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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
WHOSE FINE ITALIAN HAND?

The News and Observer says that
not see the railroad passenger rate
in this state put higher than two and
a quarter cents. Does this mean
that the state officials have decided
that should the supreme court of the
United States decide, in the case
now pending in the circuit court,
hat the act of the legislature estab-
fishing that rate is unconstitutional,
they will ignore the decision of that
court and again do the clubbing act?
We have heard of a similar remark
being made by Governor Glenn after
the conference agreement when the
railroads acceded to the states de-
mand that the lower rate be put
in effect pending the final decision
of the case. Did the governor get
his cue from The News and Observer
office? Rumor, and pretty straight
rumor, has it that both these, a we'll
as a certain superior court judge got
instructions or hints as to how to
proceed from a certain state officer
whose official duties require his pres
ence in rooms in the southwest corn
er of the state building, which is sit
uated just north of the state CAPT
toll. There is talk about his visit
| Tn q PnTfoJn room in tho 0rh0r S
house the night before the Wake
county grand jury was charged on
the matter of the railroads violating
the rate law, and also of numerous
notes passing down Fayetteville
street from the state building (no1
the cRpitol) to the county court house
whileN the indictment proceeding:
were Nefore Wake superior court.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
EIGHTEEN CENT COTTON.

Some folks are talking fifteen and
even eighteen cent cotton next fall.
1t would not surprise us if the price
reached those figures. Much depends
on what happens to the crop between
the present and the time it is gather
ed. The Charlotte News quotes Mr..
Miller, of the Statesville cotton mill,
as saying cotton may go to eighteen
cents. 1t all depends, he says, on the
size of the crop; that a ten million
bale crop would bring from fifteen
to eighteen cents, and a thirteen
million bale crop would bring
twelve cents. When men whose
business naturally puts them on the
bear side of the market make such
statements it is very foolish for farm
ers to sell their cotton ahead at ter
cents, as many have done.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
ON H~ARRTsAN'S TRAIL.

1t was the Chicago and Alton rail-
road, our readers remember, from
which the Standard Oil Company &C
copied the rebates for which it vas
indicted and fined twenty-nine mil
lion dollars by Judge Lands. That
Judge is going to have the railroad
indicted for giving the rebates. The
evidence will be the same as in the
Standard Oil Company's case, and it
will be as easy to convict the railroad
as it was the other defendant, and
when it comes to imposing the fine
it is likely hat the Judge will be IS
severe as he was in the other case.
Doesn't the public expect this when
it calls to mind the fact that the Chi
cago and Alton railroad belongs to
the Hartman system?
Here is Mr.. Roosevelt's chance to
even up a little through the federal
courts with that gentleman.
But just suppose the supreme
court does not sustain Judge Lands.
What then? Will the president lee
ture and denounce the judges of 1.-THE
greatest court on earth" because they
do not decide these cases as he thinks
they should be decided? After his
| conduct along that line toward a cir.
cult court judge who had, by a de-
| cision on a point of law, upset II OF
his pet schemes it would hardly sur
prise the public if he were to pursue
| the same course in case of an adverse
| decision by the supreme court.
His denunciation of the circuit
court judge surprised and shocked
the public. 1t had never before heard
of such a thing in all the history o
this country as a chief of the execu
tive department denouncing a mem
Der of. the judiciary because Of a lie
gal opinion delivered by the latte
in a case tried before him, but tn
! public soon gets used to innovation
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

A special dispatch from Statesville
to the Charlotte Chronicle states
that "a murder occurred in Alexan-
der county Friday afternoon at the
country store of Portee Little, where
Jake Cant shot and killed Bill Stat
ford, both white men," The dispatch
goes on to say that the store is sit
uated about four miles from Taylors-
Vile and that Cant was in charge
of the saloon as bartender. We do
not understand this. How is it that
there is a saloon at a country store?
Is Alexander county exempted from
the provisions of the Ward bill?
From the dispatch we would say
hat the saloon at Titles store in
the country was being run openly
and not as a blind tiger. Will some
body who knows please explain to US
how such a thing can be possible I'M
der the laws of this state. We would
like to know whether Little has a
LIQUOR license or was running his sa-
loon without one and in open VIOLA
ton of the law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
NORFOLK AND WILMINGTON.

While not ~depreciating the great
value OF North Carolina business
to NorfOlk'S port. The Norfolk
Landmark thinks The Observer went
a little too far On this point in a re-
cen discussion of North Carolina
freight rates. Norfolk. The Land
mark shows, has Just been made the
seaport terminus Of a great railroad
running west and northwest. Two
such roads now have their outlet
there which fact, The Landmark
submits does not indicate any decay
in trade from above the North Car
DINA line. These amendments The
Observer accepts in full. Turning
TO our comparison of Wimington's
port business with Norfolk's, The
Landmark calls for official figures.
The value of Norfolk harbor's traffic
last year as reported by United States
Engineer Kuhn it gives as $62S, 0O0,-
600. Here, through inadvertence, we
made a real blunder What we
meant to say but didn't was that
Wiimington's foreign business will
bear comparison with that of Nor
folk. OF course it is generally
known that Norfolk, principally by
virtue of transshipments between
North Atlantic ports and Caroline
inland points greatly outranks
Wilmington as a coasting port. This
case of Wilmington VS.. Norfolk
though a. side issue and not bearing
upon what The Observer had to say
about freight rates possesses abun
dant interest of it's own. The figure!
which we want to see are nose To-
the foreign business being conceded
the matter in hand is to ascertain
whether Wilmington can keep com
pany in foreign business. We here
by put it up to The Landmark ant
IL Wilmington contemporaries t.
come forward with the figures
Charlotte Observer.
The above editorial appeared IL
The Observer several days ago anc
has already been commented on b.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
WILMINGTON. N. c.
FRIDAY, 10
FOR A REFORMATOY.

We have not seen much In the
of the state of late in ref
erence to the needed reformatory lot
youthful criminals. There seems 10
be no steps taken to carry out the
nrovisions of the act of the last leg
isIature. When is the start 10 De
made under that act? Those VINO
are interested in the establishment
of such institution would like TO
know what is being done. There are
daily occurrences which show that
the reformatory should be established
as soon as possible. Below we pub
fish an extract from the
Reidsville Review giving an account
of a case in the town in which that
paper is published which goes to in
crease the number of occurrences de-
monstrating the great need of a re-
formatory for youthful criminals IN
this state. Our exchanges are full OF
accounts of such cases. The Review
says:
Three young white boys between
~ and Is years old were commit
ted to the county Jail at Wentworth
thi week charged with breaking
into three stores at Spray one n1ght
last week. One of these boys is a
brother to the Stack boys, one Of
whom was sent to the chain gang last
week by Judge Moore for a similar
crime.
In a recent issue Of the ASheVllle
Citizen is an editorial on this sub
iect which speaks of the grand jury
report touching the necessity OF a
reformatory for youthful criminals
which, it says, brings again to the
surface a question, the Importance
of which has, we fear, been underes-
timated in this state
1t seems from the above tina the
grand jury of Buncombe county has
taken up the question of establish
ment of this much needed institu-
ton. 1t would be a good idea for
every grand jury in each county OF
the state to take action on this mat
ter and, court after court, urge the
necessity of the establishment OF
such an institution until, by force OF
public sentiment, they force the au-
thorities to comply with the act OF
the last observation-disclosures provis-
ion as it was-and compel the legis-
lature to make sufficient appropria-
ton for the establishment Of an in
stitution of the character needed
The people are interested in this mat
ter and they a through their grand
juries force politicians to brant the
relief the state needs. This move
ment embraces questions of morals
good citizenship, political economy
and public finance. 1t is n il
which every citizen in the state is
interested. Then let the people OF
every county in the state speak
through their grand ~jurieS, as have
the citizens Of BuncOmbe county,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

no matter how startling they may be
at first, and IL has become SO accus-
toned to ar. Roosevslt's vagaries
and strenuosities that it would hard
ly be surprised at a public censure
of the supreme court BY the presi-
dent.
There would be no nine men in
the United States. however, who
would be less affected or Influenced
by such action of the president than
those who compose the supreme co =
of the United States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
The Limit of Life.

The mos eminent medical scient-
lists are unanimous in the conclu-
sion that the generally acceted linn
itation of human life is many years
below the attainment possible with
the advanced knowledge of which
the race is now possessed The crit
zeal period, that determines its du-
ration. seems to be between so and
60; the proper care of the body dur
ing this decade cannot be too strong
ly urged; -carelessness then being IA
tai to longevity. Natures best help
er after so is Electric Bitters, the
scientific tonic medicine that revival
ICES every organ in the body. Guar
anteed by R. r. Bellamy druggist.
Price so cents.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
NO PANIC IN WILMINGTON.

Truly one has to go away from home
to hear the news. For instance, who
in this city is aware Of the fact that
there is more or less Of a panic
among the holders of Atlantic Coast
Line stock in Wilmington because
the price of that stock has gone down
so much" That is a statement in
an editorial in yesterdays News and
Observer. There was a falser
statement penned by the editor of
that paper, noted for its many false
statements. There is no semblance
of a. panic in this city. Was that
statement made in The News and OBJ
server for the purpose of trying to
bring about a panic among the peo-
pie in this state who own stock in
that company? 1t has a large cir
~culation in the section of the state
traversed by the main line of the
Coast Line and it's many branches
| where much of the stock is held in
small blocks by citizens. Is The
| News and Observer trying to fright
en- and stampede them SO some one
can get Coast Line stock cheap?
What other reason could it have for
giving editorial %utterance to such
false statement of the feeling regard
ing the stock in the city where are
located the headquarters of the COM
pany? We're the statement true it's
| publication would do no good; on
| the other hand would be calculated
to injure many individual stockhold-
| ers who have had nothing to do with
| the management of the road, and
perhaps to ruin some of them who
did not have the courage to hold on
to their stock and wait for the better
days which will come when railroads
will not be subjected to c~onfiscatory
legislation born of fanaticism, dem
Doggy and personal spite against GER
| tain officials of the railroads.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

All these things force one having
knowledge of past events to feel that
there is more personal spite and en-
nifty than patriotism in this recent
movement against the railroads on
the part of some who have taken an
active though not necessarily official
or open part In the proceedings.
Some state officials are going to have
very strongly brought to their minds,
after awhile, the fable bout the
monkey, the cat and the chest
nuts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
Senator Simmons Resting-A Man
Who Grows.

Who Grows.
The life Will tell on the
hardest of men. Senator f. NJ. Sim
mons has perhaps done more hard
work of the kind than any man IN
the state and for years it did not
seem to hurt him, but like a wise
man, he saw that it was getting IN
it's work and this summer he has
been at his farm resting, doing moth
ing and thinking but little. He was
at the McAdoo this morning on his
way home.
Unable to get a sleeper last night
he remained over until today. The
senator says he knows very little
about the political situation because
he had not been around and he had
nothing to say to a representative
of this paper who called on him. No
! mar in public life in North Carolina
| has so surprised the mass of people
| who did o know him personally.
Instead of being a shrewd politician
| and a politician alone, he has shown
that he was a statesman from time
J he was sent to where statesmen were
| needed and he has taken rank with
| the brainy men of the country. Only
| one thing should deprive North Car
! DINA of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bore Record.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

Editor hated to refuse Serb
bler's poem. 1t was a good one.
Subeditor-Then why did you re-
fuse it.
Editor-Why, ne said if | didn't
take it he would kill himself.-EX
change.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

They are claiming that if the rate
is shown to be too low it will be
promptly remedied. You may be
lieve this if you van to but it will
be best to wait and see.-Durham
Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-16

OF course a man cannot serve
the people as he wants to unless he
is put in an office where he can give
his whole time to it.-Durham Her
aid.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
TROLLEY ACCIDENT.
Several Injured on Bank Street Car
 This Afternoon.

This afternoon about o'clock the breaking of a feed wire on Bank street near the power station slightly injured half dozen persons and caused any amount of excitement in the vicinity. When the wire broke a trolley was passing and the crew in charge, Motorman Patrick Kerrigan and Conductor Burt Hull, were so terrified that they left the car. About fifteen passengers were on and they tumbled off the car in whatever way they could get off. The wire fell along Bank street from the power station to the American Ring fac- tory. AS it landed on the street it sent sparks in all directions. The electricity buzzed along the seats. The passengers screamed and yelled. The crew thought that their end had come so they also beat it. At length some young man climbed over the seats and brought the car to a halt, Two Italians residing at S56 Bank street and two women residing on Johnson avenue were the worst in- iured. They were carried home in McCarthy's hack. Dr James Grady attended the injured. The accident brought a big crowd to the scene.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
CONVICT Da. GUY.
FIushtag Trial Ends With Verdict of
 Manslaughter.

Flushtag Trial Ends With Verdict of
 Manslaughter.
 NEW YORK, June 24. - The jury that tried pr. Samuel S. Guy. charged with murdering his wife. returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The trial was held in Flushing, \. |.
 Throughout the trial Dr. Guy stoutly maintained his innocence. He took the stand in his own behalf and stated that he was asleep when his wife was shot and did not know anything about it until after his arrest.
 A servant in the Guy household testi- fed that Dr. Guy returned to his home on the night of the shooting and began to annoy her in the dining room. Mrs. Guy came into the room and insisted that he stop. Together the doctor and sis wife went Into a front room, from which came sounds of violent quarrel A few minutes later the servant heard a pistol shot, and Mrs Guy staggered into the dining room and fell dead on the floor.
 Dr. Guy was at once sentenced to fif- teen years imprisonment. Before sen tence was passed on him Dr. Guy ad- dressed the court, denying that he had killed his wife. The judge. pronounc- ing sentence. said he believed the evil dence justified verdict of guilty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
NO SETTLEMENT YET
Officials al San Francisco Will Have Nothing to Do With
 the Union.

San Francisco, June 24.-No word indicating an early settlement of the local telegraphers' strike came from the head offices in New York of the Western Union and Postal companies yesterday. Officials of both companies say they have been instructed to have no dealings with the telegraphers' union looking toward q settlement, but that formed employees will be re- ceived as individuals.
 Unless the striking operators of the Postal company here and in Oakland return to work to-day the managers say they will be looked upon as dis charged employees and their places will be considered filled, according to the orders which have been received from first Vice President and General Manager Nally of New York.
 A new phase of the strike as 1t af- fects the Postal men who are out lies in the fact that after this morning they will lose standing in point of en- titllng them to pension of twenty per cent of their salaries after fifteen years, in case of being incapacitated for work The pension, which amounts to $150 a year at first, is increased at the rate of three per cent each year for ten years. In case the strik- CTS from the Postal company return after. this morning they will be con sidered new employees and will have no time to their credit.
 Members of she' telegrapers' union stated yesterday that they had in- structed an operator at Sparks, Ns7, to ascertain whether it was true that two carloads of telegraphers were bound westward on an overland train to take the places of the local strik- CTS The operator reported that he had learned from the conductor of the train that the cars in question did not contain operators.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
LOVING CASE
Former Judge tO Be Tried For Murder of the Man Who
 WrOnged His Daughter
WILL BE SENSATIONAL

Houston, Va, June 24.-The trial of former Judge w. G. Loving of Nelson county for the murder of Theodore Estes, son of Sheriff M. K. Estes of Nelson county, will begin in the circuit court here to-day. Judge William B. Barksdale will preside. The session begins at 10 a. m. Both the prosecution and the de- fense announced their readiness for the trial.
 The trial promises to eclipse in in- terest and sensation the McCue and the StrotherB Bywaters cases in Gull peper. It will again put to test the "unwritten law"
 Judge Loving, armed with dou- bIe barreled shotgun, instantly killed young Estes while he was un- loading a car of fertilizer in Oak Ridge on April 22. The shooting was the sequel to buggy ride taken on the evening prior to the homicide by young Estes with Miss Elizabeth Loving, the 19 years old daughter of Judge Loving. The girl when brought home had been drinking, and it is alleged that her escort had maltreated her.
 Acting under the impulse that his daughter had been drugged and as saulted, Judge Loving immediately went in search of Estes. After the shooting he said:
 q shot to kill. Every drop of blood in my body called for yen- geance. l would have gone a hun dred miles to kill him.
 Backed by the millions of Thomas F. Ryan, of whose Virginia estate he had been overseer for a number of years, and with powerful political influence, every device known to the legal fraternity will be availed of in the efforts of tthe counsel for the defense to acquit Judge Loving.
 The plea of the defense will be emotional insanity and the "unwrit- ten law" The relatives of young Estes, whose family connections ex- tend to the governor of the state, will exert every effort to clear the memory of the dead man from any stain of wrong doing. Miss Loving, who has lived in seclusion since the tragedy, appeared in public yester- day for the first time. She showed no signs of her experience. Two special coaches from Lynchburg, one reserved by the defense and the other by the prosecution, brought 110 witnesses and two corps of law yers here last night. A venire of sixty has been summoned.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
EXECUTED AT LAST
Wife Murderer Whom Albert T. Patrick Gave Pointers to
 EIecirOcuted To-Day.

New York, June 24-John Johnson. q wife murderer, was put to death in the electric chair in Sing Sing prison early to-day. The jail officials pro- nounced the electrocution success full one. Only two contacts were given.
 Johnson murdered his wife, Gather inc, at their home in Yonkers, N. r.. two years ago ill the presence of their two young children. He had been an ex-convict. had treated his wife badly and shot her when she threatened to leave him.
 Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer, con- victed for the murder of millionaire William Marsh Rice, took a deep in terest ill Johnson when the two were confined together in the death house of the Sing Sing prison and it was through advice given by him that Johnson, by appeals, was able to stave off death up to this time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24
WILL GO ON THE STAGE.
Ketcham, Just Released From Prison,
 to Star In own Drama. "a


 MIDDLEBURY, Vt, June 24.-De- claring his intention of going on the stage and appearing in the star part of a drama of his own production to right his alleged wrongs, John Winslow Ketcham, who has been serving sen tence of seven years for complicity in the wrecking of the Farmers National bank of Vergennes, was released yes terday from the Addison county jail.
 Ketcham occupied the position of teller in the bank and assistant to the cashier, David H. Lewis, who, like Ketcham. was sentenced to seven years imprisonment following the dis covery of shortage of about $5000O in 1902. Ketcham has served five years and two months, the remainder of his sentence having been cancelled through good behavior and particular ly through his bravery in preventing the escape of fellow prisoners.
 It has been said that in all the his tory of criminal affairs in Vermont there has never been a federal prison CT in whom so much public interest has centered as has been shown in the case of Ketcham.