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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
G. 3. Gawfhorn Sc Co,
30th and Wash. Ave.
r or Sale!

New six-room house, near Twenty
ninth and Roanoke. $500 cash and $500
payable $500 per week, without inter-
est. Rents for So per month.
Five houses five rooms each, on
Twenty-sevcnth street. Bath and wa
ter in house; gas pipes in each house
Rent for s12 each. Street cars in front
of houses. $1,000 EACH
Valuable business lot, at corner of
washington avenue and Twentythird
street. $4,000.
Three well located lots in Block 81.
Can and get lot aumbers. Each $500.
Four adjoining lots on twenty ninth
street, near Chestnut, $1,000 Buy them
and have a garden for your neighbors'
chickens or chickens for your neigh
bors' garden. See.
]. Z. B. STUART & co,
26l2 Washington avenue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
Young ElnancIer.

"sWhat makes you naughty so much
Of the time. Willie?" asked the indul-
gent father.
why, you see, mamma gives me a
penny every time promise to be good"
replied the youngster, land she never
asks me to promise to be, good until 1
have been naugthy."-Ch Chicago Post.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
The New Committee,

The new Democratic COMMITTEES will
mold its first meeting tonight All or
gan!zation. of course, will be effected.
Messrs. T. y. Watson and C. w. Rey-
nolds are the names that will he pre-
scented for the Craftsmanship Of the par
ty. Mr. George Henlfer Will be nom!-
mated for secretary.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
]. A. SOMMERYILLE & CO.,
Real Estate, Rents and Loans.

Houses for rent. Houses and Lots for
sale in all sections. A large selection.
MANY BARGAINS
Two store rooms and lot on Washing
ton avenue. paying Is and "a per cent.
Also well-established shoe and no
ton business on same street, cheap
gents Tor Equitable Life Assurance
Society Of New York, and, for Seadinc
Fire Companies.
Notary public in Office
Washington avenue and Thirty-first
List Your properties with us. NJ
charge for advertising.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
Buyers, Look !!
These are Bargains

Seven good Houses on Twenty-sixth
street, between Virginia and Lafayette
avenues Good front on Twenty-sev-
enth street, close to Washington ave-.
nue.. - -; - 4
Seven Lots in North Newport News;
Seven Lots in East Hampton: rive
Lots in Riverview, besides others. Let
me sell to you. A. D. WALLACE.
Corner Thirty first street and Lafay-
cite avenue.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07
Sutl-r RS by Cn1nnart.on.

. Newport News with its s2,402, 5S5
worth of exports for last month COM
pletely ran away from its rival across
the Roads.
The exports from Norfolk for last
month suffer in comparison with those
of Newport News. The list follows:
6,490 tons Of coal for ships use. s. 1870
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07

A Troublesome Intruder
is barred out when your doors and win
dows are projected by the use 81 Tur
handsome and useful ! wire screenss
Flies, mosquitoes andinsects Of ali kinds
dogs, and poultry. cease to annoy you
after we have adjusted our screens to
your windows or doors.
RICHTER & BRITTINGHAM.
ZIG Twenty-Eighth street
Both 'Phones. Su,w&f
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07

Prospective purchasers Of vessels
Which We're in use as auxilaries to the
United States navy during the Spanish
American war and may be offered for
sale by the department have been
warned during the past week to investi-
gate where such vessels were built be-
fore concluding any purchases. There
is an impression in some quarters that
vessels, even if built abroad would ac-
qulre national character by reason of
their employment by the United States
navy, but this. according to recent in
terpretations of the law, is not true.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07

Officers of the William r. Trigg Com
panE. Of Richmond. Va. announce that
the company will assuredly submit bids
on at least two of the six cruisers for
which specifications have recently been
completed by the Navy Department.
Secretary of the Navy Long, who re-
Gently visited the Trigg company's
plant. manifested surprise at the pro
gress that had been made toward the
establishment of completely-equ
shipyard, as we'll as the general activity
OF fireplace.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07

The Warren Line steamer Noresman.
which was wrecked on the Marbehead
rocks off the coast of Massa chusetts,
some time ago. and later was towed to
Boston, was sold recently to a. v.
Kaiser & Co. of Philadelphia. dealers
In old metal, for s17,25O. The Norseman
was estimated to be worth $4,000 when
she went on the rocks and over $50 1000
was expended in efforts to save her
The shipyard here submitted a bid for
repairing the ship.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-07

Four balance cantilever shipbiulding
cranes similar to the ones used at the
shipyard in this city, have been ordered
by Vickers' Sons & Maxim, Sheffield
England, from Brown Hosting & Con-
veying Machine Company, Cleveland,
which has also an order for a large
crane to be erected in the Austrian
government yards at Trieste.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18

so that it could he seen from the next
station, while the others were hidden. in
dcated the group, including the letter,
to he transmitted which letter was then
shown more closely by lanterns. Polyblus
improved this by dividing the alphabet into
five groups, four or five letters and one of
four. These We're telegraphed 10y torches.
moving in given directions. For instance,
three torches at the left of the station
meant the third group, then Two at the
right meant the second letter of this
group
The Chinese, NJ. Remy tells us. also
used signal towers al an early period, ana
the Romans learned how TO employ them
from the Carthaginians. The Roman tel
cgraphtc system was altogether 400 miles
ia length, ana remains of the stations sun
exist. The Gauls tolcgraphed by shouting
from post TO post. and there was similar
system between Athens and Susa .t4oO
niles. When Europe was overrun by
Barbdrlans, these systems OF telegraphy
were destroyed. Although some effort at
similar communication was made in the
Middle Ages. modern telegraphy dates
from the sixteenth century. il began with
some very curious propositions. says M.
Ecmy
About 1870 Porta. a Neapoltan physi-
cist, inventor of the camera obscura,
thought that he could cast upon the
moon, by means of a mirror characters
that could be read over the whole earth,
Father k.rchor proposed to let the suns
rays fail on mirrors in such manner as
to form letters. Francois Kessler used
an empty barrel, containing lamp. with
"A movable shutter. Opening the shutter
once Signihed the letter A, twice meant
b, and so on. This seems 10 be the be-
ginning of our present Geographic alpha
bet
About the same time, experiments
were made a, Mayence with five masts,
each divided into five sections. Large oh
Jecis were hosted on these and The point
at which they were stopp, d signidtd pre-
arranged phrase. This is a modification
of the method of Polybius.
Next, Robert Hooke. an English selen-
list, proposed to make huge letters of some
opaque substance and to suspend them
In space. But neither this nor the preced-
ing methods were ever adopted in prac-
u2c."
In 1880 NJ. Remy goes on TO say, Anon
tons, a Ffenchman, introduced the tele-
scope as q means Of observing Geographic
signals, which made il possible TO increase
the distance between stations. He pro-
posed 10 use for his signals a large, black
screen, in which cross was cut but he
failed In getting the government aid neeC-
ed 10 carry out his Dian. Later, Marcel
of Aries built a machine. which. il was
claimed could signal as fast as one could
write. but he, 100, failed to get govern
ment aid, and broke his invention. In 1882
Gauthey devised system OF speaking
tubes by which he expected to transmit
| speech hnndfcds of miles, but expense pre-
vented its adoption. Soon after this, how
ever, the invention Of the semaphore fur
nlshed "A successful system Of visual teleg-
raphy, and not long afterward the electric
telegraph gave TO the world "a means of
communication 10 which distance sets no
limits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
MATANzAS AND SANTA CLARA.
WILSON REPORTS ON CONDITIONS
IN THOSE PROVINCES.

Social Conditions Have Been Much
AmeIiOrnted-Stiu Many Destitute
to He Cared for-Better Means OF
Communication Needed These
Two Provinces Furnish Nearly All
the Sugar Exported From Cuba.
Coffee Culture Almost Abandoned.
Washington. Sept. 1.-THE war depart
ment made public to-day the abstract of
a report from Gen. James II. Wilson,
commanding the provinces of Matanzas
and Santa Clara. Gen. Wilson gives a
large amount of statistical information
regarding the provinces and their prod
ucts, which viii be of interest TO Amerl-
cans intending to do business in the isl
and
He says that the social conditions have
been much amelorated since the Amerl-
can occupation. but that there are still
a large number of destitute to be cared
for, and there is a great need for roads
These will facilitate communication be
tween the important towns and allow the
freer movement of staple products, such
as sugar and tobacco, which is now almost
interdicted by the lack of anything ex>
cept the poorest sort of pack trails. He
says that railroad building will be cheap
er than making wider roads, and recon-
mends one to connect SanctT Spiritus with
Placetas
He says by far the most important pro-
duct in Santa Clara is sugar, of which the
province furnished in 1889 AZ per cent of
the total exports from the island The
provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas
together furnished in 1898, 81 per cent. of
the total sugar production of Cuba. The
war left in operation forty-one sugar cen
trails and twenty-One others not in opera
ton, but in working order. About eighty
seven were destroyed.
The crop of tobacco in Matanzas this
year amounted to IS, 900 bales
Gen. Wilson says the revival of agri-
culture has progressed rapidly in spite Of
discouraging circumstances. The people
are greatly i'm need of draft animals
while pigs, sheep and fowls have entirely
disappeared. The native mules and horses
at present are the best adapted to local
use, owing to the very bad condition of
the roads, but when this is improved he
says that American horses will be in de-
mand.
Coffee culture has been almost aban-
doned for a number of years. Considerable
interest is now being taken in it's revival
The value of sugar land ranges from IS to
$50 an acre, but the foreign investor will
be at a disadvantage as compared with
the native in the examination Of titles IN
til responsible companies are established
to look up deeds and grants.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
TOOK THEM ron GOLF BALLS.
Germans Mania Led Him to Smash
Cabbage Heads.

Burlington, Ia, Sept. 1.-THE first au-
thentic case of golf mania, as distinct from
gold enthusiasm, must be credited to this
city. A German named Gottlieb Hacker
man is the victim.
The links of the Boulevard Golf Club are
situated in a picturesque suburb of the
city known as Sunny Side, where Hacker
man has his truck gardens. All the time
Hackerman could spare from spraying his
cabbage and picking bugs off his potato
vines, he spent upon the links, greatly in
terested in the game.
Yesterday his son found the farmer in
the cabbage patch spelling the krout pros
poets. but having a great game of golf
His baggy pataloons were rolled up and
his calves were wrapped with strips OF
red flannel In the old mans hand in
place Of a brassie, was his heavy hickory
cane with a crooked handle. With it he
was smashing the cabbage heads to piece
in a vain effort 10 lift them over the hem
coop. The old man said he was playing
golf He is rather rational on other SUBJ
iectS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
e------
INCOME or $IO.65 A MINUTE.
While Vanderbilt slept nj Night Tie
Got About %f,f71 Richer.

From the Baltimore Sun.
New York, Sept. l5.--Great interest con-
tlnues TO be taken here IN The distribution
which the viii OF Cornelius Vanderbilt,
when probated, viii be found to make OF
his great fortune. estimated at $3.50 10000.
Young Cornelius. eldest son of the dead
millionaire, Is believed by Wall street
men TO have The best prospects of getting
the largest share Of this immense sum. 1t
Is pointed out that in the last few years
he has shown steadiness and business ca
pacity which might overbalance his fa-
theirs strenuous but ineffective objections
TO his marriage with Miss Grace Wilson.
The income which the elder Cornelius
enjoyed during his life was one OF the
largest IN the country. OF his estimated
wealth of $lJ00J0,00) 1t was said In Wall
street, about $l0,00000O was in unprodue-
tive assets. 1t was also said that the aver
age income on the remainder was between
and ; per cent
Calculating an income Of per cent on
Ii0.0000l0 IL would amount 10 s5,600000 a
year or Sl5,3i2.l7 day Perhaps a man
having this Income would be willing 10
drop the n cents. Dividing the even sum
OF si5,A2 by AGO. the number of minutes
in day, gives an income Of about sl0.65
a minute. This would amount to little
less IMAM Is GEMS "A second. THOUSANDS or
persons are glad to work an hour for -
cents.
Now, suppose that Mr.. Vanderbilt slept
seven hours night-that was said 10 have
been about his average Whie he was thus
in bed, in dreaming INCONSISTENCIES, his
income would have amounted to 81, rs.
Not every man can go 10 bed and wake In
the morning $,47475 richer.
The only member Of the Vanderbilt fam
lily not IN New York now is Alfred, son of
the dead finance king who was located
yesterday in the interior Of Japan. He has
been travelling. Word OF his fathers death
was sent to him on Tuesday, and yester-
day afternoon at O'Clock a cable message
was received from him, saying that he
would start for America at once.
The finding of young Vanderbilt was a
task that engaged the attention Of many
men IN Japan and China. Hundreds Of dol
lars were spent in cabling Instructions
Mercantile agents and consuls were asked
10 find him, and from a dozen places mes
sengers were sent into the interior of Ja-
pan.
In forwarding the messages to him and
In hurrying his reply, the cable companies
Informed the family that the messages
would be pushed through ahead of all ex-
cept government business, and that where
consent could be obtained the messages
would take precedence even over those of
the government IL was said that II was
less than one hour and thirty minutes from
the time the message was filed in Japan
the family in New York received It. The
message came by way OF Hong Kong,
Singapore, Bombay. Alden, Suez, Malta, Gil
braltar, Lisbon and London.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
PORTO RICo'S CRYING NEED.
- COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTU-
RAJ DEVELOPMENT.

r,vn Classes of the Population At
storm-PeOns Going Into the Cities
nv Hundreds and CrOwding the
Poor Quarters and Public Build
ingS-Many Starving in Ponce.
People Need Employment.
ll,orrespondence of the Associated Press)
Ponce. Porto Rico, Sept n.-There are,
generally speaking, two classes of people
i'm Porto Rico. About per cent. are ed
heated. thinking folk, who own land and
ore the employers of the great laboring
class. which constitutes IS per cent. of the
population. This latter class, the poems,
has always been in a state bordering on
absolute poverty. The poems live in small
nuts along the rivers and on the hIlsides,
or wherever there is a bit of waste land,
and they live on the little MONEY rney
earn, subsisting upon the 1ruit, which
grows abundantly everywhere.
The great storm Affected the two classes
very differently The first class has seen
its buildings -.recked, its machinery ruined
and its opening crops destroyed, but the
,rs1 Ioss-of life occurred in the second
class. and it is there that starvation
threatens The planters are unable to fur
plsh work 10 the poems, and the fruit upon
which they had so much depended for food
is destroyed. Relief supplies are at best
onv temporary and difficulties of trans
portation have prevented the distribution
of relief except at the most central points.
Under these conditions there is only one
thing for the poems to do. AS fast as they
exbaust the supply of green fruit saved
from the storm aud use up all the edible
roots and tubers that grow in the noun
tains. they pack up their belongings and
come into the city. Here they OvercrOwd
tbe houses of the poor, sleep by hundreds
IN the city hall and other public build
ines and on doorsteps, in the parks, and
wherever they can find room.
As a matter of fact, people are starving
IN death almost every day in the city
of Ponce. and while this sad state of af-
fairs exists there is a failure to afford
tine commercial relief which is the only
true and lasting relief. Unless a perma-
ncnt government is established, unless the
status of the island is determined, unless
the policy to be followed here in the fur
ure is soon outlined, existing conditions
will he aggravated and it will soon be
necessary to feed the whole population
through relief agents.
What Porto Rico wants, however is
not charity, but, rather, the development
of her COMMENSURATE agricultural in
terests: and while the present distribution
Of relief is necessary, that necessity would
soon disappear if those interests were
properly cared for.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
ODD FELLOWS ARE GATHERING.
Appropriate Sermon Before Their
Diamond jubilee

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 1.-THE officials ana
the rank and file of American odd Eel
Iowship who have thus far arrived in the
city passed quiet Sunday preliminary to
the opening of the diamond jubilee ami
versary of the order.
Ihere are already on hand some 400 of
the higher officials including all the Off
GERS Of the sovereign grand lodge, dele
gates TO the grand lodge sessions. state
grand lodge officers, grand eucampment
oHlcers and officers of the Rebekah branch
BESIDES these about 1000 of the rank and
ME has thus far arrived from various
states
Religious services were held to-day in
the First Congregational Church. Rev.
Nehemiah Boynton, D. D.. pastor of the
church, preached upon brotherhood"
me speaker defined the various relations
of brotherhood, inclusive first of family re-
iatlonship; secondly of a particular class,
ana hnally the enlarged idea of brother
NO. Xempitied by Jesus Christ, who
brought brotherhood up to its fun realiza-
ton, all men to him being brethren. ire
spective of residence, religion, color
wealth or other circumstances
Jesus" said the speaker, looked be-
meath mems varied defects and found
therein his brother man, for whom he Of
fered His very life. You can only carry
true brotherhood into the world in pro-
portion TO the essence of brotherhood
which exists within your own souls. 1t
is not enough for you to send your check
from your lodge to the physician and the
undertaken 1t is more in the open palm
behind which throbs the sympathetic
heart Take away your inspiration and the
real brotherliness of your order will fail
Your institution is seventy-five years old
but its inspiration was born 1900 years
ago with the infant who has since become
the object of the worlds affection.
DR.. Boynton declared that the assuring
feature of what he termed the "Dreyfus
outrage" lay in the numerous protests
against the verdict, which showed that
the principle and spirit of brotherhood is
nowadays finding an Interpretation hither-
to unequaled
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
CLIN SAYS HE Is GUILTY.
Austrian, Once in French Army,
Gives His Opinion of Dreyfus.

Vancouver, b. c., Sept. H.-Lieut. Gin
was one of niuety-seven members of the
Canadian militia who returned from Yu-
kon to-day on the steamer Alpha, and
the most interesting passenger on board
on arriving he eagerly asked for the latest
news of the Dreyfus trial When told
that Dreyfus had been reconvicted and
sentenced to ten years, Gin exclaimed:
Good. he deserves more. He is guilty
a traitor to his country. You see, before
becoming British soldier, / was
an officer in the French army, a
brother officer of Dreyfus. i was
his comrade and knew him well. / per-
haps spoke hastily. but If you knew what
/ know you would not sympathize with
Dreyfus / believe him guilty. ! know
he Is guilty | could give reasons why"
At this juncture several soldiers passed
and the excited little Austrian stopped
speaking and not another word could be
extracted from him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
PERSECUTION Is CHARGED.
Boy Soldier Imprisoned, II Is said,
for Offending Otis.


Columbus. o., Sept. 17.-Gov. Bushnell
has been appealed to in case of alleged
military persecution that for cruelty
is akin to the fate of Dreyfus. The vic
tim is a mere boy, Lawrence Hoon of Belle
Center, O., who enlisted in the regular ser
vice at the first call for troops for the
Philippines, and who has been sentenced
to dishonorable discharge and imprison>
ment for year in the Biibid prison at
Manila because, it is claimed, he
technically and Internationally Of
Tended Gen. Otis Through private
letters 1t is learned that young Hoon hear
ing that there was to be an opportunity
for promotion to lieutenants commits
sion, addressed letter to Gen. Otis re-
questing an opportunity to pass an eX-
animation. There is provision prohibit
ing a private soldier from addressing any
communication to his commandments
without first securing permission to do so
from an intermediate officer. The boy
from Ohio was in ignorance of this
prohibition, but he was arrested and
thrown into jail. Later he was tried and
convicted, dishonorably discharged, and
sentenced TO Bilibid prison, where he is
now incarcerated.
The prisoner managed surreptitiously to
get a letter to his father smuggled into
the mails by a sympathfzing comrade.
Gov. Bushnell has referred the matter to
President Mckinley with an earnest re-
quest that the sentence be modified.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-18
NEW BASEBALL LEAGUE EonMED
Honest Competition and Popular
Prices in the Platform.


Chicago. Sept. IA new baseball league.
whose circuit will include cities in both
the National and Western Leagues, and
which will be known as the American AS
ISOLATION of Baseball Clubs. was formed at
a meeting here to-day.
The circuit, as decided on to-day. will
include St Louis Milwaukee, Detroit and
Chicago in the West. and Baltimore New
York, Philadelphia and Washington in the
East
Among those present at the meeting were
Chris Won der Abe, of St Louis; Alderman
Havencr OF Milwaukee; A. G.. Arson of
Chicago; Assemblyman Bockley Of New
York; Frank Hough, sporting editor of the
Philadelphia Inquirer. representing Phha-
delphia, and NJ Seaman of Washington.
The names of the representatives Of De
troit ana Baltimore were not given out,
but they are supposed TO be men connected
with the National League clubs.
A. c. Arson was offered the presidency
of the new league, but he refused TO ac-
cept at present, and II. d. quinn of Mil
waukee was elected temporary president.
Other temporary officers We're elected as
follows:
Vice president, NJ. d. Seaman; treasurer,
George Schaefcr; secretary. Frank
Hough; directors. Chris Won der Abe NJ.
d. Seaman, Frank Buckley and G. S,
Havener.
The platform of the new league was an
nounced as follows:
Honest competition, no syndicate base
ball, no reserve rule, to respect all con-
tracts and popular prices"