the mineral industries of Kansas for 1898 amounted to more than $7,000,000. The figures making this wonderful exhibit will soon be published in the annual report of Prof. E. Haworth of the Kansas University. Because her 16-year-old daughter Ruth Swarts had loved unwisely, Mrs. Catherine Wise of Greentown, Ohio, cut her throat while she was steeping, and then committed suicide by jumping into a pool of water in an abandoned stone quarry. During a heavy thunderstorm the Pittsburg towboat Advance, which had undergone extensive repairs at Middleport docks, Pomeroy, Ohio, was struck by lightning and consumed by fire. The crew of five escaped with great difficulty. The business portion of the village of Minto, N. D., was wiped out by fire. Twenty-three buildings, all frame structures, were burned. Two banks and store buildings escaped destruction. The Ipss will exceed SIOO,OOO, with $40,000 insurance.

A mammoth new wire mill is being built at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., incorporated as the E. A. Henry Wire Co. The plant, which will commence operations inside of a month, will have a capacity of twenty tons per day and is designed to tight the wire trust. The United Supreme Council Thirtythird Degree Colored Scottish Rite Masons began their thirtieth annual meeting in Cleveland. The Imperial Grand Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of Mystic 'Shriners will assemble there Wednesday. The cellar beneath the former American National Bank at Lima, Ohiq, robbed of over SIB,OOO last Christmas, has been searched by several officers of the former bank, but the cash was not found. The cellar was searched by Pinkertons at the time of the robbery. Official - figures show Kansas is making a steady, healthy advance in population. The enumerating made by assessors for March, 1899, compiled by the State Board of Agriculture, gives a total of 1,425,112 inhabitants, which is a net increase over 1898 of 34,143, or 2.5 per cent. . . E. M. East, an aeronaut, made an ascension at Walker, Minn. The wind blew him into the south arm of Leech lake. A steamer went out after him, but failed to find him. It is supposed that the parachute did not work and in attempting to cut himself loose he became excited ami fell into the lake. At Colorado Springs, Colo.. William Borden shot and fatally wounded Miss Mal>el McKenna because she refused to marry him. Several hours afterward the police searching for Borden came upon his dead body near where he had attempted to kill his sweetheart. He had shot himself through the head. A north-bound passenger train on the St. Paul and Omaha road was wrecked at Tekamah, Neb. A switch had been left open and the train collided with a gravel train standing on the side track. E. C. Olesen of Sioux City, fireman of the gravel train, was fatally injured and two traveling men were slightly hurt. So bountiful are the crops in the West that farmers have been unable to get help enough to harvest them. In Nebraska farmers offered $2 a day for farm hands, and could not get them, and reports from the wheat fields of South Dakota tell of the demand for men, which was also quite as great in western lowa. Walter Carr, a painter, was drowned in Lake Michigan off Jackson Park, Chicago, while two companions, Samuel Dingman and William Johnson, were rescued by the life-saving crew. The men were fishing from a small boat when Johnson and Diugmau attempted to change plant's, with the result that the boat was upset. Prof. J.. S. Lowe of Ashtabula, T. S. Clymonts of Cleveland and S. F. Higley of Geneva, members of the Northeastern Ohio Grape Association, have completed their inspection of a large number of vineyards in the lake shore grape belt. They find that grapes nre almost totally destroyed by dry rot. entailing a loss of nearly $1,000,1X10.

SOUTHERN.

Frank Naska, an Italian, was hanged at St. John, La., for a triple murder. Alexander Hill, colored, was hanged at Centerville. Ala., for the murder of MrsRufe Hubbard. Beulah Sanders, Birmingham, Ala., shot Hattie Hill through the heart. Quarreled over the affections of a young man. Linwood Wiggin 1. 17, Gatesville, N. C., killed his brother William with a stick of wood. Quarreled over a game of draughts. Tillman Watkins was killed at Sedgwick, Ark., by Martin Orl, The tragedy was the outcome of Jhe abduction of Mr*. Orl by Watkins. Je.wy Fowler and his son, Joseph, were shot and killed at Burrs Ferry, Ga,, by Wm. Jarrels. The shooting grew out of an alleged hog stealing. ■ , A big riot occurred at Fort McPherson. Ga., between the regular and the volunteer troops stationed there. Eight men were seriously shot or stabbed. Three Mormon churches near Middle

Creek, Ky„ have been destroyed. Two were burned by incendiary fires and the third demolished by a masked mob with axes snd timbers.. Joseph Miles, president of the Joha E. Miles & Rons’ Flouring Mill and Grain Elevator Company of Frankfort, Ky., has filed an assignment. Assets are over SIOO,OOO, with liabilities in excess of this amount. Deputy United States Marshal J. A. Blair was shot and fatally wounded in Morgan-County, Ky., while trying to arrest L. F. Lewis, an alleged moonshiner. Blair killed Lewis after receiving his own desperate wound. Captain A. B. Watkins, a county official and well known in Tennessee, was stabbed to death by his 11-year-old son Clarence at Chattanooga. Watkins was whipping the boy on account of breach of family discipline, when the lad became enraged, pulled his knife and plunged the blade through his father’s heart. •

FOREIGN.

Congressman Lovering of Massachusektts was robbed of $13,000 by pickpockets at Ostend, Belgium. In London, D. H. McGowan & Co., West India merchants, who also have a a establishment at Dcmerara, have been declared bankrupt. Their liabilities are £75,000. • A Il Corriere de la Sere of Milan declares that Italy has abandoned all idea of territorial acquisition in China and is only negotiating in connection with commercial matters. Announcement is made at London of the engagement of Lady Randolph Churchill to George Frederick Cornwal-lis-West. This disposes of the report that she was to marry W. W. Astor. George Averoff, the Greek, whose gift of a million francs for the restoration of the Stadium at Athens led to the revival of the Olympic games a few years ago, died at Alexandria, Egypt, in his seventieth year. The supreme court-martial at Madrid, before which Gens. Toral and Pareja have been on trial charged with surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the United States forces without having exhausted all means of defense, has acquitted both officers on the ground that they acted upon the orders of their superiors, and only surrendered when it was impossible to do otherwise.

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Funston writes a friend at Leavenworth that he will remain in the Philippines until the war is ended. yhe Mexican troops under Gen. Lorenzo Torres met the Yaqui Indians and defeated them in a hard-fought battle. Sixty Indians were killed. Two men named Connors, sojourning in Kingston, Ont., learned the other day that they were brothers. One was from Belleville, Ont., and the other from Syracuse, N. Y. One, a chiropodist, showed his patient a picture of his mother, which the other promptly recognized, and the identification was- complete. The third advance in the price of lumber has begun to retard building operations. The last advance makes $1.50 since June 20 and $3 per 1,000 since the spring of 1898. The cause is given as the inability of the lumber people to supply the demand on account of extensive building all over the Northwest. Three surveying corps have been started out by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, under the direction of Chief Enigneer W. T. Manning of the Pittsburg and Western Railway Company, to make a complete survey of the main line of the Pittsburg and Western between Pittsburg and Akron. The survey will probably require six months to complete, and then extensive improvements costing several million dollars are contemplated. Bradstreet’s says: “All signs indicate the maintenance of general trade and industry in an unprecedented midsummer volume. Western and Northwestern trade advices tell of expanding fall trade. Shipments on fall account from Minneapolis tax the facilities of the jobbing houses. Increased demand is noted at Chicago. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 4,711,614 bushels, against 3,366,432 bushels last week, 4,111,312 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898. Since July 1 the exports of wheat aggiegate 18,508,906 bushels, against 14.426.122 bushels last year. Corn exports for the week aggregate 5,027.706 bushels, against 3,700,320 bushels last week and 2.856,923 bushels in this week a year ago.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2,80 cto 32c; oaw, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, choice creamery, 17c to'18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 white, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; 2, 21c to 23c; rye, No; 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 09c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 21« to 23c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, 53c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 19c to 21c; rye. No* 2,53 c to 55c; clover seed, new, $3.70 to $3.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69* to 71c; corn. No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats, Noi. 2 white, 23c to 20e; rye, No. 1,52 cto 64c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 42c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.50; latnbs, common to extra, $4.50 to S6AO. New York—Cattle, $8.26 to 16.00; bog*, SB.OO to $5.25; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, to 14c. 8

DREYFUS TRIAL IS ON

FAMOUS PRISONER BEFORE THE COURT MARTIAL. Accused Officer Declare* Hi* Innocence and Dramatic Fitnationa Follow—Anawera Queations in a Clear Voice—Face Pallid and Hair Gray. Promptly at 7 o’clock Monday morning the trial of Captain Dreyfus began at Rennes, France. Soon after the prisoner entered the court room former Ministers Hanotaux and Lebon, General Mercier and Paul Cavaignac came in, followed by other prominent witnesses. The seats were filled with ticket holders long before the opening of the court. Thus was the opening of one of the greatest trials of history, and the detailed events will be recorded, to be handed down to posterity among the pages of records of national history of the nineteenth century. Although the features of Captain Dreyfus were noticeably pallid he entered the cdurt room with a firm step and answered the questions of the judge as to name, age, etc., with a dear, determined voice. Dreyfus has become partly bald since he was sent to Devil’s Island, and his hair is gray and cloarfy cropped. He took a seat with perfect composure, facing the judges with hands resting on his knees. The officers of the court took their places on the stage, which occupies one end of the hall. The judges looked much in earnest antfa trifle nervous. Dreyfus, who was sitting to the right of the court, was ordered to stand, and the act accusing him of betraying the French military secrets to a foreign power was read. At the conclusion of this the prisoner gave his name, age and grade, and said: “I am Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is named in this accusation.” His voice was firm as of one who answered a familiar question. As Dreyfus spoke the audience strained forward breathlessly. The recorder of the court then called the roll of witnesses. At the oouclusion of the roll call physicians’ certificates, etc., were presented explaining the absence of Du Paty de Clam and others. Major Carriere, government prosecutor, then told the witnesses that possibly four days would be spent in the examination

DREYFUS AS HE NOW APPEARS.

of the secret dossier and that they must retire until called. Colonel Jouast, president of the court, read a decision that, inasmuch as the defense offered no objection, the trial would proceed without the absentees. Dreyfus was brought in from the anteroom under guard. The reading of the act of accusation, which is identical with the charge of the first court martial, took half an hour. At the conclusion the prisoner was ordered to stand and Colonel Jouast said: “Captain Dreyfus, you have heard the accusation. Do you recognize this?” (handing him the bordereau). Dreyfus—l do not. Jouast —Is that your work? Dreyfus—lt is not. lam innocent. As the prisoner said this he trembled palpably, and in a voice throbbing with emotion he repeated: “I am innocent; upon my honor and everything I hold dear—my country, my children, I am innocent.” An examination of the prisoner followed. Dreyfus answered the questions promptly, emphatically and distinctly, without that reputed impediment in his speech d*je to his long isolated imprisonment. His replies to questions relating to different documents which concerned the treason were always of the same tenor: “I bad no knowledge of it,” or simply “Never." Again there would be a detailed explanation of how he knew Certain things under innocent circumstances. , , After ten minutes’ questioning the tone became conversational, and it was difficult to hear wtat passed between the president and Dreyfus. To the question: "Have you ever (naming several dates) visited Germany or Italy?” the answers were “No” and "Never,” with a burst of indignation which sounded through the hall. The question was repeated: “Did you cross into Italy carrying documents for a foreign power?” The answer came with intense emphasis: “No; absolutely never!” This caused a buzz of comment from the officers present, and the court cried: "Silence!” After a short secret session the court announced><that it would deliberate on the dossier behind closed doors. The court then adjourned for the time, thus ending the first scene in the final act of a drama of extraordinary human interest.

Told in a Few Lincs.

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll left no will. Bank of Spain has decided to make all payments in silver. Bessie Smith, 2, New Castle, rtu, played with matches. Now dead. The Alton will secure central of the Union Transfer Company, Chicago. Small dealers of Boston are organising against the big department stores. Gen. Ludlow of Havana has suppressed the scurrilous Cuban newspaper, El Eeconcehtrado. Alfred Vanderbilt and his party of globe trotters sailed on the Empress of India for Yokohama. Negotiations are no* pending to induce the powers to allo* Italy free hand if the peaceable acquisition of San Maa Bay, in China, is impossible.

PULES of the PRESS

End of the Pence Conference. The peace conference has turned out to be just what the majority of people thought It would be —a farce. —Spokane Spokesman-Review. The great peace conference, heralded by such a blare of trumpets, whatever it may claim for itself, has been an absolute, flat-footed failure.—New Orleans Times-Demix-rat. It is to be feared that the conference at The Hague may so complicate the rules of warfare that a general will have to be a first-class lawyer as well as a tactician. —Washington Star. The Monroe doctrine has never had as formal and distinct a recognition as the acceptance of this declarationj>y the various powers represented at The Hague gives it. —Indianapolis Journal. When its work shall lie summed up by impartial judges, the high moral significance and beneficent tendency of the Czar’s peace congress will be clearly disclosed to all friends of human progress. -rPhiladelphia Record. Whatever else The Hague congress has accomplished, it certainly has awakened the Asiatic nations to a sense of their potential power and the importance of developing and concentrating it for their own good. —Kansas City Times. Perhaps they are not too sanguine who see in this convention one of the great turning points in the international history of the world —a new bond of peace, and a stronger one than was ever forged before in the councils of the nations. — St. Paul Pioneer Press. 1 he Mreet Car Strike*. The authorities have allowed the reign of anarchy to continue as long as they dare.—Washington Times. It is a commonplace that the worst sufferers from strikes are strikers themselves. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Let us be thankful to the awkwardness of our dynamiters that we have been slow in getting into the air.—Brooklyn Eagle. Labor can win no victories or advantages by violence or the interference with the rights of others.—Leavenworth Times. If the Brooklyn women who unsex themselves in stoning street cars and mobbing passengers would organize and get after Aguinaldo the war would not last two hours.—Buffalo Times. Every stone thrown is directed against th? strikers, and every bomb that is exploded helps to blow away the foundations on which the strikers base their hopes of possible success. —Cleveland Leader. In point of fact, there never was a strike outside of a few Wall street speculators and a few corrupt labor leaders, and workingmen should look the facts squarely in the face. —Philadelphia Times. Pdtyicamy in Utah. It looks as if polygamy in Utah were considerably cheaper than divorce in Dakota. —New York Press. Matters look squally for President Cannon of the Mormon Church. It's all on account of Senator Martha Hughes-Can-non’s baby.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Angus M. Cannon was fined only SIOO for having six wives. Pretty light! We’ll wager he would not part with one of them for ten times that amount.—Baltimore American. “If let alone polygamy will die a natural death.” says the present Bngnam Young. There can be no doubt of that. But will the Mormons let polygamy alone?—Boston Globe. The polygamous wife of Angus Cannon of Salt Lake on whose account he has just paid a fine of SIOO is a State Senator of Utah. The opponents of woman suffrage will make the most of this.— Bloomington Pantagraph. Anter—Eaglishman. William Waldorf Astor has finally renounced his American citizenship. Good riddance!—Buffalo Express. True patriot he, for it is understood He left his country for his country’s good. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Evidently William Waldorf Astor has a good case for damages against the dealer who sold him his pedigree.—Albany Argus. Willy Wally Astor has completed the job of separating himself from this country without jarring the nations.—Detroit Journal. William Waldorf Astor's formal renouncement of allegiance to the United States will not materially change the situation in the Philippines.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Penalties of Greatness. Admiral Dewey probably prefers Spanish bullets to newspaper lies.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Admiral Dewey seems to need a newa censorship at Triest more than Otis doe* at Manila. —Rockford Republican. Admiral Dewey has consented to place himself in the hands of the New York entertaining committee. No braver man than Dewey ever lived.—Atlanta Journal. It is pleasant to read in a cablegram that Admiral Dewey had a day to himself. He will get more of them when he gets up in the Green Mountains of Vermont.—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-une. , George Dewey is not yet 62 year* young. Here’s hoping more than on* happy decade ia in store for our admiral after he passes through the ordeal of enthusiastic welcome from his countrymen. —Boston JournaL . A agio- American Athlete*. The contests were a great snccesa and forged another link in the Anglo-Ameri-can chain.—Nashville American. On the whole, it was a graceful defeat that leaves no sting behind and that opens the way for more contests of a similar nature in . the future.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The English collegians have not much to ba proud of, for it must be remembered that the Harvard and Yale team ia not at aN representative of the collega of *“• delphia Inquirer.