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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
WARDEN CLEARED
But With Report Gearing Him
His Resignation IS
Accepted.

Atlanta. Ga, Aug. 15.-The Georgia
prison commission which has been in
vestigating the whipping of Mamie De
Girls. a white woman convict at the
state prison farm. made it's report to-
day. With the report came the an
nOuncement of the resignation and its
acceptance by the commission of War
den Allagood. whose conduct in pun
ishing Miss De Girls was under inves-
tigatiOn. The charges of improper pro-
posals by Allagood alleged by the Wo-
man and similar conduct toward other
female convicts are found absolutely
false and Malicious The report saws
the warden acted entirely within his
authority in whipping Miss De Girls and
that he was led to it by extreme aggra-
yatiOn.
The commission concludes that this
particular punishment was "an error
on the part of the warden" who. recog-
nlzing that his usefulness may have
been impaired ''by reason of the pre-
Judlce which has been created against
| him by gross Misrepresentation of the
facts of the case has voluntarily ten
| dered his resignation.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
ITALIAN PAPER ON ROOSEVELT.
Hopes Presidents Words Will Sti
Other Governors Up.

Rome. Aug. 1.-THE Popolo Romano
dedicates it's leading article to Presi-
dent Roosevelts to Governor Durbin
of Indiana. on lynching. which the pa
per calls a most important document.
President Roosevelt. it says. let's no
occasion escape him Of bringing for
ward his own personality and resolute-
ly opposing existing prejudiceS and
abush. However says the Popolo Ro-
mano whose article was evidently in
spired by President Roosevelt does not
touch the international question con-
nected with these barbariOuS abuses.
The paper hope that the words of
President Roosevelt will encourage the
other governors in the United States to
initiate Governor Durbin and have
lynching disappear from American civ
| iliZation thus not only Affirming the
principle Of human solidarity across
| the ocean, but making a definite steI
towards harmoniZing scientific and in
dustrial development with moral pre-
greSS
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
UNABLE TO AGREE.
They Will Ask Judge Gray to Act as
Arbitrator.

Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 15.-Unable to
reach an agreement as to wage scale.
subdivision of the district. etc., the
Joint conference Of the miners and OBJ
orators of district No 19 has adjourn
ed until September 10.
1t is substantially agreed that on that
date the Joint conference will formally
invite Judge Gray. now sitting at Bir-
mlngham. to come here and arbitrate
the matter of difference between tn
miners and operators of East Tennes-
see and Southeastern Kentucky.
CAN'T ACCEPT INVITATION.
Birmingham, Ala. Aug. 15.-Judge
Gray tonight said that it would be alb.
solutely impossible for him to accept
the invitation of the miners and oper
ators of district 10. Tennessee. Judge
Gray said he must sit with the United
States circuit court of appeals. the
second week in September and must
reach Wilmington by September 1. The
time spent on the Alabama arbitration
board. he said. was taken from his
vacation
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
GREER CHAMPION.
He Won From Titus of Atlanta Boat
Club.

Worcester, Mass. Aug. 15-Frank 3.
Greer of the East Boston Athletic AS
Soclatlon Boat club wrested the scuIl-
ing championship from c. S. Titus. of
the Atlanta Boat club. of New York.
on Lake Quinsigamond. decisively. this
AFTERNOON at the annual regatta of the
National Association of Amateur oars
men. Greer was eight lengths ahead of
u wesley, of the Bohemian Boat club
or New York. at the finish, while Titus
hnlshed third. Greer's time. nine min
utes. thlrty-eight and three seconds. is
the record for the event in the annals
of the association
Inc other special features of the day
was the senior eight-oared shells the
crack Winnipeg Rowing club being the
Vlctors. The other winners We're:
intermediate single .sculls, w. H.
Hodgins. East Bost61: senior double
Sculls Toronto Rowing club: Interme-
diate pair cared shells, Nonparel Row.
ing clu. New York; senior paired row
ing shells. Harlem Rowing club; asso-
citation single Sculls. L. F. Scholes. To-
ronto: intermediate four oar shells. Jef-
fries Point Rowing Association. East
Boston.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
NOT Connected.
Pierce Says The Mexican Central is
an Independent System.

New York. Aug. 15.-H. CLAY Pierce.
the Mexican Central Railway Com
pany. made the following official state
ment today:
In view cf my election to the vot-
;ng trust and directorate of the Sea-
board Air Line Railway in association
with one Of my fellow directors of the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company. [ think it is proper that
should emphatically and uneQuivoca1ly
deny the reports that have circulated
during the past six months concerning
the connection of the Mexican Central
Railway Company. limited. with vari-
Gus American Railway combinations.
The Mexican Central Railway Com
pany, limited. of which 1 am chairman.
is independent Of the Rock Island sys-
tenn as it is of the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railway or the other six or
seven railway systems in the United
States. of which I am a director.
THE Mexican Central has not made
and does not expect to make any ex-
elusive alliance with any single line OF
combination of roads and will continue
to be conducted as an independent
Mexican property. The conversion OF
the outstanding income bonds which
are menace to the companys pro-
gress. into semi interest. being
debenture certificates of the Mexican
Central is the first step in the read
iustment of its finances.
THE present management does no,
approve of continuing the plan of is
suing and selling non-cumulative bonds
due thirty five years hence to raise
funds to carry on the great work OF
completing the Mexican Central rail
way system. and. after the present in
come bonds are retired. others will moi
he iSS11Qd
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
VIEWED BY 1860.
That Was Number Who Saw Prize
Fight Last Night.

San Francisco. Calf, August 15.-Ac-
cording to the official count, 1860
Corbett and Jeffries. The gross re-
ceipts amounted to s62, $40. OF this sum
the fighters received 20 per cent or
s43, ,62S. which was divided, IS per cent
to the winner and % per cent to the
loser. For his victory Jeffries is en-
riched to the extent Of s3212S, while
Corbett gets s1O-910.
There was practically very little
money bet on the fight at the local
pool rooms. The heaviest money Wag-
cred was by friends of Jeffries, who
came up from southern California 70
see the champion win. The reason
given for so little betting is generally
conceded to be that the betting public
had very little confidence in Corbett's
chances.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
A LUCKY MAN.
ConEressman Gibson Has Come Into
Large Legacy.

Knoxville Tenn. Aug. 15.-By a pro-
vision in the will of Mrs. Martha
Graves. recently deceased in Washing
ton. D. c.. Congressman Henry r. Glib
son. of the Second Tennessee district.
becomes heir to between $4,000 and
100000. Mrs. Graves son. president
of I bank in Seattle. Washington. was
a college mate of Gibson. and it is said
Mrs. Graves at that time took recogni-
tion Of the good qualities of the future
congressman and aided him financially
in securing his education. 1t is said
she since contributed 81. 900 TO the cam
paign fund each of the five times he
has successfully run for congress. Con-
gresSman Gibson has accepted the be-
quest and is said to be planning an
endowment to help worthy young men
through a college as Mrs. Graves Is
said to have assisted him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18

Newport News. Va. Aug. 15.-Forty-
five warrants were today sworn out be-
fore Judge Brown. on behalf Of the
city of Newport News against the
Hampton Roads Railway and Electric
Company. for failure to comply with
the company's contract with the city.
The warrants are the result Of the
failure of the company to pave West
Avenue. and the charge named in the
warrants are that the company did
fail and refuse to grade. pave and curb
the east side of West Avenue. between
Twenty-Fifth and Thirtv-SiXth streets.
according to plans and specifications.
adopted and approved by the council
within ninety days after its tracks were
| laid therein"
] This action was decided upon
lengthy correspondence by Mayor MOSS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Storm Forecast.

Washington. Aug. 15.-The weather
bureau forecast tonight says:
"The tropical storm has probably
reached the East Mexican coast with
energy considerably diminished. Dur
ing Saturday heavy sea swells were re-
ported along the Texas coast. but no
winds of consequence. There were in
dications Saturday morning of the ap-
proach of another disturbance south
eastward of Barbados. Its future de-
velopment and direction of course are
at present uncertain, but cautionary
advices have been sent to West Indian
portS.'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
THE TRAFFIC IS CUT OFF
HEAVY FLOODS FEARED

proper and the only damage possible
is to the bridges. The current is so
swift that row boats can hardly live
in it.
The stopping of traffic over the tenn
porary bridges caused a rush for the
flow line bridge which supports the pipe
carrying the city's water supply. The
gates at each end of the bridge were
torn off in the anxiety of those seek
ing TO get TO opposite sides of the riv-
er. The bridge is a compare lively frail
structure and at one time there were
nearly 500 persons on it. There was
danger of the bridge falling and it be-
came necessary to nail Up the gates and
force persons from the structure. The
bridge is too high to be damaged by
any but a tremendous Use in the river.
which is not at all likely Later one
of the bridges was re-opened to pedes-
trianS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
RUSSIA MAKES DEMANDS
Squadron of Russian Sea Fleet Has Been Or
dered to Proceed to Turkish Waters
ALL CONNECTED WITH THE MURDE

be of
ant
Certai
the
That he Sats
Monas WhO Murdered efusedt
by the She Turkish
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
GIBBONS TAKES LEAVE.
, Reported Lynching.

Natchez, Miss, August 15.-Bee
Washington, negro. who killed STAN
ley Wood. an eighteen year old clerk
al the Line store which divides Mis-
siSsippi from Louisiana las Monday
has been captured by a posse at Red
River landing and taken to Tarbert. a
river point near the scene of the crime
and il is reported he has been lynched.
Tie posse Is in pursuit of several ne
gCOes. who supplied Washington with
money clothes and provisions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18

Kansas City. Mo. Aug 15.-Traffic
between the TWO Kansas Cities is prac-
tically suspended today. all the tenn
porary pile bridges erected after the
great flood in June having been endan-
gered by rise in the Kansas river.
The river has been causing more or less
trouble for the past two weeks, the re-
suit of continuous heavy rains west of
Kansas City. Following last nights 5
heavy rainfall the river rose foot 1t
continues TO rise rapidly today and il
is predicted that il will go four feet
higher before the waters finally spread
and the river begins TO Sukside. At
ArmOurdale. which was wiped out in
the June flood. the river is IA feet above
low water mark and seen feet higher
than the lowest mark recorded since
June. 1t will have to go fifteen feet
higher. however. to reach the town
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
School To Be Established
For Men of This
Profession
BY PULITZER

He Has Already Provided 5000. 900
for the PurpOse-It Will be a Part
OF Columbia University and q
Will be BHiIt-The Course Will be
Scholastic Well as PRACTICAL
The Donor Names Seven Men to
Act as the Board of AdvisOrs-Pre-
be Entirely Essential
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
DURHAM'S DEPOT
The Commission Orders Work
to Begin Within Sixty
Days
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh. n. c.. Aug 15.-Today there
was a hearing before the corporation
commission of Durham union depot
matter. A. B. Andrews representing the
Southern Railway and Thomas B.
Womack the Seaboard Air Line. The
commission made an order which was
read to these gentlemen. neither of
whom made any protest against it. The
order is that the depot be built in ac-
cordance with the plans submitted by
the Southern Railway. with such neces-
sary changes as may be ordered by the
commission at a session on September
18th. The work is ordered to begin
within sixty dayS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Election Postponed.

Richmond. Va. Aug ia Char
lottesville special says the secretary
Of the board OF visitors Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia received a letter this
morning from the Honorable Charles
+. Jones. rector of the University stat
ing that the meeting of the board cali
ed for Tuesday of next week to elect
president of that institution had been
Indefinitely DoStponed
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Evans Shot His Wife and
Then Committed
Suicide
SOCIETY LEADER

Mrs Evans Was Prominent Socially
and Was Suing for Divorce on
Grounds of Cruelty and Drunken
pess-She Had Expressed Fear
That Her Husband Would Kill Her
Only witness Was Servant Girl
He Placed Gun Against Her Neck
and Fired Severing Her Head From
BOdy-After Search His Dead Body
Was Found.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Cashier an mbeZZler.

Redbank n. J., Aug. 15.-Enoch L.
Cowart. cashier of the defunct Nave
sink National bank was arrested today
on the charge of embezling $4,000 of
the banks funds. The complaint was
made by Special Examiner w. A. Ma
son. Cowart surrendered himself to
United States Marshal Casarde here
and furnished $4,000 bail to await the
action of the United States grand Jury
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Mills CurtaiI Product

Fall River. Mass. Au- 15.-The cur
tailment in the cotton mills next week
will involve $4,000 spindles for the full
week and about 100000 spindles for a
part of the week. The plants that will
be wholly idle embrace fourteen mills
in all and 5000 oneratives.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
HARTY CONSECRATED .
He Was Made the First Archbishop
of Manila.

Rome. Aug. 15-The conservation of
Rev-J. J. Harty. of st. Louis. as arch
bishop of Manila. took place today In
the Franciscan church of St. Anthony
Added interest to the ceremony was
given by the fact that the first arch
bishop to be consecrated under Plus X.
was an American. Cardinal Satolli Off
ciated. assisted by two bishops.
After the ceremony refreshments were
served in the refectory of the Francis
can monastery. The fact that the first
American archbishop of Manila was
consecrated in the church which is the
seat of the general house of the Fran
ciscan Monks. one of the four orders
objected to in the Philippine Islands
was much commented on.
Cardinal SatOlli later gave at his
residence in the Basilica of st. John
Lateran a dinner in horror of Arch
bishop Harty. TOastS We drunk to
the Pope. President Roo, ,.velt and to
the success Of Archbishop Harty in his
labOrs in the Philippines. Archbishop
Harty will leave Rome next Wednes
day. -tss.>t
GIBBONS TAKES LEAVE.
Rome, Aug. 15.-Cardinal Gibbons left
Rome tonight from Switzerland. where
he will remain some time with a friend
to recover from the heat and his labors
in Rome. The cardinal however. Is
only suffering from slight lassitude
otherwise he is perfectly we'll. Before
his departure he received most cor
dial visits from all the cardinals still
| in Rome, who wished to manifest their
csteem and affection for him.
| S4eaking to the Associated Press rep
reSsltatiye Cardinal Gibbons, said the
| caclave and the election of the pope
will remain the most precious remem-
| brance of his life. He repeated that
he felt the greatest satisfaction at the
| election of Plus X
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
Champion Won From WalthOur.

Revere. Mass. Aug. 15.-Albert Cham
pion defeated Bobby Walthour in a
twenty mile motor-paced race on the
Rever Beach track tonight. Champion
won by one and a quarter laps in PIN.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
CITY SUES CORPORATION
FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT

President of Council Jones. City At
torney Massie. City Engineer Perse.
City Clerk Cooke and Superintendent
Parker Of the Warren Brothers Com
pany which has the contract for the
paving.
The warrants have not vet been
served and it Is not known upon whom
service will be had President Nelms
of the Hampton Roads Company. is at
present out of the city on his vacation
so some other official will have to be
found.
The warrants are made returnaoie
on Thursday. August 9th on Wnlch
date the cases will be heard IN the
police court.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
s. WILMINGTON n. c. AUGUST 49, 1903

the sixteen year old daughter of Mrs.
E c. Perry, a widow of Argentine,
Kansas. against the latter's wishes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18

Sugar planters of Mexico City have
signed a formal agreement to manu-
facture sugar for export before provid-
ing for domestic consumption.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-03-19
THE MEN AND WOMEN
Who Enjoy the Choicest Products
of the Worlds Commerce.
Knowledge of What Is Best More Inn
portant Than Wealth With
out 1t.

1t must be apparent to every one that
qualities of the highest order are neces-
sary to enable the best of the products of
modern commerce to attain permanently
to universal acceptance. However loudly
heralded, they may not hope for worldwide
prominence unless they meet with the
general approval, not of individuals only,
but of the many who have the happy
faculty of selecting, enjoying and learn
ing the real worth of the choicest prod
ucts. Their commentator, consequently,
becomes important to others, since to
meet the requirements of the we'll in
formed of all countries the method of
manufacture must be of the most per-
feet order and the combination the most
excellent of its kind. The above is true
not of food products only, but is espe-
cially applicable to medicinal agents and
after nearly quarter of a century of
growth and general use the excellent
remedy. Syrup of Figs, is everywhere
accepted, throughout the world, as the
best of family laxatives. Its quality is
due not only to the excellence of the
combination of the laxative and carmn-
alive principles of plants known to act
most benefcially on the system and pre-
scented in the form of pleasant and re-
freshing liquid, but also to the method
of manufacture of the California Fig
Syrup Co.. which ensures that uniformi-
ty and purity essential in a remedy in
tended for family use. Ask any physi-
clan who is well informed and he will
answer at once that it is an excellent
laxative. If at ali eminent in his pro-
fession and has made a special study of
laxatives and their effects upon the sys-
TEN he will tell you that it is the best
of family laXatives, because it is sim
pie and wholesome and cleanses and
sweetens the system effectually, when
laxative is needed, without any I'M
pleasant after-effects. Every well-in-
formed druggist of reputable standing
knows that Syrup of Figs is an excel
lent laxative and is glad to sell it, at
the regular price of fifty cents per bot
tie, because it gives general satisfac-
ton, but one should remember that in
order to get the beneficial effects of
Syrup Of Figs it is necessary to buy the
genuine which is sold in original pack
ages only; the name of the remedy
Syrup of Figs and also the fun name of
the Company-California Fig Syrup Co.
printed on the front of every package.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-03-19
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
An Instance Where Appearance De-
ceived and Where Sympathy
Was UndeserVed.

Such a plain, tired face framed in
an ancient bonnet; such knotted,
dark hands and seam-worn garments
under her closely drawn shawl.
Every look was an appeal, every ges-
ture an apology, as she slipped into
the place next to me, the only vacant
seat on the L car. l had good OPP
portunity to observe her as she
leaned her sad, old head back against
the window casing, and it bobbed
about like the heads of candy-box
figures at every jolting of the train,
says writer in the Chicago Post.
l had just cashed check and I
recounted the money as l took it out
OF my purse and put it into my
chatelaine. Sixty-eight dollars. What
a sum that would seem to the little
person at my eide! How forlorn she
looked, how tired. Probably she had
just finished a days hard work sew
ing for a happier woman, only to re-
turn to an evenings toll sewing for
her own children in her cramped lit
tie rooms.
The money in my bag represented
a little trip to an inland lake I know.
I could fairly see the wonderful brim-
ming freshness of it, the dark lines
of the trees that close it about. And
I was to have all that, while she must
stay under the beating heat and
breathe the city's sitting breath.
Far as we go!" called the guard.
Out struggled the few remaining pas
sengers, among them the unhappy
looking little woman. My eyes grew
misty as 1 looked after her. In search
of my handkerchief I put my hand to
my bag.
1t was gone!
I called the guard, who called some
one else. In ten minutes 1 had the
unhappiness of seeing the object of
my tender solicitude marching
brazenly off with blue-coated guar
dian of the law.
can old customer" he said.
A little later they gave me back
bag and money. But l shall not really
enjoy that trip. She was such tired
little figure.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-03-19
A Convention Chestnut.

A new twist in an old tail was re-
Gently observed in the Lewiston Jour-
nal. At a Maine educational conven-
ton Rev. Nathaniel Butler, formerly
president of Colby college, but at
present professor of English litera-
ture in the University of Chicago,
was down for an address. As he was
about to speak, Hon. w. w. Stetson,
state superintendent of schools, said
to him:
Doctor, is your address like cats
tail?"
"How is that?" asked DR.. Butler.
"Why, fur to the end" replied Mr..
Stetson.
DR.. Butler smiled appreciatively,
but kept silence. He opened his adj
dress by saying: "Your superintend-
ent just asked me if my address was
to be like cats tail-fur to the end.
[ assure him that it is like a dogs
tail-bound to occur"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-03-19
Through and Through.

New Bedford, Mass, Mar 2nd-At 65S
First St., this city, lives a very happy man.
His name is Uric Levasseur, and he certain
ly has good reason to feel glad and proud.
MIR. Levasseur has been sick for a long
time with general weakness and a sore pain
in his back. At the last he got so bad that
he could not talk without great misery.
Now he is well and in speaking of this won
edrful change in him he says:
Il believe it to be my duty to tell every
body how L was cured. | was so weak that
l could not stoop; in fact, | was unable TO
walk without great pain. l began taking
Dodd's Kidney Pills and aftera two months
treatment am well and sound again.
'Dodd's Kidney Pills are a God-sent rem
edy., l will always praise them for their
wonderful cure of my case. They cured me
through and through. l am as strong and
able man now as | ever was"