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A LIST O f fatalities iaid to have
leen obtained from the office 6f
the Federal f Surgeon General at
Manila says the Philadelphia
Record shows tht . twenty-three
officers, 699 enlisted men and four
teen civilians attached to the army
in the Philippines had--died of
wounds or disease up to June 2
last. This is quite a heavy rate of
mortality for twhat has been prac
tically a four months guerrilla
campaign, and when to the 736
dead are added the thousands
wounded or sick in hospitals the
urgent need of re-enforcements
may be readily recognized. We
are paying rather dearly, good
friends, for our Philippine whistle J
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 1899.
One of the labor complications
following the annexation of Hawaii
to this country has. been brought
strongly to the consideration of the
government. A few days ago the
commissioner of the bureau of im
migration was notified that one
thousand Italians, under contract
to work on the sugar plantations
of Hawaii, were about to reach
New York in transit to San Fran
Cisco. The commissioner was asked
what steps would have to be
taken under the law to allow them
to pass through the United States.
The failure of congress, at the last
session, to take action with a view
to meeting just such a contingency
leayes the T commissioner of immi
gration without authority to act,
and the anomaly is presented that
contract laborers who would be re
fused admittance to this country
can pass through the United States
and find welcome in one of its Isl
and possessions. The failure of
congress to act, therefore, left the
door wide open for violations of
the immigration laws, an advant
age which the Hawaiin sugar plant
ers have not failed to seize and by
which they will enrich themselves
at the expense of the sugar pro
ducers of Louisiana and the West.
Each pf these laborers, it is learned
by the bureau, is bound for a three
years' term of service aj wages
which the lowest type of American
laborers would spurn and which
are subject to a further reduction
by a system of fines imposed for
failure to carry out the conditions
of the contract. Recent advices to
the department from one of its
agents, stationed in the island,
ahow that since annexation there
have been imported about 12,000
Japanese,' 10,000 of whom were
contract laborers. Over half of
the island is now said to be Asiatic,
the Japanese outnumbering the
Chinese by about 10,000. .. j
The statement is made by Hop.
Joseph W. Bailey, the Democratic
leader in the last congress, that the
national administration has entered
into a full and complete agreement
for an alliance between Great Brit
ain and the United States. ! This
alliance, in Mr. Bailey's opinion, is
to be both offensive and defensive.
He also thinks that the only reason
it has not been published to the
world is that, for political reasons,
President McKinley is afraid to do
so. ..!-;-. )
The press dispatches tell of forty
miners and prospectors from ; the
Klondike who arrived at San Fran
cisco last week, but they brought
with them no great wealth of nug
gets and gold dust. In fact thfiro
was lees than $15,000 in the pos
session of the forty adventurers.
These unfortunates belong to the
great throng of the unsuccessful,
of whom we hear but little; and
there are great hordes of them yet
to return.
The Washington administration
would doubtless hail with delight
the appearance of a commander
who would bring the Philippine
war to a speedy and successful
termination.
A Chicago newspaper man turn
ed politician and is now a de
faulter to the extent of $35,000.
Politics -is the entering wedge to
all sorts of wickedness.
The resignation of Secretary
Alger has relieved the pressure
considerably ,bUt "there are others."
In writing of the purchase, of
road machinery for Hay wood coun
ty Mr. George E. Boggs says,
among other things:
"For several weeks during last
winter the roads of this county
were virtually impassable. Traffic,
social intercourse and attendance
on religious services were suspend
ed. During many other weeks
they couldbe carried on only un
der many discomforts and at con
siderable loss from injury to stock
and vehicles. -
"Many are opposed to any tax
for road improvement and yet they
are paying a mud tax that exceeds
all their national, state and county
taxes combined, unjust and heavy
as some of them are. I would es
teem it a privilege to be allowed to
pay several hundred per cent, of
additional county tax for several!
years on condition that good roads
were made throughout the county."
The cpndition of the roads, as
detailed above, also prevailed in
Guilford county last winter, and
the indicationrare that next win
ter will show nc improvement. It
is a fact that our people pay a
"mud tax" that exceeds all other
taxes, and yet there are people who
object to the small additional tax
that must necessarily be paid be
fore we can have any permanent
road improvement. But we believe
the number is growing beautifully
less year by year and that the time
ifill finally come when it will be
hard to find an intelligent man op
posed to taxation for road-build-ing.
Speed the day. -
Sampson Claims It All.
Washington, July 31. Rear Ad
miral Wm. T. Sampson has filed! a
suit in the .Supreme Court of the
District,1 libeling the Spanish ves
sel of war, Maria Teresa, and mis
cellaneous stores and supplies cap
tured upon her and other Spanish
war vessels. In his suit he claims
that in his own behalf, and also in
behalf of all the officers and en
listed men of the United States
naval force who' took part in the
naval engagement off Santiago,
Cuba, on July 3, 1895, and in cap
tures made subsequent thereto, and
also so far as he is by law permit
ted on behalf of the United States,
lie brings this libel against all per
sons claiming any interest in the
prize property. V jj
Admiral Sampson says that the
fleet ot the United States was act
ing under his immediate command
as commander-in-chief ; that Com
mander Winfield S. Schley was the
commanding officer of a division of
the fleet under his orders, and that
Captain Frederick E. Chadwick
was fleet captain, or chief of staff.
He enumerates the vessels compos
ing the fleet. He recites the cap
ture of the Spanish vessels' and
sayg that the captured property
has been or will be surveyed, ap
praised and inventoried, adding:
"This will show that the store
were worth $100,000 over and above
the cost of recovery.'
' . Will Oo Bankrupt.
; Kingston, July 28. Private ad
vices, received by mail from Hay ti,
state that at the conference be
tween the Hay tian Minister of Fi
nance and creditors of the nation
on Tuesday, the latter refused to
accept the proposals .for consoli
dation. of the interior debt because
they had despaired of accomplish
ing a permanent basis of financial
prosperity under present condi
tions. It is added that the credit
ors have determined to agitate for
an American protectorate, to which
end they are willing to drive the
country into hopeless bankruptcy
and invite the necessity of Ameri
can capital to extricate the .coun
try from its embarrassments.
The Populist state convention of
Kentucky met last week and nomi
nated John G. Blair for governor
and endorsed Wharton Barker, of
Philadelphia, for president in 1900.
TH1 RTY-SEVEN CASES AND
f SEVEN DEATHS.
Newport News, Old Point and
Surrounding Towns' Greatly
Exercised About the Situa
tion Baltimore, Richmond
and Other Places Quaran
tined. I Newport News, July 31. Thirty,
seven -cases of yellow fever developed
at the National Soldiers' Home, near
Hampton, and during the day three
deaths occurred from the disease. It
is said that-the disease broke out among
; the Jnmates of the Home last Thurs
day, but no information of it was given
to the public The news naturally
created great excitement in Norfolk,
j Portsmouth and adjacent 'towns and
strict quarantine regulations were at
once put in force. There are 3,500
inmates of the Home and the institu
tion was last week visited by several
excursion parties.
After a day of intense excitement
over the, yellow fever outbreak at the
Home, Newport News rests to-night
with a feeling of comparative security.
Che city officers and the various muni
cipal bodies have been busy since early
morning and it is felt now that no
loophole has been left through which
the dread scourge may find its way to
this city. 4
The latest report from the Home
gives the total number of cases at 33. j
There was one death this afternoon.
The universal hope now is that the dis-!
ease will be confined within the Home
limits, and the authorities at the insti
tution express confidence that this will
be done. ; ". .
The town of Hampton, which is in
close proximity to the Home, early
this morninc established a cordon of
armea policemen at me approacnes to
the reservation. Notwithstanding this
precaution, Newport News quarantined
against Hampton and Elizabeth City
county and Warrick cou nty. Thus
this city, which is nearly ten miles
from the infected point, has the advan
tage of practically a double quarantine
on land. A tugboat patrols the river
to prevent the evaslon'of quarantine
restrictions by means of boats. The
danger line ashore is guarded by an
adequate force of special policemen.
The street railway company was pro
hibited this morning from running
cars between Hampton and thia. city.
'Although hundreds of people left the
city to-day on account of the scare,
their departure is regarded with indif
ference and amusement rather than as
a judicious precaution by the great
majority who stay at home.
The city council to-night appropri
ated $10,000 for immediate use in main
taining the quarantine.
OLD POINT HOTELS DESERTED.
Norfolk, July 31. Fear ofjhe spread
of the Soldiers' Home Epidemic of
yellow fever, to this city and thence
abroad has been largely allayed by the
absolute quarantine against, the three
peninsular towns and adjacent to the
infected spot, declared at midnight
Sunday, and enforced rigidly, today
There is no fear that the fever will in
vade this city. No precaution has
been overlooked by the local health
authorities in their efforts to protect
the public from the disease, and the
port's vast commerce from injury by
the needless fears of. other communi
ties. Steamers that stopped at New
port News and those that took on pas
sengers at Old Point, were not allowed
to tie up at Norfolk.
No steamer can come here from any
of these points. A fleet of seven tugs
has been chartered to patrol the four
teen miles of water bet een Norfolk
and the Soldiers' Home and the Nor
folk river front is constantly guarded
by policemen, while a guard from the
navy yard is stationed at the naval
hospital to prevent the landing of
email boats 'containing refugees from
the peninsular.
Gold Democrats. '
Washington, July 28. There
are many gold Democrats who
think, just as ex-Comptroller
Eckels has declared, that there can
be no compromise with Bryanism,
and that nothing can be gained by
Democrats who remain with the
silver party or by keeping quiet on
the currency question. The gold
Democrats who have been in
Washington since the meeting of
the Democratic national commit
tee, in Chicago, last week, have all
expressed the opinion that the
party that nominated Fa tm er
and Bucker in '1896- must put a
ticket again in the field next year.
As Mr. Eckels says, there must be
no compromise, and, further, there
is no possibility of a compromise
agreeable to the anti-silver element.
Since the Chicago meeting, these
gold Democrats leaders have be
come fully convinced that they
cannot even control enough dele
gates to the next convention to
render the two-thirds rule embar
rassing to the Bryanites.
Lenoir Topic : Mr G. F. Harper
has received instructions from the
Commissioner of Patents at Wash
ington that he has been allowed a
patent on his improved ladder for
climbing telephone and telegraph
poles. It is a valuable contrivance,
and it seems to us that there is a
nice fortune in it for the owner.
Mr. Harper showed us a model of
it some months ago. The necessity
for some better way, or means, for
climbing telephone poles was what
led Mr, Harper to devise this lad
der, r
Mrs.' tlaybriok's Case.
London? Jul v 311 In the TTniiA
of Commons, to-day, Mr; 'Michael
Davitt, Nationalist, asked J what
action the government of the Uni
ted States had taken in behalf of
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the Amer
ican. woman now undergoing sen
tence of imprisonment f for life,
after having been- convicted of
poisoning her husband;! whether
petitions had been received from
public bodies and persons in' Amer
ica, and if the Secretary Of State
for Home Affairs, Sir' Matthew
White Ridley, would present tne
papers in the House with! the gov
ernment replies? ; j
The Home Secretary answered
the questions, saying that repre
sentations had been made in favor
of Mrs. Maybrick by the American
government through the ' United
States ambassador! here, Mr. Jos.
H. Choate, and that numerous rep
resentations had been made1 by prij
vate individuals.. But, he added,
it would be contrary to practice to
present papers dealing with the ex
ercises of the royal prerogative.
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