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C) Uv j -PUBLISHED AT - ilmington, n. c.. AT- 00 A YEAR. IN. ADVANCE. S88838S8888888888 V.jiU'iV ?I 88888888888888888 28888888888888888 g 8 8 8 8 8 8 8888888888 sqmow Z 8S888f8la8HIS8fg if.asv I . ! ii " I! . ' ! i 888S88S882SS8SS8S 8288g88SS88888888 . s Si 388SSS8S8S888S3S8 8 a U - a, " 3: """,ia " ""o mis wiee ,i. rcl at the Port Office t wilmtgton, N. C. at Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION MICE. i bsubscriptioai prica of the We-jy Star U u as!c Copy 1 yew, pottage paid......; CO " 6 months " ..." 8a " Snumtha " " I'lIIIIII 80 IT SHOULDN'T BE HARD TO DE , CIDE L Nearly every member of Mr. Mc Kinley's Cabinet has gone before the people in this campaign to vin duwte is administration arid-appeal -to the people to re elect him. When dignitaries of this class go on the stump to defend an administration of which they are a part, it is a vir tu admission that there .is much which needs defence and which can- noi be satisfactorily defended by the ordinary stump speakers and organs. They presume on the fact that tlu-y are so closely connected with .Mr. McKinley that what they say will have more than the ordinary importance, forgetful of the other fa it that they as well as President McKinley are on trial before the jury of their countrymen and that while defending him they are also defending 4emselves. This weak ens their pctever as defenders because it shows a personal and a selfish motive. When Secretary Root or Secretary T.lixr rlfifAnda t.hn war nnl iov nf tYia administration they are defending themselves, for thev are as much. responsible for the war policy as he is, because they were his advisors. When Secretary Gage defends the financial policy he is defending him self, for he is responsible for any de fects there may be in that as Mr. McKinley, because McKinley looked to him Tor counsel and acted largely if not- altogether oxi his advice. When he comes to the front now to assert that there are dangers im pending over the gold standard act he condemns himself and proclaims his own short-sightedness in not fore seeing the kind of a law that would stand the test if there were an effort made to break through it, and he also heralds his own inconsistency when he thus contradicts the asjur ances he gave the public but a short urtiSlo arm thaf nn muffar urhiV party won in the next election the gold standard would he safe. It seems to us that, under these circumstances, what these interested gentlemen have -to say to the people, especially when spurrod to it by po litical emergencies, would have very little influence on intelligent, sens ible people. But they seem to think differently, or they would not be scurrying around the country plead ing for vindication for Mr. McKrn ley and for themselves. Secretary Gage is j the latest but doubtless not theJast to figure in the role of . vindicator, which he did at a meeting of Young Repub licans in Philadelphia a few nights ago. Commenting upon his per f ormance there the Philadelphia Record says: "Secretary Gage, who addressed the meeting1 of the Young Republicans of Philadelphia at the Academy- of Music last nurht. employed tne . let-wen enough alone" argument in favor of President McKinley and the Kepubu can party. After claiming as the fruits of Republican administration and leg islation the prosperity enjoyed by the country during the past four years and its success in war the Secretary put his question: 'Has the effect been so d verse as to demand an experiments j- of reasoning depends altogether upon the truthfulness of the prem . ises. The nation has prospered and rolled ud wealth during the aaminu tration of President McKinley because of the bounty of nature (the colnci laviAA t akiitiilanf tiawwoeta in thin country and relative scarcity abroad) and by reason of , the inventiveness, industry and enterprise of our mer chants, manufacturers and working- men, not because of anything which the President and his party have dune. It was the valor of American soldiers and the precision of American . naval gunnery, not the ability dis played by William McKinley, com mander in chief of the army and navy, ia applying the power com mitted to him, that 'in 113 days com pelled a vanquished people to sue for "peace.' "President McKinley's most impor tant intprrvisitinn in the conflict with Spain was to shield Secretary of War Alger, whom he had foisted on the - American nnnnlA in nnfar to nav a DO' hticat debt, and whom he retained to the end of the war against the almost unanimous protest of the nation. The embalmed' beef scandal, the fever camps and Eaganism these are me of the choice fruits of War ymce methods, and President McKin le7 cannot shirk his responsibility vue same. Another specific claim maue by Secretary Gage for the official chief and the Republican Party was that they established our v"oy system on the good founda tion Of sold ' and mf it tha iut ere right in his recent criticism of ,! Act of Mmcq 14th, 1900, the mea- are ha rn j.i i j tha priuBBS is bo ueiecuve ana 'wunaation established by his party VOL. XXXII. for the gold standard is so rickety that an friendly to the maintenance of that sirnaara could practically put the fin ances of the United 8tates on a silver basis in spite of that law. Secretary Gage is in no wition to demand the tuuuucnce or tne people for his party on the record made by the Republican Congress in financial legislation. Inasmuch as the Secretary did not cite any other particular act as en- xuuiK iub jnepuDucan party to con tinued confidence, it is not necessary tO COnfuta the millfitllrfa nf t claims made by that party upon the KratuuuB ui tne American people. Sec retary Gacre'a cmeRtinn whafho,. 0 change of parties in the control of the government would be advantageous or desirable mtoht Ka atnrmative a hundred timna. And Mh time the answer might be supported ujr muuoiiaDie arguments. Tne growth and multiplication of Trusts under the fosterinir influnnrA nf T2Annhlian policy; the enormous increase in pub- u Miuuiiiura ma taxes: me viola tion oi tne spirit oi the Declaration of Independence and of tho lnttA nt tha Constitution in the treatment of the in sular peoples whom the fortunes at war have nut in tmr ward thAKA nr certainly serious and sufficient for the condemnation of the party in power. Unfortunately, however, the American nation is laboring under . great embarrassment in matins a choice of rulers for the next quadren- uiai penoa. xt is tne question whetner four years of Bryan might not be worse than four veara mnr nf MpTTtn. ley which is perplexing the voters. The American people are not called upon to let well enough alone, but to decide which of the two evil a th greater a continuance of McKin- iey ism at Washington or an injection of 8ry auism into our national financial policy. The "let-well-enough-alone" plea is one of Mark Hanna's bright ideas, based on the boldfaced assumption that the conditions in which the ountry now finds itself are "well enough," for the people at large as well as for "Mark Hanna and his crowd, which is very far from being the fact, for if it were we would not find the country stirred as it is from one end to the other, and the men who are making this "well enough" plea trembling lest the people bring in a verdict against them, and we would not see Mark" Hanna collect ing and expending the millions of dollars contributed by the benefi ciaries of Republican policies to in fluence that verdict .and secure at any cost the acquittal of the admin istration on trial. Presidential elections in this country afe nothing to be sneezed at. In the matter of paper alone it requires eighty tons to supply the State of New York. The paper trust has a soft snap on that and wouldn't care if elections came quarterly instead of quadrennially. The Gould family have had to interfere to prevent Castellane from running Anna to the poor house. In four years he has gotten away with 17,000,000 of her money. Her brother George has had himself made her trustee by the Trench courts, to save what was left. The strain of this campaign has been too much for Mark Hanna. In his recent stumping tour through Indiana he devoted himself almost exclusively to denunciations of Bryan and talked with the inco herence of an insane man. He is badly off mental balance. Since 1890 the fifteen Southern States have increased their population from 22,449,278 to 26,339,307, a gain of 3,890,029. While there has been more or less of this from immigra tion from other States, there has been very little from other countries Mark Hanna had the candor to acknowledge in a speech in Chicago a few nights ago that he had done "some political work and .had pro fited by it." That's what he is in it for, and he insists on big divi dends, too. The Albatros, which has been taking soundings in the Pacific, struck one place where the sea was five miles deep. That's about where Hanna would like to have the Philip pines drop. With the present population of this country, on the present basis $1 apportionment, the House of Repre sentatives will number 382 members, instead of 357, as at present, North Carolina will gain one member. The Hartford Courant is 136 years old, bnt is still nimble. It is a Republican paper, which shows that age -and experience do not always bring wisdom. The yacht Arrow built for Charles R. Flint is the fleetest thing afloat She makes 42 miles an hour and when put on her mettle can make 50. ' Harbor Master's Report. The report of Capt Edgar D. Wil liams, harbor master, shows the fol lowing arrivals of vessels of 90 tons and over at the port of Wilmington dur ing the month of October: American Five steamships, 6,131 tons; 1 barge, 416 tons;l brig, 610 tons; 8 schooners, 2,061 tons. Total vessels, 15; total tonnage, 9,218. Foreign Nine steamships, 18,345 tons; 1 barque, 720 tons. Total vessels, 10; total tonnage, 19,065. Grand total Vessels, 25; tonnage, 28,283. THE FEDERAL COURT Judge Purnell Cleared the Docket and Reached Adjournment Friday Afternoon. YORK GOES TO FAYETTEVIIXE He Was Taken to Jail Ust Saturday Morning Witness Sent to Jail for Being Intoxicated in Court Notes of the Session. The Federal Court finished up the business of the term at 12.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and Judge Pur nell left on the 3.05 8. A. It. train for his home at Raleigh. Most of the other court officers left last evening and the remaining number, including defendants, witnesses and attorneys. will leave to-day. The term has been remarkable for the absence of important cases on the docket and dispatch with which those that were for trial were dispensed with. The following proceedings appear fFom - the Clerk's record vesterdav : Millard McKay. Bladen countv: breaking into distillery warehouse and retailing ; not guilty. James Green, Richmond county; retailing, plead euiltv and nraved for judgment; continued, defendant to give bond to next term. James Green and W. A. McDonald, Richmond county ; sci fa, forfeited rec ognizance; sci fa dismissed. James Bostick. Richmond countv: retailing; plead not guilty; verdict not i. Wesley Hodges. Richmond county; retailing; plead not guilty; verdict guilty and sentenced to One year in penitentiary. Urewry Walters. Richmond countv: retailing; plead not guilty: verdict gudlty and judgment sixty days in jail and $ 100 fine and costs. T. Li Kosser, of Elizabethtown and a wuuesi iu the case against Millard McKay, was committed to the New Hanover county jail for twenty dav for being intoxicated in court. The grand jury returned a true bill against Thomas Sykes, of New Han over, for retailing without license; continued on account of sickness of defendant. The grand jury and petit jurors were discharged for the term. All the cases on the civil docket were continued as follows: Thomas A. Mclptjre.vs. G. W. Kidder; Rountree & Co. vs. Harry Skinner; State of North Carolina on petition of Railroad Commision vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company ; Maria R. Lewis vs. the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York ; E. J. Powers vs. S. Munn, Son & Co., of New York; also those on the ap pearance docket as follows: Clarence L Parker vs. the- Clarendon Water Works Company, (two cases), and Thompson & Co., and A. C. Thomp son vs. the Atlantic National Bank, of Wilmington. The cases of E. J. Powers vs. Munn & Co. and Maria R. Lewis vs. th6 Life Assurance Society were continued by consent. York Will be Transferred. Since the decision to transfer the case of -J. L. York to the Federal Court at Raleigh and the expressed desire of the prisoner to be traus ferred from the New Hanover jail on account of his health, there has been much tpjculatioa as to what would ultimately be done in the matter. It was at first thought by the District l-Attorney that it would be best to take hra to Raleigh, but there were others who wanted to take him back to the jail in Fayetteville as York desired, among them being Deputy Marshal H B. Everett The officer telegraphed to Judge Purnell at Lumberlon in the afternoon yesterday and received a reply ordering the clerk of the court to give him a commitment to the Fayetteville jail, which was done. Steamer Hart's New Boiler. The old boiler of the steamer 4. P. Hurt, which was recently condemned by the U. S. inspector, was taken out yesterday and placed on the wharf of the Cape Fear River Transportation Company. Capt W. A. Robeson, master of the steamer, who has re cently returned from a trip North to purchase a new boiler, found material so scarce that the factories would not guarantee shipment within six months. He returned via Savannah and there procured the boiler from the sunken steamer K.atte, which . the company lost in Savannah river about three years ago. It has already been shipped and is daily expected, so that the Hurt will soon be on her regular schedule again. Capt Robeson is here, in person superintending the exchange. Transfers of Realty. Register of Deeds Biddle recorded the followingjiroperty transfers yes terdav: Aaron H. Neff, of New York, to the Willard Bag and Manufacturing Com nanr. property on Water street be tween Dock and Market; consideration $3,000. The property is now used as a warehouse by Mr. Preston Cummmg, J. VanB. Metts to xnos a. wngnt, property 48x82 feet on Fourth between Market and Princess streets, for fa, 000. Monroe Byrd to Henry Green, prop erty 33x165 feet on MacRae street be tween Green and Miller, for 500. DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED. Tko TtannirnlATit RrV.ifltv extends grateful thanks to the following friends for contributions to the Catherine Kennedy Home during the past month : Miss Louise Harlowe, Miss B. Amnewuiflp Mi. TTintze. Mr. J. F. Gar n nr.. TT V Wilder. Mrs. E. N. Penny, Mrs. B. F. Hall, Miss Puss XianCOCK, Bin. Ancr mwioi ir t t. riantwnll. Mpb. NixonDavis. $5.00, Mr. J. H. Bunting, Mr. Clay nnaa TV The thanks of the SO- ciety are especially due to Mr. Nixon Z a KnolnACIH WAV. uavisior BervuiK.uo " - thereby saving us a greas ue ui iety. WEEKLY WILMINGTON N . C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Miss Mary Jennings Bellamy, after spending several months with friends in Pennsylvania and Virginia, arrived home last evening. Fayetteville Observer: "Mrs. M. B. Kirkland and Miss Mary War ren Cameron, of Lake Waccamaw, arrived last night and will spend the winder at Lafayette." " Mr. George Faison, who has been with Mr. W. O. VonGlahn since October 1st, left yesterday for his home at Warsaw to recuperate from a two weeks spell of sickness. Mr. Eli Phillips, of Lumber ton, a subscriber to the Weekly StAr for twelve years, was here Saturday. He was acccompanied by Mr. D. C. Regan, also of Lumberton. AN OLD RULE FAVORS BRYAN n Presidential Contests the Loser Always Defeats the Opponent Next Time. New York Journal. To show that Bryan will defeat Mc Kinley this year John W. Cavanagh, of No. 11 Wall street, has set forth facts establishing the rule that "in a Presidential contest the loser always defeats his opponent the next time they meet" Here is tha list of Presidential con tests showing this result: 1796 Adams defeated Jefferson. 1800 Jefferson defeated Adams. 1824 J. Q. Adams defeated Jackson. 1828 Jackson defeated J. Q. Adams. 1836 Van Buren defeated W. H. Harrison. 1840 W. H. Harrison defeated Van Buren. 1888 B. Harrison defeated Cleve land. 1892 Cleveland defeated B. Harri son. 1896 McKinley defeated Bryan. 1900 Bryan will defeat McKin ley. THE UNA CLAYTON COMPANY Closed a Most Successful Week's Engage ment at the Opera House Last Night. The Una Clayton Company closed a most successful week's engagement at the Opera House last evening, pre senting in artistic style the comedy drama, "Fanchon," to a house which would have been much larger but for the very inclement weather.. At the matinee yesterday afternoon the com pany repeated Wednesday evening's bill. "A Sultan's Daughter," to a thor oughly delighted audience. The watch presented by Miss Clayton to the per son guessing nearest the hour at which it stopped after, being wound up was given to Miss Carrie. Ortmann, she having guessed nearest the lucky num bersomething after 12 o'clock. Mr. Morey, the manager, after the performance last evening, promised Wilmington a return engagement this season, and it goes without saying that theatre cut ra who have attended this week'j performances will have for the entire company a warm welcome. The Fatal Accident at Clinton. Parties, who came down from Clin ton Saturday, brought particulars of the accidental shooting at Clinton a few nights since, in which young Howard Peterson lost his life. He was in the armory of the Sampson Light Infantry at a band practice which was about to begin. As the young man had picked up an instru ment, Luke Moore, janitor of the building and first corporal of the com pany, was cleaning in another part of the building an old army pistol which accidentally fired the ball taking effect in Peterson's groin, causing,- it is thought, lockjaw, from which he died a few hours later in a physician's office, whither he had been taken for treatment The young man was a son of Mrs. Julia N. Lewis, of Clinton, by a former marriage. Piano Recital. The usual Saturday afternoon re cital by pupils of Miss Cannie Chasten's piano classes was given yesterday at 4:30 o'clock in Schubert Hall. The following programme was rendered. "Prelude and Fugue," (Bach) (From the Well Tempered Clave chord ) by Miss Elizabeth D. Burtt 'Sonata Op. 2, No. 1." (Beethoven.) (First Movement) by Mr. James C. Craft "Nocturne in C. Minor," (Chopin.) by Miss Esteele May Muse. "Novellette in E. Major," (Schu mann) by Miss Elizabeth D. Burtt S. A: E. Alumni Association. Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsil on fraternity in Wilmington have re ceived a charter from their Supreme Council for the organization of the Wilmington Alumni Association of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. There are a number of S. A. E.'s in Wilmington and they propose to make their club one of the most popular social organizations in the city. Negro Shot Last Night. Arthur Evans and Fred Evans, two colored youths, quarrelled last night about 6 o'clock at corner of Second and Marsteller street.and as a result of the same the last named drew a pistol and fired on his adversary, the ball taking effect in the calf of Arthur Evans' right leg. The wounded negro was taken to the City Hospital in the patrol wagon. The other negro has not been arrested. Special Train to Newbern. The Atlantic Coast Line will operate a special train to Newbern Wednes dav. November 14tb. on account of the Eastern Carolina Oyster, Fish, Game and Industrial Fair. The train will iva Wilmincton at 7.40 o'clock A. M. returning, leaves Newbern at 4.50 o'clock P. M. Excursion tickets will be on sale at very low rates. THE ELKS' CARNIVAL. Committee Met Yesterday After noon at The Orton to Ar-' range Event. DATE, DECEMBER 3RD TO 8TH. Committees Named to Secure Co-operation of Merchants In the Affair Experi enced Man Will Be Employed to Work Up the Matter. The Elks' Carnival and Mammoth Street Fair, which has been much talked of for the past few months, now appears a certainty. An enthu siastic meeting of the committee from the Wilmington Lodge was held yes terday afternoon in the parlors of The Orton and active steps were taken towards launching a boom for the event from the very start At the meeting William J. Bellamy, Esq., presided and members in attend ance were Messrs. Samuel Bear, Jr., H. J. Gerken, W. F. Robertson, T. B. Carroll, T. H. Wright. H. McL. Green, L. H Skinner, W. E. Springer, H. G. Fennell and S. H. Fishblate. It is proposed to hold the "Mam moth fair and galajweek" for the period asting from Dec 3rd to Dec. 8th. Mr. George D. Benson, an experienced man in arranging carnivals and events of this character, and who has made a great success of such promotions all over the North and South, will be here soon and will take charge of the work, provided the Elks receive the proper encouragement from the public in their laudable undertaking. The attractions will be many and varied and the event will ba made second to none of the phenomen ally successful streat fairs and carni vals which have contributed so much to the industrial and financial up building of other cities in the State this year. It is proposed to have bal- oon ascensions, foot ball games, athl etic contests, midway plaisance shows, menageries, etc.; in fact to make it a veritable gala week to Wil mington and the surrounding country. In arranging for the event, the Elks are fully mindful that they can do nothing without enlisting the hearty co-operation and support of the mer chants and business'men of the city, to whom a gala week of the kind pro posed will mean so much. With this end in view, Mr. Samuel Bear, Jr., at the meeting yesterday afternoon made a motion, which prevailed, that the chairman appoint committees for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions from those who can be interested in the affair. The chairman appointed the follow ing, who are expected to work in all the territory described by the bound ary lines given: East side of Front street west side of Third street and north side of Mar ket street W. E. Springer and M. W. Divine. East of the river; west side of Front street and north side of .Market street Samuel Bear, Jr., and H. McL. Green. Woof rf tViA mittaii nraof ei)a r9 PtiAvtf linos vi vuo iifbi w vot oivtu vi jl1 iuuk street and south side of Market street George Harriss and S. H. Fishblate. E.ast side of Front street: west side of Third street and south side of Mar ket street H. J. Gerken and Lewis Stein. East side of Third street and north side of Market street--T. B. Carroll, T. H. Wright, and H. C. Bear. East side of Third street and South side of Market street J. F. Woolvin, Julius Taylor and B. B. Jackson. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Chairman Richardson says It Is Abso lutely Certain That the Democrats Will Have a Majority. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, November 3. Chair man Richardson, of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, to-night made-the following statement as to the next House of Representa tives: "We are absolutely certain that the next House will be Democratic, and we believe that the Republican leaders well know it many prominent Re publicans having admitted it The majority will be a good safe one, at least 25. This committee has not deemed it wise to go into detailed esti mates showing the districts they are confident of carrying, or those that they are making a tight for, for the reason that we do not wish to invite greater opposition or arouse the Re publicans to concentrate their forces in thosd districts where our Demo- bratic candidates are making hopeful cattle. "The wisdom of this must be appar ent to every good Democrat, and is certainly appreciated by every intelli- gent.one. "The claims of the Republicans that they expect to carry the House by a decided majority is all for political effect The prominent men of the party have conceded for some time past that the situation was desperate. and probably hopeless so far as the House was concerned, and the claims now are made to keep their spirits up." The weekly statement of averages of the Associated Banks snows: Loans, 1793,330,800; decreased $1,054. 300. Deposits, $841,775,200; decreased $1,616,300. Circulation. $30,717,800; increased $57,000. Legal Tenders, $58, 351,100; increased $105,100. Specie, $158,043,100 ; decreased $890,600. Total reserve, $316,894,200; decreased $485,- 600. Gus Fellows, a negro, was found guilty of criminal assault at Jefferson ville, Ga , and was sentenced to hang November 24th. The two companies of military ordered there to protect him from mob violence returned with him to Atlanta last night The population of the State of Ver mont, as announced yesterday by the (jensusJiureau, is 843,641, against 332, 423 in 1890. This is an increase of 11, 219, or 3.3 per cent 8TAR 1900. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Greensboro Telegram: Mr. Jesse Benbow, of Oak Ridge, this county, died Wednesday night at 10 o clock, hie was over 85 years or age. Wilson Times : Last Monday Mr. James Davis, or "Jim," as he is known by his friends, was attacked with an epileptic fit and fell on Golds boro street He was immediately taken home, and died suddenly on Tuesday about 3 o'clock from heart failure. Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: Mr. C. C. Covington is hereby awarded the red ribbon on a prize squash. Dr. Covington brought in one from his farm a few days ago which measured 43 inches in length. The seed were sent here from Mississippi, and they are said to be very delicious. Lexington Dispatch: The reg istration books for the national elec tion closed Saturday. The very heavy registration for the August election made the week rather tame with the registrars, but the books had to be opened according to law. There were very few names added to the lists. Salisbury Truth-Index: Mrs. Dr. W. A. Newman nee Miss Mary Legh Page, wife of our townsman, Dr. vv. A. isewman, has lust fallen heir. as reported by the Richmond .napars of Wednesday, to the Mont St. Angela estate, in Virginia, through the death of her aunt, Mrs. Julia Fletcher Wil liams, who left a fortune valued at $500,000. Statesville Mascot: Mr. J. M. Whitlow, who liyes about two miles from town, yesterday brought in two branches of a cotton plant that were loaded with full grown bolls. He says that all over his field the top Drancnes nave a second crop of fullv grown bolls, and that if we have no frost for about ten days that he will have a second crop of cotton. This cotton bloomed since the middle of September. Concord Times: Another cot ton mill is to be added to Concord's already large number, making the fourteenth one. Mr. B. E. Harris is the prime mover in the enterprise. and he has bought a site for the fac tory from Mr. J. U. Wads worth, a part of the Montgomery lands. About a one hundred thousand dollar mill will be erected, and cotton twine and other cotton goods will be made. The project is yet in embyro, but its con summation is assurred. Wadesboro Messenger-Intelli gencer: Mr. T. N. Lee, a well known citiz9n of Union county, died at his home near Monroe Friday.' John Nicholas, colored, was accidentally shot and killed Saturday by Mr. Ems ley Phifer, who lives near Marshville. Mr. Phifer was repairing a gun which belonged to the negro, when it was accidentally discharged, the load tak ing effect in Nicholas' leg below the knee. The wounded man died from loss of blood. Durham Sun: A fatal accident occurred Thursday morning on the Seaboard Air Line freight yards, by which a young man by the name of Sidney Lee lost his life. The young man was about 21 years of age, and a son of John Lee, who lives beyond Red Mountain, in Person county. De ceased was either standing on the track or attempted to cross it. when he was struck 'by a car and knocked down. The wheels ran over his head, crush ing it in a horrible manner. Reidsville Review: We record with pecular sadness the tragic and sudden death of Mr. Stafford Turner. who was killed in a baseball game near Reidsville Saturday. The Miz- pan and iserry teams were playing baseball at Sunny Side and Mr. Turner wes on the nrst base and his friend. Temple Harrison, was coaching him. Turner tried to make the second base, but finding that he could not do so safely, turned, and attempted to return to the nrst in avoiding the first base man he collided with Harrison, who was struck with such force that he was thrown to the ground and Turner fell upon Harrison's uplifted knee, cansing some internal derangement that re sulted in his death in about forty-five minutes. Mr. Turner was: to have been married before Christmas. He had brought his sweetheart to witness the game and her presence made the accident the more pathetic Asheboro Courier: John Fields, aged about 43 years, living in the San dy Creek section, was killed instantly on October 22d by the overturning of a wagon on the public road near the widow crown's place, a few miles east of Level Cross. The team of mules he was driving belong to John Wheeler. Will Uatwood. colored, met with an accident on Friday evening that proved fatal. He was employed at Dr. Bowbow's saw mill, about two miles south of Gray's Chapel. He fell ' on the saw while running, his arm being sawed off near his shoulder. The store belonging to R. B. Johnson, in Concord township, was robbed Friday night The store-house was entered by prizing open a window. Thev got $200 and considerable quantity of mer chandise. Two men named Sechrist and Lambeth were seen near the store about dark that night. They had been in the neighborhood some time, and it is said came from near Pilot Moun tain. They came to Asheboro Satur day morning and went north on the 10 o'clock tram. They gave a gentle man here a box of the cartridges they stole and traded some $12 at one of the hardware stores. They waded the uwharne river and burned up their clothes on this sides, and it is sup posed put on new suits they sjole. FIGHTING IN CHINA. An Anglo-German Force Meets With a Stubborn Resistance. By Cable to the Moraine star. London, November 3. The Pall Mall Gazette, this afternoon, publishes a dispatch from Ichow, dated October 28th, which says heavy fighting has occurred in the mountains on theshan Si frontier. An Anglo-German force of 1,500 men,, commanded by Colonel Yon Norman, stormed Tseching Eung Pass. The Chinese ' occupied a strong position on the crest and stubbornly resisted. They poured a hot enfilad ing fire on the advance party of eighty uermans, under Major von Forrester, but British Bengal cavalry and mounted sappers, dismounting, scaled the heights, turned the enemy's flanks and relieved the ttermans. The steamer Hill Citv. til vine be tween St. Louis and New Orleans, struck an obstruction just below Mem- fihis, and immediately sank to the ower deck. Thirty passengers and a crew of forty were taken safely ashore i m wa nla 4 Vi a mmv mvaKaUIm ill 1U J CD W ID, U1D wnlltw UlUUaVlV TV 111 1 m do ruined. . Lord Roberts, in a dispatch from Johannesburg, dated November 2d, re ports no less than eight fights at differ ent points; all unimportant but signifi cant or tne activity oi tne Boers. T NO. 2 THE BAMBOO FLUTE. Japanese. I bear from the shade of the flr trtM Tbe Usher"! flute twin. Eli Importunate lafflefcttloo, His paadon and hU (Sain. Proud lords and lovely Isdjet Met there in nights gone tr. While the mm moon was tailing Like pleasure boat on high. The lords sang amorous ditties, The ladles5 touched the lute. Where emulous anil eftTions, The nightingale was mute. They stele apart in the darkness And plighted hearts and hands Or, attning; songs with laughter, Daneed on the yellow sands. There la more in the fisher's muste Of passion and oi pain Than he knows, and here at midnight It comes to me again Comes back with a silent sorrow, The weight of tears unshed, The longing for vanished voices, The loved, the lost the deadl Richard Henry Stoddard in Century. 6TORY IN FIVE WORDS. It Tola of One of the Moat Terrible of Maaaacrea. Probably the most startling piece of news that was ever sent out into the world was the announcement of the mas- Bscre of General Custer and his com mand in 1876. The terrible news was so unexpected that it came like a bolt from a clear sky. It brought a feeling of sick ening horror to the heart of every man who read it or heard it on the street. It passed frqm lip to lip as it became known in the west and the east. There were friends and relatives of the murdered men in all parts of the nation, and the gallant commander was himself a nation al hero. For two days the nation waited breathlessly for information regarding the disaster additional to the brief gen eral announcement of the calamity that had been sent out as soon as the news was known in Bismarck, N. D., which was then the extreme northwestern office of the telegraph company. That first message was a brief one; but, after all, it told the whole story. That message was a bit of "wire talk" sent from Bismarck to Fargo on the morning, of July 5, 1876, and it said, "All the Custers are killed." The message was sent by J. M. Garnahan, manager of the Western Union office in Missoula, and it was thus that the news was first sent eastward. From Fargo it was re peated to St. Paul, and St Paul sent it, in turn, to Chicago, and from there it was passed along to cities, towns and hamlets, telling its brief but terrible story tersely, but completely. There was but a single wire east from Bismarck in those days, and government business had the first call upon this. Consequently Operator Carnahan had only time to flash forward this brief message of gen eral information before he was compelled to begin the transmission of the official report of General Terry to the war de partment. For 24 hours he sat at his key clicking off this mass of official corre spondence. All this time the eastern pa pers were clamoring for news, but it could not be given to them. So per sistent were these demands for news that Mr. Carnahan obtained the permis sion of Colonel Smith, the member of Terry's staff who had brought in the offi cial dispatches, to make up a short "spe cial" from the information contained in the reports of the officers. This special was sent to the New York Herald and is believed to be the first authentic news of the Big Horn massacre that was sent out, aside from the official dispatches. Cincinnati Enquirer. HEBREW SURNAMES. Host of Them Date Baelc Only Two Hundred Teaurs. The family names of European Jews are of comparatively recent origin, most ly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the first part of the nine teenth. When they were obliged by law to assume family names they did bo ei ther according to their traditional cus tom, calling themselves Abrahamson, Isaacson, Jacobson, Aaronson, Davidson, Levison or the like, or took the names of their native country, as Sachs, Schwab, Pollack, Baier, Boehm, Schweizer, Tyro ler, Oestretcher, Hollaender, etc. Others, again and these are the majority nam ed themselves from their native towns, such as Frankfurter, Berliner, Oppen- heimer, Posner, Landauer, Fnerther, Marburg, Wetzlar, Erlanger, Bernheim er, etc The descendants of Aaron mostly kept up the names of Cohn, Cohen, Cowen or Katz, and the Levites maintained the name of Levi, Levy, Leyh or Brill, tha last being composed of the Initial letters of Ben Rabbi Jehuda Levi. Some few are translations from the Hebrew; Huebsch and Schoen from Jafeh, Wise from Chacham, Weis from Zaban, Roth from Edom. Still there are quite a num ber of Jewish names much older than the eighteenth century which are evidently not taken from any town or country, also among the German Polish Jews, such as Heller, Mack, Moch, Block, Bloch, etc. Euphonious -and attractive names, both from the fauna and flora of Europe, were frequently chosen. When emigrating to other countries, the bearers of these names would often translate them into the language of their new habitat. Scho enberg became Belmont, Blumbenberg changed to Montefiore, Loewenthal to Napoleo Gutmann to Goodman, etc. The name of Saphlr, the German humor ist (1795 to 1858), is said to have been chosen by his father from a sapphire he was wearing in a ring and to which the official in court called attention when he was in doubt what name to select for his family. Baltimore Sun. , There Was So Duel. Colonel Crisp when in the Missouri legislature was one of the central figures in a scene which promised bloodshed, which ended in a hearty laugh and which was the cause of an astounding remark from Hon. John W. Farriss, the then speaker. Crisp and another bel ligerent son of Anak got into a debate which grew into a quarrel. They shook their fists at each other and roared like a pair of Numidian lions. Everybody ex pected and many hoped to Bee a regular old fashioned knockdown and drag out fight, which expectation and hope were frustrated and dashed to the ground by Speaker Farriss remarking: "If you gentlemen do not quit fussing and take your seats, T will order the chaplain to take you into custody I" which so amazed the bellicose legislators that they stood in a state of lingual pa ralysis, while the spectators laughed till they were red in 'the face. Humor saved the day. Champ Clark In Denver Re publican. Lots of Vowela. In the Hawaiian language every word ends in a vowel. A Hawaiian finds it almost impossible to pronounce two con sonants together, and in English he has the greatest difficulty in pronouncing any word ending with a consonant. Mr. Hale in his Polynesian grammar says: "In all the Polynesian dialects every syl lable must terminate in a vowel, and two consonants are never heard without a vowel between them. It is chiefly to this peculiarity that the softness of these lan guages Is to be attributed. The longest syllables have only three letters,- and many syllables consist of a single vowel." Again, no syllable, as a general rule, in the Ba-ntu family of African speech can end in a consonant but only in vowela. . The Work Care. 1 "The healthy brother supported the in valid brother for years and years and rears, and then the healthy brother died." i. "What became of the poor Invalid brother 7' I "Oh, he had to get well and go to work." 3few York World. IRISH TURNS AND TWISTS. The Uneomeelona Haaor That CrsfS Out Ia the Green Isle. The author of "Irish Life and Char acter" Bays truly that . one haa only to mix with an Irish crowd to hear many a laughable expression; quite in nocently uttered. As the Dote and Duchess of York were leaving Dublin " in 1897, amid enthusiastic cheering, an old woman remarked: "Ah! Isn't it the fine reception' they're gettin, goin away?" In 1892 Dublin university celebrated Its tercentenary, and crowds of vis itors were attracted to the city, v Two ' laborers, rejoiced at the general pros- -v perlty, expressed their feelings. ', '. "Well, Tim," said one, "thira tar-; cintinaries does a dale for the thrade of Dublin, and no mistake." t "Oh, faix they do!" said the other. , "And whin, with the blessln of God, we get home rule, Bure we can have aa manny of thim as we plase." An old woman, seeing a man pulling a young calf roughly along the road, exclaimed: "Oh, you bla'guard! That's no way to thrate a fellow crather." "Sure," said a laborer to a young , lady who was urging him to send his children to school, "I'd do anything for such a sweet, gintlemanly lady as yourself." Again, the laborers on a large estate ' decided that it would be more con- . venicnt for them If they could be paid every week Instead of every fortnight. One of their number was sent to place their proposition before the land agent, and this was his statement: "If you please, sir. It's me desire, and It Is also ivery other man's desire, that we rcsave out fortnight pay ivery week." , ' An exasperated sergeant, drilling a squad of recruits, called to them at last: "Halt!" Just come over here, all of ye, and look at yourselves. If s a fine line ye're keepin. Isn't it?" JUST A BIT OF LIFE. A Pathetic Incident of the Pawn shops In the Metropolis. Sneaking into a small shop in an ob scure and poverty ridden locality, the man who "went broke" at the races was realizing on a superfluous article of jewelry. A woman so poor and pinched in feature, so marked with care and desperation that it made him feel sick to look at her, was holding something under her shawl and wait ing nervously until he should have fin ished his transaction. "Wait on her. She seems to be In a hurry," he sold to the man behind the counter, and at the word of permission a carpenter's plane was produced from the shelter of the shawl. "How much do you want?" queried the unmoved pawnbroker monotonous ly. "Fifty cents," replied the woman, with a gulping in her throat and an eager look in her eyes. She clutched the money tightly and ran Into another creature, poor as herself, but bearing her troubles in duller fashion. She had a baby's cloak, never costly and much worn, on which she wanted to borrow money, the same sum as the other woman had asked for. The man who had been offering a diamond felt uncomfortable. "There, give me $50. The stone's worth four times as much." And, seizing the mon ey, he hurried after the woman who had just left the shop. He was not given to acts of charity, and be felt awkward, the more so as the woman shrank from him as he accosted her. "ITbeg your pardon," he began, "but here's $5 I have no use for. Perhaps you" "No, no!" she cried, drawing further from him. "For your child." he said gently. "My child is dead!" cried the woman, with a queer sob, and fled Into the labyrinth of alleys and byways that shelters so much wretchedness. New York Times. i Curlona Mexican lam. They have some very curious crimi nal laws in Mexico. For Instance, it is twice as much of an offense to muti late the face of a woman as that of a man. The law seems to be based on the idea that a woman's best posses sion is her beauty and that to mar It does her a great Injury. There is another curious law. If a person should be wounded in an en counter, the punishment to the offend er is fixed by the number of days his victim has to stay in the hospital or under a doctor's care. A line is fixed at 40 days In the way of a general divi sion. If the injnred man occupies more than 40 days In his recovery, the pen alty doubles up. An Impudent Fraud. An Impudent fraud was perpetrated upon a Manchester bank by one of Its customers, who opened an ' account with some few hundreds of pounds. The man, after a few weeks, drew two checks, each within a pound or so of his balance, and, selecting a busy day, presented himself at one end of the counter, while an accomplice, when he saw that his friend's check bad been cashed. Immediately presented his own to a cashier at the other end. Both cashiers referred the checks to the ledger clerk, who, thinking the Bame cashier had asked him twice, said "right" to both checks. The thieves were never caught r- Nye'a Introdnctlon. When James Whltcomb Riley and Bill Nye traveled together giving a joint entertainment, the humorist had great fun with the poet. Once, in In troducing Riley and himself to an au dience, Nye remarked, "I will appear first and speak until I get tired, then Mr. Riley will succeed me nnd read from his own works until you get tired." Plymouth Bock. Plymouth rock has become an object of veneration in the United States be cause of its interesting historical asao . ciatlons. As is well known, It is the rock or ledge on which the pilgrimj are believ ed to have landed when they first step ped from their boats in the harbor of what is now Plymouth, Mass. In 1775 part of the rock was removed to the vi cinity of Pilgrim halL but was aftsjc ward restored to its original site and ia now under the stone canopy that sur mounts the main rock on Water street. Charles Sumner said, "From the deck of the Mayflower, from the landing at 1 Plymouth rock, to the senate of the United States is a mighty contrast, cov ering whole spaces of history hardly less than from the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus to that Roman senate which, on curule chairs, swayed Italy and the world." . Kwsela'at Ratona Tipple. Vodka is the destroyer of national char acter and domestic ifcappjness In Busata. rrhis deadly drink Is seen on every table. It ia simply another-name for spirits of wise very little modified. Thousands of Russians every year become confirmed TOdka drunkards, chiefly through the se verity of the winter. It is S singular fact that religion and intemperance are closely allied together in Russia. Drunk enness is not accounted at all sinful by the vast majority of even the religious people. -New York Tribune. - Too Much For Htm. "Were you sick on the voyage overt Not until the custom house officers tame aboard." Philadelphia American. X.
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