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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
Health Reports From the Armies

Washington, August 15.-Surgeon
General Sternberger has received dis
patches from Cuba and Porto Rico rel
ative to the condition of the troops in
those islands. Surgeon Torney cables
from Ponce hat the Relief will sail
from Mayaguez today and will arrive
in New York about Friday morning.
She had on board about twenty wound
ed and fifty ~convalescent. There were
1S5 cases of fever, mostly typhoid.
Surgeon Greenleaf cables from Ponce
hat typhoid fever is decreasing and
that there were no new cases on Sat
urday. The general health of the
command is improving. Surgeon Ha-
ward cables from Santiago hat the
Olivette will sail with 200 non-infected
patients. She will touch at Fortress
Monroe for Instructions and probably
will be ordered to continue to Mon
tauk Point.
General Skaters report of the
health conditions of his troops at
Santiago as bulletined at the war de-
partment, as follows:
Sanitary report for August 14th:
Total number Of sick ais; total num-
Der fever cases 1,506; total number
new cases 129; number fever cases re-
turned to duty 226."
The number of deaths reported for
August 18th, 18th and 18th is %.
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Schedule in Effect May /, 1898.

Schedule IN E1ect May J., 1879.
Train 4-Leaves Wilmington $40 p. m.
arrives Lumberton 5:26 p. m.,- Pembroke
5:4S p. m, Maxton 6:i2 p. m, L%aurinburg
6:23 p. m, Hamlet 6:53 p. m, Wadesboro
8:11 p. m, Monroe 9:l2 p. m, Charlotte
1925 p. m, Connects at Hamlet with
ington and at Monroe with train for At
lanta.
Train 41-Leaves Portsmouth s:2O a. m.
arrives Weldon 11:41 a. m, Raleigh $3.50 p.
M, Sanford SOB p. m, Hamlet 6:53 p. m,
Athens 3:45 a. m, and Atlanta go a. m.
Train 4o3-Leaves Washington 4:1o p:
p. m. Arrives Weldon lilo p. m, Raleigh
2:07 a. M, Sanford 1886 a. m, Hamlet $40
a. M, Rockingham 5:23 a. m, Wadesboro
5:54 a. m, Monroe GAS a. m, Charlotte
1850 a. m, Athens 3:45 a. m, and Allan
Ia $40 a. m. Connection at Weldon with
train from Richmond and all Northern
points. pullman sleeper, Portsmouth to
Nashville, a. M, Lincolnton l2:D a. m,
Shelby 11:1S a. m, ~Rutherfordton 1890
noon, Athens Ills p. M, Atlanta $3.50
p. m.
Athens 11:21 p. m, Monroe $3.50 a. m,
leaves Charlotte $40 a. m, Monroe $3.50
a. M, Wadesboro 7:O1 a. m, Hamlet Sis
a. m, Raleigh 11:40 a. m, Weldon ESQ
p. m, arrives Portsmouth SIS p. m.
Train 3S-Leaves Hamlet $40 a. m. Ar
rives Laurinburg SAC a. m, Maxton 9:G5
a.. m, Pembroke s:31 a. M, Lumberton
s:5S a. M Wilmington 12:o5 noon.
ian JS-LNo ca NIoAa Avn ~ AH'f a
rives Athens 3:16 p. m, Monroe $3.50 p. m.
Leaves Rutherfordton ABS p. m, arrives
Shelby 5:55 ?; n, Lincolnton $50 p. m,
Charlotte S:1S p. m, Monroe $40 p. m,
Wadesboro 1851 p. m, Rockingham Hos
p. m, Hamlet 11:20 p. m, Sanford 1:G2 a.
m, Raleigh 2:16 a. M, Weldon 4:5o a. M,
Portsmouth 7:25 a. m, Richmond Sis a.
m, Washington 12:31 noon.
Train l. Hamlet 1:15 p. m, ar
rives Gibson $40 p. m. Returning, caves
Gibson 7:O a. M, arrives Hamlet $50
a. m.
Train 17-Leaves Hamlet $40 a. m, ar
rives Cheraw 1000 a. m. Returning leaves
Cheraw 500 p. m., arrives Hamlet 6:20
p. m.
All trains daily except Nos. II and IS.
Trains make immediate connections at
Atlanta for Montgomery, Mobile, New
Orleans, Texas, California, Mexico, Chat
tanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Macon.
Florida.
For Tickets, Sleepers, Dtc., apply to
THOS. d. MEARES,
Gen'l Agent, Wilmington, \. c.
E. ST. JOHN,
Vice President and Gen'l Manager.
H. w. B. GLOVER, Traffic Manager.
V. E. McBee, Gent superintendent.
T. J.. ANDERSON. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
General Offices. Portsmouth, Va.
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General Schwan Attacked by Spanish
Troops,

Ponce, Porto Rico, August 15.-Morn-
ing.-General Schwan's column was at
tackled yesterday between Mayaguez
and Lares. AS the Eleventh infantry,
under Colonel Burke, was descending
the valley of the Rio Grande, they
were fired upon from a hillside by a
force of 1,50O Spaniards, who were re-
treating toward the north. The fire
was returned n the Spaniards were
repulsed with, it is believed, consider
able loss.
Colonel Soto, the commander of the
Mayaguez district, was wounded and
was afterward overtaken in a wayside
cottage. He was attended by two ser
geants who surrendered j.. The Ameri-
cans suffered no loss. The artillery
and cavalry were not engaged.
General Schwan had not received
news of the signing of the protocol
when the action occurred, but obtain
ed it yesterday afternoon. The re-
ports from General Miles are meagre
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Ou1-Sme11ing
Catarrh.

Catarrh is n of the most obstinate
diseases, and hence the most difficult
to get rid of.
There is but one way to cure it.
The disease is in the blood, and all the
sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures
in the world can have no permanent
effect whatever upon it. Swift's Spe-
cffic cures Catarrh permanently, foritis
the only remedy which can reach the
disease and force it from the blood.
Mr.. B. P. McAllister, of Harrodsburg.
KY, had Catarrh for years. He writes:
though I WAS constantly treated with Sn-ars
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

New York, August 15.-Major F. w
Reid, of Savannah, Ga, was found
dead in his room at the Marlborough
hotel today. This morning he receiv-
ed a telegram from. Savannah signed
M. Reid, which read: Ma critically
ill, come at once"
Late this afternoon when another
telegram was delivered at the hotel
for Major Reid, being unable to arouse
him the door of his DON was broken
in and Major Reid was found on the
floor dead. Death was due to cerebral
apoplexy. The second telegram n
nounced the death of Mrs. Reid.
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The Clyde Steamship Go.
NEW YORK, WILMINGTON, ". c.,

NEW YORK FOR WILMINGTON. ". r.
ROATAN... Saturday, August 9Th
BENEFACTOR Saturday, August 18th
w1LMINGIoN. n. c.. FOR NEW YORK
BENEFACTOR Saturday, August 9th
CROATAN... Saturday, August 18th
FROM WILMINGTON. N. c., FOR
GEORGETOWN, s. c.
CROATAN.. Tuesday, August 9Th
BENEFACTOR. Tuesday, August 18th
Through bills OF IadIng and lowest
through rates guaranteed TO and from
points in North n South Carolina.
For Freight or Passage apply to
II. G. SMALLBONES.
Superintendent.
THEO. G. EGER. Traffic Manager.
6 Bowling Green, N. Y.
w. p. clyde & CO., General Agents.
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AGED Fatnef-he S1aShes Defend.
ants Throat with q sharp Knife
The Nan Likely to Dfe-The Father
Killed HIS Daughters Seducer.
Atlanta, Ga, August 15.-In Justice
Landrum's court today William Balm,
a white haired old man of II years, cut
the throat CT James Phillips, aged 80
years, whom the aged father claims
seduced his daughter. Phillips wound
is dangerous and the doctors say he
may not recover.
A case of seduction against Phillips
by Bain's daughter, Mrs. Mary Scale,
opened Phillips attorneys secured a
continuance.
Phillips was sitting near a window
in the court room when Balm started
out of the place. AS the old man
reached his side he suddenly sprang
upon Phillips and cut his throat. The
knife used was a large n and the
blade was as keen as a razor. The cut
made reached from the center of the
throat to a point almost under the
right ear.
Phillips grappled with the old man
and attempted to disarm him. Mrs.
Scale cried loudly while the men .strug-
gled and begged the court officials to
separate them. Bailiffs caught Balm
and he was handcuffed. Phillips was
bleeding terribly and sank to the floor.
A call was sent to the Grady hospital
and an ambulance vas called. Balm
was almost crazed with rage when a
patrolman took charge of him. His
shirt was covered with the blood of
Phillips. At police headquarters he
said he was sorry he had not killed
Phillips. HE disgraced my family"
he said as teers run down his cheeks,
land 1 did my best to kill him. I wish
I had cut his head off.
Bain's daughter is Mrs. Scale and
she resides with her father. She was
married when IA years old, and soon
afterwards her husband left her.
Scale left home nine years ago and his
wife was told by Scafe's sister, it is
said, that ne was dead. The law also
supposes a man dead who leaves his
home and is not heard of in that time
so Mrs. Scale decided she was free to
marry. Phillips, she claims promised
to make her his wife.
Balm is a confederate veteran and
for some years has been a peddler.
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Murdered by His Rival

Atlanta, Ga, August ia special
to The Journel from Wartrace, Tenn,
says: /. Rawlins, a prominent business
man of Millersburg, has been found
murdered on the road near his home.
His body was riddled with bullets and
sh~ockingly mutilated. Rawlins was re-
Gently married to a young woman who
was the belle of the neighborhood. 1t
was thought that he had been murder
ed by tramps, but suspicion now rests
on William Fulke, Rawlins' neighbor,
who had been a sutton of his wife.
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The State Normaiand
Industrial College.

nFFERS THE YOUNG WOMEN OF
the State thorough professional. literary.
classical, scientific, and Industrial edu-
cation. Annual Expenses so to $3.50. Fac
uity OF % members. More than 400 rer-l-
Lar students. Has matriculated about
Loo students, representing every county,
IN the state except two. Practice anS
observation chool Of about 200 pupils.
10 secure board IN dormitories. all free
fore August LIST.
Correspondence invited from those de-
SIZING competent trained teachers. For
catalogue and other information, address,
PRESIDENT McIVER.
Jun - Greensboro. ~, C.
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Freight train No. s on the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley now leaves Whining
ton at 400 p. m, arrives at Fayetteville
at 1920 p. m. Passenger a on this
train.
Connections at Fayetteville with At
lantic Coast Line, at MaXton with the
Carolina Central Railroad, at Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore rail-
road, at Sanford with the Seaboard Air
Line. al Gulf with the Durham and Char
lotte Railroad, at Greensboro with the
Southern Railway Company, at Walnut
Cove with the Norfolk and Western
Railway.
J. w. FRY. w. z. KYLE,
Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent.
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Bob Moore, of Lafayette, Ind, says
that for constipation he has found
DeWitt's Little Early Ris- to be per-
feet. they never grippe. Try them
for stomach and liver troubles. r.. x.
Bellamy. .
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and washes, and differ.
emit inhaling remedies
In fact, l could feel that
each winter 1 was worse
than the year previous
IF 1t was
brought to my notice
that Catarrh was a blood
disease, and after think.
ing over the matter. !
saw 1t was unreasonable
to expect TO be cured BY
remedies viii C h only
reached the surface. ]
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

The editor OF the vans City, Pa,
Globe, writes. "One Minute Cough
Cure is rightly named. 1t cured my
children after all other remedies fall
ed 1t cures coughs, colds n all
throat and lung troubles. p r. Bel
LAM
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19

Win your battles against disease
by acting promptly. One Minute
Cough Cure produces immediate re-
suits When taken early it prevents
consumption. And in later stages it
furnishes prompt relief. r. r. Bel
1amy.
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OUR NEW COLONIES
Their Reconstruction Occupying the Atten-
ton OF Department Officials.
TO SEND WARSHIP TO HAVANA

General Lee at the White House.-Sampson's Fleet to Give a Naval
Parade in New York Harbor..Naval Reserves to be Mustered
Out of Service-.A Letter from General Shaher-"Lasto OF
His Troops to Sail this Week-.P1enty of Supplies.
The Fever There Becoming More Virulent
in Type..Abandoning Camp Alger.
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S. S. 81 and after a few bottles were used. 1 no
ticed a p~erceptible improvement. Continuing
the remedy, the disease was forced out of my
system. and a complete cure was the result
I advise all who have this dreadful disease tG
abandon their local treatment which hasneveI
done them any good, and take SIS. s., a rem.
edy that can reach the disease and cure it."
To continue the wrong treatment for
Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift's
Specific is a real blood remedy, and
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases,
which other remedies have no effect
whatever upon. 1t promptly reaches
Catarrh, and never fails to cure even the
most aggravated cases.
Blood
is Purely Vegetable, and is the only
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
dangerous minerals.
Books mailed free by Swift Specific
Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
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FROM THE SOUTH.

No. d.-Passenger-Leave Tam
d. pa $40 a. m, Sanford 3:07 p. M,
Jacksonville 500 p. m. SdvaD
nah Las a. m. Charleston 6:33
a. m, Columbia Gas a. m, At
lanta $50 n. m, Macon 800 a.
m, Augusta 2:30 p. m, Dem
mark 4:17 p. m. Sumter G:06 a.
m, Florence s:55 n. m, Marion
1884 a. m, Chadbourn 1898 a.
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4 BLOODY SCENE N COURT
A Man Cuts the Throat
of a SuitOr.
HIS DAUGHTER AVENGED

A Man on Trial In Atlanta for Breach
Of Promise Attacked by n Girls
Aged Father-He Slashes Defend.
ants Throat with q sharp Knife
The Nan Likely to Dfe-The Father
Expresses Regret at Not Having
Killed His Daughters Seducer.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-05
o,n G,ttv,bu,r Monuments.

As will be noted elsewhere, Governor
Atkinson has fxcd Wednesday. the 2sth
instant, as the date upon which the
West vlrgInia monuments on the field
Of Gettysburg will be dedicated, and the
various organizations of veterans inter-
ested are arranging TO attend. a repre-
sentative OF each 10 be among the
speakers. While this duty has been de-
layed somewhat longer by West Viz
ginla than by most other states, there
VIII be no less interest taken In the
event, which will doubtless be largely
attended not alone by the old soldiers
Who took part in the great battle, but
by large numbers Of others of the vet
Grams OF the civil war who reside In this
state, and who are inspired by state
pride and n patriotic memory OF those
whose deeds the monuments are intend
ed TO perpetuatc.
A feature OF the ceremonies attendant
upon tho dedication will bc one which
hns not been possible to witness on the
numerous similar occasions on the Get
fysburg Geld. It will be the bringing
together OF the soidiers of the wnr with
q foreign power and the veterans OF a
different sort Of war fought years be-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-05

It seems probable that both the West
Virginia regiments will be among those
that will be retained in the service.
The regiments both stand well as to
general excellence and discipline. and 1t
will not surprise those who know Of
their character II the report proves true.
While our boys have been deprived of
participation in actual war, they have
been willing and even anxious to do so.
They are competent, and II it is true
that they are to be among the troops Of
occupation in Cuba and Porto Rico
they will serve with credit to them
selves and 10 their state.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-05


The visit OF the President to Camp
wlkoff on Saturday had splendid eff
feet on the spirits of the sick soldiers
in the hospital tents. No point was omit
ted by the President. He visited every
part Of the campNwhich has been the
cause of so many newspaper publlca-
lions. and found that the reforms which
have been Instituted were working well.
President Mckinley did not even stop
at the door of the worst wards of the
detention hospital. where there was
danger of contagion. but went through
them all, with sympathetic word and
cheering smile for all the sick. There
were many pathetic scenes and incl
dents as ne passed among the suffer-
ers who had sacrificed their health in
a tropical and fever infected climate
for their country. and the deep impress
sion that was made upon the President
was evident by HE manner.
The conditions at this camp, and at all
others where there has been a great
amount of sickness, have been mater
tally improved, and everything possible
is being done for the comfort of the
troops, Those who are able are being
sent home, and there is every probable
tty that before very long all volunteers
who arc not in the best of health will
be relieved Of further services. The
President is taking an active personal
interest in the matter and the officers
In charge of the camps are no longer
handicapped by red tape. Secretary Of
war AIger seems to have cut the red
tape completely in mis- department, and
all circumstances cousldereds matters
are generally in a satisfactory condition.
The percentage of troops suffering from
disease and hardship IS smaller than in
former wars. particularly the war Of
1sel-'e5. and it will be kept down to the
minimum.
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nNla COuNM REPUBLICAN TlCkEI.
M. Grand A,my ~, West.

The present week witnesses the thirty
second annual encampment of the
hEand Army of the Republic at Gin
einnat, and. as usual, the occasion will
80 one in which the veterans of the
great war for the Union will be assem-
bled by the thousands from the various
states 10 live over again the old days
when all shared alike the hardshIps, the
sufrerings and the dangers incident to
a war In which great country was
divided against itself, though to-day
they are Inspired with different emo
lions that they felt then. They are
not numbered by 50 many thousands to-
day as they were last year and the
year before. There are something like
twenty thousand fewer Grand Army
men this year than last year, and forty
thousand fewer than in 1895, the pres
emit membership stIll being, however,
sOOOOO about the size OF the army which
in the past four months responded to
the country's call for service against a
foreign fue.
1t Is because of the fact that the as
semblage of these veterans this year is
under new conditions that there Is at
tached to 1t unusual interest. Few Of
the old soldiers had expected TO live to
see the country engaged iu another war.
or that within their life they would w.t.
ness a time when within SO short time
an army would again be raised and a
navy would be called upon not to fight
brethren, but q foreign foe. They are
having their memories refreshed con-
earning the horrors OF war. They will
note the effect upon the country and the
lessons which have been learned, and
the fact that the realities OF war will
silence the criticisms of the old soldier.
The sadness of the veterans in the
knowledge that the country has again
been brought face to face w!ta all that
a. real war means will be mixed with
a satisfaction that in the cause which
has Just trIumphed, through the valor
Of our soldiers and seamen. there was
enlisted a reunited country; when the
men from the south and the men from
the north volunteered and fought under
the same flag. for the common purpose
OF extending American liberty and es.
tabllshing humane rule in the place OF
a foreign despotism.
Though its own ranks are decimated,
the Grand Army OF the Republic viii
hail the new Grand Army which VIII
take It's place in years to come. which
viii be composed OF the sons Of south
ern and northern men alike, and 1t will
give thanks to the Almighty Father that
/. was possible, within u generation, for
sectionallsm TO be dead and buried for
ever; that the veterans Of both sides OF
a civil war and their sons could join
together under one flag and for one
Gauge, that cause being genuine Amer
icanlsm.
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fore many Of these younger soldiers
were born. or while they were yet chill
dren II IL probable. il the consent Of
the war department is Obtained. that
the Second regiment Of West Virginia
volunteers now at Camp Meade, MOI far
from Gettysburg, win be present and
Join With the survivors Of the Gettys-
burg tight in paying tribute to those
who gave up their Hives upon that field
Just thirty-hve years ago.
This will be a memorable occasion at
Gettysburg, because OF the solemn duty
to be performed, as wen as for the I'M
usual circumstances mentioned. The
attendance at the ceremonies should not
be confined TO veterans and the younger
soldiers alone. Liberal railroad rates
should induce as many citizens Of. the
state as can findit convenient to take
the opportunity to vislt the historic bat
tle1eld, and participate in the ceremo-
niles. In these days when the close of a
war. which has served to unite sections
and to wipe out the last lingering YES
tige of the anlmoslty engendered in the
war between the states, finds US a re-
united Nation, more strongly cemented
by traternal ties than ever, no more
appropriate occasion could be selected
for reunion of the blue and the grey
of West Virginia,
There were Confederates who were
natives Of this soil whose splendid cOur-
age was tested on that field, and whose
blood stained It as well as did the
blood Of those OF the north. There
will be no fOrgetfulness of them and
their deeds, nor no failure to render
them the tributes they deserve. The
Intelligencer believes that, taken oil
things into consideration, the day at
Gettysburg near the close of the month
will be a memorable one and sacred
occasion for those who will gather there
on their patriotic mission.