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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
sHERIFFs
Suits to be Brought Against Them-A
Hardy Old Veteran-Mr. Cox, the
Shuttle Block Manufacturer of the
World
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n. c., November Is.

Raleigh, n. c., November Is.
State Treasurer Lacy gives official
notice that on the 10th of this month
he will place in the solicitors hands.
in the superior court here, suits against
the twelve sheriffs who have failed TO
complete their settlements of last years
state taxes. The suits will be pressed.
sheriff was given until November
18th to settle. He has not paid any,
thing because Il has since Iss5 been the
custom to give his county until Nov
ember 18th to settle. He is warned that
in future he must pay promptly.
Nine tramps who were caught I'm a
box a of the Seaboard Air Line nj
N~orlina, locked in aud brought hero
were today put at work on the roads
TO serve ninety days. They had broker
into the car, in which there were goods
A veteran Of the Mexican war named
wallace, 81 years Of age. walked here
today from his home twenty-one miles
away, to get his pension and attend 70
some other business.
The Farina Touring hill here was to-
day bought by Wallace De Dundau OF
New York, who viii enlarge and oper.
ate il.
]. Edward Cox, Of High Point, is here
He controls the trade Of making shut.
tie blocks, and tells your correspondent,
be manufactures 50 per cent OF all used
In the world He has twelve factories
In this state and three in Tennessee,
The insurance commissioner gives no.
tice that all Investment, bonding, de.
benture and diamond" companie.
must be regularly licensed, as insurance
companies are. to do business in thii
state.
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That is encouraging surely. He ex-
poets to make other improvements soon.

Ina - ChCO0A SuICy. IC -
poets to make other improvements
Success in abundance.
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The Messenger keeps an eye upon
repor in exchanges of exceptionally
good farming. The Rocky Mount Motor
gives a gratifying showing fog an Edge
combe farmer. Mr.. r. Thomas Fisher.
1t states tina for this year, Of general
bad results, he has made 50 bales Of
cotton on 40 acres and 100 barrels Of
corr on 80 acres. Cash receipts from
tobacco off 5 acres were $500 and over.
Besides the above, farm supplies for
next year in the way u meat peas. oats
ETC.. were also raised"
has is first-rate success certainly
1t reminds US of 1870. In that year Mir.
Dicken, on a one-horse farm, made 81
bales of cotton footing him $500. He
made the crop himself with very little
help. North Carolina has done some
wonderful farming in the past.
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Vance county, formerly a part Of
Granville, with small slices added from
Warren and Franklin, makes an excel
lent showing in behalf of educational
progress. AS published in the Messen-
ger yesterday, there are only fourteen
whites in the country between 6 and q,
who cannot read and write. Even the
number of negro illiterates is small-114
of the class named. We would sup
pose that is the best showing Of any
county, the population considered.
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Harry Skinner. the political Crane
and lofty tumbler, who was first a dem
ocrat, and then a populist and now a
republican, with aspirations, is hunting
office. 1t is a sure sign of true CONVEX
sion to radicalism, when a white fellow
after becoming a liner" asks for a
place in the feed-trough. Since 1865,
we never heard of out one democrat
who changed coats and colors, who did
not soon begin office-hunting. Skinner
is asking republicans TO endorse him.
A Greenville special to the Charlotte
Observer turns on some light that in
t%erests. 1t would seem that Harry had
asked Charles to give him a lift. This
S"y 43AN u 1ANS LIN
out here today that the reply from AS
sociate Justice G.. A. Cook, Of the SUI
preme court, contained a pointed ana
tart rebuke. Justice Cook IS reported
to have said to Mr.. Skinner that he die
not know any reason why Mr.. Bernard
should not be re~-appointed; that Mr.
Bernard was appointed on the recon-.
mendation of Mr.. Skinner and hat Mr.
Bernard has fully met the expectation
of the government, the bar and the pub.
lie in the discharge of his official du'
ties. And should it be determined no
to re-appoint Mr.. Bernard, then som
republican who has been loyal to tn
party may apply to me for a recommer.
dation and 1 should recommend som
| such person"
! 1t should not be forgotten that tn,
judge is a "jiner" himself, a recruit
from the grand old democracy to tn
offce-seeking black radical brigade il
! North Carolina.
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| The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
new industries in North Carolina foI
the week ending on the 9th instant
Electric light plant al GoldSboro, s25,
900; foundry and pipe works at Char
lotte, furniture factory at Thomasvillet
s25, 900; a hardware company at Char
lotte, $40. 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
TWO MYSTERIOUS MURDERS
Two Women of Evansville, Ind, Killed
In Same Manner About Same Time

Evansville, Ind, November 13.-All
efforts Of the entire police and detec-
tive forces OF this city to find a clew
to the murderer or murdercTs of two
women. whose dead bodies were found
laying in bitches by the roadside in OPP
posite directions from this city yester-
day. a proved unavailing. Several
suspects are under surveillance, but de.
velopments in the murders ave not
been sufficient to warrant the police in
making arrests.
While it is evident that both victims
were killed about the same hour Tues
day night, it is still believed the women
were slain by the same fiend.
The body of Mrs. Georgia Bailey
was found near the city beside a public
highway. There were finger marks OF
the throat. The neck was broken. The
supposition is hat the woman was
checked to death by some one in a bug
gy and then when she fell out her neck
was broken. There We're evidences OF
h body being dragged some distance
and thrown into a ditch.
A mile outside the city, but in an OPP
posite direction, the body of Miss Rem
ner was discovered by searchers. Her
throat also bore finger marks showing
the manner of death similar to that OF
Mrs. Bailey.
John Kifer, who was seen with Miss
Renner, was arrested, but proved an
alibi and was released.
The similarities Of these two murders
to two others in this city during the
last three years forms another strange
incident of the case.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
THE RITIsH GALE UNDATED
Many Marine Disasters With Heavy
CasualIies-storm In Denmark

London, November 1.-THE gale
which has been sweeping over Great
Britain and Ireland for the past two
days continues undated at many coast
points. Over the WEIGH lowlands the
torrential rains are increasing. causing
disastrous floods. Reports OF wrecks
and casualties continue TO flow in. The
death list. made up OF threes and fours.
has an aggregate approaching loo.
The mail boat Nord. from Dover. for
Calais. which last night ran down the
lightship of the works OF the new Do
yer pier. has succeeded in returning to
Dover. The mails and passengers are
safe. The crew OF the hghtship was
also anded his morning after pass
ing a terrible night al sea in a small
boat.
The revenue cutter Active has been
wrecked in the Firth of Forth. Twenty
three OF her crew were drowned and
three were saved. The British steamer
Stelvio has been beached at Dover. She
is high and dry across the parade
Early today a French bark struck of
Hendon Nineteen % the crew were
drowned. Numerous other wrecks have
been reported, but the weather. in most
cases, prevents the identification OF the
craft. Two vessels in distress were
sighted last evening of DunSeness. but
the weather was so severe that the life
boat was unable to put out TO their
| assistance. This morning one OF them
sank. The other. a steamer. reached
West bay, where a tug Is now standing
by her.
The Norwegian bark Inga, Captain
Olsen. has been totally wrecked at
! Tynemouth and sixteen members OF
her crew have been lost.
The Swedish bark Trio was driven
ashore late this afternoon at West
Hartlepool and was broken UP. Three
of her crew were washed ashore alive
while the remaining seven were drown
ed in sight of thousands of spectators
powerless to help them. All attempts
at rescue with rockets carrying life
saving lines failed.
Copenhagen, November ia terrible
gale and snow storm lasting for the
past twelve hours has done great dam
age throughout There is i've
feet of snow here Eight vessels are re-
ported drifting ashore, W lave been
wrecked and many lives have been lost
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
THE WOMEN ASSEMBLING
Annual Meeting of Woman's Christian
Temperance Union

Fort Worth, November 1S.-The adj
vance guard of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union conven-
ton whic is to meet here Friday arriv-
ed today. The party is headed by Mrs.
l.. M. N. Stevens, national president, OF
Portland, Me-, and Miss Anna A. Cor
den, vice president, of Evanston, Ill.
Speaking Of the forthcoming conven-
ton, Mrs. Stevens said: This is the
first time for many years the union has
met in the south. I anticipate a pleas
ant and profitable convention. AL
though there is in the national treasury
only 1886, which is less than last year,
there has been much progress in all di-
rectionS."
A meeting of the official board and
superintendent of divisions was held
his morning and the executive board
composed Of state presidents, superin-
tendents and organizers conferred dur
ing the afternoon.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
PANAMA AMERICAN RAILWAY
Under Consideration by a Committee
of the Pan American Congress

Mexico City, November 1.-The sew
eral committees of the Pan-American
congress are settling down to work.
The committee whose labor is per-
haps most advanced is that on the
Pan-American railway, of which Sena-
tor Davis is chairman. Its work, how
ever. has been largely preliminary.
Mr.. Davis has received information
about the route of the projected road
through the several countries from the
respective delegates now in this city.
and in cases where the delegates are
unable to supply the information de-
sired. they have, at the senator's re-
quest sent to their governments for 1t.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15

Cleveland. o., November I3-The steel
steamer Minnetonka probably the
largest vessel ever built on fresh water
for trade. has practically been
completed at the yard Of the American
shipbuilding Company here. She is AZ
feet over all. breadth OF beam 43.T feet.
and has quadruple engines. The Min
netonka viii be cut in two and towed IN
halves to Newport News where she viii
be welded together again. The cutting
in two process IS necessary because the
canal locks between Lake Erie and
Lake Ontario are only large enough TO
accommodate a boat $50 feet long.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
THE M,KINLEY MEMORIAL
y Central Association Formed at Raj
eIgh-Lumber Company Chartered
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh. n. c., November 1.-The
state charters the Johnston Lumber
Company, of Timber Land, Cumberland
county, capital 5000.
a central Mckinley memorial asso-
citation was formed at the executive
office here today, with Governor Ay-
cock, chairman. Willis G. Briggs secre-
tary and Joseph q. Brown treasurer
The following were appointed a COM
mittee to prepare an address and me-
mortal to the people OF the state, call
ing for contributions: Governor Ay-
cock. Richard H. Battle, G. T. Bailey,
r. t. Gray and b. F. Dixon. 1t is the
purpose to raise at least 81, 600 in North
Carolina.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
THE ESOUIMO

The Esquimo eats blubber.
The lumbermen cat pork.
These people are constantly
exposed to cold and physical
strain. Experience has taught
them that fatty foods give
warmth and nourishment.
For those who have cold
and thin bodies, or are threat
ened with consumption or any
wasting disease, there is no fat
in so digestible and palatable a
form as SCOTS Emulsion.
Physicians prescribe it.
Wen send you q little TO ty, II ycu Exc.
SCOTT & BOVINE, go Pearl street. New York.
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= Schooner Crew Become UnruIy

Savannah, November 13.-The captain
OF the schooner Edward p. Avery. Fer
nandina for New York, now In Tybee
roads, came to the city today and re-
ported that the crew Of his vessel had
become unruly and unmanageabie.
They declined to obey the captains or
ders and while they had not mutinied.
they had come too near it to make IL
comfortable for the commander. He,
therefore. sought the advice OF United
States commissioner Royals. The men,
it is said, have damaged the vessel by
having cut up the pump and otherwise
injured her. An officer was sent down
this afternoon to bring the unruly men
to the city.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
ALABAMA CONSTITUTION CARRIED

The constitutional convention Of Ala
bama has attracted much attention for
months. The aim to practically elm
mate the negro vote, excited much con-
sideration and ~denunciation in the
north. The vote on the new constitu-
ton occurred on 18th inst, and the re-
suit was no doubt satisfactory to the
friends who constructed and supported
1T. The constitution was ratified by not
less than $4,000 majority, and the out
look is for ever more. The purpose Of
those who favored it was to prevent
Alabama from being negro-ridden and
despoiled as in the past. To secure re-
dress of heavy grievances by law was
the end sought and gained. To show
how dangerous and affective was the
negro vote in hat state, 1t has been
frequently stated hat in fourteen coun-
ties the negroes number three times as
much as the whites. We think it Is
known as the Black Belt. The total
population is los, ss1, and of these the
whites have but $3.50.
The negroes turned out in strong
force but in vain. The vote they CAV
could not overcome the white vote
throughout the state. The election was
quiet. 1t is thought that fully ninety
per cent OF the negro vote will be shut
out hereafter. The constitution adopt
ed provides both a property and educa-
tional qualification for those who were
% soldiers or descendants of soldiers
and carrying a good character clause.
The new instrument provides for a lieu
tenant governor, governor and state Of
ficials -four years terms; provides for
QuadrenniaI instead of biennial sessions
OF the legislature reduces h limit Of
taxation to sixty-fve per centum; in
sures a fixed appropriation for the pub
lie schools and prohibits judges and
members of the legislature from accept
ing free railroad passes and prohibits
lobbying. It also provides a penalty for
persons who sell or buy votes.
No one can vote who buyes votes or
sells votes or who offers to buy or sell
votes. Among b clauses those who
can register and vote is b owner in
good faith or the husband Of a woman
who owns 40 acres OF land in the state,
or ofreal or personal estate in the state
assessed for taxation at $4,000 or more,
provided the taxes for the preceding
year have ben paid"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
CATARR

Catarrh has become such a common
disease that a person entirely free from
this disgusting complaint is seldom met
with. 1t is customary TO speak of Catarrh
as nothing more serious than a bad cold,
a simple inflammation of the nose and
throat. 1t is, in fact, c complicated and
very dangerous disease; if not at first, it
very soon becomes SO.
The blood is quickly contaminated by
the foul secretions, and the poison through
the general circulation is carried to all
parts of the system.
Salves, washes and sprays are uusatis
factory and Disappointing, because they do
not reach the seat OF the trouble. SIS. S.
does. It ~cleanses the blood of the poison
and eliminates from the system all catar.
rhal secretions, and thus cures thoroughly
and permanently the worst cases.
M. 7. A. Williams, a leading dry-goods mer
chant OF Sp~srtauburg, s. c., wrfrs: Per yeau
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15

The directors of the American Ex-
press Company have declared a diyf-
dend Of 3 per cert. from the business
profts of the company and an extra
dividend OF l per cent. from its invest
ments. This makes s per cent. for the
year compared with 6 per cent. last
year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15

A race train special for Savannah.
Ga, and Charleston, S. c.. will leave
Louisville mex Monday. The Charles
ton meeting viii run indefinitely.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15

7 had a severe case OF
nasal catarTh, with all
the disag-e-able effects
which belong to that
disease, a n d which
make l-fe painful and
uncndl able. used
medicines prescribed by
d physicians and
Suggested ~ numbers
of friends, hut Ti,hou
getting any better. 7
then began to take S. S:
S. Il had the desired
effect, and cured Inc
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-15
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

sag DAILY MESSENGER by mali.
sae gear, 800: siJ months. $3.50; three
oaff11hs, s1.75: n month. 90 cents.
saE 5Dl-WEEkLY MESSENGER
st~s ] page papers), by mail. one year,
g x months. 20 cents, in advance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04
The Law Of Force.

we try to recognize and apply the
law of kindness in dealing with al
kinds of domestic animals, but there
are many cases where it will not
work and where nothing short OF
the enforcement of control by fear
Will hold some animals in check. This
applies with much force to bulls
which never, under any circumstances
can be trusted, to some horses which
we work and drive or ride, to many
dogs and other animals and occasion.
ally to some boys. While the rule of
force should never be put into opera.
ton where it can be avoided, ii is
still all fol de rol to claim that there
is never any need of it and that the
law OF kindness and moral suasion
is all man needs to maintain his
authority over the lower orders of
creation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04

The season for holding the farm in
stltutes is near at hand and these
meetings will to greater degree than
ever before become centers of inter-
est to all farmers who wish to be up
to date in their calling. There is no
better text book on agriculture than
the individual and practical expert
ences of the farmers themselves. The
colleges and expei iment stations fur
nish many theories and useful facts,
still this work must of necessity be
largely suggestive something which
each man must work out in his own
way with good or bad results as the
case may be. The testimony of a
iarmer at an institute giving details
of his success in any particular line
is worth more to the average man
than the scientific bulletin; for in
stance, one man in community al.
ways make success of clover-gets
good stand, cures his clover hay
nicely and always has clover seed
to sell to his neighbours. Such a man
should be given a whole half day
at any institute where he can be
found, for he knows what every man
to whom he talks ought to know
and that which is worth lot of
money to any man who will listen to
him. Another man always has a
clean corn field and a big crop-he
n L.. n =. n
Here is a woman who makes $3.50 q
year out of poultry on her husbands
farm, she SHOULD be catechized and all
the facts pertaining to her success
brought ont. Here is another good
woman who has raised up nice
family of boys and girls and much
OF the very greatest Importance may
be learned from hers
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04
A Better Thing Than the Daily.

The agent of a cheap daily paper
seeking patrons among the farmer,
along newly established rural mai
route, who was making point that
ms paper gave late market reports
was nonplussed when the farmer told
him that he had better thing in
the telephone in his house, which
gave him direct connection with five
dlfferent market towns and thus ena.
Died him to know the exact condi.
ton of the markets on the morning
OF the day upon which he wished to
sell his produce, while the paper was
always twenty-four hours behind, do
the best it could.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04

1t may be noted that the seeds of
all noxious weeds retain their vitality
in most remarkable manner, even
when exposed to the most adverse
climatic conditions; for instance, the
seeds of all our common weeds are
whipped off by the winds, fall into
mud and slush; are frozen, thawed
and frozen again and again and still
terminate with unerring certainty
the next season, while with most Of
the plants which man cultivates for
crops the greatest care is necessary
in order to preserve the vitality of
the seeds, illustrating the truth that
bad things have a better show for
existence in this world than good
things. both in the physical and moral
universe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04
Kill Them ti,,ma

A friend asked us lately what he
ought to do with three old horses
which he had owned for fifteen years
and which had outlived their useful.
ness. He said that he could get
about ten dollars head for them
by trading them off, but hesitated to
do that as they had been good and
FAITHFUL servants to him. We advised
him to kill them in humane man.
ner as the best and most Christian
thing to do. Any man who will trade
off faithful horse to a horse jockey
TO save few dollars ought to end
ms own days in county poor house
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04

We note that bunch of Hereford
steers, breo and raised upon western
range and finished off in the corn belt
touched the $500 mark early in No
vember. Tins is an interesting item
as showing the greatly improved
character of the stock now being pro-
duced upon these ranges, where only
the lean, lank longhorns were to be
found few years ago. 1T is the fact
that better bred stock is now to be
found upon the ranges than among
the farmers who work SIS dollar land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04
We came across two men recently

each over sixty, who had not made
the discovery during all their lives
that the fly which bites the horse
is not the same sort of a fly which
tickled their bald heads and got into
the sugar bowl. While these two
varieties of flies look almost exactly
alike, they are built very differently,
the horse fly feeding by surface sue
ton, while the horse fly bores for
blood like mosquito.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-12-04

20 the maturing of one ear. Tho
same rule applies to fruits with much
force, any orchard tree which sets q
heavy load of fruit producing more
and better fruit If well thinned than
If allowed to carry the whole load
and with far less drain upon the vi.
tally of the tree, for the heavy draft
upon the tree is not in the production
OF the pulp of the fruit but in the
of the seed enclosed in the
pulp, and the fewer seeds produced
the better for the tree.