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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
REMOVING OF DEAD BODIES
Carried Out to Sea and Buried-Martial
Law All LOoterS Shot.

Galveston, Texas, September II, via
Yacht Stella to Houston September IL.
THE citizens of Galveston are strain
ing every nerve to clear the ground
and scure from beneath the debris the
bodies of human beings and animals
and to get rid of them 1t is task of
great magnitude and is attended with
untold difficulties. There is shortage
OF horses to haul the dead and there is
a shortage OF willing hands to perform
the grueSome work.
Yesterday morning it became appar-
ent that it would be impossible to bury
the dead even in trenches and ar
ransementS were made to take them to
sea Barges and tugs wer quickly
made ready for the purpose, but it was
difficult to get men to do the work.
The city'S firemen worked hard in
bringing bodies to the wharf, but out,
side CT them there were few who help
ed.
Soldiers and policemeA were accord
ingly sent out and every able-bodied
man thy found was marched to the
wharf front. The men We're worked In
relays and were supplied with stimu-
lants to nerve them for their task.
At nightfan three barge loads con-
tanning about 700 human bodies had
with weights. Darkness compelled
suspension of the work until morning.
Toward night great difficulty was
experienced in handling the bodies of
negroes, which are badly decomposed.
No effort was made after o'clock yes
terday morning to place the bodies IN
morgues for Identification TOR II was
imperative that the dead should be
gotten to sea as soon as possible
Many of the bodies taken out are un-
identified. They are placed on the
barges as quickly as possible and lists
are made while the bargeS are being
towed to Sea-
a large number of dead animals
were hauled to the bay and dumped
into 1t to be carried to sea by the tides.
One hundred and twenty-five men
worked all day yesterday and last
night endeavoring to uncover the ma
chinery of the waterworks from the de-
bris. Il is hoped that 1t will be possi-
BILE to turn on the water for a while
today. and it is planned to set fire to
the debris and cremate the bodies
buried under it.
ALL LOOTERS TO BE SHOT.
Mayor Jones has given very full scope
TO Chief of Police KetchuIn and j. II.
Hawley, chairman Of the committee on
public safety. to swear in citizens as
officers. Picket lines have been estab-
lshed around the large stores and
guards placed on duty. Soldiers are
Instructed to shoot any one caught
looting or attempting to loot.
The situation in the city today is
that there are plenty Of volunteers for
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14

Houston, Texas, September ia re-
porter has telegraphed from LaPorte
the story Of the robbery and mutilation
or the dead in Texas and the death of
the offenders.
The ghouls are holding an orgie over
the dead. The majority of these men
We're negroes, but there were whites
who took part II the desecration. Some
of them were natives and some had
been allowed TO go over from the
mainland under the Guise of relief"
work. Not only did they rob the dead.
but they mutiiated bodies in order to
secure their ghoulish booty. a party
of ten negroes were returning from a
looting expedition. They had stripped
corpses of all valuables and the pockets
Of some of the looters We're fairly bulg-
ing with fingers Of the dead which had
been cut off because they were so swol-
len the rings could not be removed.
GHOULS SHOT DOWN.
Incensed at this desecration and mu-
tilation of the dead the Iooters We're
that all found in the act Of robbing
dead shall be summarily shot.
During the robbing Of the dead not
only We're fingers cut OF but ears were
stripped from the head in order to Sc
cure jewels of value. A few govern
ment troops who survived have been
assisting in patrolling the city. Pri-
vate citizens have also endeavored to
prevent the robbing Of the dead and on
several occasions have killed the often
.ders- Singly and in twos and threes the
offenders were thus shot down until
the total of those thus executed eX-
ceeds fifty.
MUTILATORS OF HUMAN BODIES
TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL
AND SHOT.
Dallas, Texas, September 12.-W. H.
McGrath. manager of the Dallas Elec-
trio Company. reached Dallas today di-
rect from Galveston last night. He
said:
Vandalism at Galveston has been
horrible. The most rigid enforcement
of martial law has NOT been able to
suppress it entirely. Adjutant General
Scurry'S men have arrested a hundred
or more negroes, forty-three of whom
We're found with effects taken from
dead bodies. These were ordered tried
by court-martial. They were convicted
and ordered shot. One negro had
twenty-three fingers with rings on
them in his pockets
Houston, Texas, September 12.-It is
true that negroes were shot by order of
a court-martial. Their pockets were
found to be full of human fingers and
jewelry of which the dead were strip
ped.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY
A Petition Filed by w. L. Jones. OF
Raleigk-Mrs. II. NJ. simmons Oper-
ated on for Appendicitis.
Especial to The MessengerD


Raleigh. y. c., September 12-W. E
Jones, dealer in dry goods. OF Raleigh.
today filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy in the federal court, lin
bilities $22,972. his principal creditors
being Charles Broadway Rouss, sl3,-
600; Armstrong. Gator & Co, $l.'00;
A Wright, Petersburg, $2,100-; Z. =
Hodges, Washington, y. G. $1,000
His assets are 13.454, of which $4,000
is stock of goods and $3.50 insuranos.
The state charters the Hamilton
Trousers Company, Of Hamilton, Martin
county, capital $4,000.
Mrs. F. NJ. Simmons was operated
on this afternoon for appendicitis Her
condition is favorable, though the
crisis is not yet reached.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
WILMINGTON, n. c.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1900

prevents delay to either the freight or
the passenger service, for, IL We handle
the freight with the passengers to
Texas City. TO transfer from the cars
TO the boats would cause too much de-
lay to the passenger service. We
brought in one train consisting Of
about coo Galveston people to Houston
today and will get another train load
tonight, mostly women and children,
which will make about 600 that We Will
get out Of Galveston today. The pas
senger and freight service between
Houston and Galveston is all free for
sufferers and we are issuing transpor-
tation to all points north Of Houston
to all sufferers not able to pay their
way.
(Signed) l.. TRICE."
The following report was also receiv-
ed from Adjutant General Scurry:
Galveston. Texas, September IL.
To Governor Sayers, Austin.
The mayor of Houston ordered the
Houston military companies here; six
ty-five men and officers came. Thirty
Galveston directed me to take COM
mand. Streets patrolled for purpose
Of preventing thieving. Work of clear
ing the city progressing fairly we'll
Most conservative estimate made Of
deaths 1000
lSlSneQ) THOMAS SCORR1.,
Adiutant General"
GOVERNMENT VESSELS IN SER
VICE.
Washington, September 12.-The
president has received a telegram from
Governor Sayers, of Texas, asking
that light draft vessel be sent to
Galveston for use in communication
between the island and the main land.
The message was referred to the treas
ury department and an order was issued
to the revenue cutter Winona at Mo-
bile to proceed to Galveston without
moments unnecessary delay. The
lighthouse board ordered the light
house tender ArbutuS, now at New
Orleans, TO clear at once for Galveston.
Captain Shoemaker. chief of the
revenue cutter service, is apprehen-
sive as TO the fate of the cutter Gal
weston, which was anchored in Gal
weston harbor at the beginning of the
storm. 1t is assumed that she put to
sea, but as three full days have elapsed
since she was heard from there are
fears for her safety.
DAMAGE ALONG THE COAST.
Governor Sayers today began re-
ceiving reports from various points
dicate that there has been great prop
erty damage done for several hum
dred miles and that the list of Gal
weston fatalities and suffering will be
largely augmented. Down the coast
from Galveston the town of Dickinson
was laid waste and five people killed.
The towns of Alvin, Alta Iona, Texas
City and BrOokshire are wrecked and
hundreds are destitute.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Of lif in and around Galveston at 5000.
CITY DAMAGED BEYOND. REPAIR


CITY DAMAGED BEYOND. REPAIR
Washington, September 1.-THE
quarmasters department has received
the following from Galveston:
"Quarterrnas ster General, Washingtong.
referring TO my telegrams<of 9Th
and 10th / have, subject 30 approval,
suspended Fort Crocket construction
contracts, and again urgently recon-
mend that contractors be paid for Ia
Dor and material in place and on
ground, all swept away and lost be-
yond recovery. Fortifcations az
Crockett, Jacinto and Travis all de-
stroyed and cannot be rebuilt on pres
ent sites. 1 recommend the continu-
ance Of my office here only long enough
TO recover Crockett office safes and
mourning gun, when located; also to
close accounts and ship my office and
recovered property where directed /
fear Galveston is destroyed beyond its
ability to recover. The loss of life
and property is APPALLING.
BAXTER.
"COmmanding"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Hotel Lease Surrendered
Especial to the Messenger.

Raleigh, n. c., September &c. tt
Bennett. who leased the Carrollton
hotel two weeks ago for year, appears
to have given up the lease. He nou-
fed his clerk. with whom he had left
ample funds, to pay all indebtedness and
close the house. The clerk did this to-
day. o. ]. Carroll. owner OF the house,
reopened it this afternoon.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14

Now Is the season when the small
boy fills himself with green fruit,
which invariably leads to cramps,
diarrhoea or dysentery. If parents are
prudent, they will have a bottle Of
Pain-Killer, ready for such summer
emergencies. Avoid substitutes, there
Is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.
Price 25c. and soc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
The Health Problem

Is much simpler than IS sometimes
supposed. Health depends chiefly upon
perfect digestion and pure blood, and
the problem IS solved very readily by
Hoods Sarsaparilla- You may keep
by taking 1t promptly for any stomach
Or blood disorder. Its cure Of scrofula,
salt rheum, catarrh, dyspepsia, rheu-
matism and other diseases are num-
bered by the thousands
The favorite family cathartic Is
Hoods Pills.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Negro Succeeds Maj Walker at Norfolk

Ncp-CldI 70 washington IOsI-J
Richmond, Va, September 10.-Quite
a stir has been caused in republican
circles by the removal from Office OF
Major z. T. Walker, as ship-keeper
in the Norfolk navy yard, and the ap-
pointment of a negro named Conner
in his place. Major Walker Is well
known here, having been the su,er-
intendent OF free delivery in the Rich
mond postoffice during President Har-
rison's administration.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Killed by a Falling Flag Pole.

New York, September 12.-During
the prevalence OF nigh wind today a
mast sustaining one end Of a political
banner suspended over Broadway was
blown down, killing Charles Dunfeld,
OF Birmingham, Ala, who was passing
with his brother and friend.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Kruger on Portuguese Sof1

= Lorenzo, Marques, September L.
President Kruger and several Trans
vaal officials who arrived here last
night are staying at the house OF Mr.
G.. Pott, the consul OF the Netherlands
It rs reported that they viii sail for
Europe September nth on the German
steamer HerZog-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
BEYOND COMPUTATION
THE FULL RESULTS OF The WRECK
NEVER TO Be KNOWN
THE GHOUIS AT CHASTITY WORK

Many Shot Down for MutiIating Bodies
for Jewe1ry-No Reduction I'm Esti-
mate of Loss of Life; That of Property
Increased - Dead Bodies Buried at
Sea by the Hundreds strict Police
ReguIations-Men Impressed to Re-
move the Dead.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14
Population of Little Rock

Washington, September 1.-THE CEN
sus bureau announces that the popula-
ton OF Little Rock. Ark, is 3s,2g7, ss
against 25.S74 in 1890. an Increase OF H.
433 or 1906 Der cent
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14

Papers have been found in the @m-
peror's room at the palace containing
lists of the foreigners killed ani the
foreigners property destroyed.
The search upon the part or the
allies for Chinese troops has been sus-
pended.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09

Passion week, as a whole, is gen
orally very quiet, almost no social
functions taking place. Its prominent
feature is the pilgrimage 70 one of the
sacred shrines. Devout persons in
both town and country join in the pill
grimage, and every village through
which the procession passes adds its
quota to the pilgrimage. The journey
is taken fasting, as far as possible,
only bread and water sufficient to pre-
serve from absolute exhaustion being
INDUCED in.
On Good Friday a life size image of
the Christ is carried to the principal
church by procession of priests and
there remains until Easter, guarded by
soldiers, who stand motionless as
statues. On Easter Sunday the wor
shippers place offerings of money at the
feet of the sacred image. Easter morn
ing is greeted with tokens of gladness,
somewhat similar to our Christmas
all the windows having wreathes of
flowers and leaves.
One Of the prettiest observances OF
the day is a procession of young girls
in white. carrying branches of green
trees, following the clergy in their
robes and the acolytes with a huge
gilded cross After the white robed
girls come the villagers
The most interesting custom, how
ever, is that known as watering,
which occurs on Easter Monday and
Tuesday. Men go out armed with
water in bottles or pitchers and throw
it on the young women they meet on
the village streets. Sometimes they
even call at the houses and greet the
girls who come to the door. The odd
part of it is that the more thoroughly
! drenched the victims are the better
they are pleased, as it brings them
| luck. In the cities the custom has
! been gradually refined so that gentle
/ men arm themselves with bottles OF
cologne
This Watering rite is said to be
known in no other country, and its in
stitution is ascribed to one of the
apostles. 1t is possibly a perversion
of the rite of baptism.
Young women retaliate on Tuesday
and the laughing SWANS often find
themselves Unexpectedly drenched as
they pass a house or drinking fount
I Easter Monday is the Hungarian S
facorite wedding day, as it is sup
posed that it is especially fortunate
for marriages, and the priests are usu-
ally kept busy that day. The rest OF
the week is filed with social gaieties,
and the quiet of the vigorously OBJ
! served Lent is fully atoned for.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
A WOMAN'S WORK.

When breakfast things are cleared
away
The same old problems rising,
For she again sits down to think
I. Of something appetizing.
The dinner she must soon prepare,
Or give the cook directions,
And great is the relief she feels
When she has made selections
When dinner things are cleared away
The problem that is upper
Is just the same with one word
changed
What can get for supper?"
She wants to give them something new,
And long is meditation,
Till choice is made, and then begins
The work of preparation.
When supper things are cleared away
Again her mind is worried,
For then she thinks of breakfast time,
When meals are often hurried
She ponders Ger it long, until
The question is decided,
Then bustles round till she makes
sure.
That "woman's work is never done"
Has often been disputed,
But that she's worried is fact,
And can not berefuted.
The worry over what to eat
Is greatest of these questions,
And glad she'd be if some one else
Would make the meal suggestions.
-Pittsburg Chronic1e-T elegra phi
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09

lated, and some churches adopted one
rule and some another. This diver
sity of usage was put an end to. and
the Roman rule making Easter the
first Sunday after the fourteenth day
of the alendar moon was established
in England in $50. After nine cen
turtles discrepancy in the keeping of
Easter was caused by the authorities
of the English church declining to
adopt the reformation of the Oregon
ian calendar in 1882 The difference
was settled in 1852 by the adoption of
the rule which makes Easter day al
ways the first Sunday after the full
moon which appears on or next after
the 21st day of March. If the full
moon happens upon Sunday, Easter
is the Sunday after"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
EASTER IN OTHER LANDS.

In France, before Easter the priests
begin their rounds of visits, blessing
and receiving eggs in return. After
high mass in the Louvre, highly
gilded and piled in pyramids, they
were carried into the royal presence
Then having been blessed by the
chaplain they were distributed among
the people. In Italy the same custom
was employed. In Russia Easter is
'at-home day" as New Years's is with
us. and every man carries about a
generous supply of hard boiled eggs.
These, with Easter greetings, are eX-
changed with every friend he meets.
Ladies who receive have platters Of
handsomely painted eggs to give
away, and a kiss can always be
claimed with the egg. Easter week in
this country is tho great annual
wash, which can be compared only to
the spring housekeeping of our
country. Fun as we'll as work forms a
part of the cleaning, Men with
brushes fastened to their feet skate
over the floor, while the women ac-
company their rhythmical movements
with song.-Blanche Gardner Spinney
in Woman's Home Companion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The total population of the Philip
pine Islands is estimated at from 81
900, 900 to 100000 1t is made up of
no less than three distinct races, and
these again are divided into eighty-four
tribes, differing from each other in
language, customs and laws and sun
dered by ancestral jealousies and
feuds. Of the eighty-four tribes men
toned, seven may be fairly rated as
civilized.
A Bohemian shoemaker has invented
a walking shoe which can be heated by
an electric apparatus in the heel with
tubes carrying the heat under the soles
of the foot.
A prize of $500 has been offered by
an English book publisher for the first
correct guess of the date on which the
BritishBoer treaty of peace will be
signed
Bald heads and clean-shaven faces
are healthy, according to a Philadel-
phia physician. He says that danger
Gus bacilli breed in hair and whiskers.
Although the Cossacks maintain
nearly $4,000 fighting men and can
muster $4,000 in an emergency, there
are but 440 of them engaged in bust
ness.
February was the first month since
1866 in which there was no new moon,
and another month without a new
moon will not come for many years.
Bears are so destructive to cattle in
some parts of Colorado that farmers
are offering rewards of $50 to 5000 for
particularly dangerous beasts.
Salmon skins are used by the Eskimo
of Alaska for making waterproof
shirts and boots. They also make
Jackets out Of Goldfish skins.
Although Spain is an agricultural
country, it had to import last year more
than s15,000,000 worth of grain.
Philadelphia has just shipped a cargo
containing s1,0OO,OOO worth of agricul-
tural implements to Russia
Only seven occupations were open to
women in the United States in 1899;
now there are about 400.
The Saxon government made more
than $8,0OO,00O from it's railways IN
1898.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
SWEDISH EASTER CUSTOMS.

The peasantry of Sweden believe
that Easter eve is an occasion upon
which supernatural influences prevail
to very great exteut, that all devils
and witches are then abroad, and that
the fairies hold high carnival. All
this changes with the dawn of Easter
morning, for then no evil spirit dares
stir abroad, All things evil know
that Christ, who has triumphed over
death and the grave, has risen in
glory to curtail their power and ulti-
mately destroy them. 1t is also a
Swedish superstition that all horses
and mules fall on their knees on
Eatser morning
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
THE EASTER WINDOW.

Twas Eastertide and Easter gowns
Approached the window space,
Where each was told in accents mild
TO occupy her place.
With maiden joy the Organdie
Essayed to take her stand
Just where she thought the morning
sun
Could slyIy kiss her hand.
And then the Grenadine walked up
With lace and frills galore,
And crowded to the foremost place
Upon that showroom floor,
Unmindful of the modest Cloth,
With military braid,
Or dainty Lawn, or dotted Swiss
Or natty Tailor-made.
But all her grae began to place
When, with a naughty stride,
The Brocade Silk moved in apace,
And babe them all aside
I've held the leading place" she said,
In yonder gay Pahree,
My Louis Fourteenth neck must show
My birth of high degree.
At every ball | enter first,
At drawing rooms and teas
Keep off my train, you Linen Miss!
What country pumpkins these"
With that the Purple Velvet frowned,
The Breakfast Gown turned green,
While one by one the passers-by
Looked in upon the scene.
Margaret s. Remnant
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
OBSERVANCE OF EASTER.

THE observance of Easter dates
back to about the year 6S, at which
among the Eastern and Wetsern
churches as to what day the festival
should be observed It was finally
ordained at the council of Nice in the
year 325 that it must be observed
throughout the Christian world on
the same day. This decision settled
that Easter should be kept upon the
Sunday after the fourteenth day of
the Jewish month. but no general con-
clusion was arrived at as to the cycle
by which the festival was to be regu-