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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
New Vice President Of Mexico VIII
Continue in fhe Cabinet.

Mexico city, October At In now
stated. on what in believed TO De good
authority. that Ramon Corral. who Will
be fnaugurated vice president OF Mexico
December lst, win continue service as
Minister Of Interior after tina, date and
there viii be no change in the cabinet
OF President DiaZ. The amendment to
the constitution creating the vice pres
ident provided that the new official
could serve az a member of the cabinet
and IL Is believed this provision Will be
followed by Vice President Corral.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07

Salisbury sum-: As an Illustration Of
the scarcity OF labor in this section n
farmer whose cotton field Is white n
who. fears damage 10 his staple from
rain is conveying a party OF Salisbury
negro men and women 70 his farm every
morning and bringing them back in
the evening.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
Not the Mexican Boil WeeviI.

Covington, Co., Oct. 1.-THE bugs
which made their appearance n the
cotton fields of Newton county are not
the Mexican boil weevil, a. State
Entomo1ogist William Newell. Some
specimens of them were submitted to
him today. He states they belong to
the same genus as the boil weevil, but
are distinct from the boil weevil in a
number of characteristics. There is
no record, he says, or their being IN
furious to cotton.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
The Postmaster General
Expired Early Last
Night
ILL ONLY A WEEK

Death Came After Six Hours Uncon-
sciOusIfess and Hope had Been Aban-
doned for Some Time-FuneraI Ser
vices Will be Held I'm Washington,
TsreK the Body Will be Taken to
Milwaukee Where Services Will be
Held Sunday and Interment Made.
Mr.. Payne was Prominently and
Closely Identified With the Repub-
Iican Party.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
Hoods ~JdrS0pdriua
and Pills

cure dyspepsia, strengthen and tone all
the digestive organs, and build up the
whole system.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

Colonel Harry Skinner, United States
district attorney, in a speech at a pop
ulist convention in G%reenville a few
days ago made the statement that taxes
in Pitt county are twice as high now
under democratic rule as when the fus-
ionists were in control some years ago.
The Greenville Reflector calls the hon.
orable gentleman's attention to the fact
that when his crowd had control of that
county the poll tax was two dollars,
against one dollar and ninety-two cents
this year. Of course the tax on prop
erty was in the same proportion. It is
strange how some politicians will make
misrepresentation, knowing that they
can be easily disproven by recorded
facts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30
r. HARMONY.

The following good advice TO the
democrats OF Forsyth county by the
Winston Sentinel should be needed by
numbers OF that party in other oun
ties OF h state. It is not applicable to
such counties only hat have repubd-
can officials. We are not voting for
men just because they are good fell
lows; but because they are Pledged TO
support the principles of the party We
belong to and because that party has
eieher bv convention or primary. De-
lected them as the men for the Off
ces. We must not let our personal
preference outweigh party allegiance
in the coming elections; we must
keep the democratic Party in the lead
in this state. II men in the party are
opposed to aspire to office the place
to fight them Is in the party primaries
and conventions-not to stand aIoof
from these meetings or IL attending and
suffer defeat, to sulk and declare we
will not support the nominees because
we 10 not like them personally Or be-
cause We do not agree with them in
some of their ideas as to democracy.
We should 1ght our party battles and
settle our party differences within the
party and then when the nominations
are made all hands join in warfare on
he enemy. That is the only way to
keep our party together.
The Winston Sentinel says:
The republican candidates for county
offices may be good fellows but there
can be no doubt OF the fact they be-
long to a bad political organization. This
fact should be sufficient to c~onyinco
any democrat hat these aforesai5
good fellows should be kept out of
office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30
INCOMPETENT ENGINEERS.

In speaking Of the fatal boiler ex-
plosion at the Erwin mill at Duke the
other day The Raleigh Evening Times
lays the fault to an incompetent en-
gineer who let the water get too low
and then opened the valve. 1t says
the next Legislature ought to make
it a penitentiary offense for an engi-
neer who has not stood an approved
examination and obtained a license to
not some n else as much to blame
as the incompetent engineer when &C.
occur from UGH causes? How
about h mill who employ
men they know to be incompetent,
just because the wages are lower :?
Are not such employers criminally liza
BILE as we'll as the men they employ,
knowing the latter to be unfit to per-
form the duties? If there is to be a
law making acceptance of the position
criminal in the employe it certainly
should be made equally so for the en-
ployer who knowingly put such a mar
in that place. The United States gov
eminent takes this view of the mat
ter in its navigation laws. All engi-
neers on steam vessels must he licen-
sed and a captain who Will employ
one who has not a license. even JUS
for one short trip, is subject to heavy
penalty. 1t should be made the duty
of the managers of mills and factorie:
to look after the safety of their en-
ployes as we'll as of the captains o,
vessels to do the same for their pas
sengers and Others of the crew by EN-
ploying none but competent person:
in such responsible positions.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

The political situation in New York
is enough to make the men who wish
hesitate. There are the Utilities, the
Tammanyites and the McCarrenites all
as happy as men car be over the NOM
ination Of the party's candidate for
governor. One Of the big daily newspa-
pers is boosting Roosevelt and denounc-
ing Higgins and another is advocating
Parker and working against Herrick
and in the mean time the big floating
vote is still al unknown quantity in the
summing up of possibilities.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

Press. Association Elects. Officers.
Prospects Of. tho. Football. Team
are Bright
Especial to The Messenger.)

tSPrNidA ~ Inc hCS-~A6a1
Chapel Hill. ". c., Sept as.-Ths
Press Association University Of
North Carolina met Saturday after
noon for the purpose Of eiecting officers
for the coming year. Those elected
were as follows: Louis T. Moore, VII
mington, ~. c.. president; Jno. A. Par
ker. Dunn. ~. c.. vice-president:
Robert R Reynolds, Asheville. y. C.
secretary; A. g. Dalton, Greensboro.
N. c., treasurer: /. s. London. Pitts
boro. N. c., K. B. Nixon. Lincolnton.
~ c., and a G. Dalton, Greensboro.
n. c.. executive committee. The Press
Association is quite al important ac-
tor in the University, in that IL serves
to disseminate throughout h state all
the news pertaining TO the University.
The outlook for a winning team TO
represent the University this year is
very bright at present The squad
which consists of about fifty men, Is
hard at work every afternoon under
the supervision of Mr.. Brown, who
coached the successful Virginia Poly
technic Institute team OF last year.
Five of asst years team have return
ed, viz. Stewar (captain) who Will play
centre this year. Robson, Jacobs,
Newton and Townsend. who played full
back, quarter back. half back. n end
respectively last season Seagle and
Mann, strong guards are also
back and will probably play those POI
sitions. Among the new men with
regulations as foot ballists who are
trying for positions on the team are
Sitton. Of Clemson college, Bear. OF
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, GuN &c,
of Tennessee University, and Barry, of
Georgetown University. Mr.. A. d.
Brown, the physical director of the
University a been appointed trainer
for the team.
Cardinals schedule this season is as
follows:
October LIST, Guiiford College at
Chapel Hill.
October sth, Davidson college al
Charlotte.
October 18th, South Carolina Collegs
at Chapel Hill.
October 29th, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute at Blacksburg, Va.
November 5th, Georgetown Univer.
sity at Norfolk.
November 18th. West Virginia Uni.
versity at Louisville, KY.
November 14th, Vanderbilt Universe
ty at Nashville, Tenn.
November oath, University of Vir.
ginia at Richmond, Va.
Manager B. X. Lassiter is contem'
plating making several changes in tn.
above schedule.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

President Bryan of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad is rather late
about it but he has at last come out in
denunciation of h report Of the in
v~estigating committee appointed some
months ago. He says the report of the
committe does him an injustice n a
great wrong. He refers to the fact
Tia the governor ~re-appointed every
member of the old board of directors
under whom he a served, and said
thai such appointment after the report
of the commission was a complete vim
dication for him. 1t looks like Mr..
Bryan scores in this point, but per-
haps the governor re-appointed them
in'vinlication'' of Observation-Disclosures
Chronicle.
We think that both Mr.. Bryan and
The Chronicle are wrong in the views
they take on the matter of v~indication.
Now, if Governor Aycock had fired
every director except Mr.. Bryan and re-
tanned him, then he might claim that
he had been INDICATED by such action.
But from the urn things have taken it
seems to us that the board of directors
rather than their president has been
indicated.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30
Bee Came High.

Neither one had seen or heard of
the other for years, when Edward G.
Cooke, of the "Ben-Hur" company,
met Norman Peel, business manager
of In Old Ken ucky," in the lobby OF
the House Monday night,
says the Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
Peel, or I'm a liar!" gasped Cooke,
walking Up to him. The last time I
saw you was in johannesburg, South
Africa, when / had the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight pictures on a tour of the
world. That was a great story"
Tell us the story, Antonio" sug-
gester Clerk Quinn.
MY partner and myself had gone to
Johannesburg to show our machine.
1t c anced that We carried but $3.50. 90
with us in American money. The an
swer is that we nearly went broke on
that account, but. anyway, we had
hardly arrived in town before / ran
into Peel, who was then travelling for
a wholesale drug concern. Peel had
been in johannesburg for several days,
and piloted us to a restaurant.
by George!' said Welty, my part
ner, I'm tired OF drinking this English
ale and small beer. I'd give 81 this
minute for a bottle of good American
| beer
You can get it, said Peel.
"Welty nearly rose ut Of his chair
~ sui 4 - olN oPRA =
"Got American beer" questioned
| Wetley.
Sure was the answer in good
| Anglo-Saxon.
"Wetley looked over at Peel and me
impressively remarked:
Bring US each one bottle Of each
kid They had three kinds.
That made nine bottles altogether
We had a dinner with the beer. and
it certainly tasted good. The bill came
and Welty reached for it. 1t read:
Nine bottles of American beer, (;
pounds 2 shillings; dinner, 10 shilling,
and six
That good old American beer cost
us almost $2.75 a bottle. Welty nearly
died"
Peel smiled.
Yes ne remarked. II had beer
stuck the first day / arrived, and sc
I said nothing when Welty said he was
willing to go - a bottle"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30
How to Secure a Vigorous Body and
Mind.

Health of body mind depend up
on the health of the stomach. The
brain, the blood. the nerves, the lungs,
in fact every organ of the body depend
upon the stomach for sustenance. The
stomach's power to digest and assimi-
late food measures the strength OF
body and mind. If you are below the
normal in strength and flesh. Rydale's
Stomach Tablets will help you oue
Of your trouble. They insure perfec.
digestion and assimilation and these
secure health OF body and mind. Ry-
dale's Stomach Tablets cure the worst
forms of dyspepsia and indigestion and
all forms OF stomach trouble. Trial
size 25cts. Family size, scots The
large size contains 2k times the guam
tity of the trial size. r. R.. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

Over a year ago Russia made a prom
ise to evacuate Manchuria on October
Sth. The October Sth mentioned was
that of 1908. It looks as if h is about
TO keep her promise, only having made
a mistake in the year and doing SO, not
as a matter of accumulation TO the
several powers interested in the open
door policy and to whom the promise
was made. but at the very urgent and
forceful solicitation of Japan. She
seems to have ignored the other powers
entirely.
Addicks, of Delaware, says he is a
self-made man-sort of a natural gas
fellow, we suppose.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

A female s~pellbinder' is the latest
political sensation up north. AS a mat
ter of course, she speaks from habit,
not from notes.'-Times-Union.
Wrong there, if she is helping out the
republican national campaign commit
tee.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

and refuse 70 act as debt collector for
foreign states or their citizens"
He shows arp h extravaganza OF the
republican administration and demands
reform i'm government expenditures.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

The height of cruelty is making a
boy go to school on the day the circus
and the free base ball game are in
town-Atlanta Journal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

1t is announced that Mr.. Bryan's
lungs are affected. Making Parker
speeches must nave been a terrible
strain on them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

Young Thodo Roosevelt is now
travelling incog'' in Canada.-Times-
Union,
Is he initiating absconding bank
cashiers or royalty:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-30

Kuropatkin's army, according to Rus
sian statistics, increases most as fast
as the registered vote in Philadelphia.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-10-21
Joseph R zllllIl. s
Sentence ! 4 COMMITTED

G: Falkenstein, the able
editor of the B0ttineau News.
was In the city Saturday on his
return from Bismarck where he
attende q meeting Of the state
board Of pardons, Of which he Isl
10 membe r. He said that the
death sentence Of Joseph RozuI1,
sentenced to be hanged at the
penitentiary Oct. az, has been
commuted Ito life imprisonment
by the state board of pardons.
R0zum has of late shown signs
lot insanity. He was sentenced
from Walsh county for the kill
ing Of Louis Starnan, at Pisek.
Herbert Camp, who was senten-
Iced from Barnes county OH i
grand larceny charge was par
ldoned. Camp has contracted
consumption
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-10-21

EDMORE
aDRoR0 0nenonoa ouoaenoRonlelI

The Red Men will give a sheet
and pillow case masquerade ball
on Thank giving eve.
= Gilbert Jensen, Of Edinburg,
formerly Of this county, is visi,
ting old friends.
b Miss Camilla Sagen has re-
turned from an extended trip e
the Worlds Fair and iss again al
her old place in the telephone
central.
Thomas Rike, who recently
made final proof on a splendid
Ward county claim, is spending
q few days in town.
The ladies' Of the town gave 4
leap year ball a few evenings
ago, which was a decided sue
cess. Dame Rumor SAYS two
bashful young men will soon call
upon Judge Duell the young
ladies taking advantage of the
occasion to make the Young mer
confess to their being badly iii
love. 81
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-10-21
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THE COUNTRY COR RESPONDENTS :
4kM<hMNW>m -
First National bank.

First National bank.
: lA flock Of 3, 800 sheep from a
Montana ranch are being fed on.
the stuble fields near town.
The family Of Conductor R. c.
Wynn has returned from their.
farm at Dunseith and will spend
the winter in town.
Mrs. James MCGOWAN, who
has been at Mercy hospital in
Devils Lake for some time, has
returned to her home, much inn
proved.
Mayor George Duis and his
brother Charles, and State Game
Warden Hale, all Of Grand Forks,
spent several days in this section
hunting recently.
Hon. Waldorf Bendeke, vice
consul Of Norway and Sweden,
located at Grand Forks, was the
guest Of H. A. Moe several days
last week.
While your correspondents in
different parts Of the county are
testifying to the good qualities
|of the candidates from their 10
|calities, we want to say a word
for the people in the western
side OF the county in behalfsof
Norman Nelson, our candidate
for. the house of representative
fHgis one Of the popular men in
ifhis part Of the county, because
HE is the most deserving In
his business relations, he IS ever
ready to extend a favor and no
| man was ever more serupuIously
honest. He is, as was well said
IN the Inter-O Ocean last week,
thoroughly qualified for the
place, and will soon be a leading
member Of that body. His pop
.ularity is proven by the fact that
he will have a unanimous vote
from the people among whom he
lives. M ri
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-10-21
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!: STARK N AI'THEERR /:
aOH0R0 0n0H0Hoa0no Ha0aOnOnS

Il r-sSVr
Mrs. Carl Dickinson il at
Granville, her mother. being sick
that place.
Mrs. F. P. Engle left a few
days ago for Indiana where she
will spend the winter.
William Bulge, proprietor Of
the new TOWNSHIP Of Wakefield,
was q business visitor last week.
The Farmers railroad is ship
ping threshing rigs from Devils
Lake to any point on its line free
Of charge.
Mrs. A. B. Henninger who re-
sides In this town raised a head
LOT cabbage from which she made
five gallons of kraut.
John Anderson raised a turnip
which weighed Is pounds and 8
ounces and L. a. Fournier one
which weighed. 20 pounds and 5
ounces.
sf53sss t ~ W. 5ga ~ 40 ~
The farmers Of this community
who contracted with a couple Of
takers last summer to furnish
household med icine for a certain
time for+about $40 are now hay-
ing the notes for these amounts
presented for payment. Most.of
them never received anything
more than a bottle Of colored
water.
We want to say q word in be-
half of Geo. w III. Davis, who
while not a resident Of this
town, is counted one Of on
citizens. Mr.. Davis, by his
work in the legislature, brought
credit to the county. AS a man
[of unsullied honor, of the high
lest integrity, and a. citizen whom
Ibis neighbors love to honor, he
is without a rival. Like your
Crary correspo ndent said Of
Harry Mel olson, If his neigh
bors and those who know him
best, were to decide his election.
would be made enthusiastically
|it unanimous.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-10-21
BEROC /.
0R0A0aoRoaog ou0non 4,

49, ~ ~ ~ ~ H0@OH0
Mrs. Evans has opened the
sBrockett hotel and is meeting
with wit /. 9 liberal patronage. 4. q
Mrs. Peter Anderson is enjoy
ing a visit from, her father,
James Gilbert, Of Lisbon.
I. R. Leque has resigned his
position in the Palace drug store,
and Fred ' Lawling is filing the
place.
o. Keyon, Of Kenyon,
MINI, has been looking after
his farming interests near here
for some time. h 81 b
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-16

small Japanese detahments of 800 each. Stronger forces are at Sitoukhtchidge, 12 miles northwest of Taku Shan.
 Returning to Siu Yen, the reconnoi- tering party had skirmish with a small Japanese patrol. One Japanese dragon was killed and one Cossack was wounded.
 There is no news from silitchinai- putse.
 '.on May 8. a detachment of nearly a thousand Japanese advanced seven miles north of Polandien. Another de- tachment of 300 infantry and half a fianking movement to Wafantien.
 .'The troops guarding the frontier are slowly retiring northward, holding the enemy.
 'on May 1s force of 300 Chinese bandits attacked the mine at Yantai. The bandits were repelled by sotnia of the frontier guards and company of infantry. losing thirty men. They retired in the direction of Liao Yang, land detachment of chasseurs was sent to cut them off.
 "At dawn the following day, accord ing to information received, a strong force of Chinese bandits was seen in localities 12 miles west of Liao Yang"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-16
ATTACKS BR CHINESE BANDITS.
Russian outposts Considerably Trou-
 bIed--A Fierce Fight.

Liao Yang, Saturday,, May H.-(De- layed in transmission. Chinese ban dits are becoming bolder and are caus- ing considerable trouble to the Russian Ioutposts. A swarm of the bandits at noon of May 13 attacked the coal mines on the branch line east of Yantai sta ton, ten miles north of Liao Yang. The mines, which supply the whole railroad, were guarded by 200 riflemen and 100 Cossacks. Tn a fierce fight the Rus sians repelled the bandits and then charged them, the bandits fleeing to the hills and to three neighboring villages, The troops surrounded the villages and demanded the surrender of the bandits. The surrender was at first refused, but fearing that the Russians would de- stroy their homes, the villagers finally revealed the hiding places of the fu gitives. The bandits fought with the desperation of entrapped rats, and fifty of them were speared and killed. The Russians suffered no loss.
 Among seventeen prisoners taken by the troops were two Japanese officers, who had escaped from the Russians. One of the bandits taken prisoner con- 4fessed that the bandits had been hired by the Japanese, whom they were sup plying with information.