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[Formal Appeal For Dreyfus Is
Signed By Oonrtmartial
ffl SENT TO PRESIDENT LOIIBET
Iwliians Are Confident of the Guilt of
Dreyfus and See No Fault In Ver¬
dict of Courtmartial.
A Paris spfeial says: The court
M'tial, Monday afternoon, signed a
teal recommendation for mercy in
» »ecase of . „ Captain , . Dreyfus. ^ Its ob- ,
i® 1 is to eliminate the degradation 1
tore of the punishment. Tho rec
nmendation was sent to President
bluet.
Except for slight street disturbances
Way night Paris has remained un
apectedly jlirsis qniet, but this condition of
heavy not likely to cocntinue. The
»g, rain 0 f Sunday, combined
' the ^ fl ct that the leaders of the
fscsmg p ar ties were all at Rennes
r®*? ‘ 1 7 n an y too organized the general demonstra- public
> >
, aelighted ,
with the verdict as con
? •'ow, mg | however, ke Prevailing they opinion. beginning
are
ee the want of logic in conceding
Muating circumstances” to a cou
traitor, a concession which ex
es doubt as to the strength of the
I e agaiiist Dreyfug. Moreover, pub
M ni°n is being sobered by read
[, ne comments tbe of the world at
P ros P ect > boY'ever
L b-L.’-^bich ’ taat exhibition will be
would mean a loss
llt 10U 8 to the countr L
1 i B estimated i - that Ahe last year’s
L-jfS* least have 1,100,000 cost francs. the Dreyfus They
L ,nteU( t to let matters rest and
Llf EL o are f General revived Mercier. of the impending He de¬
PVwem. ll,' u at k 0 quite ^oes not care what ' hap
u ' sure that he has
r? 6 bis dut J
it is understood that President
opposes such an extreme
e SB Prosecuting Mercier the
. or
generals. He is rather inclined
® to conciliatory pardon policy, extending
a for Dreyfus.
n 1U f dossier In Faria.
. - easier of the Rennes eourtmar
&C6ed ings was received in Paris
C!dfl f° submission the
r to
q.‘‘ °f revision, consisting
Xss/t- ,eutenant ^ arc iil°. Colonel Courbo
ib n Colonel Lagrene,
It j, °PP aud Major Allard.
8a:d Mathieu Dreyfus in
om" , au PPlicate
ae Publication Emperor William
a[, of the docu
jj numerated in the bordereau,
ling s.’aauge has been blamed for
h, BC uiany points in bis
but it appears that he did so
ho ,? e °* winning another
, a „ waverer
9 6d , judges, who, however,
that «. ma jority on condi
i j .,7 e ver dict would be accom
e( p:* v tbe
ttc umstances. proviso aa to extsnu
state **■ Ken »es
r ehooV* a in/ reV f 8 atKen ° es -
a the tow„ 8 endarmes T nartel "
&I! J . 8 have
the • eimr0D8
•ted i n l°, Uralis <r . ial ,t 3 aacl others in
SW- 0 Yha have departed
bit *, ■ b cafes which for
&cit € d 0 r °wds s aT d been thronged
are deserted.
T lieTiockdale Banner.
CONYERS, GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1899.
Monday a solitary gendarme paced
up and down before the military
prison, and there was, not a policeman
or soldier near the Lycee, which last
week resembled a barracks. Work
men were busily dismal^* T* rt the —
courtroom aud packing char 11 ' ‘ ' t"
and benches on trolley cars o ers ol p
.
Madame Dreyfus visited about l
,
baud in prison Monday gfteruh 011 ’ tra
not lire slightest interest wafihen go
iu their meeting by the pophey sw
She found him calm and in‘ hjrty
spirits than could be expected. ’1) f
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TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRIf j
English Cabinet Decides to Send Ten
Thousand at Once.
The London Cabinet has decided to
10 00 0 troops to South Africa .
■«£. addition - to t the Natal force already in
there of 5i000 men> of wh ich reinforce
m «nts 5,000 men will be sent, from In
dia, 900 from England, a battalion of
the Northumberland regiment, and
the remainder from the Mediterranean
station. All go at once.
PENSION LAWYERS ROASTED.
Temiessoo .Jadife Deiiaunees Them In
Charge to Grand Jury.
j ndge C. D. Clark, of the United
gf a tes court in Knoxville, Tenn., has
stirred up the local pension attorneys
b bis c h a rge to the grand jury. He
denounced the pension attorneys as
members 0 f a trade in which not so
much is done to aid honorable and
wort liy 80 ]diers As to put upon the
government payrolls aud cause to be
gU p por ted the grossest kind of frauds,
rp be judge referred to recent expos¬
nres 0 f pension frauds made before
his court at Nashville, saying, in some
instances, transactions brought to light
were a disgrace to civilization, aud
that it is doubtful if any well managed
g OVerlJ mont suffers such a burden of
fraud a s the people are being by rea
son of the abuse of the government’s
j us t]y liberal disposition to disabled
sold j ers and their families.
MORGAN IS FOR BRYAN.
Alabama Senator New Declares Nebras¬
kan Is Logical Nominee.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
United States Senator John T. Morgan,
who declared some time ago against
Bryan’s renomination and John W.
Tomlinson, Bryan’s lieutenant in Ala
bama spoke at Maplesville Thursday,
tlie former for aud the latter against
expansion. Morgan saidin bis speech
that Brvan was the only logical nom
inee of the democracts in 1900.
SWELL CRAP SHOOTERS PULLED,
Arrest Fifteen Guest* of a Froml
Officers
nont Resort Hotel.
Chattanooga dispatch says: r od^
A raided swell crap
stable K. P. Miller a
game late Thursday night at JjOok
Inn, one of the swellest sumrnei le
sorts in the south. Pistols were drawn
and it would was feared result, trouble but tue for^ hotel theo clerk*
cers The affair causeu qi
kept it down.
a sensation.
MAY . v hIT/jFneRAL lit fa EUBAn BOYCOTT.
Kaly Asked To Can.el Faria
Austria Space.
Exposition both
Proposals have been made to
Austria and Italy to boycott the Pans
exposition as a protest against the
verdict at Rennes. . of .
denunciation .
Demonstrations in
tbe ver dict occurred Sunday in several
T ta i; ft n cities. At Naples the demon
t ra tors tried to attack the French
s the police were com
consulate and
pelled to intervene.
DEIUNGE PLEADING
Attorney For Dreyfus Opens His
Speech For the Defense,
PRISONER LISTENS WITH INDIFFERENCE
A Report Current That Labor! and Dent
Huge Disagreed Over the Flan
of Procedure.
A special from Rennes says: The
hall of the Lycee was crowded Friday
morning at the opening of the fifth
day of the fifth week of the second
trial by courtmartial of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus, of the artillery, charged with
treason.
There was a large attendance of
ladies and newspaper writers, who sat
up all night in order to secure front
places. At an early hour a long line
was formed of people awaiting admis¬
sion. Standing room at the back of
the court commanded 15 to 20 francs
for places, aud the demand increased
as the trial approached its end. of
Among the privileged witnesses
the trial Friday was Baron Russell, of
Killoween, lord chief justice of Eng¬
land.
Maitre Demange at once opened his
speech for the defense. In eloquent
terms and with impressive delivery he
brought out strong evidence against
Ester hazy. During the course of his
remarks he cried:
“Do you think if Dreyfus and Ester
hazy had been before the courtmartial
of 1894, that the court would have
condemned Captain Dreyfus?”
Dreyfus listened to the oration of
M. Demange with impassiveness.
Whatever the prisoner’s feelings were
as he heard M. Demange’s plea in his
behalf, he carefully concealed it.
At 11 o’clock M. Demange was still
speaking, and announced that he
would need another two hours and a
half to finish his plea, so tho court ad
journed until 7:30 o’clock Saturday
morning.
There was a rumor after adjourn
ment of court that M. Labori had de
eided not to apeak, the idea being that
his abstention from doing so, in view
the irritating effe«t his every utterance
has on the cohrt, would be rather an
advantage than otherwise to Dreyfus.
M. Labori was asked if there was
any truth in the report, and he replied
with a shrug of bis shoulders, appar¬
ently conveying the impression that
the matter was under consideraton.
j t Wfts generallv noticed that when
M Labori entere d the court he sppke
to ^ Demange in a deprecating tone,
^ ft sbarp discussion ensued almost
bordering ou a d ^ te .
Tbe Bame tb ; ng ocat i rre d during the
nsua) brief snspension of tha sitting,
The two lawyers were apparently method at
loggerheads about the best of
conducting the case, which, it is said,
boded no good for Dreyfug
6ERMANY SPEAKS FOR DREYFUS
—
Count Von flunster Declares Most
Emphatically That Prisoner
Is Innocent.
!j be Rejchsanzieger, Berlin
perj published in the official portion of
the paper Friday evening the following
statement:
“We are authorized to repeat here¬
with the declarations which tho impe¬
rial government, while loyally observ¬
ing the reserve demanded in regard to
the internal matters of another coun¬
try, has made concerning the French
captain Dreyfus. For the preservation
of his own dignity and the fulfillment
of a duty to humanity, Prince Von
Munster, after obtaining tho orders of
the emperor, repeatedly made in De¬
cember, 1894, and in January, 1895,
to M. Haritaux, M. Dupuy and M.
Casimir-Perier, declarations to the ef¬
fect that the imperial embassy in
France never maintained eilher direct¬
ly or indirectly any relation with
Dreyfus. in
“Secretary of State Von Buelow,
the reichstag January 24, 1898, made
the following statement:
“ ‘I declare in the most positive
manner that no relations or connec¬
tions of any kind ever existed between
the French ex-Captain Dreyfus, now
on Devil’s island, and any German
agent. J >>
TWO NEGRO REGIMENTS.
Older For Their Organization Issned
Ernm War Dei>ar(ment.
An order for the organization of two
colored regiments has just been issued
from the wav department. All of the
.field officers of these two regiments
are white men now iu tho regular
army. All of the company officers are
colored men who served in tho war
with Spain iu either the regular or the
volunteers. The regiments will be
designated the Forty-eighth and For¬
ty-ninth infantry. The Forty-eighth
will be organized at Fort Thomas,Ky.,
and the Forty-ninth at Jefferson Bar¬
racks, Mo.
JIM INEZ W ELCOMED.
Entera Moca at tho Head of Five Hundred
Cavalry.
General Jiminez arrived at Moca,
Santo Domingo, Friday afternoon with
an escort o f 500 cavalry, largely aug¬
mented by armed horsemen from tho
villages nlong his route. Everywhere
the utmost enthusiasm was displayed.
It was at Moca that the late Presi¬
dent Heureaux was killed by Ramon
Caeeres, who is now the idol of the
people and the minister of war in the
provisional government. that they
The conspirators claim
have : ecured a list of the names of
persons who Heureaux had designated
for execution. •
REBELS CONTINUE ACTIVE.
They Swoop Down On Threelownt Slmnl
larieouftly, But Are Repulsed.
A Manila dispatch says: A force of
450 rebels with one oannon attacked
Santa Rita, Guaga and San Antonio
simultaneously. All the attacks were
repulsed without loss to Americans.
Colonel Bell and his regiment,while
attempting to take the rebels in the
rear, met two small patrols and suc¬
ceeded in capturing a rebel captain, a
lieutenant and six privates.
MOTHER USES RAZOR.
Cuts Her Five-Teav-Old Child’s Throat
and Then Her Own.
Mrs. Dr. James Burch of Lincoln
ton, Ga., in a state of mental aberra
tion, caused from continual illness at
the house of her sister, Mrs. F. Dun
nington, in Augusta, where she was
visiting, cut the throat of Marie, her
five-year-old child, and then cut her
own throat. Both wounds are dan
gerous, but both may recover.
YELLOW JACK
IN EVIDENCE
Thirteen Cases Reported In Mis¬
sissippi City.
FEVER SPREADS IN KEY WEST
Rigid Qaurantine Rules Are Be¬
ing Applied at Various
Points.
A New Orleans special says: Sus¬
picious oases reported Thursday from
Mississippi City, Miss., were pro
noucod yellow fever Friday by the ex¬
pert, after a careful study of the cases.
Thirteen were sick, all the cases being
mild and thoroughly isolated and the
disease is fully under control. Most of
tho summer residents of the town,
however, left to avoid quarantine.
Mobile quarantined against Missis¬
board sippi City Thursday night. The state
of health of Mississippi quaran¬ board
tined Friday. The Louisiana
has not as yet taken any action and
probably will not do so, holding that
there is no danger, as the eases are
isolated.
One of the yellow fever cases in
New Orleans was declared cured Fri¬
day, leaving only one sick, Rev. Mr.
Bentley, curate of St. Paul.
THIRTY CASES AND TWO DEATHS AT
KEY WEST.
Thirty cases of yellow fever bad
been reported in Key West up to Fri¬
day night as a record for twenty-four
hours.
Including two cases previously omit¬
ted, the total number occurring to
date so far as known is 127, the total
number deaths up to Friday being
nine. The weather is still warm and
rainy and favorable for the spread of
the disease.
The cases of yellow fever having
been discovered at Mississippi City,
Dr. J. F. Hunter, secretary of the
state board of health, issued the fol¬
lowing bulletin Friday night:
“Yellow fever has been officially re¬
ported in Mississippi City. I hereby
declare the above named place to be in
quarantine under Dr. J. J. Harry, as
state officer, and no passengers, bag¬
gage, freight or express will be allowed
to be brought into auy other portion
of the state.’’
Mississippi City is a summer resort,
located on the gulf coast seventy-two
miles from Now Orleans. The news
has produced but little excitement and
no apprehension is felt.
TEXAS APPLIES RILE.
A dispatch from Austin says: Texas
ordered on an additional yellow fever
quarantine Friday as the result ©f a
telegram from Dr. Souchon, at New
Orleans, that an additional case of
yellow fever had developed there, and
a telegram from W. H. Sanders, state
health officer of Alabama, under a
Mobile date that yellow feTer had
developed at Mississippi City.
A second telegram was received from
John T. Hunter, secretary of the Mis
sissippi state board, stating that there
were thirteen genuine cases of yellow tb«
fevgr at Mi$s|.ssppi City and that
Official Organ of liockdaie Coun
Has Largest C irculation in
The County., ,
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state of Mississippi had quarantined
that place.
Montgomery Quarantines.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: The state quarantine has been
extended against Mississippi City and
points west of there on the route to
New Orleans.
Enver in V.ra Cruz.
Official reports of the yellow fever
cases at Vera Cruz, Mexico, indicate
the continued prevalence of the dis¬
ease nt that port, and a large propor¬
tion of deaths.
GATHERING PEARLS IN FLOYD.
A Georgia Fanner Plok* Up G«mi Which
Are Valued at
Interest has been aroused in th«
pearl fisheries of Floyd county, Ga.
A farmer living on the Armnchee has
on exhibition in Romo a number of
the most beautiful pearls'yet seen in
the town.
The bottle containing $85 worth of
the pretty pearls are attracting much •
attention.
(.'EDA ItTOVAN’S ENTER PRISE.
A El|r Cotton Company In Formed Ky
AinalKamatlon.
The Cedartown, Ga., Cotton Com¬
pany is one of the large corporations
just been organized in Cedartown for
the manufacture of a high grade of
eottou yarn and embraces the follow¬
ing companies under its re-organiza¬
tion: The Cedartown Cotton Manu¬
facturing Company, the South Exten¬
sion Mill Company, the Paragon mills,
the Cedartown Warehouse Company
and the Cedartown cotton gin. The
amalgamation of these compauies pre¬
pares the owners of these properties
for still greater development.
BOYCOTT RILL A CERTAINTY.
Co»nre»sman I-evy, of Now York, Will Ask
Withdrawal of Exhibit.
A New York dispatch says: Con¬
gressman Jefferson M. Levy announced
Monday that as soon as congress meets
he will introduce a resolution in the
house withdrawing the support of this
government from the Paris exposition
on account of the Dreyfus case.
New York Methodists Deplore Verdict.
At the meeting of the Methodist
Preachers’ Association of New York a
resolution was unanimously passed
deploring “the shameful miscarriage
of justice in the recent condemnation
of Captain Dreyfus. ”
It Is Bubonic Plague.
Advices from Oporto, Portugul,
states that it is now acknowledged that
the bubonic plague beggu there on
June 4th, last, since which time there
have been thirty-nine oases, thirteen
proving fatal.
Explosion Causes Costly Blaze.
Fire which originated from an ex¬
plosion of oil at Chicago Friday night
destroyed the five-story brick building
at T wen ty-seventh and. Dear bon streets.
Loss, $300,000; partially insured.
MILES’ PROPOSAL REJECTED.
Hig Recommendation Ah To Rapid-Fire
Guns Disapproved Of.
A Washington special says: Some
months ago General Miles recommend¬
ed the purchase of a number of rapid
fire guns for use in the Philippines.
His recommendation was as president
of the board of ordnance and fortifica
turns.
General Buffington chief , . , of . ord- ,
nance, disapproved the recommenda
tion.