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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-14
mo.aE oUrRAGEs
BY Negro Troops Rsported-They Cause
the Deatho of a Negro NJ Welden-Lo0t-
ing Stores At Different Towak

Raleigh. n. c., March 1o.-Further
particulars in regard TO the conduct
Of the Tenth immunes were received
here today from the towns along the
Seaboard Air Line.
Between Atlanta and Monroe they
shot F1agman Sam Sealy in the heel.
i%nflicting a painful wound.
AT Monroe they raided the dispen-
sary, carrying off some seventy-hve
packages Of whiskey. At Henderson
they came near killing an old white
man manner Crozier.
In Weldon. the las point at which
they stopped in this state. their con
duct was the worst. At the point Of a
pistol they forced John Battle, a
worthy colored man, to drink seven
glasses Of whiskey. Battle fell down
senseless soon after drinking the liquor
and died before a physician could be
summoned. The riotous troops forced
their way into stores and saloons, TAX
ing whatever they wanted. They fired
upon a switchman who failed to run
at their command, and spoke insulting
ly to those whom they met Upon the
streets.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-14
MAN AND WOMAN HANGED
The Execution of Samuel Pasiow and
Mre. Pofrier-The Latter shows Great
EOrtitude on the Scaffold

ST. Scholastique, Quebec, March 10.
Mrs Cordelia Poirier and Samuel
Paslow were hanged here today. The
drop. fell at sos o'clock. Life was de-
clared extinct in eight minutes, the
necks Of both having been broken.
Mrs. Poirier, who said farewell TO her
relatives last night, was firm and col
lected throughout. She took part in
the mass said at 5 o'clock this morning,
and on the scaffold shook hands with
the hangmal without a tremor of
fear. The crowd inside The Jail jeered
at her, bur even then her composure
did not desert her and at the sugges-
ton of the executioner she turned and
faced the ~jeerers, and stood erect and
prayed to the last.
Paslow exhibited much less courage
and was more dead than alive when
the drop fell. The condemned were
taken to the scaffold separately and
were prevented from seeing each other
by a screen placed between them. Six
hundred men who had remained up
all night witnessed the execution.
Outside the Jail there were 1000 more,
who, with a beam, tried to batter down
the gate Of the Jail yard and could only
be made to desist by the provincial
police firing their revolvers into the
air. The behavior Of the crowd in
side was such that one Of the priests,
Rev. Father Melohce, had TO reprove
them from the scaffold.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-14
CRISIS In THE EAST OVER
Russia Withdraws Her Protest Against
the British-Chinese Railroad Loan

Pekin, March 1O.-The. Chinese for
eign office has received a dispatch from
st. Petersburg, saying that as a result
of negotiations between Russia and
Great Britain, the Russian minister
here will withdraw his protest against
the Hong Kong contract.
The Hong Kong contract is identical
with the Niu Chwang loan contract.
The Daily Graphic, a usually we'll in
formed newspaper of LondOn made the
following announcement this morning:
The Niu Chwang loan contract crisis
has been amicably settled by a direct
exchange Of views between h British
and the Russian governments. The
Russian assurances are completely sat
isfactory. The whole difficulty is ended
and the two governments are arrang-
ing a scheme by which their relations
in the far east may be permanently
regulated"
The London Times in it's financial
article o. February LIST announced that
a Chinese 5 per cent. railroad loan Of
81, SOC, 900 a been arranged by China
with a British syndicate, the oan being
specially secured on the Chinese north
ern railroads.. China, it was added,
had given Great Britain a pledge that
these railroads would not be alienated
to any foreign power. 1t is apparently
against this loan or it's terms that Rus
STA protested, the transaction sine be-
coming known as the Niu Chwang, or
Hong Kong loan. Niu Chwang is the
Chinese port at the head of the gulf
Of Liza Tung, the port of Mukden,
capital of Manchuria.
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THE FRANCHISE AMENDMENT
Indications That IL WIFI b. Adopted by
Good Majority
Especial TO The Messenger.)

tSpecIaI 70 Tn Messenger.D
Raleigh, ". c., March 10.-Your cor
respondent today specially interviewed
Democratic State chairman Simmons
concerning the franchise amendment to
the state constitution. Ever since the
election careful inquiries have been
made TO ascertain the popular senti-
ment on this question. Chairman Sim
mons said: Il am positive that at the
August election next year the amend
ment will be ratified by the people by
a good majority"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-14

No changes are reported in the sena-
torial situation in Pennsylvania Or
California.
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KipIiug ssDoing " ellis

New York, March lot was said to-
day that Rudyard Kipling was lin the
most tedious period of eonvalescence
and still very weak and that he was
not progressing as fast as the public
had been led to believe" He passed
a good night, and was doing WELL"
however, it was said. His patience and
resolution help materially in the slow
work of rebuilding his strength.
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Kings Weekly: J. w. Smith was cat
ting wood when Joe Smith got under
the axe and received a blow on the
head, the blade OF the axe cutting a
cash 10 he bone several inches. II was
that cold snowy Sunday and as a doc
tor could not be had, Mr.. Smith turn1d
surgeon. sewed UP and dressed the
wound and Joe is nearly all right again.
II was a dangerous blow and the won
der Is that II did not prove fatal.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-08
GAVE THEM A LECTURE,
Two Boys Accused of Burglary Were
Discharged.

A boy who was a little hd2y as to
some particulars relating II the science
OF mathematics. but who had the bat-
tie OF Manila at his finger tips, was up
before Judge Clancy yesterday for
lecture and a pedagogic examination as
TO his scholastic attainmenTs The boy
was Eugene Thornton, and he ami j hn
sullivan, another boy, were charged
with burglary. The boys Were charged
with having robbed a store in Walk
e3'Vllle last spring. They were brought
into court yesterday in order tha- ;hey
might be discharged from custody
When the case was called Deruty Dr.
trict Attorney Kelley stated to The
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New Train to California.

Another cut in time via the Short
Line-Ogden route to all California
points.
Thirty hours, the quickest route to
Los Angeles; % hours, the quickest
route to San Francisco.
Only one change of cars Butte to San
Francisco.
Call or write us for excursion rates
and particulars.
City ticket office, No. 10 East Broad
way, Butte, Mont.
H. O. WILSON. ST.
General Agent.
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What $40 win Do

$40 will pay for one years subscrip-
ton to the Anaconda Standard and
your choice of either one of two hand
some volumes-"From the Atlantic to
the Pacific or History of Spanish
American War" Cali at any office of
the Standard or remit to the home
office at Anaconda.
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The Standards Premium.

Subscribers that pay one year in adj
vance for the Standard are entitled to
choice of either one of two handsome
and valua BILE volumes-"From the At
lantic to the Pacific" or "A History of
the Spanish-American War Call to-
day at Standard offices-Anaconda,
Butte, Missoula or Great Falls.
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"The Late Mr.. Jones ="

1.-The Late Mr.. JONES'" a clever COM
edy by Charles S. Fawcett, will be the
attraction for one night at the Grand
Saturday. The performance will be
given by the members of the Electric
ian company, who We're stranded in
Butte. There are a number of good
performers in the company, and the
comedy which they will present is an
established success. .D
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AS a lover of Perfumes, wc be-
lieve it will be of interest to YOU
to know of Fine Perfuntery, and
will begin by saying that there
are only seven flowers lnat i'm
part their sweetness to the po-
made, and from these
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IF YOU DON'T GET THE STANDARD
YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS.
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Tickets good for II meals at the South
ern hotel for S. sH
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A satisfied customer is the best ad-
Vertisement--yes, but you wouldu
have the customer if you didn't adver-
tise.--AdVisor
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In the case of Frank Cooney against
the city of Butte and John Branagan,
the plaintiff has filed his brief on the
facts and on the law in the case This
is suit brought to quiet title to a por-
ton of the William Penn <smning
claim
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-08

For a nice picture in a pretty frame,
suitable Christmas present for her or
him, see SchatZlein.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-08

]. Spregel, ladies' tailor. Furs remod-
eled AZ West Park street.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-18

1885 and the appropriations for these
eighteen public buildings amounted to
$2.401, $50. Rockland, town of only
STA people, got an appropriation for
more than is asked for Butte with it's
population of $4,000. Eastport, with
4.908 inhabitants, received an appropria-
ton of $120,6S0. Bath with S,723 popula
tion secured building costing $137,57
Other cities, infinitesmal as compared
with Butte, and not even as populous
as Anaconda or Great Falls, have re-
ceived liberal appropriations. A few
may be mentioned. Carson City, New.
population $3.50, appropriation $3.50, 1872;
Texarkana, Ark. population 3,528, APP
preparation s102,223; Boise City, Idaho.
population 2.s11, appropriation $275,551;
Frankfort, KY, population 1892, appro-
priation s1S7,692: Richmond, KY, popu-
lation, 5,073, appropriation 10000;
Marquette, Mich, population 9,O93, APP
preparation $1O7,467; Manlsato, Mimi,
population s,SSs, appropriation 100000;
Jackson, Miss, population $500, appro-
priation s11S,3Ss: Jefferson City, Mo-,
population 6.742, appropriation s155, 1856;
Montpelier, VT, population ALSO, APP
preparation s161651; Harrisburg, Va,
population 2792, appropriation s116,324;
Port Townsend, Wash, population 4,55S,
appropriation $2S2,297; Parkersburg, W.
Va, population ,s,4Os, appropriation
$255, 535.
Since the government began making
appropria tons for public buildings the
total amount appropriated has been as
follows: Southern states, $685.
$685. Western states, $685.
04S,570; Eastern states, $55,62s,-
772; grand total, $137 .65s,114. OF the
amount that is classed as appropriated
for Western states, 1t should be stated
that only $2S.S49,544 was for public
buildings in states west of the Missis-
sippi river, and more than two thirds
of the total amount appropriated west
of the Mississippi was for public build
ings in Missouri and California.
New York city leads all other cities
in amount of appropriations for public
buildings, having received total of
$16151,257. Philadelphia comes next
with $9.769, TAG; Boston has received
s7,s36,645; Chicago, $6,977,952; San Fran
cisco, $6,O77, 662: New Orleans, s5,73s, 564;
st. Louis. s7.O55OS1. ..-
Montana has received less than any
state in the union with the exceptions
of North and South Dakota, Utah and
Wyoming.
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Figures on Public Buildings,
~ HERE is still a hitch in the ap-
preparation for a public build

IN HERE is still a hitch in the ap-
preparation for a public build
ing in Butte and it is getting so
near the end of the session that time
for the final passage of the bill may not
be found. The bill has passed the COM
mittee Of the whole but has not been
formally passed in the house.
1t seems that some of the Eastern
congressman can't realize that there is
such state as Montana in the country
or that there could be any possible use
Tor public building here. Yet the con-
sressmen are on the alert to pull for
appropriations for public buildings in
their own states which are not nearly
so necessary
Montana has no public building as
set although an appropriation has been
maze for one in Helena. Maine on the
other hand has eighteen public build
ings, due to the liberality of the late
Representative Milliken of Maine who
saw that the interests of his state were
well cared for while he was chairman
of the committee on public buildings.
Every village on the coast of Maine
got what it asked. The eighteen cities
and villages in which public buildings
were erected have total population of
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| fiance to all Europe and saved France
from being overwhelmed and crushed
under the weight of superior numbers
| Napoleon took the field and in fifteen
| days had gained six decisive victories
over invading armies of various ma
| lions.
In 1893 the French republic, which
had been ruled by a directorate of five,
| changed it's form of government to
| consulate of three members and Ma
| poleon was chosen one of these. Soon
| he became sole consul and on May Is,
| 1904, he was proclaimed emperor of the
French. The republic had become an
empire
During the next decade there was
more military glory achieved for France
than many nations have had in their
entire history. But in 1914 Napoleon
was overthrown and banished to the
island of Elba. The Bourbons were re-
stored and Louis XVIII. was placed on
the throne. In a few months Napoleon
landed in France once more and was
enthusiastically welcomed. He ruled
100 days and was again overwhelmed at
the battle of Waterloo, June Is, 1915.
The monarchy which was then restored
lasted until 1880, when there was an in
surrection against Sthe Bourbons, caus-
ing the abdication of the monarch.
Louis Philippe. representing the Orleans
branch of the Bourbons, succeeded. In
1s4S came the second revolution. The
second republic was established. The
instinct of the nation turned to one
who bore the charmed name of Bona
parte and Louis Bonaparte was elected
president In 1852 by an almost unani-
nous vote he was elected emperor, and
the second empire succeeded the sec
ond republic.
The humiliating war with Germany
in 1870 ended the second empire and the
third republic was established. 1t still
exists, but the French people are
changeable and may at any time take
notion that they want another mon
archy or another empire or another
reign of bloodshed and anarchy such as
succeeded the revolution of 1889 and
such as wrecked Paris in 1871. Were
there Napoleon in France to-day with
an opportunity to distinguish himself he
would have little difficulty in placing
himself at the head of any form of gov
eminent he desired.
The warmest sympathy with and
friendship for the French people exists
in this country, and it will be the wish
of all that the crisis may be tided over,
that the third republic will weather the
storm. The issue will be anXiously
awaited
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Prominent PEOPLE.

For 40 years Jules Verne's writings have
averaged two books a year.
Edmund Clarence Stedman is literary
man only by night. While attending to
his banking business he rigidly excludes
all other matters, and will not even talk
of anything else.
Senator-elect Quarles of Wisconsin is
one of the truest sportsmen in the North
west He has been able to handle a gun
since he was 10 years old. He also is one
of the most persistent of men.
Robert Barr the novelist. says that he
will wager he can step off a train at any
village in England and at two out of every
three houses receive an affirmative answer
to the question, Have you any relatives
in America?
The Anglican bishop of Ballarat, Aus
trala. not long ago made some severe
structures on other denominations at a
church congress held in that city. He de-
scrloed their church buildings as scat
tered paltry, often hideous worship sheds,
monuments of craftsmanship and self -opin-
ionativeness in religion"
1t is said that Senator Mills of Texas,
who will retire from the senate on March
4, is rapidly getting rich and will prob
ably soon be a millionaire. During his
whole career in congress Mr.. Mills has
been poor, but short time ago oil was
discovered on his property. and the wells
are now producing great quantities of this
wealth producing fluid.
The Alabama legislature has passed a
resolution recommending the appointment
of General Wheeler to be major general ir
the regular army as soon as a vacancy
shall occur.
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TEN PAGES.
Palmer in Poverty.
SnIIh- NJ DAY MIND ,

John M. PALMER. less than three
q years ago candidate for presi-
dent on the goldbug wing of the
democratic party, has just been grant
ed pension by congress. Palmer served
in the civil war, but never asked for a
pension until now because he had never
needed one. Since he ran for president
he has been overtaken by financial re-
verses and isapractically penniless as
well as broken in health. He was glad
to ask for the pension of $50 per month
which has been voted him. 1t is said
that one of'the popuiist stat esmen made
motion that I'almer's pension be paid
in silver dollars which. under the cir
cumstances, was unkind. L.
In the party, or faction of a party,
which ran Palmer for president there
was concentrated undoubtedly more
wealth than has been gathered into any
other party Of the same size which ever
existed. Observation-Disclosures of the
Wealthy. men of the democratic party
were supporting Palmer. While the
republicans andethe goldbug democrats
had an excess Of money for campaign
purposes, the democrats had so little
that at times it seemed to the national
committee that the campaign would
have to be thrown up. But Bryan was
the candidate of the people. not of the
dollars The party which supported
Palmer had thousand times more dol
lars than it had votes. Palmer received
total in the United States of 134,1S2
votes.
That man would indeed be heartlass
who could take any satisfaction in
Palmers misfortune. Yet one can but
reflect that he mounted a platform
which declared that the success OF
Bryan and silver meant ruin to the
country, while their defeat meant pros
perity. There is no means of knowing
whether General Palmer has changed
his views since that time, but surely
he could personally be no worse off had
Bryan been elected
1t seems strange that some of the mill
iGnaireS who supported Palmer could
not have taken care of him financially
A Wall street tip, a good thing" now
and then, would have been God-send
to the gold candidate. Have they for
gotten him now that he is destitute and
nearly blind and wears a shabby coat !?
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BRYAN ON M'KINLEY.


Denounces the Proposition to Increase
the Army.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Feb. 17.-Colonel
Bryan spoke here tonight under the
auspices OF the Kent County Democratic
club. In denouncing the proposition to
increase the army. he asked why it
was necessary, and said it certainly
could not be on account of any disaster
that had occurred under republican
rule, because we are told that the people
are peaceable, prosperous and happy.
Continuing, he said;
DO you want new policy that
makes 1t necessary for you to have three
times as many soldiers to take care of
10000, 600 people as it took to take care
OF 7O,000,0O0 people? Do you think, my
friends, that it ought to take twice as
many soldiers to bring the blessings of
beneficent assimilation to 100000
aliens as 1T required to do the work
among 70.0O0,00O people? have not said
anything as bad against the republican
party as that. The president is more
severe in, condemning his own policy
than / have ever been; when he says
that it will take 10000 soldiers to make
the people to accept and enjoy the kind
of government he is going to give them
he condemns his policy more than 1 do.
l read his speech made last night at
Boston and he said the only thing they
have ever thought of was the happi-
ness and welfare of these people, who,
by chance6have been thrown into our
keeping, nothing to be thought of ex-
cept their welfare Well, my friends,
1T seems to be that we ought not to so
disguise our good intentions as to hold
those good Intentions upon them by
quite SO much force"
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Hats OFF to the western Troops.

From the New York Herald.
In the intensely interesting details of
the weeks fighting, about Manila cabled
to the Herald by one of the fighters. who
was badly wounded. there is one strong
underlying note which dominates the
whole story-that is, the absolute courage
and dash of our Western troops. These
were amateur soldiers-just a lot of prai-
rte boys full of adventure and bored with
their monotonous life at home. These
first details of fighting In the tropics by
our raw Western boys go further toward
establishing the vast fighting power of
our blessed Countrywide reserve force to
be drawn from any and every section of
the nation-than the grandest essay on
war ever written by the greatest general
of all the foreign powers on earth.
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Not by Acclamation.

rHE st. Louis Globe-Democrat re-
viewing possible candidates for
the republican nomination for
president in 1900. concludes that all in
dications point to the renomna ton of
President Mckinley by acclafnation.
Inquiries are tbeing made inSvarfous di-
rections by friends of the president to
ascertain whether movements adverse
to his denomination have been started.
but nothing definite has been ascer-
tanned. Governor Roosevelt has been
more talked of perhaps than any other
opposition candidate, but Mckinley S
friends have been representing to him
1904. Speaker Reed has been a formid-
able candidate in several recent con-
ventions, but no move in his favor for
1900 seems to have been made yet.
1T may be much doubted, however,
that Mckinley has such cinch that
he can expect to be renominated by &C
clamation. On the Atlantic coast, par
ticularly in New England, there is much
opposition among republicans to his
expansion policy, veteran senators like
Hoar and Hale taking a determined
stand against the administration on
this point. = The favoritism, too, that
he has shown to Ohio friends in the
distribution of patronage has offended
republicans in various parts of the
country. In the West there is "a strong
silver sentiment even among republic
cans, and Mckinley is not likely to re-
ceive enthusiastic support in this sec
ton. Not only democratic newspapers.
but many republican papers, both East
and West, are denouncing his defense
of Alger and his evident desire to hush
up the beef scandal. If he persists in
his apparent determination to humil-
late and degrade General Miles there
is little doubt that he will find plenty
of opposition in his own party to his
denomination.
Mckinley is undoubtedly the logical
candidate for the republicans next year
for he has established their policy. He
is sadly mistaken if he counts on re-
nomination by reclamation and should
lay his lines, as he did before, to Sc
cure the solid Southern delegations and
the delegations from the Middle states.