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SATURDAY MORNING. THE PHILADELPHIA TBIES. AUGUST 4, 1900. 6 His integrity is unquestioned, his ability is conceded and his experience will make Ik theatres and Parks CRAMPS TO SONOMA LAUNCH ON TUESDAY she may not think so well of it But where any American interests come in, or what the people of the United States have to do with the McKinloy doctrine-except to furnish the army and navy to CITY BALL NEWS Big Contractors Go Ahead With Their Work, Knowing They Will Get Their Money. LITTLE ONES NEED FUNDS his future services invaluable.

His name is already identified with a ballot re form measure, and as ballot reform is to be the prime issue in the next Legisla ture Mr. Keator of all others deserves to be returned to Harrisburg from Fhila dolphia. Fortunately the Twenty-second ward contains a goodly majority of intelligent voters who appreciate the service that Mr. Keator has rendered and can render to the cause of honest legislation, and if this class of Republicans concentrate their strength upon him and attend the primaries he cannot; be defeated. It is up to the intelligent self-owned Republicans of the Twenty-second ward to re turn Mr.

Keator to the Legislature, and by so doing furnish an effetttve champion in that body for the cause of ballot, reform. There is gold on that side of the Alaska boundary claimed by England. This is the golden rule that country goes by in disputes of the kind. The Evans Bequest. SINCE THE DISPUTE over Dr.

Evans' will has been settled and the Evans Museum and Dental Institute is to be established, it is most earnestly to be hoped that both the executors of the will and those who are to represent the city will go about their trust with intelligent deliberation and an unselfish desire to give Dr. Evans' bequest the greatest possible public usefulness. The institution which he provided for does not appear to meet any recognized want of the community. There are excellent schools of dentistry in Philadelphia which might have been helped by a legacy, but which are likely, even without it, to carry on their work better than a new concern attempting the same tiling under municipal control. If the elovation of the science or art of dentistry was Dr.

Evans' chief purpose, some wise plan ought to be devised that will give this new institute a helpful place in the general system of professional teaching, so that it shall supplement and strengthen and not rival or impede existing work. So with the museum. Dr. Evans' ideas on this feature of his plan have not been clearly explained, but it is universally agreed that we do not need more museums in Philadelphia so much as a concentration of those we already have, or such co-operation among them as will confine each to its distinct field and thus avoid the waste of effort. If there is to be a separate Evans museum, it ought to have some clearly defined purpose not already provided for.

Otherwise much of this liberal bequest will necessarily be wasted. While it will be the duty of the execu tors or trustees to carry out as closely as may be the expressed will of the tes tator, what discretion ho left to them ought to be exercised with a view to the highest and broadest public usefulness of that which he designed as a benefit to his native city as well as a monument to himself. The realization of his desires must depend very much upon the spirit in which they go about the execution of their trust. Taken in connection with campaign contributions imprisoning a policeman for talking is just an intimation to put up and shut up. HAFFEE reports that a regiment Japanese, scouting toward Pcit- I san Vy trei sang, found the enemy in force in trenches and loopholed houses.

and retired with some loss. This is probably the advance and repulse referred to in earlier dispatches. It indi cates that the advance from Tien Tsin had not actually begun but that this scouting party was sent out, as a preliminary, to ascertain the position nnd strength of the enemy. Peitsang is only about eight miles out of Tien Tsin. Evidently the advance on Fekin is to be no triumphal procession.

It is very doubtful if all the foreign troops thus far gathered constitute a force sufficient to justify the venture. And as the Chinese officials, repeat their threat that a movement on Pekin will end the protection of the foreigners there, the administration is taking a heavy risk in persisting in this war. It is a step that only success can jus tify, and the chances of success seem very small. Failure will be utterly disastrous. a In resting awhile in the Maine forests, Quay just intends to say nothing but see woods.

EEDLESS importance is given to the fact that a large number of contracts for city work are ready for execution but mimt await the signature of Mayor Ashbridge, who is studying expansion on the Pacific coast. If these contracts have received the approval of Mayor Durham, the con tractors may safely go ahead. If Mayor Durham cannot actually sign contracts on behalf of the city, he knows who ought to have them, and what he and Mack and McNichol say will go. Of course if any contract has inadvertently been awarded to a low-bidding Walton man, that ought to be hung up; but the danger of such mistakes is small, and it is safe to assume that the contracts awarded in the absence of Mayor Ashbridge are all such as the Contractors' Trust can consistently approve. The lack of a signature is a mere for mality, which no experienced contractor need urge as an excuse for delay.

YOUNGSTERS GUESTS OF SALVATION ARMY Twelve Hundred Taken by Boat to National Park. Twelve hundred children la the scantiest of summer attire were the guests of the Salvation Army to National Tark on the Delaware yesterday. The boats left Arch street wharf early lu the morning, and as the youngsters stepped aboard they gave a rous ing, lusty cheer for their hosts. There were more yells when the waving flags and pennants of the park appeared In the distance, and as they tramped down the gang-plank they eang "Onward, Christian Soldiers." At noon a big dinner was served, which was one of the most popular diversions of the day. In the afternoon there were games, ud when evening came, tired as they were, the youngsters were reluctant to go home.

As the crowds disbanded there were more hecrs for the army, and many thanks for the good time everybody had enjoyed. KEITH'S THEATRE. Vaudeville CHESTNUT HILL PARK. Band CENTRAL World Fair Marine Band WASHINGTON PARK Llberatl'l Band WILLOW GROVE Royal Marine Band WOODSIDE PARK Veteran Corps Baud flMcftcfc Hp in passing Misses Mary and Jetta Gallagher, of Ed-dystone, iflre having a very enjoy.sjle iiuie at aiiuiuic uuy. Mrs.

and Miss Mamie Sweeney, ter, are located at the St. Atlantic City, for the season. of Ches Charles, The set of silver which Baltimore Is going to present to Hear Admiral Schley and which Is to be made from the silver coin captured on the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, will consist of eighteen dinner plates, one gravy boat and ladle, four vegetable dishes, one game platter, one flsh platter, one platter and one soup tureen. The cost when completed will be between $7,000 and 10,000. The Ex-Empress Eugenie has just lent to her nephew, Prince Victor Bonaparte, and his actress wife her favorite castle of Arenenburg, on the shores of Lake Con stance.

Prince Louis, killed in Zuzuland, preferred It to any other spot in the world. Judge Brown, of the Supreme Court of the Lnlted states, is a thorough marksman and hunter. He is spending his vacation bunting In California. Evelina, Countess Plsnnl, who died lately near Estc, In North Italy, was the daughter of Dr. Julius Van Mllllngen, the physician who attended the poet Byron In his fatal sickness at Mlssolonghl In 1824.

She was born at Constantinople In 1830 and reared and educated In Rome. Having lots of money doesnot necessarily drive out all sentiment from the soul. It Is said of Ex-Senator William A. Clark, of Mon. tana, that he has preserved the first dollar bill which he made when Btartlng life as a poor quartz miner in Colorado in 1859.

In order that he might have a hand in the South African relief fund the Prince of Wales recently contributed a hundred autographs to a charity bazaar In London to be sold for. Its benefit. John Howard Bryant, a brother of the poet, William Cullen Bryant, has Just cele brated the 03d anniversary of his birth at his home in Princeton, 111. He Is the only surviving member of the family. According to the personal property sched ule of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, he does sot wear a watch, and Chlcagoana are wondering what he wears at the end of the watch chain which Is a prominent feature of the othVlnl photograph which appears on certain city licenses.

Sarah Bernhardt in a few weeks may be made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. As long as ten years ago it was proposed thus to decorate ber. Only one actress, Marie Laurent, has received the ribbon, and It was conferred upon her not as an actress, but for her philanthropic work In founding and managing an orphanage for actors' children. Mrs. Bessie Bllti Paxton, a San Francisco society woman.

Is goingoa the vaudeville stage as' a singer. She has no Idea of elevating the stage, but simply needs money and being able to slug well thinks this offers about the easiest way of obtaining the cash. Robert Wllllum Perk, member of Parliament for Lincolnshire, is the man who originated the "million guinea" fund for the cause of Methodism. Subscriptions are limited to Melhodlsts of England, Scotland and Wales, and the fund is to be expended In that territory alone. Apparently a busy as well as an ably equipped man is Thomas W.

Lamble, the official stenographer and assistant secretary to the Chief of Police of Chicago. As such he wears the star of a sergeant. Before coming to America from England, his native country, he was ordained a regular preacher In the Methodist Church, and still preaches in churches around Chicago, usually relieving some minister for his own vacation. In the evening he teaches stenography at the Tullman School. Echoes of the times before the war still occasionally make themselves heard even In these comparatively remote days.

Lu clnda Taylor, who was once one of the slaves of Henry Clay, has been sent to the City Infirmary of Cincinnati. Jean Paul Laurens, Dagnnn-Bouveret, Au gustus St. CJaudens and John W. Alexander, the Jury in the case, has recently awarded to Sandor L. Landeau one of the prizes In painting offered by John Wannmnker to the American Art Association of Paris.

The subject of the picture Is "The Annunciation to the Shepherds. Over one hundred years ago the first directory of New York was published. The Vanderbllts, whose names appeared In It, were not the old commodore's ancestors. At that time the ancestors of the present multi-millionaires were farmers on Staten Island. It is stated by several English papers that Henry James, the novelist, has been offered an associate professorship of English at Harvard CoHcge.

One-bundred-year-olrt John P. Carroll, of Brooklyn, has applied for membership In the Grand Army of the Republic. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private in New York In spite of bis 61 years and when mustered out in 1S64 held the rank of sergeant. Miss Lottie Gllson, the well-known variety actress, is once more a bride, this being her third venture. Her present husband Is J.

K. Emmett, the actor, son of "Frlti Em-mett, the once famous German comedian. Mr. Emmett In his turn Is likewise the hero of three separate weddings. S.

T. Caves, of this city, Is at Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, for a two weeks' stay. A party of West Philadelphia young men have planned to spend their vacation this year in a manner somewhat out of the ordinary line. They have chartered the schooner yacht Vesper, and are going to spend a week or ten days cruising around the Dela ware Capes. The party will sail from the Pennsylvania Railroad lumber wharves at Reed street.

The following are the names of those comprising the party: J. Harry Cross, Charles Dennis, J. L. Knox, William Wltham, George Shannon, William Thomas, K. Anderson, 0.

Liebfrled, J. H. Miller, R. N. Fornian and C.

W. Calvert. Among the Phllndelphlans stopping at the Hotel Marlborough. Avon-by-the-Sea, are Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. B.

F. Stradley, Miss Emma L. Beason and llattie Williams. Dr. and Mrs.

William A. Capon, of Ger-mantown, who returned recently from their sojourn in Ashury Park, are spending the remainder of the summer at Nova Scotia and points North. Miss Ethel Barrymore is spending a few days with Mrs. Mitchell Rosengnrten at Devon. Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Dolan have sent out Invitations for a large entertnlnment at the Clambake Club, Newport, on August 22. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson Du Bols and daughter, of Fortieth and Pine streets, who have been passing some time at West Chester, left the city the early part of the week, accompanied by Miss Ellalee Tuttle, also of West Philadelphia, for a six weeks' sojourn at Lake Mlnnewaskl, sustain ia not so clear.

It may be that they will not take to it with enthusiasm when they find out what it means. Why criticise the Chinese at homo for being so conservative when even in this country they continue to hang on to the old lines. The North Carolina Lesson. Ti HE INEVITABLE has come in North Carolina. The disturbance between the white and the colored races in that State, that culmi nated in tho tragical revolution of the Wilmington government within the last year, clearly foreshadowed organized and relentless warfare by the great mass of the whites against negro domination in either local or State government.

North Carolina is the fourth State that has practically disfranchised the mass of the colored voters. The amendment to the national Constitution prohibiting discrimination against any race or condition in granting suffrage, is awkwardly evaded by applying the test of property or intelligence to suffrage and exempting from exclusion on account of illiteracy those who were qualified electors at the close of the war and their descendants. As the colored race had no right of suffrage before the war in any of the Southern States, and as all white citizens were then given suffrage regardless of property or intelligence, the exclusion in its practical application affects only the colored voters. The black race is thus substantially eliminated as a political power in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. It seems rather astounding at first blush that a number 'of Republicans and many of the more intelligent colored citizens of North Carolina voted for the new Constitution, but when the actual conditions are carefully considered it is not so much of a surprise.

The Repnb licairs know that they never can mak headway in political battles on the race issue, and they believe that with the negro eliminated from politics, the whites would divide on national and local ques tions and the. Republicans would have their opportunity to play an important part as a political factor. Many of the more intelligent colored citizens of North Carolina either supported the amendment or passively as sented to its adoption, because they un derstand that there never 'can be tran quility in the State while the race issue is vital in politics. For the present it makes North Carolina overwhelmingly Democratic, but with the race ltwue eliminated, that for many years has held the whites in political bondage because of the fear of negro supremacy, new po litical lines are likely to be speedily formed in the State and permanent Dem ocratic supremacy is far from being sure The Republican leaders naturally criti cise the revolution in North Carolina as practically disfranchising the colored race, but they should not be forgetful of the fact that the Republican national leaders themRolvea led in the enfran chisement and in the disfranchisement of the black man in the District of Columbia. He was given the ballot regardless of property or intelligence; a ter ritorial government was created by Congress; the local Legislature was elected by popular vote, and a Governor ap pointed by the President The negroes dominated the legislative power of the District of Columbia and ran riot in bauchery and profligacy.

The same Re publican power that thus first enfran chised the negro under the very shadow of the national capital, was finally com pelled to revoke that franchise and re store government by Congress and commission to the District. Thus South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina have simply followed in the footsteps of the Re publican national leaders, who first made the experiment of indiscriminate negro suffrage and who were compelled to make the first experiment absolutely re voking the franchise by placing the Dis trict of Columbia under a government entirely removed from the power of the people. It is simply the inevitable that has come to North Carolina, and that it has come in violence and lawlessness only proves how supreme was the necessity for eliminating the race issue in North Carolina. Ever since the news came that no money is to be put into Pennsylvania, while not in doubtful State the work ers are in an awful state. Return Keator to Harrisburg, THE RE1 Twenty-Be posed to tl REPUBLICANS of the second ward who are op- the return of S.

Quay to the United States Senate should refuse to be divided into two camps and thus insure the nomination of an avowed Quay Representative. The Republican candidates for Representative from this ward are John T. Harrison, Quay; John Keator, present Representative, anti-Quay, and John J. Crov.t, who has been charged with being a dummy candidate in the interest of Harrison, but who now publicly announces that ho is opposed to Quay and is not in the interest of any other candidate. So far as Mr.

Crout is concerned his statement, if an honest one, furnishes the best possible reason why he should not be a'eandidate at all. In the present situation ho cannot hope to be nominated, and if he earnestly desires Quay's defeat it is the duty of himself and friends to support Mr. Keator, who is the only candidate by whom Harrison can be beaten. If Mr. Crout's personal ambitions arc too strong to permit him to withdraw, the anti-Quay Republicans should support Keator without division, thus insuring hig nomination beyond a peradventure.

The district is doubtless anti-Quay, and the only possibility of losing it to the anti-Quay cause lies in a division of the anti-Quay vote. Apart from any question of Senatorial Representative Keator is deserving of the support of all the public-spirited citizens in his district. He has already served two terms at Harrisburg with marked distinction. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY BY THE TIMES COMPANY DAILY TIMES is served by carriers In this city and surrounding town for six cent a ween, A By mall. Three Dollars a year; per mouth, Ttrpntv-tWft Cents.

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MECHANICAL PEI'AKTMKNT, THE TIMES New Bulldlne. Sansom Street, above Eighth, NEW YORK OFFICE, 21 Park Kow, PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 4, 1900. Stop Hatching Assassins. IS XO LONGER an open secret I but a matter of notoriety, that in JL Chicago, Paterson, New York and other places in this country, we have openly organized Anarchists to pla the Assassination of rulers and Individuals at home and abroad, and proclaim tho theory that it is their right to murder high or low when they assume that they are oppressed. There is comparative safety for these murderous conspirators in this country if the crime they plan is executed out side of the jurisdiction of the United States.

It is more than probable that the murder of the King of Italy was deliberately planned in Paterson, New Jersey, and that Brescl simply executed the decree of a band of red-handed An- arehists. If the assassination had been perpetrated in this country they would be amenable to our laws as accessory be fore the fact, but as the assassination jwas committed in Italy, they are not an swerable to our laws unless extradited, and for that we do not seem to have any adequate treaty provision. When it is remembered that a score of -years ago the President of the United States was assassinated by one who had drank in the poisoned current of anarchy, and that within six years a French Pros-ident, a Spanish Frime Minister, an Aus trian Empress and an Italian King have been murdered by Anarchists, who openly boasted of their crime after having com mitted it, it is quite time that our gov ernment should lay a heavy hand upon these murderous conspirators. There is no safety to-day to the President of the United States or to any officer of the government, and there can be no safety to person or property in any condition of life as long as organized murderer openly teach assassination as a remedy of real or imaginary wrongs. It is within the power of Congress to halt these organized assassins.

A national law should be enacted imposing a severe penalty upon all who become conspirators to commit murder in this or any other land, if the conspiracy shall have originated or been maintained within the jurisdiction of this government If any in Paterson have been in the conspiracy to murder the King of Italy, they ought to be answerable to the laws of the government whose peace, order and safety they menace by teaching murder as a proper remedy for evils which the laws of the land would correct. We must cease to breed Anarchists in the United States, and the way 1o stop it is to enact a national law making every murderous conspirator answerable at the bar of justice. The worst about the Anarchist is that having lost his own, he may think a nation the better off by losing its head. The McKlnley Doctrine. IMPERIALISM has a natural development in the suggestion that "the McKinlcy doctrine" in Asia shall have the same effect as the Monroe doctrine in America, this country undertaking to prevent any power from intending its sovereignty there.

While this is the logical end of the administration's policy in China, Mr. McKinloy himself would hesitate to avow it as a settled doctrine. But if Monroe's American policy established a general rale of action, why not McKlnley 'g Asian policy? Everybody understands the Monroe doctrine, which made the United States the general protector of the western con tinent. We have outgrown that. We have spread across the Pacific, taking in sundry islands on the way, and now we are to assume responsibility for Asia.

As we defend the South American republics from European aggression, so we are to defend what Mr. Hay calls "the administrative and territorial entity" of China, even if we have to fight all including China, to do it This is the McKinloy doctrine, which makes the Monroe doctrine a back number. There are some who think this country would have enough to do if it did no more than mind its own business. The western hemisphere affords a tolerably field. Not to speak of the West Indies or of Nicaragua, there is Alaska, where we seem to have some trouble in preserving our own "territorial entity." Nor has our Asian expansion in the Philippines had such gratifying results as to entice us to larger ventures.

But ihe McKinley doctrine takes no note of little things like that. If we considered only onr own business, the people might be dissatisfied with the administration; but who would bother about practical affairs when it is a question of sustaining the President in bossing the universe? As England approved the Monroe doctrine as against the Holy Alliance, ro England now, having all she can manage in Asia, will cordially sustain the Mc-'Klnley doctrine, which forbids the other powers to encroach on her domain. Being just now preoccupied in enforcing her own doctrine in South Africa, she will be delegated to Invoke the McKinley doctrine for the protection of her frontier. If she can scoop a bit of the Alaska frontier in the bargain, so much the better. An administration that is going in for the control of China cannot waste attention upon details near home.

The McKinley doctrine is just the thing for England in the present emergency. When it interferes with her interesrs I STATED MEETINGS Monday, August 6, 2.30 P. meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission. Monday, August 8, 2 P. MRegular meeting of the Board of Surveyors, room 410, City Hall.

Tuesday, August 7, 10 A. M. Regular meeting of the Board of Health. Tuesday, August 7. noon In room 410, City Hall, opening of bids for recreation pier at Race street wharf, on the Delaware, and for experimental borings upon probable filtration bed sites.

August 7, 2 P. M. Regular meeting of the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings. Tuesday, August 2 P. M-Regular meeting of the Board of Highway Supervisors.

Tuesday, August 7, P. of property committee, Board of Education. Tuesday, August 14, 2 P. meeting of the Board of Charities and Correction. City officials made denials yesterday thnt the Mayor's long absence from Philadelphia has in any way Interfered with city work.

They declared that contractors employed by the city to do paving and repavlng, sewer construction and other work are so morally certain that they will get their warrants when the Mayor returns that they are uot a bit apprehensive. Several of the smaller contractors who are employed on the crumbs which fall from the municipal table are In sore need of money and. are suffering In the absence of Mayor Ashbridge. They are compelled to go on with their work to escape the Imposition of penalties nnd In order to continue are forced to borrow money from banks to meet running expenses. It will greatly relieve the general public to know thnt In all the city there is one man, and that be Is J.

Hampton Moore, aspirant to high political honors, who is in touch with Mayor Ashbridge. He kuows all about the Mayor's vacation. "Why," said he yesterday, "I know Just bow long he will be gone aud just where he Is each day and Just how to find him. He is traveling by the schedule which I helped to arrange for him." Moore ran his fingers through his long locks of hair, sighed, looked far Into Broad street, and then, swelling up with pride, said with emphasis: "And why shouldn't I know." Controller Walton again visited the new school building at Twelfth street and Allegheny avenue, where it was found a wed; ago that the contractor had not complied with all of the specifications of the contract. Many alterations had been made in the protection walls, which had not been properly built to prevent dampness, and the iron, nails were replaced by copper.

The granite has not yet been cut In eight point. The Controller Insisted that the work must meet with the approval of the Bureau of Building Inspection before any money will be paid on It. Inspector Alleu will have his report ready on Monday. City Solicitor Klnsey refused to make puhllc any details of the agreement which has been reached by the belrs of the late Dr. Evans, the Tnrls dntlst, and the ci'v, In the matter of the will by whtcli the city will receive $3,000,000.

The report on the local work Is prepared and will he suh. niltted to the Mayor when be returns. Receiver of Taxes Roney report for July 'nR fllf'd yesterday. It is: Receipts from I sources for the month amounted to I $1,500,64.72. As itemized in the Receiver's i report this sum Is apportioned as folln-vR: I City tax.

State tax, I tifurrii lees. uri through Bureau of Highways. surveys, 201. 32; from street vendors, $S20; from markets. from wharves nnd landings.

tire escapes, boiler inspection, electrical, $0S5; building inspectors. $2,783.55: gun powder, lodging house license, $2. Delinquent taxes to the city amounted to to the State, $385.35. The wills of the following persons were admitted to probate yesterday In the office of Register of Wills Hackett: John Hoskin, 1722 North Seventh street. William Reckhnrd, East Shawmont avenue, Valentine Hell.

2203 Oxford street, Helolse MIsehler, 2533 Christian street. Frederick Wizigmnn. 1311 Dor? street, $000; William Stokes. Geimant'iwn, Elizabeth Sylvester. 1000 Cooper street.

Camden. John G. Speidel. .103 Vln street, Fetor R. Kulicr, $200; Elizabeth Toy, 5115 James street, Christian Ehniann.

nnd Catharine McConklln, 2401 Hollenworth street, $1,500. Letters of administration were granted on the estates of John Walker, Emanuel R. Nagle. Elizabeth S. McGlue, Catharine M.

Conklln, Mary Emma Asblon and Ann Bortwell. The committee for awarding the Simon Muhr four years" scholarship In the University of Pennsylvania has nominated Nicholas Rosenbluth to the Board of City Trusts. Rosenbluth Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S.

Rosenbluth, superintendent and matron of the Jewish Hospital. He has received the Isaac A. Sheppard gold medal at the Central Manual Training School and was graduated from that Institution at the head of his class. ROBERT DUNLAP DEAD Special TelesTsm to The Times. Long Branch, August S.

Robert Dunlap, the hatter, died this afternoon of ptomaine poisoning at Monmouth Beach, aged B6 years. He had been in the hat business since 1853. A widow and five children survive him. Mr. Dunlap had secured passage for his wife and daughter on the steamship New York, and they were to have sailed next Wednesday.

Tellow Fever in Tampa. Tampa August 8 Agent Weedon, of the State Board of Health, to-day Issued a statement to the effect that there has been one death at Tampa from yellow fever, and that there are two cases known at present. The death was that of George Sonuenberg, a German, who succumbed yesterday morning. He was a tailor and had not been outside of the city for years. The only theory possible Is that he contracted the disease from cleaning clothes from eome infected point.

New Japanese Minister Received. Washington, Auguet 8. The new Japanese Minister, Kogoro Takahlra, laid his credentials before the President to-day. He came to the Stat Department In full dlnlomatlo dress Just before 11 o'clock this morning, accomnauled by Mr. Nnbeslilma, secretary of Legation.

Secretary Hay escorted them to the Vtinte House, wnere they were received by the President In the blue room. Archbishop Hennessy's Will. St. Paul, August 8. The will of the late Archbishop John Hennessy, of Dubuque, Iowa, has been filed for probate.

The estate amounts, to about $1,000,000. Two-fifths is divided among nine relatives, and the remainder between relatives and sisterhoods of the church. Avoid baldness, grsy hair, dnnnrufl ami thin locks, by using PARKER'S UAlIt BALSAM. GREYE'S OINTMENT makes a healthy akin, 50c. MISS ALICE At the Cramp shipyard yesterday active preparations were under way for the launch-lug of the steamship Sonoma next Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.

The new vessel wll be christened by Miss Alice von S. Samuels, bf 4433 Spruce street, West Philadelphia. Miss Samuels Is tho daughter of Captain William S. Samuels, Inspector of Lloyd a agency In this city. Ihe Sonoma Is one of three steamships being constructed for the Oceanic Steamship Company, commonly known as the Spreckels Line.

The first of these new ves sels, the Sierra, was launched several weeks ago. The third, the Ventura, will slip from the ways In about a month. CLOSELY VERGED ON HIGH TREASON Members of Parliament in Communication With Boers Before the War. THE LETTERS DISCOVERED London, August 3. In response to questions the Secretary for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, said today In the House of Commons that the Boer Governments in fleeing from Bloemfon-teln and Pretoria, left masses of private correspondence among the archives which the authorities on the spot were examining.

He had received Installments of this correspondence by the last two malls and he had Been Informed thnt more was to come. The portions he had seen were written previous to the war, and were chiefly letters of British subjects of the Cape nnd of the two republics. There were, however, copies of two letters that purported to have been written by an English member of the House of Commons, aud also letters and an extract from a letter writ ten by two other members of the House of Commons two days before the outbreaking of the war, couched In the form of open criticism, asking for Information regarding martial law and suggesting that President Kruger make temporary concessions and await a reaction In England. Letters Most Improper. In his opinion the letters were not treason able, Though certainly Improper while her Majesty was engaged in difficult negotiations.

He proposed to send the letters to the writers and ask If they desired to ex plain, and he would await a reply before de cidlng whether to publish them or not. The Under Secretary for the Colonies, the Earl of Selborne, was questioned in the House of Lords to-day concerning alleged treasonable correspondence, and In reply read the explanation which Mr. Chamberlain had made in the House of Commons. MORE BOERS SURRENDERED Idebeberg's Command Attacks Dor- rlen's Troops, But Are Repulsed. Cape Town, August 3.

Lleheberg's com mando attacked General Smltb-Dorrlen near Potchefstroom, but was easily repulsed. Genera Ian Hamilton has gone to Rusten- burg to bring away Baden-Powell's garri son. Seven hundred and fifty Boers have sur rendered to General Hunter. An official dispatch from Lord Roberts dated Pretoria, August 2, gives the date of Cieneral Sralth-Dorrlen's repulse of the Boers as July 81. The dispatch say: "In the morning a flag of truce, came to Smlth-Dorrlen's ramp demanding his sur render.

Before he could reply the Boers opened a heavy fire. The British losses were slight. "Inn Hamilton met with slight opposition at Vltboalsnek. His casualties were light." Kruger Appeals to the Boers. Pretoria.

August 3. President Kruger and Commandant General Botha have issued a proclamation promising to pay all damage done to the farms by the British, provided the burghers remain with the commandos. M'KINLEY LEAVES FOR CANTON Will Resume His Vacation In nis Quiet Ohio Homestead. Washington, August 8. President McKlnley left the city this evening on his return to Canton, Ohio, to resume his vucatlon.

Accompanying him were Charles G. Dawes, th Comptroller of the Currency, and Secretary Cortelyou. There was the usual number of persons around, and the usual guard of police and detectives were on hand to see that nothing befell the President. Postal Service Examinations. A competitive civil service examination for clerks and letter carriers In the classified postal service in Philadelphia will be held at room 28, fourth floor of the Tost OlBce, building, November 21.

VON S. SAMUELS When completed the Sonoma and her ister ships will engage In the trans-Pacific trade, between San Francisco and Australia! In general hull construction, beauty and comfort of Interior appointments the Sicra. Sonoma and Ventura will equal, If not surpass, the finest of trans-Atlajuie flyers. The dimensions of the new vessels are: Length between perpendiculars, 400 feet; moulded beam, 50 feet; loaded draft, 24 feet; displacement, 9, TOO tons, and an Indl-eated horsepower of 7,500. The contract speed Is 17 knots.

The engines are of the vertical, triple expansion type, revolving twin screws. Accommodations will be provided for nearly 400 passengers. MONEY READY TO BUILD THE CANAL Eyre-Crimmins Syndicate Will Take Immediate Advantage of Concession, WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE New York, August 3. John D. Crlmmins, of the syndicate formed to construct an Interocenanlc canal through Nicaragua, under the concession irlven hv the government of Nicaragua to Edward Eyre and Edward V.

Cragin. said to-day mai me company to construct the canal, organized under the laws of New Jersey, would proceed to carry out the terms of Its contract without delay. The capital needed has been secured and If the estimate of cost made for this gov-ment Is correct the canal ran be built for the same money, and probably for less. This estimate is about $130,000,000. Mr.

Crlmmins said that the company would prefer to have the government leave the matter in the company's hands, so as to permit private construction and operation of the canal for the benefit of the whole world. However, he added, the syndicate had no desire to embarrass the government and would defer to Its conception of policy. The route has uot been selected aud the company has liberty to choose any within the domain of Nicaragua. That preferred by this government would certainly have preference. The probablity is that the route will be that hitherto called the Nicaragua.

Mr. Crlmmins said: "Our concession Is perpetual. It gives us the right to police the country for ten miles on either side of the canal, whereas the Maritime Company's concession prtllclng was to be done by the Nicaragua Government, NEW SCHOLARSHIP AT UNIVERSITY William J. Latta Establishes One In Honor of His Great-Grandfather. "The James Latta Scholarship" has been established at the Unlverslty'of Pennsylva- nlt by William J.

Latta, formerly general agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, In honor of his great-grandfather, James Latta. Mr. Latta has given to the University a fund of $5,000, the interest of which shall be used to maintain the scholarship. James Latta was one of the six members of the first class graduated from the "Col-lege and Academy of Philadelphia," In 1757. He became a distinguished, member of the Tresbyterlan church and the third moderator of the General Assembly of the church in America.

He served as a private nnd chaplain In the Pennsylvania militia during the revolutionary war. WILL CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING John L. Thomas and Wife Have Seven Children and Fourteen Grandchildren. John L. Thomas and bis wife will celebrate their golden wedding a week from next Monday In their old home, at 3212 Hamilton street.

The occasion will be in the nnture of a family reunion, as there are seven children, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild living, who will all be present at the celebration. A golden gift will be given to the couple by their children, but It has not yet been decided what this will be. To be Appealed Direct. Assistant District Attorney Stewart with drew his motion for a reargument yesterday, before Judge McPherson, in the United States District Court, In the case of J. B.

Fleshinan against Collector of Internal Revenue Penrose A. McClaln. an action brought to recover $4,544.00 alleged excess of war revenue taxes collected on stock transactions. Mr. Stewart yesterday stated to the Court that the motion for reargument was desired to be withdrawn on behalf of the government because the Intention i to appeal the case direct to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals..