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n;.. w.n'klY Star. )k:MB Hit i I! . II II: OI M II II IT T -U TV W. 1 ITTT A -n- : , rUBLISUKD AT . II 1 fro TON, . wr s w 41 v gffggSS8S88SS8S88 sMSSSBSeHssgsSSSS - "T8SSS88S8SSS888888 J:' 838 muow ? 8S88SSS88S8 88 s csioe- As; all SSSSSSS88SSS8888 8 2s tsjjMiiiis'" ; fEiiterled at the Post Office atJWUmlngton, N. C, as Second Class juaner.j . . -3 UBSCRirTION TRICE. Thk subscription price of the Weekly Stab, is as follows : -Iim Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, . 6 months " 3 month .80 POOD ADIJLTKATI!JS. Mr. J. P. Batterehall has publish ed a! work ou "Food Adulterations and Its Detection." The peoplejare being imposed upon in so many ways by the manufacturers, that it is high timd tbat the States had enacted laws that shall protect the victims here- after.' Any book thai throws needed !ligh ou the.abuses and enables lejgis aators and others to better under stand the ways .and means resorted ho by the adulterators of food is sea- sonablo and welcome. While France has long been active in protecting consumers, and England has j for years been in earnest in this matter this country has been practically asleep. The statistics show that in England adulterations have been much reduced, but not suppressed.. So yith France. . I Adulterations vary as to their elan ger ind abuse. Some are injurious to pealth. Confectionery suffers moB'i;: Teas are very much adulter ated . Coffee is mixed with chicory, earn mel, dandelion, mangel wurzel, turnip?, beans, peas, &c. The New Yorit Times says: "There has been a regularly manufac tured coffee bean like the sham wooden nutmeg. Tbe made coffee bean had no coffee in it. Sometime sgo an English company came to grief where the stone of the date was used as a substitute for coffee. As tcj chicory. 'it can safely be asserted while the addition of chicory to coffee is largely sanctiOLed, and, indeed demanded by the existing tastes of many coffee drink ers, its use constitutes a true adulteration and tjhould be condemned unless its pres ence ia prominently stated on the label of the package.' There is nothing in chicory which resembles coffee, only the color it gives to an aqueous solution. It is used be cause it is very cheap. " . i v - Cocoa and chocolate are adultera- Ltt'd by thense oL cheap oils.- starch flour, beeswax, fats, &c. Milk suf fers immensely. In New York one third is water. Oleomargarine is much used in adulterating butter. "We again quote from the Times; "As to the opinions of scientific men on the ssnitary effects of oleomargarine, they are at variance. Prof. Atwater and there la no better authority believes that oleo margarine, when well made, 'agrees very closely in chemical composition, digesti bility and nutritive value with butter from cow's milk.' He says, however, that ic the interests of the public oleomargarine should be subjected to competent official inspection, 'and that it should be sold for what it is, and not as genuine butter.' Dr. R. B. Clark differs in toto from Prof. Atwater, and believes that oleomargarine is indigestible, insoluble, and, 'probably,' contains unhealthy ingredients, i "Our cheeses, those of the cheaper kinds, are mixed with lard. We eat some little of this sad stuff, but used to export a great deal The' adulteration of flour is. not as common as that of bread. The miller may have but few charges brought against -him, but the baker many. Bakers' chemicals, to produce 'porosity in bread, or light bread, should be sodium bicarbonate, potassium bitartrate and calcium diphosphate. The bicarbonate of sodium is generally a fair article, but cream of tartar (potassium bi tartrate) 'is far more liable to adulteration. There is too often an excess of tartrate of lime, and sometimes the cream of tartar is sophisticated with such ingredients as alum, plaster of paris, chalk, and terra alba." The adulterations of cream of t ar tar and baking powders are numer ous. Honey is enormously adultera ted. Starch, cane, sugar, glucose, syrup, &o, are used. The business is the most hurtful. candy In this line the adulterations are said to be numerous and dangerous. The Times says: ''Young and vigorous stomachs, greedy for sweets, take their dose of glucose in lieu of tugar, the candy weighted with terra al ba, with a certain impunity, but when the candy has a lure of color given to it made with chromate of lead, salts ot copper, and arsenic zinc, white or Prussia blue, or sul phate of baryta, it becomes poisonous, and children die from eating these abomina tions. Flavors are dangerous, for pear es gence is anylic actate and ethylic butyrate, and nitrobenzole Imitates the oil of bitter almonds. There was a horrible preparation sold some time ago, called 'rock and rye drops.' made of glucose, flour, terra alba, and flavored with . that rank poison fusel ' Oil"' . . - In Mr. Battershall's work not only are the adulterations of tood ex 1 posed, but he discusses the means by which the villainous work may be detected. Of I course ale, beer, brandy, &c., are largely adulterated. The author treats these at large, but we will not follow him. We are content to simply point out the fact that there are (wholesale adultera tions of food dr nks, &c, and that it i ' the duty of legislators to protect ji.e people as far as possible by the inost Btringent legislation. Good, honest food is difficult to be obtain d. ,A few vars back fl W I WW u dly doctored, but it ia easier to get wheaten flour now. The Richmond Whirr that mag- H John W. Daniel made'"a "'"Ceilt HDefifl." in Rof city on Thurgtf ay night. ..... .. . H Hi WW H H K L Y o VA MA H VI- ; - r - i - - -- ! 1 -V--- 1 -f - !... - ,.h .- ? - -. .- T- -I ' : - ' ' i VOL. XIX FAITHFCI. TO I PART AND TO ; : l . PKINCIPI.BS. Our esteemed contemporary, the Durham Tobacco Flant, does notta vor the abolition of the Internal tax, ;bnt bows to the will of the executive committee of the Democratic party. It says: ' : J ' I 1'The Kant, therefore, falls into line, and if the committee, composea oi aoie men from all sections of the State, think it best for the narlv to advocate and urge tbe re- nptil of the Internal Revenue, the Plant will lend its aid.', And although it seems at present both an impracticable and an unwise move." t j The opinion c-V ten or twelve gen tlemen on a public measure is worth iuBt as much ! and no more as the; 1 1 i opinion of ten or twelve other Demo crats of equal character, equal age, and equal intelligence. The Demo cratic Committee was not appointed. 16 dictate a polioy in any sense for 10,000 Democratic voters, or to say to the Democracy of the Union what I The Stab is Democratic, is not the organ of men or cliques or com, mittees. It will support earnestly the tickets nominated in 1888 if the candidates are men of integrity and a! trustworthy; as Democrats. It has alwags supported the party nom inations, it never kicked in any election, however trivial. It will not only advocate the candidates, but it expects to, stand npon all the plankB composing the National Democratic platform, unless there should be, some used. very rotten timber i The Stab expects that both par ties in North Carolina will favor a repeal or the tax on. spirits, wine, beer, cigars, ' tobacco, etc. There will be no difference of platforms in that particular, we suppose. The Stab will not, therefore, discuss the matter. But ! one thing is certain, it will not stutlify itself, ad vocate a measure it holds to i, - i be wrong and go back on a hundred editorials to please any committee or 6onvention. The people may know precisely where! to find the Stab. When it opposes a High Tariff, Cen tralization, Paternal Pedagogy, a Gold Standard, free drinks and free smokes, it means it. It believes with all its might.! It professes to have a conscience and it will never palter with it. It professes to have honest, ct ear, sincere, decided convictions as to certain public measures and it will not advocate ihe precise opposi te of convictions ana principles, j it a pa per is not true to its beliefs, convio- Uo&sajidj)rinoipleB for what is it fit? Can it be, trusted ?Ttlaay advocate to-morrow a War Tariff, Federal in tervention in the State schools, the obliteration of State lines, the setting up of a great Central Power at Washington all powerful, the election of a President for life, the reducing; of all State - Courts to mere municipal things and making the Supreme Court every thing, and so on to the end of the chapter. Stand by your principles. Let others werve, but be true to yourself and ,-ou will not be false to party or to principle. That is the way, the Stab iriews it. It will advocate no free whiskey and free drinks and free smokes, but TJ, will do true and earnest work for the triumph of the Democratic par- ty. It believes that the best inter- ests of the whole country can be much better served and protected by Democratic supremacy than by Re publican supremacy, it looks over the past quarter of a century and finds but little in -the Republican arty to commend and a vast deal to eprobate and spurn. The abuses, he-usurpations! the violations of or ganic Jaw, the waste and extrava gance and venality and unfaithful ness of the Republican party aroused the people in 1876, and elect ed the ticket of the opposition, but 'the Presidencyj was stolen. Such a record is most damning. Under no ciroumetances or changes could the Stab be ever induced to advocate the return of such a party to power whose principles it antagonizes at every turn, and .whose practices it denounces unsparingly and honestly. So the Stab purposes to abide , by the action of j the National Dem ocratic party, and to advocate the great principles of the party as set forth in convention assembled. If the Congress shall repeal all internal taxes, while the Stab shall think it a big mistake, it will accept the situa tion which it cannot change. If the Democrats in North Carolina shall put themselves in opposition to the deliverances of the party of the Union the Stab will not feel itself bound to follow such a course. Tbat is to say, it will not express itself! as satisfied or convinced, but yielding to the action of the Slate Con vention for ihe time; as J to State policy, will be as silent to those things it cannot conscientiously accept or advocate. . The Stab does not anticipate,, any difficulty at tW point. The North Carolina Democrats will declare for raising all the taxes for the support of the Federal Government by the tax levied at the custom houses and tot- the total abolition of taxes on spirits, cigars, wines,; tobacco, &o. Tbe Republicans in the. State will take the same action, j This removes all necessity t for discussion. Both parties stand together; on the one is sue. . The Stab submits to the inev itable and will fight the Republican party upon almost every other meas ure. Its reoord in North Carolina; its abuses' and oppressions; its advocacy of doctrines that are inimical to the people and their interests will give the Stab a full opportunity to do faithful service in behalf of honesty, economy and good government., . li the two parties in this State shall both declare for1, Federal school teaching in the States the Stab will again be silent although it holds that Blairism is a curse, and if carried out will prove dangerous land destructive to our institutions. The Stab is not a political weather I cook.1 Tho principles of 1876: of 1880 and 1884, as formulated in three National Conventions, are the principles of the party npon which it delivered battle j ana won a victory twice in three contests. Are these principles to be abandoned ? Are Blairism and a Tariff equal to raising $350,000,000 and other Re publican doctrines to become a part of the Democratic creed ? An Interesting case j A case of considerable interest to the ocean cotton carrying trade has been recently decided by a naval court at Savannah, Ga. A few weeks ago the cargo of the British steam ship Resolute, at that port, caught fire and was badly damaged by water. The underwriters directed that the cargo should not be discharged, but the crew refused to take the vessel to sea with wet cotton. The naval court decided that the cotton mnst be shipped; but the men remain firm and say that they will not go in the ves sel. The matter has given rise to a great deal of discussion in shipping circles, and the outcome will be watched with' interest. The Savan nah News says that Captain Reavely, of the Resolute, has received orders Irom the own ers to reload his cargo and take it to Liverpool, and the captain will act in accordance with these instructions , The crew say they will not take the cargo across under hatches and they dare the captain to try and make them. It seems pretty certain that in the end they will be discharged and a volunteer crew will take the ship across. Shipping Commissioner Beckett says that the British law upon that point is that .when1 a crew is dis charged in a foreign Iport the owners must pay them three months wages. Aperoentuso .f the WagaSjQL. goes to the 1 English government, which furnishes transportation for the crew back to England. They must be returned to an English port, for the captains are required to ac count for every man who may ship with them. Bears In Brnaswlck.' The Postmaster at Excelsior P. O. writes the Stab as! follows: "I beg leave to correct a mistake in the re cent bear story written by your corre spondent at Shallotte. The number of bears captured was corect; also, the circumstances of the capture, and the brave hunters named were the captors; but Waccamaw claims the scene of this noble achievement, as it occurred within four miles of this place, in that portion of Waccamaw known as the "Big Neck," and a dis- stance of at least fifteen miles from Shallotte. As Waccamaw makes no pretensions we think it but due to her brave hunters to contest their claims to fivalship in bear killing." Foreign Exports Yesterday. Messrs. Williams & Mnrchison cleared the British steamship Seevh- ville, for Liverpool, I with 4,788 bales cotton, weighing 2,268,804 pounds and valued at $215,536. Messrs. Paterson, i Downing & Co. cleared the Norwegian barque Moni ca for London, Eng4 with 1,859 casks of spirits turpentine and 3,225 barrels of rosin, valued at $35,355. Mr. Edward Kidder's Son cleared the schooner Roger, Moore, for Anti gua, with 175,009 feet of lumber and 335,000 cypress shingles, .valued at $4,300. ! Messrs. S. & W. H. Northrop clear ed the schooner Jennie Hall for Sa- vanilla, U. S. C, with 120,272 feet of creosoted lumber and 325 creosoted piling, valued at $4,736.21. A Busy Day on tne River. The river was alive yesterday with shipping. A British steamship of over 1,100 tons, two large barques and a brig, all from foreign parts, came up from Southport, besides three or four schooners with cargoes from coastwise ports. One of the barques was of 820 tons- register and the other 698. j The' outgoing craft were, a steam ship for Liverpool1, a barque for Lon don, and two schooners for the West Indies and South' America, respect ively. - - It may be of interest to many readers of the Star to know that the peanut crop of Southampton county, Virginia, is almost an absolute fail ure. The Norf oik Virainian says the authority for this statement . is of such a high character as to leave no doubt that the farmers of that county have suffered heavy losses. South ampton is one of the largest peanut producing counties in the Houth. More than forty new subscri bers to the Daily and the Weekly Stab were received during the past five days. The bona fide, paid circu lation of both editions,is considerably larger now than at any former pe WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, Tba Sneeden'a Island Dlspvte. . Wm. Sneeden and Silas Sneeden, whose arrest on an order from" the Superior Court of this county was re ported in the Stab yesterday, are still in jail. The sheriff states that the bond; of $1,500 required of the Sneedens was not only for the appear ance of the parties'at court, but also for any damages that the complain ants may have sustained through the forcible occupation of the island. The defendants endeavored to procure bondsmen but failed, probably on ac count of this possible liability for damages The Sneedens claim that the action is a civil pne, and did not justify the arrest of the parties. Their attorneys -Messrs. Thomas W. Strange, A. M, Waddell and Iredell Meares have served notice upon the plaintiffs that a motion! to vacate the order of arrest. will be made before "Judge Phillips, at Kinstbn, on the 14th inst, and for an order for the restitution of the premises described in the complaint to the defendant, Wm. Sneeden. In the meantime the island is in the. possession of two trusted adherents of the plaintiffs, who are strongly en trenched and fortified and provisioned to withstand a seige. Flood In! Tar Klver. A1 corresnondent writing from Rocky Mount says that the continued rains nave submerged all tne low lands on Tar river, which is higher than ever kn6wn before, being two to three feet higher than in 1867. It is reported that the high water has carried away every county bridge on the river, from Louisburg in Frank lin county, to the Falls bridge at the Rocky Mount Mills. The river is so high at the railroad bridge at 'Rocky Mount, that the water has overflowed the banks, inundating a large portion of the Lewis farm just beyond the bridge. At one place, just be yond the railroad bridge, the water running through the fields has caused a wasnout, undermining a cuiven. At another point the water has forced its way to a culvert and threatens to undermine the ; abutments. Capt. Dunn and Superintendent Divine are quite equal to the emergency, how ever, and will nave tne damage re paired in as short a time as possible. All trains passed in safety. Cotton, corn and fodder are. badly damaged. In some places the tops only of a number of stacks of fodder are visible, being from four to six feet aboye the water. A New Xrlal- N. P. Morgan, who was convicted of arson in the Criminal Court for this county some months ago and sen tenced to fifteen years in the State penitentiary, has been granted a new trial by the State Supreme Court, to which the case was carried on appeal. Information to this effect was re ceived here yesterday from Mr. Mars- den Bellamy, of counsel for Morgan and now in Raleigh. "Morgan- rti charged with-setting. fire to his store on South Second street near Market, for the purpose of securing the insurance on his stock of goods! The principal witness for the prosecution was a man named Moses, who has since disappeared. Cotton comment. . There was fun in the cotton market yesterday. That is to say, there was fun for the ' boys" representing the taurine element.: But you may well believe it was everything but fun for the ''boys" represented by the bears. Futures were higher at the-opening, and later on : developed unusual strength, the New York market clo sing strong at an advance of 22 to 25 points above the closing figures of Friday. The stimulating influence yesterday was the marked reduction in crop estimates made by the Cotton World, much value being attached to that paper's figures because they are made up by the statisticians who for merly prepared: the crop estimates for the New Orleans Cotton Ex change. The announcement of the Cotton World's figures, making the crop only 6,225,uuo bales, caused a wild and excited market in New York, the "shorts'? becoming thoroughly demoralized and making frantic ef forts to over. As the Saturday session on the NeW York Exchange is a short one. closing at noon, it is questionable were able to cover their deals, and it may be that there will be a revival of the excitement Monday, and a fur. ther advance in prices. But those bears who have level heads, plenty of backbone and! a good supply of human cash will generally stand by their colors, strengthened by the con viction that the Cotton World's esti mate is entirely too low, and that a reactioruis likely to follow so sudden and so sharp an advance. There is one feature about cotton, it may hot be out of place to remark, that seems to be lost sight of by those who have been calculating' on much lower prices ! for the staple. It is this; The consumption of cot ton is increasing every year; there is a good I demand for it all over the world; I business generally is fairly prosperous; and tbe manufacturers are probably making more money than usual. Accepting these propo sitions as true, even with an Ameri can crop of 6,600,000 hales, it cannot be said that ten cents is not a very moderate price for cotton." And should the indications during the . next three months point to a crop of less man ,&uu,uuu Dales, tne legiti mate demand, reinforced by specula tion, may carry tne price iar beyond all present calculations. Tne Price of Tar. Dealers in tar along the wharf were much exercised yesterday at the ad vance of five cents per barrel reported in the Stab. The quotation ($1.30 per barrel) was incorrectly reported at the Produce Exchange and put on the bulletin board, and in this way appeared in I the paper. The sales, however, were at $1.15 per barrel, at which price j the market continues firm, i THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS. Guarded fey Policemen Armed wltn Rifles Canencers Building tne Gal lowsA Conference ' Between tne Doomed men and Tnelr Counsel- Three of the Ulen Petition the Gov ernor to Pardon. ,. Chicago, Nov. 3. Two full ccmDaniet of policemen are now quartered in tbe county jail, -near, the Anarchists' eells Tbe officers were brought ioto the jil last nignt by a (nick entrance, mere are fit ly- four men in nil. and each is armed with a Winchester rifle ' These men will remain in the building until after the event of the 11th instant-v There was no excrement in the iail this morning. Whatever stir was caused by the decision yesterday had worn on, tu-dtiy, and even thing was ouiet aronnd ttie establishment. . Chicago, Nov. 3. The sheriff has al ready begun the building of the scaffold on which it is intended to bang the Anarchists. Car pe ulers were busy this i-fternoou work ing on pieces which no to make up the machine or death, and it will not be long before the gallows will be ready. i nis is reuaraea in some Quarters as sig nificant of Mr. Maiaon's belief that the Go vernor will not interfere. The event at the county jail this morn ing was a conference of nearly an hour be tween Captain Black, u 9. Oliver and the seven doomed Anarchists. --w Black refused to make public the matter under discussion-. He aid that be expect- 4 to le&Te f vt Springfield ' with a petition or amnesty juonuay nignt. to me inquiry, wnetner be noped lor clemency, ne re plied, "I am always a hopeful man. I will hope until there is no longer any ground for it when there can only be grief for seven men murdered by tbe law." -There has been a good deal of talk about the possibility of suicide by these men. What do you think of it? was asked. They couldn't be hired to take their own livs. Not a man of them would do sj; not oae. If they wished to do so, noth ing would be easier. But I tell you tbat if their cells weie filled witn deadly weapons and they had poisons more dreamy and subtle than Letbe, they would scorn to use them. They are not common scoundrels who would try to cheat the gallows. There is no ignominy in the scaffold for them. If they must die, - they would prefer to be strangled by the organized robbery they sought to overthrow, than to slink out of the world like cowards." Chicago, Nov. 3. August Spies. Sam uel Fieldeu, and Nicholas Schwab signed a petition this afternoon humbly beggiug tbe Governor to commute their sentences. These three of the seven condemned men are tbe only ones who have not written let ters to tbe Governor tbat they would not accept commutations of their sentences, and that all efforts in tbat direction were without their sanction. The signal ures of Fielden and Schwab were secured this morning by Capt. Blaek and L W. Oli ver, who visited the prisoners at tbe jail and had private conference with them. AH sorts of entreaties were adopted to get Spies to sign the petiiion, but he resolutely refused to do so, as did also Liogc. Engel, Fischer and Parson?. At 3 80 p. m the same petitions were brought to the jail by Dr. Schmidt, Alder man Frank Stauber and H Linmyer, with permission from the sheriff to confer with the condemned men. Geo. Schilling ar rived attr and joined tbe party. It was plain that Spies bad weakened since the morniax conference. . He read the pelitioa over several times. After an hour's plead ing Spies said: "Well, give me a pen," and with a flourish his name was appended below. The visitors tnen turned tnelr at tention to tbe others who have written let ters declining executive clemency but ob tained no further signatures. Chicago. Nov. 5. Day after day long lists of names of citizens, who have hither to been emphatic in their demand for the infliction of the extreme penalty of the law on condemned. Anarchists, appear attached to petitions for commutation. Among these the names of prominent members of tbe br and bench attract the most atten tion. A reporter requested several of the legaHighta to-ive their reasons for signing tne petition, w. u. uouay said, "lnose men are guilty; there in no doubt of that; they are guilty of murder; - but it must be remembered that this is not an ordinary physical assassination. The question is, whether they should be punisbed to the full extent of the law. This is the first time that the question has come up since the jury decided it. Judge Gary might have passed upon it in denying a new trial, but he did not." ; Chicago, Nov. 5 Last night Nina Van Zandt and her mother called on Capt. Schaack and the officers at the Chicago Avenue station. Miss Van Zandt pre sented a petition addressed to Governor Oglesby, asking for commutation of the sentence on tbe Anarchists, and requested the Captain to sign it. She pleaded with him for over twenty minutes, but the po lice official declined to attach bis signature. The girl asked and obtained permission to solicit tbe officers in the station for their names, but failed to secure a single one. Before leaving she distributed a number of Trumbull's pamphlets, "Was it a Fair Trial!" and 1 .ft a lot more of them on the Sergeant's desk, by whom, at Captain DcnaacK S commanu, iney were prompuy consigned to the waste basket as soon as she had left the building. Chicago. Nov. 5. Now that there seems to be a stampede in tbe direction of a commutation of sentence of the convic ted Anarchists, it may be well to mention what the effect of it has already heea in a very important eection of tbe community the police force. Already a feeling akin to dismay has arisen among the blue coats. A veteran officer voiced the general senti ment of the force this morning when he said: "If these men are -allowed to triumph over the law through tbe meddle some intervention of people, to save whose lives and property we risked our own on that awful night of May 4th, vou will find that the police force of Chi cago will never fight another battle with VIUUagU nilUtuww. o ail tbij v say it is a terrible thing to take seven hu man lives, out i say it is not more lerneie than the way in which they took the lives Of seven of our boys and maimed dozens of them that May evening. 1 suppose the life of a police oracer is as notmng wnen weiened against mat oi an Anarcnist; l suppose it is our duty to be butchered in defense ot tne community and receive no protection from tbat community. I say no protection, for the only protection we can receive is the fitting punishment of those offenders whom we have brought to bay. It's all right for Judges to say that these men will preach their doctrines' more elo quently dead than alive; but I tell yon, if they escape the gallows, the doctrines of Anarchy will be preached so eloquently that those who took part in obtaining com mutation will live to rue the day they did so. For our part, tbe police of Chicago will be more cautious in risking their lives and facing . Anarchist bombs than they were a year ago last May." If the all mercy and slow justice doc trine is to obtain, disoontent, it is believed, will soon find some strong public, expres sion. Chicago. Nov. 5. An extraordinary comma nieatioD. signed by Spier, Schwab and Fielden, disavowing "aggressive force," and deploring the loss of life at Haymarket. was given out to-night for publication. It is addressed to Governor Oglesby, and is to be torwarded to mm with formal petitions for clemency. Tbe guarded wording of the document is as noticeable as its matter, particularly as this is the first expression of the kind any of the condemned Anarchists have made Parsons, it is understood, acquiesces in its contents, and will address a separate letter of his own to the Governor, embodying the same ideas. Line. Engle and Fischer steadfastly refuse, however, to go on reoord with any such declaration. The following is the letter in full: "Chicago. Nov. 3, 1887 To Governor Richard Oelesbv. Springfield. 111. Sir: In order that the tiuth mav be known by you. and the public you represent, we desire to state that we never advocated the use ot force, except in case of self defence. To accuse as of having attempted to overthrow the law and government on May 4in, ibbo, 1887 or at any other time; is as false as it is ab surd.. Whatever we said or did was said and done publicly. I We have never con spired or planned to commit an unlawful act., While we attacked the present social arrangements in writing and speech, and ex posed their iniquities, we have never con sciously broken any laws. So far from having planned the killing of anybody at Haymarket, or any where else, tbe very ob ject of the meeting was to protest aeainet the commission of murder. We believe it to be our duty as friends of labor and lib erty, to oppose any otber use of force than in the necessary defence of sacred rights against unlaw tul attacks. All our efforts have been in tbe direction of elevating mankind and to remove as much as possi ble the cause of crime in society. Our la!r was unselfish; no motives of personal gain or ambition prompted us. Thousands and thousands will near j testimony to this. We may have erred at times in our judgment. Yes, we have "loved mankind not wisely but too well." If ia the excitement of pro pagating our views,! we were led into ex pressions which caused workingmen to think that aggressive force was a proper in strument ot reform, we repret it. ' We de plore the loss of life at Haymarket, as at McCormick'e, at 8t, Louts, and at the Chi cago stock y at da. Very respectfully, A. Spies. . MlCHAEX 8CHWAS, Samtol Fielden. CHICAGO, i ' 1 bestrecu ve lre--Cah.j House and Contents Consumed Panle Among . Gnests In Neighboring Houses Loss About SI 50000. By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star. : Chicago, Nov. 3 It was nearly 4 o'clock this morning when fire was dis covered in the Chicago Club House, in Monroe street, directly opposite the ladies' entrance to tbe Palmer House. By tbe time the first relay of engines had rattled up to the fire tbe flames had spread throughout the fifth floor, and were burst ing from the windows on all sides, while signs of fire could be seen on the fourth flour. A general! alarm was promptly turned in. and in fifteen minutes a score of engines, hook and ladder trucks and hose carts thundered down the street and clattered up to the fire. A wild panic fol lowed at the Palmer House. . At the win dows on Monroe street appeared hundreds of frightened faces peering into the streets, and at the sight of steamers a rush for escape followed, under tbe impression that the hotel was on fire. Half-clad ladies and gentlemen tumbled j out into the halls and shrieked wildly for help All of the bell boys were promptly sent to tbe rooms of guests, and with the aid of the clerks succeeded in calming the panic, though many cf the guests refused to return to their rooms un til the hese carts had reeled up their hose and with the other apparatus had started home. Half a dozen Club members, and as many women , who are employed about the Club, were asleep in the building at the lime They bad no warning of the flames until firemen rushed into7 tueir apartments aud pulled them out bodily. It is thought everv one was taken out safely. The fire started on the fifth floor, in the kitchen, from a defective flue, it is sup posed, or a carelessly smothered fire in the range. Leads of hose were run on ail the high buildings, entirely surrounding the Club House, and half a hundred streams of water were poured into it from all of the windows. A torrent of water poured down the stairway, cascaded down the ele vator shaft, and soaked through floor after floor, until the furniture and everything else about the building was completely ruined. The first floor was devoted to the office, reading oom and cafe. On the second floor were the library and card rooms: and on the third the sleeping rooms The dialog room occupied the fourth floor, and the kitchen was immediately above it in a Mansard roof, j The smoke from! the burning building entered the Clifton House, adjoining on the east, and scores of guests sprang cut of bed and rushed into the street with the im pression that their hotel was on fire Tne umcago uitro uouse was erected about fifteen years ago. at a cost of $131, 000; tbe fixtures and furniture cost about $20,000, and are a total loss, but rully in sured. The damage to the building cannot be estimated at present, but it will be heavy. Besides this there were many valuable paintings In the rooms, which no doubt are ruined, j It transpires that no lives were lost, em ployes of the Club 1 having escaped to tbe roof of an adjoining building. The great er part ur ine lurniture was saved Dy oemg covered with tarpaulins. About $25,000 will cover tbe loss, .and the insurance is $60,000. NASHVILLE. Destructive Fire Aggregate Loss 9167000 A Number of Persons Killed and Injured by Falling Walls. LBt Telegraph to the Morning Star.) Nashvillk, Nov. 4. About 4 o'clock this morning tbe 1 building occupied, on College street, by Weakley & Warren, as a furniture store, was discovered to be on fire. Owing to tbe inflammable character of me material the flames spread rapidly through the building and communicated to the adjoining buildings, and tne entire block from Bank alley south to tbe Wes tern Union building was soon burning. The Western Union office was seriously threatened, but escaped without much damage. The total loss aggregates about $oo,000 on tbe house, insured lor f43.uuu; on the stock $102,000, insured for about $82,000. During.ine progress oi tne nre me wans of the building adjoining Bank alley fell in and quite a number of people are known to be injured, some prooaDiy rataiiy. Among the wounded was a son of J. B. Morse, about fifteen years of age; his skull Is terribly 'crushed and he will die. William Stewart, sign painter, had his left. leg badly fractured; Bradford Nichol, hand injured; besides a fireman and a number of others more or less injured. Others are believed to be covered by the debris, which Workmen are now removing. The telegraph wires in nearly an direc tions were burned, and over one hundred telephone wires were destroyed. The following named nrms sustained losses: Weakley & Warron, on stock, 50.000. insured for three-fourths; Atwell & Snead, furniture dealers, stock $17,000, insurance f 10,000; Webb, Stevenson es Co., hardware, stock $50,000, insured for three-fourths. Tbe building occupied by Weakley & Warren belonged to Judge J. M. Lea and the W. W. Fite estate, aad was valued at $26,000, with insurance for $18,000. The building occupied by Att well & Snead, owned by B. F. Wilson, $15,000, insured for $10,000. The build ing occupied by Webb, Stevenson & Co. was owned by E. W. Cole, and valued at $34,000; it was covered by insurance: : CRAVEN VOU NTT. A Yoboc Farmer Murdered by a cot ton Thief. Raleigh. Nov. 3. A special to the News and Observer says: Luke Russell, a reanectable voung farmer, son of K. A. Kussell. living near uauesion, uraven rnnntv. was shot and killed last night by Bill Williams, colored. Kusseii went wnn a posse of citizens to arrest Williams for stealing cotton, i I He started up into the second story of an out-building to search' for Williams, when tbe latter nred a load from a gun into his breast. Williams made his escape. Russell died in half an hour. MISSOURI. Bla- Candr and Confectionery Estab lishment Burned In Kansas city By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Kansas Cttt, ! Nov. 5. The Hugglns Cracker and Confectionary uompany's es tablishment, on St. Louis avenue near the inaction of Union avenue, was burned late last night. Loss between $75,000 and $100,000; well insured. NO. 1 '4 Mlse WASHINGTON. rable Attempt of a Crank to Cre ate a Sensation and Replenlsn fats Purse, i Ji Bt Telegraph to the Horning 8tar.l Washington. Nov. 4. The package which last evening was delivered to Chief Justice Wane, and which Upon investiga tion was found to contain a contrivance. supposed to oe an internal machine, was this morning sent to District Chemist Richardsong for expert analysis. The gen eral opinion is tbat tbe machine is a sham, and tbat tbe whole thing was an attempt on Hue part of the person who made tbe alleged discovery, to manufacture a "sen sation" for sale to the newspapers. Later Tbe person above referred to has just made confession that he invented tbe whole scheme, and for the purpose of sell ing the story to the newspapers. His name is anerourne u. Hopkins. Sherburne G. Hopkins has lust made a confession that the whole scheme was in vented by himself and Arthur B Sperry, a reporter on a local paper here, for tbe pur pose of selling the story to newspapers Hopkins in - his confession said that the small phial which was found in the pack age contained only ink and a very small quantity oi powder, just sufficient to burst the phial and alarm the person who might open the package. Sperry ia the party who called at the Chief Justice's residence last evening and inquired whether the mysteri ous looking package bad been received. Both Hopkins and Sperry were immedi ately arrested, charged with conspiracy to defraud newsnaner corresnondents. ? The Treasury Department has declined to grant the request of the Richmond au thorities, that a revenue cutter be sta tioned at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay to intercept incoming cholera infected ves sels. . i KENTUCKY. Two Large Failures in Louisville Horrible Triple Rlnrder and Suicide at Louisville, L By Telegraph to the Horning Star. otjibvtxlb, Nov. 4. There were two large; failures on Mainjstreet to-day, Hess, Mayer & Co., wholesale dry goods and no tions, made an assignment; as did also Henle & Wolfe, wholesale dealers in hats and caps. The liabilities and assets are stated in neither case, but Hess, Mayer & Co. are rated in commercial agencies at between $150,000 and $200,000, and Henle & Wolfe about $40,000. The failure of Hess, Mayer & Co. Is a great surprise, the firm being one of the largest and most pro gressive in the city. Louisville. Nov. 4. Mrs Mary Bru ner called this morning at tbe residence' of her daughter, Mrs. Charles B. Brownfield, and discovered her son-in-law hanging by the neck to the door lintel; her daughter, granddaughter aged 9, and her son William F Bruner, all dead, with their throats cut. Bruner boarded with the Brownfield fami ly) On the bureau in the parlor the fol lowing letter, dated 6 80 a. m., and written by the murderer, in an unusually legible hand, was found; ?'To all whom it may concern: I, Charles B. Brownfield. murdered my dear wife and baby; also W. F. Bruner, my brother-in-law. i killed my wife and baby because I was tired of life and did not want them left penniless in the world and no one to care for them. My cause for being tired of life is gambling. Now, let my brothers and friends take w amine. I killed W. F. Bruner because I didn't think he was fit to live; and now I will make an attempt on my life. So goodbye. my father, brother and sister, and friends and relatives. All take warning. Good bye, "Signed Chas. B. Bbownfield." Brownfield, the triple murderer and sui- cider, was 27 years of age, was a drummer, and was always known as a sober, indus trious young man. THE VERNON DISASTER. The Master of tbe Vessel a Confirmed f I Sot. Chicago. Nov. 4. Edirar Hall, brother of tbe second engineer of the wrecked pro peller Vernon, stated yesterday that the last time his brother was in Chicago he told him that Capt. Thorp, master o f the vernon, naa an aitaca oi delirium tre mens while on top of tbe pilot house. Tbe testimony of other people goes to show that Capt Thorp was an extraordinary drunkard, both in port and on a voyage. Many people knew and it ought to have been well known to tbe officers of the pro. oeller line. I Axel stone, the only survivor of the dis- aster, when asked if he ever saw Capt. Thorp drunk, replied: "The captain, was drunk most of tbe time, and be was very drunk when we left the boggan last week, While we were coming through tbe straits the second mate said to him, 'Sober up, you drunken beast, and take oare of this boat and people.' Tbe captain told him to go to hen. l ! was in tbe cabin at the time and heard every word that was said. Friday night, which was the night that the steamer was lost, the captain was as drunk as ever I saw him, and be kept taking a drink eve ry little while from a bottle that be carried in his coat pocket. I guess that is Why the. I first mate stayed on deck all the time. He knew that the captain was so drunk that he hardly knew what he was about, and was probably afraid the captain would do something foolish, if the captain bad been sober I don't believe the vessel would have been lost, for any sober man would have turned back when he saw how badly she acted in a big sea. Both mates of the Vernon were captains who had taken mates' berths for the lack of better em- ploy men t, MARINE DISASTER. Schooner Ocean Bird Lost "With All on Board Norfolk, Va.. Nov. 4. A report has been received here that the schooner Ocean Bird, of Wilmington. N. C. Captain Ed ward U. Daniel, carrying tbe mail between Nag s Head, Manteo and .Elizabeth City. N. C, ! sank during tbe storm Monday sight in the Pasquotank river, and all on board were lost. Among the passengers were three painters from Elizabeth City, the Captain's son. a school teacher from Manteo, named Howe, and several colored men. t TENNESSEE. A Voung Lady Burned to Death : Homicide near Tullahoma. : By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Nashville, Nov. 5. A special from Chattanooga, Tenn., says.: Miss Annie Ueadrick, great grand daughter of Jas. W Deadrick, late Chief Justice of Tennessee, was burned to death yesterday afternoon at Jonesboro, Tenn, Her father was burn ing canes off a lot near the house,, when her clothes caucht fire and were entirely burned from her body. She suffered ex cruciating pain for three hours, when death relieved her of her terrible suffering, A Chattanooea snecial savs : Isaac Ar nold killed Tom Newsom at Gray's Chapel, lour i miles from Tullahoma, Tenn last : night. Arnold was a son-in- law of Newsom, and had mar ried the latter's daughter, last May, against tbe father's wishes. Newson went to a distillery and drank freely of whiskey, He then proceeded to Arnold's house and began whipping Mrs. Arnold. Her huj band interfered and was dealt a blow on. the head with a poker in the hands ot Newson, Arnold retreated to a wood-pile, saized an axe and dealt Newson three blows in the back, cutting his spinal column in two and killing him almost instantly. Ar nold gave himself up, saying that he acted only in self-defence. Winston Daily: We learn from Mr. George W. Hlnshaw, chairman of the railroad committee, that he has succeeded in making an arrangement by which re sponsible parties agree to iron and equip a railroad from Winston-Salem to Danbury, on condition tbat the people along the line grade, cross-tie and bridge the road. He has also made an arrangement by which eight miles of the Winston & Wilkesboro road can be used ror the uanbury line. The Charlotte Chronicle put on a new and handsome head. Winston Daily. Itis reoorted that the Richmond fc Danville Company are thinking of building another track irom mnvilie to Charlotte, making a dou -ble Track. I . Wilson Advance: The Wash mgton, Greenville and Tarboro military- companies will lend lheir cheering pre sence to the Tarboro Fair next week, wu see it stated. - Asheville Citizen: The Wil- mingtonSTAKSavs: "Tranavlvsni. has subscribed $75.000 and Haywood coun- ty $100,000 to the railroad to run to Knr 2- vine, Tenn.! That fine country ought ' help Wilmington." Certainly it ought; oifr"' what has Wilmlnston done to hal fine country T Ought not such helps to ft ; mutual T l a.7. New Bern Journal: W. - Caho, Esq., of Pamlico county, has bWa appointed deputy special asent of thn ire . L sury department, with a salary of four dol iars pec day and expenses This is a mrt excellent appointment as all who know M r. wano win readily tesury. Mr. Jona than Havens of this city has several trees, some of them now in bearing, of the Con necticut butter nut. Goldsboro Argus: ' Rev. R. C Campbell, who has been tbe pastor of Oak Street Methodist church in this city for the last year, left yesterday fot Greensboro, his new charge. ' A prominent nhv- sician of the city said to the writer this morning that we used to have malaria in Goldsboro, but that now under tbe influ ence of a better system of drainage and other causes we have no malaria. Tbe furniture factory which has just gotten to running well, has a capacity of 100 bed- ' steads a day, Pittsboro Home: We reeret to learn that the brick piers just erected at Pace's for the new bridge have been badly damaged by the freshet and will have to tn- torn down and rebuilt. We hear of much damage to the cotton and corn and potatoes byi the recent heavy and con. tinued rains. Corn tbat was hauled uft ' and not shucked before the rain is badly damaged. The corn on the low grounds that was ungathered has been damaged by the overflow. Cotton has been beaten out and damaged greatly. Very little wheat has been sown. Raleigh Chronicle: The Chron icle cannot speak for Mr. Jarvis, hut from information that we regard perfectly relia ble, we think we can .say that Gov. Jarvis does not desire to be nominated for Gover nor next year. The distinguished evan gelist. Rev. Mr. Pearson, whose labors thoughout the State have been crowned with such great success, has been invited by the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Christian churches to conduct a series of-meetings in Raleigh. He has accepted the invitation and will commence his la bors here Sunday. Raleigh News-Vbserver : The collections for this, the fourth internal rev enue district, amounted to $79,138.12 for tbe month of October. The register in the State Museum shows that during tbe month of October there were 1,814 visitors to the Museum, representing twelve differ ent States and one foreign country. As we feared! reports commenced to come in. yesterday! morning of bridges destroyed and other damage caused by the swollen, streams around the city. Great destruction has already been reported and is of such nature as I to indicate that much damage has been done that has not been heard of. Rev. Dr. Mangum has a lone and val uable article in the last number of the Dur ham Plant on Church and State in their re lation to Education in North Carolina. Another native of North Carolina comes to the front from Monroe county, Ind. His name is Kuey smith. He is 7 feet Of inches tall, and wears a No. 17 shoe that will hold a quarter of a peck of corn. Once a year he orders a pair of plow shoes. They weigh 10 pounds and have very broad heels. They are 16 inches long. He was born in this State, went to Indiana in lBbU, is 45 years old, is married and has two children. Charlotte Chronicle: Mr. Frank W . Dewey, of this city, has been appointed agent for the Richmond & Danville Rail road Company at Raleigh, and left yester day tor mat place. we learn that a capital stock of $40,000 has been subscribed for the reestabltshment of tbe old Rocky River cotton mills, in Cabarrus county. Mr. Charles Black owns the property. At Gaffney City, yesterday, Mr. Thomas Elliott, while endeavoring to throw the belt from the driving wheel of an engine, was caught in some way and got his arm and head very badly bruised. Mr. Elliott lay unconscious lor severarznoura. but ia not fatally injured. In Sharon town ship alone, a molasses maker informs us, 11,000 gallons of sorghum have already been made, and he says tbat taking in the whole county. 100.000 gallons of sorghum will be made in Mecklenburg county this season, i A negro boy was arrested. and brought to Gaffney City yester day, charged with an assault with an attempt to commit an outrage. The case was investigated by a trial justice and - tne evidence sustained me charge. There was strong talk of lynching, as the case was a most aggravated one, but the negro was nnaiiy lodged safely in jail. Mr. Wm. N. Merce, of Union county, bought some dynamite for blasting, a few weeks ago, and having a few pounds left over packed it in a box and put it in his shop. A couple of days ago, while working in hia . shop with another man, his attention was called to something on fire in a box, and on looking he discovered it was the box that had the dynamite in it. Realizing his danger he told his companion to "skip, and he did the same thing. They were not more than one Hundred feet from tbe shop when a terrific explosion occurred, blow everything in the shop literally to atoms. The ehop was well equipped with all kinds . of tools, and a lot of fine model work and incomplete inventions . were destroyed. Tools and pieces of timber were thrown two hundred yards by the explosion. Raleigh News-Observer: Gov ernor Scales yesterday appointed Mai. R. S. Tucker, of this city, State Commissioner for the Raleigh Sevings Bank, and Judge J. H. Gilmer, ofJGreensboro, State Com missioner for the Greensboro Savings Bank. Tbe cotton compress is squeezing up anout 7uu oaies oi cotton per day. Washington county sent three new convicts to the penitentiary yesterday. As the local freight was leaving Pine Level, on its way to this city, about 10 o'clock - Wed nesday night, some one threw a rock at it which crashed through a window and came near making it very serious for some of the passengers. The State fertiliser in spector has advised the agricultural depart ment that two brands of fertilizers have been found on sale in the Piedmont region on which the State license tax was not paid. - A i gentleman arriving from Neuse river yesterday reported that all the bridges on the river from the Fall of Neuse to Smithfleld had been destroyed by the flood of last Monday and Tuesday. Between these two points there were eight strong and important bridges besides some smaller ones. The river was five feet higher than it was everknown before. The damage to corn and cotton is incalculable and the greatest in convenience prevailed for want of facilities to cross the river at the various points from which the bridges have been carried off. -i The Governor called a meeting of the State Board of Internal Improvements yes terday for the purpose of carefully con sidering the propositions recenty made to form a connection between the A. & N' C. road and the C. F. & Y. V. road. One proposition was to build a road from Goldsboro to Sanford and raise money for the purpose of building the road by in creasing the debt of the A &N. C. by $109,000. The Bute owns the controlling interest in the road. The other proposi tion was to make the connection by build ing a road from Goldsboro to Fayetteville and to raise money for the purpose by sell ing the State's interest in the C. F. &. Y. V. road at 20 cents on tbe dollar. The question was considered carefully and tbe Board coninclded with the opinions of the Governor as formerly expressed to the effect that the A & N. C. could not well afford any additional debt, and that it was not desirable to sell the C. F. & Y. V. stock. The propositions were' therefore declined. Weldon, N C, Nov. 3d. 1887. Between four and five thousand people were on the fair grounds to-day. The following are tbe numbers of exhi bits: I Field crops. 150: horses and mules. 197; cattle, sheep and poultry, 219: fancy- work and pantry supplies, 7UU; noeans, 89; agricultural Implements, 67; borticuU tural products. 439. riod.