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r .DUE WELMINGTO MESSiSNGiSK. Flill Y, AUGUST 17. IVLo 2 lte Messenger. LYNCHING NORTH AND SOUTH. OIL IN STANLY COUNTY. The New York Post says, in speak ing of the recent occurrences in this state, that "there never was a better chance to bring home to the people of the state, and in fact, of the entire south, the truth that lynching is bee tial murder". That is a lesson we think The Post should try to inculcate in the minds of the people of its own section and in other parts of the north and northwest. Lynching is not a crime confined to the south. Some as horrible and unjustifiable crimes of this character have occurred in the states of the north as ever took place in the south, but the northern papers pass them by with scarcely any com ment. They save their denunciation of such crimes for those that occur in our section of the country. In their eyes lynching in the south is a much more barbarous deed than the same crime committed at the north. When done here it is always spoken of by those papers as the work of the best element of the community, no matter what the nature of the mob. A similar offense committed at the north is de scribed by the same papers as having been committed by a gang of the rough element of the community. The men who take the law in their own hands and commit this crime are of the same character in one section of the coun try as in another. The attempt was made to saddle that horrible affair in! Salisbury on the best people of Rowan county. The statement was sent out that the lynching mob was composed of at least three thousand of the rep resentative people of Rowan. Now that the excitement has died down and the truth can be obtained it is learned that the mob did not consist of more than one hundred persons and many of them were from other counties. They were led by an ex-convict from Montgomery county and none of the better class of Rowan were with them. There are occasions when the best' people of a community do take part in a lynching, whether the scene is located in the north or in the south. This is only in the case of one crime and the people take the law into their own hands to save some unfortuna3 woman from being forced to detail her fearful ex perience at a public trial of the brute who assaulted her. In such case one cannot censure the lynchers, no matter how much opposed theoretically to the crime of lynching. Lynching for this crime is as prevalent at the north as in the south, and no one can truth fully say that the people of the south are any more prone to take the law into their own hands in such cases than those of any other section of the country. But the affair at Salisbury was of an entirely different nature and we do not believe any of the best people had a hand in it. The crowd on the street that night num bered two thousand or more, but a large majority of them were trying to quiet the mob of lynchers or were merely sight-seers, brought to the place by curiosity. The actual partic ipants numbered only about one hun dred. What a pity it is that the sher iff's posse and the military company did not make sufficient demonstration of force to overawe the mob bent on breaking into the jail and committing murder. THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS Scientific Summary of. the. Outburst and Its Results. Among the earliest scientists to visit Vesuvius after the late eruption was says the soil is full of oil and natural gas. Big things are expected. The fact that this Pittsburg company has gone to the expense of leasing this large tract of land and preparing to develop the oil and gas business show3 that it believes the product is there. It would not expend so much money on a venture. It will be a great thing for that section of the state if the inves tigation shows oil and gas to exist in amount to make it worth marketing. If these products exist in Stanly they will most likely be found in adjoining counties. The claim has been made for years that there were paying veins of soft coal in Anson county but no efforts have been made to develop them. If this Pittsburg company makes a suc cess of its investment in Stanly it will, no doubt, lead to developing the co.il and oil fields in other sections of the state. That the fields are here waiting development and the making of for tunes for those who put their money in the venture can hardly be denied. Many people will ridicule the idea of North Carolina becoming an oil produc ing state, but it seems there are peo ple outside of the state who have enough faith in her resources in this line to invest their money in devel oping such of her resources. The pro gress of the Pittsburg company and the developments made in its search for oil and gas will be followed with great interest. What a big thing it will be for the state if it is successful. We see from a special to yesterday's Charlotte Observer that well paying oil fields are about to be developed in Stanly county. A Pittsburg firm has leased four thousand acres of land, be-, Dr. Venturino Sabatinl, from whose tween Albemarle and Whitney. Its ex- report the following description of the pert who has examined the ground 1 outburvt and its results has been taken. The eruption brought to a close a phase in the activity of the volcano which had lasted thirty years, during which period the crater formed in 1872 because gradually fil?ad by the quiet welling up of lava in the interior only a few of the eruptions making their effects visible externally, though in course of time the piling up of ma terial changed the profile of the sum mit considerably. Between 5 and 6 a. m. on April 4 a fissure opened on the southeastern siCe of the cone at an altitude of 3,600 feet, an avalanche of blocks of all dimensions destroying the Albergo Firoenza, while a narrow stream of lava flowed down a gully of the moun tainside. At 3 p. rn. the small later al cone fell in, and a dense column of smoke rose above the crator, black ashes falling at Naples in the evening. On April 5 a second fissure opened at a lower level, and a lava stream flowed two and one-half miles to within some 500 yards of Bosco Trecase. On the 6th a still more copious stream poured forth, and by midday of the 7th had approached to about 500 yards from Torre Annunziata. By the evening the main crater began to hurl out hues white hot blocks with the ac companiment of loud detonations and flashes of light, while at the same time a rain of lapilli and ashes began the destruction of Ottajanoj and San Gui? eppe. Earthquake shocks were felt Naples and elsewhere. On the 8th the at-hes, which continued to fall In great quantities, were reddish gray, instead of black, as at first, and were some times so dense as to form a dark pall, rendering artificial light necessary in the daytime. This cloud extended to a distance of 100 miles, while a fall of ashes took place at Venice, Paris, etc. A rough calculation places the total amount of ashes and lapilli which fell at 5,000,000 cubic meters, the place most damaged being Ottajano. The lava streams occupied a sector of thir tv decrees, and evidently had their source at various points of the crater. The three principal ones reached a height of ten to twelve feet, and in places double this amount. This lava very rapidly disintegrated, probably because it was formed of a chaotic mixture of irregular blocks and frag ments. As regards the more general results, Dr. Sabatini points out that, while lesser outbreaks increase the height of the volcano, a catastrophe like that of April last tends to lower it. What ever -may -nave been the case in '79 A. D., we know that this was the re sult in 1631 and 1794, when the cone appeared after the eruptions as if truncated. Similarly, the pointed pro file of March last exists no longer, and the present height seems below that of the crater of 1872, though the reduc tion does not probably exceed 330 feet. Besides this, the whole form and com position of the surface of the moun tain have been changed, the old fis sures having disappeared, whole sec tions of the crater wall fallen in, and the whole surface having been covered with a thick layer of ashes. These still retained a high temperature on April REMINGTON AUTOMATIC SHOT fill P 4 JPIRUCE S30.00.. 1U- Ac A LOXr K So Hon. W. W. Kitchin in the fifth district is to have opposition this time, but we suppose it will be only nomi nal. The republicans have nominated Postmaster Charles A. Reynolds, of Winston, as his opponent. We suppose Mr. Reynolds will accept the nomina tion. Of course he knows he cannot be elected. He will run only for the honor of the thing, for he knows full well that the people of the fifth are not going to turn down that sterling dem ocrat and good man, William W. Kitchin. We wish we were as sure of democratic success in all of the con gressional districts of the state as we are of Mr. Kitchin's election. VOniOIuO AH lilt itaiwiwj .v uuu ;v I :-c Amrr cVil! incprfc ,innthtr. rorks hammer. .-ill v UtCClli cjwvij v.iip.j jhv.m '-"- , .t y . vi i keep pressing the trigger." We have a ful! stock 26 and 28 inch bar-.; V J fied and cvlinder bore. Catalog tree. 1 1M. JACOBI HARDWARE fJ Dcntli of Captain K. Ii. C- Hambley. Salisbury, X. C. August 13. Captain E. B. C. Hambley, Manager of the Whitney Company, a corporation com posed of Pittsburg capitalists, which is developing Whitney Water Power, died at his Salisbury home today "of typhoid fever. Cap. Hambley was an Englisman by birth, 4S years old, but had lived in the south for the p;ist twenty five years. He was intimately known to mining engiSieers all over the world. The Newton Enterprise notes the fact that it is "publishing this week the notice of the administrator of Robert B. Linebarger, colored, of Mountain Creek township. His estate consists of $700 in personal property and three farms. The administrator " " ..T ot is also a colored man," This is not an unusual case, but it serves to show that a colored man may accumulate property if he is industrious and holds on to what he makes. Charlotte Observer. And were constantly slipping down hill or being raised into the air by the wind. Except at the time of the most violent outbursts, the smoke rose quietly from three fissures in three unbroken col umns, accompanied by puffs of smoke still some people tell us that imuch resembling: balls of cotton wool. the south is no place for the negro; that he has no chance here. Grand Duke Nicholas does not want the job of military dictator of Russia. We do not blame him for not being willing to accept the office. He does not care to sacrifice his life just yet for his country's cause. He knows well enough that as dictator he would not live long; that he would soon succumb to the bomb of the anarchist. The First Regiment is now in camp at Morehead. We hope the boys have got enough regulation clothes to gD around. J)av and Daniel to bo the Orators. Columbus, 0., August 13. Justice W. R. Day, of the United States Su preme court and Senator John W. Dan iels, of Virginia, are to be the orators at the dedication of the McKinley Me morial which the city nnd county arc jointly erecting at the mainentrance of. the state house grounds, which is set for September 14, the fiftf anniversay of the death of the president. A Mystery Solved. "How to keep off periodic attacks of biliousness and habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. King's New Life Pills solved for me," writes John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind. The on ly pills that are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to everybody or money refunded. Only 2oc at R. R. Bellamy's dru, 16 J31.VAC. Owning to their great density, these rapidly fall to the ground, and as the density and weight increase, give rise to the avalanches of hot ashes which the occurrence is now definitely estab lished. There are really nothing but the so-called "glowing clouds" of very restricted mobility, and the phenome non may occur whenever the necessary conditions are present, and may occa sionally lead to destructive results. These emissions may account in part for the high temperature retained by the ashes, which seems due also to emisions of steam at certain spots. The emission of nitrogen or other poisonous gas seems to have been quite an exceptional occurrence. Although the accounts of destruction were in many cases exaggerated, Dr. Sabatini considers that the damage may be reckoned at certainly more than 1,000.000 pounds. Georgraphi cal Journal. WILMINGTON MAX RORBED Xegroes in Goldsboro Arrested on Complaint of M. Moakins Negro to bo Tried for Murder. It is reported that labor will oppose Congressman Longworth. From his long and frequent vacations it may be assumed that he is opposed to labor. New York World. Russia has had two strikes that looked to revolution, and the second begins to look as if it would fail like the first. "Will it be a case of "three strikes and out?" New York Tribune. INSURANCE The man who insures his life is wise for his family. The man who insures his health is wise both for his family and himself. Ycu may insure health by guard ing k. It is worth guarding;. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and mani fests itself in innumerable ways TAKE And eavo your health. &m CT n a ! ft J L .3 M 14 il -VIA (Special to The Messenger.) Goldsboro, X. C, August 13. S. M. Meakin, from Wilmington, was in the ' mayor's court this morning appearing j against two negroes who robbed him on Saturday night. The names of the negroes are Roscoe Underwood and Jack Hood. From the evidence it ap pears that Meakins went to sleep at some place in the northern part of the city, and the negroes came along and relieved him of his watch, some money and his coat. The negroes were bound over to court in the sum of two hundred dollars. They failed to give bond and were sent to jail to await the next term of superior court which convenes here next week. Fussel Brothers will run their ex cursion to Wilmington tomorrow. This is the first excursion from this section to Wilmington this year and the indi- ! cations are now that the train will be crowded. When superior court convenes .next week Paul Johnson will be put on trial for his life for the killing of an other negro in this city last spring. The murder was one of the most cold blooded ever committed in the county. Johnson met his victim on the street at night and blew the top of his head off with a shot gun. Johnson seems indifferent to his fate, and gets surly when approached on the subject. B30LUTE CUM Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of SiiCE Li IX CHUKCII AT OYSTKK HAY Rsoort of Committee of Association. Bar URGE FEDERAL COITROL onum (Tank Jiaue c'iir .u r.-v. Who Has Made Repealed At- j tempts to Ruttonltoie Irvldriu or j Mr-. Uoovolt. Refuses to Yaat j Adjoining Row and is ' Forcibly Fjected by IVIier. i " i Oyster Bay. N. Y.. August 12 Mi s I Asi L. Esac, who is summering in Oyster Bay for the purpose of ir.tt:- ! viewing the president cr Mrs !Uoc- j velt on what she declares is 'a matter of life and death," created a scene dur- 1 a i V ing the service Also Establishment of a Bureau of Insurance. in Christ Episcopal Mis Esac, cr Miss Important Recommendations Made. Stricter Incorporation Laws in the Several States are Urged and AI;o the Knactment of a Federal Statute Providing for Supervision of Inter state Transactions in Insurance. State Insurance Departments are Classed as Sinecures and Political Prizes, Offering a Fine Field for Fraud and Graft. See Fac-Slmile Wrapper Below. Tery small tad to take as sagax. FOR HEADACHE. CARTER'S OlTTLE IVER PILLS. t ts Caats i PurtJy VfetreCa&le. FOR DIZZINESS. FDR BIUOUSRESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CQHSTIPATlOn. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Omaha Neb. August 13. The report of the committee on insurance laws of the American Bar association to be submitted to the conventicn of the Association at St. Paul August 29, was made public today by Ralph W. Breck enridge of Omaha, chairman of the committee. The report makes the fol lowing recommendations: 1 That the insurance committee be directed to draft anl report to the next meeting of the association a bill that shall safeguard the Interests of the life companies, and their policy hold ers, but which shall require deferre.l dividends cn life policies to be bienni ally apportioned, credit d and certified to the holders of such policies. 2. The repeal of the so-called re ciprocal tax laws. 3. The repeal of the valued tax laws. 4. The creation in each state of the office of fire marshall. 5. Stricter incorporation laws in the several states, with particular re ference to the capital stock and stock holders obligations insurance compan ies. 6. The enactment of a federal stat ute forbidding the use of mails to per sons, associations, co-partnership or corporations conducting any kind of insurance business in the United States, who are not licensed to transact such business by the states, where such per sons, associations, copartnerships or associations are domiciled, or under whose laws such corporat:ons are crc; t ed. 7. The enactmsnt of a federal stat ute providing for the supervision of tha interstate transactions in insurance Appended to the report is a copy of a bill proposed for enactment by con gress to establish in the department of commerce and labor a bureau of in urance. Of State Insurance Departments the report says: "The trouble is that the state in surance departments are sinecures. They are political prizes. Knowledge of the insurance business U the last thing repuired. They are mere collection agencies. They offfer the met seductive opportunities for fraud and graft that exists in the United i States." Although denying that this charge applies to all state insurance depart ments, the report cities the disclos ures made in New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri and specific ins'aaefs t3 prove its general correctness. State Insurance commissioners ar3 quoted as saying that thev are power less to accomplish the objects for which their offices were created and the re port adds: "As a matter of fact the system of state supervision vs administered un der the laws now in force is a misera ble failure. The honest and intelligent commissioner is barred from effective supervision by the very laws he is bound to enforce, which afford golden opportunities that dishonest cfficiils have been quick to grasp." The report then quotes figures to show that the great mass of insurance business is interstate in character, and girs many authorities to show that the popular demand is for federal rather than state control. church fjday. Ca"te, as her name is supposed to W, has attended every church service the president has attended sines his ai- ; rivlal here in July. She las climbed Sagamore Hill on foot several tim-s. enly to he turned away by the secrtt service men. She presented herself early at the church today and took a seat directly behind the pew usually occupied by the Roosevelt family. When I'sher James Duffy requested her to relinquish this seat she refused. Duffy forcibly removed her to the rear of the church and Mis Fsae says tore her ?ovn . so doing: For this aei sue jaier api iei lor a tari;uii ioi Duffy but v.-as infused. In the rear of the church Miss E?ac refused to sit down. A secret service agent stood beside her and during the services she made no less than a doz en attempts to get past him. As the president was leaving the church three secret service men surrounded Miss Esac. but she shouted: "Mr. President, Mr. President, Pres ident Roosevelt, wen't you speak to me a moment? The nresident turned his head as he passed but did not paurr Miss ! Esac says her watch chain was broken in this scrimmage with the secret service men and her watch fell to the floor. The president was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Quentin and Rep resentative and Mrs. Longworth. Miss Esac has stated to acquaintances she has made while here that she was to have been married in the White House at the time Miss Alice Roose velt became Mrs. Longworth; that she was to have married a high govern ment official, and that it was this wrong she seeks to redress. When the president's carriage had departed Miss Esac was allowed to go. It was then she sought a warrant for Duffy. She says she will stay in Oyster Bay until she accomplishes her purpose. Representative and Mrs. Longworth expect to leave for Washington and Cincinnati tomorrow. Save both bv s when you ncei in the vay 0f Hardw The pesky fly i be x it h us rl he gets inside stay. Meet hA good set of vkirJ and keep him J rn I 1 u rXIOX OF TWO PARTIES Indications Point to Amalgamation of the Octoborlsts With Uie New Party of IJogcneratlonistls. CURE S!CK HEADACHE.. KHU Ills Divorced Wife, Then Hi ruse If St. Louis, August 13. A special to The Post Dispatch frm Union City, Tenn.. says just before daylight'today, Joseph Castleman, living in Weakley county, called at the home of his di vorced wlte and killed her with a shot gun, and instantly killed himself with the gun. He was 60 years of age and she 50. St. Petersburg, August 13. Indica tions at the meeting of the Central Committee of the Old Octoberist par ty, which closed today, point to the amalgamation of the Octoberists with the New Peaceful party of refenera tionistf and the acceptance of the pro gramme drawn up by Count Heyden, M. Guichokff and others. All the speakers at the meeting of the com mittee expressed themselves a.s in fa vor of this xlan and a resolution was adopted to transmit an appeal to local committees; to request a vote on the question of union of the two parties. It had been hoped that the conserva tive wing of the constitutional demo crats would join in this movement, though some hot heads among the octoberfsts were disposed to insi.vt upon formal abjudication of the con stitutional democratic party on the ground that it had prostituted itself to revolutionary ideas and shipwrecked the parliament. The r-oiice of St. Petersburg today captured a wooden model of a field gun which had been used for th training of a company of revolutionary artillery. The police also txrized a fac tory which was engaged In making cashier occurred here todav. a w shells and bombs. A daring robbery of a railway drr-sed woman approached the cafn ier's window, shoved a revolver under the roc of the official, and took $1. 000 in money with which she ecaped. RU3IOK IS GROUNDLESS :utox Bl Now Listen thox Cigar- an- ilu- n,! knoxTlrdm" .f iar. in a crank n U' -uImi from a -nikr. :m Mamlixtint and imn- Ktort'ke-pT" -laihlj" iH a large proii! dii rx:-l SMOKE They are tin- rl ' tiling you "iii -m-.Lr M in ami da ut b familiar with. If i real Cljar qualit) lnM of your dalr. F. E. HASHAt Southern Will Not Buy Norfolk and Southern. Persons.who claim to fully know the situation say that there is no founda tion for the rumor that the Southern Railway contemplates buying the Nor folk &, Southern and that the visit of Vice President Andrews, of the Southern, to General Manager Gannon, of the Norfolk & Southern, was merely social, Mr. Andrews having promised Mr. Gannon that he would take a trip over the road at his first opportunity and see the old towns in that sec tion. Raleigh special to Charlotte Chronicle. What a trying time Anthony Corn stock mu?t have when he goes on the witness stand and undertakes to tell the naked truth. Washington Post. If ycu it t-ftJS turns to f-ti.i-iM- r If you are tw that you eat&r , tneujb Pep ft people ha7 -I U nnii Dyspepsia found in taabltthi------ to digest 5 9 be eaten. h--;- dizest&r.t. c-. J m sue builds Heartburn. Pa-t Digests Wl an- ! Il III 9 For Sale tJ a t'- U i
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