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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

On accoun OF the breaking out of
three prisoners from n jail at Fay
Ietteville Wednesday morning before
having been bound over to the federal
court, Were brought to Wilmington
Thursday night and committed to jail
flor safe keeping. United States Com
missioner A. d. Morrisey and Deputy
United States Marshall Averett brought
the prisoners here by the Atlantic a4;u
lYadkin branch Of the rlantic Coast
Lime.
One of the prisoners brought here Is
Mr.. J.. L. York, who is charged with
fraudulent use of thu mail, N the
lothers are Charles Butler and John
Freeman, charged with violating the
UNITED States revenue laws in selling
liquor without license
Mr.. York, 1t will be remembered,
spent a considerable portion of last
iyear in Wilmington in an effort TO in
iterest some of our citizens in a paint
and varnish factory which he proposed
ito remove from Greensboro to this city.
Receiving no encouragement, he hooked
elsewhere for a location n finally
went to Fayetteville where he spent
several months with a view to locating
There. It was while at Fayetteville
that he got into the trouble, which led
to his Incarceration. He is confident
Iof his acquittal when his case zones on
for trial.
When the prisoners broke jail at Fay
I~etteville, Mr.. York could have escaped
with them, but instead of doing so, he
went out on the balcony and called the
ljailer and informed him of the jail de-
Livery. AS stated in The Messengers
Fayetteville correspondence concerning
the Jail delivery, Mr.. York was quietly
smoking a cigar on the jail balcony
when the jailer responded to the alarm
he gave about the Jail breaking. He
lcould have easily climbed down from
the balcony and made his escape, but
Ibid not desire to do so.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Christian Science Reading Room

The Christian scientists of Will
mington have opened a reading room in
the Masonic Temple, and it will be
open daily. The room is cozily fur
nished and provided with tables, chairs
and a piano and is supplied with books,
periodicals, tracts and other reading
matter regarding the Christian science
doctrine.
All persons are invited to call at the
room, which is No. 10, and read the
books and other literature. Those in
charge of the room state that the pur-
pose in opening it is to afford enlight-
eminent to persons who have absorbed
and absurd ideas about the
Christian science doctrine.
1t is proposed to have religious ser
vices al the reading room every Sun
day at IL a.. m and the first Of these
services will be held this morning.
The service viii consist of songs, pray
ers and Bible lessons. Everybody is
invited ito attend.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
LARGE COTTON RECEIPTS
The Number of Bales Received So Far
This Season Exceed all Previous
Years In the History of the Port of
Wilmington-This is Now the Fourth
Cotton Port.

The receipts of cotton in the
port of Wilmington for the cot
ton year, beginning September up
to yesterday, We're 1855 bales,
against "a, 154 bales the corresponding
period in 1893, a difference of 1851 in
flavor this a The receipts for this
year exceed those Of amy year in. the
history of the ort. The receipts for
the entire crop year Of 1898 were the
largest amy year in the history of the
port, being 323,273 bales. During the
period in 1898 corresponding to the pc
lriod since September 1St of his year
the receipts were 124, 1872 bales, a differ
lence in favor of this year of S,873 bales.
The receipts here yesterday were L.
I156 bales, against 1,163 bales the cOrre-
spending day in October, 1899. The re-
lceipts during the week ending yester-
day were 12,760 bales compared to H.
1888 bales during the corresponding
week in October, 1883.
The exports from Wilmington have
been 107, 415, of which SO, 0S9 We're for
leigh and 1886 We're domestic. The eX-
ports for the corresponding period last
Year were SO, 457 bales, of which SO, 946
bales were foreign and 511 bales We're
domestic.
The Wilmington market for spot cot
ton closed firm yesterday at 9A cents
against rs cents the corresponding
day as season. The New York mar
ket closed quiet at 9% cents, a decline
lOf 3-16 of a cen since the day before.
AS will be seen in our Geographic re-
ports, in point Of receipts Wilmington
is now the fourth cotton port in the
UNITED States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Bradstreet's Report.

New York. October 19.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow Will say:
As the tobbing distrfbutfve trade
tends to lessen with the advance OF the
fall season. the r~epressive influence OF
lante-election feeling becomes more
clearly perceptible, and the result Is a
GENERALLY quiet. though at Ihe same
time, confident feeling in general trade.
(which the stock market haT apparent
ly begun to discount with The result
of swelling current bank Clca~ings
well above recent totals.
AS for some time past. the best trade
advice comes from the south. which re-
mains cheerful, in spite of lower cot
ton
Pacific coast advices are that export
trade is very large as the result OF
army needs and Asiatic requirements.
Northwestern rad is, on the whole.
Quiet and the disposition to charge the
ELECTION with this is manifest Eastern
Wholesale trade is quiet, but steady.
Gross railway returns continue excel
lent, considering the reports of quiet in
ALI other lines, and OF net eturns those
for August are much more encourag-
ing h those OF July.
The country's foreign trade is in a
fiattering condition, September exports
being the largest eve reported for that
month, and, swelled by high priced
ICOllOH SHlpIlSTlIS, tile nlHe months Tl-
turns are far in advance OF all pre-
vious years. Imports. on the other
hand, show few gains. and the out
look is for a record-breaking export
trade and merchandise balance for
the calendar year far in advance OF all
other years.
Prices of farm products have tended
downward this week The most no
table drop has been in cotton-is cent
for the week and l cent from the high
est point reached-due to the good
picking weather and the absence OF
frost, encouraging maximum estimates
Iof yield, but also because OF the heavy
weight of receipts brought out by the
high price of two weeks ago. Cotton
goods are very firm, despite the drop
in raw material, but disposition is
to sell carefully OIL spring %ccount.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 223 in the United States. against
I210 last week, 221 in this week a year
ago, 213 in 1898, 205 in 1897 and 2s2 in
I12Qe
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Last night at 8 O'Clock pandemonium
who are confined in the Jail. They
We're boo-hooing, screaming and yelling
fire like mad.
Someone hearing the screams went
to the Jail and discovered h the jail
office was on fire. Mr.. NJ. G.. Mills,
the jailer. was absent, SO his wife was
informed about the fire. She imme-
diately seized her two children who
were with her in a room on the second
story, and carried them down stairs
to a place of safety. She then opened
the Jail door and let in the crowd OF
fremen and citizens who had assem-
bled, an alarm of fire having in the
meanwhile been turned in from box
q at Third and Princess streets.
Chief Schnibben and Assistant Chief
Monroe were both on hand with the
fire department and in two minutes
had the fire out. The furnace in the
basement was fired up for the first time
his season and as a lot of hardened
SCOT had collected around the vent
which opens into the Jail office, it
caught on fire. A blaze three feet
high was coming up through the CRATE
in the floor and smoke was pouring
up the stairway just over it The
smoke first alarmed the women prison.
ers at the head of the stair case and
they began to scream and cry in great
distress There was no money damage
on account of the fire.
When the fire broke through the
CRATE in the office floor, Mr.. j. L. York
was lying asleep on a cot two feet from
it, but he was aroused by the screams
thrown open to admit the crowd, there
was great excitement and crowding in
the Jail office. MI. York however,
was one of the coolest men there. He
stood around quietly smoking a cigar
and looked on instead of trying to
make his escape As the doors eel
wide open and being unknown to most
of the crowd, he could have walked out
and made good his escape. He took
in the situation and laughed about the
snap that was offered Ito him bu tide
cHned to take advantage of it.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. York
was brought here Thursday night from
the Fayetteville jail, from which sew
eral prisoners escaped on Wednesday
morning. 1t was he who informed the
sheriff that the prisoners had escaped,
not then taking advantage of another
fine opportunity to escape.
This makes the second time now that
he could have gotten away but he
would not do 50. Instead Of getting
out of Jail himself last night, he stood
guard over another prisoner Ink pre-
vented an escape.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Charleston steady at SIC; me- receipts
1,131 bales.
Cincinnati steady at 10 net receipts
500 bales.
Louisville firm at sSc.
St Louis quiet at sAc: net receipts
1850 bsleS
Houston steady a SC: net receipts
Is. 592 bales.
The NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, October @.-Cotou quiet
a. sac: gross receipts 512 bales: sales
1S6 bales: stock $3.50 bales.
Total today and Consolidated-Net
receipts 5s.0S6 bales: exports to Great
Britain ., 400 bales: France 6.140 bales:
continent l,2s6 bales: stock eS2.oS2 bales
Total inc September Ne. re-
ceip1s 1,s4s.2 5S bales: exports TO Great
Britain ) 0.43s bales: France s6.s9S
bales; continent $685. . bales.
Futures closed steady. October s-iS:
November S.32; December 9.sT: January
9.e6: February 9.25: March ga: April
s.24; May 9.a4: June 2.22: July 9.19;
August sos
Spot closes quiet and steady; mid
ding uplands sac; middling gulf I0c
sales 196 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET
Chicago, October 2o.-The leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Last night a few minutes to 8 o'clock
police headquarters at the city hall
asking for a policeman to accompany
Tom Patrick, a colored boss stevedore
to his home. 1t was stated that he was
surrounded by several stevedores at
the office of Messrs. Alex. Sprunt &
Son, cotton exporters, on Front and
Walnut streets, and that they had
made threats against Patrick'S life.
Hall Policeman C. S. Burnett took
the patrol wagon and answered the
summons.
When the wagon got to Messrs.
Sprunt & Sons office, eight or ten ne
gro stevedores We're standing at the en-
trance of the office, keeping Patrick at
bay inside the lobby. Patrick was
very much alarmed and told Officer
Burnett that the men had threatened
to kill him for not paying them their
wages. The men, however, denied
that they had made any such threats
and that no one desired to kill Patrick
but that they were after him for their
money, dS lie Edu ldlISu W Pay tlSlI
off.
Patrick informed Policeman Burnett
that he got the money in MeSsrS
Sprunt & Sons with which to pay of
his squad, but that ne lost it between
the office and the Champion Compress
The men did not believe him anC
were after him with blood in theil
eye"
Officer Burnett took Patrick as far as
Front and Red Cross streets, where he
said he felt safe. He then got out AND
went to his home in the neighborhooG
of Eighth and Hanover streets, accom-.
panied by a friend. The amount OF
money which Patrick claims that hs
lost is between $50 and $50. The steve
dores who raised the racket with hin
work in a vessel that is taking on q
cargo of cotton at the Champion com
press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Former County Commissioner +. ].
Dempsey, who resides in the Acorn
branch community. a few miles from
the city, accidentally shot and danger
ously wounded himself with a Winches-
ter rifle yesterday morning. He had
a rifle which had been loaded some
time and went into the yard to I'M
weapon- When lie broke the
breech to throw out a cartridge, it got
damned with the bullet pointing to-
wards him. In attempting to extricate
the cartridge it exploded, sending the
bullet into his right breast. 1t pene-
tfated near the right nipple and ranged
towards the right shoulder.
| NJ. Dempsey Immediately drove to
lth- city and placed himself N the care
lof DR.. c. D. Bell. DR.. Bell called DR..
ID. w. Bullock into consultation, and
they located the ball by probing. 1t
had lodged near the shoulder joint
without having struck the lung, but the
surgeons decided that it would en-
danger Mr.. Dempsey's life to cut it put
$50 they decided to allow it to remain.
After Drs. Bell and Bullock dressed
the wound, Mr.. Dempsey returned to
his home. He is dangerously wounded,
but he surgeons do not consider the
Iwound necessarily fatal
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL

New York, October 20.-Money on call
nominal; prime mercantile paper sac
per cent. Sterling exchange easy with
actual business in bankers bills at
4.S@4.s4A for demand and at 4.sld
ASIA for sixty days; posted rates
4.S2@4.S2k and 4.S5k. Commercial bills
4.S0k@4.S1; silver certificates 64k@65k;
bar silver 64A; Mexican dollars 50h
state bonds inactive; railroad bonds
strong; government bonds steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool, October 20. 1 p. m.-Cot-
ton: Spot moderate business; prices
easier; American middiing fair 5 31-32d;
good middling SGD; middling 5 9-16d;
low midling 5Sd; good ordinary 4 13-
led; ordinary 4 7-16d. The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, of which 500 were
for speculation and export and includ-
ed 400 American. Receipts 1000 bales.
including 200 American.
Futures opened quiet and closed quiet
but steady. American middiing L. NJ.
c.: October 5 25-64d65 26-64d value;
October and November 5 12-64dQ5 49,
Cad sellers; November and December 5
7-64d buyers; December and January
5 4-64d@5 sad buyers: January and
February 5 2-e4dQ5 3-64d sell
March and April 4 62-64d@4 63-S4d sell
ers; April and May 4 61-64d sellers;
May and June 4 60-64d buyers; June
and July 4 59-64d sellers; July and Au-
gust 4 57-64d64 5S-64d sellers; August
and September 4 51-S4d@ 4 52-64d buy
erS.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston quiet at 9 Lie; lei re-
ceipts u, $50 bales.
Norfolk steady at csc; net receipts
$40 bales
Baltimore nominal at 9Zc.
Boston quiet at 9zc; pet receipts coo
bales.
Wilmington firm at SIC; g receipts
2,511 bales
Philadelphia firm at 10c: net receipts
195 bales.
Savannah quiet at 91sc; net receipts
9,724 bales
New Orleans steady at 9 3-1ec: net re-
ceipts 16, 654 bales.
Mobile quiet at Sc; net reoeipts $50
bales
Memphis steady at 9 s-1sc; He. re-
ceipts 5.431 bales.
Augusta quiet at s1kc; ne receipts
1858 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Dunn. October %

Dunn. october -
Editor Messenger:
Colonel K. " Murchison. Of Lilling-
ton. one q the Oldest and most highly
citizens OF Harriet county.
passed away Tuesday. The cause of
his death was a cancer on his face.
from which he had been a great suf-
lferer for more than a year.
Mr.. V. L Stephens. cashier OF the
Merchants and Farmers bank. has
been confined TO his bed for q week
with a malarSai attack
Hon ID. II. Mclean. Bryan e~iector.
has been IN the west for the past two
weeks or the campaign
Miss Laura Swinsop. OF Wilmington.
accepted a position in the Dunn
high school with Afr. j. d. Ezzcll. We
welcome her TO the next largest town
I'm TIE state.
Mr.. J. C. Clifford. chairman % Har-
lnett's democratic executive committee.
Is on a visit TO Dayie this week
The postofFice was moved into new
quarters this week on Railroad street
The Office Is a new ore and very hand
Esomely arranged.
Every week brings some new enter
prise TO the front. MeSsrs Young &
Neighbors are putting IN an up-to-daste
patent roller Touring mill. something
that has not been in our midst before.
This mill will be a great benefit To- both
the armer and the in this
section Let the good work go on
The senatorial contest seems 20 over
shadow all the other political questions
now. The ground Is claimed both by
lSimmons men and Carr men in Har-
nett. The Carr men are wearing but
tons and the Simmons supporters are
wearing persimmons pinned on their
coats.
DIR. R 3. Hall Is here today to hold
the last quarterly conference on Dunn
icircuit-
Our pastor. Rev. Mr.. Forbes. was
called { Wallace, N. c.. to the bedside
of his only daughter. who Is very i'll
MOSES"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Two Fires at the Same Time

Yesterday morning at 4.35 o'clock an
alarm of fire was sent in from box 81
at Fore & Fosters mill. The fire de-
partment responded promptly, n
while on the way to the fire they dis
covered blazes issuing from the resi-
dence at 30S North Third street, occu-
pied by Mr.. w. H. Brown and owned
by the Jewett estate. AT first it was
thought that he alarm had been sent
in from this fire, but the blaze lighting
up the vicinity of MacRae and Walnut
streets plainly indicated that w fires
were raging at the same time.
Chief Schnibben stopped at Mr..
Browns residence with a portion of
the fire apparatus and sci Assistant
Chief w. P. Monroe to the other fire
with the chemical engine and two
hose wagons. Thus the department
was fighting two fires at the same time
the one at 3OS North Third street and
one at $40 MacRae street.
The fire at Mr.. Browns residence
originated in the Kitchen. h roof Of
which was damaged to the extent Of
from $50 to 500. The house was in
sured for $1,000 and it's contents for
s1.S50.
The fire at go MacRae street caught
from a lot of hot ashes left in the
kitchen. The house, a two-story build
ing, owned and occupied by Mary
Turner, colored, was damaged prob
ably to the extent of $500 to $500. There
was insurance on the house to the
amount of $500, and on the furniture
a boarder, also carried 5000 on his fur
niture.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
SAVANNAH'S NEW CATHEDRAL
To be tonsecrated October 2Sth-Many
Prominent Prelate. to Participate
19.-Bishop

Washington. October I9.-Bishop
Reilly. Of Savannah, Ga. has written
to a friend in this city, under date of
the 18th instant, expressing his belief
that the opening of the new cathedral
in Savannah, on October 18th will be
n of the most memorable religious
events in the history Of the south. The
bishop has received assurances from
many leading prelates of the United
States that they will attend the dedi-
cation rites. Among the number Is
Archbishop Martinelli, the papal dele
gate here. By reason of other engage
ments Cardinal Gibbons will be ~ HE
to attend, and, therefore, Archbishop
Martinilli will preside at the csremo-
NAL. which also will mark the Golden
Jubilee" OF the Savannah See. founded
in 1850.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
DEATH OF CAPTAIN LAMB
He Died at Norfolk as the Result of a
Stroke of Paralysfs-Was a Brother
Of Colonel william Lamb and Mar
ried a Wilmington Lady

The Norfolk Virginian-Puot Of yes
lterday says:
AFTER an illness which lasted but a
Single day, Captain Robert w. Lamb
Idied at No. 1 College Place yesterday
levening about 6 o'clock, and thus Nor
folk los one Of her best citizens. 1t
was the result of a stroke Of paralysis
received yesterday morning, and from
(which he never recovered, although
Everything possible was done for the
afflicted gentleman
Captain Lamb was a brother of
Colonel William Lamb, now a resident
here. At the breaking out of the late
war he Joined h regiment of which
his brother was colonel, and at Will
Imington and Fort Fisher, n. c., served
las captain and adjutant of it.
"It was in the former place he mar
lried, his wife being Mrs. Sallie Repiton,
la daughter of the Rev. DR.. Repltcn, a
minister of the North State.
She, with one daughter, Miss Sarah
Lamb, survives him."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Cash notation were as follows:
Flour quiet; winter patents sS.S0G4.00;
straights 3.20Q3.70: clears s3.O0G3. so;
spring specials $3.50; patents s3.50G4.00;
stralghts s3.10@3.50; bakers s2.30d2.s0
No. 8 spring wheat 67a@75c: No. 2 red
73k@75kc; Nc. 2 corn 40kc; No. 2 yell
low 40@4OAc; No. 2 oats 21& age; No.
2 white 24hQ24Zc; No. 3 white 23@
24Ac; No. 2 rye 49hc; mess pork per
barrel $11.50; lard per 100 pounds s6.971s
@1.00; short ribs sides Qoose) $3.50
7.05; dry Salted shoulders (boxed) S6.25
Q6. 80; short clear sides Cboxed) $3.50
los; whiskey s1.27.
New York, October 20.-FLOUR-
Easy and a shade lower to sell. Winter
patents s3.70@4.00; Minnesota patents
S4.10@4.40.
WHEAT-Spot steady; Nc. 2 red 79c;
options opened rather easy and old off
later wins to unsatisfactory able
prospects for large worlds shipments
on Monday and light speculative sup
port. Subsequently they partly recov
cred on talk of probable rain in the
northwest. Closed steady and un-
changed. October closed 77bc; Deem
Der 1910.
CORN-Spot firm; No. 2 Acc; options
We're steady but quiet. being supported
by firmer cables, local covering.
strength west and a further inquiry for
cash property. Closed firm at hc@kc
higher. October closed 451Ac; December
42kc.
OATS-Spot quiet; No. 2 25c; options
dull but steady.
LARD-Ffrm; western steam $7.45@
$50; October closed $7.5G nominal: re-
fined firm; continent $3.50: South
America 1925; compound 6k@6%c.
EGGS-Ffrm; state n Pennsylva-
mia 20@21c; western regular packing
at mark 16@1Sc.
PETROLEUM = Dull; refined New
York s7.45; Philadelphia and Baltimore
$40; 10 in bulk s4.S5.
POTATOES = Quiet; Jersey $1,000
1.S7k; Long Island s1.50@1.75; Jersey
sweets s1.50@2.00.
PEANUTS-Steady and unchanged.
CABBAGE-Quiet; Long Island per
100 $1.5O@2.25.
SUGAR-Raw steady: . fair refining
4Ac; centrifugal SO test 4Ac; molases
sugar 4c; refined quiet; standard A
s5.55; confectioners A s5.55: mould A
$500; cut loaf s6.15; graduated $5.75;
cubes $3.50; powdered $3.50.
COTTON SEED OIL-Steady; prime
crude barrels nominal; prime summer
yellow 35@36c; off summer yellow 3415c;
prime winter yellow 40G41c; prime
white 39c; prime meal 26.00@26.50.
NAVAL STORES.
New ~oYrk-Spirits ~turpentine firm at
42k@43c. Rosin steady: strained COM
mon to good $1.47h01.50.
Charleston-Spirits turpentine firm at
39c; sales 25 casks. Rosin steady and
unchanged.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
Acc; receipts 700 casks; sales 9S5 casks;
exports 1,2S7 casks. Rosin firm; re-
ceipts 2,479 barrels: sales 1897 barrels;
exports 6.264 barrels. Quote: A. b. &.
$1.30; D, $1.35; E, S1.40; F. S1.45; G. $1.50;
I, s1.6O; X. $40; NJ. s1.S0; n, $3.50; w.
w, $3.50; w. G.. S2.75.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
Try Aliens FOOt-Ease.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes.
Your feet fee swollen, nervous and
hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet or tight shoes. try AL
lens Foot-Ease. 1t cools the feet and
sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisters
and callous spots. Relieves corns and
bunions of all pain and gives rest and
comfort. Try it today. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores for Csc.
Trial package FREE. Address Allen
s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23

Chronic Nasal Catarrh poisons every
breath tha is drawn into the lungs.
There is p~rocurable from any drug
eist the remedy for the cure Of this
trouble. A small quantity Of Ely's
Cream Balm placed into the noStrils
spreads over an infiamed N angry
surface. relieving Immediately the pain
full Inflammation, cleanses, heals and
cures. A cold in the head vanishes i'm
mediately. Sold by druggists or will
be mailed for so cents by Ely Brothers.
Sc Warren Street, New York