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Show NEWS OF A DAY Horrible Details of Punishment Punish-ment Inflicted by Germans ON CAMEROON NATIVES. An Awful Holocaust in Brooklyn Senator Sena-tor Peffer is a Friend of the Industrial . Arm? and Would Set .Them to Building a Railroad From Ocean to Ocean. Bkklin, April 12. A weekly journal publishes extracts from the diary of a German resident of the Cameroons, which fully bears out the charges that have been made against certain of the German officials in that country. The diary contains entries showine that Herr Wehlan, the governor's sub Btitute, who led an expedition against the natives, issued an order to his subordinates, sub-ordinates, directing them t cut the throats of all the old women who fell into their hands. The other natives who were eo unfortunate un-fortunate as to be captured were conveyed con-veyed on ship board, where they were bound to the rail of the vessel. The thongs that held them were so tight that in many instances whan the se t began to swell it cut deep into the arms and lejjs of the prisoners. No attention at-tention was paid to the appeals of the miserable natives. They were entirely unprotected from the weather and exposed as they were to the tropical heat their wounds festered fest-ered and they bred m? g'oii. The appeals of the miserable wretches for water to quench their thirst fell on deaf ears or else were responded re-sponded to with brutal refusal. The full details of the treatment of these captives are horrible. When the prisoners were half dead they were simply shot down like wild beasts without compunction. FIRE AT BKOOKLYN. Buffalo, N. Y. April 12. The plant of the American Glucoee company burned tonight The loss will be about $1,000,000; insurance, $085,000. SENATOR PEFFER TALKS. "Washington, April 12. In the consideration con-sideration Senator IVffer delivered the third installment of his speech on the tariff bill. He would relieve the poor of all taxes if he cou!jnjTyi put the tax on the rich, so the hgff fii-tariff taxation tax-ation would rett ctrTtily on those who were able to bear it. He defended the Coxey armv, and exclaimed in the language of Israel of oi l, "We are here, Father Abraham, the vanguard is snow-bound. lie referred to the entrance into Washington, last Saturday night, of a band of forty men who were immediately immedi-ately arrested without committing any offense. "They had as much right to come here as the president of the New York Central Railroad company, or any other citizen." He would stt them to building a straight double track railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific and another from the great lakes to the gulf. Then the dark clouds would roll away, 39 night is dissipated by the morning mist. |