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BOARDING) HOUlf AOI. ' ' BRING iUMMEROARDEM . HOWtaV VOL XX NO 263 ASHBVJLLli N. TtlESOAY MORNING AUGUST 8, 1905 PRICB FIVB CENTS. ! t FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TAKE CHARGE OF ' AGAINST YELLOW .- k f i - ' ' ' Formal Transfer Took Place at looii tcsicrday fo fr. .. . j. H. White CITIZENS RAISE OVER $256,000 FOR FIGHT Telephone Operators In the ; Country Refuse to Re main at posts With the marine hospital service and the authority of President Roosevelt placed In complete control ot noon of the scientific fight to eradicate yellow fever hi New. Orleans, before front, the campaign agalnat the acourge tojay look on freeh life. Wlh ample fund a v alible, the bet medtcal talent and an army of willing workers at hla back, t. 3. H. White, aurgeon In charge, bopea for. a successful termination of the struggle. i During .ie day Dr. White received fermal orders froni Surgeon General Wyman Informing him that the Federal government hid decided to assume the tak Dreoa'red for . Dr. White then visited the state and the city, boards of health, where he. communicated the news .o Presidents Bouehon and Kohnk and arranged for the transfer of con trol of the work. The city and the s ate board pledge iil the assistance possi ble to Dr. White. .Dr. White said the transfer of details would be gradual, so that there might be BO Interrurpton of the work now Jn progress. It was announced that the marine hospital aervloe would soon take up the receiving and compiling of daily re-. pbrti. A to Ire Impression 'has pre vailed In some quarters that all the tfdsee occurring were not made public, and In order that ihere may be perfect confidence throughout the country, Dr. White desires that .hereafter statlstlol announcements of the ittoHlon shall bo mad under Federal supervision. :n evidence of the panicky feeling In ' tb.?ow!ry-parUtoeUi shewn In the . eaperence of the . Cumberland Tele Dhpne Cqmpany. A'! Arcadia, La., the man charge of the telephone office fled Whe the fever began to spread. Me telephone company tried to fill the position, but Arcadia refused to permit a man to came to work, and he service has been, suspended. A similar situa tion ' prevails at aton Rouge. The B(on Rouge telephone exchange serve? iwuch of the surrounding country And ajl that region Is wthout telephone com muncaton. , , Questionable Loss. It will probably never be possible to et,lma.(e the losses which New Orleans ria suffered financially throuKh the ell Version of business, but the heavy tax an the people by ''.he present situation in, shown by the fact that besides the money already rvje-rt by the boards of Health and the 250,000 to be raised for the. government, thousands of dollars Hate been subscribed and expended In ward sanitation. i' Some docking houses report that a number -of owns have quarantined against drugs. :'t' Fever In Country. ''Two targe foci of Infection wore discovered today outside of the city by ' health officers of the marine hos pital service. Dr.. Corput went to the Diamond plantation. In Bt, Charles parish, to look Into 'some suspicious cases and found six positive yellow fefer ' cases of secondary infection, three of which w i 4 dead. The othr point of Infection Is the town of Pat terson, In St. Mary parish, where Dr. Gulteras found "19- cases of secondary Infection. . . ' - TO BURN TURPENTINE NEAR INFECTEb HOUSES Oyster Bay, LV; I Aug. 7 Secretary Shaw came to Oyster. Hay, today tn see the presdent. Secretary Shaw aald that the Federal government, having taken control of .' tho) yellow fever at nation In 'New Orleans no effort! would he left untried to stamp out the epidemic j. ,"In on of my conferences with Sur geon General" Wy-r.n" he said. "I sug gested to him that he obtain a large quantity of crude torpen lne and have if burr.-ed In the vicinity of every house where three was a yellow fever pUlent. It formerly was supposed that the htirnlrigot turpentine was practically a. specific for yellow fever. As a mat ar or fact It has been demonstrated that the fumes from the burning turpentine FLEET OF SOUTH FOR .Ml Washlngton, Aug. 7. In- addhlon to toe revenue cutter Winona, wtocS Is now. at Gulf port. Miss., the' revenue cutters Forward, now at Key West; h Hamilton, at Tampa, and the Seminole at Wilmington N. c have been order ed to Oulaport forxha purpose of main taining the national, quarantine, and will proceed to that poll at once, and they have been directed to act uder the In struct tons ef CapC W. G. Rosa, chief nf 4 be revenue cotter service, who left tonight for Mew Orleans. FIGHT FEVER merely drive awa the mosquito'. It we can keej mosquitoes away from the atlents suffering from the fever wo nan prevent : hem from carrying the disease to people who are not afflcted with It." SHREVEPORT ALMOST OUT OF ALL DANGER Shievcpnrt, I-n., Aug. '. Dr. ftold- berger of the I'nlted Stales marine hospital gave out the following slate ment of conditions as he found thrtn at the detention earnp outside of the city: 'All cases are of men alio tried to liter the city from other points, but who were stopped on the outskirts by the quarantine Inspectors and' con vryed under proper precautions in 4 detention camp and there carefully screened. There appears to he no danger of spread and no .cases ar known to be present In the city." NO FEVER-AT MONTGOMERY. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. T The ycN low fever scare In Montgomery Is now entirely a thing of the past and the board of health made the public an nouncement this afternoon that there exists no necessity of continuing Its stereotyped report: "No new cases" and "no suspicious Illness." The board will continue to meet dally anj canvass the health conditions of the city, but no further bulletins will be Issued unless something at present unlocked for should occur NO DANGER AT TAMPA. Tampa,, FH., Aug. 7. The good rtewi comes from 8ta;e Health Officer Portei that he considers the danger of Infec tion from Victor Vi.talo"s case as past. No other case has developed, nor if there a Flngle suspected one. SHUT UP TIGHT. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. ".The rigid quarantine decided upon by the city council w js put- into operation at noon iloday. Armed guards were placed about the cty and Inspectors are on ev ery .train. No one can enter .hb city from any direction without a pesmH from the Memphis board of health. ' BAUFORO QUARANTINES. Bauford, S. C, Aug. 7. The board of health of Baufoul township, In cluding Dauford and Port Royal, to day determined tn Institute a rigid quarantine against Louisiana and all points Infected now or that may be come Infected with yellow fever. CASES AT BON AMI. Houston. Tex., Aug. 7. St,ij Health Officer Tabor has been ad vised officially that there are' two cases or yellow fever at Hon Ami, Ia. The telegram states also that one of the suspects was dead. automobile owner Sued for $2,000 OWNER OF FRIGHTENED HORSE WANT8 DAMAGE8. Buggy Was 8mashod and Occupant Injured Becauss Chaffeur Failed , to Slow Up. Dr. I. M. McLaln of Democrat yes terday began suit In the Superior court here against Dr. Wexler Smath ers of this city. The complaint has not yet been filed, but it Is under stood that the plaintiff seeks to re cover (2,000 In compensation lor damages said to have been suffered by him In a runaway. It la dallied that Dr. Smathers automobile, drlvut by a young relative of the defendant, frightened Dr. McLaln s horse, caus ing it to run away, break., up .the plaintiffs buggy, and Injure, him pain fully, although not seriously. It Is aald that the driver of the au tomobile failed to slow up on seeing that the horse was frightened and made matters worse by this action. This Is one of the first suits to be commenced in this state where dam- ages are asked by reason of an ac oJdent caused .by alleged reckless driving of . an- automobile.- and ihe progress of the suit will be watched with Interest. CUTTERS ORDERED V llSE B THE FEVER FIGHT It Is expected hat small boat will 'be' needed In order to make an ef- fett ve patrol and to this end any boats rco.i Ired will be employed and the re nue cutter flag hoisted aver them ani a if venue cut:er officer put on board. They will then be, to all Intents, gov ernment vessels and have the same jc rix'ictton aa reTenu1. cutters, which will i rtble them to go Into any waters. It ls believed that in this way Tn Ftfcnt quaran ln ran be maintained MORGAN GOES ' , TO SEE TEDDY Chinese Matters 'are Dis cussed by Financier and President RAILROAD INTERESTS v IN ORIENT A TOPIC Peace Negotiations Also Civ en an Airing at Informal Luncheon Oyster Day, N. Y., Aug. ". J. Pier- pont Morgan, of New York, had a con ference today with President lloocevelt. lasting an hour ind a half. The presi dent himself is authority for the state ment that It related practically entlre- y to the affairs of the Hankow rail road In China, a controlling Interest in wheh Is owned by J. P. Morgan & Co. Incidentally, and as relating in n meas ure to the railroad Interests held by Americana In China, the pending peace negotiations formed a topic of consid eration by the preslden: and Mr. Mor gan. Mr. Morgan came to Oyster Bay un heralded. While his vL-lt was by ap pointment, " nothing concerning it was permitted to leak through official sources urttll after he had gone. Hs took lunch with the president and Mrs, Roosevelt. REPUBLICANS WILL IN Roanoke, Va., Aug ".The Republic an state convention, to nominate a full state ticket to oppose the Democrats the general election next fall wll as semble 'here tomorrow at noon. Every train 'today brought in. delegates from all sections of the state. The conven tion will be composed of about a hou sand members and will be one of the largest In the history of the party In Virginia. Judge L. L. Lewis, of Wok mond. will be nominated for governor without' opposition. Secretary of the treas'ury Leslie M. Bhaw will arrive to. morrow and will address the convention o morrow evening. FIR3T DIVIDEND. Savannah, Oa., Aug. 7. At a meet 'ng of the dliectors of the Central of leorgla railway today a dividend if per cent, was declared upon tn Irst, second and third preferred' in-i omeb onds of the road. This Is thi? Irst time In the history of the road hot the full dividend has been paid in all the bonds. .In addition 1106.000 was canted over to the surplus In come account. : j Uncle Sam I thought I banished ysu from Cuba. The Yellow Jack Sa you slid, ana you wsnf ta ran PORTSMOUTH IS 4 DISAPPOINTED Visitors Crowd Streets but . Peace Envoys Fall to Put InAppearance M. WITTE MAKES HIS ESCAPE IN DARKNESS Arrives Unexpectedly and Has Train Stopped at Out of Way Crossing Por smgouth, N. '. Ai ir There wa greit disappointment In this city today over the delay In the arrival of the Ru stun and Japan-,. e envoys. The news of the iposipoiu-nient of the fnuc-.lons had not rea.-hed many of t'.ie rltlsens ot Portsmtniih and i s envir ons. Consequently this -ectlon of New Hampshire was astir eirly and by 8 o'clock every ele, trie line froinithe country was brlnglhK many sightseers. When the fact of lh'' iK)st,;jouement beramr generally known tiiere were many expressions. t iiinnppointmen1.. but upon the clrcul.itloo of rumors of the possible arrival "f the .-hip most of the crowd decided to have a holiday nyway. The operators In tin- nirulea? station had a very busy day trying to pick up the Dolphin, whi h has the Japan envoys on board. T.initriit an answer to the numerous nlls was received stating thai at dark the Dulihlif was off Cape Cod, seventy-live miles away. She was steaming slowly and ..hofe on board thought.the cruiser would renoh the harbor about f oYlork tomorrow morning. Mr. WItte arrived In this i:y tonight from Boston at H:l o'clock, coming In a speK'iil car attached to the regular liar Harbor express. He was enabled to avoid a crow of several hundred people assembled at the station, through the train Slopping at a cross ing about a. quarter of a mile from the depot. Mr. Wl'.te was taken to the Wentworth In an automobile. YACHTS -ARE THERE. Newport, HL$Jf4"i!- 7. The yachts Dolphin and Mayflower.' with their convoys, bearing the Russian and Japanese commissioners to, Ports mouth, sailed from this harbor at S l. m. Shortly after the departure of 'he fleet the Dolphin picked up the wireless station and sent a large number of dispatches, which are to be cabled to Japan. ORR OICS. Washington, Auk. 7. The war di pnrtment Is informed of the death of First Lieutenant Pylvanliis O. Oir. ar tillery corps, which occurred at Xew- nan, Ga., August 8. out 'af Panama, so . , NONUNION MAN 'nRhiidilf lilLi Teamster Convention thrown Into an Uproar Over a o ' Delivery DELEGATE TRIES TO PREVENT THE TREASON Stls In Manhole but Is Rc moved by Policeman- Driver Wins Out Philadelphia. Aug. 7. The feature of the day's proceedings of the an nual convention of the International nrothei hood of Teamsters, which he- an In Odd Fellows' temple today, wa the appearance of a delegate In front of the rostrum who declared that non-union negro coal wagon drive was delivering coal at the hulldliic III which they met. This caused con slderahle stir and after some debate '".'limlttee was appointed to look Int the matter, In the meantime the negro driver was having a varmiargument wi wverai delegates on the sidewalk of the hail which attracted a large crowd. Delegate B. McCullum of New York told the negro that he could not deliver the coal while the union was In 'ssiou In the building, The dele sate sat on the cover over the man hole. A policeman ordered the dele aate off the manhole. The coal wa then unloaded without further delay SOUTHERN TO BUILD BRANCH IN FLORIDA Gainesville, Fla., Aug. 7. An Import ant dot I was made here today when the Gainesville & Gulf railroad was sold to F. M. aimonton, of Tampa; A. P Stuckey and 13. W. Blunt, of Ocala. The road rurts from Sampson CI y to Fairfield, fnrly-elght miles, connecting with the Georgl' , Southern A Florida at Sampson Cltv. The construction of the road began In 1885 and ended In 1V00. It Is said 'ihat the Southern railway Is bark of the purchase and will build to Tampa at once. It will shorten the distance to Tampa from the west nearly fllty miles TWO BURNED. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 7. Annie J. Tny lor, a negiee, and her daughter, aged 19 years, were burned to death In i Are that destroyed a two-story tene ment here today. Several other oc rupants of the building had narrow escapes. The financial loss was small I came hera. i if FIRE AT HOBOKEN DOCKS BLAZES ENDANGERING SHIPPING BOILER EXPLODES ' : i - , . KILLING THREE Terrible Accident Occurs at Saw Mill During a Fierce Rainstorm Many Hurt Knoxville. Tenn., Aug. 7. A telephone message from Del Klo, In Cook county Tennessee, tells of a disastrous boiler explosion near that place this after noon, in whlfhree men were instantly killed, another fatally Injured, Jnd sev en others wounded. The scene of he fatality was a sawmill, owned by T. J. Salts A Co. Fifteen men were in the boiler room when the explosion oc urred, the majority being lumbermen who hud bi'en driven In by a fierce rains.orm FATAL SHOOTING AT BLACK MOUNTAIN Abner Daugherty. Colored Finding Moses Williams In Sister's Home Shoots Him (Special to The Citiaen.) Black Mountain, Aug. 7 Becoming enraged at the presence of Moses Will atns in his sister's house, Abner Daugh erty, of this place, hi and tnstuntly killed the former at about 3:30 this aft ernoon. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and la said -to have re ceived no warning from the murderer when he fired the fatal shot. Daugherty escaped from the scene of his crime and up to o'clock tonight had succeeded in eluding his pursuers. WITTE SPEAKS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN Boston, Aug. 7. Mr. Wll'.e, Hie tcnlor Russian plenipotentiary, took in automobile ride about the city to lay and visited Harvard university ind !tTiTknolla. the summer home i.f the Russian embassy. Mr. Witt U'fl for Portsmouth at 9:iii. Before t!i; rain left ubout a hundred former esldVnts of Russia, many of them Hebiews, assembled near Mr. Wltte's car and cheered him. The envoy ap peared on the rear platform and poke In Russian In a conversational way for several minutes. At the con clusion of Mr. Wltte's informal re marks the crowd cheered him, which e acknowledged by removing his hat. As the train pulled out one of tite Hebrews shouted: "Give freedom to the Jews." NOW WE'LL (IAVE A TRAVELLING Washington, Aug. P.. L. Hutch - ns, formerly chief cnemist or me tate board of agriculture of Loulsl- na, who Is regarded as an expert In cotton statistics, has been appointed by Secretary Wilson to the position of itavellng Inspector of the agricul tural department In the cotton) dis tricts, pith the understanding that he will perform crop esfjmrt'lng duty on the cotton board when- called pnn to do mo. It Is understood that Assistant Sec retary Hayes will not continue permanently to give personal atten- lon to the work of the statistical bu reau, but a successor to Mr. Hyae soon will be appointed. . It is the intention to continue the crop estimating board, but not to maintain the same membership con- tantly. . ' - : ' INDIANAPOLIS EXCURSION IN SEM FEET OF WATER; NOBODY DROWNED ii.fi anapolls, ltd.- Aug. ".The ex- t rslon. BU'umboit t'un'l.tne sank Oils vening at Broad Rpple Park, ten miles from this city, wtth 188 pssen- cers on board, all of wnom were men one. a woman, who waa rescued by launch. No one waa drom-ned. but several were Injured In the panic The boat plied on the bickwater of Broad Rlrple dam, on White river and was arrying a picnic party consisting of employee of the Indianapolis stock ardr. UNCONTROLLED Depots. Tralnsheds. Wharves, and Vessels, are Prey-; of Flames v IMMIGRANT STATION ; IS A MASS OF RUINS Many Ferry Boats Damaged or Destroyed Loss Is 1 About $300,000 New York, Aug.. 7. Inslda of three- quarters of an hour late tonight lira swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna (k Western railroad's terminal In Ho- boken, seised two ferry boota and bruc- tlcully ruined them, Jnd for half an hour threatened he rest of the water front In the vicinity. Including the Ham burg-American and North German Lloyd steamship dorks, at which sever al big shlpj were lying. The loss to property is estimated at between $400, 000 and $500,000. So far u known no Uvea were tost. For over an hour huge tongues of flames leaped from the wooden struc- ures on the Lackawanna docks, light Ing the New Jersey and New York wa ter fronts. For a time It threatened a loss bigger than that of the big dock Are of several years ago, when the North German Lloyd piers were d ctroyed with a great loss of life. Shipping Endangered. Biasing ferry boats, cut from tbefr docks, floated In the river, wandering amid ships, - which for a time endan gered shipping. ' ."'" The Are started In an old wooden fer ry boat, and fanned by a northerly breese, communicated to tha- ferry house, spread to the main building of the Lackawanna company and thence . to the Dukea House, a famous Hoboken . hattelry. ' The hotel was a frame strue ture and was a ready prey for : tha flumes. ,., '. V ' , r By :bl time th flames warr spread-. ; Ing In all directions, utterly beyond tha . control of the first few fire fighters who had responded to the first alirms. Fol lowing the hotel the structure, of the ; Public Service Oorporaton tha s-'reet car operatng company of Hoboken, Jer sey City and nearby places went down . before the flames. . At 1 o'clock thla morning the fire was under control end the big steamship piers have been'1 saved. ' ":: , , i A remarkable feature of the blase' was that in.-dde of 20 minutes after Its start it had seised upon the Lack awanna company's terminal and swept its 600 feet! of train sheds, dooming . them. Cause Unknown. ' v , The flames started from an unknown ' cause on the old wooden ferry boat Ho- iFatcong. which had been tied up In the slip between the Hamburg docks and the Christopher street ferry slips. Tha lire was discovered about 11 o'clock. It was then leaping from the boiler room below the main deck through tha engine room and attacking the wooden superstructure. - A watchman on the ferry dock turned In talis for the fire brigade. Almost before the firemen could lay a line of hose and before tha , city firemen could reich the scene, the , flames had leaped to the ferry office, building between the piers, and then o the new ferry boat Blnghamton. which was lying In the northern slip of the Barclay street line. From these It leaped In a few seconds to the high frame structure above the waiting rooms, and five minutes after the fire commenced It was seen the entire build ings, covering many acre, were burn- Ing. Twen'y minutes after the blase was first seen they had reached the high tower, which crashed down all ; ablase Twenty minute after the aHrm It looked as If the entire lower , nart of Hoboken, Including the Ham burg line docks, would go. The fire spread southward between the piers. These had been destroyed In great part by a fire In May. 1904, and had jam been rebuilt Bo rapid was the spread of the fire that engines which were drawing-out the car on the docks -to. be ready for use in the morning had . io be hurried out: several coaches were . left behind, but there had been time to save about thirty others. . , ,-, Ftrrybeat Sinks. The two burning ferryboats were towed out Into the stream by nogs. The Hnpntcong runk later. r Firemen were summoned from Jer- tey City, New York and Other placet. nd the two fire boats were also sent' - (Continued on Page Threap ' STEAMBOAT SINKS The overwelgbmg ot the boat caused It to turn over on Its side and the su perstructure broke from the hull. . The water Is fourteen, feet tn the channel, but the boat warn near the bank when the accident occurred and In but seven feet of water. The -upper deck re mained above the wsster. . Five persona were more or less Injured, Persons In launches and canoes took a number of ' passenger from the water. The great er number clung ' te the upper de'k, which waa not submerged, until t.ikea ashore 07 boats.
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