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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-14

expectation in view of the confronta-
tion of Mercier by Casimir- Perier, when
the former will virtually be in the pris-
oner's dock. A dramatic scene is inev-
liable.
1t is understood that an even more
thrilling incident than that which
ended yesterdays session was expected
by the counsel of Dreyfus and would
have occurred but for General Mer-
cier's prudence. Dreyfus intended and
had actually declared his determination
to slap Mercier's face before the whole
court if he brought up the story of the
relations of Dreyfus with Nine. B.,
whom some newspapers have asserted
acted as a gO-betWeen for Dreyfus and
the attache to whom he is alleged to
have made reasonable revelations.
General Mercier abStained from ref
erence to the story, but despite this the
people in the court thought for a mo-
ment that Dreyfus was about to strike
MERCER, until a captain of gendarmes
took him gently by the arm and pushed
him back into his seat.
The Petit Journal and some other
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TRICKY FILIPIN0S
WITH FLAG OF TRUCE

MANILA, Aug. 14.-While the Seven
teenth Infantry, during last Tuesdays
battle, was approaching Calulut along
the road, the troops saw a group of
fifty Filipinos outside the town under a
flag of truce Some, who were in white
clothing, held up their hands to signify
that they were unarmed.
Captain Hart, with a detachment. ad-
vanced cautiously to point within 200
yards of them, when the F'ilipinos
picked up their guns and fired volley
The Americans dropped into the bushes
unhurt on the first movement and re-
turned the fire. At this the Filipinos
ran off.
Word has been received from Lieu
tenant ]. G.. Gilmore of the United
States gunboat Yorktown. who, with
fourteen members of the crew Of the
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SAN MATE0 IS TAKEN
BY AMERICAN TROOPS
Lively Fighting Within Ten Miles
of Manila, in Which Twenty
Five FiliDinOS Are Killed.
Special Disps tch to The Call.

southwest of San Mateo. He then en-
countered strong resistance among
the hills, the enemy firing from excel
lent positions. Having failed to con-
meet with Major Cronin and seeing
that the town was already occupied
by the Americans, Captain Rivers
withdrew, covering his withdrawal
by heavy volley. He lost sergeant
killed.
Captain Parker. on advancing,
found the enemy strongly intrenched
on the far side of some rice fields,
about a mile wide, and covered with
deep mud. Pushing forward rapidly,
he routed the Filipinos. after forty
minutes fighting, and then continued
the march upon San Mateo, which he
entered without serious resistance
about half-past 1 in the afternoon.
Major Cronin entered the town
about half past 4. The Americans
still occupy the place. The American
troops were exhausted by the heavy
marching.
This is the first action in which
Colonel Burt's colored troops have
participated. They behaved well,
their leade-s having difficulty in hold
ing them back.
General Young accompanied Cap
tain Parker'S column and was under
fire throughout the engagement. 1t
is estimated that the enemy number
ed between 500 and 400 men.
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PEOPLE OF PONCE
BURYING THEIR DEAD

PONCE. Porto Rico, Aug. 13.-Al-
though the disasters which followed the
hurricane have not been overesti-
mated, the people are hopeful and en-
deavoring to make the best of the stu
alton. Dead bodies are buried where
they are found.
Food supplies are being distributed
and repairs to bridges and roads are
being pushed forward under military
supervision, with payments to work
men daily.
1t is gathered from interviews with
merchants and planters, some of whom
owe European houses, that there will
be numerous failures.
The steamer Australia. with cargo.
vas wrecked during the hurricane off
Arroyo on the southeast coast, and the
Vasco off Arecibo, on the north coast.
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GREATER GROWS THE
NUMBER OF VICTIMS
Several Thousand Killed bV the
Hurricane in Porto RiCO---OnG
Hundred Thousand Homeless.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

13-The hurricane spread ruin and
death through these islands. In Grand
Terre fifty deaths and $50 injured have
been reported thus far. The towns of
lie MOnle, Port Louis and St Francois
are devastated.
Pointe-a-Pitre is greatly damaged,
the estimated loss being $4,000 000 Six
steamers and twenty-five schooners
were sunk or damaged beyond repair.
A great number of fishing craft were
lost.
Communication with the interor is
impossible, but courier reports reveal
frightful damage. The coffee and cocoa
crops are ruined and sugar cane is
practically destroyed.
A daring spectator of the storm was
Frances Drake, an American news
paper woman, who was seen for hours
standing on pier 300 feet out in the
ocean.
The whole of Desirable Island was
devastated. People are starving and
without shelter
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" men antbushed Maitre La
bOri, counsel for DreyfuS,
and one shot 7oaS fired, hitting La
bori in the back. NJ. Labor fell in
the r0ad70ay. He is still aIi1e.
Maltre Labor left his house
alone for the court at about 6 o'clock
this morning. His residence is sit
nated in the suburbs of the toaOn,
about a quarter Of an hours 7Ualk
from the Lycee, the route being
along a solitary road beside the
r1Ver VjHaue.
He had reached a point half 7Uav
on his journey 70Jlen too men, 7Vh6
had e5Tdeutly been lying IN 90dit
for him, rushed ont of a narrO70
lane, and one of them fired a single
shot from a reUol0er. The aSSaS-
sins qpeye only a couple of yards
behind their 5IctiBt, and the bullet
struck Mditre Labor in the back.
The 7pomdcd man uttered an agon-
isiHg cry and fell fiat on his face
The dSSdsSiHS Immediately fed
through the lane from avhich they
had emerged and both escaped.
At7:3O o'clock it 7vaS announced
that the bullet had entered the St0m-
ach; that there 70GS no Out70ard
bleeding and that the physicians be-
He5e that VI. Labor 7vH die from
the 7u0mld.
Only two or three laborers going to
work witnessed the shooting of Maitre
Labori. The spot was well chosen. as
the murderers could not be seen by NJ.
LabOri until they rushed out upon their
victim, the entrance to the lane being
hidden by bushes. Moreover. they were
afforded an easy means of escape by
passing back through the lane which
led to the country. One of the labOrers.
named PatOuX, who witnessed the
shooting, said:
"As I was passing along the road 1
saw a tall man walking quickly in the
direction of Rennes. He was on the
towing path of the Vilaine He was at
tired in a dark lounge suit and wore
bowler hat. 1t was just as he
reached the bridge crossing a stream
falling into the Vilaine that two men.
about medium height and wearing dark
suits and round, soft felt hats. emerged
from a rural path entering the main
road. One of them carried a heavy
stick. They approached NJ. Labori from
behind. Suddenly one drew a revolver
and fired point blank at Labori. He
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IL III noisance yesterday by troops
MI of General B. NJ. Young's bri-
H1 gade, with the object of dis
covering the whereabouts of
the enemy near San MateO, northwest
of the San Juan reservoir, about ten
miles from Manila, resulted in the
occupation of San Mateo.
The American loss was three killed
and thirteen wounded, including a
lieutenant of the Twenty-first Infan-
try. twenty-five of the enemy are
known to have been killed.
The Americans approached San Ma
teo in three columns. Major Cronin,
with fifteen men of the TWenty-tifth
Infantry, advanced from Novatiches,
five miles west of San Mateo. Cap
tain Rivers, with 100 men of the
Fourth Cavalry, and Captain Parker,
formerly lieutenant colonel of the
Twelfth New York Volunteer Reg1-
ment. with $50 men of the Twenty
first and Twenty-fourth Infantry and
the Fourth Cavalry, approached IN
two columns from the south
Major Cronin experienced many diff
ficulties arising from the condition OF
the country and failed to effect a
junction with Captain Rivers, west OIL
San Mateo. as had been planned.
Captain Rivers, advancing, took an
outpost of the enemy, two miles
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I. s. s. YORKTOWN

T. s. s. YORKTOWN,
ILOILO. p. L, June IL. 1899.
Sir; The gunbOat Samar, Ensign H. G.. Mac
Farand, L. s. N, commanding, which sailed
from this port the Sd inst, returned on the
9Th, requiring coal, for which she appears to
carry about six days supply for active cruis-
ing with frequent chasing.
The Sarpar passed along the west coast of
Panay three times, visited Catalog, on the ISL
and Tablas, once, Romblon three times, the
twice, passed along the north coast of Panay
and returned to Iloilo from the north, having
made complete circuit of Panay close along
shore.
Inclosed herewith is copy of the command
ing officers report from the capture of thirteen
vessels, all but one of which was destroyed.
However active the trade may have been on the
west coast of Panay formerly, L am Of the
opinion that the insurgents are mainly occu-
pied in throwing troops into Negros and Leyte
from Southwest Luzon and Panay, and General
Hughes is of the same opinion.
With the intention of breaking up this traffic
the Samar has been sent out with the cruising
orders communicated to you in my cipher tele-
gram OF the 18th inst.
The manner in which Ensign MacFarland eX-
ercises his command is extremely satisfactory.
He is ready energetic. and makes no requests
except for coal and water. 1t is very desirable
the Springfelds telegraphed for should be
shipped at once for the Samar's Nordenfeldts,
but in the meantime Ensign MacFarland has
made what he reports satisfactory tempor-
airy arrangements, and he appears to have
genius for making things work.
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was so near -that it as quite imros-
sible for him to miss.
"A sharp report was heard and NJ.
Labori threw up his arms and fell fiat
upon his face. l and one or two others
saw the deed, ran up, but the muir
derers had vanished down the lane.
Help was Immediately sent for and the
gendarmes quickly arrived, and soon
afterward Nine. Labori."
RENNES, Aug 13.-To-morrow's ses-
sion of the Dreyfus court-martial is
awaited with the greatest anxiety and
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Not Murderer Dunham.

SAN JOSE, Aug. 13.-Sheriff Langford to-
day received a dispatch from Chief of De-
tectives Sullivan of Louisville, KY, say
ing that the identity of c. f. Netterfeld
well known in Warren, Ohio. This settles
the fact that he is not murderer Dun
ham, as the latter was born and raised
In this county.
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gunboat, was captured by the insur-
gents last April near Baler on the east
coast of Luzon. The message, which
comes through Spanish prisoners, is to
the effect that the officer and his men
are at Vigan, in the province of South
Ilocos. on the west coast of Luzon. All
but two are we'll. Lieutenant Gilmore
is allowed a house and a servant and
is fairly treated
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papers, including those published here,
accused the foreign press men present
in the court of being the authors of the
demonstration against MERCER when he
left the court. The accusation is ridic-
ulOus and was prompted by the obvious
desire of the anti-revisionists to ex-
clude foreign newspaper men from
what they maintain is purely a French
matter. It was even stated that meas
ures would be taken against the for
eign correspondents. About sixty of the
latter met this evening to protest
against the charge. During the course
of the proceedings, Nine. Severine, the
famous woman journalist, came on be-
half of the committee of the French ju-
dietary press. who had just held a
meeting on the subject and communi-
Gated the fact that no measures against
the foreign press would be taken or
were contemplated and that, should the
press be excluded from the courtroom
French newspaper men would be treated
exactly the same as foreigners. The
meeting thereupon decided to treat the
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DROWNED IN A WRECK.
Five Lives Lost by the Sinking of a
French Vessel.

LONDON. Aug. 13.-The French schoo-
ner Pauoboto was sunk in collision to-day
off Lofestoff by the steamer Hercules and
five persons We're drowned. The steamer
rescuad the remainder of the crew.
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AGRARIAN RIOTERS ON
TRIAL IN GUADEL0UPE
They Are Charged With Wrecking a
Plantation and Attacking Three
EnGliShnel

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 19.-A dis
patch from the island of Guadeloupe re-
ports a trial there of the ringleaders of
an agrarian riot involving = e wrecking of
a plantation and a murderous attack on
three Englishmen by 500 men, in which
the correctional tribunal attributed the
outrage to 1.-The prevailing unwholesome
excitement fomented by socialistic propa-
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RUIN AND DEATH IN
GUADELOUPE ISLANDS

Special Cable 10 The Call and the New York
Herald Copyrighted. 1ss9 by James Cor
don Bennett
PoINTE-A-PITRE, Guadeloupe,Aug.
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Dutch Steamer Wrecked.

CARACAS. Venezuela, Aug. 13-It Is re-
ported here that the Dutch steamer Prince
Wilhelm V has been wrecked off the coast
Of Demerara.
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ENSIGN M'FARLAND'S
WORK APPRECIATED

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-Following is
the text of Commander Sperry's report,
reciting the exploits of Ensign H. c. Nc
Farland in the vicinity of Manila:
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n n ANILA, Aug. 13.-A recon
II II noisance yesterday by troops
tNt of General B. NJ. Youngs bri-
Il gade, with the object of dis
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MAlTRE LABORI OF
DREYFUS COUNSEL
SHOT FROM AMBUSH

DENNES, Aug, I4.-T7oo
N men GntbuShed Maitre La
hnr, co,.acnL fnn Drnnf,1c
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05

the courts to decide for a certainty just
where the blame should be lodged.
The case was presented fairly and with
out prejudice. Manockjee had reta ned one
of the brightest pleaders before tn In
dian bar, and, through his shrewd efforts
the judge handed down the following re-
markable decison:
"A cat being owned in severalty by eolr
men, each being proprietor of a desigr ated
section of the animal, overturned a lamp
and set fire to the bandage on the left
foreleg. The cat in fright ran into the
warehouse and communicated the fire TO
the goods stored therein.
Held, that the owner of the section of
the cat which included the bandagod leg
is not responsible for the damage caus d
by the fire, because the three other owners,
propretors of the three other legs, were
guilty of contrbutory negligence in that It
was by the assistance Of the legs owned
by them that The cat was enabled 20 un
into the warehouse and spread the flames.
Judgment for defendant"
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strong prejudice of race which
exists over our whole country. The neg
IS denied a vote in all the Northern STATE
save two or three, and then qualiied D.
conditions not attached to the white rae
and by the constitution Of the Unite
states. To the several states is left IL
right to TX the qualification Of voters. II
United States cannot make negroes 70
in the South any more than they can j.
the North without revolution, and as "
have just emerged from one attempted rev
olution, II would be wrong 10 begin az
other. believe the negro Is free const
tutionaliy. and If the United States vii
simply guarantee that freedom and ALLOW
the negro TO hire his own labor, the tran
sition will be comparatively easy but /
We attempt 10 force the negro on the Sout
as a voter. "a loyal citizen, We begin Z
new revolution in which the Northwe
may take O different side from what We
did when We were fighting 70 vindieat
our constitution. ] am more than usual
sensitive on this point because / hav
realized In our country that one elias
of men makes war and leaves anothes
class to fight it out 1 am tired OF fight
ing, and IL the theorists Of New Englant
impose this new condition on US I drsa,
the result The West will no
quietly submit to the taxation necessary
70 maintain separate negro colonies, o.
the armies needed 10 enforce the rights
negroes dwelling in the Southern states al
a condition an agouisiic to the feeling
and prejudces of the people, the result
Of which will be seen in internal war ana
the final eXterminarcu of the white or
black majority But / am not familiar
with the laws Of Congress which original
ed your bureau, and repeat my entire con-
iidence in your pure and exalted charac-
ter. The plon is impracucable, yet you
can do all the good one Christian man
can do, and 10 that extent count on m
as a friend and fellow soldier for counsel
and assistance.
Now all this ranspired nearly forty
years ago, and the fate of the Freed
mans Bureau" and the dire results of ne
gro suffrage fully vindicate Inc patriotic,
statesman.ike views and timely warning
then uttered so boldly by Gen. Sherman.
No open war of revolution came, it is
true, but everywhere In the South bloody
encounters were frequent, the negroes
filled offices to Cypress and degrade the
white people, and the period of reconstruc-
ZION became sadly prolonged, and as Gen
Dick Taylor put It. was a period of de
struction.' Even a this late day, in many
Southern states, bloody conflicts arise over
negro suffrage. and demand is made in
the interest Of peace and good order, and
the future prosperity Of the negro himself
that some steps be taken to so restrict this
suffrage, that race conflicts shall not be
longer engendered by its unwse provis-
ions. Sidney Herbert
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down 70 rhe rre-eni time For several
years he was attached to the headquar-
Il ecent ne has
hel3 lhe @ arm nd az ST. ersho' IN charg-
of the great drill school Of the British
army, Wnerc iIl treatise 40 'Infan ~
Drlu" has served as a text book. Now
ne returns TO Africa as Mai. Gen. Sir
Redvers Butler. privy councillor. V. c., G..
c. p. *. G.. w. g., 70 round our his ca
reer by overwhe ming the Beers.
The second in command OF the British
forces is a man whose fighting record COM
mar5s the enthusiastic admiration of al
Britons-Sir George White. As colonel Of
the amous Gordon II gNlanders he won
his generals stars by many a hard fought
campaign in Egypt and the Soudan. Be
fore his assignment to South Africa he
was In command Of the army IN India,
whore he was uniformly successful in put
ting down native uprisings. He directed
the recent campaign against the Afridis
Gen. White was recently appointed gov
crnor OF Gibraltar but ne present Trans
vaal difficulty came up to claim his SER
vices before he departed to that post.
Another Victoria Cross Hero.
The general is 65 years OF age. but juds-
ing by the vigor Of his preparatory opera
tons in Natal, there is p envy Of Hght EFT
in him still. His intimate knowledge Of
the Indian forces that are lied upon TO
do much Of the lighting IN the present con-
hict is expected 10 make i'm a valufb e
commander In the Transvaai. Like his SUI
perlor Sir George White wears the Vic
toria cross and numerous o her IA q
lions that testify 10 his personal valor
on the other side, the British find Op-
posed to them a leader whose military ex-
perience is as long, if not as varied, rs
their own and who is cert& nly a wO thy
foeman. Gen. Joubert, The commander OF
the Transvaal troops comes to the present
conflict with the prestige OF having wi e
whipped the British. He was 10 com
mand Of the Beers at Majuba Hill, in
which engagement aside from the ques-
ton Of bravery, the Boer forces displayed
the better generalship.
Gen Joubert is now nearly 70 years Of
age His period of service to the Transvaal
is nearly as long as that Of President
Kruger himself, and he is the most intiu-
entail man in the Transvaal next to the
President. 1t is a curious fact that Meth
er Of these men is of Dutch descent Kru-
ger being of German origin, while Joubert
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comes of French Hugueuot stock. which IS
one of the strains that has gone to make
Up the South African Boer.
The general impression OF Joubert is that
ne is an ignorant man, who Is qualified
only to be the leader of a bushwhacklng
force. But / have it on the authority of
a man who has known him intimately in
the Transvaal that Gen. Joubert is perhaps
the best informed man among the Boer
leaders. He possesses great native sagac-
ity has visited Europe, and knows much
better than most of his countrymen the
strength of the power against which the
Transvaal is fighting.
JOubert Was Against War.
1t is a significant fact that Gen. Jou-
bert has opposed war with England be-
Heving that in time IL would be possible
to realize a South African federation IN
dependent of England, but on friendly
terms with her, without an appeal 10
arms Now that the struggle is on, how
ever, he doubtless viii do his best TO lead
his countrymen to victory
AS his immediate subordinates Gen. Jou-
bert has six division leaders or field com
manders. Chief of these is Commandant
Juit Cronje. Cronje is of middle age, a
burgher of wealth and influence. But he
is a man of no education, and of violent
pTejudices, whose hatred of the English
is equaled only by his contempt for them.
Il was to Cronje that DR.. Jameson sur
rendered on the occasion Of his memora-
bic rad, and he is regarded as the most
active and. next TO Joubert, the most able
Of the Boer leaders.
From present accounts. the Beers will
be able TO put liz the field all told about
5000 men. These are all mounted; they
are not burdened by heavy artillery or by
a heavy commissariat They Will be fight
ing practically on their own grounu There
fore they should be able to hold their own
against the troops which England will
put in the field, and there should be some
very pretty lighting, in which the result
| is by no means certain to be always the
same way. +. w. Mayo
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windbreak of whale-bones and various ma
terial, She smiled and spoke to he Indians
IN language they did not understanl
but they fell on their faces before her a.
though TO worship her. She offered them
food, and readily consented to 60 win
them, and was taken aboard the schoone,
with a tome otter. She was dr. ssed in
the skins of birds, over which was a gar
ment of sealskin. She was named Bet
Notwithstanding, after the vessel, and by
signs succeeded in telling some indians
on the mainland something of her history.
At first she had mourned the loss Of her
friends, then the dogs killed her baby ani
she wished to die and was sick for a Ions
time.
She was taken to Santa Barbara, where
Indians from all about were b ought TO he
TO see if they could understand her an
guage, but without avail. She lived wi.h
different families at Santa Barbara, hul
civilization proved diastrous to her, and IN
less than three months she died. Her
remarkable dress of feathers was sent %
Rome as a curiosity, and the remains Of
the unfortunate woman found a resti 8
place in the sanctiled ground of the mis-
sion
san Nicholas has proved a veri able
treasure house for the archaeologlst, ami
tons of stone implements have be tax n
from various mounds on the island. One
OF the most remarkable she mounds n
the world is found here being, IL is said,
nearly a mile long and ten feet in aver
age hight.