The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1899, Page 1

25 cens,a vont TT VOL. 1. SEAT THE FARGE AT LAST FINISHED, LLLP LSS Tao wD Dreyfus Is Condemned by His Ene: mies Acting in the Capacity of Court Judges. HE IS GIVEN TEN YEARS IN PRISON Justice Outraged and the French Nation Humiliated Before the Entire World Closing Scenes of the Court- martial at Rennes. Rennes, Sept. 9.—Dreyfus has been found guilty and condemned to ten years imprisonment in a fortress. A majority of the judges were against him. eee Berlin, Sept. 9.—It is rumored here that as a result of Dreyfus’ condemnation, Count Muenster, the German ambassador to France, will refuse to return to Paris. WRWRWRWUUT UOT %—Everything thie morning denoted that 1 was to take p in Rennes today. Bodies of « were carly astir, and the town echoed to ©. The publie was excluded from a surrounding the lyoee, troops and gen the tramp of mer e nearly a quarter of a mile in widt t t leading to the court we statigned three bar- ope. Soldiers also formed a cordon about the building massed in the plaza in the center of the town. In front toffice was drawn up 4 body of mounted gendarmes, ready to gal to any point where trouble threatened. The whole garrison of Rennes was under arms, and altogether $000 men were ready to pr rve the peace. As a consequence of the military display, few people stood about, and there was no attempt at a demonstration. At the door of the courtroom everyone entering was thorough - ly searched and nore wers altowed to have @ cane or-anything else that could possibly serve a® & Weapon or missile: Dreyfus, with supreme resolution, appeared in the courtroom unusually calm, and as the autience eagerly scrutinised his coun- tenance, they could find in tt no indication of whether hope or fear predominated in his hear Demange began at once the com luding portion of hi for the A entered upon a searching analysis dence given con ners ability to have known about docums bordereau. Demange show ed that the gist that either Dreyfus cou bave known fn hin ! knowledg much act proof, this cane advanced by that Dreyfus and Esterbary were accomplices was infamous Demange then began a scathing arratanment of Esterhany taking up the bordereau aga med that tion had tried to make the and had misinterpret Maj. Carriere, for th but Demange inais Recess was taken mange tackled the handwriting 5 - the bordereau was in a dixguised hand, he nts, or could have kp prosecu © accused at any cont, adeffre Ao this f the femsion, De especially Bertilior whore said, ay as its author much more than to Drey fus. trike Demange then reviewed the testimony of the general ing at its saite efecta and di serepancies. He drew al points togeth demor f guilt h Demang ndly A powerfs there was every pr w himself toge f & peroration, which is the man before you,” he said. pointing » health, broken In frame and heart! re the world; he, who for five years aring less for his own sufferings f innocence cam at Dre He sits here suffered the tor than for ‘ children by his degrada ar upon his lonely and fatheriess n. This man has heen made a specta and placed be the universe for men to sneer at; hated by many of his untrymen, and yet, through It all, he has re mained a loyal son of France, 4 brave soldier and a true fath and husband From first to last he has been loyal. You gentlemen of the Prench men and fellow soldiers of his, thrilling suntry and of justice, will today declare supre like him, with love him to be an innocent man.” As Demange finished, he sank"exhaysted into his chair, hie eyes suffused with tears. ment of silence, and then came a sharp was no cheering and no attempt at relinquished hisright to speak m er to thank Demange for his bri! soner’s face, for the firat time Bravo - Others erfel, “Courage, courage minutes after 3 o'clock the court retired to consider a voted f tion and two against. During the room Dreyfus was not pr tin yurtroom when the verdict of guilty-was read. He ng in an ante-room adjoining saat proceeded and read him the court's decision. © f th art @ were present when the ver The court has ered Dreyfus to t prisoned tn the fortrens at ¢ ' f¢ " he f ars of imprisonment al- read rved th ndemned mar 1 not leducted from his « n When Jouast read th tt atened with great dig ity, not a tea ther sig t ng seen, At the con clus f the reading lemnation he shook hands with his awyers and thanked th in a manner that showed deep feeling It in b ed that Dreyfus will ve but little, if any, impris vm Military men a utiafied with er of mullty, and it tm and more than equals 10 years’ Imprisonment in France. For this Pp Th verdict completely stunned those present in the courtroom, and the audience filed out of the hall in silence Mme. Dreyfu ' ut once of the decisior It cam Hké a the pt Relatives and intimate friends are with her dotr that i 5 ble to assuage her grief and coun teract th ' WASHINGTON, D. ¢ pt. SA wave of indignation swept over apitol today w dcar f the « tion of Drey fus e case t y followed by all of the heads of th depa bh A t r Intelligent enough to read t , G nment id not hesitate to express their 1 wr these government officials can not be personal in be stated with absolute truth that without a single exceptior y one In authority here condemned the verdict as unju VASHING TON, "Paris ls In an Uproar. An uproar, The suppresssed ex lays pending « decision in the Dreyfus And everyone Is kept m guarded by Increns A Scorcher Kill (MINGHAM The girl was t wheels pane A FARM OF ANGLEWORMS “ . : : | probab pOCjou Peculiar ladeatly wte Florist in Maine, Angle- | market in the| 004 of Cart Beers, a florist He accigeptaily became be value of the angie~ at Moosehead lake worms raised for the | me | her route bel | months the WILL BUILD TO FORT SELKIRK MOTIONS TODAY. A BENEFIT BALL. jew figure of bic, sea hag os eles SHAT TLE SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1899. Home Hardware red through y refuse to allow any « ving. All of di Torces dur aividdvddddevvdded s CITY NEWS. = “SRAAMMAAAANAN ae Hattie D. Coughlin ve. Johr Coughlin and J. J. Murphy va. Carrie] C. Murphy Were two new divor anes filed in the supertor vurt Hoth were caused by ab nment Default divorcees have ed to Julia Corntia tr Jacobs took th son va CLA ment ‘arison under advise John D. Smth was refused a di- voree from Margaret Smith yeater lay by Judge Jae he had abandoned her City in Us6L Gustave Muhl returned today from to his former home in 4 wall-paper buying trip ¢ and a vini Davenport, low nduatr city @f the Pacific coast Th latest important industry tablished here i@ the Beatt ™ & Varnish company, whore int paints, varnishes and lacq manu endy thi Washington, Alaska, Japan and China. The raw material ie ob- tained from the ot, and the line reed oll f purposes from Pe jtory i* equipped with modern ma hinery, and @ Corroding plant will tumbia-SEafin undoubtedly be added in the near body of man was found in the ee: at Hrighton Beach, on Lake Washington, late this afternoon, and Coroner Sparling has left for there The river steamer Sybil, which pile between White Horse rapide) Dawson, Is feported by today's arrivals from the north to be in dum. culties, While foming up through Five Fingers rapide, phe in said to have broken the Canadiat Develop- t company’s fope and drifted town with the ewift current she rtunately em ed being wrecked, mi when certain repairs are made the steamer will be able to resume Annie Pott has asked the superior t to grant her a divoree from her an, und. n & Doo- e super PF Hene er the firm nar an, has brought suit in ¢ art against CE. Deppman and A. Atkinson for of Henn Police Matron Taylor has two litte * in her care for whom she is anxious to find homes. They are] Rather and Ligey Morris, Several lays « neer provide for them drove the childrea from his home in Renton Friends brought the « attle and were placed in Mra Taylor's care. ETIT! WALLACE WIN This morning Judge Moore entered a judement in favor of Letitia J Wallace, and again Emelia Head, in the sum of $2,414.30, to satisfy the judement against lote 1, 2 and 7, block 2, Washington plac INCORPORATIONS. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Corbin Deputy Machin ery company. The trustees are W J. Corbin, E. L. Duputy, F. W. Keen, and J. A. Gould. The capital stock ® fixed at $5,000, MURDERERS © ARE CAUGHT CHICAGO, Sept. 9—Bearcely two h jer wa 1 elapsed after Walt. F. killed hou men under arrest are H hausen and a well to Richd. Honeck 1 schoolmates and bo knowledge of the death of Koeller Each of the men wore belts and car ried a revolver. Knives were fn the Jos the weapons the watch uichels contained clothing, — fre which the names had been elth bletted out with Ink or cut out, a number of coarse etures and dime! r els Honeck and Hundhausen each had @ quantity of confedera money in chamois pouches hung un der the arm inside the clothing The two prisoners were Identified by the brother of the ‘ Hundhausen and Honeck motive for the murder that the brother of the dead man can suggest | is that Koeller Incurred the enmity of three fellow students at the Dix- on, Mh, € Miss Jessie Horn, of Shirley, Il, The board of public works met this afternoon, Bids were opened for the| grading of Deny way and Sixteenth] ivenue, and for the construction of a sewer on Twenty-third avenue WEATHER FORECAST. natch i Ata dat 1 to Gertrude M. Rathbone from Thomas N. Rathbone Judge se of Amelia Cari- *. The crounds the divorce was asked was ment, but the testimony) married in New York attle will soon be known as the Tecoma joading wheat, bas been lib John Pott, on the grounds » thelr father, who could no dren to Se- n his rooms, when two men were arrested whom Chief Kipley deciares stabbed Koeller. The} man Hund} ) proprietor 1 vineyard near Hermann, Mo., th men were nood companions of Walter and George Koeller, They vindt their identity, but deny any| om . as The only lege by his betrothal to wr feattle and Vicinity.—Tonight fair; Sunday cloudy, cooler; winds, | west to south, nt mediately. A BIG SUIT FOR DAMAGES Swan Thorenson has filed a sult Jin the superior court against t Went street & North End t | Railway company for the amount of $2,000 damages ¢ non | May According to th nt Olaf Thorenson stopped the car be tween Thomas and Har r n May 21 a fed it. 1 ore he uid take his sea arted and Thorensor His head was cut ar bruised on the car é eft there him. Aw ter has be ] 1 # not able to work to sup) h | nel SUIT AGAINST GAS CO. John Hagerty has fied a sult for an & Electric Light company was injured March 4 while trying t | keep one of the pipes from clogging with coal tar, When it exploded explosion threw out gas, hot wa steam and coal tar. In his efforts t escape Mr, Hagerty feil fr t platform on which he was w the ground below, a fect. In the fail hia right should broken, his back Injured, and ad cut. A® a result he states nently injured. tan erw his hy he is perm The Water Front. A dispatch from San Franc! says that the big log raft which } | Beattie recently in tow of the steam tory | ated at the corner of Stewart! and Howard streets All kinds of * are! } com: | pany ts shipping to many points in| snapped her tov ately heavy sea ar er Cari adrift off Cape Mendocino t Fearte been the Crarina p ate raft have averaged only an hour since they left Seattic The Pacific Coast Steamship com pany's steamer Cottage City ts due from Lynn canal at 9 o'clock this evening. | Steamer Victorian arrived from] Victoria this afternoon with 650 jolly excursionieta, The excursion un-| der the auspices of Finn's band, of} The steamer will return | vening | eee | News has been received tn Beattie that the tug Maggie. with ve | schooner Free Trade in tow, loa | with lumber for San Francisco, went | ashore on the south epit of Netard’s| bay on Thureday. The sore threw off 40,000 feet of lumber and Rot of the bar. | | ! “- The Hritieh ship Fortevtot. now at elled by her sailors for wages alleged te be due to the MAYOR OF IMUS JOINS REBELS MANILA, Sep med that the native Mayor *—Gen. Grant has been infor of Imus, who disappeared on Wed nesday, has become e ral in the Ineurgent army Th individual is the one who met the victorious American troops after the Zapota river fight. and sald that the iT of Imus had sent him to welco Americans to thelr city, His tr just previous to his disappearance ‘The insurgents in the north sprung a surprise thie morning by #imultan- cous attacks upon the towns of Santa Arita Cuingua and San Antonio. | which were held by the Americans The rebels used artillery and attack ed the American positl viain ly, but were repulsed. Col. Bell's regiment, in flanking the enemy, cap |tured a captain, Heutenant and six HEISA COUSIN = OF CAPT. DREYFUS EAPOLIS, Minn, Sept. §— { Dreyfus. in this MIN? Ernest M. Weyl, a cousin « is staying at an obscure he city with his wife. He admits his relationship but denies his identity with the much talked of intermed! ary between Dreyfus and Esterhazy He says he t# organizing the iges of the Woodmen of America and has not been tn France for 21 years, but he hears often from his sister and will have some important informa tion to communicate three weeks from today Recorder Webb Kille DOLA, Mo, pt. 9.—Record er James Webb, of St. Clair county was shot and inetantly killed by City Marehal Calvord REPORTED HIS FATHER’S GRIME COLUMBIA, 8. C., Sept. 9% KE. 1D. treasurer of Barnwell county, has reported to the governor that his | father was an embezzler Free's en county treasurer for A father had ven years and on his death the | was appointed to the place. The | shorta » 18 $15,574 The son informa the governor that his father left an estate valued at about the amount of the shortag and that it will be devoted to wiping out the debt LONDON, Sept. 9 An astonish ing report is going the rounds about the new gun made at the Woolwich foundry, which 1s said to be so pow erful that no rang test It, so a new range is being built It is seriously stated that the first shot went out of sight. The range was conservatively estimated at 1 miles. As the extended testing grounds will not be ready for some time, it is said that the gun is being shortened so that it can be teste is long enough to isa i lil tt ot ce tS able STAR. 502 Pike Street, Old California Sweet Wi ica and Mu: Family trade the bottle, 35¢ up; by gall Teleph ‘PHONE SUBSCRIPTIONS 10 PIAS 150 —— NO. 160. want her Everything SPELGER & HURLBUT Home Hardware and House Furnishings 1215-1217 SECOND AVE a) ppans ERY’ GU PPLIES Glass, Wallpaper, Etc Third and Pike. STAR PAINT CO. BRUNNER & CO. Groceries, Wines and Liquors corner Fifth, ‘Phone Greea 794. a Specialty, Pe wat HH ATCH OUT FOR OUR SPECIAL .... Saturday, Sept. 16.3 COMMERCIAL IMPORTING TEA co, Ee dvdvdddudvdvevcudee Greers Takea for Wedding and Party Cake Union Bakery. All Kinds of Bread, Cake and Pies. A. HALLBERG, Prop. 119 Pike St. $ SMALL FT eee Can Secure Space and Electric Power : Advantageously in the Snoqualmie Building now being constructed, Main street SEATTLE CATARACT CO. ® agents for the new Sneaqu beerrrrrririiriit tee aden hac dah eat tac tet hints toda Moran Brothers Company aes apnea AND SHIP BUILDERS. ee] and wood constructian and govers jl branches of the i ether classes of binery Delt and repaired pumping macht 0 Sat oa bra toa Metaiiie Pocting Corey and Second avenue south. potters end the FOR WATCHES If You Want a Good Timekeeper WwW. WCW. HOUGHTON 704 First Ave DANGEROUS NEGLECT OF THE EYE ‘The most sensitive organ of sense int ipexcusadle in these days, for the rolle! ol Gur equipment for the fou: JEWELER ort eoution eiyour oraare is the best nd on CLAY RVEMSOLE, Optician, 72 First Ava SECC SOCVOCOOZO0R cond Ave © street 3 eocove need careful laundering, or they better t won't look any ones, It's 80 easy to ruin good liner in @ laundry. We prefer to take time and pains to return your wash« ing better than when we took it in Our call trade prices no bupdies de Hvered at these prices; Shirts, 100; shirt with collar, L2ige; shirts, fancy, 12)se collars, 2¢; cuffs, de, ‘Phows Fikes Queen City Steam Laundry DR ES 1426-28 Fourth Avenue, between Union ant Pike CHOICE LOTSE Fa Walla Walla Aatiiee : = Denny-Blaine Land Co. Dexter Horton Bank Building. 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