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TIMES-VISITOR NUMBER 8639 RALEIGH, N. C WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3. iiK. THE FIRST BEUTT of cnnouws TO FOSTO R1CI Mr. W. E. Christian Wires the Regimental Assignments Made Today by Secre tary Alger. A ORDERED TO JOIN GEN. WADE AT ONCE Nine More Cities in Porto Rico Yield to Gen Miles Annexation to the Uni ted States Desired American Force in Porto Rico Now Num bers 9,000 Equaling the Span ish Force, Washington, D. C, Aug. 3rd. Adjutant General Corbin at 2 p. m. has given out an official list of the ten regiments to report at once to General AVade for the new Porto Rico expedition. The First North Carolina is in the list. W. E. Christian, REFUGEES RETURNING. By Cable to The Times-Visitor. PONCE, via St. Thomas. Aug. 1. The cruiser St. Louis arrived this morning bringing Porto Rlcan refugees. They were the ringleaders of the revo lution a year ago, and went to San Domingo, but returned to Porto Rico, were caught by the Spanish and Jailed; but were subsequently deported and have since been in New York. Upon their arrival here they were received as heroes, bands played American airs and prominent officials made speeches of welcome. Their progress to their homes was a continual ovation. The returned refugees had a conference this afternoon with leading citizens and say that ninety per cent, of the population prefer annexation to the United States to self government. Be sides the refugees General Brooks with the Third Illinois Regiment arrlcved. The government nostoffice will be open ed tomorrow. iO WORD FROM SPAIN. By Telegraph to The Times-Visitor. WASHINGTON, August 3. The Pres ident sooa after ten o'clock this morn ing said ne had received no unofficial notification of Spain's agreement to our peace terms. He was expecting the Spanish rplv at any moment. Secre tary pay lays he has not received offi cially any advices of the action of the Spanish government on the American peace conditions At ten thirty the French ambassador had received no Spanish lepsonse to the peace terms though a communication not definite in character had come to hand. A TRIUMPHANT MARCHf . By Cable to The Times-Visitor. fONCE, via St. Thomas, Aug. 1. Nine additional cities have yielded to General Miles' advance, besides Juana Dial, which yielded yesterday. These cities Include Arroyo, Patillas, Tabucoa, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Adjuntas, Pen uelas, Guayabal and Guayama. Spanish troops were captured In most of these cities. AU the cities were taken, with out fighting) the American troops be- ? lng enthusiastically welcomed by the Citizens thus far. No Spanish sym pathisers were found. In many"cases the Spanish troops which were garri soning the cities were compelled to leave and immediately retreated to ' San Juan. - ; . . ' , ... CARLIST UPRISING. By Cable to The Times-Visitor. LONDON, Aigust 3. A dispatch from Barcelona says that a formidable uprising of Carlists has taken place at Lerlja and Catalonia. THE FORCE IN PORTO RICO. By Cable to The Times-Visitor. PONCE, August 2, via St. Thomas. Garretson's Brigade arrived today from Yauco, making the total American in vading force in the vicinity about nine thousand men, which is equal to the Spanish force on the entire island. There was some firing last night be tween the pickets and the Spaniards in the bushes but no damage resulted. The general belief is that there will be no forward movement on San Juan until the othre transports arrive. TEXAS IN DOCK. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. NEWY ORK, Aug. 3. The battleship Texas was placed in dry dock this morning. . A number of plates will be replaced and thoroughly overhauled. The hospital ship for relief is finished and is loading hospital delicacies and supplies. She will sail this afternoon direct for Ponce. NO REPLY. By Telegraph to the Times-Visitor. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. No notice for Spain's reply as to neace terms was officially received up to 10:30 this morning. Senator Olive Dead. SENATOR H. C. OLIVE DIED AT HIS RESIDENCE, NINE MILES FROM RALEIGH, TODAY. It is refreshing at this time to learn that, according to an opinion just hand ed down by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, municipal orninancea com pelling citizens to keep sidewalks In front of their residences clear from snow are unconstitutional. The en forcement of such ordinances Is held to be virtually double taxation, and there fore In direct violation of the Consti tution of the United States. GRAND ENCAMPMENT Od Fel ows or N. Con v ne Hern Today A TWO DAY'S SESSION Met in Seaton Gnles Lodge this Aftei tinon at 4 o'clock--W ill Fleet Officers end Grand Representative To morrow Afternoon. The Gand Encampment I. O. O. F. of North Carolina convenes In this city this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and today friendship, love and truth and the good fellowship of the order has reigned. The Odd Fellows began to arrive on the early trains this morning and were, met at the railway station by a com mittee from the Raleigh lodges. About thirty delegates have arrived, and the session promises to be an in teresting one on account of work of importance to the order which is to be accomplished at this Grand En campment. Besides the regular annual election of Grand officers the Grand Represen tative is to be elected. This is done eveiv two years, and the position is the highest honor to be conferred by the State Encampnient. Mr. J. M. Norwood, of this city is Grand Patriarch of the Encampment, and calls the body to order. Mr. B. J. Jacobs, of Wilmington, the Grand Scribe, is here and will record the min utes of tills meeting. Th;e election of officers will take place tomorrow afternoon. Grand Pa triarch Norwood will in all probability be promoted to Grand Representative and Mr. P. C. Gorham, of Fayetteville, is slated to succeeed Mr. Norwood as Grand Patriarch. The wearers of the triple link are heartily welcomed to Raleigh. The city's gates are thrown open and old- fashioned Raleigh hospitality will be shown them. Among those who have arrived are: Capt. R. A. Watson, Tarboro. J. R. Harrell, Tarboro. Maj. B. C. Graham, Fayetteville. Capt. L. C. Howlett, Greensboro. D. M. Woodhouse, Poplar Branch. S. M. Beasley, Poplar Branch. Capt. Wesley Wiftiams, Elizabeth Citv. R. H. Ramsey, Charlotte. L. W. Jeannerett. Asheville. A. B. Cashell, Knot's Island. B. J. Jacobs, Wilmington. P. H. Pelletier, Newbern. E. B. Gallop, Poplar Branch. Geo. Gr-e.i, Newbern. L. L. Boone, Wilmington. W. F. Keith, Winston. HOBSON GOING TO DAVIE. He and His Mother Will Visit His Grandmother. A Salisbury special to the Charlotte Observer says: Tomorrow Lieutenant Hobson, re turning to New Y.ork from Atlanta, will again honor Salisbury by a stop over. This afternoon Mrs. Chas. Price, whose guest Lieutenant Hobson will be while here, received a telegram from him. It ran as follows: "My mother and myself will arrive in Salisbury tomorrow morning at 10:42." The object of Lieutenant Hobson's this time are very much interested in second trip to Salisbury is to spend the Frederica, the old fort where Ogle day visiting his relatives in Davie thorpe so successfully resisted the county. Lieutenant Hobson especially Spaniards. One of the sights of this desires to see his aged grandmother, fort is the old cannon once used by Mrs. Ann Hobson, who is now 87 years General Oglethorpe, but which now lies old, and almost totally blind. Mrs. Hob-' rusting on the ground. It is now but son, though old and decrepid, feels the ! little more than a lonS stick of rust, strongest nride In her erandson'q brave ?ivlnS n0 evidence of the splendid strongest pride in her grandson s brave WQrk it once dld ,n repulsing the Span. deed at Santiago. Lieutenant Hobson's ! ish, an(i not even showing up as well as other relatives In Davie are his uncle, ! it did when exhibited at the Atlanta Mr. W. H. Hobson, and his six chil- Exposition. The present owners of the . . .-.,, cannon value It very highly on account dren. Mr. Sam Hobson, of Cleveland, j of its nlstory but some historical so- N. C, another uncle of Hobson's, has'cicty would find in it a good addition been telegraphed and will be present to their collection of relics. Very little at the reunion of the Hobson family in ' r( '"f nts. ', th,e " fv'hh ... j what there is will probably be there honor of the distinguished lieutenant fpr years and years. It Is graduallly tomorrow. Immediately after his ar- crumbling, but being built of practl rival here at 10:42 a. m., Hobson will be .ca"y indestructible tabby, the work of . , . T . . . . 1 waves and wind has but little effect on driven to Jerusalem, In Davie, where the exposed parts of lt. The washlng his relatives live, by his first cousin, of the tide is gradually encroaching on Mr. A. Hobson Price, of Salisbury. He ' the foundation, however, and unless will return to Salisbury, after spending Lhis is guarded against there might bz i danger of the entire fort being under the dav in Davie, at 7 or 8 o'clock to-1 mned and the ruins tumbling into the morrow evening, and will leave for New river. York on the vestibule at 9:30. mother, Mrs. James M. Hobson, Mis who will be with him, and Mrs. Chas. Price, will most probably accompany Hob son to Davit and return with him in the evening. . THE WEATHER. Fpr Raleigh and vicinity showers showers probable tonight and Thurs day. The lowest barometer is oentral be tween Davenport and Chicago. There is also an ill-defined depression In the Gulf. Light rains have occurred again here .and there throughout all districts east of the Rocky mountains. At sev eral places heavy downpours occurred, notably, 226 Inches at Tampa, 1.62 at Amarillo, and 1.76 at Kansas City. The weather Is clear over the northern por tion of the Rocky Mountain slope, but elsewhere, except at scattered station, it continues cloudy, and the conditions favor furhter showers almost at an point. ? V - SHOT "TOBY SLICK" Officer Hiynes Fiml Three Times at Miscreant HE CUT AN ALDKKMAN Ben Robinson, Aldermnn frorailie Fourth Ward Came out of a Fight Covered With his Own Hlood -Toby Has Escaped. Shortly after noon today Alderman Ren. Robinson, who represents the Bowery and the "Bloody Fourth"." en gaged in a dispute with "Toby Slick." alias Albert Davis, who is considered the toughest negro in that section of the town, and is constantly alluded to as the "New Bully of the Bowery." For some time there has been trouble brewing between Toby anrl Alderman Robinson, who keeps a small grocery and bar next to Woodard's saloon and near the cream of the Bowery. Toby bangs around Rcbinson's store a good deal of his time and this morning, af ter paying nn extended visit got in a row with nn old negro. John Pcoffield The fight began and Toby came out victorious on the first round, leavlna two serious gashes in the old darky's head. Toby then proceeded to give his at tention to the Alderman, who. it ap pears, had said something calculated to start another fight. Robinson came out of his store with a big cheese knife anrl this Toby raptured and used effectively on his victim, gashing his head on the left side, blood splashim- all around, covering the Alderman's shirt. The ward has always been known as the "Bloody Foutb." and now can claim its title wtihotit fear of question. Alderman Robinson thn sent for a trim, hut when Toby returned officer Haynes was on the spot and started for the bully. Toby ran towaid the Southern Rail way freight depot and Officer Haynes in hot pursuit. He called to the llee ing offender to halt, and seeing that his only intention was to increase sp"ed Officer Haynes shot three times at the negro, the second shot taking efiett. but only staggering Toby long enough for him to get his second wind and continue his ilight. He made his way safe to the woods and is still at large. John tfcoffield went at once to Justice Hairy Roberts and swore out a war rant for Albert Davis, alias Toby S k. and the officers are now looking lor him. Scofficld's wounds are painful, but Alderman Robinson's gash, after being attended to by a physician, gave him little trouble. AT ST. SIMON'S ISLAND. The Old Gun Used by Oglethorpe is There. Information concerning St. Simon's Island, at which point the four com- panies and headquarters of the Second Regiment are stationed, is scarce, and the following dispatch from Brunswick, Ga., is of interest: Visitors to St. Simon's Island just at FRANK CAMERON WELL. He Wrote His Father a Letter From Santiago. Gen. F. H. Cameron vesterdav re ceived a letter from his son, Lieu-. Frank Cameron. The letter was dated July 10. Lieutenant Cameron described briefly the hardships which the army had endured since landing in Cuba, H said that his company had been con stantly engaged up to that time and were living on half rations. The letter was written five days before Santiago surrendered. Lieutenant Cameron stated that this was his first opportunity to write, and he was then In mud nearly knee-deep. Mr. Charles E. Burt and wife, of Val dosta, Ga., are stopping at the home of Mr. W. T. Stainback on Oakwood ave nue. Judge Walter Clark left today for Smlthfleld to speak this evening before Confederate . Veterans of Johnston county.' DR. BROOK'S DENIAL H Did Vi it Patients Mon day Venning Ills KLEUsT THI BITE Or Brooks i lairai that I'uhlic Have no Kight to Ask Kxplanations Ahoot Hos pital Manam:iiKnt--iU is Answer able Only to superior Olficeis The Times-Visitor gives the public the benefit of a card from Dr. Brooks, in which he denies the charge that he did not visit all of the patients in Camp Dan Russell un Monday before 11 o'clock. Our information came from a patient in the hospital and we con sidered it thoroughly reliable, but the statement of Dr. Brooks should be ac cepted and to collect a mistake of this kind is always a pleasure. The only regret which the public feel is that all the numerous charges made against that hospital cannot be denied. The tone of Dr. Brooks speaks for it self; he is sensitive; he wants to be let alone; he seems to deny the right of the pubile to criticise this hospital: but Dr. Brooks may as well understand now that as long as the women of North Carolina have husbands, sons and relatives in that hospital they shall feel a deep interest in it and thev shall know something about the place. That improvements have been made in the hospital since this paper made the ex posures ; i ml wince Dr. Urooks took charge, we have repeatedly stated. This paper feels that much has been accomplished by it in forcing the re moval of vile filth from the camp. That our charges against the hospital were true is proved by the report of the board of inquiry and if Dr. Brooks says that our "tirades against this com mand and its officers have been bru tal, malicious and cowordly." he tells an unqualified falsehood. If he attributes any personal motives to this paper in the matter his implication is absolutely nisi-. our sol.- ;iim has been to see that the sick soldier boys were properly cared for and we glory .in the fact that we have accomplished much in this di rection. But the hospital is not per fection vet. Pome of the ill soldiers have only one sheet and one blanket on their cots. Imagine how much pained the parents of one of the pri vates who died must be to know that his body was sent to this citv for ship ment home with nothing in the world on his body except a blue coat and blue pair of breeches. We have never discounted Dr. Brooks' ability or his intentions and have re peatedly stated that he was correcting the evils which we have made public, due largely to lack of management on the part of those who had charge until recently. Dr. Brooks has not read our "de mand" carefully. We have stated our authority for publishing, namely, the statement of a private. We then added that Dr. Brooks was the surgeon in charge and the public demanded of him an explanation of such criminal, outra geous and inhuman negligence. We did not charge that he was a criminal, but in the light of the statement made by the patient we asked an explanation. The explanation is now given and it is a pleasure to know that the patient was mistaken in this instance. Camp Dan Russell, August Editor Times-Visitor: My attention was today called to an article In your issue of Mondav, which you speak of my failure to vis!t a certain ward in this hospital before 11 o'clock, and characterize such action or want of action on my part as "crim inal, outrageous and inhuman." Mv first impulse on reading vour article was to follow the policy adopted by the officers of this command and Ignore your stricture; but. since reading the garbled and distorted report of your interview with our chaplain, it has seemed to me that no harm can come of a statement of facts. At the outset, however, I wish you distinctly to un derstand that I do. not admit the right of either you or the "public" to demand from me an explanation of my conduct of this hospital, or a denial of any charges whatsoever. That is the pre rogative of the Surgeon -General of the Army only. In your issue of today you state that the Times-Visitor desires to be fair and just to all public servants and that If your statements In regard to Dr. Brooks are not true, that the Times-Visitor -would be the first to make correction. I must confess that to me this statement is distinctly nega tived by the course you have pursued. I believe I do not misjudge the Raleigh public when I say that your claims to Justice and fair-dealing fall flat when they reflect that it would have required an expenditure of not more than thirty minutes of your time to visit this hos pital and learn the facts for yourself instead of accepting mere heresay evi dence. But perhaps like many others of your kidney you do not regard It as a serious matter to take advantage of vour position and to charge a man whom vou have never known and of whose motives you know nothing, with being a criminal. To me at least, it is inconceivable that any man Imbued with a sense of justice and fair play, as you profess to be, should accept the ex-narte statement of any individual and indulge in personal abuse without first giving the party accused a chance to be heard. While distinctly denying your right to a denial of the charges you have made, I wish to say that the statement that 1 failed to visit any ward or patient in this hospital on any morning before 11 o'clock is unquali fiedly false. On Sunday night I slept in the hospital building, certainly not more than one hundred feet from any patient, and on Monday morning (when this grave neglect of duty is alleged to have occurred), before 8 o'clock, I had made the round of all the wards and examined each patient. Furthermore, at no time since the departure of the regiment on Sunday afternoon have I been more than one hundred yards away from the hospital except when going to my meals inside the grounds. On Monday morning at 11 o'clock while superintending the erection of my tent near the hospital door I saw and con versed for some minutes with the ladv who gave vou vour nformation. yet I heard no word your information, vet I heard no word f complaint from her and no intima tion that complaint had been made. I not know and have made effort to determine who the party is who com- lained to her. but I have no hesitan cy in again stating that such complaint has no foundation and: the information given to her is false. In writing this, I have yielded, against my wishes and better judg ment, to your continued "demands" for lenial and explanation, and I trust that your vaunted sense of lustire and fair-play will compel you to publish this statement. In conclusion. I beg leave to say that my equanimity is in no sense disturbed bv your bitter personal attack, and that 1 heartily concur in the nnininn f my assoeinres that your tirades against this command and its officer? have been brutal, malicious and cow- trdly. Respectfully. WM. H. BROOKS. CHAPLALV OPP.ORNE WRONGED. Chaplain Osborne, feels that ho has leen quoted too freely. In an extended ntcrview with the editor of the Times- Visitor yesterday he said much out of which we were expected to select the part relative to the point in question. This we attempted to do, omitting his confidential sayings, which we thought he would prefer kept from the public. We regret exceedingly that we quoted Mr. Osborne too freely and trust that the public will overlook our indiscre tion. In a note to the editor of the Times-Visitor Chaplain Osborne says: Camp Dan Russell, Aug. 3, 1898. To the Editor of The Times-Visitor. Raleigh, N. C: Dear Sir: Your account of an inter view with me yesterday does the medi cal department of this regiment, as well as myself, great injustice. I had no mention whatever to cast any reflec tions upon any member of the medical staff of the regiment, nor do I think I made any statement that could fairly be so construed; my sole aim being to exhonorale Assistant Surgeon Brooks from the unjust charge made in your paper the day before. I trust you will be kind enough to publish this article in today's issue of your paper, and oblige. Respectfully yours. E. A. OSBORNE, Chaplain 2nd Regt. N. C. Volunteers LARGE FORCE EMPLOYED.. Fair Grounds to be Put in the Proper Condition. Captain C. B. Denson, of the Execu tive Committee of the State Agricul tural Society, today informed the Times-Visitor that arrangements had been perfected to have the State Fair grounds thoroughlycleaned and all ob jectionable conditions removed there from at once. It has been decided to place a large force of hands at the Fair Grounds at once and every detail of the work of cleansing the property properly attended to. Besides the removal of all decayed hay and other filth left bv the soldiers; the sinks will all be fixed in the best manner possible. The Association has been glad to al low the soldiers to use the buildings for good purposes and will as soon as those who are yet sick at the camp can be removed, begin the work of scouring and disinfecting the buildings. After this Is accomplished the Interior of the buildings will be whitewashed through out. Everything necessary Is to be done and no expense will be spared in hav ing the giounds and buildings ready for the great fair. Misses Pattie Lewis, Margaret Smedes and Sadie Root returned this morning from a visit to friends in Durham and Chapel Hill. ' .. r Dr. Andrew Wilson, of London, says that there Is not a Jot or tittle of truth -In support of the outrageous statement that tomatoes cause cancer. On the contrary the tomato is perfectly -whole ( some. ; '. v. , , , , Mij-'
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