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FOR THE GENERAL GOOD.
Mr. Richard Olney, of Massachu
setts, who was Mr. Cleveland's Sec
retary of State, has recently written
a letter giving the reasons why he
will vote for Win.-J. Bryan, against
whom he voted four years ago. Mr;'
- Olney was and still is what is called
a "sound money" Democrat and a
believer in the gold standard. - He
differed from Mr. Bryan on the
silver question, which being the
jJeading issue in the campaign, and
the Democratic platform adopted at
Chicago declaring for it, he-, with
Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Carlisle, Mr.
Lamont, Mrs Whitney, Mr. Morton
Mr. Wilson and other Democrats
""refused to subscribe to the plat
form and voted for Palmer and
" Buckner, the nominees of the so
called "National Democratic party."
They defended their action on the
'."ground -that .free silver being the
paramount issue at the ratio of 1G
to 1, there was danger to the country
in the adoption of that policy and
therefore they refused to stand on
the platform or to support Mr.
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan is again the nominee of
the Democratic party, and the plat
form on which he stands has reiter
ated the demand for the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 1$ to 1, the
declaration to which Mr. Olney,
Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Carlisle and
other so called sound money Demo
crats took exception four years ago,
umi on which they opposed the elec
tion of Mr. Bryan and voted against
him. About a million, more or lessf
Democrats in the country did the
same thing, a small number of them
throwing their Votes away on the
venerable foasila Palmer and .Back
uer, the rest of them voting for Mc
Kinley. But since then another issue has
.arisen, which was not in existence
then, the issue of imperialism, which
has become the paramount issue,
"overshadowing in vital importance
the silver question, as the silver
question when it became an issue,
"". and the paramount one, overshad
owed the tariff question which had
been , the leading issue in the
preceding campaign. Regarding
imperialism as the paramount issue
Mr. Olney announces his determi-
Nation to support Mr. Bryan, and
vote for the overthrow of the Re
publican party, although Mr. Bryan
is not his first choice as a candidate
- and although he does npt subscribe
to the Bilver plank in the platform,
any more than he did four years ago
when he severed his connection with
the Democratic party on that ac
count.
The reasons he gives for his aol
tion are so well and forcibly stated
that they become not only a logical
defence of his action but an argu
ment why every other Democrat who
believed as Mr. Olney did four years
ago and then severed their connec
tion with the Democratic party
should now do as he is doing. He
holds, and rightly holds, that when
great and vital issues are involved it
is not only the privilege but the
duty of every citizen who can to
vote, for to refuse to vote is to en
dorse the wrong by silence and be
come accessoryto it.
"r If it be the duty of the citizen to
vote, then it is also his duty to vote
to accomplish something, not to vote
merely as a matter of form and prac
tically throw his vote away without
accomplishing anything. Reduced
to its logical essence the man who
callg himself a Democrat must to do
hia duty, vote for some one, for some
party, and to make that vote effec
tive he must in November vote for
either Mr. Bryan or Mr. McKinley,
, for either of these must be Presi
dent, and the party represented by
either one of these will be the party
in power for the next four years.
The question with the honest,
Patriotic voter, as Mr. Olney argues,
should be which of these parties, if in
Power, will contribute most to the
general good. One may object to
this plank or that plank, but the
question with the voter should be,
taking all the planks together and
iewing the platforms as a whole,
from which party has the country
the moBt to gain and which will con
tribute mostto its prosperity and ta
the preaervation.of the institutions
that it i8 desirable to preserve?
VOL. XXXI. t
Can a man who is opposed to the
foreign policy of this government as
illustrated by tho McKinley admin
istration, and as endorsed by the
party whose nominee he fs, endorse
that policy by voting for McKinley,
or virtually acquiesce in it by voting
against Mr.Bryan for some figure
head candidate or by not voting at
all? Not to vote at all is simply to
silently acquiesce in everything the
Eepublican party has done or may
do, and to throw away a vote on a
temporary figurehead is to virtually
do the same thing. For a man who
calls himself a Democrat, but i3 op
posed to imperialism, to vote for
McKinley is to proclaim himself an
illogical, inconsistent, mercenary
and dishonest citizen, who votes
against his professed principles and
his conscience, if he has any, and,
does an act the only defence for
which he can offer being a merce
nary one, that he will profit by
his vote, which thus becomes to
him a "commercial asset.", In point
of striet morality there is very lit
tle difference between such a man
and the less pretentious voter who
swaps his vote for a two dollar bill,
and does that on the sly because he
would be ashamed to have it gener
ally known.
A "BENEVOLENT" INSTITUTION.
The Trujt advocates in this coun
try (Mark Hanna, for instance,) tell
us that the institutions which are
commonly called trusts are, instead
of being an evil, positively good;
that they are benevolent institu
tions, swhich are doing the people
(who fail to realize it) an inestima
ble amount of good. The Sugar
Trust is one of these that every
body knows something about, for we
all use more or less sugar, some of us
considerably less than we did several
months ago. It is about as much of
a necessity in the household as salt.
This trust has a practical monop
oly of the sugar business of this
country. Until May last there were
two or three combinations handling
sugac which made competition some
what lively, and sugar sold at a little
over uve cents a pound, but there
wasn't profit enough in that to pay
them the dividends they wanted, so
they got together and formed a com
bine to put an end to competition,
and have one price. Then sugar
began to go up, from $5.20 per
100 pounds, what it was on May 23d,
until it reached $6.15 on August
30th, a raise of 95 cents on the hun
dred pounds,'a raise of nearly a cent
a pound in a little over three months,
which means a profit of more than
$50,000,000 to the Sugar Trust.
In this time it has raised the price
eight times, each time a fraction of
a cent, small to the ordinary pur
chaser, but in the aggregate im
mense. These fractions of a cent
make millions, every dollar of which
goes into . tne coiier3 of tne Trust
as profit, a clean steal from the
victimized public.
Of course this Trust is protected
by a tariff on sugar, which handicaps
foreign sugars,; Still the Germans
and Russians ido manage to ship
some sugar to this country, and if it
were not for that the trust prices
would go up to 10 cents a pound.
The fraudulent pretence for the
high duties on sugar, which enable
this Trust to practically monopolize
the market and make its own prices,
is to protect tne cane growers oi
Louisiana and'the sugar beet growers
and manufacturers of the West:
Lbut this is a fraud, for the Trust
controls these as well as the market
for refined sugars, and it controls
this by buying up and holding the
bulk of the raw sugar produced in
the countries from which it gets its
supplies. If there were no tariff,
or, at least, a low one, on foreign
sugars the bottom would be knocked
out of this trust at once -
LOOKS WELL FOR THE DEM
OCRATS.;
Mr. Bryan closed his tour m
Maryland and West "Virginia Fri
day. The crowds which gathered
to hear him wherever he spoke, and
the enthusiasm with which they
greeted him, give the Democrats
atronsr hopes of .carrying both of
those States. In Maryland that
feeling ferao strong that newspaper
correspondents and others versed in
political matters say it is not now a
question of carrying the State, but
of the maioritv which Bryan will
receive, the figures being put at be
tween 15,000 and 20,000. Maryland
is normally a Democratic State,
anxl there is, now that the ' Demo
crats are united and working heart
ily together, no reason why they
should not carry it by one of those
old-time 1 maiorities. Democratic
leaders ixl the State say that Bryan
would have carried in anyway, but
with the support of Senator Wei
lington, who is a. strong and persua
sive speaker, there is no question
about it.
One of the indications of success
in West Virginia, aside from the
popular demonstrations with which
Mr. Brvan was greeted, is the
change of sentiment- among promi
nnt. men who opposed him four
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wimam Jennings' Bryan. Democratic candidate for nrpsldfmt Mm Rrvnn
lng theme in thousands of American
leans and refined
woman of culture and refinement.
dreu, though Ending time and inclination for iutelligent and sympathetic interest in all that interests her husbarid,
whether lthd in the large field of national politics or in the minor affairs of everyflay life. They were classmates at
Illinois cottfege, at Jefferson, Ills., both graduating at the same time. Since their cbllesre davs she has hnt m -with
his progress step by step, aiding very
RUTH BRYAN.
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and a native of Illinois, in which state Mr. "Bryan was also. born. They were married on Oct. 1, 1SS4. " Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan have three children, two girls and a boy. The eldest is Miss Ruth Bryan, now in her sixteenth year, alnjfe&t
a young lady. She greatly resembles her father mentally and physically, displaying touches of that dash and tyil
iiancy which characterize him, finely blended with womanly instincts and' graces. During the past summer. shehas
been attending school at Monticello, Ills., the female seminary where her mother prepared for college. WllliapV Jen
nlngs Bryan, Jr.. the son, is a bright, active boy of 11 years and is very much like other well bred American febys of
that age. He is full of life and spirit and altogether a thorough boy In tastes and disposition. He hfts his. fathers
features and many of his characteristics "a chip of the old block." The youngest Is Grate, a shy.apd demureUittle
maiden f 9 years. She is a miniature of her mothv and the favorite of her father. The Democratic presidential Can
didate is never happier than when all the members of the family are gathered around theii own hearthstone.
years ago but are now cordially with
him, such men as ex-Postmaster-
General Wilson, ex-Senators Cam
den and Davis, who are looked upon
as political counsellors. In addi
tion to this Messrs. Camden and
Davis are identified with some of
tho largest industrial enterprises in
the State, and this makes their ad
hesion to Bryan now still more sig
nificant. The Republican leaders have be
come so alarmed at the indications
of a political revolution that they
are said to be colonizing negroes
under pretence of employing them
in the iron and coal mines, which is
somewhat remarkable in view of the
fact that there has been for some
time a comparative lull in tlie de
mand for both iron and coal. But
the Democrats have their eyes on
this game. ' ' - .
Delaware is a small State, which
usually doesn't attract much atten
tion, but the conditions are now
such, with Republican divisions and
the change in popular sentiment,
that the Democrats feel hopeful of
carrying that State for Bryan and
securing two United States Senators
besides.
It is said that Edison has solved
the problem on which he has been
working for. years, of generating
electricity direct from coal without
the use of an engine or dynamo.
Heretofore 90 per cent, of the heat
ing power of coal was lost, while
witfi his process there is practically
no waste of heat. A company is
now being formed to put his ma
chines upon the market. This
achievement, if what it is repre
sented to be, will relegate the steam
engine and revolutionize the methods
of propulsion. It simplymeans that
everything now propelled by steam
will be propelled by electricity. But
this is only one of the many things
it will do. A book might be written
on that. - "
The Philadelphia Record remarks
as follows: "What will become of Mr.
Bryan's broad interpretation of the
declaration that 'Governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed,' when he shall be asked
what he thinks of the constitutional
disqualifications of the negro voters
ia-the Southern States?" It will be
dead easy for him to answer that by
roTdiriTijr that there is no absolute
constitutional disqualification of ne
ero voters in the Southern States
any more than there is in some of
the Northern States. Every negro
Aon rrnta wVin nnalifies himself to
iUU v i
vote.
WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,
nnAn KMn aaa.
O O ABO OMO
homes. The Bryan home nt Lincoln. Neb.,
tastes, and the matron who cracefullv presides over it Is a tvniii ArtStotih
Mrs. Brvan la osspntiniiv lmmpmnVor anfl
materially in all his undertakings. Mrs.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN. JR.
MAXTON'S NEW BANK.
Model Institution Just Opened to the Pub
lic ia Robeson County.
From announcement made by the
officers and stockholders of the new
bank at Maxton, N. C, which began
business September 1st, with a capital
stock of $20,000, the following facts
are gleaned, which go to prove that
it is probably the most model small in
stitution of its kind in the State: The
building in which the bank is located
is of brick with steel cepng, thus ren
dering it comparatively fire proof. An
excellent vault of vitrified brick and
Portland cement, is accessible by three
doors weighing 2,000 pounds. On the
inside of this is another vault of steel,
with burglar proof appliances. ' In ad
dition, the bank carries burglar insur
ance covering all funds with the Fi
delity & Casualty Co., of New York.
The by-laws provide that the presi
dent, cashier or any active officer is
ineligible to endorse for any one for
credit to the bank or engage in specu
lation of any kind; and that no officer
can pass upon any loan in which he is
directly or indirectly interested.
All active officers have given a large
trust company surety bond (no per
sonal bonds being allowed).
Mr. W. J. Edwards is president and
Mr. Thomas O. Evans cashier o f the
new bank.
TREASURER GREEN'S REPORT
For the Month of August Approved
by
County Commissioners Yesterday.
The report of County Treasu rer H.
McL. Green for ,the month of
August, was approved by the Finance
Committee of the Board of County
Commissioners yesterday afternoon.
It shows the following : Balance July
account, general fund, 17,405.82. Col-"
lected Schedule B tax $1,099,96; back
tax ? $142.30; marriage licenses $15.20;
total $8,668.28.
Disbursements Public buildings
$93.59; roads and bridges $326.16; City
Hospital $250 ; county home $190. 60 ;
out door poor $408.69; jail $734.60; in
surance $50; election $238.15; tax list
ing $297; Criminal Court 623.83; sta
tionery and advertising $49.95; Magis
trates $66.60; Commissioners $80.10;
Register of Deeds $67.40 ; Attorney $25 ;
Superintendent of- Health $100; Coro
ner $43.38; Constable $26.65; Clerk
$50; Janitor $45; Treasurer's commis
sions on receipts $15.71; disbursements
$47.08: total $3,829.49. Balance on
hand $4,833.79.
Band Will Play.
The Second Regiment Band of this
city has been engaged to furnish music
on the occasion of the big ratification
Tnentinir which will be held in Jack
Bonville. Onslow county. Wednesday,
the 12th. The band will carry twelve
Thev will leave here at 2.25
nVlnnk Tuesday afternoon, and will
return at 12.15 o'clock P. M. Thurs
day.
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nnd thoir ii-on , ht.ml,
is that of a tifni AmArin1f-oi.
in csnwisiiv xn -v.lC
Brsan was f ormerlv Miss Marv Baird
GRACE BRYAN.
THE FOREIGN BARQUE HINDOO.
Application Made by Capt. S. W. Skinner
& Son for American Registry.
Application was made yesterday to
the Collector of Customs at the port
of Wilinington for American registry
for the foreign barque Hindoo, which
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was recently noaiea ny uapi. o. w .
Skinner; and Capt. Willie St. George,
the vessel having been wrecked off
the coast of Carabel, Fla., over a year
ago. The formal application repre
sents that the original cost of the
wreck was $1,185, and that $4,006.95
has been spent in her recovery and
repair.
The barque has been substantially
re-caulked . and re painted, and will
likely be converted into a barge by
her owners, for which she is admir
ably adapted. Stab readers will re
member that Captains Skinner and
St. George also successfully floated
he schooner Emma L. Cottingham.
She has also been put in first class
shape and is now in a sea worthy con
dition. Other wrecks are also to be
floated by these gentlemen off the
Florida coast as soon as the storm
period has passed.
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Cross Ties on the Cape Pear.
Mr. Isaac Northrop, timber inspec
tor for the New York and Erie Rau-
road,for whom Messrs. Brown & Co.,
of this oitv. have a larore contract for
furnishing cross ties, returned yester
day from points on the Cape Fear
river between Lyon's Landing and
Phoebus. He tells the Star that he
inspected from 2,500 to 3,000 ties and
that quite a number of people are em
ployed in the industry in the section
visited. Crops are very poor, he says,
and many farmers estimate the injury
to cotton by drought at one-half,
while corn is damaged about one-
third.
Crops in Brunswick.
Mr... B. O. Stone, of the firm of
Stone, Rourk & Co., is back from &
week's trip in Brunswick county and
reports much damage to crops by
drought in the sections he visited.
Cotton will be "short" from one-third
to one-half and corn is injured nearly
as much, he says. Cotton is opening
rapidly and in some sections the crop
is nearly all gathered. Contrary to
reports from Pender and Onslow
counties, Mr. Stone says peanuts in
Brunswick are damaged the least of
any crop observed by him.
Will Maintain Prices.
Mr. Z. W. Whitehead, secretary of
the North Carolina Pine Association,
has returned from a meeting of the
organization in Norfolk last week. He
tells the Star that the Association
adopted a resolution unanimously in
favor of holding prices and continu
ing the reduction of the output of the
mills one-third if the curtailment is
sufficient; one-half if it becomes nec
1 essary to maintain list prices.
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1900:
:
KINSAULS RESPITED.
Attempted Suicide and Minister's
Request Give Him Another
Week.
WILL HANG NEXT FRIDAY.
Took Overdose of Morphine and Later
Tried to Cat His Throat With Knife.
Condemned Man Attempts to
Excite Political Sympathy.
f Special Star Telegram.
Clinton, N. C, Sept. 7. Archie
Kinsauls was not hanged to day be
cause of an attempt to commit suicide
by cutting his throat this morning
with a pocket knife. He is now un
consciou3 and pronounced by the phy
sicians to bo in a very jcriiical condi
tio a" ajid very likely to die-from the
R OULd. -He passed a sleepless night,
and early this morning was violently
sick with cholera morbus' and ate no
breakfast whatever. He has protested
all along that he would not be hang
ed, and even when the gallows -was
being built in the jail enclosure where
he could see it he said he would not
be hanged on it. Some took this to
mean that he had suicidal intent,' and
others thought that it was because he
had high hopes that the Governor
would interfere. He cut . his throat
on both sides, but did not go quite
deep enough to reach the jugular
vein.
A telegram was received by the
sheriff from Governor Russell post
poning the day of execution till Fri
day, the 14th of September.
The Star yesterday told in detail
the story of Kinsaul's rime, his sub
sequent arrest, liberation from jail
by his friends, re capture after being
wounded by sheriff's posse, convic
tion by the court, removal to New
Hanover county jail for safe keeping
and his final return to the Clinton
prison for execution; all of which in
cidents, with hundreds tf others of
more or less moment, combine to
make this the most interesting murder
case probably ever known in Eastern
North Carolina. The keenest interest
in the appointed banging was mani
fested by Wilmington people yester
day, and inquiries at newspaper of
fices were f sequent. The condemned
man was respited by the Governor as
indicated above, it is learned, not
alone for the reason that the circum
stances of the hanging would be very
revolting from the nature of. the
wounds and condition of the man,
but also for the reason that local min
isters of the gospel strenuously urged
an extension of his time for the rea
son that he was religiously not then
prepared to die.
A gentleman, who arrived in the
city last night but who preferred that
his name be not given, brought addi
tional news of the attempt at suicide
and the feeling about Clinton. He
stated that from information gained at
Warsaw from a gentleman who ar
rived from Clinton about noon, he
thought the Populists of Sampson
were nubilant over the prospects oi
the hanging, though persons well ac
quainted with the circumstances of the
killing say there was no political sig
mficance : in it. This statement is
borne out by the fact that many Dem
ocrats are the most urgent advocates
of the execution. The Democrats, he
says, appear to prefer that Kinsauls
should die of the wounds inflicted by
his own hands rather than be a victim
of a hanging which is so revolting to
him. At any rate from the informa
tion given the Star, it is not likely
there will be the least trouble so
far as regards the political parties,
leaders on both sides disclaiming any
motives other than those prompted by
j ustice in the matter.
The first attempt on the part of Kin
sauls to end his life was early yester
day morning, when after spending a
sleepless night, he feigned a violent
attack of cholera morbus and took this
occasion to swallow fifteen one-fourth
grain tablets ot morphine, which he
said afterwards he had brought with
him from Wilmington. This attempt at
his self-destruction was discovered by
the death watch then on, and he was
brought around all right by physi
cians. Each tablet of the morphine
taken is said to have contained a one-
hundreth part of atropia, which
is said to have counteracted the effect
of the morphine to some extent or his
first attempt at suicide would have been
successful.
About 11 o'clock, just one hour be
fore the appointed time for the execu
tion, Kinsauls said he wanted to sleep
until the hour for his death and the
man on watch retired. Jtteturmng in
about half an hour he was surprised
to find the prisoner lying on the floor
of his cell in an unconscious condition
with two gashes evidently made down
ward from each ear with a pocket knife
drawn toward the throat. A jack knife
was- found ntar and the wounded man
had lost about three pints of
blood from the gashes which
fortunately, though perhaps not in
tended, did not sever the jugular vein.
It is unknown from what source he
procured the knife. Drs. Lee and Lee
and Dr. John A. Stevens ministered to
Kinsauls' needs, though physicians are
non-committal as to the probable re
sult of the injuries.
Kinsauls upon every occasion has
tried to inject the political feature in
his case and is quoted as having said to
the workmen building the scaffold in
side the jail: "No d n' Populist will
ever hang me on that trap!" The fol
lowing letter, received by Sheriff Mac
Bae and Jailor Millis, is also signifi
cant: "To the Sheriff and Mr. Millis. and
all other good democrats: xney Bay
...
NO. 46
that they are going to hang me, or kill
me one way or another, but I am not
going tolet any Third Party man hang
me; I am too sharp for that Thev
will let no Democrats come to sea
Neither will thev allow mv wife nor
any of my people to come.
J. he ropuhsts come in and worry
me all they can. Before I will die at
the hands of the Populists I will kill
myself. The bastards are hrnccrincr
about hanging one Democrat, but Goa
kuuws n is udjusi. xney say mat they
want to show the Democrats that thev
can rule the county. I will be dead,
but I hope you will not allow them to
do as they please any longer.
"I want you all to help my wife and
baby, and don'tlet her go to her father,
for he is a Populist. Please help her
along and don't allow her to ask any
Populists to help her. I have not time
to write much now: so. crood-bve for
this time.
; "Pi om your friend,
"Archie Kinsauls."
SOUTHERN BAPTIST UNION.
Will Meet at Caintuck Chapel Near Point
Caswell Friday, September 28th.
Programme Arranged.
The Southern Union of the Eastern
Missionary Baptist (Association will
meet with Caintuck Baptist "Chapel.
near Point Caswell, in Pender county,
on Friday, Sept. 28th, and will list
through the Sunday following.
An unusually interesting programme
has been prepared by the committee
in charge, directed by Rev. R H.
Hewlett, and the place is an ideal one
for holding the meeting in coatempla
tion.
Friday morning the meeting of the
Union will be opened with an intro
ductory sermon and 1.30 P. M. mis
cellaneous mission work will be con
sidered. At 3 o'clock of the same
afternoon Dr. Calvin S. Blackwell.
Rev. L. B. Boney-and Mr. B. F.
Keith will discuss the question, "What
Does 'a Christian Owe his Commu
nity ?" There will be no night service
and at 9 30 o'clock Saturday niorn-
mg devotional exercises will be con
ducted by Rev. R H. Herring.
"Christian Giving" will be discussed
by Revs. J. J. Payseur and M. C.
Walton at' ten A. M. and at eleven
o'clock Dr. Blackwell, Rev. R. H.
Herring and Mr. J. S. Canady will
use it Properly!" At 2 o'clock iu the
afternoon "The Second Coming of
Christ as it Refers to Missions." will
be discussed by Rev. M. C. Walton
and .Mr. J. S. Canady.
Sunday morning a Sunday School
mass meeting will-be conducted by
Superintendent G. E. Leftwitch, of
the Sunday School of the First Baptist
Church of Wilmington. In the event
Mr. Leftwitch will be unable to at
tend, Mr. J. S. Canady will preside
over the meeting. At 11 o'clock the
usual nreactrmK Bnio ....- l.ij.
THE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Prof. Washington Catlett Has Announced
Teachers for Coming Fiscal Year.
Prof. Washington Catlett has an
nounced the following appointment
of teachers in the various county
schools:
Cape Fear Township Castle Haynes
White school, Miss Beulah James;
negro school, Sarah J. Hall. Rock
Hill negro school, Levi Nixon. Acorn
Branch white school, Matthew Jtsowen ;
negro school, J. J. Clemmens.
Federal Point Township UakHidge
white school. Miss Lucy Smith; negro
school, T. H. Sterling; Carolina Beach
negro school. Sarah McKae.
Mason boro Townsbip-Masonboro
white school, J. P. Herring; negro
school, Mamie E. Levy. Myrtle Grove
white school, Miss Jennie Uldham.
Harnett Township East - Wilming
ton white school, Miss M. Moore; ne
gro school, Rosa E. Spruill. Middle
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Duunu wnue scuuui, juibs ivaimeou.
Elmore ; negro school, Carrie B. Mer
rick. Scott's Hill white school, Miss
Annie B. Thome; negro school, Dim
mie P. Dixon. Wrightsville - white
school, Miss Pattie D. Thome ; negro
school, Annie E. Levy. Greenville
white school, Miss Stella E. Middleton;
negro school, Fannie Telfair. Del
gado white school, Miss Lillie Y.
Keathley and Miss Augusta Wiggins.
All of the teachers elected have sig
nified their intention to accept, with
the exception of those from District
No. 7, East Wilmington, and District
No. 10, Castle Haynes.
Married in Burgaw.
Mr. John Williams and Miss Lizzie
Bell, daughter of Mr. McL. Bell, were
united in marriage Friday at Bur
gaw. Application for a marriage
license was made here, but -on account
of an uncertainty as to whether the
young lady was thirteen or fourteen
years of age, the license could not be
procured at the time. The couple
then decided to go to Burgaw and
make a trial. The bride was really
fourteen years old and their trip to
Pender county yesterday proved suc
cessful. They returned to Wilming
ton on the evening train.
Attention, Democrats
Democrats should not forget the call
of State Chairman Simmons, Wm. J.
Bryan, Adlai E. Stevenson, Jas. K.
Jones, Wm. R. Hearst, Josephus
Daniels, Julian S. Carr, B. C. Beck
with and E. Chambers Smith for a
thorough organization in all the States.
For North Carolina the plan is for all
the White Supremacy clubs of 1896 to
be re organized as Bryan and 'Steven
son clubs. The dates fixed are Sep
tember 14th (at night) for clubs in the
towns and cities and September 15th
(day or night) for clubs in the county
precincts.
As the horse editor of the Star
was passing Mayland'a saloon ; last
night John stopped him and pointing
upward, asked him if he had ever seen
the moon look so large. "That's easily
accounted for," said the horse editor;
"she has been in your saloon and
full."
Greenville Reflector: Wednes
day night, at the home of his mother,
Mrs. 8. D. Lee, in South Greenville,
Mr. Robert E. Lee passed peacefully
from earth. Mr. Lee had been an in
valid for several months.
Columbus News: A colored man
by the name of . King was killed by
lightning one day last week while he
was standing near the fire-place. The
lightning rah down the chimney.strik
ing him and killing him instantly.
Goldsboro Argus: We regret "
deeply to chronicle the death of Mist -Carrie
Holmes, sister of our esteemed
friend and townsman, Mr. Thomas
Holmes, which sad event occurred
this (Friday) morning at her home in
Faison, N. C.
Winston Sentinel: The Ashe '
boro Wood and Iron Works, several
cars and a large amount of lumber
were destroyed by fire at Asheboro
Wednesday afternoon.' The Asheboro
Wood and Iron Works was one of the
principal industries in Asheboro. The
loss is estimated at about $26,000. The
insurance is about $6,000.
Fayetteville Observer: The
Observer regrets very much to learn
from Mr. Warren Carver, who called
to see him yesterday, that Mr. James
Kirkpatrick is in a very precarious
condition at his home in the county,
never having recovered from the in
juries sustained when he was thrown
from his vehicle in a runaway. He
lies in a profound stupor from which
it is difficult to arouse him, and is Bel -dom
fully codscIdus.
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelli
gencer: Mr. J. Blakney Burch, of
White Store township, was assaulted
by Van Chambers, a young 'negro
man, Tuesday afternoon and probably
fatally cut. A gentleman just from '
Mr. Burch's bedside informs us that
Chambers walked up to Mr. Burch,
who was sitting on his back porch, and
assaulted him without uttering a word.
He also tells us that Mr. Burch's con
dition is somewhat improved this
morning and that the chance of his re
covery is better. A posse is in pursuit
of Chambers and it is believed bis
speedy capture is certain.
Weldon News: Mr. Martin '
Rook, a well known and substantial
farmer living about ten miles from
Garysburg, committed suicide last
Thursday by swallowing four ounces
of laudanum. He took the laudanum
about 10 o'clock in the morning and
died that night. He refused to take
any medicine and said he wanted to
die. He made his will a short while
before he expired. The Roanoke
Navigation" and Water Power Com
pany will develop one thousand horse
at the locks of their canal, about four
miles above Weldon. The company
will put up a large electric plant for
the purpose of lighting and running
the silk mill at Roanoke Rapids and
also the new cotton mill to be erected
there. Mr. Hayes, of Oxford, civil
engineer, is here for the purpose of
making surveys.
Clintonemocraf: Mrs. Eliza
beth Jackson died at her home
in Dismal township on Monday, the
27th August, at ihe advanced age of 90
years. Cephas Honeycutt, the
young white man who was Beat to the
penitentiary from thisxounty recently
for burning the store of Mr. Alvin
Honeycutt, a neighbor, has been par
doned by Governor Russell and arrived
home last week. The crime was com
mitted in a drunken spree and was not
premediated. Some days ago a
strange dog went into Faisons?',vihr
peculiar conducts - !" uelieJ V1
it wo ma. Mr. Herring, who is a
Salesman for Mr. Ben Witberington,
got a Winchester rifle and pursued the
dog He fired at him and the ball
passing through two planks in a fence
andr orlancine. struck a son of Mr.
Willis Thompson, who was eating
naAi umiuu imM Dact porch at his
father's house. The bullet struck him
in the left breast, just over the heart,
and being flat glanced on a rib and
ran gedup ward toward the shoulder, in
flicting a painful, but, it is hoped, not
dangerous wound.
Rockingham Anglo-Saxon:
Perry Ingram, a one armed negro who
shot and dangerously wounded a negro
at Hamlet last week, and who has
since been at large, gave himself up
Sunday to constable Will Freeman at
Hamlet, who brought him here Mon
day and placed him in jail. The
wounded negro is not expected- to re
cover. The shooting resulted from a
gambling quarrel. .Miss Sarah
Brady, a young lady who has been
employed in one of Mr. Morgan's mills
near Laural Hill, was brought to
Rochingham on the train Tuesday
night. She was violently insane, and
was with great diffiulty that she could
be managed at all. She had shredded
her clothing en route and gave other
evidences of totally dethroned reason.
She was carried to jail to await ad
mission to the asylum. Her conver
sation in her sanest moods showed
plainly that the holiness scamps who
have been going about the country
preaching the monstrous doctrine of
sinless perfection and gathering up
the loaves and fishes were responsible
for her' pitiable condition. She told
Sheriff Wright that the holiness
preachers told her that unless she was
sanctified she would go , to hell. She
was very much calmed when the sheriff
told her that the devil was dead that
Judas was the devil and he was hung
eighteen hundred years ago.
IOWA LYNCHERS.
Under the Lead of a Minister in Search
of a Negro.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Alton, III., September 8. Two
bloodhounds and a posse of fifty men
under the RevOwen W. Rose, a min
ister of the gospel, of Sabula, Iowa,
are scouring the country in the neigh
borhood of Godfrey. 111., just north
of this city, in search of two negroes,
for the purpose of lynching them. Mr.
Rose has requested the authorities not
to interfere in case the men are taken,
as he intends to string them up by
their legs, with their heads dangling
downward and shoot them to death.
Up to a late hour nothing .had been -heard
from the pursuers.
William Riggs, a brother-in-law of
the Rev. Mr. Rose, while cutting corn
yesterday, was approached by two
negroes, who knocked him down, beat
him and then amused themselves cut
ting fancy figures in his flesh.
WIRELESS TELEORAPHY.
Interesting Announcement of Sir WilHin
Henry Pierce.
By cable to the Horning Star. '
Bradford, Engu September 8. At
to-day's session of the physical science
section of the Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, Sir William
Henry Pierce, consulting engineer to
the British Postoffice, made the inter
esting announcement that as a result
ofiis experiments with wireless tele
graphy, he found it quite possible to
convey audible speech six to eight
miles across the sea wiwoui wires, ne
added that it was a practical commer
cial system and might be extend
communication between Be
tween ships and tbi
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