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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. LOUIS d. TOuTHet VlSlVeu |
New Orleans this week, on busi-
ness and pleasure.
Mr.. Greorge Greig has moved
n Arnaudville, where he will esta-
blish a lumber yard.
Mr.. Ernest Morvant has moved
70 the r. Martin Sugar Co.'S plan
alton, near Breaux Bridge.
The question now asked by
many is where will the post office
| be located when the new postmas-
ter takes charge of the Officer
Mr.. ID. A. Smith has moved
into town, and will, in a short
time, engage in mercantile bust
ness.
Mr.. Louis C. Duclinmp has
oommenced work on his large
Store, and he will push it to COM
pletion as rapidly as possible.
-Messrs Fernand and Rene
Broussard, and Anatole MOrvant
left last Sunday to attend Cherry
Bros college, at Bowling Green,
Ky.
The guessing and conjectares
as to who are the King and Queen
of the next carnival is in order,
and it seems to concern the men
rs it does the ladies.
When you want Job printing
of any kind, get prices elsewhere
if you want, but before you give
away your work come and see
what we can do in work and
prices.
MIR. l.. J. GardemA has bought
from Mr.. T. J. I.abbe the lot COR
ner st. Martin and Old Market
streets, and has already contracted
with MIR. Z. J. Olivier, for . pref
ty little cottage.
Those of our people who need
some notes, we refer them to some
other parts of this paper. to see Q
form that we keep in stock, which
we sell in pads Of Zoe notes fol
the small sun of 80 cts.
Cards arc oxt announcing the
marriage of Mr.. George c. hi
chard of Jennings to Miss Lezimi
Gauthier, daughter Of Mr.. Cleric
Gauthier of st. Martin parish
which will take place at the Catho
lie church on Thursday, the Ntl
inst.
Saturday evening last the tele
graph wire flashed the news tina
Mr.. l.. c. Vautier was appointe'
Postmaster at st. Msrtinvilie, t
succeed Mr.. Carlos Greigs who's
term is expired. Sunday evenin
several of his friends made . ca
upon him to present him thei
congratulations. .
Mr.. o. j. Durand, the Gran
Marshall of our Carnival, is yer
busy, completing the details OF hi
department, and with the assul
ance of him having taken chsrg
of this laborious department. wit
his large experience in that lin
guarantee us a celebration tn
will be worth seeing.
The Valley of the Teche hi
again made its appearance, and v
hope it will receive moro encour
cement in the future than In Il
past, from the people of Breau
Bridge. The Valley has prove
the best friends of the people
the upper part of the parish al
Breaux Bridge, but tho efforts
the bright little paper were n
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22

The directors of the Bank of
st. Martinville elected their Off
GERS who are Robert Martin, Pre-
sident; Albert f. Rousseau, Vice
President; Albert Bienvenu, Ca
shier; M. Ducrest, Assistant Ca
shier.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22
Constipation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. II
retains the digested food tho long in the bowels
and produces bilocsncss, torpid liver. ndi-
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22

10Th Judicial Distric ( Court.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22

State of Louisiana, Parish OF st. Martin
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22

results, easily and thoroughly. sc. All druggists.
Prepared by c. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only PILLS to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22

geStl0n, bad taste, coated
tongue, sick headache, in
sOmnia, etc. Hoods Pills
cure consultation and all its
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-01-22
N ERlT is what has given Hoods
w Sarsaparilla the largest sales II
the world and enables it to accomplish
thousands of wonderful CUR ES.
SUCCESSION SALE.
In the matter of the Succession of
WILLIAM II. LIVINGSTON,
Probate Docket No 1862.

Probate Docket No 1862.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16

'In the course of this passage of words we reached the sidewalk. The negro con tinued the controversy, saying: You are liar you don't We are just as~good as any of you white people. Just because you have on blue clothes. don't you think you can run over the black folks of San Francisco.
 Anderson then cursed the negro and the latter struck at him. They were fighting when l stopped down to pick up a brick As I raised up, the negro struck me over the left eye with what l think was pair of brass knuckles. That staggered me, but I held the brick and struck the negro, knocking him down. hit him and kicked him several times. By this time small crowd had gathered. The negro jumped up and ran toward his home. When he neared there he shouted something back at us. We followed to find out what he said. When we reached him again the negro struck Anderson and I struck him with a stone. All this was in a running fight. The negro ran In his house and some one in the crowd, which numbered about twenty-five men, proposed that they get the negro out and lynch him. 1 do not remember any of the subsequent proceedings or how I got back to camp"
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WHEAT HOLDERS MAY
 BE OVERCONFIDEN7
Reports From All Quarters Indicate an Ample Supply, Which Prom
 ises No Immediate Improve
ment in Prices

ment in Prices.
 The wheat situation during the past seven days, while showing a loss of 3 cents in September wheat in the Chicago market shows more than this to the trade. On Monday September wheat sold at 65c, advancing to 671kc on Friday, the cause being attributed to the urgent de- mand for spot by interior millers
 It IS only natural that millers wants should be temporarily urgent. Farmers have their ideas screwed to prices which conditions will not warrant. They are not going to realize this fact until the spot demand becomes a question of find ing buyers instead of buyers urging sell CTS.
 The Government report issued August 10 assures a crop (winter and spring wheaO of 100000 900 bushels Considera- tion must be given actual conditions abroad. Foreigners are not requiring as much American wheat this year as last, simply because crops abroad are consid- erable larger than requirements The re- suit will be that producers will arrive at the true condition all at once and a rush of wheat will be thrown upon the mar ket greater than the demand can care for, thereby sending prices below a legiti- mate basis
 The spring wheat harvest has set in under favorable conditions. Duluth and Minneapolis anticipate heavy receipts OUI lll6 lA4S lSAl SIAly QdNS- w Inter wheat holders must now encounter this element against prices The demand for spot wheat abroad was the result of low stocks held by millers. The English harvest is not far distant, when millers will have ample offerings from home farmers. Re- ports early in the week gave the Russian wheat prospects as very gloomy: actual facts do not carry out the truth of these reports Private advices from Antwerp, which may be relied upon, give conditions as good throughout the greater section of Russia.
 Schwartz, Dupee & Co.'S special crop expert cables them from Berlin that the wheat crop in Germany promises the best ever made. Conditions throughout France are reported exceedingly favorable. On Saturday Russia and Roumania offered wheat 10 marks-eQual to about cents below Americas price, showing behind this was assurance of a good harvest. Minneapolis and Duluth reported No. 2 wheat selling 6 cents lower on Saturday than on Friday. Country offerings showed a marked increase. The bulls in wheat tried hard to work up enthusiasm war rumors between England and Russia. Speculators have fought these
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A Mob of Tennessee Men Pur- sue Him and Wreck His
 Humble Home.
The Colored Mans Life Saved by the
 Timely Intervention of Major Cheatham.

The social differences as they exist in the South between the negro and the white man were the cause of a riot which nearly eliminated in a lynching just out side the Presidio gates yesterday.
 Danny Thomas, an inoffensive negro crab-fisherman. had a personal encounter with two Tennessee soldiers. in which he worsted them.
 An eyewitness of the affair ran to the Tennessee camp. and. bursting in on the men. shouted: "A nigger has killed a Tennessee boy!' In an instant the camp was in a turmoil. With one accord the men ran to the scene of the affray ana participated in the most remarkaole scene of its character ever enacted on this coast. While there have been lynchings here of murderers and horsethieves, there has never been one for such trivial cause as actuated the mob yesterday.
 As the Tennessee men ran from their camp they were joined by members or the Iowa and Kansas regiments, until they blockaded the street in front of the house in which Thomas was in hiding.
 The circumstances which led up 10 the riot are described differently by the two Darties. The negro affirms that he went to Borers saloon to deliver crabs, as IS his daily custom. EIe had left his home at o'clock in the morning, and reached BoreFs shortly after '. He received ZO cents for hlS goods III that SdlOOAI. u W eN0 at this time, according to his story, that a man, who afterward proved to be Pri- vate Will Davis of Company L, Twenty first Tennessee, and a companion named Anderson asked him for 10 cents, with which to buy drinks.
 He said he had no money, and In a con troversy that followed blows were struck. The coIored boys fist broke the skin over Davis left eye, and also made a gash in Andersons face. When ne knocked Davis down the courier. with out waiting to note results, started for the camp with the story that Davis was killed. and by a negro.
 This. in effect. is the story also told by Davis, with the exception that he at- firms that the crab fisherman approached him for the price of a drink, committing at the same time what, to him, was the lnpardonable offense of placing his hand on the soldiers shoulder. After the quar- rel in front of BOrel's. which must have been a severe one, as blood was spat- tered all over the front window, the negro started for his home.
 He barely had time to give his mother an outline of his quarrel with the sol diers when their companions were upon him. While the mother barred the way of the pursuers, the younger children of the family hid their brother in tiny attic of their home. The storm gath cred quickly about the humble cottage.
 Greenwich street, upon which it faces, was soon filled with infuriated soldiers There was free access to the house from the rear also, and that point of
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
sUTRo's ESTATE INsoLvENT.
It Is Said That the Indebtedness Can Be Paid if Creditors
 Will Wait

The Sutro estate is declared to be in- solvent, though capable of liquidating all indebtedness provided the creditors do not insist upon forcing their demands for in. mediate payment.
 Mortgages to the amount of one-quarter of its value stand against the estate. 4 fact of which the legal advisers and reIa- tlves Of Mr Sutro were in ignorance until Dr. Emma Merritt came into the knoWl- edge at the time of taking charge as guardian.
 When the legal declaration of incompe- tency of the millionaire was made by the courts foreclosures were freely threat ened. The negotiations for the sale of the electric railroad, in which Mir Sutro had some S260 900 interest, were said to have been undertaken to relieve the estate of its immense indebtedness Reuben H. Lloyd persists that there is no second will left by the deceased mill
 ionaire, and alleges that Mrs. Kluge was not the wife of the decedent
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
A WELSHMAN WHO
 EXPLORES VOLCANOES
SEARCHING FOR A DEPOSIT OF
 SULPHUR.
Says That Fortune Is to Be Foun6 in One of the Right
 Sort.

An odd appearing character, with an odd vocation, IS T. J. Vaughn Rhys, Welshman He is a young man, appar- ently about 30 years of age, and frequents the most expensive hotels in a dirty suit of canvas. His spectacled eyes of deep blue, prominent Grecian nose and we'll cut mouth are noticeable features of a comedy physiognomy. If MT. Rhys cared for his looks he would certainly find fa- vor with the ladies.
 His occupation Is very lonesome one. It is searching for volcanoes with sul- phureted mouths, and when he finds one no matter whether it be in the beetling regions of Western South America, amid the Titanic upheavals of Asia or among the smoke vent holes of Alaska he promptly notifies his home office, located in Australia. At the same time he sends back samples of the sulphur he finds, after treatment in a peculiar apparatus which he carries with him. Mir. Rhys recently arrived in New York direct from Australia. crossing the country Ly way of the Canadian Pacific, and stopped for a few days in Seattle.
 II am going north in search of suitable volcanoes" remarked MT. Rnys. "Rv suitable 1 mean those which produce good sulphur. They are very rare. So far l have not found one on the American con tinent that is just to my taste.
 Some of the American volcanoes have large beds of sulphur, but it is of an in
 
 make a trip in schooner along the en- tire chain of the. Aleutians, which, I un- derstand, abound in active volcanoes Perhaps I shall find there what I want The trip will take me some months, as the islands stretch HOO miles across the Pacific.
 If 1 can find a volcano of the rioht sor1 l have got fortune. Some time ago patented in England an apparatus fol handling and purifying sulphur In large quantities, at the crater where 1t is found But 1t doesn't pay to meddle with a pool grade. You know that to-day nearly al the sulphur used by manufacturers ir America comes from Sicily. It is the best grade that can be found. But il costs money to bring it so far. If ar American deposit can be discovered whicf is almost as good as the Sicilian sulphur l will be able to clarify it and supply thf country. Anybody who will put me next to good volcano can make handsome thing. out of it. I have been traveIine now for several years in various volcanic regions of the world but especially in South America. looking for sulphur. Some months ago 1 returned to Australia my home, where I have several financial packers. and recently made fresh start
 You would be surprised to know the value of a good sulphur producing vol
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Police Department paid no attention to the edict of the board. and as the result the deniZens of the street still Haunt their shame, apparently safe from police inter- ference.
 When asked last night why he had neglected to enforce the order the Chief rather innocently replied that he knew nothing about the character of the women who infest Berry street He denied that he had been officially notified by Mayor Phelan of the action of the Supervisors and declared that he would not drive out the horde of disreputable women until he got ready.
 Despite the vigorous denial of the Chief 1t Is known that yesterday he ordered one of the. clerks in his office to have mum Der of notices printed calling the atten- ton of the denizens of the street to the action of the Supervisors and ordering them to vacate within five days after be- ing served with the notice. In the mean time the owners of the disreputable houses are raising a substantial purse, presumably for the purpose of fighting the order.
 The police claim that the money Is to be used in erecting a massive gate at the entrance to the street, similar to the one
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16

Notwithstanding the action of the Board of Supervisors in ordering Berry street closed, no attempt has been made by the Chief of Police to carry out the edict of the city fathers. At their meet ing week ago the Supervisors passed an order declaring that public decency was being outraged by the disreputable in habitants of the houses on Berry place, and making it unlawful for any person to rent the property for immoral pur- poses or for any one to maintain any of the buildings on the street as a disorderly house. In addition to the ordinance, the Chief of Police was specially instructed
 Mayor Phelan, immediately after the passage of the order, sent a copy to Chief Lees with instructions to enforce it. For some reason the head or the
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
The Action of the Supervisors In Closing Berry Place
 Ignored.
Strange Apathy of the Police in Enforcing the Recent Decision of the City
 Fathers.

used in another portion of the tenderloin district. The owners of the dens are satisfied that by erecting the gate Chief Lees and his minions will not interfere with the inmates of the street.
 Notwithstanding the claim that the sack is to be used in building a gate, 1t Is whispered that the money is to be placed" where it will do the most good. is said, Is handling the sack, and is conf dent of success. He Is said to have re- marked that with the liberal distribution of money he could influence the authorf- ties not to close the street
 Last Saturday a police officer verbally notified the inmates of the dens that they would have to vacate. As they received move unless ordered to do so by the courts. This would seem that they are determined to make a fight, evidently hop
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vantage was soon occupied. Cries of Lynch the n1gger! Get necktie!" were taken up by the sullen mob, who re- peated them over and over again. Neigh bors tried to summon the police. but all the boxes in the neighborhood were held by the soldiers.
 The mother struggled bravely to protect her son. She held the mob back until it grew to enormous numbers. The men treated her shamefully. They pulled her about by the hair, kicked and beat and re- vied her all the time. They broke all the windows, tore down doors, broke the stove and its terra cotta pipe, besides tearing out a portion of the side of the house and shingles from the roof in their mad frenzy.
 At an opportune moment Major B. F. Cheatham, commanding the Second Bat talion, Tennessee Regiment, arrived. He at once made his way inside just as
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where he was and were just bringing him down when the officer came. AS far as could see he was not hurt up to this time.'
 Major B. F Cheatham, commanding the Second Battalion, Tennessee Regiment. accompanied by First dieutepant fpa A j.. tion, followed the men out of his camp. ''I called out to many of them to go back to the ahe they da at ne found a mob gathered there, made up of Tennessee, Iowa and Kansas men. ] at once went in and arrived just at the mo- ment they were bringing the negro down through the small trapdoor leading to the attic Just before this the soldiers hesi- He has a knife, and will cut the first mans head off who tries to get him Some one volunteered, saying: Shoot me up through there: I'll bring him down.
 He was doing so when I entered the room, and I drew my pistol and said. I will shoot the first man who touches him l placed the negro under guard or the the geant, and ordered the men to Tall pack at attention I then marched him up the street toward the camp, with an addition al guard of sixteen men from the Iowa regiment These were relieved part way to the Tennessee lines by a guard from our regmMenSs Seas Me rFodp Kepp of Gau Ga airy. took him to the Presidio guard
 Private Will Davis of the Tennessee Regiment, who created all the strife, made the following statement:
 Early in the morning I went to the tent of the Catholic Truth Society, which Is erected at point near where the Union-- street cars enter the reservation, to mail two letters. Near there I met an old man named Anderson, who told me he had dime and asked me to have drink: l went with him to the saloon of Leon Bo- rel, 2S4O Baker street, where we each had
 Eve then went out on the sidewalk, when Anderson asked me for match with which to light a cigarette. I said I had none and we went back to get match. While there I rolled a cigarette. Just as I finished a young negro came in and placing his hand on my shoulder said: 'Ain't you going to set me up this drink:' I told him that had no money, that An derson had just treated me. The negro then turned to Anderson and said: Why don't you treat us black folks here like you do your black folks at homer Ander- son simply said. We do!
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
PLAYED TAG WITH DEATH.
Raymond Sweeney Killed by Coaleart and William
 Carroll Injured by Streetcar.

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The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
Zweybruch Died Anyhow.

Berthold Zweybruch. the private in the Utah Cavalry who attempted suicide last Thursday in a drug store by taking morphine, died yesterday morning of pneumonia, and his body was taken to the Morgue.
 Autopsy Surgeon Gallagher found on examining the remaipss> that the poison was not the cause of dsath, the deceased morphine. The deceased had been drug gist in the service of Redington & Co.,. in this city, and enlisted in the Utah Cavalry shortly after the breaking out of the WAT with Spain.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16

wars so frequently they have learned to smell powder before running.
 The situation is one that promises no immediate improvement in wheat prices. The longer one waits the lower prices promise. California producers are now Tn direct competition with their more fav- ored friends in the north. Washington and Oregon wheat will soon be for sale at prices enough less to admit of ship ment to California points.
 Barley grows weaker as time passes on. Considerable barley is being received from the north. The spot market is feature less. Lower prices are almost sure
 R. E. MULCAHY.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
Denounced as Frauds.

Thomas Garrett, an ex-employe of The Call stereotypeing rooms, whose recent affiiction of the eyes has made him wholly blind, denounces the persons who nave been Collecting money on his behalf as being engaged in fraud. He has author ized no one to solicit money for him.
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
Tea Samples Reduced.

The Secretary of the Treasury has de- cided that samples of merchandise that have no commercial value and not sub ject to sale may be admitted free of duty. Tea samples to be admitted free must not be of more than one ounce
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16

THE CRYSTAL SWIMMING BATHS.
 Physicians recommend the Crys.ai War5n sea water tub and swimming baths, North Beach.
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ing that the "sack'; (Which they helped to flD will influence the authorities not to interfere with them.
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cano.. One of the right sort in America would be worth more than gold mine on the Klondike''
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16

For Baby'S Skin sas' iae n nn' 1hs hs' nSo1e nSts world Is so cleansing, purifying and beautiful as CUTICURA SOAP, the most effective skin and complexion soap. well the purest and sweetest for toilet, bath and nursery. For distressing heat rashes chafngs inhamIpa- tions and eruptions. for crusted. itching irri- tations of the scalp, with dry, thin and falling hair for red rough hands. with shapeless nails, and simple bernishes of infancy it is absolutely without rival
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Risks and Premiums. I

Net amount of risks
 written during the year Net amount of risks ex- pired during the year. Net amount in force De-
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