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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
Mrs. CHS Hospitality.

The members of both branches of the
GU connciI have teen invited by Mrs.
r.. CHI, superintendent OF the Male
0rnhon ASYLUM, 10 inspect the building
and partake of dinner next Wednesday
eT ernni1ent Turpin. OF the Board of AL
aar,,Sen and Vice President Joseph Wal
S Svi of the Common Council. have
ren,ested sergeant-at-Arms Rusksll TO
nrtnare and send out TO each member OF
The Council formal invitation 10 be
present on this occasion -. -
al who arc present will enjoy them
se1xes as Mrs Gill is indefatigabie In
Ser efforts 10 extend her guests cordial
end hospitable welcome whenever '"sS
Conc 10 the asylum.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28

WeII-Attended Services in the Town
of Berryviiie.

BERRYyILLE, VA. August 27-(Spe-
al.)-The body OF Rev. James ID.
Thomas. recently OF Baltimore, who drop
ned dead at Shenandoah Junction
while en- route to this place to assume
regularly the pastoral duties OF the Pres
hvterian church here, was brought 10
BerryviIle Friday. Funeral services " re
held in the Presbyterian church to-day
Rev. DR.. A. c. Hopkins. OF Charlestown
conducted the services. He was assist
ed by Rev. Drs. White and Graham. OF
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
Veterans Picnic.

ASHLAND VA. August 2.-(Special)
W. b. Newton Camp Confederate Vete-
rams, held It's annual picnic at Ashland
Park to-day. The camp had large
number Of friends TO enjoy the splendid
J Brunswick stew
Comrades j. A. Brown. Walter Sydnor
and D. A. Timberlake were chosen
delegates to the meeting Of the Grand
Camp, at Culpeper. Considerable routine
business was transacted at the regular
meeting.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
Death of Mr. Thomas Henderson.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, August 27.-(Spe-
cial Mr. Thomas Henderson died at
his home. near Broad Run. this morn
ing. He was born in Leesburg seventy
odd years ago. lived here for a time but
for years has owned Roland one OF .-le
finest estates in this section. He once
represented Fauquier in the Legislature.
Mr. Henderson married Miss Rebecca
Beverly sister of Coo Robert Beverly
and the late Mrs. Co.'s Tley had no
children. He was a noble man.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
ng. Julian S. Carr. of Durham.

creasing. Julian S. Carr, of Durham,
gives $i00.
Lieutenant Christian, recruiting officer
for the First Regiment. left here tonight
for Camp cuba Libre. The regiment Is
full.
In the First Congressional District.
Elhu A. White and John Whidbee have
succeeded In getting the Perquimans
county Republicans In line for a traight
fight and no fusion with the Popuiists.
There Is talk Of II. G. Smith as the
Democratic nominee for Congress In this
district
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
BEVERLEY X. ROWE DEAD.
He WINS an Ex-COnfederate and q
Native OF Caroline.

FREDERICKSBURG. VA, August ~
Especial. beverly X. Rowe, a well-known
citizen OF Caroline. died at Ills home
near Corbins, in that county. this morn
ing. The deceased was a gallant ex-Con-
federate soldier and served throughout
the entire war He had been In de-
clining health for several years.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28

Winchester, and Revs. Julian Briaddus
and Edward Wan, of this place The pail
bearers were:
Active-M. w. Jones, A. ]. KimmeH. j.
w. Vorous. l. X Briggs, j. W. Marks,
and Captain A. l. Thompson.
Honorary-John Y. Page, ID. c. snyder
Charles s. Lee. w T. Milton, Charles
II. Smith. and Isaac Bowman.
The j. f.. b. Stuart Camp OF Confede-
rate Veterans. Of this place, attended the
services in a body.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
Deaths at Fort MCPHERSON.

ATLANTA. GA, August 1-Louis
Startmyer. Company G.. Fifth Maryland
Regiment, and Michael Edwards, Troop
d. sixth Cavalry. privates died at Fort
Mcpherson to-day. Of typhoid-fever.
Tbere are now $50 patients in the gem
eraI hospital, nearly 600 of whom are
oflicted with typhoid-fever
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
sompson VIII Hold His Command

WASHINGTON, August H.-The de-
narture OF Admiral Sampson for Cuba
win make no change in his command.
He will still command the North Atlantic
statlon. Commodore Philip will be in
charge of the repairing of the ships at
Now York
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
PAINTER COMMITS SUICIDE.
Could Not Hear from Her Son, Who
is in the Army i'm Cuba.

BERLIN, August 27-Frau Danneberg,
a talented portrait painter, has commit
ted suicide. because, it is alleged she
could get no news of her son, who fought
with the American army in Cuba.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
80 900 to Our Episcopal Seminary.

The Rev. Lucius w. Bancroft. in his
will, which WAS filed for probate yester-
day, gives 5000 10 the trustees OF the
Episcopal Theological Seminary. OF Fair
fax county Va, the income or which IL
20 be used annually for the education or
some needy student. He leaves TO the
three children Of his deceased brother.
r. Whiting Bancroft, OF Providence. X. l..
5000 each, and 10 Eleanor NJ. Ryan, OF
Worcester, Mass. 5000.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Police Court.

The July report of the chief of
police shows a total of 81 1897. so in fines
assessed: 81 ,294. 30 collected. and S43
served.
Sullivan has been before most every
court in this city, but somehow or
other the charges made against him
cannot be made good before jury. No
one ever accused him of working, but
he manages to live. nevertheless.
The police court docket this morning
contained only two cases, one against
the irrepressible ''Curley'' Sullivan
for fighting, and the other against c.
Allen, for neglecting to pay her usual
ten dollar monthly fine.
The case against Charlie Purtell was
called last evening at five o'clock
Purtell demanded a jury trial and the
case was postponed until this evening
at O'Clock. He is charged with carry
ing concealed weapons and firing a pis-
toll In the street. Just where Purtell
intends to get off his train of trouble
with jury to convict him Is a mystery
to those who are acquainted with the
facts in the charges against him
IL would not surprise some of the Of
ticers If he would change his mind be-
fore night and plead guilty to the
charges.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Texas Base Ball League.

There are good indications for a
base ball league being organized next
season, and if Ell Paso would like to
take a hand in the matter, now is the
time. Plans are being laid for a meet
ing to be held this fall with a view to
perfecting arrangements for next
season. If the base ball fans of Ell
Paso get their heads together and
make an effort to get in the state
league they will surely succeed. The
San Antonio Daily Light has the
following to say of the proposed or
gsnizstiOn:
Next season will find the Texas Base
ball league in the saddle again. Plans
are already being laid and a meeting
will be held next fall to complete ar
engagements. It will be four-club cir
cult composed of the cities of Austin,
Houston, Galveston and San Antonio.
Efforts are now being made to obtai q
more centrally located ball park at
Austin, which will insure better pros
poets for q financial success in the Cap
ital City. Houston and Galveston are
ready to go into the league at any time,
and San Antonio has a substantial stock
company which has thus far met every
call with prompt response. The as
ISOLATION quit ST. 200 loser this year, but
there will not be a war every year. and
present indications are that interest in
the game of Yankee boobies land will
be revived next season as it was at the
close OF the civil war.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Mexican Law Breakers.

prominent citizen last night said
Il see by the reports in the papers
every day that the Justices courts are
always trying some Mexican for some
trivial offence. L warrant you that
ninety per cent of the money spent in
this county for the persecution of cases
is in prosecuting good-for- nothing
Mexicans. And what does the Mexican
care? They are sent up may be
for two years or more, and then they
get bitter living than they
ever had before in their lives.
IF had my say in the matter think
that for such Offences as they commit
q good whipping post would do more
good than to send them to the peniten-
tiary for two or three years. If the
first twenty-five lashes would MT do
some OF them. every time you have
them up increase the mum Der and I'll
bet you that half of the petty crimes
that are committed by them would be
done away with because they are more
afraid of the whip and after they had
a taste of it once they would keep out
of devilment.
These same Mexicans pay less than
tenth of the tax for the prosecution
OF such offences and yet the state has to
pay nearly ninety per cent in their
cause and | tell you it isn't right
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
ONE DEATH IN SEVEN
Throug hout the World Results From
Consumption.

A Detroit dispatch says: The con-
ference of state and provincial boards
of health closed its session with discus
sions on tuberculosis in all its phases.
The walls of the convention hall were
literally hung with maps showing that
this insidiOus disease has killed more
people than any other affection. In
this connection, DR.. Hurry, of Indiana,
in discussing economic phases of tuber-
culOsis, said One-seventh of all the
deaths are caused by it.
In the same connection, William
Bailey Of Kentucky, declared that 1,
zoe, 900 people died annually from tu-
berculosis, and said that if sanitarians
were but given the opportunity to fight
the disease the saving would easily pay
the country's pensions: that in two or
three months the interruptions to COM
merce from the disease represented at
least 800, 900, 900. After tracing the
tubercle bacillus from its origin to the
height of it's growth in man the con.
ference discussed means of prevention.
Discussions on this point ranged from
''csre of expectorstion" to estate and
municipal care of consumptives."
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Valuable Horse To Chance Hands.

Searchlight the wonderful PAGER now
campaigning on the Eastern tracks,
will shortly pass into the hands OF
James A. Murphy, owner OF Star
Pointer, l:59 t. Murphy recently Of
fered $25, 900 for the speedy sidewheel-
err and his owners, Crelliu and Heating
OF Pleasanton, Cal, decided that they
would accept provided Searchlight was
allowed to remain in Keating's hands
during the remainder OF the current
season to fulfill his engagements.
Murphy has accepted this condition
and when the season is over will take
charge OF his new purchase
Searchlight is by Dsrknight, a son
of Alcyono, out of Nora Naples by
Furor. He is Lexington bred and is
now four years old. David Bricker, a
Montana mining man owned him two
years ago. but failed to appreciate his
qualities. He cold him to Ed Upton
for $1,000. Well posted racing men
believe that Searchlight will break the
worlds records next year.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
1t Was Badly Needed.

A water plug is to day being placed
near the west corner of sthe Texas s,
Pacific depot. It will be connected
with the main line near the Baptist
church on San Antonio street. The
placing of this plug has caused gen
eral rejoicing among the property
holders of that vicinity, as it has been
needed badly. Up to the present there
has been no plug within two squares of
the residences in the immediate vicini-
ty of the 7. p. depot.
The water company has placed five of
these water plugs within the last two
months. THE town is building so
FAST" said man connected with the
water company this morning, that we
havebeen kept busy extending our water
mains. [ remember it was only a com
paratively short time ago that we LOOK
ed over the town and found the plugs
in good proportion to the number of
houses, but the buildings have been
going up so rapidly of late that we
were compelled to get to work extend
ing our mains in order to keep up with
the procession. / think Ell PasO has a
very bright future and that it will not
be long before our mileage of water
mains will be increased several miles :"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Gen. Wheeler at Santiago

The Springfield Mass J Republican
pays high tribute to General Joe
Wheeler as lone bright star Of the
Santiago battle" 1t declares that
Ibis restless, eager and watchful
spirit, contained in a lit lie wizened
minated all that part of the army under
his immediate command, and turned
the tide of opinion at headquarters in
favor of holding the ground won in the
first days battle" 1t adds:
He positively discountenenced fall
ing back, as it would cost us much
prestige. IF we can get through to-
morrow all right, he wrote on the
night OF July 1st, 1--WE can make our
bresstworks very strong the next
night. He went along the front of
the lines early in the night and found
them very thin from the losses and ex-
hsustions of the bloody day, but he
gave the men shovels and picks
and set them to work fortifying the
dearly bought position. He saw Cen
eral Hawkins ''in person." and told
him to get intrenching tools and hold
on. When he was appealed TO by Of
ficers to counsel falling back to q
stronger position, he admitted the des-
persteness of the situation. but said
the Spaniards were in a worse plight.
line"
General Kent bears testimony to the
influence of General Wheeler:
Though i'll and suffering, General
Wheeler was so perfectly at home un-
der fire that he inspired all of US with
assurance" This is the tribute of a
regular army officer to q volunteer
soldier, who, however, had seen some
lighting in years gone by. a wonderful
old man.
The secret of victory in war, accord
ing to the confederate, General For
rest, was ito get there fusest with the
mosest men, General Wheeler's
cardinal principle of action as con-
federate commander was to be at all
times where the enemy least expected
him to be. The came indomitable and
ubiquitous spirit which distinguished
him in the civil war is observable in
his cOnrsp at Santiann
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
The Music of the War.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
The war between the United States
and Spain has been the ruin of many
young men, and more elderly ones, too
perhaps. who allowed their patriotism
to blind their judgment and to lead
them to drop into what they fondly be
lleved to be poetry. OF the immense
number OF pieces of verse called forth
by the war. surprisingly small mum.
Der are of any merit.
An editorial article in Current Lit
erature, commenting upon the dearth
OF new music, says:
The cause OF this is perhaps not far
20 seek. Our welfare has not serious
~ been threatened since the opening
OF the war. Triumph has been fully
expected Consequently there is no
ueep note to touch. In the war with
the confederacy our national fabric was
being ripped asunder: the union was
assalied; the scales of victory and de-
Ieat were long lin the south's favo-.
IL was time when people thought an d
suffered tiercely. But now we are
hghtlng a weak country, inefficient in
men and munitions. We are the as
sallant. not the defender We are act
ing rather in the function of policemen
IMAM OF patriots. Our csuse is holy.
out IT. Is not one that takes very deep
root IN the emotions. 1t does not grip
tue heart and squeeze out music
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Dirty Stables.

This morning while the reporter was
on his rounds two different citizens
stopped him and began talking about
the dirty, filthy stables in the northern
end of town.
One man said: 81 wish you would
call the attention OF the public and the
officers of the city to the way some re
sidents in our end of town let their
stables go from month to month and
don't ever cleao them out. 1t
is disgrace and the men who
own them should attend to
the matter. L can't see why
it is that the smell which
arises from the manure piles in these
places doesn't worry the men who have
the stables, but they wait until they
get SO dissgreeable to the neighbors
that they have to say something about
it to the health officers" The reporter
asked the man why he didn't go aud
file complaint against the negligent
parties and the answer came as usual,
well, he is a friend of mine, and yet
while don't want to go to him and
tell him about the matter still [ think
he ought to be reminded that the place
is public nuisance"
Another complaint comes from a
citizen who lives over on Kansas street
and it is on the same grounds. He
says that some one living near him
keeps a cow and horse and the odor
which lis waited to his front porch
every evening drives the family down
to the plaza or somewhere else to get
rid of the terrible smell. The same
question was asked him, why he didn' It
file complaint against
the parties. He said he
didn't exactly know which one of the
lots was the one needed cleaning as
there were three in such close prox-
unity that it was hard to tell which
was the guilty party, nevertheless he
hoped that the papers would call the
attention of the negligent citizen to che
Inconvenience the dirty lot was causing
his neighbors so that he would take q
tum BILE to:himself'
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
judge DarWood's Court.

This morning at 10 O'Clock a good
deal OF justice court oratory was in
dulged in by the two attorneys in the
case OF the state against Tomasa Agu-
eirre.
The charge against Mrs. Agueirre
was for assault, and the complaint had
been filed by a woman who looked as if
she could easily do three of Mrs
Tomssa's weight. Her name was Car
lOta Padilla, and she claim ed that after
she had been staying at house where
Mrs. Tomssa Agueirre was staying and
had been ordered to leave on account
Of her unladylike conduct, she left, but
came back about five o'clock for some
of her clothes and general scrap en-
sued, whereby Carlota came out second
best with black eye and bunged up
nose.
County Attorney Harvey prosecuted
in the name of the state, and Chas
Paterson was for the defendant, and
these two attorneys waxed warm in
trying to prove to the court that the
other side had lied. Their oratory
said he thought the whole outfit lied
so he turned them looks.
AttwO o'clock the case against Will
liam Symons was brought up for
hearing. William is charged with as
sault and his accusers were a Mexican
girl and her mother.
AS the attorneys for one of the
parties to the case had not lookeduup
the full data in the matter the conrt
was unnecessarily delayed in hearig
evidence. The story of the case as
well as could be learned is that
Symon being single man Owls 8
nice house and in one half OF
the house this Mexican woman and
her daughter live and cook and
take care of Symon's room. The other
day or night as the case might be Sy-
mon came home and found some of the
furniture changed and he didn't like
the change, so as the girl says he rails
ed row and knocked her and her
mother around. The case had not been
concluded as we went to press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
ChiCago's New Amusement Hall.

Arrangements have been perfected
by number OF capitalists for the con-
struction of q colossal amusement and
convention hall in Chicago
rivaling the recently destroyed
Coliseum in size and cspa-
city. The building will be construct
ed on the vacant territory formerly
occupied by the Chicago baseball team
on the West Side. Nav l next is the
date set for the completion of the NAM
moth.
According to the plans in the hands
OF the architect, the building will be
900 feet in length and 348 feet in width.
The inside arena will be 472 by 26O
feet. This portion will be entirely
free from pillars or obstruction to the
view. The seating capacity will be
20, 600. For convention purposes the
arena can be covered with seats, max
ing the total seating capacity of the
planned structure $1,000.
The height of the building will be
100 feet and the roof will be arranged
so as to permit large roof garden.
The principal m lateral to be used in
the construction will be iron and
steel. The exterior architecture will
be Gothic, with turrets. towers, and
wood carvings
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
The Small Boy and His Bicycle.

a seven-y ear-old chap by the name
OF Wheatley had narrow escape from
being crushed by an express wager
this morning about ii o'clock He was
riding his wheel north on Ell Paso
street and was closely followed by ar
express wagon. At the corner of Sar
Antonio street the boy attempted te
turn east and fell with the approaching
horses almost upon him. A lady, who
had seen the child fall, screamed and
the'watchful driver pulled,his horses tc
the left and saved the little fellow
from being crushed. The boy picked
up his wheel and in his nervous effor,
to get out of the way of another ex-
press wagon, he fell over his bicycle
and was again in a dangerous posi-.
ton.
The driver noticed the boy strup
CLING to get out of the way and pulled
his horses to one side, and the lad and
his wheel were soon on the side.
walk.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Horses in Battle.
New York Tribune.


Wnen horses are hit in battle they
stop, tremble in every muscle and
groan deeply, while their eyes show
wild establishment During the battle
of Waterloo some of the horses, as
they lay on the ground, having re-
covered from the first agony of their
wounds, fell to eating the grass about
s then, thus surr Si1n5d them len
ground the limited extent of
| which bowed their weak S
ness Others of these interesting
animals were observed quietly grazing
| in the middle of the field between the
| two hostile lines, their riders having
| been shot off their backs, while the
balls that flew over their heads and
the tumult behind and before and
around them caused no interruption
to the usual distinctions of their ma
ture.
1t was also observed that when a
charge of cavalry went past, near to
any OF the stray horses mentioned, they
would set off, form themselves in the
resr OF their mounted companions, and
though without riders, gallop strenuous
ly along with the rest, not stopping nor
fiinching when the fatal shock with the
enemy took place.
At the battle of the Kirb, in 1854.
Major Macdonald, having endorsed an
English officer, took possession of his
horse, which was very beautiful. and
Immediately mounted it. When the
English cavalry fled the horse ran
away with his captor, Notwithstanding
all bis efforts to restrain him: nor did
the animal stop until it was at the head
of the regiment of which, apparently,
its master was the commander.
The melancholy and at the same
time, ludicrous figure which Macdon-
aid presented when he thus saw him
self the victim of his ambition to DOS
sess fine horse, which ultimately cost
him his life upon the scaffold, may be
easily conceived
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Wants a Maidstone.

Charles Martin, a resident of Cler-
mont county, Ohio. across the river,
came into Newport, Kentucky, Tues
day in quest of a maidstone. Martin g
12-year old son was bitten By a mad dog
Monday, and the lad failed to notify
his parents for some time, when the
pain could no longer be endured. The
boy has grown steadily worse, and ow
ing to lack of prompt medical attend
ance, will probably die. Martin was
unable to locate q maidstone and is al
most distracted with fear that his boy
will die of hydrophobia.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-16
Postponed.

Yesterday was the day set by the
cour"S for receiving the plans and
SSeclhcatlons for the new city hall, blu,
as the council have taken q week
longer to decide as to whether thew
have right to the piece OF ground
in front OF the court house so the arch
fleets will be given IL week longer to
finish the work and specifications on
the plans. All of them were ready yes-
terday, and now they are all apprehen-
sive for fear the plans will
have to be changed because of the
fire department being taken from the
building, thereby necessitatipg an
entire redrawing OF the plans and new
calculations rs to the cost to erect two
buildings separately.