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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
SOIL TEST r
Ten to be Established In This State.
Last School Text Book Contract
Signed-Heavy Rains.
Messenger Bureau,

Raleigh, n. c., August 13.
Insurance Commissioner J. r. Young
left today for Wilmington to investigate
a fire which it is suspected was the
work of an incendiary.
The board of education accepts the
school text book contract of Sill
yer, Burdette & Co, and the governor
will issue supplemental proclamation.
James Mayhem, for many years in
charge OF the Seaboard Air Lin shops
here. and recently transferred to the
Richmond shops, has returned here,
having been displaced.
Heavy rains set in last night, and this
morning they were excessive. Rain was
not needed, nevertheless there has not
enough fallen to damage crops, which
developed remarkably during the past
three weeks.
The inmates of the old main dormi-
tory building at the soldiers home are
moving out in order that the building
may b. torn down.. All the good ma
terial in it will be used in the construc-
ton of the new building.
Insurance Commissioner Young today
paid S14, 800 into the state treasury. His
department is proving a very profitable
n to the state.
The soil test farm in Edgecombe coun-
ty has been relocated, in order to make
it more accessible to the public. The
present farm is several miles from Tar
boro. There will eventually be ten such
farms in the state, one for each con-
gressional district.
Governor Aycock was at his office this
morning. He is deeply touched by the
great expression of sympathy by the
people of his state at the untimely
death of mis- son.
Over three-fourths of the money due
the state by the bondsmen of eX-state
Treasurer Worth has been paid into
the treasury, to make good the Martin
stealings.
a number of the minor railways have
paid into the treasury their privilege
tax. The Southern pays the largest
amount. $5,2SS, and has made settle
ment.
DR.. Petty, a veterinarian of Winston,
will this week investigate the epidemic
of blind staggers among horses and
mules in Hyde county. DR.. TAFT But
Ter, the new veterinarian, will hardly
arrive here before next week.
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Government Crop Report

Washington, August 13.-The weather
bureaus weekly summary of crop con-
ditions is as follows: ,
The week ending August 18th has
been one Of very favorable temperature
conditions In the district east Of the
Rocky mountains, with beneficial rains
over a large part of the drought area.
Drought, however, continues in the
Ohio valley and in portions of Tennes-
see and the upper lake region, while
excessive rams a w caused destructive
freshetS in the Carolinas and proved
injurious m portions Of Georgia, Flor
ida and Alabama.
Late corn has experienced material
Improvement in the states Of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys and in
Kentucky and Tennessee, and with
favorable temperature conditions III
September the yield in the Missouri val
ley will be larger than indicated by
previous reports. In Ohio. Indiana
and central and southern Illinois the
condition of the crop has further de-
Perforated, especially in southwestern
Ohio. In the Atlantic coast districts
corn has made excellent progress.
Further Improvement in the condi-
ton of cotton is generally reported from.
the central and eastern portions Of the
cotton belt, although rust n shedding
are more or less indicated, especially
in Georgia, Florida and portions OF
Alabama, where too much rain has fall
en- in localities. Over much of the west
ern part of the cotton belt and in por-
lions Of the central districts cotton is
suffering for rain. and in the drought
region of Texas is falling rapidly. Pick
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From the State Capital
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c., August IA

Raleigh. y. c., August IA.
Commissioner of Agriculture koiner,
of Virginia, and Mr.. S. B. Heiges, who
is in charge of the newly established
soil test farm of that state, in Charlotte
county, spent today here, inspecting
the museum and the experiment farm,
the Agricultural college, ETC. They
have been to the large nurseries ana
rorchards at Pomona, Guilford county,
and from here go to Southern Pines to
see the experiment farm, orchard, ana
vineyards. It is possible that they Will
go to the soil test farm near Tarboro.
They are making a study OF test ana
experiment farms.
General Thomas F. Toon, state super
intendent of public instruction, and
Major B. F. Dixon, state auditor, left
today for Wrightsville, to be at the en-
campment of Confederate veterans
which began there this afternoon. The
local camp here will not be represented,
nor will the soldiers home. General
Ray, of the United Confederate Veter-
n arrived from Asheville today and
went to Wrightsville.
The grand master of Masons today is.
sued a d;spensation for a new lodge al
Farmville, Pitt county.
Sheriff Suttle, Of the county OF CleVe-
land, today brought to the p~enitentlarS
Ambrose Bridgers, a white man con-
yicted Of barnburning, and under a D.
wear sentence; also two negro house
breakers, who get five years. Convicts
arrive at the penitentiary in very small
numbers. There are now only 793 state
convicts, against $500 twenty years
years. The counties are using them on
roads. Only life-term and public con-
yicts and women are now sent to the
penitentiary from about two-thirds OF
the counties, as other counties take
many from counties which are not US
ing them on roads.
More rain fell last night and LAY
In all $50 inches have fallen since
Monday evening, none of which was
needed. certainly not in this section.
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The Coffee Market.

New York, August 1.-THE coffee
market opened steady. with prices un-
changed, but stiffened up on several
options or good buying orders from
room traders and more or less demand
from German interests and held the adj
vance all day. A prominent bear house
sold heavily on the call. Foreign news
contained nothing of enough Importance
to influence the local situation either
n way or the other, changes in spec
ulative markets being narrow and pri-
mary receipts about as anticipated,
while the local market for spot supplies
ruled quiet. Trading in futures was
tolerably active all day, total sales
amounting to $500 bags. Spot Rio
quiet, No. z invoice SEC.
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Will INGTON MARKETS
Wednesday. August IL.

NAVAL STOKES
SPIRITS TURPENTINE quiet and
steady; machine barrels 33c; ountry
barrels &c.
ROsIN-Frm at CSC and 800
TAR-Steady at s1.35.
CRUDE TURPENTINE-Ffrm; hard
800; soft, $500.
Prices same day last year-Spirits
t%urpentine 51Ac and 3SZc; Tosin s1.20
and s1.25; tar $40: crude turpentine
hard, s1.40; soft s2.40.
Receipts today-S9 casks Of spirits
~turpentine, 125 barrels Of rosin, 105 bar
rels of tar. 115 barrels of crude turpen-
tine.
Receipts same day last year - 159
casks of spirits turpentine, S55 barrels
Of rosin. 104 barrels of tar. SO barrels
Of crude %turpentine.
PRODUCE
SALT-10Us 45c; 1905 soc; Zoos s5c;
F.: F: s1s5; in less than car lots.
DRY SALTED SIDES|S%@SZc.
BUTTER-24 to &c.
COFFEE-7k@10c.
FLOUR-STRAIGHTS 1915; n pat
ents s4.Oe; full s4.75.
MOLASSES-S. House. Lsc. New Or
leans Brights % to Csc: Porto Rico
80 to SIC: Cuba. % to tic.
SUGAR Granulated $5.45; W.X.C.,
No. 5, $4.95; No. 9, $3.50; No. II, $3.50.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina IS to roc:
Virginia so to SIC; Spanish zoe.
CORN-77k to soc.
CORN MEAL-72h to 75c.
n. G. BACON-Hanls 13c: shoulders
Sc; sides 10 to lie.
CHICKENS-Dull; hens 20 to 22kc;
ROSTERS zoe; spring s to 1Sc.
EGGS-Steady at 15c.
SHINGLES-Per 1000. 5 inch saps, |
s1.60; 8 inch hearts, 1925: 6 inch saps, |
$3.50; 6 inch hearts. $3.50.
TIMBER
Per M Sc OO60 o m
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The MachfaS, Mission

Washington, August 13.-Lieutenant
Commander Nathan Sargent will re-
main in command Of the Machias which
is expected to sail for Panama in a
day or two. Much reliance is placed
upon the tact and good judgment Of
this officer by the navy and state de-
partments. He was in command Of the
Scorpion at Laguayra during the trou-
BILE in Venezuela sometime ago and &C.
quilted himself with much credit. He
is thoroughly familiar with South
American affairs.
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ing is in general progress in Texas, ex-
cept in the northern counties.
In the middle Atlantic states n
New England tobacco has made fav-
orable progress except in portions or
where the crop on lowlands
has been injured by too much rain in
and liz portions OF Tennessee
the crop is greatly improved. but in
southwestern Chic is has been serious
Nv damaged by drought.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL

New YORK, August 14.-Money on call
steady at PA to 215 per cent, last loan
2R per cent; prime mercantile p
Az to 3 per cent; sterling exchange
easier with actual business in bankers
bills at 4.S7% to 4.S7A for demand and
at 4.S5B to 1851 for sixty days; posted
rates 4.S6 to 4.S6R and ASST to 4.S9;
commercial bills at 4.S4h to ASS; bar
silver 5SB; Mexican dollars 45; govern
ment bonds steady; state bonds mac
tive; railroad bonds firm.
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The Dry Goods Market

New York, August 14.-Some inn
provement is noted today in home de-
mandf for cotton goods, but the market
continues quiet. Prices are unchanged
for both staple and fancy lines. Print
cloths are quiet, with sellers at previ-
Gus prices. In mems wear woolens and
worsteds staple lines are firm and tend
ing against buyers. Dress goods con-
tinues dull.
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Cash quotations are as follows:

OoSA L OS -.
Flour quiet and firm; No. 2 spring
wheat 69k to 73c; No. 2 red % to 1889;
No. 2 corn 5S12c; No. 2 yellow 5S1a to
$3.50; No. 2 oats 1864 to SIC; No. 2 white
3SA to 39hc; No. 8 white 3S$ to 39c;
No. 2 rye 60c; mess pork per barrel
S14.10 to $14.15; lard per hundred pounds
$S.70 to SS.7212c; short rib sides Qoose)
(boXed) ~ to nc; snort clear sides
Cboxed) sS.45 to $3.50; whiskey s1.29.
New York. August 14.-FLOUR-A
shade easier but not quotably lower.
WHEAT-Spot weak; No. = red, 1880
f o b afoat. No. . red. 7Ssc elevator.
Options, after opening firm on higher
cables, were weakened decidedly by
liquidation, smaller seaboard clearance
than usual, foreign selling and in
creased country offerings. Closed weak
at Is to &c net loss. September closed
1880; October closed 7SSc; December
closed S0hc.
CORN-Spot weak; No. 2, 63Ac ele-
vator. Options had a firm opening on
the cables but also turned weak
through active liquidation, small clear
ances, absence of bullish crop news,
the wheat break and short selling. 1t
finally rallied however. on covering and
closed unsettled at Is to CSC net decline.
September closed 63Ac; October closed
63sc; December closed &c.
OAIS-SpOt Oull; NO. =, 4UC. options
quiet and barely steady with other
markets.
LARD-Steady; western steamed s9.05
to s9.10.
EGGS-Firm; state and Pennsylvania
16 to 1Sc; western ~uncandled 10 to 15c;
western candled Is to 1910.
PATOTOES-Quiet; Jerseys SO. to
1915; southern prime So to s3.75; Long
Island SO to 1915.
PEANUTS-Quiet; fancy handpick-
ed 4hc; other domestic 2@ to &c.
SUGAR-Raw. quiet and easy; fair
refining 3 9-16c.
COTTON SEED OIL-Quiet but held
steady; prime crude barrels nominal;
prime summer yellow 3S1a to 39c; off
summer yellow 81 to size; prime white
43c; prime winter yellow 43c; prime
meal S25.
NAVAL STORES.
Savannah-Spirits turpentine firm at
33Ac; receipts 1,137 casks; sales 1,121
casks; exports lis casks. Rosin firm;
receipts 3,471 barrels; sales o,755 bar
rels; exports 3,120 barrels. Quote A B
c s1.O0; D s1.05; E s1.16; F s1.l5 to s1.20;
G s1.2O to s1.25; H s1.25 to $3.50; I s1.4O
s1.45; K s1.T0; NJ s2.1o to $500; w G
$500; W w $685..
Charleston-Spirits t%urpentine dull,
nothing doing. Rosin firm n I'M
changed.
New York-Rosin quiet. Spirits tur-
pentine quiet.
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Texas Counting Her Cash

Austin. Texas. August 18th state
treasury was closed today by order OF
the legislature while a committee is
counting the money placed there. This
action is one Of the incidents caused BIZ
the failure o. the First national bank,
OF Austin. where some or the state
funds were on deposit
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Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, August 14.-Heavy liquida-
ton caused weakness in the wheat pit
today and September closed s to &c
lower. September corn was &c lower
and oats sc lower. while provisions
closed unchanged to sc lower.
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MESSENGER, FRIDAY, q Is. 1901.

Charleston quiet at re. net receipts
is bales.
Cincinnati quiet at SIC: net receipts
151 bales
Louisville arm at SIC.
st. Louis dul at Sc: net receipts 2
bales
Houston steady at Sc; net receipts SIS
bales.
THE NEW YORK MARKET
i New York-Cotton dull at Sc: net re-
sceipts is bales; gross S41 bales: sales
200 bales. stock is2. las bales.
Total today-Net receipts 1,Os2 bales:
exports to Great Britain 1856 bales:
to France 6,12S bales; 10 continent s,Tas
bales: stock 271. sS3 bales.
Consolidated-Net receipts S.I4I bales
exports to Great Britain 1856 bales: TO
continent 11.S10 bales.
Total since September Net receipts
1913 $40 bales; exports to Great Britain
3~,303,495 bales; to France 121. $40 bales;
to continent 2,GS2, coo bales.
: Futures closed very steady. August
I.13; september us; October 1.23: No
vember 1.24; December 7.24: January
7.24; February 7.27: March $50: April
1872.
Spot closed dull; middling uplands Sc:
middling gulf SIC; sales 200.
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARKET.
Chicago, August 1.-THE leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
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Look better, wear better and are bet
section The hundreds OF people who
are wearing them viii testify to these
facts. II hos who hayn't tried them.
Will do so. they viii b convinced that
the above assertions are facts.
Mems Shoes
The names by which they are known
and the prices: The American Gentle
man. $3.50 pair: Box Calf. $3.50: High
land Calf, $3.50; Vici-Kid, s2.Ss. Colt
Skin. $500; Lawson Tans. S1.ss: Amer
lea, s1.S5. This is an aggregation from
whic hanyone can get suited.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
YOUNGERS PAROLED.
Pardon Board After Long DeIiber-
alton, Acts FavorabIy. Upon the
Applications.

st. Paul, Mimi, July 1.-THE. state
pardon board at noon Wednesday ap-
proved the parole of Coleman and
James Younger, who have been in the
Saltwater penitentiary for the past
25 years for completely in the robbery
and murder at the time of the raid
ON the Northfeld (Minn.) bank.
The friends of the Youngers have
never ceased their work on behalf of
these well-known characters, and for
over 20 years have used all possible
means to secure their legal release
from prison. Each succeeding gov
ernor was requested repeatedly to
grant full pardon, but the opposi-
ton to such an action was so strong
and active that denials always met
them.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
VACANCY FILLED.
Alfred B. Kittredge Appointed Unit
ed States Senator from south
Dakota-His Career.

Pierre, S. D., July 12. Gov. Herriod
has appointed A. B. Kittredge, of Sioux
Falls, as United States senator to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Kyle.
[Alfred B. Kittredge is a native of New
Hampshire, having been born in Cheshire
county, March 26. 1861. His early education
was obtained in the public schools, and
when II years Of age he entered Yale uni
versity. He was graduated from that in
stftution in 1882 and at once commenced
the study of law in the Office of Judge
Veasey at Rutland. VT. In 1854 he entered
the Yale law school and was graduated in
1885, being admitted to the bar by the SUI
preme court of Connecticut in June of the
same year. He removed to Sioux Falls,
S. D., in 1885 and entered into partner
ship with G. II. Winsor, one of the leading
attorneys of that place. Mr.. Kittredge early
manifested an interest in state politics and
for long time was ex-senator R. F. Petit
crews trusted lieutenant In 1896 the two
parted upon the money question. Mr. Kit
tredge was the republican national COM
mitteeman from South Dakota in 1892 and
1886. He is a bachelor.l
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.
State Fair.

The. state fair directors have re-
ceived proposition for the establish
ment and maintenance upon the
grounds Of a postoffice during and i'm
mediately before fair week. The of
fer was accepted by the board. and in
consequence it will be possible at the
coming fair to mail letters, secure
money orders, register letters and
packages, buy stamps, and in short to
have all the conveniences of a first
class pestoffce
One of the finest secondary attrac-
tions at the coming state fair will be
the exhibit of Minnesota fish This
display viii be made in the main or
exposition building, and will occupy
much of the east wing.
Plans for the work were presented
at the meeting of the board of man
ayers of the fair by S. p Fullerton, of
the state fish and game commission,
who has been authorized to make the
exhibit. According to Mr. Fullerton's
outline of his ideas, there will be some
So tanks of fish, which will show every
prominent variety found in the waters
OF the state, and will show not only
the grown fish, but the fry and year
iings of the same class.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
News in Brief,

Deputy Game Warden Stevens brought
four nice moose calves to Thief River
Falls and stayed with them till mid
night He locked the barn and went to
bed. After that some villain broke in and
killed three of the calves by cutting their
throats, and made a cash in the other
ones neck. but it will live.
Mrs. Henry Torgenson, living at SUN
burg, died suddenly from the effects of
eating canned peas.
While at play the 2-year-old daughter
of E. C. Griffith. at st. Cloud, fell to the
floor, her right hand and arm being
thrust into vessel of scaIding water.
Her injuries will not result fatally, but it
is feared the growth of her arm will be
stopped.
Matthew Bales. butcher at Belle
PLANE, was drowned while bathing in the
river.
The saloonkeepers of Blackduck, by a
unanimous vote, decided to raise the
price of beer to 10 cents glass
Henry Schmelzer's dead body was found
III the basement of the new addition to
be built to ST. Johns Catholic church at
Rochester. He committed suicide by TAX
terribly disfigured.
James Scott, of Minneapolis. Ii years
old, was killed while jumping from a NOV
ing train.
st. Luke's hospital at Duluth has taken
out permit for the erection of it's pro-
posed structure on First street and Ninth
avenue east, to cost $4,000, and the work
will be begun at once
Jacob Henderson was fined SIS for dis
charging firearms in the streets of Brain
erd- This is -the young man who was
arrested after the shooting fracas when
John Hill was shot
The largest clam bed ever found on the
Mississippi has just been located in the
river few miles above Langdon by Ma
rion 81. Kish, of Diamond Bluff, Wis.
Pearl hunters consider it profitable dis
covery.
The public affairs committee of the
Commercial Club of Minneapolis has de-.
cided to extend an invitation to the Ep-
worth League. which will hold its annual
convention at San francisco. to meet in
Minneapolis next year.
The steamer Gettysburg left Duluth
harbor with the greatest raft ever. foated
On Lake Superior It contains 5000, 600
feet Of logs belonging to the Alger- Smith
Company, brought from Pigeon river in
Aisht days.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
A FIEND CAPTURED.
Denver's "Jack the Ripper who
Proves to BE a Demented syvede,
Caught by the Police.

Denver, Col, July e.--"Jack the Rip
per" is caught. Almost red-handed
with gore dripping from his clothes,
his face bathed in blood and flourish
ing sanguinary knife, Christ Jen-
sen, a demented Swede, stands ac-
cused of assassinating two women
and killing the innocent little daugh-
ter of Mrs. Carrie c. Kinport. Short
ly after midnight Jensen entered the
room, barred the door, assaulted the
child and carried the mutilated body
to a vacant lot, where he slashed the
body with knife. The police believe
efforts will be made to lynch Jensen.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
RETRIBUTIoN rs SWIFT.
Burglar Is Blown to Pieces by Dyna-
mite While Preparing to Rob a
Wisconsin Bank.

Dubuque, Ia, July 1o.-A would-be
bank burglar was literally blown to
pieces Monday night at Benton, Wis,
by the explosion of nitroglycerin,
which he carried in his hip pocket. He
was breaking into creamery to get
tools with which to force an entrance
into the bank. AS he was climbing
through an opening into the creamery
a trap door fell and struck him on
the hip, exploding the nitroglycerin.
The body was dismembered, the intes-
tines, heart and other organs blown
out and parts of the body were sea t.
tered all over the creamery.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
Passing of the Minnesota.

Washington. July 13.-The secre-
tary of the navy Friday ordered the
famous old Minnesota to be stricken
from the naval register. A board of
condemnation has just appraised her
at $4,000, and she will be sold at
public auction at Boston, where she
now lies. The Minnesota is one of
the most noted vessels of the old
navy. She was built in Washington
in 1855, and was the flagship of Ad-
miral Goldsboro in the famous battle
between the Merrimae and the union
fleet in Hampton Roads the day be-
fore the Monitor arrived.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
A Big Contract.

AS the result of bet between two
well known Minneapolis men, Charles
Wintry otherwise Feathers, will at
tempt to swim from Chapman's hotel in
upper lake at Minnetonka to Excelsior
and thence to Wyzata, without leaving
the water or resting
The distance is 21 miles, the same
covered by Cap. Webb in his long swim
across the English channel, and it was
a discussion of this feat that lead to the
wager on Wintry's ability to make the
long trip.
As a matter of fact there is no com
parison between the two performances.
Webb swan with the tide in salt water,
which, is of much greater density
than fresh water. Wintry, if he fulflls
his contract, will have to battle against
dead water the whole distance, but he
is confident of his ability to do the
trick If unlimited as to time
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17

the equal rights of all people, with
special privileges to none; their hos
tility to the monopolization of in
dustry with its tendency on the one
hand to crush out individual enter
prise, and on the other to promote
a socialistic spirit among the people
as the only refuge from oppression;
and their faith in that theory and
practice of constitutional govern
ment which brought the nation into
existence and have preserved it to
the present generation.
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
OHIO DEMOCRATS.
Meet In Columbus and Nominate Col.
James Kilbourne for Governor
Synopsis of the Platform.

Columbus. O., July 1.-THE demo-
cratic state convention yesterday
nominated the following ticket:
Governor. James Kilbourne, of Column
bus; lieutenant governor, Anthony How
els; judge of supreme court. Joseph Hidy;
clerk of supreme court Harry r. Young;
attorney general. NJ. B. Mccarthy; treas
urer of state, r P. Alshire; member of
board OF public works, James B. Holman.
The platform says that the demo-
Gratis of Ohio reaffirm their belief in
the equality Of taxation and other
public burdens; their advocacy of
New Ulm review., 1901-07-17
Many Matches Rurned.

A carload of matches, said to contain
100, 100000 sticks, were ignited in some
way, and the car and contents were to-
tally destroyed, causing a loss of $3,-
500. The car was valued at So, 900, and
belonged to the Milwaukee road. The
car was standing near the freight
house in st. Paul, and in short time
the shed would have been set on fire if
the burning car had not been pulled
down the yards by a switch engine.