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The News and Observer.
• VOL.XLVI. NO. 125.
LEADS Ml NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES 11 NEWS 110 Cl'/ZiUUmON.
ARMED GUARDS
KEEP BACK THE
YELLOW FEVER
Shot-Gun Quarantine Placed
Around the Infected
District.
NORFOLK IN NO DANGER
FLEET OF ARMED TUGS PATROL
THE HABORS DAY
AND NIGHT.
INSPECTORS ON ALL RAILROAD LINES
Dr. Hope, the Quarantine Officer and Dr Wy
irnn, Surgeon General of United States,
Think all Danger is Now Past
and that the Disease Can
be Kept in the Dis
trict Where it
Originated.
Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 3. —(Special.)—
The subjoined interview on the yellow
fever situation with Dr. Wyman
from the Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald, was today re
ceived in Portsmouth by Mr. W. E.
Christian, of the Seaboard Air Line:
“Washington, Aug. 3.—1 think we
have the situation well in hand.” Dr.
Wyman says today, “the lapse of anoth
er day without any spread is most en
couraging. Every day lessens the lia
bility of disease getting outside of its
present territory. Reports from Nor
folk and Portsmouth show no persons
there who were exposed to the disease.
Jit is not believed there is any danger at
either place.”
Yesterday some of the health authori
ties of Littleton, N. C., taking council
of their fears, quarantined against
Portsmouth and Norfolk. As soon as
the news reached here the Seaboard
Air Line authorities at once took action
which immediately allayed the fears of
the Littleton people, who at once raised
the quarantine. The following corre
spondence explains itself:
“Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 3, 1899.
“Dr. L. J. Picott, Littleton, N. ('.:
“Referring to quarantine of Littleton
against Norfolk and Portsmouth, this
action is simply absurd. There is ab
solutely no occasion for alarm. Official
reports from Surgeon General Wyman in
charge of Hampton, reports the fever
is entirely confined to the Soldiers’
Home. No deaths in the past twenty
four hours, and only two new eases.
An absolute strict quarantine is being
maintained against Hampton, Newport
News, Old Point and the entire peninsu
lar, and there is absolutely no reason
for your people to feel alarmed.
“The action of your health board will
militate very much against the business
of your town. Yours is the only place in
the United States that has quarantined
against Norfolk or Portsmouth. Under
the penalties prescribed, our conductors
will be compelled to lock our ears and
stop no trains of any character at Lit
tleton from either direction in order to
carry out successfully the order passed
by your board.
(Signed.) “T. W. WHISNANT,
“Superintendent.”
“Littleton. N. C., Aug. 3, 1899.
“T. W. Whisnant:
“Action was without my knowledge
and is ridiculous. The authorities have
decided to admit all refugees from Nor
folk and Portsmouth upon certificates
from health officer of either Portsmouth
of Norfolk. Send the* folks along.
What town ridicules action of board of
health?
(Signed.) “L. .1. PICOTT,
“Health Officer.”
With the great mass of the people
living around this port there never lias
been any undue anxiety as to the visita
tion from “Yellow Jack.” Still there are
some nervous, excitable people who, in
spite of the most patent facts in the
ease will |H*rsist in giving away to their
fears, which, in turn has tin* due effect
upon others. To all su<-h, if they read
the following statements made by F. S.
Hope. State quarantine medical officer
of this port and Norfolk, and Mr. St.
John, vice president and general man
ager of the Seaboard Air Line, there
can remain no excuse for further fear.
As preliminary to what follows this
statement was made to Dr. Hope:
“Doctor, we want to get a clear cut
statement from you as to the situation,
what you think the probabilities are in
regard to Norfolk and Portsmouth, and
"hat the actualities are as to the places
outside?”
“In relation to the situation that now
exists, it is perfect folly for us to at
tempt to determine the cause and in
ception of the outbreak tit the infected
points. That is a mutt r that will he
of scientific and professional importance
later on.
“The thing that we are to look at is a
practical situation and that is, that tin*
fever, since the 30th of last month, the
date upon which it was diagnosed, has
been confined to its zone of inception.
As is well known, it only takes from
three to five days for yellow fever to
develop. In the opinion of the very best
men who are competent to give opinions
on this subject, ten days at the longest
is ample time for any infection that
may have escaped from the infected lo
cality to develop. Our advices in con
nection with tin* health department of
the community, re-in forced by the opin
ion of the experts of the Federal Gov
ernment, is that this ten days’ limit is
long enough.
“I think that the people on the penin
sular at Newport News, are thoroughly
protected by a shot gun cordon around
their town, which is absolutely’ efficient.
Old Point is an ideal place for quaran
tining, as it is connected to the land
by a bridge only, with Phoebus and the
Soldiers’ Home. The management of
the situation there, as you know, is
this: Dr. l’ettus. United States
Marine Hospital representative, is
in full control with absolute power
and authority. The outside man both
at Phoebus and* Soldiers’ Home is White,
an efficient and competent man and one
of national reputation in the special line.
Dr. Wentenbaker is the eo-operative wan
at Newport News.”
“I think those communities can ne as
si red that the situation l tier- is in
thoroughly competent hands irei will t e
managed with cnisqnimate skill arid
success. For our own protected, in the
ouarainlrine distr'et oi which we are a
part —Norfolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk
county— we have live tugs patrollipg the
Iveaches, extending from York river to a
mile beyond Newport News. Those peo
ple have authority, instructions and am
munition to turn back everything that is
coming this way. Outside of (Hint we
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
ROOT TO SWELL THE ARMY
HE WILL PROBABLY MAKE OTIS' AVAILA
BLE FORCE 40,000.
"his is the Belief in Army Circles Based on
Diligent Itquiries he has Made
of Bureau Chiefs.
Washington, August 3. —It appears
probable from developments during the
paat two days in the War Department
that Sicrctnry Ibwrt has in contemplation
an army of quite 40,000 men for the
Philippines.
While Mr. Root has been at the bead
of the Department only a brief time,
he has been making diligent inquiries
among die bureau chiefs’ regarding sup
plies and equipments, and the trend
of his questioning has been in the direc
tion of an increase in the available
force in the Eastern archipelago. The
belief is growing in army circles that
Secretary Root has in mind a plan
practically matured to make General
Ottis’ available force at least 40,000
mom
VICE AMONG YOUNG CUBANS.
Havana, Aug. 3.—-The El Diario el
Marine published a letter today which
says that the condition of the young
Cubans lias become very bad. A large
number were deprived of their parents
by the war, and have been left without
support or guiding influence. Naturally
in many eases they fall a prey to vice,
as is shown by very large proportion of
young persons who figure as criminals
in the police dockets. The writer of
the letter stigests the establishment of
homes for waifs. These he would have
connected with suitable tracts of laud,
where the children could he brought up
out of harm's way and could be taught
to till the soil.
HEAVY STORM IN VIRGINIA.
Richmond. Va., Angusd 3. A storm
of almost unprecedented violence swept
over Westmoreland, Stafford and King
counties last night. (’nops were dam
aged, ftree*^ blown down, several houses
were unroofed and 'horses ami cattle
were killed by lightning. A heavy fall
of hail is reported from some points
1,000 MILE RECORD BROKEN.
Minneapolis', Minn., Aug. 3. The
world’s bicycle record for 1,000 miles,
held by T. A. Edge, of London, England,
and made over an ordinary turnpike
road, has been broken by A. A. Han
sen, who finished his long ride early
this morning covering tin* distance in 92
hours, 44 minutes. The time made by
Edge was 105 hours, 19 minutes.
MURDERED BY A BURGLAR.
Norfolk, Anjgm-it 3. Charles Wyatt, a
wt'ld known citizen of Norfolk county
was murdered 1 ami then robbed in his
home mar Portsmouth last night by a
negro burglar. ’Hie negro escaped, af
ter taking about $8 from Mr. Wyatt’s
pockets.
SALE OF STREET CAR LINES.
t
Richmond. August 3.—The sale of tlhe
Richmond Railway and, Electric Com
pany’s (street car lines to what is known
as the Royd-NVwtou syndicate, <-oin
pewed exclusively of local capitalists,
was this evening announced. The sale
im'Ludod tin* main line and all the
1 ian< Imss of tiw* road, forming some sev
enty odd mile's of track.
NEGRO GUARDED FROM A MOB.
Atlanta, Ga., August 3. John Mullins,
the Coweta county negro w’lm is charged
with an attempted assault on Mrs.
Cook, near Senoia, Ga., yesterday, was
brought to Atlanta under military guard
and placed in the countY jail to keep him
| from the vengeance of a mob.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST I, 1899.
PEOPLE RUSH ID
ARMS HE LA VEGA
Insurrection Bursts Out in
Favor of Jiminez,
WHO DLSIRES TO RULE
POLITICAL SITUATION AT PORT
AU PRINCE IMPROVES.
OUR MINUTER PLEADS FOR PRISONERS
Asks Clemency for I hose Accused of Plotting
/gainst the Government. Expression
of Regret Txpec’ed for In
vasion of Legation.
Cape llaytien, August 3. It has just
become known 4hait mi armed insurrec
tion lias broken out at La Vega, a town
seventy-eight miles northwest of St.
Domingo, in favor of Jiminez, who as
pires to flu* Presidency in succession
to the Lite President Heureaux.
Later advices from the Domincian
Republic indicate that the revolution is
growing in strength.
At Santiago de la Cruz, 500 well arm
ed men have risen under the command
of General Ramon Pacheco, and Gen
eral Reyes, who is very influential in
those districts, has joined the insurgents
with several other generals, each com
manding fairly important forces.
THE OUTLOOK IMPROVED.
Port an Prince, August 3. —The politi
cal si tint lion here has improved and
the city is calm.
The prompt action of tho United
Staten Minister here, Mr. William F.
Powell, in five case of M. Du Vivier, the
neWHpaivr man, who was taken by the
police officer out of the American Le
gation, has created an excellent impres
sion among the foreign ]h»j illation, who
consider that the action of tin* Haytian
Government in surrendering tile prisoner
to the Minister on his demand, probably
avoided serious trouble.
The pecqAe who have been arrested
Imre are accused of plotting the over
throw of the Government, and tin*
Anrerican Minister has asked the latter
to exercise clemency towards the pris
oners.
WASHINGTON WANTS APOLOGY.
Washington, August 3. Acting Secre
tary of State Adee has received a cable
gram from Minister Powell at Port an
Prince, llayti, confirming the newspa
per repotfhs of tin* violation of his Lega
tion by police officers who wore mak
ing an arrest. The Minister adds that
the person who was apre.;ited, Du Vivier,
is a citizen of Hayti, and in* seeks to
know what disposition shall be made of
him Ilfwm Ids return to the Legation.
'III? Department is now giving this
query consideration and it will probably
direct the Minister to surrender the man
to flu* authorities if it shall appear
that, t'lie proceedings are regular and
that lie will Im* given a fair trial. If
the Uaylian Government express re
gret at tin* invasion of the legation the
State Department will be satisfied.
RAILROAD'S HEAVY LOSS.
Power House, Car En ds and Eighty
Cars Burned in Newark,
New York. August 3, —The power
house and car sheds of tin* North Jer
sey Railroad Company in Newark, N
J.. were destroyed by fire late last night,
causing a loss of $300,000. Nearly eighty
ears were destroyed. The loss is covered
by blanket in sat ranee. There is little
doubt that the fire was caused by
lightning, which struck that portion of
tile building where oils, paints, etc., were
stored.
FOR THE USUAL PRIME.
Blakely, Ga., August 3. Ends lien
dersvm, a negro, who has been in the
employ of J. W. Bowman* a planter in
this county for four years punt, yes
terday attempted to commit an assault
on the six-year- ohl daughter of Mr.
Bowman. He vva.s captured by the fath
er and today was taken in hail'd by a
band of lynchers. The mob was very
quiet and orderly, and liefore the town
knew what wins going on, the negro
was hanging from a bruit> in the out
skirts of file to win,
A MONEY PANIC PREDICTED.
Berlin, August 3.- Tin* Deutsche Ta
ges Zeitung today published a sensation
al article, predicting a great panic in
tin* German money market. The paper
said that during the last six months 1,-
595,000.000 marks of new shares were
issued, of which 518,(1(10.000 marks were
industrial securities, which, if. is added,
exceeds the whole Issue of 1898. A
mass <sf evidence is quoted to prove tin*
existence of unsound speculation.
GENDARMES CHARGE CROWDS.
Reinhenberg. Bohemia, August 3.
Street demountrations have been la pro
gress here during tin* last two days
against tin* raising of the sugar tax.
Today gendarmes charged a crowd
with fixed bayonets and one citizen was
severely wotmded.
In yesterday's yadlit race Meteor again
defeated Biittania.
Buying farming tools.
Beneficial Effect of the Payments to the
Soldiers—Yellow Fever.
Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 3.—Two new
cases of yellow fever were officially re
ported today. There was one death
from tin., disease.
Colonel Moale is expected here Sat
nrday to begin tin* payment of the Cu
ban soldiers in this city. No impatience
has been displayed thus far over Un
necessary delay.
I he beneficial effect of the payments
already made at Guantanamo is shown
by the general purchasing of fanning
implements and clothing.
Nearly 8,000 soldiers will be paid here.
THE CASE OF MRS. PEROT.
London, Aug. 3. — Mrs. William Y.
Perot, us Baltimore, Maryland, who was
arrested at Liverpool, on an extradition
warrant July 27th, after reaching that
port from Canada, charged with the
abduction of her daughter, Gladys’ and
who was brought here and remanded,
the same day, on 100 pounds sterling
bail, with two sureties, appeared for
examination this morning, in the Bow
Street Police court. She was again re
manded on flu* si me hail and with the
same sureties, Si: G. Ewon-Smith and
Mr. N. Blood.
Mr. Crane, representing the United
States Embassy, said that extradition
papers marked “urgent” and “pressing”
were handed this morning to officials of
the British Foreign Office, and were
now on their way to the Home Office.
Some days must necessarily elapse, lie
added, bqfore copies of the document
could be placed in the magistrates hands.
Therefore, Mr. Crane asked that the
prisoner be remanded. Counsel for Mrs.
Perot acquiesced to this.
ALLIANCE ’OF REPUBLICS
OUR SOUTH AMERICAN NEIGHBORS FEAR
GROWTH OF IMPERIALISM
An Alliance of Uiuaguay, Ch-li and the
Argentine Republic Proposed. Pres
ident RcciGcni to Brazil.
Montevideo, Aug. 3.- President Jloea,
of the Argentine Republic and party, on
'v*f»nl the Argentine cruiser San Martin,
arrived here today to visit President
Cuestas, of Uruaguay, on his way to
Brazil.
London, Aug. 3. —The London Times
publishes a dispatch from Buenos Ayres,
July 2nd, saying President Rpcu, of the
Argentine Republic, would leave that
country about the middle of July for
Uruaguay and Brazil with tin* intention
of inviting the Presidents of those re
publics to meet at Buenos Ayres in the
autumn and confer with the President of
Chili. Honor Errazuriz, on the question
of reducing South American armaments.
It was added that he would also pro
pose an alliance of the four republics.
A dispatch from London to tin* Asso
ciated Press, August Ist. gave the sub
stance of a message sent by the Rome
correspondent of the Morning Post, to
his paper. lie said:
“According to news received here, the
victory over Spain and the growth of
imperialism in the United States, has
led the large South American Republics
to talk of an alliance against the United
States, and it is alleged that the pre
liminaries of such an alliance have been
concluded between Brazil and Argen
tina.
ANOTHER CAR DYNAMITED.
Chief Arthur < f the Engineers' Brother
hood Resents the Boycott.
Cleveland, Aligned 3. The w ithdraw -
ail of several companies of troops was
followed tonight b.v another outrage, but
fort (mu tely nobody wa.s (hurt. The ex
plosion occurred under a Jennings Ave
nue ear, on which there wen* six p.iK
sengors, It siimishcd tin* flange of one
of tin* wheels and splintered the run
ning board at tin* side. The passengers
were badly frighten'd bint none was in
jured and the ear proceeded on its way
to tin* end' of tin* run.
Grand Chief P. M. Arthur, of Hut
Brotherhood' of Ex-emotive Engineer.*?,
has been reported to the strikers for rid
ing on Big Consolidated Cars in disre
gard of 'llin* boycott. When asked to
il i gift if In* patronized the Big Consoli
dated ears, Chief Arthur replied:
“Os course I do. 1 ride on them every
day, and whenever I have occasion to
do so.”
‘Why do you do it?” lie was asked.
"Why?” wasjhe reply. “Do you sup
pose 1 aiy going to walk threw* miles
down town when Ihe ears pass my door?
Os mum* I am not. Tin’s agitation and
the heeotf are utterly ridiculous and tin*
strikers have gone altogether too far.”
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SHUTS OUT NORFOLK.
Portsmouth jts Well— Not Properly Pro
tected. Says Newport News.
Newport News, Va., August 3.—The
Board of Health at a meeting held to
night, quarantined against Norfolk ami
Ports'inout li.
The action met with hearty approval
among tin* loading citizens and business
men of the city, who claimed, and were
upheld by flu* board, that tin* cities of
Norfolk and Portsmouth had not taken
proper steps to protect themselves
against the infected district.
The State Guard and Naval Militia of
Georgia have been invited by the Major
General of the State Guard of New York
to participate in the land parade in
honor of Admiral Dewey. The invita
tion has been accepted.
CARRABELLE HAS
BEEN BLOTTED OUT
Swept Out of Existence by
the Storm.
THIRTEEN SHIPS ASHORE
NOTHING KNOWN YET AS TO
THE LOSS OF LIFE.
PIOPJMTAZED BY BLOW
Towns of Mc’n'ye ar.d Curtis Mill in Ruifts
St. Tens* and Lanark have FufFrtid
Much. Fiihi.'g Patty of
fifteen Missing.
Tallahassee, Fla.. August 3. The first
train since Monday from Carralielle
through the storm stricken guif coast
section reached here this afternoon, pas
sengers having been transferred twice
from Hat cars from Carrabelk* to leaver
cars between Cow Creek and the Oeh
lockonee Riven* and then to the relief
train for Tallahassee.
The train crew- and passengers agree
in stating that reports sent out of the
destruction wrought by the* storm have
been extremely moderate. Carrabelle is
literally wiped from the map. Her docks
and wharves, containing 400,000 feet qf
lumber and 50.000 'barrels of rosin, were
quickly swept away. Thirteen of the
fifteen vcsels in the bay were swept
ashore and are now lying well up on dry
land. These vessels contained several
million feet of lumber. Their names
cannot now be ascertained/ No infor
mation is yet obtainable as to the loss of
life from these vessels and from the
large fleet of fishing boats in the neigh
borhood. Only two or three huts are
left in Carra belle, and a colored woman
is known to have been killed by tin* fall
ing of a house on her. Citizens of Car
ra hcUe are in a state of w ild eon fusion
and are flocking' ini every direction for re
lief. The town is isolated, and the wires
are still down. The towns of Mclntyre
and Curtis Mill are completely demolish
ed. and large interests have been de
stroyed. The coast resorts, St. Teresa
and Lanark, are more seriously wrecked
than at first reported, and visitors have
suffered great hardships, though no loss
of life is yet known.
Fifteen men, said to have been seen
fishing o*i an islet called Dog Island,
just before the storm broke, cannot be
found.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Florida has quarantined against the
fever infected district.
Wilmington has quarantined against
Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton and
Phoebus.
General Funston says he will stay in
the army until the war in the Philip
pines is over.
Nothing of a sensational character de
veloped at tho sessions of the Mazet
investigating committee yesterday.
The wt stern part of the town of
Grodno, capital of the Government of
the same name, in Russia, lias been
d-u-itroyrdl by fire.
Comte and Comtesse de Castellano
entertained tin* Prince of Wales at din
ner yesterday on board their steel yacht
Valhalla, off Cowes.
The Official Messenger, of St. Peters
burg. says the result of the Peace Con
ference has fully come up to tin* ex
pectations of the Government.
A farmer of Wisconsin committed sui
cide by blowing himself up with dyna
mite. He left a scrap of paper on
which was written, “Here I go and the
Lord go with me.”
11 organ and Slattery, architects, New
York, filed' a petition in bankruptcy in
the clerk's office ,»f tihe l nitrd States
District Court. Labilities are $191,*
392.49 with no assets.
According to the statement of Philip
Sheridan, fornvrl.v Crown Prosecutor at
Dawson, the United Stall's has had sur
veyors at work tin* past two years lo
cating the Alaskan boundary line.
A dispatch from Apia to Berlin says
tnat the appointment of United 'States
Consnil Osborne as Acting Chief Justice
at Apia was at the suggestion of Dr.
Self, German President of the Municipal
Council.
The British Ambassador to the United
States assumes the title of Lord Pauiiee
l'ofe, as a result of his elevation to the
peerage. He expects to resume the
Alaska negotiations on his return to
Washington.
The Tenth lYnn-yi!vania volunteers
landed from the transport Senator at
San Francisco y_Jertlay, and. iveorted
by the Nebraska troops, mairched to the
Presidio, where* they will camp until
mustered out.
The engagement of Lady Rnndolpq
Churchill, to Lieutenant G. F. M. Coni
wallis-West, son of the famous beauty.
Lady Coni wallis-West, is announced. It
AICE FIVE CENTS.
said that the marriage will occur in
/etober next.
The Adjutant General is in receipt of
Manila advices that Captain A. F. Bur
ton. of Company B, Fifty-first lowa,
from Villisea, has been suspended foe
cowardice, and is now at Manila, await
ing dishonorable discharge.
A bill in equity has been filed in the
United States Circuit court at Pittsburg,
Pa., asking that receivers be appointed
to take charge of the assets of the New
York National Building and Loan Asso
ciation in that district, valued at $200,-
• Mio. it is alleged that the association
is insolvent.
An order, has been issued by the
prison commission of Georgia, requesting
people to refrain front visiting the prison
camps of the State, and prohibiting the
prison officials and employes from leav
ing the camps. The order is a precau
tion against the spread of small pox.
Mayor Johnson vetoed the ordinance
placing the license for athletic clubs
which conduct sparring contests at sl,**
500, saying he was unwilling to approve
an ordinance which would make it possi
ble to have repeated hi Denver such a
brutal contest as was witnessed there
about a week ago, at one o*f these so
called athletic associations.
It appears that tin* Minister of War,
General the Marquis Gallifct, has ab
solved all the military witnesses at tin*
court martial of Captain Dreyfus at
Rennes from professional secrecy with
the exception that he has requested them
not to divulge the names of French
agents abroad or (libelo*se anything which
could complicate the foreign relations
of France.
OFF BROOKLYN BRIDGE
THE DESPERATE LEAP OF HENNA HAUSER
INTO THE RIVER.
Read Newspaper Till Car Reachej Middle of
Bridge, Then Sprang Cut and
Leaped He Was Pescued.
New York, Aug. 3.—Henna Hauser,
treasurer of the Herald Square Theatre,
in this city, jumped from the middle
span of the Brooklyn bridge at 5 o’clock
this afternon. He was rescued from the
water and will recover. Ilauser was a
passenger on an electric car bound from
Brooklyn to New York. He sat calmly
reading a newspaper until the middle
of the bridge was reached, when m*
jumped off the car.
Throwing off his coat, Hauser climbed
upon the outer railing. The bridge po
liceman. passengers on the ear and tin
ear men made a rush for him. He i<*-
garded their approach coolly, hesitated
a moment and then leaped clear of the
structure. He struck the water just
astern of a ferryboat.
A passenger sprang overboard and
seized Hauser when he reapix-ared to
tin* surface. He was lifted aboard,
taken to shore and sent to the hospital.
• Hauser is about thirty years old, and
is very well known in the theatrical
fraternity. When asked whv he made
the jump he said it was because he was
a drunken fool. He insisted that he had
had no trouble of any source, either ifi
his family or financially.
Finally he jokingly remarked: “That’s
what Coney Island booze does for a fel
low.”
DEATH OF JOHN KELLEY.
Tammany Lepder and Sporting Man,
Close Friend of Croker.
New York, Aug. 3.—John Kelley, the
Tammany leader and sporting maifT bet
ter known as “Smiling John” Kelley,
died today, aged 55. H<> is v ; ihi t » have
been Richard Croker’s closest lrb ml.
and he had a wide acquaint met* among
turf men, having owned and raced many
fine horses.
DR. W. 1). BARKER DIES.
Could Out Cut, Out Bray and Out Fight
Any Man in the Confederate Army.
Richmond, Va.. August 3. Dr. W. W,
Barker died at his residence here late
tonight, aged 75. 'During the Civil War
he emu muled the celebrated Barker bat
tery of the Confederate service. He was
captain, surgeon and chaplain of his bat
tery. and the man of whom Geperal Ste
phen D. Lee said: “He could out cut,
<nit pray, and out tight any man in the
Con federate a rniy.”
He was a moving spirit in all charity
work in the city.
THOUSANDS IDLE IN DAWSON.
San Francisco, Cad.. August 3.—The
steamer Charles Nelson arrived today
from St. Michael. The Nelson carried
111 passengers, who brought down about
$150,000. The amount of treasure sent
down in care of the purser is understood
to he large.
The news from Dawson is not encour
aging. Thousands of men are idle, loaf
ing on every street corner and in every
saloon. The Government Ims already
sent many back to their former homes.
At a meeting of the African M. E.
Presiding Elders’ Council of Georgia
and Alabama, it was resolved to set be
fore Congress the deplorable condPiou
of the negroes in several of the Southern
States, and petition for an appropriation
of $100,(100,009 to start a line of steam
ships lietween this country ami Africa,
that all negroes who wish may emigrate.
Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the
United States Senate, has been prostrat
ed by sunstroke.