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- : I THE WTLBIINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, ' AUGUST. 9, 1901, - THE EMPRESS FREDERICK THE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF GERMANY DIED YESTERDAY EVENING. 'Tk DEATH WHILE EXPECTED, SUDDEN The Emperor and Empress Aujru&ta Victoria la the Sick Room at the Time Xo Official Announcement of the Death Yet Made In London Pre matnro Notice Given at The Uacnie. Our Government Officially Notllled by Ambassador "White. Cronberg. August 5. The dowager empress died at 6:15 o'clock p. m., this evening. Her death was somewhat sudden. At 4 o'clock her physicians reported no change in her condition. Emperor William and the Empress Au gusta Victoria were in the sick room most of the day. They were all round the bedside when the dowager empress passed away quietly. Professors Ren- vers and Spielhagen also were in the room. The llag on the castle was im mediately half masted. At S o'clock this evening. Emperor William conducted the members of the dowager empress' household into the death chamber, and led them, one by one. nast the bedside, to take a last farewell of thei - mistress. , The papers assert that the dowager empress long ago adopted her husband's motto: "Learn to Suffer AVithout Com plaining." She recently ordered that the public should be excluded from the grounds of Frederichshof, saying: "The world shall not learn what I am suffer ing. I will not be pitied In my misfor tune." Closely following the announcement of the death from the castle the church bells were tolled and the flags half mast ed. Visiters to the castle began in scribing their names in a book placed for the purpose in the hall It is said that the cause of death was dropsy, accompanying the cancer. The remarkable vitality of the dowager empress astonished her physicians. She retained consciousness to the end. The castle grounds are now surrounded by soldiers and patrolled by hussars and mounted police. London, August 5. The news of the death of the Dowager Empress Freder ick spread slowly in London. The Associated Press gave Buckingham pal ace. Marlborough house and the Man sion house the first information that her majesty had passed away. As all mem bers of the royal family and many of the officials are out of town for the holidays, it is probable that no official recognition of her majesty's death will he issued before morning. The bells of St. Paul's cathedral will he tolled when Home Secretary Rithcie officially informs the lord mayor of the death of the dowager empress. The officials of the German embassy had not officially heard -.he news at 7:30 o'clock p. m. Their colleagues at The Hague, on the other hand, received the news of the death of the dowager empress before it had occurred and half masted the legation flag at about 3 p. m. The foreign minister and the members of the legation here, cabled the legation at The Hague Avhen the mistake was discovered and the half masted flag was hastily removed. Cowes. August 5. King Edward re ceived the official news of the death of Dowager Empress Frederick on board the Royal yacht, almost simultaneously with the receipt of the Associated Press dispatch in London. The yacht's flag was immediately half masted. King Edward and Queen Alexandra will leave here for Marlborough house tomorrow. It is not likely they will start for Berlin until AVednesday. AVashington, August 5. A dispatch was received at the state department today from Ambassador White, an nouncing the death of the dowager em press of Germany. The dispatch was sent to the president at Canton. Fatal Effect of Blockade Liquor Roanoke. Ara., August 3. Two farm ers named AVilliam Mallory and Zig Jones, residing near each other at the head of Thompson valley in Tazwell county, started home together from a distillerv at Little Valley late Thursday night. After having gone fifteen miles the two men are supposed to have quar reled and in a difficulty which ensued Mallory was shot to death. Jones made his escape across the state Jlne into West Virginia. Mallory s body was iert in the road until vesterday evening. A quantity of whiskey was found at the scene of the murder, juanory was a viio-HK- rpsncrtpd farmer and leaves a - o large family. A Wife 44 We have four children. With the first three I suffered almost unbearable pains from '12 to J 4 hours, and had to be placed under the influence of chloroform. I used three bottles of Mother's Friend before our last Says: child came, which is a strong, fat and healthy boy, doing my housework up . 0 i to within two Lours nf fcirth- arid stif- feredbutafewhard (Vj j pains. This lini- 1 YJ UCXll 1 Hut lAUW est remedy ever mad?." Mother's Friend will do for every woman what it did for the Minnesota mother who writes the above let ter. Not to use it during pregnancy is a mtstaW to be paid for in pain and suffering. Mother's Friend equips the patient with a strong body and clear intellect, which in y turn are imparted to the child It relaxes the mtvV5 and allows them to expand It ' - relieves morning sicV and nervousness . It puts all, the organs concerned in perfect condition for the final hour, so that the actual labor is short and practically painless. Dan ger of rising or hard breasts is altogether avoided, and tecovery is merely a matter oi a few days Drajzlsts sell Mother Friead for $1 a bottl. Hie Bradfleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Send for our tx HlwtraUd bock. HOUSES WRECKED BY EXPLOSION A Terrible Disaster In Philadelphia. Loss of Life Yet Unknown Philadelphia, August 5. A terrific explosion In a block Of six buildings on lows: k Locust streetNo. 1008, House completely wrecked five of the struc tures and caused the death of from ten to twenty or more persons. Over two score of others were more or. less seriously injured. Some of those tak en to the hospital will die. It is esti mated that at least thirty-five persons were In the five buildings when the ex plosion occurred, and the exact number of dead will probably not be known for twenty-four hours. The buildings were occupied as fol lows: Locust street No. 100$, House man's pool and billiard rooms; No. 1010, Morris Itosenthal's second hand cloth ing store, occupied by Rosenthal, hi3 wife and five children; No. 1012, AVilliam Jones, colored, restaurant, occupied by Jones and about fifteen boarders; No. 1014. George McClemmy's grocery store, occupied by McClemmy, clerk and servant girl; No. 1016, Patrick Quig ley's grocery store, occupied by Quig ley, his wife, three children and his uncle; No. 101S, Albert Mountain's grocery and meat store, occupied by Mountain, his mother, sister and clerk. The explosion occurred about 9:30 o'clock. What exploded and how it happened is not known at this time, but it is believed to have been a barrel of gasoline in one of the three grocery stores. With the exception of No. 100S the front walls of the building were blown outward Into the street, while the floors and the roofs were blown up ward and fell straight to the ground. Almost every building in a radius of two blocks about the scene of the ex plosion had window panes shattered and was otherwise damaged. Every building on the opposite side of Locust streets was more or less wrecked, but none of them fell. A terrible cry went up from the ruins the moment the explosion occurred. AVomen, children and men, occupants of the wrecked houses, could be seen crawling from the debris while the ag onizing cries of others were heard in the wreckage. From all the surround ing buildings injured people came run ning and fell in the street unconscious. To add to the horror, fire broke out in the debris the moment it settled to the ground, and in less than five min utes the great pile was burning fiierce ly from end to end- A general alarm was turned in for fire apparatus and ambulances. In the meantime, the work of rescue was voluntarily begun by those in the neighborhood that were not injured. Here and there a person was dragged from the ruins before the fire could reach the victim, several lives being saved by this prompt work. When the firemen reached the scene the flames had made great headway and were igniting the buildings across the street. The fire, however, was soon under control, and with the exception of a small blaze here and there, the fire was extinguished in a few minutes. The work of digging away the ruins then was begun in earnest. Near the edge of the debris several colored men were taken out and sent to the' hospi tals. AVhile the firemen and policemen were digging into the debris and haul ing away heavy timbers in several sections of the wreckage, cries were heard coming from the cellar of Moun tain's grocery store. Fifty men, with rope and tackle were immediately put to work at that point, and pulled away the roofing which had fallen into a massed heap. From the bottom of the pile, doubled up, were taken a man and a woman. The man was able to speak, but the woman was apparently dead. While the work of rescue was going on in the exploded block, hospital at tendants and others made a search of all ( the damaged houses on the oppo site side of the street, and almost a score of persons were taken to various hospitals from these places- The Jefferson and Pennsylvania hos pitals, which are located nearest to the scene of the explosion, were soon crowded with the injured. None of those taken to the hospital has died up to midnight. Two hundred men are now at work tearing away the wreckage. The buildings containing the pool rooms, clothing store and the restaurant were three story brick structures. The other buildings were two and one-half stories. Kansas City Exposition Building Burned Kansas City, Mo., August 5. Expo sition building, erected during the boom of 18S7. at a cost of over $200,000 was destroyed by fire this afternoon. A boy among a crowd which had gath ered to watch a large circus that had pitched its tents across the street, set fire in the spirit of mischief to some looes rubbish on the . floor. In a mo ment the lames had leaped beyond control, spreading almost instantly throughout the whole building which occupied half a block. No one was in jured. The efforts cf the firemen were directed to saving the surrounding res idence property. A Fatal Street Affray Jackson, Miss., August 5. W. J. Log on, sanitary inspector of Jackson, to night shot and killed David L. Shelton The shooting occurred on the principal street of the city and caused much ex citement. The men had quarreled, ear lier in the day, it is said, over an in spection and engaged in a personal al tercation. Shelton, it is said, returned to the attack with a stick, when Ligon pulled a revolver and shot him through the heart. Both men are prominently connected. Shelton marrying the daugh ter of the late Congressman McKee while in camp at Chattanooga during the Spanish-American war. More Naval Men Deserving: Reward Washington, August 5. There is to be a supplemental report by the board of awards appointed by Secre tary Long to consider and re port upon the recommendations made by commanding officers re lative to rewards of officers under them during the Spanish war. It was found that when the first list was made up quite a number of officers deserving of consideration had been overlooked in the early reports upon which that board acted and from time to time the atten tion of the department has been called to these omissions. Court-Martial Sentence Commuted Washington, August 5. President McKinley has commuted the court martial sence of dismissal from the army of MaJor Francis E. Eltonhead, Fourteenth infantry, to placing that officer at the foot ox the list of majors of infantry there to remain for a period of five years. "Major Eltonhead was tried on charge of being drunk on duty and of ' misbehaving at the Army and Navy Club in Manila, and of using pro fane and abusive language to Lieuten ant William H. Mullay, Twenty-first Infantry. . TAX ON BANK STOCK Communication from the 'Corporation Commission Modifying; Former Order (Special to the Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C. August 5. The corpor ation commission today made the fol- following order in the shape of instruc tions to the chairmen of boards of county commissioners: "Since our letter of May 15th our at tention has been called to a decision of the supreme court of the United States In the case of the Bank of Wellington against Chapman, 173 United States Supreme Couit Reports, decided in February 1859 This case in effect over-rule3 the decision, of our supreme court in the case McAden against Com missioners of Mecklenburg. 97 N. C which last decision was referred to in said letter. AVe are, therefore, of opin ion that liabilities of shareholders can not be deducted from assessed values of their shares of stock in national or other banks and advise that you ob serve this In having tax duplicates made out for your county." Rev. R. E- Caldwell, of AVinston. is commissioned chaplain of the First regiment state guards. The state charters the Charlotte Mu tual Investment Company, capital $100,- OoO. stockholders. C. M. Pritchett and others. State Superintendent Toon has gone to AVinston. where there is trouble about disposition of fines. These fines have been turned over to graded schools there but county superintendent contends that they must go to the school fund of the county. The state superintendent says this is correct. The governor's, proclamation regard ing school text books under the new state adoption contracts was prepared today and will be issued tomorrow. It gives prices in boards and cloth and also exchange prices. BOTn FEET CUT OFF Result of Crawl Ins: Under a Train to Get Out of the Rain (Special to the Messenger.) AVilson, N. C, August 5. While At lantic Coast train No. 8 was unloading freight here today an old negro man named Jack Simm sat down under the caboose to keep out of a shower of rain. The train caught him as it start ed off and cut off one foot entirely and mashed the other so it will have to b amputated. He was taken in charge by the Coast Line Surgeon, Dr. Ander son, and his wounds dressed. At this time he is resting easily. To Reduce Wages Fall River. Mass., August 5. A paper was placed in circulation today among the cotton manufacturers of this city, looking toward a general reduction in wages of 15 per cent. If the reduction is agreed to it will go into effect Sep tember 3rd. and will involve at least 25.000 operatives. Gomez No Annexationist Havana, August 5. General Maximo Gomez has written to his friend Gen eral Vega regarding the reports that he had described himself and Senor Es trada Palma as annexationists. After remarking that he had come upon a reference to the matter in a local pa per, in Puerto Principe, he says: "To pretend that Senor Palma and I are annexationists is madness- The best way to carry out a plan is to speak much of it. For this reason it appears that many Cubans desire annexation and look to most of the prominent chiefs of the revolutin to support the movement; but they have tried to con vert to the doctrine some very old here tics. "The Piatt law solved the question. The constitutional convention was not to blame, as it had fired the last cart ridge in defense of absolute indepen dence." There was no meeting of the consti tutional convention today, only twenty delegates presenting themselves. Drowned In the Surf St. Augustine. Fla., August 3. A par ty of prominent people from this city were in bathing at South Beach this afternoon. Five of them. Major J. W. Sackett. J. W. Adams, H. B. Woodard, Mrs. Sackett and Miss Florence "Wood. were caught in the undertow beyond the breakers. By the assistance of a num ber of people in the surf and on the beach four were rescued, some of them exhausted and unconscious. J. W. Adams was drowned. A Nashville Policeman SINGS THE PRAISES OF Dr. Carlstedt's GERMAN LIVER POWDER Bead the following voluntary testimony cos earning this marvelous remedy: Carlstkdt Med. Co.: Gentlemen I wish to state to you and the pu) De at large, that I have been a sufferer lor ovf : a year wun fion:-.. trouble. After eati I felt as though I would burst, and could not bear to havo sn clothes fastened or eyen buttoned. Ia si summer and fall I wa so tain and trofcf-u down that the fcl'zs thought I was goitc to die. Last year! tr.il V travel a good deal. h:. every place that I vis ited I tried different medicines to relieve me of my tronble, but WITH LITTLE RELI EF Finally Dr. Carlstedt's A. S. WEBSTER. was recommended to me by a druggist who said that Judging from the amount soldtherv surely must be merit In Ger man LlTer Powder. After using the medicine I Improved at once, and It gave me strength and a good ruddy comploxlon. These are the facts In my case, ana i am so wanx ful to the gentlemen who make German LlTer Pow der that I cannot express my thanks as I wish I could. My wife has taken the Pow der for the last two weeks and It has built bib right trp, and she Is gain ing in weight every dar. She had used many Medicines Srevlous to taking the Pow er but found none equal to It. XT IS THE BESTMED IdSE ON EARTH, and I hare recommended It to many. Yours respectfully, A. S. Wxbstxr, Policeman, NaxhTllie, Tenn. Dr. Carlstedt's German XiTer Powder is sold by an druggists and dealers gener ally or by man on receipt of price, 2S cents; 8 bottles (LOO. For sale by ROBERT B. BELLA2XT, Wilmington, xS. C Jan 18 Zxxr Csa jcr t-5Tj: cstt THE STRIKE- SITUATION A STATE OF ARMED NEUTRALITY EXISTING ON BOTH SIDES. EACH WAITING OTHER'S MOVE Ten Days' Notices Given Federal Steel, National Steel and National Tube Companies or Intention to Call a General Strike It Demand Are Not Granted-MIll Owners In Mean time. Maklnc Efforts to Introduce Non-Union Operators In Closed Mills Pittsburg, August 5 Just a faint glimmer of hope that the great steel workers' strike will be settled was em bodied in a statement given out by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, tonight. When asked :f he would pursue the same policy in or dering a strike in the mills of the Fed eral Steel, the National Steel and the National Tube Companies as he did in calling out the men in the mills of the American Tin Plate Company, he re plied: "If it had not been for this de termination on my part, the general strike would have been ordered on Sat urday night." Before calling out the tin workers, and after failing to get any satisfaction from the officials of the American Sheet and the American Steel Hoop Company. President Shaffer sent a telegram to Vice President Warner Arms, of the American Tin Plate Company, notifying him that under Article 19, Section 35 of the constitution of the Amalgamated Association he would be obliged to call out the tin workers in all of the mills owned by the United States Steel Cor poration unless the difficulty was set tled within a period of ten days. As a result of this notice Mr. Arms succeed ed in getting together another confer ence and a vain attempt was made to settle the dispute and prevent a strike ' Which would involve the tin mills. That j conference was the one that broke up in the Hotel Lincoln three weeks ago last Saturday. In order to be equally fair to the pth- er constituent companies of the Unit ed States Steel Corporation and accord them the same treatment, President Shaffer has sent a similar notice to the officers of the Federal Steel Company, the National Steel Company and the National Tube Company, giving them the same time in which to make any effort they may desire to bring about a settlement, or he will put in force this same clause in the. Amalgamated Asso ciation constitution. It is presumed that the delay In issuing the general order will be at least until the end of the present week. Possibly it will not be Issued until early next week. In the meantime the men in the mills of these three companies will be prepared to come out when the strike order is Is sued. The possibility of a settlement of the strike is based on the bare hope that the officials of the three additional com panies will bring to bear sufficient in fluence to urge an adjustment of the difficulties before the strike order is is sued. President Shaffer did not express any hope that this would be done, nor did he even discuss the matter, but the inference was quickly seen that there was such a probability in sight- It is faint though, and but little interest was taken in it in the general offices of the association. The strike history of the day in Pitts burg itself is not prolific of results; considerable, however, was doing in towns surrounding. In this city all of the idle mills are in the same condition as before the failure of the conference to settle the strike and no apparent move is being made by the manufac turers to start the mills; consequently, there has been no break in the strikers ranks. The most important strike point to night seems to be Leechburg and Wellsville, with McKeesport a possible trouble center. From Leechburg this telegram was received: "At 4 o'clock this afternoon the Hyde Park mill, which has been idle since the first of this year, was started. E. S. Pargny, manager of the American Steel Association; Harry Da vis. district superintendent, and Robert Lock, local manager, were on the ground.- At 3:45 o'clock this afternoon a train arrived at Hyde Park, coming from Saltsburg. Vandergrift and Apol lo. The train stopped at the works and fifty-five men, clad in working garb and carrying dinner buckets, left the train and hurried into the works. There was no excitement and the mill owners and managers tonight claim they have enough men in the mill to operate all of the five plants of the mill. Sent! nels are out and no one is allowed to get into the mill without a pass word This afternoon late, six mill men from Leechburg sauntered down toward the mill, pass the guards and walked into the mills where tonight they are at work. This makes sixty-one men now employed at the works. By outsiders it is claimed that this number cannot operate the mill in full, but, however this may be, the mill is running to night in good shape." "The Amalgamated men, however, are on the ground making desperate efforts to keep all union men out. They make the bold assertion that in two days after President Shaffer issues his general strike order, not a wheel wil be turning In either Vandergrift, Apol lo or Hyde Park. From Wellsville, O., the following report is made: "The last four of the striking steel workers who were arrest ed Saturday, charged with riot, were released from jail late this afternoon upon bail. There are warrant yet in the hands of the police for seventeen more of the -strikers, which have not yet been arrested. The officers, for some reason seem to be afraid to serve the warrants. Henry B. Henderson, a potter for whom the police have a war rant, has been trying to get himself in the way of the officers all day, to have them arrest him, but they will not do it, for the reason that Henderson is backed by the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, and the officers fear the vengeance of the potters, once they are aroused, as they wduld be if one of their number were put under arrest. Deliberate Wife-Murderer Tampa, Fla.. August 3. Antoinette Castellano declared that she was going visiting this afternoon and Leopoldo Castellano. her husband, told her not to go. She started and when about twenty feet from the house he shot her dead. The murderer fired two shots, both of which took effect in the bacJk of the head and either would have pro duced death. 0 M sbetlion the market crv-v.r- with th "SEW RIVAL in sal V booting qualities. Mzr$ irc t-iJ waterproof. Get the renalne. ,i No black rtxwter formity and stratr shooting EECHESTER REPEATIX8 ARMS CO. A Private Hospital, for the treatment and Gynecological diseases, also, all Throat. Best equipped Static Electric Machine, (with X llay attachment.) far the treatment of all Nervous Affections. Heating, Lighting. Ventilation, perfect Hot and cold baths on even and matron. Elevators and Electric slcians correspondence solicited. jDRS. MARSH & CODER'S Granite aMarble flqrte Granite and Marble MONUMENTS DESIGNS ON P. 0. Box 217, Wilmington. 11. C. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MM, Established 1838. The Sixty-fourth Session will Commence October 1st, 1901. 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We have better ones for SSc, $1.45 and $2.43 each Stylish Headwear Ladies' Trimmed Hats at half price. 500 bunches of Flowers, all 10c a hunch. 20 pieces of Outing. 10c quality, this week at 5c per yard. 8 pieces Coverts and Linens for skirt goods, worth from 13 to 20c. this week special at 10c per yard. 49-inch wide White Lawn, 10c jralue. special price 6c per yard. . Child's Linen Finish Tarn CShanta Caps, regular price 25c now 10c each, and everything else In The BIO RACK ET STORE CHEAP. A new Toy and Sand Mill 25c Child's Garden Sets for 5. 10 and 15c Hearth Brooms for 10c Georce 0. Gaylord, Proorietor, 200 and 210 Ilprth Front Ctrcok IH1 E BTiEMl "I1EW RIVAL" FACTORY LOADED S..0TGU1I SHELLS Ksi Hares, Cca. of all classes of Medical, Surgical diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and floor. New building, trained nurses Bell system. Terms reasonable. Thy- Address HIGHSMITII. Fayetteville. N. C. Headstones, Iron FENCING, &C; APPLICATION, - Branch Yard atGoldsboro, II. C. 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