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FOREST FIRES CONTINUE i IN THE NORTHWEST. HOD A YEAR IN HAD VANCE. . . i u o t n u u n i " a b n in ii u 1 i 1 1 f : ii - j - i ii j ii : ii - we , w. r ii i . tni-';!? ii n.; - i g88888S8888888S8S ,iiuoK 21 88S88888888SS888S SS888SS8888888888 88888888888888888 82888888282888888 8888888828888888 8288882288888888 , , s 2 8 S! 8 & 2 58888888888888388 a - ! S . I i be Poit Olfic t dmtctoo, N. C, at Second CLm Ma ;er.l SUBSCRIPTION P.ICE. i The lubicriptioa prlc o! th Wackly 8 tar ia m allow : - SiuleCopy 1 rPoataf paid.,,.. ,f4 00 o noni I moat hi montbf TO PUNISH THE BEEF TRUST. Senator Lodge, President Boose velt'a personal and political - friend, mado a epoech in Portland, Maine, just Scfore the election and devot ed most of it to a disoussion of the trust question. His remarks were pretty much on the same line as tho3o of President Roosevelt in his New England speeches j He depre cated wholesale attacks; on "the big combines which most! of ns incor rectly call trusts. " He was opposed to attacking the trusts by repealing the tariff duties on trust controlled irticles, for we were enjoying pros perity and we ought to be satisfied even if some got more of the pros perity than others did. ) Bat he made an exception of one trust -the Beef Trust. He would punish that and to punish it he would repeal the protective duties on animals for slaughter and on slaugh tered moats. He didn't seem to be influenced by the desire to give the people cheaper meat, but only to pnniah the Beef Trust which seems to have become a target for a good many of the Republican statesmen toihoot at since Mr. Roosevelt and his Attorney General tackled it, af ter they were forced to tackle it by the exposures that had been made by the press and by; tho public clamor against it. He has probably been paying more for his porter bouse steaks, roasts, - &o., than he feels like paying and would punish the Trust and get even by repealing the duties on cattle, &c, and on meats. J There seems to be" a difference of opinion between him and Secretary Shaw over the way to do the pun ching, and also on the i Beef Trust. The Secretary thinks the Beef Trust ii j pretty good institution, for he .tolil in one of his Vermont speeches of receiving a letter from one of his tenants ia Iowa who bad a "nice bnnch of cattle" which he would be perTectly willing to sell to any com petitor of the Beef Trust which would pay him as much; as the Trust w'mld. Tho inference ' from that w,i3 that his tenant had no complaint agninst the Trust, and ! Was well sat iifi'.'d with its way of doing business, aod the further inference "was that thiswiu I ho way that other Iowa farmers who have cattle to sell feel about the Trust. The consumer of the be;f didn't figure in the Secre tary's remarks; it was. only the men ho had cattle to sell. He evidently didn't think that the Beef Trust de erved any punishment, but if it did be didn't agree with the Massachu ett3 Senator, who is also Presi dent lloosevelt's friend, as to the ffectivcne8s of the punishment he URgeati'd, for putting' cattle On the free list wouldn't punish them at H. lie opened the -campaign in Vermont with a speech which was mainly devoted to a discussion of tho TrUBts. nanAoiallv tVi TCflfif . I J . - Trust. Referring tot the demand for the repeal of the duties on cat tle ho said: "Suppose we take che terriff oil beef, and then suppose tho herds of cattle from Mexico and Bouth America are brought in by the hundred thousand. They will find their way to the stock yards wd the butchers will be compelled to bid against the packers then as now." Even if that were the case, ooldn't that mean cheaper beef for foe American people, if it be true, J the Beef Trust men say, that the "'gh price of beef is caused by a carcity of cattler" But the cattle i South America would not, and Ter7 few of the cattle of Mexico find their way to the stock Mt, for the cattle raisers of South America couldn't afford to ship cat "8 to this country and then ship them by rail to the stock yards in tje West. They might be able to ,lliP them to our Atlantic or Pacific Porta and anil h 1 li a i a whara butchers could buy them, which JVmbtfal; but whether or not the . - nuuiu aua useii ratner handed when iti undertook to V all the cattle that came into the yat7, in addition to the home- S Ca.ttle a8t t0 Pvent con: wgtonln their business. is somewhat remarkable that mat1' landing m close to the VOL. XXXIII. aannnistration as Secretary .Shaw does;, and who was presumably spealcing . for the administration when he was making his deliver ances on the Beef "Trust, s honld have views so diametrically op posite to the views ' of the Massachusetts Senator, who is the personal and political friend of ! President Roosevelt," and is generally supposed to be his spokesman. With which of these does Mr. Roosevelt agree ? With his friend, Senator Lodge, or with the representative of his administration, Secretary Shaw, who believes the Beef Trust which the Senator would punish, to be not only undeserving of punishment, but rather a benefi cent institution? We will see, how ever, how much in earnest Senator Lodge is, in his desire to punish the Beef Trust. He can, when Congress meets, have a bill.iatroduced to re peal the duties on cattle, &c, and on meats. We will see whether he will do it, but we take the chance of predicting that he will not, and that he will forget all about punishing the Beef Trust, when the time comes to punish it. BAER'S SECOND THOUGHT. As it has become a political neces sity to end the coal strike in Pennsyl vania it will doubtless soon be ended, although the coal monarchs declare that they will tolerate no outside in terference. There are indications, however, that they are feeling more or less the pressure of public senti ment, and would like to see the strike ended if it could be done with out a seeming surrender by them. Referring to a statement made by President Baer, of the Reading road, I one of tho coal roads, the Philadel-1 phia Press, Republican, says: Ia the statement of President Baer concerning the coal strike, given to the public last week, he ssid: "If the men at each colliery go to work every grievance or complaint which they may have shall be honestly and fair ly considered and decided." " The declaration neither admits nor denies that any just grievance exists. Taken bj itself it recognizes that there are complaints and impllee that they are entitled to be heard, though in other parts of the statement Mr. Baer .contends that there are no real grievances. Bat accepting the declaration as made in good faith and as involing a pledge. In case the men go to work, to grant a fair hearing and to give fair treatment, why should not this hearing be ac corded nowf Why should it not have been accorded anytime during the last three months! That is the first and the obvious ques tion suggested by the announcement. But it is not the only one. If the op erators will not grant the hearing now, why should not the miners put them selves in the position where they will command it under the pledget They may hold and the publie may hold that the operators should have met them half way long before this, and should meet them half way now, but as a matter of fact the operators will not. Thev are firm and uncompromising in their position that thev will do noth ing till the men go to work. Then they promlie that "every grievance or complaint shall be honestly and fairly considered and decided." If the miners can secure assurances of such consideration, why is it not best for them to resume work and put the ooerators to the test f In such ac tion-they would have the support of the public and the moral certainty that the pledge would nave to ne respected. It is time to end the strike. The- coal monarchs have caused it to be given out that President Mitchell is the obstacle in the way of a settlement, that they will hot recognize him. but will treat with the miners, and if they have griev ances Will, OO XfCOlUCUK JJBq DOJD, adjust those grievances. They have heretofore denied that the miners have grievances, and have asserted - a - that they were as well paid as peo ple in other employments of a sim ilar character. The public has become convinced that the miners had grievances, and tKftt ia whv tmblic svmpathy has been with them. But the miners will have to yield,' for it is with them a question of work or starve. The strike, how ever, although it has cost the miners a good deal, the State of Pennsyl vania a good deal and the public a good deal, has not been without its lesson, for it has demonstrated the absolute necessity of some law to regulate such corporations and make such strikes impossible. Itia rizht hard to tell when one w really owns a patch of real estate in this country. For nearly a hun dred years it was taken for granted that Uncle Sam was the proprietor of the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, and now a lot . of people who claim to be descendants of an nM nnldier bob- ud and Bay it is thoira nn the strength of an old w M w a w grant to the aforesaid deceased sol dier by Louis XVI., also deceased. They would prabably comp cheap. Anew industry has been estab lished in Maine, where some enter prising fellows have gone to breed ing foxes for their hides. In some other sections up there where they pay bounties on wild varmints, thrifty fellows breed them for their scalps. In Ohio a couple men have a snake ranch, where they breed snakes for their oil, and they are making lots of money by it. They count on a crop of 100,000 PSITCHAEO'S QAHE. Senator Pritchard, the big boss of the "lily white" Republican party of this Stato, is showing neither courage nor principle in his party manipulation. He is running it strictly on the dicker plan, his axiom being "anything to win." It is claimed that his party is now "re spectable" since it has lopped off the negro and accumulated some dis gruntled Democrats,' and yet it doesn't seem to have respectable men enough in it to supply it with candidates for the various offices, and he goes out hunting for "inde pendents" who will consent to ac cept his aid and run against the regular Democratic nominees. He has found a few. If he had any convictions and was - fighting for principle, and his party was the party of principle he pretends it is, he would make a bold and manly instead of the tricky, sneaking fight he is making. He would proclaim his principles, throw j out his ban ners and make his fight in the open, instead of pulling down his flag and making a bushwhacking fight as he is now doing. People respect courage in politics as they do in other things, and they have no use for the petty trickster who poses as a leader and a champion of great principles, while adopting pothouse methods. The platform adopted by his con vention at Greensboro - is no thin er but chaff and subterfuge, its sole purpose being to play to gullible or mercenary voters outside of his own party and thus offset; the votes of his old allies, the negroes, to whom he is indebted for the seat he holds in the Senate and his present promi nenceas a leader and whom he uncer emoniously kicked out when he came to the conclusion that they couldn't be of any further use to him. A Washington dispatch to the Charlotte Observer says that in the Spring of next year a colony of 1,300 people will move from Ohio into Beaufort county, to locate on a 20,- 000 acre tract of land bought some time ago by William Marven, an Ohio oil man, and a millionaire. Ad joining this tract ia another of 20,- 000 acres, bought by a Pittsburg man, on which a colony of abont a thousand Italians will locate next Spring. I Captain Andrews, of Boston, who took a young wife some time ago, and made the bridal tour across the Atlantic in a cockle-shell boat, all by themselves; may be officially dead, as declared by the court which granted letters of administration on -his estate, but when last heard from on their arrival in London he and his wife were very much alive, although somewhat satiated with salt water. One of the oath-bound gang of St. Louis aldermen boodlers said they didn't think they were doing anything morally wrong by taking bribes, because they had been doing it so long. They became so accus tomed to it that they looked on it as a matter of business. A Mississippi doctor is quoted as saying that if one drinks plenty of whiskev and eats plenty of raw onions, he need never fear malaria. We should think not. No ordinary malaria would ever tackle a combina tion like that. It is said that Secretary Cham berlain was surprised by the array of demands that those three Boer generals made when they called on him. But that wasn't the first time they surprised Mr. Chamberlain. One Chicago man has sued an other Chicago man for calling him a lobster, which is pretty good in dication that he wasn't as much of a lobster as the other man supposed. CURRENT COMMENT. Henrv D. Clavton says he has no fears of any new Republican party. That new Republican party is a thing of talk, created entirely by Democratic papers. There are fewer Republicans in Alabama now than anv time since the Fifteenth Amendment was made law. Birm ingham Ledger, Dem. . The vote in Maine on Mon day was at least not discouraging for th Democrats. While the Republi can ulnralitv on the Governorship was about as usual, the Democrats gained ten Assemblymen ana one Sftnator. inis is iar enougn irum being indicative of any anti-Republican tidal wave, but it at least that whatever change is in irogre8S is toward the Democracy Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. Snnator Lodee says: "Let ns first define what x are trust. .The nnfcnipai term does not apply to-day i n nt that trreat corporations or combinations that pass under that nr nnnrse. of course, it mii wiia to the I concerns that VUai GSI W BV -" mm have "busted" and have retired xrom Kno naA anri. thareiore. cau v;.h .ml tViorAforfl. can 1 fnfinna tn the rarent i(0 o.Tn-rtaitm f nnd. -Charleston WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, TO RELIEVE THE MONEY MARKET. .. r . j' ; Secretary Shaw's Arrangements to Release $4,000,000 of U. .. S. Treasury Holdings. NOTICES TO NATIONAL BANKS The Secretary Sees No Occasion for Alarm No. Evidence of a Currency ' Famine Elsewhere Thsn ia New York-The Rate Noi Hlih. i - By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Washington, Sept. 13. Secretary Shaw to-day. issued the following statement: j Secretary Shaw has made arrange ments to release about, $4,000,000 of treasury holdings. He has had a list prepared of those - national banks throughout the country which hold free or unpledged bonds at the date of their last report and has made inquiry for others.! After making allowance for changed conditions since last re port, ne expects inis will relets 3 at least 14,000,000. He hat sent notice to a!1 such that if they will send these bonds to the treasurer of the United 8tates in Bums of fifty thousand dollars or more, they will be designated as temporary depositories and the face value of the bonds will be deposited with them to the credit of the treasurer of the United 8tates. He has pursued this course in preference to designa ting depositories In the ordinary way which compels them to buy bonds in the open market at a large premium, thus paying out more for the bands than they get from the government. The customs receipts are extremely heavy at this particular season of the year and the cash balance of the treasury has been gradually Increasing. lie also has decided to anticipate the October interest, amounting to about (1,200.000, land with this in view or ders have been issued to the various sub-treasuries to cash such coupons as may be presented to them for pay ment, and the treasurer or the United States has! been instructed to mail checks for I interest on the registered bonds. All this was decided some days ago and letters and telegrams prepared for to day. The secretary sees in present condi tions no occasion for alarm. He calls attention to the fact that there is no evidence of a currency famine, pres ent or prospective, elsewhere than in New York, and even there the rate is not high for commercial paper, and for commercial paper he has the greater solicitude. He is well satisfied with his efforts to increase circulation, which he decided upon in the early Summer when ; present conditions were plainly visible, 'and has the presses busy preparing to meet an emergency which be does not expect, but whicb be thinks it is wise to pro vide against. Thus far he has made requests only of such banks as hold large deposits and have very limited circulation, and he is not ask ing them to increase to the maximum nor to increase-at ail for the present. He does not desire to force the banks into the market to buy bonds at a rate higher than the. government Is will- in to pay. ' Qe does desire to make the best possible use of tbe free bonds now held by the banks. ' Incidentally be likes to encourage banks to hold free bonds during the dull months, believing it is much better to hold bonds that will yield 1 per cent, even than to make call loans at two per cant. He is, therefore, giving the banks that bold these free bonds an ooDortunitv to use them to most ex cellent advantage. This method, if pursued by the banks, would give a slight element of elasticity to our otherwise inelastic currency system. Later the following was given out at the Treasury Department: The New xorbr banks are com plaining because the unprecedented demand in the West is reducing their available cash. They therefore ask that they may be allowed to go into the marker, oav f 1.100.000 for a mil lion bonds and receive from the treas ure a million deposit, with the bonds as security. They seemi willing to do this and increase their reserves zw,- 000 aeainst (his increased liability. Thus the banks would decrease their available cash $350,000, but they would be drawing the intesest on the bonds Instead of this 4he secretary is loanin? to anv bank wherever situa ted, nnon its free bonds, in tnis way the Western demand upon the banks will be relieved and they will only have to protect themselves." AN EXCURSIONIST KILLED. Mysterious Death of a Yonnt White Man on Dillon Excursion Thnrsdsy. Yesterdav afternoon's Florence Times says: "There is a mysterious case of a killing near Dillon last night, the par ticulars of which are nara to get. w J. Turbeville, a young man 22 years nf a?. was the victim. ' Whether he was killed by me train or oy ioui . . ; . - m . mAiins is doubtfuL Turbeville was nane Der on an excursion train irom . m fenwlanrf to Wilmington yesterday. He had, so it is said, been drinking, lie mt ntf nf the train at Hamar and noth ing more was heard of him until the train, after discharging its passengers at Rowland, returning to uiorence at about 11 o'clock, struck the body between Hamer and Dillon, engineer Kennedy and Conductor Cole went out to look after it and Tound the body tfiAn cold, so it was imnossibie ior mm to have been killed by tbe returning train and equally impossible for him to have been struck: and Kiuea oy train as he cot off of it. "To add to the mystery oi me mai- t there was a knife said to have been found lying on the ground not iar tmm where the bodT Iar. which leads some people to think that the ooy naa been killed and his body put on the track so that the appearance might be : - . .-a that the tram killed him." Accident to Capt, Dnckett. - Riloicrh AfcfflA and Observer'. "A tAWram rAaaived vesterday morning by the family of Capt. John Duckett from Mrs. K. M. Biggs, bis daughter in Lumberton. states that uaptam duck tt ham rifnlncated his shoulder and will not be able to return to Raleigh far several davs. It will be remem lunui that fountain Dnckett went to Wilmington several days ago to look ofir thn mini and charts that were in B III the nosaesaion of the late uapiain me- I R auta Eogioeer. Oa Thursday i i vAnlnir-i Oantain Duckett went to I T.nmhArtrjn to visit his daughter, and I it was at! her home that the accident happened.! ESCAPED S, C. CONVICT IS FOR HOUSE-BREAKING. His VYoadeifsl . Appetite Got Rim in Tron He far Five Years and Won't Let tllm Qet Ont. a.siavoto bis stomach and with a penchant for freeing himself of convict chains almost when he chooses, Ben Brackin, alias "Henry Fullard" the colored youth arrested last -week by the p. lice for the larceny of a chicken and upon whose ankles shackles were found when searched at the police sta tion, will be taken back to-morrow to Conway, 8, C. by Supervisor O. M. HarrelsorJ, of the Horry county chain gang, who arrived yesterday. The negro's morbid appetite ia at the Douom of ;aii bis ; troubles, tie is a typical African, aged 'about 19 7ears rabid -looking;, and has a mouth at tached- to his superstructure that will cut a half moon in the largest pie ever conceived in tbe mind of the most am bitious baker; He was sentenced to five years on the Conway chain gang about 12 months ago for breaking into a South Carolina farm kitchen, re galing his inner self with a two gallon churn of clabber, a bucket of milk and stealing a large country ham oa the sidr. He was caught the next day boarding a boat for! Georgetown and as there was : no one sleeping in the house at the time of his robbery, when court came he got only five years on the roads for his crime. Of his term he has served only bne year and has succeeded in getting away four times by slipping or filing the chains with which he was bound; His appetite, however, got the best of him each of the four times and he has been cap tured and returned to the gang. His last effort to appease his hunger with a chicken led to his arrest here. Yes terday he summoned! Policeman C. E. Wood hastily to his cell and pnt up a pitiful plea for crackers and candy, wnicn, or course, be didn't get, as Officer Wood dismissed him with the admonition that " shackled nigger and crackers and candy don't go to gether." I ' i - THE CUMBERLAND ' PRIMARIES. Correspondent 5sys Special in Star Was Misleadinc Mr. McNeill's Position. Special Star Correspondence. Favetteville, Sept. 12. The spec ial in your Issue pf to-day dated Sept. 11th, about the Cross Creek pri maries is misleading. Neither Mr. Hale nor Mr.MacNeill Were candidates for office. The results obtained (whicb, by the way are incorrectly re ported by your correspondent) were secured by a combination of the forces of two of the town candidates for sher iff (Cook and i Caster), against a third (Thomson) aided by ' the friends of Mr. MacKethan, the object being the defeat or the country candidates. Harsh and Adams, with whom Thom son is in sympathy. Tho statement by your correspondent ; that tbe country precincts "indicate about the same ra tio" as those in town, is untrue. On the contrary, Cook ; and Caster have developed very little strength in the country, which votes 110 Totes to the town's 10. The object of the Uoofc and Qaster combination, it is believed. is, if possible, to break up tbe 10 vote per. township rule under which all our nominations for years have been made; but it is not seen how this can be done, as the country townships are not like ly to yield this provision, their only defence against the town ring, which. by combining with one country town ship, formerly controlled all the offi ces. - : Tour special was also misdated. The primaries were not held on the 11th, as therein stated, but on tbe 10th. Fatetteville, N. C, Sept. 12. Editor Wilmington Star: Dear Sib Will you kindly give me the name of the. sender ot your spe cial telegram in yesterday's Star. He certainly must be a very prejudiced individual, as neither Major Jtlale nor myself were candidates for any pub lic favor. The contest was between rival candidates for sheriff, all from this township, and was one in which I had no personal interest, as 1 am quite well satisfied that j the nominee for sheriff will this year come from a country township. ! I ask the publica tion of this letter and the name of your correspondent as a matter of simple justice to Major Hale and my self, x ours, respectfully, ; James D. McNeill. TOBACCO 6R0WINU SECTION. Point Caswell Correspondent Has Interest ior Interview With D. McEschern. The Point Caswell correspondent of the Pender Chronicle writing this week says: . j "j ' "We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Duncan McEachern last week. He is one of the most successful com mission merchants: of Wilmington, as well as the chairman; of the Board of Commissioners of i New Hanover county, whose opinions on public matters are wortny or consideration. He is very much Impressed with the importance of tobacco growing in New Hanover and Pender counties. He was in search of some good farmer to engage to work a one-horse crop on the Uastle Harncs farm. His ! proposition was that he would furnish land. team, feed the team and - guarantee the work man three hundred dollars a year, or give him one half the crop, the only condition to tt e trade was that five acres should be cultivated in tobacco. Mr. McEachern .says bis experience has been with farmers that those who cultivate portion of the farm in to bacco are the most desirable customers and, as a rule, at the end of the season have a balance to: their credit, lie Bays this has been his experience in Dunlin. Sampson. 1 Robeson, and Cumberland, and he Is sure that what applies to tnese counties would equany aDDlv to New Hanover and Pender. esptcialiy render, as ber sou la oetier adanted . to tobacco and cotton man any county named. t i Kid McKoy has posted In New York a forfeit or 15.000 for a matcn witn "Bob" FiUsimons. and offered to let the amounts tand as a aide bet in the event of the match being arranged. 1902. CUtlBERLlND COUNTY PRIMARIES. Toe Hale-McNeill Faction Snowed Under In the Cross Creek Precincts. " J Special Star Telegram. Fatetteville, N. d; Sept.4 1L The Democratic primaries for the se lection of delegates to the county con vention were held iere to-day. Cross Creek (Fayetteyllle) township voted as follows with reference to the two factions in the fight: Precinct No. 1 was uninstructed, except for Mc- Kethan for Clerk. Precinct No. "2t voted against the McNeill-Hale faction 77 to 29. Precinct No. 3 wan 50 to 6 anti-McNeill-Hale, while No. 4, the home precinct of Messrs. McNeill , and Hale, went 78 to 37 against them. Returns from most of the country precincts indicate about the same ratio as between the factions. BLADEN COUNTY CONVENTION. Stroot Ticket Nominated by the Democ racy at Ellzsbethtown Wednesday. Special Star Correspondence. Eijzabethtown, N. O , Sept. 10. The following ticket was nominated to-day by one of the largest and most enthusiastic conventions held here In years: House, Forney Willis; Clerk, D. L. Blue; Sheriff. C. W. Lyon: Register of Deeds. J. S. Williamson: Treasurer. W. S. Clark: Coroner. B. S. Brisson ; Surveyor, A. Allen; Com missioners, O. P. Parker. W. K. An ders and R. L. Bridger. The Democracy of old Bladen goes forward. It's a winner. THE S0UTHP0RT PRIMARIES. Defecates to the County Convention In structed for the Several Candidates. Special Star Telegram. Southpoet, N. C, 8ept. 13. The Democratic primary for Smithville township waa held here to-day. The fight between the factions favoring E. D. Guthrie and J. B. Ruark for Register of Deeds resulted In the Guth-- rie faction capturing the primary. The Ruark faction thereupon left the hall. Considerable feeling was manifested. The delegates to the County Conven tion were instructed for Wm. Weeks for the House, David Ward for sheriff and Guthrie for register of deeds. MURDER TRIAL AT TARB0RO. E L. Breedlove Pound Not Guilty ot the Murder f a Negro. Special Star Telegram. Taeboro, N. O , September 12. The jury in the case of E. L. Breedlove, charged with killing the negro Elijah Lancaster, at Lancaster, in this coun ty, last January, returned a verdict of not guilty to-day, after being out only twenty minutes. 4 LOCAL DOTS. The annual re-union of Co. 'B." First battalion, C.S.A. (Col.Tay- lor's company) and Co. "E," Thirtieth N. C. TM will take place at Rose Hill, N. 0.. on Thursday next,' Sept 18th. Charleston has a fight over the appointment of a Collector of Customs to succeed Col. R. M. Wallace, who died only last Thursday. Two ne' groes are aspirants for the position. A meeting of the New Hanover 'Independents" is reported to have been held last night. A reporter for the Stab couldn't get on the "inside" of the affair, hence there is no report of the proceedings. News reached the city yester day of the death Friday evening of Mr. J. Allison Hocutt, a highly re- SDected citizen of Rocky Point. He was 58 years of age and served tbe Confederacy during the war. ACTIVITY IN TIMBER OPERATIONS. Up-River Conntry is Alive With Lumber nnd Shingle Mill Men Tramways. The Bannerman correspondent of the Pender Chronicle yesterday writes as follows: "Mr. J. M. Myers, of the Wilming ton Shingle Uo has a lot of contrac tors drifting out thousands of pine and cypress logs for bis plant In Wil mington, ills new steamer is now completed and will ply tbe North East river, transporting logs to his plant. - aMr. u. Mallard oi tne uuton Lumber Co. , has completed six miles of road and is now putting two thousand logs to the water each week. The steam er jp. and is regularly engaged tow ing to mill. The skidder used for loading logs in the swamp was acci- dently burned a week ago. It is quite a loss to the company and will great ly retard the progress of their work. 'Messrs. Mara- and Joan liritton. contractors for the Angola Lumber Co., hsuve availed the opportunity of logging in the swamps, during the dry season, and have quite a number oi fine cypress logs on their road. They have two and a half miles of road and expect a cargo of rails this week. "Messrs. Britton and Meeks have a large force of hands cutting cross-ties. and while we have no volcanic erup tions, the rumbling sound of falling trees may cause the no-fence law to be agitated in the coming campaign." Newspaper Men Fare Well. Newspapermen in South Carolina fare well in the distribution of public offices, according to the Florence Times. In last week's primary, J' W. Ragsdale, elected to the Senate from Florence county, is publisher .of the Timmonsrille Enterprise; Dr. J. C. Mace, of the Marion Star, has been elected to the Legislature; Josiah Daar, of : the Georgetown Times, waa elected county superintendent of eda- . cation, and J. W. Daar of the Outlook, was elected to the Legislaure. - NO. 47 HOB OF LYNCHERS ATTACK A JAIL. Attempting to Take theiLif e of a Man Charged With Crim inal Assault. AT BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA. Battered Down the Jail Door, But Were Held Back by Officers The Sheriff . Slifhtly Injured One of the Mob Shot by Policeman. B V Telegraph to the Horning Star. - Butler, Pa., September 13. A mob of 2,000 men at midnight, yelling like fiends, are attempting to take the life of Jerry Bennet, a prisoner in the But- It county jaiL The mob baa battered down the jail door, but are being held back by Sheriff Hoon and armed depu ties. A dozen policemen are vainly trying to quiet and disperse the would be lynchers. Bennet. 26 years of age, was caught in the act of assaulting a seven-year-old daughter of John H. Wagner, a tailor, under a box car near the West Pennsylvania railroad station. The child was covered with blood and was feebly crying, "Mamma, mamma," when rescued from her brutal assail ant The officers fired over the heads of the crowd to frighten them back and were rushed upon by the Infuria ted men, armed with sticks and stones. Deputy Sheriff Raney Hoon was struck several times by clubs and slightly injured. Special Deputy Lewis Hill was struck in the face by a board and severely cut. At 12:40 A. M. another rush was made on the jail by a small crowd of the rioters. Policeman Graff, who was standing in the doorway pushed tne iront man in tne party back. ueo. 171 Ai n tk wAnniv af asal WAvlrajt mm j vuu sssiuwa Vrass. w vi mux a struck Graff, and is said to have tried to pull a gun. Graff shot him through the calf of the leg. The assailants then retreated. WEDDED AT MULLINS, S. C. Mr. John White Led to the Alter Miss May Williams, of Leland, N. C. Special Star Correspondence. Mullins, S. C, September 12. At the residencs of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Richardson, Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock, Mr. John White, a promising young man of Mullinr, and head clerk in the large establishment of B. F. Penny & Co , led to the altar Miss May Williams, a charming and beau tiful young lady of Leland, N. C, Rer. A. B. Watson officiating. The attendants were Mr. Whitman Smith with Miss Zula Huggins. Mr. Frank Gwin with jdiss Ella McKay; Mr. Henry Williams with Miss Gertrude Fowler; Mr. B. Fowler with Miss Tempie Jones. The bride wore a becoming gown of white silk. The bridesmaids wore be coming white organdie. After the cere mony a delightful supper was served to the guests. The bride and groom will make Mullins their home. AN IMPORTANT DECISION -I Puts an End to All Corners In Commod Itles on tbe Chlcsgo Exchange. By Teiegrapn to tne Horning star. Chicago, Sept. 13. A most lmpor- tant decision against the Chicago Board of Trade was rendered to-day by Judge Chytraus in the "July Oats Corner" injunction' cases. Not only does the opinion of the court, if sus tained by higher tribunals, put an end to all corners in commodities on this exchange, but it strikes at the very life of the institution as now organ ized. The directors for all time have had their powers so curtailed that they cannot longer adjudicate upon property rights of the members of the association. Judge Chytraus goes even farther, and says that under the charter of the Board of Trade there is no provision for succession of mem bership, and be asks the pertinent question: "What would become of the corporation when persons now composing the original board would be dead!" ROOSEVELT ENDORSED. Result of a Conference of Prominent New York State Repnblicans. BVTeiegraph to tne Horning star. I New York, Sept 13. There was a conference of prominent New York State Republicans to day, and at Its close United States Senator Piatt gave out as the result of the meeting this statement: "It was decided to en dorse Mr. Roosevelt and his adminis tration, and an far aa it is In our power. to endorse him for 1904." senator naw said that no other subject was dis cussed at the meeting. Charles J. Roterous. of Savannah, ua., . ia uoau at aauwuuui umuwii Ohio, from a gunshot wound inflicted by a man giving his name as Adam Smith, of Baltimore. Smith Is under arrest Money! Are you indebted to THE : -WEEKLY STAR? If so, when you receive a bill : for your subscription send : us the amount you owe. Remember that a news-' paper bill is as much en titled to your considera tion as is a bill for gro ceries., fcaaaM BePiHlHf Extensive Conflagrations In Washington, Montana and ColoradoTwo Towns - la Washington Partly Destroyed. By Telegraph to the Horning star. Taooma, r Wash. , September 13. ' Forest fires are now burning in every county of Western Washington, from British Columbia to the Columbia river. The coafitgrationa are' the most extensive in Mason,' Thurston, Chehalis and Lomls counties, to the' southwest of Tacoms. The towns of -Elma and Folsom, in Chehalis county, have been partly destroyed. Each was the centre of large logging, lumber and shingle mill industries. Other towns which are la great danger are Shelton, Mattock, Black Hills, Bu cado, Ranier and Castle Rock, in southwestern Washington. Eufaula and Buckley, in the Cascade moun- tains, are threatened. The latest, re ports . from Mason county are that every portion of that oounty la In flames, with the exception of Shelton The logging camps of Thomas Bor- - deaux, near Olympia, are surrounded by flames. Forty men have left here on horseback to rescue the women and children. The Grays Harbor branch of the Northern Pacific Is on fire, even to tbe ties In several places.- Many farms have been destroyed throughout South Washington. At Eufaula, Mrs. Biles was driven from home with her dead baby in her arms, while her hue- band was out fighting nre. The burn ing bridge at Wellington, oa the Great Northern, has stopped traffic on that road. Portland. Ore.. September 13. The smoke from the forest fires is be' - coming thicker in this city, though tbe area in tnls vicinity practically have burned out. Hundreds of people iu this and ad- 'acent counties have been made home ess. Kalilpel, Most ana, Sept. 13. Two of the most disastrous fires that ever raged in the forests of Montana are destroying millions of feet of fine timber. One fire is in the Dayton creek country and the other is south and west of Llbby, in a large cedar dis trict. Cassels. Colo.. Sept. 13. The largest and most destructive fire in Colorado is raging between Chase and Shawnee. The fire is beyond control and already the damage done to the Platte water sheds is heavy. The flames cover a space of five miles in length by one mile in width. All energies are being directed toward pre- -venting the fire spreading down the canyon, from Shawnee. THE BEAUMONT OIL FIRE. One Large Gusher Still Burning None of the Wells Are Thought to Be Permanently lojored. bv Teiegrapn to tne Horning Star. Beauhobt, Texas, September 13. To-night one large oil gusher In the burned oil field area Is still in flames. ' The efforts made this afternoon were not successful In extinguishing it, but more boilers have been sent for and the plan of smothering it with steam will again be tried. The small tank burned itself out this afternoon and the big one will probably die out by morning. - , Many of the companies lost their pumping plants and nave wired tor new machinery and these will be in stalled as soon as possible. An exami nation leads to tbe belief that none of the wells have been permanently in jured. There is a new problem to be con fronted as soon as the gusher is extin- guished, and that Is the control of the well. The gate valves have been melt ed off, and while it is probable that these can be replaced by workmeoJn divine suit, it is still a oroblem ISat ; may be a nara One. - Estimates of the damage atill arv! but' there is a general acceptance of 4i. about $100,000 as the figures that will- cover the loss. The first fatality of the - fire occurred this morning when B. L. May, a laborer, was killed by a block falling from the top oi a oerricx. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Kinston News'. Over 350,000 pounds of tobacco was sold on this market Thursday. Pricea are holding up well. Smithfield Herald'. Wo were shown a hen egg on Monday by Mr. E. G. Smith that weighed 4i ounces. This is the largest hen egg we ever saw. Rockingham Anglo - Saxon: Some kind of an insect, supposed to be Texas weevil, has attacked the cot ton crop in Lower Wolf Fit and Is doing great damage. In some spots which they have gone over tney nave destroyed at least half the crops. Greensboro Telegram'. The Fries mill merger is coming along. Mr. Fries was here Friday and said in response to inquiry that the news was in tireensboro, referring to laat nignt's meeting at the Benbow. But cotton mill men were here to meet him to day and there is no doubt that he is . quietly carrying out his plans. Among the cotton mill men here to-day were Mr. Frank Wood, president of the Edenton Cotton Mills, and Mr. Jno. I Manning, of Spartanburg, Mr. Fries plans look only to the merging of the weave mills. Salisbury Sun: Mr. W. A. Smith, of Concord, was in Salis bury Friday morning with some beau tiful specimens of gold and copper ore which he had taken out from a mining property in Cabarrus county. He had one very fine specimen of gold ' ore which weighed j pounds. ; Mr. Smith will shortly begin the develop ment of his property on an extensive scale and he expects a rich yield of both gold and copper ore. A bullet baa been removed from the foot of Mr. W. T. Earnhardt of Gold Hill, which bad reposed in his toot for sev enteen years. Mr. Earnhardt waaae- . cidentally ahot. As the wound healed up he had. no thought of having the bullet extracted. Except at times it gave him no trouble. - A few days ago he danced several hours on a stretch. He decided finally to have the bullet removed and the operation was suc cessfully performed last week. Greensboro Record: The work of overhauling the furnace at the Em pire Steel and Iron Works is all com- pleted and it Is ready to go into blast but for one thing the want of suffi cient ore. The company has an abun dance of it already mined at Wilson Mills, but the siding leading to the mine . is not yet In and it cannot be shipped, : tnougn a numoer or wagons -are en gaged in hauling It two mills or over to the railway station. Mr. Isaac , Prosser, of the Empire Steel and Iron Company, this morning was exhibit- , ing a curiosity found at the ore mine at Wilson Mills a turtle of Iron ore about as perfect an It could be made. ItlwasLfound among the ore being taken out and it is Mr. Prosser's idea that a real turtle at some time or other been used as a mould, Ithe ore being; melted and poured into it ; The only defect in it is the tall of the "varmint" -which is rather out of joint Other wise it is perfect. "r;." vA; ' S .Hi. fill- I X : .-.'V j !i t " I I I Hi t 't A :?! 'ewsand Courier, Dem , snakes this year.