The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-05

The schooner John 4. Fell. from VIII
mington. has arrived at Baltimore.
Sailed: Schooner Charles Lsnthicum. for
Wilmington. " i.
Rev. BENJAMIN sz,ii. Rabbi Emeritus
OF Oheb Shalom temple OF Baltimore
ano q noted Hebrew scholar. dice
thursday al Berk;sy Springs, ". Va
age - years
Charles NJ Schzwo. president of the
United states Steet Coronation. is NJ
his summer home a. ] a retto- pa He ia
reported to be IN sood health and sx-
poets to remain 1T -oretto Tor several
days
Orders have been issued by the navy
department d~etachias Lieutenant =
simpson from the naval torpedo station
Narragansett Bay. to the Norfolk and
Newport News navy yard IN connection
with h fitting out Of the Arkansas.
At a meeting OF the new American
Steel Foundries Company In New York
the organization of the concern was
completed. JoSerfi r. Schawb. brother
or Charles NJ. Schan5. president % the
United States Steel Corporation. was
elected president
Miss Anna d. Collier. a worceste,
school teacher and Mise Jean Brown. %
Detroit. Mich. wee drowned In the un-
dertow while bathing ct Hull Mass,
thursday. Miss Christine Adams, "a
Detroit. was rescued in an unconscious
condition but was reSLsSitated.
An explosion resulting in heavy loss
OF life has occurred at the Mount Kim
pa coiliery at W~ollorsoag & port forty
miles from Sydney y. ;. Twenty
seven bodies have been recovered. one
and ~forTy-ninc miners were
rescued but a hundred are still en-
tombed
Announcement mas been made ,ha.
Earl Beachamp has Joined the liberal
league. This formal detection from the
conservative ranks, coming at a mo-
! ment when excitement IL rife over the
Liberal victory iii the North Leeds bye
election, occasion considerable interest
in political circles.
The articles Of incorporation OF the
Rock Island company. capital $3.50. COO
600 which We're filed .n the office OF
clerk of Hudson counIy, y. J.. wednes-
day have been recorded with the secre-
tary of state. y filing fee OF $4,000 was
required to have the incorporation made
a matter OF state record.
1t is stated that no date has yet been
fixed for the formal transfer of the
road To the Louisville and
Nashville and Southern roads. TeChnI-
cally the change of control hes already
been effected. but legally the transfer
VIII not occur SO IL is au,h1ritativcly
stated. until the latter part Of August
or the early part OF September.
William Jennings B;yan leaves Block
Island, r. l.. for New Haven on Lewis
Nixon's steam yacht Loudoun.
Ladenburg, Thaiman & Co, have en-
gagged $600.0oo gold q the assay office.
Heidelbach, 1ckleheimcr & CO. have re-
duced their engagement OF gold from
100000 to $500, 900. making n total of
81, 1OO,O 900 for export Thursday.
Generals Botha, DeWet and Delarey
sailed for England from Cape Town,
Wednesday. the boys OF the Dutch
schools dragged thu carriages carrying
the generals to the steamship dock
through cheering Groves.
An negro was Iynched at
San Antonio. Fla. Pasco county, for
criminal assault on = white woman. He
was identified by his victim. after
which he was strung up on a tree in
sight of the railroad stat:tn and his
body riddled with bullets.
Hundreds OF strikers lined the roads
leading to different collieries at Shame
ken, Pa, n prevented the non-union
men from going to work John Ship
man & Son. non-uniop men. were bru-
tally beaten. Strike leaders are busily
engaged in trying to calm the strikers
who have grown more restless.
James Macdonald, general represent
alive Of the Standard Oil Company and
manager Of the Angic-American OIL
Company, denies tka story printed in
the Daily Mail. II the effect that the
oil interests of Rockefeller, Rothschilds
and Noble have entered into a working
agreement.
The North American Copper Company
with an authorized carital Of SOC, 600 900
is incorporated 1t T-snton, N. J., to
mine, smelt and manufacture copper.
zinc, gold, silver n other mstals. The
incorporators are Raymond Newman
and Frederick X. Seward Of New York
and Kenneth X. Mc.aren, OF Jersey
City.
Fire in the plant OF the Thomas J.
Upton Company ut the Union Stock
Yards at Chicago caused a. ioos OF $225,-
900. Only by the hardest kind OF work
could the firemen conine the fire 10 the
building in which 4 started. The en-
tire contents of warehouse Il" were de-
stroyed, only the walls of the building
remaining.
Thomas w. Williamson, principal Of
the Danville. Va, graded school and son
Of the late General Thomas 5. william
son, Of the Virginia Military institu-
tute, died at Lexington, Va, Tuesday.
He was widely known as an educator.
He was hfty-seycn years old.
All accounts in London continue TO
state that the king 10 making excellent
progress. There Is no suggestion OF a
second postponement OF the coronation
Their majesties received numbers OF
visitors aboard the royal yacht Victo-
ria and Albert.
Thomas Toca, OF Shenandoah. Pa. a
lieutenant of the Goa and iron police.
in the charge o. a company OF special
mine guards, was attacked by strikers
Wednesday and compelled to seek tie
shelter OF his hClIe.