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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
FATAL WRECK IN AUGCST.N
DIRECTIVE Swift ia Causcs Accident On
the Southern in Which Twu Lives
We're Lost and Three Other Persons
Injured.

Augusta, Ga, August 30.-City Po-
liceman F. J. Murphy, acting as quar-
antine officer. was killed outright.
Flagman George J.. Lott so badly in
jured that he died at the hospital
shortly after. and three others were
slightly injured in n wreck of a
Southern Railway passenger train en-
its way to Charleston, at the Washing
ton and Reynolds street crossing,
within the city limits here this morn
ing. After the engine, baggage a
and second class coach passed The
crossing, the rear wheels Of the first
class coach. owing to a defective
switch took a siding and the "a vas
thrown completely over.
Officer Murphy. who had jumped ant
was trying TO dodge, was mashed be-
meath the wreck. Flagman Lofts legs
were cut nearly off and he died while
they were being amputated. Pullman
In the rear of the train did not lea re
the track and none OF its occupants
was hurt. The injured were passen-
gers in the overturned coach.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
PROHIBITION ELECTION
tcber 3rd-To be q Warm Cam
paign.

The people OF Florence county will
have their chance to vote on the ques-
ton Of prohibition under the Brice law
On Tuesday October 3. The supervi-
sor and the county attorney are now
comforting al to the proper way In
which such an election shall be called
and the regular announcement win be
made in a short while. Three weeks
notice by the commissioners is general
ly required in elections and IL will
probably be the same In this case.
From now on the campaign viii be
warm. 4 great deal Of individual
work for prohibition has been done at
the advocates Of the state control OF
liquor have not been idle.
How the election viii go In Florence
county is hard TO say. Ii will depend
entirely ON the vote that turns out.
III il is a light vote. as in Union. the
county viii go for prohibition, III a full
vote turns out the chances are very
much the other way. 50 far as the
Times can learn.
There Will be prohibition meetings
through the county at different times
during the next few weeks and an
much interest stirred up among the
voters as is possible.-F1orence Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
CURE YOUR
Do Not Endanser Life V1cn q Viii
mIn&ton Citizen shows You the
Cure.

-
Why will people continue / suffer
the agonies Of kidney complaint. back
ache, urinary disorders, Iameness, head
aches, lang1aor, why allow themselves
TO become chronic invalids, when n GER
tain cure is offered them:
Doan's Kidney Pills il the remedy
TO use, because it gives to the kidneys
the help they need to perform their
work.
II you have ANY,, even one, of the
symptoms of kidney diseases. cure
yourself now. before diabetes, dropsy
or Bright's disease sets i'm. Read this
Wilmington testimony:
B. X. King. the well known police
nan, residing at 700 Wooster street,
says: Il had terrible pain in my back
which worked around to my side and
in my stomach, so bad at time that it
laid me up. | used internal medicines
and they did not help me. / put on
pIasters and rubbed with liniment, and
non of them helped me AT all. See
ing Doan's Kidney Pills recommended
/ got a box of them at Bellamy's drug
store. The next day after commencing
20 use them / noticed relief. Since
using two boxes of them l have not
had an ache or a pain in my back. 1t
is with pleasure that | add my name
TO those endorsing the claims made for
this remedy"
For sale by all dealers. Price 30
cents. FOster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
SI:ANGE STORY OF A JUG
n Bottle ami Then a jug Form ON
the Side Of q Tomb That Was Erect
cd to a Man Who Drank JIimseIf to
Dcath-The Strange Freak is There
to be- Seen

n of the strangest stories ever
heard comes to Charlotte frequently
from Spartanburg, s.. G. The story is
not new, for it has been going the
rounds for years. 1t is to this effect:
Many. years 6 there lived at Spar
tanburg a man whose name might be
given if it were necessary to make this
an interesting tale, who drank to great
excess. Year after year he debauched
himself until by the efforts of friends
and a kind-hearted minister he was
he abstained from the cup but at the
end of that period he bought a barrel
and drank himself to death.
The relatives of this man bull. an
old fashioned tomb, with sides, ends
and slab, over his grave. Not long
after the stones were erected some
thing in the shape of a bottle appear
ed on one side of the tomb. The bot
tie kept forming until it was of full
size and the right proportions.
1t is said hat the kinsnen of the
dead man removed the piece of mar
BILE and put a new one in its place.
Soon. however, there came the print
of a jug On the new side and the faint
shady likeness has grown to be a full
sized, bold jug, with neck and handle.
The thing is there to be seen by those
who wish to see it. The grave is
near the Southern station and many
people journey there to see the place
AND the jug. A well-beaten path runs
across the cemetery to the place and
hundreds of persons 60 there ever
year.
A Charlotte man who returned from
Spartanburg yesterday morning claims
that he never saw such a thing before
in his life. He went over and took a
good look at the queer freak.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
DEATH OF MRS HAlGH
Sad Loss That Has Come q. Faycttc~
viiic-She Came OF q WIlminSsun
Family.
Especial To The Messenger.)


Fayetteville. August 2a.-Mrs. Caro-
line Haigh. widow of the late John c.
Haigh, who var a prominent and infiu-
entail citizen OF Fayetteville. passed
away ut $40 O'Clock this morning. at
the residence of her son. Mr.. X. G.
Haigh, in the 81 e Of her age
She was, before marriage, Miss Caro-
line Green, of a leading family OF
Wilmington, and in girlhood attached
herself to the Episcopal church, and
her whole long life was Il beautiful ex-
empliication of her faith. A leader
throughout her married life I'm Fayette-
Vile society, her walk and ~conversa-
ton drew about her host OF friends
and admirers of her sweet and lovable
womanhood. A devoted wife and
mother, she has entered into rest,
having in this life garnered full
sheayes. Mrs. Haigh leaves two sons,
Atessls. J. {. II TX. G. Halgh. and one
oi laughter, Mrs. n. Ii. DIingerfieid, of
Winston. One son. Charles L. Haigh.
4 gallant soldier, was killed Oh he bat
tlefield in the Confederate service.
There have died also two other chill
dren, James s. and Susan Crowther-
Mrs. Haigh's father was the late James
s. Green and her mother, before mar
riage, was Mary Ann Cochran. She Is
survived by Il sister, Mrs. DIR. Camp
bell, of Louisiana. The funeral SER
vices take place at 5 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon from - InhnfS EntSgnDAI
church.
The company of Grays of the indie
pendent Light Infantry battalion elect
ed officers last evening AZ follows: j.
G.. Nann, major, X. q. Haigh, {. L.
Campbell, G. S. Ledbetter, c. l.. Jones,
captains ranking in the order named;
w. Widdiield, Charles Haigh. Jr.,
Howard Smith. j. ID. Collins. ID. III.
Maultsby, sergeants; Jack Tllinghast,
s. ID. Williams, w. H.. Fry. NJ. L.
Parker, corporals; Rev. /. W. Hughes,
chaplain; DR.. John ID. MacRae, sur
geon.
Judge Moore is dispatching the les
ser cares on the court docket. getting
ready for the important business, of
which there is a good deal.
Mr.. Charles eagle, the popular head
clerk of the Tarrymoore, returns with
the close Of the season as head clerk of
the Hotel La Fayette in this city.
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and eliminating his morning cocks a
dOodle-doo is next in order. This is
what the citizens of Los Angeles, Cal.
are planning to do with all the ROSTERS
in that place. With this end in view,
there have been submitted to the au-
thorities petitions for ~de-vocalizing all
the chandeliers. Perhaps a crowless
rooster may have an enhanced mar
ket value.-New York Commercial
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05

Auntie-.How smart you look this
afternoon, deariei" Dolly (who mas
been forbidden t o ask IL she nay stay
to tea)-Well, you see. / put on this
costume, so that if anybody did ask
me to tea | could stop. conscience
stricken) I haven't asked, have I'-
Punch.
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oA9To1IA.
Bear, .hs The Kind You Haw Alwsys Bought
s's. at Guz&

SIS anyone waiting on you?" finally
asked the naughty saleslady, condos
cending at last to notice the shopping
person. I'm afraid not" replied The
latter. MY husband was-I left him
outside-but I'm afraid he's become
disguised and gone home."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-09-05
Roosevelt May Receive the NJ
Pnace Prize

Carlsbad August 30.-The Associat-
ed Press has the highest authority fnr
stating that there is a strong probable
ity that President Roosevelt will re-
ceive the Nobel Peace prize next year.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

whom are sons of professors, sus:3ssf.vI
that Cornell students were the perpe
traitors of the creased street rails
prank, which endangered a carload OF
passengers, has been removed.
John Alexander Dowie, self styled
prophet of the Lord and head of the
Zion enterprises, is reported to be in
very feeble health at Ell Paso, Tex. He
assembled his lieutenants, it is said
and asked them to swear allegiance to
his son as his successor.
New York's horse show, which was
opened in Madison Square Garden on
Monday, is considered one of the most
successful affairs of the kind ever held
Among the visitors of the first day
were Miss Alice Roosevelt and Prince
Louis of Battenberg.
In his address before the American
Hardware Manufacturers association
last Thursday Chairman Theodore P
Shonts of the isthmian canal commits
sion declared that the canal would
surely be built and would be built at
Panama
''He is my friend. The Bible is a
the TRUTH" said Merriam Menu, con
tracing stonemason of Detroit. He
was defending a statue of Satan which
he has unveiled in front of his house.
The government crop report shows
that the corn, buckwheat and fiaxseed
crops show improvement over last year
as regards yield per acre and quality
while the potato, hay and tobacco
crops show losses.
President Roosevelt has informed a
delegation of residents of Oklahoma
that he will recommend in his forth
coming message to congress single
statehood for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory.
Private Michael NJ. Jansen, at Fort
Ethan Allen, Vt, has fallen heir to
100000 left by his father, who moved
to Australia sixteen years ago and be
came wealthy in the cattle business
Governor Higgins of New York has
appointed Surrogate Louis w. Marcus
Of Buffalo supreme court justice in the
Eighth judicial district in place of Ed
ward w. Hatch, resigned.
At Memphis, Tenn, Dan Patch
champion PAGER, in an exhibition mile
lowered the worlds pacing record
I without a wind shield by ~ seconds
covering the mile in 1:5S.
In New York city Judge Giegerich il
hae
decision in which he holds that the
New York state mortgage tax law il
constitutional.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

Smythe FitZherbert His lineage is
Individually proved by the records and
documents opened few days ago in
dentally prove him heir to an estate
of $25,000000. Mr.. Ord lives in Chi
cago.
Christian Hauge, the charge DAT
flares of Norway in Washington, has
been appointed minister to this coun-
try from the new Norwegian nation.
Semiofficial confirmation was given at
the state department of the report that
II. d. Peirce, third assistant secretary
of state, would be made minister to
Norway Fridtjof hansen, the arctic
explorer, has been appointed Norwe-
gian minister to Great Britain.
The New Jersey state board of as
SCISSORS has filed with State Comptrol-
Ter Morgan a schedule of the annual
taxation of railroad property The to-
tai assessed valuation In 1921, 026, 414
and the total amount of tax to be paid
$1,000, AL. OF the taxes 1851, 1874 gees to
the state and 81, no. 06 is to be divided
among those localities in which there
is second class railroad property.
Announcement has been made that
James Speyer of New York has given
to the trustees of Columbia university,
New York, the sum of $4,000 to endow
the Theodore Roosevelt professorship
Of American history and institutions in
the University of Berlin. The German
government in return will establish at
Columbia university professorship OF
German history and institutions.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
states that the recent occurrence at
the Annapolis Naval academy result
ing in the death of Midshipman Branch
will be thoroughly investigated. The
death Of the young man is said to have
resulted after participation in a prize
fight. The court martial of Midship
man Meriwether, who fought with
Branch, has been ordered.
According to report issued from the
geological survey, the total output Of
crude petroleum in the United States
! in 1904 was 117,063, 421 barrels The
total value of all the petroleum mar
keted in the United States in 1904 was
S101, 170,466 The gain over the produc
ton of 1903 was 16,602,O84 barrels il
quantity and $6,476,416 in value.
Returns on the proposed amendments
to the New York state constitution
show that each of the amendments has
received substantial majority. The
only amendments which received much
attention were those providing funds
for good roads and giving the legisla
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

ture the authority to fix the hours of
labor of municipal employees.
After bequeathing 100000 to his
widow, 100000 to other relatives and
$4,000 to eight Chicago charitable in
situations and a hospital In Pasadena,
the late James G. King of Chicago set
aside the residue of his $3,500,000 es-
tate to build and endow home for old
men who have been unable to provide
for themselves.
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son was bitterly denounced by Richard
Cheatham of Atlanta, Ga, secretary Of
the Southern Cotton Growers associa-
ton, when the agricultural depart
ment's cotton crop report was issued.
Mr.. Cheatham says the secretary is
actuated by hatred toward the cotton
producers"
The annual distribution of vegetable
and flower seeds by the department of
agriculture will begin on Dec. /, and
before planting time, it is expected, the
entire amount, aggregating 100000
packages, will be in the hands Of the
people in all sections Of the country.
At Riverhead, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs.
jeremiah P. Conklin have celebrated
the sixty-fourth anniversary of their
wedding. The couple were married in
Calverton, near Riverhead, Nov ID,
| 1s41. Mr.. Conklin is eighty-four years
F.. old and still works as carpenter. His
wife is eighty-six. Both are hale and
! hearty.
To insure united action in giving
financial aid made necessary by the
massacres of Jews in Russia a call to
the Jewish people of America has been
issued by Adolph Kraus, president of
| the Independent Order of B'nai Birth.
Among the contributions has been one
of $4,000 by Andrew Carnegie. Large
sums of money are being raised.
At the request of Charles w. Barron,
Judge Wentworth of the municipal
court of Boston issued a warrant for
the arrest of Thomas w. Lawson on a
charge of criminal libel preferred by
Mr.. Barron. The case results from
statements alleged to have been made
m magazine article by Mr.. Lawson
After posing as man for fifty years
Charles" +. Baubaugh has been
found to be woman. This startling
discovery was made at San Rafael
hospital, Trinidad, Colo. During the
fifty years Miss Baubaugh has been a
clerk, laborer, bank cashier and sheep
herder.
Through the confessions of nine boys
under nineteen years of age, four of
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16
News of
A Week
Paragraphic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

"There are $4,000 deserted wives in
Chicago. says Lester Bodine, superin-
tendent of compulsory education of
that city Large families and small
salaries are responsible in large
measure for this wife abandonment.
The real history of the average wife
abandonment case when sifted to its
component parts reveals large families,
long hours small salaries and earnest
but futile efforts on the part of the
husband to sustain the family in a
moderate condition of comfort | am
not an advocate of race suicide but in
the poor quarters there are too many
births. We are now suffering from too
much prosperity for the rich and too
much posterity for the poor
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland,
o., alarmed at the official report that
there have been eighty-six suicides ia
Cleveland in the last nine months, has
appointed commission whose duty il
will be to attempt to dissuade would
be suicides from taking their own lives
Every man or woman in Cleveland
who is contemplating suicide is invited
to write letter to the antisuicide com
mission and tell his or her troubles
The members of the commission viii
then make an effort to remove the trou
BILE
In st. Louis United States Circui
: Judge Adams granted a restraining or
der preventing Superintendent of In
sllrance w. d. Vandiver from enforc
ing his order revoking the licanse O
ne New York Life Insurance company
II Missouri. Under the decision thu
is nee company can continue bust
II, Iissouri until Nov. 20, at which
til fle question of making the in
iunct. ~ nanent will be argued il
the feGgrs, if at Jefferson City.
James l.. OIL. assistant superintend
ent of construction for the Western
Union Telegraph company, is, it is as
serted, the great-grandson of Kins
George ". of England and Mrs. Mari;
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

Irish and German societies in New
York city planned demonstrations tc
show their disapproval of the courte-
sizes shown to Prince Louis of Batten-
berg.
Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., who has
been exploring in Labrador and for
whose safety fears were entertained
has reported the success of the expedi-
ton.
Pennsylvania State Insurance Com
missioner Martin and Federal Internal
Revenue Collector McCoach have join
ed the reform movement.
The Grand Army of the Republic vet
Grams of Allegheny county, Pa, are to
have a fine memorial hall to cost not
less than S1,500,000.
Governor Pennypacker has called an
extra session of the Pennsylvania leg
islature for January to consider reform
legislation.
The Washington Post says, "No gen
eral river and harbor bill will be pass
ed by congress at the approaching ses-
sion"
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
was opened in Pittsburg on Monday.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

home in Philadelphia, aged eighty-nine
years. In 1868 he was appointed by
President Lincoln assistant secretary
of the interior.
General Francis T. Sherman, chief
of staff of General o. o. Howard in
the civil war, is dead at his residence
in Waukegan, III. He was eighty years
old.
Robert Whitehead, inventor of the
torpedo which bears his name, has died
in England.
nr,.e ~ Allegations that high
officials in the VENUE
Ian government have
NIi4r1 BUNS deliberately attempted
to extort money from the company
the sum of $4O0,0O0-are made in
statement given out by the New York
and Bermudez Asphalt company in ref
erence to the suit brought by the Vene-
zuelan government for $11,000,000
damages for aiding in the Matos rebel
lion. Friends of Venezuela in this
country deny the charges.
Several cases of yellow fever have
developed in Havana, but the health
experts are hopeful of checking the
spread of the disease. 1t is believed
that the fever was brought to Havana
by mosquitoes from New Orleans.
Washington authorities have ordered
a quarantine against Havana.
The German locomotive builders are
preparing to compete with American
concerns for supplying railways in
Mexico. The Germans say they are
able to furnish locomotives cheaper
than the Americans.
News was received from Mexico that
the United States Steel company had
purchased the famous solid iron noun
of its kind in the world.
Millers in Mexico predict the impor-
tation of wheat from the United States
on large scale. Wheat continues dear
there, and corn Is higher than for a
long time.
EonE,cN Adyices from Canton
,,o-re say that the anti
American feeling there
or IN EhESi. is growing more in
tense. A lady has been spit upon IN
street, and the American consul, julius
G. Lay, has received an anonymous
letter threatening his life if the I'M
prisoned boycotters of American goods
are not released.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16
DEATHS
OF NOTED
PEOPLE,,

OulSL EplScOpdi church,
is dead His death occurred on Mon
day at Keyport, N. j., where he had
been visiting. Bishop Merrill, whose
home was in Chicago was eighty years
old and was to a great extent self
made man He was fine speaker and
an able writer.
The Right Rev. Thomas Frederick
Davies, D. D., LII. D., bishop of the
Episcopal diocese Of Michigan, died
of pneumonia at his home in Detroit,
Mich, on Thursday. Bishop Davies
was seventy-feur years old and had
been head of the diocese since 1885,
Henry H. Faxon, the well known
temperance advocate and national
leader in the antisaloon movement, died
at his home in Quincy, Mass, aged
eighty-two.
Thomas B. Wall, who was thought
to be the last survivor Of the crew of
the Monitor, which fought the historic
battle with the Merrimac in the civil
war. is dead at Norwood, r. l. Mr..
Wall was sixty-nine years old.
William Tod Otto, formerly district
court Judge of Indiana, friend of Lin
coin, educator and author, died at his
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16
FOREIGN

tense. A lady has been spit upon in
street, and the American consul, julius
G. Lay, has received an anonymous
letter threatening his life if the I'M
prisoned boycotters of American goods
are not released.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16

Advices from Canton
say that the anti
American feeling there
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-20
FINED FIVE DOLLARS.
Fred Hawkins Assessed for Grabbing
 Denny Harrington.

Suing for 5000 damages, and secur- ing only $5 was the outcome of the suit brought by Denny Harrington against City Marshal Fred Hawkins. of that place. A large number of wit nesses testified in the case yesterday. and the testimony was very conflicting. Several months ago Hawkins in his ca paeity as officer made an arrest that displeased Harrington. Later on he followed the officer down the street, and applied insulting cp1thets to him behind his back. Hawkins suddenly wheeled and grabbed Harrington by the nape of the neck, who claims that he was assaulted. He tried to get Jus tiee St. James to issue a warrant of arrest for Hawkins, but the justice could not see it that way. Then a war rant was obtained in Prescott, but when District Attorney Ellinwood heard of