Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-29
NO CABINET MEETING
NUMEROUS CONFERENCES, THOUGH,
on PHILIPPINE SITUATION.
The ENLISTMENT OF VOLUNTEERS.
This to De begun at Oncc-No State
Organizations to he Received
Grimcs's Battery.
This Disps
Grimcs's Battery.

The President doea not wish TO create
any additional alarm by anything that
would look like 'hasty action" Nume-
rous conferences. however, have been held
at the White House last night and this
morning, with nearly all the members OF
the Cabinet and Acknowledgement Corbin
present, and the President is in posses
sion of all the information concerning the
critical situation in the Philippines, the
excited state Of the public mind regard
ing possible disaster to our troops In
Luzon, and the anxiety that General Otis
should be Immediately reinforced.
1t is unof1cially stated that the chief
subject of the conferences at the White
House was how to procure efficient troops
and the requisite numbers, and have them
in Manila ready for service by the time
the rainy season is over. AS result,
the story goes an order Will be formu-
lated by the War department Tor the
rapid enlistment of all former volunteers,
and other drilled and disciplined men Ior
the regular volunteer service. 1t mas peeh
positively settled that several new regi-
ments will be formed, and that OTIS
force will speedily be Increased 10 at
least 1900 men.
NO STATE ORGANIZATIONS.
No state organizations. as such, VIII
be received An official OF the war De-
partrnent (an authority was askeu to-
dav if the tender OF its services py
Grimes's Battery, of Portsmouth, ior the
war In the Philippines, would be accept
ed. lie said: Under no circuih--
stances 1t can't be done. lhere Is no
possible under the acts OF Congress- ny
which any state troops, or nauoiai
guard organizations, can be accepteu as
organizations. We have all the artillery
we need. and It will be sent to General
Otis whenever he wants them
The recruiting, under the proposed or
der of the War Department, may IN
clude several new regiments, or 1t may
only be intended to keep the present army
up to its maximum strength.
DEATH OF MIR. SHIELDS.
The announcement to-day Of the death
at Fort Monroe of Mr.. Leroy ii. Shields
was received here by his numerous friends
with the deepest regret. and was q terri
HE shock TO Mrs Shields, who with her
TWO children. is residing at l55O Massa-
chusetts avenue, northwest. Inc news
was broken to her last night, by some
friends, and she was overwhelmed with
grief. Added to this, her children
are i'll with the scarlet-feVer, ana her
house Is quarantined, but there Is nothing
To prevent Mrs. Shields from gong 10
old Point or Norfolk, TO attend the rune
raj Of her husband, il she so desired.
She may probably leave by the boat to-
night. The last time Mr.. Shelds was
here he was trying to enter the regular
service IN the navy as paymaster.
VERDICT AGAINST c. b. ROUSS.
According 10 a New York paper, Charles
proadwov Rouss. the blind dry-goods
p,orchant at No. $40 Broadway, New
york has lust had rendered against MIN
nv a Jury in the Supreme Court OF King 5
county Y. Y. verde, for 5000 DAM
ages in a suit brought by young VIZ
ginian named A. v Payne. the young
man had been sent to Virginia town 10
manage one Of Mr.. Rouss'S numerous
branch stores. but had thrown up the
iob q few months later, making saus-
factory settlement of his affairs. Suisse
ouentlv Mr.. Rouss, or his representative,
wrote a letter it is alleged, 10 Payne
friends in Charlottesville, rejecting upon
the Young mans habits. This furnlsheu
the basis of the suit.
CADETS TO CAMP AT OCEAN VIEW
Two companies. of about fifty men
each forming provisional battalion or the
uiqb-School Cadets of this city, will leave
for Norfolk early next week, ana VIII
pitch their camp in the rear OF the ocean
View Hotel for a stay of over two weeks
They first intended to 90 TO virginia
Beach, but for some reason the location
of the encampment has been changed to
ocean View.
NORTH CAROLINA SUPERVISORS.
fr.l,o tf-4 Of ha SUnerVl<OrS
North Carolina was completed to-day by
the apDointment of 7. b. Hoover for the
Fifth District. Hoover was recommended
bv Senators Pritchard and Butler, as were
also the appointees for the other dis
tricts They are ali either Populists or
Republicans. The following is the official
list. as given out at the Census Office to-
day:
First Observation-Disclosures Martin, VII
liamston. n. c.
Second Dlstrict-Augustus NJ. Moore,
Greenvlle. n. G.
Third District-David ]. Lewis, White
vile, n. c.
Fourth District-Joseph J. jenkins,
PittsbOro'. n. c.
Fifth District-T. y. Hoover address
not received.
Sixth Distrct-Walter p. Steel, High
Seventh Observation-Disclosures A. Bingham,
Salisbury, n. c.
Eighth District-Osmund f. Pool, Tay-
louisville, n. G.
Ninth Distrlct-John A. Hendricks
Marshall y. G.
The Supervisor for the Second Virginia
District has not yet been decided upon.
There is said TO be hot local contest
for the place II goes TO n Depocrat.
PERSONAL.
Senator Thomas S Martin. accompa-
MED by Mr.. Thomas S. Crowder. Of
Stanton, Va, was at the PostOfice
Department this morning. The Senator
arrived by the noon train and left. pre-
sumably for Richmond, at 3:46 Il. NJ.
Quite a number of Richmond people
who have business in Baltimore. leave
the former city at 7:30. arrive here at
IL 20 Il. NJ, stop at the Metropolitan
breakfast there next day. and then run
over TO the Monumental City, thoroughly
refreshed and ready for business. Last
night, for instance. the following gentle
men arrived and they left this morning
according to the above programme: John
l.. Munce, John a. Speer. Pascal Davie
and John C. Robertson Other guests at
the Metropolitan are Joseph Kerr, Jr.,
Va: c. u. Smith. Charlottesville, Va;
W. S. Woodson. Richmond; T. =. Wal
lace, Fredericksburg, and Mrs. Eugene
Bailey. Spotsylvania, Va.
Mr.. John X. Macmurdo, the well-known
travelling agent OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Company, is in the city on
business, and is stopping at the Metro
pOlitan.
Captain Patrick Henry McCaull, of the
United States Quartermasters Depart
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