The Weather To-day: FAiR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 124. LEADS ILL NORTM GAROUNA DADUES IN NEWS 111 CUMULATION. FOUR HEW CASES BUT NO DEATHS Such is the Official Report from Hampton. THE CASES AT PHCEBUS TWO THERE, IT 15$ SAID, BUT DOUBT IS EXPRESSED PEOPLE ARE FLYING FROM NIRfOLK £o Dec'ares a Washirg on Star Correspondent on Authority of a Norfolk Citizen, who Says the Ci‘y Now Looks Deserted. Washington. Aujrvi-t 2.—Advp;<> who had been at tin- latter ] iaee. The au thorities sent them back to Hampton. ]>i\ Wyman does not think such corpse safe, however. and liaj-t l Surgei n Farquhar hereafter not to send such persons hack to Ila mpto-n, but •-> have tin-in -taken to Cnnwy Islam!, whcr they may he detained under observation. I)r. Wyman says that although Ifumi lon. is innt infect fa!, In- thiriKs It best to take charge of people wno may come Hampton and keep them under observation for a limited perio i of ti ne. Arrangements have l*-en made to send to .the home two immune mate and tvv > immune female* nurses and two immune physician*. Dr. J. O. T-Men, of .Tvssnp, Gn„ will he cm* of tin* latter while the immune male nurses sei.feted are E. ,| Ilainsten. of Baltimore, and Allred (J. Barton, of Maryland. •hot before the close of the War De partment today a final decision was reached to send tile troojw from Fort Monroe* to Battery Po'nr, Delaware. Ihes re currinig ho tln* < riginal proposition laid down by General Merritt.' All day tin- officials bad been in com m u meat lon wifli him by telegraph and t< lcpliom. and he was informed that objtions had been made* by Surgeon Dcwr.il Wyman t<» locating the troops so far South, but in turn Bone-nil Merritt held that it would be fatal in case any of the men were infection,, take them Neon, and in nil- end. as, the Department had left the* matter in his hands, his or!-inn! or •\ <,r I i'f*veii l«*el. It is rnderst" , ! that De-ne-ral Merritt has professional advice ill support of hi* position. I he* removal of the troonn and tlr* “fiieers and the*!r families it expected will begin tomorrow, when a passenger fte-.'impr is scheduled to leave at two o ejook for Oape (‘haWe s. 'Secretary Boot *rave ep much of Ids time- today to -the consideration of tie* erfTerent phases of the* fever situation He t, "rnght o. the pnsi'ien of the old soldiers at the Hampton Home, hut find imr tnat their care was a matter entirely W.thm the* power of tin- National Board he* mfonmed the* Board throng]) its seerc tary. of the willingness < f tin* War De partment to do evevylh'ug -possible t-. r h-t if in combating the fever. Word to the s-.iiiiu* effect was sent to Surgeon General Wyman, who is directly in charge of the effort now making at Hampton in that direction. -Vs to the suggestion that tlu* veterans be taken from the Home to some northern point in order to reduce the food for the fever, and thus hasten tile extirpation of the disease, the Department has come to no conclusion, though if the Board should call for aid in that direction it would be extended. It is said, however, that it would be extremely difficult to secure vessels for such service. The Department is as yet ignorant of the whereabouts of General Franklin. President of the Board of the National Home, and was telegraphing today in the effort to discover him. Two volunteer surgeons have tendered their services to General Wyman for duty in the infected district. They are Acting Assistant Surgeon Robbins, of Vicksburg. Mississippi, and Assistant Surgeon .lolm F. Anderson, of New York. iDr. Wyman received a dispatch from Surgeon Pettus at Fort Monroe tonight saying there was nothing suspicions there. .V train left there this afternoon for Rich mom] with about 100 people. Ail were inspected before hoarding the cars, and made to prove that they had not been exposed to infection. (A steam launch is pat rolling the water front and guards are being sworn in as fast as they can bo obtained. A dispatch from Dr. Wasdin says a house inspection of the worst portion of Phociihus discloses nothing. The dis -1 Mitch adds: ‘ Suspicious case of last night verified. (Continued on Second Page.) FUNERAL Os COl. WALL % CHURCH AT ROCKINGHAM OVERFLOWED WITH RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. Many Old Comrades Who Had Worn ibe Gray Pt ople Came From Near and Far. Rockingham, X. €., Aug. 2. --(Special.) The remains of Col. 11. C. Wall, ac companied b.v his devoted daughter, son and other relatives, together with a num ber of friends from here who met tin* remains at lxniuir. remind h re from Blowing Rock last night at I I o’clock, j and lay at his home guarded by devoted * neighbors until this morning. There | was 4i great outpouring of this sorrowing ! community at the depot tq meet the re** mains. The funeral services, conducted by the! Rev. M. Sham larger, Rev. Dr. Moore ■ and Rev. .J. 11. Page, were appropriate! and impresives; the large chun k would j not nearly hold the great crowd of af fectionate relatives, old comrades in the ( on ft derate army, devoted employes, ad miring friends and old family slaves who were in attendance. They came from all parts of the country, and the adjoining county of Anson until the attendance was immense. The Anson county Camp of Confeder ate Veterans sent: a large number of those brave men with whom the de ceased faced death for the Confederate cause in command of the heroic old Con federate captain, Frank Bennett, the An son soldiers supl emeu ted by a large num ber of the Richmond county Gamp in command of Cn.pt. \Y. IT. MoLawrerace, as gallant a soldier as survived the war, followed t4u* last remains of their bravo comrade to tin* church and then to the grave where they were intern'd. Hun. G. R. Patterson and J. A. Leak, of Anson, of a legislative committee ap pointed bv Speaker Connor, attended the funreal. Residents of the county, resid ing elsewhere now. attended the funeral. Tile ]xi)J hearers wire: Gapt. W. 1. Everett. Gapt. John Little. Gapt. Alex ander (’ole, J. G. Marshall. W. T. Cov ington, John S. Ledhetter and R. A. Johnson and William En twist It*. The de ceased s old comrade. .Major William A. Smith, of General Ixmdon’s staff, attend* ed the funeral in a major’s uniform of the Confederate army. SOUTHERN LUMBER EXPORTS. Il is Now Beyond Anything in the His tory of the Trade. New. Orleans, La., Aug. 2. —The ex ports of lumber and product's of wood fie-'M Soirtlu rnports during (lie* fiscal year ending dime 30th is beyond any thing in the history of the trade. Tin* Lumber Trade Journal of thus city has collected] and tabulated tin* statistics of lumber exports showing an aggregate from Southern ports of 1,33*i,4f)7,3iiS feet, against a total of 1 ,005,702,00? feet ill 1808, and 1,133.233,5-fC feet ill 1 fSO7. This'gain was made despite the fact that conime-rce vra» seriously inter fered with from the Half during the Sp.-mish-Anicrie-an war last summer. In addition to the lumber exported addi tional items were* 11,333,00(1 shingles. 35,400,708 staves, and manufactured lumber to the value* of $1,088,341. Tin* exportation of lumber by ports was as follows: 'Apalachicola, Fla., 24,437.402 feet; Baltimore, 83,171,3113: Beaufort, S. 33.wer, of llm free utterance- by American freemen of their « iiitiiui:rntis upon matters of public concern, afleet hug tin* A\ieJfaie of the i |h topic, and we denoumi* as danger, ri.- | ;.iad ..W'-teui- ibie t ffoits ■ interdr-' ’ with and. l bribe this sacred right. “We dii lan* our mialtirmblu oppost- j tiim to the emit Jem and maintenance of ! a large standing larniy in time of peace, j ami we insist ujxni the supremacy of the civil over the miliilLat'y authority, and wo demand the strict'"t economy in ike cxjlleetion and disbursementis of the pub lie revenues. “We lfteiieve hi the time-honored dor trine, so earnestly impressed upon the lAntlnns of the Republic, of ‘Peace, com merce and honest friendship with al' nations, enm angling nllianem with men*.' “We view with alarm the multiplha that over the land' of sueh giga; iitie, in dustrial rind < omniert ial trusts, tin- o.i;- gmwtih of Pcp'inblieau legislation, as sititlc competition, threaten gnverammt, increase the cesit of living and curtail the individual righlfs of the ]»eo;)te, unit | ws* favor vigunsMte imrasures by the Suites and by Oongnsis to repress tin’s great and gTowing <*\il.” John Walter Faith, the nomimv for Governor is a hanker and resue's hi Fiaow Hill. W oreesi! >r coiinily. Hi- jus I served in the Stale Senate for licee cons<*ei;t,ive terms and wuc elected to Congress last Nnm*nilw*r In the Fiist < ’ongressiomial disirriet, defeating \V. 1\ Jackson by 1.2U0 voiles. Hi* is |>ersoii ally very popular, and the nomination is regarded as a sitrong can*. Isidore Raynor, the nemimee for Attor ney Genual, is a lawyer and has Jeng been prominent in political and so.ial eij’des of the State, lie served m tlie I'iftilth, Fifty-Ss coml and I'ifty T hird ('ciifriww and is reganhsl as one of »he hc.-it political orators in .Maryland. Doctor Joshua Herring, wlr> was nonw'nsited for Comptroller, is ca>hie.* of a hank in W . '.minster. He is a inem la*r of tlu* Stale Si ii4ite. is ar 'Udeni if the M» bln .list Episcopal Conference in Maryland and of several sicular bodies. All are favorable to a gold s*-,uid:i-'d of ctiiTency. Ibe elalte* for holding the* 11>*iii 1 1*. I*n State (lomention has nett yet hern an noiinced., (I'liwmor Lowndes has practi cally no opposition for rmoniin l'ion. M’COOL OUT OF THE RAPE. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 2. Hon. James F. McCook of Kosciusko, today announc ed his withdrawal from the* contest for Governor to lie* ele*e hied by the* State convent ion .-which assembles here* August 23rd. Mr. Me-Cool ‘held only eight votes instructed to his ereelijt. hut his with drawal does not clear the heavily charg ed political atmosphere in Mississippi to any great extent. Judge Ixmgino continues to lead in the* race, having more instructed votes than tlie* other four candidates combined, and it is believed his following will he* suffi ciently strong to organize the convention. ABSORBED BY THE AMERICAN. Cl l ion go, August 2 .—1 te > p resc-i it a1 i ves of the* American Tduicco Company have* purchases! the* plant, and business of August Beck and Ooniipnny for $300,000. Only a few wt-cks ago the* American To-lwicio Compu.iv purchasacel the plant of Giadle* and Strut/. The American Company, it is said, hold an o-pth in on the* plant of Spsiulding and Merrick, the largest of the* three* firms engaged in t he* ma nn fact Hiring of stroking tobacco in Chicago. If the* American Company seome-s; this plaint, it is their Intention, to enlarge it and operate all of ilie* t’lii e-ago factories at one*. COLUMBIA’S MAST BREAKS. She was Away Ahead of the Defender at the Time. Newport, R. 1.. August 2.—The Colum bia and Defender made another attempt today to race for the cap offered by the* Newport Racing Association, ‘ but as was thi* ease two weeks ago, an acci dent stopped proceedings after the yachts had sailed six or seven miles'. Columbia was the unfortunate boat today for after getting a lead of a mile on her rival, her new and' practi cally untried steel must broke about thirty feet front the deck and her entire suit of sails tumbled into tin* water. Fortunately no one was injured. Never before had the Columbia shown such superiority over the Defender ns she did in the fragment of the race started today. Within a few minutes after the start she wins well ahead and after that seemingly did not try tto in crease her lead. The boats in a fine* '(•nthwest breeze were having a grand beat to the windward when the accident occurred. At the time of tin* accident Defender was two minutes' and forty seconds astern, while a fleet of tugs and steam yachts were not far away. Every ves st 1 was rushed to the assistnntce of the disabled boat, but it was found that the crew were able to take care of themselves and they re]»orted no one in jured. If took nearly tin hour 1o clear away the wreckage and get it on board. Then, in tow of a prows tug, she started Hi* the harbor. 1 hi* Columbia suffered little injury to her hull. SUMMERVILLE TLA FARM 53 ACRES CULTIVATED: 3,000 POUNDS COLD AT 25 PERCENT PROFIT. Climate Satisfetc ory. lalnr Probl m So’ved. IqualtoHrc Oriental Teas. Annual Yield Probably 1 ),000 Lbs. Washington, August 2. — Dr. Charles I . Shepard who jw it*, charge of the ex perimental tea garden at Summerville, S. ('., it'lls made a report to tin* Secre tary of Agriculture covering the pro gress made up to date. He says there art* now about fifty acres of land'Tuuler tea cultivation and that .’i.OOti pounds wen* sold last year at a profit of 27* per cent. It is estimated that when ail tin* plants now growing arrive at ma turity they will yield 10,000 pounds an nually. Dr. Shepard expresses tin* opinion that the fact that the tea plants* lived through la.*'; winter when the most intensely cold weather in tlu* history of the section was experienced is a guarantee that the weather conditions will prove satisfac tory. The labor problem, lie says, has been solved by establishing a school for the education of negro children In tea picking. The quality of the tea also has proved satisfactory. Os tiie black tea he says: “It lots a distinctly elm rued eristic fla vor, and like some of the choicer Orien tal teas, its liquor has more strength than its color indicates.” The green tea, lie says, has attracted keen ill'll rest in the trade and among consumers, and hi* adds that “Oriental tens can hardly furnish the like in this con nit ry.” WOULD ABOLISH THUE COUNCIL. New York, August 2.—The most inter esting thing that developed today in con nection with the Mazot Legislative In vestigating Committee, whose session be gan yesterday after a six weeks’ vaca tion, was the fact that every iiuia.'her of the Municipal Council had been sub poenaed for tomorrow for tin* purpose of determining why the present city legisla tive body should not be abolished. A member of the staff of Mr. Moss t counsel of tlu* Maze! Committee, at tended tin* meeting of the Municipal Assembly to day and served the subpocuncs. With each subpoena was a letter from Counsel Moss saying: "You will be subpoenaed to appear be fore tills committee on Thursday, at 1! a. ni.. and will be treated fairly and courteously. T he Assembly will be urged to convene and legislate against tie.* Municipal Assembly, aul 1 desire that your siik* of the controversy shall lit* cor rect !y presented.” A > AMERICAN ROBBED. Brassies, August 2. William C. la>v e*ring. a member of the United States I louse* of Repres ntative s from Massa e-husetts, was redheil Saturday last while* on his way from Ostend to this city. Mr. Levering; was jostle d by two men, but took little notice of the occurrence at the time. On arriving at this city, how ever, he eiiscove red that his ] o ketbook. with sl3,(ltio in valuable papers and notes for 83 pounds sterlilnig, had disap peared. Mr. Love*ring at once notified the au thorities; and the* matter was placed in the* hands of the police*. SI,OOO TO THE DEWEY FUND. Washington. August 2.—United States Treasurer Roberts today received a tele gram from Pittsburg. Pa., announcing that the* Carnegie* Steel Company ha.l subscribed SI,OOO to the Dewey Home* Fund. The actual amount of cash so far received for this fund is $17,334. REPUBLICANS NAME SHAW. Dos Mcine s. lowa. August 2. —The State* Republican Convention today nom inate d Governor L. M. Shaw by neoia muitiem. A State ticket was named and re solutions aelonte-d on-eltorsing President McKinley’s administration and favoring the maintenance of the gold standard. STORM HID WRECK II CARRftBELLE Wind and Rain Work Ruin on the Guif Coast. SIEAMER REPORTED LOST MA NY BOATS WRECKED IN CARA BELLE HARBOR. SLVLRIL PFOPLE DROWNED AT ST. M ARKS A Passenger Train is $a d ;o have Liter ally blown frrm ihe Trock. Houses are Dt-siroyed and Bridges Washed Away. Tallahassee, Fla., Augm-it 2.—The town of Carnal" ( ile, a pno.qw rou's part on the Gulf of Mexico, sonthwns't of this city is report:;'rt that fih'e country | along the route* shows the effect's of tiie storm. The train was compelled to run With great caution on account of .fill.* condition in which ihe storm had placed tlu* readi ed. The water had been over tlu* track* in many places. Passengers on Che train whiih w as wrecked say that the train was blown from (lie track. T iu* e.ty of Apalachicola at the mouth of the ( hattaiioochec River is entirely eat olf from communication at... nothing can be learned from there. A lew trestle over the Oehlocknee J Liver at Mclntyre was blown away. Tim wrecking train which went out today into the xtiincdevastated teru.tory found over two hundred tr<»es .:i tin* track iu a run of thirty .miles. General Manager Crittenden, w ho had charge of she train,- says that every town along tin* line is desolated. Hotels, houses, I churches, saw mills, wharves and pavii -1 if>ns were in many places blown from their foundations, ami in several in stances completely wrecked. T here are many rumors afloat here to night as to toe loss of life. One mill hand is known to have been drowned at Mc- Intyre. One man was drowned at St. Mark's, hut rumors place tin* loss of life ! there at fifteen . It is not belie ves 1 here that many lives were* loss at the* numerous summer re sorts, but reliable news is unobtainable. A large relief party will leave Talla hassee for the* stricken section tomorrow morning. The steamer tOivseent City, which is reported lost. plie*s Is*tween Apaiaciiieola and Carrabelle*. She* c.-nries a (row of eight, hot the* number of passengers on board is not known. Her captain is know n as a very cautious man, and it is believed and hoped here tonight that lie* made the -'Chattahoochee River in a run for safety. AN ENGAGEMENT ON CEBU. Americans Attack Filipino Trenches and Drive* the Enemy Back. Manila, Aug. 2. —3:33 p. ui. —Mail ad vices from the Island of Cebu announces that a company of Americans last week attacked the Filipino drenches situated two kilometers from the town of El Par do. The rebels were eomanded by Ih«> brothers Clinwieo*, who are prominent and wealthy persons. The Charleston shelled the enemy and the Filipinos re*- trented. The Americun casualties, were slight. ' The .presence of tjie* Climacos with the rebels ds reported to hnv»* h(*(*ii due to rebel orders from laizon. A small boy will make* a man grown; a scolding w ife w ill make a man groan. PRICE FIVE CENTS. , AN ATROCIOUS GRIME. The Victim was a Ten-Year Old Colored Child. Mason. Gn.. Aug. 2. A special to tin* Telegraph from ...'aerieus. I in., says: An atrocious crime was committed near Americas this afternoon by Eugene Gibson, a negro, bis victim being a (eu year-old negro child, the daughter of a fanny t residing oti the same plantation. The father of the little girl sent her to Gibson’s house for a watermelon.. Gib son took the child to the melon patch and there assaulted her. The girl was terribly mutilated. Streams of blood marked her course from the melon patch to her house. Gibson is hiding in tin* woods near here. The negroes on the plantation are greatly excited, and talk of meting ven geance upon tin* black rflvisher if caught. TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED. Auburn. X. Y.. August 2. Oscar E. Rice, a white man, and John Kennedy, a negro, were put to death by electricity in the prison here today. The two exe cutions took place within twenty min utes. Rice was sup|w»rt.ed to the electric chair ‘ad s:l<> a. m„ in a state of col lapse, but Kennedy walked without as sistance. A current of 1,700 volts was sent through Rice's body for fi fly one seconds. The same current was krq.it oil nine seconds longer for Kennedy. The two executions were successful and there was no unusual incident. Rice murdered hiss wife and Kennedy killed a negro named John Humniings. REVOLT AGAINST GOEBEL INTENSE INDIGNATION OF FARMERS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, A Conventicn to be Held on August Six'ecnth to Nam? Candidates fjr the No v^mbe 1 [Lotion. Lexington, Ivy., Aug. 2 A political revolt in Kentucky was inaugurated litre today. The Anti-Goebel conference l’or the i!ur) i.sc of calling a State Convtir tio>n and nominating nnotinr Demo cratic State ticket, or part of one, was. in some reflects perhaps .tin* most rc- I markable political g.uilit ring ever held in Kentucky. The conference was composed of lead ing turiiK-ips and i,rof< -siunal men. only a few politicians I cing in the a> .'tidily. Il was computed of quid, conservative DeiUKM.Ta.tS. There was intense indignation ngnlns't convention and a stubborn inclination (i.'iiventicai aiul a stubborn iix-ilnation to cheek the op. ratioiks of the alleged 1 machine. It was manifesit from the be ginning that tile feeling was nut ag.rinwt the whole ticket, but .against its head', and although ortiutr nom/iiiations may be made against ‘Jlioxe of the Louisville con vention, the main opposition will tie directed towards the defeat of Goebel. The gathering was larger than ex pected. Tin re was 720 men by actual count in the auditorium. Thirty coun ties wenx represented. Doctor J. M. I’oynty. of Richmond, was made l eniiia r.vnt ihairman, and \Y. 11. Polk, of Lex ington, pe rmanent sou clary. A eom mitiee i n tx-s