Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-28
A MAD CAPTAIN.
The Harvard md the yulcnn-The
warwick Democrats.


NEWPORT NEWS, VA, June 27.-(Spe-
cial.)--The departure Of the auxiliary
cruiser Harvard, Captain Cotton, for
Santiago, yesterday afternoon. was made
the occasion for large turnout here.
and the troops were Justify cheered as
they passed down the James INTO liamp-
ton Roads. The Vulcan, which accom-
panied the Harvard, was also cheered.
AS both ships passed the cruiser Mime
apolis they were given patriotic fare
wells.
The dispatching of the Harvard and
Vulcan to Santiago in company affords
another illustration of the way the war
and Navy departments work together in
the present war.
The War Department counted on the
Harvard's making the trip to Santiago IN
four days. and was assured by the Navy
Department that the troops cou" De and
ed there in that time. Since then, now
ever. the repair-ship Vulcan arrived mere
for tools and battleship armor plates,
and Captain Cotton early yesterday morn
ing received orders to convoy the vulcan
all the way 10 Santiago AS the repair
ship can make only seventeen knots, the
Harvard will now be unable 10 put her
troops off at Santiago until next Satur-
day the trip consuming at least six days.
TO say that Captain Cotton was an angry
man when he received orders to let the
Harvard 25-knotter, plough the deep
at the rate of seventeen knots. would be
putting It mildly. The Vulcan has no
guns whatever and would make rich
prize for any Spanish warship. or even
merchantmen. with one or two guns.
Another detachment Of troops will ar
A lunr
The Plant liner. La Grande Duchess, will
take them to Santiago and will probably
be conveyed by the Minneapolis, which
will complete her repairs by that time,
or by the San Francisco, which is now
en- route for This port from Boston, with
the Katahdin, for coal.
The Yale will return to port on next
Sunday. There will be more troops in
waiting for her. so that there will be no
delay about embarkation.
WARWICK DEMOCRATS.
The "'old line" Democratic party in
Warwick county to-day elected DR.. j. II.
Crafford. the county chairman, and j. II.
Bonneville delegates to the Second Con-
gressional Democratic Convention, which
meets at Ocean View July 9Th The
mass-meeting at which these delegates
were elected was held at Denbigh. the
county seat. The delegates will vote for
Hon. William a. Young for the nominal
ton. The other fraction OF the party In
Warwick county held primary election
for delegates and at o'clock. the hour
of closing this report, thirty-eight votes
had been cast.
Mr.. Marion Vernon and Miss Berta
Atkinson. of Hampton, both well known
here. went to Elizabeth City, n. c., yes
terday, where they were made man ana
wife.
The Board Of School Trustees has at
last succeeded in getting deed to the
site selected for the high school from
Mr.. + f. Finch. The deed was turned
over to-day and 5000 was paid for the
eiqhf lots Mr. Finch still claims In
terest on the money from last March,
when he states, the agreement was
made but the money was not paid, pc
Gauss of delay in selling the bonds
which. he says. was not his fault.
WAS NOT DROWNED.
Private John Callahan, of Company p.
Ninth MASSACHUSETTS Infantry, when
command embarked aboard the Harvard
Saturday afternoon, was not drowned In
an attempt to swim TO the cruiser lie
succeeded in reaching raft beside the
shin and was hOisted aboard.
battery ID. Third United states Artil-
Iarv which has been stationed at Fort
Monroe for the past few years, Will leave
to-morrow morning for Tampa, Fla.
Almost as suddenly as 1t sprung up
the iu-feeling between Captain waters
and his men of Battery G has blown over
and All but eight of the men have with
drawn their signatures from the petition
Calling for the Captains resignation.
These eight men, it is said. will come
around all right.
private John Baker left to-day on
fye-days' furlough for Lancaster IL Is
undertood that he has gone in connection
with the dissensions in camp, ana MS re-
turn IS expected to create better teenhs
hetween officers and men.
A box. containing revolvers for Battery
c. arrived in camp to-day from Rock
Island III.
private William Diamond. who has been
suffering with arsenic poisoning, Is con-
yalesceat.
Cantain Waters had three platoons out
drilling to-day. Forty rounds were fired
nv the battery plns, attracting a large
crowd Of spectators.