THE WEATHER TODAY .
For North Carolina :
Probably Showers
For Raleigh :
Probably Showers
, ' RALEIGH nTTtHODAY, AVffUST 34, 1905 io-
STILL GOING ON
Epidemic in! Four Places Out
side of New Orleans
ITALIANS GIVE TROUBLE
Lee Severely Affiled by the Scourge
and the People in Great Dismay.
Alabama Quarantine Regulations
Denounced by Governor Blanch
a.d of Louisiana
New Orleans, Aug. 23. The yellow
fever record today:
New cases 53.
Deaths 5.
Xew Orleans, Aug. 23. It is now
recognized that the yellow fever Is
epidemic in four places in Louisiana
outside of New Orleans, and possibly
one in Mississippi. All the other cases
are sporadic and are giving no trouble,
imd the disease, will be got rid of there
with very little difficulty. A thor
ough investigation has been made of
every town and settlement around
New Orleans, and it is not believed
possible that another yellow fever nest
"can exist. The infested localities are
I'atterson and Riverside, in St. Mary's
t xrish, Lee, in Lafourche parish, and
the Italian settlement in Jefferson
parish, between Kenner and Hanson
City. The Mississippi infected point
'.a Mississippi City, a seacoast water
ing place near Gulf port. ' .
There seems little likelihood of the
fever being crushed out in any of the
Louisiana infected points. It will prob
ably run its course and die out from
lack of fresh material. Great care is
being taken to prevent its spread to
neighboring towns and the situation
is well Tn hand.
Riverside presents the easiest prob
lem. It is The plantation on which. 150
Italians are employed. It will prob
ably run out early in September. The
disease is of a mild type with only
four deaths, a mortality of less than
4 per cent. '
The disease is .still milder In Pat
terson, where the mortality has been
under 1 per cent. Patterson is a town
of 3,500 population, largely devoted to
lumbering. There have been 115 sick
of the fever and one death. The head
nurse from New Orleans, who came
there with a. case of fever, also died
A great deal of sanitary work has
teen done, cisterns have been screen
ed and people have doner everything
possible to stop the disease. It will
probably run itself out.
Bad Situation at Lee
- The situation at Lee, in Lafourche
parish, is probably the worst-of all.
Lee is a fishing settlement of 1,000 in
habitants. The fish are sold in New
Orleans and he fever was imported
early in June direct from the original
infected section, which faces the old
French fish market. Its existence was
rot known for six weeks afterwards,
for Lee is one of, the most secluded
T'l'ccs in the .world, 100 miles from a
railroad or any other settlement. At
the time the fever was discovered at
Lee the settlement was badly infected,
'-rnd it is said that there is not one
in all its 300 houses free from the
fever. The doctor sent there found 122
ca-Qs of yellow fever and 145 of dengue,
a , light malarial fever, which fre
quently prevails i nthe midst of a yel
low fever epidemic and causes much
confusion: There have been a number
cf fever " cases before, how many it
is difficult to say. Twelve deaths
li tve been reported with a number of
othrs in a moribund condition.
The wide prevalence of the fever, at
Lee and the comparatively heavy mor
tality is due -to the lack of prepara
tion in the settlement for fighting the
disease. There is only one doctor who
lives within several miles and there
wre no medicines at hand. Two more
doctors were sent to Lee today and a
Lumber of nurses. The people of Lee
5 re. said to be completely distracted
ly the epidemic, to have abandoned
their' fishing and to be doing nothing.
Trouble With Italians
The situation Is by np means bad
in the Italian settlement? in Jefferson,
tor there are not thirty cases there,
ut the Italians c5.use so much trou
ble that it is probably the worst place
in the state to handle.
'The Jefferson Italians are engaged in
.truck farming and are amongt the
most prosperous of their race in this
country, but they are not amenable to
ftny sanitary laws or regulations,". re
fusing to, report cases or to adopt any
cf the precautions against the dis
ae. It is the hopelessness of accom
iHshing anything with them except
through violence, that renders it im
probable that the disease will be
crushed out until it has run its course
Xew cases of fever continue to ap
I'ear at Mississippi City'-and the in
dications are that the disease will run
i's course there also. The health au
thorities are having trouble in fumi- j
iccordinerlv hpn A sailor! T-iin Vi
state board of health giving the health
officers absolute control in such mat
ters, and Governor - Vardarnan hUs
placed the state militia under General
Fudge at their command to execute
all sanitary orders.
In New Orleans the health officers
have been compelled to put into effect
the rule of removing all Italian pa
tients to the hospitals because of their
defiance of the regulations.
In a Italian tenement in Hospital
street in which there are five sick with
the fever, the screens put in by the
surgeon were found hacked to pieces
and the spread of the disease- thus en
couraged. It was then -decided to re
move the sick to the emergency hos
pital.
The healthy inmates of the tenement
resisted this and the police had to be
calif f to the assistance of the phy
sicists. The new rule will be rigidly
enyrcea, but it applies only to the
Itjians, no trouble being encountered
rith any other race. It was decided
today to open a second emergency hos
pital for the reception of Italian sus
pects. . j
Unreasonable Quarantine Regulations
Governor Blanchard has complained
to the governor of Alabama of the
rules , adopted by the Alabama state
board of health in regard to passen
gers from New Orleans going through
to the north, as arbitrary, cruel and
illegal. The Alabama governor replied
that he approved of these rules, where
upon Governor Blanchard retorted that
the authorities are policing on the as
sumption that a state has the legal
right to interrupt interstate passenger
commerce.
, "I doubt," the governor continues,
mat a state of the union possesses
legally any such authority. I would
like to see this tested in the federal
courts and the action of Alabama in
refusing to permit people on their way
to other states to travel through the
state on interstate , railroads would
seem to offer the occasion for such
a suit, accompanied by an injunction
against those claiming the authority
to stop them. I hope some of the
(Continued on Page Two.)
TAFT AMONG THE MOROS
Sultan of Sulu Provides a
Great Entertainment
Spear Dance, Bull Fight and a Ball
for the Edification of American
Visitors The Sultan and Dattos
'Give Presents
Manila, Aug. 23. News from' the
southern islands shows that Secretary
Taft and his party are having a great
reception. Additional particulars of
their visits to the dominions- of the
sultan of Sulu have been received here.
The young sultan as so taken with the
enthusiasm shown by Miss Alice Roose
velt that he invited her to remain
forever: The president's daughter
thanked his majesty, but told him that,
as much as she was enjoying her visit
to his islands, she would be obliged to
return to her family.
The sultan's formal reception to the
party took place last Firday in a field
by the wails of Jolo. The American
party was escorted thither by a battal
ion of the Twentieth infantry, a
squadron from the Fourteenth cavalry
and the Twenty-eighth battery of field
artillery.
In the field 8,000 gaudily attired Moros
had assembled, hundreds of them
mounted on decorated ponies. The sul
tan of Sulu, dressed in a shabby frock
coat, attended N by his ministers and
accompanied by armed umbrella bear
ers, rode into the arena and greeted
Secretary Taft. The congressmen and
ladies of the party jostled one another
In their anxiety to shake hands with
his majesty. For two hours the Ameri
cans were entertained with a pro
gram of native sports, including ,
spear dance and abull fight. They
were then taken for a drive through
exquisite cocoanut groves. -
In the evening there was a bail at the
Army Club. The sultan attended It,
arrayed in a golden and bejeweled coat
and attended by a hundred' armed
retainers. The monarch, through his
prime minister, presented a pink pearl,
to Miss Roosevelt, and a -saddle to
Secretary Taft
m, , . . , , ,
The chief dattos also
gave presents, Miss Roosevelt recelv-j
ing from themj their pearls and a dec
orated saddle, and Scretary Taft. a
collection of bolos and whips.
The parity sailed at daylight Satur
day and arrived at Matabang at day
light the next morning.- Secretary
Taft, Miss Roosevelt and the Misses
Boardman and McMillan, accompanied
by thirty-five congressmen went by
trail to the town of Iligan and arrived
at noon, after a tremendously inter
esting trip. All the party are well.
Note on the Military Situation
London, Aug. 24. A : dispatchi to the
Telegraph fr.om New Chwang says
that General Linievitch is still detach
ing a considerable' force to strengthen
his extreme right. His plan appears
to be to divide the Japanese Into two
or more bodies by compelling them to
devote their attention to their left
flank and thus prevent the cutting off
the railway between Harbin and Vladivostok.
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The Toledo II Makes lis
Second Successful Trip
GREAT CROWDS FOLLOW
The Aeronaut Hobsonized by a Girl
When He Hit the Ground He
Takes Warning From His Man
ager and Steers Clear , of Petti
coats Arranging for a Race
New York, Aug. 23. The Toledo II,
A. Roy Knabenshue' s airship, . made a
second successful attempt this after-
noon to navigate the aerial ocean above
the city. Starting from a vacant lot
at Sixty-second street and Central
Park, west, at 2:30 in the afternoon, he
went south as f ar as the Flatiron
building and returned safely to the
park, where he landed without trouble.
All the morning the crowd gathered
about the tent set up in the vacant lot
on Sixty-second street" The police re
serves of five precincts and a large
squad of mounted men surrounded the
place to prevent a recurrence of the
scenes of last Sunday, but they were
helpless in the crowd that gathered by
the time Knabenshue was ready for
the start. ;
When the start was made the airship'
rose straight in the air for some dis
tance, turned west and circled over
the park, and then turned her "prow
south and shot down Broadway.
The crowd, which now had grown to
many thousand, followed for a few
blocks, stumbling and falling over ev
erything in their way, so fixed was
their attention on the wonder above.
Automobiles, cabs, wagons and all
kinds and conditions of vehicles fa!
lowed the course of the Toledo -II.
After passing over the Flatiron
building the airship headed north ' and
returned to Fifty-ninth street entrance
of Central Park and landed. The crowcj
charged in, but they were held some
what in check by the mounted police
men, and fair order was maintained.
With Knabenshue still on board the
ship was lifted on the shoulders , of
his assistants and carried in triumph
to Sixty-second street. When ' the
good looking aeronaut climbed out or
the machine in the enclosure he was
surrounded by a small crowd of en-
i thusiastic young women who begged
for his autograph. One golden haired
damsell threw her arms about Kna
benshue's neck and gave him a hearty
ftiss. He did not look displea.ed, and
several other young women were about
to fellow Golden Hair's lead when
Knabenshue was dragged inside the
tent by his manager.
'"Have you forgotten the fate of Hob
son?" asked that wise one, and there
after Knabenshue steered to port or
starboard every time a pretty pettipoat
hove in sight.
The highest point reached by the air
ship was' about 5,000 feet above the
city.
After the flight Knabenshue met Leo
Stevens, the builder of the California
Arrow, and the two began arrange
ments for an airship race which they
hope to pull off in New York some
time this month.
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
Five Hundred Delegates Attend the
Opening Session
Toledo, O., Aug. 23. Five hundred
delegates, representing cities and towns
in all sections of the country,' were
present today at the opening session
of the ninth annual convention of the
League of American Municipalities.
This number is expected to be doubled
by tomorrow. The convention will close
Friday. .
Mayor Finch of Toledo welcomed the
delegates at this morning's session and
itne response was ma-ue iuijoi
rrnlfs 'nf .TnM 111.. President
... .1 -. Hfn "7 1
i The pr;sident's annual
address was the feature of the first;
session, and dealt with the achieve
ments of the league and its opportuni
ties for future usefulness. - 1
The report of Secretary MacVicar
shows all expenses paid and a balance
in the hands of the treasurer. Shreve
port, La., Portsmouth, Va., Adrian,
Mich., ,and Orange, N.VJ., are tne new
members of the league, while Indian
apolis, Ind., and Mansfield, O., have
been reinstated. The recipts for .the"
year are $2,500. . , V
Frank McDonald, superintendent of
the Minneapolis workhouse, ;read a
paper on "Workhouses" at the morning
session.- - ; -r-'
At the afternoon session - Charles
Hague of New York city addressed
the convention on "Fire Department
Water Supply." J. W. Wood, chief en
gineer of t. Louis, spoke on "St."
Louis Municipal Lighting Plant."
"Street Cleaning" was discussed ' by j
.Mayor Silas Cook of East St. Louis, i
Russians Assume an Unyield
' ing Attitude
til NOT COMPROMISE
Japanese Offer of Concessions Met
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With RefusalThe Conference
Adjourns Until Saturday, Which:
Is the Only Favorable Indication
of the Result of Deliberations
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 23. The
hope of peace, held out last night in
the knowledge that the Japanese en
voys would make concessions, waned
perceptibly today, for the Russians
have-assumed an uncompromising at
titude, have in fact virtually refused
to accept the proposals of their ad
versaries. In the disposition of the plenipoten
tiaries to go slowly and conservative
ly, however, lies the .chance of a favor
able outcome. The situation is ex
ceedingly uncertain, and for that rea
son if for no other, is more intensely
interesting than it has been at any tiie
since .the Portsmouth conference was
begun.
When the envoys met today, after a
recess -since last Friday, they realized
that the crucial . moment had come.
The Russians went to the conference
room prepared te. agree to a final ad
journment if the Japanese did not
bring forward a reasonable plan for
a' solution of the deadlock at which
the conference had arrived. Thieir
vices which .tftey received last -night
from their government to stand fast
to their refusal to pay a cent of tribute
or cedejLU inch of territory.;. It was
no surprise, to .them when Baron Ko
mura and Mr. Takahlra proposed - a
settlement that' was in the nature of
a modification of the, Japanese terms,
now no longer the irreducible mini
mum supposed to be represented in the
list of conditions precedent to peace
presented by the mikado's representa
tives on ithe s'econd day of the con
ference; But the Russians were not
impressed with sense of ihe magna
nimity of Japan's offer. They were
frank in expressing their belief that it
would, not be acceptable to St. Peters
burer. and after some discussion the
envoys agreed to take a recess until
Saturday in order to gSve both sides
the opportunity of thinking things
over and to communicate with! their
respective governments.
In effect, according to the Russian
view, the compromise proposal of Japan
is a combination of old points of dif
ference in a new dress. It involves
a division of the island of Saghalien
between Russia and Japan and a finan
cial arrangement concerning the East
ern Chinese Railway, built by the Rus
sian government, in exchange for the
payment to Japan of an amount of
moneyx approximating the cost of the
war. less the amount realized by Japan
through the pecuniary scheme affecting
the railway. In other words, Japan
proposed that Russia take back part
of Saghalien with the understanding
that a fair appraisement of the value
of the railway, or the sum obtained
through the sale, be deducted from the
total money spent by the Japanese, in
prosecutfhg the existing war against
Russia. '
M. Witte and Baron Rosen are anx
ious for peace, and were not pleased
over the suggestion for, a settlement
put forward by Baron Komura and Mr.
Takahlra, In the course of the dis
cussion that followed the presentation
of Japan's . plan to break the dead
lock the probable amount that Russia
would be required to pay ; was men
tioned tentatively, and it was consider
ably in excess of $500,000,000. But the
proposal that Russia should pay .put
a vast, sum to her victorious enemy is
not the reason for the opposition which
Is shown by thev czar's envoys to the
scheme of adjustment. They take the
ground that under whatever guise the
payment of money to Japan Is sought it
fls nevertheless indemnity, and an in
demnity Russia will not pay if the pres
ent position of that government is
honestly held and adhered to. N
To the Russian mind, as, the case
was explained this evening by a promi
nent member of the czar's mission, re
muneration for the cost of the war and
Lthe repurchase of Saghalien are
syrionmous with indemnity, a word tha j
has come to be regarded the Rus- j
siana "as a reflection upon thiir national
and personal honor and pride. It will
be seen, therefore, that the Russian
plenipotentiaries are not attempting to
deceiya themselves as to the real mean
ing, of the Japanese neW compromisie
scheme; and refuse to be placed in
the position of merely seeking sontj
verbal subterfuge to make peace with
their enemy upon terms dictated by
Japan.
nre has been a disposition to be-
iieve, on the part of those who have
watched the situation closely, that the
Japanese would off er concessions if
they saw the Russians were determined
to refuse any more of Japan's demands.
The actions o Baron Komura and Mr.
.Takahira today confirm this forecast,
. and also the opinion that Japan was
quite as anxious for peace as Russia
Was.
M. Witte has frankly avowed that
Russia regarded an ending of the war
as necessary to her well being, and he
has expressed his personal wish that
a treaty should result in the current
exchanges, but he has at the same, time
insisted that there would be no hope
ui. aa . adjustment , so long as Japan
persisted in her claim to remuneration
for the money she had spent in prose
cuting the war.
It is apparent that Japan must make
more substantial concessions ' in order
to win from the Russian envoys a con
sent to the conclusion of the treaty
of peace. Whether Japan will do this
fs problematical, but there is enough
of hope In the chansrff
the Japanese conditions originallv nr-
sented by them virtually In the form
of demands' to suggest that the Tokio
bvciuuicui is now Wl line to
now winine tn mopt
Russia half way in the efforts of both
io adjust their differences.
. To what extent President Roosevelt's
Influence was responsible for bringing
about what may be termed a more
conciliatory attitude on the part of
Japan has 'not been disclosed, but the
evidence at hand indicates that while
a moral effect may have been produced
by the knowledge-that he was working
to save the Portsmouth conference from
dissolution the proposal made by the
Japanese today twas not directly due
to the president's endeavors. In the
form of silence maintained by the
Japanese the -understanding is that Mr
Roosevelt confined his efforts for peace
to the Russian envoys.
If the president made any represen
tations to Baron Komura and Mr, Tak
ahira or the government at Tokio noth
ing has yet appeared to indicate it
His efforts to prevent the conference
from a futile ending were seemingly
uuctieu personally . to M. Witte
(Continued on Page Two.)
and
MARTIN'S BIG MAJORITY
. j ,-
His Margin of 15,000 Ex
ceeded hy Swanson's
Defeated Candidates Are Loyal to
the Party Nominees Montague
the Worst" Disappointed of All
the Aspirants
Richmond, Va., Aug. 23. Special.
Fuller returns from yesterday's state
primary bear' out last night's indica
tions that Senator Martin's majority
will be 15,000 and the plurality of
Swanson for governor will be even
larger. This will probably reach, and
may exceed, 20,000.
The successful candidates were over
whelmed, today and tonight with tele
grams and letters of congratulation.
Their headquarters have also been
thronged througiioujt the day. Mr.
bwunson Maid
tonirht that he
"was i
greatly pleased at the large majority !
iv,-w'cu aim icaiizea inai tne result
was largely due to the efforts of his
friends, whose labors he deeply appre
ciates. Mr. Swanson was alsn mnoh
gratified at the assurances of support
ana congratulations from many who
apposed him in the primary. He feels
that he will have belind himi the united
and solid Democracy, which assures
success." '
Messrs. Willard and Mann have both
given out statements gracefully ac
cepting the result. Mr. Willard says:
"I accept the verdict without reserva
tion and shali give my earnest and un
tiring support to my successful com
petitor and every other nominee."
Judge Mann gives the same assurance.
Governor Montague was perhaps the
most disappointed of the defeated can
didates, but he is a loyal Democrat.
Tonight he said: "I accepted the re
sult and will give the party nominees
my earnest support." He added that
he would canvass the state if the party
managers so desired.
One of the surprises of the primary
is the nomination of. Aubrey E. Strode
over Bland Massie, In the Nelson-Am
herst senatorial, district, by six ma
jority. Each carried the home county
of the other. In the Gloucester sena
torial distric Hon. Boyd Sears defeated
ex-Senator J. N. Stubbs by over 500.
Martin Carries Every District
Richmond, Va., Aug. 23. The returns
from the state are still incomplete, but
the figures show that the vote will
reach less than 100,000.
Martin has more than held his own
in all sections of the state, and he has
carried every congressional district in
the state by: good majorities. Martin's
majority will be 15,000.
Swanson for governor has gotten
nearly as many votes as both his op
ponents. The indications are that he
has carried Willard's district, while he
swept Judge Mann's district. Judge
Mann runs second in the race for gov
ernor. . ' "
Anderaon, for. attorney general is
elected,- but his majority shows signs i abroad and are regarded as empty con
of dwindling. The southwest hlas jjectures. The situation, according to
given an enormous majority against , members of the emperor's entourage, is
,bim. while his opponent, Judge -Wil-1 that Russia rejects all four outstanding
(Continued .on page two.) y j proposals.
STRANDED
ENCH TOWN
Two Hundred Americans Out
of Employment
IN FAIR WAY TO STARVE
Snow in jhe Hands of a Receiver
Who Offers Them Four Dollars
Apiece and Transportation to Lon
don The State Department Has
No Means of Helping Them
wasnington, Aug. 23. Two hundred
Americans, members of the MacCad
don's circus troupe, are stranded in
France without food, shelter, money oi
tranportation back to the United
States. The circus has failed and ia
in the hands of a receiver.- The mem
bers of the show are demanding their
money. The receiver has offered them
each transportation to London and
twenty francs, or about four dollars.
According to the information at the
state department, which came by cable
from France today, the employes of
the show refuse to compromise with,
the receiver. In the meantime their
chances of starving arejeonsidered ex..
cellent. An appeal has" been made
through the consular service for gov
ernment aid from Washington, but
there is absolutely nothing, that the
government can do, there being no
fund for the aidmg of stranded Ameri-
cans abroad.
The state department's . Information
concerning the circus is meagre. It
seems that the . MacCaddon's show
were touring France when they finally
reached Grenoble, in the southeastern
part of the country. At Grenoble the
show - met its untimely end.- Grenoble
Is a city of 60,000, but the American
style of outdoor amusement apparently
did not please the good people there
and the show failed.
It is difficult to 'foresee what will
become of all these Americans. Thej
have not enough money . to get bad
home, and there Is no one who car.
aid them. If it were a matter of ten or
i twenty persons it might be arranged, as
work could be procured- for them, but
to secure work for two hundrel.v for- ,
eigners all at once is almost an im
possibility. Americans being stranded
abroad is an old matter to the fctate
department, though there were never
so many reported all at once as 'in
the present instance. The department
has urged congress to provide a fund
for sending deserving stranded travei-
ers back to' the United States, bu.
congress has always refused to take
action.
The MacCaddon circus incidsnt may
be taken before congress at the next v
session as an Illustration -t what ia
rfla e ,war,t
; have congress insert in its mail .con -
tracts with big steamship lines which
I are paid a subsidy, a clause requiring
the company to bring back free way
farers to this country who have become
penniless abroad, provided always that
they have certificates from consuls or
diplomatic officers.
CORTELYOU MAY CHOOSE
But He Prefers His Present Position
to the Treasury ,
Washington, Aug. 23 Special. It Is
current belief that George B. Cortelyou
can be secretary of the. treasury, but
that he inf ormed the president hat he
prefers to remain at the head of the.
postoffice department. Stuyvesant ,Fish
and a host of others have been men
tioned for the treasury portfolio, and
now the name of Mr. Yerkes Is added
as a formidable candidate.
Arrivals today include L. H Marx
of Asheville, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Halns
and son of Concord, W.- P. Wood and
M. J. Pool, W. L. Small and J. L
Simpson of - Elizabeth City, Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Tomlinson of Wilson, C. E
Blades of New Bern, J. A. Mills of 1
Raleigh and A. H. Price of Salisbury.
Charles W. Alligood is appointed
rural delivery carrier on route No. 3
from Washington, with John M. Alli
good as substitute.
Ambassador Meyer at Peterhof
St. Petersburg, Aug. 23. The czar re
ceived Ambassador Meyer at Peterhof
at 5 p. m. The audience was friendls
as usual. The ambassador returned tj
St. Petersburg this-evening. Hp wrote
a, report of what had occurred at the
audience and immediately telegraphed
it to President Roosevelt. Nothing has
been issued here regarding Mr. Meyer's
visit to Peterhof. Rumors, of eleventh
hour concessions emanate only from
CIRCUS
IN Hi