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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
Peace Committee and Insurgents
are in aCCOr5.
PALM, INFORMED OF OUTCOME
Taft Hcfuas tn Give Ont Any Details
of What Has TRANSFERRED - Until
Signing Of the .irmistiCc. Govern
ment Had Becn strengthening De-
tense Of Havana

Havana, September 2+-Eictory for
the liberals or revolutionary party
seems certain tonight Al the conclusion
OF a Ions conference between 4 com
mitee OF the insurgents Of eight mem
bers. and rle American peacc commits
sioners. The insurgent committee an
nounced tha- there was practically no
difference remaining between them and
Secretaries Taft and Bacon. and tha.
they would receive q draft Of the peace
plans tomorrow. These probably
would be agreed 10 at a meeting 10 be
held in the preside where the pr na
er members OF the committee are con
fined.
Secretary Taft said here could give no
details of what transpirel a; the con
ference. for the reason that il was
now necessary to trea. with the GOV
eminent leaders. and that the p~ubl.ca-
ton of the peace proposals might in
terfere with their prompt acceptance.
-fItSSiS- L dll anu bdSIi NtiN ~ t.4f
palace tonight and Informed President
Palma OF the outcome OF the negOtia-
tons with the liberals. The absence
of a definite statement from the COM
misSiOncrs makes il impossible to say
whether the plans carry the resigna-
tiCns Of the present administration
and the congressman erected las year
| or not.
The insurgents are inclined 10 seek
the benefit of the aTmiStice during the
continuance Of the peace negotiations.
| Heretofore there was merely a verbal
! agreement, without n definite terms.
but a document was prepared and
taken yesterday to the camps of e ner-
| ais Guerra and Castillo and these
| chiefs attached their signatures to t..
The document was signed today by
Acting Secretary of the Int ri0r Mon
talve, on behalf Of the government.
Until the signing Of the armistice to-
day the government had been strength
ening the d~efences of Havana. There
are only small ~detachments Of troops in
the smaller towns of Havana province
and from n % two hundred men at
each Of the principal towns along the
/ Iuto ND uel Mo. NOuc OIL
the Pinar del Rio coast towns had been
garrisoned until Colonel AvalOs arriv-
ed at Mariel today.
Americans at Bahia Honda have
been asking for a warship but no or
ders to this end have yet beer given.
In addition to the $500 troops at
Camp Columbia. there are four rapid
fire batteries in the shore d~efenses here
and LaFurza, the latter guarding the
palace. One thousand rural guards
men and volunteers ere stationed in
Havana. and in addition several hum
dred city militia defend the outskirts
OF the city. With the exception Of a
volunteer force the CITY Of Santa Clara
IS not properly defended. A. C:enfue-
COS there are not more than 5000 rural
guardsmen and volunteers, although
the original intention was TO enlist uD
to 10000 men there.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
Raleigh People TO Vote on Pro-
hibitiOn or Dispensay.
AN APPEAL TAKEN BY THE CITY
Matter VIII be Finally Decided by
S,,rcuo Cour-Committee TO Raise
Funds for statue TO Charles ID. Nc
Ivcr-s3O.OO for the Jamestown
Exposition-John Sharp Williams to
Visit the State.
(SDecial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh. y. c.. September 24.-This
afternoon Judge Webb heard at cham
bers a petition for a mandamus TO
compel the City Of Raleigh to call an
election on the question Of d~ispensary
or prohibition. W. a. Montgomery
appeared for the petitioners, Rev. Syl-
vester Belts and others, while Guy
Attorney w. B. Snow, appeared
against them, and for the city. The
Judge ordered the election held.
The petitioners say it will be soon
after the regular election as possible.
probably about the 7th of December.
The city appeals to the supreme court
which will hear the matter next week.
Governor Glenn issues a prOclama-
ton to the people of North Carolina
calling on them TO subscribe t a fund
to erect a $4,000 bronze statue to the
late President Charles D. McIver, on
the campus of the State Normal and
Industrial college. He pays a high
tribute to him, and appoints the fol-
lowing committee to raise the necessity
funds: James Y. JOyner, Miss Ger
trUde Mendenhall, Mrs. Lindsay Pa
terson, Frances p. Venable, William
II. Osborne and ~Josephus Daniels.
The council Of state this afternoon
discussed the matter Of the $4,000
which the last legislature appropriated
for North Cardinals participation in
the jamestown exposition, upon con-
dition that the United States appropri-
ated $1,000, 0OQ This has been done.
The council decided that the money
was now available ana it goes to the
credit of the commission upon the
books Of the state treasurer.
Chairman Simmons says John Sharp
Williams will speak at three places in
North Carolina to be announced to-
morrow. Governor Aycock is booked
to speak at Cleveland in the day and
Spencer on the night of October 18th
and at Concord on Goth.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
CITY OF IS
GUARDED BY TROOPS
Militia Patrolline the ~Streets-Saloons Closed all Day-A
Negro Man Lynched Courts Take a Hand in the
~Trouble-Riot in the Suburbs.

In anticipation OF possible further
trouble. Mayor Woodward today issued
an order that all boys under Il years
must keep of the Streets alter 5 o'ci'ck
at night. He says this order Is 10 De
enforced strictly. He has also
all citizens 10 remain in their homes
at night until the present trouble shaI.
be passed.
The number Of dead as the result
of the riots thus far is still a matter or
uncertainty. The police have the anne
OF five negroes known 10 have !eeh
killed, and one unknown dead negro
is held at an undertaking office her.
The known dead are:
Annie Shehard. shot Saturday night.
Frank Smith, stabbed 10 death Sat
urday.
Milton Brown, shot, died in Grady
hospital.
Henry Welsh. barber, shot al his
shop Saturday night.
Zeb Long, hanged at East Point 20
day.
The reports are that more than THESE
have been killed but their names ana
the time and places Of their deaths are
! not known. No white persons have
been Killed, according 10 Lne HIoSt -
liable reports. The list OF wounded IS
a long n and several Of these are
expected 10 die.
| The return of the Seventeenth Cnltet
| States infantry to Fort Mcpherson 20
| day from Chickamauga, Ga, WAS glad
| ~ received, although the possibility OF
the regulars being called upon IS rt-
| rarded as very remote.
Although the day has been quiet III
the down town districts a number OF
disturbances have been reported anu
verified from the outlying districts. \
squad of Macon militiamen assigned i
guard duty in a negro settlement last
| night surprised and dispersed a CON
pany Of negroes drilling on a back
street. No arrests were made. \
gang of negro boys, Is to IS years old,
beat a young white boy this afternoon
who took refuge in the home of a prom
inent citizen on Piedmont avenue.
Many citizens today have eXTIe5 e :
the feeling that the trouble Is not pass
| ed. Some have believed that trouble
would come tonight, but in view OF the
confidence Of the authorities in theil
ability TO control the situation, 1t i
believed that these fears are ground
less.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28

Looks like Cuta o-
1utionize under AZ
rules.-New Y4'k
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
ON WAY To CHICAGO
Paul D. StenSIand in Prison
in New York.
ARRIVES FROM MOROCCO
Will Tell Everything in Connection
With Bank Failure.

Assistant states Attorney Olsen Says
That ScnsIand Has Mad Il Comics
sion to Him-Hc vii Not Plead
Guilty OF EOrgcry-In His Rcycla-
lions Of the cause Of the Failure Of
the Milwaukee venue state Bank,
He Will Implicatc Men Prominent
in the Financial Circles of Chicago.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
Condition of President CaSsatt is Salts
factory.

New York, September 24.-Regard-
ing reports circulated in Wal street
today that President Cassatt, of the
Pennsylvania railroad was critically
i'll, the Pennsylvania railroad directors
today authorized the following state
ment:
Mr.. Cassatt is rapidly improving
and was out driving yesterday. Sim
ply as a matter of prudence his ply
stefan advised that he remain away
from his office for a few days. The
slight loss of strength which he suff-
cred as the result of a recen attack
of W~hOOping cough is being rapidly
regained. and his physician states that
Mr.. Cassatt's condition could not be
more favorable. The sensational re-
ports circulated on the subject today
are entirely without foundation"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-28
To Prohibit production of The Clans
man.

Montgomery, Ala, September "a
The city council tonight passed an or
dinance calling on the mayor 10 pro-
hibit the production of the Thomas
Dixon's The Clansman'' Thursday
next, on account OF the excited condi-
ton OF the public mind through the At
lanta disorders.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

Casino? No sooner said than done.
All hands took box and the one
closest to the stage CHANGED to be
Ensign Freeman Hall, paymaster. All
of sudden Cupid took a hand. En-
sign Hall spied dashing Miss Eleanor
Lund on the stage and promptly lost
his heart. He secured an introduce
ton and paid ardent court.
The rest of the story was told be-
fore Rev. DR.. Henry Marsh Warren.
the hotel chaplain" when a cab
drove up before his home, No. 4S
West Ninety-foUrth street, few
nights ago-or rather morning, be-
cause it was we'll after midnight. In
the cab were the young naval officer
and Miss Lund.
men, Rev. DR.. Warren retires at an
early hour. This particular night was
mo- exception. But the furious jang.
ling of the bell awoke him and Mrs.
Warren.
I'VE want to get married." an
nounced Ensign Hall.
Not so fast" cautioned DR.. War
rem. "Pll have to ask a few ques-
tons"
But he was soon satisfied. He
found that the officer was 35 years
old and his bride %. Then Mrs. War
rem was summoned as witness and
the knot was tied.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

David st. John, head OF the Hacker.'
sack hospitals corps of physicians,
and the young mans father, Gustav
l.. Jaeger, rich New York manu-
facturer, were the only witnesses.
Miss Margaret Vanhorn came from
Mahwah and young Mr.. Jaeger has
home in haywood, N. J. They are
now away on a wedding trip to Hall
fax.
Cupid even presides when the sur
geons use their knives.
Cupid Behind the Scenes.
Up the bay several weeks ago came
Admiral Evans feet and the big In.
diana, one of Uncle Sans crack bat
tleships. They cast anchor in the
North river, where Admiral Evans d.
rected, and soon officers and men
were ashore stretching their legs,
Now, some of those gay young fell
lows of the fleet hadn't seen pretty
girl for so long that they just ached
to go to some show. So what could be
better than "The Social Whir" at the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
Among His Latest Victims Are an
American Mining Engineer and
a Grecian CORNERSTONE Bull
Shown How Love Laughs at
Law-Hospital Ward Made the
Scene Of a Pretty Romance.

New York.-Within the space of a
brief few days. Cupid has played more
pranks than the most romantic school
girl could ever conjure up In her
widest dreams!
He has brought together an Amer
lean mining engineer and Grecian
countess at the mouth of Mexican
mine. He has married off a rich
young fellow to the nurse who pulled
him through appendicitis. He has pre-
sided at midnight wedding at which
a dashing young naval officer and a
pretty chorus girl were the principals.
He has hired special train so that
a New York millionaire's son could
marry a Divorce in another state.
And last of all, but not least, he has
arranged a wedding on the high seas,
outside the international three-mile
limit, so that an impatient young cou-
pie wouldn't have to wait two weeks
for the banns to be published, thus
single-handed setting aside the stern
and implacable majesty of the British
common law.
1t has been left for Miss Alice
Whyte and M. Hall Cowan to show
John Bull how love laughs at law
They just couldn't wait two weeks
longer, so they were married accord.
ing to the rites of the Church of Eng
land far out at sea. That saved the
two weeks banns and made happy
two young persons very much in love,
says the World.
The two young people come from
Windsor, Ont, The young man
popped the question four years ago
and got his whispered yes" sweetest
word in the world. But they couldn't
be married then, for the fact that the
young man hadn't been graduated
from the University of Michigan and
hadn't established himself in bust
ness.
Sent for Promised Wife.
He was graduated in 1904. Soon aft
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
Hot Contest,

A Scotch minister on going to
preach to his congregation one Sab
bath morning met with the following
accident: Leather breeches being the
style, and having hung his in the
loft during the week, he hastily
donned them and went into the pull
pit. While they were in the loft a
few busy wasps had built their nest
in them, and, as the good man walked
to and fro, preaching to his people,
it annoyed the wasps SO that they be-
gan to sting him. He stood the at
tack as long as possible, getting more
excited every minute and gesticulat-
ing wildly, he finally shouted to his
astonished congregation:
Brethren and sisters. the word of
the Lord is in my mouth, but the
devil is in my breaches! buffalo
Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
Mischievous and Impractical Little God
of Love Seems Never to Take
Vacation From His
Pleasing Duties.

steamer chair on the deck of the
good ship just before she sailed from
the Brooklyn dock recently. Her
mother and father were there to bid
her Godspeed on her strange wedding
journey, and so were several friends
you see," she explained, MIR.
Cowan couldn't get away and it came
down to point of my going to Trini-
dad. We had been engaged for four
years and we didn't want to wait any
longer. But at first everything
seemed to go wrong.
when Mr. Cowan sent for me first
was too i'll to go. The second time
couldn't make the Maraval. Then
he sent for me to come on the 9Th Of
August, but that made it too long.
So at last we arranged for this trip
Of the Maraval and Capt. Hunter is
going to give me away.
well, all our plans were made for
this voyage" continued Miss Whyte,
when suddenly Mr.. Cowan discovered
that we would have to wait for two
weeks until the banns could be pub
lished. Here was, all ready to sail,
without any chaperon except the
stewardess, and must wait two
weeks before could be married.
1--WE expect to reach Granada on
Monday and we plan to be married
while the ship is far out at sea at
eight o'clock that evening. Now, you
know, the sea belongs to everybody
and marriage laws-stupid things!-
don't concern Father Neptune. So
when we land at Trinidad on the next
morning-it is $50 miles from Granada
we shall be legally married and the
horrid old banns can't bother u.s."
1t all came out as they planned.
Three cheers and a tiger for Cupid
this time!
Blindly Led by Cupid.
What's a trip to Mexico where love
is concerned? How could the Count
ess de Rilly, charming young widow,
or George A. SCHROEDER, a handsome
young mining engineer, guess that 1t
was Cupid who was leading them to
the mouth of the Ventura mine in
Mexico?
Mr.. Schroeder is engineer for the
Ventura corporation, of London, and
also for the rich Stratton Independ-
ence mine in Colorado. His corpora
ton sent him to the mine in Mexico
just as the handsome young countess
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

friends to see the beautiful ceremony,
which included hymns and chants by
full vested choir. The ceremonies
ended with the browning of the couple
with flowers.
And Cupid had come out victor
again.
Love God at Work in Hospital.
The doctors shook their heads. The
lad that lay on the operating table be-
fore them was pretty far gone. He
had gangrenous appendicitis, and the
poison had already set in.
"One chance in a hundred" said the
operating surgeon as he prepared the
instruments and motioned to his as
sistants to administer the anaesthetic
And now, Miss Vanhorn, if you
please" he said, turning to a pretty
trained nurse who stood ready to help.
Soon the ether had done it's work
and the. knives began. An hour later
Carl A. Jaeger, the patient, was back
in bed, slowly coming out of the in
| fluence of the anaesthetic. At his
| side sat the trained nurse, Miss Van
horn, with a look of concern upon her
fair face, for the case was very grave.
Would the young mans temperature
slowly fall and recovery set in? Or
would his heart give out under the
tremendous strain of the ether and
the shock, and he pass away as a
tale that is told?
The young man stirred and moaned.
The nurse famed his forehead, bead
ed with cold drops of sweat. He
moaned again. She watched him as
closely as a cat watches a mouse.
He slowly came back to conscious
ness.
I'm thirsty" he moaned.
The nurse gave him a spoonful of
hot water. A full drink of the cold
water he craved might have meant
death just then. When he asked for
food he got a sip Of milk, nothing
more.
I The days went by and the young
man slowly improved Finally the
surgeon made his last visit.
Young man." said he, you owe
your life to your nurse, not to me-"
That was a year ago. Cupid, the
cunning rogue, got in his work at
once. Young Mr.. Jaeger didn't want
to give up the acquaintance of Miss
Vanhorn when he was discharged,
cured. He asked permission to call,
and got it. 1t doesn't take the wisdom
of Solomon to guess the rest.
They were married the other day at
the Presbyterian Manse, Hackensack,
by Rev. G.. Rudolph Kuebler DR..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02
CHAPTER VII.
MR.. HIGBEE COMMUNICATES SOME
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Mr.. HIGBEE COMMUNICATES SOME
VALUABLE INFORMATION.
The Higbees were presently at home
in the Bines car. Mrs. Higbee was a
pleasant, bustling, plump little wom-
an, sparkling-eyed and sprightly.
Prominent in her manner was a help
less little confession of inadequacy to
her ambitions that made her personal
ity engaging. To be energetic and
friendly, and deeply absorbed in peo-
pie who were bold and confident, was
her attitude.
She began bubbling at once to Mrs.
Bines and Psyche of the latest fash
ions for mourners. Crepe was more
swagger than ever before, both as
trimming and for entire costumes.
House gowns, my dear, and dinner
gowns, made entirely of crepe in the
Princesse style, will exactly suit your
daughter-and on the dinner gowns
she can wear trimming of that dull
jet passementerie."
From gowns she went naturally, to
the difficulty of knowing whom to
meet in a city like New York-and
how to meet them-and the watchful-
ness required to keep daughter Millie
| from becoming entangled with leading
theatrical gentlemen.
Amid Percivals lamentations that
he must so soon leave Chicago, the
train moved slowly out of the big shed
to search in the interviewer puzzle of
tracks for one that led to the east.
| AS they left the center of the city
Higbee drew Percival to one of the
broad side windows.
Pull up your chair and sit here a
minute" he said, with a mysterious
little air of Importance. There's a
thing this trains going to pass right
along here that want you to look at
Maybe you've seen better ones, OF
course-and then again"
1t proved to be sign some 20 feet
high and whole block long. En-,
blazoned upon its broad surface was
"Higbee's Hams" At one end, and
towering another ten feet or so above
the mammoth letters was a white.
, capped and aproned chef abandoning
his mercurial French temperament tC
an utter frenzy of delight over "Hig
bees Ham which had apparently JUS
been vouchsafed to him by an invisible
benefactor.
There, now!" exclaimed Higbee
what do you call that want t.
know-hey?"
Great! Magnificent" cried Perez
val, with the automatic and read.
hypocrisy of a sympathetic nature
THAT certainly is great"
Notice the size of it," queried Hig
i bee, when they had fitted by.
: Did II" exclaimed the young man
reproachfully.
> 1--WE went by pretty fast-yo'
: couldn't see it well. tell you the wa.
; they're allowed to run trains so fas
9 right here in this crowded city is al
outrage. I'm blamed If / don't hav
: my lawyer take it up with the boar,
= of Observation-Disclosures people OF
i their tracks right and left-you'd thinl
these railroad companies owned tn
: earth. But that sign, now. Did yol
$ notice you could read every letter Il
u the label on that ham?" You wouldn'
2 think it was hundred yards bacl
from the track, would you? Why, tina
u label by actual measure Is six feet fou
: inches across-and yet it looks a
small-and everything all in the RICH
: proportion, it's wonderful. It's wha
7 I call art" he concluded, in slight
tldogmatic tone.
ri CTo BE CONTINUED
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-02

from New York every 80 days or SO
and she grows out of my ken every
time, like a five-year-old boy. Say, I'VE
got Mrs. Higbee up in the New York
sleeper, but If you're going to be here
a spell we'll stop few days longer
and I'll drive you around-what say?
packing houses-Lake Shore drive
Lincoln park"
He waited, glowing confidently, as
one submitting irresistible temptations.
Percival beamed upon him with
moist eyes.
by Jove, Mr.. Higbee! that's clever
of you--it's royal! Sis and / would
| like nothing better-but you see my
poor mother here is almost down with
nervous prostration and we've got to
hurry her to New York without an
hours delay to consult a specialist.
We're afraid'-he glanced anxiously at
the astounded Mrs. Bines, and lowered
his voice-"we're afraid she may not
be with us long"
"Why, Percival," began Mrs. Bines,
dazedly, "you was just saying"
Now don't fly all~to pieces, NAL
take 1t easy-you're with friends, be
sure of that. You needn't beg us to go
on. You knowwe wouldn't think of stop
ping when it may mean life or death
to you. You see just the way she is"
he continued to the sympathetic Hig-
bee-"we're afraid she may collapse
any moment. So we must wait for an
other time; but I'll tell you what you
do; go get Mrs. Higbee and your traps
and come let us put you up to New
York. We've got lots of room-run
along now-and we'll have some of
that ham, the kind you have always
bought for lunch. A. l.. Jackson is
miserable cook, too, if l don't know
the truth"
Gently urging Higbee through the
door, he stifed a systematic inquiry
into the details of Mrs. Bines' Attic
ton.
Come along quick! I'll go help you
and we'll have Mrs. Higbee back be-
fore the train starts"
do you know" Mrs. Bines thought
lully oDcClNCu W hCi bdueohISlD
sometimes mistrust Percival amt just
right in his head; you remember he did
have bad fall on it when he was two
years and five months old-two years,
five months and IS days. The way he
carries on right before folks faces!
That time l went through the asylum
at Butte there was a young man kept
going on with the same outlandish rig
marole just like PercivaL The idea
of Percival telling me to eat lemon
ice with an ice pick, and oh, why
don't the flesh brushes wear nice, prop
err clothes brushes!' and sure and
hammer my nails good and hard after
get them manicured.' And back home
he was always wanting to know where
the meat augers were, saying he'd just
bought 900 new ones and he'd have to
order a ton more if they were all lost.
don't believe there is such a thing
as a meat auger. l don't know what
on earth a body could do with one.
And that other young man." she con-
cluded, significantly, they had him in
a little bit of room with an IRON
barred door to it like a prison CELL"