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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
GILMORE
Desperately Wounded by q Posse In Samp.
son County-Pursued AS Far rs Wallace.
Recognized and Arrested at Jacksonville

Especial to The Messenger.)
Jacksonville, N. c., October 1s.-Alex.
Gilmore, alias Willie Berry, was arrest
ed here today by Deputy Sheriff Jar
man, who notified the sheriff OF Cum
berland county by wire. His reply was
to hold Gilmore for Identification.
Gilmore is the negro who while a
posse was in search for him vas shot
down by them in Sampson county, an
account Of which appeared in the Mes
senger a few days ago. He was iden-
titled by an old citizen of Cumberland
roborated by the wounds made by shot
guns in Gilmore's right arm, shoulder
and back. He is said to be wanted in
some county in Georgia for the murder
of the Mcdonald family, consisting of
a widow and daughter.
Gilmore is now in Jail and the au-
thorities are sparing on means in trac-
ing up the black deeds the negro is no
doubt guilty Of.
Correspondence Of The Messenger.)
Wallace, N. c., October Is.
There passed through here Saturday
last a posse of men in pursuit Of the
outlawed negro, Alex Gilmore who was
shot and wounded a few nights ago
near Ingold, Sampson county. The ne
gro passed through here Wednesday,
wounded in the head, shoulder, back,
calf of the leg and hand. He left here
for Chinqupin, N. c., and left there
for Newbern. Some of the posse kept
on after him. The shot which inflicted
the wounds were squirrel and bird
shot.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Auburn, n. Y, October IS.-The north
ern part of Cayuga county is ablaze with
forest fires. which have been raging for
the past two days and nearly all the
timber in the vicinity of Red Creek, Low
vile, Sterling and North Victory, has
destroyed. Many farm houses,
barns. haystacks and animals have been
burned. The farmers are fighting the
been no rain in the vicinity since last
July the parched condition OF the ground
and the muck in the swamps make their
efforts almost futile.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
Why not profit by the experience OF

Why not profit by the experience Of
others. Thousands of grateful men
and women have been rendered healthy
ind happy by the use OF Febricura,
fSweet Chill Tonic with Iron). a skill
full combination of the most approved
remedies, which will promptly cure
any case Of Chills and Fever. 1t II
sold by reputable dealers. who will not
ask o to try inferior articles for the
sake OF extra profit. Guaranteed to
cure or money refunded. Sold by ].
c. Shepard, J.4H. Hardin and n. I.
Fentrea6.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

London, October 1a-The marquis of
Salisbury telegraphs to the Associated
Press from Hatfield house. Hartford, say
ing there is absolutely no truth in the
story published by The Daily Chronicle
of this city today, saying the premier is
anxious to retire on account of ill health
and anxiety respecting the health of the
~marchoiness of Salisbury and that an
early reconstruction of the cabinet is
probable.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
Two Negroes Yynched

Rome, Ga, October 18.-Reports from
Somerville, thirty miles north of this
place, state that two negroes named
Penn and Hazleton, were lynched last
night. The men We're accused of arson,
and had been arrested by the sheriff and
posse. While returning with their prison.
ers a masked mob overpowered the Off
GERS and disappeared with the negroes
and into the woods. Nothing has been
seen or heard of the prisoners since.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

J. G. Berry, one of tine best known
citizens Of Spencer, Mo-, testifies that
he cured himself Of the worst kind of
piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. He had been trou-
bled with piles for Over thirty years
and had used many different kinds of
so-called cures; but DeWitt's was the
one tina did the work and he will YER
ify this statement If any one wishes to
write him. r.. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

You can't afford to risk your life by
allowing a cold to develop into pneumo-
MIA -or consumption. Instant relief n
a certain cure are afforded by One Min
ute Cough Cure. r. r.. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Harris Essence Ginger quickly cures
Summer complaints caused by changes
IN drinking water-C1imatic changeo-
unripe fruit, etc., Diarrhoea, Dysen-
terry. Cholera Morbus, Nausea, Vomit-
ing, E1atulency, Cramps, Collie and all
internal pains. Sold by J. G. Shepard.
i. II, Hardin and II, I. FentresG
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
P~enitentiary Matters
Especial to The Messenger

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, N. c., October 1S.-Chairman
Dockery, of the penitentiay board, says
he has no idea it will be leased. Cover
lease. 1t is also learned that upon GER
tain conditions John r. Smith will not
b. removed as superintendent and that
he will accept the conditions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Neutrality-suspicious. who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the
warnings of danger and save them
selves suffering and fatal results b.
using One Minute Cough Cure. 1t is an
infallibfe remedy for coughs, colds,
Group n all threat and lung troubles.
r. Il. BellamY.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Norfolk, Va, October 1S-The schoon-
er Donna T. Briggs. h suspected fill
buster, arrived here today from Della
ware ~brakewater, ostensibly to load
oyster shells for Ruzzard's Bay, but
h was detained by order OF Secre-
tary Gage and she lies at her wharf
with a custom house official aboard
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Disfgurements for life by burns or
scalds may be. avoided by using De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve, the great
remedy for piles and for all kinds Of
sores and skin troubles. r. r. Bel
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

You can't cure consumption but you
a avoid it and cure every other form
OF throat or lung tronble by the use OF
One Minute Cough Cure. r. r. Bel
lamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

j.. NJ. Thirswend, of Grosbeck, Tex,
says that when he has a spell Of indi-
g~estion, and feels bad and sluggish, he
takes two of DeWitt's Little Early
Risers at night, and he is all right the
next morning. Many thousands of 9TH
ers do the same thing. Do you? r.. r.
Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Our most eminent physicians pre-
scribe Harris Emulsion of Cod Liver
Oil" with Creasote and the Hypophos-
phites. Sold by j. c.. Shepard, J. H.
hardin and H. l.. Fentres&.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
To Settle Telephone Rates

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, N. c., October 18.-The rail-
way commission tonight that
it will tomorrow settle the question Of
telephone rates.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

There is no need OF little children
being tortured by sca1d head, eczema
and skin erpttons. DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve gives instant relief and
= permanently. r. R. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22
TUFTS Pills
Cure All
Liver Ills.

Doctors Say;
Bilious and intermittent Eevers
which prevail in miasmatic dis
tricts are invariably accompan-
led by arrangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great driving
wheel" in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out oforder,
the whole system becomes de-
ranged and disease is the result.
TUFTS Liver Pills
Cure all Liver Troubles.
~ 1
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-22

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. De-
Wits Little Early Risers cure bilious
mes constipation. sick headache. r. r.
Bellamy.
The record-union., 1897-07-12
Headquarters
for Baby Carriages.

Our Baby Carriages come di-
rect from the makers and in car
load lots. That is one reason why
we can give you more for your
money than you can get else
where on the Pacific Coast. Com
pare for yourself and see.
To-day we mention two car
riages:
At $I5-Beautiful vanished
Reed Buggy, rubber tires, silk
plush or brocade upholstery, satin
parasol; graceful in outline, first
class workmanship, and all the
latest improvements.
At $Io-Baby Carriage, plush
and tapestry upholstery, satin par
asol, best springs and running
gear, with patent foot brake; also,
wheels without nuts mo grease.
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The Physiology of the Liver.

The liver is the largest secreting organ
in the human body, and the bile which it
secretes is more liable to vitiation and
misdirection from it's proper channels
than any other of the animal fluids Luck
lily for the bilious, however there
is an unfailing source of relief from
liver complaint, namely, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, a medicine which
for about half of a century has
been achieving thorough cures of the
aforementioned ailments, fever and ague,
dyspepsia, bowel complaints, rheumatic
and kidney affection, and disorders involv-
ing loss of nervous vigor 1t is, moreover,
a preventive of malarial disease, and af
fords protection to thousands of persons
residing in districts of country where that
dire scourge is prevalent. As a remedy
adapted to the medicinal requirements of
families, it is supremely desirable. and as
means of fortifying a debilitated sys-
tenn. it IS thoroughly to be depended upon.
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BORN IN 1900.
OLDEST COLORED WOMAN LIV-
ING IN CLEVELAND.
She Has OutIived Thirteen of Her
Fourteen Children-Story of
Her Life.

In this city lives perhaps the oldest
colored woman in the State of Ohio
She is Mrs. Ann Turner or 'Auntie"
| Turner, as she is called by her friends,
and she has had a remarkable career
Away back during the first year that
Thomas Jefferson presided over the af-
fairs of this nation and when it was
regarded as rank heresy to even init
mate that the black man was entitled
to his freedom and that slavery would in
time be abolished as a relic of barbar-
ism, "Auntie" Turner was born free
from the bondage of slavery in Eastern
Maryland. Although she is now 81
years of age, she still remembers and re-
lates with remarkable clearness the in
cident, as told by her mother, of how the
family became free.
According to the story as related by
Mrs Turner, her mother belonged to a
Southern master, who treated his slaves
with the utmost kindness. When this
master died he left his property, in
Guiding the slaves, to two sons, the
elder of whom was a cripple and was
unable to walk without
THE USE OF CRUTCHES.
This son, it seems, had inherited none
of the kind-heartedness toward the
slaves of his father, and became as cruel
as his father was kind, not only toward
the slaves, but toward his white associ-
ates, including his own brother, who
was considerably younger. On one oc-
casion the younger heir reprimanded
his brother because of the latter's cruel
tY to the slaves. This angered him and
he started to beat his brother with one
of his crutches. The younger man be-
came so impressed with the cruelty of
his brother and many other slave-hold-
ers that he then and there declared his
intention of giving his share of the
slaves their freedom as soon as he be-
came of age. This declaration he car
ried out and Mrs. Turner's mother was
one of the slaves who were liberated.
Although Mrs. Turner was born free she
married a slave before she became 20
years of age. After her marriage she
persuaded her husbands s master to give
him his freedom, and in 1872 the couple
went to Philadelphia, Pa, where they
resided a number of years, earning their
| livelihood in the families of white peo-
pie In time her husband, whose name
was Cooper, died, and the widow mar
ried the man whose name she now bears.
| She had four children as a result OF her
| first marriage and ten by the second
marriage, all of whom are dead but one,
| Isaiah Turner, who lives in this city.
| After leaving Philadelphia Mrs. Turner
LIVED FOR FORTY YEARS
In Rochester, n. Y, and came to CleVe-
| land, she says, two days after General
r. B. Hayes became President OF the
United States. Until few years ago
| she made her living by washing ana
ironing for others, and she says that it
v as by doing such work she earned the
money to raise her children.
| The aged woman never learned to read
or write but she has remarkable mem
ory and fixes dates by certain events in
history For instance she remembered
that she came to Cleveland two days
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after Hayes became President and fixed
several other events of her life in a SINH
lar manner, one being her second mar
riage when Andrew Jackson became
President, and another event in her life
she said, happened during the hard
cider" campaign. She remembers very
distinctly the campaign cry of 'Tippe
canoe and Tyler too" and related sew
eral instances which showed the strong
partisan feeling between the followers
of John @. Adams and Andrew Jackson.
She looks back upon the days of her
youth with many pleasant recollections
and told about the days when she used
to go to parties and dance with F'reder-
ick Douglass. Mrs. Turner says her
great -grandmothe was a white woman
born in England, who came to this coun-
try in her childhood and afterward mar
ried a negro. She herself is decidedly
black, but aside from this has not many
of
THE FACIAL FEATURES
OF the negro race. Her hair, which is
almost white is soft and she retains all
her teeth. Her eyes are bright She
has no definite place to stay but goes
from the home of one friend to another
to remain for a short time. AT present
she is staying with Mrs. Johnson at A
Frank street but she will no doubt be
placed in the Home for Aged C0lored
Women as soon as it is opened. She has
friends in Rochester, n. Y, from whom
she receives small donations, but she
says that her best friends have always
been the white people.
On account of the fact that the greater
part of her life was spent in the families
of well-to-do white people, she has
craving for good things to eat. 1t is
said that she often complains that the
food she gets is not what she deserves
considering the many years she has
worked and that the people these days
do not know how to get up good dim
ner
She has many samples of fine embroi-
derry which she says she worked when
young, and it is said until very recently
she had samples worked by her mother
when a slave.-Cleveland Leader.
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Japanese Rugs.

We have a new lot in handsome
Turkish colors and patterns, and
at the following prices:
Size I8x3o inches, 33c.
Size 3ox6o inches, 81 25.
Size 3 feetx6 feet, ST 80.
Size 6 feetx8 feet, 81 80.
Size 0xI2 feet, $40 so.
These rugs are especially suit
able for use in dining-rooms.
They do not show spots or soiiing
readily.
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High Grade Corsets
at Low Grade Prices.

In order to close out certain
lines we have reduced the prices OF
some of Our Corsets, as follows:
Heavy Black Sateen Corsets,
worth in regular way So so.
Reduced to 81 so.
Silk Serge Corsets, pure whale
bones, flexible steels. Regular
price, So. Reduced to So %.
Other styles in Corsets-the
smaller sizes only at 40c and SOC.
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Great $40 Suits.

Our Mems Black Clay Worsted
Suits, in sack and tfree-button
frock styles; are even better this
season than last. They are GER
tainly remarkable suits for the
money.
Strictly all wool, genuine Ital-
ian cloth lining, satin piping; cor
rect in style and perfect fitting.
No better suits are being sold in
Sacramento for so per cent. high
er price.
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GElal< <EdI5I5' Illal, + 5000
The Latest i'm
Shirt Waists.

French Madras Cloth Shirt
Waists, in handsome light, medi-
um-colored plaids. The latest pro-
duction in this line of goods.
These Waists should have ar
rived ere this, but as it is late in
the season we have marked them
81 Is, that we may close them out
quickly.
Some very pretty plain white
Dimity Waists at ST rs and 81 50.
The record-union., 1897-07-12
Fine India LinOns.

Fine India Linons in very sheer
qualities, and just the right weight
and texture for dresses, aprons,
waists, etc. Never before have
we been able to name such low
prices for like qualities as now.
Width, 81 inches. Prices, I2ac,
I5c and 25c.
If you want goods of this kind
it will certainly pay you to see
these.
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Hosiery Specials.

Direct from the mills, Wonen's
Black Cotton Hose, good Maco
yarn, double heels, toes and soles.
Special value at I0c.
Also, Women's Plain Tan Ho-
siery, double soles, heels and toes
worth 25c. Our price till gone,
I6c.
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Sale of
Tan Shoes.

We recently reduced the prices
of over I,Ioo pairs of Women's
Mems and Boys Tan Shoes and
Ties. 1t is getting late in the sea-
son for selling, and we made the
reductions in order not to carry
over any stock till another year.
There are three or four months
yet of warm weather ahead of us
in which Tan Shoes can be worn.
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Wenst0ck: Lubin Co: 4OO4l2 Street. Sacramento

Years Nest" H. r. Wiley; Hustle
ton" Concluded, William A. Lawson; ;
'Wag Benton, the Black-Birder," w.
F. Oliver, NJ D.: 1.-The Last Chapter, y
Alexander M. Reynolds, illustrated; !;
'Moonrise," Ernest Malcolm Shipley;
"One of Grandmother Stories; !;
Where the Gray Squirrel Hides" "
Charles S. Greene, illustrated; Some
Educational Institutions.-I.," Mrs. S.
E. Rothery. illustrated; "The Cosmos -
John Currey; "Officers of the Society
of Christian Endeavor," illustrated; !;
Enemies of Our Ocean-Going Com
merce,'' Charles e. Naylor; How Aunt
Polly Prevented a Jail Delivery E. A.
Brininstool.
The July number of the outlook, Z"
(New York; is somewhat of a
Geneva number, for it pub
fishes two illustrated articles which
have the Swiss city as a
subject. One is on 1.-The Higher Life
of Geneva" and it's treatment is SINH
lar to that already given by the "Out-
look to London, Paris and to several
American cities. The article is by M.
Louis Waurin, professor of sociology in
the University of Geneva. Quite as in
teresting pictures as those Illustrating
Geneva are the portraits of Messrs
Howells, Warner, Higginson, Matthews,
and Wilson, and of Miss Quincy; nor is
there more interesting and instructive
text in the number than Hamilton
w. Mabies discriminating and critical
paper reviewing the latest volumes
from essayists f. w. HeWes
has an important paper on mission
Contributions" accompanied by some
mpressive-looking full-page tables.
The number also includes one of the
best short stories which we have read
from the pen of Professor Brander
Matthews. There are other good stor-
les, too, and the regular departments
OF the paper, Books and Authors, y
The Religious World Little Folks, .
THE Home Club ETC., are as much
in evidence as in the regular weekly
issues
LIE F'rancais," the interesting and
thoroughly practical paper devoted to
the study of the French language, is
evidently meeting with the success it
so we'll deserves, for in it's last number
it announces that, owing to the increase
in the number of subscribers, it will
hereafter be able to reduce the price
of subscription one-half. The advant-
ages to be derived from the course ia
literature and grammar are alone well
worth many times the subscription
price of the journal, while the reading
matter is always of the choicest char
acter as will be seen from a glance at
some of the contents for the last num-
Der: La Prise de la Smala," by le
Due d'Aumale; Frederic Mistral," by
E. Ledrain; Rose de Mars by Lucien
Pate; lie Faisan dore" (Suite ct fin),
by Philabert Audebrand.
''Harper's Weekly of July 10th is
devoted largely to the Queens Jubilee,
which is fully described and elebaroate-
ly illustrated.
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She Figured 1t Out.

Mistress-Why, Bridget, this egg is
as hard as a rock, and 1 told you to boil
it but three minutes
Bridget-Shure, there wur, four av
thin, an Oh billed 'em twelve minutes
tree for each wanl-Up-to-Da
The record-union., 1897-07-12

Tired people should consider the dam
gers which threaten them because of
their weaknesses. Hoods Sarsaparilla
viltalizes the blood which feeds the
nerves and gives renewed strength.
The record-union., 1897-07-12
A Moose and a Steamboat.

Lat Saturday. while the steamer Ma
rion was passing up through the mar
rows IN Sebec Lake, a big bull moose
was sighted swimming towards the
craft to cross her bow. He had a bone
The record-union., 1897-07-12

National banks first established in the
United States 1916
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What Others Say.

Department stores are a conve-
nience. You make your purchases
under one roof instead of going
from store to store, saving both
time and exertion."
"They sell at one price; plain
figures; no misrepresentation iln-
partial justice to everyone"
''The department store is a high
ly organized modern machine by
which better goods at lower
prices are furnished to the pub
lie than possible in any other
way
'The widest assortment of goods
are to be found on the counters of
department stores
Department stores are nothing
more OF less than devices to facil-
itate trade and to save time and
money to the consumers"
Because of the large quantities
of goods consumed, department
stores generally get lower prices
than other dealers do
Department stores occupy the
largest and finest business struc-
lures in every community. They
are also the best lighted and
pIeasantest for both shoppers and
employees"
MANY manufacturers now sell
to department stores direct, thus
eliminating the jobber. This
means one less profit for the GUS
toner of the department store to
pay"
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in his teeth and was leaving wake
like the cruiser Columbia the time she
came up Penobscot Bay into Castine
harbor last summer. Captain Hersey
saw the bull in good time, and he got
out his biggest hawser and put on
little more steam just to bring his boat
alongside the moose. When he got
into comfortable distance he let go the
hawser like lasso and the rope set
tied over the head of the big fellow and
caught him fast.
The Marion is a sturdy little craft,
but she wasn't built for moose. The
bull swan straight on for awhile, tow
ing the boat after him, and playing
hoss" generally with everything with
in reach. Just in the hight of the fun.
he gave a sudden turn to starboard,
put straight about, and, with full
speed on in both engines, let himself
out for shore, the steamer dragging
along bemnd. All the passengers Of
fered free advice as TO how to get the
moose out into the lake again, but
meanwhile the rocks of the shore were
getting nearer Finally Captain Her
sey cast off his line and let the moose
get ashore, up which he fled and dis
appeared in the forest with the speed
of the Boston and Albanys fastest eX-
press. 1t takes more than a steam
boat to stop the progress of a healthy
Maine moose.-Bangor Commercial.
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Not the Same.

but you said she sung beautifully -
'NO, I didn't"
What did you say?"
Il said she was a beautiful singer!
Chicago Record
The record-union., 1897-07-12

The Forum" CNew York; for July
has these papers THE Pow
ers and the Graeco-Turkish War"
Theodore S. Woolsey, professor
of international law II Yale; THE
Rights of Foreigners in Turkey" Pro-
fessor A d. F. HamIin; rs Nom Par
tisanship Feasible?" Ex-Governor Ros-
well P Flower; Mayor Strong's Ex-
pertinent in New York" Senator Frank
d. Pavey; The Mckinley Administra-
ton and Prosperity" j. Laurence