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THURSDAY MORNING. THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. AUGUST 31. 1899. 7 XPERT ESTABLISHES STERIAZI'S EVIL DOING.

EVIDENCE Bertillon's Ridiculous Theories About Dreyfus' Guilt Being Completely Knocked to Pieces. DREYFUS' FOES FALL OUT Dissensions Break Out Among the Chiefs of the General Staff Which May Lead to an Open Rupture. A SECRET SESSION FOR TO-DAY Major Hartman and Major Ducros, Star Witnesses for the Defense, Likely to Convince the Court of Dreyfus' Innocence. RENNES, August 30. The air of Rennes this evening is filled with rumors of conspiracies and predictions of coups de theatre, but nothing precise can be ascertained.

General Mercler's attihis followers in the case. He extremely tude during the last few days has my mystified clever, and the general feeling is that he is preparing something, the existence of which will be revealed in a few days. It is now accepted as beyond question that is a serious division of opinion on the generals. While the case there, was running smoothly against Captain Dreyfus they all pulled together, but since the tide of evidence began to turn in his favor, as was notably the case during the testimony of Captain Freystaetter and Colonel Cordier, which proved much more damaging to the general staff than the latter anticipated, certain dividing lines have become manifest between the various cliques. General Roget, Major Lauth, Captain Cuignet and M.

Gribelin, the principal keeper of the archives of the War Office, form one coterie; General Mercier and General Gonse form another, and General Billot and General de Bols- deffre a third. Some Plausible Hypotheses. According to one report, the first two coteries intend to throw over General de Boisdeffre, whom they feel to be faltering. and declare that he is responsible errors and illegalities of the of 1894. thus making him the scapegoat.

court martial According to another report General Roget, who was not implicated in 1894 and who even fought against Dreyfus because he inherited from his predecessors the responsibility for so doing and placed over-confidence in the accounts of matter furnished him by the general staff, will cut himself loose from Generals Mercier, Gonse and de Boisdeffre. This is a plausible hypothesis, since Roget has assumed throughout the role of defender of the army, thus making himself popular with the army and with a large section of the nation, and he probably would not lose by separating himself from the wrongdoers of 1894 and declaring that his opinion had been changed by the evidence given during the present trial. Another Story. Yet another story is that the generals are going to give way on the authorship of the bordereau in vlew of the strong expert evidence, and will admit that Esterhazy wrote it, alleging, however, that Dreyfus furnished the information, not direct to Esterhazy, but to 'without person, who acted as intermediary Dreyfus knowing Esterhazy. In this connection it was asserted this afternoon that Madame Rastian, who was housekeeper for Colonel Schwartzkoppen, the German military attache, in 1894, and who is understood to have acted as a French spy, has been seen in Rennes and will be summoned as a witness concerning Schwartzkoppen's espionage system.

All these rumors may be without foundation, but in any event they are symptomatic of the feeling in Rennes that something is going on under the surface and that the complexion of the trial may be altered by some coup at any moment. Was a Dreyfus Day. In the matter of evidence, to-day was quite a Dreyfus day, only the deposition of the last witness, General Deloye, being unfavorable. The testimony of M. Picot, a member of the Institute, is little likely, however, to serve the cause of the accused materially, if at all, because his introduction of Colonel Schneider, the Austrian military attache, as a champion of Dreyfus was rather calculated to arouse resentment and adversely to influence the Judges, especially as it was followed by General Roget's tactful protest against Colonel Schnelder'e uncomplimentary allusions to French officers.

To-morrow's proceedings, behind closed doors, will deal with the question whether Captain Dreyfus was in a position to divulge the information regarding the artillery which was promised in the bordereau. The session will be very Important and is bound to have a tremendous influence upon the Judges one way or another, because they are all artillery officers and will be able to appreciate such evidence better than the cryptographic intricacies that have been laid before them by the handwriting experts. Star Witnesses for Dreyfus. The Dreyfusards express confidence that their artillery witnesses, Major Hartman and Major Ducros, will effectively satisfy the Judges that Dreyfus was ignorant of the matters mentioned in the bordereau, or as an artillery officer would not have been guilty of stating the errors which it con- tained. The court room continues crowded and quite a number of ladies now succeed in obtaining admission.

Town loafers are outside making a regular business of forming a queu the entrance to the public park and court room as early as 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and selling places at from three to five francs, according to position. The ordinary public, arriving at 5 or 6 in the morning, must purchase these places, because only a limited number can secure even standing room. The local papers publish the doubtful statement that Charles de Freycinet, on leaving the court room yesterday after his deposition, remarked to a friend: "I am leaving an atmosphere of acquittal." SIDELIGHTS ON ESTERHAZY'S CHARACTER The Ex-French Officer in the Pay of the German Government. Rennes, August first witness today, M. Paul Meyer, member of the Institute and director of the School of Ancient Manuscript, described his researches in connection with the Dreyfus case, which led to bis conviction that the bordereau was not only In Esterhazy's handwriting, but was actually written by Esterhazy.

The witness explained that in his evidence before the Assizes Court he was unable to be so positive In regard to the writer, because he had only seen a fac-simile of the bordereau, but at the Court of Cassation he saw the original bordereau. "I convinced myself," said M. Meyer, "by a magnifying glass that the bordereau was written in a free hand and without hesita. ments, enumerated, were referred to, the fact being that others were padding, meant to swell the dossier." Esterhazy's. Scoundrelism.

In regard to Esterhazy the attache, M. Picot said, declared that he considered him a swindler. The attache also asserted that Esterhazy had relations with Colonel Schwartzkoppf, who dismissed him because Esterhazy only brought information devoid of interest. continued M. Picot, that Esterhazy tried' to enter the War Office and almost succeeded, then that he wrote to Colonel Schwartzkoppf the letter since known as the bordereau.

In reply to the writer of the bordereau, added M. Picot, Colonel Schwartzkoppf wrote the telegram card, known as the Petit Bleu, but, on reflection, he crumpled it up and threw it in the fireplace. At this juncture General Roget asked leave to speak, and stationing himself beside the witness, he said he must strongly protest against M. Picot's evidence regarding the military's attache's surprise that French officers did not believe their foreign colleagues. "What does the witness think," continued General Roget, the foreign officer who, baving caused the publication in the Figaro of an emphatic denial of a statement of General Mercier, was afterwards obliged to acknowledge the authorship of a document, the paternity of which he at first M.

Picot retorted that he had only repeated statements made to him and had abstained from comments on them. He had, therefore, nothing to say in reply to General Roget's questions. The Foreign Official's Mistake. M. Demange, intervening, asked General Roget if he did not think the foreign offleer's mistake was excusable, since the word "report" had been applied to a document not possessing the character of the report.

"It is not for me to accuse or excuse," replied the general. "I confine myself to pointIng out to the court that the conversation repented occurred in May, that is to say, at the time the investigation of the Court of Cassation was already known. For my part I only intervened because French officers have been arraigned, and when being accused French officers have the right to General Deloye repeated his testimony hefore the Court of Cassation relating to the 120 short cannon hydro-pneumatic brake and the Robin shell. Dreyfus, in reply, made a really clear statement, explaining that he saw the hydropneumatic brake once at Bourges, once at the School of War, and that he never saw it used because, while on the general staff, he was never present at firing practice. Major Carriere, then made his application to have the court sit behind closed doors tomorrow, explaining that he desired to submit to the court certain documents prepared by the Gunnery Bureau, containing Information which it was not desirable to discuss In public.

The court, after deliberation, granted the application and also acceded to the request of the defense that their witness, Major Hartmann, of the artillery, be allowed to be present, as he would give important testimony showing that Dreyfus could not have written the paragraphs in the bordereau concerning artillery. LOVERS OF JUSTICE THEY Learned Men Who Have Come Forward to Level the Structure of Fraud Built by Dreyfus' Enemies. Special Cablegram to THE TIMES. (Copyrighted, 1899, by the Chicago Record). Rennes, August 30.

With yesterday ended the examination of mere handwriting experts. This morn- BAR ASSOCIATION MAKES MANDERSON ITS PRESIDENT CHARLES F. MANDERSON PAUL MEYER, Member of the French Institute and Director of the School of Ancient Manuscripts, AUGUSTE MOLINIER, Professor of the School of Ancient Manuscripts, and M. GIRY, also Professor of the School of Ancient Manuscripts, Testified yesterday that the bordereau was unquestionably Written by ESTERHAZY. tion, whereas it is precisely hesitation in the formation of the strokes which reveals the use of a method of tracing.

I can affirm of Esterhazy. That is perfectly clear to me." that it is in the writing and in, the very hand At the conclusion of his testimony the w'tness gave a demonstration of the fallacy of the Bertillon system. Professor Auguste Molinier, of the School of Ancient Manuscripts, gave similar evidence. He said that each fresh examination of the bordereau only served to further convince him that it was the work of Esterhazy. The Court Becomes Interested.

dudgeon. On Dangerous Ground. Amid deep attention the witness demonstrated how the conclusions of the experts who attributed the bordereau to Dreyfus were mutually destructive, and dwelt on the defects of M. Bertillon's arguments, pointing out the striking resemblance of the alleged doctored handwriting with Esterhazy's writing, who, he added, in everybody's opinion, had relations with Colonel Schwartzkoppf, the former German military attache at Paris, and the dissimilarities between the writing of the bordereau and that of the prisoner. The members of the court-martial were apparently much interested, and asked Professor Molinier a number questions, to which he replied, upholding 'his" conclusion that Esterhazy was the writer of the bordereau.

Professor Giry, also of the School of Ancient Manuscripts, traversed ground similar to that covered by Professor Molinier. He said the bordereau only had a superficial likeness to Dreyfus' handwriting and ed that it was certainly the work of Esterhazy. The witness also said the bordereau was not written with the aid of key-words. M. Bertillon, at this juncture, said he desired to speak, but the president of the court, Colonel Jouaust, hastily rose and said, amidst laughter: "The sitting is Then M.

Bertillon resumed his seat in high On the resumption of the sitting M. Georges Picot, a member of the Institute, was called for the defense. Maltre Demange, of counsel for the prisoner, explaining that Picot was summoned because, in May last. he had an interview with a foreign military attache, in the course of which mention was American Lawyers at Buffalo Also Pass Resolutions of Sympathy With Labori. BUFFALO, August 30.

Vice President Manderson called the American Bar Association to order to A resolution expressing sympathy with M. Labori in his suffering and his struggle for justice in the Dreyfus case was again Introduced and met with much opposition, some belleving it might work evil to Dreyfus. It was finally carried by a vote of 130 to 69. Following is the text of the Laborl resolution: "Resolved, That, without intending to pass upon the merits of the against Captain Dreyfus, the American Bar Association assure their professional brother, Maltre Labori, of their sympathy for his suffering from an assault upon him while in the discharge of his duty to his client, and express their appreciation of his steadfast courage, and that this resolution be cabled made of the document Inserted in the dossier by General Mercier. Colonel Jouaust recommended the witness to be very cautious in his statements.

After promising to exercise care M. Picot started with saying that he had an interview with the Austro-Hungarian military attache. Colonel Jouaust stopped the witness, saying: "You cannot continue like this." Major Carriere, the government commissary, also exclaimed, sharply: "I protest in the name of the government and the state against the Indiscretion committed by the M. Picot then recommenced his testimony, saying he had an interview with "a certain military attache," and that the conversation turned upon the Dreyfus case. The attache expressed surprise at the "Incorrect attitude of French officers" in doubting the word of foreign officers.

"My impression," added the witness, "was that he was anxious to assert firmly and unequivocally the absolute innocence of Dreyfus." (Sensation.) "Regarding the bordereau," continued M. Picot, "the attache said only three docu-' throw themselves into the melee and agitation and turmoll of everyday life, they came forward like true men, and their evldence tended a good deal to level the structure of perjury and fraud erected by the enemies of Dreyfus. BERNHARD LAZARE. HAD TO BE BATHED IN VICHY AND CHAMPAGNE Guerin's Slok Colleagues in Terrible Straits for Water. Special Cablegram to THE TIMES.

(Copyrighted, 1899, by the Chicago Record). Paris, August: 30. The unwavering crowd in the Chabrol were rewarded for their patience by seeing Guerin appear on the roof in the midst of a pouring rain this afternoon. Guerin was there more for a practical purpose this time than for making sport of the police, for whom he loses no opportunity to show his contempt. He placed oil cloths, buckets and tin pans on the roof, trying to catch the rain water.

The rain stopped, however, after five minutes, and then the police had their turn to laugh. Undoubtedly this is not stage play on Guerin's part. There is absolutely no water left for the fever stricken inmates, who had to be bathed in Vichy and champagne yesterday. The situation is growing daily more aggravated, yet there is no sign of which side is to yield. M.

Loubet's refusal to see a committee of the Christian Women's League, who came to intercede for the starving men, has won hundreds of more friends for Guerin. His anti-Semite colleagues now say that he has probably gotten into such a hysterical state that he should no longer be judged entirely responsible. The feeling seems to be growing among all classes that the time has come when this thing should end. People say that the government should, at all costs, end this torture worthy of the middie ages. The commerce of, the neighborhood suffers, and an outbreak of pestilence is feared, but still no word comes from the Ministry of the Interior to give a hint how long this state of things will continue.

MIDDLETON. SPANISH ATTACHE INVOLVED Marquis De Valoarlos Said to Have Been Mixed Up in the Dreyfus Affair. Special Cablegram to THE TIMES. (Copyrighted, 1899, by the Chicago Record). Paris, August 30.

The latest victim in the Dreyfus affair is the Marquis de Valcarlos, the military attache of the Spanish Embassy in Paris and one of the best known figures in Parisian society. The Madrid Government, according to semi-official dispatches, has just put him in retreat on account of the role he has played in the affair, and which is said to have been of a character so grave that it has hitherto been carefully concealed by the people in the Spanish Embassy here. It is said the Spanish Government has no details in this matter except those furnished by a bitter article that lately appeared In the Figaro. The Marquis himeelf has come post haste to Paris from Dieppe, where he had been spending his vacation in order to bring suit against the Figaro. The latter says the attache would do much better not to force it to go Into further details or he will And himself called up before the 1 Rennes -martial.

The entire Spanish Embassy is very angry over the matter, refusing to speak about it, but waiting to see what the Marquis has to say on the subject. De Valcarlos has lived in Parls for thirty years, and this is not the Arst. time he has been accused of being too much interested in French domestic troubles. He was also suspected of some political tinkerIng in the Boulanger affair. His private hotel was hermetically closed up early this morning.

When the news was first announced It was feared that the government would make a fiasco by summoning him to court. MIDDLETON, DE CLAM EXAMINED The Sick Officer Believed to Have Made Sensational Revelations. Parle, August Tavernier, acting under the Rogatory Commission, issued by Colonel Jouaust, president of the Dreyfus court-martial, questioned Colonel Du Paty de Clam yesterday afternoon, and will continue the examination to-day. According to the Matin, Colonel Du Paty de Clam made sensational revelations. ASBURY PARK'S HONESTY A Man Recovers 8 Satchel of Lost lamonds.

Special Telegram to THE TIMES. Asbury Park, August 30. The people of Asbury Park point with pride to-day to their town and claim that It is the only place on earth except the Onelda community where a man might lose a bag of diamonds to-day and find them at the same hour to-morrow where he thought he had left them. This is the story of Augustus Vanderveer, a regular messenger between Asbury and New York. He was intrusted with seven hundred dollars' worth of diamonds in a satchel, which he was to take to New York to another jeweler.

Augustus went into the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank to get some money yesterday morning. He had the satchel of diamonds when he entered. He hurried from the bank, caught the train and arrived in New York minus the satchel. He was wild with apprehension, hurried home, told his neighbors and the police of his loss and the man who sent him with them offered a large reward for the diamonds. They were not recovered last night, but this morning Walter Hubbard, of the bank, sought Augustus and told him he had picked up the satchel, put it in his desk in the bank and-Here It was! Walter will be rewarded and Asbury Park 1s proud of itself.

Condensed Cablegrams Two new serious cases of bubonic plague are officially reported in Oporto. Emperor William arrived in Prague yesterday on his way to the manoeuvres. He addressed crowds of German Sezechs and expressed his good wishes for the welfare of Bohemia. The officials of the London Colonial Office say no advances have been made by France looking to the abandonment of the Newfoundland treaty and fishing rights. That France would do so without a quid pro quo is said to be utterly improbable.

In Frankfort-on-Main yesterday Senator Mark Hanna had a long conference with the United States Ambassador to Germany, Andrew D. White, who came from Homburg, and Consul General Guenther, on the present and prospective German-American relations. The semi-official North German Gazette, giving the terms of the new postal agreement with the United States yesterday says the arrangement will result in considerable benefit to German exports and forms a new bond of interest between Germany and America. The Diarlo de la Marina, of Havana, says that none of the cattle which is being imported Into Cuba is fit for human consumption. The paper adds that a quarantine should be Insisted on.

The Diario gives the case of one shipment of cattle where forty-five head dled during the voyage. As the result of correspondence between John E. Redmond, member of Parliament for Waterford city, and leader of the Parnellite Nationalists, and Timothy M. Healy, Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Louth, a further conference of all branches of the Nationalist members of Parliament will be held to consider the question of the unity of the Irish party in Parliament. PRESS AGENT HAS BUSY DAY Enterprising Gloucester Advertising Man Worked Afternoon Papers With Weird Elopement.

AND WON MUCH FAME The press agent of the variety show at the Gloucester Opera House can take a front seat. Unknown yesterday-to-day he has taken a sudden leap to fame. Beside the latest outpouring of his genius Anna Held's milk baths are mere matinees, Bonnie Thornton's stolen diamonds are commonplace and even Tody Hamilton's laurels are withered. So runs the tale. Last Saturday it was announced at the Opera House that on Tuesday night Marie Achuff would in the presence of everyone who paid trifling sum of a quarter be joined in the holy bonds of matrimony to Roy Melville, the artist who does the cakewalk with her.

It is impossible not to believe that at this point the old press agent was discharged for some unknown reason and a new man engaged. Perhaps the following conversation ensued between the newcomer and the manager. was sorry to lose Jim, but I had to let him go. He had ideas. You know about our wedding?" New Press wedding?" our cakewalkers, Achuff and Melville.

Public wedding right on the stage with all the lime light. That was Jim's idea." New Press wedding? Why, man, that's 60 old it's never done any more in the profession. Why, even the clothing stores have them in their windows now. adays." Manager we've got to do something. It's all announced." New Idea Born.

The new press agent thought until the divine fire came. Then he whispered something to the manager. The latter beamed. "If you can get up things like this." be said, "you're all right. It gives us two Tuesday night the house was well filled.

Achuff and Melville were to do their cakewalk and be married later. The time came round. The cakewalkers did not appear. The manager came out. "Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Achuff has eloped with another man," he said.

"Even now Mr. Melville is rushing up and down the board walk, still in his hobo costume, madly trying to find her. Miss. Achuff made a real jump of twenty feet out of a window to meet the man she loved." It was true. Mr.

Melville, In costume, was striding along the boards exclaiming, "Where is my Marie? Who has taken her? S'death!" He did He went over to Philadelphia with Mrs. Barnes, Marie's mother, to Sixty-Afth and Vine streets, where the mother and daughter and the latter's professional partner boarded, and on the way notified the pollce that his intended bride had eloped with another. Nor did he forget to mention the twenty-foot jump from the dressing room to the ground. The news was sent to pollce headquarters and reached the afternoon newspapers. Yesterday morning reporters were sent to Gloucester.

The press agent told of the thrilling twenty-foot leap, of a mysterious New York man who had haunted the place since Marie had joined the troupe two weeks before, and of Melville's frantic search in costume for his lost bride-elect. He darkly hinted that Mrs. Barnes had tried to force the girl to marry Melville, and that Marie had refused. Then as a final stroke of genlus, he showed the reporter two deep footprints below the dressing room window, and with a rope measured the distance from the window to the ground. It was twenty feet.

The reporters bit. "Risked Her Life Sooner Than Wed" one paper headed It yesterday. "Fled to Avoid a Husband' caroled another. The press agent got, all told, three columns and a half of reading matter In prominent portions of the papers. There is no comment necessary on what happened at the Gloucester Opera House last night.

Needless to say, Marie turned up as "mysteriously" as she had fled, and before 300 people was "joined in the holy bonds of matrimony" to Roy Melville. The manager had secured his "two houses." BARON ALBERT GRANT DEAD The Noted Promoter Who Floated the Emma Silver Mine Fraud. London, August Albert Grant, the company promoter, is dead. His title was conferred on him by King Humbert In 1868 for services in connection with the Victor Emanuel Gallery at Milan. Grant was the Hooley of his day.

Grant was best known in connection with the Emma Silver Mine scandal. The capital was fixed at a million shares of twenty pounds sterling. Three members of Parlinment were on the board of directors, and R. C. Schenck, the United States Minister to Great Britain, was also a director.

This was considered a masterpiece of promotion, as Mr. Schenck's name inspired great confidence. The prospectus showed that a dividend of 80 per cent. was possible. Two Americans, Park and Stewart, were the ven.

dors of the mine, turned out to be worthless. Only a shilling per share WAS saved from the wreck, and it afterwards developed that Park and Stewart paid Grant one hundred thousand pounds promoting money, besides other sums. Mr. Schenck is also said to have received ten thousand pounds from Park to buy shares and become a director. A report on the mine, purporting to come from Professor Gillman, of Yale, was pronounced to be a forgery, Before the actions brought against Grant, the directors and Park and Stewart were decided Grant failed and the trustee appointed by the court decamped with the proceeds of Grant's estate.

During the days of his prosperity, Grant presented Leicester Square to London at a cost of thirty thousand pounds and built a magnificent Italian marble palace at a cost of one million pounds. MAHDI'S TWO SONS KILLED Were Slain by British Troops While Resisting Arrest. London, August Sirdar, General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, has cabled the Foreign Office that the Mahdi's two sons have been killed by British troops while resisting arrest at the village of Shukaba. A force of British troops had been dispatched there, consequence of a reported Mahdist insurrection on the Blue Nile, Instigated by Malifa Cherif and the Mahdi's sons. The latter had been living, under supervision, at Shukaba.

On the arrival of the troops the Dervishes met them with a warm fire. During the fight the Cherif and the Mahdi's sons were killed and the village was burned. The Coming Musical Treat at Atlantic City. September 1, 2 and 3 Professor Innes promises to give to the music loving public a series of musical festivals, and his reputation as a band master and his famous fifty are sure to attract the widest attention. The splendidly equipped trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad, both from Market street wharf and Broad Street Station, will all remain in service until past these dates, so that the facilities for reaching the shore will be ample.

Cannot Pay Mine Workers' Scale. Springfield, August operators of coal mines in the Chicago and Alton subdistrict held a conference at the Leland Hotel last night and decided that they could not pay the scale for mining asked by the Uuited Mine Workers of America, unless they operated their mines at A loss, and reached the conclusion that they would allow their mines to remain Idle. A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IN THE TRANSVAAL President Kruger, Realizing the Isolation of the Republic, Said to Have Backed Down. NO HOPE OF EUROPEAN AID Special Cablegram to THE TIMES. (Copyrighted, 1899, by the Chicago Record).

LONDON, August 30. My dispatch yesterday that President Kruger had been informed not to expect assist. ance from any of the European powers has been officially confirmed in continental capitals to-day. The last hope cherished at Pretoria, and which was momentarily fostered by the news of the Anglo-Russian friction at Hankow, has now vanished. I have the highest authority for saying that Russia has not the slightest intention of interfering in the Transvaal dispute.

The dispatches to-day do not suggest a solution of the trouble, but the great Anancial houses of London have reliable advices that Kruger has decided at the eleventh hour to back down. This opinion produced an upward reaction in the London and Paris Exchanges more than equaling the slump following Chamberlain's speech. HORACE TOWNSEND. CHAMBERLAIN SENDS KRUGER ANOTHER DISPATCH Another Conference, This Time at Cape Town, is Within the Possibilities. Pretoria, Transvaal Republic, August The British diplomatic agent here, Conyngham Greene, has handed to the Secretary of State, F.

W. Reitz, the reply of the British Secretary of State of the Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, to the Transvaal's alternative proposals to the joint commission suggested by Great Britain to Inquire into the effect which the proposed franchise reform measures will have upon the Outlanders. Mr. Greene afterwards had a long audience with the State officials.

The nature of the dispatch is not disclosed, but was subject to the consideration of the executive this after. noon. It is understood that another conference may occur at Cape Town. The result is anxiously awaited. PROSPECTS OF PEACE STILL Kruger Strongly Urged to Do Everything to Avert War.

Cape Town, August 16 said In Afrikander circles here that in spite of the persistent warlike rumors there are good prospects of peace. It is believed that several strongly-worded communications have been addressed to President Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, urging the desirability of ueing every effort to obtain a peaceful solution trouble. Hon. William P. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, has telegraphed to President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, earnestly expressing the hope that peace will be preserved and declaring his confidence that he (President Steyn) would do his utmost to this end.

At the meeting of the Scandinavians, of Johannesburg, just held, them voted in favor of forming a volunteer corps In case of war. A deputation of Outlanders has called on the Britieh agent at Pretoria regarding the trade depression. merchant whose stock is valued at £40,000 said his daily sales now were about £8. AMERICA ASKED TO INTERFERE Our Countrymen In the Transvaal Present Their Grievances to Secretary Hay. Washington, August American interests in the Rand are making strenuous efforts to induce the United States ment to co-operate with Great Britain In demanding justice for the Uitlanders in the York, representing an aggregation AmerTransvaal.

To-day Mr. Seymour, off Ican Interests, in South Africa, called upon Secretary and had a long conference, pointing out that about a thousand Americans were among the persons who are seeking to, benefit through the intervention of the British Government and urging that they were entitled to the protection of their own government. Secretary Hay assurance that the State Department would do everything possible to look after American citizens in South Africa, but could not give any undertaking to interfere in the political phase of the dif- ficulty. WARNING TO KRUGER Can Expect No Aid From the Leading Powers of Europe. Berlin, August Neueste Nachrichten, which reiterates declaration reof hostilities in the says: "The garding European neutralits, in the event Boers should have fought the question on the basis of the Bloemfontein sphere of discussion.

The anti-Boer feeling in Great Britain would pass away if Great Britain's demands were granted. "France without Russia cannot stir finger, and Russia will not. Austria-Hungary declared neutrality in 1896, and Italy will do nothing. Firmly convinced that the German Government will maintain the strictest neutrality, we consider It all the more our duty to warn the Transvaal againet a destructive polley. Transvaal Police Officers Arrested.

Lourenzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, Auguat 30. -Two Transvaal police officers were arrested to-day upon their arrival here. COLONEL LAMBERT WEDS The Former Insurance Commissioner Takes Unto Himself a Blushing Bride. Colonel James H. Lambert, of the Press, and former Insurance Commissioner, was married yesterday morning to Miss Mary Margaret Weston, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. Henry Weston. The ceremony, which was attended only by the immediate members of the two familles, took place at the residence of the bride's parents, Red Lion road, Torresdale, Rev. Gerald P. Coghian offciating.

The house was prettily decorated with a profusion of plants and flowers and breakfast was served. The couple will take a wedding trip of some weeks. A GIBRALTAR FOR VIRGINIA Secretary Root Approves Plans for Fort Monroe Defenses, Which WIll Make It Impregnable. Washington, August Root has approved the new project for the fortifications at Fort Monroe, Va. Under it there will be a saving to the government of about $3,000,000, as compared with the project submitted and adopted about ten years ago, while in the opinion of the engineers the defenses will be absolutely impregnable.

Carrier Pigeons for Military Service. London, August consignment of carrier pigeons for military service sent to-day from Dover to the United States. FINAL CLEARING SALE OF ALL Serge Suits $5, $7.50, $10 Former Prices $10, $12.50, $15 and $20 We A make the best Serge Suits and sell the most. Our styles are always new and fresh because we never have Good G. A.

R. Flannel. Suits, Fast $7.50 to Color. $12.50. any old stock to sell.

Our present stock of serges is being closed out at half price to prevent carrying over to next season. THOMPSON'S SONS 1338 Chestnut St. Excursions DENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD (West Jersey and Seashore R. POPULAR ROUTE TO THE SEA Announcement for September, 1899, of the $1.00 EXCURSIONS to Atlantic City. Sea Isle City, Cape May, Ocean City, Anglesea, Avalon, Wildwood, Peermont.

Holly Beach, Stone Harbor as follows: Excursion Train will leave Philadelphia (Market St. Wharf) For Atlantic City Week-days from Sept. 1 to 4, inclusive, 7.00 A.M, Week-days from Sep. 5 to 11, inclusive. 7.30 A.M.

Sunday, September 3... 7.00 A.M. Sundays, September 10, 17 and 24..... 7.30 A.M. Returning, leave ATLANTIO CITY (Sea View Excursion House): Week-days from Sept.

1 to 11, inclusive 6.05 P.M. Sundays during 6.05 P.M. For all other points above-mentioned the Excursion Train will leave Philadelphia (Market St. Wharf) as follows: Week-days from Sep. 1 to 11, at 7.00 A.M.

Sundays, Sept. 3, 10. 17 and 24 7.30 A.M. RETURNING: W'k-days. W'k-days.

Suns. Leave. P.M. P.M. Leave.

P.M. P.M. Cape 5.30 5.30 Holly 5.18 5.10 Sea Isle City 6.05 6.10 Avalon 5.00 5.30 Ocean 5.30 5.35 4.56 5.26 5.28 5.19 Stone Harbor. 4.50 5.20 Wild wood 5.21 5.13 The above trains will stop at Haddon Avenues The Ocean City train will stop at Corson's Inlet, and the Stone Harbor train at Townsend's Inlet. J.

R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. GEO. W. BOYD, Ass't Gen'l Pass.

Agent. GEO. B. FERRIER, Division Ticket Agent. EXCURSIONS ON THE UPPER DELAWARE Steamers Columbia and John A.

Warner leave Pler 8, above Chestnut for Bristol, 7.30 A. (Sundays 8 A. 2.00, 3.30 and 6.00 P. M. (7.80 A.

M. and 3.30 P. M. boats stop at Delanco). Leave Bristol 7 and 10 A.

M. and 4 and 6 P. Excursion 40 one way 25 cts. FOR TRENTON, N. J.

Str. Trenton 8 A. M. Str. Twilight 4 P.

M. Leave Trenton 3.30 P. M. Leave Trenton 7.45 A. M.

Excursion tickets 50 one way 40 ets. WASHINGTON PARK ON THE DELAWARE Electric LIBERATI'S Fountain, BAND, 8.45 75 Men FREE Boats from Arch Street. Round trip, 15c. STEAMER THOMAS CLYDE THOMAS for WOODLAND BEACH, stopping at CLYDE Chester, Pennsgrove daily. Wed.

stop THOMAS Chester, Pennsgrove, New Castle, Del. CLYDE City. Smyrna stage connects. Open THOMAS Dates, 40 per cent, profit. Charter for CLYDE moonlights.

Leaves Arch St. Wharf 8 A. M. daily. JAMES E.

OTIS (No. 3 Arch Manager. TEAMER POKANOKET-FOR BRISTOL, Florence, White Hill and Trenton: Arch St. Wharf. 4 P.

except Saturday and Sunday, Saturday and Sunday. 10.45 A. 5.30 P. M. CHURCH FAIR AND ITS MUSIC Creates Consternation Among Women in Downtown Sec-, tion, Who Protest, PASTOR BURT DEFENDS IT Once again there is trouble on the lot at Fourth and Tasker streets.

This time a church fair which is being held there by the Messiah Methodist Church is the disturbing element in the opinion of some of the women residents of the neighborhood. The fair opened on Monday and the objectors to the project were much chagrined. All that day there was a continual buzz of gossip over the side fences. But greater consternation prevalled when at evening a caroussel which had been set up during afternoon was started on its rounds to the musle of a none-too-musical organ. Two Kinds of Noise.

to Maltre Labori at Rennes by the secretary on behalf of this association." The committee appointed to devise a plan of observing February 4, 1901, as "John Marshall reported, and the report was adopted. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Charles F. Manderson, of Nebraska; secretary (re-elected), John Hinkley, of Maryland; treasurer (re-elected), Francis Rawle, of Pennsylvania; executive committee, Edmund Wetmore, of New York; U. M. Rose, of Arkansas, and Charles Noble, of Wisconsin.

A vice president from each State was chosen. After transacting further routine business the conference adjourned without date. Many of the members will remain here to attend the conference of the International Bar Association, beginning to-morrow. ing we listened, not to experts alone, but to scholars whose reputations are not confined to France, but are spread throughout the world. They--those grand men who have maintained the glorious name of France, those elete of the elete in science and literature-declared to-day that Dreyfus never wrote the bordereau attributed to him, but that it was the work of Esterhazy.

They also came forward to attest the same truth on the day in the battle of the Zola trial, when these witnesses, the friends of truth, were insulted by paid bands of ruffians. They came to the front again when they appeared before the Court of Cassation to repeat their former testimony, and once more this morning they stood before the court-martial more decided, if possible, than they were and presenting still stronger arguments in support of the same theses. Abandoning their old habits of isolation in pursult of their solitary studies in order to The fair is drawing large crowds, and these, it is claimed, make a great noise, which, to say the least, does not barmonize with the music of the organ of the caroussel. Although they have talked and sebemed, no way to get rid of the fair, or at least of the merry-go-round, has been hit upon. It 1s suggested, however, that the lot belongs to the city and should not be devoted to other Interests, not even those of a church which has a debt upon its edifice.

Therefore it is talked about that a petition will be sent to the Chief of the Bureau of City Property asking him to revoke the permit. Incidentally it is argued that he had no right to grant the permit. Rev. 0. C.

Burt, the pastor of Messiah Church, said yesterday that there is absolutely no reason for complaint. He said that it was necessary to do something to raise money to pay off the church's indebtedness, and it was decided to hold the fair, which has been highly successful. "Many of the residents," he continued, "have spoken of the good order which has prevalled, and I see no reason why anyone should object except that they are prejudiced against the fair. We close promptly at 10 o'clock and surely nobody's sleep is WHAT THE STARS SAY AUGUST 81, 1899. By the English Astrologist, Raphael.

Be very careful and run no risks. Beware of law and quarreling. Your birthday 1s an unfortunate one and your business will cause you much anxiety. A child born on this day will be headstrong, restless, rash and wilful and will not be fortunate. MASON HAMLIN AT 1710 FISCHER'S Chestnut PIANOS.