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" The idbscriptloa ?rtet oi the "We:liy Star Is s- ollows: Single Copy 1 year, pottage paid..., it. $1 CO " 6 monthi " " f 0 " " 8 monthi " " 3D "WHEN CUBA IS EDUCATED" In discussing the late elections in Cuba the Philadelphia Press says: "The peaceful election in Cuba, held in the second year of American occupation, is an earnest of good faith the Republican pledge of Cuban inde pendence. The party which freed the slave gave the Cuban a vote. The party which freed Cuba will giyo it independence, and this will come when Cuban elections show that Cuba is educated in self-government and self control." There is cheek in this as well as "assumption. It give3 the Republican ail ministration credit for the peace aihl order with which the- Cuban elections were held, and for freeing Cuba and giving the Cuba:: a vote. When the Cubans were praying for the intervention of this country the administration hung back and didn't take a step forward until it was forced to do it by public sentiment. It feivred the political effect of this mi'w sentiment and that's why it espoused the cause of the Cubans, and even then it hesitated until the destruction of the Maine fired the American heart and the administra tion was. forced to move. The American people were behind that war, and the American people drove, the Washington administration tin. Secretary of War Alger admitted this in some of hi3 public speeches, in which he apologized for the slow ness of the administration to act on the' ground that we were "not pre pared for war." And when the war came Mr. McKinley in numerous speeches declared that the honor for the victories won belonged to no party .and to no. section, but to 'the- American people, who rallied to the flag and bore ' it in triumph.. This was the fact, and Mr. McKin ley had the honesty and candor to -acknowledge it and disclaim any credit for the party to which he be longs. lint not so with others, for the freedom of Cuba had scarcely been achieved when they began to claim it all as the work of the Republican party. When they were calling for volunteers they didn't assert that it .was a war of the Republican party, but a war of the American people . 1 - V -1- -1 gainst despotism ana in Denau vl a neighboring people struggling to bo free, and the people regardless of party or . of section responded accordingly. Now this organ of . the administration, whose editor-in chief is a member of 'Mr. McKinley's cabinet, has the gall to claim that the Republican party freed Cuba and gave the Cnban a vote, thus giving to that party and the administration,, which had been Jriven to the assistance of the strug gling Unbans, the credit that be longs to the American people. But with the double-dealing char acteristics of the managers of that Dattv it still hangs on to Cuba, holds its grip, and excuses itself on the plea that the Cubans are not yet -qualified for self-government. There must be so'me excuse for holding pos session of the island for two years after the Spaniards were forced to retire and hence this plea, which is the only one that can be found. The .Congress of the United States dis claimed any selfish- purpose in intervening between Spain and the ans and solemnly declared that when the war was over and peace and order restored our. troops would bo withdrawn from the island and the reins of government put into the hands of the Cubans. There was no promise or even intimation at any time, while the war was pending that we would exercise authority over the people of Cuba until they hecatne qualified for self govern ment, which might require .two years, ten years or twenty years, e and not the Cubans, being the judges. In all the talk on this sub ject by Mr. McKinley or any one who speaks for him and the Repub lican party there has been no inti mation as to the time when this guardianship would cease, our troops be withdrawn and the government turned over to the people of Cuba. ! i'he opinion has been expressed by "ome that it will take the Filipinos generation to become competent Cubans were." This was said about a year and a half ago, just before we began the job of whipping the Fili pinos to teach them how 'to run a government American fashion. If it will take the Filipinos a genera tion to learn the art of self-government and they are forty times as smart as the Cubans, the prospect of self-rule for Cuba is not very 'near, but compari sons between the Filipinos and the Cubans aside, if we do not make more' rapid progress in teaching them' than wa have in the past two years the prospect is not very near either. But this task of teaching them self rule is a purely voluntary one on our part. We were tinder no ob ligation of that kind to the Cubans, to the world or to ourselves. We accomplished all we started out to do when, we drove the Spaniards out of Cuba, and saw peace, law and order restored. When that was done there was no decent excuse for keeping our sol diers there a day longer than it would take them to embark. Our soldiers are there yetr we are governing the island through military governors, and we have never had any assur ance when this will oease, nothing more than that our promises will be kept, and the vague statement made that our troops will be withdrawn just as soon as the Cubans show that they are qualified for self gov ernment. As wo are to be the judges of the qualification our soldiers may be kept there indefinitely or at least until some annexation sentiment be developed, when it -may be deemed expedient to forget pledges and take Cuba in as we took Hawaii. 'WHEN HE WAS A BOY. As an illustration of facts versus theories, and of how facts knock theoriea out, we quote the following from the Raleigh Post: "As our friend, Elder Gold, says in the Wilson Times occasionally, 'When I was a boy' it was said neither wheat nor tobacco could be raised profitably in Eastern North Carolina. Corn and cotton were the products. "Something has evidently change,!. Tobacco, and about the best that is now put upon the market, is raised in these very eastern counties far down toward the coast as Craven, Onslow, etc. As to wheat, our Halifax friends insist that they are up with the best. On what is known as the 'Mush Island' farm, near Weldon, formerly Col. Nick Long's standby for a big corn crop, Maj. Wilson wJU this year garner quite six thousand bushels of 'as fine wheat as can bo produced,' so he claims, while the great Caledonia farmnow the property of the State, from which Mr. James Johnson, the millionaire farmer of the east, trans ported in bis own boats down the Roanoke river to Norfolk hundreds of thousands of bushels of corn annu ally, will this year produce thousands of bushels of .the smaller grain, be sides corn, cotton and peanuts up in the large figures. , "The wheat cro-p throughout the State this year is -not only good in quality, but very much larger in quantity than ever before in the State s history. Mr. J. C. Curtis, one of Buncombe's faithful representatives, said to us while in Raleigh last week that the wheat crop of his county, and throughout the west, so far as he had heard, broke the record. All of which is encouraging. ' Hut what we started out 10 com- change . WAITING FOR THE TIP. i Wbilfi tbfi nomination of Roosei I velt for the Vice Presidency was not in accordance with Hanna's slate, he finally assented, but it is said that ho could have prevented Roosevelt's nomination if he had thought it ex pedient to continue and force the fight against him. When he finally consented to the nomination, he de clared that he did so in the interest of harmony as he had control of a sufficient number of votes to pre- vent Roosevelt's nomination. Uanna went there with the convention practically in his pocket, with his candidate for the Presidency already nominated and the platform framed. His programme was carried out to the letter in everything save the nomination for the Vice Presidency, and he yielded in that when he might have had his way, only be cause he feared that if he asserted himself too much it might hurt McT Kinley. It was to all intents and purposes a Hanna convention, to which the delegates went to carry out Hanna's programme and when the only de parture was made from it it was not successful until Hanna gave the "tip." There were lots of delegates there who stood like the delegates from Virginia, whose position was thus stated by the chairman, Mr. Bowden. ' "Virginia has expressed no prefer ence in regard to the Vice Presidency. The delegation, so far, is foot loose and fancy free. It is a McKinley delegation, and as soon as we get the tip from Hanna we will act accord ingly." "Waiting for the tip from Hanna,' and when Hanna finally gave the "tip" they tumbled and Roosevelt, like" Hanna's man, McKinley, was nominated unanimously. They call that a convention of the Republican party, but Hanna was the whole thing af ter all. REGISTRATION BEGINS 28TH. THE FEDERAL COURT. Books Will Be Opened To-day Week. Chairman Simmons' Construction of the Law Regarding It. List of Cases Disposed of In . this Court During the Past Week. j' ! BRILLIANT WEEK AT i WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH. A BOLD HIGHWAY ROBBERY. In view of some misunderstanding as to when the books will be opened for the registration of voters under the new law the following letter from Chairman Simmons to Major W. H. Bernard, member of the State Execu tive Committee, will be read with in terest, as it definitely settles the ques tion at point: Raleigh. N. C June 20. 1900 W. H. Bernard, Wilmington, N. C: Dear Sir: In reply to yours of June 19th, I will state that after careful consideration, I. have decided that registration is to commence on the 28th. The new law says twenty days preceding July 21st. I do not under stand that July 21st is to be counted in the twenty days. Registrars may register persons at any other designa ted places on all days of registration except Saturday, then they must be at the polling places. Very respectfully yours, F. M. Simmons, Chairman. Some have contended that the books should not open, according to law, un til the 29th inst , and some were also at a loss as to the proper interpretation of the section elucidated in the closing paragraph of the letter above as to the places where voters may be registered. Those who have examined the law will remember that there will be an entirely new registration. Books will be open from 9 A. M. to sunset each day, Sundays excepted, from June 28th until sunset July 21st. On the four Saturdays of this period, the books will be open at the several polling places. Saturday, July 8th, the books will be open at the polls for challenges. On election day challenges may also be made Voters becoming qualified after July 21st may be registered on election day. COMING TO THE TOURNAMENT Newbern Will Send a Lively Delegation, Says "Perkins" Many That Were Seen and Met Before. AS A POP 0 LIST SEES IT. Mr. J. Z. Green, chairman of the Populist committee in Union county and editor of Our Home, is one of the Populists who do not wear Ma rion Butler's collar. He favors white supremacy and some time ago an nounced his purpose to vote for the constitutional amendment, and now since the act has been so amended as to combine sections 4 and 5, thus removing any doubts there might be as to the effect of the. "grandfather clause," he is stronger in favor of it than before. Commenting npon this he says: "The Legislature amended the pro nnsed Constitutional Amendment by combining sections 4 and 5 and adding another section declaring the whole suffrage scheme 'indivisible.' As it now stands we see no danger of any white man being disfranchised and shall therefore support the Amend ment. The Populist party is composed of white men. It has always been and always will be dependent for its existenccrupon white voters There fore viewing it from strictly a party standpoint the Amendment cannot under any consideration oe in me way Special Star Correspondence. Newbern, N. C, June 21. A gen tleman arriving in this city last even ing from Wilmington says it is ru mored on the streets that the Newbern Fire Department has decided not to attend vour tournament. So to abol ish that rumor I ask for a short space in your valuable paper. Every fire man in this city is more aroused over the fine trip and (rood time that is in store for them, than on any previous occasion.' That Wilmington will give us a "hot time", needs no comment. for we feel assured we will be fairly treated on the race course and that is all we ask for. We leave here on Monday of July 9 th with at least 100 men and apparatus, and we have an organized "quartette" of fifty "sweet" voices and the people of your city may expect some "classic" music. The "quartette" is led by one of Newborn's most popular firemen, Charlie Thornton, or better known at tournaments as "Laughing Charlie." We hope it will be so arranged by the city authorities that the garbage wagon will be on its rounds just oeiore our arrival $o as to get all the decayed Irish potatoes, eggs, etc., as it is our purpose to give Chief of Police Parmele a mid day serenade. It will also be wise for your citizens tn Korrin alApnino' on the instalment nlan now. as it is strictly against the I rojrnlfttions of the Fayetteville. Dur eliminating the negro question from ham and Newbern teams toaJlow any- politics it will be a great advantage to one to sleep that week, any party that seeks to brine about It is our intention to have a cake honest reforms. No new party can walk Monday night of tournament succeed in the South as long as the week with President McNeill, Chief race problem bobs up in every cam- Parmele, Mr. L. J. Taylor of this city paign. and the elimination oi inis i ana omersin we "5u. - a. J 1 A. l I fTl innnra1 iaf aril I IsgTA hPA Will The close of the first week of the term of the United States Court now in session finds many more cases on the trial docket and it is very probable that a greater portion- of the present week will be consumed in the. hearing of the cases yet on hand. The grand jury is perhaps half through .its work and there now remain indictments to the number of about thirty-two which will have to be passed upon before ad journment of the term. - Sol M. Hill, Duplin, retailing; guilty; judgment deferred. David Vestal, Cumberland; retail int ; one year and one day in peniten-tiarv. Henry Mclntyre, Cumberland, re tailing; bill waived, defendant plead guilty, 60 days in jail and $100 fine and costs. Joseph James, Cumberland, retail ing; guilty; 90 days in jail, $100 fine and cost. Walter Perkins, Bladen, working at still and retailing; true bill; plead guilty on information ; recognized in sum of $200 for appearance at next term. G;. M. Taylor, Brunswick, aiding and abetting in removal of spirits; continued for defendant to give bond to next term or sci fa and capias to issue. Frank Skipper, volumbus county, failure to register still and retailing, not guilty. Lon Edwards, Robeson county, re tailing and failure to exhibit proper sign on place of business; judgment prayed and defendant discharged. Dallas Jenkins,' Robeson county, re tailing; not guilty. Wess McEachern, Robeson county. retailing, guilty ; judgment deferred. J. C. McNeill, Lumberton; Ed. S. Battle, Wilmington, and L. V. Grady, Wilmington, were sworn and admitted to practice in the court. "Not a true bill" for retailing was returned in cases against the follow ing: Will Ed. Baxley, James Briggs, Geo. Williams, Neill Locklear, N. A. Barton, Rodicy Oxendine. The Postoffice Case. Yesterday the case of former Post; master Black of Carthage was argued on demurrer before Judge Simonton, of the Circuit Court. The details Of the charge were given at length in yesterday's Star. Judge By u urn, of Greensboro, and H. F. Sea well, Esq., of Carthage, argued as counsel for the defendant and demurred to the com plaint on the grounds that the bill of indictment was very imperfectly drawn, which demurrer was sustained by Judge Simonton. The case was quashed after biief argument and defendant dismissed- Bob Gibson, Richmond- county; J. Dargan Gibsonn Richmond, and Dock Hurley; Richmond, perjury; verdict by jury, not guilty. Mingo McRae, Richmond, retailing ; nol pros, with leave. Alex. Collins, Chas. Gibscn, Richmond, same charge ; verdict not guilty. D. T. Thompson, Richmond, $10 paid and case continued until next term. West Tucker and Wm. Miller, Rich mond, defaulting witnesses; nol pros. Sol Thompson, Richmond, retailing; not guilty. Isaac Williams, Richmond county ; retailing not guilty. Burner Baldwin, Richmond, retail ing; called and failed; order for capias to next term. , Alice Graham, Richmond, retailing; notguilty. Wm. Goins, retailing, government takes nol pros. Wess McEachern, KOheson, retail Weekly t)ance at Seashore Hotel Last Night Sacred Concert This After noon Prominent Arrivals. The weekly hop at the Seashore Hotel last night was a fitting close to the festivities of the gayest week of the season on Wrightsville Beach. A large crowd was present and every thing passed off most pleasantly. The music by Prof. Miller's orchestra elicited much merited praise, and the spectators as well as those who par ticipated in the dance enjoyed it to the fullest extent. The feature of the evening's enter tainment was the rendition of "Palms" by Mrs. W. F. Dowd, of Charlotte, while supper was being servedw Her rare soprano voice was highly enjoyed by all. After the dining room was cleared, the hop was begun and the fol lowing participated: Misses Leonora Cantwell, Olive Armsiroug, Mary Jennings Bellamy, Octavia Boat wright, Kate Maffitt, Bessie Payne, Anita DeRosset, Nettie Dockery of Charlotte, Anna Peck, Mary Nash, Jeanie Peck, Rosa Bailey, of Winston, Lizzie Peck, Mrs. Wallace Carmichael, Mrs. Broadnax; Messrs. Harry Cros well, Marsden Bellamy, Jr., Clayton Giles, "Jack" Bellamy, Richard Brad ley, Willie Crow, Geo. Crow, Geo. Peschau, John Peschau and Alex. Adrian. Among the recent arrivals at the hotels were: Seashore R. H. Jordan and wife, A. M. Spong and children, Char lotte, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Guinam, Asheville; Mrs. Chad wick, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Howell, Charlotte; R. A. Dunn, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. Purhell and sons and Miss Purnell; Mr. C. M. Bernard, wife and children, Raleign; L. W. Sanders and wife, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sharpe, Raleigh; G. L. Rider and wife, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Dockery, Miss Nettie DockerytMiss Fannie Dockery, Mr. and Mrs. Cladius Dockery, Rock ingham; Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, Chapel Hill; A. Hill McLeod, Jr.; Lumberton; Mrs. W. F. Dowd, Char lotte; J. L. McAllister, Lumberton; H. B. Short, Lake Waccamaw; T. L. McNair, Laurel Hill; A. S. Dockery, Rockingham ; W. D. McLaurin, Lau- rinbuTff: C M. tsaDDilt ana cniia, Newbern; Judge Shepherd, Col. John W, Hinsdale, Raleigh ; Oscar J.Spears, Lillington ; Percy Putnam and family, Atlanta; Thomas Hill, Hillsboro. Ocean View E. A. Perry, Chad bourn; N. A. Carter, Raynham; G. W. Thompson, Miss Thompson and O. T. Floyd, Union City; Miss Dora Thompson, Raynham; G. B. Hub bard, furvis; t. U. DiuuDS, union City;C. H. Tucker and Miss Mamie Davis, Bladenboro; Miss Dora Watts, Robeson; J. R. Blake and D. Jolly, Chadbourn; Horace Coleman, White ville ; J. F. Campbell, Elrod ; James L. Patterson and V. R. Toon, White ville; H. L. Stevens and J. W. S win son, Warsaw; A. Nash, Lumberton; Miss Little, Charlotte; W.J. Carter, S. C; Mrs. Neal McNeal, Philadel phia ; H. Witcover and family, Marion, A. D. Morrisey, Fayetteville ; R. B. Davis and wife, N. C. ; C. M. McLean and C. C. Lyon, Elizabetown. MURDER TRIAL AT WILSON. White Man Knocked Down on Water Street Last Night , by Two Negroes and Relieved of $42. A white man named Mills, from Bladen county, was knocked -down and robbed of $42.00 last night about 11 o'clock by two negroes at the cor ner of Water and Chesnut streets, and they succeeded in getting off with their booty before being detected. The old man was picked ug by two gentlemen who were sitting in front of the Rock Spring Hotel at the time of the occurrence, and carried into the house. He was only slightly bruised about the face. The assault was a dastardly one and every effort will be made by the police to apprehend the guilty parties. Ac cording to the statement of Mills, he was on Water street and hired a negro to carry him to the Rock Spring hotel where he had a room. When they reached Chesnut street, another negro struck him from behind and they rob bed him of two $20 gold pieces and $3 in silver before he could give the alarm. The negroes ran away before anybody could get to him and one of them dropped ,a hat, which Officer Leon George picked up a few minutes later. Mills is about 65 years of age and is here attending Federal Court. The deed was bold as well as outrageous, having been committed at that hour of the night and near an electric light. MR. GEO. M. SUMMERELL Greensboro Record: News from Oxford is that Albert Alton, a visiting negro, who grog3ly insulted a lady there Tuesday, was found dead Wed nesday morningj with six bullet holes through his body. Lenoir Tope: Col. J. G. Hart ley, of Hudson township cut 60 shocks of wheat one day last week. He is seventy-five yeai;s old? but he always ; votes the Democratic ticket and Ay cock ' told us last week; that is a guarantee of perpetual youth.! Aberdeen pelegram: The Re- t publicans have held their convention - : and have put up the same old gang that have been defeated several times by the people ol this county. Their candidate for the Legislature will probably be appointed a colonel in Butler's army when he starts to drive the Democrats oal of the State, as he , is already famous in the use of 'bul lets." . - , . - Smithfield ylerald: We under stand that in some townships in this county the Radical census enumera tors stop after obtaining their informa tion and try to get the white people to vote for negro domination. They 8 re doing all in their jpower to defeat the will of the white j people, so that they may obtain another little office. But 1 Johnston county (will still remain in the white ranks. StateBville i Landmark : Mr. ' R. K. Murdock, tie express agent, is. receiving quite a number of. coopsof homing pigeons ; to turn loose.' "Ho started seven cops, 280, on their way Tuesday morning and has eight coops on hand now from New York await ing instructions, j Last week he loosed some here one morning that made tho trip back to their ilofts in Wilmington, Del., a distance of 400 miles in ten hours' time. Fayetteville Observer: News has just reached here of a most shock ing tragedy in Bladen county last night. Mr. Charles Chasen, overseer t of Capt. A. B. Williams's plantation at Hampton, was; shot while eating supper, surrounded by his wife and five children. J.ne assassin nrea through the window, blowing Mr.' Chasen's brains. I Mr. George W. Ward, one of 71sl's oldest and most prominent farmeis, died Friday morn- J ing. Capt. IK. P. Powers, a well known and for many i years a promiy nent citizen, of fayetteville, died at his home Friday afternoon in the 57th year of his age. ; i "I Jno. J. Jefferson Acquitted of the Murder of Capt. Cal. Barnes. Special Star Telegram. Wilson, N. C, June 22. In .the Criminal Court here this evening,' the jury acquitted Jno. J. Jefferson of ing; tried June 21st and left open for murder of Capt. CaL Barnes last judgment ment on sneciallv was the nViinV, Vioo tab-An tOoaa in rron diversity in eastern North Carolina 'since we I question means a great deal towards were a boy. " elevating politics to a higher ana more People are too apt to take a good decent plane." deal for granted just because some- This is the view taken of it by body else has said something about every Populist who does his own it and they are governed by that say thinking and does not let Marion so without ever questioning whether Butler do the thinking for him, and it was well founded or not. We do it is the view taken of it by every not know what -the age of Editor white Republican who isnt blinded Gould 'is or how long it has been by partisanship, does his own thmk- o: w wo a w. hnt the writer ing and does not let Senator Pntcn- of this isn't a patriarch by a long ard do his thinking for him. - It will shot and ' he very well remembers put the State in the hands of her wbr tbfi otrinion was that wheat white people, and put politics on a could not be profitably grown in North Carolina, that grass couldn't be profitably grown in Central or Eastern North' Carolina, and that tobacco could not be profitably grown outside of a limited number of counties on the border line of Virginia. He has since seen some of the finest wheat he ever saw and: some of the finest grass he ever saw grown in North Carolina, and has seen tobacco grown from the sea shore to the top of the Blue Ridge mountains. An ounce of fact is worth several tons of opinions held by people who never tried. higher plane, and surely every good good citizen whatever his politics may be should favor that. , The Washington Post paragrapher asks the Demociatic editors who are be a most lively one, and among some of the old "stand-bys" at tournaments that will co. are the following: Ex-Mayor Wm. Ellis, with his big palmetto fan ; Ex-Chief L. J. Taylor, of "room 35" fame; John Calhoun Green, the veteran engineer of the At lantic Companv, with his mascot; "Bill" Smith, o'f the Newbern Com pany, with his little clay pipe; Tom C. Daniels, who never says a word; "Johnnie" Gaskill, who stands no bluffing; "Gibbie" Waters, with his little song book; Luther Taylor, fore man of the Newbern company; w. Fred Richardson, chief of the Newbern Department; "Eddie" Lamb, better known as "Spring Lamb;" Haywood Tucker, with a barrel of benzine; Her bert Willis, of "2.28i fame;" John Timberlake, who couldn't hear it thun der; Farney Justice, with his paper cap gun; Herbert Simpson, with his ice man's cane; -Oscar Kafer, who smiles suavely at every one he sees; "Jodie Mcooriey,- wun ms mg sinjiou ffa- Br&dlev Hanff. with a case of oTrnvnianl tho I uareui. reavuM f"!"! - &srf " lev because he has veto power only on four occasions. "How about George Washington, who vetoed only two bills ?' Well, 'George didn't have a modern Re publican Congress to deal with. If he had he would have vetoed about four hundred, or felt sorry" that he had eyer consented to become the "Father of His Country." When a British officer, a prisoner in Pretoria, wrote a letter to his sister in England and told her he had read all the books in the prison, the Boer censor just drew a blue mark around that remark and re marked on the margin, "now you see what liars some of these fellows mi -1 A OIVA TTAllimAB 111 are. xnere are ,v the prison libraiy." And now that girl knows how her brother has learned to prevaricate since he went to South Africa. nt Joseph Jones was born under a luminous star. He came tothis country some years ago a plas terer's apprentice, went toschool, graduated with distinction from Prinnton college, and will ' soon John i. for Roif. a a miiai I TYiflTTv the gTandnieco' of "ewev . i: a v 1 P.lair. who DY none? viuu, 6 Cubans well, declared that the ripuios were "forty times better aWe to govern themselves than the ity and good mnlated and le $75,000,000. r man agement, accu an estate worth . ' m T . 1 Bishop Cranston, oi xnaiana, thinks we ought to carry Christi anity'into China on the point of the bayonet if necessary, and that the door must remain open for the proselyters. Very well. Suppose China demanded the right to carry paganism into other countries by force, if need be, wnat tnenr ... . . i !! e J . . son, witn nis diu oi iare muo uuj "Shorty" Editor Stevens, with his bal loon umbrella; Mr. Thos. Daniels, the fairest of all judges; "Fatty" John Scales, of oratorical fame; "Frankie" Matthews, the handsomest man in town; "Bug House" John TolsOn, who never gets to sleep; Walter Brinson, who likes all widows; Ellis Williams, captain of Atlantic Reel Team ; Charlie McSorley, with his howling kids; Her bert Draney, with a pocket full of mirrors. "Perkins." SOUTH ATLANTIC LUMBER ASSO.CIA'N The dressmakers in New York are going to form a. trust. m It isn't to rnn up prices, they say, but to pro w.t themselves from rich people Will Meet in Wilmington July I2tta and 13tb, During Tournament. The South Atlantic Lumber Asso ciation, embracing the States of North and South Carolina and Virginia, which recently held its annual meet ing in Charleston, adjourned to meet in special session here July 12th and 13th, which will be during the tourna ment. The invitation was extended bv Cant. James D. McNeill, of Fay etteville, an enthusiastic member of the Association. Mr. W. P. Wil- Francis Locklear, Robeson, retail ing; plead guilty; defendant recog nized in sum of $100 until next term of Court. . . ... Millard McKay, Bladen, breaking into distillery and retailing; case left open for new bilL ... Richard Spell, Bladen, furnishing material at illicit distillery and retail ing ; not guilty. m F. R. Thompson, Bladen, retailing; not guilty ; I . Mrs. M. J) Future, retailing; not guilty. ' W. R. Beacham, Richmond, viola tion war revenue act in running pawn broker's shop without having paid tax: nol pros, with leave, it having appeared that tax was paid to Com missioner of Internal Revenue. M. Gaston Merritt, Bladen; furnish ing material for still and retailing. Sol Thompson and J. H. Davis, (surety); sci. fa. forfeited bond; dis missed on answer filed. The grand jury returned the follow ing true bills: T. R. Thompson, Bla- den, James mai, isoDeson, retail ing; not true bills against Wm. Kelley, Jr., Bladen, Gilbert Hollins, Brunswick, both for retailing.. Jno. W. Swinson, petit juror, was excused for the term. An order was made by the Court that the clerk issue notice to United States Commissioners not to take prac tising attorneys of the District Court on bonds for the appearance of defen dants in this Court. The first named case on the docket was probably the most interesting of the term. Hill, the defendant, is a prominent colored man at Faison and conducts a very successful mercantile business. It is alleged that an amount of whiskey was" used in the campaign of 1898 and that Hill dispensed some of the liquor in exchange for money. He was represented by Steven, Beasley & Weeks and the case was strongly prosecuted with the result that he was found guilty, judgment haying been deferred. A number of prominent men of Faison were here as character witnesses for the defendant. August. Jefferson was on a rormer trial found guilty, but on appeal to the Supreme Court was given a new trial, which to-day resulted as above. Our citizens are indignant. Captain Barnes was waylaid and shot while driving from his farm in a buggy with two of his grand-children. Jefferson was one of his tenants, with whom Captain Barnes hMsome diffi culty. THREATENED HIS LIFE. Died at His Home in This City Yesterday Afternoon The Funeral. Mr. George M. Sunimerell, an es teemed citizen and a well known con tractor of Wilmington, died yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at his home. No. Ill North Fifth street; after a lin gering illness of eight weeks with la grippe. Mr. Summerell was 66 years of age and a native of Wilmington, though he had spent much of his life at Ar mour, N. C, where he owned a coun try home and farm. A wife, who was Miss Ella Alderman of this city be fore her marriage, and two little adopted daughters, Misses Virginia and Hattie Summerell, survive him. Ho also leaves a brother residing at Weldon, N. C, and a sister, Miss V. Summerell, of Weldon, who was at her brother's bedside when he passed away. The remains will be taken this after noon via the Seaboard Air Line to Armour, N, C, where at about 5 o'clock this afternoon the funeral will be held and the interment made in the family burying ground. The services will be by Rev. Mr. Smith, pastor of Wayman M. E. Church. Deeds Recorded Yesterday. The following property transfers were recorded at the Court House yes terday: Sophia G. Campbell to Sue A. Vol lers, residence on the eastern line of Fourth street between Princess and Market; consideration, $1,800.00. Jas. Wilson, of New York, to Jane Howe, of New York, property on Miller street between Bay and Woods; consideration, $100.00. W. M. Cumming and wife to Louis Fryar, tract 33x66 feet on Wright street between Third and Meares; con sideration, $90.00. C. W. McClammy and wife to Mary Elizabeth Culpepper, property 38x132 feet on Surry street between Castle and Queen; consideration, $1.00. i AMERICANS IN PEKIN. The International Force in the City Nam bers Over Four Hundred. ; j By Telegraph tip the Morning Star. Washington, June 23. In ans wer to a request from the Navy7 De partment as to how many Americans were in Pekin, Rear Admiral Kempff replied under data ofj June 23rd, via Che Foo, that thirty Austrians, seventy-five French, fifty Germans seventv-nine British. rforty--itaSanS; twenty-three Jaianese,7 seventy five Russians, and fifty-eigbKAmerican troops are in Peksn. M He further savs: "No news of the whereabouts of Pkin relief expedition Renorted bv cablegram June Javanese jexnecfi several? thousand. troops now due. 4 N6 news fronvllenj This dispatch arrived; at then Navy Department prioa toibJdisptehran nouncing that fightingjisn progress between the Chinese impenatelroops and the international cohhv outside of Tien Tsin. T-r i -.1 v i COAL MINERS. Strike to Tike ALABAMA Indications of a General Place ia jWyxt By Telegraph to trie Horning St: ; Birmingham, Ala., JuaeJfTrrlhdi- RAtinns are that the Birmingham dis trict, is to witness a eeheral coal miners strike on July lsti Such a strike would involve Jtenthousand miners directlyi andAJt closing down of the mines woiild-tbrow nearly ten thousand other taett out of work. The State M&ipPp?Con vention has been n sessiofilhere Since Wednesday, formjulating the; miners' demands, including a new wage scale, and a conference I between the miners and operators will be hedvda Monday next. It is statedJ on exalted t author- ifythat the miners wtiHaemand a higher maximumiand minimum basis for mining. Leading operators say that it is impossible for them to grant a raise and they even -intimate that they may not be kbleJo obtain the old scale. r ' FOR VIC prfJdent. White Supremacy Club at Rocky Point. Mr. E. D. Pearsall, secretary of the White Supremacy Point, writing the A Odd Fellows' Orphan Home. Mr. N. Jacobi returned yesterday from Goldsboro where he attended a meeting Friday of the Board of Trus- i. T,a fmnt. and who refuse to I hams, of Red Springs, is president or I uwii' Omhanae pay their bills, on tb ground that the organization and Mr. . v. wniie i reportstha institution in a flourish- it expects to be in good shape by the White Man Attacked by Negro on Water Street Thursday Night. D. A. Penfield, of South Carolina, who is here attending Federal Court, was outrageously assaulted by Black well Williams, a burly negro, . Thurs day eveningon Water street, near the market, and he swore out a warrant against his assailant and had him landed in the county jail. Penfield went to a restaurant near the Front street market to get supper and the negro Williams, without any provocation, came up and caught him in the collar, drew his knife and said: "Dn you, I'll kill you unless you give me 10 cents." Parties who were standing near by at the time ran up and prevented what might have been a murder. He was arrested by Deputy Wm. Sheehan and tried before J. J. Fowler, J. P. In default of a $50 justified bond, he was sent to jail to await trial at Criminal Court. Capt. McNeill in Charleston. 'Charleston News and Courier: "Mr. James D. McNeill, chief of the fire de partment of Fayetteville, N. C, visited Chief Mar jenhoff yesterday to extend an invitation to the Charleston firemen to visit Wilmington during the tour nament in July. He was referred to Mr. George Legare, president of the Charleston Reel Association." "It is probable that a reel team will attend and if it goes the chances are that it will be a victor, notwithstand ing its recent defeat at unariowe. iae team has already begun practicing and Club at Rocky Star yesterday, says: "A White Supremacy Club has been organized at Rocky Point with sixty six members, including a dozen or more ladies. An enthusiastic meeting was held this afternoon, and the club was addressed by Dr. E. Porter, who made things 'red hot.' "The township primary was also held; the best of harmony prevails. Instead of electing delegates, every Democratic voter in the township is instructed to attend the county con vention to be held at Burgaw July 2nd to nominate county officers. Pender is going to roll 'em up for the Amend ment." Tournament Directory. The Firemen's Tournament com mittee has nrenared a convenient di rectory, or board of information, which gives the teams, names of com panies, managers, engines, hook and' ladders, "hand reels, horse hose wagons, number oi men 10 me com pany . and where located, and other valuable data concerning the various companies that will attend the Tour nament. As soon as a team is heard from, the blanks are filled out. The scheme will be of invaluable aid in keeping an intelligent record of the fire laddies who come. The entries up to date are gratifyingly large. Aoout The Census. Mr. David J. Lewis, of Whiteville, census supervisor for this district, writes the Star under date of yester day as follows: "The enumeration has not been completed in your city, and when it has been done if there are any omis sions I will be elad to hear from you. I am as anxious to get a correct I census of your city as you are and any suggestions will be appreciated." David B. Hill Will Be the Choice of the Kentuckyl Delegation. By Telegraph t the Morning Star. Frankfort, Kf June 23. David B. Hill is believed! here! to1 be the choice for Vice President b ia majority of delegates from this State !to the Demo cratic National Convention, insu rance Commissioner J. U. Chenauit, who will go to Eanss City with the proxy of Judge W. S. iPryor as a dele gate from the Stat at lirga tp-day said: "I am for Hill, aujd although there has been no conference of the Kentucky delegates, L have little doubt-that he will receive Kentucky's ote. A canvass of the State officials and political leaders at the State capital shows a decided (preference for Hill for,the second place. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN. Unless He Change! His Plans Will Not ' Attend Kansas' City Convention. By Telegraph X4 the Horning Star. Chicago, Jun 23 j William Jen nings Bryan, bronzed as an Indian from his two weeksoutside work in Wisconsin, arrived4n Chicago to-aay home in Lincoln, He will remain for an indefinite period and unless he changes his present plans iiwill not attend the Kansas uiiy convention. "'J"" to-day held a conference with former nnvnnf AH?el& ex-Congressman Hinrichsen and ifther leaders of the .tw fn Illinois during which the political outlook! was discussed in a general way. and left for his Neb., to-night. in Lincoln A MISSIONARY BOAT. the work was not done up in style. Col. Denbey, former minister to China, says there is no danger of the partition of that empire by the Powers. Reason, there might be a racket among them to see which would gobble the biggest chunk. head, of this city, is secretary. ,ajMn. The electric light com The curtailment of the output of f Q0idsboro reported progress in lumber, which is now saiu io w jne work: or supplying we greatly in excess of the demand, will with electric lights. - be discussed and the association will " . .. , -retain a nronosiUon to close the Mr. S- P. McNair left yester- mills of members two or three days day "via locomobile" for his farm in to Aran nix iur. mcnem is nuuuus have a steamer go also, but Chief Mar- I Cotton in the Carolinas. iSeXKS? president The Norfolk Cotton Exchange re-" of the North Carolina State Firemen's ports that the outlook for cotton in Association, says the meeting at Wil- the Carolinas is excellent, but in other mington will be far superior to that te of the! cotton belt it is decidedly held at Charlotte. "Where Char- t rt tiAaw nini and chwiTnmpnt coodttioi. BWencouyty. H. Ml to tnlfk. k bjd- - " I SSS-53i . are altered county road across the river. - i nesaiu. The Samuel N. Lapsley Dedicated at the Twlgg jShlpyards. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Richmond, Vj, June 23.A crowd witnessed the dedication of the Congo river missionary! boat, "Samuel N. Lapsley," at the Trigg shipyards here to-day. Rev. 8. H. Chester, secretary r 1 Wnwrrn Mission Board of the Southern Presbyterian Church, under the ausnices of which body the boat ia to be operated, made the chief adr dress of the occasion, and was re sponded to by Mri William R. Trigg, president of the shipbuilding company. The boat is to: be taken to pieces here and put together again when launched in Africa, j : -