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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
Coronation Notes.

London, May 24.-Lewanika. King of
Barotseland Cor northwestern Rho
desia), the only king who will be pres
ent at the coronation of King Edward,
arrived from Svuth Africa today.
The presents which King Edward
will give to the foreign ENJOYS are now
ready. Whitelaw Reid. the American
special ambassador, and his associates
will receive pins and brooches of gold,
mostly in the form of the initial E."
set with rubies and pearls with a gold
enameled crown above. In a few cases,
perhaps, costlier presents will be made
to the heads of the special embassies.
Practically all the invitations to the
coronation service ave been sent put.
The dowager peeresses will sit with
the reigning peeresses n wear similar
robes and coronets. In this way. it is
pointed out many celebrated women,
who have been separated by bitter
family feuds, will be brought together
for the first time in many years.
Among the guests not having admit
tance by right of rank. blu who were
SPSSloAiy lhNLNSN ~ lIC hlhS ~ olSOlAO
the S~erivec, is Mrs. Arthur Paget,
daughter of the late Mrs. Paran Stew
ems. of New York, and wife of Major
General Paget, of the Scots-Guards.
Mrs. Paget Will preside over a huge
coronation bali, July End, in aid of the
kings hospital fund.
The royal celebration night at . the
o-o-1 rr-@- T,-- M
is expected to break all box office re-
cords. The stalls will cost twenty
guineas which means $1,000 guineas for
royal visitors, cabinet ministers and
other high .peronages. Hundreds of
seats have already been allotted. Such
boxes as are not taken by the court
will cost from so guineas to 100
guineas. Many of these are already
sold.
Among the INCORPORATION feStivi-
ties, the Ascot race meeting bids fair
to be the most popular, though this
yea h king will have a stand to
himself. The rush of applications for
admittance to the royal enclosur
where King Edward formerly watched
theraces, is unprecedented. The Lord
Chamberlain, the Earl of Clarendon,
with only 1,500 tockets at his disposal,
has been obliged t disappoint hundreds.
/ over 0UU COTOudllOu DOIlIT1eS nave d.
ready been arranged for in the pro-
| vinceS.
A curious precedent in celebrating
King Edwards browning has been set
by the corporation of the city Of Lon
don which has decided to make a per-
sonal gift of $4,000 to the king to use
as he sees fit. in token of the contin-
uance of the corporations ancient
loyalty to the sovereign. This is eX-
cusive of the appropriations for de-
| coration and entertainment, for the
| kings hospital fund.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27

News and Observer: Yesterday after
noon Raleigh was well faxed ey some
practical joker. who posted score
OF Wilmington 4: Durham O. Lots OF
people went TO bed last night believing
this to be 5 and some people lost
money on It.
The R~obesonian: Reports OF crop con-
ditions in the county nave never been
more encouraging than at present
Some say h prospect Ia brighter than
it has been since the war and the opin-
Ton Is general that IL has been many
years sine conditions looked so prom
Using.
Statesvtlle Landmark: Major Clesg
found on the Milligan place n Concord
township the largest white oak he
thinks he eyer saw. Three feet from
the ground the tree measures Is feet TN
circumference n Its great limbs max
q shade that is sixsS feet I'm diameter.
Fayetteville Observer: Colonel Cook.
manager OF the Cape Fear Transporta-
ton Company. informs US that the two
Spanish guns with forty balls. which
the government has given to Fayette-
Vile. should reach here next Wednesday
afternoon. He says that the Clyde Lin
and the Cape Fear Transportation Com
pany will transport them free of charge
to this city.
Marion News: From the Gazette we
learn the Ivy Telephone Company II
going to onnec Asheville with Burns
VILE and with the telephone line from
B~akersvilIe TO Marion. thus giving US
phone with Asheville.-A wagon with
an s-inch tire was an attraction on our
streets Tuesday. Wide tires make good
roads. and We hope the time will come
when they will be generally used.
Lincoln Journal: Major w. 4. Ora
ham has receivetd a diploma from the
judges at the Paris exposition for a
specimen of gold ore from his mine ex-
hibited by the department OF agrieul-
ture. \ medal will be sent him later.
The Rendleman amethyst was
awarded a silver medal at the Charles
ton exposition. 1t Is about the finest
speciment in the country. II was pur-
chased by the state museum from Cap
tain j. NJ. R~endleman, OF Iron Station
The 6-year-old son OF Mr.. Bob
Snipes. who lives two miles from town.
was bitten last week ~ a dog supposed
TO have been mad. His mother brought
hin to town and had the mad stone ap-
piled. II refused to a1here.
Gastonia Gazette: The present tax
valuation OF property I'm CASTOR. says
Register OF Deeds Carpenter. Is over
two and a half time as great as IL was
in 1890. Here are the figures: For 1890.
81, SOS, 443: for 1901. s6.727,.0s. Percentage
Of increase Is 15S nearly.-The small
| pox situation is still we'll in hand at Nc
Adenville. There were three or four
new cases yesterday, as might natural
ly b. expected. Vaccination Is pretty
general and a part of the mill Is shut
down on account OF sore rms.-Littl
~four-year-old Fred Jenkins killed n
snake Wednesday. He had n small
short handled hoe that he played with
Il >..n NOT
far away. he saw the snake In the path
and killed him with four whacks OF the
hoe. The snake was a spotted spreading
adder about 2S inches long.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
THE sEAsHoRE HOTEL.
The Billiard Hall and Bowling Alley
Nearly COmpleted-Work on the
New Annex Progressing Finely.
a Lot of Amusements Purchased
for the Hotel.

: The SeashoTe Hotel at Wrightsyills
Beach will open for the season next
Sunday and Manager J.. H. Hinton an
~ticipates the biggest business the house
ever had. He will not be open a week
till he Will have the State Board of
Medical examiners as guests. as the
board meets at the hotel June 4th to
9TH. Then the State Medical Society
will come and hold its annual meeting
from June 10Th TO 18th
The patronage of the hotel was so
large last season under its popular
management that the hotel could not
accommodate the people who came to
enjoy the delights of Wrightsyille
Beach. With the additional rooms.
however. to be afforded by the new
annex, Manager Hinton will be pre-
pared 20 take care of all the corners.
Contractor F. y. A~pplegate is making
fine progress with the annex and will
have 1t ready by the time the State
Medical Society meets. Manager Hin
ton is already in receipt of large num-
berS of inquiries for accommodations
and the hotel will do a good business
from the very opening of the season.
The management Will have many
more features this season for the en-
tertainment and amusement Of the
guests than ever before. 1t has been
stated that the magnificent Hollow
bush orchestra will furnish music aft
the hotel day and night during the
Season. and many brilliant dances will
be given in the handsome ball room.
There will also De quite a number of
aInusements, including regina music
Doxes' an autoSCope, a mutOSeope, pho
nographs, graphophones, a gripping
machine, an automatic weighing ma
chlne, a lifting machine, a Hercules
punching apparatus, a lung tester, etc.
Mr.. Edgar L. Hinton has just returned
from New York where he
the instruments and devices mentioned
above. The aUtoscope and mutoscope
VIII AFFORD Entertainment for both
grown people and children with NOV
ing pictures. hi billiard hall and
bowling alley will be finished by next
Saturday.
Manager Hinton will have his office
STAR made up in a few days. Mr.. joe
L. Josey, of Augusta, Ga, is to be
chlef clerk. He is a we'll known and
popular motel man, having been with
the Battery Park at Asheville, N. c..
ana the Arlington at Augusta, Ga.
MRS. Russ, lately with the ST. Johns
charleston, S. c., will be housekeape
The grounds about the hotel are being
extensively beautified. The lawn he
tween the old annex and the new one
and between the main building and the
railroad tracks has neen sodded and
planted in palms and other tropical
plants. The hotel is also to be beauti-
fully lighted this season. The old
Kerosene lamps have been displaced and
the Turrentine Light Company has
equipped the hotel buildings, halls and
grounds with the brilliant ana beautiful
k1tson lamps. They were in full blaze
Friday night and when the people at
Wr1ghtsville saw the hotel i'm a blaze
of light more beautiful than electricity
they wondered what was the matter
over on the beach.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
THE LIQUOR PRIVILEGE.
The City offered $4,000 for 1.-THE
Present Revenue in About s15 900.
There May he Legal Questions i'm
the Way of Accepting the Propo-
sifiOn.

A well known liquor dealer has pro-
posed to the city authorities to give
$780, 900 for the exclusive privilege of SELL
ing liquor in Wilmington. The offer
is bone hde and the party has offered
to give d satisfactory bond of his ear
nest.
The matter will be laid before the
next meeting OF the board Of aldermen
and the first thing they will have TO
consider is whether they will have the
power to grant such a privilege. as ii
is in the nature of a monopoly. Some
lawyers are clearly of the opinion that
h board cannot accept the PROPOSE
ton. but Others think the matter can
be so arranged hat it can be legally
done.
Some favor the acceptance of the
proposition, as 1t would be a clear gain
of $4,000 to Inc city. The present
revenue from liquor licenses is s15, 900
a year.
There would however, be popular
opposition to IL, and the proposition
Will no doubt startle the sixty odd
liquor dealers III the city.
The outcome of the matter will prob
ably De niSh license
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
FERNIE NINE DISASTER.
Now Thought that One Hundred and
Fifty Persons Perfshed.

Fernie, B. c.. May 24.-It is believed
at least $50 miners have been lost. The
disaster probably was caused by an ex-
plosion of coal dust. so great that the
roof of the fan house was carried over
the mountain top and came down in
fragments. Relief parties are working
heroically in fol hour shifts. Thirty
eight bodies have been recovered, but
only one has been found within the past
fourteen hours. A church building has
been used as a morgue.
Many of the killed leave large fami-
lies and there is scarcely a family that
does not mourn some one. The interior
of the mine is wrecked.
Many miners from Morrissey and
Michael have arrived to assist in the
rescue work. Many Of the relief par
ties are overcome by fire damp and
have to be resuscitated. Funeral pro-
cessions have been vending their way
to the cemetery all day. A public fu-
neral will be held at 5 o'clock tonight
Relief committees will ask for financial
help from outside counties.
1t is the opinion of -1any that it was
the result of a heavy lot from one OF
the machines
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27

The epidemic Of robberies along the
main line Of the Pennsylvania railroad
influenced a resident OF Wayne to in
vest SIS in a half grown bulldog about
two weeks old The animal vas surely
~ferocious In appearance. but he had a
most friendly habit of wagging his tail
that belied his reputation as a watch
dog. A neighbor who knows something
about dogs gazed at him critically and
pronounced him a mongrel- IF you
paid SIS for him, you've beer cheated"
he said. That collar you bought for
him is worth more than the dog" OF
course the owner scoffed at this expert
opinion, and the dog was duly installe ]
in the back yard, where a house had
been erected for his accommodation.
Several nights g an attempt was
made to rob the premises, but the
thieves were scared of before they hal
effected an entrance through a window
over the porch. The man of the r
with a lighted candle, made thorough
inspection of the premises n finally
went into the yard. A closer inspec-
ton disclosed the fact that the thieves
had stolen his collar. Il told Q the
collar was worth more than the dog.
said the mans neighbor, when he heard
about it the next morning. If the cog
had been worth anything. they would
have stolen him too."-Philadelphia
Pacord
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Correspondence Of he Messenger.)
Coldzobor. May "a.

Correspondence Of he Messenger.1
Goldsobor. May a
The following from Mr.. J. R Kenly
in reference to n passenger depot for
G~oldsboro is sufficient TO inspire the
hope that Goldsboro viii yet have the
accommodation that II deserves by rea-
son OF its large passenger traffic. Mr..
Eenly's letter is date May 24th. ad-
dressed TO City Clerk Broadhurst. and
Is as follows:
Dear Sir:-Owing TO my absence
from the city I have just received 4
copy OF the resolutions OF the board Of
aldermen OF the city or Goldsboro. re-
questing the railroads centering there
to erect a suitable passenger depot in
that city. In reply / beg TO advise that
1 shall be pleased TO confer with the
other railroads interested In regard TO
the matter n IL the board OF alder
men have any further suggestions to
make in regard 20 the matter. / shall be
pleased to have them submit same"
The Goldsboro fire department has re-
ceived an invitation to attend a fire.
mems tournament to be held at Ports
mouth. Va
DR.. J. F. Miller, the able and popular
superintendent of the Eastern insane
saylum. is utilizing a quantity of brick
bats which were left over from building
the new annex, for building 4 work
shop for the carpenters
The city bonds were signed last night
by the mayor and the city clerk and
shipped today to the purchasers with a
draft for $4,000.
Mr.. Geo. w. Dewey. who holds a
lucrative position in the insurance bus
mess in New York. Is IN the city on a
visit to relatives.
Mr.. Z. Y. Roulzahn, secretary OF the
American League for Civic Improve
ment will deliver a lecture in the opera
house on Tuesday evening under the
auspices of the Goldsboro Woman's
Club. The admission will be free and
the public are invited.
Mr.. w. ]. Gordon. a foreman at the
Borden cotton mill, left yesterday for
Rock Hill, S. c., where he had been
summoned by the illness of relatives.
Beans are selling here today for SIZE
per basket There were several thous-
and baskets On the market. They are
going north by the car o n prices
are expected to drop very soon.
Mr.. J. r. Proctor, of Grimes,and, who
has been attending school at Buies'
Creek, is in the city visiting MS mother,
Mrs. T. C. Bryan.
There were two games OF base ball in
Goldsboro yesterday afternoon. A team
of grown men from Plkevllle came 10
the city and were defeated by the Colds
bore boy team in a score or 10 TO IA
While this game was going on inside
the park there vas a negro game going
on Just outside the park. A negro team
from Kinston was defeated by the ne
gro team in this city by a score OF D to
8. This morning the Kinston negroes
defeated Goldsboro.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
Suufrcs or Garden.

The government deserves and will
receive the commentator OF a pa
triotic people. Its prompt and vigor-
Gus action in the case OF the United
States envoy to Cuba Libre shows that
our national interests are in capable
and fearless hands. But for that action
the British minister at Havana might
now be dean OF the diplomatic corps
AS it is, and in logical consequences OF
the administration's determined course.
our own Squlres will be dean. and
once more this free and powerful repub-
lie will triumph over the bloated and
effete monarchies of the Old World.
We trust that no inquisitive person
will ask us to state the exact amount
Of influence and glory attaching to the
position. Conhdentially, and in the
strfctest secrecy, We do not know. In
a genera way, Of course, We under
stand that ii Is a big thing to b. dean
or the diplomatic corps at any capital,
be 1t ever SO humble and obscure. For
example, Lord Pauncefote, the British
Ambassador. is the dean in Washing
ton, and everybody knows how he il
honored and respected by the entire
corps and the State Department. At
ooy hc "aAn III
front Of the other ambassadors and IL
any squabble over a pot OF coffee or a
bumper OF orgeat OF a difference of
opinion as to cigarettes occurs. the
dean invariably preSides. We recall
the time When the august office was
held by the minister of Haiti. II carried
with 1t as much prestige as IL does
now. Later Oh, the envoy from Mex
leo. SEND Romero, succeeded to the
eminence. A careful survey OF the past
Will uncover many important, not to
say thrilling. revelations in that re-
gard.
But what We wish especially to i'm
press upon oui readers is the fact that
the government has proceeded with the
utnost vigor liz the case of Sauirex.
and that we may now look for the very
happiest results. 1t would BE- a cold
bleak n weary day In which the
united States should take a back seat
at Havana. Tie Englishman. Mr.. Car
Den may be a great man. We con-
cede it, But Squires-our own snuire-
well. say!-Waahington Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27

New York, May 2A-Under ideal on
ditions for a great running race. h
Brooklyn handicap at Grevesend was
won today by Arthur Featherstone's
4-year-old chestnut fully Reina in 200
at 40 to /, with O'Connor up. Reina
won by a short head. leading home
thirteen Of the o noted acers Of
the American turf. Advanced Guard,
Burns up. was second. a length ahead
Of j. E. Madden's Pentecost. ridden by
Redfern. Frank Ferrell's Blues, a
great favorite in the betting ring,
fought hard with Pentecost for third
place. but finished fourth. and Mono
graph, the western horse that had
raised high expectations, after leading
for the first quarter OF a mile. dropped
back to fifth place at the wire.
The winning of the race by Reina
not only upset all calculations of the
s~hrewdest guesses. but also broke a
tradition. She is the first mare to win
the Brooklyn handicap. Only a wise
few picked her to win.
An hour or more before the race.
when the first book on the handicap
was shown in the betting ring, Blues,
Herbert n Adanve Guard were the
favoriteS in the order named. the odds
on Blues being Z to 2 and Z to 5, while
Herbert was 4 nj s to 5 and Advance
Guard at almost the same price.
Thirty-five thousand persons, the
greatest crowd ever assembled atthe
Gravesend track. packed the grand
stand and the pavilion and the space
between. A deep fringe of spectators
lined the inner side of the track for a
quarter of a mile.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
Fatal Fight With q Bear.

A huge black bear, weighing 43S
pounds. was brought in from the coun
try last hight and sold to local butch
ers. Its weight was supplemented
slightly by eleven bullets in its body,
telling the story of a desperate battle
between bruin and a party of hunters
organized to run him down. since he
had been working havoc among the
sheep folds
Bruin at bay in a narrow mountain
path killed the hounds as fast as the
came near him and with ten rife balls
in his body he was still fighting. John
Burton. aged Is, rushed in too close and
was bowled over by the bears heavy
paw, which tore his face in string
while a second uT broke his left arm.
The bear bit through Burton's left leg
and vas gnawIng his stomach when a
shot was fired by a man named Ram
sey that settled his career. Young Bur
ton will die--Bluefield. W. Va. special
to Philadelphia Record
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
The Advantage of the Cook.

Many a woman from her drawing
room has envied the complexion of her
cook in the kitchen. Why? Simply be-
cause of necessity the cook has been liv-
ing in a moisture-laden atmosphere
arising from steaming pans and kettles,
While the mistress has been undergoing
the kiln-drying process of the
parlors. She may have been
complaining that her complexion
lotions have been Intellectual, when in
reality the atmosphere in which she
lives as made these lotions at once
necessary and yet inadequate.
She takes it for granted, as a rule,
that h must be nervous. Also, that
she must have skin foods and creams,
and powders, is accepted as a fact. But
just why, after all these expenditures
of time and money, the complexion
hould still no unsatisfactory, puzzles
her.
Yet, if she were spending a year in
Arabia or in the Soudan, she would
have no difficulty in putting the blame
upon the climate. In her drawing
~room-which is worse han either-how-
ever. she does not e approach the
real cause.-Frank Leslie.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
STATE PRESS.

When our people get filled with the
idea that factories will make business
for every business house in town.there
may be more effort to get them in
Observation-Disclosures Reflector.
Having turned Cuba over to her peo-
pie We should not look
about for an excuse for gobbling up
the whole business. 1t Is to be ex-
pectcd tina they will make Mistakes;
but give them a
Herald.
Tennessee cares we'll for the old
confederate soldiers. There are LAD
of them on the pension list. The PEN
sioners are divided into three classes.
The first class gets $500, the second
class 5000 and the third 800 per year.
Monroe Enquirer.
One of the most pleasant surprises
of recent months is the admirable
manner in which Senator Is
conducting himself in h Senate. His
able chaste speeches are the subject
of much favorable comment the coun-
try over.-Rocky Mount Motor.
Again we would remind the people
of this vicinity that the only way to
expand Tarboro as a peanut market is
to have a peanut cleaning mill. Such
a mill could be organized on the CO.
operative plan somewhat like the
scheme for a cotton seed oil mill. The
success of such an enterprise would
be insured from the very beginning
Tarboro Southerner.
According to the last census the
percentage of illiteracy among the
forcing born population in North Car
DINA is far smaller than among the
native whites. We certainly have no
immigration problem in this state and
for our part it looks like North Caro-
lima would be benefited, and no one
hurt, by turning some OF the streams
of foreigners that are landing in New
York. ten thousand a week, toward
our soil.-RaleIgh Times.
South Cardinals state convention
has voiced it's opinion Of Senator John
l.. McLaurin's democracy in q resolu-
ton which condemns his course. To
those who have advanced the idea that
Mr.. McLaurin's position was endorsed
by the democracy Of the Palmetto state
and was only a~ntagoniZed by the Till
man faction the deliverence will doubt
less come as a knockout blow.-ThS
Robinsonian.
Reverend Sam Jones in his lecture
at Charlotte Tuesday night INDUCED
in his usual biilingsgate n denounc'
ed the Elks, saying he would choose
the penitentiary for his boy in prefer.
ence to joining the E1ks. He also USED
the expressions "damnable" and beer
guZzling to melnbers of that order. Th'
Irreverened Sal1 has to denounce some
body or go u Of business. He is on'
of the peculiar works of the Lord ant
the worst elements Of his character
constitute his drawing card.-Twin
| City Seminal
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-27
WHITE PRESSED BRICK FACTORY Y.
1t VIII begin operations Tomorrow.
Farties Here from Colorado to
Watch the Proces of Manufacture.
They are Surprised at the
Thrift of Our CITY.

The Hydraulic White Brick Com
pany's factory at Front ana Harnett
streets has turned out a few brick in
an experimental way for a few days but
we understand hat it will begin opera
lions in earnest tomorrow.
Colonel E. E. Wade and Mrs. J. +
Franklin, Of Colorado Springs, Col, are
here to witness the manufacture OF
or1ck with a view to establishing a fac
tory in Colorado where there is an i'm
mense supply of fine material.
Mrs. Wade is here with Colonel Wade
who by the way was Oil the federal side
at h battle of Fort Fisher. The two
gentlemen are much impressed with
Wilmington and are astonished to fine
that there is hardly d vacant store anC
not enough vacant residences to supply
the demand They state tina this is
evidence that we have a gooo city and
that 1T is a good business port.