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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
THE RUMOR CGNTRADICTED.
santiago at Banquet to Schley in
Chicago.

Chicago January 20.-President E. A
Munger, of the Hamilton Club, which
is preparing to entertain Admiral Schley
ing statement:
THERE'S no basis for the report
which has attained considerable circu-
Iation hat Admiral Schlev will take
occasion at the banquet to be given
him next SATURDAY.. TO make a state
ment concerning the recent court Of in
quiry. No other speaker at the BAN
Quet will mention the subject
In an interview. Mr.. Munger said:
"When I say the admiral in reference
to visiting Chicago. he said to mt Mum
ger. I'll shoot any one who mentions
Santiago That should how how he
feels about the matter
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
PRISONERS BREAK JAIL.
-Four Notorious Prisoner Escape
From Birmingham Jail.

birmingham. Ala, January 20.-Early
todav Frank Duncan. d notorious safe
blower under sentence of death for mur
der. and three other prisoners made
their escape from the Jefferson county
Jail by saving through bars and cut
ting the lock off the outer gate OF the
prison ward.
Duncan was from Cincinnati where
his wife resides. and 1t is believed that
friends in that city furnished the saws
with which the escape was made. The
others who escaped are George Bull
lard. charged with numbering a man in
the railroad yards at Bessemer and
placing his body across a pair OF bum
pers on a freight tram. A. j. Dye. Of
Nashville, charged with grand larceny.
and JEFF. Van Horn. OF Ensley. charged
with highway robbery
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24

Given by Greene anu the Gaynors for
Appearance In Federal Court of
Georgia.

New York. January 2O.-Captain Ben
jamin NJ. Greene, John F., William and
Edward II. Gaynor. who were indicted
with Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, for al
legged conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. appeared before United States
commissioner Shields today and fur
nished a collective bond Of 500, 900 for
their appearance before the United
States court of Georgia
The giving of the bon was by con-
sent and the defendants are to answer
to the Indictments at Savannah on the
second Monday in February. Meantime
preparations are being made for a
technical attack pom the indictments.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
To Institute Vigorous Warfare In
LuzOn.

Washington. January 20.-Having
failed after two years strife in
gas province, which lies just
south Of Manila. and having satisfied
himself that lenient treatment Of the
insurgents is productive of no good re-
suits General J. Franklin Bell. TIE
military commander n that province
mas determined on the enforcement Of
the wal in the most vigorous n de
teTmined fashion. involving reconcen-
tration in a modified form. b applica-
ton OF martial law In all directions and
the ~unsparing pursuit and punishment
OF h natives who act as spies and
traitors to the United States. All this
appears from a long report to the war
department just published
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
AN INCREASE OF WAGES
Granted the Railway Telegraphers
by the Norfolk and Western.

Roanoke. Va. January 1.-THE rel
erai committee of the Norfolk and Wes-
tern railroad branch of the Order of
Railway T~elegraphers has been in ses-
sion here for the past two weeks. The
work which it had in hand was the ar
Tangement Of a new agreement with
the management of the Norfolk and
Western railway. 1t Is said that a sub
stantial increase in IA has been grant
ed the operators and an overtime scale
fixed along the line for the railway
trainmen.
The increase will tffect more than $50
men. A new set of working rules also
vas adopted for the Norfolk and West
arn operators. The new arrangement
will go into effect on February 1st.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24

aud other necessary expenses, including
school houses, before they make appor-
tionment of the funds.
State superintendent Don sat VI in
bed a little while today-the first time
during his long illness.
Attorney general Gilmer is expected to
return Friday. He has entirely recov-
cred.
Governor Aycock's theme at Durham
this evening vas North Carolina, Her
Past. Present and Future" State Au-
ditor Dixon spoke on The Confederate
Veterans"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
TO OUR

We are now engaged I'm sending
out sfafemenfs to all who are I'm ar
rears for subscription and we re-
quest a prompt remittance for the
amount due by each. As we ave NO
travelling Agent, we must rely upon
payments by mail, by registered let
ter or Postal Oraer.
The indebtedness OF each may he
ascertained by examining the date
of the label, which shows the date to
which subscription has been paid.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
Appointments and Combinations.

Washington, January 16.-The presi-
lent today sent the following nominal
tons to the senate:
Collectors of Customs-Tip Warren,
district of Apalachicola, Fla, John E.
Stillman. district Of Pensacola, Fla.
The senate today confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations:
n. II. Alexander, receiver Of public
moneys at Montgomery, lie
P~ostrlasters in South Carolina-G. 5.
McGravy, Laurens; j. c.. Hunter,
Union; P. Rion. W%innsboro: T. E. Hus-
bands, Dillon; E. Applet, Manning; E.
A. S. Mixson, Barnwell; J. F. Ensor,
Columbia; E. Harper, Seneca.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
I'm the Hand. of a Receiver.

New Orleans, January 2o.-The CAT
ferry Central Sugar Refining
and the Franklin n Abbeville Rail
road Company went into the hanos OF a
received today. Suit was brought in
the federal court by Alfred Hennen
Morris. one of the bondholders. Some
SIC. 600 is involved in the sugar refining
company and nearly as much in the
railroad company which is engaged
principally in hauling cane. A G. Brice
was appointed receiver.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24

Louisburg Times: Rev. John Huske.
the new rector OF st. Paul's Episcopal
church. occupied III pulpit OF that
church last Sunday morning and night
He is an able minister. and We are glad
to learn that he contemplates making
Louisburg his permanent residence. -
Tie Louisburg oil mills. which are be-
ing built by Messrs. G.. w. Ford and
Allen Brothers are nearlv completed.
and they expect to m mash
Ing seed about Wednesday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
Don't Live Together.

Constipation and health never go to-
gether. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
promote easy action Of the bowels with
out gripping or distress. Are safe. sure,
gentle. thorough. Purely vegetable. R
r. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24

Asheville Citizen: Rev. c. Hendrick-
son Carpenter VIII administer the holy
rite Of Baptism nex Sunday to Foster
and Mills. the two negroes who are to
DC hung. together with their two white
accomplices. for burgiarizing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
TO COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS.
A Decision as to Manner of PayfnI
Certain General Expenses.
Especial to the Messenger.)

Raleigh. N. c.. January 20.-The state
Superintendent OF public instruction, at
ter a conference with the governor and
attorney general. decides that county
boards OF education shall reserve from
the public school fund uch sums as
they may deem necessary to pay the
county superintendent and school beard
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
The Fishermen's Strike Settled.

Pensacola, Fla, January 16.-The fish,
ermen's strike which has been on for
several weeks has been amicably ad-
iusted. The smacks are being iced and
stores taken on board preparatory to
proceeding to sea.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
NAVAL BATTLE AT PANAMA.
COLOMBIAN WaRSHIPS ATTACKED BY
NSURGENT VESSELS.
THE CONFLICT A BLOODY ONE

Rumors of Heavy Casualty List AND
Sinking of several of the Three
Engaged ON Each Side.
kiIIed-Government Boats yictori-
ous-Our Cruiser Philadelphia a
Close Observer of the Engagement.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
GRUTCH-BoUND

The mar with the crutch never fails to arouse the deepest vrnnathv and
the tenderst emotions of his more fortunate fellow being. THE haooard
countenancc, swollen joints and twisted and deformed limbs tell a pathetic soTTv of
suffering such as Rheumatism alone ar inhict. Only those who ire painfully
and slowly hobbing through life can fully realize what it means tob ecrutch-bound
They feel most keenly their helpless and dependent condition when it dawns UPON
hen that that they re no longer workers but unwilling drones in the busy world.
Rheumatism should lot be neglected because the pains at first are wander.
ing and slight These are only the rumbings of n approaching storm of pains
and aches that may transfer you from a life of activity to the ranks of the crutch.
bound crppks.
Rheumatism is due to acid gritty PARTICLES being deposited in the Joints.
and nerves by an impure and tooacid blood, and the strongest constitutions o.. nus.
On and nerves OF steel can long withstand these corrodrng poisons. They penetrate
OF the body, and n o Imminent, lotion or other external annrcation ar raocb
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24

cles of iron and nerves of steel can long withstand these c
to every fibre of the body, and no liniment, lotion or otf
and dislodge them.
Finally the natural oils are consumed when there
IS a creaking, grinding noise with every movement of the
limbs, the joints become locked and immovable, the mus
cles wither or contract, the nervous system gives way
and the patient becomes a physical wreck and crutch-
bound cripple. Rubbing with lniments may produce
counter-lrritation and afford temporary ease, but they
cannot reach and destroy these corrosive particles, which
are daily forming in the blood.
The correct treatment-the true cure for Rheu-
rlatism-is a remedy that will dissolve and wash out
this infanmatory matter and expel it from the system,
and no medicine does this so promptly and thoroughly
as S. s. S. 1t neutralIzes and eliminates from the blood
current all poisonous, noxious substances and makes the
as it c%irculates through the body, all effete matter is gat
proper channels. This rich new blood coo1s the feverish
refreshes the tired nerves, and welcome relief comes to tn
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-24
From Rheumatism.

Helpless From Rheumatism.
L was terribly afflicted with Rheumatism.
Iof eighteen months, and during nay sick
tried the skill ofmanv GOOD uhxEte,a,.
All OF whom pronounced my case hopeless.
was Tor q year IN such a helpless condi-
t,Sn that was unable to dress or feed N.Y.
SCI. l hao nI!ed o. different timee. hfty-
tw@ prescriptions suggested BY frt.nd..
none ofthem giving mo any relief; IGnal-
~ decided 70 try S. S. S. and took the arst
dose while hobbling about On eruscaes.
After taking two bottles I found so much
relief was able to relinQuish tho rso OF
one crutch. and a faithful ~ntinuaa
OF the medicine relieved mo OF the other
c-utch and shortly afterward enabled me
to go 30 my work, a. which 7 have been ever
since. have had no return OF any syrnp-
toms OF Rheumatism, although this was
seven years ago.. Yours very truly,
J. O'MALLEY,
21S5 N. Senate Ave, Indianapolis, Ind.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
PURELY PERSONAL.

A. Fl. Wright, mayor of Merrill, Wis,
is the youngest chief executive of any
city in the northwest. He was born
December &c, 1876, and was elected to
the position he now holds in May last.
President Eliot, of Harvard, is an
enthusiastic rose grower. He is very
fond of the flower, of which he has
an exact scientific knowledge, and
three bushes at his Cambridge home
are his especial personal care.
Frank L. Coombs. who represents
the First congressional district of Cal
ifornia, is the only man in congress
born IN the Pacific coast. He was
born in the Napa valley in 1853.
Mrs. ~Leishman, the wife of the Amer
a ambassador to the porte, has
been the recipient of what is consid-
cred a very high honor from the sui
tan. She had asked his majesty to
write his name on her fan. This he
did in pencil, the next day sending an
aid de camp for the fan, when he
linked his autograph over.
Jay Cooke, formerly looked upon as
the greatest inancier of the country,
is 81 years old, but is one of the best
preserved men of the day and is as in.
teresting in his "reminiscences of the
times when he dealt with enterprises
in which billions of dollars were in
volved as he ever was. His life is a
quiet n at Ogontz lodge.
President Merrill, of Fisk univer.
sity, points out that the well-educated
and competent negro doctor has an
amazing opportunity among the S,000,-
900 of his race. President Merrill
knows of IL negro doctors in Nashville
alone all doing well and six of them
amassing property. He reports also
that it is easier for a colored physi-
clan to build up a self-supporting prac,
tice than for the white doctor.
Nicholas H. Torney, a wealthy New
York broker who was the double of
Andrew Carnegie in appearance, died
recently. 1t was his fad to live for
an occasional month or so in some
Bowery lodging house and then change
oyer to the Hoffman or Aston house.
being equally well known in either Of
the places. So generally was he rec
ognized on the Bowery that regular
patrons of one clearinghouse there
always referred to him as "the regular
of DON 81" That was where he slept
when he first made his appearance
there, something over ten years ago,
and that was where he died.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

The movement to erect a monument
to Gen. F. f. Spinner is making prog
ress under the are OF Miss l.. r..
Whelpley, of East Capitol street,
Washington. Gen. Spinner was the
first to admit women to the treasury
department OF equal terms with men,
When Clara Barton was in Russia at.
tending the ~quinquennial conference
of the international Red Cross associa-
ton she was presented to the czar. In
accordance with the custom of the
country she bent to kiss the imperial
hand, but his majesty said: "No, not
you, Miss Barton" and gave her a
hearty handshake.
Representative George Fl. Fall, who
introduced and championed the bill
which recently passed the Massachu.
sets Legislature making mothers
equal guardians of children with
fathers, says that most of the credit
for its passage is due his wife, who.
after her marriage, took up the study
of law. She is a member of the Maiden
school board, and the mother of five
children.
Halle Ermipie Rives, the southern
novelist. has been on a visit to Atlantic
City and while there created some.
what of a sensation in a fashionable
shooting gallery. The proprietor has
rather a poor opinion of women's pow.
ers with the rifle. but after Miss Rives
had made havoc of his tin birds, rab.
bits and fowls he ceased to smile in.
wardly. She is a dead shot and made
her mark every time,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
CAPTAIN o. ~BERToLETTo.

Captain o. Berto1etto of the Italian
Barque "Lincelles," in a recent letter
from the chief office of the italian
Barque Lincelles, Pensacola, Fla. writes:
"I have suffered for several years
with chronic cafarrh of the stomach.
The doctors prescribed for me without
myreceivingf the least benefit. Through
m of your panphIefsI began the use
of Peruna, and two bottles have en-
firely cured me. recommend Peruna
to all ny fric:ds. 20. BerfOIeffO.
In catarrh of the stomach, as we'll as
catarrh of any part of the body, Peruna
is the remedy. AS has been often said
if Peruna will cure catarrh of one part,
it will II catarrh of any other part oil
the body.
Catarrh is catarrh wherever located,
and the remedy that will cure it any
where will cure it everywhere.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
STATISTICS OF STRIKES.

ICompiled from a table prepared by COM
missioner Of Labor Carroll D.. Wright
More strikes succeed than fail.
Employees have lost through strikes
in recent years the sum total of $122,-
731,121.
Thirteen per cent. Of all strikes in
the past 20 years have been partially
successful.
About 50 per cent. of all strikes I'M
d~ertaken in the past 20 years have
been absolute failures.
The wage loss to striking employees
in the past two decades has amounted
to a total of 1857, S36,47s.
The banner year for strikes appears
to have been 1899. That year saw the
greatest number of strikes in the
greatest number of establishments,
although greater numbers of employees
were affected in 1900 and the average
duration of strikes was less than in
any year excepting 1881, being only
1872 days. The year was also the ban-
zner year in that a greater percentage
of strikes were successful, amounting
to 1924 per cent. Only 1851 per cent.
of the strikes undertaken that year
absolutely failed of their object.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
EGYPT'S NILE DAM.
One of the Greatest Engineering
Works of the Age.
Twenty-Five Hundred Square Miles
of Desert Reclaimed -Ameri-
a Farmers Directly
Interested.
Especial London Letter.l


THE announcement has just
been made that the last cop
ing stone of the great Nile
river dam at Assouan has been laid
and that the great reservoir will be
completed at the end of the present
year.
This dam is one of the most gigan-
tic engineering enterprises ever TN
dertaken, and, although constructed
with cheap Italian and native labor,
has already cost $25, 5000, 200. The
work was undertaken by the Egyp-
tian government, at the suggestion
OF the British representative at Cairo,
and will be paid for by special taxa
ton, payable in installments running
80 years. Work was begun two and
a half years ago, and $4,000 men have
been employed.
The progress of the work has been
watched with intense interest by the
entire civilized world, because every
n familiar with the history of
Egypt knows that its successful COM
pletioa means the salvation of the
ancient kingdom. 1t will convert
vast tracts of burning sand into fer
tile soil (which will produce enough
wheat to supply not only the native
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28

WITH SMALLPOX ON BOARD,
The Huron City, n Big Lumber
Freighter Arrives ut Chicago
With a Case OF Smallpox.

Chicago, Aug. 2O.-For the first
time in many years the yellow flag
of the smallpox quarantine is flying
from a ship in the Chicago harbor.
Early Tuesday morning the Huron
City, a big lumber freighter, with a
cargo of cedar ties, arrived in port
from the northern Michigan pineries,
and it's officers notified the health au-
thorities that smallpox had broken
out on board. The boat will be held
for a week, and the cargo probably
will be burned. Physicians of the
health department. are much interest
ed in the quarantine, inasmuch as
medical authorities recently have
been exploiting the theory that many
smallpox germs are carried from in
fected lumber camps in cedar logs
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28

The history of the contract which
inaugurated the building of the dam
is quite interesting. When the prop
osition was first preached a few in
terested Englishmen consulted Sir
Benjamin Baker and Sir John Arid,
who pronounced in its favor. Then
the question of raising the necessary
funds came up. This was settled
by Mr.. Ernest Cassell, who agreed to
advance the money. The three gem
Cairo, drawing up, while en- route,
a rough outline of the contract to
be submitted to the Egyptian gov
eminent. They arrived at Cairo on
Wednesday and on the following
Saturday the government accepted
their conditions and signed the con-
tract. On Monday morning Mr..
Cassel and Sir Benjamin Baker
started on the return trip to Lon
don.
Thus, in four days Egypt had re-
ceived and accepted a proposition
whose consequences are bound to
have a vast effect upon it's future.
Agriculture, which hitherto has been
conducted in a strictly patriarchal
manner, will be revolutionized and
ancient implements supplemented by
modern machinery.
The money with which the army
of $4,000 laborers was paid was car
ried to the works every week in
bags by camels. The animals re-
ceived their valuable freight at the
doors of the Bank of Assouan and
were accompanied across the desert
by a well-armed company of guards
and guides. The stones used in the
construction of the dam came from
the same quarries in which were
raised the materials for the ancient
temples and the famous needle of
Cleopatra.
The newly reclaimed agricultural
empire will be devoted to the rails
ing of wheat and cotton-a fact
which makes the completion of the
dam of particular interest to Amer
lean farmers. Labor in Egypt is so
cheap that crops can be marketed
at an extremely low price and still
leave a margin of profit. England,
which has long been our best GUS
toner for grain will probably give
the preference to the Egyptian
products, because Egypt, to all in
tents and purposes, is a British
colony. Germany, it may be as
sumed, will also consume much
Egyptian wheat, and so may France
and Italy. But the horny-handed
tillers of American soil need not be
discouraged. Europe still must have
our meat; and, unless all agricul-
tural wiseacres are liars, grain fed
to cattle brings higher prices than
grain sold as such.
WILLIAM WALTER WELLS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-28
HIS M OF LAZINESS.
This Man Named His Two Dogs
Cocoa" They Were
Always Together.

81 never hear ~laziness discussed" said
Frederick Kost, the artist, according to the
New York Times, "but | think of old man
Crawford, who used to keep an inn down on
South beach, when the place was practical
ly a wilderness, and a lot of us fellows were
in the habit OF running down there to sketch.
He was without doubt the fellow most ut
terly devoid of energy it is possible to i'm
agine. He wouldn't have breathed if he
could have helped it.
One of his sons, who had settled in New
York, sent him two dachshund pup | re-
member just how Crawford would sit sun
ming himself on the porch the whole day,
with one of these dogs, like animated
sausages, on each side of him. They were
always by him, one to the left, the other to
the right of his chair, when they were at
rest.
Zone day, as I sat talking to him, the
dogs were romping in the house. Crawford
turned and called: Here, Cocoa, Cocoa!'
and the dachshunds came t~rotting out.
What are their names, Crawford"
l asked, thinking ! had misunderstood.
Cocoa replied Crawford.
but there are two,' | reminded him.
One does for BOTH replied the old man.
They're always together-come and go at
the same time. And, anyhow, Pm not going
to worry myself into decline by thinking
up dogs names.'"