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| Captain Alfred Dreyfus. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, September 2, 1898.
SENSATION OF PARIS.
Dreyfus Case Revival the One Topic Discussed.
TWO STARTLING RUMORS.
One of Them Is That Dreyfus Is Dead.
PARIS, Sept. 2.—The Dreyfus case presents no new features, but there is a plentiful supply of rumors. The first of these is that Dreyfus is dead, no letter having been received from him for some weeks. Another report is that General De Boisdeffre, who has just resigned the post of chief of the general staff, has committed suicide. Both of these rumors are undoubtedly without foundation.
Colonel Du Paty de Clam is on a vacation trip in Switzerland; and there is no confirmation of the statement of La Patrie that he had been arrested for complicity in the Henry forgery.
General Gonse, assistant chief of the general staff, who tendered his resignation to M. Cavaignac, minister for war, has been persuaded to withdraw it, as his retirement under the age limit will occur next month.
Speculation is keenest over the motive for Lieutenant Colonel Henry cutting his throat after confessing that he had forged the papers that convicted Dreyfus. Looking to the view the whole nation has adopted regarding the guilt of Dreyfus, it is argued that Henry may have supposed he was acting in the country's interests even in forging the letter, which would satisfy the nation of the justice of the sentence without production of the real evidence, which would be undesirable on the highest political grounds. In that case Henry might have posed as a martyr to misguided patriotism.
The traditions of the intelligence department which at the time of the condemnation of Dreyfus, was under a conspicuous anti-semite, Colonel Sandherr, would probably have led a blunt mind like Lieutenant Colonel Henry's to construe the slightest hint from above of the desirability of killing off the anti-Dreyfus agitation into an order to do so by any means.
Colonel Sandherr, who was then suffering from an incipient paralysis, seems to have been the head of a general conspiracy to hunt Jewish officers out of the French army. Dreyfus, a man of haughty demeanor, but of vast strategic knowledge, would naturally be selected as a victim of these machinations.
It is asserted that Colonel Sandherr's last days were haunted by a fear, amounting to terror, lest the illegal and flippant nature of the evidence [with] which Captain Dreyfus was convicted should be revealed and weakened the prestige of the intelligence department and that he enjoined upon Henry, his subordinate, to guard the department's traditions at all cost.
The carelessness of the authorities in allowing Henry to have a razor and in not watching him is generally interpreted as connivance, and perhaps as persuasion since officers under arrest and likely to be condemned should, according to military regulations, be constantly watched while Lieutenant Colonel Henry was left for hour and allowed to lock the door on the inside.
If there were persuasion, it is not likely to have been difficult. Had Henry been expelled from the army, both himself and wife would have lost all pension rights. As it is, the widow becomes entitled to a handsome pension. This seems a more likely motive than the explanation based upon the alleged incoherent letter he left behind, that he had lost his reason.
DREYFUS AGAIN.
The French Cabinet Has Decided To Revise His Case.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—A special dispatch to the Evening Standard from Paris published this afternoon says that the French cabinet has decided upon a revision of the Dreyfus case.
WRECK ON THE LEHIGH.
Two Passenger Trains Collided Near Auburn Last Night.
AUBURN, N. Y., Sept. 2.—As a result of a collision between north and south bound passenger trains on the Ithaca branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad at Half Acre, about four miles from this city early last evening, Engineer John Vaughn of Ithaca lies dead at Hennessy's morgue in this city. Both trains had orders to meet at Half Acre, which is on a blind siding, but the switch was not long enough to accommodate the northbound train and the southbound crashed into it. The engine of the southbound was derailed and badly damaged.
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| Maj. Gen. William Rufus Shafter. |
GEN. SHAFTER INTERVIEWED.
He Is Satisfied With Montauk Point as a Camp.
WILL SOON BE IN COMMAND.
Praises For the Red Cross and Other Nurses.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—General Shafter is now, strictly speaking, by reason of rank in command of Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I., but he will not assume the reins of control until his term in the detention camp is finished. In an interview, General Shafter said:
"I enjoyed the trip north on the Mexico greatly, but more so on account of the ship being a prize. From a casual observation, I like Camp Wikoff. It seems just such a place as I would have chosen. I will soon acquaint myself with all the details of the camp.
"I knew nothing of the Miles-Alger controversy until I was shown a newspaper on my arrival here. I will not discuss it now that I am unfamiliar with the phases of the case nor will I enter the controversy at any time. Secretary Alger and General Miles can take care of themselves and so can I.
"The Red Cross and other nurses did good work at Santiago, but the front is hardly the place for women. There was never any real scarcity of food in Cuba but there were no transportation facilities to get supplies to the front other than pack trains.
"The army and the sick in hospitals down there fared as well as possible in such a climate."
When told that it had been denied that there was yellow fever in the camp at Santiago, General Shafter said that it was nonsense as there was yellow fever there and the doctors in Santiago who knew it like a book said it was yellow fever and nothing else. The general said the sanitary measures taken by the Americans at Santiago were having a good effect.
When asked if it would not be almost as well to allow the men now sick at Santiago to fully recover in Cuba now that the wet season is almost over, he said the best place for every man who could get there was home, and that while the wet season was nearly over, it was not a good country for sick men to be in and that the conditions would remain poor two months at least. In and around the city there had been two armies in camp and armies did not leave the places where they had been in the best of condition. For a few months, he continued, things would not be at their best near Santiago, but nature, in time, would work out her own rehabilitation.
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| Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke. |
SPANISH CONSENT.
General Brooke Will Meet the Military Commission in San Juan.
PONCE, Porto Rico, Sept. 2.—General Brooke notified Captain General Marias, the Spanish commander at San Juan de Porto Rico, under a flag of truce carried to the Spanish lines by Colonel Goethal, that Rear Admiral Schley and General Gordon, the American Porto Rican peace commissioners, had sailed for San Juan from New York on the steamer Seneca. General Brooke asked if there was any objection to his proceeding overland with an escort.
Major Jose Reyes of the Spanish army brought the reply of General Macias. It was sent by wire and said there was no objections. Consequently General Brooke has arranged to leave.
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| Main Street, Cortland, circa 1899. |
PROGRESS IN PAVING.
Excavation Nearly Completed—Street Car Rails Being Replaced.
The work on the new Main-st., Cortland, pavement is progressing. The Traction company a few days ago took up its rails and ties between Lincoln-ave. and East Main-st, and since then the paving company has made all the necessary excavation on the strip, the bed has been rolled, and to-day the track is being replaced, new ties being used. The rails are placed on iron chairs bolted to the ties. It is expected that the rails will all be replaced by to-morrow, and then the foundation for the Nelsonville block pavement which is to be laid on the railroad strip, can be laid. The foundation, after the tracks have been adjusted, tamped and made solid and firm, will be laid between, around and over the ties and rails and will consist of hydraulic cement concrete 9 inches in depth, extending from the bottom of the cross-ties to the sub-grade of the pavement cushion.
The excavation for the work on this section of the street is practically completed. The cobblestones have been delivered to the stone crusher near the Lehigh Valley station for treatment by that machine. The trenches for the curb and gutter on both sides of the street are practically completed.
CLAM BAKE
To be Held at Cincinnatus on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5.
A regular Rhode Island clam bake will occur at Cincinnatus, N. Y., on Monday, Sept. 5, on the occasion of Labor day. An excursion will be run from Cortland at 10:45 A. M., stopping at all stations and returning will leave Cincinnatus at 5 P. M. Dinner will be served at 1 o'clock in a big tent. Addresses will be made by Hon. D. W. Van Hoesen, Rev. J. Barton French and others. Good music will be in attendance. Ladies are specially invited. Fare for the round trip including dinner will be as follows: From Cortland $1, McGraw $.80, Solon $.70, East Freetown $.60. Reduced rates on the Lehigh Valley R. R. will be given from DeRuyter, Cuyler, Truxton and East Homer. Dinner tickets to people not coming by railroad will be 40 cents. Everybody invited.
Died in Syracuse.
Mrs. Ellen G. Chaplin, wife of Benjamin F. Chaplin of 6 Homer-ave., died at 10:30 o'clock last night at Johnson & Vidler's private hospital in Syracuse, where she went two weeks ago for an operation which, however, did not bring the desired results. The remains were brought to Cortland this morning and the funeral will be held from her late residence to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. W. H. Pound, pastor of the Congregational church, officiating.
Mrs. Chaplin was 42 years of age, being the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus H. Jennings of Killawog, N. Y., now deceased, and is survived by one brother, Clayton R. Jennings of Cortland, and by her husband, one daughter, Miss Anna B. Chaplin, and one son, Mr. Harry W. Chaplin, both of Cortland.
Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin were married Dec. 3, 1873, and for the past ten years have resided in Cortland, where Mrs. Chaplin has endeared herself to all who knew her. She will be greatly missed both in the home circle and by many friends outside of it.
Woods Family Reunion.
There was a very pleasant gathering of the Woods family at the home of Mrs. Salem Tanner near Messengerville, N. Y., on Tuesday, Aug. 30, it being the 73d birthday of that lady. Those present were F. R. Holdridge, Florence Holdridge, Mrs. James Potter, Blodgett Mills; Mrs. William Brown, Coventryville; Horace Tiffany, Mrs. Kate Tiffany, Eunice Tiffany, Mina Tiffany, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brown, Texas Valley; Francis Potter, Mrs. Hattie Potter, Glenn, Florence, Ethel and Earl Potter, Mr. and Mrs. John Woods, Hazel Woods, Freetown; Mrs. J. E. Youngs, McGraw; Mrs. W. E. Kenyon, Lestershire; Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Miller, Virgil; William Woods, Mrs. Sovila Woods, Mrs. L. F. Horton and son, Oxford; Dell White, Cyrus Humphrey, Messengerville; Mr. and Mrs.Charles Manchester, Solon; Mrs. S. L. Woods, Galatia; Mrs. Dr. Wood, Groton; Patrick Welch, Marathon.
Officers were elected as follows:
President—John S. Woods.
Vice-President—Mrs. Jennie Horton.
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. W. E. Kenyon.
Registrar—Mrs. Charles Manchester.
Treasurer—Mrs. Florence Holdridge.
BREVITIES.
—Homer's trolley ride occurs to-night.
—Overseer of the Poor J. F. Wheeler has moved from 138 Port Watson-st. to 137 Railroad-st.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Union Shoe & Clothing Co., Grand Opening, page 7.
—The funeral of Wilber Maltbey will be held at his late home Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock and at the Memorial Baptist church at 3:30.
—Mrs. C. H. Danes, wife of one of the publishers of the Homer Republican, was awarded six first prizes and four second prizes on her floral exhibit at the Cortland county fair last week.
—The funeral of Mrs. Bridget Mullen, who died Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Catherine Mellon, 14 Delaware-ave. was held at St. Mary's church at 9:30 o'clock this morning, and burial was made at McLean.
—The funeral of Miss Belle Fitzgerald will be held at the house to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock and at St. Mary's church at 10:30 A. M. The services at the house will be private, but friends are invited to attend the services at the church.
—One car and trailer were comfortably filled with the people who enjoyed the special trolley ride to McGrawville and Homer this afternoon. The party was composed almost wholly of ladies and children. It was an ideal afternoon for the ride, and it was an ideal way in which to escape the heat.
—Miss Villa F. Page, sister of Mr. T. R. Page and Mrs. M. H. Foley of Cortland, expects to give a reading at the Baptist church at her home in Groton next Tuesday evening. Miss Page is a member of the faculty of the New Paltz Normal school and is well known here in Cortland.
—Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. Charles Augustus Moser of Burlington, Vt., and Miss Anna Leone Clarkson, which will occur at the Methodist Episcopal church at Lewistown, Pa., on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 12 o'clock noon. Mr. and Mrs. Moser will be at home after Oct. 15, at 281 Maple-st., Burlington, Vt.
—Saturday evening Miss Emily Benton entertained a party of her lately friends at her home. Among the guests was Miss Villa F. Page, whose readings all Grotonians delight to hear, who favored the company with several selections. Miss Benton also entertained on Tuesday afternoon of this week.—Groton Journal.
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