The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-02
ONSLAUGHT ON THE JEWS
THIS IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW
THE AGITATION.
COLLISION or AUTHORITY IN SAMOA
lr. faffeI Releases German Prisoner Who
Smashed Supreme Court Windows.
RaffeI is Summoned for Con-
temp'tf Court.


Paris. Feb. 1.-The most ardent sup
porters of the theory that Dreyfus was
unjustly condemned now admit that
there is no longer the least hope that
justice will be done.
4 prominent member of the Univer-
sity of Paris, who from the first has
been militant champion of revision of
the trial, says:
For ninety out of n hundred
Frenchmen, the guilt or innocence of
Dreyfus is a matter of sentiment All
the reasoning in the world would not
induce them to change their attitude
There are millions of Frenchmcn who
will insist upon Dreyfus' guilt in spite
of any proof to the contrary. terrible
feature of the situation is that the at
titude of this majority is dictated by
motives which they believe to be deserv-
ing of the highest respect. l admit that
some of the Dreyfusards are much to
blame for this. The best cause may be
ruined by disreputable adherents, and
there are men on the Dreyfus side of
whom every patriotic Frenchman is the
natural enemy. While the majority Of
us have been merely demanding that
justice should be done, a pestilent min
ority has made this demand an excuse
for virulent onslaughts on institutions
we hold in great esteem.
In conclusion the member of the Uni
yersity predicted that the result of the
agitation will be an Onslaught of un-
paralleled violence on the Jews, as the
masses are convinced that they are at
the bottom of the whole trouble.
1t is persstently reiterated in the
lobbies Of the Palais Bourbon that the
committee of the Chamber of Deputies
now considering the Governments re-
vision bill has already decided that the
allegations made by Quesnay de
Beaurepaire against NJ. Loew and other
members of the criminal branch of the
Court of Cessation are without f0unda-
ton.
According to another rumor, the COM
mittee's examination of the dossier sub
mitted by NJ. MazeaG, first president of
the Court of Cessation, on the subject
of NJ. De Beaurepaire's charges, shows
it to contain letters eulogiZing the
criminal section written by Mazeaus
own colleagues The dossier is also said
to contain a letter from NJ. Loew de-
claring that the members of the crimi-
nal section have received letters al
most without number containing insults
and threats of death NJ. Loew's letter
is also said to explain that he appoint
cd NJ. Bard, who is an unmarried man,
to make the original report on the
I in, thaf
threats of vialence We're carried out, a
whole family should not be plunged into
| mourning.
The Echo de Paris this morning con-
tains communication from Quesnay
de Beaurepaire, asserting that the new
inquiry has revealed that the Court of
CassationA before it had even examined
the dossier, had already decided to de
clare Dreyfus innocent, by decree
quashing the sentence, and that the
Court had purposely ignored passages in
the secret dossier duplicating Dreyfus.
THE TROUBLES IN SAMOA.
Auckland, \. H., Feb. 1.-The follow
ing advices have just been received here
from Apia, Samoan Islands, under the
date of January 24th, from the CORE
spondent of the Associated Press:
There has been no further general
fighting between the partisans of the
rival chieftains since the last advices
were forwarded, except that a party of
Mataafa's followers was routed in tie
bush by Malietoans. 1t is expected,
however. that fighting will be resumed.
| as Mataafa is re-arresting persons who
have been already fined and released.
THE work of pillage continues, among
the houses looted being Vqiima, the
| home of the late Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist
''The exiled Malietoan chiefs were
landed at Pago Pago, in the Island of
Tutuila, the schooner on which they
were being unable to proceed to the
Island of Manua, owing TO adverse
winds. The Tutuilans gave them 4
hearty welcome and made an attempt
TO seize Mataafa's son, who was on
hoard the schooner, but the oaptain put
to sea.
There has been a collision Of authori-
~ between Chief Justice VIM. !.
Chambers. of the Supreme court. and
Doctor Joannes Raffel, the German
president of the municipality Of Apia.
Herr Grosmuhl, Il German resident Of
Apia, who was arrested for smashing tho
windows of the Supreme court chamber,
was sentenced by the Chief Justice TO
Imprisonment and to pay fine. Or