di oc mi mero Bub HAR al AN Life of the Famous Exils in His Prison on Devil's Island, suicide, in his prison, of Lien. nel Henry is the latest act the drama of the Dreylins ything seems to indicate fifth sad jan ed vi gad; as ies, by wvirtne being ins ished. That with { t of any man in a civilized e judged not within closed without bein ing shown dation. General Military Staff, » of Captain Dreylns, the nation, esented themselves aculate chiefs of the ary, the French confidently re- the recovery of th | Intelligence Burean, {was the explanation given at Drey- CN eity of Cayenne—which was denomi- nated, together with its neighbor Sinndendria, the “dry guillotine,” when it was chosen as a place of de poriation for the Terrorists and anti Imperialists sentenced bv the In. rectory and by Napoleon I. spatehes, that Dreyfus, whose death was often reported, is thoroughly ae olimated, snd physically in good | - | health. He will be able, therefore, to answer any charges which may be Bat i i appears, accordiog to the latest de not cease to ery that he was innocent, pabin or hat, of ths sea. If there is any hope for Captain Al fred Dreyfus that hope will be realized (through and by the splendid effonta of | Limecie Eugenie, the captain's beantifal | place of exile he wrote to Mme, Drey- ing this swinl faneral march he did The captain was embarked at the Ila ‘de Re, in February, 1835, for the ! Devil's Island, where he remains nn- | der the gasrd of twelve men, in a! snclosed recently bya | { high board fence which ents off a view | {along the font of the troops Ere aid | a i HWA NAAR RICAN WH > / . y or 7% GOOD ROADS NOTES, » SE AACE ION OE NCR fe Lesson of the Present, it may be sericmsly questioned whether any country that can be elaszed among the errilized nations of the earth can show sgeh poor wagon. rounds ax the United Sates, noises be Rassia and smaller pri ities of eouth.eastern Karope. The early settlement yu the United Mates [Wers mRInY Along the panks of seria wife. Roon after his arrival at bis | ? fax: ‘I rely upon you tc solve this | horrible mystery.” Then this faithial wife. who had offered to share her | hushand’'s awfsl fate and was pre- | vented doing so by the French Gov- srnmeant. set to work to free the cap. | tain. or at leavt to secure for bum a | : pew trial [flang herself at the feet of the"Em- | peror, | pleaded, wonld release ber hashand “Say,” she prayed, ‘that the German i Embassy received no from Captain Dreyfus” we a — ISLE DU DIABLE, SHOWING THE HUT IN WHICH DREYFUS I8 CONFINED, brought against him, and to discuss the value of the real or the forged dooumerts which were not communi- eated to him or his advocate at the time of his trial, which took place in December, 1894. Twomonthsbefore, | ing wife peror said the word she asked for, but it was of no avail. Next she visit- ed the took a keen interest in the case and did what he oconild to help the plead: Next the Pope was drawn 8 “‘borderean,” or memorandum, re- into the affair, and also the Queen vealing, as said above, the programme | Regent of Spain. All of these eminent of the mobilization of the French corps d'srmee, was brought to Colonel Sandherr, chief of the Intelligence by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry, the too | about Dreyfus, famous suicide and forger. The ‘“‘borderean” had besn found in the waste-basket of the German Ambassa- | dor at Paris by a servant, who acted as a #py in the interest of the French At least such fus’s trial, thoangh 1% is more than strange that documents of such im- | { portance should be carelessly thrown | persons used their influence to secars {8 reopening of the case, but with no | success, Still the work which Mme, Bareaa of the General Staff, who died | Dreylas did was bearing good fruit. soon after, and whose place was fliled | | The newspapers continued to fight Zola and Max Nordan | took ap their pens and wrote with gall about some of the biz people in Paris, She went to Berlin and One word from him, she ! information The Em- | i i £ t 3 £ i opened np in the lomz dormant ex. i § i i i : : § | at home for their preparation. Soe. z 1 Emperor of Russia, who able waters, anid the steam railway eame xo soon after phmemerss de. veloped between the growing towns that the roads, 3 iy hal 1n some canes been started, wera nogiociad [an Europe, wagou.-roads were son structed ony belores the infrodastion of stean:, and conditions there have msde it necessary to marniain aad de velop thers. 15 vw oniy within ten years taal Ameria has hegmn to learn how janeh she doses from the present bad conditia? of ber highiaays, and is at last beginning to us! abont improve ments In sarge At present the condition of Cobm is attracting mach stiention We al ready see the josses that have been entailed there by the absence of any thing that can be called a road, and we will realize mach more Inily in a short time what decent highways mean to 8 country when they begin to bw Spanish Islands and ther many re- sources are developed, Americas is entering apon a period of increased activity 1a commerce and manafactare. She has iately been forced into nnexpecied relations with the other powers of the world. Dis- taut outlets are demanded for our prodaciions and more perfect facilities essafal competition in the great markets of the world means that all | ; classes at home mins enjoy prosperity and develop conditions of the greatest the best myeans of transporistion and possible efficiency, and, to accomplish this, nothing is more important than perfect tater communication among all | seations of the poanitry WATE Rondalde Adorament In improving country roads there is not infrequently a danger of destroy- Count Esterhazy was tried on a charge | similar to that on which Dreyfas was traral districts, sal the danger of do | eonvicted, and although not found | guilty, the fact was ail in favor of | i Mme. Dreylus’s campaign. Then | Colonel Picguart, « friend of the Saari os i id ov by a diplomat in his waste-basket. As {to this document, it was saserted Ly the accused captain that it was not in the handwriting of Dreyfus. On the other hand, some papers ciroulated a story sesording to, whinh the captlain, | having been snmmoned tothe General Stal and reqnired to write a few lines dictated from the “borderean,” threw | himnelf at the feet of Colonel Da Paty | d+ Clam, and adumiBed that it was he who wrote the treacherous document. Hines then it has been discovered that the real anthor was probably Com. winndasut Esterhazy, who was twice sequitted by two courts martial, bat who is reported in the lastest de- spatehes from Paris to Lisve disap- peared as soon as it was stated that the Giovernment had decided to grant a revision of the trial of 1804 "The trial resulted, as is well known, {in a sentence condemning Dreyfus to imprisonment for life and degradation froro all military rank asd honors. Alfred Dreyfas is a Hebrew from the i the city of Mulhausen, in Alsace, who | had elected French nationality after | his vative place had been annexed to the German Empire. He was an or- | tillery officer, a married man, father of two children, and possessor of a for- tune sufficient to exclude the ides that he would resort to treason in or. UARD ON DEVIL'S ISLAND, y of Bep- der to make money. After his sen- tence he was taken from the military prison of the Cherche Midi to the MME. LUCIE RUGENIR DREYFUS. Dreyfases, fought » duel with Colonel Henry, and then came the last chiapter of Henry's confession and suicide. Captain Dreyfus did well to rely on y, and that she will certainly succeed in liberating her husband or vindicating his memory il he should die there can be no doubt whatever, solate innocence and mean to prove it. Jehovah, Godlor Providence will ere long crash his enemies and restore him to me.” This prediction cer. tainly seema about to be fulfilled. woman notwithstanding the trying time she has passed throagh and the great griel she has felt. The sympa. thy of the world is hers. Newspapers and people who formerly proclaimed partisans, called the Dreylusista, wanted to surrender France to the np that crimivsl and stapid theory. They are clamoring now for a prompt interior lently disturbed, especially during the last two years. A Waman's Matrimonial Ventures. Mrs. Angastus Thistlewood, of Provi- dence, R. I, has been married six times. At her last wedding four of her former husbands were present and acted as ushers. The fifth sent his regrots and a present, and an invita- tion to the bride and groom to spend the honeymoon in his house. The average term of servitade for these husbands was ten months; all the di- vorces were granted upon the applica- tion of the lady without oppomtion. The dissolution of matrimonial ties has been due to the tact sud diplo- macy of the lady, who convinced her several spouses that they were mise mated, AA gb ma i Yiead His Own Epitaph. Randolph H. Waters, an inmate of square of the Ecole Milituire in Paris, the Soldiers’ Home at Leavenworth, where troops were assewsbied to wit- Kau, visited a cemetery at Elmwood, ‘ness the painful ceremony of the de- | Kan., and read the epitaph over a adation, The insignis of his rank gr fos- | His sister had placed the headstone . grave which was supposed to be his, +: over the grave two years ago. Waters | ran away from home at the beginning of the Civil War and after it was over y then led : ho went West. his wife to solve the truly horrible ing something of the chars and pic: tarengaesess which bushes, flowers and vines give fo the ranviway in many ing this ix sometimes actually used as an argument for not undertaking # Muncoh-nedded IauroTesents i RTe fg. Bowater. a mubilas course which | ¥ ' 3 lewids to the preservation of natorsl slvantages alongside the conpirnotion of hard roadways. Nach a sonree the Norwich Balietin declares self 1a fa. vor of, “when the country rosd is of su Fcient width and shape to be worthy the name,” and i then perlineniiy silide “The will sad breezy hedge and the wild Sowers ia ther day, begin ; 3 nin r with the violet and the candelion and slowing with the fringed gentians, the purple asters and the golden rod, make for appreciatire people a pleas : ought to bo, § | maddy, erooked, ten fest cari-paths ant way: but thers sre many cart paths in Consectiont where roads There ara too many of the narrow, concave, roliy, rally, x | now parading in this State under the | | title of romds, with samaeh and hack !matack for a border, and Canada cal, ASAE RI A RB Ea a Mme, Dreyfas mades this declaration: | “I am convinced of my husband's ab- | § Mme. Dreyfas is still a beantifal that Dreyfas was gaiity, and that nis | practical domination of Germany and | the German Jew financiers, have given | {ing fact that every source of income, | especially in the agricaltaral districts, revision of the trial of 1504, under. standing at last that this is the only | means to restore to the eountry the ce which has been so vio- thistiex and wild-carrot blooms for a decoration. The enrt paths are dirty, slawpy, corragated ways which add to the discomforte of life. New road- building makes for their abolishment, and for the establishment of wide, convex, well-drained roadbeds, along whieh the wild hedge and flowers make a seiting that is both piciar- esque and charming.” i ea Rave been quite active, amd several DUG OUT (F A PRISON. Burpisrs Loaves Note for he Meier fayiny Tie Were Bernd for the Klonliny Penvy MoeYay pers bn the 3 Fred Hawks, pris ‘ouniy ial st Coy Aeavrenort Whe $ He ww dome wth a pled srvipegied in th OF i ihe atelde of 1 thew Pade Be Hewes stating that they for the Kicnbike follwing DePLions wore = Crawford Baaye T hommes, S1apins. Wn 5%. Peter A Millar, New *aris. Hedford I to $10; John WW. Milk Connegut Lake 2 to 8B Jon B Jr Waveenbors 3 to 8 Auxan. Townville $B to $5 James | srw $I 0 8 Nathan. | Resvyartawn, £8 1 $17 spincvs oF WA Neener Callenshbharg. Clarion. $17 Jens Haptist. Alkgheny $ John Madden Towanda, $M Awe | Hirt Tavwerile Center BB Joseph ® | Bevan, Pittsburg. $4 Andres W, Long | Jawan feap 24 Hrzekinh PP 13air, Fritipsbary 88 toa 8. OW KR TPitlany Kinnerdeil Verangs $8 ta Bo WwW Imughtery, Hermine, $12 to $17. J han- na M. Mullr Allegheny. BE. Harah A, V. Bern Pedlord, I Thomas J Kea rar Pittsburg IX apical act Cher ey i BE Taylor Frankks £6 Hobart Ganp- Chel New Castle, 38 Bias MM. Whsrry, Swenshorg. $8 Dminel Kahne Younes Cfeown, SN to $10 Jadith A Pratt Ssaethe pert, $3 Mary Hammer Alom lank. Fadford $B: Fhzabeth (FNead (ome | | melieviile, $17 | Fawran Clearfie bl $8 Charles 7 Wi - i Mama. Westfield Tioes, 3H. William | fiable Shamokin $9 Wilism Edwaris Willtam T. Miners First, Boldiers’ Home, Friel ¥ Danis Pierce, Rummit City, MeKean, $1 W A. Beoush Heward (‘enter $8 ts $10 | Farvoe! Koons, Lindy, Jeferan # to $10: Martin [. Supaners. Mont Alte, Frankiin, $5 a $17 Samuel WW. Evans, Frosh Valley, Indians, #8 ts $85 AD » Meine Piatreviile $8 sa $17 i ¥ fered, Orbisonia $08 Bam et FF. Mitler Jobnetaan, $s A member of a whalesuls the remul ome dav Inet week whe ign A a nut % Rim hh terrific straps poling an is tha fim inves izatian he found tae BlarkKanakes each avir seven feet ong % straggling for the pommession of 4 ful! grown chicken, which was wil ving The ton smakes Bd thelr tals sound | a tree and each Bad ore ool around the ohicKen for filily ten ¥ &ay Prides { i By ¥reoviator X the nak # z v arad 3 ATR ES dn tly wits £1 Tre leh, a brakes 5 f «shot his wile (1 the oneal Stat at Harrisburg, A few i va BAG, Where se Bas Teon Ww HRInE Alhayy Miter § hie hostel proprietor, which wie fired in the dindug rove, yushed In and was fired CAT The woman may reesvar Hifaese rich had svidentiy intended sgicide, having a wristen 4 note of geod by to | Bis friends The woman was shot in ¢ her right wide Ie a Polemian boardisg Bowes al , Greensburg the other night Mrs Mary ] [Grubage, aged 1 fwither of two child t dren, was shot (hrogeh the heart and Killed = Pater Koker was examining a revalver Rhee wanted fo mee it snatch- ed it from hix hand and discharged i Jarsen Carney of Apelle was rhiing Loan the Dampers of a freight car when the Train Broke in lwo and he fell aod | was willed Hix brother =aw Bim PoRiiedd Westmoreland county thieves ktely § imrae hauls Bave been reported, it dove Bat seers (hat the CUinrill ars averiy partieular a fo what hey ake, A fine cow was stoden frog the slate ‘af Hurry Haretey, at Haromsy Ohiy, Pa. Rundayv sight and taking the animal to a neighboring woaddd, the pwighboring woods, the thilsvoa shaugh- Good Ronde in § gh. New York bas actually taken its place among the States that are giving pablic sid to the malting of good roads. The first contract was awarded yester. day under the good roads law, winch is the prodaet of Governor Black's saggestion and active encoaragement, This section of the Mate may take some local pride in the fact that the first work under the bill will be on the | high road between Troy and Sehenes- tady ’ Greneral Shafter pisces bad rogds as next to the climate as a hindranes to the avuny's movements io Cabs, War ix excoptional, bat the speeds of peace are coustant. And it has been a giar- has been reduced biy roads that have | increased the cost of traasportation, lessened Lhe factiition of travel and in- ercased the distance of every farm from | the market for its prodacts. Good | of the Coroner's jury sitting in the case of Lars Backouard, who went to Coun ceil Bluffs, Iowa, a few days ago, and roads will make the geographical mile no longer than it should be. And the | impulse that began in the Empire State | the movement, whose bemaning bad been so long delayed, for decent roads was an act oi statesmanship.—Troy | (N.Y. Times. A “Bad Roads’ Tragedy. “Smothered to death 1a the dust of the public highway” was the verdiet HU Sh A started home in the heat of the day. A mile from the town he was overcome by the heat and fell from his horse The dast was ten inches deep and very fine. Backiaard fell on his face and | was nuable to turn over, A VYeeding Iran ta Plants, ; A proposal bas been made bya French chemist to obtain easily assim- ilable iron tonics from vegetables by feeding the plants jadiciously witu iron fertilizers, The World's Tannels. If all the tunnels of the world wers placed end to end they would reach a distance of 314 miles. They number about 1142. EPs present pope rin tendent a | three tizpes in the neck and body, Kio tered it and carried away the meat The animal was valued ar $a While Mre Joseph Bailey was reads Ping a paper atl her Raine neat the Wynne coke works, at Oliphant far. nace near 'rlontawsn, recently’ the Banse wan wrecked and half of (f was carried down inte the ground cages | By the ground caving in where the codl Bad been taken oul. Nowe of the family wax Bort but the house has ta ve abandoned Warne be warih eRyricd fram a Car on he alk goods Bad be shipped from gpd were canxigned to LL a howeal storekeeper T.awrence COBNIY feselers’ astitute opened a1 New Castle with 398 teach. | Imetruciors, Conny Spe Those Siswirt, superintendent Casnan, Slate RN tendons Fohaefer, Dr Athtert Wialigee Berges and others Jeuwe Walton a izisgraph aperator at iesenihurg, he came a Tew Meeks sen Tenn New Brighton, was Killed an he Southwest brane of Connty Hone | Junetien Baving been strixk By an engine. He saves a wife who is in Eenilh An unkoonn man was struck by an | engine on the Pittsburg & Western {pei at Butler mst week and Ris skall crashed, He diedi at the howpital { Two rallreaders wlentified the body as | that of Jobs Huston of New Custis The first football acotdent of the cear | pom at Grave City ocenrred A few days ago. when Alvadore Nightwine broke Bis arm. He was running for the bail when he foil striking Ris eibow, lireak- tng two emall bones As the result of a flerie brawl at a christening hend near MU Plinsang tas? weell Mike Cubia is dead, and Als pert Musine is under arres* An Immense FARE SWABDY f Cavivny on ® Hew K nl siived Beionging $s Fanaa ! George Stambangd of Hickery town. Mercer County, and eirrisd off a Bb Raymond aged 17 son of John Nelly, fleaver Falls. fall the other morning La wig to Board = freight tran he Erie and was Riled, eatis of Duryea. stabbed als Mate hones ys x Frank 1 §. Noa hm Ya Wiltiiam seater in -1aw, ¥ ax 1 Her ¥ wicKengie, of East Greens ten, Tony Wisal had four fingers © pix left hand biown off. A large golden eagie wus Killed in ugar Grove township, Mercer county 3s had been preying on lambs « ruavped with bare ciher Bight by tun. | ipder the ind ward gate The | todas | : fre of Now Castle was driving long prites stroewied | vi natt ¥ I INDUSTRIAL REVIEW. § SARE - ee ts Parsish 993 Kile of Rails furs (2oes’ Rosé Glues Works at Laveaster 0 J.T lLevejoy of the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg, states that the arnesie Hteel i mrnpany will furnish me miles of raile for the Chinese rails sramd Lo Be Dadi by Calvin 2 Brice, ¥. | Prerpopt Morgan asd other capitals Piste. The work will be commenced on the sopsirdeilhod as scOHn ak SRMuUMm- f atgmess will permit and that it will be foponnd ratis to start sid that the Caimegis HEARTY WAR HERING Preparstme ia a gun factory ar Homestepd as snon gs the plans could be perfected jancamter © i= refoicinge ave the geggirerment of a new industry in the « Dahmpe 6f 8 large ginss works, of Dun ikirk, Ind. w ‘B owill remove to Lan- canter fromm Indiana... Me. Myron B {are reprossnted his company before the Bard of trade ard the final ar Lrangemeanis were completed, the city agreeing to furnish a site for the plant, twe milion cubic feet of gue Ddally at the rate of $100 per month and aime to pipe the gas from the refucing [mrmtion. The new works will employ LEM pen with an average pay fell of | $4000 per week, The company desires [ts leave the Indiana feld on apcount lof the falling of the gus | The Pacific coast agents of the Ca- | madian Stenmehip Company give as a | reason for putting the Tartar and I Athenian on the ran between Van | eraver, Viedivestork and China, that | the trade between the Orient! ard Americg Ras grown lo anormous pro- perrtions The threw [0606-1on team | ships Empress of China, Empress of india ard Empress of Japan were in the Rabbitt of leaving behind about 58 tans of freight The Tartar and | Athenian will handle the supplies Sor ithe trans Siberian rafiroad, and then | proceed ts Hongkong 10 help the Cao 'nadian Pacific railroad empress line Mors stepemahips may vet be put on The sil deal by whisrh Palmer Bros and other dealers will dispose of $1 oi 0 warth of oi} lands at Toledo, GO, i likely to be closed, Tre gas stove manufacturers of the nized Staten formed an sssaciation at (leveland last week, the purpose of which fs to simplify and systsinatise thelr business and to regulate : Representing éx-Senator Caivin 8 Hrice's American hinese Thvelap- ment Company, which with $40 000 068 tp canital, bas ronvessions to build 8 radi | rend freon Haskow to Tanten aed the men nopoxite Hongkong, A. WW. Bash Lpemaral arent will smart on Otaber 18 to begin hailding one of the greatest of t Chinn's new raliroads ¢ The American iron and Rteal Compa ivy Baws filed articles af incorpiration with the Secretary of State at Now { Jersey The company Nas an agthir. ined capital of $1006.000 and = fmpow. f wred to do all Kinds of mining and managfariaring : {Yamtracts Rave been ivf at Tateda 0 for fhe building of the Uolymbux, P Lama & Milwaukes raitroad and work : wi £ny wig at ooce The Chredn. sir Ke Dayton will give en thm pod Into Lima LA aw Miter Clay Company hax heen incorporated di of Doe A new balld. i Nemtingg 15 where Ee Brebheielt od ive and the fons ops eee hax arranged four CO hicagn trains exon. fetter Toni the Pear pnles Th bersemetive Readliphd Lwidl be sag er from The anme Source THE LABOR WORLD. “ia! Chimago bas 1000 anion mwdclans.” LimA (Ohio) pavers won a strike nr $1.59 | a day. KashviMe usnwonists wast fenders on girent care. | Usmitonists operate six co-operative win. | dow glass plants. Washington [D. C} uanion granite ent. ters pot $3.40 a day. . When Aiba (lows) misers mruck the | sompany abandoned (ts mines, Tatiors all aver the country areanticipat- fog a strike for frees Sack shops In which | to do their work Montreal retail dealers in soveities, | fancy goods, eto protest against shole- : emiers selling of retail. | The Chicago Piano Workers’ Unions has i petitioned the Boar! of Edueation to use only saioo-made planos. | The leading job pristing plant of Wil. mington, Del, s owned and manage! by » twenty-one year-old girl, Clothing, food, mobey, oe, is : gathered at Toledo for die mines their families af Jobs, Ohto A semly orpaciasd union of plasterers {a San Prancisco won a strike for an Tereass of wages from $2.38 50 $4 per day. The statistician of the Isterstaty Com. merce Commission reports that of inilesy | pmploves 1688 were Lilied last yer and | ower 77.000 isjared. | Py a majority of 1300 the miners 5f File | and Kinross, Sootlumd, have agriad to | aesept the Ove per cant. advases fered by the com owners and to contlage a | work, I The nmmbar of factories te Rassia has fn. | eramsed move than thirteenfold from 1850 | to 1990 and in the same period the aioe of nant inetared prodacts has locreased mare CA mn SRA SD ime A AT "| than & baadosdioid. It han been decided by the Plioty' Asso- | sation for the Pay and River Delaware ! that the pilot services at the canes will in thie future comsist of two steam pilot | boats, and that the saliing vessels now on baad will be sald, A Bbostzontal raise of (wenty-dve sents per day for ail classes of mine jalior em- ployed by the Minnesota Iron Somilaay at ; or a peming, Mich will probaldy speedy demand from the mismers’ anion for a simuar inopeass on the sider iron About 3008 mine amployes are fetes hy the ioerease, leaviag 13,000 working on the eid scaie, ; Covil Rates and Mener. The Right Hon Cecil John Rhodes, who has just reached the age of #6 res fused to enilst with Gordon in the dis- astraus expedition ta Khartoun, says the Argonaut OGerdon had a year or #0 previously been at the Cape and be- come very friendly with the future Premier It was at thiz peripd that Gordon tald Rhodes the story of the offer of a roomful of pid made to him by the (himese Government “What did you do? asked Rhoden. “Ree fused it. of course” was the reply, “what would you have done? ““Takep it." was Rhodes’ brief but characteris tie reply. “and as many more as i could get. Yeu can't carry ont big tdans unless you've muney to do it In Cyrano's “Bistary” there i ratur- ally much speculation and theorizing soncerning the varfous systems. Prolemaiy Gaseercdian, Copernican, Carrteatnn--with some Highly original Ruesker 8 truth” as this of a ven- eralis ae: “1 Imagine that the sarth turns, pat By the reasons of Capernicus, but because heil-fite lying center of the sarth. arives ba the nedoar of ite heat the damned agairst the vault, and this agts upon the globe as a dun inclwed In a wheel turns it hy his motion.” An iron mill company In Chie has succeed ed in making & fine quality of samen! from furnace slag. a: the
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