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T7i THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGL LAST EDITION. NEW TOEK, SATUEDAY, AUGUST 19, 1899. VOL. 59. NO.

229. 14 PAGES. COPYRIGHT. 1899. BY THE BHOOKLV.V DAILY EAGLE.

THREE CENTS. THREE CARS GO INTO RIVER. THE PLAGUE IN OPORTO. ENEMIES OF DREYFUS. REPORT THAT CRQKER HAS PUT BUT TO SEA TO VISIT NIC LAUGHL1N IN WH WYCKS BEHALF.

would be found ample proof of the prisoner's guilt. Dreyfus Shouts "That Is a Manifest Lie." At this stage of the proceedings Dreyfus promptly rose and Interrupted the witness, shouting: "That is a manifest He." After this witness recited in detail his reasons for the belief that the agent supplying the information was a French staff officer. He then endeavored to show that traffic with foreign military attaches could only have been carried on by a probationer in the department occupied by Dreyfus. The witness specially referred to the Panlzzardi telegram of November 2, 1894, which, he explained, left an impression on him that in 1894 Dreyfus was an old friend of the Italian government. Another document of the dossier, according to Major Cuignet, showed beyond dispute that the bordereau actually passed through the hands of Colonel Schwartzkoppen.

This, to the wjltness. established authenticity of the bordereau, an examination of which, he pointed out, proved Schwartzkoppen and Panlzzardi had the closest relations in all matters of espionage. Referring next to the dispatch of Colonel Schneider, former Austrian military attache at Paris, denouncing as a forgery a letter purporting to have been writ Passenger Train Wrecked in Arkansas. No One Injured. Texarkana, August 19 A north bound passenger train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad was wrecked last night fifty miles north of here, by the tender jumping the track.

The baggage, mail and express cars went into the Little River. No one was injured, however. OIL EXPLOSION CAUSES FIRE. Building Pilled With Paints Destroyed. Loss, 8300,000.

Chicago, August 19 An explosion of oil In the five story brick building at 2,629 and 2,631 Dearborn street last night gave the Fire Department the hardest fight It has had in three months. The big structure was filled with paints and oils from top to bottom, and before the blaze could be extinguished it caused a loss of J300.000. The burning oil made a brilliant fire, which could be seen for several miles, and an immense crowd was attracted to the vicinity. The occupants of the Perkins flat building were driven out by the proximity of the fire. THE CHEROKEE ARRIVES.

Charleston, S. C. August 19 The Cherokee arrived here this morning. The Iroquois and Kansas City have not yet arrived. CITY PLACES FILLED.

Civil Service Commission Makes Appointments for Brooklyn. The Civil Service Commission announces In to day's City Record numerous appointments under the new rules, among them being the following in this borough: Henry Hanks, 201 Prospect place, superintendent of repairs to distributions and complaints, Schedule water supply, $3,000 per annum. John F. Frost, 128 Cumberland street, water registrar. Schedule water supply, $4,000 per annum.

John M. Smith, Rockvllle Centre, L. superintendent of conduits and reservoirs, Schedule water supply, $2,000 per annum. John L. Burns.

324 East Fifty second street, inspector of lamps and gas, public buildings, lighting and supplies, $1,200 per annum. William H. McLaughlin, 383 Pacific street, superintendent of subsurface construction, Schedule Highways Department, $2,500 per annum. Joseph H. Mahon, 81 Raymond street, superintendent of streets and roads.

Schedule Highways Department, $2,500 per annum. John Gaynor, Munson, L. laborer, Department of Water Supply, Borough of Brooklyn, $2 per day. Thomas Doran, 68 Dean street, Borough of Brooklyn, laborer, Department of Water Supply, $2 per day. John Burke, Battery and Ninety second street, Borough of Brooklyn, laborer, Department of Water Supply.

$2 per day. Patrick Sheridan, 606 Marcy avenue. Borough of Brooklyn, mason, Board of Education, $4.50 per day. John T. Gartland, 182 Bedford avenue.

Borough of Brooklyn, mason, Board of Education, $4.50 per day. Patrick Griffin, 582 Hicks street, Borough of Brooklyn, Department of Sewers, from assistant foreman to foreman, at 4 per day. William Tyler, 21 Columbia street, Borough of Brooklyn, Department of Sewers, from assistant roreman to foreman, $4 per day. James Sweeney, 406 Second street, inspector of masonry, at $4.50 per day, In the Department of Education. William Wafer, 30 Cheever place, Brooklyn, surveyor, at $1,000 per annum, in the Fire Department.

James J. Nevins, 483 Third street, Brooklyn, surveyor, at $1,000 per annum, in the Fire Department. Hubert L. Smith. 316 Beverly road, Brooklyn, Assistant Deputy Controller, at $4,500 per year, in the Department of Finance, under the provisions of Schedule A of the civil service rules.

Henry V. Wlnans, 204 South Fourth street, stenographer and typewriter, at $800 a year, Department of Highways, Manhattan. Other appointments announced were: Herbert C. Burns, corner Chestnut street and Division avenue, Richmond Hill, stenographer, at $2,000 per year, in the Second District Municipal Court, Borough of Queens. Michael Haggerty.

private secretary, at $1, 500 per year in the Department of Correction, under the provisions of Schedule A of the civil service rules. Owen Woods has been reinstated as sergeant of police at $2,000 a year, per order of the Supreme Court. The following temporary appointments have been made: Harriet M. Metcalfe, 311 West Twenty ninth street, examiner, at $650 per annum in the City Record office. Samuel J.

Brown, 668 One Hundred and Fortieth street, examiner, at $1,200 per annum In the City Record office. Henry McMillen. 104 West Ninetieth street, examiner, at $1,800 per annum in the City Record office. BIG HOSPITAL PLANNED. Dee Moines, August 19 The project of building a great Protestant hospital in this city, under tho nominal auspices of the Methodist Church, but really non sectarian, is assured of success.

James Callanan, a millionaire of this city, offers a eite worth $75,000 and single cash contributions as high as $10,000 are pledged. The financial machinery of the Methodist Church has taken hold of the matter. The proposal involves $100,000 worth of buildings, the balance, $100,000 to be an endowment fund. PROUD TO BE AN ANGLO SAXON. Congressman Otjen's Reply to the President of a German American Mass Meeting.

Milwaukee, August 19 Congressman Theodore Otjen of the Fourth District has written a letter to Adolph Niederprucm. who was president of the German American mass meeting held in Detroit June 22, in answer to resolutions passed at the meeting. Among other things he said: "As an American citizen of German origin I am not willing to draw my inspiration from so narrow and unfair a partisan as Congressman Lentz of Ohio, who seems to have been tho chief spokesman at the meeting at which these resolutions were adopted. "By the resolutions you say that you especially protest against an alliance with England. I do not think that we need get excited over this, for I do not know ol any one who is seriously advocating a formal written alliance with England; only a friendly alliance.

"Those German American citizens who oppose friendly and cordial relations between the two countries, according to my judgment, are decidedly In tho wrong. The resolutions say you protest against the attempt to stamp the people of the United States as an 'Anglo Saxon' and as German Americans you 'do not care to be called Anglo Saxons. "Technically. It is true that German Americans are not Anglo Saxon, but In reality they are. 'Anglc Stixrn' simply means a person of English Saxon blood.

as an American citizen of German origin, am proud to be called or classed with the Anglo Saxon." Vvniita Itcor A Special Brew S1.50 per case, 24 bottle. Ask your grocer or write Otto Hubeb Brewery. let WmsburKh. Spanish Doctors Say Outbreak Is Diminishing Forty six Cases. Madrid.

August 19 It is announced that tho bubonic plague was brought to Oporto. Portugal, by a steamer loaded with rice from India and that forty six cases altogether have been reported. Spanish doctors now at Oporto, however, telegraph that the outbreak of the disease is diminishing. LABORI STILL IMPROVING. Rennes, August 19 The condition of Maitre Laborl, chief counsel for Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who was shot from ambush Monday last, was further improved this morning.

GUERIN'S HOUSE BESIEGED. Strict Blockade in the Rue de Chabrol. Demand for Convocation of Chamber of Deputies. Paris, August 19 A strict blockade has been established in the Rue de Chabrol. and the authorities have this morning begun a regular siege of the building in which M.

Guerin and his altl Semltic colleagues have intrenched themselves. London, August 19 A strong agitation is beginning to be manifested In Paris for the convocation of the Chamber of Deputies. Should a majority of the members support the demand the government would be compelled to consent, thus letting loose the floodgates of interpellation on the Dreyfus plot, etc. General the Marquis de Galliffet, the Minister of War, Is a strong man, however, and may, perhaps, be able to cope with the situa tion. THE HOOKER BADLY DAMAGED.

Cable Is Being Removed Prom the Ship. Navigator Blamed for the Grounding. Manila. August 19. fi P.

Tho hn.rA on pointed to examine into the mhhco rtf th. grounding of the United States cable ship nooaer, wnicn recently went ashore near the mouth of Corregldor Harbor, at the entrant of Manila Bay, finds that the accident oc curred in daylight, on a reef shown on the chart, and that there were evidence nt ri. lessness on the part ot the navigator of the vessel. The cable instruments and other nronertv have been removed from the Hooker and the cable is now being removed. If no storm intervenes hopes are entertained that the vessel mav be.

hauled ntf re paired. Her hull has been badly torn by the corai reel on wnicn she struck. ENCOUNTERED THE STORM. Steamer Essex's Long Fight With High Seas and Wind. Norfolk, August 19 The steamer Essex of tne Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company arrived here last evening after a severe fight of over ninety hours with seaa which rolled mountain high and winds which reached hurricane velocity.

She left Savannah Monday noon, bound for Baltimore, and met the fury of the gale oft Tybee Island. She shipped considerable water and her cargo of general merchandise Is damaged. The seas at times submerged her, and according to Captain Dizer she had a narrow escape. Her twenty passengers suffered severely. The Essex took on a supply of coal and proceeded to Baltimore.

A PHYSICIAN ARRESTED. Petrella, at One Time Mayor of an Italian Town, Charged With Practicing Medicine Illegally. Dr Michael Petrella, who was at one time the Mayor of Padula. in Southern Italy, but who has been practicing medicine in this borough for some time, was arrested this morning by Detective Antonio Vachrls, of the headquarters squad, on a charge of having violated the law by prescribing medicines without having duly registered as a physician. Dr.

Petrella claims that he Is a graduate of the medical college of Naples, but if he has a diploma, he has neglected to produce it and the health authorities have been after him for some time. He was arrested several months ago on a similar charge but managed to escape punishment. The complainant thte time is Giovanni Cesar, of 77 Front street, who says that Petrella attended his wife. Ernllie Cesar in June last and not only prescribed medicines, and general treatment, but collected a fee, which, as he was not registered, was all In violation of the law. The doctor, who lives at 178 Sands street, is said to have a very large practice among the Italians.

He speakes no English and his plea of "not guilty" was received through the medium of an interpreter. A number of compatriots who believe in his ability to cure, came to the Adams street court with him. He was released on $300 bail pending a hearing before Magistrate Brenner on the 24th Inst. NEW USE FOR ELECTRICITY. Novel Manner of Removing an Old Wagon Bridge.

Clinton, August The old wagon bridge which has spanned the Wabash River at this point for half a century has been wrecked by electricity. The county bought the piers from Dr. Hogart, the principal owner, he agreeing to remove the superstructure to mnke way for a new bridge. Efforts were made to burn the bridge, but It was found this would injure the piers, so the sills were wired and electricity applied. The current was turned on at 5 A.

M. and at 'i P. M. the pile ot timbers toppled into the river, leaving the foundations unhurt. The electricity had tho effect of cutting all the Bills simultaneously, as with so many saws.

This was the only toll bridge remaining In Indiana and 2,000 persons sent up a mighty cheer as the splintered spans went tumbling Into the water. SUIT AGAINST SECRETARY HAY. Cleveland, August 19 A suit against Secretary of State Hay and the Inter Lake Transportation Company was commenced in the Common Pleas Court yesterday for $4:1.364. The plaintiffs arc Robert R. Rhodes and John W.

Moore, owners of the steamer Siberia. The defendants were owners of the stoamor Samuel Mather. The suit is the result of a collision which occurred in Mud Lake, May 19, 1880. HEAT AND HUMIDITY IN CHICAGO. Chicago, August 19 The weather was very oppressive yesterday, owing to excessive heat and humidity combined and there were two Urostratlona.

Generals de Boisdeffre, Gonse and Major Cuignet Testify Against the Prisoner. WEAK POINTS DISCLOSED. Dreyfus Contradicts Some of the Testimony and Counsel Points Out Contradictory Statements. HENRY FORGERY WAS KNOWN. leakages Continued After Dreyfus Was Condemned Prisoner Brands Some Testimony as Lies.

Rennes, France, August 6 No special incident occurred this morniDg. when the second trial by court martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus was resumed at the Lycee. The first witness called to day was Major Cuignet, formerly attached to the Ministry of War. The witness, who declared he was convinced of the prisoner's guilt, was cross examined by M. Demange of counsel for the defense, who succeeded in pointing out that several of hU statements contradicted his previous depositions.

The president of the court, Colonel Jouaust, asked Dreyfus if he had anything to say, whereupon the prisoner rose and again vehemently protested against the denunciations leveled against him, an innocent man. General de Boisdeffre was the next witness called; The Evidence in Detail. Following is the evidence in detail: Major Cuignet, the iirst witness called, was not in uniform, as he is not at present attached to any corps. "Before beginning an account of the special Investigations into the case which I was ordered to make by ministers of war, from M. Cavaignac to M.

de Freycinet," said the witness, "I wish to mention a personal fact which, in conjunction with the evidence already heard, will constitute fresh proof of the prisoner's indiscreet behavior when employed on the headquarters staff. I was on the staff when Dreyfus was a probationer, during the latter half of 1893. Among other duties, I was connected with the railroad service and the mining of railroads, with the view of interrupting traffic, in case of need. It is hardly necessary to point out the secret character of such matters. Dreyfus was a probationer on the eastern railroads and had been ordered to specially study the mining on them and possessed information relating solely to them.

One day Dreyfus asked me to give him the general scheme of mining which I possessed, giving as a reason for his request that he was anxious to increase his knowledge and that it was necessary for him to know the general scheme in order to properly carry out the work intrusted to him. I replied that I did not see the necessity of giving him the scheme and that, in any case, ho had better apply to his own chief, Major Bertin. Dreyfus pretended Bertin would not impart any information. Day after day he pestered me so that, finally, having no reason to distrust him, I began giving him explanations. Dreyfus displayed the keenest interest and took copious notes.

When, later, his house was searched these notes were not discoverable. I do not know what became of them. But it is difficult to believe they were destroyed, considering the importance he seemed to attach to the information and the persistence shown in procuring it." After launching the above declaration, which he apparently considered to be weighty evidence of the treachery of Dreyfus, Major Cuignet proceeded to recount in detail the task which General Gonse assigned to him in May, 1898, of classifying the documents in the Dreyfus, Esterbazy and Picquart cases. "The first question I will ask here is." said the witness, "is Dreyfus guilty? My conviction of his guilt is based on three grounds: First, his confessions to Captain Lebrun Renault; second, the technical nature of the contents of the bordereau; third, the result3 of the examination of the secret dossier. "I will add to these three points the evidence of the expert Bertillon (laughter), and, as indirect proof, the means employed by the Dreyfus family to secure the prisoner's rehabilitation.

"I protest that a campaign has been undertaken against justice, truth and our country." The Major's outburst of heroics evoked cynical smiles and indications of dissent, coupled with marks of assent from the assembled generals. Cuignet Says Italy Benefited by the Treachery. The witness. next spoke of the secret dossier of the War Ministry, containing information relating to the interview between M. Trarieux, former Minister of Justice, and Count Tornielli.

the Italian Ambassador, "which country." said Cuignet, "benefited by the treachery." Regarding the confessions said to have been made to Captain ebrun Renault, witness said he still believed they were authentic, adding: "If people do not believe the confessions to Captain Lebrun Renault they will believe no human testimony." Continuing, the witness reasserted that the bordereau was written by Dreyfus at tho end of August, and. incidentally, the Major protested against Colonel Plcquart's Insinuations against Du Paty de Clam. He then returned to the secret dossier of the War Office, from which, he declared, the ccurt was sure to draw important deductions. "The first portion of ihe dossier," he said, "shows that in 1893 there was a constant, leakage in the Ministry of War. We have had proofs of the plans or fortifications reaching tho hands of a foreign power.

It is known to a certainty, from the letter of an agent of the foreign power, that the stolen plans emanated from the Ministry of War. A vast network of espionage had, therefore, been organized against us, headed by agents be longing to the same power as (Colonel Schwartzkoppen, the German military attache), the agents of other powers also collaborating." Witness then Invited the special attention to this dossier, in which, lie said, And Will Cruise Along the Coast to Avoid Politicians and Mazet's Minions. NEWS REACHES THE CITY HALL. The Tammany Chieftain May Not Return to New York, It Is Said, Until Dewey Comes Home. An astonishing report crept up the Jersey coats to day from Elberon, where Richard Croker has been visiaing for the past few days, that the big Democratic chief has dis eppeared from Senator Murphy's house and gone to sea on a strange yacht to get rid of the party hangers on, who have been pursuing him ever since his return from England.

The escape was effected some time between sunset and daylight this morning, according to the report which reached the City Hall in Manhattan to day, borne by a man wha has the best means of knowing the facts, and was wholly successful, no one except those taken in confidence suspecting anything. Ma. Croker will, it is said, cruise up and down the coast, putting in wherever he chooses, but never lingering anywhere long enough for the crowd to catch him and worry him or for any Mazet subpoena sender to run him down. The yacht, whose identity is cloaely concealed, it not being known whether it Is a steam or sailing craft, is said to be stocked so that she can remain out for at least six weeks, or until Dewey's arrival at the end of September, when, it is said, Richard will be Imself again and come into port to help greet the admiral. All through September, the report goes, tho Democratic chieftain is to ply the waters of the Atlantic, accaslonally putting In to get wind of political happenings and see if the machine's wheels are running properly.

Since Mr. Croker has been sojourning in the neighborhood of Long Branch the Sandy Hook boats have done a big business in carrying politicians to the Jersey resort. Political fry of all descriptions, large and small, have found they needed the sea air, and the newspaper correspondents have tracked the Democratic leader than paid detectives. He has not been allowed to eat dinner in peace, let alone drive about the country and enjoy himself with his friends in quiet. NEGROES GO ON STRIKE.

Building of Iowa Railroad Crippled. Demand for Labor. Fort Dodge, August 19 A serious situation exists in Tara, where the Fort Dodge and Omaha Road is being built. Contractors are in danger of forfeiting large sums because of their inability to complete their contracts within the time specified. The reason is the large wages paid by farmers, who are unable to secure the help needed at harvest time.

Tho contractors made arrangements to bring a large number of negroes from Mississippi, and the first train load, containing 125 colored laborers, arrived Thursday. They had agreed to work for $1.25, but when they found that white laborers wers receiving $1.75 to $2 they at once went on a strike. The contractors have refused to pay any more, and the negroes are idle. The white laborers now threaten a sympathetic strike unless the demands of the colored men are acceded to. LONDON'S VIEW OF THE TRIAL Conviction Deepening That Dreyfus "Will Not Be Acquitted Partiality of Court Martial Members.

London, August 19 Revelations of further forgeries, disavowals by foreign diplomatists and even Colonel Picquart's evidence seem to fall to remove the deepening conviction that Captain DreyfuB has no chance of acquittal. It Is alleged that the members of the court martial have refused to even take the trouble to read copies of the Court of Cassation evidence, on the ground that they are fully competent to conduct an Independent inquiry and that this accounts for the Ignorance displayed at the trial and the tedious character of the proceedings. Advocate Mornard, who is assisting Maitre Demange of counsel for the defense, and who watched the progress of the case yesterday, could not help remarking the partiality of Colonel Jouaust, the president of the court martial, displayed, especially his hostility toward Colonel Picquart, who gave testimony in favor of the accused man. Should Maitre La borl now seems likely, resume his place as chief counsel for the defense Monday or Tuesday, it is probable that his provocative manner in cross examination will irritate the court much more than M. Demange's suave style, and, further, his delicate political aspect will be considered.

COLONEL SCHNEIDER'S DENIAL. Comment of Paris Press Report That Mercier Will Protest. Paris, August 19 Tho Paris papers are full of comments on Colonel Schneider's telegram. The Rennes correspondent of the Petit Bleu says: "General Mercier will protest against tho allegation that the letter Is a forgery. He declares that it is authenticated by comparison with other documents from the same source." The Figaro says: "General Mercier's only way to prove his good faith is to name the person who gave him the document and to prove that this person got it in a legitimate way." The Rappel says: "The Schneider forgery shows that in order to accumulate proofs against Dreyfus resort has been had to another Lemercier Picard." M.

Jaures, in the Petite Republique, demands an investigation of the Schneider matter. The Echo de Paris says: "Such little foreign maneuvers are Intended to Impose upon the court martial and were quite expected." WAS TOO WEAK TO CALL FOR AID. Chicago, August 19 A special to the Timea Herald from Denver says: "After twelve hours or agony, P. J. Plxiey, formerly a wealthy merchant of South Bend, died at midnight at St.

Luke's Hospital. For bver sixty hours he lay on the floor of a room at the Windsor Hotel without food or drink. He arrived at the hotel last Mondoy. He was seized with a weak spell in his room and was unable to call for help." Spooponrt ko Sketches. Now published in book form.

Eagle Library. Price ZIS cents. Library edition Dents. i Judge Willett of Alabama Earnestly Desires the Support of Kings County. THINKS IT WILL CONTROL.

He Has Seen Local Leaders and Is Also Relying on the Support of Traveling Men. That tall politician from Alabama, Joseph J. Willett, the father of the Judge Augustus Van Wyck boom for President, said this morning that he was depending upon the Kings County Democracy to control the New York delegation at the next national convention. The boom, he said, would not depend for support upon Tammany, and it was all a mistake that it was secretly fostered by Richard Cro ker's organization. Judge Willett says he has seen prominent Brooklyn leaders.

Their names he cannot give just now. He will make an effort before next Tuesday to see Hugh McLaughlin, for whom he has high respect and whose co operation he devoutly desires. After next Tuesday he will be at Saratoga. Then he will go on to Buffalo, where he will attend the convention of tho National Bar Association, for the presidency of which he will probably be a candidate. Half of the Van Wyck boomers left town to day.

Harry Walker, the press agent, was called away and this left only the Alabama Judge to do the talking. The judge continued to talk to day, but he gave notice that he was going to cease telling any plans until a kind of formal announcement, which will be issued in typewritten form next Tuesday. According to the Willett aspect, the Van Wyck boom Is politico commercial. Yesterday was the day for it to gather local political moss. To day It is turned over to the commercial travelers, who are said to have taken the initiative in the boom.

"I have had many traveling men from all parts of the Union," said Judge Willett today, "come to me and proffer me their support in the effort to put Judge Van Wyck forth as the candidate for Democracy. I cannot give you any names. These traveling men are the best means of disseminating political truths. They do missionary work In all parts of the country. Just at this time of the year there are thousands of traveling men in New York from all parts of the United States preparing for their fall sales.

I have seen many I know from the South. If I gave the names of these men, it might injure them in their business, for Just now among the rural districts Bryan is very strong and many country merchants would not buy from a travel ing man if they found that he was for Bryan. "It is a well known fact," continued Judge Willett, "that the leaders of the South are aware that Bryan will be defeated should he be our next candidate. This is a foregone conclusion. They know it.

We all see it, but these so called leaders have not courage enough to take this stand berore their constituents. They are reaping local offices and controlling patronage on a Bryan basis, when they know that Bryan has no chanoe to be elected. "Are you encouraged in the effort to put judge van wyck forth?" Judge Willett was asked. "Yes. I am greatly encouraged?" he replied, "greatly.

I believe that he Is the logical candidate for the party. He is the conservative man whom we have been looking for, and will meet the demands of democracy In every way." "Is it true that you are using Judge Van Wyck lor a blind, and that there Is some one else really behind the movement?" "Positively not. I know of no other man Just now whom I would favor. Judge Van Wyck is the only man I have thought of. It Is false to say that I am here In any such position." "Does Judge Van Wyck give countenance to his own candidacy?" "Judge Van Wyck does not know what we aTe doing.

He is a very busy man. He has a large law practice, and this movement for him is thoroughly spontaneous." Judge Willett then said that he hoped to interest all the prominent politicians In Brooklyn. He had already received the assurance of co optrratlon from several prominent men. Before hi? left he desired to talk with Hugh McLaughlin. Judge Willett remained at the Hoffman House until noon.

He had a business engagement on Wall street In the afternoon, he said and would not return to the hotel until late. Few callers came to the Hoffman this morning. ALLEGED THIEF CAPTURED. Donnelly Was Not Long a Bell Boy at the Port Lowry Hotel. George Donnelly, 19 years old.

who refused to give his address, was taken from New Haven to headquarters this morning in the custody of Detective Thomas Mulvey of tho Bath Beach police station, where he will be held to answer a charge of stealing a quantity of Jewelry, valued at about $1,000, from the Fort Lowry Hotel on Cropsey avenue. Several guests will appear against him when he is arraigned. Donnelly was employed as a hall boy at the hotel, having been engaged last Tuesday afternoon at an employment agency In the Borough of Manhattan. He arrived at the hotel late In the afternoon and had only been at work a short time when Proprietor Lowry began to receive complaints from hi3 guests that their rooms had been entered while they were absent and several articles, including some valuable jewelry, had been stolen. Mr.

Lowry, with two of his employes, made an investigation and soon learned that the new boy had quietly disappeared, and the police at the Nineteenth avenue house were notified. Detective Mulvey at once visited the hotel and. with the pro prletor, was confronted by several guests, all of whom had stories to tell about their Jewelry having been stolen. A search was made by the detective and the proprietor for Donnelly, but ho had disappeared, and a warrant was issued by Magistrate Nostrand for his arrest. On Wednesday afternoon the police of the borough central office were notified that a young man, who described himself as George Davis, and later as John Gilbert, had been arrested In New Haven, where he was endeavoring to pawn a quantity of jewelry.

When taken lo the police station In that city, he said the valuables belonged to his mother and he had been asked by her to pawn them, as she was short of money. The police then telegraphed to Detective Mulvey and the latter immediately sent word to hold him. Every piece of Jewelry has been recovered. DESPERATE STREET FIGHT. Montgomery, August 19 In a desperate fight on one of the principal business streets two men were seriously wounded here yesterday.

One of them, Charles Ray, is in a dying condition, while J. G. Heason over has an ugly buliet wound In his thigh. The latter claims Ray had threatened his life, and, seeing him passing down the street, Rea sonover opened Are with a shotgun at clone range. Preparations for a Conflict Side on Either TROOPS MOVING TO THE BORDER Field Marshal Wolseley Considers Tenders for Forage and General Stores.

Stead Blames Chamberlain. London, August 19 The latest franchlB kite from Pretoria has failed of Its expected effect. It is merely regarded as a device to gain time. There is no cessation of the war preparations on either side. The Transvaal government is beginning to move troops to the border and the police on the frontier have been ordered to strictly prohibit any cattle leaving the country, while the treasury of tho republic is receiving large amounts of gold beyond ordinary requirements.

Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, commander in chief of the British army, was in consultation at the War Office, yesterday, with General Neville Gerald Lyttleton, assistant military secretary, and the headquarters staff. Tenders for an immediate supply of large stores of forage and general stores were under consideration. Six mouths' supply ot compressed foruge for 10,000 horses has already been sent out. It is reported that Colonel Hector Macdon ald, recently appointed to an important command, but who has delayed taking up his post, is really waiting to be ordered to South Africa under command of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Walker, who rellevea General Sir William Francis Butler as commander of the British troops there. William T.

Stead, in the Review or Reviews, makes a startling insinuation against Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State Tor the Colonics. He says that if the Liberal leaders, Sir William. Vernon Harcourt and Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. two years ago, had not "made themselves parties to a most scandalous fraud, In tho way of whitewashing, ever perpetrated upon the public, Mr.

Chamberlain, would not bo in the Colonial Office to day. Mr. Stead refers, apparently, to the Jameson raid into tho Transvaal and intimates Mr. Chamberlain is entirely responsible tor. the present crisis, adding: "What Is now demanded, almost avowed.

Is the destruction of the domination of tho Boer Oligarchy." Continuing, Mr. Stead berates Sir Alfred? Milner, the British High Commissioner ia South Africa, and says if he was away frorri the Transvaal thero would be no threaten ings of war in South Africa. The Earl of Denbigh, speaking at a Prim! rose meeting during the week, voiced thdi general feeling of the government's Bupportvj ers by saying: "If the break up of the British empire Is'1 wanted, all we have to do is to show a. weak, front in South Africa. Great Britain has win the next trick there, whether by diplo macy or other means." Lieutenant General Sir Frederick who relieves General Sir William Francis But ler as commander of the British troops la South Africa, sailed for Mb post to day.

He was accorded an enthusiastic farewell the crowds surrounding the train on which he was a passenger at the Waterloo station. It was stated by an army officer who is accompanying General Walker that in tha event of hostilities in the Transvaal Lieu 1 tenant General Sir Redvers Buller will take! command of the fighting force, General Walker remaining at Cape Town. The officer' re erred to added that General Butler's retirement from the command of the British South African forces was entirely voluntary. General Walker had frequent conferences with the officials of the War Office before leaving. The previous announcement of General, Walker's departure for South Africa was in correct, as at the time in question he had' only left Devonport in order to come to Lon i don.

0NB MORE MYSTERY. Reuben Shaffer Found Dead Alongside)' the West End Tracks Foul Play Not Suspected. Still another mystery has been brought to1, the attention of the police of the Coney Island precinct in the finding last evening ot the body of Reuben Shatter, 50 years who was found dead along side of the tracks of the West End branch of the Rapid Transii' system on the West Meadows in the rear Coney Island. Blood was flowing from the1 man's nose and he had evidently been dcad' only a few hours. The police were notified! and the body was removed to the West.

Eighth street police stntion. where Ambulance Surgeon Cochrane viewed it and said the had probably met his death by falling the embankment alongside the track and; striking his head at the bottom. Surgeon Cochrane suld tho man's skull might possibly, be fractured. The body was found about 9 o'clock face downward by Isaac Williams, a colored' man, who lives on the West Meadows, near the bridge over Couey Island Creek. Will lams had been to the island and was walking' along the tracks toward bis house when he I saw the form of a man lying a few feet from, the rails and on making examination, ho recognized the body as that of Shatter, who? has been around the neighborhood for years.

The colored man was greatly frightened at" what he had seen and ran all the way back to Coney Island to notify Policeman Babmann, who summoned tho ambulance and had it removed. When tho body was searched at the police station a half filled bottle of whisky was found iu the pocket of the coat and it ia i thought he was intoxicated and had fallen down. The police will not entertain the be lief that the man had been murdered. It might bo that he had been walking along the track and was struck by a trolley car and. thrown to tho side of the rails.

The cars travel at a tremendous on the West Meadows at night and as the spot is in total darkness at all times of the night a pedestrian could easily be knocked down and killed and no one know anything about it. Shaf i ter's nome was in GloverHVllle, in the northern part of the state, but he had been living about the inland for a number of years. He' worked for a time in the carpenter business, I but his love for liquor proved too much for. blm and he finally lost his position. Since that time he had bvvn living from place to place.

HORATIO SLATER'S WILL. Worcester, August By the will of Horatio N. Slater, tho Webster millionaire, $1,000,000 is bequeathed to the widow, Mabel Hunt Slater, and her children, to bo I held in trust. Mrs. Charles G.

Washburn, wife I of Senntor Washburn, receives the income of 1 $500,000 and Samuel Slater of Boston Is left a like amount In trust. The residue of tho vast estate, estimated at $5,000,000 is left la trait ftof the andr chiidren. No Cessation of th ten by the attache, in which he was repre sented as referring to efforts being made by Schwartzkoppen and Panlzzardi to conceal their relations with Dreyfus, witness maintained Generel Mercier's statements on the subject were correct and that the authenticity ol the letter had been proved. The Intelligence Department, he added, had other documents from the same attache In its possession. Cuignet Says Schneider's Denial May Have Been Imposed Upon Him by His Government.

Major Cuignet pointed out that the Schneider document was included in the dossier and that M. Cbamoln, who had the secret document in his charge, had shown it to the court in behalf of the Ministry of War. Therefore, witness claimed, Colonel Schneider's contradiction was really addressed to the French government. (Sensation.) "Beside," added Cuignet, "I wish to point out that the attache issuing the denial is a person with somewhat less consequence than his allies. It Is therefore possible that this denial was imposed upon him." (Renewed sensation.) The major dwelt admiringly on the conclusions of M.

Bertillon that Esterhazy had learned to imitate the handwriting of the bordereau after its publication in the Matin. He then reviewed the police reports on Dreyfus. Replying to a question of the court, Cuignet described the circumstances of the discovery of the Henry forgery and how it wa3 that the probationers did not participate in the maneuvers of 1894. although they had long believed they would attend. Government Representative's Disclaimer.

Major Carriere, the government's commissary, as this juncture said he thought it desirable to remark, as the representative of the government, that he must not be understood to indorse all Major Cuignet had said with "reference a foreign military officer who at the present moment held a diplomatic appointment in France." (Sensation.) Replying to M. Demange, Major Cuignet insisted that if Henry committed forgery "it was in the interests of the country." To this statement, counsel retorted: "You did not say that to the Court of Cassation." At 'the request of M. Demange, the major's deposition before the Court of Cassation, relating to Henry's motives and Paty de Clam's share in the preparation of the forgery, was read. It showed that Cuignet emphatically declared before the Court of Cassation that he was convinced an investigation would easily show that Paty de Clam was the principal author df the Henry forgery. Witness claimed he thought he was doing his duty "in saying all that is in my mind." "Do you adhere," asked counsel, "to all you said before the full Court of Cassation?" This question greatly confused the witness, who attempted to explain by saying he was "only arguing at that time," and that it was for him to judge Paty de Clam, etc.

M. Demange pointed out that in spite of the many arguments Major Cuignet had advanced against Paty de Clam, the military judge (Tavernier) threw out the case. "Now," added M. Demange, "Major Cuignet bas advanced as much against Dreyfus, the court will be able to appreciate the value of his arguments." Counsel then asked why Cuignet had employed the expression "report" to describe the Schneider letter, and the witness replied that he wats justified in doing so, owLng to the similarity of the expressions in it with the ternra usually employed in reports. M.

Demange pointed out that the document included in the dossier contained the word "report." "Does the original," he asked, "contain this word?" "No," replied the witness. Replying further, Cuignet said the document also referred to the campaign in favor of Dreylus and to orders sent to Brussels, the headquarters of the espionage system. M. Demange The paper handed in by General Mercier is, therefore, only an extract. The witness next aired his ideas as to how Dreyfus might have secured plans of the fortresses.

But counsel pointed to Paty de Clam's report at the time of the arrest ot Dreyfus, in which he declared that no document had disappeared or could have disappeared from the ministry of the war. Dreyfus Says Cuignet's Statements Are False. When Dreyfus was asked if he wished to reply to this witness, he declared he had never asked Major Cuignet for documents except by the desire of his chief, Major Bertin. "All the details which Major Cuignet has given on this subject," said the prisoner, "sprang out of his own imagination and are due to the same state of mind which prompts unreasoning bitterness even against an innocent man." Amid a buzz of excitement the name of Major Du Paty de Clam was called out, whereupon Major Carriere said Paty de Clam had been officially informed that his presence was necessary to the court martial and It was hoped he would be able to come as soon as possible. But, the government commissary had heard nothing from him since this notification was sent.

At the request of M. Demange It was decided to notify Paty de Clam that the court martial was ready to hear his deposition. General Boisdeffre on the Stand. There was a further thrill of curiosity when General De Boisdeffre, former chief of I the general staff of the French army, ad I vanced to the witness' box and took the cus tomary oath to tell the truth. The General remarked that In view of the exhaustive evidence already given, he would try to be brief.

He hurriedly reviewed the leakage In the ministry of war, the discovery of the eau, the arrest and trial of Dreyfus and the latter's alleged confessions, Continued on Page 2..