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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
A CURE

1t is so often that the public is de-
ceived by announcements of important
medical discoveries hat a cautious
reader will not be swift to credit state
ments until thoroughly tested by COM
petent experts. The last named as a
real medical discovery-one paper call
ing it golden" after a patent medi-
cine, is that DR.. Alvah H. Doty,
health officer of the port of New York,
has discovered both the yellow fever
germ and the serum that causes it.
If true it will prove most important
to the human race. He began his in
vestigations two months ahead of Prof.
S~anarelli's experiments in Brazil. One
paper gives this:
1.-THE assertions of DR.. Doty, however,
are not generally accepted by physi-
clans. Many medical practitioners
contend that the bacillus isolated by
Professor Sanarelli is not the real yell
low fever germ, but resembles organ
isms present in hog cholera, and that
the serum will, consequently, fail to
cure. Surgeon General Wyman, of the
Marine Hospital service, ices not alb
solutely reject DR.. Doty's conclusions,
but is disposed to await the result of
experiments carried on for some time
past by two subordinates before ex-
pressing a definite opinion"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

The evidence taken recently in
Washington before the industrial con-
| ~vention, to which the Messenger called
attention is really instructive and re-
| vealing. It shows that the conditions
| in the south and in the north are not
all that has been stated-that the
| roseate tints have been used too freely.
Some papers squirm under the revela-
lions made of the depression of farm
ing, the character Of negro labor, and
the dissatisfaction of a large class in
the north as well, but the men testify
ing are men of character and intelli-
gence with perhaps an exception or
two. Havemeyer is a shark and might
be discredited if it was not generally
known that his attack upon the high
protective tariff tax was true, and that
it is as he affirmed it was, "the mother
Of trusts The supreme court of the
United States quite twenty years ago
declared that a tariff for protection
twas robbery" And so it is, and load
ed with iniquity and immortality. It is
the most unjust and deceptive kind Of
taxation that was ever devised by the
ingenuity of man, inspired of the evil
one.
It is a fact that an unrighteous, un-
constitutional and oppressive tax called
a tariff for protection has been a curse
to the people, the consumers, and has
been for seventy years a systematic,
deliberate robber and abuser. The
thoughtful, just, Bible believing people
all around the world might with much
reason regard the men who favor and
levy a tariff for protection as indeed
robbers and enemies Of the people.
The Houston Post, a really able, fair
and square democratic paper in the
great state Of Texas says:
1.-The industrial commission was Or
ganized for practical purposes, and up
to date it's researches promise to be OF
great practical benefit to the country.
= = Let the truth be told, the wrong
corrected, and all will be well. This
is a practical, utilitarian age, and there
is no place for sickly sentimentality in
it's makeup. Let the work Of the in
dustrial commission proceed"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
RAEVITlEs

The outside of New York
understand h Limitations of the news
papers in that great city. The Mem
phis Commercial begins an article by
saying that 'it is very hard for New
York papers to see beyond its nose"
This applies generally.
Mrs. Barrow who kidnapped Baby
Clark gets twelve years in h peniten-
tiary.
1t is announced that 10000 tinplate
workers will strike next Saturday.
The subscription to h 100000 fund
to buy a home of Dewey hangs fire.
There are more words than dollars.
The report now is that the army in
the Philippines will be rapidly increas-
ed, by sending one regiment every
week.
Hose has a brother. 1t seems that
their real name is Wilkes. The brother,
John, by name, has been arrested at
O~glethorpe, Ga. He was heavily armed
and seeking revenge for the killing OF
his brother and was threatening TO kill
people. He was lodged in Jail to await
trial.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
w thing the president will fall for
short of his duty If he fails to sit
Town any further hostile move
men against Schley, no matter whence
1t comes"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
SAD sroar
Young wife, Deserted ~ Her Hus>
band Kiils Her Baby and Attempts
suicide.

Young wife, Deserted ~ Her Hus
band, Kiils Her Baby and Atsempsu
suicide.
Richmond. Va June 2S.-One OF
the saddest cases that have been known
here for years developed this after
noon. Mrs. Lizzie Ellis, OF Farmville,
Va, aged IL years, killed her sixteen
months old child by giving it lauda-
num-, and then attempted suicide.
When the coroner was called TO view
the remains Of the child, which was
reported as having been found in bed,
the mother told a most improbable
story, but on being informed that she
was not believed, she made a full On
fession. She said she had been desert
ed by her husband; that she could no,
support her child, and that she had
bought the drug in Farmville and come
10 Richmond with the deliberate pur-
pose OF killing the child and taking
her own life. She was arresterd on the
charge of murder. Her family is well
connected.
A special from Farmville tonight
says that the friends and family Of Mrs.
Ellis express great surprise at her
crime, and give no reason for suppos-
ing that her husband deserted her.
He is said to be working in Petersburg.
He served in the Spanish war, and reg
ularly sent his wife a part of his pay.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
AGAINST thu CRAZE.

1t gratifes us to see some earnest,
firm southern newspapers against mill
tarism and imperialism raking Nc
Lauren, the South Carolina senator who
is hot for a change of government by
a change of policy. His foolish, reck-
less declaration in his advocacy of the
republican fad Of imperialism, that 1.-The
statesman who doubts or falters is a
demagogue; the Christian who doubts
or falters is a traitor to his God and to
his religion" is not to be overlooked
by any sound democrat who believes
still in a republic in which all citizens
have a voice in the government. So
false and laundering is the McLauren
outburst Of demagogueic and destruc-
tive froth that it provokes comment
and rebuke. The Houston Post has
these plain direct words in comment:
There are hundreds of public men
in this country today opposed to i'm
p~erialism whose names will be immOr-
tai on the pages of history as statesmen
and patriots long after this ELUSIVE
senator has been forgotten, and there
are thousands of men and women all
over this broad land who oppose this
war Of rapine and bloodshed that are.
models OF Christian intelligence, ands
whose fidelity to God and humanity
would be assurance doubly sure that no
such epithets as those used by Senator
McLauren will ever fall from their lips.
Their hearts are sick Of this useless
bloodshed, and they want these people
to have civil and religious liberty.
"The senator is mad-stark mad"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

OF northern or southern denunciatfon
or = discriminating argument or in
tense s~entimentally, would aver stop
1t. There is but one cure for lvnching
for rape. Let the raping cease forever.
Southern homes OF white women will
be and must be protected. The brute
who violates a white woman must die
lie caught. The Times expresses a
plain, widely prevailing conviction and
purpose in this:
cit Is useless to conceal the fact that
there is a strong sentiment in the south
eve among the most law-abiding citi-
zens, in favor Of lynching for criminal
assault. But these men are not In
favor Of lynching for other crimes and
they are not the men who take part
in other lynchings."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

Gen. julie Carr is always giving and
trying to do good with his money. Rev.
Mr.. Pulliam, of Lenoir, was at Raleigh
and called on Gen. Carr and laid before
Kim plans for opening a school at that
place. The Topic says: Before con-
versing five minutes Mr.. Carr gave Mr..
Pulliam 1888 for the school. Would that
North Carolina were full of such men
as Col. Carr"
The Durham Herald tells of an in
vestment made by him in that -four
fishing town. There is a bad, wicked
locality that was a stencil and offence.
The Herald says of the good work and
to be done:
mot only because of the wedding out
of the fallen ome who domicile there,
but because he has bought the places
they occupy at enhanced valuation for
cool cash to establish instead a NAM
moth cotton factory where one or more
thousand men and women Of good re-
pute can find work upon which to sup
port themselves and families"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
THE CA In SPAIN
The Riots Not Over-Uneasiness I'm
Cuba Overt the situation In the For.
mer Mother Country

Madrid, June 2S.-At Saragossa the
opulace continues turbulent and fresh
troops have been stationed at stragetic
points in the city. Many of the wound
ed have been hidden, so it is difficult
to determine the number Of injured.
Yuiet has been restored at Seville and
Valencia.
Havana, June 2S.-The Regeneration
EspanOla, the carlist organ, sneers at
the Madrid kilograms published in the
local papers here. 1t says: The Span
ish censor is doing his best to deceive
the world regarding the true situation
in Spain. The pretended riots are
merely nipples before the genuine re-
volt in favor of Don Carlos"
that the carlists have taken
the field are rife in Havana and are
earnestly considered in the clubs and
cafes. The stock exchange is affected
seriously and Spanish futures fluctuat-
20, with no buying. Contract purchases
for future delivery of wines, oil, olives,
beans and canned goods were offered,
but no sales were reported. There is
a general feeling of uneasiness among
holders of Spanish values.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
The Wage Question still Unsettled

Birmingham, Ala, June 28--For the
third time the coal miners and oper-
ators of this district have made an un-
successful attempt to reach an agree
ment on a wage scale to go into effect
on July list. In the miners convention
today two slight concessions were
made and a committee was sent to ask
for another conference which will be
held in a few days.
The miners have agreed to accept the
scale of the operators, fixing" the mini
mum rate at As cen hen pig iron is
selling at $50 and under, but they in
sist upon a maximum of 55 cents. The
operators objected to an increase of 20
per cent. in the wages Of mine labolers
and the miners " agreed to an in
crease of 25 per cent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
To Push Work on the SeabOard.s New
Link

Norfolk, Va, June 28.-Vice.Presi-
dent st. John, of the Seaborad Air
Line, returned today from Columbia,
S. C., and reports that contracts for
the ties, and the construction ~of the
line from Cheraw to the Florida PENN
sula and Central railroad, not long
since acquired by the Seaboard Air
Line management, have been awarded.
Assistant Chief Engineer Luzof is on
the ground and will put six engineer
corps at work Immediately, and it is in
tended to push construction along the
entire line. Condemnation proceeding
ings for right of way through the
streets of Columbia will be instituted
at nee Last night the city council
unanimously granted right of way
through Sidney park. where comma
dious freight and passenger stations
will be located.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

London, June 28.-The Pail Mall
Gazette say it has discovered in Lon
don two members of the Clan-Na-
Gael, from the United States, who are
en- route to the Transvaal xnd trying
to enlist money and men in support Of
the Beers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

It is to be hoped that no North Car
DINA military company will volunteer to
help kill the Filipinos thai they may be-
come better civilized, duly christianized,
and made TO acknowledge what the
Boston Herald most infelicitousIy and
unwisely and unconstitutionally calls
1.-The sovereignty Of the United States
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
Drowned while Ralhfnx

Norfolk, Va, June 28.-Lewis M.
Tebo, a young printer, financial secre-
tary of Norfolk Typographical Union.
prominent in Y. M. C. A, and church
work, was drowned in Linkhorn bay,
Princess Anne county, this morning.
He donned a bathing suit and was &C.
companied in a boat by his sister and
other ladies. He plunged into the wa
ter, but never came to the surface.
The body has not been recovered
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
No Yellow Feveri ia Hayana

Havana, June 27.-There have been
thirteen cases of yellow fever in Ha-
vana this year.. OF this number five
were fatal and eight recovered. OF the
deaths, one was on board a ship in the
harbor, n was the case of a marine.
One soldier died and Oh civilian was
fatally stricken. At present there is
no yellow fever existing in Havana.
Collector Bliss expects the revenues
for June will exceed 81, 900, 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

Arbitration Commission
Paris, June 28.-The Venezeula arbi-
tration commission resumed it's ses-
sions today and Sir Richard Webster,
the British attorney general, continued
his presentation Of the case of Great
Britain. AT the conclusion OF Sir.
Richard Webster's speech, the British
representatives held a short meeting.
All parties agree that he is making a
strong case for Great Britain.
Tomorrow evening President Loubet
will give a ball to all the commission
erS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

The Durham Herald is enlarged II Is
a bright, sensible. newsy paper and de-
serves success The Messenger ire
quently avails Itself of the pith and wis
dom of the Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

Venezuelan Arbitration Commission
Paris. June 29.-The Venezuelan ar
filtration commission was again in ses-
sion today and the leading counsel for
Grea Britain, Sir Richard Webster,
h British attorney general, continu-
ed his presentation of his side of the
case. The commission subsequently ad-
jOurned to
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
Athletes for Paris ExpOsi,
ton

ton
Chicago, June 2S.-An all American
team, made up of the best athletes of
American universities, is to be gather
ed by Walter Camp, Barlow s. Weeks,
president of the A. A. u, and also ex-
ecutive of the New York Athletic Club,
and DR.. Paul Neumann, of the Chica-
go Athletic Club, to contest in the
games at the Paris exposition next
summer. The team will not only con-
sist of track and field men, but row.
ing, water polo n swimming experts
will be included.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York.
who has been encouraging the venture,
has been offered the honorary chair
manship. After the exposition games,
it is the intention to hold dual meets i n
Germany, France and England.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

New York, Jun 2S.-Justice Brown,
IN the United States district court, to-
day handed down a decision awarding
SIS, 900 damages, with interest from No
vember l, 1898, to William L. Moore. in
the libel filed by him against The Sun
Printing and Publishing Company for
the loss of the yacht Kanapaha, strand
ed in September Of last year while off
the north coast of Cuba. The yacht
was then in the employ of The New
York Sun a. a dispatch boat.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
Damages for Loss Of Life In the ROur-
gOSne Disaster

gOgne
Paris, June 28.-The action for dam
ages brought by Madame Resal, as a
result of the loss of her husband by the
sinking of the French line steamer
Labourgogne, in collision with the
British ship Cromartyshire, July 4,
1898, off Sable island, Nova Scotia, has
resulted in a verdict against the COM
pany of 100, 900 francs. The court
found the company responsible for the
acts of the captain, who was declared
to be at fault in not bringing his ship
to a standstill after the collision, in
losing time in launching the boats and
in not furnishing the passegers with
lifeboats.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
The Yellow Fever at santiago

Santiago, June 28.-Fourteen new
cases of yellow fever have been Off
ciaIy reported during the last two
days. This raises the total number of
cases to fifty, Of which twelve have
proved fatal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04

Albany, June Ex-Governor Roose-
Welt declared this afternoon that he is
not a candidate for the presidency in
1900, but advocates the denomination of
President Mckinley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
FORM A LAACER.
Beers Continue Active Prepa-
ratiOns For War.

Capetown, Aug. 23.-Although the
cabled summary of the counter pro-
posals of the Transvaal government to
Great Britain's proposition for q joint
commission to inquire as to what effect
the reform franchise measures would
have on the Outlanders is probably in
complete, it undoubtedly gives the gen
eral lines accurately.
The Mafeking Horse regiment is
mobilizing rapidly. Several hundred re-
cruits have arrived and been equipped
here and have Joined Vivian's camp.
Every train is bringing fresh recruits.
1t is rumored that three hundred Beers
have formed a laager on the border
SECRET AGENTS AT WORK.
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Afri-
ca, Aug. 23.-In connection with the
rumor that there are many Beers who
are British subjects and who outward
ly sympathize with the British while
in reality they are secret agents of
President Kruger of the Transvaal re-
public, the premier of Natal declared
last evening that it was the intention
of the government to take steps to de-
tect and punish any British subjects
cooperating with the enemies of the
queen.
It is alleged that much secret infor-
nation has been conveyed to President
Kruger and that even ambuscades
have been prepared for the British
troops in the event of war, by these
secret agents.
A force of police has been ordered to
COlense owing to rumOrs of the in
tention of the Beers to destroy the rail-
road bridge at that place.
A BIG CARTRIDGE ORDER.
Birmingham, Eng, Aug. pa firm
of this place has received an or
der for fourteen million Mauser
cartridges for immediate shipment to
South Africa. Secrecy is being observed
as to the exact destination of the
cartridges but it is said the Beers alone
use Mauser rifles in that territory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23

This would, in all probability, be a
pretty stiff tax and would yield a large
revenue for the sale of firearms in the
United States reaches a total of hum
dreds of thousands of dollars annually.
A similar tax, only less burdensome,s = is
suggested in connection with fireworks.
1t will thus be seen that the depart
ment has gone into field in search of
revenues that was discarded by con-
gress when the war revenue bill was
up for consideration. The members of
the senate finance committee We're fav-
orabIy impressed with the suggestion
when it was made to them, but it was
abandoned because it was believed that
sufficient revenues would be secured
without further Increasing the burdens
of taxation. Now the expenditures of
the government have been increased
and there is no hope of an increase in
receipts Items that were originally
booked for special war taxes will again
be considered and the scope of the war
revenue law enlarged SO as materially
to assist the treasury and if possible
prevent another issue of bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
WHEN THEY COME.
Some Doubt About Time goth
Kansas Will Sail.

The Twentieth Kansas may sail from
Manila the first of September. but the
chances are that the transports will
not be available before the middle of
September.
The following transports are due at
Manila on the dates indicated:
Tartar, August 26.
Ohio, August 26.
Newport, August 26.
Indiana, August 81.
Morgan City, September IL.
Senator, September 15.
The Tartar arrived yesterday four
days ahead of time. 1t is possible that
the Kansans may come on the Indiana
early in September, but it is believed
that the Twentieth will be crowded out
by other regiments, and will come on
the boats which are now en- route to
Manila. The Kansans went to Manila
on the Indiana. Then, too, there is
chance that the Kansans may be re-
quired to wait for the transports which
sail from San Francisco to Manila, as
follows:
City of Sidney, August Is.
City of Pueblo, August 25.
Columbia, September /
Charles Nelson, September 10.
Hancock, September Is.
Belgian King, September Is.
This would delay the arrival of the
Kansans until mid-winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
DIED HAND IN HAND.
Two Little Boys Waded to Their
Death.

John Deegan and Michael Cabaline
were drowned Tuesday afternoon about
O'clock while swimming in the river
near the Santa Fe railroad bridge.
The two boys waded in together, hand
in hand, and probably one stepped in a
hole and dr=w the other in after him.
They did not rise to the surface after
they went down together.
Until late at night searching parties
We're looking for the bodies. The body
OF John Deegan was found a short dis
tance from the place where the drown
ing occurred. John Deegan was the 8
year old son of John Deegan and Mi
chael Cabaline was the II year old son
of George Cabaline. Both the fathers
are Santa Fe shop men and live in
North Tnnaka-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
COLOR LINE DRAWN.
BY Court Decision In a New York
Case

New York. Aug. 23.-That colored
pupils may be excluded from schools
where white children attend in this
state was established today by a de-
cision rendered by Justice Smith of the
supreme court, in the case of Mrs.
Cisco, a wealthy colored woman who
has been attempting for several months
to compel the board of education of
Queensborough to admit her children
into a school at Jamaica.
Mrs. Cisco brought a suit for a per-
emptory writ of mandamuS to compel
the school authorities of Queens to ad-
NIT her son, Jacob, 13 years old to the
schools attended by white children.
Mrs. Cisco admitted that Jamaica had
a school exclusively for colored chill
dren but maintained that she had
right to send her son to any school in
the borough she chose.
The case was stubborn1y contested
and her motion was denied, without
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
Hunting a Telescope Site

Kingston. Aug. 23.-Prof. Edward
Charles Pickering of the Harvard OBJ
servatory informs the correspondent of
the Associated Press that he is here
seeking a suitable location for the larg-
est telescope in the world, which is be-
ing constructed at Cambridge especial
ly for observing the new planet which
is due to pass very close to the earth
Is months hence He is favOrably i'm
pressed with Jamaica's advantages.
Prof. Pickering established the Misti
Observatory of Peru.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-23
Rnrton vs. BRIAN.

Some of the admirers of T. r. Burton
are making up a party. to go to Cali
fOrnia, Mo, Saturday to hear Mr.. Burton
reply to w. J. Bryan's speech which will
be delivered at Upton, No, Friday night
The two towns are near each other in the
same county. The candidate for presi-
dent will deliver a political speech at
speaking at the latter place tomorrow.
The Democrats are in charge of the Bry-
an meeting. The Republicans have Sc
cured Mr.. Burton and announce that "he
will reply to the address e. AIy. Bryan