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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27

Washington, July 24-The Dingley
tariff bill is now the law Of the land
The last step necessary was taken m
the White house when the president af-
Axed his signature at 4:W o'clock today
IT had been arranged that the presidene
should 60 to the capitol to perform that
function. but owing to uncertainty m
to the time the bill would be ready
that plan was abandoned. The MEM
bers Of the cabinet who are in Wash
tngton came to the White house about
$50 o'clock and assembled with the
president in the cabinet room
A few moments before 4 o'clock, Rep
resentative Dingley appeared accom-
panied by Representative Hager, chair
man Of the house committee on en-
rolled bills. They were admitted ak
once into the presence of Mr.. McKin-
ley. The latter was sitting quietly n
the long cabinet table with Secretary
Gage and Attorney General McKennn
on one side and Postmaster General
Gary and Secretary Wilson on the
other. He rose and greeted Mr. Ding
ley and Mr.. Hager cordially. The pres
tdent had several pens at hand, tl,ss
owners OF which had begged might De
used to sign the tariff bill, but Mr-
Dingiey unexpectedly taking a case
from his pocket produced a beautiful
mother-of-pearl handled pen, dainty
enough for lady's use, and requested
That II De used for the signature.
The president recognized the righa
OF Mr.. Dingley, though he laughins,iy
commented on the diminutive size az
the pen. He then appended his Gig
nature to the bill. asked the date, and
wrote July Ath, approved" and tlrp
bin was an act.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
A Freight Train Wrecked
Correspondence of The Messenger

Weldon, N. c., July n.
One of the worst railroad wrecks ever
before so":l here occurred at an early hour
this r ling on the Raleigh and CASTOR
railroad. one mile from town. A freight
train. loaded mostly with lumber. tobacco
and other goods. broke in two. The en-
gineer slowed up after reaching the yard
limits. not knowing, OF course, that q part
Of his train was coming around the curve.
wild. The crash was awful. Fourteen
box cars were knocked into kindling wood
and piled up in all directions. Great irons
were bent and twisted like pipe stems,
and the track for a considerable distance
was torn UP. The Atlanta special, north
bound, was running behind the freight
and is tied up at this writing. IL m. A
large force of hands Is at work clearing
the wreck and it is thought that by night
trains will be running through. ,Superin-
tendent Whisnant was early on the scene
No blame as yet appears to attach to
anyone, but the railroad people, as usual,
refuse to discuss the matter and your
correspondent has to pick up what he
can from observation.
1t is said many tramps were on the
train, and it is thought that perhaps some
are buried beneath the wreck. All OF the
train crew are accounted for and none
OF them was injured. Several brakemen,
however, had narrow escapes from death.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
War Predicted

London, July 25.-The Sunday Times,
in a sensational article, predicts war
between Great Britain and the United
States, and says another letter upon
the seal fisheries question will follow,
but that this will fail to elicit a protest
from Lord Salisbury. A new source
of trouble, according to The Sunday
Times, is probable as result of the re-
cent gold discoveries upon the Yukon
river and .ts branches. The Sunday
Times asserts that confidential COM
munications between Russia and the
United States are being exchanged
with a view to contending that the
Klondyke regions constitute a part Of
the territory of Alaska ceded by Rus
sia to the American government.
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DIFFERENCES IN VALUATION
OF PROPERTY FOR TAXATION IN
THE VARIOUS COUNTIa

Some Lands Sold at Twensy.Thres Doiiars
Valued at Six D0ilars-Stats Tr~sps 0o
into CamP-Raleighltes Owners - Lad
In the Klondyke Regions-small AssssA. i.
aaoe as the Farmer 'Instituses-A Cp~,.
- y Without Bicycle
Messenger Bureau. Park Hotel
Raleigh. n. c., July n
The state today issued a charter to
the Murphy Savings bank. OF which J.
v. Britain. A. L. Gurley and Others
are incorporators.
The state board OF equalization In
surprised at the differences in valua-
ton Of lands and horses in the various
counties. AS to farm lands some ex-
amples are Sampson $216 per acre,
Franklin $500. Chatham $3.79. Bladen
$50, Allegheny sass. Mcdowell $lss,
Lincoln $6.16. AS to horses valuations
are in Sampson s22.S5, Robson 80.
Chatham $50, Lincoln $40 In one ccun-
ty SAT is the value.
Even populists who see these figures
admit that railways are taxed much
higher than lands. The Sampson cOun-
ty lands could not be bought for 81
an acre.
AS an example Of inequalities Bladen
returns 457,069 acres valuation $8e<. .35s.
and Cabarrus 21S,O29, at 81, 1,535. go. Real
estate ought to be assessed at it's actual
cash value. People from other states
will not buy lands priced to them ut
$40 which they find listed at S.. The
auditors chief clerk, Mr.. Simms. Of
Cabarrus, says he sold land there for
$23 an acre cash which was valued at
only Sc.
The Elizabeth City division of naval
reserves go into camp at Nag's Head,
August 3rd. The Edenton company Cd.
Captain Banks), of the First regiment
go into camp there at the same time.
The officers Of the State Farmers Al
lance are now making a desperate ef-
fort to get it out Of politics.
There was quite gale Of wind for m
hour here last night. 1t did no dam
age in the city, but perhaps did some
to corn and cotton.
Cotton is remarkably we'll fruited
this year. This is the comment OF all
the growers.
The Hygienic Ice Company (defunct)
which was really owned by H. Bear &
Son, of Charleston, sues the Seaboard
Air Line for $40 900 for the burning OF
it's ice factory here several years ago,
on the claim that sparks from a pass
ing engine caused the fire.
The attendance at the farmers in
stitutes is small. Up to this time the
popuifsts have concluded that the At
tendance was-light because there were
democratic officials, but now all the
business is in populist hands, yet they
do not draw the crowds.
This early democratic paper6 are
coming forward and taking a firm
stand against any fusion with populists
in 1898. Last years disgraceful failure
taught a lesson.
One of the seven convicts who es-
capped from the Castle Haynes farm
has been returned to the penitentiary.
It is said one of the convicts was shot.
In the superior court here today
Thomas Terrell, white, submitted to
a verdict Of manslaughter for killing
John Gill near Wake Forest last April.
The Heck family, of this city. own
1880 acres of land in the Klodyke re-
gion Of Alaska.
Clay county is the only one in the
state which does not return a single
bicycle for taxation.
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WILMINGTON, N. c, TUESDAY, 27,
es-one by Mr.. Wheeler. democrat, of
Alabama, and one by Mr.. Grosvenor.
republican of Ohio

es-one by Mr.. Wheeler, democrat, of
Alabama. and one by Mr.. Grosvenor,
republican, Of Ohio.
The resolution was then adopted
without division and the speaker laid
before the house the special message
OF the president Recommending the ap-
pointment of a currency commission.
Its reading was closely followed and
literally applauded by the republicans.
Mr.. Henderson, republican. OF Iowa,
from the committee on rules. imme-
diately presented special order for the
consideration Of the Stone currency
bill with an allowance Of one hour for
debate. 1t was at first, Mr.. Henderson
declared, the purpose to cut OF debate
on the special order, but at the urgent
solicitation of Mr.. McMillin, of Ten
nessee, he agreed to allow twenty min
utes debate on a side.
The special order was adopted-130
to 103; present and not voting 10.
The debate proper on the bill, which
the order limited to one hour, then be-
gan. Mr.. Stone in opening the debate
referred to the presidents declarations
in his inaugural when he said that this
question should be considered when
adequate revenues had been first pro-
vided. The proposition was simple. 1t
proposed that the president should ap-
point commission of level-headed
business men to make the broadest in
vestigation to consider all the schemes
which were presented and report to
him what, if any, legislation was
needed
Mr.. Cox, of Tennessee, who was the
leading minority member of the COM
mitee on banking and currency of the
last house, replied to Mr.. Stone. He
spoke briefly, predicting that the work
Of the commission would be valueless.
He asserted that the republicans of the
house did not want to pass this COM
mission bill but feared to raise the
issue with the president.
The Stone bill was passed after a
rather acrimonious hours debate, by a
vote of 124 to 80. The house at s o'clock
took half an hours recess. When it
reconvened the speaker announced the
appointment of the committees. At
1855 o'clock, when the reading Of the
names was concluded, Mr.. Grosvenor
from the committee appointed to wait
on the president, announced that they
had performed their mission. The
president returned a congratulatory
reply.
Then at 9 o'clock the speaker de-
clared the house "adjourned without
day."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
BASE BALL.
The Washington, n. c., Team Take Another
Game From the Fraoklin Kndees-St.
Louis Wins . Game-Pittsburg Gives
Baltimore q Terrible Drubbing.
Especial to The Messenger.)


Especial to The Messenger.)
Washington. N. c.. July A.-The
Franklin Cva.) Killdees again go down
in defeat score IL to IA, in favor Of the
home team. OF the three games played
the home team have won two and tied
the first game by the score Of 8 to 8.
This is the first time any North Caro-
lima team has won so much from
Franklin. The work Of Person who
was in the box for the home boys yes
terday and today has never been
equalled here, the visitors only made
five hits yesterday, and six today He
was simply invincible, yesterday strik-
ing out ten, and today six, of the visi-
tors. The batting Of Card was great,
making two three baggers, and four
two baggers, and also the all round
playing Of Wilson WINS good. Batteries:
Washington-Person and Honeycutt; /;
Franklin-Bryant and LeGrand, Mills
and Kimball.
(By Associated Press.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
Conference of Labor Leaders Called

Washington. July 24.-President
Gompers, of the American Federation
OF Labor, today sent kilograms to Off
GERS Of thirty-eight national trades
unions calling for a conference to be
held at Wheeling, W. Va, at noon
Tuesday, July 9th. This was done in
response to a telegram from President
w. d. Ratchford, Of the United Mine
Workers of America, in which he says
that peaceable assemblage and free
speech have been forbidden and sup
pressed in West Virginia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27

Chicago, July A.-The situation Su
the Galveston rate war took a change
for the worse today and the railroaSRw
are correspondingly disgusted. TIE
Mallory Line announced today another
cut In rates which will become e.
fecttve on Monday. It has announces
that on and after Monday the rate GA
fourth class freight from Galveston to
New York will be cents and ON an
classes below fourth the rate will be 8
cents. 1t Ii cut Of cents on thu
fourth class freight and 2 cents on al
Of the lower classes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Louisville 2, Boston 5.

Louisville, July 24.-Frazer pitched
a fine game until the sixth inning,
when two bases on balls, two errors,
and stolen base gave the bean eaters
three runs and the game. Attendance
1000. The score:
r. H. E.
Boston ......O 0 0 90 8 0 20-5 0
Louisville 81 90 90 0 o. 8 2
Batteries: KlOdedanz, Nichols and
Bergen; Frazer and Wilson. Umpire
Hurst. Time 2:O5.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27

Washington, July A.-Among the
nominations that failed Of confirmation
by the senate today were: Monroe b.
Morton, postmaster at Athens, Ga.
and /. D. Hargett, at Rocky Mount.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 4.

Cleveland, July 24.-At the end of the
eighth inning today the Phillies had
the Indians beaten but the game was
decided against them, to in the
ninth, on their refusing to accept the
ruling of the umpire. The score:
Cleveland ......0. 0 l % 0-3 2
Philadelphia 30 0 0 0 2 0 40 IL 2
Batteries: Young and thinner; FL
field and Clements. Umpires McGinty
and Boyle. Time 2:05. Attendance
5000.
Cincinnati-Brooklyn game postponed
on account of rain.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
THB CONTEST OYER.
SENATE PASSES TARIFF BILL
AND CONGRESS ADJOURNs.

Debate Continued tup to i3 O'cloek-Mc-
Emery Votes for the BHl-Butler Does
not vote-stone Monetary Bill Passed BY
House and Referred to Committee BY
Senate-1he President Sends in . Nee.
sage Recommending . Monetary Com.
mission.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
Chicago 8, New York Z.

Chicago, July 24.-Friend was again
put in the box for the Colts today but
the strain of two successive games
proved too much for him and he was
very wild. Meekin pitched a steady
game, received good support. Gala
han made the star play Of the game by
a running catch in deep center. At
tendance $500. The score:
r. H. E.
Chicago .....O 0 0 0 2 0 0 10-3 9 3
New York ....1 0 0 0 1 0 3 O-7 IL 2
Batteries: Friend and Donohue;
Meekin and Warner. Umpire O'Day.
Time 2:05.
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st. Louis Z, Washington 5.

st. Louis, July A.-The Browns bat
ted out a victory in the seventh in
ming today. Neither Hart or Nc
James were effective. McDonald's 9
umpiring was wretched, the home team
suffering the most by his bad deci-
sions. Threatening weather kept the
attendance down to 5000. The score:
r. H. E.
ST. Louis ...2 0 0 1 0 O-4 0 - IL 2
Washington 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0-5 IA 8
Batteries: Hart and Douglas; Nc
James and Farrell and MCGUIRE. Um-
pire Mcdonald. Time 2:05.
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Pittsburg 16, Baltimore 3.

Pittsburg, July 24-Baltimore was an
easy mark for Pittsburg today. HOff-
meister, the home teams new third
baseman, made great hit with the
crowd by batting in five runs in three
times at bat, and figuring in four other
talljes. His errors cost nothing. At
tendance $500. The score:
r. H. e.
Pittsburg 30 4 8 6 0 0 3 *-16 II 3
Baltimore 30 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 T. 3 II 5
Batteries: Hughey and Merritt;
Blackburn, Hoffer and Clarke. Umpire
Sheridan. Time 2:10.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27
A PESSIMISTIC VIEW
BY THE SPECTATOR OF RESULTS
OF THE DINGLEY BILL.

Domination of Trusts Over the Republi.
can Party Policy Of Jingoism and
Coniscatfon - Dean Farrar's Darkness
and Dawn" to be Dramatized-Sale o
Relics of '.Prince Charlie"-Paris Stirred
up Over q Remarkable Duel just Fought
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-27

Some Lands Sold at Twensy.Thres Doiiars
Valued at SIX Dollars-Ssats Tr~sps Go
into CamP-Raleighltes Owners e Lad
In the klondyke Regions-Smail AessnA.
aaoo st the Farmers Instituees-A C~un.
~ without q Bicycle
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
NOT SLICK ENOUGH,

San Francisco, Jan. 30-At the pre-
liminary examination today of eN-No-
tary Public Cooney, charged with
perjury, in having sworn that the
late James G. Fate, decided half a
million dollars worth of property TO
Mrs. Nettie II. Craven, another SEN
sation was sprung. The prosecution
had introduced testimony showing
that the blank forms on which the
acknowledgment was made were not
printed until 1896, while the docu-
ment is dated in 1894. The district at
torney now charges that Cooney had
printed on Saturday two thousand
fac SMILES OF the blank forms in
question with the intention of having
witnesses swear that they had been
in their possession for years James
II. Barry, a printer, testified that CD.
Stilwell, a private detective in Cool
ey's employ, had engaged him TO ,to
the printing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
A coon DECISION.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 3O.-The Su-
preme court rendered a notable deci-
sion yesterday. 1t holds that where a
gas company having the monopoly of
furnishing natural gas to the people
of a town undertakes to furnish gas
TO a consumer and afterward, through
it's negligence and without any suffi-
cient legal excuse, fails to furnish the
gas at time when the weather makes
a fire necessary and the consumer is
unable to obtain fuel, and this fact
causes the consumers children to be-
come sick and die, the gas company
is liable to damages for the death of
the children. The decision hinges on
the case of Coy VS.. the Indianapolis
Gas company. Coy claimed that his
child's death resulted from the failure
OF the gas company to sufficiently heat
his home.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
POOR "LITTLE PETE"

San Francisco, Jan. 30.-The. police
have obtained no tangible clew to the
murderers of Little Pete" the Chinese
merchant, race track plunger and all
round sport. who was shot in a barber
shop last Saturday night. At the cor
oner's inquest, several highhinders, ar
rested under suspicion, were brought
before the witnesses, but the latter
failed to identify any OF them as the
slayer OF Little Pete" The coroner's
jury brought in verdict Of murder
by unknown persons"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
BAD BRAEILIANS.
MAKE WAR ON A PARTY OF FRENCH
PROSECUTORS.
General" Perez Lead the Attack-Th:s
Will Not be the Last of This Trouble
Either as Perez is Bad Man.

New York, Jan. S0.-The Herald this
morning publishes the following cor
respondence from Georgetown, British
Guiana:
Intelligence has been received here
today from Cayenne, the capital of
French Guiana, of a most determined
attack having been made by a band
of armed Brazilians, under the COM
mand of"Genearr Perez, Bedel upon
a number of French prospectors, in the
Catchipour district, in the disputed
territory between Brazil and French
Guiana, resulting in the death of one
mana French sutherland the cap
ture and Imprisonment of six others.
The report of the Cachipour Incl
dent, as it has gained currency at Ca
yenne, is to the effect that a Cayenne
creole namued Filbert, fitted out an
expedition consisting OF Filbert, a wo-
man, Pierre Louis, two Martinique and
two Cayenne creoles and two natives
of the British West Indies.
The expedition landed at Dragad FL
AA'iNs oii VIC NiIiiDOuI IlNtT anu Hdu
started to erect shelter when they were
surrounded by body of about 200
Brazilians, all armed, commanded by
a Brazilian officer named Perez. The
attacking party was upon them be-
fore they could make for their boats,
but two men of the expedition with
the first alarm sprang into the river
in the hope of gaining the opposite
shore The Brazilians Immediately
opened fire upon the two men as they
swan for their lives. One was shot in
the head and sank, but the other sue
ceeded. in gaining the opposite bank
OF the. river and escaped in the brush.
The woman, Pierre Louis, was sent
to Carsevenne. Filbert and the re-
naming mebers of the expedition
were taken into custody and have
been compelled to work in the gold
fields in the district of Perez. They
are, it is reported, subjected to regu-
lar prison discipline and labor.
General" Perez, who figures promi-
nently in the expedition is said to be
a Brazilian officer and the same indi-
vidual who was closely allied with
Cabral during the expedition in the
same territory in 1896. The force
under his command at present num-
bers about three hundred men and he
expects his company to be strengthen
ed shortly by $50 recruits from Para.
He is erecting defenses at the mouth
of the Cachipour river so as to enable
him to command the entrance and to
keep it closed against all French sub
jects.
The matter will be reported to the
governor of Cayenne.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
FRANCE vs.. RUSSIA.
THE NEWSPAPERS ARE STRING
UP STRIFE.
The St. Petersburg Nova Vremya, Scores
The Paris Review and Says France
Is Jealous of Russia.

New York, Jan. 30.-A dispatch to
the Herald from st. Petersburg says:
Considerable uneasiness has been
caused by Il telegram received from
the Agence Russo to the effect that
forty English warships, including
eleven firstc lass battleships, are how
ering between Besika bay and the
Dardanelles.
The matter is said to be likely to
receive especial attention mt the meet
ing OF Count Muravieff, the Russian
foreign minister, and President
Faure.
The Novoe Vremya has published a
reply to NJ. Lavise's severe attack in
the Review de Paris. In a remarka-
bly, sharp article it treats the matter
as one of jealousy on the part Of
France of Russia at COnstantinople
and says:
France should see that her inter
ests have descended to the Suez canal.
Frances interests in Turnkey are
merely financial, whereas Russia and
in a less degree, Austria, are the on
ly countries interested i'm any terri
torial division. All Russia's princi-
pal rivers fall into the Black sea, and
as for Austria the Danube, emptying
into the Euxine, demands considera-
ton.
IF France" says the NOvOe Vrem-
va, had sought the first role on the
Bosphorus there would have been no
FrancO-Russian alliance. Russia
owes nothing to France. Here Rus
STA must be first at ConstantinOple
where her interests are supreme. Let
France lead Egypt, where her inter.
estS lie."
The Glasnost says that those in
France who are championing an alli-
ance with England are brokers and
financiers. 1t is an attack by the
Jews, made through their organ. the
Figaro. which attacked M. De Nell
doff. To financiers the English alli-
ancc would be more advantageous,
but the good sense of Frenchmen
must side against the Judophile press
Discussion is rife here as to the roi-
gin of the attacks on the French pa
pers which appear to be systematic.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-30
TENEMENT FIRE.

Chicago, Jan. 30.-Twenty-five fam
lilies, occupants of the Newton Apart
ment building, Both and Calumet ave
nue., were driven from their beds by
fire mt 2:30 this morning. When the
fremen reached the building Il was
full of smoke and men, women and
children were running out into snow
covered streets scantily clad. Many
of the women were so exhausted that
they had to be assisted from the
building by the fremen. During the
excitement Ella Mcbride, IL years
old, was forgotten.
She was found on the third floor by
Policeman Cleghorn, overcome by
smoke and carried to the house Of
neighbor. She will recover. BY
quick work the firemen subdued
what promised to be a serious fire.
All of the occupants will suffer loss
to households goods by water. Dam
age to the building will be slight. The
fire was caused by an overheated
steampipe.