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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-20
How Prices Are Cheapened

Fer When no new invention has re-
Gently occurred to greatly facilitate the
manufacture of an article, there are
three commonly observed ways of
cheapening prices.
First. The manufactured may re-
luce wages.
Second. He may increase the num-
Der of hours of his employees.
Third. He may make inferior goods.
But better than all of these he may
form a trust or combine and so do all
three together. Aye. he may do better
still; for if he is a good, practical bus
mess man like the controller If the
sugar trust, he may combine factories
with an aggregate capital of seven
millions, and water the stock Up to
fifty millions. And having done this,
he may now proceed.t to pacify the gen.
eral public by both cheapening the
price of and increasing wages 10
per cent, simply because of the abso-
lutte bulge he has on the stock market.
Under such conditions legitimate bus
mess becomes a gigantic gamble;
wages m a be anything CT nothing,
and sugar the same; for by virtue of
his control of the stock, the manufac-
turer is so able to influence the market
as to run the greatest skin game on
earth, whether the wheels so round or
not. Innocent victims rush in to buy
stock, the gilded youth abou town,
the widows and orphans even, who,
the railroads and manufacturers tell
US when we demand a settlement,
must not be defrauded." Finally,
however, our easy going public gets
angry and alarmed, until one morning
we wake up n read in our news
papers that a great university has been
endowed with millions of dollars by
the president of some enormously
wealthy and pernicious trust. Pro
fessors are engaged at splendid sala-
ries to teach the advantages of
sound" money and protection to the
youth of our land. Building after
building is erected; granite and oak
fairly strain and groan with the weight
Of so much learning-and so much
money. Until the wondering world is
at length startled and disillusioned to
learn that one of the professors has
been caught teaching heresy; that he
dared to affirm that the earth do"
move round the sun; that truth is
greater than a trust and of course
his head is instantly chopped off and
his body thrown to the dOgs.-Dr.
Hubert Fuller, in the Arena.
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lima railroad, and received for it 1000
shares Of stock of the par value OF $50
per share. The Wilmington, Onslow
name to the Wilmington, New Bern
and Norfolk railway. June IL, 1898, and
in 1894 purchased the East Carolina
Land and Railway Company's road and
consolidated under the name now ex-
listing.
The earnings Of the Wilmington, New
Bern and Norfolk railway for the year
ending June 80, 1894. were: Fol pas
sengers, $50, 703; for freight, s41, 574; for
mail and express, s2,64S; for other ser
vice, 50 ,S10. Total earnings. s72,771. OPP
Grating expenses, $57 ,07O. Net earnings,
49, 01.
For the year ending June 80, 1896, the
earnings were For passengers, $780,
692. SO; for freight, $40, 597. 6S; other SER
vice, S706.35. Total earnings, SIG, 1896. Sc.
Operating expenses, $72,S9S.1S. Taxes
$3,571.37. Net earnings $527.01. 1t is es-
timated that the net earnings since
h road began operations will average
about Sc, 600 per year The interest on
the bonded indebtedness has been
S57, 500 per annum. The road went into
the hands Of Mr.. Whiting as receiver
May -, 1897.
TOpsail township, Fender county,
subscribed $40, 900 in bonds to the road,
Onslow county $40, 600 in bonds, and the
City of New Bern $780, 900 in bonds. They
received stock for the bonds, the same
as Wilmington, but the stock has not
been worth anything. The sale yester-
day wipes out the interest Of these
holders as stockholders, as the pro-
ceeds Of the sale after paying the ex-
penses of the receiver, will not pay the
bondholders but about 80 cents on the
dollar of their holdings.
The statement that the Atlantic
Coast Lin Will operate the road means
that the fine man cement and superior
service of that system will be inau-
gurated on the Wilmington and New
Bern railroad. The stockholders who
purchased the road will meet at II m,
July 30tn, to organize, and will then
take charge Of their road A notice to
that effect is given in this mornings
Messenger by President Elliott.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-20
The CITY Cases.

Iredell Meares, Esq, and Marsden
Bethany, Esq, returned yesterday ev-
ening from Goldsboro, where Judge Al
len heard the petition of w. H.. Nor
throp, Jr., VS.. F. B. Rice, city clerk
and treasurer, r B. Glove VS.. John r.
Melton. chief Of police, and Harry Hill
VS.. L. II. Bryant, superintendent Of
streets. Judge Allen consented 10 go
from Kinston to Goldsboro to hear the
argument and it took place yesterday
about 1 O'Clock. lasting amout an hour.
Mr.. Meares appeared for the petitioners
and urged that the defendants be re-
Guired to give bond for b salaries
and emOluments Of their respective Of
e pending the decision of the courts
as to which OF the claimants is en-
titled to them. Mr.. Bellamy appeared
for the defendantS.
Judge Allen reserved his decision.
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The Clyde Line seamer Croatan
which was overdue, arrived mere yes
terday at 1880 p. IN. with four passen-
gers and a full cargo Of freight. she
left New York last Saturday at 800
O'Clock and was due here Tuesday
morning.
Her Master, Captain I. K. Chichester,
was seen by a Messenger reporter yes
terday, and he states that his failure
to reach port was on cou Of a
~southerly gale experienced OF Hat
teras. The storm struck his ship Mon
day night and IL blew with hurricane
force for twenty-four hours. The ship
miles u Of her course. and had a
rough time of it. The captain states
that the sea was as rough as he ever
saw ii in July.
Great seas came aboard and smashed
in the doors OF the dining room, the
mates room and h steering engine
room. One of the colored walters,
Henry Roper. was struck by a big sea
and dashed against an iron piece that
inflicted a sewers cut at the back of his
head. He was, however. given atten-
ton and is on duty again. The water
flooded the saloon and leaked through
into the hold, doing some damage to
the cargo.
The passengers, Miss McDougall,
Miss NJ. Williamson and two colored
women came off safely.
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Marvellous Results

From a letter written by Rev. j.
Gunderman, Of Dimondale, Mich, We
are permitted to make this extract:
Il have no hesitation in recommending
DR.. Kings New Discovery, as the re-
suits were almost marvellous in the
case of my wife. While 1 was pastor
of the Baptist Church at Rives juno
ton she was brought down with Pneu-
monia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible
parexysms Of coughing would last
hours with little interruption and it
seemed as if she could not survive
them. A friend recommended DR..
Kings New Discovery; it was quick
in its work n highly satisfactory in
results" Trial bottle free at r. r.
Bellamy's Drug Store.
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Bound Over to Court for Sending in a False
Alarm

In Mayor S. P. Wright's court on
yesterday Henry Styron and Fletcher
Thompson, two young white men about
20 years Of age, We're given a hearing
on the charge of turning in the two
false alarms of fire from boxes 81 and
"a yesterday morning about 1870 O'Clock.
Policeman L. P. Thomas was the
first witness examined. He testified
that when the alarm was turned in
from box "a, at Seventh and Grace
streets, he and Officer J. N. McDufie,
colored, were on duty at Grace and
McRae streets, and a towards h
box from which the alarm was sent
did and when officer Thomas came UP
the former said: Il have caught them"
He had arrested Styron and Thomp-
son.
Policeman McDufie testified that
when the alarm was turned in he ran
rapidly ito the box and saw Thompson
and Styron turn away from the box
about the time the bell was ringing
the third round. They went UP Grace
street towards McRae street and wit
ness heard Thompson say to Styron,
Don't run around the corner" Wit
mes was on the shady side Of the street
and they ran right into his arms.
Thompson asked him what box the
alarm came in from and witness told
them it was from box "a, where they
had just turned it in. He the arrest
ed them.
Thompson was examined and denied
the charge. He said he and Styron
were at Seventh and Chestnut streets
when the alarm came in.
Styron made the same statement and
while Officer McDuffie was being ex-
amined told the policeman he was
swearing to a lie. The mayor had to
make him sit down.
Thompson and Styron were held for
h criminal court in a bond of $500
a q and in default were sent to Jail.
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Savannah. Ga. April 26. Is!

Savannah, Ca, April 26, 1896.
Having used three bottles Of P. P. P.
Cor impure blood and general weakness
and having derived great benefit from
the same, having gained II pounds in
weight in -four weeks, I take great
pleasure in recommending it to all un-
ofrtunate like
Yours truly,
JOHN MORRIS.
Office of J. N. McElroy, Druggist,
Orlando, Fla, April 20, 1891.
Messrs. Lippman Bros, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sirs:-I sold three bottles Of P.
p. p. large size yesterday, and one bot
tie small size today.
The P. p. F. cured my wife of rheu-
matism winter before last. I came
back on her the past winter and a half
bottle. 81 size, relieved her again, and
she has not had a symptom since.
I sold a bottle of p. P. p. to a friend
of mine, one of the. turkies,a small
one, took sick and his wife gave it a
~teaspoonful, that was in the evening,
and the little fellow turned over like
he was dead, out next morning was up
following and well.
Yours respectfully,
j. N. McELROY.
Savannah, Ga, March II, 1891.
Messrs, Lippman Bros, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sirs:-I have suffered from
rheumatism for a long time and L
not find a cure until I found P. P. P,
which completely cured me-.
Yours truly,
ELIZA F. JONES,
16 Orange ST., Savannah, Ga.
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Electric BitterS.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen.
orally needed, when the languid ex-
feeling prevails, when the liver
is torpid and sluggish n the need Of
a tonic and Alternative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers.
No medicine will act more surely in
c~ounteracting and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness
yield to Electric Bitters. SOC and $1.00
per bottle at r. r. Bellamy's Drug
Store.
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j. RAILROAD AT AUCTION.
THE WILMINGTON, NEWBERN &
NORFOLK SOLD YESTERDAY.

The Atlantic Coast Lin is the Purchaser.
The Property Bid in at $500, OOO-The
Road to be Operated as q Branch Of the
Coast Line It Will be Recognized July
3Oth.
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Here is good advice we find in The
Philadelphia American:
Don't try to follow every fashion
unless you wish to ruin your health,
you happiness and your pocketbook."
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Nos. ; and 8 mixed trains.
Nos. Z n 8 passenger trains.
with trains on A. n. C. r. r. Tor Eoro.
head City and Beaufort.
Connection with steamer Neuo0 at New
bern to q from Elizabeth City and Nor
folk Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Steamer Geo. d. PuHdy makes daily
trips between Jacksonvillo and New Rive
points.
MONDAY, Wednesday and Friday.
Tuesday, ThurodAy and SATURDAY.
Daily oxcopt Sunday.
81. 4. WHITING.
000oeal Manage.
Traffic Manager. e
The herald., 1897-10-28
ARCTIC WHALING
The Catch Was Poor-Vessels in
Danger

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-Captain
Cogan of the steam whaler Thrasher,
from the Arctic, says that the vessels
which We're to have wintered in the Nc
Kenzie river We're the steam whalers
Beluga, Baleana, Srampus, Narwhal,
and Mary d. Hume. The jeanne took up
the seasons supplies for them, but now
all of them are frozen up before anybody
expected the winter to set in.
The vessels which were expected to
reach San Francisco this winter, but
which were caught in the ice, were the
steam whalers Fearless, Orca, Newport,
Jessie H. Freeman and Belvedere, the
steam tender JEANNE, the bark Wan
derer and the schooner Rosario Those
of the fleet that had a fighting chance to
get out were the steamers jeanette and
William Bayliss and the barks Alice
Knowles, John and Winthrop and Gay
head. When last seen the young ice
was forming around them fast and un-
less a storm from the south came up
they also may be frozen in. There are
over 1000 men on the vessels named, but
if Point Barrow can be reached there
will be no lack of provisions. Two of the
fleet were lost during the Season-the
bark Cape Horn Pigeon in Hakodate
pass and the Navarch of Point Bar
row. In the wreck of the latter four
teen of the crew lost their lives and one
of the rescued men was killed on the
Thrasher on his way down to San Fran
cisco. His name was Harry Holmes,
and with fourteen others he was rescued
from a cake of ice off Cape Haket. An
tone Silva, a boat steerer on the Navarch,
also came down on the Thrasher
The seasons catch of the whaling fleet
has been very light.
1t was learned today that there are
no supplies of any kind at the Point Bar
row station for the frozen-in wlialers
and the outlook for the imprisoned men
is very gloomy. Should they require as
sistance the nearest point to which they
can look for relief is Herschel island, 400
miles away. When the fleet of 1889 was
frozen in off Herald island the United
States equipped relief station at Point
Barrow and laid in a bountiful supply
of provisions. Not long ago the gov
ernment came to the conclusion that the
place was a useless expense and sold
everything for $4,000. The last of the
supplies went on the Jeanie To the Pa
cific Whaling company's vessels at
Herschel island.
The herald., 1897-10-28
EARLY RAIN
Brings Disaster to the Fresno Raisin
Growers

FRESNO, Oct 27.-The weather has
now cleared sufficiently to enable a
close estimate to be made of the damage
done by the storm to the raisin crop in
Fresno. Tulare and Kings counties.
Onethird of the entire crop has been
damaged and it will be six weeks before
what is saved can be shipped. The
fruit already packed will be needed to
meet the Thanksgiving trade in the
East. Whereas. last year 1900 carloads
of raisins had been shipped East up to
October 18th, the shipment for the pres
ent year is only 400 carloads. In Kings
county the yield is 450 carloads. Sew
enty-five per cent of the crop is saved,
of which thirty per cent has been ship
ped. In Tulare county fully one-half
of the crop has been spoiled by the rain.
The storm has caused a loss of about 1000
carloads. Growers are holding out for
3ia cents pounds in the sweatboX.
The herald., 1897-10-28
Robbed and Murdered

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. PA spe-
cial to the Commercial Tribune from
Springfield, Ohio, says: Henry Gallo
way, farmer, living near Clifton, nine
miles south of this city, was held up
within sight of his home by two white
men last night, robbed of his valuables
and deliberately shot with a shotgun. He
had been to Springfield, sold load of
corn, started with his team for home,
and was halted within 100 yards of his
home by the two masked men, who de-
manded his money Because he was not
quick, they emptied the contents of a
gun into his chest. The shot aroused
the neighborhood and a posse was soon
organized and went hunting the would
be murderers. Galloway is probably
mOrtally wounded.
The herald., 1897-10-28
DOLE DALLYING
Annexation May Settle the Trouble
With Japan

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-The fol-
lowing Hawaiian advices under date of
the Goth inst. arrived this morning per
steamship Australia from Honolulu:
The reply of the Hawaiian government
to Japan's last letter will soon be for
warded and another step taken in the
diplomatic controversy. The President
and Cabinet are busily engaged on the
document, one which, it is said, will be
more pacific than any previous COM
munication. The Japanese government
is very indefinite on the subject Of the
amount of it's claims, and it's main point
apparently is the establishment of a pre-
cedent rather than exacting compensa-
ton for injury done. Minister Shima-
mura, having no authority to accept the
proposed amendments to the protocol, it
will have to be sent to Tokyo for ap-
proval, so that negotiations must con-
tinue several weeks longer The steam
er China, which sails hence October 29th
will carry Hawaii's reply and response
may be expected by the Doric, due here
December 10th.
The herald., 1897-10-28
A MINERS DEATH
Al McCann of Arizona Stricken With
Paralysis

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Oct. 27--Al Nc
Cam, a well-known mining man, died
very suddenly here at an early hour this
morning. Prior to his death he seemed
in unusually good spirits. He was seat
ed in a chair at the Wiusor Hotel, when
he suddenly complained of dizziness and
asked the clerk to assist him to his
room. When he arose to proceed to his
room he fell unconscious to the floor
Medical aid was summoned and he re-
covered consciousness. but expired in
about half an hour McCann's brother
who died recently in California, was the
original discoverer of the Big Bug onyx
mines, recently sold to Eastern capital
lists, and Mr.. Mccain owned an interest
in them, receiving several thousand dol
lars as his share Of the proceeds of the
sale. Paralysis Of the heart was the
cause of death.
The herald., 1897-10-28

the Columbia people and nearly all the
other manufacturers who are coming
out with a '9S chainless wheel.
There are a number of factories where
chainless wheels will be made, although
none of them outside of Col Pope's, ap-
pears to be anxious to place chainless
wheel on the market. Among those
that may be mentioned, outside of Pope
and Lozier, are the Syracuse, Stearns,
Western Wheel Works, Yost and Spald-
ing.
The combination recognizes the fact
that Col. Pope had purchased the old
league chainless patents, under which
the original bevel-gear machines were
manufactured, and first decided to test
their validity and sale. A syndicate
was formed, prominent Western con-
Germ taking the initiative, and the other
manufacturers were sounded upon the
subject. A fund was Immediately raised
to make thorough investigation. Ex-
pert patent attorneys were employed
and nearly $4,000 was expended in care
fully investigating the premises. One
of the manufacturers who assisted in
raising the fund has received letter
from the syndicate to the effect that the
attorneys have reason to believe that
the league patent, or the bevel-gear pat
ents, will not hold.
ON THE GRIDIRON
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 27.--Har-
ward defeated the Newton Athletic as
sociation eleven at football this after
non in a poorly played contest, the score
being % to 0.
Princeton.-Princeton defeated the
Elizabeth Athletic club football team
today by a score Of IL to 0.
Amherst.-Wesleyan IA, Amherst o.
The herald., 1897-10-28
DIR. BROWNS CASE
DR.. Mclean Explains the Bay Coun-
ellis Findings

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The second days
proceedings of the DR.. c. O. Brown in
quiry opened with the Bay Conference
presentation of the case. DIR. Brown fire.
quently interrupted the speakers and
lively wrangle ensued. DR.. Mclean
stated the facts in the case and reviewed
the proceedings of the Bay Conference,
which, he said, merely confirmed the
judgment of the San Francisco Council
DIR. Mclean continued his speech in
the afternoon, and aside from frequent
interruptions and objections, consumed
the greater part of the afternoon. He
took up the findings and endeavored to
explain what the council meant in each
instance. This action was necessary, he
said, because the findings were am
biguous, owing to the desire of the
majority of the council to shield Dr.
Brown as much as possible from the I'M
kind comments of the public. The find
ings seemed to show conclusively that
Dr. Browns clerical brothers on the
Pacific coast were far from satisfied
with the explanations of his conduct.
The herald., 1897-10-28

versity circles. The severe attacks of
The Voice, the well-known temperance
organ. on Prof. Shields because he had
signed the application for a liquor Ii
cense for Princeton Inn are said to have
been the primary cause of his determ-
ination to leave the church. When the
various synods, following the line of the
articles in The Voice, further criticised
Prof. Shields, he decided to announce
his intention at once. Beyond the bare
statement that he will leave the church,
according to the constitutional GUS
tom,' DR.. Shields will say nothing for
publication.
The herald., 1897-10-28
The Chinese Consulate

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Exchanges
are impending in the personnel of the
Chinese consulate in this city. Yu Shi
vi, the consul general, left this evening
for Washington and probably will not
return to San Francisco. The consul
general believes that he will be ordered
home to China by Minister Wu Ting
fang, in which case he will sail from
Vancouver for Hongkong. The posi-
ton of Chinese vice consul in San Fran
cisco, which has been vacant, is to be
filled at once by Ho Vow, secretary of
the imperial embassy in Washington.
The herald., 1897-10-28
ON THE WARPATH
White Men Are Killed as Well as
Redskins

DENVER, Col, Oct. 27.-Gen. Otis has
received a telegram from the vicinity
Of the trouble between the Indians and
game wardens, in which it was stated
that white men, as well as Indians, were
killed in the fight. No other facts in ad-
dition to what has already been pub
lished were given.
A telegram from Fort Duchesne says:
Over 800 Indian men, women and chill
dren are off two reservations. Caloomp,
Game and other head men of the White
River tribe known to have been mixed
up in the Meeker massacre, and to this
day opposed to whites and their laws,
are with them. The Shoshones are from
Fort Hall, WyO.