The herald., 1896-01-20
CONVICTION OF HAMMOND
Is Liable to Be Followed by
Heavy Penalty
INTERFERENCE IS ASKED
Prominent Citizens Interest Themselves
In Ills Behalf
The Occurrences Of the German Anniversary
Celebration Commented On by English
and German Press

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 19.-Father Thomas
Il. Sherman, son of the late General w. Z.
Sherman, who is engaged in mission work
in Denver, today received from James L.
Houghteling of the Chicago firm of Pea
body d Houghteling "a telegram to the ef-
feet that the trial OF Jno. Hays Hammond for
high treason will occur at Johannesburg to-
morrow and urging him to use his influence
to avert the heavy penalty that is likely to
follow Hammond's conviction. Father
Sherman and Mr.. Houghteling were class
mates OF Hammond at Yale.
Father Sherman at once addressed an
appeal to his uncle, Senator Sherman, and
to General Miles, who is also relative, to
use their Influence with the administration
to interfere i'll Hammond's behalf.
LEFT FOR THE BAY.
LONDON, Jan. 19.-A Cape Town dis
patch to the Times Gays the German gun
boat Sperber has started for De!agoa bay.
THE GERMAN ANNIVERSARY
LONDON, Jan. 19.-The Berlin cores
pondent of the Times, in the course of
long special article recalling the splendid
enthusiasm of the victory of 1871, says:
"Can it be said the heart of the German
nation Responded yesterday with the same
enthusiasm. or that in many minds the
splendid memories of the rast were not to
some extent diinmed and marred by dis
appointed expectations and uneasy appre-
hensions?
'The death of the two emperors has
made room for sovereign of a strangely
different type, of whom all that can be
said safely, is that in this year of his age,
and the eighth of his reign, his chief char
acteristic is his youth"
The correspondent then proceeds to re-
fer 10 the absence of Prince Bismarck, the
king of SaXony, the grand duke of Baden
and General Blumenihal, from the fetes,
and reviewing the International troubles
and menacing outlook abroad, he says:
"Few Germans can look forward without
apprehension to the issue of the great con-
flict, upon which. it is universally felt, the
destinies OF this young empire still hang.
Between the lines of the Dithyrambic
| loading articles one may read evon today
and uneasy restlesaness which has cast
| over the glorious memories of the past the
| shadows of the anxious future. The ap-
peal is to aid him in bind
ing the greater German empire
across ai G. the sea, though form4lat-
| time in such impressive and emphatic
form. and probably possessed the kaiser's
mind for n long time and probably fur
nished the key to Gerrnany's recent action
in China and the Transvaal. Yesterdays
ceremony was invested with every element
of q spectacular Domp, but even in the
moderate papers complaints are made that
it partook more of u state than of a ma
tional festival.
The Kolnische Zeitung and the National
Zeitung are bitterly sarcastic over the ex-
clusion of the press,
The Times this morning he's an editorial
eulogizing Germany's peace policy, which
concludes as follows:
We are the friends of peace throughout
the world and we look with equal eyes on
Germany and on her great rival, who has
risen SO wonderfully after her defeat, so
long as neither threatens to disbelieve it.
The Chronicle has a long BlOemfontin
dispatch, which states the deputation from
the Orange government, which was sent to
Bretoria, was shown documents proving
the plot which was alleged in dispatch
from Transvaal sources in South Africa on
January IL to exist. This dispatch as
serted that it was the intention of the peo-
pie of the Chartered South Africa COM
pany to set loose savages to invade Trans
vaal from all points and to kill every white
man, and that provision stations had been
arranged for all over South Africa, the OBJ
ject being to destroy Pretoria and to pre-
sent England with the accomplished fact
sketches OF Pretoria and of the Rand, by
military men. mad been seized.
The Daily News has dispatch from Ber-
lin which says:
There is not the slightest reason to be-
lieve that the absence of the princes from
Saturdays fetes had any political signifi-
cance; but it was unfortunate, and will
cause unpleasant comments.
The Standards Berlin correspondent
says:
Prince Bismarck received over six hum
dred congratulatory kilograms, including
one from Emperor Francis Joseph and one
from King Humbert, and nearly all the
German sovereigne. The fact that DIR.
| Won Boetticher has not received a new dec
grafton has revived the rumors of his resig-
| nation.
The Post has Berlin dispatch which
says:
| Although no direct invitation was sent to
| the German sovereigns, the question of
| their coming here was the subject of in
! formal diplomatic negotiations. The Aus
| trian ambassador was summoned to an
| a,IdieDce with tho kaiser Ionjpht