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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

ing before hard facts For the present he
may be left ruling the roost IN the airy
business domain OF Reed Simpson, Thatch-
er & Barnum, up on the fifteenth floor
another ominous quadruplo.
II Is only a good stones throw from the
foot Of the big building 20 william street
where the other Kentucky senator was 20
be found, but up where Nassau street
comes into Wan street one sees a coupe
turn Up ana q wen knswn face appear at
ths window. TIA tcnrnsy IL soon ended and
an ex-vtee president Of the Quilted States
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16
\ HLOnRS
b
n REED

alights, goes up few marble steps quite
ieisurely and IS greeted on all sides with
the discreet Difference Of the well trained
officials OF the big financial establishments.
Mr.. MORTON IN HIS TRUST OFFICE.
This Difference, by the way. Il mainly ex-
hibited by combining consciousness Of
the presence with strict attention TO the
business In hand. Il is q great room with
marble flooring and partitions and peep.
holes. Behind the partitions are seen an
army Of clerks, operating On big account
books. II Is the Morton Trust company
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

busy as bee in clover time with huge
nsactions-transfers. mergers, holding
companies-what not, wherein tens Of mil
lions are only so many counters passing to
and fro with. let Us hope, profit TO all con-
cerned.
You can not walk into the presidents
room as you would drop In upon MI pooley
In the Archey road. There are gray garned
private policemen who send you % some
one sisei there Is a uitm young man with
dark eyes who looks at yoa ana Disappears;
a tail man who unostentauousy looks you
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

Nv York swallows statesmen and great
'aIhIcans as calmly as 1t digests mil
Idfaire from Kalamazoo or q copper king
Itn Montana
Che sees a tall man of clean-shaven,
babghtful, rugged face crossing Broad
ssset He wears a tall hat and long
lHk coat that make him look taller still.
isls steering IN and out among the curb
use" brokers. who dispute the middle of
"a roadway with cabs, wagons and itin.
iltt lunch stands. A young clerk. eager
et quotations, jostles him; a trader with
rs notebook walks into him. He keeps
is course.
PC can follow his top hat above the
lespys Of the crowd. He walks dreamily
'paer great stone entrance, and without
ltfing for or getting salute, he is pres
ny whisking upward among cageful
ffonenutles packed as tight as sardines.
.Efhe eighth floor he struggles out. and
va glass door you may learn that John
4 'Carlisle is there engaged In the prac-
if OF law with several experts. whose
's4es laid out In a string jar your teeth.
*1he names Of law firms are apt to do
~<rFtiss. MalettPrevost. Colt & Thitch-
nv Try to get that between your lips
fHhout toothache!
nc eager young years Of law study, OF
k4iee in the State legislature, State
SNtor when he was go, then his leuten-
w SoTernorship before he was 80, were
E#Fny preparation for the congressional
tFer OF six terms that was to follow.
'sFnE as speaker OF the house, 81 repre-
sAauYes for the six years from 1888 to
2 Then were to follow four years In
~ United States senate, from which Pres
PfRt Cleveland was to elevate him TO the
etaTyship of the treasury. holding that
~ OF the riches Of the country until
~ Out Of all HIS long public service.
~ OF bis manifold opportunities he comes
IVA Is not meant to say needy, but
M wealthy. No doubt. despite the tidal
rance Of Mckinley In 1896, the cup of
* IN Kentucky was not quite empty for
but the greater prizes were out of
y. What then? At 90 to start in the
'u srresh on the hunt for fortune.
nave Just come back from Washing
where had supreme court business, f"
ar Carlisle without emotion. 81 am
% politics. don't want 70 talk for
4ueation; all the less because of thirty
r 'sars of public life.
POLITICS TO BBGGAR HIMSELF,
10y Ahould man stay In politics e
Hmseifl A salary that Is moi
n. - i0r a position is as bad in one ranl
- a. IN another. l like Kew York wei
Y, eH One does miss the knowing o.
0ne you meet, the buoylng up win
~ around one. No, there is no way
4. can see In our country to provide
'.s tne privy council in England, Of
Z. ,,.,- pOaiuon to create n fund for retired
NJ certain grade. Senator Lind
.ss "4o succeeded me in the senate, Il
.eW blocks away. We we're always
In New York +" " -I'
"A S.uT Kentucky senator taks, nm :,
~, -ti Of New York; That was wort
~ - - as one comes forth into Broat
i. $500 ICY mare another face ana ngur,
M :. one Tai that figure ana port
"a A,r se are MODS here arr there iron
q ,'sAng TO ana fro. You follow IN
81 - !, a riant building on the opposite
4. -. Street. Down the marble nal
b "a. =. .neS an elevator, and IN. M. nj
A' fifteenth story. =" ~ -
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As you depart you read OF Lindsay. Kre-
mer, kallsch g. Palmer on the door as az
seat OF custom for all kinds OF law. How
they run I'm cacophonous foursl
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This Coal Proposition


Is bringing out the wonderful re-
sourcetulneSs of man. But few are
wasting time crying over the
scarcity, none are setting their wits
to work trying to provide sub.
stituteS. 1t doesn't matter what is
invented, we have all kinds Of
stoves to distribute the heat-par-
Tor stoves, oil stoves that can be
carried from room to room, gaso-
line stoves TO cook with, cast iron
cook stoves, big and little air tight
wood heaters, heaters that burn
wood or coal, and each in ITS way
the best.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

shen, recalling Tennyson's Northern
Farmer"
Doant marry for money. hit goa whceI
money is.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
LETTER ABOUT WOODY.
One Who Knew Him Writes He is
Most U~nprincipled ~ScOundrel in
the Country.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Greensboro, N. c., Sept. 23.-Chief
a perfectly reliable party about Woody,
in Jail for criminal assault. 1t is hot
shot and the writer is willing to be on
hand and testify if necessary at the
trial. He says:
Il have seen two items in the Wash
ington Pos in regard to the assault of
j. w. Woody on a 1~3-year-Old girl.
This fellow Woody was raised here;
he was better known here by the name
of Coffey, the name of the man who
married his mother after the death of
Woody's father. j. w. Woody married
d woman who had a little money or
property and as soon as he spent il all
he deserted her and his child, left her
at the depot at Charlottesville without
a cent and people had to make up
enough to send her back to n r people.
He after his came back where his
family originally came from with an
other woman whom he introduced as
his wife. He was at one time employed
by the Southern road as brakeman,
and was arrested, tried and convicted
and sent to the chain gang for robbing
freight cars. He stole some wheels
from a thraShing machine and made a
kim of truck which he a up and
down the railroad track. While On the
chain gang he pretended to nave fits
and was taken off after a time and
finished his time in Jail. He WAS such
a thorough rogue and rascal that the
railroad ordered all its freight con-
ductors not To let him ride on their
trains under any circumstances.
1t is the general opinion of the peo~
pie here that if he had justice he would
have been, hung long ago. He is known
to be the most unprincipled scoundrel
in the country today. There is moth
ing he would hesitate to do in the way
of ~rascality. 1t is said he went off
where he was not known and repre-
scented himself as a preached and
preached some time and got some
money from the popele for his service
His record of criminal acts would fill
a volume and it is ony a question OF
time until he will be hung or get a life
sentence"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26

London, September 22-ThC Associ-
ated Press is in a position to announce
that diplomatic relations v cen Great
Britain and VeneZula are on the verge
of being severed. Any day, almost any
hour. may bring the announcement that
the British minister at Caracas has been
given his passport with corresponding
action towards the Venezuelan repre-
sentative in London.
The cause of the crisis doe1 10 seem
to be confined to any particular Incl
dent, but consists in various differences
which eliminated in Venezuela assum-
ing such an angry attitude, as to leave
Downing street fully impressed with
the belief hat the Venezuelan govern
ment intends to force matters to d cru
cial issue. That a diplomatic rupture
would result in hostilities is d centin-
gency thus far scarcely contemplated.
The present diplomatic relations are
so strained that. to quote a responsible
British official, it would make very lit
tie difference if h fact became public
property, by the absence Of the diplo-
matte representatives from Caracas and
london.
The view of the foreign office Is that
affairs nave reached a stage where it is
impossible to deal satisfactorily with
Venezuela in any matter which may
come up. In proof of this contention,
the foreign office instances the report
Of the United States minister at Cara
cas-, Herbert w. Bowen, announcing
that the Venezuelan government has
protested against the British flag being
raised over Patos Cor Goosej island,
over which the Venezuelan government
claimed sovereignty. According to the
British governments understanding,
Patos island belongs to Great Britain
just as much as Trinidad, and so far as
known no questions as to its owner
shop has ever arisen.
Inhabitants of the island have recent
iy been shot or otherwise endangered,
through the action Of VeneZuelans,
whether the government or revolution
ery Dartisans. is not known. For the
purpose of protection. the local West
Indian authorities ordered the British
flag to be prominently displayed ON the
island, hence the protest which the for
eign office says is only one Of many.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
A REPUBLICAN, CANARD.
RepOrte Conspiracy Against Craig
and Pritchard is Denied.
Especial to The Messenger

Especial to The Messenger
Greensboro, N. c., Sept. 23.-The
special sent out from Greensboro Sun
day by w. A. II. to the effect that there
had been a conspiracy by rival demo-
cratic candidates for the senate to pre-
vent people attending the joint cam
vass between Craig and Pritchard, was
a republican campaign canard, pure
and simple, as was proven by the at
tendance at Kinston yesterday. No one
in all this section eve heard of such
a purpose ON the part of any demo-
GRAFT, whether he vas for Watson,
Overman, Craig, Alexander, Osborn or
Carr, and they all have friends here.
The ommon opinion here is that the
article was inspired, if not by Chair
man Pritchard himself, by republican
authority, and probably the true rea-
son given. is that Senator P~ritchard
was a little apprehensive of being able
TO get eastern people to turn out to
near him., and this statement was sent
out, so that if he was given a frost"
the true reason of repugnance of white
people of the east, would be deftly
turned to the disadvantages of demo-
Gratis and to the undoing of MI. Craig.
twas a shrewd dodge, say some here,
but ii didn't work. Wv. A. H" is said
to be a typical Asheville republican,
and is the regular press agent of the
Asheville Gazette, said to be very close
to Senator Pritchard, now reporting
the joint debate for several papers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26

Large Number of school Houses
Corporation Commossfon Invcsfi-
gates wreck-Pensfou applicants.
Taxation Problem.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. y. C. September %.

NtSSenkeT bureau
Raleigh. y. c.. September %.
The corporation commission a COM
pleted its investigation into the wreck
on the Seaboard Air Line here in which
a engineer was killed. The law re-
quires the commission TO investigate
the law appears to stop and the COM
mission has no power 10 act. 1t does
not appear that any report can be made.
The city authorities here are making
no effort to enforce the ordinance
against splitting on sidewalks and it is
a farce 1t does not appear that any
attempt has ever Deen made to enforce
it and ii is contemporary violated
Governor Aycock today appointed
the following delegates to the National
Farmers Congress at Macon. Ga, next
month, these being members OF the
State Farmers Association named b.
L. b. Parker, secretary of the latter. J..
W. q. Battle, J.. w. Atwater, Ransom
Hinton, a. t. UzZell, w. r. Chesson and
E. F. Lamb.
The state auditor has nearly finished
the work OF passing upon the pension
applications. Some sent up
very few new applications. New Han
over, for example, sent up fourteen for
soldiers and eight for widows. All
these passed.
The report of the state superintendent
Of public instruction shows that there
We're built in the state during 1902 only
SlXty-three new School houses for white
and forty-five for negroes. while this
year there have been Quilt 239 for whites
and ffty-siX for negroes, and three for
Croatan 1ndians-a total OF 29S. 1t is
found that the school houses built this
year are better than those heretofore
erected.
A new lodge of Masons is authorized
at Fairfield, Hyde county.
The number Of rural free school Ii
braries which have been aided by the
state is now 362.
Among the arrivals here are w. r.
Allen, GoldSboro; H. L. Cook, S. H.
MacRae, Fayetteville; Eugene S. Mar
tin, George Rountree, Iredell Meares,
Wilmington; H. l.. Stevens, Warsaw;
w. H. Dixon, Edenton; w. D. Pollock,
KinSton.
The state tax commission will very
probably recommend a lowering of the
amount Of income exempted from tax
alton to 5000 and recommend something
like a tax of 5 per cent on all excess
over $500.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
individuals Lend Money and Cur
tail the supply of Bank Money.

New York, September e2-The local
financial situation continued TO excite
considerable interest today. Money on
call fuctuated between II and 20 per
cent. before noon, opening at the first
figure and advancing 10 &c per cent. in
leaps. By noon the rate mac eased off
to IL per cent. An u%nusua and sigrifi-
cant feature was the lending Of money
by individuals and firm.. who withdrew
the greater part Of their bark balances
and made loans direct. Naturally this
curtailed the supply of hank money and
created some ill feeling between the
banks and their clients.
One prominent brokerage house is re-
ported to have taken 81, 600, 900 cash OFT
OF two banks, lending the money at
from Is to IS per Ger W leading
banks reported today that Withdrawals
by their out Of town correspondents,
presumably in the west and southwest,
had been unusually heavy. These
drafts, it was added, were for rop pur-
poses. Considerable money IS reported
to be going to Chicago. Cleveland and
st. Louis.
A number of out of town banks pur-
sued their usual course. on this occa-
sion, by withdrawing balances from To-
cal banks and leaning them direct on
the floor of the exchange. Local
branches OF the Canadian banks were
heavy lenders at the higher rate.
In the last hour the rates for call
loans were quoted at from 10 to 13 Per
cent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
EDWARD w POC
CAUSED BY NEGROES.
Strikers Object to Their Presence
and Create Disorder.

Harrisburg. Pa, September 23.-Gen-
eral Gorbin who is in command Of the
troops, in the hard coal strike region,
ordered by Governor Stone tonight
to send he first battalion of the 18th
regiment to assist the sheriff in pre-
serving the peace, where the iron and
steel workers of the American Iron and
Steel Manufacturing Company have
been on strike for nearly five months.
The battalion, which has been on duty
at Shenandoah ever since the troops
were sent there, left hat town tonight
for Lebanon, in command of Colonel
Clement. The troops reached lebanon
shortly before s o'clock.
A few weeks ago the company started
up several of it's rolling mills with non
union men, all Of whom were negroes,
taken there principally from the south.
The presence Of h colored men greatly
excited the strikers and there has been
more or less disorder ever since.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
BUILDS UP TOWN FASTER THAN
ANYTHING ELSE
This g.. What an Experienced Ware
house Man In south Carolina Says.
Practical Information About the
Enterprise-A Warehouse
WIZ Pay the First Year.

The proposition to erect a tobacco
warehouse and a prize house in Will
mington is taking with our people. and
by next season there will be a ware
house in Wilmington. Mr.. George -.
Gaylord, one OF Wilmington's most sue
ceSsful and tenerprising merchants, is
deeply Interested in the enterprise, and
a few days ago he wrote TO a practical
and experience tobacco man in South
Carolina for information. Yesterday
he received the following reply:
Conway, 5. c., September %.
"G. o.. Gaylord, Esq, Wilmington, y. =.
Dear Sir: Yours TO hand II noted.
and in reply will say, that my expert
ence in the warehouse business is that
il puts thousands of dollars in circula-
ton and builds up a town, quicker than
any other business that can be stated
up. You a make our own calcula-
ton as to what il means to the farm
ers. They can raise from 500 TO 200
pounds per acre, and the crop will av-
erage this year about 12la cents per
pound. which means from 500 to SIPS
per acre. The cost is about 3 cents per
pound.
Tobacco will sell high for the next
four years and will never be as low as
it has been, as the emand is increasing
every year. So all you need to make
the warehouse business a success Is to
have the farmers to raise the tobacco
Every farmer should plant from s to 20
acres. Some farmers down here plant
as much as 80 acres.
If you can sell 1,000,0 900 pounds the
first year you will make money in the
warehouse business, with good man
You must have good sober
men to run the business. You can get
d good mar to manage for about 500
per month. You can get cheaper men,
but il will not pay to get cheap men to
build up a tobacco market, as they are
generally no good. You can get a good
a]uctioneer for $75 per month. bookkeep-
er for $75, statement carrier for $50, two
truck hands por s1.0O per day. You
can dc all the business you can get the
first year with one warehouse. Your
house should be $50 feet wide by 200
feet long, we'll lighted, With a good
basement and elevator. You will also
AVE to have a three story leaf house
to store our tobacco and for the buy
ers to price the tobacco in h~ogsheads
for shipment. If you will go or send a
the kind of a warehouse you want, the
new warehouse there. 1t will pay you
to go and see it before you build.
Now as t. the w. H. charges l will
enclose you a regular farmers bill OF
sales SO you can see for yourself. #
you get up the enterprise all you have
to do to get good buyers is to advertise
in the Winston Tobacco Journal your
business and you will get buyers. AL
you need is for you to get the tobacco
TO sell-the buyers will come. The
] Imperial and American Tobacco Com
I panies are the main buyers, but YOU
will have plenty of small order buyers
and SPECTATORS with your all the time
l can recommend you some good mer
if you get up your enterprise. So you
| can write me at any time.
| Yours truly,
| Il. G.. CHERRY"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
WANT PROTECTION.
American shipping Interest," on
inc River CALI Tor Relief.

Washington, September
American Shipping interests. operating
in the waters of the Orinoco river, again
have requested the state and navy de-
partments to send one of u warshlps
up that river. for the purpose Of pro-
tecting their steamers and keeping nav
igation un~obstructed.
The navy department. is DESTROYS OF
affording every possible and practica-
BILE aid for the protection Of these trad
ing interests. but is not in a position to
do so just at present, on account of the
lack OF ships in Venezuelan waters. 1t
is possible that the Panther, which has
unloaded her marines on the -isthmus,
may lake the place of the Marietta at
La Guira, and allow the latter vessel
to make a trip up the big river.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
An ~INC1PIENT RIOT.
Negroes Surround a House Occupied
by n Young Man and Are Run
Away by Police.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Greensboro, N. c., Sept. 2e.-There
was an incipient riot at a suburb near
Warnersville just beyond the city
limits late yesterday. Dingling Wick
ers. white, while carrying two buckets
of water, was insulted by two negro
men. He emptied the contents on each,
and not being accustomed to water ex-
ternally in such unbroken doses, they
assaulted Mr.. Vickers. He knocked
both down.
The negroes soon had a crowd and
Mr.. Vickers prudently sought refuge
In a near by dwelling. The crowd gath
cred and had just formed into organ
lied besiegers making ready to storm
the house. when a force of city police
lWho had been summoned by tele-
phone) arrived in the nick of time, and
dispersed the unlawful gathering.
Four men We're arrested. and the case
will be heard by a magistrate today.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, N. c., Sept. 23.-The supreme
court today heard argument in the fol-
lowing cases: Appeals from Fifth dis
trict argued as follows: State We.
Pugh, certiorari ordered; Kerr VS..
Hicks, by Shepherd and Stewart for
plaintiff, Stevens, Beaseley and Weeks
for defendant; F1anner VS.. Butler, two
cases, by Rountree and Carr, Stevens,
Beasely and Weeks. Bellamy and Pc
schau for plaintiff, E. S. Martin for de-
PENDANTS; Porter VS.. Armstrong. by
Stevens. BeaseIy and Weeks for pain
tiff, E.. X Bryan and j. T. Bland by
brief for defendant: Davis VS.. Lumber
Company continued.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
Foot Print Tobacco"
Foot Print Tobacco"
Foot Print Tobacco"
Cabin Home Tobacco

We are sole agents for these justly
celebrated tobaccos made by the long
established firm OF F. NJ. Bohannon,
Winston. N~@ and recommended TO be
fars4yoVe others on this market. Get
the tags, We pay you 50 cents each for
Foot Print tags.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26

Pittsburg seems to be in a very pros
porous condition, as it Is stated that
three pawnbrokers of hat city have
lately gone into bankruptcy, and the
rest have cut rates in half. It's a
good wind that blows the ~pawnbroker
out Of business.-Kinston Free Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
MURDERER FOUND
WILLIAM HOOPER YOUNG is
TAKEN IN DERBf, CONN.
ADMITS HIS IDENTITY

Ii il Reported that He Admits the
killing of Mrs. PTlRzer-He Has
Been Wandering a n Tramp for
Several Days and Wax Arrested
Sunday on SuspiciOn-is Positively
identified aud Then Admits He is
the Man - In fOung's
Apartments Are Found Several
Traces of n Murder-Hfs Father
Employs Counsel to Defend Him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-26
CRISIS IN AFFAIRS.
TROUBLE between GREAT BRIT
AIN AND VENEZUELA
RELATIONS ARE STRAINED

Relations Are Likely to
be Broken at Any Time-The Cause
Particular But Consists
in Various Differences That Have
PrOtes of the Sene-
zuelans Against the British Flag
Being Raised Over the Island of
Contingency of n Clash II Arms
Has Not Been Considered.