Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-30
ON THE PENINSULA.
NEWS NOTES CAUGHT AT NEW
PORT NEWS.
THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF IMMUNES
Another Programme of Welcome
Interstate Friendship Handling
the small-POS-PersonaI and Gene
raj uention-Bricfs.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA, April o.
(Special)-When the twoscore young
men Of Company X. Fourth United
States Immunes, who went 20 the front
from Newport News, return home from
Alanzanillo the latter part Of next month
they viii also be given a reception by
the ladies Of the city. and If the plans
Of the committees are carried out their
welcome will De equally as warm as that
extended the Huntington Rifles on their
| return yesterday afternoon.
! The Newport News Ship-Building and
| Dry-Dock Company will probably get an
/ other large repair contract in a few days.
! It's bid Of $1,000 for overhauling and re-
building the steamship Noreman. which
went aground in northern waters, and
is now i'm Boston dry-dock, in bad condi-
ton, was the most satisfactory submitted,
in that it proposed TO finish the work in
forty-eight days, and included in the cost
of transferring the ship from Boston to
Newport News.
Many of the Huntington Rifles are
wearing unique little pins, showing the
great friendship that existed during the
war and since between the men of the
Fourth Virginia and the Forty ninth
Iowa. The pin represents two clasped
hands, on one being the designation,
Fourth Virginia." and on the other,
"Forty-ninth Iowa.
DR.. Samuel W. Hobson has received
from Governor Tyler a new set OF quar-
antinc regulations for this port, which !
will so into effect Monday, the day on
which Dr. Hobson succeeds DR.. y. {. /
Jones as quarantine officer.
Lieutenant Commander Mcpherson, OF /
Nagruder Camp. No. II, Confederate |
Veterans, will head the delegation from
this city to the annual encampment OF
veterans at Charleston next month.
The Board of Health has been iegaliy |
advised that it cannot shoulder the re-
sponsiblity for handling the smallpox
situation in Warwick county, and that
the State Board of Health is the only
body that can take charge when the
county authorities show the Indifference
that the Warwick officials have MANI
tested
The work of making bicycle path on
the north side of Twenty-seventh street
Oak and Warwick avenues was
to-day. This half OF the
street will be given to the 'cyclers. and
vehicles will be required to drive on tho
)ther half south of the car line.
Judge J. r. Barham. of the Corpora
ion Court, has been busy this week with
iquor licenses. He has thus far issued
iftv-four liquor and two malt licenses.
Ie will hear other applications Mon
lay.
bishop Van de Vyver arrived In the
itv this evening from Richmond, ana
o-morrow morning viii confirm class
4 ST Vincents Catholic church. I
presiding Elder Wilson. OF this district,
T the Virginia Methodist Conference,
,ill preach tomorrow at the Washing ,r
,n-Avonue Methodist church. =
Shipping men here were greatly relieved u
hen they learned to-day that the en- e.
re crew Of the steamship kanawha.
.hich sprang "A leak and foundered April II
n en- route from Newport News to Ber c,
,nda had been rescued. Captain Evans r
very popular here, and is well known e
marine circles. He has been travelling III
, this port for years. g