Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-14
1.-THE OREYFUS CASE
! Report Of Government Commits
! Sioner Expected Soon
: QUESTION OF A PARDON
Cabinet Decision on This Point Possible
3 BY Next Tuesday.
= PRISONER STILL IN GOOD SPIRITS.
= lie Is Under the Same Discipline as
n Prior to the TriaI--Exposition Boy
colt Movement IL Progressing
DrcyfuS Invited 10 America.
PRISONER STILL IN GOOD SPIRITS.
Dreyfus Invited to America.

PARIS. September 19.-The government
commissioner attached 10 the council OF
Revision may possibly finish the report
n, tho Drevfus case before Monday. In
thu, event. the Council Of Revision will
Give "a decision regarding the merit of the
appeal that day, and on the following
day the Cabinet will decide whether n:ea-
sures OF clemency are advisable.
The Idberte announces on good author
is that the government will not convolSe
the chambers until December, on the
ground that the deputies could not sit
legally while the Senate is acting as a
Msh court.
Ihc Republique Franchise says N. Me-
Ile the former Premier. has sent to
number of his political friends conf
Dental letter asking their opinion re-
garfng the immediate convocation of the
Gamblers.
DREYFUS'S PRISON LIFE.
RENNES. September 12-Captain Drey-
us continues in good spirits, and his
ha.,h is fairly satisfactory. although the
stomach trouble still clings to him. Nine.
Dreyfus visited her husband to-day. and
came away looking cheerful She spent
about an hour with him. NJ. Laboris as
s.s,aut sees him twice a day.
Most OF his waking hours are passed in
reading correspondence and Paris lite
r4ry reviews. He is under the same dis
cphle ass prior 10 the trial, and is allow
a. exercise daily in tho prison yard. A
canvass screen is now hung across the
courtyard. 10 prevent him being seen
from the windows Of houses adjacent,
and TO prevent photographers from get
ting snapshots Of him. a guard Of forty
soldiers is posted in the prison yard be-
heath his window. and a sentry. with
loaded rife and fixed bayonet, is station
el ON the wall overlooking the second
ealr--yard, where he takes his exercise.
no GENERAL BRITISH BOYCOTT.
LONDON, September 13.-While the pa
Ier are full OF letters from individuals
' several firms. announcing their with
-i-wal from tho Paris Exhibition, and
Urging the government TO do likewise,
taere Is no intention upon the part OF the
british Government of taking any such
eEt agitation Will result in any general
withdrawal OF British exhibits.
Max ORelP' paul BlOueD has written
a letter % the Daily Chronicle saying
that public expression OF sympathy will
80 against Dreyfus adding: For God $
sake. use your influence 10 stop it. But
lnr the universal sympathy shown for
ureyfus, whom l personally believe TO
De innocent in England and Germany,
ne would have been acquitted. 1t is a
terrible thing 10 say, but j say il, and
am not afraid of contradiction"
The Evening News is urging the organ
lZauOn OF a British LEGION Of honor"
consisting OF persons and firms who will
have nothing 20 do with the Paris EXhi-
ttion. and publishes list of over forty
firms and others, headed by Sir William
Dbl ke Richmond, r. A.. who will not
RUMOR OF PARDON.
A rum0r, which was current this eve
nirg that the Rothschilds had received
word from Paris that Dreyfus had been
It4IleI. was absolutely denied by them.
Such action. they said would be absO-
luteir IMPOSSIBLE until the council of re-
vision passes on the appeal
Queen Victoria, VINO is at Balmoral,
Scotland is said TO be receiving q great
number u kilograms and letters from her
subjects. AT home and abroad, begging
r 90 plead with President Loubet FOR
u rtus's pardon.
Dc is known that the news Of the Rem
r. verdict. which reached the court at
L.moral Saturday night, greatly AFFECT
tI the Queen. who had followed the pro-
ceilings with attentive interest.
FRENCH ARMY FOR PARDON CD
BOSTON, MASS. September 1S.-The
Post to-day announces that II mas re-
cyed the following private dispatch from
Generals Roget and MERCER have Of
f0red. ON the part Of the army to ask
from President LOubct the pardon or
~ IIaN..s 4 fltf,. f,tff
tee will drop the matter, and on the con-
CitiOn that Dreyfus shall live away from
the large cities Of France for three
years"
PROPOSED BOYCOTT IN GERMANY.
BERLIN. September l3.-The German
Government organs have been quick TO
issue a warning against the proposal 10
boycott the Paris Exposition.
Germany has no occasion 10 take the
lead I'm this matter says the Cologne
Gazette. "she ought to leave THIS 10
o.her states. which. perhaps. would not
consider il undesirable that Germany, OF
.u Powers. should adopt a hostile attl-
t.dc toward France in this matter"
The Association Of German Cellulold
Manufacturers has decided 20 abstain
i.m exhibiting at the Paris Exposition.
VERDICT AN INSULT TO GERMANY.
COLOGNE. September lS.-The German
Irdes Union Association. on motion OF
DE president adopted a resolution to-
Cy NOT 10 exhibit NJ the Paris EXPOSE
lln. declaring that the Rennes sentence
Was am insult. in its disregard or the OF
Ag.al statements OF Germany.
Tho press Of the city. however urges
German exhibitors 10 avoid hasty deci-
s.'h. and 20 await until other nations
nave declared their attitude.
so BOYCOTT IN HUNGARY.
hlDAPEST. September l3.--The propo-
ffl io boycott the Paris Exposition on
f..Nut OF the verdict OF the Renncs
'ui,-martal has met with little or no
support. and the work Of preparing the
hungarian exhibit VIII be continued.
INNlTATION TO WISCONSIN.
OtsEGO, WIS. September l3.-rhe fol-
LOWING cablcgram WAS sent 20 Dreyfus
Ne hope Tor your pardon. II granted.
extend cordial invitation to make
your home In Otsego."
SYMPATHY IN FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE FLA. September 13.-
ihe Board Of Trade to-day passed reso-
luuous ~ sympathy for Captain and
Madame Dreyfus: condemned France for
her tfayesty Of Justice: endorsed the
movement for boycott. and advocated
me withdrawal Of this nations support
OF the Paris Exposition.
BARON sCEFIELD FOR BOYCOTT.
LONDON September h.-Accordlng to
cate OF z general boycott Of the Parts
Exposition. as a protest against the Rem
Ats verdict, Baron Sufiield, president OF
ri Ia mi ton Ind