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THE TrMoSEYT1z1E FLOOD.
Beginning the Inquest Into tho Causes or ths
BreakinE or tho Dams.

SEwBCRG, July 19.-The first hearing In
the investigation of the recent flood at Timor ey-
vile was held by Coroner Bevier and a jury at
Metropolitan Hall, Matteawan, this afternoon.
Altogether ten witnesses were examined. The
testimony Of Patrick Murphy, who kept the
boarding house, Hugh Bagley. and John Con.
roy. who lost his wife and two children In the
disaster, is the same AS the statements made to
THE Sun representative and published. They
told OF the waters rising on the night of the flood
and OF the death Of the seven victims.
Superintendent Sherfr Of the water company
sworc that he employed two watchmen, John
and Albert Gordon, to look after the dams.
Their duties were to see that the water was
moTing properly from the reservoirs. They
were instructed to watch the dams in times OF
heavy rains and raise the gates.
anceS I should Judge that the lower dam gave
smaller than the one at Meizingah.. =
When John Gordon, the watchman, was
called. District Attorney Wood. who examined
the witnesses, did not swear him. There is a
possibility that he may be held as being respon-
sibie for the flood. He said he had been in the
never seen anything about the dam that he
considered dangerous.
or Tuesday morning he, 1amined the Mel,
Zingah. That night the rain woke him up and
he could not sleep. He never expected thu
dam would give way at once. The gates were
Optntu III ~. = uHul, inc lower one.
William Thorn. who for seven years was en-
ployed as Waterman ut the dam, said that he
had on one occasion seen the water run over
the Mount Beacon dam.
Engineer Brevoor. who was engaged to In
spect the dams and make a report, swore that
the dams were exceptionally well constructed,
but the spillway was too small and was only
! foot and 7 inches below the crest. 1t seemed
but had been changed to increase the dams
capacity. II the spillway had been left In the
same condition as when built 1T would have
carried OF the water. or II a Waterman had
been there the catastrophe could have been
prevented.
The inquest will DO continued tomorrow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
HAD ONE MINUTE OF FREEDOM.
". q. sidney, Charged with the LONE Murder,
Set Free and Arrested Again.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,. July 19.-willlam K.
Sidney, who is charged with the murder Of Ed
ward Long at Greenwich on Juno 8 last, was a
free man for q brief time this morning. Judge
Wheeler, after hearing the case on the writ OF
habeas corpus secured by sidney's counsel.
ordered that he be discharged. on the ground
that he had not had an opportunity to be heard.
Sidney was arrested on n bonch warrant and
brought to this city and confined in the county
Jail without a hearing. He has been detained
there for more than n month. Judge Wheeler,
In giving his decision, said:
THE liberty OF q citizen is of too great i'm
portance to warrant Imprisonment without first
giving the accused an opportunity to be heard"
After the order OF discharge was signed. Sid
ncy started to walk AWAY with his attorneys. He
had been q free man about a minute. and had
reached the steps of the County Court House.
when Deputy. Sheriff ,Fitzroy. of Greenwich
stepped up to him and placed him under arrest.
Sidney was taken TO Greenwich, and will have n
hearing at once. The evidence the State has to
connect him with the murder has not been dis
closed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20

Fair weather prevailed over nearly all the country
yesterday. save for some cloud ness and showers
along the Atlantic coast aud In the Fast Gulf States
The barometer was high on the M!idlo ami North At
lantic coast and over the Rocky Mountain regions
II was comparatively low over western Texas, Okla.
homa. and "Outhwestern Kansas. The temperature
had fallen In the upper Missouri Valley and on the
middle slope OF the Rocky Mountains, and remained
stationary in all other districts.
In this city the day wa. cloudy. with showers in the
afternoon; highest urclai temperature a. lowest sS'
average humidity 50 por cent wind oasteEiy average
velocity s miles an hour; barometer, corrected 70
read TO sea level. at : \, u. 30.32. 2 y N. 3l2s.
Tho thermometer al the Uated States Weather Bu
reau r~eglAtered The temporature yehterday as folloMs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
eR1FF1rHs AND MRS. DIcKEY.
Mr.. Dickey Accuses Him or Leading Her
Astray and Wants go. 600 Damages.

Papers were filed with Supreme Court Com
missioner Samuel +. Bieelow OF Newark yester-
day in an action by James S. Dlckcy. a varnish
manufacturer. for $4,000 damages against
Thomas W. Grifiths. manager OF the Liverpool
and London and Globe and Lancashire and
Manchester insurance companies. Dickey
charges Gritiiths with having led his wife astray.
Commissioners Bigelow instructed the Sheriff to
arrest Griffiths and TO admit him to SIS 1000 bail.
In the affidavit Dickoy says his wife has con-
fessed that within the last six months she has
had secret correspondence and many meetings
with Griniths. The meetings were witnessed
by her sister. Mrs. Dicker has confessed further.
according to the affidavit. that n short time ago
where they were registered as Mr.. Grifiths and
wife.
Both men are we'll known In Newark. Dickey
has two young children. Gritiths also has a
family. He is said TO be at Long Branch.
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I. b. TURKEY APPOINTED SENATOR.
Gov. Taylor Namea the Successor to the Late
Ishnm q. Harris

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, July 19.-Thomas b.
Turley of Memphis was appointed tonight by
Gov. Taylor to Nil the vacancy in tho United
States Senate caused by the death of Isham G.
Harris. Mr.. Turiey was born in Shelby county,
q few miles south OF Memphis. and near the
Mississippi line. He is the son OF Judge William
d. Turloy, at one time Judge Of the Supreme
Court OF Tennessee.
The new senator is So years old. and tho law
partner OF Luke T. Wright. Senator Harris
was a member OF tho firm before his death. Mr..
Turley married IA Miss Folkes, sister OF Judge
Folkes OF the Supreme Court, a few years after
the war, and has several children. Mr.. Turley
served calamity in the Confederate Army, and
since the war has built up a large and lucrative
wool Democrat. and Is worth something over q
quarter OF a million dollars.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Drowned while Toralns a CreeL.

PIrTsBURG. July l9.-Shortly after 8 last
evening a party OF six persons attempted to ford
Licks Run in a wagon. The run empties into
Peters Creek, about one half mile below Snow
den, and was much swollen from yesterdays
rains. BY some means Irwin Boyd and wife, an
aged couple, were thrown from the wagon. swept
away by tho current. and drowned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Post once SAFE Robbed.

SUYyERS. n. T., July l9.-CrackSmen broke
into tho Post ONCE at Ramsoy's. four miles from
here. last night by forcing tho window In the
rear OF the building. They blew open the safe
with dynamite, but secured only ~ worth of
stamps and $l2 in change for their trouble.
The Post Office Is In the largest grocery store In
the village. and as Il is generally known that up
srst thought that the robbery was done By local
talent, but tho methodical way in which Il was
done showsthAt II was the work of professionals.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Peary and His Party Sail.

BOSTON. July l0.-At $50 o'clock this morn
ing the steam whaler Hope, which is to carry
Lieut.. II. +. Peary and his party to the far north.
left her moorinSs at Long Wharf. As the Hope
steamed out into the stream she was greeted
with cheers from thousands. The whistle on
the Hope was kept busy answering saIutes I'LL
she was far down the hR-bor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Court. Rapid rran.,, Commissioner.

The Appellate Division OF the Supreme Court
has appointed Arthur d. Williams, John Sabine
Smith, and Algcrnon 5. Crissell commissioners
TO decide IL rapid transit roads shall be con-
structed according TO the new plans submitted.
although the required consents OF property own
ers could not be obtained. Williams has been
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Tried Suicide in y. NJ. c. a. Rooms.

ATLANTA. Ga, July 10~,-Edward Summerau,
a young man well known In this city and Au-
gusta, Ga, attempted suicide by taking NOR
phine at tho Y. ". c. A. parlors to-day. a stu.
alton that no expected to have had been filled
by another through a mistake. lie had no re-
sources and attempted self-destructlon. Ply
sicians brought him around safely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
nls Two Attempts. at Suicide in = Cell.

Henry Fleming. a plumber, 81 years old, OF 93
woodruff street, Brooklyn, was locked up in the
Bedford avenue police station Yesterday after
noon for being drunk. Twenty minutes later
Doorman Kelly tonnd Fleming hanging from
insensible when he was cut down. He was taken
to the Eastern District Hospital and II was
thought last night he could not live. In a pocket
OF Fleming's coat was found "A newspaper clip
ping, which showed that Fleming had tried to
hang himself in a cell of the Eldridge street
Dolice atation.
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Appointments by the District. Attorney.

District Attorney olcott made these appoint
ments yesterday to I'LL vacancies caused by res
ignations: James Riley. 424 West Thirty-frst
street, chief subprna server. 1920: subpoena
servers at u. 900. James J. Flood. 255 Clinton
III. p. b. Vouliaire, 3l4W est l27th street, assist.
ant record clerk. 81 200; Joseph, b; Simpson, 254
eral Sessions, 81. ZOO; Louis NJ. White, l4O5
Third avenue, clerk Part H., $l. 200. and Jesse
Myers, 334 East Eighty-sixth street. stenog-
ranhaF RhnO
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inception 10 Mgr. s1ATtinslrl.

PLATTsBURG. N. Y, July ia reception was
rendered Mgr. Martinelli. tho Apostolic Dele
gate, who II attending the Summer School here.
at Plattsburg barracks to-day. A reyollle OF the
Twenty-nrst Regiment was one Of the features
which delighted his EmineRce.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.
sale OF Central Division Bonds 10 the 81. Louis
and san Francisco Authorized.

The holders OF the certificates OF deposit of
Atlantic and Pacific guarantee trust Is, at q
meeting yesterday. authorized the Reorsaniza-
ton Committee to execute an agreement for the
sale to the st. Louis and san Francisco Rail-
road Company OF the 81. 7gi, 900 Central Division
6s held by the committee for the benefit OF the
bondholders. The terms OF the sale are $780,
900 in cash and 81. 500. QUO OF =. Louis and san
Francisco 5 per cent. bonds. secured by a mort
gage on the division.
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JUMPED FROM THE BRENNAN.
A Woman Tries to Drown Herself TO Escape
the Almahouse.

Catherine Kane. SO years old. when on her way
to the almshouse on B!ackwell's Island yester-
day on the department steamboat Thomas 8.
Brennan. jumped into the East River. The boat
was nearing the almshouso landing when
Mrs. Kane got permission TO go 10 a wash room.
A moment later some one heard the crash Of
glass in this room. but no ono suspected that the
woman had jumped overheard until the alarm
WAS raised by the shrill whistle OF a tugboat.
The tugboat Captain had seen Mrs. Kane force
herself through the window and drop into tho
river.
The Brennan was three lengths beyond when
her people saw the struggling woman, and 1t
was too late for them 10 go back. She was, how
ever. seen from BlaCkwclls Island. and Keeper
Brophy OF the penitentiary set forth with a row.
boat and rescued her.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20

OCEAN GROVE, y. j., July l9.-Thc funeral
services over the Rev. DR.. EllwoOi ii. stokes.
late President OF the Ocean Grove CAM meeting,
took place in tho Auditorium this afternoon in
the presence II 5000 persons. Bishops Newman
and Fitzgerald and others spoke.
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oNE-LEGGED MAN 4 SUICIDE.
Leaves . one-LeEEed Baby-Forbids Hi Win
to See His Body.

A one-legged man, apparently about IS years
old. poisoned himself with carbolic acid at tho
Seventh avenue entrance to Central Park at
II o'clock last night.
In his pocket was a letter saying that he was
James ID. Hanion. and that no once had q store
at l10i First avenue; He asked that his wife
be not allowed to see his body. and that his peo-
pie would take care OF his children, especially
Tho baby. which has only one leg.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
NO WORK, NO MONEY. NO FRIENDS.
Paul Thenasch's Reasons for Jumping from .
Rerrybont Into the River.

Ferrybont Into the River.
Paul Thomasch. a Frenchman. As years old. Of
242 West Thirty-third street, this city. last
evening committed suicide by jumping into tho
East River from tho ferryboat New York while
the boat was on its trip from Twenty-third
street to the foot Of Broadway. williamsburg.
Thomasch was a waiter, and had been out OF
h morA . !, y tha ia w VnrL "a, = ~ W,, ment mooaru me
When the boat was within a hundred yards of
tho Williamsburg slip he leaped from the stern.
Two deck hands and some passengers rescued
him. but he died in the slip before the arrival Of
an ambulance.
In a farewell letter to his family Thomasch said
he had no money. but his brother owed him
1000 francs. He added that all his former
friends had refused to help him.
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From the penitentlary to sing Sing.

Charles Clarke. 81 years old, was sent to Sing
Sing for four years and four months, yesterday.
by Judge Hurd in the County Court In Brooklyn
for stealing n watch from Frank w. Anger on
June II. when no had only been out OF the PEN
i~tentiary two months.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
ASehester Jews Must Close ThsIs stores q
8andAys.

ROCHESTER,. July l9.-The Jewish population
on Front and ST. Joseph streets. this city, Is In
a high state OF indignation. Yesterday tho
odict went forth that the Jewish merchants
must hereafter cease to do business on Sunday.
The edict WAS oboyod to the letter, and these
two streets. usually the theatre, OF unwonted
activity on Sundays. wore yesterday strangely
reported w the police
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20
Speedway ADDraiAAIs CenarAea.

Justice smyth OF the Supreme Court has At
nrmed the report of Commissioner George C.
Cofin. Henry Hughes, and Matthew Chalmers,
appointed to appraise property to be taken for
the new speedway. Property owners claimed
era allowed S275, OOO.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-20

Christian Schrann. a cigar packer. 81 years
old. OF 1871 East Fourth street, who had been out
OF work for some time, killed himself with car
bOliC acid Yesterday.
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Only . Melodramatic Note to Indicate That Ho
Committed Suicide

Gustave Sporting. a barber. was found dead In
bed yesterday afternoon in a lodging house at
96 Bowery. A note written in German on the
back OF q business card headed "Gustave Sper-
ling, tonsorial. parlors. Il South California ave-
said:
~ am most unhappy, and after twenty years
of unhappy married lie l salute death with
pleasure. GUsTAvE SPERLISG. barber"
As an autopsy, has not yet been held. 1t Is not
known what Killed Sporting. What he wrote is
the only evidence that he committed suicide.
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Drink Pure Wafer
While I'm the Country.

For the convenience OF out-of'town patrons
HyKeia Distilled Water can be purchased in case
containing twelve hAlf.gailon bottles. Price 90. so
Der case 4. O. b. New York. Allowance for
'emptieS.
IHYGElA DISTILLED WATER CO..
sac ". lST II.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
COMING SOUTH.

sort of migration from time to time
from the west into the more favored
south Texas, Alabama, Tennessee
and Georgia have been particularly IA
vored, and even North Carolina has
received a few hundreds of desirable
immigrants. 1t is reported now that the
immigration is on the increase. Latter
Iy we have noticed in the papers an
nouncements of the purchase of large
tracts Of land in Georgia and one or
two other states for the purpose of
Washington Post thinks the exodus
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
A gerOusO Obstruction on the Sea.

New York, June 23.-It is said that
Captain Lloyd, of the British ship
CrOmptOn, which arrived at Dundee
May oath, from Calcutta, has reported
that on May End at 7:49 o'clock a. M,
in latitude AZ, longitude 1880, the
weather clear and water smooth at the
time, the ship passed within 600 feet of
a rock about fifty feet long and seven
feet wide, covered with moss and sea
grass. The centre of the rock rose
about five feet above the water.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
An Opportunity You Now Have

Of testing the curative effects OF Eiy's
Cream Balm, the most positive cure for
Catarrh known. Ask your druggist Tor
a 10 cent trial size or send 10 cents, We
will mail il. Full size 80 cents.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St. y. Y. City.
Ny son was afflicted with catarrh. 1
induced him TO try Ely's Cream Balm
and the d~isagreeable catarrhal smell
all left him. He appear as well as any
one.-J. g. OImstead. ArcOla. III.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
A Disastrous Boiler Explosion.

Rockville, Ind, June 23.-The boiler
in Ferguson & Co.'S saw mill exploded
today at noon. Scion Ferguson. senior
proprietor, was instantly killed; Ed
ward Straughn, employee, probably IA
tally injured and Walter Ferguson,
another one of the owners, vas badly
hurt. Several others were slightly in
jured. The building was wrecked.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
THE SEMIWEEKLY MESSENGER. FRIDAY. JUNE o. 1897

has been much more than is understood
generally. 1t a. the people who ave
left the northwest for the south are
good citizens. sell out their posses
sfons and. with the proceeds thereof,
relocate themselves in a more congo
NAL climate and under conditions more
favorable to prosperity"
Because of this large and increasing
immigration into the south newspa-
pers Of a certain lying tendency in the
north have been warning upon the
south's civilization and undesirable
ness, (they can get help here from
Pages over-much ventilated attack
upon North Carolina), and the Post, a
fair paper with considerable independ-
ence and manliness, undertakes to cor
rect some of the false Impressions that
are intended to injure the south and
deter northern people from seeking
homes among us. 1t says in a kindly
SPIRIT:
"FUr example, some Of the north
western papers assert that the climate
Of the south is in~tolerably hot in sum
mer, and that almost all parts of that
section are unhealthful. This is alb
surdly untrue. Greater extremes of
heat and cold are experienced in the
north than in the south. There are
more billiards, more cyclones and
drOughts in the former than in the lat
ter. The death rate in most of the
southern states is lower than the av-
erage in the north.
1.-The best promoters of this move
mert are the people who nave tried
it. They have found health. peace
and prosperity; and they wrote to
friends and neighbOrs Of their old
homes telling them the facts Of the
situation. For this reason the move
ment is continuous"
In Georgia, at Fitzgerald, to which
The Messenger has before referred and
more than once, there are now 5000 in
habitants. 1t is a colony established,
but little Over two years ago. The
south is hospitable always to worthy,
w~ell-meaning strangers. 1t does not
like political tramps, incendiaries,
marplots and intriguers. There are
some such in this state, as in others,
and their places are better than their
company.
There is one thing noticeable in this
movement. Why do these educated
men Of substance and good citizens"
leave their old homes to seek new one
in the south? The south, you know,
according to such wise men and prOph-
cts as Billy Wilson and Walter Page,
is a land of intellectual poverty, and
darkness, and away behind the rich
north in everything tha, makes a land
glorious and it's inhabitants "advanc-
ed" Why do tens of thousands Of
worthy northern people come into such
an intellectual Sahara where the for
gotten man" is in rags and %squalor?
Are they coming to educate their chill
dren? Are they fleeing from the great
west because it is in worse than Egyp-
tian darkness and it's schools are
closed? When North Carolinians go
to the north or northwest, they are es-
Gaping from direful poverty and a
dreadful illiteracy. When men Of ed
ucatiOn in the north come into North
come among people living in almOst
barbaric ignorance, if Billy and Wal
ter can be counted on for facts, figures
and theories.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
Bitten by a Spider
Blood Poisoned and Body
Covered by Sores
Other Remedies Failed but Hoods
SarsaparilIa Cured.

Whatever the nature of the poison
or humOr in the blood, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, as the one true blood purifier,
effects a cure Read this letter:
Eight years ago my little adopted
daughter, then two years old, was bitten
on the back by y spider. We felt almost
sure she would die. She suffered terrible
agony, and we doctored her by every
means we could think of without a cure.
She was covered with sores from head to
foot. Then her ears discharged, and
blindness was the next thing. We were
not able to continue paying doctors bills.
One day a lady asked me why did not
try Hoods Sarsaparilla. She said,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
New North Carolina Postmasters.

Washington. June 23--The following
fourth-class postmasters were appointed
today for North Carolina: Dunn, A. r.
Wilson: Kings Mountain. ]. w. Brown,
Thomasyille, G. NJ, Hoover.
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When you buy a bottle OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla you
may rely upon a cure.

We acted upon this suggestion, and began
giving her Hoods Sarsaparilla. The little
girl is now cured and she is getting plump,
sleeps we'll and has a good appetite, and
she can see to put Hoods Rainy Day Puz-
zle together n even thread a fine needle.
Agreat many people and number OF ply
sicians know about this case and they
know that our little girl is like another
child. She is now taking her tenth bottle
of Hoods Sarsaparilla." Mrs. MATTE "
STEINER, 716 Milton Av San Diego, Cal.
Hoods SarsaparHa
Is the Best the One True Blood Purifier. Be
sure to get Hoods and only Hoods.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25
THE CHRISTIAN QUEEN.

I believe that no throne since the
throne of David and the throne Of HeZ-
ekiah and the throne of Esther has
been Of heaven as the throne of Vic
tOria. From what I know of her habits
she reads the Bible more than she
does Shakespeare. She admireS the
hymns of Horatio Bonar more than
she does Ryron's "CorSair." She has
not knowingly admitted into her pres
n q corrupt man or dissolute woman
To very distinguished novelists and
very celebrated prima donnas she has
declined reception because they were
immoral. All the coming centuries of
time cannot revoke the advantages of
having had sixty years Of Christian
~womanhood enthroned in the palaces
of England. Compare her court sur
roundings with what We're the court
surroundings in the time of Napoleon.
in the TIM of Louis XVI, in the times
Of men and women whose names
may not be mentioned in decent so