davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
GOES no THE WALL
Firm Of 4 b. Baxter and Oompany
Failed Yesterday for Large
Amount.

The firm Of A b. Baxter and
Company. Of Ne~ York. toe brok-
ers. failed yesterday for a large
amount. This firm had about I2s
Offices scattered all over the United
States. many OF them being Tn the
South. The firm had a branch Office
In this city and there were about
one dozen other towns IN North
Carolina in which Offices were To-
Gated Mr.. T Morgan Turrentine
was manager OF the Office in this
city.
The firm OF Baxter and Company
bought u Murphy and Company
about one year ago.
The news OF the failure caused
considerable talk on the streek yes
terday and there Was much speVu-
iatton as TO the amount lost In Will
Some were OF the opinion
that n large o was lost by
local spectators. but A:r. Turrentine
said the business being done at the
present time was not more than one
fourth as large "a IL was several
mt ago Baxter and Company
were compelled 20 have done = large
business in Wilmington for 1t il said
that their expenses here amounted
TO about Sic. 600 per year.
II is said that few of the south
ern towns lost more by the failure
than Charlotte. N g. and Charles
ton. ;. c. In Charlotte tx In said
tina: an extremely large sum was
lost. far larger than in any other
North Carolina town.
The failure is said TO have been
due 10 fluctuations In n cotton
market The majority OF the bust
ness done by the firm was In cotton.
BY the hrm failing just before the
end of the month all OF the en-
ployes will lose their salaries for the
month Just ended. The company
was supposed 10 have had a paid in
capital OF about $500, o0c. IL is not
known n the liabilities are.
A. b. Baxter and Company oper-
ated what Is commonly called n
bucket shop. Very little, III any.
actual cotton or stocks were owned
by this firm. Their ann in do
Ing business was purely by dealing
in futures. The extremely high price
OF cotton had caused many who had
cotton on hand TO begin closing out
n the firm did not have the cash
TO a the profits. Cotton has ad-
vanced owe 500 points within the
last few months ard this meant an
enormous profit to the spectators
who bought cotton several months
ago.
For example. say a man bought n
contract about three months ago
when cotton was 10 cents. For one
contract OF a hundred bales he put
up a margin OF $500. The price of
cotton advanced from 10 TO 16 cents
an increase Of 600 points. giving the
dealer a profit OF $4,000. less the
commission OF $40 due the broker
G company. The ~speculator also
gets back the $500 he originally in
vested. So the Spectator makes So
$50 out OF a $500 investment. IL
can easily be seen what an enormous
profit a few hundred contracts like
the above would amount to.
Mr.. T~urrentine expects to GO ia
New York to look out for the inter-
est OF his customers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
BURGLARS MAKE A HAUL.
Rtow Open a Safe at WintervilIe and
Secure S225.
Especial to The MESSENGER

tSp~&0 " rs luSSScllSST1
Greenvilie. n. c., January 30.-At
Wdnterville. SIX miles south of here
Friday morning the safe of Harrington.
Barber & Co., was blown open by bur
glars n 1925 was taken. There
tramps were there Wednesday begging.
One IA a drill made. another bought
powder and they all eft before right
One y1slte the place again yesterday
at L O'Clock and the rSplosio n WOKE
c. A Fair. who. looking out saw one
standing watch and lights 1ashiny in
The Store. He being without a weapon
OF any kind did not venture out. but
called up J. NJ. Blow. They saw as
best they could from their winiow
about 2 o'clock. the burglars leave and
come this way. Early this morning
Fair and Bow yentura6 Gu, gave the
alarm and it was foun5 tina THE safe
was completely wrecked, the money
6rawer broken per the office wrecked
by the exp osion. Money and va liable
papers were taken Notes to the value
OF $1,000 were picked up this m rulng.
The BURGLARS were tracked a. Tar as
House. -four males north Of here.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
DEBATE WITH r
by University Societies
Mr.. George Weddings Lecture q
Great Treat-Other News.

Chapel Hill. " c.. January 80
The University will have only one
Intercollegiate Debate his year.
That will be against the University
OF Georgia and will be held here A
series OF three debates. n to occur
each year, has been arranged and
since Georgia and Carolina now stand
even on the former series. on the
outcome of the present series will
depend the oratorical supremacy.
From each Of the two societies is
chosen one member OF the team
which represents the University in
this debate. Selection Is made by a
competitive test. The Dialetic So
ciety has selected as its representa-
tive Mr.. A. H. Johnston, OF Asheville.
n. G.
The February german is to take
place on February 18th. SIR. Thomas
Hill, of Hillsboro, is elected leader.
The Rhodes scholarships commit
tee will soon be called together by
DR.. Venable to make the necessary
arrangements for the examinations
to be held in March.
That the University will have an
annual called the "Yackety Yack'
again this year is practically settled.
AS has been the case for years, it will
be under the joint management of
the two literary societies and the
fraternities-
Mr.. George r. Weddings lecture
on =" Saul of Tarsus." delivered here
on Tuesday night will long be re-
membered His simplicity Of treat
ment, nobility of conception, beauty
of expression and eloquent oratory,
make him a nan and speaker of
most splendid powers.
In the athletic line during this
period belonging to neither football
nor baseball, the center of attraction
is the gymnasium. Here the prelim-
mary work is being done.
In a social way-"pit' and pit"
parties are the whole thing. Chapel
Hill saw our of these pleasant and
mild entertainments last week. Dur
ing this week Professor Collier
Cobb's pretty home was the scene
Of action on Wednesday night, when
he hOnored the editors Of the maya
zine at pit" On Friday night the
scene of gayety was transferred to
the home of DIR. Thomas Hume,
where his daughter, Miss May, enter
tanned her friends most pleasantly.
The prizes at pit were won by Miss
Louise Venable and Mr.. Green
Berkely. Those present were: Misses
B~arringer, of Charlottesville, Va,
Alexander, Mile Archer, Dora Nc
Rae. Louise Venable, Miss May
Hume. and Messrs A. w. HAYWOOD,
Berkeley, McNider, Rountree, Station,
Carr, Gordon, Murphy, Wooden and
Archer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02

carried a couple of bottles on board for
many seasons. Seven years ago Peruna
cured me of bronchial trouble in a few
weeks and gave me such new life and
nerve force that I certainly believe in
telling you of it.
"Glve me my compass and Peruna
and l will steer clear of wrecks Of all
kinds and land i'll port safe and well
with vessel and men."-Capt. l.. IT.
Carter, 123 10th Avenue, Pensacola,
Florida.
Capt. E A. Watson, NJ. E., 4S Elizabeth
street, Ottawa, Ont, writes:
"Peruna has my heartiest endorse
ment. If there is any place that you
afe helpless when i'll it is Oh board a
steamer, at sea miles away from n
assistance. Sometimes two or three of
my men would be sick at one time and
seriously cripple the force, but since we
have learned of the value Of Peruna, bv
taking a few doses they recuperate very
quickly. We use it for colds, lung
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
EVIDENCE AGAINST POWELL
Postofice Authorities Think The,
Can Convict the Man.
Especial to The Messenger

Raleigh. N. c.. January Sol. II
Brooks was released from jail tofa =
on bond, the money having been Gent
TO United States Commissioner Nichols
Tor mat purpose by mai. by one Of
BLOCKS friends. Brooks declares his
innocence. saving he knows
nothtng OF the alleged bogus firm which
employed him Monday and sant HIM -
Raleigh Tuesday The p~ostofice au-
thorices here have received new evil
dence against Powell. yhich it = said
VIII convict him. II q expected tn at
! n a few days the real AMI reputable
firm OF q and Powell here wiz be-
gin 20 receive bills from persons who
have shipped goods TO The firm which
was doing business here under that
name.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
Receipts of Cotton.

New York January 30.-Receipts of
cotton at the ports today 32.243 bales
against 23,oSS last week and 80, 700 last
year. For the week $4,000 baies
against 1867 last week and 1874, f6I
last year. Today's receipts at New
Orleans were 1905 bales against Is, 1e2
last yea and at Houston 7,625 against
200 last rear
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
Rife Range at Pensacola.

washington, January 3o.-P1ans
have been completed for the $4,000
rife range on the naval reservation
at Pensacola, Fla. II IS hoped by
the authorities to have this six hum
dred yard range sufficiently advanced
i'm construction for the s in March
of naval vessels Of the North and
South Atlantic fleets and the Eu-
repean squadron when these vessels
are in Pensacola harboF for target
practice.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02

a DIE social will he given BY TIE
iada7s CT the Howard Rslief Club ON
next Wednesday, from 4 10 10 r. m The
sooaa "a ID be gwen for the benefit 81
the piano fund and wiz be held In this
ub rul ng. MuTic VIII be furnished
for the occasion
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02

trouble and kidney diseases. and ave
also found it very fine for IA sr:ppc.
"Peruna is always one or the most i'm
portant supplies Of my steamer."-E.A \.
Watson.
With q bottle of Peruna aboard sailors
have a remedy on which they can rely.
Commodore L.. s. Navy.
Commodore Somerville Nicholson, Of
the United States Navy, in q letter from
1887 X ST., y. W., Washington, d. c.,
says:
81 unhesifafingIy recommend Pc.
Tuna to all persons suffering from ca.
farrh. "---S. Nicholson.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving q
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad.
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman S%anitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
Democratic Caucus Res
OlutiOnS Adopted BY
Senate
AN AMENDMENT

The Resolution Calls on the Presi-
eezs to State Whether the Senate
Has Been Supplied all the Facts
Bearing on the Panama Matter
TaIk OF Cancellation for Colombia.
General Discussion of the Principle
of Arbitration for Settlement of
lDisDutes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-02
Pe-ru-na Known and
Praised on Land
and Sea.

IA sick sailor is a
pretty helpless man. L
have found that Peruna
will do more to restore
one than any other medi-
cine IknOW-and 7 have
Snips and the St. Johns herald., 1904-04-30
GIVEN AWAY

to get the people to talk about
BIXLRR' PHYSICAL TRAINING IN
PENMANsHIP, the best method of
instruction in the world Saves
90 per cent. of time, etc. Merit
Prizes, Surprise Prize, Prize
Prizes, Sure Prizes, Big Prizes,
Little Prizes, Contingent Prize
and other Prizes for little folks
and big folks. Send lOc for
BUSINESS PENMAN, II Writing
Notices sample rapid Writing,
skilled Bird Flourish, and full
particulars. q Surprise Prize
will be included, worth from 10c
to 81, and a $40 Prize Prize
goes with each Tooth 1Oc order
conditional.)
Prof. G, Bixler, 81 Ogden, ave.
Chicago, III.
Snips and the St. Johns herald., 1904-04-30
Wakeful?
Slecple sSnesS Is a
Sign of Nerve TrOu-
Bile and ShOuld
BE Locked To.

There arc th~oc different manifesto
tons of sivepiessncss.
First hardly to sleep a wink all night,
second, to lie awake long time before
falling asleep; third, to fall asleep soon,
waking up after several hours and then
find it hard to sleep again.
They mean that somewhere in the
nerve fbrcs, somewhere in the brain
co.'s, somewhere in the blood vessels
that carry blood to the brain, something
is radically wrong, and must be righted,
or the end may be worse than death
To right it, take Or. Nfiles' Nervine.
Some other symptoms of nerve trou-
bic are: Dizziness, Headache, Back
ache. Worry, Fretfulness, Irrita bility,
Melancholy, Lack of Ambition
They indicate diseases which may lead
to Epilepsy. Fits, ST. Vitus' Dance,
Nervous prostration, Paralysis, Insanity.
Nothing will give such quick and last
ing relief as Or. Miles Nervine.
my husband had been sick for weeks,
could II 1t sit up to have his bed made.
With al the medical help we could get
he. continued to grow worse lie could
sent away, and all callers barred, be-
cause he could not stand bit OF talk
ing 1 read of a case of nervous pros
tro ton cured by DR.. M les Restorative
Ecrvine. We began giving 1t to him,
and ia a f"V dos he was able to be
dress. q. F-2m Cat tine he steadily
Ms 4. &. Ink, Ireev-e, N. Y.
r ~ N5Ir to rs for TIE Trial
Pain Pills, a." .ew Sc.cnI!a remedy
foI r., H. Also Symptom Blank. our
SpeciuLst will diagnose your case, tel
Fire. DR. MILES MEDICAL CO..
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19

Master Ernest Sprague is up from
Wenatchee for few days visit with
his friend Julian M agar.
A gang of twenty-five Japs are at
work below the Chumstick widening
the rock cut and also widening the fill
at the point where the passenger train
was wrecked last spring in which Jack
Croak lost his life.
A force OF men has been at work on
the mill company's dam the past week
filling in places where it leaked and
otherwise strengthening the structure
The Company is sparing no expense
in making it solid and substantial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Triem left yester'
day for Seattle, where they will make
their home for an indefinite period
Mr.. Triem has had some experience in
soliciting advertisements for magazines
and newspapers, and will engage in
this line of work.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19
NOT POSTED

In the Leavenworth items OF
last weeks Wenatchee Republic
appeared the following:
with the exceptions of sheriff, the
democratic county ticket is considered
very weak in this precinct. Mr.. Webb
is the main strength and stands an ex-
cellent chance to win"
Now the editor of the Echo
pretends to be posted as to the
political conditions in this neck
of the woods, and his infOrma-
ton is that Mr.. Webb will do
we'll to keep up with the balance
of the ticket. In the person of
Pete Wheeler the voters have
the privilege of casting their
ballots for quiet, unassuming
but most excellent man for the
Office of sheriff on the republi-
can ticket. Because he is not a
man of "fuss and feathers" is no
reason why he is not well quail
fed for the position. He will
be elected, and don't you forget
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19

this, Okanogan, Ferry and
Douglas counties, to fill the place
on the republican ticket for SUI
perior Court Judge, made vacant
by the resignation of M. B. Nal
10y, is locked hard and fast on
John D. Dill and Mr.. Bryant, OF
Ferry county.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19
HOBSON ON CLEVELAND


Captain Pearson Hobson, he
of Merrimac and kissing notorie-
ty, made speech at the recent
democratic national convention
at ST. Louis, in which he refer
red to Clevelaud's position in re-
gard to labor unions thus:
1--WE find the party In power afraid
really to take hold of the question of
labor. Tell me what president has
ever been brave enough to enforce the
law against labor union vfol&tor. 1t
was democratic president.
Mr.. Hobson refers to the great
Chicago railroad strike, led by
Debs, in which Cleveland inter-
fered by sending United States
soldiers to arrest the strikers,
and this over the protest of the
governor of Illinois, who declar.
ed that the state was able to
handle her own affairs and did
not call for federal interference.
The association of railroad man
ayers, however, asked Cleve-
land to send troops, and Cleve-
land promptly swept the old
democratic doctrine of state
rights aside, and ordered Gener-
al Nelson A. Miles to shoot the
strikers. And he did shoot them,
by the hundreds, and one day
when company of artillery
started out to NOW down the
strikers a caisson accidentally
exploded and killed twenty odd
soldiers.
Oh, yes, Cleveland knew how
to enforce the law against labor
unions, and when there was no
law, his will was law enough.
Both sides of his bread had been
buttered by the trusts, and he
was only too eager to serve their
interests. No doubt about his
enforcing the law when it served
their interests. But did anyone,
anywhere, ever hear of his en-
forcing a law against trusts. Did
he ever utter one word in all his
life against the encroachments
of organized capital? How the
labor unions, and the laboring
men generally, must love the
stuffed prophet of Buzzards Bay.
The only thing that surpasses it
is the Devils love for holy
water.
In striking contrast with this
We have to point to the conduct
of President Roosevelt in the
famous anthracite coal strike,
when practically the whole coun-
try demanded a settlement of the
controversy. On one side was the
miners anion and on the other
was the great coal trust, led by
"Me and Colt" Baer with his d.
vine right Of capital plea. Did
the president send federal troops
into Pennsyl vania to awe the
miners union into submission to
the trust? This is what Cleve-
land did, and this is what the
money power expects of Judge
Parker-it is the price of their
support. No, Mr.. Roosevelt
threw the weight of his great in
fluence in favor of arbitration
arbitration under the pledge of
fair consideration for both par
ties to- the controversy. The
wall sent up by the coal barons
is an old story. Public opinion,
though, forced them to accept
fair arbitration, But fair arbi-
tration was not what they want
ed. Under fair arbitration they
knew they would be convicted of
unfairness to the union, as, in
fact, they were. The horse thief
said that was exactly what he
did not want when he was assur-
ed he would have fair and i'm.
partial trial, under fair and inn
partial trial he said he knew he
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19

partial trial, at the bar of public
opinion, after a full and fair in.
vestigation of its record, Judge
Parker and the democratic party
will be sent to overwhelming de-
feat on the fourth day of Novem-
her.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19

We have learned over the
phone that the meeting of Coun-
ty Chairmenyin Wcnatchee, from
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19
A NEW WAY TO PROMOTE TEN.
PERANCE

| uO IOlSuO IG0VSI Suu IlSuI y ~.
Potter, with long string of D.
DIS. and LII. DIS. to his name, q
bishop in the Episcopal church,
in connection with a number of
admirers has opened a saloon in
New York City, in which none
but pure liquors are to be sold,
and they practically at cost. The
saloon also has an annex for
women. The only difference be-
tween this and other saloons is
that treating is forbidden. Every
man must drink by himself and
pay for his own drink.
One can not help but speculate
ON the effect of this thing should
it become popular. Of course
there is howl going up all over
the country. The nonprogres-
sive and "sot-in-hisway" church
member says it is awful for the
church to go into the saloon bus
mess, but if the temperance peo-
pie are sincere, and it can be
proven beyond doubt that TEN
perance can be promoted by the
church going into the saloon bus
mess, the churches will all have
to open a drinking annex or
stand convicted of insincerity.
One effect of this would be to
make saloon business eminently
respectable. The preacher and
the bartender could hobnob to-
gether without the fear of losing
caste. The saloon keepers wife
and the minister's wife could go
to the Thursday night prayer
meeting and on their way home
stop in and get glass of beer,
or soda water, as their prefer
ence might dictate.
This scheme opens mp a vista
for speculation the end of which
a prophet can not see. 1t would
be an eminently proper theme
for Mr. Dooley's fascile pen. We
are patiently waiting to hear
what he may have to say on the
subject. 1t is just barely posi-
BILE that the saloon keepers of the
country, their vocation being
gone, their business ruined by
fierce competition, in despera-
ton, may start in on their own
account to do some reform
ing, and commence on the
churches. This would of course
be an anomalous condition of
things. But this old world has
seen equally as strange sights.
1t wouldn't be the first time the
top and bottom rail of the fence
have exchanged position.
To get back to the subject,
though. The Right Reverend
Henry calls his saloon the Sub
way Tavern. The other day he
called and opened the business
with prayer and song. He was
shocked, says the reporter, by a
picture hanging on the wall of
some nymphs in diaphanous-
garments. Is it possible that
the Right Rev. Henry knows so
little about the trimmings of an
up-to-date saloon? The first
thing the public knows, in his
modesty, he will be wanting to
change the name of a familiar
old drink to rooster tail.
Oh no, Mr.. Potter, if you are
going into the saloon business
you must go the whole hog. 1t
won't do to gag at non essentials.
On another page we give an
account from the daily papers of
this interesting experiment. To
say that it will be watched ask.
ance by a great many people, and
positively condemned by great
many more, is of course true.
We shall watch and pray. But
surely watch.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-04-07
ADVERTISEMENT. - Sa
Hon. &. r.. Hutchins, Candidate for
Congress.

Calhoun, Ga, April I'd, 1904 Hon.
q. X. Hutchins, candidate for congress
from this district, made his first visit
to this county in the interest Of his
candidacy yesterday and left this morn
ing.
He met several voters from the
country during the day and made a
good impression on them. At night he
spoke to large audience in the court
house. Before this he had nc friend
here in this section, as only few knew
of his being in the race But with his
first sentences he struck sympathetic
chord in every breast, and in ten min
utes he had completely electrified the
entire audieuce. Applauses, loud and
long, greeted his every utterance. It
has been pronounced by many the best
speech ever made in the hall, which
has resounded with the eloquence of
Dabney, Watson, FELTON, and Cnrbin.
Not since the days when the popular
sentiment swept the political deck and
elected General Gordon has there been
such wave of popular enthusiasm as
this, which is sure to elect this brilliant
young champion of the people to con-
gress.
Hon. Gordon Lee, one of his oppo-
nents,was within two hundred yards of
the hall but for some reason did not
come to the speaking.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-04-07
GEORGIAN IN HONDURAS.

Carrollton. Ga, March 29.-Captain
w. Allen Coleman, of Newman street,
this city, one of the founders of the
first colonies from the United States in
Central America, is just in receipt of
information from San Pedro, Honduras
Central America, that his son, William
+. Coleman, who visits-his children at
his fathers home here for many weeks
each year, has Consummated one of the
largest deals in real estate in Central
America for some time. 1t is banana
farm sold to immigrants for the sum of
$4,000.
Young Mr.. Coleman's friends here
have watched with pride his phenome-
nal progress in that foreign land and
his interests accumulated there in
banana and coffee growing, trading
timbers, factories, iron foundries, etc,
has made this former Carrolltonian q
magnate in his land. and although
hardly past middle life, his activities
are gaining for him connections that
make most ilattering future.
VIM, K. Coleman was educated in
Marietta in 1878 to 1881, and is remem-
bered here by many friends who will be
glad to learn of his success in Central
America. He is a cousin of Mr.. John
II. Barnes, of Marietta.