The Weather To-day: SHOWERS; COOLER. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 100. LEADS Hi Hit UK. ,3k DAILIES IN NEK AID ORCI, ATiON. A. & M. COLLEGE OPEN TO WOMEN And Dr. Winston Chosen President. GOT IT ON SECOND BALLOT CO-EDUCATIONAL RESOLUTION FOUND OPPOSITION. THE VOTE AFTER DISCUSSION 9 TO G Provision Made for a Coursa of Monthly Lec tures on Technical Subjects embrac ing all Df pirlmer.ts of the College. The trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college met here yesterday and did lwo important things: Elected Dr. Oeorge T. Winston presi dent of tln> college. And decided to open the institution to women. Another meeting will he held this morning to complete the faculty. Two meetings of the board were held yesterday. The lirst met at the college at 5 o’clock and remained in session for two hours. Only routine business was transacted at this session, such as reading tin minutes and attending to some minor business matters. The night session was held at flu* Yarborough House from 8:30 to 10:80 ’ o’clock. And it was at this meeting that the president was elected and the resolu tion passed admitting women to the col lege on the same terms as men. For president two ballots were taken. The first resulted as follows: Winston. 8; Primrose, 7; Brewer, 2; Dixon. 1: Holladay, *l. Making ID votes; neces sary to a choice 10. Those voting for Winston were: Stokes, Smith. Sinclair, Wood, Moore, Harris, Poole and Bay. On the second ballot Waller and Clark left Primrose for Winston and the vote stood: Winston, 10; Primrose, 3; Brewer, 3; (lore, 1. Winston was accordingly declared elected and a motion made to make the election unanimous. This motion was. however, later withdrawn. The resolution opening the college to women was introduced and advocated by Mr. Tompkins. Mr. Webb led the opposition to it. The vote was b to (! in favor of the admission of women. Mr. Tompkins’ resolution was as fol lows: “Resolved, That the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, in all its departments, including lectures, study and teaching, Ik* open to women.” The fee of the • college physician, which was changed at the .Tune meet 1 ing to $2 for medical attention and 82 for nursing and medicine, was changed hack as it was before —.$4 for medicine ami medical attention. For trained nursing and special food a fee of 30 cents will be collected from each student. Provision was also made for a course of monthly lectures from distinguished men. on technical and practical subjects. All expense of these lectures will be borne by the college. Tlfey are expected to embrace all departments of lln* col lege. The lecturers will be invited by the faculty and president. The salary of the president is .$2,300 a year—s2,3oo as president and S2OO as director of the Experiment Station. Tin* board meets again this morning at 0:30 ((’clock to complete tile faculty and dispose of such other business as may collie before it. PROSPECT OF WAR WANING. Pretoria, July 3.—Tin* special confer ence ln-tween President Kruger, the members of the Cabinet, Fircher. a member of the executive* qonneil of the Orange Free State, who was the hearer of compromise suggestions from tin* Free State in the matter of the ■dispute between the Transvaal and Great Britain and Hofeyer. the Afri kander leader, has been practically con cluded. It is believed that tin* franchise proposals have been accepted and may Ik* laid before tin* Volksraau tomorrow and that peace will lie preserved. WII.L GRANT THE FRANCHISE. Johannesburg. July 3. — It is reported from Cape Town that the franchise proposals accepted by the Pretoria con Terence will grant the franchise imme diately to residents who have been in I lie eonntry since ts'.io and to others after 3 years residence from the date of the new law. The proposals will also give Johannes burg five representatives in the Volksraad. ARRESTED FOR MURDER. New York. July 3. —Andrew Jackson Rodgers, a negro, was arrested in Cro ton this evening by Yu inkers detectives and Police Sergeant Dewitt Maxey, of Prince Edward comity, Vn. Rodgers is wanted in Virginia for the murder of Emmett Ross there eti July 21st, 18D7. The imu hr, according to the Prince Edward policeman, occurred at a dance whore Rodgers anil Rosts quarreled over a girl. ITS EFFECT FAR REACHING. Judge Colt’s Decision Regarding Wheel ing Stogies." Boston, Mass.. July 3. —In the United States Circuit Court today Judge Colt handl'd down a decision that stogies bear ing the name of “Wheeling” or “Wheel ing Stogies,” could not lie manufactured in Boston or elsewhere than at Wheel ing, W. Ya., and sold as “Wheeling Stogies.” It is claimed that this decision will b<* far-reaching in effect In the tobacco trade, inasmuch as it can he applied to Key West cigars not actually made in Key West, and that it also may affect /other manufactured articles sold on tin* representation that they come from a certain city which has attained prom inence in tin* manufacture of such an* cles. A CYCLONE IN NEW YORK. A M an. Horse and Buggy Blown Out of the Road Into a Field. Glens Falls, X. Y., July 3. —A cyclone struck this portion of the. Slate yes terday afternoon. Large trees were up rooted and other damage was done. James Nesbitt, a farmer living east of Lake George, while riding, was blown with his horse and buggy out of the road over a fence and into a field. Ib> was injured so severely that he died. Tin* track of the storm was about half a mile wide*. THE ISABELLA MISSING. London. July 3. —The Norwegian hark Isabella fmm Charleston, January 21st for Warburg, has not been heard from since sin* sailed and has been posted at Lloyds as missing. GLOAT OVER HER! GRIEF A BOORISH CROWD PRESS UPON MADAME DYEvFUS. i Returning from a Visit to her Husband, She for the First T ime Revea s the Agony She Suffeis. Rennes, France, July 3.—For Captain Dreyfus today passed off very much as yesterday. Madame Dreyfus. Mutthieti Dreyfus, his brother, and Mnitre Lahori, his counsel, visited the prisoner, hut otherwise no special incident occur red. As an illustration of the indifferent population, if is worthy to note that the words “Vive Dreyfus” chalked niton a wall in a corner of the town remain absolutely undisturbed. Many, however, predict trouble on the National Fete Day. when a review of the garrison will he held. The anti- Dreyfasites, it is feared, will attempt to draw tin* troops into a demonstration. Mine. Dreyfus, accompanied by her parents, drove to the prison in a car riage this afternoon. Ilcr parents were not admitted, hut she remained with her husband for an hour. On leaving she showed, for the first time, signs of distress. Her eyes were swollen and red, as though sin* had been weeping bitterly. She is still in deep mourning and is determined to remain so until her husband regains his liberty. A somewhat larger crowd than usual watched her arrival and departure, and again displayed utter lack of manners and consideration for her. terrible posi tion, gathering around her, rudely staring her in the face, and pressing one another aside in their eagerness not to lose a single detail of her inward agony which might lie reflected in her counten ance. Her visible distress today was a feast for these ghouls, who. however, were speedily dispersed by a squad of gendarmes. The latter finally barred the two streets leading to tie* portal of tin* prison. Just opfHisite the prison, and overlook ing (he window of the cell of Capi iin Dreyfus and the court yard, is a tanm iy. This has been a favorite place of vant age for a number of photographers, who have taken snapshots of every arrival and departure and as often as possible of tin* incidents occurring inside dc* prison yard. Today the police affix* *1 a notice over the tannery entrance, pro hibiting the entry there of any one < x cept on business connected with the G*.u ncry. 'Phis measure has aroused con siderable comment, but the owner of tin* tannery will probably iind it pendent not to ignore the notice. Maitre Lahori, Mattliicu Dreyfus and Mine. Dreyfus returned to Paris this evening. Paris. July 3. —The municipal council of Paris adopted an order today urging the Prefect of Police, M. Lepine. to dismiss M. Bertillon, from the director ship of the Anthropometric Department oil account of the mistakes m his evi dence as a handwriting expert in the Dreyfus case, before tin* court martial and during the revision proceedings before the Point of Cassation when lie gave tin* reasons which led him to re gard Dreyfus as the author of :he bordereau. POLICE SCATTER THE MOB. Barcelona, July 3. —-There was a renew al of the disorders hen* last night. Bands of rioters attacked the church of Santa Matrona and tin* Jesuit school. The police charged and tin* mob pelted them with stones. Later the police were reinforced by mounted gendarmes ami infantry and finally scattered the mob. Many coinflicts took place and many people were wounded. The theatres are closed. A special to the Omaha Bee from Ainsworth, Neb., says a tornado struck the town yesterday, killing one woman and inflicting great property damage. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING. JULY (i, 1899. NO YELLOW FEVER ON TOE CONTINENT Surgeon General Wyman Has No Fears* HIS MEN ON THE WATCH THE SOUTH REPORTS SUSPICI OUS CASES PROMPTLY. RETURNING TROOPS BROUGHT NO GERMS Measures to Prevent Introduction of tin Dis ease from Cuba. Not a Case in Hava na.’ Not Even a Sporadic Case Expected Here. Washington, July 3. - “There is u >t a case of yellow fever in the United Sta Ues.” This statement was made to a P*vsj reporter this afternoon by Surgeon G» mv ral Wyman, of the Marine Hospital Service. “We are now well into tlit* first week of July, and no case Irak yet been rejiorted, although,” added the doe tor. “it quite frequently happens reports are not made as soon as tin* dis ea,si* appears.” “But your officers are on the watch?*’ “Yes, and we are all the more apt to speedily know of the existence of fever because the people of the South are not so averse to aiinouineiiig a suspicious ease as they used to be. They recognize that, it should be acknowledged quickly and measures taken to prevent a spread of the fever, as was done at McHenry. That was an object hi-son to the Son.li. which learned taht by isolating all cases promptly the danger of an epiilem ic is removed. There has been a marked change in this regard, as was illustrated this year by the prompt reporting of two suspicious cases tn u Louisiana town. They were at once Investigated, the projwr precautions wen* taken, and nothing more Iras been heard **l’ tin* trouble.” “Have any ill effects resulted from tin* unusual amount of communication with Havana last winter and spring? “No.” was the reply, “none whatever. It was very wise to remove the volun teer troops from Cuba last March amt April. The Presidem and Secretary of War both insisted that tin* removal should begin early in order to avoid all danger, and when the troops landed in the United Status every bit of the baggage and camp equipage was disiin fected and the men were subji*cted to a detention of live days. There were only three attempts to evade tile quarantine regulations, and each of these failed, even though the appeals reached the President himself.” “'I lien there is apparently no danger to lie feared from the coming home of these troops?" "Not a hit. I am confident that not a single germ of yellow fever entered the Failed States through any of the belongings of these 23,000 men. If any had escaped us we would have heard from them before this. And then.” continued the doctor, "we not only have complete control of the ports of this country, but we have a thorough grip on lln* situation in Cuba. Our officers are stationed at every port in the is land. Every piece of baggage is in spected and labeled before it leaves tin* island, and if necessary, is promptly disinfected. At Santiago we have a dismantled ship, called the Rough Rider, which is equipped with two large steam chamhers and every other appliance ne cessary for killing fever germs. We are not only protecting this country from Santiago, bur all the cities of Cuba as well, so that the disease can mat spread.” "Is there any yellow fever in Havana now?” “Not a case.” "I do not even look for any sporadic eases in this country,” Dr. Wyman said in closing tin* interview. “They may occur, hut we think we have taken precaution to prevent the appearance of the disease. At any rate we can most assuredly predict that: there will be no general epidemic, notwithstanding the very large amount of travel between the United States and Cuba during the past year.” TO RESIST LOWEB.XIG PRICES. Sea Island Cot tom Planters Combining for This Purinosp. Charlijston, S. (’., July 5. —The first movement was made yesterday b> sea island; cotton planters of tin* parishes of Christ Church and St. Johns Colleton, tilis State, to resist tin* aceomuiation of tin* English spinners who have com bined’ to lower the prices of the long staple. A meeting < f all the South Carolina sea island* cotton pi inters < f this coast to be held on the 1 litli instant at Rockville amt the letive .(-operation of their brother planters of the coasts of Georgia and Florida is to be ura *atly requested. SMASHED WINDOWS. Brussels, July 3.—A1l the windows in tin* house occupied by the Premier. '*• Van Den Decreb i<,;in, at Anderlecht. a suburb of this *ity were broken by un known persons las: night. The Chamber < f Deputies peae-'fu.iy resumed the tr di-m -t'*,n of puii’ic busi ness to-day. and order throughout tin* city is restored. VAST DISTRICTS URDERTRE FLOOD [he Half of the Appalling Disaster Yet Untold. IT BEGGARS DESCfiIPriON ■ ■ | THE NAVA SOTO BOTTOMS LIKE AN INLAND SEA. MEN ENGAGED IN THE WORK OF RESCUE District Flooded Five Hundred Miles Lonft by Tifty Wide. Lives Lost from One to Three Hundred. Less Probably Over Fif.een Million. Houston, Texas, July 3. —A corre spondent has just r< turned from a voy age through the flood districts. The half has wot been told of the havoc wrought. The disaster is so appalling that description is not possible. After this flood will conic sickness undoubted ly and what a wi-ek ago was the fairest part of Texas, is now almost a God forsaken wilderness. The waters of the Brazos liave for six Gays covered its valleys a depth of from six to thirty feet: where a Week ago there Were on every hand fields of cotton and corn and thousands of acres of watermelons and oanteloupes, today there is slimy mud all over the vegetation and the ear cases of cows, mules, pigs, dogs and eats, mayhap human beings for many are missing. Oar party left Bryan at sunrise yes terday morning, going to the Navasoto lmltoms and to a point about three miles from Miliiean. Here we encoun tered everywhere an> overflow from the Navasoto, which spread out fully two miles un either side of the Houston and Texas Central trucks. Everything is under water, from two to seventeen feet. It looked on all sides' like a great lake, and tie* water was so high that for a vast area it completely submerged the telegraph and telephone poles along the line. In truth portions of the Navasoto bottoms are even now a perfect sea, extending four or five miles wide at certain points. I saw hundreds of houses there totally submerged and as many more were swept from their foundations and de stroyed. The planters of the bottoms are still moving their help and whatever is left of their stock, to places when* they can la* cared for. They arc all nobly helping each other and taking refuge wherever they can, some ot them sleeking safety oil house tops. All the planters staled that the outside world has no conception of the floods or losses incurred by the destruction of crop, stock and buildings. Nearly every planter has built bouts and sent them through the flooded districts to rend, r assistance to the people, if possible, and save some of their drowning stock. The flood district has a length of over 31 Ml miles, a breadth of probably 30 miles, and in all this vast space dam age incalculable has been Hone. Tin* loss of life will never be fully known, perhaps; the bottoms were thickly settled, mostly with negro ten ant farmer'.-: among these has been the greatest loss of life. To show the damage done the fol lowing estimates have been made by men who are in a position to know. Lives lost: from one hundred to three hundred. Less to farmers, including crops as well as live stock from $3,000,000 to $13,01 It MM Ml. Damage to railroads and country bridges $2,000,000 to $4,000,000. These estimates are taken in tin* whole area. It is known that more than sixty people have met their death: that many bodies have been recovered: it i not believed that all of them will ever he recovered. THE BRAZOS STILL RISING. Galveston. Texas. July 3.—Tonight the flood condition in the lower Brazos \ alley at Brookskore, Mai ns, Rich mond. Renenhurg, Thompson, Duke, Ar eola. Eulshcar, Gin aango and Columbia is very had. Wallis reports that the Brazos is ten feet higher than in 1883. backwater within one and a quarter miles of town is ten feet deep. T hi* San Antonio and Aransas Pass bridge at Wallis is two feet under wa ter. The Southern Pacific road west of Houston is washed out near Rosenberg and Riiilinmnd. The Santa Fe is washed out near I hompson. It is feared when the rise now at Wallis gets to Rosen berg and T iij impson the consequences will be serious. At eight o’clock tonight teh river is rapidly rising at Thomp son. l ln* Columbia Tap read is washed out. All communication from Galveston and Houston via the Santa Fe. the Galves ton. Houston and San Antonio, tile San Antonio and Aransas Pass, and the .Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroads, in cut off. The little town of Brookshire, in Wal ter county, where the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad crosses the Brazos river, is surrounded by water. Many persons wore caught in trees. Those driven out of the valley flocked to the town and art* being fed. One fact which tends In discredit heavy buss of life in the lower Brazos \ alley is that the planters knew the flood was coining and had'time to warn their hands. Out side of the disasters at OalVert and Brookshire, there have been about six drownings during the past week at different points im Central and Southern Texas, due to the floods. 'Fhc News will not attempt to give an estimate as to the crop damage, but believes the rains have done more good than harm. Crops outside the districts are in tine condition. The waters recede rapidly and the crops will not be a total loss in the flooded districts. Many localities will replhrnit cotton and have time to make a crop. GOLDEN FLOOD AT DAWSON. San Francisco, Cal., July 3. —A special from Seattle,Washington, says: Gold dust was pouring into Dawson will'll the Humboldt’s pasengors left. They allege that on the morning of June 2 persons are isolated on a small piece of bund in the Brazos bot toms. three miles from Brookshire. Several hundred mure are surrounded a* San Philline, three miles from Seniev. Unless relief can soon reach these two piaees the 800 lives will probable be lost. M any will die, as it is, from hunger, ex posure and exhaustion. “The water to-day is running through the town of Brookshire, something never known before. The sixty-live lives re (Nirted lust here to-day wire in a radius of twenty miles north and south »• f Sealey. We are completely isolated at Sealey, but this town is not ini danger. We cannot estimate the situation beyon I limits I mention. The whole face of the country lien* is a sea. The channel of the Brazes River litre lias shifted about three miles, and the water is 1.3 miles wide. Logs, houses, lumber and railroad material, merchandise, live stock and other floating objects make it worth the life of reseurers to go to tin* relief of tin* endangered people, most of whom an* m*gro<*s. The railroads are destroyed for mil *N. An immense washout occur red on the Santa Fe south of Sealey this morning. This cuts off our last strand of railroad communication. The Mis souri. Kansas and Texas, the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific are all completely stopped. The weather is cloudy this afternoon and more rain is feared. ARGUMENT BEGINS TODAY. More Witnesses Testify in the Walker Trial. Richmond, July 3. —The trial of Gen eral James A. Walker for shooting Law yer Hamilton, was resumed at Bristol today. Congressman-elect Rhea was the first witness for 'the Common wealth, and his testimony did not differ materially from that of the prosiimtioai’s witnesses who had preceded him. It. J. Sydinee testified that a pistol and a dirk were taken off the person of General Walker in the latter’s room after the shooting. R. M. Cnlfee and A. It. Hickman, for the defense testified that though pres ent at the time of the shooting, they did not see Walker sh|oor Hamilton. Hickman said that when Hamilton was shot he had his hand on his hip pocket. Argument will probably begin tomorrow. WOULD P.ITLD GOMEZ A HOME. Havana. July 3. Thirty-two district clubs of the Cuban national party have held meetings and decided to oppose even the temporary withdrawal of Gen eral Maximo Gom:** from foe island. A commission has been appointed to visit all parts of Cuba and to collect subscrip tions to a fund for hr'lding Girnuz a home and furnishing him wil3i money enough for tin* mot of his life. This decision is universally popular. Tu the opinion of all Cubans, even Ills political opponents, lie deserves such a recogni tion! after Ids long service and self-sacri fice in behalf of lln* Cuban cause. P 5 i FIVE CENTS. TD ENLIST TEN NEW REGIMENTS Onder for Volunteer Infantry Completed Yesterday. WILL BE ISSUED TO-DAY DIBEFTS RECRUITING UNDER LAW OF MARCH 2,1 SHI). McKINLEY’S ASSURANCE 10 McI.AURIN Will Apportion Lower Officers of New Military Organization Among the States Irre spective of Politics. Spanish Pris oners' Freedom Near. Washington, July 3.—An order direct ing the enlistment of ten new vegun *:»ts of volunteer infantry, was eomp'et..' this afternoon, and will Ik* Issued to morrow. The order was drafted after a conference this afternoon between the President and Adjutant General Corbin and directs tin* recruiting officers to enlist men under the law passed March 2nd, 180!). These regiments are .to be numbered from 21! to 83, thus retaining the continuity of (tie present infantry organization. McLAURIN AT WHITE HOUSE. Washington, July 3,—Senator Mr- Laurin, of South Carolina, was at the White House today in the Interest of some applicants for commissions in the new military organization. He was given to understand that the President would apportion the officers among ihe several States in the proportion of a tap tain and a first lieutenant for each State irrespective of politics. The higher officers, as has already been intimated, are to be taken largely from the regu lar establishment. It is understood that a strong effort will be made to reserve the second lieuteanmteies for the non commissioned officers, who have made good records in active service, both with tin* regulars and volunteers. THE SPANISH PRISONERS. Washington. July 3. —The War De partment has received from General Otis advices relative to the negotiation* preceding in Luzon between the Spanish commissioners and Agiiinaldo looking to the release of the Spanish prisoners. General Otis’ reiwirt indicates that there is a fair prosjiect these unfortunates will lie set free, if not all of them Tier, certainly a large nuinbei-. It is not known whether or n..t the captives of the Yorktown’s crew art* to he included in the prisoners to )k* re leased, but it is feared that owing to their different status they will lit* held by the insurgents. DEWEY AND YON DIEDRIOHS. Friendly Correspondence Exehang. ,1 P»e tween the Two Admirals. Berlin, July 3. —The Neiieste Nadirah ten today publishes letters exchanged between Admirals Dewey and V» in IHidriedis. The iutter’s letter is dated March 17th and reads: “Sir; 1 have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your eonnnuninut lon of March 4th informing me Your Ex cellency hud been promote.! Admiral. While congratulating Your Excellency sincerely upon this new token of recog nition, 1 beg to believe your good news lias given me flu* greatest satisfaction. “I have the honor to he Your Excel lency’s obedient servant, (Signed) "DIEDRICIhS." Admiral Dewey, replied April ItMh, saying; "Dear Admiral Von Diedrfehs: “I wish to thank you most heartilv lor your cordial letter of congrat mint inn's 1 11 M >ll IJI.V | MVdlliot ini). It is ;i jLTI eMPI u;e for me to feel niv advancement lejoice that our differences have been of newspaper maim fact lire. Hoping to have the pleasure of meet .ng jou again before leaving this spi tien. I am. very sincerely. (Signed) ' “DEWEY.” BRYAN AT GAINESVILLE. Speaks l.i Three Thousand People and is Afterwards Banqueted. Gainesville, Ga.. July 3.-Nortli Georgia gave enthusiastic greeting to day to Hon. Wm. J. Bryan who was the guest ol the Gainesville Chautauqua. Ihe Nebraskan spoke to .”.(1(1(1 pe ipb- ,i (lie auditorium of tin* Gainesville Fe male College being introduced by Gov ernor Candler. Alter the speaking a dinner was given Colonel Bryan. Governor Candler and a number .it other distinguished visitors. Colonel Bryan left Pu Alan la at 8 o’clock on his way to Coiuiniius. Ohio. NEGROES SWEAR VENGEANCE. ( olunihia. S. (’., July 3.—The negroes in Horry in the neighborhood of Con way are still excited over the killing of 1* rank Green by a white Imy named •John Dew, whom they made an nttcuqd to lynch. They promise to kill him a - as he is acquitted. His acquittal >s certain. The hoy is still in jail, no at tempt being made to get bail. It is thought trouble would result if h* is taken .nil of jail before the trial.