, .-. ,. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. .1 THE DREYfDS CASE Review of the Famous Trial That is Stirring France COURT SCENES AND INCIDENTS Fast Track's Event In Connection With the Celebrated Captain's Second . Trial on Charge of Having Con veyed Military Information to Germany. The Dreyfus case is an absorbing tople of conversation at present, and nearly every country under the sun Is interested in the retrial of the famous French captain. It is especially of in terest to Americans, as there is con nected with it political intrigue that may change the political and constitu tional welfare of France. Captain Dreyfus was several years ago arrested for, tried and found guilty of having betrayed secrets of a mili tary character to the enemy of France the German empire. Ilia punish ment was severe. He was brought be fore h. comrades, stripped of all in signia of rank, and his sword taken from him and broken, and he was sentenced to solitary confinement on Devil's island, a French possession in the Carribean sea some miles from French Guiana. His friends believed him to be the victim of a plot at the hands of certain army officers, and, headed by his faithful wife, they la bored to unearth evidence that would tend to prove him Innocent. 60 well did their efforts succeed that public opinion was aroused in behalf of the condemned man and a retrial of his case was ordered, and is now in pro gress at Bonnes. Much has come to light since the opening of the trial which proves that Captain Dreyfus waa found guilty at his first trial on evidence that was forged by army of ficers, &nd unless something unfore seen should occur, ait is likely at any time in volcanic France, the man who has suffered tortures untold while a prisoner, may go free. His case is one of the crimes of the age., -Vi-v - Monday, August 14, the trial of Cap tain Dreyfus was fall of sensations. The day started out with an almost successful attempt to murder M. La bor!, Dreyfus's chief counsel, by par ties unknown, while he was on his way to court. General Mercler, who is the chief ac eoser of Dreyfus, was on the stand, and it is believed that the attempt on M. Labori's life was due ' to the fact that General Mercier a friends feared the able lawyer would crush Mercier in bis testimony. ' Tuesday.the 15th,M. Labori was get ting well as rapidly as could 1 be ex pected, and the trial proceeded with out him. . An attenpt was made to have the trial postponed until the 21st but the request was not granted. Ar rest of persons belonging to the patri otic league and anti-semi te league were made, they being charged with con spiracy to overthrow the government. The proceedings of Wednesday, the 16th, were productive of several sen sations. Dreyfus was on the stand and told the story of his sufferngs on Devil's island. Dreyfus wept in court when the clerk read the document re counting the details of his incarcera tion. The testimony of the day was strongly against the prisoner, the wit nesses being persons who have always held Dreyfus guilty. Thursday, August 1?, the widow of Colonel Henry, the officer who is said to have committed suicide while in prison, was on the stand and gave evi- dence unfavorable to Dreyfus in contra diction to M. Bertullus who had pre ceded her in behalf of Dreyfus. General Rogrt was also examined as a principal witness for the prosecu tion He clearly showed by his testimony that he was an enemy to the prisoner, but when the consel for Dreyfus, M. Demange, took him in , hand he be came confused at the sharp questions fired at him. The tide is turning in favor of Drey fus however, owing to the fact that the censorship exercised in regard to the case. Madame Henry's effort to create a sensation by dramatic allu sions failed of intended effect mainly because friendly witnesses for Dreyfus produced anonymous letters showing the whole scene had been prearranged. Some of the correspondents at the trial believe Dreyfus will be re-condemned, but that the sentence will be at once commuted through fear of ex citement and uprising. Keeented by Frost. Dr. R. & Warren, major and aurgeon of the First Dakota volunteers, has been arreted and will be court-martialed for severe strictures upon his superior officer. Colonel Alfred D. Frost, whom he called a "low, con temptible cur" in a' letter published last month. Kid McCoy I Knocked oat.. ' Chicago, Au?. 2L Jack McCorraack of Philadelphia knocked out Kid Mo Coy in three minutes last night, .The bout was to have been for six rounds and it wan genera ly thought that Mo Cormack stood no show at alL He himself said before entering the ring that he was going to do the best he could and let it go at that The fight was so short and so quickly over that there was almost nothing to it but the punch that put McCoy to sleep. The fight was under strict Queens bury ro.es, hitting with one arm free permitted. LABORI RETURNS TO TRIAL. famous Counsel Resumes Ilia Plaee Court Room. i'he Dreyfus court-martial reconven ed Monday morning at the usual hour. Maitre Labori was not present, Hi doctors considered that it would be in advisable fot him to attempt to take part in toddy's proceedings, in view of - mi li the dancer of a relapse. The witness was Colonel Fabre, who deposes that he had discovered a similarity between the handwriting of the accused and that of the bordereau. lie reiterated his conviction of the guilt of Dreyfus, saying: ,-I am sure he wrote the bor dereau." The trial of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus on the charge of. treason began at 6:30 Tuesday. Maitre Labori was present. He drove to the court in a carriage and entered the hall at 5:30. The audi ence greeted him by standing up and a general clapping of hands took place. Maitre Labori walked quite briskly, but holding his left arm close to his side in order to not disturb the wound, He met General Mercier and General which instantly became a scene of pil Billot in the middle of the court room, and sacrilege. Altars and statutes stopped, chatted and smiled. Labori. were hurled to the floor and smashed, looked very well. He was given a pictures were rent, candle-sticks, or cushloned armchair. naments and posts from high altars . M. Demange, of counsel for defense, were thrown down and trampled under was more successful than usual in cross examining, and visibly discon certed M. Gribclin. Counsel scored a distinct hint when he got M. Gribclin to admit that he mixed the intrigues of Paty de Clam and Henry to shield Ester hazy, and when M. Gnbelin was finally disposed of . his evidence had suffered badly. M. Gribelin, the principal archivist of the headquarters staff, was the next witness. He testified with great volu bility and expressed the opinion that when Dreyfus was arrested in 1894 he was enacting a role by systematically denying all the charges against him, even the most obvious and least im portant things, and in declaring him self ignorant of matters which should have been known to every officer of the general staff. The witness said he was cognizant of Freysus' relations with loose, women. In support of this assertion he men tioned an alleged voluntary statement made by Mathieu Dreyfus, brother of the prisoner, in the witness' presence, monarchists and the priests, and urged that he had been obliged to pull his its supporters to meet force with force, brother from the clutches of a woman "Sould Dreyfus be convicted," said of this description living near the lhe manifesto, "it will be a triumph of. Champs Elysees. the bandits. Should he be acquitted, Dreyfus created a better impression "e military section will be open to re today. He entered the court room hellion." with a more confident bearing and re- The PaPr called on ttU anarchists plied to the witness in a calm voice to demonstrate against the priests and without any theatrical gestures, and Jesuits. Copies of the manifesto were his remarks were put so lucidly that scattered broadcast, and the result was he appeared to make an impression on the riot. all the judges, all of whom are reputed' The prefecture of police gives the to be hi ttorly opposed to him. following statistics of yesterday s Thft RAdfirinn wfinnrl iin wifH a. fivn a i riots. -tr ' j on account of the extraordinary ; con I duct of Colonel Jouaust, .'president of the court, who permitted himself to make an unwarrantable display of partiality. M. Bertullus had been con fronted with the last witness, Captain Junck, and General Gonse had defended the the latter when Colonel Picquart rose and asked to refute some of Junck's remarks. Colonel Jouaust made a gesture of impatience and shouted: "What, again?" An outburst of hooting and hissing came from the audience at such a dis play of unfairness from the president. Judges and gendarmes quickly sup pressed the noise, but Colonel Jouaust understood the well-merited rebuke administered him, turned red and ad journed the court ten minutes latei MORE COMPLICATIONS. iecret Dossier In Hands of Court-Mar- ' ' tlal Not Complete. According to the Echo de Paris, as a consequence of Captain Cuignet's evi dence, General '"hanoinc, who took the the war office secret dossier to Rennes, l. - i .1... M "T ' rtlV uh uirwu Duuuvuijr xur x aria. ei paper says: , "Captain Cuignet's evidence shows that the whole secret dossier has not been communicated to the court-mar-! tial. A document has been withheld, which proves the existence of a vast network of espionage under the direc tion of foreign military attaches, ud of negotiations or the subject of the ' ureytus case br ween several trench notabilities and the representatives of ( foreign powers. 'The dossier, moreover, Contains . 4... .1 j . , I kuBk 1, 11c buiu ui oj,uuu,uuu irancs was received in France from abroad for tho purpose of prosecuting a pro Dreyfus campaign." 1 Major Russell Harrison 111. Major Russell B. Harrison, inspector general, is critically ill with yellow fever at Santiago. The disease has been progressing for three days, al though not pronounced yellow fever until Sunday evening. The case is the flrt.t to occur at Cristo, whither headquarters was removed last month to escape Infection. Major Harrison has been inflated, but not brought to the fever hospital. Fresh Proposals Advanced. The report t'.iat the Transvaal gov ernment had handed its reply to the British agent at Pretoria, to be for warded to Sir Alfred 'Milner, B rltisb high commissioner , for South Africa, and governor of Cape Colony, is con firmed. It is believed, however, that he proposition of Great Britain for a joint commission to investigate the ef fect which the franchise reform legis lation would have on the outlanden has not been accepted, but that fresh proposals have been advanced. , BLOODY RIOTS IN PARIS. lerlon Disturbances In Man Farts of . the City. Paris last Sunday was the scene of most serious disturbances, recalling some aspects of the commune. In re sponse to an appeal to the Journals le Peuple, and La Petite Ecpublique, croups of anarchists and socialists -athea about 3 o'clock in the after- 0 noon in the Place de la IteDubliaue. Suddenly, either at the word of com mand or in obedience to impulse, the column made a loop arid curved to ward the Church of St. Ambrose.where the rioters smashed the windows. Proceeding thence toward the Fau bourg du Temple, at the corner of the fine Darboy and the Hue St. Mauri Popincourt, they formed into a com pact body. Hatchets were suddenly produced, with long knives stolen from the counters of shops; and a concen trated rush was made upon the church of St Josephs The aged sacristan seeing the mob hastily closed the outer gates, but these were soon forced with hatchets and bars of iron." The mas sive oaken doors were then attacked. The wild horde burst into the cnorcb, foot. The crucifix above was made the target for missiles, and the figure of the Saviour was smashed in several pieces. Then while various voices sang the "'Carmagnole," the chairs were carried outside, piled up and set on fire in the center of the square fronting the church. When this stage nras reached, the crucifix was pulled Sown and thrown into the flames. The police arrived and after a des perate fight drove back the mob. Be tides St. Joseph church two cafes were wrecked. At a late hour 3,000 people were in the Boulevard de Majenta, which runs past the end of the Bue Hue Chabrol. They were kept con stantly moving by the republican guards, who made a remarkable dis- play of force. It appears that the anarchists' dem onstration was decided upon at a meet ing held Saturday night. ' The Journal du Pueple, edited by Sebastian Faure, published a manifesto denouuncing the military party, the anti-semltes, the Three hundred and eighty persons were injured. Three hundred and sixty were taken to the hospitals. Fifty-nine policemen were wounded besides Commissaries Goutier and Dola mire. One hundred and fifty persons were arrested, of whom eighty are de tained in custody. Soldiers Create Trouble. A riot between the members of the rbirty-second volunteer regiment and North Leavenworth, Kan., negroes took place Sunday afternoon during which shots were fired and one man man was wounded on each side. Tbe soldiers had trouble with a ne jro named Alexander Johnson a . week before and when Johnson met a couple of volunteers near the Ft Leaven worth reservation Sunday, he renewed Hostilities by knocking a soldier down. Volunteers and negroes soon gathered in force and clubs, stones and guns were brought into play. The soldiers, jutnumbered the negroes and ran nany of them towards the center of die city, where the police quelled the riot. Corporal Johnson of the Third bat talion was shot in the left leg. ' Alex Johnson was shot in the left shoulder nd is seriously injured Sent Hie Brother the Tag-, n. M. Bower of Ruby, in Seward unty, has received a letter from, his brother, Otis II. Bowers, who went to Maniia on the hospital ship Relief , from Brooklyn, N. Y. He is an undertaker and embalmer and embalmed the body )f Colonel Stotsenburg. When the &J arrived at Manila it had a tag ittAAhed to it. on which was tha foM lowing endorsement: "Colonel Stot wnburg, First Nebraska. Killed in action. W'arne, Surg." The tag is jovered with blood. Mr. Bowers writes his brother that tags are attached io those killed in action, and when the tody of Colonel Stotsenburg arrived In Manila and was turned over to him for smbalminghe preserved the tag to send to his brother. Twenty Tears for leltaer. Bowliso Grkex,' Ohio, Aug. L John Zeltner, accomplice of his broth tr'Faul in the murder of Attorney Westenhaver, at Hoytsvllle, last March, was sentenced to twenty years' Imprisonment -Wants 0,000 for HU Ere. Joplix, Ma, Aug. 81. James Bane tf Dnenweg, whose eyes were blown out when he went back on an un ex ploded charge of dyntmlte In one ot the Ground Sl Irwla mines last spring, baa brought suit against that firm for 120,000 damages. Csterbaiy May Testify. P-Bin, Aug. SI. There are rumors that after all Esterhazy will go to France to testify. The Figaro enom trates altogeiher eleven forged docu ments thus far discussed in the Drey fua affair. FIGHT FOR RIGHT OF RANGE. FA- Between Sheep and Cattlemen Causes Killing. Another fatal shooting in- Dawes iounty as a resnlt of a quarrel over the right of range occurred about twenty-five miles southwest - of Chadr rbn one recent morning. George Coil shot and instantly killed Tom Byan on account of the differences between the sheep and cattle range lines and the trespass of one on the other's range. " Coil is a young man just p ast twenty-one, son of Frank J. Coil, a sheep rancher who was formerly a promi nent business man' and politician of Burt county. He is the only living witness to the killing, and says that he did it in self defense. It is the re sult of a feud. Almost every week some of the factions meet on the range and threaten each other. Ryan, it is claimed, had driven several sheepmen off the same range with a gun and scattered their flocks and had repeat edly intimidated Coil's younger broth ers. Coil says Byan rode down onto the sheep range and abused him and called him the vilest names and threat ened to kill him. Coil warned him to stop calling him names three times; and was told by Ryan that he would kill him. Coil turned abruptly and fired. Ryan fell lifeless . from his horse. Coil was shot at by Ryan a few weeks ago and i was afraid. He came to town and surrendered. TEST CASE TAKEN HIGHER, AhaU Insurance Companies ray Moore'f ; . 81iortaee. . , A remnant of the suit of the state io require ex-Auditor Eugene Moore to refund over $20,000 of insurance fees retained by him, reached the supreme court Monday. The suit in question is a suit of the state against the Home Insurance company to require that company to pay 8372 to the state treas urer. This amount is said to hare been paid to Eugene Moore in the year 1896, but the money never reached the state treasury. As the money has not been turned into the state treasury a suit was commenced in the Lancaster county district, court to test right of the state to recover. The company paid the usual fees to Eugene Moore and transacted insurance business in this state on the authority of a certifi cate issued by Moore. The supreme court had previously decided that Mr. Moore was not authorized to , receive the money for the state, but , that all insurance fees must be paid direct to the state treasurer. ' Mayor Ensor Must Resign. By a vote of six to one the council of South Omaha adopted a scties of reso lutions, winding up with the demand that Mayor Ensor immediately resign his office. This action is the result of a long drawn out war between the mayor and the council over the Sunday closing question. For some time past the mayor has compelled the saloons to shut up on Sunday and the other offi cials and the council have resented his action. The resolutions recite this fact and assert that the mayor has not heeded a request of the council that a certain bawfcly house be closed. Mayor Ensor was not present at the meeting. Boy Suffers an Accident. William Crasierj a boy about sixteeu years old, and a son of Thomas Crasier, section foreman on the Missouri Pacific railroad at Weeping Water, met with a very painful accident Saturday. He was practicing with an old shot gun, and it burst, driving a piece of the end of the barrel, 2 3-1 inches long, and 1 1-2 inches wide, through his left arm below the elbow, entering on the inside of the arm and sticking out through the skin on the outside, this was taken out by Dr. Butler, and also a smaller piece out of the elbow. The arm is badly mangled, but no bones are brok en and he rested very well last night, but the wound is a terrible one, being made by that ragged chunk of iron Declare Against Scott. 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