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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
THE LIVERPOOL MARKET.

Liverpool, May 5.-12:30 p. m. Cot
ton; spot quiet: prices 2 points higher;
American middling fair $50; good
middling $50: middling $40; low
Kidding 5.94: good ordinary 5.76: or
binary $50. The sales Of the day were
1000 bales of which SOC were for
speculation and export and included
500 American. Receipts 5000 bales,
no American. Futures opened firm and
closed very steady. Closin: May $50;
May and June 5.93: June and July 81
"a, July n August 5-s5; August and
September SCI: September and Octo-
Der $50: October and November $50;
November and December $50; Janu-
AIRY $40: February and March ST..
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

ash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady: winter patents $3.50 to
$500: straights $3.50 to $3.50: spring
patents 1855 to $3.50: straights s3.45
to $3.50: bakers s2.30 to $3.50; No. 2
spring wheat so to SO: No. 3 76 TO Sc:
No. 2 red S7R to 81: No. 2 corn An:
No. 2 yellow ASH to 40: No. 2 oats
32A; No. 2 white 33A TO 33&; No. 3
white 80 to 33h No. 2 rye IS; good
feeding barley 40 to 41k: fair TO
choice mailing As to so; No. ! fax
seed $1.07: No. l northwestern $1.12;
prime timothy seed $3.50; mess pork,
per barrel s14.9O to s14.95; lard, per
100 pounds ss.32kh short ribs sides
Uoosel $3.50 to $40: short clear sides
(boxed) $3.50 to $3.50; whiskey. basis
of high wines s1.2S: clover, contract
grade $11.25.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
NAVAL STORES MARKET.

New York. May 5.-Turpentine.
firm G7A To GA: rosin. steady $500
to S4.05.
Savannah. Ga. May 5.-Turpentine.
firm 81: sales 81: receipts 1928; ship
ments 2,2SZ. Rosin. firm: sales so7:
receipts 1.5I6: shipments 1852: stocks
50,562. Quote: a. b. C. s3.70: d, S3.s0:
T., $500; T. $500: G. s4.05: II, s4.25:
/, s4.35: X, $3.50; NJ. $3.50: VIC,
$500: WV. $50.
Charleston. s. G., May 5.-Turpeu-
tine and rosin nothing doing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
OF COTTON.

New York, May 5.-Receipts of cot
ton at the ports today 10.757 bales
against 12,440 last week and 1895
last year. For the week $4,000 bales,
against S4,180 last week and 1889
last year. TOdayTs receipts at New
Orleans 1880 bales, against Ali last
year, and at Houston 1895 bales
against 3.51S last year.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
Arrangements for Observance
Are Completed
The PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Military Bodies Of the City will be
in Procession

The Day Will be Appropriately Cele-
brated as Usual-Procession OF Mill
tary Will Form at Lodge. OakdaIe
Cemetery-The Order of March TO
Confederate LOt-WeH known Mu-
SicianS Constitute Memorial Band"
Meeting or Rehearsal Called for
Monday Night.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
PRODUCE.

BCTTER-2sc.
COFFEE-9A to 11ac.
FLOUR-Straights s4.25 TO $3.50;
second patents s4.15; full patents SIS
% 10 $685..
Salt-Prices car load lots. 100 lbs
c. F. $50: 200 lbs. c. F. CSC; 200 lbs.
F. F. S5c: less than car load lots, loo
lbs. c. F. 3Sc; 200 lbs. c. F. in cotton
sacks tic: 200 BIS. F. F. CSC.
MOLASSES-S. House Ice; New
Orleans brights FAC: Porto Rico 81 tc
35c: Cuba CSC.
SUGAR-Granulated $40; W. c. x.
No. ) $3.50: No. : s4.45: No. > s4.15;
No. II $4.10.
LARD-CTierce basis) pure 9; COM
pound INC.
CORN-No. 2 white II: No. 2 mixed
zoe.
OATS-No. 2 mixed As: white seed
oats Acc.
HAY-No. 1 Timothy $500.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

nominal. no loans. time loans steady.
so. 90 days and. six months Ola TO D
per cent. Prime mercantile 81 10 s per
cent. Sterling exchange firm at 34.S4-so
TO s4s4s5 for demand and at s4.S4.se
to ~s4.so.Te for sixty day bills. Posted
rates s4.ss to s4.ssa and Sass TO s4--
ssh. Commercial bills $4.soh to "a
sea-. Bar silver ssA. Mexican dollars
ral
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
Suit for Damages Dismissed.
Especial 10 The MeSsengerl

Raleigh, y. c., May SIN the Su-
perior court the suit of Mrs. F1orne
Clifton against the Seaboard Air Line,
for $4,000 damages, was dismissed. It
was for the killing OF her husband
while walking through the yards %
the road he.e.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
Summer Schedule Next Week.

The summer schedule of the South
port and Carolina Beach steamboat
line will go into effect on Monday.
The steamer Witn;ug:o. will .easa
Wilmington daily exreIs Saturday AID
Sunday for SouthTol. a'.d all interme-
date points at 9:15 a.. m. On Saturday
the steamer will leave at 4:45 a. M,
and 2 p. M; Sundays, $50 a. m. and
2:30 p. m.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
CLOSING OF COTTON.

New York, May Spot cotton
closed quiet; middling uplands 1880:
middling gulf 1905: sales 1,416 bales
Futures opened very steady and closed
very steady. Quotations:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

4 GREAT INDUSTRY
=
Enormous Shipments Of BeITies
for Past Week
-
PRICES ARE ON DECLINE
Some Complaint in Chadhourn
Section About Cars

Service on the Wilmington and Weldon
Season Will Last About Two Weeks
LOnger-Past Week a Record
Breaker-As a General Thing Farm
ers are Very Well Pleased-Yester-
Hundred and Sixty-eight Cars Past
Week.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

Miss Chrissie Black, of Red Springs,
N. c., is visiting relatives in the city
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
WRECK NEAR MANCHESTER
Two Freight Cars Are 5eTaiIed on
A.&Y. Division

Captain Bob Branch. Conductor and
Two Others are Hurt-Captain
Branch Came to City Last Night.
General Manager Royal and Other
D. A. Mills Of Raleigh and Southport
MISUNDERSTANDING Train Cleared
Track.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

Chicago. May 5.-The leading flu
lures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Close.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08
COUNTRY

FIELD PEAS-90c to S1.00.
BLACK EYES-S1.25 to $1.35.
PEANJTS-North Carolina prime
zoe; extra prime 20 to so; fancy IS;
Virginia, prime 40 to As: fancy 55 to
coo.
BEESWAX-27c.
EGGS-14 to Is.
CHICKENS-Hens 40 to AS; small
er % to 35c.
SWEET POTATOES-5O to soc.
N. c. BACON-Hams (old) 12h to
lac: shoulders 10 to lie: sides 9 to 10.
SHINGLES-Per 1000: 5-inch saps
se.00: 5-inch hearts $500: 6-inch saps
$500; 6-inch hearts $500.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-08

MONEY MARKET.
New York, May 5.-Money on call
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
COUPLE DROWNED
CRIME REVEALED

Newark, o., Sept 7.-Nellie Duebolt,
whose body was taken from Buckeye
lake, was either murdered, or she
gave up her life in a struggle for her
honor, according to Coroner Marriott.
Her body and that of her lover, Harry
Kelly, were recovered. Coroner Mar
riott said that had Kelly lived there
would have been ample evidence to
hold him for murder The coroner's
examination showed that a terrible
struggle had taken place before the
couple fell into the water and were
drowned. The young woman's nose
was smashed, as though struck with
a beer bottle. or an oar, and her lips
and one eye were cut. Kelly also had
several marks on his face. The in
ference, according to the coroner, is
that Kelly probably tried to take ad-
vantage of the girl in the boat and
that she fought to protect herself;
that the man, becoming enraged, hit
her either with one Of the oars or
bottle and in the struggle they fell
into the water and were drowned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
POSTAL RULING OUT
ON ORGANIZATION

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE postoffice
department has defined its attitude
towards organization within the ser
vice in the statement which says:
The postmaster general invites at
tention to that portion of his last an
nual report relating to organization of
employees, as the present position of
the department. to be respected and
enforced by all officials and employees
of the service.
Especial attention is invited to the
concluding paragraph reminding en-
ployes of their supreme personal al
legiance to the government and of the
overshadowing authority of the de-
partment." The portion of the report
referred to, after explaining that each
individual in the service must be dealt
with as such, 'and without his affilia-
ton with any organization" contin-
ues: Organizations within the de-
partment to receive its sanction in any
degree must have for their object i'm
provements in the service or be of a
purely fraternal or beneficial charac-
ter. With any other purpose in view
they are detrimental to the service, to
their members, and to the public"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
MILWAUKEE'S MAYOR
Thinks 5ryan's New York Speech viii
Disrupt the Party.

Cleveland, o., Sept. TT did not
read his speech, but from what | have
been told l am of the opinion that his
Madison Square Garden address will
disrupt the Democratic party" said
Mayor Becker, the young executive OF
Milwaukee, when asked what he
thought of Mr.. Bryan's New York
speech.
Il have given no attention to poIi-
tics and have made no addresses since
leaving Cleveland en- route to New
York. did not attend the Bryan re-
ception. However you may state thai
Bryan's chances of reaching the white
house are less encouraging than be-
fore. do not think he will be nomi-
mated If he is a candidate"
Mayor Becker and party arrived in
Cleveland Thursday afternoon from
New York in an automobile after hav-
ing been on the road since Monday
morning. He left the metropolis at
1880 o'clock arriving here at 1876
o'clock in the afternoon, making an
average of 35 miles an hour. Accom-
panying him were w. f. Houck, his
private secretary; Charles ID. Weed
G. s. Smith, and John Webster. The
party left for Milwaukee at 4 O'Clock
this afternoon. They expect TO arrive
In Milwaukee Saturday morning.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
CHICAGO GRAIN.

Chicago, Sept. Prices today were
still on the down grace III All the
speculative markets, which appear to
have got into the long lane SO hard
to find in which there Is no turn.
Bulls were very despondent and in an
apologetic mood for having SO grossly
mistaken the signs. Bears were cor
respondingly assertive, SO much so.
indeed, that one of those who never
voted the bull ticket in his life, de-
parting from his accustomed modesty,
printed circular inveighing against
Bromhall for sending to this
country news of a bullish character
concerning the foreign wheat situa-
tion. Closing prices of grain:
Wheat-Sept So "a; Dec. 70 1-4@72
3-8; May 76 5-8.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
LONGWORTH SEES NO
DANGER FOR PARTY IN OHIO

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 7.-Con-
gressman and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth are home guests at Sycamore
Hill and expect to remain until Sat-
urday or Sunday. Mrs. Longworth
reached Oyster Bay on an afternoon
train several hours in advance of her
husband, was met at the station by
her brother, Kermit. who drove her to
Sycamore Hill. Mr.. Longworth said
when he arrived that he had come east
to attend a meeting of the Life In
surance Policyholders' committee of
which he was recently elected secre-
tary and had not yet had an oppor-
tunity to talk with Chairman Sherman
of the Republican congressional COM
mittee.
Mr.. Longworth secuted the idea that
the Republicans of Ohio are in any
danger this fall and characterized the
attacks of organized labor upon GER
tain of the Republican candidates as
a flash on the pas."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
ROOSEVELT
Prepares For His Trip to
Panama - Three War
Ships to Convey the
Party in November.

Washington, Sept. Arrangements
are in progress for the trip of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's purpose making to
the lsthmus of Panama this fall. The
exact day of departure has not been
determined upon but it is believed
that the start will be made early in
November. Three weeks will likely be
consumed 1t is of course the presi.
dents desire to complete his inspec-
ton of the canal work and reach here
before congress convenes December 3.
That the journey may be safely and
expeditiously made the navy depart
ment will provide three warships. De-
tailed plans have not been completed
but it is likely the president, Secretary
Taft and several guests will occupy a
first class battleship, the members Of
the canal commission another, and
newspaper representatives, the third
which is to be cruiser. This will en-
able the president and party to make
the trip in comfort, give them healthy
accommodations while on the isthmus
and incidentally provide against the
possibility of delay through an acct
dent to one of the warships.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
CAN'T LOCATE HER
Wooster Man Is Unable to Find His
Wife-Canton Officials on
the Case

Wooster, o., Sept. THE effort OF
Charles Trey, of this city. to have his
wife, Mrs. Ida Trey, and two children
brought to Wooster from Canton on a
writ of habeas corpus. has thus far
failed for the reason that the Canton
officers have been unable to locate
either Mrs. Trey or the children.
Word has been received that the
children we're sent to Cleveland. but
that Mrs. Trey cannot be found in Can
ton or Massillon, and it is the belief
that she has either gone or been sent
out of the jurisdiction of the Wayne
county courts, Mr.. Trey has settled
down to work but is awaiting anxious
ly any word from Mrs. Trey and the
boy and girl. He is still confident
that she would return if it was not
for the influence the man named in the
petition has over her.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
CAN USE FoNETIc SYSTEM
IN TAKING EXAMINATION

Washington, d. c., Sept. THE
vivil service commission has decided
that all persons hereafter taking ex-
aminations for positions in the various
executive departments may use the
fonetic system of spelling. Their Sc
lection of words may be limited to
The three hundred approved by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the board of spell
ing reform. All applicants who spell
according to the fonetic standard will
be given the same rating as if the old
style were employed 1t is believed
q large proportion of those taking ex-
aminations will avail themselves OF
this alternative privilege, hoping tc
smprove their chances of securing
places by pleasing the president and
his cabinet ministers In the matter OF
tnpr0yed spelling.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
STATE COUNCIL
Catholic Knights of Ohio to Meet in
Toledo Sept. II and IL.

Toledo, o., Sept. THE state coun-
Gil Catholic Knights of Ohio, which
will be in session in Toledo September
IL to IL, promises to be an event of
unusual Importance in fraternal cir
cles, because Of the large delegations
that will be present from various parts
of the state, representing about 5000
Unusual interest attaches to the con-
yention on account of the proposed in
crease in the insurance rates, meas
ure that will meet with some opposi-
tion. The organization is strong in
the southern part of the state, partic-
ularly in Cincinnati and Hamilton
There are thirty well organized
branches in the former city with sew
erai more in the suburbs. Dayton and
Columbus have a number of strong
branches. Toledo has ten branches.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
PITTsBuRG LIVE STOCK

Pittsburg, Sept. -Cattle-5upply
light and market steady, choice $5.75
@6,O0; prime $5.4O@5.6li good $1,000
$50; tidy butchers $450@500; fair
$3.65@430; common sS.OO@S5O; choice
heifers $4.0O@4.30; common to fair
heifers $2.50@375; fat cows $4,000
S.75; good fresh cows and springers
$S5@$50; common to fair $16@$30
Sheep and lambs-Supply fair and
market steady. Prime wethers $1,000
5.85; good mixed $5.35@6. go; fair mix
ed $4.75@5.75; culls and common $3.50
@s.bo; lambs s5.OO@S4O; veal calves
sS.00Qs.5o; heavy and thin $4,000
500.
Hogs-Receipts 20 double decks.
market active and 10 cents higher;
prime heavy se.50Os.52 l-2; medium
and yorhers s6.559670; pigs s6.BO0
$50; roughs s5.oo@5.oo; stays $4,000
4.50.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
SACRAMENTO GETS
The 1907 Convention CT the National
Irrigation Congress.

Boise, Idaho, Sept. 7.-Sacramento
Cal, is to have the honor of enter
tanning the 1907 convention of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress. She won
in the fight, defeating Reno, New;
Washington, d. c.; jamestown, Va. !;
Les Vegas, N. NJ; Milwaukee, and all
the other candidates. Sacramento's
claim of the honor was presented by
Col. John F. Irish, of San Francisco,
noted as being one of the most elo-
quent speakers on the Pacific coast.
The ticket named by the committee on
permanent organization was elected
by the congress despite serious opposi-
ton on the part of many delegates. 1t
follows: President Hon. George e
Chamberlain, governor of Oregon; 1st
vice president, John Henry Smith. of
Utah, one of the favorites of the Nor.
mon church; End vice president, S. b.
Maxsen, of Nevada, the retiring sec
retary; 3rd vice president, George w.
Barstow, of Texas; secretary, ID. p.
Anderson, of Chicago, editor of the
Irrigating Age.
Col. John F. Irish nominated Sac
ramento for the location of the 18th
congress. Delegate Twichel Of Las
Vegas nominated his home city.
Reeves, of Reno. nominated that city,
and Fisher Harris nominated Milwau-
kee. President H. George Tucker of
the jamestown, Va, exposition, in an
eloquent and impassioned address,
asked that the congress be held at
that city. Delegate Freeman of North
Yakima, Wash, invited the congress
to the Yakima Valley.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
MORE FRAUD
in the Chicago
Bank Which StensIand
Couldn't Haye Done.
Fugitive and Cashier
to Plead Guilty = Soon
to the Pen.

Chicago, Sept 7.--Indications that
Cashier Henry w. Herring or some
person other than Paul o. Stensland,
carried out a program of fraud and
covered up rottenness in the Milwau-
kee Avenue State bank up to almost
the hour of it's collapse, have come
to light. At the same time it was an
nounced positively in Washington that
only suicide can save Paul o. Stems
land, president of the wrecked bank,
from facing justice in Cnlcago within
three weeks. The new tangle about
Herring comes with the discovery of
alleged. forged notes for $4,000 in the
nsme of G. H. Beckman, coffee mer-
chant, zoe West Division street. Two
days before the bank was closed and
long after President Stensland was in
fight, the Beckman notes were mark
ed with a notation extending them to
October / for payment Discovery of
the Beckman forgeries came when the
coffee merchant appeared at the bank
to see how much he would recover
from deposit of $50. Receiver John
c. Fetzer told him there were two
notes bearing his name in the bank
the first for $2500 to run ninety days,
and the second for $4,000 running four
months. Beckman Immediately de-
clared both notes forgeries, saying
that he would not dare borrow that
much on his business. The 80 day
note bore. date of May /, 1906. being
the latest alleged forgery found On
the back of this note dated August /,
was a notation extending the instru-
ment to Oct. 1. The receiver believes
that this tends to show that some
person other than Paul Stensland had
hand in the forgeries. Assistant
States Attorney Judson Going is now
at work on 40 indictments, 20 against
Stensland and 20 against Henry w.
Herring. Stensland is expected in Chi
cago by September II. In custody of
Assistant States Attorney Harry Oh
sen, the fugitive captured in Tangier
was expected to depart from the Nor
ocean port on chartered boat. He
will be taken to Gibraltar and thence
hurried on board the liner Pannonia,
which will sail for New York direct.
Stensland will plead guilty to the theft
of more than $1,000,OO0 from the
vaults of his bank This was asserted
positively at the states attorneys of
flee. Henry W. Herring, cashier
of the bank, also is expected to
plead guilty to forgery and embezzle-
ment and the brace of bank looters
may be sentenced and put on the same
train for the states prison.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
FRANCES NATIONAL THEATRE
After 226 Yesfs of Continuous Ex
istence il is Poor but Proud.


The Comedie Francaise, the ma
tional theatre of France, is the Oldest
institution of its kind in the world
the oldest, that is, in continuous ex-
istence
1t was founded in 1880 by Moliere,
and is still conducted according to the
rules he laid down. The number of
associates, the division of profits ac-
cording to talent, the internal govern
ment of the society, had all been ad-
mirably regulated by the founder Of a
house which is the glory of French
dramatic art.
On the national holiday, July IA,
and on certain other occasions, the
theatre gives performances at which
all the seats are free. People stand
in line for hours awaiting the open
ing of the doors.
During the year the number of free
seats given away runs from 10000 to
10000, representing sum ranging
from 100000 to $160,000. Besides
this, students of rhetoric and of elocu-
tion, to the annual number of 2,052,
assist gratuitously at the Thursday
matinees, it being considered a great
privilege to receive this practical ex-
perience on the boards of the famous
theatre.
The Comedie receives a government
subvention, but its expenses have in
creased SO much that it is always in
financial stress. Its actors and ac-
tresses put up with much smaller sal
aries than they would receive any
where else. They do it partly for the
honor of belonging to the Comedie,
partly because it is life engagement;
for when they are finally retired they
receive pension.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-11
BATTtEF0UCHT
Bloody Engagement Re-
ported Between Gov
ernment Troops and
insurgents in Cuba.
Havana in the Dark.

Havana, Sept. Havana is more
in the dark tonight over the revolu-
tionary situation than at any time
since the uprising commenced. The
wires have been cut and communities
tion with interior points is interrupt
ed, the consequence being that ru-
mors are thick and confirmation of
reported fights difficult or impossible.
Persistent rumors were circulated this
Of considerable magnitude in Pinar
del Rio province, but definite news
was lacking.
1t was reported that most of Guer-
eras force had been engaged in a
bloody and protracted engagement
with several combined detachments of
government troops. Another report
had been received that two railroad
bridges on the western railway had
been destroyed with dynamite, and at
first this was believed to be authentic.
Then the wires were cut and the re-
port could not be verified Various
factors pointed to battle in Pinar
del Rio N4sv Net alone about de-
velopments in tls ateld, but also of
the political situation here the best
advices are conflicting.
President Palma and his cabinet
have it is believed, decided that the
armistice is not consistent with the
government dignity and officially nc
armistice, even if the veterans asso-
citation should gain the insurgents
consent to one, will be recognized.
Secretary Montalvo today officially an
nounced that the government disap-
proved of an armistice.