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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

school Board AT meeting of the
Board of School Commissioners, held here
on Wednesday, the following business was
transacted:
1t was ordered that all students holding
scholarships in the State Normal School
must report in writing, on or before July
10th, their intention to return TO the school
the following September, to the Board of
County School Commissioners, and also to
the Principal of the State Normal School
Failure to report will create vacancies. All
appointments to the State Normal School
must be made before August 90.
The Treasurer was directed to duplicate
the ten dollars for Library at No. ga, No.
s 10 and No. 10.
The colored schools at Hyattstown and
Kings Valley were closed April 80, owing
to the small attendance.
On motion the following was passed
1t is with regret the Board learns from per.
sonal attendance Of the president and others
that number Of teachers failed to attend. bv
request of the Board, the talks given by Mrs
Elliot on methods of instruction in geogra.
ply at some of the points designated in the
county, and inasmuch as the talks were in.
tended to help the teachers In their daily
work, thereby benetiting the pupils, the only
conclusion is that the said teachers, by re-
fusing or negecting to comply with the re-
quest, indicate their purpose of retiring at
an early date from school work in the
county.
The Treasurer reported total disburse-
ments since March 9Th, for the Spring term
for all purposes, 81 ,56S. For all purposes
during year to date, $52,942. The antici.
pated receipts to meet the expenses of the
balance of the school year, 80 ,SOO-making
total for the year of about $62 800.
The Secretary reported enrolment for the
Spring term, 5,551-average, 3,443.
Examinations June IS and 10 for white
teachers; examination June Is for scholar.
ships; examination June 81 for colored
teachers.
Adjourned to meet June 4th to receive for
consideration all applications for new build.
ings, repairs, furniture, blackboards, stoves,
&c, as per notice of this date issued to
teachers.
School Trustees were appointed, and
full list of the same will be published next
week.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

Worth 500 To you to cure child or adult
of incontinence OF water during sleep "ARti-
Diarettc' stops it Immediately. 81, Sold by
H. 7. Fearon, Druggist, Rockville, Md
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

Quality aud not quantity makes DeWitts
Little Early Risers such valuable little liver
pills X. W Vinson, Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

Tonic Hypophosphites 10 the best Spring
medicine -pnrifes the blood and tones up
the system. 75c bottle, at Fearon's PbAr-
macy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

Mrs. Rhodes Death Mrs. Mary w..
Rhodes, wife of Mr.. Charles G. Rhodes, died
last Monday morning at her residence, 1910
John street, Baltimore, of a complication of
diseases in the 51st year of her age. She
had been i'll for about two years Mrs
Rhodes was the daughter OF the late Warner
W. Welsh, ofthis county. She is survived by
her husband, Mr.. g. q. Rhodes, of the firm
of Rhodes & Rhodes, attorneys, and five
children-Mary Howard Rhodes, Charles
G. Rhodes, Jr., Milinee Rhodes, Warner
W. Rhodes and Elizabeth Rhodes-and six
brothers-William Wallace Welsh, Warner
w. Welsh, Turner w. Welsh and Frank
Welsh, of Rockville; the Rev. Luther W.
Welsh, of Kansas City, Mo-, and Asa Fl
Welsh, of Carksburg, this county. Her
remains were inferred in Greenmount Gem.
etery, Baltimore, Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Rhodes was a member of the Church
of the TRANSPORTATION of West Arlington
and took lively interest in its work. She
was president OF the Church Guild from the
day of its formation to her death. She was
also a member of Avalon Chapter of the
Daughters of the Revolution and took much
interest in its affairs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03

Williamson's Sarsaparlla, the beat medi-
cine In the world TO purify the blood For
sale only al Wilson's Drug Store.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03
Business In the Orphans Court

Business In the Orphans Court
The following business was transacted in
the Orphans Court:
The last will and testament of Margaret
j. Beall, deceased, was admitted to probate
and record, and letters of administration g.
T. A. were granted to John l.. Dawson.
Bond 81 500.
Charles W. Prettymsn, administrator of
Tilghman G. Cashell, deceased, filed inven.
tory of personal property of said deceased
and was granted an order of sale.
Selma d. Wilson, executrix of John G
Wilson, deceased, passed her first and final
account.
Letters of administration were granted TO
Ida M. Purdum and Edward W. Beall on
the personal estate Of William r. Purdum,
deceased. Bond 81 800
Letters of administration were granted TO
Thomas Hunter, Jr., on the personal estate
of VIM. G. Peerce, deceased. Bond $500
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1901-05-03
Again Extraordinarily session In

Again ReIeased.-Monday's session In
Equity Court. No. 3, in Washington city,
was devoted to the hearing OF argument on
the return of the writ of habeas corpus re-
Gently filed in behalf of Messrs. John H.
Walter, Aaron Bradshaw and Granville @.
Shaw, indicted by the grand jury OF this
county for the alleged statutory burning of
house at Four Corners. Two acquisitions
were made by Governor smith of this State
One was uniavoraby acted upon by Chief
Justice Bingham and the second was hon
ored. The accused men were thereupon
surrendered to Sheriff Williams, of this
county, but the habeas corpus proceedings
were Immediately instituted in their behalf
After carefully weighing the contentious
of counsel for the defendants, Justice Brad
ley ordered the release of all three men, on
the ground that no offence in law was
charged and that it was not incumbent upon
him to beside if they were fugitives.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
THE RAILROAD TAX CASE.
Examination of Witnesses suddenly
Suspended-To be Resumed at AM
other Time, to be Agreed Upon byl
Counsel on Both Sides

Pursuant to adjournment for recess
on Wednesday Standing Master Shop
herds court met at $50 O'Clock yester-
day morning in the United States cour:
room, to continue the examination of
the states witnesses in the railroad tax
matter.
When the court opened Judge Conner
of counsel for the state, moved to adj
journ until a day to be hereafter agreed
upon between the counsel for the state
and the railroads. The court accord
ingly adjourned, and all h out of town
lawyers engaged in the examination
left the city yesterday and last night.
Colonel John w. Hinsdale, of Raleigh,
and the Hon. James III. Pou, of Smith
field, of counsel for the state, went
home yesterday morning, and their as
sociate counsel Judge H. G. Conner, Of
Wilson, left last night for Burgaw.
Hon.. F. H. Busbee, of Raleigh, of coun-
sci for the railroads, also wen home
yesterday morning.
The adjournment was a surprise. It
was taken at the instance of the states
counsel but they declined to state for
publication the reason for h sudden
adjournment.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
SUMMONED TO WASHINGTON
Congressman BelIamy Returned to the
Capital Last Night OF a telegram
Stating That the Apportionment Bill
Was Up and Would be Voted on To-
day-He Opposes the Bill

Congressman John D. Bellamy, who
has been home spending the holidays
with his family. returned last night TO
Washington. He did not intend to go
back till Monday. but he was sum-
moned by a TELEGRAM stating thai the
a-pportionment bill had been taken up
yesterday AMI would be voted on in the
house today.
The bill r~eapportions the number Of
representatives in the house and fixes
the number at 357. According to the
apportbonment of members, the states
of South Carolina, Virginia and Ken
lucky viii each lose a congressman.
NORTH C~arolina's membership remains
the same as now, but Me Bellamy is
opposed to the bin as it viii affect the
states named. He is in favor of the mn
nority report which fxes the number of
members at 1856 ms gives North Caro-
lima one additional congressman and
allows h number for South Carolina.
Virginia and Kentucky to remain as
at present.
Mr.. Bellamy did o receive the dis
patch till after 5 O'clock last evening
and he hurriedly got ready to take the
2 O'Clock train.
Congressman Klutz, from North Car
DINA. joined in the majority report, his
main reason for doing so being that il
will give the south an advantage in the
electoral college.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
Early Morning Home Wedding

Miss Lena Mintz, of Wilmington, and
Mr.. A. E. McKeithen, were united il,
marriage yesterday morning at S:3
o'clock at the residence of the brides
uncle Captain w. r. Berry. The Rev.
R. III. Herring pastor of Southside Bap-
fist church, another uncle of the bride,
performed the ceremony. Her sister,
Miss Henrietta MintZ, was maid of
honor, and Mr.. Henry McKeithen,
brother of the groom, was best nan.
After a brief reception, DUNG which
the bride and groom received the felic-
itations of relatives and friends in at
tendance, they were driven to Front
street railway station where they tool
the 9 o'clock train for Greensboro.
Mr.. McKeithen is yardmaster for the
Southern railway at Greensboro. After
spending a few days there he will take
his bride on a tour to Florida.
Among those who attended the we'd
ding yesterday were Mr.. and Mrs. A.
S. Kirby, Of ST. Phillips, Brunswick
county, the latter a sister of the groom,
and Miss Mittie McKeithen, of Town
Creek, another sister.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
Faith and Doubt.

A life of faith does not exclude the
agonies of doubt. Faith presupposes a
hypothesis strong enough to bear the
whole fabric of a mans theories OF life
and to support him in every question of
conduct. Such a faith is as much as
most of US can ook for here. Thomas
a KempiS, whose religious genius 50
often made him wider than his creed
and to whom the thoughts of many
hearts were revealed in momentS of
painful uncertainty, expressed what We
mean so much better than We are able
to do as to tempt us 10 quote him at
length, we'll known though every word
of his writing is:
When one who often a~nXiouslyI
wayered between hope and fear was
day consumed with sadness, he
Frustrated himself in prayer in church
before a certain altar and revolved
these things within himself, saying.
oh, if I did but know that, 1 should
persevere ON and ont' All at once he
heard within himself the divine answer:
And what wouldest thou do if thou
W this? Do now what thou
wouldest do then, and thou wilt be safe
enough. And privately being COM
forted and Strengthened. he committed
himself to the divine will, and his anx-
ious wavering ceased Neither had he
a mind to search curiously to know
what should befall him hereafter, but
studied rather to inquire what was the
acceptable and perfect will Of God for
beginning and accomplishing Of every
good work."-London Spectator.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
CABLEGRAM FROM CHAFFFs
He Clears Himself OF Any 1mputa ION
of Looting

Washington. January General
Chaffee has cleared himself OF any
suspicion OF participating In any of
the footing expeditions which are said
in some quarters to be going on in China
under the disguise of punitive expe-
ditions- II would appear that the oni-
cfals had invited his explanation given
in the following cablegram:
"Pekin. January -.
To Adjutant General. Washington.
Colonel Theodore J. Whit has re-
turned. The movement was simply to
verify the report hat Christians had
been murdered and to secure the arrest
or the guilty parties IL the allegations
were found true. Germans
from Tien Tsin have been in country.
I take no part in offensive operations:
only patrol the country between Pekin.
Hoshi WI and Chang Kiawan occa-
sionafly for the purpose of order.
"CHAFFEE."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
a O OF
To Investigate Charges or Death 81
Marine from III Treatment

Washington. January a-The navy
department has called pom the super
intendent Of the naval academy for D
report uron a charge submitted by
Representative Rixey. Of Virginia. that
Private Marine Robert Green. OF vir-
ginia. a died at ANNAPOLIS from III
treatment while sick The medical
record shows that Green died Decem-
Der 18th from quick pneumonia His
father Is q special pension examiner.
Annapolis. Nd. January 3.-The or
der of the navy department to investi-
case the death OF Private Marine
Grsen a been received at the naval
academy. Superintendent Wainwright
VIII appoint the board OF Investigation
In a few days
The charges preferred by the friends
OF Private Marine Green embrace two
branches: That the Santee. on which
the marine guard Is uuartered. is over
crowded: and that Green received Inn
proper treatment. the specific charge
In this connection being that the deck
Of the Santee was washed with a hose
while he lay in his hammock iii with
pneumonia The charges do not speci-
fy any particular officer or officers as
cuipable, 80 the board viii probably sit
In the nature OF a court Of inquiry.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
INSURANCE
Good Result OF Having an Insurance
Department-Gossip About the CHIEF
Jusficeshfp.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., January 8.

Raleigh, N. c., January 8.
In the course Of a special interview
today with State Insurance Commits
sioner J.. Richard Young some interest
ing facts were learned. He says there
seven fire companies doing business in
the state, seven of the former n four
of the latter having withdrawn because
of the enactment OF the Craig aw re-
quiring foreign" corporations to do
mesticate themselves. The receipts by
the state during the past yea from
insurance companies were sea, 900, while
in previous years the receipts did not
exceed $S4, 600. 1t must be remembered
that h receipts to the state from the
eleven companies which withdrew or
account of the Craig law were $12, 00O,
yet in the face of this loss the receipts
were $1,000 greater than before. These
eleven companies will not return to
the state unless the Craig law is modi-
fed. The commissioner says he has not
yet decided what recommendation he
will make to h legislature in regard
to such modification or to any other
feature of insurance matters.
The reports of the years business will
come in this month. While the year
has been a disastrous one for fire COM
panies in the country at large, the COM
panies ave a a better showing in
North Carolina. During the year the
commissioners investigated twenty-five
fires alleged and supposed to be Of in
cendiary origin. He said: These fires
occurred at ten different points. AS a
result of h investigation there were
sever arrests, and several of the alleged
~incendiaries are in Jail awaiting trial.
TNhiS Ia W in ri RI Investigating S1n-
posed incendiarism is having a very
fine effect. 1t will reduce incendiarism.
There is a good deal of this in this
state. There has always been a lot OF
it. The incendiary fires occur in
groups" so to speak. There was such
a group last autumn. All of the fires in
this suspected class were in stores,
ave two, which were in dwellings, In
nearly every case the property was
over-insured.
The PaIatine Fire Insurance Compa-
ny, of London, today filed an applica-
ton for license to do business in North
Carolina.
The all today vas about the chief
juSticeship. Some papers-democratic
p~apers-are urging that Governor Rus
sell take the place; others are antago-
nizing it. Republicans are divided.
The governor, of course, wants all the
endorsements to be had. There was a
movement for an endorsement by the
Raleigh bar, but it is said one man
stopped this. Charles A. Cook, who
has been, next after the governor, most
prominently mentioned in connection
with the appointment, said Tuesday he
was going to Oklahoma. 1t is UNDER
stood that he has a $50 day position in
the land office there promised him by
the interior department. One of Cooks
friends said he might take the place
right away, or, if he were given The
chief justiceship, might wait two years
and then take it. A cartoon went the
rounds today representing Russell,
governor, giving Russell, chief justice,
a commission.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
His Lifc Was Saved.

of Hannibal, Mo-. lately had a wonder
full d~eliverance from q frightful death
In telling Of 1t he says: Il was taken
with Typhoid Fever. hat ran into
Pneumonia. My lungs became hard
ened. / vas 8 veal / couldn't even
sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. L
expected to soon die Of Consumption.
when / heard Of DR.. Kings New DIS
covery. One bottle gave great relief.
1 continued to use 1t. and now am we'll
and strong. i can't say too much in
its praise" This marvellous medicine
Is the surest and quickest cure I'm the
world for all Throat and Lung Trouble.
Regular sizes SO cents and s1.00. Trial
bottles free at r. r. Bel1amy's Drug
Store; every bottle guaranteed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
H~ester'.cotton Report

New ORLEANS. January 2.5Secretary
Hester's New Orleans cotton exchange
statement issued today covers the
Compared with last year. IL shows an
increase for the month IN round ig-
ures OF $4,000 bales. The total for De-
cember was 1.771,122 bales, against
1887. IT'S bales last year. The amount
OF he crop brought into sight for tn
three months from Seprember 20 De-
cember inclusive Is $4,000 bales owe,
last year.
The movement from the first Of Sep
TENDER to December 31st, inclusive,
shows receipts at all United States de-
livery ports 81 4.554.6s2 bales. against
3,sS0.5 1i bales last year: overland
across the Mississippi. Ohio Ind Poto-
mac rivers 737, 0S0 bales. against S12,-
997 bales last year; southern mill tax
tngs. exclusive OF quantity consumed
at southern outports $50. 3SS bales,
against 59S,2s7 bales last year. and in
terror stocks in excess Of those held at
the commencement OF the season 729.-
1913 bales. against SIS, $40 babes last
year.
Northern spinners took during De-
cember 417,045 bales. against 4ss. sec
bales last year. increasing their totai
for the o months TO 1,135, 500 bales,
against 1.436. $50 bales last
Foreign exports in the first four
months OF the season have been $751;
9S7 bales. showing an increase over
last season Of 613, 500 bales The gain
in foreign exports during December.
compared with December last year,
seen 23S, 122.
Stocks at the seaboard and twenty-
nine beading southern interior mar
kets on December 31st Were 1,S12.3 lA
bales. against 1898. s39 bales the same
date last year.
Up to December 31st last year $40
per ser Of the cotton crop had been
marketed, and for the same our
months in 1928 the percentage of the
crop brought into sight was 68.62 and
for the same time in 1897 the percent
age marketed was 65.15.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
Wilson Notes.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Wilson, january 2.
Work for the new year began here
in earnest this morning. All the fac
tories, which had been closed down for
the Christmas holidays, began opera
tions again.
The year which has just closed has
been a very prosperous one for Will
son There have been added to h resi-
denceS OF the town many important
additions. The improvement along this
line has been marked. Wilson has
grown steadily in every direction. The
Improvements in the business portion
of the town ave also been marked
During the past year the Great East
ern Tobacco Company has been added
to the business enterprises of the town.
concern has handled the tobacco
stems produced by the Wilson stem
meries and has from this product put
a brand Of guanO on the market which
is meeting with much success among
the farmers of his section.
The Branch Banking Company has
just issued its yearly statement. This
institution is very popular with the
Wilson people. and this statement
shows that they have had a very sue
cessful year. The volume Of business
has been greater than ever before and
the returns speak we'll for the present
management.
Quite an excitement was aused in
the. city lookup on Tuesday night by
the attempt Of one of the inmates to
commit suicide. Will Hadley. a negro.
who had bean arrested for assault.
tore up his blanket and with this he
made a rope. His attempt came very
near being successful. Medical assist
ance reached him just In time to save
his life.
Rev. A p. Tyer. the new Methodist
minister, has o his family to VIII
son and will occupy the parsonage.
Miss Lizzie Anderson has returned
from an extended visit to Washington,
D.. c..
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
An Accident to the Erie..o,

washington. January 3.-Captain
lotion, of the Norfolk navy yard. has
maze a teleeraphic report 10 the navy
department touching the roundin 9
the torpedo boat Ericsson yesterday.
me little boat touched bottom In the
and Chesapeake canal while
tne water was low and the ice wa.
thick The known damage was a bert
propeller. but the boat win be docked
at once at Norfolk to make q further
lmVestlgation and repair the damage.
Inc Ericsson is TO join the torpelo
Doat notiHa which VIII accompany the
North Atlantic squadron ON its winter
cruise.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-08
THE CITY OF THE DEAD
abe Year of 100 There Were
leo Interments In Oakdals Ceme-
terry Since the Beginning of His
Term in 1867, Mr.. II. j. Jones. the
Veteran Secretary, Has Given Per-
mits TOR Burial of 3,552 Persons.

During the year 1900, just ended,
there were 120 intermeEts in Cakdale
cemetery of which "a were adults and
As children. OF the adults there were
fl males and SO females. OF the 120 in
terRents SO were persons who died in
this city and q were brought here from
other places in this and other states.
The interments were as follows: Still
born. 10; one day to one a old, Is;
onesto five years old, 8; five to ten years
old, 8; ten to twenty years old, 4;
twenty to forty years old, 19, of which
s were males and IL females; forty TO
fifty years old. 6, of which 3 were males
and 3 females; from fifty to sixty years
old, 16. of which 6 were males and 10
females; sixty to seventy years old, ID,
OF which IL were males and 4 female
seventy to eighty years old, IA, or which
5 were males and 9 females; eighty to
ninety years old, 5, of which 3 were
males and 2 females. Among the inter-
ments there was one female over SO
years of age, one male SO, one male 81
and n male S5-
Mr.. r. ]. Jones, the veteran secretary
of the Oakdale Cemetery Company, was
elected to hat position in February
1867, and next month will have been
secretary for "a years. During that
period he has issued permits for. 1852
interments. His books show some re-
markable condolences in the duplicat-'
ing of the number of interments in diff
ferent years. For instance, the inter-
in 1872 and 1874 were h same,
134 for each "a in 1870 and 1895, they
were us: in 1871 and 1873 they were
102; in 1880 and 1881 they were 100; in
1887, 1889 and 1898 were SO; in 1893 and
HonA 70 SOW
in 1867, the first year Mr.. Jones was sec
rotary, and in 1900, they were 120 for
each Of those years. The number of
interments were greater in the a
1872 and 1874 when they were 134 for
each of those years.
The annual meeting of the Oakdale
Cemetery Company will be held at 8
o'clock next Monday night at the sec
retary's office, on Princess street. be-
tween Second and Third streets.