The Weather To-day: SHOWERS. The News and Observer. VOL. XI,VI. NO. 116. LEADS ALL NORTH CAROLINA HUES 1 NEWS All IKP ITii. REINFORCEMENTS REACH MANILA They Go on Board the Trans port Sheridan. A LETTER FROM CAPTIVES EXOELLEXT TREATMEXT GIVEX THEM BY FILIPINOS. TROOPS OF CAVALRY ORDERED TO MANILA Fuller Report of Byrne’s Fight on the Island of Nfgros. Augus inian Friars Arres’ed as Agents of Horg Kong Junta. Mauiln. July 24.-«5 V. M,)—Tho Uni ted States transport Sheridan, which sailed from San Francisco. June 23th, with reinforcements for General E. S. Otis, has arrived hone. On July ltith a great waterspout was discovered di rectly in the course of the ship amt to avoid it. it was necessary to make a detour of several miles. General Otis lias received a letter dated July 2nd, and signed by Charles Stanford and Fred Ilepi>e, respectively. assistant engineer and third officer of the hospital ship Relief, who were rap tured by Filipinos off Parattttquo on May 30th. The letter says the prison ers in the hands of the insurgents ‘are receiving excellent treatment, but the suspense of fearing the loss of ottr pied tiens is terrible.’’ The writers beg General Otis to intercede for their re lease. General Otis has taken st« ps in that direction. Two Augnstinian Friars, who had landed from the Hong Kong ship have been arrested here. It is said they had documents upon their iiersons showing they were agents of the Fiiipino Junta at Hong Kong and that they intended to bear messages to Aguinaldo. On board the transport Sheridan, the arrival of which at Manila, is rep- rted above, were Brigadier General Samuel B. M. Young and aides; Colonel Dag gett. Major Ouinton: Companies 15 and I! of the Fourteenth infantry. 23!) enlis ted men and two officers; troops A and F. Fourth cavalry, seven officers and 173 enlisted men; Idcutenant Moss and 23 nun of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry; eight hospital corps men, and II mem bers of the signal corps, as well as 1,2-18 recruits for the regiments already in the Philippines. BYRNE’S FIGHT; MORE DETAILS. Washington, July 24. —The War De partment today made public the cable gram receive*! yesterday from Genera', Otis giving fuller details of the tight with the robber band on the Island of Negros. Its text follows: “Campaign against mountain robber bands, Negros, more successful than re ported. Byrne with his seventy men killed one-third of the four hundred and fifty assembled, including their leader, u Spaniard or Spanish Mestizo. Pursuit then made by Lieutenant Evans and de tachment Sixth infantry.which killed 3 and captured one of the rubbers: cap tured one hundred dead stock, many spears and boles, large quantities provis ions and destroyed one hundred huts. The casualties in Byrne’s fight are Pri vates David S. Anderson, killed; Allan B. Jerkes. slightly wounded, both Com pany K. (Signed) • “OTIS.” % CAVALRY TO PHILIPPINES. Washington. July 24.—The War De partment has ordered troops A. C. D, E. F, K. L. and M. Third Cavalry, to pro ceed to Seattle to be embarked for the Philippine Islands. Those troops go from the following posts: Fort Meyer, Va„ Fort Ethan Allen. Yt.. Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and Fort Sheridan, 111. Each of the troops for the Philippines is to be recruited to 120 mem by the transfer of recruits from San Francisco. ZFA LAN PA AT MANILA. Washington, July 24. —-Cables have been received at the War Department from General Otis announcing the arriv al at Manila of the Ziahmdia yesterday and the Sheridan today. There were no casualties on the Zealnndia and the health of the troops was good with the exception of a few eases of measles. The Zealnndia, sailed from San Francises) June 22nd, with Companies E, G and I. Twenty Fourth Infantry, seven offi cers. Km; enlisted -men, and recruits making in all 31)0. NO HOPE FOR MRS. MAYBKICK. la "fulon, July 24. In the House of Common* today Mr. Michael Pavitt, member for South Mayo, asked the Government, if in view of the fact that the conduct of Mrs. Maybriek in pris on had been uniformly good, the Home Office would not reeommend royal e|em ciicj in her ease. Sir Matthew White Ridb-y. tin- Home Secretary, said that he wa> unable to hold out hope of ex ceptional treatment of Mrs. Ma\ brick The Home Secretary added that he was not aware of the existence of any rea son for royal clemency. Agricultural Popartt.. n; experts are oi-mliu t ing a series of •.'.pertinents with the \i- wof improving the quality of American tobacco. DETROIT SHOUTS FOR ALGER. A Royal Welcome Awaits Him There on August Second. Washington. July 24.—The following telegraphic correspondence has passed 1401 ween Secretary Alger and Mayor Maybury, of Detroit: “Detroit, Mich., July 22nd. “Genet al Russel A. Alger, Thorndale, Pa.; "Public meeting of citizens cheer to the echo the mention of your manic and arrange to give you and your family the most royal welcome ever accorded any citizen of this community. All creeds in politics and religion will unite in acclaim ing their joy at your return. (Signed) WILLIAM C. MAYBURY, “Mayor.” “Hon. William (,’. Maybury, Mayor of Detroit, Detroit, Mich.: “4 am deeply touched by your tele gram notifying me of the welcome by my fellow citizens which awaits me on my home-coming. Were 1 to consult my own feelings in the matter. Mrs. Alger and 1113 self would go quietly to our home and there receive the friends who might honor its by calling, for surely the l’oud anticipation of being back im old Michi gan eclipses all other thoughts. We ex pect to arrive home Wednesday after noon. August 2nd. (Signed) “R. A. ALGER.” BP WORTH BOARD OF CONTROL. Indianapolis, lnd.. July 24.—Tin* Board of Control of the Epworth League mot at K) o’clock today to hear reports and consider matters pertaining to the league. Bishop W. X. X'inde. Detroit, president of the Board, presided. The report of Rev. Edwin A. Schell. Secretary of the Epworth League was submitted. Rev. F. L. Xagler. Cincinnati. German Assistant Secretary of the la-ague pre sented a report of the German branch. A report of the League’s work among the colored people was presented by colored Secretary Rev. Irvine G. Penn, of Atlanta. The )»oard will probably be in session three days. THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN SECRE TARY HAY AND MR. TOWER. Tvwer the British Charge Here. If These Fail, there is Still Arbitration. Official Comment. Washington, July 24.—Senator Fair banks. chairman of the American Di vision of the High .Joint Canadian Com mission, made a brief call upon the President today before starting for his home in Indiana, lie declined to discuss the speech of Sir Wilfrid Lauiier, or to remark upon the situation with refer ence to the boundary dispute. He con firmed the report already given out, that there would be no meeting of the High Joint Commission on August 2nd, saying that he and Sir Wilfrid Lauriei had agreed last Friday upon a postpone ment lor an indefinite period. The Senator would not hazard a surmise as to when another meeting might be held. Direct negotiations respecting the Alaskan boundary are now in progress between Secretary Hay and Mr. Tower, the British charge here. The negotia tions are directed toward an adjust ment of the'issue by amicable arrange ment between the parties, though on somewhat different lines from those pur sued during the spring and summer. The principals are not without hope that success may attend their efforts, and then there is arbitration yet in reserve in ease of failure on the present lines. 'The officials lu re are in no wise alarmed at the recent developments at Ottawa, feeling confident that Sir Wil frid Laurior’s utterance in which he mentioned the word “war” as an alter native to arbitration was given a mean ing not intended by the Canadian Premier. The strong language attribut ed to Sir Charles Tapper is not credited to the Canadian Government:, and it is realized that great latitude may properly he allowed in view of the utterance of members of an opposition party. DEWEY COMES OCTOBER FIRST. New York, July 24.—Mayor Van Wyck today received the following ca blegram from Admiral Dewey: "Trieste. July 24th. "To Mnydr Van Wyck, New York. "ls-tter received, and invitation ac cepted. Expect to arrive about October Ist. Will cable definitely from Gibral tar. Have written. (Signed) _ “DEWEY.” Admiral Dewey’s cablegram is in re sponse to an invitation from the Mayor asking him to be the guest or the city upon his arrival .11 New York aad re questing him to express any desire,, in may have in connection with the pro gram for his reception. The Committee on Land Parade and Decorations for the Dewcv r-ccption met today and decided to .nviie tin- O ivemor of each State to send a portion or the whole of the National Guard to take part in the land parade. ENGINES DROP INTO A RAVINE. Covington. Ga., July 24. A north bound passi nger train . J. Smith, of Dobb s Ferry, a warm friend of the great orator and lecturer, will read other selections from Ingersoll’s writings. Early Wednesday morning the family will accompany the -remains to Fresh Pond. Long Island, where the body will be cremated. They will bring the asln-s back to Dobb’s Ferry, and they will be deposited in "an urn which will be surmounted with the imsi of Colonel Ingersoll, to be made from the death mask made today by John Bernard, the New York sculptor. The only music that will be heard tomorrow afternoon wi be Siegfried’s "Funeral March.” The mail today brought over ,”,()() let ters of condolence, and telegrams con tinue to pour in from all parts of the country. A wreath was received from the Bo hemian Free Thinkers, and many beau tiful floral offerings filled the rooms or the lower part of the house. The funeral will Ik* private, and it is expected that only those who were personal friends of long standing will attend and representatives of societies that believed as did the late Colonel I ngersoll. Mrs. Ingersoll is so 111 that she is confined to her lied. Members of the family say that tin- illness is due to the I l ost rat ion of grief and the ceaseless vigil that sin- has kept at the liter of Iter dead husband since his death on Friday. It is not thought the illness will re sult seriously. Colonel . Ingorsoll's daughters. Miss Maud and Mrs. Wal ston If. Brown, are both on the verge of prostration. The grief-stricken wife and daughters, who share the belief of the dead agnostic, have begged only to lie allowed to keep the body with them as long as possible. They Have re peatedly refused to discuss tin* final dis position of the remains, and It was not until this afternoon tfiat they permit ted Clinton B. Ferrell, brother-in-law and Secretary of Colonel Ingersoll. to complete t'he arrangements. When told this afternoon that service would be held tomorrow their only remarks were: "So soon! Cannot we have him with us a little longerV” WRAPPED IN "OLD GLORY.” El Paso. Texas. July 24. — Mrs. Rich, givem ii'p to the Mexican Govern-ment. wrapped the American flag around her body and entered the prison. LLOYD TKVIS IS DEAD. San Francisco, Cal., July 24.--Llov-1 Tevis, former President of the \\ -Its Fargo Express Comptnv ant woitli •i»2(),K0(),0(M), is dead. HIS NECK BROKEN; pushed off n cr A Man’s Jaw Shattered by a Bullet. RESULT OP AN AFFRAY STATE SECRE TARY PRES ION SUCCEEDED BY S. F. VANCE. MULL MAKES I URiOJS ATTACK ON NEGRO He Tears the Matt’s Arms With his Teeth. It is Feared that One or Both cf his Arms May Have to bj Am pu'at-id. Winston. X. July 24.—(Special.)— 'Two white men, 'Thomas Christian and James Stafford, got into a quarrel at Kcrnersville Saturday night when Christian shot Stafford, the ball knock ing out four of his teeth and part of one jaw bone. A negro named Jim Jones, on an ex cursion from Danville to Winston today was pushed off a ear near Reidsvillo. lie fell on his head and broke his neck. State Secretary Preston, of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, resigned today. The executive board elected S. F. Vance to till the vacancy. A mule attacked a colored man near Winston, bit a large piece of flesh out of each arm. It is feared one or both arms will have to be amputated. FIRST DEATH IN THE STRIKE. Conductor llawlcy Shoots a Boy Named Cornweit. Cleveland, Ohio, July 24. A repetition of the wrecking of a Euclid car was tins (-vetting attempted by strikers ot- their sympathizers, in Brooklyn, a suburb of t Meveland. An explosion took place under the car but failed to injure it materially. 'There were no passengers aboard and the conductor and motorman escaped un harmed. 'The State Board of Arbitration has practically abandoned their efforts to cmediate the strikers and former em ployers. The resentment of the conduc tors and motormen who quit work, and the more turburlcnt spirit of their sym pathizers is held in check to a degree by the presence of the police, and the militia, members of which ride in the cars or are held in readiness at the barns and terminals. Small riots occurred during the day, but with an exception they were without results. In the death of Henry Corn weit. slain by a bullet tired by Ralph P. Hawley, a conductor on the Broad way line, is recorded the first fatality of the strike. Shortly after noon Hawley’s car ap proached Orange street and was beset by a crowd of men and boys. Cornweit, the nineteen years old son of a butcher, was riding a horse and kept to the side of the car, keeping pace with it for some distance. Various stories are told as to what passed between the conductor and the boy, but the umb was suddenly called to it* senses by the sight of llawlcy, who jumped to the street and started in pur suit of Cornweit. The latter, closely followed by his pur suer. turned up Perry street. Aa Mood laud Avenue the latter pulled his revol ver and tired. 11 is victim fell, fatally wounded and died soon alter being re moved t«> the hospital. The crowd which before the incident had been so violent, was -awed by the seriousness of the affair and permitted tin- conductor to walk back to his car. He Wits arrested and taken to the sta tion where a charge of ■murder was en tered against him. When the car returned in charge of another man and laden with police, thousands of peoph wore crowded around the spot where the shooting occurred. 1 lie track was Idoek edrd and the stalled cars lamibariled with stones, pieces of brick and stick of wood. 'The police managed by using their dims, to clear the way after a de lay of about half an hour. With the exception of the Mayfield suburban, md the lines of tlu* Big Con solidated have l*(-cit in latiun today, although their movcmtiils were neces sarily hampered somewhat. NO EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM. New York, .1 lily 24. Police Magistrate Jucqb Brenner, of Brooklyn, today dis charged from custody tin* twenty-one men arrested for the alleged dynamite scheme to blow up the Elevated Rail road structure at Fifth A venae and ’Thirty-sixth street last week. The contention of their .attorney that no evidence had been given to show their connect ion with any (ou-p-ra a was upheld. VOLUNTEER APPOI N I'M ENTS. Washington. July 24. —'Tin* following appointments in tip- volunteer army have been made: To be Captains: Ellison E. Gilmer, First Lieutenant. Company D, Second North Carolina volunteers: John A. Wag ner. Captain First North Carolina volun teers. To la- First Lieutenant: Lawrence S. Carson. Captain First 'Smith Carolina volunteers. PRICE FIVE CENTS. aSp /IDENCE IN KRUGER. A Threatened to Resign Be for;- \ Receiving This Assurance. Pretoria, July 24. —President Kruger Had been absent from the Government building since Friday afternoon and it was understood that owing to the opposi tion shown him by the executive council an-d the Yolksraad involving the ques tions of the Johannesburg Fort, and the dynamite monopoly, he had arrived at tlu* conclusion that lu- no longer possess ed tin* Volksraad’s confidence and threat ened to resign. Today, however, a deptt tation including General Jouhert. the Vice-President: Herron Schalk and Bur ger and the Chairman of the Yolksraad, waited upon President Kruiger nr I in duced him to attend a secret session of the Yolksraad. which lusted over three hours. Late this evening it was announced that the Yolksraad lvad finally assured the President that it had the utmost con fidence in turn. It is understood, how ever. that a majority of Hu* members of the Raad still differ with the President (m the dynamite monopoly question. DR. IIODGE MAY NOW RECOVER. Italian Investigators Call on Him and Are Courteously Received. New Orleans, La.. July 24.—The Picayune's Tallulah, 1,a., special says: "Signors ('avilli, of New Orleans, rep resenting the Italian Consul, and X. Piazzi. of Vicksburg, consular agent of Italy, arrived in Tallulah today, and after thoroughly investigating the lynch ing of the five Sicilians here on the night of the twentieth left for Vicks burg, Miss., on the afternoon train. They were courteously received, and shown all possible courtesies while in town, and given assistance i:i making a thor ough investigation. 'They visited Dr. Ib-dgc and he gave them a full account of the difficulty. They expressed th- : sincere regrets and deep sympathy tor him. l>r. Hodge is resting easy, and his physician now thinks he will recover. DEFENSES OF OUR COAST RAPID WORK IN COMPLETING FORTIFICA TIONS UNDER WAY. New Projects Begun. Works on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and the Gulf. America Well Defended. Washington. July 21. —General W 'lson, Chief of Engineers, has been receiving reports from the engineer officers upon the fortification work accomplished dur ing the past fiscal year. The reports which show gratifying results, cover works upon tin- Atlantic coast, the Gull of Mexico and the Pacific Coast. Be side the regular annual appropriation ex pended upon fortifications, there were available funds from the appropriation of fifty millions for national defense just before the war with Spain, and the engineer corps has been able to make* rapid progress in the way of completing fortifications which were un der way and in beginning new projects. Tin- coast defense of the l nited States is now in sin'll a state as to make the country well protected. SAW HER SHOUT SAXTON. A Witness of Mrs. George's Crime who J-’h-il to Escape Testifying. ( hicago. July 24. Evidence which might have had an important bearing m the trial of Mrs. Anna George, of < ’an ion, Ohio, charged with the murder ot George Saxton, brother-in-litw of Presi dent McKinley, last October, came to light today in the Juvenile Court. Rus sell Hogan, fifteen years old. who was brought before the court as Richard Me- Knight, declared that he had witnessed the shooting and had left home that night through fear of being called as a witness at the trial. "I was standing right across Lincoln avenue from Mrs. Althouse’s place and saw Mr. Saxton on the porch and saw Mrs. George shoot him. I was afraid they might do something to me if I told what I had seen, so 1 left home and have travelled all over the country since then,” said the boy when assured by Judge Tut hill that nothing would hap pen to him if lie told the truth. In response to further questions young Hogan said that his father was ij. M. Hogan, superintendent of the Ault maun Manufacturing Company and well known in Canton. Judge Tut hill direct ed that the case he till Thurs day. July 27th, and instructed Proba tion Officer Kelsey to communicate with Mr. Hogan at Canton, regarding the boy who claims to be his son. ’The boy is bright and good looking and told his story in an unassuming manner, lie was before the court on a charge or disot dcrly conduct. THE FEVER IS ON THE WANE. Washington. July 21.—Surgeon Gen eral Sternberg lias received tin* follow ing from Major O’Reilly at Havana: "Havnrd reports from Santiago. July 22nd, on yellow fever situtution: "Nineteenth, no new eases, three deaths, two enlisted men, one civilian; Twentieth, three new eases, one enlisted man, one female nurse, oue civilian, no deaths: Twenty-first, no ease, in> deaths. Armstrong, from Puerto Prin cipe, reports; "July 21st. four cases, two soldiers re siding in eirv. one teamster, one civilian; July 22m1. nothing new.” A dispatch has been received from General Brooke, copying one from Gen eral Wood in which the lattter says they have the fellow fever situation un der control in Santiago.