The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-02

ing, he says, must have come from
some typhoid cOnValscent, who was
not allowed all he wanted to eat by
surgeons orders 50 as to prevent
severe relapse.
PHILIP TO COMMAND SECOND
NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET.
An order was issued by the navy de-
! partment today detaching Commodore
| J. w. Philip from command of the
battleship Texas at New York and
placing him in command of the Sec
! ond squadron of the North Atlantic
| fleet with the cruiser New York as his
! flagship He thus succeeds to the
| command formerly held by Rear Ad-
miral w. T. Sampson, as commander
| in-chief of the North Atlantic fleet.
| ENCOURAGING YELLOW FEVER
| NEWS.
DR.. Wyman, surgeon general Of the
! marine hospital service has received
! encouraging yellow fever news from
! both Key West and Galveston. At the
| former place no new cases have de-
| velOped within the last three or four
days and he is of opinion that no fever
| cases exists there now. There are no
| new cases reported at Galveston and
the quarantine established against the
city have been raised, but it is con-
| tinued against Fort Point, where the
troops are quartered. Altogether, the
! situation is very satisfactory. News
| of another yellow fever case at Frank
| lin. La, reached DR.. Wyman today.
It was that of a physician who attend
! ed the other cases which have occurred
! there This additional case, however,
| is not considered at all grave as the
! source Of it is traceable.
TO SECURE THE ALBANY.
Now that hostilities are over the
United States is at liberty to receive
! from the British builders the cruiser
| Albany, sister ship to the New Or
leans, which was one OF the two ac-
! uured from Brazil just prior to the
outbreak of the war. Acting Secretary
! Allen today ordered Passed Assistant
Engineer Norton, who has been OF the
greatest service in the engineering bu-
rean during the war and for many
months when war preparations were
making, to proceed at once to New
castle -on-Tyne, England, to supersede
and inspect the completion Of the ma
chnery of the Albany. 1t is expected
that the ship can be completed in
about four months. when she will be
brought across the Atlantic by an
American crew.
Captain Folger reported to the navy
department the arrival Of the New
Orleans at Ponce, Porto Rico, yester-
day. She will serve as the flagship OF
Admiral Sch1ey while he is on duty
with the Porto Rican military COM
mission.
Among the vessels placed out of
commission today were the Nantucket,
the Chickasaw and the Cheyenne at
Port Royal, and the Maple at Norfolk
Washington, August 31.-The navy
! department has received a cablegram
| from Ponce, Porto Rico, announcing
that the Puritan, Amphitrite, Terror
| Hannibal and Montgomery sailed from
| Ponce this morning. They Will go tC
| Newport, r. 1. The main object Is tC
| get the crews Of the vessels away from
the tropical climate to northern wa
| tiers.
MISS BARTON MUST PAY THE
FINE.
Miss Clara Barton probably will bt
| obliged to pay the duties and fines i'm
| posed by the Spanish officials of Ha
I vana upon the cargo of the relief shil
Comal if she desires to secure the ad
mission of the supplies to Havana an(
. | their distribution The information
| that reached our government as to tn
| imposition of these charges came from
| the British consul at Havana. who il
; | charged with the care of United State
! | interests. After considering the mat
| ter the officials here have decided tha
| until the United States military com
| mission, which is to arrange for thu
| evacuation of the island of Cuba ha.
| discharged that duty, the adminiStra
: | ton Of the Spanish officials must b
! respected. and SO long as it appear
\ that there is nothing unusual or un
| lawful ia their action they must b.
allowed to conduct the custom hous
| IN their own way.
/ ALGER DEPRECATES REPORTS
AS TO CONDITION OF CAMPS.
1T cannot be said that Secretary Al
r ger is Indifferent TO many sensatiOna
| stories that are printed as TO the con
! ditien ms that prevail in the great mill
| tary camps for his first interest lie
! in the welfare of the individual troops
: | but he said today that with a full
| knowledge OF the lack of foundation
for most of these he deprecated sucl
: | publications. not because of fear tha
the American people would be mistak
{ | en- in their understanding of the actua
, | facts, but rather from an apprehension
| of the evil effect such publication
| would produce abroad. There the peo
t pie who, with their full military train
| ing, knew just what hardshipS mus
= | be encountered by troops in cam
= | paign, and especially in military. camps
and maneuvers, would regard witt
| amused surprise the innumerable com
= | plants that are pouring forth upol
the government here upon preteXt:
, | that would be disregarded entirely il
Europe, and they could scarcely fai
) to gain the impression that the Amer
> lean people are lacking in soldierly
= qualities.