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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-01

of the ocean. A rotary cutter under
the dredge, whirling very rapidly, Ioos-
ems UP the sand, shells and mud, which
Is sucked continuously into a huge pipe
and forced over the wall The pipe is
iron and runs from the dredge to the
well, resting on pontoons that float on
the water between the dredge and the
wall. When the dredge is at work a
continuous Pinch stream Of mud, sand
shells and water is discharged over the
wall. The low places are, therefore,
being filled in very rapidly. When the
work Of filling gets nearer the post, the
two hundred and fifty officers and SOL
diers at the fort will probably &c into
camp at Southport as a sanitary pre-
caution. They will occupy tents until
they car go back to the fort
At present the source Of water supply
at the fort is from driven surface pumps
and it is believed hat the surface
water will be affected by the mud be-
ing thrown over the wall by the dredge.
1t is hoped soon, however, TO have a
supply of artesian well water. The gov
eminent begun work on an artesian
well about a year ago but the boring
has been suspended until three weeks
g when the contractors resumed the
boring process. The well is now about
800 feet deep and SO far only a flow Of
salt water has been obtained.
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BURNED
Seventy-Ffve Families I'm Chicago Made
Homeless

Chicago. October So.-Seventy-1ve
families lost their homes and $3.50. 900
worth Of property was destroyed In q
fire tonight that started in Peterson &
Co.'S picture frame factory AT Union
street and Austin avenue.
Famed by a strong wind the flames
got beyond control and spread TO the
small packing establishment OF Fein-
berg & Stopp n n long row Of resi-
dences adjoining. Two blocks OF dwell
ings skirting Milwaukee avenue were
wiped out before the fire was subdued.
The Peterson factory. which, with con
tents, was valued at s175. 000. fully in
sured. was destroyed. The bulk OF the
remainder OF the loss was on residences.
fairly well covered by insurance. There
were many rumors of lives lost in the
fire, but 1t is believed hat all people
living in the burned buildings escaped.
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Hamlet News Notes
Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Hamlet. n. G.. October 30.

Correspondence of The Messenger.)
Hamlet, N. c., October 80.
Marcum Harris, a negro boy between
II and Is years of age, was run over
by an engine and both legs crushed here
last night. one above and the other be-
low the knee. He was riding on the
engine around what is called the belt,
and in jumping off his foo caught and
he was thrown under the wheels. Drs.
Kinsman AND Stancil attended him,
but he died while an operation was be-
ing performed.
The new and up-to-date Seaboard Air
Line hotel, MeSsrs. Gresham & Jami-
son proprietors. is now open and doing
a fine business. 1t is conceded to be
one of the best hotels in the state. 1t
is the dining station for most of the
Seaboard Air Line trains passing here.
The p%roprietors have almost a national
reputation for running several good
hotels.
There are many new improvements
going on here. The recent big fire,
which destroyed several stores, greatly
Inconvenience some of the merchants.
but most of them have found places to
temporarily do business in until they
can build.
Hamlet is now quite a railroad center,
especially so since the line was com
pleted through to Columbia. 1t also
has a fine climate. being about the
same as Southern Pines.
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SHERIFF BURNS AT SEA
An Error Discovered in the Death
Warrant for the Execution of Lewis
Council Who is Under sentence to be
Hanged at Fayetteville Next Satur-
day

The Fayetteville Observer of yester-
day
"A strange error has just been dis
covered in the warrant for the death OF
Lewis Council, issued by the governor.
1T was thought that Council was to
be executed on November LIST. On Au-
gust 18th last, Sheriff Burns received a
document from the governor, in the
shape Of a reprieve and a death war
rant, and it directed the sheriff to ex-
ecute the sentence on Saturday, No
vember 1st.
The day of the receipt of this docu-
ment Sheriff Burns, accompanied by
Father Marion, repaired to Counc1fS
cell and read it to him. The document
was then placed in the safe and nothing
more was thought of it until yesterday
when Mr.. John c. Thomas, the sher-
ifs clerk, took it out to look over it
again, in view of the day set for the
execution.
He then discovered hat the instru-
ment read Saturday, November LIST.
Now, November LIST, comes on Friday.
This discovery has left the sheriff in a
quandary, and he has telegraphed the
facts in the case to the governor.
state of North Carolina,
Executive Department.
Charles B. Aycock, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief
To all who shall see these presents,
Greeting:
Whereas, Lewis Council, at the De-
cember term, 1900, of the superior
court of Cumberland county, was con-
victed of rape and by judgment of said
court sentenced to death;
Nov, therefore, I, Charles B. Ay-
cock, governor of the States of North
Carolina, for sufficient causes me there
unto moving, and by virtue Of the pow
er and authority in me vested by the
constitution of the state, do hereby ~e-
prieve the said Lewis Council and give
him a respite from the execution of said
sentence until Saturday, the 1st day Of
November. A. d. 1901, when the sheriff
of Cumberland county will execute the
sentence as appointed by the court and
as the law directs.
I'm witness whereof, 1 have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great seal
of the state to be affixed.
I'll. S.l-Done at our city of Raleigh
in the year of our Lord 1901, in the
hundred and twenty-sixth year Of on.
American Independence.
CHARLES B. AYCOCK.
by the Governor:
"P. NJ. PEARSALL,
Private Secretary"
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RURAL FREE
Number Rapidly observation-disclosures
Slow In Gathering Cotton-Commfs-
sions to Naval Reserves O~ncers-The
Gorham Contempt Case
Messenger Bureau.

Raleigh, N. c., October 80.
Nc rain has fallen in two weeks and
the weather has been wonderfully fine
for all out door work, including cotton
picking, yet quite a number Of farmers
are said to be very slow in picking their
cotton. No reason save carelessness is
given.
The following commissions to officers
Of the naval militia were issued today:
H. M. Chase. lieutenant; Nixon Davis,
lieutenant junior grade, and Morgan
Skipper, ensign, Of the Wilmington di-
vision; Charles J. Sorley, ensign of the
New Bern division; H. V. Dunston,
lieutenant junior grade, of the Wind
sOr division.
The state today issued warrants for
enough rural public school libraries to
bring the number up to 200. By the
end Of the year it is probable there will
be 300 more, so rapidly are applications
coming in.
There was argument today in the
S~tatesville contempt case in which ].
a. Gorham, a southern railway attor-
ney; Brown, a juror, n Ramsey, VINO
vas mixed up in the matter, were con-
victed and sentenced in the lower court,
Gorham of attempting to influence
DIo"h, IN JulloI DIO"h " bSliS
thus influenced or laying himself liable
to suspicion, and Ramsey for being
what a lawyer termed a "go-between."
They all declared their innocence of
these charges and appealed. F. I. Cs-
borne appeared today for Gorham. The
case in which the charges were made
was the noted one in which B. F.. Long,
of Statesville, sues the Southern rail-
way for heavy damages for killing his
son. a student at the state university,
at University tation. Mr.. Long is
here.
Congressman Kluttz, who is here,
thinks that congress will investigate
the navy department bureaucrats who
have been bounding Rear Admiral
Schley. He thinks that all of them,
regardless of party, are of that mind.
Sentiment is with Schley and against
his prosecutors.
The negroes are gratified at the COM
pliment leading white men pay their
state fair, now in progress here. The
negroes have never made as good agri-
cultural exhibits. State Auditor Dixon
declares he saw none better made by
native farmers at the white fair last
week here.
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meeting on Monday. commencing the
president, created n revolution in Bryu
Mawr, because a house belonging to
him was rented to a colored minister
OF same persuasion and used every
means, ecclesiastical and legal. until he
was rejected. The young man was as
genfiemanly and as thoroughly educat-
60 as Mr.. Washington Bishop Potter.
our good AID worthy prelate, has many
colored priests OF his denomination
here in the north. and yet he does not
set the example by having them to cell
citrate at Holy Trinity and other Epis-
copai temples here in1he north. or in
wife them to sit Unfortunately at the
Lords table to teach the south the
f~aiherhood OF God and the brotherhood
OF a Bishop Holly, OF Hayti. one
OF the most learned and scholarly ne
groes i'm the world. who comes here
periodically, is ignored and allowed to
board in a colored boarding house in
Brooklyn. instead OF being the guest
during his stay at some OF the white
parishes. The white newspapers, such
as the Philadelphia Record. the New
York Journal, the North American and
other papers who ridicule the journals
OF the south. will not employ n colored
man upon their staffs or in any other
important place in their Offices. be they
ever so competent. The white business
houses OF the north. the factories and
industrial plants. will not employ color
ed men or women in any OF their de-
partmenas above the mental. and yet
they rail at the south. where slavery
existed for two hundred years, for
fighting political and social equality.
The north is responsible for il all; let
is stop its hypocrisy, give practical les
sons OF its good intentions and not be-
gin at the White house. IL sectional
prejudice be again infiamed and blood
shed be the outcome M Washington
is appealed TO, the negro will be left TO
fight it out alone behind the barricade
OF state rights. The Defender is the
friend of the president and Booker I.
Washington. We want to see the one
succeed and reelected TO the presidency
and the other to continue his great
work as an Industrial educator at Tus-
kegee, and We hope that our southern
friends will not misunderstood the pres
ident and overturn the good feeling now
apparent, but that they will trust TO his
good judgment and equitable treatment
of all the people alike. We endorse the
temperate sentiment as expressed in the
Times-Democrat, of New Orleans, and
hope hat the storm a exhausted it
self and the era of good feeling be re-
established. The incident was unfor-
tunate and regrettable.
H. c. c. ASTWOOD.
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THE O ROADS TRAIN
a Royal Welcome at Winston.
To Begin Road Building Today

Raleigh. y, c., October 30.-A Win
ston-SaIemn, N. c., special says:
The Southern railways good roads
train received a royal welcome upon Its
arrival here at $50 o'clock his morn
ing. The cars containing the improved
road machinery were placed on a siding
near the road to be worked. The day
was devoted to getting everything in
readiness for operating the machinery
which will begin tomorrow morning.
The train is attracting widespread in
terest and the town tonight has many
visitors who came to learn how TO make
good roads Reports coming in indicate
hat the state good roads congress-,
which opens on Friday morning with
an address by Governor c. b. Aycock.
will be attended by representatives from
nearly every county in the state.
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Annual Report OF General Gillespie.
Estimates for Harbor improvements

Washington, October 30.-Twenty-five
Of the principal harbors of the United
States now have a sufficient number OF
heavy guns n mortars mounted to
permit of effective defense against ma
val attack, says General Gillespie. CHIEF
OF engineers, in his annual report.
Provisions have been made for emplac-
ing 325 heavy guns. 327 rapid fire guns
and 316 mortars. Now General Gillespie
wants sites for more new mortar bat
teries and for gun and mortar batteries
asks an appropriation Of 81 00, 00e.
The Notifications board having decar-
ed pneumatic gun batteries obsolete
the department has discontinued work
on such batteries at Fishers Island and
Port Royal.
During the year negotiations have
proceeded for the purchase OF fortifca-
ton sites in Boston harbor, New York
harbor, Port Royal, San Francisco, San
Diego, st. Johns river, Fort ST. Phillips
and Cape Henry, Va
General Gillespie also makes an ex-
tenslye report upon river and harbor
works and discusses each Improvement
at considerable length, besides submit
ting estimates for the fiscal yea ending
Inc 80, 1903. These estimates are from
81 ~ 90 10 Pei Cit lCSS III IL SolilC
instances so per cent. less than those OF
the local engineers in charge of river
and harbor improvement.
Estimates for local improvements by
the chief engineers of $50, 900 and up
wards have been made as follows: In
land waterway from Chincoteague Bay.
Va, to Delaware Bay SEC, 900; harbor or
southeast Baltimore $50, 900: Potomac
river at Washington $500, 600; James
river, Va, $3.50, 900; Cape Fear river, n.
c., 5000. 900; Congaree river S. c., $780,.
900; Charleston harbor, S. c., s45,o 900 for
the twenty-six foo project and $4,000
for the twenty-one foot project; Savan-
nah harbor, Ca, $50, 900; Savannah river
$58, 900; Cumberland sound, Ga, and
Florida S40O, 900: st. Johns river, Fla.
$3.50, 900; Key West harbor, Fla, S100, 600.
Tampa bay, Florida, SIS, 900; Hillsboro
bay, Fla, $3.50, 900; Chattahoochee river
Ga, and Alabama 9 $1,000; Pensacola
harbor, Fla, s25O,O0 100: Coosa river, Ga,
and Alabama $3.50, 900; Mobile harbor
$3.50, 900; Tombigbee river. Ala, 5000, 600.
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THE WINSTON ROBBERS
Bound Over to Court and Jailed I'm De-
fault of Bond

Raleigh, y. c., October 30.-At VIM
ston-Salem, the three men charged with
robbing Mr.. William Richen Of $3.50
were tried today and bound over to
court. In default of $500 pond each
they are in Jail.
During the trial the men who regis
tered from Washington, d. c.. claimed
that this place was not their home. E.
7 Hammond said he was from Column
bus, o., but his wife was now at Pitts
burg, Pa, the place William Schade
claims as his home. James Buckley 10
a native OF Indiana. The three said
they had been travelling for several
years conducting games at fairs.
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ANARCHIST CELEBRATIONS
In Honor OF CzoIgosz-Meeting of the
London Clubs

London, October 30.-The anarchists
clubs of London celebrated the electro
cution of Czolgosz by dances in honor
of his "noble DEATH" Various groups
met at their respective headquarters at
a late hour last night and most of the
gatherings only dispersed at 4 o'clock
this morning, after singing "Carma-
gnole." All the meetings lustily-cheered
every mention of C~ZolgosZ, whose por-
trait, draped with black and red, occu-
pied h place of honor on the plat
forms. There We're remarkable scenes
on the dispersal of the clubs, groups OF
anarchists shouting "Vive La Republi-
que" singing the "Carmagnole," dane
ing and shouting "CZolgosZ, the brave!"
The police dispersed some Of the groups.
The increasing activity of the anarch-
lists is occasioning some concern to
Scotland Yard.
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LATE ROBERT n. M,KoY
The Obsequfes Took Place Yesterday
Morning at IL O'Clock at st. James
Church and the Interment Was at
. Oakdale The Naval Reserves At
tended I'm a Body

The order for the burial OF the dead
was said at IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing at st. James Episcopal church over
the mortal remains of the lamented Mr..
Robert HaseH McKoy, who departed
this life at 1890 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. The solemn services were con-
Quoted by the Rev. F. H. T.. Horsheld,
and there was present a large number
OF bereaved relatives and friends to pay
a respects to the memory Of the de-
ceased. Wilmington Division, North
Carolina Naval Brigade, Lieutenant H.
NJ Chase, commanding, attended in a
body, Mr.. McKoy having been for sew
Aeral years a lieutenant junior grade in
the division. When the wal broke out
: with Spain he also volunteered with the
North Carolina reserves and served on
board h monitor Nantucket at Port
Royal, S. G..
From the church the reserves escort
ed the remains to Oakdale cemetery
services had been concluded at the
grave, the bugler of the reserves sound
ed the requiem and the division fired
three volleys over their departed COM
rade.
The grave was covered with many
handsome floral designs, including a
beautiful floral anchor sent by the re-
serves.
The p~alIbearers were as follows: Hon.
orary, Hon. A. NJ. Waddel1, Hon. Geo.
Rountree. Hon. John D.. Bellamy, and
Colonel Geo. l.. Norton; active, Captain
H. II. McIlhenny, and Messrs. j. H.
. Boatwright. Swift NJ. Empie, S. T.
Ashe, r. F. Hamme, and H. Mel.
Green.
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BULLER'S FAMOUS DISPATCH
Ordering the Surrender of Ladysmith
by General White

London, October 31.-The National
Review gives the essential terms Of the
"Spatch-Cocked" dispatch of Sir Red
vers Butler to General Sir George White
when in command of the beleaguered
British garrison at Ladysmith. Ac-
cording to this authority the message
ran as follows:
81 have been repulsed. You will burn
your ciphers and destroy all your
ammunition. o will then make the
best terms you car with the Beers af-
ter 1 have fortified myself on the
Tugela."
General Butler in the speech which led
to his dismissal from the command of
h First army corps, challenged The
National Review to publish the COM
plete dispatch and to explain how ii
vas obtained, declaring h a he would
then publish a certified copy Of the
original and allow the public to Judge
the matter.
The editor of The National Review
nov explains that he got the dispatch
from a civilian who was in Ladysmith
at the time and who said there was
nothing secret about 1t. He asserts also
hat he understands hat 9th Genera
Butler and General White have Off
cially asked permission to publish TIL
authorized version and. he cannot con
ceive why permission has been with
held.
The same informant, giving an al
legged explanation Of the fact that there
was no cooperation between Genera
Butler and General White during tn
battle Of Colenso, says General Whit
was informed that the attack was fixet
for December 18th, but General Bullel
commenced the attack on DecembeI
| 18th. to the dismay of General White
who had not completed his prepare
TONS.
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FORT SwE
h Post Inspected by Colonel Morris,
District COMMUNICATIVE Big Sue
ton Dredge Filling I'm Behind the
Seawall-The Artesian Well

Colonel Morris, of Sullivan's Island,
Charleston. S. c., district commander,
who passed through the city on SUN
day on his way to Fort Caswell, re-
turned to the city yesterday on his re-
turn. He made a thorough inspection
of the fertilization on Monday, finish
ing up his work at IL n. m. The colonel
was accompanied to Wilmington yes
terday by Captain and Mrs. r. A. Gard
aner and Lieutenants Thomas W. Holly
Sday and Garrison Ball who remained
in the city last night to attend the first
OF the seasons germans, given at the
Masonic Temple by L'Arioso German
Club.
Colonel Morris found a steady i'm
provement at Fort CaswelL. The prog
ress is steady and the fertilization and
its surroundings are rapidly develop
ing.
At this time there is great activity at
the fort The contractors, who are
erecting the new officers quarters and
other post buildings, in addition to
those already at the fort, have about
a hundred carpenters at work.
Probably the most interesting work
in progress at the fort is the filling in
of the low lying parts of the island be-
hind the great seawa1 which was built
the past year. The wall is over a mile
long and frOntS the ocean to break the
sea so it can't make any inroads on
the island to the hurt of the costly for
. tifications. At high tide the surf breaks
\ against the wall and behind it are low
places six feet below the top of the wall
and extending across the island in some
places a distance of five hundred yards
/ behind the wall. 1t is these low places
that are being filled in on a level with
the top of the wall. The Atlantic &
Pacific Company's powerful suction
dredge is now at work and already sew
-eral thousand cubic yards have been
filled in. The dredge is on the sea fifty
yards in front of the wall n it sucks
sand, mud and shells from the bottom
of the ocean and pumps it over the wall
into the low places. The dredge litter
ally makes a channel for herself as
she goes along cutting up the bottom
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SUDDEN DEATH
Mr.. J.. ID. Bell Died Yesterday After
noon at Rocky Point-He Formerly
Resided in Wilmington and Was a
Brother of DIR. :. ID. Bell, of hi City

The shocking intelligence was receiv-
ed by telephone from Rocky Point yes
terday afternoon that Mr.. Julian D. Bell
died suddenly at 1 p. m. While he had
been complaining recently, it was far
from his family's thoughts that he was
seriously affected. Yesterday morning
he ate a hearty breakfast, started his
laborers to work m his farm and walk
ed over to the postoffice about a hun
dred yards away and got his mail. He
was shortly afterwards seized with a
severe pain in the side and breatlied
last at l o'clock.
The deceased was a native of Fender
county and was born October IA, 1860,
having just entered the And year of
his age. He married Miss Lizzie Fow-
Ter, of this city, sister of former Mayor
John j. Fowler, and she services him
with two daughters, Misses Kate n
Genivieve. both of whom are about
grown. He leaves three brothers, one
of whom is our esteemed townsman,
DIR. c. D.. Bell. The others are MI. w.
L. Bell, of Long Creek, and Mr.. ]. Q.
Bell. of Rocky Point. The latter came
down to the city last evening to make
arrangements for the funeral which is
to take place at Rocky Point this at
ernoOn at 2 o'clock. The interment
Will De Indue III Ine IdTnlIy DuryllS
ground lear hat place. Quite a num-
Der of the deceased's relatives and
friends will go up this morning to at
tend the o~bsequies.
Mr.. Bell was a former resident "
Wilmington, having travelled for eleven
years for the wholesale shoe house of
Messrs. George r.. French & Sons. SeY-
eral years ago he retired from the road
and engaged in truck planting at Rocky
Point. He had MANY friends in Will
mington who will be grieved to learn
that he is lead and sincere sympathy
will go out to the family who has been
so suddenly and SOrely bereayed.