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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
THE AlDERMANIC SQUABBLE.
TRUCE BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF
THE BOARD AND MAYOR.
Mayor Waddell and the Aldermen Held
a Peace Conference Last Night-The
Board Rescfnded its Action in Declar-
ing Null and Void the Mayors APP
pointment of Committees.

The city was still agog yesterday
men at it's special meeting on Wednes-
day night in adopting an ordinance re-
pealing the ordinances heretofore
passed, if any there be. giving the
mayor the right and power to appoint
committees for the purpose of carrying
on and conducting the business affairs
of h city of Wilmington" and also
multiplying "all appointments of COM
mittees heretofore made either by the
mayor or board of aldermen"
Since the action of the board the mat
ter has been the source of deep regret
among the friends Of both sides, and it
was the hope of all who had the good
of the city at heart that the differences
between the the majority of III board
and the mayor might be amicably ad-
justed. The Messenger is gratified to
state that influences have been at work
to bring about a satisfactory %reconcil-
iation and that success attended the
efforts of those who interested them
selves in this connection.
The result of the overtureS was not
a compromise but the members of the
board magnanimously agreed to meet
the mayor in conference last night. Ac-
cordingly all the members Of the board
met with mayor Waddell last night at
s o'clock in the mayors office, viz: Al
dermen Spencer, Maunder. West, Won
Claim, Harriss. Johnson. Bailey, Skin
ner, Parker and Mann. A large crowd
got wind Of the confer ence and gath
cred at the city hall but no one but the
mayor and aldermen was admitted. At
ter an hours conference. in which all
acted in a spirit Of harmony, a course
was decided upon for the best interests
of the city.
The conference was then ended and
a special meeting of the board was call
ed Immediately. All the aldermen re-
manned and City Clerk B. F. King was
called in to make the minutes.
After the board had beer called to or
der, Alderman Skinner moved to repeal
the multiplying ordinance adopted at
Wednesday nights special meeting, and
also to reD-al the ordnance then adopt
ed that all Of the stand ing committees
and all other committees necessary fer
The better government of the city of
Warrington shall be appointed By the
board of aldermen" etc.
Tho board then unanimously adopted
the motion. after which the meeting ad-
,ournrd.
This action leaves the mayor free &c
MAX" any changes in the committees c.
10 confer with the men bers of toe
board Is he may see fit. Now that the
board i:as one it's part it is certain
that tn mayor will make up tn coin-
n:itt*"s in a manner that will give the
STcs1Hst possible satisfaction.
The board will hold its recess meet
ing at s o'clock Monday night, and no
doubt the aldermen will then get down
to work in earnest to accomplish the
large amount OF business so necessary
to be don at his time.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
THE CITY HOSPITAL.
THE BOARD OF MANAGERS HELD A
MEETING YESTERDAY.
Sixty-One Patients Treated During h
Month OF March-FIve Patients Died
and Thirty-Four were DISCHARGED.
Interesting Statistics.

The board of managers of the city
hospital met yesterday in the office of
the county commissioners at the court
house. The members in attendance
were Chairman D.. McEachern and
Commissioners Holmes and Montgom-
cry. No members on the part of the
city were present, owing to the differ
enceS between the board of aldermen
and the mayor.
DR.. A. H. Harriss, acting surgeon in
charge of h hospital, and Intern J..
NJ. Hall were present. DIR. Harriss
submitted his report Of the hospital
Operations. During h month 81 patienS
were treated. Of these q were remain
in in the hospital on the 28th of Feb
ruary and during March "a patients
were admitted. The patients treated
were Is whites males, 16 white females,
20 colored males and 9 colored females.
OF the whites, 6 males were charity pa
tents from the city, 5 charity patients
from the county, n 5 were pay pa
.tients. Of the white females 7 were
charity patients from the city, 3 chart
ty patients from the county and 6 pay
patients. OF the colored males there
were IL charity patients from the city,
2 charity patients from the county, and
1 pay patient. OF h colored females,
IQ6Te were D CIdTlly pdlIcLllS IL liz
city and 1 charity patient from the
county. TIE total number of patients
treated was So males of both colors and
% females of both colors. During the
o of March there were 5 deaths
and "a patients were discharged, leav-
ing 80 patients remaining March 31st.
The total number of day. patients were
treated was as follows: Pay patients
124 days; charity patients S31. Total
s55. Rations were furnished 1,42o days,
as follows: To pay patients 124 days;
to charity patients s31 days. and to en-
ployes 465 days. The following pa
tients died: J.. w. Wilson, G. Horne,
Sam Atkinson, white: Joe Hankins,
George Hall. colored. The receipts dur
ing March were as follows: From pay
patients. $14S.91; from prescriptions
1890; from the city s166.66; from the
county $3.50. Total receipts $614.77. The
expenditures were s646-11. including
s219.50 for the pay roll. Expenses over
receipts 1922,
After auditing and approving &C
counts the board adjourned.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Caught a Dreadful Cold

Marion Kooke. manager for T. NJ.
Thompson. a large importer of fine mil
linery at 1858 Milwaukee avenue, Chica-
go. says: During the late severe
weather I caught a dreadful cold which
kept me awake at night and made me
unfit to attend my work during the
day. One of my milliners was taking
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for a Sc
we're cold at that time, which seemed
to relieve her SO quickly hat 1 bought
some for myself. 1t acted like magic
and ! began to improve at once. I am
now entirely well and feel very pleased
to acknowledge it's merits" For sale
by r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Rare sight at oakdaIe Cemetery

Mr.. Timothy Donlan, keeper of Oak
dale cemetery, informs The Messenger
that the magnificent fortuna globula
is now in full bloom. This plant is a
rare sight in bloom and not only the
people of the city go out to see it but
visitors have come all the way from
Raleigh to see it in bloom.
The plant covers a circumference OF
f30 feet and stands twenty-five feet in
height. When in bloom, the white
flowers are so massive that they COM
pletely hide the foliage which is in
four colors. from a light green to pur-
ME
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Affidavit from Brother OF Race,s Valet

New York. April Sit was announced
at h district attorneys office today
that an affidavit had been received from
William l.. Jones. of Texas, brother Of
Charles F. Jones. saying that in July
and August, 1900. he sent bottles OF
chloroform to his brother, William
Marsh Rice's valet.
Jones said he wanted the drug for g
friend who wanted to make toothache
drops. Assistant District Attorney Os-
borne declared that he would produce
in court the brother from Texas, if
necessary. to hold Albert T. Patrick.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

Last winter / was confined to my
bed with a very bad cold on the lungs.
Nothing gave me relief. Finally my
wife bought a bottle OF One Minute
Cough Cure that effected a speedy cure.
/ cannot speak too highly of that ex-
cellent remedy" Mr.. T. X. Houseman,
Manatawney. Pa. r. r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Box Factory to start UP

The box factory of the E. H. Barnes
Company, at the lumber plant OF the
Angola Lumber Company, will be
started up tomorrow. 1t will employ
30 hands for the present. but the num-
Der will son be increased. From $4,000
to 50. 900 feet of lumber will be consunl-
ed per day in the manufacture OF
boxes for the New York trade.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Ladies' Can Wear shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken in
to the shoes. 1t makes tight o. new
shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to
corns and bunions. It's the greatest
comfort discovery Of the age. Cures n
prevents swollen feet. h'isters. callous
and sore spots. Aliens Foot-Ease Is a
certain cure for swelling. hot, aching.
feet. Al all druggists and shoe stores.
25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad-
dress. Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. N. y.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
The Best Blood Purifier

The blood Is constantly being puri-
fed by the lungs, liver and kidneys.
Keep these organs in a healthy condi-
ton and the bowels regular and you
will have no need Of a blood purifier.
For this purpose there is nothing equal
to Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets n dose of them will do you
more good than. a dollar bottle Of the
best blood purifier. Price 2,5 cents.
Saples free at r. r. Bellamy's drug
store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Bnbonic Plague In MIchfean.U nfver-
sfty

Detroit, Mich, April "a Tribune
special from Ann Arbor, Mich, says:
A student of h University of Michi-
gan, whose name is withheld, was tax
en- to the pest house from the univer-
sity contagious disease hospital today
and it is aid hat he has a mild attack
of the bubonic plague.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

The four hundred GAL miners who
have been on strike several days at
Blossburg. near Birmingham. Ala, on
account of a difference regarding the
charges for yardage work, have return
ed to work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

ST a piles so bad I could get no rest
nor ind a cure until I tried DeVitt's
witch Hazel Salve. After using it once,
/ forgot I had anything like piles g.
G.. Roice. Somers Point, n. Y. Lookout
for limitations. Be sure % asE
Dewitt's. r. r. Bethany
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Buying Strawberries Before Theya are
Ripe

We understand that the pretty
weather for the past few days has
greatly brought out the strawberry
plants along the Wilmington and We'll
don railroad. Some of the berries are
now half grown.
y large number of the representa- res
of the northern fruit and produce
houses are in the berry region making
arrangements for shipments or buying
the crop in advance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

NAVAL =TssNE -
SPIRITS TURPENTINE = Steady
machine barrels s2hc; country barrels
SIC.
ROSIN-Nothing doing.
TAR-Firm at $40.
Prices SAM. day last year-Sptrfts
turpentine 53kc: and Sc: rosin $40
and SIS; tar $40: crude turpentine
hard $500: soft $S.25-
Receipts today casks OF spirits tur-
pentine, $50 barrels OF rosin. 81 barrels
of tar. 2 barrels Of crude ~turpentine. =
Receipts same day last wears casks
spirits ~turpentine. 81 barrels IF rosin.
ia barrels OF tar. 10 barrels OF crude
tu~rpentine.
PRODUCE
SALT-100s Ole; 125's. SIC: 1se's.
Gle; zoos, 99c; COOS F. F.. 1.35: In less
than car LOAD lots.
DRY SALTED SIDES-sc.
BUTTER-24 TO &c.
COFFEE-9 to 11hc.
FLOUR-Straights $500: End patents
s425: full s4.75.
MOLASSES-S. House. i5c: New Or
leans Brights % to CSC: Porto RicC
30 to 35c; Cuba, % to Sic.
SUGAR-(New York prices. freight
TO be added) g~ranulated $40; W.X.C.,
No. 5 40; No. 9 s4.60: No. IL $3.50.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PEANUTS-North Carolina. fancy.
rs to soc; prime IS to zoe: Virginia 40 to
soc; Spanish 20 TO 75c.
CORN-60 to Gle.
CORN MEALS to 57hc.
N. c. BACON-Ha,Ls 12c: shoulders
&c; sides 10 to lie.
CHICKENS-Steady: hens % to Soc:
ROSTERS 20 to Csc.
TURKEYS-Good eman at 10c.
EGGS-Dull at 8 to 10c.
SHINGLES-Per LOO. 5 inch saps
$1.60; 8 inch hearts. SIPS: 6 inch saps
$3.50; 6 Inch hearts $3.50.
TIMBER
Per NJ feet-Shipping $1,000 900
Mill, prime ................ $500 7.50
Mill, fair 5000 800
Common mill .............. 1000 500
Inferior to ordinary ........ $500 $50
LOCAL STOCK MARKET.
Wilmington. April 6.
Quotations on local securities, fur
nished and regularly corrected by
HITCH MacR AE e. co
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
WILMINGTON MARKETS

Wilmington. April 6.
Receipts of cotton today AS bales
Receipts same day last year 1.lss
bales
This seasons receipts to date-sS3.0os
bales.
N-cespts to same date last year
ga, S92 bales.
The Quotations quoted at 4 o'clocf
toosy ~ ne -xchange:
COTTON Firm.
- =. 49, - "a 40
Good ordinary :. /. . - s 1915
Low middling.. . +. &. . 49, 9-ls
Good middling.. d. = =. =. :. , S-lo
Same day a. year-3kc-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
Open. High. Low. Clos.

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour weak; No. 3. spring wheat 6847oc
No. 3 red 70H 673c: No. 2 corn 43Ac:
No. 2 oats 26G27Ec: No.. 2 white 29d29h
No 2 y SEC; Mess pork per barrel
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09

Wilmington. April 6.
Quotations on local securities. fur
nished and regularly corrected by
HUGH MacRAE & CO. Bankers:
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
EVEN BREAK IN ,
 FEVER EXPERIMENT
Three Die and Three Recover from InocuIation By
 Mosquito Bites

Havana, Aug. 26-Of the eight persons bitten by infected mosquitoes in connec- ton with the experiments conducted by the yellow fever board during the last three weeks three have died. Three others who took the fever are expected to re- cover. One has developed yellow fever.
 Surgeon Major Reed intends to continue the Investigations. Major Gorgas, chief sanitary officer, says the idea of the vel low fever board was to subject to mos quito infection as many as would volun- teer. Sixteen persons had been bitten and all had recovered; and the theory of the board was that if some hundred or more persons could have been bitten with sim liar results a report could have been pub lished showing apparently how safe and easy it was to become immune. After this had been published the entire popu- lation might have been immunized. So many cases gave mild results that the impression was created that the danger was not so great as 1t turned out to be.
 Thus far during August there have been two deaths from yellow fever In Havana as compared with an average of more than fifty for the month of August during the previous eleven years. Major Gorgas reports the experiment in mosquito in- lection as of immense service to sci- ence.
 The men who were bitten by an infec- ted mosquito after innoculation with the serum of Dr. Ca1das, the Brazilian ex- pert, has developed what seems to- be symptoms of yellow fever.
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
DOM PAUL'S HEALTH
 GREATLY IMPROVED
Dutch Conspiracy Against the English Likened an
 "Abominab|e Lie"

London, August 27.-The Daily Telegram publishes today long interview with MT. Kruger at Hilversum on Lord Kitchener's latest proclamation. The correspondent says:
 MT. Kruger, who seemed greatly inn proved in health, spoke vehemently and with intense feeling, rejecting the idea that anything had been changed except the attitude of the British government. He insisted that the tactics of the Boers were still as regular as at the beginning of the war. Their forces, he said. were split up into small parties because the British had split their forces into in- numerable small columns. He declared that ever since the capture of Bloemfon- tein the British had trampled upon the code of international law. As for the provision transports and the cattle the British are continually seizing MT. Kruger said these were intended not for the Boer commanders, which live from hand to mouth, but for the women and children
 He continued that Lord Kbtchener's proclamation itself recognized that the Boers had regular administration and an army. The proclamation could have but one effect-to embitter and intensity resistance. He said the question wheth- CT any protest against it would be issued Is still under consideration; but this matter was of little import to the burgh- CTS, who did not look to Europe for ap- proyal blame or instructions.
 Having characterized the proclamation as "the blackest crime committed against the Boers,'' Mir Kruger closed the inter- view by solemnly calling heaven to wit, ness that the story of Dutch conspira- cy against the British was "an abomina- ble lie, the most mischievous and diaboli- cal lie ever coined since man first ap- peared in the world
 He said, however, that peace was still possible on the basis of give and take and that the Boers were ready to make reasonable sacrifices and to give satis- factory guarantees on the basis of inde- pendence and free pardon to Colonial Afrikanders.
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
WILL STUDY OUR TRADES.
Party of Men Sent to America By An
 English Newspaper.

New York, August 26.-On the Anchor Line steamer Ethiopia, which arrived to- night came twelve workingmen who have been sent to tour this country and study trades by an English paper The men were selected by popular vote. They are H. J. Humphrey, coach builder; Ley ton Store, Essex; Frank Harris. pottery and glass decorator, Scotland; F. A. Scott, electrical and mechanical engineer, Glasgow; c. J. Jackson, engineer, Strat- ford; Thomas Graham, miner. Yorkshire: w. H. Grant, stevedore, Liverpool; {; George Nulty. painter, Kingston Hill, Surrey; Thomas Fleming. mason, Peebles; John Cutter, engine driver, Motherwell; Kenneth Mckenzie, uphol- sterer. Invernez; George Eechells, weav- CT. Stockport; J. M. Cowan, hammer man. Gates Head. and A. N. Simpson, who will act as conductor of the spslry MT. Simpson said:
 we will visit Washington, Pittsburg Philadelphia, Cleveland. East Liverpool Ohio; Buffalo, Ottawa and Montreal We shall remain a few days in each city. The delegates come over here to gather i'm formation and study questions in which thN British artiPan is vitally interested We will inquire into the conditions of the American wage-earners. how they are housed and live, their hours, unions and other things of interest to us on the other side.
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
AGAINST TRUSTS.
Texas Legislature Thinks Monopolies
 Contrary to Public Good.

Austin, Texas, August S.-The house of representatives today adopted the follow ing resolution introduced by McFall of Travis county, and which was thoroughly discussed pro and con:
 "Be 1t resolved by the house of repre- sentatives of the legislature of the State of Texas that trusts and monopolies are contrary to the spirit and genius of free people, destructive of individual liberty and subversive of the principles of a Re- publican form of government; that we recognize in the United States Steel Cor poration an organization which embodies all the evils of the trust, monopoly and .community of interests idea. and one which by reason of the manner and amount of it's capitalization and plan of operation may be said to be the very head and front of the offending system; that we are in hearty sympathy with the Amalgamated Association of Steel Work CTS in the contest which they are now waging with the United States Steel Cor poration for just and equitable recog- nitfon of their union.''
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
UNION MEN DENIED
 ADMISSION TO MILL
BecauseaThey Refused to Make Up Time to be Lost on
 Labor Day

Columbia, s. C., August 26-Five hun dred operatives at the Olympia, Granby Richland and Capital City cotton mills, who refused to make up the time that will be lost on Labor Day by working six hours over time last Saturday were de- nied admission to the mills today and were notified of this suspension for a week. The operatives fell in line and pa raded through the village with much cheering.
 The union Mo- 2l1, Is meeting to take action and are receiving hundreds of new members. Since the strength of the union has been divulged President Smith Wha- ley said today;
 We don ot propose to have any union ism in our business. The mills in South Carolina have again to employ no union labor whatsoever.
 'I will close down every mill before employ union man. All, of my opera tives will be required to sign an agree ment that they will belong to no union."
 The union strength is estimated at 300 old members and has been increased by several hundred recently.
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
NEW SYSTEM FOR TAXES.
Hereafter Checks Will Not Be Accept
 ed for Money Due State.

Austin, Texas, August 26.-The State treasurer today issued an order which sets the financial machinery of the State back some thirty years, In that he gave official notice that henceforth he would not accept checks in payment for money due the State; that any person owing the State money for land or for any other reason, whether he lived at the remotest or nearest point in the State or lived in New York he would have to bring the money to the treasury before he would be reeipted for the amount
 This action Is due to the fact that the $35S, ,000 for which the State was caught in the First National Bank failure in this city on August was in the bank by req son of the collection of checks deposited there for collection.
 That only cash will be received will cause a world of trouble and delay in transacting State land business but 1t Is a strict compliance with the law of the State which has not been followed for some years past
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
MOB HAS GATHERED IN
 FORT SMITH READY TO
 LYNCH OR BURN NEGRO
At Late Hour Messenger Had Been Despatched for Sedge Ham, mers to Break the Prison Doors Down-PosSe Hold
 ing Jail While Negroes Flee in Terror

night purpose Smith, rah Watson railroad week agolast Saturday which Smith charged is that
  her home transpred The and tonight was landed in jail public sentt probably 100 the main street discussing mind
  with which the O county Smith confined.
 holding the m the be- yresles n s
 which number in Smith, them the entced girl accomplish purpose from
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
BIMETALLIsM STILL AN ISSUE,
to Gov. William J. Stone,
 Who Is We'll Again.

St. Louis August 26-Former Gov. W. J. Stone, vice chairman of the Democratic national committee, who has been seri- ously i'll, appeared at his office today for the first time In five weeks.
 In an interview the Governor declared himself candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed the Hon. G. G. Vest, and said he still believed that silver would be coined into standard money.
 ''Bimetallism," he said, 'ls still an is- sue, but the United States is better off than other countries today with the gold standard
 Speaking of the proposed re-organiza- tion of the Democratic party, the Cover nor said none was necessary. He declared w. J. Bryan to be the most powerful man in the Democratic party today.
The age-herald., 1901-08-27
OIL GUSHED TOO SOON, TWO MEN ARE DEAD
 AND COUNTRY FLOODED
One of the Greatest GusherS in the World Going Absolutely Wild at Beaumont and Dire Calamity Threatens the
 Entire Counry-FIow Cannot be Stopped

2Two of the larg world absolutely wild deyng the skill it. The oil field tonight the sy visited Texas should the night will will splng itself the prairies and flooding the country with oil
 their Smith died shut off the Both showed great 
 tonight block 3S in spindle top
 
 syndicate where gathered to- perhaps the world the Oil Con-  expected be at the earliest