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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17
CCMMERCIsL. REVIEW.
General Trad. Conditions.

Il. G. Dun & Cos Weekly Review
OF Trace says: Collections arc notably
p"omp: At all leading ccn;er>. bearing
testimony to the strong financial posi-
ton oi the nations industries nj the
opening oi the year. Distributing vi
merchandise is heavy. and man ac;ur-
ers are pressed Tor prompt delivery.
orders Tor spring goods come forward
freely, and II many lines there is more
than sample business in iall weights.
The fucl situation is still the one seri
ously disturbing element. rendering alb
normally high the cost OF manuiactur-
ing and restricting the purchasing
power OF almost the entire population
Fortunately. this comes at time OF
exceptional prosperity. Railway freight
rates were advanced. and one resul, will
be loss OF expectation from Eastern
cities. the traffic being detected to New
Orleans.
In the iron and steel industry the
rost significant event OF the week was
the discussion regarding the profit shar-
ing proposal b. the leading producer
Inadequate supplies OF coke are still re-
Strictlng operations. Contracts for the
new year were made at 81 a ton. but
prompt deliveries often commanded
So or 81. and at Chicago sales were re-
ported at So Pig iron continues
scarce. prices generally advancing dur
ing the past week. and the expected adj
vance OF 81 ton was made in wire
products. There is a vigorous demand
Tor structural material to be used in
bridge work and car shops. Anothc.
year OF unprecedented activity in this
industry is confidently expected.
New England producers OF footwear
are busy on spring orders. Exceptional
activity in rubber goods has reduced
supplies 10 an unusually low point.
Some varieties OF leather have advanced
slightly. Exports OF hemlock sole con
time heavy.
In dry goods the best event. as to
cottons has been the continued buying;
Tor export. which has exceeded expec-
:ations very largely. The print cloth
market has been very firm. AS to
WOODEN goods. prices are fully maintain
ed at the opening level OF the season.
Failures for the week numbered $50
in the United States. against 81, last
year. and "a in Canada. compared with
~ year ago.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

New York buys sausage castings in
Armenia.
Minneapolis is the second largest
Scandinavian city
The American sewing machine is
popular in Mesopotamia.
aluminium is superior to any stone
;or sharpening cutlery.
The Muirhcad system OF wireless
Biography has been operated satisiac-
:orily across 800 miles. On the bluff
back OF Cape Cod four 25o-ioot towers
have been built for Marconi.
The Northeastern Railway OF Eng
and has ordered from New York two
lu,ocars with Napier petroleum en-
gines.
Within twenty years the South has
increased its railway mileage I62 per
cent. and It's exports o5 per cent.
Siberian butter makers are To have
instructors for creamc-ies. creamery
schools. creamery organizer. and six
dairy laboratories at government cx-
pensc.
Oh the land in Russia. as shown by
the government report the nobility
lwn ISL ,ooo,ooo acres and tho merchant
100000, while the peasants own but
100000 acres.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17
LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Flour-Spring clear. So 25a3 40; best
Patent. S4.G5; choice Family, $3.50.
Wheat-New York No. =. 79slc;
Philadelphia No2. 7771i4a77lsc; Baltimore
No 9 7oc.
Corn : New York No. =, SIC; Phila
lelphia No. >. 52a53c; Baltimore No ,,
Sc
Oats New York No .. doc; Phila-
lelphia No. 2. 40a4lc; Baltimore No 2.
i25ac.
Hay No. timothy. .0Oa19.00;
No. timothy. SiS.00alS. 90; No. 3 tim
othy SIG .00al7.0O
Fruits and Vegetables. White Pota-
toes-With receipts less liberal and quite
an improvement in the demand, the
market rules steady and firm. Apples
MI good 10 choice fruit trees of fungus
are i'll good demand. Cabbnge-wiih
quite a falling off in the receipts, taere
5 II much firmer fee ling on all good To
choice stock. Sweet potatoes are in
ample supply for present needs; TIE
market rules quiet but steady We
quote: Cabbage-Danisl large. per ton
SS.0oa9.00; domestic, per ton So 50l7 40
Potatoes Maryland and PENNSYLVANIA.
per bu 62a65c; Eastern per bu G2a 65c;
Eggplant, Florida, per orange box $40
al.23. Onions-veilow, per bu 10a7jc;
red, per bu 60a65c. Celery, per doz
25aluc. Apples Eastern, good to
choice, per brl $1.75a2. -; " estern, dc
DO do do do $l.6ta2.5U; No. 3 all kinds
81 O0al.25. Sweet Potatocs-Potomac
yellow, per hrl 50 5Ju2 -; North Caro-.
lima, yellow. 81 25a2 80; Estern shore
yrll"~, $2.0Ja2 - Vans, yelox, 81 80
~ 90.
Batter, Separator. 3Ca3ic; Gathered
,ream. .:sa 80; prints, Lib jia32c; Rolls
bib. 3Oa;ilc; Dairy pts. Md, Pa, Va.
2Sa29c.
Egg, Fresh-laid eggs, per dozen.
!Sa29c.
Cheese, Large G0-lb, ilal4}ec; me.
iium, 36-ib. lIl4al4@s; picnics, 23-lb
t4t4a14a4c.
Live Poultry, Hens, 1lalac; old
:oosters, each 25a3Oc; Turkeys, l4a15:;
Ducks. II ,l3c
Hides, Heavy steers, association and
,alters, late kill, 60-lbs and up, close Sc
.ec;ion, 1lal2c; cows and light steers
81 a9c.
Provisions and Hog Products Bulk
clear rib sides, 9;.c; bulk shoulders.
t4c; bulk bellies, l0i-c; bulk ham butts,
Zoe; bacon clear rib sides. l0l5c; bacon
shoulders, l019c; sugar breasts,
l24c; sugar cured shoulders, 10;@c;
sugar cured California hams, Toe;
hams canvased or uncanvased, II lbs.
md under, i4:9c refined lard tierces, brs
md 80 ID cans gross, lu2!c; refined lard.
2alf-barrels anu new tubs, lie.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17
An Ambitious Man.

When the big 16-inch gun was towed
to Sandy Hook the great floating der
rick Monarch and the lighter Captain
Tom carried the weight, while the pow
erful wrecking steamer 1. J. Merritt
did the pulling.
At the government dock the Merritt
dropped behind the other vessels and
pushed them in against the pier, at the
end of which an insignificant little pile
driver was tied up. The huge Mon
arch swung close to the pile driver and
a man aboard the latter, fearing the
pile driver was in danger of being
crushed. and with no idea OF the eter.
nal fitness of things, reached out and
tried to push derrick. float, gun an6
steamer all away at the same time. II
was like a fly trying to kick down a
mountain.
Out of the pilot house of the Mer.
rift the captain stuck his head. and
in a voice so I 'emendous that il shat.
tered the atr' here. (foared at the
man on the Ier:
Don't Ven make q Zine
fast to derrick there You
can't hc' New York Mai; and
EXPIRES
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17
Live Stock.

Chicago, Cattle, Mostly 15a20c lover,
good to prime steers 50 i0a6 so; medium
81 00a5 30; stockers ami feeders 81 OF
al 60; cows, 81 25ai 80; heifers s. OOI
| So; rexas-f fed steers So 15a4 s. Hogs,
Mixed and butchers Sc 30a6 %; good to
choice, heavy 81 10a6 80; Sheep, sheep
md lambs slow to lower; good to choics
rhethers 81 25a4 10; Western sheep
81 00a5 so.
East Liberty, Cattle steady; choice
f5 75a5 80; prime s. iOa5 60. Hogs
prime heavy Sc 70a6 so, mediums IS %;
heavy Workers IS 60a6 50. Sheep steady,
Best wethers 81 0Na4 % culls and com.
non 81 50a2 OU; choice lambs s. 75a6 on.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17

building up of the body by the nutri-
ton derived from food The gain in
weight proves the cure
"Three years ago was taken sick with what
the doctor called nervousness and indigestion
writes Mrs. Warren L. Parker. of Orange Street
Nantucket. Mass. He gave me medicine for
the trouble but could not eat even 4 little toast
or oatmeal without suffering severely In few
months began TO have distressing pains right
in the pit of my stomach. / called the doctor
again and he said had catarrh of stomach:
gave NE medicine but il did not do any good
] lost IS pounds in three months then com
;uenced taking DIR. Pierces medicines and soon
began to feel better. have taken six bottles OF
Golden Medical Discovery two of Favorite
Prescription and six walls of DR. Piercc's Pei
lets. have gained ten pounds. Can eat every
thing
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-01-17

hon
the stonla.
other Ciigesti>
and nutritive or
gans are dis
eased, there is a
constant loss of
nutrition.
Enough is eaten
but the bod Y
loses flesh, plain
proof that the
food cate n is
largely wasted
because it is not
digested and as
simulated.
DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery cures
diseases of the
ST onlac II and
other organs of
digestion and
nutrition. 1t
stops the leaks
by which nutri-
ton is lost, and
en- a bles he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03

proving Ohio River below Pittsburg, con- tinuing construction of dams to 5, in- elusive. 300.000; dam No. 8, $2OO,OO0; dock at dam Il, $20o.0O0; dam No. 37, $4OO, O,0Oo; Monongahela River. $455. 5.96O; Big Sandy River, West Virginuia and Kentucky $5O000
 Under Mississippi commission: From head of passes to the mouth of the Ohio River. $2.oOO,OO0.
 The excess of the proposed appropriation over the current year is explained by the committees report to be due to the in crease of H4.6l4393 for river and harbor work and the 8, ,000. 900 allowed for the re- lief of distress in the Philippines Among the principal item in the bill are the fol- lows:
 Engraving and printing, s2.74s.0s5: geo. logical survey. s1 ,026,570; home for disab bled volunteer soldiers. $4,769,s0S, an increase of over S.0OO,0 900 over the current appro- priation; life saving service, 1,S37, ,11O; light house establishment, $3,S24, 900; en- largement of military posts, g, 765, 800; rev. enue cutter service, $1, ,450, 900; expenses United States courts, s, ,933, ,2s0.
 An increase of $300, 900 is made in the item for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act. The sum of $1O0 900 is ap- proprfated for the demarcation of the United States and Canada boundary line. The bill appropriates $s050O for expenses Of the executive mansion as against S40 . poo appropriated for the current year. and $2O,OOO for lighting the grounds and man. sion, the current appropriation being $7,500.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
CITY VERSUS WEST END
MAYOR JOSEPH WRITES T
 MAYOR LEE.
Smallpox Patient in Newly Incor- porated Town Defies Montgom-
 ery's City Physician-City
 Attorney Looking Into Law.

rupture is threatened between the Mu- nicipal Government of Montgomery and the Municipal Government of West End. recently incorporated.
 Dr. T. Chiffon Thorngton. City Physician or Montgomery, has reported to Mayor k. B.. Joseph that there is smallpox in West End. He has also told the Montgomery Mayor that certain citizens of West End, specifically a young woman, has positively refused to allow herself to be sent to the Emergency Hospital.
 Moreover, Dr. Thorington has related to the Mayor of Montgomery that the cases of per- in West End suffering from so-calle 1 chickenpox have been diagnosed smallpox, which disease. he says. is liable to spread un- less steps are taken to check it.
 Being an official of the City of Montgomery and West End recently having become an in dependent corporation. Dr. Thorington applied to Mayor Joseph for advice to his status towards infectious contagious diseases in West End.
 The letter from Dr. Thorington to Mayor Joseph was received by the Mayor Saturday morning. The apparently strained relations be- tween the two city governments leaked out yesterday
 You will proceed just as was the custom before West End incorporated, was the substance of the reply of Mayor Joseph to the City Physician.
 By the same mail letter was sent to Mayior R. D Lee of West End. After informing the executive officer of the suburban city of the information he had re ceived and drawing his attention to the gray ity of the situation. Mayor Joseph closed witf a statement substantially as follows: q beg that you confer with me immeii ately about this matter. as 1t is of the utmost importance to our people,
 This was Saturday. No message has yet come from r-ayor Lee
 Meanwhile Mayor Joseph has appealed tc City Attorney Bibb Graves to know what the City of Montgomery do to the City of West End.
 The City Attorney has the matter under seri- ous consideration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
NO SETTLEMENT OF THE
 BASEBALL CONTROVERSY
MT. Palmer Goes Home and What He Will Report is Uncertain-H Hears from PreSi-
 dent Kavanaugh.

Events followed events in rapid success sion in regard to the local baseball situa- ton yesterday. and last night it looked decidedly "foggy up the creek'-the base ball waters could not possibly have been murkier if a cutie fish had gotten busy.
 To sum matters up Mir Semmes has proposed that as Caruthers Ewing of Memphis has declined to serve as a member of that arbitration committee he had made a second selection-a Mont gomery man this time. Last night MT. Palmer who has been in Montgomery several days endeavoring to straightsn out matters left the city presumably for Nashville.
 All day Sunday Mir. Palmer was closet ed. first with Mir. Semmes and then with MT. Ragland. It was a case of nothing doing, however. the strain running through MT. Palmer's propositions was
 'twa ball ground and division of car fares and gate money" and by Sunday night the situation was as chaotic as ever. Yesterday morning Mir. Palmer received @ lengthy letter from Judge kavanaugh, president of the Southern League, in which he stated in no un- certain tones that the terms of the agrec- ment made by Messrs Semmes and Rag land on the 18th. of January would most assuredly have to be carried out. Later in the day MT. Semmes wrote to Mir. Rag land saying that as Caruthers Ewing had declined to serve as. member of the arbitration committee he had selected Mir. s. M. Dinkins. a Montgomery man. as his member of the committee to take the place of. Ewing. To this Mir. Rag land replied that as the terms of the New Orleans agreement stipulated that the members of the arbitration committee should be selected from the Southern League. Mir. Dinkins not being mem Der of the Southern League. was not
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
CARRIES $s5o,ooo FOR COLBERT
 SHOALS.
Total of the Appropriations Under the Measure is $7s,O07, ,92e,
 Which is 86, ,SS6432 Less Than the Estimates.

Washington, Feb. 2-The. sundry civil appropriation bill reported to the House today by Representative Cannon carries an aggregate appropriation of $70O07, ,929, which is $S.Ss6. .432 less than the estimates and A1,355,S70 more than the current D. propriation. Three million dollars is rec commended to relieve distress in the Phil-- ippines The bill carries $10. .429, 412 for con- struction work on Federal buildings au- thorized by law. The following are some of the appropriations made under this head
 Baltimore. s4oo.oO0; Beaumont, Tex, S5,O00; Dallas, Tex, $125 900; Ellis Island, N. Y.. Improvements, $SS0, 900; Fort Smith, Ark, $75,0o0; Memphis, s175,0oo; Nashville, Tenn. S5.000; Newport News, Va, $1OO, GOO; New York custom house, $500. 900; Waco Tex. $75.000; Washington, D. c. Qabora- tory bureau national standards). $150, ,0OO
 The sum of $20. 233, ,150 is appropriated for river and harbor contracts work au. thorfzed by Congress. being $14 ,393 1T excess of the current appropriation Among the items are the following:
 Charleston harbor. s30.000; Kentucky River. Kentucky. s20O. 900; Ambrose Chan nel (New York harbor). $7Ss, 900 Ohio River dams No. 13 and 1s below Pittsburg, $45O,- 900; San Francisco harbor, removal oi Blossom Rock. s5O.O00; Boston harbor, $l50.0oo; Baltimore harbor (Spring Gar den). $222,0O0; Curtis Bay Channel. Balti. more harbor, $14s,O0O; Hampton Roads s215.oOo; Norfolk, Va, harbor. $S3. 3.s57: Sa- vannah. Ga, harbor. $720. 600; Galveston harbor, $30o.0O0; improvement channel al Galveston, s2o0.0O0; Appomattox. Va, Riv- CT. s15O,00o; Southwest Pass. Mississippi River, a,0 900; Galveston ship canal and Buffalo Bayou, Texas. $500 900: Trinity River. Texas, $25O,00O; Ouichita River Arkansas. and Louisiana. s65O.0O0; Missis- sippi River from mouth to Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri, $650, 900. and from the mouth of the Missouri River to St. Paul, $4O0, 0,000: Tennessee River Cat Colbert and Bee Tree shoaD $35O, 900; i'm
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03

eligible to serve as a member of the arbitration committee and he would re- fuse to accept him as a member Of the committee.
 ''The agreement between MT. Semmes and myself in New Orleans" continued MT. Ragland, was that a committee of arbitration composed of three members one selected by MT. Semmes. one by my self and the third by the two already se- lectedAshould come to Montgomery and personally go over the situation very thoroughly. MT. Ewing the member of the committee selected by Mir: Semmes, having declined to serve, it seems to me member of the arbitration committee to serve in MT. Ewing's place. As MT. Ewing will not be member of the com- mittee, l don't see how MT. Palmer is empowered to decide the question the committee being incomplete up to date"
 Last night Mir. Palmer left on a north- bound Louisville and Nashville train for Nashville. When Mir. Ragland was called up by telephone and told of Mir. Palmer's departure, 1t was complete surprise to him.
 MT. Palmer had not told m~, of his intentions of leaving Montgomery and this is the first I have heard of it." he said.
 MT. Semmes. on being called up over the telephone. said: Yes, I knew that MT. Palmer had left for Nashville, and pre- sume that he will make his report on his arrival in that city,"
 Continuing, he said: 'I. wired Judge kavsnaugh last Saturday night that I Intended to live up to the New Orleans agreement. What will be the nature of MT. Palmers report, I cannot say. l am not fighting this case through the news papers,"
 This Is the situation at present, and whetfer the full committee, as agreed to in New Orleans. will come to Mont gomery. or whether there will be a called meeting of the Southern League, remains to be seen. Some very important devel- opments are expected to occur today
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
AND THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.
Montgomery in Darkness Due to
 Burned Cross Arm.

Montgomery was dark last night for about forty minutes. beginning at e!3o o'clock and during the remainder of the night the old steam power of the Montgomery Light and Power Company furnished the light instead of tho harnessed falls at Talassee.
 All of the street lights were out and the greatest majority of the incandescants and electric motors were at a standstil and su- burbanites began to wait for the dawn's early light in order to reach their homes Shortly after 10 o'clock, however the lights fickered gasped and went on in full force.
 Superintendent R, J. Chambers of the Mont gomery Light and Water Power Company said that the trouble was the burning Of a cross bar of pole about three miles from Mont gomery. thus disconnecting the plant from the generators at Tallassee The old steam power was at once gotten into working order but over twenty-five minutes were required to get up steam enough to distribute the light
 The line between Montgomery and Tallassee will be repaired today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
ALLEGED BANK THIEVES.
Four Men Caught in North Caro-
 lima are Suspected.

Charlotte. N. C.. Feb. 2.-Four men. who are believed to be the persons who have blown open safes in this section of the State with nitro-glycerine during the past few days, were captured today near Monroe and are now in jail here.
 Two were caught after daylight bat tie with revolvels on the streets of the town, and the other two were captured in the afternoon. Shots were exchanged at both encounters, but nobody was hurt. The captured men were heavily armed and a turnout of their pockets resulted in the recovery of 800 in money. In the chase of the men who were captured in the afternoon. bloodhounds were used.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
The I. c. Buys Land.

Memphis. Tenp.. Fec 2.-Announce- ment was made today that the Illinois Central Railroad Company had purchased 36O acres of land adjacent to its tracks a short distance south of the city limits. This purchase is a part of the plan to in CT ease terminal facilities in Memphis re- gently announced by Second Fice-Presi- dent J. T. Harrahan. Other extensive expenditures will shortly be made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
STRIKERS CAUSE RIOT.
Violence Follows Cessation of Work
 bv Street Car Men,

South Bend. Ind, Feb. 2.-Riots and violence have followed as a result of the strike of the motormen and conductors of the Indiana Rail- road Company.
 Between 2 900 and 5000 residents of the West End gathered in South Chapel Street to- day and forced the street car company to cease operations. but not before one car was badly damaged. Box car doors and all kinds of rub bish were piled in the street to impede traffic.
 Cars were stoned and shot was fired from a car on La Sale Avenue.
 Guy Walters, a young man in the employ of the street car company was badly beaten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03

Elegantly electric lighted dining cars are run on trains l and { between Birmingham and New Orleans. Lebanon Junction and Ctncin- natl; also oil trains and between Montgom- cry and Guthrts Ky. Service la carte.
 New and handsomely built chair cars (seats frec) operated On trains l and between Cincinnati and New Orleans. High back seat through trains between Cincinnati. Louisville. St. Louis. Evansville. Memphis. Nashville and New Orleans.
 Train No. carries through Pullman sleep CTS from Chicago. Cincinnati and New York to New Orleans.
 Train No. 8 carries through Pullman sieep- CTS from Cincinnati and New York to New Orleans and Chicago to St. Petersburg; also through tourist sleepers to San Francisco, leaving Montgomery at 9:35 ?. m. Tuesday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
Ehhs,s Bond Sl.OOO.

Greensboro. N. C.. Feb. 2.-The case of Isaac N. Ebbs. which came up before Judge Boyd today, was removed to the District Court at New Orleans. defendant being placed under bond of $l. GOO for his appearance Ehbs is charged with forge ry, said to have been committed whep he was land claims agent for the Gov ernment in Louisiana. and Mississippi.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
-Four Rodies Recovered.

Vicksburg. Miss, Feb. 2.-Four bodies have been recovered from the freight car that plunged down the incline of the Queen and Crescent Railroad and into the Mississippi River last night. They are: J. II. Land. 45 years of age; Cole man Land. years; Ollie Wiley. "A years; Harper Wiley. 15 years. All were from Newton. Miss. The bodies wer shipped to Newton tonight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
MIR. MEYER IS TRUSTEE.
Will Continue Business of Montgom-
 cry Brewery.

A. B. Meyer yesterday made bond of 5000 and qualified as Trustee of the Montgomery Brewery. having been chosen as Trustee by the creditors of the con- cern.
 When a petition in bankruptcy was filed against the brewery in the United States Court in October by it's creditors, MT. Meyer was named as receiver by the Court. Since that time he has been operating the plant in the interest of the creditors.
 Under a decree of the Court yesterday MT. Meyer Is authorized to continue the business as heretofore.
 MT. Meyer said yesterday that the schedule showed the assets of the brew cry to be s20O,OO0 and its liabilities SIPS. 900.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-03
LYNCHINa PROBABLE.
whree Negroes in Jail in Kentucky
 Nav Be Strung Up.

Maysville. Ky, Feb. 2.-John Sanford, his son Charles and Tom Mann, negroes. were arrested at 9:30 tonight charged with assaulting and robbing Mir. and Mrs. Farrow. an aged couple at Mount Gilead' Fleming County.
 They were lodged in jail where they were identified by Mrs Farrow. Feeiing against the negroes is intense and lynching is probable.
 The men. 1t is alleged. entered the home of MT. and Mrs. Farrow and awakening the couple from their sleep demanded money. MT. Farrow gave them $50. but the robbers insisted on having more, and bound both Farrow and his wife. After making some threats, the men shot MT. Farrow, infiicting a serious wound, and then made their escape.