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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-09-02
THE DREYFUs CASE,
Out of Which Grew the ScandaIous
Trial of ZOIa.

PARIS, Sept. 1.-The Zola trial = the Ia
test phase of the Dreyfus case, which has
shaken the French nation to It's foundations
ard started a war of persecution against
the Jewish race, and resulted in the con-
viction of Dreyfus and Zola and their SEN
tence TO Imprisonment. The first act was
the trial of Dreyfus for betraying secrets
of the French army to the Germans When
these secrets continued to leak out Comte
Ferdinand Wasn Esterhazy was charged.
as an officer of the French army with be-
traying the information. His resignation
was requested in November 1897. Late in
1897 Emile Zola wrote letters to the Figaro
in which he declared that Dreyfus was in
nocent and denounced the anti-Semitic per-
secution that was being carried on. His
trial resulted in his being sentenced to one
years Imprisonment and a fine of 1900
francs, on Feb. 3, 1898.
The conviction of Dreyfus, about whose
trial the questions have been raised that
have dragged other men into the affair. was
a secret one. In 1884 he was charged with
having sold plans to the German govern
ment, and the French secret service
watched every move he made for some time
They obtained the sweepings of the office
and ali papers that they could lay hands
on, and the government finally claimed to
have secured letter which contained proof
of his guilt He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment on Dec %. 1894 and has since
teen confined on solitary island living in
a cage and guarded by armed soldiers.
Before he was exiled he was obliged to
suffer the worst degradation that could fall
to French military officer. He was taken
into an open square in full uniform, and
there, in the sight OF the crowd assembled,
was stripped OF every mark of Office. His
many friends have protested as loudly as
they dared that he is exiled not on account
OF his own crimes, but because he knows
too much about those of others.
When 1t was discovered that the exile of
Dreyfus had not resulted in checking the
hetrayals of French military secrets Count
Esterhazy, rich and titled officer of the
army, was accused of having part in the
acts. and his resignation was requested.
Colonel Picquart searched his room for pa
pers, and there was a protest against this
at the trial. Count Esterhazy was a Hun
garian, and left France for Germany. Zola
protested against the method of this trial
Emile Zola took up the case late in 1897.
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ORDERED MUSTERED OUT.
Nine More Regiments to BE Sent Home
from Camps at Once.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-The War De-
partment has issued orders for the follow
ing transfer Of troops for the purpose of be-
ing mustered out at their destination:
First Wisconsin, from Jacksonville to
Camp Douglass. Wis; Fifth Ohio. from
Fernandna to Columbus; First United
States Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders).
at Montauk Point; Thirty-third and Thirty
fourth Michigan. from Montauk Point to
Camp Eaton ILL.,. and Lake. Mich: First
Connecticut, from Dunn Loring to Mantle;
First Illinois Infantry, from Montauk to
armory in Chicago; Fifth Iowa. from jack
sonville to Des NIcines; Third Virginia,
from Camp Alger to Richmond; First Mis-
sissippi, from Chickamauga to Lauderdale
Springs. Miss; Second Mississippi. from
Jacksonville to Lauderdale Springs.
1t is probable that the First Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry will be ordered mustered out
in few days. The regiment is now at
Fernandina, Fla. Quite a controversy has
arisen in regard to the disposition of the
regiment, the officers desiring to remain in
the service, while the men want to go home.
The men have asked for their discharge,
not in body. but individually, and it is
probable that the regiment will be mustered
out whole.
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department; but The War Department is
not disposed to make such an investigation
as the result of sensational newspaper ar
ticles. There is at present an evident craze
to criticise without regard to truth or JUS
tice. l have no doubt there will be a con-
gressional investigation into the conduct of
the war; but do not feel at liberty at pres
ent to insist upon an investigation for my
own vindication, because 1t would be con-
trary to the general interests Of the service
1T would make it necessary for me to
give up all the important official work
which, at present. almost overwhems me,
for the purpose Of deyotng myself to a
presentation of the facts relating to my ad-
minlstration. 1t would make 1t necessary to
take clerks away from their daily tasks in
order to look up the documentary evidence
on file in my office, and, in the meantime
important matters would necessarily be
neglected and the sick in all parts of the
country would suffer. 1t would make it
necessary to call upon the medical officers
who are now urgently needed for the care
of the sick in our various camps and hos
pitfalls to come to Washington as witnesses;
and all this to satisfy the clamor or ire
sponsible newspaper reporters. There has
been no official complaint with reference to
my administration of the medical depart
ment.
I'm regard to Montauk Point, I intend to
send at once Lieutenant Colonel Charles
Smart an experienced officer and the pro-
fessor of hygiene in our army medical
school, to make a thorough sanitary inves-
tigation. To go myself. L should like TO
do. would be to neglect important official
duties in connection with the supply of hos
pitals the movement Of my hospital trains
of hospital ships, etc.
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No Intimation that We Knows of the
CIamor Which His Interview Has
Aroused at Home.
PART OF PORTO RICO AaMY
ON SEPARATE TRANSPORTS FOLLOW
COMMANDING GENERAL.
Gen. Wilson Left in Charge, While
Gen. Brooke Is on His Way to
Join SchIey at San Juan.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The view is
gaining ground that the President will in
terfere to keep General Miles and the War
Department officers apart until Congress
gets chance to go into the investigating
business on it's own account and in proper
way. Secretary Alger, all the officials of
the War Department and General Miles are
the Presidents subordinates They are sub
ject to his orders and if he so wills it
summary stop can be put to further airing
of the family scandal in the military estab
lishment. If his subordinates insist on con-
tinuing hostile demonstrations against one
another he can set them one and all out
side of the breastworks and let them fight it
out. He call for Secretary Algers
resignation and assign Miles to Honolulu
and Corbin to Stka on waiting orders" if
he be so minded.
Washington is hearing from the country
on 'camp horrors" and on the Miles-Alger
controversy and it has heard enough to
warrant the prediction that Congress will
reorganize the army and the War Depart
ment and so broaden them out that they
will be ready for war or any other emer
gency in the future and not be compelled
to pay SO dearly it has this war for ex-
perence. 1t Is learned also that General
Miles is getting scant sympathy in his cam
paign against the War Department to right
a fancied wrong before peace has been de-
clared. 1t is a Campaign based on
wounded vanity some allege, and tending
to demoralize the army and destroy dis
ciplne
1.-The war with a grievance" has ceased to
be terrifying to the War Department. In
diana has filed a clean claim against the
government for $79e55 for money spent in
fitting out volunteers for service in the army
of the United States in the war against
Spain. The claim will not hang fire long
The auditor of the War Department speaks
in complimentary terms of the business-like
manner in which the claim is prepared
Representative Overstreet is moving to
have the two Indiana signal-service COM
panes mustered out.
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GOOD work IN HOSPITAL.
Major Taylor Has Everything He
Needs at Fort MCPHERSON.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Surgeon Cen
eral Sternberg is in receipt of a letter from
Maj Blair D. Taylor, surgeon in command
of the general hospital at Fort Mcpherson,
Georgia, which is in the nature of a re-
sponse to certain charges published in
Southern newspapers relative to the con-
duct of the hospital and the treatment of
the sick there. In the course of the letter
Major Taylor says:
''Have spent this month for milk at the
rate of $500 a month have as much ice as
can possibly be used, not only for drinking
purposes, but for cracked ice and ice caps.
Have special diet kitchens in each build
ing, run by competent cooks, and spe-
cial baker for the bread. Have now seven
ty-one trained female nurses, but need
more on account of the sickness of some of
them; have over a hundred hospital corps
men and have hired numerous laborers in
mess hall and in tents, with scrub women
for the wards
my trained female nurses are very in
dignant at this Misrepresentation. Every
one is working to mis- or her fullest capacity
TO care for the sick. The only thing this
man said approaching the truth was that
some weeks ago some of the walking cases
in tents did not have sheets or pillow cases,
as were short then, and used what we
had for the very sick I have had numer-
Gus mothers, fathers and sisters thank me
personally for the care and attention be-
slowed upon their sick. Only this morning
a gentleman from Michigan, whose son, of
tho Thirty-second, goes on furlough, told
me that his son could not have been better
treated if he had been at home.
Il don't propose to say word in the
newspapers, but thought it best to report
this matter to you4s Have nearly $1,000
ahead now, and can provide for the present
very well. This man may have heard some
convalescent typhoid patient complain of
not getting enough to eat when his diet was
being restricted by the surgeon for fear of
perforation and hemorrhage. Don't see how
could possibly spend more money for the
comfort of the sick without absolutely
throwing it away. Am willing to court in
vestigaton at any time
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and said there were no objections. Conse-
quently General Brooke has arranged 10
leave on Friday or Saturday with his staff,
escorted by Troop II. of the Sixth Cavalry,
and Captain Pitchers company of the
Eighth Infantry.
Several stone culverts between here and
the Spanish works on the crest of the
mountains, which have been blown up, will
be repaired tomorrow by Colonel Goethal' 5
engineers. The colonel has examined the
Spanish fortifcations. He says they are
marvelously strong and that he could have
held back the strongest army in Europe
with five hundred men against an assault
in front. The Spaniards had trenches and
two guns. All but hundred of the six hum
dred men stationed there have returned to
San Juan.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.--General Miles is
en- route from Porto Rico to the United
States. He sailed from Ponce this after
noon on the transport Obdam and will ar
rive in this country probably next Monday
The announcement of his departure was
contained in the following cablegram re-
ceived by Adjutant General Corbin tonight:
Ponce, Sept. 1.-Corbin adjutant general,
Washington:
General Miles and staff, nine companies
Second Wisconsin, with eight hundred men
and twerty-eight officers, sailed 2 p. m.
to-day. transport No. 80, Obdam.
WILSON, Major General"
The following cablegram also was received
from General Wilson,:
Ponce. Sept. 1.--Adjutant general, Wash
ington:
Transport Chester sailed at 2:30 D. M
with General Schwan and staff, General
Halls and staff, Fourth Pennsylvania with
forty-one officers and $50 men.
WILSON, Major General"
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BRECKINRIDGE WON'T HAVE 1T.
Says Cause of sickness Rests with the
Government.

CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ca, Sept. l.
The movement TO Admission, Ala, of the
Third Corps now dwinded to seven regi-
ments, began this afternoon. The three
divisions of the corps were consolidated
into one division under command of Gen.
Royal T. Frank, Gen. c. E. Compton, Gen.
Charles p Mattox and Gen. Leonard w.
Colby, brigade commanders. The First
Division hospital corps left this afternoon
for Admission, and General Frank will pro-
ceed to that city in the morning.
Generals Sanger. Mattox and Roe have
submitted their reports on the conditions
ct Chickamauga and the healthfulness of
camp which were forwarded to-day by
General Breckenridge to the War Depart
ment. General Breckenridge states that
these reports state that the men are not
to blame for the sickness in the camp, but
that it rests with the government; that the
officers and men had endeavored to properly
police their camps to prevent sickness, but
that the means for that work had not been
supplied adequately for protection aeainst
disease. Six deaths We're reported to-day
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LESS TALK AND MORE WORK.
Surgeon General Sternberg's Advice
to DIR. Senn.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 - Dr. Nicholas
Senn's statement that he anticipates a ty-
phoid epidemic at Camp Wikoff unless the
troops are speedily removed, caused Sur
geon General Sternberg to make the follow
ing heated statement
If DR.. Sem. as has been alleged, an
ticipates a great outbreak of typhoid fever
at Camp Wikoff he has failed to inform
mo of that fact. He is on the spot, and it is
his business as surgeon in charge TO use
every means in his power to keep the camp
in a proper sanitary condition. To do this
is NOT such an extraordinary feat, after all.
He knows what to do, and If he fails to do
it he must and wih be held responsible. not
myself If any one has said that the water
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NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 1.-The
United States transport Whitney reached
the city to-day with about forty soldiers and
civilians, who came direct from Porto Rico
The Whitney also brought, heavily shackled,
two prisoners, one of them being Private
Alexander La Duke, of the Second Wis
consin regiment, who killed Private Thomas
Stafford in Ponce, and who was tried by
court-martial and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life. The other prisoner is
Henry Apter, civilian, who is charged
with robbery. The commands represented
by the returning soldiers are the Nineteenth
Infantry Third Artillery, First Pennsyl-
vania Artillery, wo-hundred-and-first New
York and the First Regiment New York
cavalry.
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MILES SAILS FOR NEW YORK.
Twelve Thousand Troops Left in
Porto Rico Under Gen. WILSON.

Twelve Thousand Troops Left in
Porto Rico Under Gen. Wilson.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The War De-
partment learned that General Miles left
Porto Rico to-day. The department makes
public the following dispatch from General
Miles:
Ponce, Sept. /.
Secretary War; Washington:
Twelve thousand troops will be left in
Porto Rico and nearly 1900 infantry, cav
airy and artillery sail for New York. These
troops sail on the Obdam. Concho, Chester,
Alamo, Mississippi and Manitoba The di-
vision is under command of Maj. Gen. Will
son with Brigadier Generals Schwan,
Hams and Garretson. All these officers have
taken part in the different engagements and
are entitled to much credit and | speak for
them any consideration that can be given on
their return home The cavalry and artil-
lery leave most of their horses and all Of
their field transportation in Porto Rico.
sail on Obdam to-day.
MILES, Major General Commanding
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GOING TO MEET scHLEY.
Gen. Brooke Now Crossing the Island
for San Juan.

Brooke yesterday notified Captain General
Macias. the Spanish commander at San
Juan de Puerto Rico under 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 an the steamer Sene-
ca. At the same time General Brooke, who
is also member of the commission, asked
II there was any objection TO his proceeding
overland with an escort, Major Jose Reyes
of the Spanish army, brought the reply Of
General Macias to-day 1t was sent by wire
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WASHINGTON. Sept. IA dispatch has
been received at the War Department from
General Miles asking why the troops in
Porto Rico have not been paid. The ex-
PLANTATION is given that the paymasters with
money for the troops were at Santiago and
ready to proceed to Ponce. but General
Miles objected to those paymasters, saying
they would bring yellow fever infection with
them, or the money might be infected while
on board the ships. Other paymasters have
since been sent to Porto Rico to pay the
troops that remained there. Complaints
have been made. also. by certain regiments
that they received no pay while at Santi-
ago. 1t is learned at the department in
some of these instances the requests were
made by the commanding officers of the
regiments to defer payment until the troops
returned to the United States. Such re-
quests were approved by General Shafter,
ana accordingly the paymasters omitted
such regiments when paying at Santiago.
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SPANISH WAR VICTIMS
STATISTICS SHOWING THE DEATH
RATE IN BATTLE AND CAMP.
Battle Has Claimed $50, but the SicIxIy
Camps Have Destroyed Nearly
Two Thousand.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The Tribune to-mor-
row will print statistics showing the num-
ber of soldiers who have been killed in bat
tie and have died of disease in camps dur
ing the war with Spain. The Tribune says:
while $50 officers and men have been killed
in battle or died of wounds received, there
have died of disease in camps between 1920
and 1000 volunteers and regulars. The Trib-
une has secured the names of 12S4 who died
in camp, on transports or at home after con-
tracing the dread malady at one of the
camps. There is no doubt about the 1,2S4
whose names have been secured. Neither is
there much doubt that there are hundreds
dead whose names could not be secured on
account of lack of records and the inability
or unwllingness of army officers to furnish
lists of the dead" The Tribune gives the
following statistics of dead in each camp,
giving in every instance full list of names
and the nature of the disease. The list by
ca INNS iS q 6 follows:
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# the deputies. which is necessary pre-

Of the deputies, which is a necessary pre-
liminary to convocation of the Chamber.
President Faure returned to his home at
Havre this afternoon. Later in the day
La Patrie announced that Colonel Patty du
Clam had been arrested for completely in
the Dreyfus forgery.
The minister for war this afternoon re-
ceved in audience General Renouard, di-
rector OF the military college. who has ac-
cepted the office OF chief of the general
staff. vacant owing TO the resignation of
General Boisdeffre.
Colonel Henry left letters addressed to the
minister for war and General Boisdeffre, in
which he protested that he had not real
ized the gravity of the act, which he COM
mitted "solely for the good Of the cause"
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WESTERLY, o., Sept l. - Corporal
William n. Talcott. Company NJ, Seventy
filst New York Volur teer5, died here to-day
of malarial fever contracted in Cuba The
body will be taken to the home of his par
ents in Rockford, Ill. Talcott, who was
twenty-eight years DID, graduated from AM
herst College in 1893 and from the Harvard
Law School in 1891 In January last he was
admitted to the New York bar. He en-
listed as a private and was promoted for
gallantry before Santiago. He was listed to
the second lieutenancy in the regular army.
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THE ST. PAUL AT MANILA.
Gen. Merritt Reported to Have Ar
rived at HOng-kOng.

MANILA, Philippine Islands, Sept L.
The United States transport st. Paul has
arrived here from San Francisco and re-
ports all we'll on board The lighthouses in
the southern Philippines have been re-es-
tablishod. 1t is reported thai the religious
orders are selling their property to Hong
Kong syndicate.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The United States
transport China according to a dispatch
from Hong-Kong to the Daily Mail has ar
rived there with General Merritt and Cen
eral Greene. the former route for Paris
to attend the proceedings of the Hispano-
American peace committee and the latter
en- route TO Washington.
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sugar and ,Lasses from Porto Rico.

WASHlNGTON, Sept IA complete re-
port on the importations of sugar and mo-
lasses from Porto Rico in the fiscal year
1898, as well as the quantities for 1S95-96,
has been forwarded to the Treasury De-
partment from New York by Supervising
Examiner of Sugar Jacobs. He shows that
for the past fiscal year the importations
from Porto Rico were: Sugar. 90,554 4l4
pounds; duty 1888, 7G5; value, 81, ,S54 ,015; mo-
lasses, 1911 1873 gallons; duty, SAL 221; value,
$2SS, ,1S3. For the year 1SS5-96 the imports of
raw sugar were 99,3 373 pounds.
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Growing Sentiment for Dreyfus.

PARIS. Sept. 2.-The movement in favor
Of revision in the Dreyfus case is growing
by leaps and bounds. Considering recent
events, Major Count Walsin Esterhazy re-
tsins an amazingly cool attitude. In the
course of an interview yesterday he ex-
pressed astonishment that Lieutenant
Colonel Henry was allowed to have a razor.
Henry's death, he said was regrettable,
because, doubtless, he had other revela-
tions to make" Count Esterhazy intends
to appeal against his enforced retirement
from active service in the army.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-Colonel Kimball
deputy quartermaster general received from
General Miles a dispatch dated Ponce, Sept
l. stating that 1900 troops sailed to-day from
Puerto Rico on the transports Manitoba
Mississippi, Coneho. Alamo Chester and
OLDHAM. He himself sailed on the Obdam
The transports will all come to New York
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NOT TIME TO INVESTIGATE.
Sternberg Says Criticism Comes from
IrrespOnsibIe CorrehnOndenfs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Surgeon General
Sternberg to-day sent the following letter
to New York medical publishing house,
which had made inquiries of him concern
ing the conduct of the war with reference
TO the medical department. and especially
about the subject of having an immediate
investigation of his bureau. lie says:
II am ready al any moment for a COM
plete investigation with reference to my adj
ministration OF the affairs OF the medical
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NEW YORK, Sept. L-Sixteen young
volunteer nurses, on their way to Camp
Wikofl, Montauk Point, arrived in this city
last night in charge of II. S. Pingree, jr.
of Detroit, son OF Governor Pingree, of
Michigan. The young women, VINO were
quartered a. the Hotel Metropole, are con-
nected with the best families in Detroit
Most OF the young women were in New
York for the first time, and they spent the
fpreSf
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B. AND L. SECRETARY SHORT.
The st. Cloud Mutual Caught for
Thirty Thousand Dollars.

ST. CLOUD. Mimi. Sept IL T. Trout
man. secretary of the St. Cloud Mutual
Building and Loan Association. according
TO a report which has been presented TO the
directors of the association by an expert ac-
countant is more than 10000 short in his
accounts. 1t is thought settlement Will be
made.
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18TH ARRIVES
FIRST SECTION OF SOLDIERS IN
ABOUT O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.
Twenty-six Seriously Sick Men i'm CoKs
Stadebaker's Section, One Hun
dred Others Disabled.
MARCH THROUGH THE CITY

WILL PROBABLY BE UNDERTAKEN
IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF 10 O'CLOCK.
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