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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
A ESCAPE
Mr.. r. b. Boney Knocked From a
Train While it Was Running AL
most at Full Speed-His Injuries Not
Serious

Mr.. r. B. Boney. one Of the South
ern Express Company's messengers on
the Atlantic Coast Line, made a
miraculous escape form death on
Thursday morning. While the train
was passig a mail pouch receiver, at
Carroll, a flag station on the Whining
ton & Weldon Railroad, between War
saw and Magnolia, he was struck by
the receiver and knocked from the car.
He was standing in the door of an ex-
press car and h accident occurred
while the train was running at almost
full speed.
Those who witnessed the occurrence.
expected to G Mr.. Boney instantly
killed. but when the train was stopped
and run back to him, to the s
prise of everybody on board, he did not
have a broken bone. He was in a
dazed condition when picked up. but
restoratives soon restored him. He
was taken to Goldsboro and treated,
and vas later sent to MS home near
Clinton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
He Saw the 8ayboro Riot

Mr.. T. J.. Hall, Of Winston-Salem, is
in the city representing the Brown
Bros. Company, tobacco manufacturers.
Mr.. Hall has just returned from a trip
through PamIco county. He was at
Bayboro on the occasion of the riot
there last Sunday and Monday and
says that it was one of the mos ex-
citing times he ever experienced. He
says he saw one man, a school teacher
whose name he could not ascertain
stand up before a dozen or more popu-
lists and republicans, armed to the
teeth, and abuse them for all that he
could think OF n the men covered
and did not dare raise their hands to
resent what the spunky school teacher
said Mr. Hall says there is great in
dignation among n people Of that
vicinity on account Of Governor Rus
sell having called out the military on
account Of the Babyboro trouble.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Senator Morton cts His certificate

Mr.. G. w. WORTH, chairman of the
board of county elections for New
Hanover county, and Mr.. Geo. H. Bel
lamy, chairman of the Brunswick
county board, met at the court house
in this city yesterday and canvassed
the vote a S for senator in the Tenth
senatorial district in the election on
August 2. The Tenth district is COM
posed Of New Hanover and Brunswick
counties. The democratic candidate for
the senate was Mr.. Geo. L. Morton, of
New Hanover, and the fusion candi-
date was Mr.. John Jenrett. Of Bruins
wick. The total number Of votes cast
in b district for Mr.. Morton was g.
S23, Ink for Mr.. Jenrett 925, all of
the latter having been cast in
Brunswick. OF Mr.. Morton's vote 1885
were cast in New Hanover county, and
S88 in Brunswick. Mr.. Morton's ma
jority in the district was 2.S9S.
The board declared Mr.. Morton elect
ed senator and yesterday it sent him a
certificate Of election for a term of two
years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
a Colonization Scheme

Mr.. ]. H. Mckay, lately of Floral
College, Robson county, is in he city.
He now resides near Applewhite on the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
branch of the Atlantic Coast Line, be-
tween Brinkley's and Freeman's, where
ne is setting a colonization scheme on
foot. He owns $500 acres of land n
has options On large adjacent tracts.
1t is the purpose of Mr.. Mckay to
establish a colony and he hopes to Sc
cure a large number of settlers from
the west. He has already arranged
for a settlement of eight Croatan In
dian families and has just completed
the houses for them. 1t is his purpose
to make the colony a great truck grow
ing locality.
He is negotiating for a saw, planning
and single mill plant which he will
use in manufacturing lumber for his
houses, fences and other purposes.
The colony will be abou 20 miles
from Wilmington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Death of Mr.. JEFF ID. Sellers

The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot OF
Thursday says:
THE s~corching rays of the sun We're
responsible for the death of n man
in Norfolk yesterday afternoon. and
the intense discomfort of many others.
The heats victim was ]. d. Sellers,
a carpenter, who was overcome by
heat while at work on the new build
ing in course of construction at the
corner of Cumberland and Washington
streets. The man was overcome about
4:30 o'clock and died a half hour later
at the police station. medical aid prov
ing of no avail. When carried to the
police station, Chief KiZer summoned
DR.. Speight, and in h meantime had
ice and cool bandages placed about
him.. His temperature was 10S12 when
taken just after his arrival al the sta
ton. DR.. Speight applied heroic treat
ment, but the patient was too far
gone for this treatment to be of avail.
The death was a painful one.
Sellers, the deceased, is said TO have
been a policeman in Wilmington, y.
c., during the riots IN that town sew
eral years ago. Because, 1T is said, he
sympathized with the negroes in that
I uprising he was ordered by the whites
people to leave the place, which he
did. His wife now resides in Whining
| ton, and Chief Kizer ~telegraphed her
| last night, asking What he should dc
with the remains of her husband.
Sellers a been living here for some
time, and has been doing carpenter
work. When the negro Alex. Tate was
under sentence of death in Portsmouth
several months ago. Sellers went tt
| CHIEF Kizer and asked him to use hi:
influence with the Portsmouth official:
so that he (Sellers) could get the task
of tying the knot for Tate's execution
He represented to h chief that h
was an expert at this work, but re
ceived no encouragement. and as Tate.
sentence was subsequently commuteC
tic life imprisonment. Sellers did no
get the job.
Chief Kizer received a telegram r
| Wilmington last night stating tina
Mrs. Sellers would not send for h re
mains of her husband. and the city will
bury the BODY today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14

DEAR Mrs PINKHAM:-Iwas sick for
two years with falling of the womb, and
Inflammation of the ~ovaries and bladder.
/ was bloated very badly. My left limb
would swell SO 1 could not step on my
foot. Ihad such bearing down pains 1
could not straighten up or walk across
the room and such shooting pains would
go through me that 1 thought I could
not standit. Mymother got me a bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told me to try it, / took six
bottles and now, thanks to your won
derful medicine, / am a well woman"
Mis-. ELSIE BRYAN, Otisville, Mich.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Narrow Escape From a watery Grave
Correspondence of the Messenger
SOlIthnorfs Auo1,~. II rano

Narrow Escape From a waterv Grave
Correspondence of the Messenger,
Southport, August IL, 1900.
DR.. I. B. McC1intic. Mrs. Lieutenant
John Z. Rheinberg, Of Wilmington.
and Mrs Sanford Coulson. of South
Dakota, and her three daughters.
Misses Margaret. Edith and Helen
Couison, We're on Fort Caswell beach
last night about s O'Clock. The DIR.
and the Misses Coulson went in bath
ing and waded out some distance from
the shore until only the heads OF the
FATHERS could be seen Suddenly a bic
Dreaker rolled over them and washed
lnem DOWN, w~hereupon the ladies' be-
came frightened and chung to the doc
Tor. Not being a very good swfmu.-
he could not keep the three Iadsas
above n water. 50 he called Justify for
help.
A party Of soldiers who were
responded nobly, and rescued IL
dies and the doctor. The Iadf~
nearly exhausted and after the -of
had landed them safely on the
rhey We're profuse IN their thara~ -
the boys In blue.
The rescuers were Corporal Hen,
Pentsch. Privates Edward Gners n
CaVenauga, Geo. Mills. T. G. Mcx.a3n
Jonn Bebrooich. G. o. Funderburk and
Louis L. Cain.
a lew nights g DR.. McCIfutic mr.
oefed the same crowd to move ont If
the vicinity of the bathers but he vas
70 have them near AT hand
last night, although he did not expres.
his thanks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Fine Cotton without Fertilizer

Mr.. Archie Corbett, of Atkinson
sends the Messenger a lock of cotton
and writes As fil1ows:
Il enclose q bunch Of cotton which
gathered from my farm August eth,
1900. This cotton was grown on COM
mon soil without IN fertilizer at all.
l would advise more home fertilizer
and less guano."
The sample which Mr.. Corbett sends
has an extra long staple for upland
cotton, and is Of a beautiful snowy
white colcr.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
PEI.-O< NJ

Mr.. D. W. McNaughton, Of Board
man, was here yesterday.
Mr.. James Lord, Of Spray, made
business calls IN the city yesterday.
Mr.. w. E Mcdaniel, Of W~hiteville,
spent yesterday in the city
Mr.. Henry Bowden, Of Warsaw.
came down to the city yesterday.
Mr.. J.. T. Dozier, of Marion, S. c.,
was a visitor in the city yesterday.
Miss Jessie Herring Of Harrelps
Store, Sampson county, is in the city
visiting her friends, the Misses Swim
son, 211 Grace Street.
The numerous friends of the Rev.
Will 3. Oliver will be pleased TO learn
hat his sojourn at Southport is i'm
proving his health. He will be at
Southport ten days longer and then
will spend two days in Wilmington.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14

Use Aliens Foot-Ease I'm Your Gloves
A lady writes: "T shake Au.n,.
foot ease into my gloves and rub a M.
Tie On my hands. 1t saves my glove.
oy absorbing perspiration. II In !.
most dainty toilet powder" We inv,,.
the attention OF physicians and nnr.es
TO the absolute purity of ALIENS Foos
Ease. Dr.: w. c. Abbott, editor of h
Chicago clinic says: "It Is a grand
p~reparauon l am using 1t constantly
IA my practice." All drug and Shoe
80 49,. sen IT. Ssc Sample sent FREE.
Y re Toy, ~.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Certificate of Election Issued

Mr.. C. w. Worth, as chairman of
the board Of county elections, on yes
terday sent out certificates Of election
to the various democratic candidates
elected to the several offices in New
Hanover county at the election on the
2nd of August. They are notified to
appear and be qualified before the
board of county commissioners at their
meeting at the court house on the first
Monday in December.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
wILMINGTON's FIRST COTTON
A Bale VIII Be Received Today by
Mr. j. H. Sloan-The Season a Week
Earlier Than Las Year.

Wilmington's first bale of the new
crop of cotton will be received to-day
at the Wilmington Cotton Compress.
1t was shipped yesterday to Mr.. J. H.
Sloan, who received advices last night
to that effect. 1t was n by Mr.. E.
Sternberger, of Clio, S. c..
The season this yea is a week ahead
OF that last year. The first bale last
season arrived On the 18th of August.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
stake Heed VIII Surely -,

Be sure to heed the first symptoms
OF indigestion, nervousness and impure
blood, and thus avoid chronic dyspep-
Sic, ervou proStration and all the
evils produced by blood. Hoods Sar-
saparilla Is your safeguard. Il quick
ly sets the stomach right, strengthens
and quiets the nerves, purif1es, en-
riches and vitalizes the blood and
keeps up the health tone.
All liver ills are cured by Hoods
Pills. 25c.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
. The Congressional Convention

W. B. McKoy, Esq, Of this city, Sec
rotary Of the democratic executive
committee of this (the SIXTH congress
sional district, requests the Messenger
to again state that h congressional
convention will assemble in Whining
ton next Saturday, August 18th.
Through some mistake it had been pre-
v1ously announced that the convention
would meet Saturday, August 11th.
The democratic papers Of the district
are requested to notice the above.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
Captain E. w. Manning RESIGN.

At a special meeting Of the board of
county school directors, Col. w. A.
Johnson, chairman, held yesterday
morning, Captain Ed. Wilson Manning
rendered his resignation as county SUI
p~erintendent OF schools, to take effect
August 18th, and the same was accept
ed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14

During the summer season cramps
come upon US unexpectedly: YOU should
be prepared for ar of this
kind, as otherwise you will suffer
agony for hours Keep a bottle of Pain
Killer handy and go by the directions
on the wrapper, it will surprise you
how quickly relief viii come. Avoid
substitutes, there is but one Pain
Killer, Perry Davis. Price % and SOC.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
July 26, 1900.

July 26, 1900.
Order No. S75.
First, That on and after August /,
1900, the drop letter" or one cent rate
of postage will not apply within rural
Tree delivery limits. The IVA n per
ounce rate will be exacted within such
delivery upon all first-class matter
except postal cards
Second. That the introduction of ru-
raj free delivery will not inrease or
otherwise modify the present rate Of
postage ON second class matter.
Third. That the rural free delivery
carrier will not bring to the postoffice
mail matter, collected by them, which
may be delivered on their routes before
completing their trips.
Fourth That stamps upon mail
matter collected by rural free delivery
carriers, including those on matter de-
hvered en- route as directed in Section
8, will be cancelled by them and re-
ported to b postmaster, who will de-
rive the benefit of the cancellation if
the office is fourth class.
Fifth. That until suitable rubber
c~ancelIing stamps can be supplied by
the department, rural free delivery
letter carriers will cancel stamps with
the indelible pencils recently furnished
them for use in registering letters.
Oh EMORY SMITH,
POSTMASTER General.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14

DR.. F. III. Arthur, Of Magnolia, was
here yesterday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-14
RURAL FREE DELIVERY OF MAILS
An Order by h Postmaster General
That VIII Interest the People Along
the Rural Free Delivery Routes In
New Hanover County

In view of the fact that the rural
free delivery of mails was inaugurated
in New Hanover county on the 18th of
July, the following will be Of interest
to the people along the rural routes:
"Office of the Postmaster General,
Washington, D. c.:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

Police Clemans are taking active steps
to identify the man designated in the
warrant as Frank Friday. Sheriff
Richards stated last night that he was
of the opinion that the mans right
name was Kelley. 1t was reported that
Friday had volunteered to a fellow
prisoner in the Jail that his name was
Kelley. Chief Clemans has furnished
a complete description of Friday to
the authorities in all the large neigh
boring cities. If the Chief follows up
his clever capture of the two men by
establishing the identity of Friday it
will be an additional feather in his
cap in connection with the murder
cases. He is Of the opinion that Fri
day is either from or very we'll known
at Columbus, Ohio, and was expecting
information from that city in the last
mail from the west last night, but It
did not arrive. By to-day, however,
he will have heard from some source.
Chief Clemans has worked up the
case, following out every bit of infor-
nation which would possibly furnish
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
HOSE HOUSES DEDICATED
In Martins Ferry Yestcrday-very
Interesting Exercises in the Opera
House Last Night.

In Martins Ferry Yesterday-yery
Interesting Exercises in the Opera
House Last Night.
The formal dedication of the Alert.
Hope and Vigilant hose houses in Mar
TINS Ferry-an event to which the
people of that community have been
looking Forward with pleasant ex-
pectancy-took place last evening. The
public exercises were held in the Star
theatre, which was crowded to the
doors. Father Mulhearn opened the
programme with fervent prayer and
the dedicatory address was delivered
by Rev. A. w. Robinson.
Mayor ]. w. Shipman, in a neat and
appropriate speech, presented the keys
OF the three buildings to the chief of
the department. They were accepted
by Chief A. R. Ong, who made
happy response. Assistant Chief D.
D. Parks delivered the keys to the cap
tains, and the response in their be-
half was made by Mr.. Drehnen. The
presentation of trumpet to the In
dependent was made by James Wilkin-
son, and Attorney George Cook re-
sponded in an excellent speech
The programme was interspersed
with athletic exercises and music.
The buildings have been heretofore
described In the Register. They are
substantially built, with a view to pos
sible future use for pay department,
and the fire ladies" and the commu-
nifty generally have been handsomely
complimented by visitors upon their
appearance.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
SCENES DURING A
MODERN BATTLE.
Smokeless Powder and Weapons of
Long Range Have Changed All

SmokeIess Powder and Weapons of
Long Range Have Changed All
Conditions.
Julian Ralph in London Daily Mail
What is modern battle-how does
1t look and sound?
Really, the field of operations is so
extensive and the range of modern
guns is so great that battle conditions
have altered until there is no longer
any general "clash of battle" or even
any possibility of grasping or viewing
an engagement from any single point.
There is no great resounding noise in
war nowadays. Your hear one of
our big guns loosed three miles over on
the right, and another one two miles
on the left. If you are near one it
makes tremendous noise, yet have
not heard one explosion as loud as
good strong clap of thunder. You hear
the guns of the enemy cough far in
front of you, and their shells burst
within your lines with nearer, louder
sound-but not really great or deaf
ening noise by any means. Our gums
create almost no smoke, though our
lyddite shells throw up clouds of dust
and smoke where they fall miles away.
Because the Beers are using oldfash-
toned powder in their cannons there
is small white cloud wherever one
is fred, and squirt of red sand where
their shells dig into the veldt. The
smoke of war, therefore, and the So
called roar of battle" are both alike
occasional, scattered, inconsiderable.
The rife firing has been the princi-
pal feature Of our battles. 1t sounds
like the frying of fat or like the crack
ling and swapping of green wood in
bonfire. If you are within two miles
of the front you are apt to be under
fire, and then you hear the music of
the individual bullets. Their song is
like the magnified note of a mosquito.
"Z-z-Z-z-z" they go over your head;
"z-z-z-z-p" they finish as they bury
themselves in the ground. This is
sound only to be heard when the bull
lets are very close. You pick up your
heels and run hundred or even fifty
yards, and you hear nothing but the
genera crackle of rife fire in and be-
fore the trenches. The "putt-putt' Tor
-Nordenfeldt) gun is able to in
terest you at distance of three miles.
Its explosions are best described by
the nickname given to the gun by one
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

Every day adds to the list of deaths
attributed to heart failure. If the
truth were told the bulk of these
deaths might be written down as due
to stomach failure For it is in the
failure of the stomach and other organs
of digestion and nutrition, that cweak
heart, oweak lungs, "weak nerves and
other forms of physical deterioration
having their beginning. The man whose
stomach is sound, who can digest and
assinilate the food he eats, and so keep
each organ of the body well nourished,
is the man who is least liable to collapse
under the sudden weakness of some
vital organ.
The preservation of health which fol-
lows the use of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, is chiefly due to the
fact that it perfectly and permanently
cures diseases of the stomach and organs
of digestion and nutrition, purihes the
blood and increases the blood supply of
the body. Weak people will find in this
medicine sure means of strength.
III was under doctors care for quite timep
writes Mr.. J. F. Kidd, of Parmleysville, Wayne
Co.. KY. uThey had almost given me up, and
ny suffering was very. great; My pulse was
back, head and legs. Had palpitation of heart,
and for eleven months was not able to do
rierce's Golden Medical Discovery and by the
time the fifth bottle was gone was well man,
d.. Pierce's Pellets regulate the liver.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

The Hcrvey murder case presented
10 especially new features, yesterday.
The authorities are hard at work,
and are doing all they can to
straighten out the situation, and the
indications are that very close web
will be woven around the two pris-
oners now In jail, and whom the grand
jury will be asked to indict on Monday
photographs of both Mooney and his
companion, known as Friday" were
taken yesterday, and copies of Fri
days" picture will be sent to large
number of police authorities, in the
hope of obtaining detailed information
regarding the man. MONEYS record
is sufficiently well known.
Mrs. Mccartney, cousin Of the mu--
dered man, called at the jail yesterday,
in company with Sheriff Richards and
Chief Clemans, but she did not see
the prisoners. She thinks she could
not identify either man, as the only
man she saw was masked with the red
handkerchief. No formal effort at
Identification has yet been made, and
while this has caused some popular
suspense, the tendency has been to
give the authorities credit for know
ing their business. An important
point is that Mrs. Gilfllan, the house
keeper at the Hervey home, says she
saw man with white handkerchief
on his face, and the man labeled Fri
day" had such a handkerchief in his
possession.
There is strong conviction in the
minds of many that Mooney and his
companion had hand in a number of
recent robberies, among them the
Locke Shoe Company, and the Bellaire
ferryboat, and a number of otter
crimes are also charged up against
hem.
The details of yesterday will be
found below.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
A RISE REPORTED
COMING OUT OF THE ALLEGHENY
FROM THE HEADwATERS,
Which VIII Empty a Large Amount
of Ice Into the Ohfo-Other River
Items.

Yesterday afternoons report showed
quite rise at the headwaters Of the
Allegheny. At Oil City there was a
rise of over three feet. This will bring
the heavy ice out into the Ohio and
will doubtless hold back the small
packets for day or two. The ice in
the river yesterday was very much
thinned out. AT II o'clock yesterday
the T. ]. Wood passed down with one
barge of fuel. At 4 o'clock the Belle
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

at the wounded all over the ground.
Quick, out with your camera"
'Oh, can't" said he; its too hor-
rible."
You read, In the writings of those
who know nothing of war, about the
writhing Of the wounded and the
groans are few and faint.
First, the chances of receiving a
wound seem not to have greatly in
creased with the improvements in
death-dealing implements. There were
more than million shots fired at
Modder river, and yet only about 500
men were hit.
Second, the number of bullets that
hit water bottles, haversacks, ration
tins and coat sleeves has been aston
ishing.
Third, the damage to life and limb
by the excessive artillery has been
next to nothing.