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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
SIXTY NEW ENGINES
or Mammoth. Size Received by South
eim at Spencer.

The Southern Railway Company mas
just received a delivery of sixty of Tie
largest locomotives ever brought here,
the same being made by the Richmond
branch of the American Locomotive
Works. These monsters, which are all
new and of the most modern type Of
engines form . beautiful sight when
fired up on the Spencer yards. Of the
lot fifty are to be used in freight traffic
in and out of Spencer, while ten add
tional locomotives will be placed in
the passenger service on the main line
of the Southern. When equipped aid
ready for a trip these engines weigh
about $50 IONS each, being among the
heaviest in the service Of the South
ern.
The purchase of this lot of locomo-
tives represents a total expenditure o.
$3.50, 900. Besides these the Southern
is also receiving twenty-five of the
same type of engines at its Knoxville
shops as we'll as smaller deliveries al
various other points on the system
Salisbury Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
STRUCK SLEEPING BOYS
One Instantly Killed and Two Fatally
IliuI cd-Aslecp on the Track.

Weary of their long tramp to a
strange town and without money to Sc
cure lodgings, four Charlotte boys sat
down to rest on the Southern Railway
tracks in the outskirts of G%reenville, S.
c., late last night and fell asleep. a
few minutes later an outgoing passen.
ger train swept down upon the sleep
ing boys, hurled them right and left,
killing one and fatally injuring two.
The fourth escaped unhurt.
Stephen Williams is the name of the
dead boy. Paul Plyer has both legs
and both arms broken and received in
ternal injuries, and Henry Holler wa
f~earfully mashed. Both will die. Cliff
Ellis escaped unhurt.
All the boys lived in the Victor MIL
settlement and they left home Sunday
on a tramp, nothing having been heard
of their whereabouts until kilograms
were received by parents of two OF
them this morning, announcing the
fearful Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
IN SERIOUS
Young White Man Faces Three serious
Charges. larceny. Assault With a
Deadly Weapon and Carving Il Com
cealc1 Wcapof-In Default uf Bond
Was Committed To Jail.

Herbert Blake, a young man Is years
of age. was arrested yesterday upon
several serious charges and when tried
was bound over TO Superior court un-
der each charge. He was charged with
larceny, carrying concealed weapon and
assault with a deadly weapon
The most serious Of the charges is
that of larceny. A warrant was sworn
out by Berry & Blake yesterday in
which Herbert Blake is charged with
the larceny of two guns and 8 razOrs1
Blake was arrested by Constable Saw
age yesterday morning.
Upon investigation it was found n
had left s razors al Kings barber shop
and one at James Bloodworth's saloon
and the guns were also at Kings bar
Der shop.
On Tuesday afternoon Blake is
charged with drawing a gun on A
small negro boy who is employed at
the market. 1t is said that the coloreI
boy, in company with several others.
was On the street kicking a football
and that Blake wanted to kick ii and
they would not let him, w~hereupon ne
drew a pistol and threatened to shoot
them.
He was given a preliminary trial
yesterday before Justice Furlong and
bound over TO court under a $50 bond
in the larceny case and s25 in each Of
h other cases. He could not give
bond and consequently was sem 10 jail
TO await trial at the term of court cou-
vening September 25th.
Young Blake is said to have been
keeping very bad company. He was
recently given orders not to enter the
store of Messrs. Beery & Blake.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
MIR. JOHN III. DAVIS DEAD
Away in This City Last Night
After Illness of Several Wccks-Hc
Formerly Lived Here but Recently
Had ECcn Living in Marietta Ga.

Many friends in this city will learn
with deep regret of the death of Mr..
John Henry Davis, who passed away
last night at 7:15 after an illness of
several weeks with typhoid fever. His
home was in Marietta, Ga, but he
came to Wilmington several weeks ago
to be ut the bedside of his brother-in-
law, the late Mr.. r. B. Glove. Soon af-
ter his death he was taken with ty-
phoid fever. His condition was not
considered critical until last Saturday
when his wife was sent for and she and
her daughter, Miss Lydia N. Davis, ar
rived here Monday night. Mr.. Davis
died at the home of Mrs. R. B. Glove,
No. SO Princess street.
John Henry Davis was born at Char
lotte, n. c., on November End, 1858,
and consequently would have been 81
years Of age the coming November.
When a mere boy his people moved to
G~OldsbOro and at the age of II years he
came to Wilmington and entered the
shops of the Atlantic Coast Line as an
apprentice. He worked here for some
years, gradually climbing the ladder,
and was eventually made general fore
man and in 1884 was appointed master
car builder of the Wilmington shops of
the A. G.. L.. He left Wilmington i'll
February, 1900, and went to Savannah.
Ca, to accept a position with the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad. In November
1904. he resigned his DOSitiOn with tna
Central of Georgia road and went to
Marietta, Ca, where he entered the
mercantile business, in which business
he was engaged at the time of his
death.
Mr.. Davis was a member of Grace
M. E.. church, this city, and before he
left Wilmington was prominent i'll
church affairs here. For eight years
he was superintendent of the Sunday
school Of Grace church.
He was a member of Stonewall Lodge
No. 1, Knights or Pythias, st. Johns
Lodge, No. /, Masons, and Royal Ar
canum. A call has been issued for The
members of StonewallL Lodge to assem-
BILE at their lodge DON at $3.50 p. II.
to attend the funeral at 4:30.
Mr.. Davis is survived by his wife
and two children, Miss Lydia N. Davis,
who, with her mother, was at her
fathers bedside when the end came, and
MI. Clarence K Davis, who is expected
to arrive today.
The funeral will take place this af-
trenoon at 4:3o o'clock from Grace n.
E.. church and interment will be III
Oakdale cemetery.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
OUR WOMEN IN THE WAR;

Under the above heading The Mes
senger today sends to its subscribers a
supplement of sixteen pages. The title
shows teh nature of the publication. No
more interesting supplement was yer
sent out by a newspaper in North Car
DINA. It's articles written chiefly by
women of the state giving wal time
experiences and incidents, will be read
with interest by thousands of our peO-
pie. Its subject matter, coupled with
the object of it's publication, will give
it popularity all over the state and
should lead to large sales to those who
do not get it as a supplement to their
funls for the erection by the con
federate veterans and the N veter-
ans of a monument to the ONE OF
the c. afederacy. Every North CaroliA-
ian should take an interest in this
movement and help the u by con
tributing thereto to what extent he
feels aole.
The getting up Of this supplement
has been an arduous undertaking or
the part of teh lady who conducted the
work This lady was Miss Mamie
Bays, of Charlotte, and to her is due
the thanks of the promoters for the
able manner in which she has arrane-
ed and edited the subject matter OF
the supplement, as is shown by the
following letter from General C. Irvine
Walker of the confederate veterans.
Charleston. S. @. Aug Is. 1865
The management of the North Car
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
WANAsIAKER AND BOOKER
WASHINGTON.

We do not believe in mixing business
and politics, but there are exceptions
I o all rules and that disgusting affair
in the United States hotel in Saratoga
is time for the people of the SOUTH t o
stop sending their orders for goods 10
John Wanamaker when he has q ne
gro as his guest at dinner at a promi-
nent hotel and allows his daughter to
be escorted TO the table by that negro.
It wont break Mr.. Wanamaker for the
people of the south to withdraw III eir
trade from him. He may not miss It
at all, but we do not advovate this ac-
ton on their part as a punishment Tor
Mr.. Wanamaker. He has the right 10
choose the associates for himself and
people OF the south whom he chooses
to make his companions, but they
should show their disgust for such
conduct and their adherence OF all
such acts Of social equality by at once
severing all business relations with
this man. On this subject the Char
lotte Chronicle says:
We arc to nave another outbreak of
Booker washington talk. The present
instance is about the rankeSt on rec
ord. In it John Wanamaker figures as
host and the negro as eScort TO his
daughter at dinner i'll 4 swell hotel at
Saratoga. A special dispatch to The
Baltimore Sun tells of it as follows
under Sundays date:
Booker 7. Washington's appear
cnce at dinner in the great dining
c Of the United States hotel created
A mild sensation amOng the diners.
Washington was the guest of John
Wanamaker. former postmaster gen
eral. and acted as escort for Mrs Bar
clay Warburton. Mr. Wanamaker's
daughter, while Mr.. Wanamaker walk
ed to the table with J. r. E. Roberts.
AS they walked down the long line
every eye was directed upon the
grouD. Comparatively few of those
present recognized any Of them. and
there was a general buzz Of comment
ard a craning of necks.'
Now let all of US who uSu ally trade
with Mr.. Wanamakcr in preference to
dealing with home merchants rush the
mail order business to high water
mark. True. Wanamaker Ices not
need our trade. hut we ought to give
him a manifestation of III aDprecia-
ten of his ~negrOrhilism. especially his
s%allantry in permitting q negro to es-
cort his daughter to dinner in n public
hotel.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

1t is said several persons in Rowan
county are uneasy about the outcome
of that grand jury investigation which
is to take place in Greensboro next
plicated in the internal revenue frauds.
The rascality has been going CD for
years. The whole system in that part
of the state is h~oney-combed with
fraud and corruption. We do not say
all the ven officers in that district
are corrupt. There are probably some
honest ones but they are almost as few
and far between as angels visits.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
WAYNE TEACHERS INSTITUTE
Large Attendance Of School Teachers
at Opening Session.
Especial TO The Messenger.

Especial TO The Messenger.)
Goldsboro, n. c., August 15.-The
teachers Of the country schools of
Wayne county are to favor Goldsboro
with their presence this week and next,
in attendance upon the teachers insti-
tute, that opened in the Goldsboro
graded school yesterday morning.
1t is under a provision Of the board Of
education of Wayne county that the in
stitute is held and the attendance Of
teachers was unusually large for the
opening day and the weather conii-
lions.
The institute will be in charge Of
Prof. e. c. Brooks, superintendent Of
u city schools, and he viii be assist
ed by Prof. W. ID. Carmichael of the
Durham schools, and by Miss Eta
Spier Of the Goldsboro schools.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Board of Health Reconsider Their Ac-
ti0n-Excursiors Will hc Allowed 10
Enter Wilmington From Local
Points Under Certain Conditions.

The city board Of health met yester-
day afternoon with Mayor Waddell,
DR.. A. H. Harrlss, DR.. w. D. Mcmillan,
Mr.. NJ. w. jacob and Mr.. P. Matthews
present.
The action of the board of health in
calling off all excursions was recon
sidered and the future excursions will
be allowed under certain conditions.
There were several representatives of
the railroad companies present yester-
day and it was through them that The
matter was reconsidered.
Hereafter excursions will be allowed
from local points, that is towns within
100 miles of Wilmington, provided the
railroad or excursion manager secures
Il permit for such excursion. Applica-
tons for permits will be considered by
the board of health.
A p~recaution that will have a tenden-
cy to prevent people from coming in
who are not desired was adopted.
officer will go to the starting point of
the excursion and accompany 1t to VIII
mington. This officer will be paid
either by the railroad company or the
manager.
1t was decided that health certf-
Gates issued in the future must have
the city seal on them. Non-residents Sc
curing a certificate will have to pay
so cents for the same.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
Friday, August Is, 1905
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP OF UTIL-
tiles.

The Greenville Reflector cites the
conduct of the electric light and power
company of Elizabeth City in cutting
of the power from a newspaper plant
because the paper criticised the COM
pany as an argument in favor of mu-
nicipal ownership of light, power, wa
ter and sewerage systems.
The Economist is not the only news
paper in this state which has had the
electric power cut off because Of criti-
cism Of the company. We know Of one
other instance, but the power was
turned or again p. d. q. The propri-
etors of that paper had a steam plant
IN reserve and had their engine fired up
and were preparing to run their ma
chinery by steam, when the electric
company, without any solicitation on
the part of the newspaper men, sent 10
their Office and had the current turned
on again.
The citizens and business plants OF
no city should be at the absolute mercy
of a corporation for such necessaries
as light, power, water and sewerage
where it is possible for the city to own
its own plants. Water and sewerage
are of more Importance to the people
generally than light and power, for
they affect the public health and sani-
tary conditions. Every city of the size
of Wilmington should control and own
these utilities and also it's light and
power plants where the condition OF
municipal finances permit.
Wilmington can and should own her
water and sewerage systems. The peo-
pie should be content with getting the
two more important at present. The
ownership Of water and sewerage sys-
tens would serve two important pur-
poses: 1t would reduce the Co.'S Of
both to the people. The city could re-
duce present rates and likewise re-
ceive sufficient income to pay cost OF
maintenance, and at the same time
provide for the interest on the debt
contracted for their construction and
for a sinking fund to pay the principal
when due and after the construction
debt is paid have a very good income
therefrom, which would justify reduc-
ton of the tax rate on the property Of
the citizens. 1t would also improve
the sanitary condition of the city.
With the city owning both the water
and the sewerage systems it could
force property owners to connect their
premises with the latter, thereby sup
pressing the present great menace to
public health-the many surface
closets. No such conditions as the
present should exist in a city of this
size. With the city owning the water
system and not the sewerage system it
could not compel the people to connect
their premises with the latter, for that
would be forcing them to p~atronlze a
private concern for the financial bene-
fit of the same.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

1t is difficult to get accurate infor-
nation as to the proceedings of the
peace conference. Some of the ac-
counts are very contradictory of each
other. For instance, in Tuesdays pa
pers the press dispatches announced
that Russia had agreed to the cession
to China of the railroad from Hardin
to Port Arthur. The dispatches in
yesterdays papers stated that the ar
ticle relating to the railroad would
come up for consideration that day.
The Russian conferees continue to
play to the grand stand" They are
very anxious for it to be understood
that they are opposed to the secrecy as
to the proceedings on which the Jap
anese insist so ~sternuously and are
trying to make it appear the leaks
come through the other side, while the
Japanese insinuate the same as to the
Russians.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
GERGE MARSH ARRESTED
Is Believed to Have Been Connected
With the MGrdcr of William Bate.

Brockton, Mass, August 15.-GeoIge
H. Marsh was arrested at his home this
afternoon at the request of Chicago Pc
lice in connection with the murder Of
William Bate. The police allege that
Marsh told him hat he was with Bat:
on the night of the murder, but that
he knew nothing about the crime ano
would prove that he was in a difereE-
place at the time Bate was killed
Marsh is about "a years old. His houe
is in this city. Fol some time past he
has been driving a peddlers cart.
Chicago, August 15.-The Inter
Ocean todays says:
A warrant has been issued charging
George Lawrence alias Bennett Marsh,
formerly employed as a chauffeur tor
various wealthy C~hicagoans, with ,he
murder of William Bate, the young
chauffeur, whose dead body was found
leaning over the steering gear Of an
automobile at a lonely spot in the road
road two and a half miles beyond LIE
mont, on the morning of November 10,
1904. Marsh's penchant for young wo-
men was the means Of the police evel-
tually fixing suspicion on him. The po-
lice learned of Marsh's attachment for
a woman in Lake Forest, Ill. To lden-
tify the man before making any move
toward his arrest the police centerei
efforts on getting a photograph ot
Marsh. It was a difficult task until
they learned that the young woman
had a picture of Marsh. A detective be-
came acquainted with her and con-
tinued the acquaintance until he gain
ed an opportunity to purloin the Pho
tOgraphs.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

olina supplements desire to return
their most earnest thanks To each and
all who have aided in any manner in
making passible this tribute to the
grand heroism of North Cardinals de-
voted daughters. 70 name all such.
and to thank them individually and by
name would be impossible. but in
every department IF tho work We have
had the most cordial and valued as
s.stance Of the good people of North
Carolina.
Put one we can name. the able edi-
tor who has gathered. arranged. and
edited the mass of valuable incidents.
To Miss Mamie Bays of Charlotte. -.
c.. is due The literary success of the
publication. and its great intrinsic
value will ever stand as a mark of her
skill. Judgment. n devotion to the
sacred memories cf a hall1wcd past.
c. IRVINE WALKER.
Chm. L. 6. v. Com. and Spec. Rep.
L. 8. 9. V.
In a letter from Miss Bays she re-
quests us to remind the public that
hundreds of North Carolinians will to
day receive the supplement free of cost
with their papers and they are request
ed to make a voluntary contribution at
once to the cause for which it is is
sued, if it is only the price of the sup
plement, the small sum Of ten cents.
The leading article on the first page
Of the supplement will fully explain the
object of the publication and why it
was undertaken and how it has been
carried out. On all of its pages are in
To be fully appreciated it must be read
through from the top of the first to the
end of the sixteenth page.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18
OFFER WAS MADE CLEVELAND
Presidency ar the jamestown Exposi-
ton Company Was rendered 20 the
EX-Prcsident.

Norfolk, Va, August 16.-In connec-
ton with the selection Of Harry St
George Tucker for the presidency CT
the jamestown Exposition, which Mas
announced yesterday, it was developed
that the presidency was rendered for
mer President Cleveland some months
ago, and that nc considered the Ofec
for some time letore finally making up
his mind that it would be out of the
question for him to accept. Mr.. Cleve-
land probably will be chairman of ihe
advisory board of one hundred distin-
guished Americans who will be asked
to serve the exposition.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Should Mayor Weaver have the third
investigation made he might find still
more names on the registration books
of the city which do not belong there.
If the second investigation ran the
number up from thirty thousand on the
first to sixty thousand it would be
we'll enough to give the books another
examination, and if he keeps On he
may give the democrats a fighting
chance to carry some of the wards.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Thomas J. Pence telegraphs the Ra-
leigh Post that President . Roosevelt
has offered to Postmaster General Cor
telyou the treasury portfolio on the re-
tirement of Secretary Shaw in Febru-
airy next and that Mr.. Cortelyou has
the matter under consideration, being
somewhat in doubt about accepting
the office. This is something new un-
der b sun-a politician holding a
cabinet office ~hesitating over accepting
an advancement in his line.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Our congratulations to The Raleigh
Times on it's improvement in appear
ance and news matter. 1t has been en-
larged to an eight page paper and fur
nishes it's readers with the Associated
Press dispatches. A new, up-to-date
linotype machine has been installed.
The Times, always a good paper, is
now all the more a credit to the CAPT
tai CITY.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Western packers are complaining of
a market scarcity of young lambs-a
complaint that is re-echoed around ev-
cry boarding house table here In the
east. Only in Wall street purlieus are
tender lambs to be found, and the few
that are left there are very young IN.
deed.-Boston Transcript.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

The Raleigh Post says: Look out
for some wonderful fish stories. The
president of the romancers' club is
camping at Beaufort in sight Of the
briny deep" This the way The Post
announces that Mr.. T. A. Olds has
gone to the SeaShOre.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

The rumor again comes, this time by
way of Berlin, that the car is serious
~ ill and that he will soon abdicate
in favor of his son. This is a periOdi-
cal report sent out from some Euro
pean capital. This n is a little be-
hind time. 1t was due several weeks
apn
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Andalusia, the Spanish province in
which famine prevails to the extent
almost of starvation of some of the
people is one Of the richest provinces
of Spain-so fertile that it is called
the garden and the ~"granary" Of
Spain.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

1t is no harm for a man to get drunk
ard raise the devil provided he does
not get en- the chain ang or get his
name in the raDer.-Durham Herald.
And then he gets mad with the pa
per, claiming that it has brought dis
grace upon him.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

1t cannot be denied that President
Roosevelt has gained many friends in
the south. Has he changed or has
there been a change of opinion by the
southern people?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Mr.. Frank Cough, of Lumberton, ex-
cursion manager Of the Seaboard Air
Line, was in Wilmington yesterday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

The inactivity of the Liver, Kidneys and
Bowels causes the refuse matter to remain
in the system, which, coming in contact
with the different acids of the BODY.
forms uric acid to be absorbed by the
blood and distributed to the different
joints and muscles, producing the pains,
inflammation and other distressing symp-
toms of Rheumatism. The wandering
pains of the disease remind the sufferer
that the poison is still in the blood and
a. should lose no time IN getting it ont.
S. S. S. neutralizes the acid and makes
the blood rich and pure. 1t tones up
every organ and cures the disease perrua-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-18

Secretary Shaw's is a new idea in
national finances. He claims that by a
deficit in the treasury the country es-
capes the danger of a surplus.