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i -V.--J - V ytSy v'V V . - f:.v -. ' : t . ' i A?.'v --y yy .V. THE WEATHER: ADVERTIsyo. What would this city be like without its stores? What would this newspaper, be like without its store-ads? , One would be about, as interesting as the other. Partly eloUdv" Sftnr1W o Sunday rartieSaturday, light untie ouinny winds. ; , . i ,v.. ' E,dtJNDE : s VOL. LXXXV HO. 8 CLOSING fill at Number of Charters and Corporations ar Domestfcatin AN EDUCATIONAL i Lean Fund Has Been 'Lawe-I improve ments in Federal Bailing at RaK ' eigh National uad Affairs. Laymen's Movement. ! (Special Star Conrespondence.). -; Raleigh, N. C Dei. 3 il..--The Corpo ration Commlssioir today issued au: thority for The Eton Baniking & Trust Co., to open a banking business at Elan .College aonday, The capital is $10,000 andthe cashier , is JWi. T. Lawrence. f , '. T V ' S'' 4 ij.. The Union Tanning Co.. of Ne w Jer ' sey," domestatedMa; North. "Carolina today for the V purpose ; of operating a tannery t Old .Fort., w . - . : -, A charter Is grantedthe JSmpire Manufacturing Co., Gdldsboro,vto do a general timber ;and milling business, capital $200,000 by J. B. Edgerton. N. 0 'Berry, W. T.' Ay cock' and others The construction of lumber railroads is in eluded in the authority specified. -. - Balances Just cast In the Depart ment of Education show that since 1903 loans from the State loan fund to aid in the erection of school house? have been made in - 88 counties, the aggregate being $465,000. - This money has gone to 1,000 districts for provid ing adequate public , school , buildings for 145,000 children. Only a certain per cent of the cost of - the, school house to be erected is Included in the State loan so that .the-value of the school houses ."actually ; provided through the' State loans is about $1, 125,000,. well .nigh alKof, thea .being erected in accordance' with ' plans ap proved . by - the ; State Department, which furnishes ' I plans for - various grades of approved school buildings from Ihe bne-foduiliTin"" to ' t'6-' story school buildings with all the detail specifications worked - out. . An installment jbf interest and part payment of principal - on the. loan funds outstanding! falls due February inth amounting to $58,544.84. The In: terest paid by the school districts is at the rate "of C per cent. Payment of interest and principal are guaran teed by the county commissipners. Gen. T. R. Robertson, of the Nortk Carolina National Juard, has returned Trom Beaufort where he spent sever days and says that he left the most remarkable weather conditions there. The thermometer was at 15 degrees and the white sand ohMhe edge of the sound was frozen hard. .Mrs. Robertson was with, the general. The United States court room in the government biilldlng here is about ready now for the convening of the .term of Federal' District and Circuit courts by Judge Connor January 4th. The renovation is about completed, with entirely new finish to the walls, re-finished' wood-work, remodeled and newly carpeted bar and a general re adjustment of the place. Chief Clerk 1. M. Deaton, of the revenue depart ment, acting for Collector Wheeler Martin, custodian of the building, ha3, with theco operation of the 'Clerk of the Court, H. L. Grant, put the place 'in ideal order. An enclosed dock for the prisoners 'and! a portable platform for the jury and another for the wit ness chair are especially notable .Im provements". '- ' ' ; The judge'sVchambers have also been reflnished and refurnished -as well as moved from the second to the third floor wherejthey open into the court room. i - v - There are 107 entirely new cases awaiting trial at tnis term of the court in addition to a big docket of cases brought over from former terms. is an int.prat.1ne fact that of the 10 1 new cases that have been docketed 47 of them have! come -up from the court of the unitea suies vuiuiuo filoner Jno. Nichols here, being Wake countv cases, mostly for retailing. The Branded Cotton .Mills Corpora tion, of Richmond. Va. , domesticateG under the laws f North Carolina to dav to operate I, cotton mill in Con cord. The capital is ' $60,000 all of which is to be Iksued in stock Jan uary 5th, $500 btlng subscribed ai this time. B. AJ luffln is president j ... - . . 1 '- or tne corporation. - ." The Masters & I Age Co., of Tennes see. domesticated I or Wrating stores at. Ralefgh, Durham aVd other, places in this State for selliife clothing for men' and women on. tXe . instalment Plan." . r - -"'' . The statement is mad in the of flee of the Adjutant General , of thv3 National Guard tteat ever company of the. North Carolina. National Guard is now amolv eouioned foAassurin acceptance unde the Dick Ml by the War Department as a -partof the National military forces. Th limit unuer the act within which, ctm pan ifs of the euardsiin the various Itata must be eauiuiied in complianceWith the regulations Is January 2 lsty'The North Carolina Guard has been e'l within the requirements for a month fill Cn v..... . A The Raleigh laymen have appointed special committees to visit various noints in Eastern Carolina and work P interest in the Laymen's Conven- "nn to be heWi In Greensboro Jan- "ary 12th to 14 h. On January 2nd STATE 6 lyow. fKCOBD CTIVE WEEK FOR COTTON Staple -Continues to Advance to New 0 High Prices With Better: Dt- mand-T"Bitter Complaint v - " :i " r . From 'Manufacture rs. ' ' New York, Dec.-.31,-HCottoh has ad tanced to new high records on more active speculation and ;.what seems to be more to the point, reports of 2 a far better demand for the actual cot ton at hbmejand abroad The rise in "prices is" still the subject of ., bitter complaint from cotton 'manufacturers and it is alsb said that a State trans fer tax may be levied on trading in cotton and grain similar v to that now imposed upon, transactions' in securities.'- ' ' -j - ',-v ; -. : Bulls Insist on a crop1 2,500,000 to 3, 000,000 smaller than the world's re quirements of American cotton. Spin ners have been buying more freely of future and also, it is said, of the ac tual cotton, j The bullish version pf this is that many of the spinners are coming to their senses, recognizing that this is a. very .short crop and that higher prices are inevitable. : Large spot interests have been very heavy, buyers -taking 4n hedges as spinners called for the cotton. Liv erpool has) also bought -on a large scale. Soine leading bull operators have sold from time to - time; . but bought again on any reaction, a course which enables v them to -aupport the market -from time to . time whenever it appears necessary., Liverpool prices have been' unex pectedly strong day after day. West ern - dry goods reports have been fa vorable and in fact much of the news has 'been of a bullish character. The" bulls have been particularly encourag ed by the rise of spot quotations and the reports of a large demand for the actual staple. . The state of cotton goods athe South, particularly in the Atlantic States, is reported to be far more favorable than" it was a month ago and New England mills, it is stat ed, have latterly been buying in the Southwest after holding aloof , from the market for. 60 days. Wall street, Chicago,-New Orleans and the '"South generally: have bought freely from time to time. .'; The outside public has shown less, hesitation about buying. On the other, hand Fall River reports trade quiet and at-New York there.haa been some falling off in the"dry goods market. , ' '; s '--:.k '. curtailment is suit reported in many parts of the cotton world at home: and abroad and some old cotton men con- fend that the price of cotton-has gone up like a rocket and is bound sooner or later to come down like a stick. In any case they believe the present price discounts anything bullish in the situation, and think if the price is car ried up much further the curtailment of production will be so sharp and widespread as to defeat the efforts of the bulls. It still remains true, how ever, that the general sentiment is bullish, and rightly or wrongly, the conviction is : growing that some fur ther advance is unavoidable owing to the confidence if short crops in both America, and Egypt at a time when trade- especially in this country is re viving after the panic of 1907-08. They look for prosperous times in 1910. The next acreage, it Is true, will be very large, but supplies cannot be ma terially increased it is argued, before next October, FIRE. AND EXPLOSION. Blaze at Home of Hon. F. S. Spruill Water Tank Bursts., (Special Star Correspondence.) Rocky Mount, N. C, Dec. 31. Orig inating either from a poping fire or the burning wood's rolling on tht floor, considerable damage was done by a blaze in the parlor at the resl dence of Hon. F. S. Spruill last night about 8 o'clock. The fire was burn ing rabidly .-when dcovered by the oc cupants. In ano ne pr.rt of the nou.v. Considerable damage was done to the furnishings by smoke and water. But for the prompt response by the fire Department the entire' residence would have been destroyed. JAn accident likely to occur Inmost any household during a cold snap but fraught with less real damage than usual, was the explosion this morning of the water tank of the range at the home of Mr. W..W. GuptOn, on Maiu street.. Mrs. Gupton was busy get ting, breakfast but had stepped out of the kitchen a few moments, return ing upon report of the terrific explo sion which shook the house to find that the range had been blown into a hundred pieces, and things scattered in every direction, while the sash were blown from the windows. -A house cat sleeping In the kitchen by toe warm fire, was instantly killed, Mrs.' Gupton escaping. by having 'left the room for the moment. A Iargs hole was blown in the kitchen wall. The cause was the freezing ' of thy coils in the stove and the generation of steam" when the fire was built in thejftove t?o nen W. Lav. "Hon. James R. Young, and Prof. Z. V. Judd will visit Rocky Mount and Dr. B. F.. Dixon, W. X Peele, and J. W. Bailey, ' wiirgo to Wilson.1 On January 9th ; N: B Broughton, Joseph O. Brown and. J. R Young will go to Greenville : V. Tndd W. A Graham and R .H, Battle rirtlrlsboro and Dr. B. F. Dixon, Col mac, onrt nr. J.. R. Hunter, to Washington. - ,r '- V " ;.; ' " ' : Legal Holiday. ' j a a oy business will be transacted t.. hftTika of the city New Year's vDay, all deposits made with. the Peo ple s Savings anit, wu , - LtUtA will-bear interest from Jan- ulry . 1st,' receiving credit for the . in test due April.lst. ; : Ja l-2t.r- W .C, FATAL WRECK OF I 'V" Three Persons Killed and 45 : Injured at Trenton, Mo., ; Yesterday. I VICTIMS PARTIALLY BORNEO Fast Rock island Train Plunged Over . Embankment and Fire - Hindered i. the. Escape' of - Passengers- ; ' Severe WeaU'rer. v Trenton, Mo, Dec. 31. Three per sons were killed and '45 injured to day:. by the" derailment and partial burning of a westbound Rockslaid passenger tram south or rrenrou, which probably,' was caused by spread ing rails. ; Wjhile,-the .train was run ning-at a high speed the locomotive and, tender plunged ,over a five food embankment - dragging, two - baggage cars, a mail car; a tourist cr ani a standard sleeping car with them. AYhile passengers in""" the wrecked cars . were struggling te escape; from the -debris fire started from the Cr? box.. The splintered cars burned rap idly:, and the 'three -slain passeng-ers were partly" burned. Scores of per: sons were rescued as the flamesj wer? scorching their clothing or oummg theirflesh. David Siegel, . of Cleveland. Ohio, was held by the wreckage for an hour" while the fire .burned - within a few feet- of him, but-was eventually res cued, although he, may lo3e an arm. Heroic rescues were numerous. Men and women who - escaped, unharmed rushed into the burning wreckage to rescue the less fortunate passengers. The ground was covered with snow and a raw wind -was blowing. -Thi men collected coals, and protected the women,- and women 1 tore, strips from their linen to make bandages for the wounded, ; ' , - - - Fun vflres-, a.v . t e turning 'ars1 kept frost: bites a-ay; until a relief - The most seriously injured! were taken to Trenton, while the f other passengers were taken toj Kansas city. Mo. The greatest havoc in the chair car. It was that the -bodies, of the was wrougnt in the debris. two women were found. Conductor David A.I Clem ens owes his life to. the; fact that, he. was in the baggage car when the wrech occurred. He was hurled safety. He 4 through an opening to was severely injured.. FARMAN WINS AERO CUP. Englishman Wins Honors in Paris Af- - ter a Keen struggle. Paris. Dec. 31. The Michelin cup for duration and distance covered in the air during 1909 goes to Henry Far man, the English aeronaut, who on November 3rd established a since un beaten record of 144 miles in four hours, 17 minutes and 35 seconds. - A keen struggle for the prize enaea at sundown. : . . I - Yesterday M. Delagvange made 124 miles in two hours -and 36 minutes. Latham also tried to beat Farman's record , and the competition was made today arousing great Interest, j The flight of 290 kilometres- (124 miles) in two hours, "32 seconds yes terday at Rheims by M. Delagrange, wa3 the nearest approach to Farman's record. v ' I At Mournelon Legrand today Hu bert Latham, M. Leganeux, Farman and the Englishman Singer had their machines tuned up for a supreme test and engaged in a spectacular contest. Latham had poor luck, his motor tail ed him at 14 miles and on later at tempts acting badly after short! spins. Leganeux and Singer also were ame to make only short distances. This left Farman the master of the aero drome and he flew 82 miles in two hours, and, seeing that his record has not been equalled, he voluntarily descended. - !. I . At Pau, M. LeBlanc wdn the arch deacon - cup, which was ! held by the late Captain Forber.' who was killsd by a fall from his aeroplane at Bou logne in September. The Michelin trophy is given by M. Michelin, a wealthy member of the Aero Club A France, and ': consists . of a beautiful prize and $32,000 to-be competed for during a period V eight years, Each year the trophy and $4,000 . or one eighth of the .qash prize goes to the aviator making the iongest flight In that year. The trophy was offered first in 1908 and was won by Wilbur Wright- with a mark of 76.5; miles made in France in competition with Farman and others. THREE DEATHS' FROM COLD. TwovNegroes Frozen and One Burned t) Death at Andersonviile.' Ajidersonville, Ga:,-Dec. 3i.-t:T.hree negro women have ' died as the result df the extreme cold weather of Athe last few days in this county. Katie Dinkins was burned to death last night : in her cabin where sue had built a large fire which, she neglected to watch. . Hester Williams and Mary Jones are reported to have, frozen to death in their cabins about four miles from here on ' Wednesday night. ;v r ( V ' Happy New Year to All: - , The People's Savings Bank.. Open an: account on Monday January .3rd, and your: interest will begin" from-Jan-uary.lsL'. ' .;'".v i'.":-:..4.-''' SATURDAY I011XIXG, SPENCER rrRASlf I WAS KILLED Well Known New Vcrk Banker Crush ed to Death in''f$H Private Car on New York , ;Cer tral Passen ger and PorjtVr Injured. y:-,yy:mk New. York, Deo. Spencer Trask, the head of a flrnxr bankers, which ior many years, aciga ; as nscai agent of the late QueemVf ctoria, was crush ed to death in. hisl private cwinparl ment today while-. turning to ' New ;York fromYeddo-ls country place - Mr. Trask.'s "cornlpartment was at the rear of the lastijcax. a sleener. Th train, known'as thefjjfeontreal express, halted near Crotan,rN. Y., and was supposedly protected! from the rear by, the block, signal system, but it had ,hardlyv come, to' a rest , when . a heavy freight struck' it from, behind with r eat foce. ;,The rear of Mr. Trask's car was battered in and the front' end -of - It tettrscoped with th sleeping car ahead. ' The accident occurred . near Croton, N. Yr - One other passenger was so seriously. - injured that he could not give .his name, and; the negro porter also was -bady vhurt.V ' Mr. Trask was", dressing when -the freight' train ploughed into his train, and his tern body was removed froia the wreckage. .' The express .. had ; been Stopped by a block signal and why the freight behind it was not stopped has not been- explained. The freight struck with such, force that- it' demolished the rear end of the. last sleeper; - Many of the. occupants of . the five sleepers had not- felly" dressed and they vere-precipitated,-half clad, into the snow banks with' the temperature far below freezing..' -r - - Wrecking and. relief trains were de spatched to the scene of the wreck. Mr. Trask's:body.was 'removed to the Croton - morgue and ? the injured pas sengers and. porter: were cared for by physicians. . ; i 5 . , The accident caused traffic to.be delayed- fpr more than', two hours. Passengers declared? that the rear brakeman had not gone back to dis play aj danger signal wrhen the pas senger train came to, a stop. The weather was c.lear &n the block .sig- aI$;jwo rtAin nini' rannrto . - - company reports. TWO BANDITS KILLED. Five Men Attempted to Rob Postoffice and Bank at Hurrah, Okla. . Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 31. Five men who intended to rob;the bank and tne postoffice at Harrah, Okla., early to day ran into a party headed by U. S. Marshal' "Jack" Abernethy. As a re sult twd of the bandits'are dead, one is in jail at Guthrie wounded ,and two others are held in jail at Oklahoma City a3 suspects. Frank Quigg, of Atchison, Kans., and son of a wealthy farmer, a base ball player, was shot dead; Frank Car penter, another robber, was mortally wounded and died late today-in -jail, and J. C." Dilbeck, a third bandit, was slightly hurt, during the fight with the deputy marshals. The robbery was well . planned, but Carpenter told someone of the plot and postoffice inspectors learned of the affair. Marshal Abernethy was advised and when the robbers reached Harrah he was ready for them. The officers waited until the robhexs began breaking in the rear door of theank and then charged. The , robbers ran and the deputies fired,' wounding Car-. penter and Dilbeck at the first volley. Carpenter, in an antemortem state ment said that "Red";i Rogers and Pearl Wilson were the men that es caped. He and his associates had, he said, recently -robbejl the Golden, Colo, postoffice of $3,000. Dilbeck said that Rogers and Wil son were on top of the bank at the time of the raid, keeping watch, and thus escaped the bullets and fled from town after the fight. Quiggs brother George was a mem ber of Roosevelt's rough riders in the Cuban war, and died in the National Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kans. a year ago. ' - OUTLINES. : -: - ', 1 Startling stories of i cruelty in the Atlanta city prison were told yester day by a guard who Resigned. on ac count of the fearful j conditions and who 'was before the committed "inves tigating the charges against the- superintendent- Three parsons were kill ed and 45 injured in. the wreck of a Rock Island passenger train at Tren ton, Ma. The debris Icaught fire and many of the injured had narrow es capes Spencer . Trask, a New YorS banker,' was crushed to death in- his car on the New York Central yester day The damage to the fruit crop in Florida .as a result! of the" freezing weather, was very slight,. 75 per cent. f the oranges having! been, marketed. The past week has been an active n the cotton market, with high er prices for cotton and a better de mand for the staple -Three hun dred feet. of a bridge over the Missis-J Hess lone o sinpi river was wrecked -by ice yes terday and 60 - men - had narrow- es capes .from, drowning. -New" York markets : Money on call ,firm 5 1-2 to K 1-2 per cent.", : ruling rate closing bid 5 1-4, offered at 5 3-4. - Cotton spot closed quiet;- five points lower, - mid dling V uplands 16.10 ; ' middling gulf, 16.35 Flour dull. Wheat spot firm, No. 2 red 1.28 elevatot domestic, -and 1.27 1-2 f-o.b. afloat, both nominal to arrive. Corn spot firnv NOv 2 71 ele: vator domestic, 70 " 1-2 delivered -: and 69 1-2 f .o. o. afloat. " Oats spot steady, mixed 47. Rositt steady. -Turpentine firnu- , : r-.:y: ; . -J : y, ;r JASTUAiiV 1, 110. INHUMAN GRUETLY III ATLANTA JAIL Former Guard Told of Fear ful Conditions in The Stockade. TO WALL Valuable Witness Before Council Com mittee Charges Directed Against Superintendent Story of the Conditions. ; Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31. Further sto ries pf inhuman cruelty, to prisoners convicted of misdemeanors were told today to the council committee which Is investigating the charges made against the management of the city prison or stockade. Mayor Maddox was an interested listener at the- morning session. Herschel Ivy, a former guard at the stockade, who resigned because of conditions and who had kept a diary of things that happened while he was there, was a valuable witness ; He swore that Mose Johnson, a ne gro, told Superintendent Vining that he was too ill to work. Vining order ed him whipped. After the whipping the negro collapsed and was sent, to a hospital where he died a week later. (He saw the oung white girl, Ruby Gaither, chained to the wall by her hands until she fainted. Ruby swore that she did not know how long she was left hanging after she fainted Ivy supplied the information. He said she was left there unconscious for 30 minutes. He held up her limp body while Vining removed the shackles and said she went into convulsions and frothed at te mouth. White wo men, he declared, were fed from scraps picked up from the floor of the men's mess hall. The floor is of dirt, and witnesses swore that the water closets were , in. this room and . that there was filth a foot thick on iCthe stench from which was unbearable .it . . . . ' ... - . . . hens kept at the prison and that the eggs were gathered each day by Com missioner- of Public Works Colliery who took them away with him. -A strap said by the defense to be the strap used to whip prisoners, was shown. Members of the grand jury and other witnesses said it was not the one they saw, that the real, one was Nstudded with rivets. The offi cials admitted this and offered to pro duce the strap later. Ivy, after a luncheon recess, swore that 12 quarts of whiskey at a time were sent to the stockade addressett to T. D. Shaw, a policeman, who sat in the room in full uniform. It was distributed to the guards and employ es. "He swore, further, that a guard and five prisoners wereput to work picking beans for the daughter of Commissioner of Public Works Col lier. After hearing two witnesses, who had served terms at the stockade and who told stories similar to those heard before, the meeting was adjourned un til New Year's Day. DISTILLERIES CLOSED Law Goes Into Effect in Tennessee. Overt Act Expected. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 31 The law passed by the last Legislature prohib iting the manufacture of intoxicating liquor in Tennessee went into effect at midnight Forty-one distilleries and five big breweries are affected and all announced' a suspension of operations with the close of the business day. It is conceded, however, that' some one of them will commit a deliberate overt act for the purpose of testing the sta tute. - -. One whiskey plant with headquart ers here closed down its distilleries during the day, finding its big ware houses full and in a position to supply its trade outside the state for a long time to come. Other plants here ana contiguous closed with full stocks. One of the largest distilleries in the State announces that it has an immense sup Dly of whiskey qn hand, and that the price hereafter will be $1 a gallon more than heretofore. They explain the advance by saying that employes who are heads of families will be kept on their pay rolls. The. amount ex pended annually in tne manufacture and handling of this one brand of whiskey is estimated at half million dollars. The apple brandy .warehouse in. theState is a department of this plant and was also closed today. The breweries it is said will devote their-attention to the manufacture of soft drinks. 4 , , ' GREATER BIRMINGHAM. v Ten Incorporated Suburbs Now Part of City 135,000 People.. V-., Birmingham, Ala., Jan. L Ati the stroke, of midnight ten : incorporated suburbs tf Birmingham and a large amount v: of unincorporated territory automatically became a part , of the city of Birmingham, giving the city an estimated population . of 135,000. The' Supreme" Court recently sustain ed: the act creating. Greater Birming ham and today the area of. the - new city is slightly inexcess of , 42 square miles. . v-. - ; ' - ';' '-."; . y " - j " Happy New Year to All. - The. People's Savings Bank: , Open ah account on Monday, J anuary - 3rd, and your, interest will begin from Jan; uary 1st .: -- - : y, DAMAGE IN FLORIDA' SLIGHT Freezing . Weather, Not so Disastrous as Feared 75 Per Cent, of Or ange Crop Marketed Warmer Weather. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 31. The temperature has risen today generally all over the State from 10' to 30 de grees and no further menace is anti cipated. A fair estimate of the dam age done places it far below what was feared might result from a long con tinuance of low temperatures. More than half, probably 75 per cent., of Florida's orange and grape fruit crop is raised south of an east and west line running through Tanma ana oi tnis so to 90 per cent, has been 1 marketed. What remained on the trees was not damaged by the lowest temperature recorded in this . section. 28 degrees above zero. What early vegetables had . been planted were chiled, but it is not believed they were killed entirely and the loss will be easily remedied by re-planting.' In fact, the injury to vegetation in the Tampa section will amount to almost nothing. Myron E. Gillette, general manager of the Florida Citrus Exchange, is au thority for the statement based upon reports from every part of south Flori da that the damage will be confined entirely to young and tender vegeta tion and that owing to the early date Jof the cold wave, this will be small and will be offset entirely by re-planting. Owing to the fact that following the freeze of 1895 the renewal of orange groves was largely in South. Florida, the amount of damage done then will never be repeated in the State. In fhe Central and Northern parts of the State temperatures Thursday morning were from five to 10 degrees lower than at Tampa. Twenty at Jacksonville and 18 at St.. Augustine. 22 at Sanford and the same at Palatka were some-of the records Reported. Early vegetables had not been planted extensively in these sections and only such growths as lettuce and. celery were in the ground, excepting in isolated instances. These vegeta bles - being able to withstand much greater extremes of temperature have not been , damaged ..appreciably ,and the adaptability of middle and north Florida to -these .extensive interests "ffJBij-i- ?getable?r75werr J Fruit anC cipate a beneflciar result from the killing of insect pests MOVEMENT OF COTTON CROP. Hester's Statement Shows 7,110,437 Bales for Four Months of Season. New , Orleans. Dec. . 31: Secretary Hester's cotton statement issued to day covers the monthly movement to December 31st and the' movement since September 1st to date. The total fcr December , was 1,308, 096 bales against 2,364,130 last year and 2,090,939 year before last. The amount of the crop brought into sight for the four months from September to December, inclusive, is 1,600,000 bales under last year and 400,000 over the year before last. , The movement since September 1st shows receipts at all United States ports to be 5,064,057 bales aganist 6- 2?0,383 last, year; overland across the Mississippi,' Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Canada. 426,198 against 664,896 last year. Southern mill takings exclusive of consumption at Southern outports 937,000 bales against 943,000 last year, and interior stocks in excess bf those held at the commencement of the season .483,182 bales against 772,560 last year. The total movement of the cotton crop brought into sight during the four months ending with the close of December was 7,110,437 bales against 8,710,839 last year. - Foreign exports for the four months of the season have been 3,703,760 bales, showing a decrease under last season of 938,253. The decrease in foreign exports during December com pared with December last year has been 82.",753. . Stocks r.t the' seaboard and the . 29 leading Southern interior markets at the close of December were 1,552,310 bales against 1,98,547 the same date last year. , Including port and. interior stocks left over from the previous season and the number of bales of the cur rent crop brought into sight during the four months supply has been 7, 362,753 against. 8,992,186 last year. Up to the closeof December last year 63.01 per cient: of the cotton crop had been marketed. v The movement into sight during the the past week has been 245,639 bales against 439,464 for the seven days end ing December 31st last year and 447, 048 year. before last. NEW MILL FOR COLUMBIA. Glencoe Mills Company Granted Char ter' in South-Carolina. . Columbia. S. C, Dec. 31. The Sec retary of State today issued, to the Glencoe Mills Company a charter, with a capital, .stock' of $100,000. T. H.' Wannamaker, of Orangeburg, is president; G.'M. Berry; of Columbia, Is vice president, - and T. H. Wanna maker, Jr., of Orangeburg, is secretary.- . . - The Glencoe Mill will be establish ed, in Columbia and will manufacture twine. '"'''. ,'':'.' . Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 31. Rece!-, vers for the Birmingham Coal & Iron Company,, who have been in' charge of the property for several months, were today discharged in the Federal Court, the creditors being paid dollar ' for dollar. - This was the only large, con cern in the Birmingnam district which rhich Y: : . - ", failed during the year. . WHOLE NUMBER 13,180. THE INSURGENTS Conditions in Nicaragua Des cribed in Belated Dispatch Just Received. E SCENES General Estrada the Hero of Blue : fiields Americans Minister to Suf- . fering Outlook For New Year The United States. Bluefields, Nicaragua, Dec. 25 (Via New . Orleans, Dec. 31.) Victory was officially celebrated in Bluefields ' on Christmas eve. Bands player for hours in front of Gen. Estrada's residence, where the provisional president . re ceived the leaders of his army, who naa Drought victory to the insurgent flag. The two cafes of which the town boasts were busy late In the night with peopte drinking toasts of "Viva Presi dente Estrada," and "Viva Republic." The streets were crowded with men, women and boys, who shouted loud and long for? Estrada and the victori ous troops. Every one had fireworks' which maintained a meteoric shower. Commander Shipley, with the aid of the officers and crew of the cruiser Des Moines, served Christmas dinner. consisting of soup, vegetables in pro fusion, to the prisoners, which mclud-. ed 300 women, who had followed tneir husbands into the trenches. The pris oners repeatedly asked for more food. wnicn was promptly supplied, and grateful faces repaid the sailors for their work. The rations, it is hoped, will last until the Red Cross relief ship arrives. - The holiday period is officially be lieved to be one of waiting. The old query of "Has Washington recognized Estrada" is on every lip. While the majority of the ; provisional army is ; Still at Rama, and Recrea, several , scouting parties are doing guard duty ' west or Kama, in order to avert any possible surprise from the government MAKING MERRY who is j-t ma. : This rumor, however. Is not cred- ited, as the prisoners declared - the roads west .are in such horrible condi-v tion that they. would rather have been killed in the trenches than attempted to retreat. The scouts confirm this re port, hence, while no danger from, the new army seems likely, it is also im probable that the movement on Man agua win be started for some time if ' ever. It is generally conceded that Estrada has won a great victory as he now controls absolutely the territory in which originates 70 per cent, of the country's revenue. The Associated Press dispatches from Managua and Corinto are regard ed as tantamount to official here and' these seem to indicate that Estrada needs but to wait till ultimately the west coast realizes he Is unbeatable, when he will be invited to take the presidency. Optimists declare that a fortnight will be sufficient to accom- plish this, while others are more con servative on account of the fact that news reaching hei"e of events, taking ' place in the western part of the repub lic is a week old. . Eighty-two serious operations have been performed in the American hospi tal without a single death, although many of the patients are not yet out of danger. HONOR JUDGE BYNUM. Greensboro to Serid Delegation -to : Charlotte Today. Greensboro, Dec. 31. At a largely attended meeting of the Greensboro liar held in the United . States court room here this morning a delegation was selected to attend the funeral or" Judge Bynum in Charlotte. Judge Boyd, chairman, named a committee of five to draft resolutions expression or sentiment of the bar at the loss of Judge Bynum, and to report at the Jan uary term of Guilford superior court and the coming term of the Unit- ' ed States court. The funeral of ex-Judge Bynum wilf be neld tomorrow 1 morning at 11 o'clock at St. Peter's' Episcopal church In Charlotte, Rev. Harris MalllnkrodC rector of the church, will conduct the services. tThe pall-bearers will - beV Rev. E. A. Osborne, -Judge A. Bur well -and Messrs. J. S. Myers, G. E Wilson, C. W. Tillett and J. T. Orr. All of Judge Bynum's immediate family are in Charlotte. Mrs.-William P. By- , num. widow of Judge Bynum's only , sont and daughters, Mrs. E. B. Jus- tice, Mrs. Archibald Henderson, of; Chapel Hill; Misses Susie and Mary; Bynum h Mr. and Mrs- Curtis Bynum: of Fletcher.. - " SEABOARD SCHEDULE. Improvement Wanted In : Service Be tween Charlotte, and Monroe. '-. " Charlotte, N. C, Dec 31. Nearly 1,000 petitioners have signed their names to the request thas is being di rected to the Seaboard officials for better : service between Charlotte and" . Monroe: .They ask that the morning' train from Rutherfordton bevcontin- - tied to Monroe and return In the. after noon at a reasonable hour. . Just: what ; disposition will be made of the mat-, . ter by the railroad authorities remains to be seen as they claim another train ' Would not pay. v : - V! ' The c: W. Polvogt . Company will ; keep open untjri o'clock New. Year's:- . ji f .": . "'- ,:. ':h.y''i.ryi v-;h'ytyy y. '.- r . ' ' ' -' '; ':.''' ..-'' ;". f-;'i": ''.'x ..,-..'.'," ' , . ;'': V ;." ' -;.-''r'' " . i ":!! V w 'I i
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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