The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-05
LOCATION OF NORTH CAROLINA
CAMP NOT TO BE MOVED.
Third PaydayAriva of Ordnance Stores-1a Heels Flag
Handsomest in Seventh Army Corps--Studyng
Spanish Dry Cool Weather is Better
Than Medicine
Especial War Correspondence

| ankle. shattcring the bone. He is now
in the division hospital. Amputation
may he necessary.
Removal of the six regiments at Miami
to this place began yesterday. The See
| ond Louisiana was the first to arrive.
| Other regiments will follow, one each
| day. in the following order: Second
! Alabama. Second Texas, Division head
quarters. First Texas. First Louisiana,
First Alabama. The train to move each
regiment is run in three sections.
| The six regiments are to be cncampcd
! in the eastern part of the city, close to
| the banks of the river. Within the next
ten days the military population of Jack
sonville will be increased to about TWEEN
ty-tivc thousand men, consisting of nine
| teen regiments. The troops from Miami
constitute the First division of the
Seventh Army corps and these regiments
will be the first representation of that
division that have been seen i'll this city.
The Second division includes all the
troops in camp ut Springfield and the
Third division. not yet completed, en-
braces the four regiments at Panama.
The Secretary of War directs that
sick and wounded soldiers sent to hos
! pitfalls shall when able 10 travel, be
granted by the surgeon in charge of hos
pitfalls. one months furlough and trans
portation to go to their homes.
Governor l.. w. Shaw, of Iowa, ac-
, companied by Adjutant General VI. H..
| Byers and Colonel f. G. Pratt, of DeS
| Moines, arrived in the city yesterday
evening on Il visit to the Fifticth and
| Forty-ninth Iowa regiments. The Iowa
! boys gave the distinguished visitors Il
royal welcome when they visited the boys
in camp. The party left Des Moines
/ i'll IL special car for Jacksonville last
! Sunday evening.
| Many of the men and officers in camp
are studying Spanish so that when they
get to Cuba they can hold sweet con-
verse" with the dary-eyed senoritas
All of these students of Spanish are not
unmarried men either.
! Three days of dry, cool weather have
much improved the health of the soldiers
in camp here. Responses to the sick
| call have become lighter and the fever
cases in the hospital show Improvement.
But there is no telling when the rains
will set in again or the thermometer
climb up dangerously near the 100 degree
| mark. Yesterday only nine men were
| reported sick in quarters in the North
Carolina regiment and none were sent
to the hospital.
Some 300 patients have been sent to
the rcccntly-cstablished convalescent hos,
pital at Pablo Beach. Among them were
seven NorthCarolinians This hospital
is i'll charge of DIR. Clarke. of the Forty
ninth Iowa regiment, and DR.. Charles 5.
Jordan, Of the First North Carolina.
In addition to the patients now in
| the division hospital and in the GONZALES
cent hospital ut Pablo. there are thirty
soldiers receiving treatment at ST. Luke's
hospital, this city.
The names of the soldiers from this
| regiment now in the hospital i'll with
fever have already been published In
| the pest-house North Carolina has twelve
patlents-siX have measles and six have
humps. Five of the measles cases are
| from one company-Concord They are
j. l.. Lippard, j. |. Barger John Pool.
Charles Eddins and James Tucker The
other measles patient is Dennis Williams
of the Waynesvile company.
In the humps ward the Concord com.
pany has two men-Swink and Uaryill
the Hornets Nest Rifles, two-White and
Goforth; Goldsboro, one-TulIock, and
| Raleigh Needham Wilson. None
Of these cases are serlous-most of
| them are conyalescent
Typhoid fever claimed its twentieth
| victim yesterday, when Thomas Helick-
| son, Company c, First Wisconsin regi-
| ment died. He was buried this after
noon i'll the government plot. Evergreen
cemetery. The regimcntai chaplain con
| Quoted the ceremony and Il detail from
| the dead mans company acted as pail
| bearers.
Private Ieaden, of the Raleigh com
rany. who has been critically i'll with
| typhoid fever, is better. He was i'm The
division hospital twcnty-four hours be-
| fore he was ever given a dose of medi-
cine.
Captain Balldridge, of Chicago. has
| hecn appointed quartermastcr of the
First brigade of the Second division I'M
| der General Burts staff and entered
! uponSth duties of his new position Mon
| day. Captain BalldridGc succeeds Cap
| tain c. T. Catchings, who died at Pablo
| fast week.
Lieutenant Van Ness. Of the Queen
| City Guards. has gone to his home in
Charlotte. lie has ten days leave OF
| absence.
! Sergeant John Howard, of Company
| T., Second North Carolina troops, will be
promoted to second lieutenant of the
company if the choice of his comrades
| III arms has any weight There is Il va
| cancy caused by the resignation of First
! Lieutenant Jennings and Il vote has been
taken at the suggestion of Colonel
Burgwyn as to whom the men wanted.
Sergeant Howard was unanimously cho
| sen and his name will, no coubt. be sent
| to the Governor as the company candi
| date.
| Quartermaster Sergeant w. C. Hud-
| gins, of the Raleigh company. has been
| appointed steward of the cantcen This
| increases his pay So month. He will
| have supervision of the stock and do tho
purchasing.
During the month of July the CON
| sumption Of beer in the regiment has
| fallen off nearly 30 per cent, as com
pared with that of June. The June bcer
account was 81 $50; for July if is onIv
5000. The consumption of tobacco was
also less than for the month previous
On the other hand, the receipts from tho
sale of soda water, pies, cakes. peanuts
| Bears the -aH