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Handwriting Experts Testify la
Favor of Prisoner. ’
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HIILLON’S THEORY SCORNED
Charavay Changes Opinions He
Entertained At the Former
Trial of the Prisoner.
Dispatches from Rennes, France,
regarding the progress of the Dreyfus
eourtmartial states that the balance of
the evidence Monday, for a change,
was in favor of Dreyfus. Five wit
nesses were for him and two against
him.
The most interesting testimony was
that of Chief Handwriting Expert
who had com. to declare
16 had Ranged entirely his opinion,
''Web, in 1896, was against and now
in favor of Dreyfus, who, he affirms,
was not the author of the bordereau.
His candid confession of error was
received with murmurs of satisfaction
in court, which became discreet ap¬
plause, in spite of Colonel Jouaust’s
patent disapproval, when he solemnly
added:
‘I declare here on my soul and eon
"eience that the bordereau was writ
tea by Esterhazy/’
The most important incident, how
{Tet > was Colonel Jouaust’s acquies
'race to Major Carriere’s requesstthat
take •rogatory Colonel commission be instructed to
Du Paty de Clam’s de
Position. The initiative came purely
r°m the government commissary,
** res Labori and Demauge having
f **h in the measure, because it al
lo * s Du Paty de Clam to escape Cross
•lamination, rorth which is the only thing
having in the present circum
. °n tbe Paty de Clam being a witness
jll prosecution, Major Carriere
*k.ch simply prepare a list of questions
an examining magistrate will
f •Dee, ^ Du and Paty nobody de Clam at bis that rest- the
^nesswill be supposes embarrassed
b Ithe very much
The interrogatories.
Monday, central figure in the courtyard
which is the meeting place
jkl the leading personages of the
“° daring the suspension of the see
ns ’ was Captain Freystaetter, who
* as > subject of flattering re
Cing UPOnhiSman,yand many like
soldier -
de thV h ° interestin bim wa ® s .‘}
(Pfeat ?, that some persons waited , all
Court- 1 l0ng outside the door of the
in th ln orderto oLtsiiu standing room
the rear part oi the court-room, in
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wonna ° T“ d ^ th «t be impression might be having recalled. gone
r Fr yBt et vi .“, D0b
leavlp b * f ter ' remal “
Reunee end of the , trial > but wlU
ave in . a few days.
M. P rf \? aVa l’ the draURb ! Sma ?’
•ailed ‘, h b y the defense Saturday to
fpf J* the , testimony Bertillon,
the of Mr.
among bandwriting authority, re-
rr lie Rockdale Banner.
CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 1899.
snmed his testimony at the opening of
The court, and with the assistance of a
blackboard proceeded to show the
fallacy of the calculation of M. Bertil
lon and the latter’s unfairness in not
submitting the handwriting of Ester
hazy to the same tests as the prisoner’s.
He declared, however, that even if
M. Bertillon had done so the results
would not have proved anything. The
witness, however, insisted that M.
Bertillon had adopted a vicious method
in only making a partial experiment,
Continuing, M. Paray-Javal proceeded
to show that the geometric regularities
“• Ber,iu °“ d i a BOt " ,e * 1 '
He pointed out a number of irregular¬
ities in the handwriting of the borde¬
reau and said the same irregularities
were particularly noticeable in Estor
lxazy’s ealigrnphv. He also contended
that the alleged irregularity of the key
word “interest” was only approximate
and proceeded to illustrate his argu¬
ment on the blackboard, showiag that
all M. Bertillon’s proofs applied as
equally to Esterhazy as to Dreyfus.
Finally M. Paray-Javal declared
that M. Bertillon’s measures to the
word “interest,” which served as the
basis for the whole system, were en¬
tirely false,- and, therefore, M. Bertil
ion’s entire Systran “falls to the
ground and no longer exists.” (Great
w)lohad ...toed-the
intercst of h j s hearers, maintained
the borderau could not have been
traced, adding that it was an utter im¬
possibility. M. Paray-Javal said
In conclusion, Ber
amid laughter that he thought M.
tiilon was a very intelligent man, but
that his system was false and he, the
witness, was convinced that only self¬
esteem prevented M. Bertillon from
admitting his error.
aguinaldo is dead 1
Japanese Merchants In Hamilton, Ohio,
Get the Now. From Ho »»e
F. Mai la anc. Z. Tange, S
Japanese tea mercliau-s o ’
Ohio, have received a copy of the Chu
Kizo Shinko, a newspaper printed m
Hagoga, Japan, on Hom u y-> Maiu that
contains a dispatch public America. a
bas not yet become i >
Under the heading New Philippine
Information the paper print,
lowing:^ ^ ^ ^ ^ killed
San Fernando, Agninaldo was
by General Lio e death
visited him o inquire do
of General Luna and Agmna anything an
: swered that he never knew
about this cane an < ^■ then tb
his own business. Genera nar
! | called pistol Agmna shot Aguinaldo do a liar ii and^ puffing
a i^antly. _
head, killing him im
The Hamilton Japanese are
: pressed with the reli “ b
per and put great fa b m thetruthof the truth
j the information it brings.
>0 1HSCKI3 H-VATI O.V ALLOWED,
Intcrstat' Comn.^ce Kui«
That Kates Must Be Lniform.
A Washington dispatch says: ^ he
interstate commerce commission has
unced its decision in a case lu
anno
; domestic traffic in gram anu g
products. The commission holds that
in the absence of "P®®
8 ° u > railroads U wou i d . to U0t permanently g ^, T Wansacl trausaci
can
baSme6fl f ° r ,render
tliau that which they render a a corre- corre
onding service to tiffe American citi
sp
j zens.
TROOPS WELCOMED.
President McKinley Greets Tentli
Pennsylvania Volunteers,
BOYS RETURN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Pittsburg, Pa., Made Great Preparation*
To Itoorlve Them ami Occasion Is
Made a Memorable Odd.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, with
cannon booming, bells clanging, whis¬
tler shrieking, flags waving and mighty
cheers from hundreds of thousands of
throats the Tenth Pennsylvania vol
unteers were welcomed home, after
more than a year’s gallant service in
the Philippines, and the reception
tendered the returning soldiers will
always be remembered in Pittsburg as
one of the greatest demonstrations of
patriotism that has ever taken place in
this country.
A fund of $ 50,000 donated by the
citizens and the surrounding towns
permitted the committee which had
the affair in charge to make lavish
preparation for the home-coming and
nothing was left undone that would
show the “fighting Tenth” how well
their services for their country in a
foreign land were appreciated by the
residents of their native state.
The reviewing stand of President
McKinley and his staff of notables in
Schenley park was a magnificent work
of art. Governor Stone opened the
exercises with a graceful speech.
At the conclusion of Governor
Stone’s address President McKinley
was intreduced, and in the course of
his address of welcome said:
“I am glad to participate with the
families, friends and fellow citizens of
the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers in
this glad reunion. You have earned
the plaudit s not alone of the people of
Pennsylvania, but of the whole nation.
You aiade secure and permanent the
victory of Dewey. You added new
glory to American anas.
“You and your brave comrades en¬
gaged on other fields of conflict have
enlarged the map of the United States
and extended the jurisdiction of Amer¬
ican liberty. The Eighth army proud corps
in the Philippines have made a
and exceptional record.
“They were not serving the insur¬
gents in the Philippines or their sym¬
pathizers at home. They had no part
of patience with the men, few in num¬
ber happily, who would have rejoiced
to have teen them lay down their arms
in the presence of an enemy whom
they had just emancipated from Span¬
ish rule and who should have been
our firmest friends.”
“Every step taken was in obedi
ence to the requirements of the con
It became our territory,
a8 much as the Louisiana
V^ch “ T f”J’ gen'ts.^hTno
of r sense
rep .. sentiment of the
f ,? ^ i*] a nds disputed before our the
au u] aut hority h’e and even
.• f t treaty bv the Amer
f °^" J“ ° fought IOUg “ for and secured
f d
• -These loyal volunteers in the Phil
ippines 1 PP; e saidi ‘We will stay ^ until the
er nment can orgauize army at
home and transport r it to the seat of
hostilities.’
“They did stay, cheerfully, uncom-
plaining, patriotically. They suffered
and sacrificed; they fought and foil;
they drove back and punished the
rebels who resisted federal authority
and who with force, attacked the sov¬
ereignty of the United States ip its
newly acquired territory.”
METHODISTS TO RAISE FUNDS.
Interest In the “Twentieth Contury Move¬
ment’’ Grows.
The Methodists of Atlanta, Ga., will
undertake to awaken an interest iu the
Twentieth Century Movement which
proposes to raise $1,500,000 for
Christian education.
At the meeting of the Methodist
ministers Monday morning it was re¬
solved to have a monster demonstatiou
in the shape of a mass meeting.
This meeting it was agreed should
be held at the Grand opera house
Sunday morning at an early date, at
which time all of the churches in tlie
city of this denomination will be
closed, and the pastors and their con
oxecations brought together.
NINE WORKMEN KILLED.
Twelve Immense Steel Arches of
a Building In Chicago Crash
To the Ground.
A Chicago dispatch says: Twelve
steel arches, each weighing thirty
three tons, which were to have sup¬
ported the superstructure of the Coli¬
seum building iu course of erection on
Wabash avenue, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth streets, fell to the
ground Monday afternoon.
It is known that uiue lives were
crushed out. The bodies of three
men are supposed to be under the
wreckage. Seven are iu the hospital,
with injuries received in the accident
and of these two will surely die, one
may possibly recover and the balance
are fer the greater part seriously in¬
jured. stand¬
All of the twelve arches were
ing, the twelfth and last having been
completed during the day. It was the
intention of the steel contractors, the
Pittsburg Bridge company, to turn
over its work Monday night to the
general contractors.
The immense “traveler” or derrick
which had been used in the erection
of the arches had been removed and
the agents of the bridge company wei*
accounting their work as practically
completed, when suddenly and without
warning, the last arch put in place
fell over against the one next to it.
The weight was too much for this,
it gave way, crashed against the third
and then, one by one, the great steel
spans fell over. Nearly all the men
who were killed were at work on top
of the arches forty feet above the
ground. Some of them made fertile
attempts to slide down the side of the
arches, but before they could help
themselves they were hurled to the
ground.
It Is Bubonic Plague.
Advices from Oporto, Portugul,
states that it is now acknowledged that
the bubonic plague began there on
June 4th, last, since which time there
have been thirty-nine cases, thirteen
proving fatal.
Explosion Causes Costly Blaze.
Fire which originated Friday from an night ex¬
plosion of oil at Chicago
destroyed the five-story brick building
atTwenty-seventh and Dear bon streets.
Loss, $800,000; partially insured.
CHILDREN DIE
BY FLAMES
Asylara At Sparkill, N. Y., Is De*
stroyed By Fire.
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WERE ONE THOUSAND INMATES
Shrieks of the Dying Little Ones
Added Horror To Heart¬
rending Scenes.
A special to the Now York World
from Nyaek says that fire was discov¬
ered in the large boys’ and girls’ or¬
phan asylum, conneoted with St.
Auno’s convent, at Sparkill, Orange
county, at 1 o’clock Monday morning,
but not before the entire structure, a
frame, building, was wrapped in
flames. The report states that many
of the inmates, children, were burned
and suffocated.
George Martin, of Sparkill, one of
those who first discovered the fire,
telephoned to Nyaek for assistance.
Mazeppa engine company responded
from that place. Eight doctors also
went to the asylum from Nyaek. A
request for aid was also telephoned to
Piedmont. Empire engine company
was dispatched from Piedmont to the
eccne of the fire.
The asylum, whioh is conducted by
the Sisters of Mercy, held abont 1,000
children. It was a long frame build¬
ing, three stories high. The flames
were not discovered until tko whole
building was one mass of fire, The
children had scant chance for escape.
Special trains over the New Jersey
Northern railroad were rushed to the
rearest railroad station. The asylum
was situated between Sparkill and
Orangeburg.
Heartrending Scenes.
The scenes at the conflagration were
heartrending. The children, clad in
their night robes oemld be »*«ja falling
backward Into the furnace of flame and
smoke, while the shrieks of the dying
could be heard above the crackle of
the devouring flame.
Some of the children were crippled
for life by jumping from the windows.
Many of the sisters also were injured,
while others lost their lives heroically
white trying to rescue their charges.
Although the service of the fire ap¬
paratus from neighboring places had
been promptly rendered, the engines
arrived too late to be effective in sav¬
ing life or property. The fire started
on the upper floor of the three-story
building. Nearly 300 of the occupants
of the convent occupied rooms on this
floor and all the dormitories were
lighted with kerosene lamps.
There is little doubt that the fire
wae caused by the explosion of one of
these lamps. The fire spread rapidly
upward and burned through the shin¬
gle roof of the building in two places.
At the time of the discovery the fire
had made such progress that the sis¬
ters ould not awake the hundreds of
children under their care, marshal
them in order, and march them from
the building, as was the practice at
Official Organ of Rockdale Coun
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
NO U:
lire drills. .Many of the littie victims
were suffocated in their sleep.
INYE8TIGATKD STATE LINES.
Tciiuiesse© mid Vh'ntnia Official# Hut*
Conference at Bristol.
At the conference at Bristol between
Governor Tyler and Attorney General
Montague, of Virginia, on one side,
and Governor MoMilliu and Attorney
Pickle, of Tennessee, on the othe*,
touching the boundary line between
the two states, it was agreed that At
torney General Pickle, of Tenness&e.
meat of commissioners to review and
remark the lines.
The conference was in every way
satisfactory.
Americans Ambushed By Insurgents.
A Manila special says that four men
of the Twenty-third regiment, station¬
ed at Cebu, were ambushed by the
natives in the hills and three of them
killed. The fourth man succeeded in
making his escape.
ARBITRATION SIDETRACKED.
flust Be War In Transvaal or an
Unconditional Backdown By
President Kruger.
The London foreign office issued a
Transvaal blue book Friday contain¬
ing further correspondence between
the secretary of state for the colonies,
Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, and tlie
British high commissioner for south
Africa, Sir Alfred Milner.
The principal dispatches deal with
the Transvaal’s request for arbitration
and Mr. Chamberlain’s suggestion for
a joint inquiry, which was telegraphed
to Sir Alfred Milner at Cape Town on 11
July 8fst. •
No information is given, however,as
to the views of the Transvaal govern¬
ment regarding this proposition.
Sir Alfred Milner transmitted the
Transvaal’s proposal on June 14th and
recommended its immediate rejection
as it would raise more questions than - -
w mid s >1 ve.
In defending his recommendation,
Sir Alfred insisted that a redress of
the grievences of the Uitlanders stood
at the head of the program and that
nothing else could be considered until
this point was settled.
Mr. Chamberlain, in replying, in
dorsed Sir Alfred Milner’s views and .
reviewed the situation resulting in the
treatment to which the Uitlanders are
now subjected. His reply concluded <
with the proposal of a joint commisr . ^
sion of inquiry.
It was learned in a telegraphic re
port from Cape Town Friday nighU
that the volksraad, by a vote of 18 to
9, adopted the report of the majority J I
of the dynamite commission, contin¬
uing the monopoly; that Commandant
Joubert issued a circular to all field* -
cornets, cautioning them against any
act tending to bring on a conflict with
another power. He declares that not
one single stranger who does not vol- j
nnteer is to be coerced into bearing
arms.
Mereler Will Be Prosecuted.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon¬
don Daily Mail says he learns on e*- 1 ‘
celleut authority that General Mereier t
will be prosecuted in connection witU
the Dreyfus affair.
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