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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22
By TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL.

New York. June 19.-Money on call easy
at lN114 per cent. Prime mercantile paper
3Gi per cent. Sterling exchange firm.
with actual business in nike bills at
S.S14d4.S7l2 for demand and at $4.S0d
4.Np4 for sixty days. Posted rates 81. S61aI
Az and AsSN4.SSl2. Commercial bills A.S5
u4So@4. Silver certificates - Bar silver
6vl4. Mexican dollars 475sc. Government
bonds firm. State bonds dull. Railroad
bonds firm.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

Chicago June H.-Busincss was very
dull on the board OF trade and prices all
suffered from the lack OF interest in tho
trade. Wheat declined ac, corn unchanG-
ed for July. but sc lower for September.
Oats closed about unchanged and proyis-
ions show 2iaN lie decline.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

At Lawrence, Mass, the 500 opera
lives of the Methuen COmpanyS cot
ton mills have decided to accept a III
per cent cut in wages rather h have
the mills shut down.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22
NAVAL STORES.

Spirits observation-disclosures barrels
steady at 2ia.c; country barrels steady at
24l.c.
Rosin steady at SIS and $1.3l.
Tar steady at SI6.
Crude turpentine firm; hard $50: yell
low dip S.S virgin N.g.
Prices same day last year-Spirits tur-
pentine at &c and @2Ac: rosin s1.32i. and
Sl.5l1z; tar $40; crude turpentine $50,
Sl.I0 and $1.9.
Receipts ~today-l6s casks spirits turpen-
tine. 321 barrels rosin. 30 barrels tar. y
barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts for the same date last year-253
casks spirits turpentine. LII barrels rosin.
10 barrels tar. IS barrels crude turpentine-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22
WELLINGTON MARKETS.
COTTON REPORT.

Wilmington. n. c.. -uAe "a.
receipts OF cotton today. - bales.
Receipts to same date last year. Z bales.
This seasons receipts to date, "a il
bales.
Receipts to same date last year. IL. es
bales.
The Quotations posted n 4 o.e,och foa.v
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-22

Chicago. June 19.-The leading future
We're as follows:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
HIs EsADwITH & sToNE

Dennis Ford was sitting on the stoop
of his home. No. 5591a Henderson street,
at a late hour on Saturday night enjoy
ing the difference of temperature from
that within doors. when he was APP
preached by Daniel Murphy, of No. 1913
Fourteenth street, who offered to sell him
a silver watch for one dollar. Ford de-
clined to purchase the ~timepiece, believing
it to be too cheap to be good, and his re-
fusal SO enraged Murphy that he wanted
to fight. Ford refused also to
date him in this particular. whereupon,
as the latter alleges, Murphy struck him
upon his head with a large stone, inf1ict-
ing a severe scalp wound and cutting his
right ear.
Murphy ran away Immediately. after
committing the assault, but was arrested
yesterday in Hoboken for. being drunk
and disorderly and subsequently identified
as Ford's assailant and delivered up to
the Seventh street police. of this city
When arraigned this morning tnsthe First
Criminal Court Murphy. admitted having
had a row, as he called it, with Ford,
but denied striking him with a stone.
iFord's ~bandaged head was an exhibit in
the case as evidence and was sufficiently
of his guilt TO warrant Justice
.Nevin holding him for the Grand Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
A CARGO 0P GOLD.
Steamship. Portland Reaches Seattle
Laden with Alaskan Treasure.

SEATTLE, Wash, July 10, 1S97.-The
amount of treasure brought down from
the famed Klondyke by the steamship
Portland is now placed at s1,500, 900 and
there is good reason to believe the sum
was nearer ST. 900, 600. Each man was re
quired to place his gold chest in the
ships safe, but many of the miners Sc
GREETED their dust in blankets and lug
gag which was taken either to their
state rooms or thrown carelessly about
the ship. Clarence J. Berry, one Of the
Klondyke kings. brought down at least
SS4, 900 in nuggets, not a cent of which
the Portland had any record.
When pressed for an estimate as to the
total of the Portland's gold cargo Cap
tain Kidson said it was no doubt nearer
$1,000, 900 than the amount for
on the ships records.
At present only miners laws rule, the
camp, but next year Dawson City will
be Incorporated and municipal officers
elected. The miners are determined that
order will be preserved at all hazards.
in either Dawson City or the diggings.
Information comes that several strikes
have recently been made in the neighbour
hood of Forty Mile. 1t has been chris
tened Minute Creek and is now panning
out s22 a day to the man. Another dis
covery on American Creek, fifty miles
below Forty Mile Camp, is said to be
paying we'll and a great number of men
have focked there during the last few
weeks. The pan runs from $40 to SIS. 1t
will strike for these amp thus reliev-
ing the strain on Dawson City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
4 n,ttnse Feather.d Friend.

1t is a rare o~ccurance for animals, in a
wild state, to select man foria companion
and friend. yet well-authenticated in
stances when this has BEEN done are a
matter of record.
The following instance isfvouched for
by my correspondent. a young woman
who is a close and accurate observer:
Last week my brother "a lad of twelve)
killed a snake, which was just in the
act of robbing a song sparrow nest. Ever
since that the male sparrow has shown
his gratitude to George ina truly Won
derful manner When he lgoes into the
garden the sparrow will fys to him, some
times on his shoulders all the while
pouring out a tumultuous song of praise
and gratitude: 1t will accompany him
about the garden, never leaving him until
he reaches the garden gate. George, as
you know, is a quite boy. who loves ami
mails, and this may account, in a degree,
for the sparrowss extraor iinary actions.
I am perfectly convinced that the nest
ing birds my place know me, and
ing time to another. I have repeatedly
within a foot of sitting, birds without
alarming them. On on~efoccasion I even
placed my hand on a sitting cardinal
which merely huttered*froA beneath it
without evineing further alaNn; yet nos
wild bird has vel. evAnced tdward my
When wa e LAD ! remembeA that a
like a dog, and which appearedEp en-
joy himself in my society. I couM not
his friendships then, xand
greatly fear that ! was, at times, AMER
cruel to the old Observation-Disclosures
r~ier-Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
NEW ELDORADO.
Interesting Letter from the
Klondyke Region Con-
firms Former
Reports.
THE PoRTLAND's GOLDEN CARGO
Reaches Seattle Laden with Alas
kan Treasure-Exodus from
Juneau and sitka to
the Mines.
THE poRFLANps GOLDEN CARGO

SANDTEGO, Cal, July 10, 1s91.-An in
teresting letter telling of the recent trip
of the steamer Excelsior to Alaska. has
been written by Captain J. F. Higgins OF
the steamer to a friend in this city. He
says
THE word Klondyke means Deer River
and is called Reindeer River on the
charts. 1t empties into the Yukon fifty
miles above the Big River. The geo
graphical position of the junction is &c
degrees, 10 minutes north latitude, 1SS de-
grees so minutes west longitude. Bon
ana Creek dumps into Klondyke about
two miles above the Yukon. Eldorado is
a tributary of the, Bonanza. There are
numerous other creeks and tributaries,
the. main river being 300 miles long. The
gold, so far, has been taken from Bon
ANA and Eldorado, both well named, for
the richness. of the placers is truly mar
yellous. Eldorado. thirty miles long, is
staked the whole length and as far as
worked has paid.
One of our passengers. who is taking
81. 0O0.000, has worked one hundred feet of
his ground and refused 5000, 000 for the re-
mainder, and confidently expects to clean
up s400, coo and more. He has in a bottle
S212 from n pan of dirt. Ills pay dirt
while being washed averaged $3.50 an
hour to each man shoveling in. Two
others Of our miners who worked their
own claims cleaned up IS, 900 from the
days washing. There is about fifteen
feet of dirt above bed rock, the pay
streak averaging from four to six feet,
which is tunnelled out while the ground
is frozen. OF course the ground taken
out is thawed by building fires and when
the thaw m and water rushes in
they set their siuices and wash the dirt.
Two of our fellows thought a small bird
in the. hand worth a large one in the
bush and sold their claims for $45, 900, get
ting $4,000 down, the remainder to be
paid in monthly i~nstalments of $4,000
each The purchasers had no more than
5000 paid. They were twenty days thaw-
no water TO suice with, but one fellow
the &c., COO for the first instalment. So,
tunnelling and rocking, they took out
$4,000 before there was water to sluice
with,
cot course, these things read like the
story of Aladdin, but fiction is not at all
in It with facts at Klondyke. The ground
located and prospected can be worked out
in a few years. but there is still an i'm
territory untouched, and the la
boring man who can get there with one
provisions will have a better chance
to make a stake than in any other part
of the world
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
IMpRoVERs AT LONG RANGE

The Pacific Coast Colonization and De-
velopment Company, which has filed arti-
cles of incorporation In County Clerk
Fishers Office, proposes to demonstrate
what an extensive work car be done with
a modest capital. The capital stock is
$500. 900, and some Of the objects of the
ompany as set forth in the articles of
Incorporation are to colonize, improve and
develop lands in he United States, Mex
leo and Central and South America. It
will bore oil wells and artesian wells. es-
tablish factories, manufacture cotton and
other goods, reclaim and improve SUBJ
merged lands and do a variety Of other
things. The incorporators are Murray
H. Coggeshal of Omaha, 7. Ludlow
Christie of New York, and Charles N.
King of his city.
Thomas Carmichael Of New York, Chas.
C. Kimball of Summit, N. J., and Hugh
Sewell of Bayonne. have Incorporated the
Fort Scott Water Supply Company with a
capital stock of S360.o0o. The business
will be carried on in Fort Scott, Kansas,
but the company will have an Office in
this CITY.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
Dated jersey City, July Is. 1897
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

~Sealed proposals will be received hy the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
in the Assembly Chamber OF the City Hail,
for the construction Of a 15-inch vitrifed pipe
from a point about 20 feet east of Mcntrose
avenue, to and connecting with the sewer III
Summit avenue.
Said sewer to be built conformabiy to
the provisions Of Chapter Eli of the Laws OF
file in the office of the Clerk of said Board.
Blank for ms Of Of bid and agreement of sure
st asief must Fnsin be o9 Sity aai a. ,f the Sfi ice of the
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 80 lineal feet of 15-ineh vitrifed pipe
About $50 cubic yards Of rock excavation.
About s cubic yards Of concrete.
i and bottom.
Time allowed for the completion of the
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be SUBJ
/ ject to the remonstrance of the owners of the
Improperly liable to more than one-half the as
assessment therefor on the basis Of preliminary
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
Avelopcs, endorsed Proposals for the Construc-
s ss Is Of : II ssY Fsrd II H Saat.en chairman Asinns, 81 alrf sse
4 Con- mittee on Streets and Sewers and hand
ted to the Clerk of the Board in open meeting
when called for in the order of business re-
latirg to sealed proposals.
No city official will be accepted as surety
, nor will a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The Board may. under the provisions Of the
Act above cited, exercise its right to reject
a1 The attention Of bidders is especially called
to Section I, Chapter 1874 of, the Laws of 1891,
binding upon the city or become efec.ive or
(; operative until the bondsmen offered by the
Corporation Counsel. the President of this
p eoasa bondsmen " under oath. p0
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
GEORGE T. BoUToN..
Sit-A-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
WHN7qO H0D0KHN TODIB PBARY OFF TO THE Pole
Sails in the Hope with a Party
to Establish a Settlement
in Northern Greenland.

BOSTON, July 10, l897.-The steam
sealing bark Hope. with Lieutenant r..
E.. Peary and party on board, bound for
Northern Greenland, left this port at day.
break today. fully equipped for the yoy-
age. The work of provisioning the yes
sci was begun as soon as she arrived in
port last Thursday, and with the inter
mission of Sunday. when the religious
scruples of the Canadian seamen who
are employed, were respected and opera
tons were suspended. and was completed
only a short time before the vessel sailed.
The object of the voyage is to bring
about the establishment Of a settlement
at a remote northern point in Greenland
which shall be used as a base of sup
plies for an expedition in search of the
North Pole, under Lieutenant Peary in
1898. To this end a party of Esquimaux
will be located at the new settlement,
and viii, during the next year, be en-
gagged in making preparation for Lieuten-
mi Peary's expedition.
In the party which left here today. are
Lieutenant and Mrs. Peary and their
daughter, their servants and the crew, Mr..
and Mrs. H. J. Lee, of Meriden, Conn. !;
ftOpcrl Otell. Ok u. .. G~eOlOSlcdi survey,
Albert Operti, the famous Arctic scenic
artist; J. D. Higgins, of Falls Church, Va,
taxidermist; DR.. Frederick Sohon, sur
geon, Washington, D. c., and several in
vestigating parties-one under the direc-
ton of Professor C. H. Hitchcock, of
Dartmouth, who will study Glaciers and
the relics of the old Morse colonists from
Iceland and another from the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, under
r. w. Porter, who will remain in the
North through the next winter, to hunt
the big game of the country and bring
back geological specimens.
There are also on board two repre-
sentatives of the National Museum, who
are expected to bring home several tons
of fossil flora for various museums.
The Hope will mak direct for Sydney,
c. B., where she will take in coal for the
remainder of the voyage. The ship will
skirt the coast of Greenland, dropping
the scientific parties at various points
and taking Lieutenant Peary to Whale
Sound, where his plans for establishing
a settlement will be carried out.
The return voyage will be begun, 1t is
expected, in about five weeks after the
Hope arrives and the parties will be
up on the way back.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
NEW YORK sWINDLER CAUGHT.

Edward Heinecke. alias Otto Van Ness,
thirty years old, of No. 200 Bloomfield
street, Hoboken, was arrested by Detec-
tive Nelson yesterday on a warrant is
sued by Justice Meade of New York
charging i'm with grand larceny. He is
wanted for swindling Mrs. Anna C. Gould
of No. 2lS East Nineteenth street, New
York, out of $500. Detective McManus,
who appeared against Heinecke this
morning, said that the prisoner was a
we'll known swindler and had served a
term at Sing Sing. His photograph is
No. 2, 466 in the New York rogue.s gallery.
Mrs. Gould. who identified Heniecke, is
a German woman and can speak very
little English. She. said that Henieoke
agreed to enter into partnershipswith her
in; a cigar store. She gave him $500 with
which to furnish the store with supplies
held for extradition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
A. O. q. REUNI0N.
Meeting : Atlantic City TO Restore
Harmony within aha Ranks.

Irishmen in Hudson County are looking
forward with great interest to the ap-
preaching meeting in Atlantic City on
August 8, to bring into harmony the con-
fiicting bodies in the ranks of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians. A committee of
National officers have been discussing the
reunion and one very sanguine as to a
happy solution or the existing difficult
ties.
That committee recently called into
their councils Rev. Father Mclaughlin,
of st. Lucy's parish, this city, and he
with many others. including Mr.. Michael
B. Holmes, whose zeal and energy in
these matters are proverbial, viii go down
to Atlantic City on the day of the meet
ing.
Rev. Father Phillips, of Harrison, is also
taking a deep interest in the movement
n at a recent meeting held in Harrison,
said that it was a pebble dropped in the
waters, the rippies from, which would ex-
tend into a "a of Qualification.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
A Despondent New York Baker
Attempts Suieide-A Con-
su mptlve Takes His
Life.

The suicide mania seems to have bro
ken out anew in Hoboken. 1t is not very
often that a month goes by In that city
without one or two respondent persons
being added to the suicide list. Some
times as many as three have occurred
in n week. Within the past few weeks,
however, the list has not been increased,
and it was rumored about Police Head
quarters hat this fact was a sure sign
of prosperity.
The record was broken yesterday when
one suicide and one attempt were re-
ported, both within the short time of
twenty minutes One OF the u~nfortunates
accomplished his purpose, but the other
was not so successful.
Timothy Shea, % years. old, a consump-
tive, committed suicide in Mrs. Rosie
Wolters boarding house, at No. go Ad-
ans street, yesterday, by drinking ereo-
sote. He had boarded with Mrs. VOL
tiers for several years, but his health
was so impaired that he had been unable
to work for some time. Only a few days
ago he was discharged from ST. Mary's
Hospital, after being confined there for
a month. Each day he grew more de-
%spondent and frequently remarked to Mrs.
khrtt ~ WYNN NC a l. ilC
death would end his misery. Yesterday
morning he complained to Mrs. Wolters
of pains and lay on a sofa in the par
Tor. When Mrs. VOTERS entered the
room, about twelve o'clock. she discover
ed that he was dead. She then found
that Shea nae taken half the contents
of a bottle of creosote. which she a
purchased for a toothache.
~
the following note:-
Dear Rosie Wolters-My only r
friend forgive me for this rash act. I
sooner than finger. any longer or die in a
hospital. Nobody but God knows how I
have suffered in this world. Leave nv
l07 Bayard street, New York. Lord have
mercy on my soul. Goodbye for ever.
Your true friend, "a
Mrs. Mary Shea was notified and she
noon and made arrangements for the
funeral.
lust twenty minutes after shea's
suicide was reported to the police, Ser
geant Flattery, who was at Headquarters,
received a telephone message to the effect
that a man had committed suicide in
quickly sent TO the park and the man was
found. lying on one OF the benches I'M
conscious. Beside hin was an empty vial
that had contained carbolic acid. The
vial bore the label of Druggist j. Jung
mann, of No. 1920 Third avenue, New
York. In a few minutes the victim was
removed to st. Mary's Hospital, where
the physicians made every effort to re-
vive him. They succeeded after two
hours of hard work The nan then said
he was Joseph Fudler, twenty-seven
years old, a German cook. of No. ga
West Fourth street, New York. but re-
fused to tell why he had taken the
poison. His condition was said to be
critical last night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
NOTICE TO


Board Of Street and Water Commissioners on
Monday, July rs, 1897, at two o'clock P. NJ,
in the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall,
for the Construction Of a Pinch vitritied pipe
sEWER IN SHERMAN AVENUE
from a point about 20 feet north of Ferry
street, 10 and connecting with sewer at the
intersection Of Manhattan avenue and Sher-
Said sewer to be built conformably TO
the provisions of Chapter 217 of the Laws OF
1895. and in ACCORDANCE with specifications on
Blank forms Of bid and agreement of sure
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 265 lineal feet of 12-ineh vitrihed pipe
' About 100 cubic yards of rock excavation.
About 10 cubic yards of concrete;
Time allowed for, the completion Of the
! work, So working days.
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor Will be sub
property liable to more than one-half the as
sessment therefor on the basis of preliminary
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed Proposals for the Construc-
ton of a Sewer in Sherman Avenue" direct
Con mittee on Streets and Sewers and hand
ed TO the Clerk Of the Board in open meeting
when called for in the order of business re-
lating to sealed proposals.
No city official viii be accepted as surety
nor will a substitution of ~sureties be allowed.
The Board may. under the provisions of the
Act above cited, exercise its right to reject
any or all proposals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section I, Chapter 1874 of the Laws of 1891,
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city or become effective or
operative until the bcadsmen offered by the
contractor have been approved as to SUM-
Cheney by this Board and as to form by the
Corporation Counsel, the President of this
Board having the power to examine the pro
posed bondsmen under oath.
By order of the Board OF Street and Water
Commissioners,
GEO. 7. BoUToN.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19
TEMPLE BAR STILL STANDS.
in Fieets street, But In the Hears
ofIEuDIn" Eore.f.

Old Temple Bar: What visions the
name calls up of medieval London, when
that 'timeworn was one of the
great city's outmost gates! What mem
cries of traitors heads grinning CHASTITY
down upon busy Fleet street! What
dreams of royal pageants, PRESTIGE, riots
and all the myriad scenes and incidents
which came to pass under the Temple
Bar of olden days.
In the Fleet street of today Temple Bar
is not; an impossible heraldic griffin
marks the spot where it stood. But in
spite of this fact, the historic gateway is
still an actually. When in 1879 the bar
was taken DOWN by order of the. London
purchased by Sir Henry MeUx, the
wealthy brewer. Brick by BRICK, and
stoaae by stone. 1t was numbered and label
ed, ana brick by brick and stone by stone
Lady Meux (the person who really covet-
ed the ancient nuOnument) had it removed
TO herSson's place in Epping Forest.
tain quiet road between Hertfordshire and
Essex. through the heart of Epping For
lest, n is likely to notice Temple bar do
ing duty as entrance gate to the Meux
just as it stood in Fleet street of Sold (but
minus, of couse, the grinning heads which
ranged along its 'front.'. Instead of the
street beyond, one sees a trim car
1 loSo IOdu. NtlIlulllS LA dikO u DttWGCl
giant t-rees-trees which stood in. the days
when Henry VIII. dwelt at Theobald's
,Park-for that is the name of Sir Henry
famous residence.
Temple Bar, r~eligiously restored, and
empowered in trees, can not fail to re-
mind the thoughtful of some grim old
veteran or aged public servant, who has
retired to the quiet country to spend his
last lays in peace.
American visitors are always welcome
at Theobald's but few of them know of
Temple Bars. retreat, or the quaint
beauty of the Meux manor house. When
the writer visited the place not many
months ago the bar had been completely
set up. Lady Meux, with characteristic
taste, had erected by way of gate lodge,
Just inside her remarkable entrance gate,
a strikingN initiated house of the Tudor
era. In this gate lodge dwells the gate
keeper-an old man who began life as
son of a Temple Bar caretaker, and who
has followed the fortunes of the bar ever
- "RecOrd.'