fie J, '4 Tumour BALANCE The Fate of Dreyfus Seems to Be ,- ’ Hanging by a Slender Thread. ACOUP D’ETAT POSSIBLE Commission on Revision Appointed by the Minister of Justice Equally Divid- ed on the AdvisaLiiity of Reopeninn the Case. Much Criticism of M Faure and the Preiniex. Paris, Sept. 26.—It was officially an- nounced Saturday that the civil com- mission which has been examining the documents in the Dreyfus case, with the View of reporting to the govern- ment, on the advisability of reopening it, is equally divided for and against a revision, and the government con- siders that this division gives it full liberty of action and also of responsi- bility. Therefore, the government de- _. cided to wait until to-day, when a full cabinet meeting will be held and a de- cision arrived at. Europe Watching France. London, Sept. 26.—The alarming sit- nation in France rivets the attention of Europe. The excitement is increasing hourly, new revelations and develop- ments are expected, and a military coup d’etat would not surprise any- body. The weakness of M. Brisson, the pre- mier, over the affair of Lieutenant Col. Picquart, who is now in secret confine- ment in the military prison of Cherche Midi, placed there in spite of the fact that he was in the hands of a civil court, has disgusted even his own per— sonal friends, who call him a coward and a dolt, while the enemies of a re~ vision of the Dreyfus case accuse him of being a hypocrite sold himself to a Dreyfus syndicate. General Zurlinden, military governor of Paris; with the cognizance of Gen,- eral hanoine, minister of war, acted en- tirely without reference to the premier, M. Brisson, who, with a majority of his colleagues, was completely dumb- founded at his proceedings. The sup— porters of the cabinet declare that M. Brisson in order to save the constitu- tion, should dismiss General Chanoine and General Zurlinden and even ar-' raign them for treasonable conduct. Only bold action will secure the supre- macy of civil law. One satisfactory feature of the pros- ecution of Colonel Picquart is that the war office has engaged to give him an- other trial, which M. Brisson insisted upon before ‘he consented to the pris- oner’s transfer to the military prison of herche Midi. The friends of .Colonel Picquart declare that if he is publicly tried he will throw floods of light upon the whole mystery. - . In an interview with a. former par- liamentarian, who has figured in all the political events in France since 1869, published in the Daily News, he is quoted as expressing opinions regard- ing the role which President Faure is playing confirming previous statements on the same subject. = He says General Zurlinden enjoys the full confidence of the French pres- ident, who is in love with military gla- mour. President Faure, he adds, has only to say the word to have France at his feet, and he further says if he does not say this word and declare himself in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus case, he will have the whole French mob in hue and cry against him and he will have to go. But if, in order to oppose arevision, he resigns the presidency, the national assembly will meet at ersailles within 24 hours, and he will be re-elected by a. crushing majority of those who are hostile to a revision. He will then form a ministry, with M. Barthou as premier, and with an ambitious, strong general at the head of the war office, he will be able to do what he likes with France. THE. SULTAN MUST SUBMIT Four Powers Agree to the l’acification of Crete. . Rome, Italy, Sept. 26.—Great Bri- tain, France, Russia and Italy have ap- pended their signatures to an agree- ment for the. pacification of the island of Crete, including a plan for coercing the sultan into submission. The scheme has for some time been _ drafted, but its enforcement was de— layed to invite the participation of Germany, which country declined. Early this week the four powers will send an ultimatum to the sultan of Turkey, summoning him to accept the project and informing him that unless he does so measures will be taken to enforce his compliance. The powers have’ irrevocably decid- ed to settle the Cretan uestion'l’imme- diately and will not hesitate to send their fleet to the Dardanelles and be- yond, if necessary. “a... Commissioner to Poito Ric ). Plainfield, N. J., Sept. 26.—Dr. H. K. Carroll has been appointed by Presi- dent McKinley a commissioner to Porto Rico, and will sail by the transport Chester on October 5. His mission is to investigate and report on the civil administration of that island and get information needed by the United States for its future government. Winter Hospital for 1,000 Ready. m W'ashington, Sept. 26,—Acting Sur- geon General Alden announces that the winter hospital for troops at ld Point Comfort, Va., was now prepared for one thousand sick men. All of the sick troops to be brought to this country . ‘ from Cuba and Porto Rico will be sent to Old Point and either Charles- ton or Savannah. 1 Populists Name Their Man. Camden, N. J., Sept. 26.——Frederick Schrayshoen of Mount Holly, a far- mer, was nominated for governor by , the state convention of the Populists here Saturday. Vesuvius “'axiug Violent. . Naples, Sept. 26.—The eruption of Ve- suvius is increasing in violence, and ’ it is feared that it will assume the pro- ' - portions of that of 1872. I" _. -:—~" m1 ‘ough of Albany. and of having 7 "‘ _ POST OFFICES SWAMPED. Fall Trade Causes a Rush of _ ness. Washington, Sept. 26.—The rush of business incident to the reviving fall trade has about swamped the big post- ofiices of the country, and the depart- ment here has been compelled to add to the working force of all the main postoffices in order to enable them to keep up with current work. In New York and other places it has been im- possible -to keep ahead of the volume of business now pouring in, for re- ports to the department show that they are four or five days behind with sec« 0nd class matter at New York. Twen- ty extra employes were'taken on to catch up with this department, and it . was only by extending the working hours that the accumulated matter was at last gotten out. Postmaster- an Cott complains that the space in the basement of the New York post- office devoted to the handling of second . class mail matter is not large enough for him to place a sufficient number of clerks to keep up with the .work. He is constantly embarrassed by this fact and it is getting to be a frequent oc- currence for the mails to accumulate. The Brooklyn force has been increas- > ed lately at the request of Postmaster Wilson, and further additions will be made in the near future. Assistant Postmaster General Heath - states that during the past few weeks i it has been found necessary to increase ’ the' working force in every large city in the country. :. _.... I ‘Piat ’s mute Made Up.‘ Saratoga, Sept. 26.—This is the Plait slate as given out last-night: ' ' For Governor—Theodore Roosevelt of : New York. Lieutenant ' Governor—Timothy L. Woodrufi of Kings. ‘ Secretary of State—John T. McDon- Controller—Wm. J. Morgan of Erie. Treasurer—John P. Jaeckel of ayu-l ga. .~ Attorney General—John E. Davies of Oneida. 1 State Engineer-Not selected (per- ' haps Col. George E. Waring of New; York. : ;‘-'-."1‘he Black managers have decided not ' to make a fight on the organization of 1 the convention, and it will be organizé 1 ed with Sereno E. Payne of Cayuga as i temporary chairman and Senator Hor- ' ace G. White of Syracuse as perma-T nent chairman. ' ' Chauncey M. Depew will name Mr. T Roosevelt and Delegates Cullinan oi , Oswego, Farnham of Orange and Wal~ ‘2 lace of Queens will second it. , Governor Black’s friends have not i decided who will put their candidates in nomination. A bitter fight is on between the Platt men, who have prepared the above slate, and the supporters of Governor l ' Black. This bitterness is expected to be ac— centuated by the arrival of Governor Black. The governor will reach here; at 9.30 to-day and plunge into the fight g at once. After a lengthy telephone talk with the governor at a late hour last night, T Louis F. Payn said: I "The governor will go into the con- Vention and will remain in the.race un- til it is run, if he doesn’t get more than ten votes.’.’ The governor will be substituted in the Rensselaer delegation and will have ‘ a seat on the floor. If the present feel— I ing continues to develop, nobody here i would be surprised if the openly de-’ nounces Thomas C. Platt on the floor of the convention. Chine so Emperor Dead. London, Sept. 26.——The Daily Tele-i graph's Hong Kong correspondent tele- ' graphs: “Although there is no positive infor- mation, all the evidence tends to the conviction that the emperor is dead. A private dispatch says he died on Sep- tember 21, directly' he issued the edict giving the dowager empress the regen- cy. Nobody doubts that Yang and Chang Yin Huen, who was minister at Washington in 1895, are both innocent of the charge of poisoning the emper- or." The Pekin correspondent of the Daily Mail says: ' “The head eunuch at the palace in- forms me that the emperor is seriously indisposed and that his death is not un- : likely.” ’ The Maria Teresa Afloat. Playa del Este, Sept. 26.—The wreck- ing company engaged under Lieuten- ant Hobson, in the work of saving the , wrecked Spanish warships, has suc-i ceeded in floating the cruiser In-fantau, Maria Teresa. The cruiser, after being floated, was taken in tow by the Potomac and, con- voyed by the cruiser Newark, Scorpion and the Alvarado, proceeded for Guau ntanamo bay, where she arrived Sat-; urday night. i The successful issue of the attempt to float her was greeted with the lilow- ' ing of whistles, the firing of national salutes and by cheers, in which the Cubans joined, disturbing the noon siesta. Troops for Cuba in October. .. Washington, Sept. 26.—-General Miles says that the first United States troops will be sent to Cuba about October 20. There will be more than three thou- ' sand men. A part will be regulars, and they will probably be under the command of General Wade. . When asked if the evacuation would begin on the arrival of these troops he would not reply, but this is the presi-’ dent’s plan, as stated by one who talk- . ed with the president: When Acting Secretary ofjWar Mei- keljohn was asked as to the time the troops would begin to move, he said he thought the president did not new plan to move them before November 1. An Independent Ticket. New York, Sept. 26.~—-The declination . by Theodore Roosevelt of the nomina— . tion for governor, tendered him by the Independent citizens’ committee has not discouraged that body. The Independents have decided to go on with their work, and to substitute another name than that of Roosevelt for the first place on their ticket. Just what that name will 'be hey would not say yesterday, but it is known that a number of men have been talked of for the position. First Meeting of the Investigating Committee Held. WORK MUST BE TEOROUGH Eight Members of President McKinlcy's Investigation Committee Present. at the First Electing in the Capital. Two Hours Listening to Instruct ions from the President Before the Committee lVIet. Washington, Sept. 26.—President Mc- Kinley’s commission to investigate the. conduct of the war, held its first meet— ing in the quarters of the board of ordnance and fortifications in the war department Saturday. There were eight members of the commission present. They were Ma— jor Grenville M. Dodge of New York, - olonel J. A. Sexton of Illinois, Captain E. P. Howell of Georgia, Major Gen- ' eral J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers of the United States army, Charles Den- by of Indiana, former minister to China former Governor Urban A. Woodbury of Vermont, former Governor. James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania, and MajorL General Alexander McD. McCook, U. S. ~A., retired. ', In addition to these men, Dr. Phin- eas D. Connor of Cincinnati, Ohio, has accepted an appointment as the medi- cal member of the commission, the. membership of which has thus been -filled. Dr. Connor’s appointment was recommended by Dr. Keen of Philadel- ' phia, whenfiohe declined. Before their 1-1‘st meeting at the war department the eight commissioners and Major Mills of the i spector gen- eral’s department, who been or- dered to duty as recorder to the com- mission, visited the White House and called on President McKinley. They were with the president nearly two hours and received from him in- structions outlining the scope of the investigations he desired them to make. When they left the White House they had instructions to make an investi- gation of a. much more far reaching character than might seem to have been indicated by the wording of the president’s telegrams to the men who were first asked to serve. As was indicated by this telegram, the quartermastcr’s, commissary and medical departments, being the ones most severely criticised, are to be in- vestigated most thoroughly, but the commission is not to be confined to these, but is to go into the general conduct of the war. The commission remained in session at the war department until half past one o’clock perfecting an organization. General Grenville M. Dodge was elec- ted president of the commission; Ma- jor S. C. Mills, U. S. A., recorder, and Mr. Richard Weightman of Washing- ton, secretary. Three army officers will be chosen as sergeant-at-arms. The scope of the work and the meth— 0d of procedure were not decided upon“ The commission will meet at ten o’clock this morning to lay out its plan of work. It is expected that Dr. Connor will be present. ' After the adjournment‘of the meet- ing General Dodge said that the meet- ings would be secret for the present. and it had not been decided whether persons would be examined in public. The commission will be sub-divided in- to three committees, so that the inves— tigation can be conducted on three dif- ferent lines simultaneously. ~ It is realized that a hard task is ahead of the investigation. There are on formal charges upon which to act and at the outset the operations 'of the commission will be of a dragnet character. The investigators will have to develop the charges and then in- quire into them. It is thought that the commission will make its first inquiries in the Sece- tary’s office, the Adjutant General’s omce and the office of the major general commanding the army, taking cogni- zance of the orders which were issued for the conduct of the war and same manner the officers of the Surgeon Gen- neral, quartermaster general and Commissary General will be examined into to ascertain the character of the orders issued, and wheter they were carried out. It is not known whether the commis- sion will visit the camps, but it is 'thought probabledhat such journeys will be made, as it will be more expe- ditious and economical than bringing witnesses to Washington. Before that is done, however, there is a cast amount of work at hand in the department here. It is probable that most of this work will be done by the commission in secret, and that the public will be taken into confidence only when witnesses are examined. Washington, Sept. 26.—That Presi- dent McKinley is determined that the investigation of the war department’s conduct of the war shall be thorough is evidenced by the expression of his wishes Saturday beforepthe commis- sion. In his talk to the commission the . president made it very clear that the investigation was not to be confined to the bureaus of the war department and to subordinate officials, but was to take in the war department and the secre- tary of'war himself. He told the commissioners that he was receiving a large number of let— ters from different parts of the country saying that no investigation was need- ed, but that Secretary Alger'should be dismissed. He gave them to understand that he could not for an instant consider the ' dismissal of the secretary of' war before a thorough investigation had been made, and the secretary had been giv~ en every opportunity to be heard. This was interpreted by some of the members of the commission to indicate that their investigation is put to'stop short of the Secretary of war, and that the political ~iate of Secretary Alger will depend upon their action. Yellow Fever 1" Jackson. Jackson, Miss, Sept. 26.——Another case of yellow fever has 'appeared in Jackson. The patient is a 13-year old messenger boy named Harry Wright; Dr.‘Purnell, state health officer, has Issued a proclamation advising a total depopulation of the town. Prepara- tions are now being made to send out I. special train load of refugees. inlrtvtsisa.¢Ang,Ei» FORGOT 1.10 TAKE His BRIDE. Wedding Day. 'Here is a “true story” of an absent- ! minded man to whom it “came handy” l to forget. Said one of his friends: “I could sit right here on this nail keg I from now till the Connecticut river turns round and runs up stream an‘ tell you about the different. things I know Hank forgot, first an’ last; but I’ll 'only mention one instance, an’ that happened at the time Hank got mar- ried. , “You see, Hank knew his failin’ as well as anybody, an’ he was mortal afraid he would forgit about givin’ the minister his fee, so he kep’ his mind glued right to that, an’ completely for- got everything else. “He was to be married in the evenin’ at the parsonage, an’ when he went round there, all by himself, at the ap- p’inted time an’ meandered into the parlor an’ told the dominie to go ahead with the splicin’, the good man looked up, sort 0’ puzzled and surprised like, an’ said: ' “"Haven’t you—er—forgotten suth- in’, Mr. Hobbs?’ . “ ‘No,’ said Hank, still thinkin’ of the fee. ‘I’ve_got it right here in my vest pocket. wMight as well pay you now as any time.’ “ ‘Why, bless you, my friend, i wasn’t thinkin’ of the fee,’ said the parson. Time enough for that after I earn it! but—er—noticed you’d forgotten the bride, an’—” “ ‘By jimminy!’ says Hank, glancin" round, ‘so I have. Mighty glad you spoke of it! I was almost sure I’d for- got-ten somethin’, but I couldn’t think what it was.’ “He grabbed his hat and went off on a jump after his intended. He got back before the dominie closed up the parsonage for the night, but it was a close shave, 311’ when the story got out ’twas along while afore folks quit askin’ Hank if he’d forgot anything lately.”—Harper’s Magazine. swim liquid BEGINS}.-. .,.--—-.-.- . i ANOTHER HISTORIC STORY GONE. The Famous Circle in Chilllon Castle is ‘ Not. Authentic. Another familiar legend has been relegated to the limbo of the untrue. and it is a question if there will be anything left for the next generation to pin its faith to. This time it is the “Prisoner of Chillon,” beloved of and quoted by every school girl. In the cell where the “Prisoner” languished so long there was shown a circle worn in the stones by his feet in walking round and round a pillar to which he was chained. M. Vuillet, one of the members of the grand council of Vaud, was horrified to find that, in repaving the cell, “Chemin de Bonivard,” one. of the souvenirs and attractions of the country had disappeared. He brought the matter before the council, and was chagrined to learn that the famous track had not been made by the cap- tive whom Byron had made famous ‘but had been industriously scraped by successive keepers at Chillon, who, for exhibiting it had received large pour boires from sympathetic and sen- timental tourists—Critic. Why Elephants Fear 2 Mouse. It seems incredible that so small and harmless an animal as a mouse is able to frighten an elephant out of his senses. One little mouse in the hay on which they are fe’eding will stam- pede an entire “herd. In their native land there are little animals, known as chacanas, which feed on a small, sour berry of which elephants are very fond. They live in settlements, some- thing after the manner of prairie dogs. under the berry bushes. When feed- ing, the elephants trample the little towns, and the chacanas, in their fright, run up the tubes of the ele- phants’ trunks. Their long, sharp claws catch in the flesh and cannot be ejected. The more violently the mon- ster 'blows through its coiled trunk the more firmly the hooked claws of the little animal become imbedded in the flesh. Inflammation and death are. the result. In captivity the elephants think they are in danger of the deadly chacanas'when ‘they see a mouse—— New York Sun. Denounced Her Sun as a Deserter. Talk of the Spartan mother! She was not in it with Mrs.» Maroney of New Haven, who soundly thrashed a son and had him arrested for desert- ing from the volunteer service. “Then the war broke out John Maroney of New Haven joined a battery. Like many other volunteer soldiers he did not get to the front, and finally, when the war ended, be resolved to quit the service. Maroney left camp without leave and made his way to his home. Mrs. Maroney, whose husband fought through the civil war, knew something of martial affairs and closely ques- tioned her son. She discovered that he had deserted, and her wrath arose. Young Maroney ran out of the house, but his mother caught him in the yard and belabored him with a clothspole. Finally she dragged him to a police station and turned him over to the captain as a deserter. Now They Pay the Bridesmaids. For some time it has been the habit at New York weddings to pay the bridesmaids with jingling coin. “Bridesmaidship” in this way becomes a business. 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