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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
Investigating Death Of the Keayen
College Student
THREATENED BY SOME ALUMNI
lance and Arrests May be Made
Shortly-The Young Man Was
Awaiting Initiation Into n Fraterni-
~ When He Was Run Over by Train
and kflled-Additional Fact That
Have Come to Light.

Mount Vernon, O.. November 3
Buried beneath '~culvert, 100 feet from
the spot where Stuart Pierson, the
Kenyon college student was ground
to death by a train. the authorities
have found three lengths OF blood
stained rope, and a wad OF absorbent
cotton, also saturated with blood.
County Prosecutor Stillwell ex-
presses the firm belief that the boy
was chloroformed, the cotton saturat-
ed, bound across his face, and that then
he was tied across the tracks as a
part of his initiation into the college
fraternity. The authorities believe
that the cotton was removed and the
boy left stupefied.
On these grounds the prosecutor will
carry the cast to the grand jury OH
November Is. Prosecutor Stillwell
stated today that several persons are
under surveillance in connection with
he case. II that they may he taken
into custody before the conclusion Of
the inquest.
IF you do not cease in YOU perse-
atAo W iNSis IA NoiiNeS Scu htdi
from us, and we will surely make il
warm for YOU. tSigned)
Five Members of the Kenyon Alumni"
This, written on the stationary of the
Hotel Donovan. vas received from
Delaware by Scarboro today. 1t con-
Guides d five page letter, demanding
that the o cease his investigation
of tns death Ct Stuart Pierson. No
names were signed, but 40 apparent
attempt was made to disguise the
handwriting.
The coroner will pay no attention 10
the communication. other vague
threats have been made, it is claimed.
against the cOrone and prosecutor by
Kenyon alumni.
The inquest into the death Of young
PiersOn was begun here today behind
closed doors by Prosecutor &. l.. Still
well.
Most important e the developments
at today's hearing waS the admission
by DR.. Irwin Workman, physician of
Kenyon college, that he believed the
lad was lying between the tracks when
tie engine struck him and not sitting
on the rail as claimed. DR.. Workman
would not say whether the boy was
tied to the tracks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07

st. Petersburg, November 2.--Tke
prospects of the country quoting down
for the present at least are much
brighter today. While the revoIuEion-
airy spirit is abroad. the masses of reds
seem to realize that they have reached
the end of their tether, and they are
afraid to push matters to the point OF
failure. The students, social democrats
and strike leaders here in st. Peters,
burg, finding that they will soon be In
the minority, bave made a virtue OF
necessity and lave declared the Strike
off, beginning tomorrow.
The leaders OF the railroad men nave
not yet formally surrendered, but
trains are already running on the Mos
T1W and other lines and backbone OF
the strike seems to be broken.
A. General Trepoff has issued anothe"
Garifesto informing the people that
lI the reforms granted by the mani
|festO cannot be realized Immediately
as it Wit require time to formulate
laws and place them into effect. In
the meantime the people must be quiet
and cooperate with the authorities III
maintaining order. Otherwise the re-
spOnsibility for harsh measures will!
not fall on the government.
n drenching dOWnpOur today was q
more effective means of preventing a
renewal of the demonstrations than the
police and military patrols. The
crowds had no desire to appear on the
kTeets in the torrents of rain.
he police having arrested three
MemberS Of the strike committee, the
committee sent 4 deputation to Count
Witte, pom whose recommendation,
General TrepOff ordered their release.
1t is now definitely established that
the whole student movement is prac-
tically conducted by a student Organi-
ZatiOn, which belongs to the social
democratic party. Much of the work
has been directed from the headquar-
ters at Berlin and Geneva. The Organ-
iZatiOn includes students Throughout
Russia, and they are acting in harmony
with the leader in st. Petersburg, who
has displayed remarkable genius as
an organizer and director. He is q
young man of %, and an exceedingly
clever student. He is a fine, cOOlhead-
ed, speaker Of much personal magne-
tlSm. The comrades of the student
leader manifest intense devotion and
rely implicitly in his judgment.
Amnesty is expected to be proclaim
ed tonight. 1t is understood however,
that it Will except certain classes of pO-
iitical prisoners whose liberation it is
considered would threaten public and
individual safety. 1t is estimated that
the amnesty will affect $4,000 per-
sons who are shut up i'll Jails, prisons
and fOrtresSeS in European Russia and
other thousands in the penal colonies
16f Siberia. Besides, it will permit the
$fpturn of countless others who are
banished from their homes and COM
PEELED to live in specified localities.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
SWEAR TO KILL EVERY JEW
The Kishenif Horrors Repeated a
HundredfOld in Odessa-Five Thou
sand Killed and Wounded in Recent
RiOting.

London, November 2.-1:O6 D.. MA
dispatch to the Evening Standard from
Odessa timed $50 p. M, today says:
The city rings with the reports of
rifles and reyOlvers and occasionally a
vOlley is fired. Every house and tene-
ment is bolted and barred. The infan-
try patrols are doing their duty per-
functorily, declining to fire on the mobs
unless they themselves are attacked.
The COssacks are said to have lost over
Il hundred men by bombs and shots
from windows. COSSackS partOlS carry
carbines, and have their fingers on the
triggers. The streets are absolutely
unsafe for civilians
The casualties yesterday are believ-
ed to have amounted to 5000 killed and
wounded. In the Jewish quarters
bodies still strew the streets and side
walks. Jewish women and children
were strangled and hacked to pieces in
the streets where the mobs gained the
upperhand.
A Red Cross tells me that the Kis-
henif horrors are repeated Il hundred
fold. The students alone saved the
CITY from wholesale sack and massacre.
The military are now placing a hun
dred machine guns at various points
Twenty-six carts full of wounded have
lust passed my door.
lAGeneraI Kaulbans was called to the
1klcony of the palace this morning by
five thousand loyalists, carrying impe-
rial portraits and ikonS and singing the
national hymn. The general earnestly
entreated the assemblage TO disperse
and 90 home. huf with ringing cheers
the loyalists resumed marching
through through the city.
The sound of firing is again moving
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
THE ROYAL
Injunction Denied to Prevent Supreme
Council Putting New Rates Into Ef-

Nashville, Tenn. November 2.-Thc
preme council Of the Royal Arcanum
from putting in effect the rates adopt
ed at the Atlantic City meeting was de-
MED by Federal Judge Clark today, ard
the bill of the compliments dismissed.
The court held that it was not suiH-
GENTLY clear, under the law of Massa-
chusetts. in which state the order Was
incorporated, that this plan of assess
ment and the effect on members i'm
pairs the obligation of the contract and
until it did SO appear, obviously this
court should not interfere.
The injunction was asked for by
members of the Nashville councils of
the Royal Arcanum.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
kuibIe Slaughter Of Jews in
Odessa
5000 KILLED AND WOUNDED
The Situation in St. Petersburg is Much
Improved

Heavy fains Prevent Renewal Of thu
Demonstrations in the Capital
Railroad Strikes Have Been Decrar.
ed OT-Trepoff Issues Another Man.
Observation-Disclosures Creating the Cab.
met Ministers is Complicated and II
Bound to Prove Unsatisfactory
The KischcniT Horrors Repeated q
HIndredfOld i'm Odessa-LOss of Life
at Many Other Places.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
FUNERALS ARE OF HALF HOURLY
OCCURRENCE.

MinsK, Russia, November Doc
tors of the Jewish hospital worked all
night long on the wounded brought
In from the railroad station, where the
troops fired voileys at the demons1ra-
tors, killing many and wounding great
numbers. Funerals are of half hourly
occurrence, the todies being conveyed
in wagons. Already "a persons have
been inferred in the Jewish cemetery.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
Special Review Of MidshipmeR
In His Honor
EVANS GIVES A DINNER
Ioasts 10 The President and The
King Drunk Standing

After the Dress Parade In the After
noon There Was n Reception Given
by Admiral and I'm Honor Of the
Distinguished Visitor-at Night. I'm
the Cabin OF the Mayfiowcr. Thirty
two Guests We're Present mt Admiral
and His STAFF VIII Leave for WASH
ingtnn. OH a Three Days Wis {.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
A PROCLAMATION.

JldACS VI AAAAI l-d.
A PROCLAMATION.
When nearly three centuries ago
the first settlers came 70 the country
which has now tecome this great re-
public, they froated not only Ia; l.
ship but terrible risk to their Ives.
In those grim ear the custom grew
of setting apart one day in each yelr
for a special service of thanksgiving
to the Almighty for preserving the pep
pie through the changing seasons. I'll
custom has now become national. am
hallowed by irlmemorial Usage. We
live in easier and more plentiful.
times than our forefathers, the men
who with rugged strength faced III"
rugged days; aud yet the dangers tc
national life are quite as great now
as at any previous time in our histcr?.
1t is eminently fitting that once Il year
our people should set apart a day FIR
praise and thanksgiving to the gi1,
er of good, and, DIT the same time, thar
they express their thankfulness for
the abundant mercies received, shoId
manfully acknowledge their shortC0m-
ings and pledge themselves solemniy
and in good faith to strive to over
come them. During the past year we
have been blessed with boundful crors
Our business prosperity has ae4r
great. No other people has ever stO0l
on as high a level of material well-ce-
ing as ours now stand. We are not
threatened by fees from without. The
foes from whom we should pray ID lie
delivered are Our own passions, a0pa-
tites and ~follies; and against these
there is always need that we shout
war.
Therefore, I now set apart Thurs
day, the 30th day of this November as
a day of thanksgiving for the past
and Of prayer for the future, and on
that day | ask that throughout the
land the people gather in their homes
and places of worship, and in rendering
thanks unto the Most High for the
manifold blessings of the past year
consecrate themselves to a life OF
cleanliness, honor and wisdom, SO that
this nation may do it's allotted work. on
the earth in a n worthy of those
who founded it and of those who pre-
served it.
@In witness whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be fixed.
Done at the City of Washington, tnis
second day of November in the year of
our Lord, one thousand nine hundred
and five and of the independence ot
the United States the one hundred and
thirtieth.
(Signed.)
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Seal.
by the President.
"ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of State"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
POWER is WITH THE EMPEROR
Final Authority on Great Questions
Not Lodged in the New Assembly
Nor the Cabinet-Measure is Prov
ing Unsatisfactory.

st. Petersburg, November PHO
p. m.-The imperial decree creating
the cabinet ministers under the impe-
rial manifesto granting a constitution
TO Russia, was gaZetted this morning
and has already aroused criticism as
the machinery is extremely complica-
ted, and smacks OF the old fashioned
bureaucratic regime. The imperial
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
SIX PERSONS KILLED AND SIXTY
WOUNDED.

SebastOd, Russia, November 2.-SiX
persons were killed and sixty were
wounded during the rioting yesterday.
All the banks, schools and stores are
closed and the houses throughout the
city are boarded up.
The Black sea squadron with Vice
Admiral Biroeffs pennant flying. ar
rived here today from the Turkish
coast.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
(SpeciaI to The Messenger.l

Raleigh. N. C.. November "a
charter is granted the Barnes and Hol
iday Company. Of Dunn. 10 manufac
ture hardware and furniture and buile
houses, capital stock $4,000. ]. D
Barnes and others stockholders.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
To Wed Or the Fifteenth.

Invitations reading as follows nave
been issued:
Mrs. Henry Perrin West requests
the honor Of yoir presence at the mar
riaGe c. her daughter, Emma Perrin,
to DR.. Thomas Meares Green, Thur
day evening, November sixteenth
nineteen hundrei and FIVE, at I'VE forty
five o'clock. st. James church, VII
mington. n. C."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07

Miss Lizzie waddell has gone To
Norfolk, where she Will visit her broth
er, Mr.. A. Nj. Waddeli. IT. Later she
win go to Washington city to visit rel
atives.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07

westward towards the Jewish quar-
ters. The mobs swear they viii not
leave d single Jew.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND 45
INJURED.

Kieff, November 2.-During demon
strations within the Municipality today
five persons were killed and As injured,
six of them seriously.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07

Miss Louise Knight has returned
from a visit to relatives in Baltimore.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-11-07
Thursday, November 30th, Set Aside
As Thanksgiving Day
The People Called OH to C~onSccrate
Themselves to Lives Of Cleanliness.
Honor and Wisdom-In Giving
Thanks Acknowledgement should be
Made of Shortcomings and the
Pledge Given TO Strive To Overcome
Them.

Washington, November 2.-The
President today issued his proclama-
ton naming Thursday, November 20,
next As 2 day fer Thanksgiving. The
proclamation follows:
by the President of the United
States of America.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
sZ2gZzDS N2E Ill., Z
* NEzzzzzz241I1SS

and perhaps two other instances,
where the entire line fell back, they
never receded from a position they
had taken. Their guns were especi-
ally adapted to throwing canister;
each charge of canister weighed four
teen pounds, contained 240 projectiles
and when hard-pressed they would
double-shot, and for a short time
could fire six rounds per minute, or
1850 missiles from each gun; 1920
from the entire six guns per minute,
which no force could Withstand. Bou-
toms Battery was noted throughout
the army for rapidity of fire and ac-
curacy of aim. Gen. Hatch used to
say that Bouton's Battery could shoe.
prairie chickens on the wing.
On one occasion during the Nash
vile campaign, in a hard fight be-
tween Nashville and Duck river, Bou-
toms Battery not only silenced a rebel
battery, but drove the man entirely
away from it, and went with their
own limbers and took the guns and
carried them off Two of the guns
proved to be James rifles that had
been captured from Warehouses; Bat
terry at Shiloh. So far as known. this
was the only instance during the war
of one battery capturing another's
battery and actually carrying off its
guns.
A high testimonial of the character
of the men composing Bouton's Bat
terry is the fact that f1fty-three of the
enlisted men were promoted to be
commissioned officers during their
terms of enlistment-Los Angeles
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
To pepartment commanders.

Allan G. Blackwell, national patri-
otto instructor of the Grand Army of
the Republic, has issued the following
letter to the department commanders:
Dear Sir and Comrade-As you are
undoubtedly aware, the National En-
campment assembled at Denver adop-
ted amendments to rules and regula-
lions whereby patriotic education is
to be governed.
The rules now provide for the ap-
pointment by the commander in chief
of a national patriotic instructor, and
by department commanders of depart
ment patriotic instructors, who, by
virtue of their office, will be members
of the Council of Administration.
In view of the Importance of this
department of Grand Army work, it's
acknowledged benefit to the country
in whose interests every soldier and
patriot deems it his duty and privi
lege to serve, and which, through the
grand results attained, reflects credit
and renown upon the order, it is ur-
gently requested of you that the ap-
pointment for your department be
promptly made and that the appointee
be instructed to report his acceptance
to these headquarters.
1t will Re of great benefit to the
cause of which we are all so justly
proud if the comrade appointed shall
be of those who have ability and phys
ical strength to take up this service
with deep interest and energy, and it
is earnestly requested that the ap-
pointments shall be made only of
those who will accept the same for
the sole purpose of aiding patriotic
instruction.
The rank of the department patri
otto instructor will be designated by
an official badge with a silver eagle
upon the strap, and he will be entitled
to commission issued from your
headquarters.
These instructors will be privileged,
when advised from the headquarters
of the method, to appoint, with your
approval, district aides, whose rank
will be designated by one gilt bar on
the badge strap.
Full instructions to department in
structors will be issued from these
headquarters, and blank forms for re-
ports, etc, to be made annually, will
be furnished from national headquar.
fQrS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
Claiming Victory for Turbines.

The advantages claimed for the tur-
bine justified thus far by experiment
are economy in coal consumption,
smaller engine-room, lessened vibra-
ton, reduced cost of attendance, over
hauling and of oils and stores The
defects heretofore pointed out-the in
efficiency of turbines at low speed and
poor reversing and maneuvering quail
ities-are now said to have been over
come and the turbinites are asserting
a complete victory 1t is confidently
believed that the time is not far dis
tant when, utilizing the saved space
for larger turbine batteries, passenger
steamers will be propelled at thirty
five statute miles an hour, or as fast
as the ordinary railway train.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
Deaf Mutes Makers of Telephones.

Past masters of at least one trade
are the deaf mutes, who have been
found far to excel the ordinary ar
tisan in one sort of telephone max
ing. A telephone factory of Chicago,
after a series of experiments, discov-
cred that to the manufacture of the
modern telephone and its delicate
mechanism the deaf mute, by reason
of manual deftness incident to con-
slant use of the sign language, is pc
culiarly adapted This factory is now
employing at standard wages $50 peo-
pie without speech or hearing
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
japan Sends Best Sulphur.

Look in Japan for good sulphur.
The yield of sulphur from Japanese
ore is probably the highest in the
world. 1t reaches so per cent in the
north, where ore of less than 38 per
cent is rejected. In Sicily 20 per cent
ore is considered workable. Japan's
output has grown from 10000 tons
in 1900 to above 10000 tons in 1904,
and is likely to grow still further.
Domestic consumption takes only a
quarter of the output, the consuming
industries being the manufacture of
matches, for which there are numerous
plants, of explosives and of chemi-
Gals. Exports amount to $4,000 or 49,
600 tons per year, the western coast
of the United States and Australia
being the largest consumers. The
process of extraction is still primitive
and in northern Japan snow inter
rupts activities for five months every
year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23

The political crisis in the united
kingdom reached climax Dec. 4,
when Arthur J. Balfour, the premier,
formally rendered the resignation of
himself and the members of his cabi-
net, to King Edward, who accepted
them.
His majesty intrusted Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman with the task of
forming new cabinet.
HC.-B.' has been leader of the OPP
position, since 1899, when Lord Rose
berry resigned the position. He dis
tinguished himself by his fight on
the governments South African pol
Icy and by his opposition to the war
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
POSTAL REVENUES ARE LARGE
Enormous Increase Shown in Receipts
in Recent Years.


Mercury the messenger in his my
Rad personality of the United States
postal service has swelled to a gi-
gantically prosperous race. The pos
tai revenues for 1904-05 were greater
by $4,000, 900 than those for 10000,
and outside the rural branch of the
service, which has been vastly eX-
tended in free deliveries, receipts
now balance expenditures. The mon
ey order business reached $1,000,000,-
600, a gain of more than 20 per cent,
and 6 1000, 100000 more postal cards,
stamps, and stamped wrappers were
used last year than the year previous
Were it not for the deficit entailed
by the rural free delivery the depart
ment. could at the present more than
pay it's way and within the next five
or ten years might be in a position
to recommend congress some mate
rial reduction in postal rates. AS a
means of education and of national
development the rural free delivery
has already proved it's worth, and as
the system grows it will become more
and more self-supporting 1t benefits
trade by bringing the country into
easy communication with the city and
increases enlightenment, contentment
and comfort in rural districtS.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
Had Tomb Ready Many Years.

Gen Daniel w. Benham, U. S. A.,
retired, who died at Tiffin, Ohio, re-
Gently, was buried at Arlington GEM
etery under peculiar circumstances.
His tomb has stood for some time
where he now rests, in the officers
section, a few yards to the left of the
main west gate, as one enters the
cemetery. This tomb was designed,
inscribed and erected under the per
sonal direction of Gen. Benham. The
epitaph was written by him and carv-
ed on the granite under his supervi-
Sion-
There are many stombstones" in
Arlington cemetery which have never,
SO to speak, been occupied. Many Of
ficers of the army and navy have Sc
lected the sites for their graves, and
some have caused to be erected over
these sites "'tombstones," duly in
scribed with the exception of the date
of death.
Gen Benham two or three years
ago caused such a monument to be
ere -ted over a grave which he had
selected. 1t is inscribed as follows
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-12-23
CHANGE IN MINERAL SYSTEM.
Use of Duodecimals Instead of Deci-
mails Suggested.

H1dlS 0dSSCStCo.
Duodecimals instead of decimals
are offered from England. A notation
founded on twelve instead of ten is
believed to have been in use by the
Chaldeans, and since twelve is divisi-
BILE by two, three, four, and six, this
is manifestly superior to ten, which is
Invisible only by two and five. 1t would
be necessary to forego the use of the
Arabic system of numerals and have
eleven new ones and zero before the
undoubted advantages of the duodeci-
NAL system could be realized in prac-
tice. 1t is argued that there is no
necessity of displacing the old nota-
ton but merely to teach every child
the new system also. The extra con-
venience in calculation would soon
leave the Arabic figures stranded as
historical curiosities. 1t is incon-
ceivable once man acquires the hab-
it of reckoning by twelves that he
should ever voluntarily return to tens.
1t is suggested that a beginning be
made with scientific and technical
students, a picked class Of intelligent
minds which would readily understand
the value of duodecimal notation
and not grudge the small amount of
trouble necessary for memorizing.