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Ex-RNp. HousrI HnRr.
Former New Havener Returns for Ex-
 erclses at Yale.

Lorenza W. Housel, Yale '97, and Yale law school 1900. for five years past of Humboldt, la, where he is success fully engaged in the practice of law, is in town attending the Yale exercises. Mir Housel was for seven years with the Journal and Courier and was a rep- resentative from New Haven to the general assembly in 1901 His large cir- cle of friends here welcome him and are glad to learn of his prosperity. MT. Housel's wife and little daughter are also enjoying the Yale festivities.
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ons.' Pounds, batting in Howes' place, hit over Williams, scoring Slater and Tritchett. Leonard scored on Dexter's out to Church.
 Tho score:
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EXPLOSION OF NATURAL GAS
About 25 Persons Injured and Il House
Blown to Pieces.

Pittsburg, Nov. 15.-AbOut twenty
five persons were injured today, two
fatally and a dwelling house torn to
pieces, when an explosion of natural
cas- occurred in a house located at
1O3 Elm street this city. In the
fire which followed two firemen were
severely burned. About fourteen 9th
er persons in the neighbOrhOOd re
ceived injuries. Apparently gas had
been leaking in a kitchen stove all
night.
Early today when a match was
struck in the lower portion of the
house to light the stove there was a
terrific explosion The house was
torn to pieces. The roof was blown
high into the air AMI the front and
rear Of the dwelling collapsed. Mrs.
Grossman and jacob Bergerman, q
boarder, apparently received the full
force of the explosion, both being
blown from their beds through the
roof. They were fatally injured by the
subsequent fall and fire.
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WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE

New York. November 15.-R G..
Dun and Company's Weekly Review
Eot Trade tomorrow will say:
liberia receipts of gold from abroad
and a large increase in bank note cir
EQUATION tend to relieve the GHanciaI
stress at New York. but he interior
Us now feeling the scarcity Of eurxenMx
and commercial activity Is retarded 80
some extent. Dispatches from leading
Iclties indicate conservatism in prspar-
Iation for future business and irFegu-
llarity in collections. with most avor-
iable news from agricultural sections
in which the crops are being market
ed as freely as the supply OF money
WIN permit. Return to normal eondi-
ltons Will be fastened by large eI-
lports or farm products. supplying
~Icredits abroad upon which tho much
NEEDED sold may he imported.
Urinary markets for cotton goods
lare quiet, although the mills are stib
wei occupied following old contract.
IReports Of the closing Of wooden mills
lshould not be given undue signH-
icance, more or less die machinery 1e-
ling customary at this time OF the ytar.
land no additional new business Is I, be
Expected until clothiers begin TO Jend
duplicate orders.
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ALL RECORDS hRE BROKEN
Investors Make Enormous PuI-
Chases of Securities
Take Advantage of Low Prices Of
standard Sccuritic>-Iransfer De
paPtmcnts OF Corporations Working
Day and Night-Relicf 10 Money
Stringcncy.

New York, November 15.-NeveT IL
the history of Wall street has there
been such enormous purchases of Sc
curities by investors in odd lots and
the transfer books OF railroad and
industrial corporations stocks show
record breaking numbers of new share
holders. The present low market
prices of standard securities is respon-
sible.
The New Central railroad and sever
al other companies report that the
numbers Of stockholders have nearLy
doubled in the last year. The transfer
departments of all corporations are
working day and night to keep MP
with their work. Where a transfer
stock is usually effected in two days,
delays of a week are now not IN
common.
The distribution of stock to people
Of moderate means fOretells certain
relief for the monetary situation for
brokerage houses state today that
these purchases are made outright
with cash withdrawn from safety de-
nOsit vaults or with certified checks
These sums, ranging in amounts from
500 to $40, 900 and in the aggregate
will total several millions Of dollars.
/ Bankers welcome the small investor
for his appearance betOkens a firm
| conviction that the cOuntry'S indus,
! trial well being will be maintained.
James L. Carter. who is in charge
of the transfer department Of J. P
Morgan & Co, said today that the pur
chases of small lots Of stocks was
breaking all records.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
RAILWAY MIN STRIKE
Want Increase OF Wages and Rein
statement of Discharged Men.

Want Increase OF Wages and Rein
statement Of Discharged Men.
Louisville, KY, November 1.-THE
union men employed by the Louisville
Street Railway company went ON
strike today for an increase in wages
and the reinstatement Of several dis
charged men. The company employs
AGO men, of whom 900 are members
of the Amalgamated Association OF
Street Railway employees A few
cars were loaded with police. Suburb
an ears are at a standstill. The disor-
DERBY element was IN evidence shortly
after noon. At Second and Chestnut
streets distractions were placed on
the rails and another barricade COM
posed of stones, tree boxes and logs
was built across the street at Floyd
and Walnut streets. A crowd OF
200 persons hooted the police who
were called to remove the obstruction.
SIXTEEN arrests had been made at
noon. The police regulations in the
down town district were so rigid that
nobody was permitted to stand for a
mou7nuf M any cfraaf aopuor
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
SECRETED IN HAY.
Peculiar Way i'm Which Mr.. KONG
Found Burglar in His Store.

store for the night, Mr.. II. ". kOnig,
whose place of business is on Fourth
and Bladen streets punched into a
pile Of hay stored in the rear Of his
store with a pitch fork and on imvesti-
eating the obstacle that was struck
It was found that the pitch fork had
hit a young negro, who was hid in
the hay, his name being William Hen
ry James. James lives in Brooklyn
and both Of his legs are cut off at the
knee. He was arrested but on ac-
count of his condition the young ne
gro had to be taken to the hospital
for treatment.
It will be recalled that several
weeks ago Mr.. Konig'S store was rob-
bed and the impression her was that
the thief had secreted himself in the
hay until the store closed and then
came forth to select at leisure what
goods he wanted. Since that time
every night ON closing Mr.. KONG
has made it a practice to shove a pitch
fork into the pile and last night he
caught his prize.
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Proceedings in Yesterdays Session Of
American Federation OF Labor.

Norfolk, Va, NOV. 15.-The Anne
rlcan Federation of Labor today ap-
proved the annual report of it's sec
| rotary, Morrison, which showed a bal
ance on hand october LIST, 1907, OF
S127491e, this being an increase of
| $19,369 over the year 1906.
The federation adopted resolutions
as follows:
Directing it's legislative committee to
use every influence to bring about &C
ton in the Sixtieth congress for the
increase Of ~pOstoffice clerks pay.
Starting a campaign to expedite and
systematic the regulation of convict
| labor.
Calling upon congress for a small
parcel post law as a relief from the
express company monopolies."
Authorizing the executive council
to deal with the question of appoint
ing organizers to teach immigrants
in their W language the ideas of
unionism and asking that the the
atrical syndicates' be included as as
aInendable under the antitrust laws
lin restraint of trade.
Resolutions calling upon congress
to give navy yard employees injured
while in pursuit OF their duty the same
remedy at law in damages as injured
persons in private employment and
those calling for the legalizing of sucn
half holiday for navy yard employees
IN July, August and September of
each year were referred back to com.
m1ttees for revision SO as to include
all classes of government employ
ees.
New resolutions presented call for
Il hours work only out of each "a by
all masters, pilots and engineers, on
American vessels; an investigation OF
the telegraph companies, federal of.
f1cials to have charge of all national
campaign funds: states to defray all
preliminary election expenses; de-
barring from labor unions all not
qualified to vote; election of all Judges
state and federal by the people, build
ing and maintenance of a federal
sanltarlum, every possible war against
the American Tobacco Co.; to abolish
Objectionable efficiency cards in nav
yards; compelling all railroad and
transportation tickets to be made in
Interchangeable; preventing injunctions
against ticket scalpers and calling for
federal laws against any combination
producing artificial scarcity in white
paper Tor
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
241 $3.50 BALES RECEIVED
Years Cotton Business For Ey-
seeds Former Record
Exports to Date Amount to 2OG.42z
Bales, Compared With 1C3,445 Bales
Last Year-TWO Arrivals of SchOOn-
erS and One Clearance.

Cotton receipts for the present sea-
son are far in advance OF last season
to the corresponding date, the gain in
favor of this years arrivals at this
Port amounting to nearly 10000 bales.
From the weekly stock report posted
yesterday afternoon at the Chamber o.
Commerce interesting figures concern
ing the cotton business were revealed.
Not only has the seasons business
far exceeded that of last year but near
ly every day the days receipts show
most gratifying gains.
Yesterday there arrived at this port
S265 bales, compared with 1856 bales
on the same day a year ago. The
largest number of bales to arrive on
one road was 26O1, Via w. c. & A,
followed by 211 over the w. and W ::
1913 over the A. and Y; 1877 over the
Carolina Central and So Over the Will
mingtOn and Newbern
The receipts for the present month
up to date are shown to have been
q ,223 bales against 12,7S7 for the same
time last year, this bringing the sea-
sons receipts, from September LIST to
Date, to PAL ,635 bales while the re-
ceipts last season for the same period
were only 1S1, 692.
During the present month the total
domestic and foreign exports have
amounted to 27,019 bales falling slight
ly behind the exports for the CORE
spending time last year which reached
2S,477, but the total seasons exports
206, 427 bales, are far in advance Of
last seasons shipments, which were
only 1853, AS bales.
The stock statement shows 1S,440
bales ashore and 1886 bales afloat,
giving a total of "a, 1856 against 1922
at the same time last year.
The American schooner Eliza H.
Scribner, Captain Dodd, arrived in port
yesterday from New York with 4
cargo of garbage tankage, consigned to
the VIrsiniaLCarolina Chemical Co.,
the vessel reporting to c. d. Maf1tt.
Another arrival yesterday was the
schooner Bayard Hopkins which came
in from Philadelphia with a cargo
of fertilizer for the Wilmington Com
press and Warehouse Company, the
Hopkins also reporting to c. D. Maj
fit.
The schooner Aetna, 295 tons, Cap
tain Chapman, was cleared yesterday
hr n r. NJ "
5000 feet of lumber shipped by the
Cape Fear Lumber CO
The %schooners J. s. Hoskins and Har
riet Kerlin which recently cleared with
cargoes Of lumber from this port pass
ed over the bar at Southport yester-
day morning on the trip to New
York.
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PRINT CLOTH MARKET

General Dizziness Reported-Buyers
cancelliDg Contracts-Prices In
changed From Last Week.
a River, Mass, November Is
Sales in the printcloth market are
estimated at 5000 pieces. General
dullness prevails In the local cloth
market.
The American Printing Company,
which concern has been holding GU.
for a bid of 5 IA for regulars for the
past three or our weeks and which
has helped materially in sustaining
prices for narrow goods, withdrew
this bid from the market early in the
week.
Since then, however, prices have
continued unchanged from last weeks
quotations. 1t is reported that mills
are being somewhat disturbed by buy
ers' cancelling contracts and some of
them wanting TO put of deliveries.
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Outburst Oh the Sun.

Oxford, England. November IA
remarkable outburst on the sun was
observed by Professor Ambu. director
OF the Radcliffe observatory at lI:45
this morning. An immense flame shot
up at the rate of over 10000 miles n
minute until it reached a height OF
$4,000 miles. At 10 minutes past IL
it broke into fragments and disap-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
Leaves for Salisbury.
Especial to The Messenger.

NopEtIt@ 10 IHt MesSFNBtIV
Raleigh, y, C., November 15.-Sta'e
Organizer r. L. Davis. OF tho North
ICarolinl Anti-Saloon League. left to-
day for Salisbury. to work in the
big anti-saloon campaign there. He
expects several eastern towns which
now allow liquor TO be sold TO go dry
Roanoke. Rapids, Enfield and Grafton.
He says Dunn wants TO abolish its
l~dispensary. He finds a powerful pro-
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indirectly. You say you voted foF
saloons because you thought it better
than the dispensary. Well, when you
get the ~dispensary yoJ' are in the bus
mess directly. You admit that II -
wrong to sell whiskey by taking the
bar room keepers money for his IL
cense. If it hadn't been for special
legislation the liquor shops would
lave been put out Of business as a
common nuisance. The very fact that
We give license acknowledges that II
is illegal. The saloon has no right.
People say if it would prohibit J
would vote for prohibition There is
not a law in Gods word that proAi-
otis. 1t says Thou shalt not Kill,
| steal, etc, but that 0 not keep it
from being done.
the good people Of this towr want
! to get out of the iiuror business.
Il thank God for the stand taksn
by the railroad comranies and large
| corporations OF this country. They
don't want the drunkeD man.
There is only one way to get out
of the liquor business and that is at the
ballot 0 EVeyy man who goes to
the ballot box and votes for prohibi-
ton he is or.t of the liquor business
whether th,, town goc2 dry or not.
"The greatest curse that has ever
come 70 any home is Z drunken and
dissU,ated husband or son. No one
caD return to the wives and mothers
OF this land the tears that have been
! shed on this account.
Here the evangelist asked no"
many men in the audience wanted to
see the saloons run out forever to
stand. Nearly every man in the large
audience stood up.
Then Mr., Ham read a petition to the
board Of aldermen calling for a pro-
kibitiOn election. These petitions were
passed through the audience and sign
ed by those present. When the count
Of the signers was asceTtained it was
found that 38S Of the men present had
signed it. When his made known to
the audience it was greeted by loud
applause.
It is the plan Of the committee to
make q systematic canvass Of each
precinct for other signatures, SO thai
by the end Of neX week they hope
to have the required One-third Of the
registered voters of the city-the num-
Der which is necessary for an election
to be called.
The manifestation Of interest in the
prohibition movement which was made
during Mr.. Hams address at the Acad-
envy Of Music last Sunday afternoon
decided the executive committee to
launch the local opti"n campaign. Mr.
Ham was consulted and said that h
would turn the revival in that direc-
ton.
The petition will be submitted to the
board of aldermen at their first meet
ing in January. If they order the cleo
ton the vote will Ce taken 80 days
after they pass on the petition. The
licenses that will be issued January
1, 1908, will expire June Goth. It is
the hope of the prohibitionists that
the saloons will close forever in viii.
mington on June the 3Oth. .
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SEVEN KILLED IN COLLISION
Both Engines Destroyed and Mail Car
Burned.

Sault Ste Marie, Mich, November
1S.-Seven people were killed in a
wreck on the Canadian Pacific railway
at noon yesterday crashed into a light
engine which wa running wild de-
railing two ears and destroying both
engines.
Among the injured are Thomas Fer
done, of New York, and Engineer
Young's fireman. The latter probably
will die. The mail car took fire and
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
ASK FOR ELECTION

Petition Asking Aldermen 10 Call Eiec-
ton Signed by 38s Wen Last Night.
Active Canvass 10 be Carried on in
the City-Petition, if Signed by re-
cuired Number. VIII h. Presented
nj lamar, Meeting Of the Board.
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And Quit His bog in tic Manager"
RoIc-Bryan Could Defeat Aay
Other Candidate by Knitting IIim
a lie Did Parkcr-Could No Lon
ger Create the Enthusiasm lie For
mcrIy Did.

Boone. Iowa. November 1---Cclonel
Henry Watterson. asked tbday h. the
Associated Press for his opinion ca
william J. Bryan's tentative accept
ance of the democratic presidential
nomination, declared that he had la
bored with Bryan 10 have aim declise
the nomination and to quit his deg
in the manager" act at rhis time. Col
onel Wattersou realized that Mr. Bry-
an had il in hrs power to demand the
leadership of the democratic party in
1908 or defeat any other candidate
BY knitting him, as he die Parker
Bryan's acceptance was no more.
than ne had expectah, however great
L. ne regretted the action. because he
thought Bryan could no longer create
enthusiasm as he had done before the
people too many times.
Asked about the assertion often
! made as to who the next president
| would be. Roosevelt or Bryan, Colonel
WattersOn said that h nomination or
Roosevelt Was all Bryan supporters
wanted because they could then go to
the people on the third term slogan.
| Bryan could carry New England in
such a campaign. he thought Roose-
Welt. by such an act would Mexican
lize this government. holding himself as
greater than Washington.
AS for himself, much as he disliked
to do SO, Colonel Watters0n would
vote for Bryan against Roosevelt IN
such a dilemma. He believed. how
ever. that Roosevelt would decline an
other nomination. as he had nothing
to gain and the republican party had
many men Of presidential Calihre. He
mentioned especially Taft, Hughes
and Crane Of Massachusetts. He said
Senator Crane would max 4 stronc
! eicepsiaW0GafM. COg-cMb csnrdlu
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Cleveland, O., November 15-In an
open letter to William Jennings Bry-
an. expressing satisfaction with Mr..
BrZan's announcement Of yesterday.
Mayor Tom L. JohnsCn says he will
cndaavOr to secure an Ohio delegation
to the national democratic convention
that will call pOn Mr.. Bryan again
to be demOCraCy's candidate for the
presidency. Mayor Johnson declares
he is not an aspirant for the nomina
ton
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
MIR. BRYAN'SkCHON NOT YET SETTLED

No Rcpiy Yet Received ~ >upcrin-
tclIdcnt Isotcrt~oa-CcE;ain Alder
men Suggested u Possible ioHnpro-
mise Yesterday Which Was Vetoed
d, oticr Members Before There
Mas a Changc oT Acceptance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-11-19
FLAG AND POLE PRESENTED
Interesting Exercises at the UnIof
School

Presentation speech by Mayor spring
or and Acceptance by y. II. Bethany.
.Ir. I~q-Ni~iIur~ Interested in
Work oil the Pupils.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-09-05
Definition of a Boy Car.

Not all the instruction given to young
railroad men Is intensely serious. The
following definition was recently Of
fered to a beginner: "a box car be-
longs to the fowl family. During the
spring and summer months it can be
found In nearly every part of the coun-
try. Its favorite haunts being railway
tracks. and 1t is easy to capture. In
the autumn, however, like certain 9TH
er fowls, 1t goes into Information or
flies to other climes. Scattered in
stances are known where specimens
are captured during the autumn
months. A lasso or a we'll creased
switch crew is sometimes used In snar-
ing the box cas, but main strength is
the best weapon. In any case the
hunter must be very wary, as any
noise like the fluttering of a waybill
will make the quarry disappear Some
railways own large f1ocks of domesti-
Gated box cars, but they are carefully
guarded during the closed season. The
wild box car when caught and fairly
we'll loaded becomes perfectly station
ary."-San Francisco Argonaut.
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A TERRIBLE BIG TROUT.
He Was Cunning and a Hard csss,
Too, Was This Fish.

We were camping In northern Wis
consin, and one evening after our sup
per OF black bass and bacon we lay
under the pine trees smoking and tell
ing fish stories In which 1t was always
the digger bass" that got away. The
guide listened with the gravity of a
man who knew ali about fish stories,
and finally he knocked the ashes from
his pipe and told us a story
"Once long ago." he said there was
a terrible big trout up In Smith s
pool. Every fellow who fshed In the
pool had hooked him one time or an
other, but he always got away, bit of
the snood or something
81 tried to catch him myself a dozen
times One day l was sitting by the
pool when, splash, a young robin
futtered out of the nest on a limb
above the pool into the water below.
In a minute there was a rush, a CLEAN
OF yellow, and the old trout had
thrown himself clear out of the water
and had swallowed the young robin
whole.
what did | do? Well. | climbed
that tree In short order got another
one of those young robins, baited my
hook with 1t and threw 1t In just as
lightly as I could. In a minute there
was another rush, another CLEAN of
yellow, and again the old trout jump
ed clear out of the water as he swal-
lowed the robin, and In a minute more
l had him hooked.
at was lucky wasn't fishing with
any of this newfangled rigging these
boys use and that l wasn't bothered
with reel to look after, or l would
have lost him sure. AS 1t was 1t took
me a devil of time to get him out.
Good to eat? Great Scott! We
didn't try to eat him. He was so full
of hooks we sold him for old iron,
you know"
That ended our fish stories for that
night. ]. A. In Chicago Tribune.
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Who Fra Dlavolo Was.

Fra Diavolo was the nickname given
Michele Pezza, celebrated renegade
monk and Italian brlgand. who was
born In 1850. 1t should be noted that
the opera of Auber has nothing In COM
mon with FRI Diavolo hut the name.
Pezza was first a stocking weaver,
then a soldier In the Neapolitan army,
then soldier In the pope's service, and
finally he became monk. but was ex-
PEELED. In the mountains of Calabria
Pezza took to brigandage, and such
was his notoriety and so great were his
crueltles that the people nlcknamed
him Fra Diayolo 1t Is consoling to
know that he was eventually executed
Ia IS00.-New York American.
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Quay and His Letters.

The late Senator NJ. S. Quay OF Penn
sylvania kept all the letters his constlt.
uents wrote to him asking for fayors
He had stacks of them when his last
fight for the senate came along Then
he sorted out the letters, eliminating
those from people who were dead. and
on the back of each letter wrote
Dear John or Bill-Do you remember
when you wrote me this letter and do you
remember that | did what was asked?
want your help now in my fight for the
senate. Can l have It?
The politicians In Pennsylvania say
those letters. mailed to the original
senders with Quay's request on the
backs of them, had as much as any one
thing to do with Quay's winning his
f1ght.-Saturday Evening Post.