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Two MINISTERS on
IZurlinden and Tillaye Resign from
the French Qabinet.
"ANY FORGED DOCUMENTS
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Committee to Consider the Matt
at Will
a} Meet Wednesday. Esterhazy Confesses
ator Godin AD-
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3 Paris, Sept. Ill-General Zurlinden,
the minister of war, and M. Tillaye, the
minister of public works, have tender-
ed their resignations.
EGeneral Zurlinden’s written resigna-
tion, sent to Premier Brisson, was as
follows: ‘
*3"I have the honor to beg you to re-
beive my resignation as minister of
.war. An exhaustive study of the pa-
pers in the Dreyfus case has convinced
the too fully of his guilt for me to ac-
Eept, as the head of the army, any oth-
er solution than that of the mainten-
ance of the judgment in its entirety.
M. Tillaye in the letter transmitting
his resignation ,made an apparent bid
for public favor. He wrote:
“The council having decided to ap-
point a commission to consider. “the
request for a revision of the trial of
the convict Dreyfus, I am unable .to
accept any share in the responISlbllity
for that step,.which, in my opinion, m-
volves a revision of the case.”
Later in the day another cabinet
ocuncil was held, at which General
Chanoine, commander of the First di-
vision of the First army corps, depart-
ment of the north and the Pas de Ca-
lais, was appointed minister of. war,
in succession to General _Zurhnden,
and Senator Godin representing French
India, was appointed minister of pub-
lic works, succeeding M. Tillaye.
I The committee summoned by M. Sar-
rien to decide upon the question of the
proposed revision will begin to con-
sider the matter on Wednesday next.
At the first meeting of the cabin;
ministers Saturday it was deer d to
submit the documents in the D eyfus
case to‘a commission to be selected by
the-minister of ,justice, M. Sarrlen. The
ministetr of war, General Zurllnden,
and the minister of public works,. Sen-
stor Tillaye, left before the counc11 ad—
lourned, which was interpreted to. mean
that they did not agree with thelr col-
Ieagues in the matterand intended to
resign.
2‘ Esterhazy' Confesses.
I‘London, Sept. 19.——The Observer says
that Count Ferdinand Walsin Ester—
hazy has been in London for ten
days. The fact, the paper says, is
Known to very few here, and it ls not
' I‘fis‘pected in Paris. Count Esterhazy is
' occupying a‘fiat near St. James s
"s” eet and Pall Mall (8. w.). He has
. aved off his moustache and it is not
Easy to: recognize him. .
L\“7'IL-Ie added that out-of the one.thous-
and documents in the Dreyfus dossmr
a'ilroximately six hundred were forg-
e and that he Was prepared to show
by whom and in what circumstances
'fithe forgeries were committed.
iii-1e explains that there is no longer
lustice for him in his own country,
and says that what he did was done
In blind, unquestioning, brutal obedl-
gnce to orders from a superior. ,
“If I were ordered to take a gun and
! koht my own brother, I would do so
Ivithout hesitation,” Count Esterhazy
leclared. ’
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L Gen. Miles at Work Again.
‘ Washington, Sept. 19.-—General Miles
returned to duty Saturday looking lit-
tle the worse for the touch of fever
with which he suffered. He had .a
conference with Acting Secretary Mel-
Eeljohn. He has appointed a board,
consisting of Lieutenant Colonel Mari-
' n P. Mans, inspector general United
J(,ates Volunteers; Major W. H. Daly,
ief surgeon United States volunteers,
d aptain J. B. Morton, assistant
adjut'ant general United States volun-
teers, to look intothe condition of the
Immune regiments which have been
raised by the United States directly.
These are now quartered at Jackson—
ville, Fla., Anniston, Ala., Galveston.
Tex., and at Lexington, Ky., and the
board will visit these points. The in-
spection is preliminary to the execu-~
tion of the plans of General Miles for
the selection of garrisons for Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Red Cross work in San Francisco.
San Francisco, ’Sept. 19.—-Tlle 'Red
Cross is considering the expediency
a abuilding a large home for conva—
alescents in the foothills back of Oak
land, but. will not do so unless the gov-
ernment first consents to allow con-
valesc ts to be sent there.
If tgis project is not carried out, a
large nex to the present home at the
' Presidio will be built to accommodate
the demand from tthe division hospi~
tal, and also to make room fOr conva-
Iescents returrfi'ng from the Philip-
pines. .
Spain’s Commission Na]. 6,
London, Sept. 19.——.A dispatch from
Madrid says that the Spanish' peace
cbmmissioners appointed are Montero
Rios, president of the Senate, who is
president of the commission; General
:Correo and Senors Abarzuza, Villarru-
tia and Garncla.
The Spanish commission, the dispatch
adds, will start for Paris on Septem-
ber 25.
1" To Be Buried at Arlington.
Washington, Sept. 19.——The war de-
partment has decided that the body
of Brigadier General Haskell, who died
suddenly in Columbus, 0., Friday, will.
be buried at Arlington, although the
exact time has not been fixed. ‘
Major Roberts has been instructed ‘
to send one commissioned and six non-
commissioned officers from Columbus
as an escort to the body.
Robbers at a Basl'way Station.
New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 19.—Four
. masked men armed with pistols held
- up and robbed Henry Jones, Watchman
at the Millstone station of the Penn-
sylvania station, a few miles beyond
New Brunswick, at 8 o’clock Saturday
morninz.
mouse-rinse AT HAVANA
Commissioners Preparing to Take Up
Quarters on Shore.
Havana: Sent. lit—General M. C.
Butler, one of the commissioners ap-
pointed to arrange for the evacuation .
of C'uba by the Spaniards, went aboard
the steamer Resolute Saturday. morn-
fFATHER Wis “WRONG
. Erank Perkins Comes Home With
I Daughter’s Supposed Remains.
ing for the purpose of conferringwith .
General Wade and Admiral Sampson,
the other members of the commission.
No meetings of the commissioners have
been held as yet.’
Saturday night the Spanish commis—
sioners met at tthe palace of General
Parrado, second in comm d incuba.
The members of the A“ rican col!!-
missjon are still on. board 3 Resolute,
but expect to take up their 'quarters
at the Trocha hotel to-morrow. They
will pay $150 a day for their board and i
the use of the building. They are all
in good health.
~Captains Hart and Coster and Dr.
Laine have paid a visit to the civil
governor and requested. that, sanitary
improvements be made-.- at Degado,
where the Trocha hotel‘is situated, in
order to prevent an increase of ma-
la‘ria, which is already prevalent. They
also requested that the streets be
lighted,by electricity. The civil gov-
ernor at once recommended to the
mayor that he should give orders that
immediate attention be paid to the re-
quest of the commissioners. ‘-
REORGANIZING THE ARMY.
Plans to Meet Condition Arising With
the End of the \Var.
Washington, Sept.17.—General Miles
and Acting Secretary Meiklejohn are
contemplating several important quest—
ions involved in the reorganization of
the army on the basis of the changed
condition arising since the war. The
change, it is said, is not to be to a
peace basis, but rather an intermedi-
ate stage between a war basis and a
peace basis, owing to the many re-
quirements in .Cuba, Porto Rico, the
P ilippines, Hawaii and elsewhere.
s a result of a talk with the presi-
dent, the changes to be made are fully
matured, but they will not take the
form of definite orders until early next
week or soon afterward.
In general the plan consists in re-'
ducing the volunteer army about one-
half—a branch of the work which is
already well under way—and then re-
distributing the remaining forces, reg—
ular and volunteer, to Manila, Hawaii,
Porto Rico, Cuba, the Ladrones, etc.,
at the same time maintaining suiiicient
garrisons in the United States. The
number of men required for the outly-
ing possessions is being carefully con-
sidered, but a final decision is some-
what dependent on the decision of the
commissioners at Havana, San Juan
and Paris.
A Prgest’s Hidden Riches.
Mount ernon, N. Y., Sept. 19,—A'fter
nearly a year of searching in the cel-
lars and garrets of an old rectory, a
hoard of gold and securities, aggregat—
ing in value many thousand dollars,
left by Father Albinger, deceased, for
twenty years pastor of the Church of
Our Lady of Victory in this city, has
been discovered by agents of County
Treasurer Carpenter.
There were found twenty-five old
German purses, each of which con-
tained one thousand marks in German
gold, and a tin box in which were ten
thousand dollars’ worth of securities.
The old purses filled with gold and
the securities, with whatever may be
found in the safe deposit vault, will
be turned over to the German consul
in New York for Father Albinger’s sis-
ters in Germany.
; French to Leaye Fashoda
London, Sept.‘ 19.—Fr0m Cairo, and
from an entirely independent source,
the Daily Mail learns that France has
- assumed a conciliatory attitude toward
Great Britain, and. has declared that
the expedition of Major Marchand is
quite unofficial.
,The Sirdar will offer to take Major
Marchand to Cairo, and it is probable
that the major will accept, and that
troops. »
Adm'iral Montojo Suspended.
Madrid, Sept. 19.—The supreme coun-
cil of war has decided to suspend Ad-
miral Montojo and Major Sostoa, direc-
tor of the Cadiz arsenal.
Montojo was in command at Manila
when Dewey’s squadron sank his ves-
sels.
ON THE. DIAMOND
Games Played Saturday
At New York:
1 2 3 4 5
New -York.. 1 1 2 2 0
St. Louis.... 0 0 0 0 0
Batteries, lVanrner and
ents and Sudhoff.
At Brooklyn:
6 7 S 9
0 0 2 0—8
0 0 2 O
Rusie; Clem—
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 '3
Brooklyn... 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0-— cl
Pittsburg... _0 0 0 0 O 0 1 0 0— 1
Batteries, Ryan and Dunn; Schriver
and Rhines.
Second game:
. 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9
Brooklyn.... .1 2 2 0 0 1 0 2 0— S
Pittsburg... 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0— 8
At Boston:
_ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Louisville... 2 0 1 0 :‘i 0 c 0— 4
Boston ...... 0 0 0 0 «.0 O 2 0-— 2
Batteries, Kittridge and Cunning-
ham; Bergen and Nichols.
At Washington:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Chicago ..... 3 2 0 0 1 1 2 0 0—— 9
Washington. 0 0 0 '0 0 O 0 0 0— 0
Batteries, Nichols and Phyle; Mc-
Guire and Donovan.
At Baltimore:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Baltimore... 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 4 0—— 9
Cleveland... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1— 4
Batteries, Clarke and McJames; Cri-
ger and Young.
At Philadelphia:
2
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cincinnati.. 0 4 1 2 0 O 3 0 0-10
Philadelphia 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 5— 9
Batteries, Wood and Dwyer; McFar-
land and Platt.
How The Clubs Stand.
Boston 84 44 .656
Baltimore 80 46 .635
Cincinnati ........ . ...... 80 51 .611
Cleveland 74 53 .583
Chicago 72 59 .550 ,-
New York ............. 68 .60 .53]
Philadelphia 62 61 .504
Pittsburg 65 65'? :500
Louisville'.............. 57 72 .442
Brooklyn ...A ..... . ..... 47 ' 72 .395
”Washington 42 87 ‘ .326
St. Louis 34 95 .264
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. FINDS HER ALIVE AND SAFE
The Bridgeport Mystery Deepens. Grace
liei'klns and Her Lover Return Home
After a. “’eek’s Vacation. A Grave Di];
and Funeral Services All Arranged-
: Mourning is Turned Into Joy, I
Middleboro Depot, Mass, Sept.'19.—
|Marion Grace Perkins arrived at her
Ihome _in Midc‘leboro Saturday, alive
and well. At the same time her father
lwas on his way from. Bridgeport with
! the body of the murdered woman whom
'he had positively identified as that of
;his daughter. Charles Bourne, who
had been absent from home since Grace
bade her aunt at Onset farewell, two
I weeks ago Thursday, came on the same
train with the young woman. Neither
of them will say a word. But Mrs.
Perkins, the mother of Grace, says ev-
I erything-is all right, and thatthe young
I people are married.
I Where they have been their friends
5 will not tell. They arrived here shortly
before 5 p. m. on a train that came
[from Taunton, Mass. It is said that
the marriage was soiemnized and that
the pair spent the time either at Ware-
;ham or Tremont, about sixteen miles
from this place.
The arrival of the young people at
'their homes makes the mystery surf
Irounding the murder of the girl found
{in Yellow Mill pond at Bridgeport all
=the greater. There is a resemblance
between Grace and the ‘head of the
dead girl.
There is joy in the home of the Per-
kinses and in the one of young Bourne.
lAs a matter of fact the entire commu
' nity is rejoicing. The report that
Grace Perkins and Charles Bourne
would return together was kept q‘uiet.
It is true that it had been announced
by the friends of the young man that
he would come back to Middletown on
ISaturday evekning, that he would be
Iin the family pew in the Methodist
church Sunday morning, and that ‘he
would return tovhis work early Mon-
day, just as though the name of Chas.
Bourne had never been mentioned since
the discovery of the mutilated body in
Yellow Mill Pond.
But that Grace Perkins would return
.as well, nobody had dreamed.
I The secret had been well kept. The
town had gone into mourning. A grave
had been freshly dug on the little hill
near the home of Grace Perkins, where
the body of the murdered girl was to
'have been laid at rest. The florist had
|been busily engaged all day turning
out floral pieces and everybody had ex-
pected toattend on Sunday the funeral
', of poor Grace Perkins.
Mr. Pérkins. had gone to Bridgeport
,earlier in the day to bring the body
'of the girl whom he had identified as
his daughter to his home on Center
,street. The undertaker of this place
Ihad his hearse in readiness to go to
'the depot atTaunton, where the body
of Grace was to be: brought for trans-
Ifer to Middleboro.
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llIay Be a New Haven Glriv.
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 19.—-The
news of Grace Perkins returning alive
to her home in Middlebo‘f‘b was not a
, great surprise to the heads of the New
Haven police. When the body was
ifirst identified as that of Grace Per--
:kins, Captain Brewer of the New Ha-
Iven police department said: “1 (19 not
Ibelieve it. I believe that we have here
3 in New Haven a clew that will lead to
fthe identification of this body as that
'of a New Haven girl. I.will not dis-
' close her name, but this girl has been
missing for some time. Her condition
was the same as that attributed to the
woman whose body was found out up
at Bridgeport. Our investigations will
2 now be pursued with renewed vigor.”
Vesuvius Growing Angry
I Naples, Sent. 19.—A state of gloomy
apprehension prevails_ among the pop
ulation regardingthe eruption of Ve-
suvius, which is hourly becoming more
active and menacing. Streams of lava
Iare spreading in every .direction. The
Imost threatening of these flows
zthrough the Vedrhlo valley, which is
I almost filled. _
The observatory, which originally
I stood at a height of 610 metres, is now
only 27 metres above the sea level, ow-
ing to the sinking of the ground.
Seven new craters have formed
Iaround the central one, and this has
Inot tended to diminish the fears for—
merly felt, which were based upon-the
eruption of stones and scoriae, Slml-
lar to that which occurred in the year
1872. all
The Sultan Yields
. Candia, Island of Crete, Sept. 19.—
Theisultan has ordered Djevad Pasha,
the military commander in Crete, to ac-
cede to the ‘demand of the British ad—
miral, Gerard Henry Noel, for disar-
mament, thus complying with. the ulti—
matum of the admiral. A British mil—
itary detachment to-day occupied the.
entrance to the fort, and it is rumored
that the Ottoman troops will. be With—
drawn and a British force W111 occupy
the. town.
‘ J. I’fiu‘pad‘u
Cincinnati, Sept. 19.—A special to
the Commercial Tribune from Wabash,
Ind., says: A syndicate headed by
John D. Rockefeller and J. Pierpont
Morgan, together with the American
Malting Company, is trying ta gain
control of the breweries in the smaller
cities of northern Indiana.
. rew cries.
Two Earthquak‘h Shocks. in ‘llfuinencg‘:
Portland, Me., Sept. lit—Two earth-
ounke shocks occurred in “caring n.
Saturday morning. The first was fen
at 10.45 o’clock, lasting seven seconds,
followed after an interval of eleven
seconds by a. second shock lasting five
seconds.
Italians to Have a Pam-(he?
New York, Sept. 19.—-0ne hundred
and fifty-seven military and civic Ital-
ian-American societies of New York
will t'o-morrow_ celebrate the twenty-
eighth anniversary of the Italian na-
tional holiday with a parade, to be fol-
lowed ‘bv a. festival. '
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OUR FLEET’S FIRST ADMIRAL.
Interesting and Remarkable Career 0!
Ezekiel Hopkins.
Who was the first commander-in-
chief of .the American navy? What
were the names of our first war ships
and when were they built?
Probably not one out of a hundred
answer, without investigation,
questions; yet the knowledge is inter-
esting and valuable and ’ especially
timely just now, when the navy and
the doings of the naval officials occupy
80 large a part of ‘the public attention.
The Continental Congress at the out‘
set managed the Revolutionary ,war
through committees, there being at
that time no executive. John Adams
was chairman of the naval committee,
with Stephen Hopkins and three other
congressmen as associates. On Octo-
ber 13. 1775 Congress ordered two cruis-
sers built. These were the first war
vessels constructed by the United Stat-
es; and were followed by others until
by January 1, 1776 Congress had or-
dered the building of fifteen cruisers.
This was the navy, and its first com-
mander-in-chief was Ezekiel Hopkins,
of Rhode Island, a younger brdther of
Congressman StephensHopkins. He
was appointed to this high office on
December 22, 1775.
At the time of his appointment Ezek-
iel Hopkins was a brigadier-general
in command of the Rhode Island
troops, acting under commiSsion from
the governor.
his life on board merchant ships, and
quently he was fitted both by exper-
ience and ability to fill the important
office given to him. In a short time
a. fleet of four ships and three sloops
Hopkins set out to win glory ,for him-
self and country. Among his lieuten-
ants was the famous John Paul Jones,
who was, probably, the most brilliant
and daring naval officer of the wars
with England. ‘
The Bahama Islands in the West In-
dies were then an English colony, with
New Providence astheir principal sea-
port and seat of government; and
hither the new Admiral sailed the new
navy. He attacked the city, captured
the harbor fort and town, and brought
back With him to America the English
governor as a prisoner, eighty cannons
and a very large quantity of ammuni-
tion and other military stores. This
brilliant achievement was a godsend
to the disheartened and impoverished
patriots. It renewed their courage
and replel Ished their stores. Admiral
Hopkins was the hero of thehour and
received a vote of thanks from Con-
gress for his great deeds which had
redeemed the glory and advantage of
his country. ' - --—
Shortly after his return from the
Block Island ' and captured both of
them. Two days later he had an en-
gagement with the English twenty-
nine gun ship, Glasgow, but did not
succeed in capturing it. The public
severely censured his conduct of this
battle, and in June, 1776, he was order-
ed to appear before the congressional
committee. After a. hearing had been
given him, the comittee sent 3. fav-
orable report of his actions to Con-
gress, which the latter body approved,
so the Admiral was exonerated from
all blame. ,
. He was now placed in charge of a
large number of war vessels, which
Congress was having built. The task
was a. difficult one. Money and ma.-
terial were hard to get.
English fleet blockaded the harbors,
and prevented the sailing of some of
his ships when completed. The peo-
ple became impatient. The press ac-
cused him of slowness, of being a. lag-
gard in his country’s services. His
-temper was never of the best, and he
emphatically resented the' clamor of
complaints. Again he was summoned
to appear before Congress for investi-
gation. Then the testy old sailor lost
his temper entirely, and sent a. point
blank refusal to Congress, couched in
vigorous but undiplomatic English.
The result of all this was that he was
’2, 1777. /
Ezekiel Hopkins at once equipped a
fast and powerful privateer, and again
went to sea. He sailed to the East
Indies, where his daring and skill
found rich rewards. During one cruise
he captured a suflicient number of rrch
English merchantmen to cause his
profits to foot up over $1,000,000. At
another time he fell in with a. large
fleet of English merchantment protect-
ed by a man-of-war. He boldly joined
the fleet, and every night out out and
‘ captured a vessel, until he had sent ten
home and could spare no more men
from his crew. He became the most
successful and daring of all the Ameri-
can privateersmen. .
When the war ended he returned to
Rhode Island, and became one of her
most prominent and busy citizens.
The outbreak of the Revolutionary
war found the patriots without a navy.
Congress had to- create one. Four
merchantmen were first purchased,
hastily equipped with guns and sent
to sea as cruisers; but-their defects as
wan: vessels soon became so apparent
that Congress determined at once to
' set about the building of a navy. On
October 13, 1775, Congress ordered two
cruisers bhilt; and on December 13,
the order was increased to five thirty-
two-gun ships, five twentreight-gun
ships and three twenty-four-gun Ships.
They were to be ready f r the sea by
the following April. T names giv-
en to the thirteen vessels were: Bos-
ton, Csngress, -Efiingham,- Delaware,
Hancock, Montgomery, Prefldence, Ra.-
leigh, Trumbull, "Virginia, Warren,
Washington and Randolph. ' These
ivere the first war vessels conagzucted
in the United States, ' ‘ '
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He had spent part of
had also been a Ship builder; conse-‘.
were ready, and with these Admiral-
dismissed from the service January.
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