The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-06
The Troops Hr0 JUbilant|
Orders to Porto Rico and Pay Day Both
Come at Once.
Interview with Dr. Diaz-Gen Lee Hates to Give up North
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at St. Augustine AIrIght--Dr
Hutton has Gone to Porto Rico--More Dis
charges-Wounded in the Sham
BattIe--PerSOnas.
Especial War Correspondence

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sci. of the Shelby company. The ma
laria patients are Joan la"'igcn, Of the
Goldsboro company, and J.W. Knight,
Of the Waynesville company.
During the sham battle yestcl day Law
renee Langc, of the Asheyille company,
received Il painful wound from the dis
charge of II gun, loaded with blank
cartridge. in the hands of a New jersey
man. The North Carolinians were
charging upon the Jerseys when the ac-
cident occurred Lange's face and neck
were badly burned and filled with pow
der. Fortunately his eye was not in
jured, as was at first thought to be the
case.
An extension of fifteen days on his
furlough has been granted Walter h..
Hess. of the Concord company, who is
now sick mt his home in Salisbury.
Corporal LochIn Davis, of the Queen
City Guards, has been granted II fur
Tough for sixteen days. lie leaves for
his home in Gastonia.
Capt Gardner did not go home Sun
day, as reported. Though he secured
leave of absence he found it impossible
to leave his company JUST ut this time
Miss Ialla HILL, of Concord, is here
on Il visit to her brother. Capt Hill, of
the Concord company. She is the guest
of Miss Maggie Robinson.
The First Wisconsin Regiment lost
another soldier yesterday by typhoid
fever. Private Louis Il. Miller, or
Company G. died ut the division hospi-
tai ut $50 o'clock. His body has been
taken to Whitewater, Wis. for burial.
Dr. A. j. Diaz. of Havana, Cuba, ar
rived at the Placide Hotel. this city,
"Wednesday night from Santiago de
Cuba. DIR. Diaz is well known among
the Baptsts of North Carolina He
regularly attends the Southern Baptist
convention and has represented the Am
erican Baptist Publication Society in
Mexico. DR.. Diaz left Tampa on trans
ports with General Shafter and staff in
June. and remained with the American
army at Santiago until eleven days ago.
He says he was in the American lines
during the fighting at FL Cancy, where
he personally superintendent the burial
of over 700 dead Spanish soldiers on
July 18th and 9Th, and attended several
hundred wounded i'll the hospitals. He
declares the city of Santiago was one
Of the tilthieSt places he was ever i'll
after the surrender to the Americans.
When asked how he got out of Havana
DR.. Daz said he was exilcd from Cuba
by Weyler. who threatened to have him
publicly executed, and he thought it was
about time for him to get out, and he
did so the first chance he got to leave.
He went Immediately to Washington
after leaving Havana. where he remain
ed for Il short time only. From there
he went to Mexico City, Mexico. He
left Mexico Immediately after the dec
laration of war to offer his services to
the War Department at Washington,
when he was assigned to duty as Il
surgeon on Gen Miles staff.
DIR. Diaz says he lived IN the .city Of
Havana all his life up to the time of his
departure several months ago. He is II
Baptist minister, and had one of the
largest churches in Havana before -
was run out by Butcher WeyIcr DIR.
Diaz left yesterday morning for Mexico
City. to join his family, but will return
to this country in Il few weeks
FRED l.. MERRITT.