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M'UITSrS-AN 11-I.lTSTBATIOr.
I'he iron and ateel trasts arej an
.lUoniiiiition. It is a grand scneme
lo jilumlor the peoplo and" to. enrich
(.In) few Plutocrats. Look at the
Suotchm'an Carnegie. He came to
Vunsylvania, plunged into j Jthe
irtti and steel business and has by
the1 aid of the enormous, grinding
War Tariff been able to make a mil
dollars a year. lie ia very much
ia favor of a great Protective Tax.
Of course he ia. These trasts (are
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worse than the daughters of jthe
horse-leech. They never get enough
l liey aro worse tnan tne Egyptian
plagues. They go up into the houses
n fill the land. By combining they
occupy the whole field and fix the
prioen. The American people are fools
ciioiish not to prevent a tax of, $17
ton to be levied upon all buyers of
steel rails that a few giant corpora
tiohs may make tens of millions of
.lollafs each year. I
Without a High Tariff it would be
impossible for trusts to exist. That
moment" you lowered the tax on for
fin goods to a live and let live
standard the competition would! set
in "and existing trusts would go. jThe
(..hUIp aro worse than fools if they
.VilW'lhia nystera of robbery to con-
tir.ue indefinitely m the Republicans
tlennnd. " j j ":
The Democrats are asking ihat
the tax oa 'steel rails be reduced
from $17 to $11. It ought to be re
AN ILLUSTRATIVE FACT.
i . it. i i rt
publioan Protectionists really have
the interests of workingmen so muoh
at heart that their chief end and
purpose in keeping up an enormous
Tariff tax is to keep np the wages of
the laborers so that they shall not
be as .low as the wages paid in
Free Trade England or Protection
Germany? Is that so? Is the aim
of the Tariff to keep out foreicn
pauper labor? Then it is a failure
all around. Why make a Tariff 47
per cent, when ten or twelve per
cent, would answer as to difference
in wages? And why import for
eigners to work in factories and
mines if the f 'pauper labor" of Eu
rope be so awful a thing as Protec
tionists declare it to be?
j At Manchester, N.SI1, the Amory
Cotton Manufacturing Company has
been in operation for a verv lonsr
time probably sixty or more years.
How is this big establishment sup
plied with labor ? You will be ready
to say, by home jeople by Ameri
can natives of course. But read
what is said in the New York; Sun;
"Gradually the foreign element was in
troduced, and as these people could live
cheaper, and consequently work for less
wages, the native Americans, in the course
of a few. years, were nearly all displaced
by foreigners. The French Canadians now
form a large proportion of the employes In
the mills of Mew England, though there are
many Scotch, English, Irish, French, Ger
man, and some Italian operative?. Of the
Amory Company's 800 employes one-third
are French Canadians, and the rest are of
various nationalities, only eighty, or one
tenth of the whole, being native Americans.
What is true of this company is also sub
stantially true of all the great manufactur
ing companies ia New England. "
j This is good campaign material.
It shows how utterly false and de
ceptive ia the talk of manufastnring
nabobs about foreign labor and keep
ing up the wages of American labor
ers. The mill owners and manufac
turers of New England, New York
and Pennsylvania look to their own
interests and they employ cheap labor
when they can find it come from
where it may. Where does the pro
tection of American working people
come in ?
the end will be the! same. as if it was
Republican inspiration that did it.. It
can hurt the Republican but little,
'and,' if thpeopA are easily bamboo
zled by Walker and his tribe, it will
surely, inevitably injure and may
even defeat the Democratic ticket. .
If bo, then farewell, a long farewell
to North Carolina's prosperity, glory
renown. The : curse of Radicalism
will palsy, blacken, blast, destroy.
And Prohibition did it, when there
was no possible chance of sucoess to
that cause. it-
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If Walker and his crowd are not
that the workingmen who are not in
cluded in the provisions of the Re
publican Tariff are actually better
paid' than are those who are included.
am more ot tins subject at another
time. -
in collusion with
the Radicals they
will hardly persist in a course
which at this time can only prove
disastrous to the beat interests
of the people. To remand the
State of North Carolina into the
keeping of the ignorant and dema-'
gogicai set mat aspire to nave con--
trol, will be to blast with the mildew
of death the fame and fields of the
State. Shall it be done? Will Demo
crats who love North Carolina wan
der off after strange gods and iden
tify themselves with a. movement
that promises to bring positive injury
upon the people, and set back the
prosperity of the State for a decade
or more? J
Let all Democrats steer clear of a
third party movement in a great
Presidential contest. United we
stand, divided we fall.
With Blaineism in control of the
Federal Government in all depart
ment and with Dockeryism in con
trol of State affairs and woe betide
the people. Thej devastation fore
told . by the prophet would befall
our land and people.
"Destruction upon destruction it cried ;
for the whole land is spoiled. I be
held, and lo! the fruitful place was a wild
erness, and all the; cities thereof were
broken down. For this shall the
earth mourn and the heavens above be
black." I
Hawison has been talking more
nonsense about the Tariff.' ;IIe ia
making himself rediculous by his ig
norance. ' He talks about trade and
taxation like a school-boy. Last
Tuesday he told: what he did not
know about economics. Chinese Hal'
lison is not a statesman. He admit
ted once in the "Senate that -ho was"
ignorant of the Tariff. He has not
learned much since. A long editorial
on a previous speech is crowded out.
This we will give" Tuesday. In-the
meantime we copy what the New
York Times, Ind. Rep., says of his
late revfilatinu of JgnoranceJ . Says
the Times: ' .' . -j
"His idea, coneisely put, ia that we must
grow rich and prosperous by buying noth
ing from' foreign nations and selling them
much, paying steamships to carry our pro
ducts to them, and presumably forcing
them to buy these products for hard cash.
If Gen. Harrison is not to make him
self ridiculous before the whole country the
National Committee will have to find some
way of keeping his mouth shut. On the
subject of the tariff and foreign trade he
shows an ignorance and credulity of
thought that would disgrace a boy in the
Indianapolis j, high school. Matt Quay
should repeat to him the advice be gave to
Gen. Beaver when he was a candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania. 'Don't Talk.' '
"I
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,'(1 to not more than $5 a ton! be
that sum will be quite enough
'.ii protect American iaoor and to
i the wages above those of 2u
r jH. All above $5 ia certain to unite
iM.'ita! and not help labor. But jthe
llepubiicans are not willing to any
r-' lijijiion. The tendency of the Chi-
'i i s
ci;;o platform h to still higher taxes.
Tii i-y declare in their platform that
thoy favor "such a revision of the
Tariff as will tend to check imports!
Ah, "iund to check importa." That
the Hie is it? That i9 the kernel
in lie nut is it? What does that
mt4i!? It means this : we will in'
rretise the tax on foreign goods and
in kn it ho high as to shut out all for-
f'k competition. That is precisely
'what is meant by checking imports.
tl'P.t U the latest deliverance of
tlm Republican party, and is, there
forf, their policy. How do you
likft n. Tho Chicago Convention
would not have been more hostile to
true, interests of sixty ( million
lu if it had adopted a resolution
-in jfiiliowH: . I
U4olvfcd, We will build a High
Ciiinto Wall around the Stated ef
the Union. And have no communica-
tion with the outside world j
Resolved, We will burn the few
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ids, that aro lett, aa we nave no
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need of ocean-carriers henceforth.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
a ..i
shows up the exacting, the avaricious
character of the trusts by an exam-
fie. which we will copy in part. It
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''Take as an illustration of all these the
Ktetl lkil combination, of which MrJ Car
negie U the chief beneficiary.
Thej amount paid for labor to make a ton
ijf htetil rails is 5. I
The tariff on steel rails is $17, or $3.40
P")ttction to 1 paid for labor.
It ctats the Carnegie Brothers to make a
ion of steel rails, after allowing ror waste,
m erest, etc . 26.79. I I -
It cons to put English steel rails down
in itnv American nort S23.80. '
A tariff of $3 would thus cover the diffe
rence la price. Any tarin beyona is
bows to the Carneerie Brothers. I
The tariff. 17i added to the cost of for-
ciin rails. 23.80. makes $40.80. which is
'be noiotof competition. That is to Bay,
only a few rails will be imported as long as
me, American 'trust keeps the pnee Deiow
As we have said, the people of this
eoqnlry are stupid" enough to permit
I i
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PBOr
HIBITION IWOVBirXENT. ; j
; The Stab has not given much at
tention to the Prohibition movement
in North Carolina. A more unwise,
untimely, injudicious movement was
never started. It reminds one of the
Beast Butler campaign in 1884, when
"Old Cock Eyes" and Ananias Dana,
of the New York Sun, j did all they
could under the cover of a labor
movement to defeat Mr. Cleveland,
the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. They came extremel
near accomplishing their wicked end.
A change of less than: 600 votes in
New York State would have pult
Blaine in the Presidential Chain
Now all men of ordinary intelligence
know what that means. Of all the
public men of this country, not exr
cepting Aaron Burr, who have figured
since the foundation of the Governf
ment, there is not one whose known
political record is so badly stained
and whose known personal charac
teristics render him more dangerous
As President Blaine would be an
almost unmingled evil and curse. If
he had been elected in 1884, we can
hardly doubt that before this we
would have been embroiled with
some foreign power, and perhaps be
in the midst of a great and costly war.
The country barely escaped in
1884, from this great calamity. But
the Republican annex dodge of the
Beast and his unprincipled organ
came very near giving the country
and its destiny into the hands of Jim
Blaine and his claquera and hench
men and spoilers. .
What means the Prohibition move
ment in North Carolina in 1888 ? It
can only mean muchief . It! can only
lessen the chances of Democratic
success. It can only give encourage
ment to tho Radicala. There ia no
THE PROTECTION OF LIBOR.
Protect American labor do you
say? How much lis necessary to do
this? We hold that a Tariff schedule
averaging 10 per cent, will more
than protect j American labor. In
steel manufacturing a tax of 4 per
cent, would be ample to cover all
differences in American and Euro
pean labor. When the Mills bill was
reported, the Stab promptly took
the position that while it was wholly
inadequate, it waa working on right
lines - in the direction of reform. I It
proposes to j cut down the present
enormous Tariff about Beventy mil
lions ,of dollars, and that is very im
portant. It leaves the War Tariff
still very high, averaging 42.10 on
over 4.100 articles. But a half loaf
is better than no bread. We are
thankful for small favors. Reduce
the War burden $70,000,000, and in
a year or two we can- whack off an
other $70,000,000,1 and finally reduce
it to the size of tjhe Clay Tariff of
1833, which planned to leave it at an
average of 20 per cent. He was the
father of the boasted "American
system" to which Chinese Hallison
referred in his last Saturday's speech.
There is a surplus in the Treasury
of $125,000,000 or! more. The Dem
ocrats say stop that surplus. The
Mills bill abates the taxes to the tune
of $50,000,000, and puts $20,000,000
We copy J sorno instructive points
from an interview of Consul Genera
Way, who is in New York, by the
World. Of Russia he says:
''In tho cultivation of wines, as in many
other industries and, indeed, many civil
reforms, Russia is .making strides which
Americans little realize. It has the highest
protective . tariff of any country in the
world. The effort is constantly made to
produce within the limits of the empire all
that its inhabitants me The Russian la
borer is not allowed to -walk on the side
walk. He must go out intothe street.
The Russians aro exceedingly friendly to
wards Americans. Russians are constitu
sional procrastinalors.
4 'You bear a great deal more here of
Nihilism than we do in Russia, The great
majority of the Czir'4 subjects are loyal to
him. I have i seen him drive unattended
through the streets of Ht. Petersburg in a
droaky. The Russian army is the finest
looking body of men in tha world. No
Russian soldier, on the peace footing of the
army, is under - twenty-nine years of age.
On the war footing the army is about
4,000.000 strong. Kaufmann h, tince Sko
beleff, perhaps their greatest General. The
Russian has no public ambition to worry
him. He eatp, drinks and plays cards until
1 or 2 in the morning. He rises and
breakfasts towards noon. The Russian
women of the better classes- are beautiful.'
H.'K. Thurber, grocer in New
York, .and a Democrat heretofore,
has "jined the Radikils." Tho Pro
vidence Journal, Ind. Rep., says
that he "is the same Mr. H. K. Thur
ber who, as : the head of the firm of
Thurber, Whyland & Co., owners of
the Swedish Match Company, bought
up not long ago all the Swedish
matches to be found in this country,
and engaged the immediate product
of the factoriea in Sweden, and put
all he could get in Btorago while
waiting for higher prices." I
Wo notice that a gentleman long
connected with the Stab is credited
in two of our exchanges with having
reported the encampment news for
this paper, i Thia is robbing a young
printer who did the work, and did if
well. The person - credited with it
, did not see the encampment. He was
too unwell and too busy with edito
rial duties to attend;
on the free list in
addition. This is
something. But the Republicans op
pose, it. ; j
; The Morrill Republican War Tariff
was about 25 per Cent, average. In
1874, the average
waa but 38.5 per
asylums
that the
remoteat
open, barefaced robbery to go
on day after dav and year j after
year.1 Tho tens of millions of
dollars - that the people have
pailjlta the crreedy and insatiate
roUbers is r"eally very astounding.
The Republicans say it must and
shall continue.
The Radioal Senate is a regular
dark lantern concern. It meets in
secret and rumor says that the jTanff
bill is delayed for "the uncrowned
King" of the party to pass upon it.
Cleveland carried' New York in
18iU by 1,047 majority and 1,274
plurality. He will carry it in 1 1888,
in all probability, by from 20,000 to
40,000 majority.
man outside of the insane
who dreams; or believes
Walker crowd have the
chance of success. What then can Jae
their aim ? Can there be but one an
swer? ! !
Is it not plain that most of the
votea probably nine tenths will be
drawn from the Democrats i Will
thia not increase the chances of Rad
ical Hucceaa?!Are the Prohibitionists
who have heretofore cooperated with
the Democrats, desirous of giving
over the State into the keeping of
the party that bankrupted it -that
broke up the oommon schools, closed
the University, impoverished the
people, ruined most of the counties
and piled up tens of millions oi puD
lio debt ? If they are desirous of
accomplishing this end then they Machine making
are moving on the right line.
All that ia neoessary to defeat the
Democratic ticket is for Walker and
his crowd to draw off enough Demo
cratic voters to make aure the elec
tion of Dockery. We do not know
any of the men who are running this
Prohibition machine, but they are
no friends of the taxpayers and hon
est government and State prosperity.
We will not say thai the Prohibi
tion ticket is really a Republican an
nexput in the field jy Republican
advice, influence and connivance, but
cent. Now it is 47.10 per cent, ine
Democrats propose to reduce this 5
per cent. Is that! Free Trade? It
looks really very j like High Tariff.
Morrillji War Tariff was nearly 20
per cent, lower than the Mills bill
leaves it. J -1
We shall undertake to discuss, D.
V., this wage question thoroughly in
connection with the consideration of
the Tariff in its njany bearings. At
present we say that the grandest
humbug of the century is the wage
question the bo called protection of
American labor by the Tariff. -
The men who make most by the
War Tariff,, the Carnegiea, are the
men. who import foreign labor, the
"pauper labor? of Republican news
papers. How can you, "protect
American labor" as long as you im
port cheap foreign labor? It is all a
fraud and a deception. m
To settle the question that the
High 'Tariff does not "protect"
American workingmen, , we will ap
peal to the cenBua ot 1880. On page
17, vol. II, you will find authority
for the following compilation, made
by the Wheeling ( W. Va.) Register :
1. HIGHLY PROTECTED INDUSTRIES.
Number Average
Indiana Republicana are bad
hands at managing meetings. They
planned to j have a " Workingmen 's
Meeting" in Indianapolis. The real
workingmen attended, took oharge
and passed anti-Harriaon resolutions.
Good! 8
From time immemorial Toryism
has been synonymous with tyranny.
America knows that, and so does Ire
land. ''
FIRKMER 8 TO UBNAMENT.
Arranging matter for the Gala Oeea
Ion Varlooa Committee Appelate
-low Hate a if Fare on All: Rail-
oa'aa.".:' ... .' ; . : '
j A meeting of the Firemen's Com
mittee was held last night at Hook
and Ladder ball. . All the members
were present. Mr: J. Ot. ' Oldenbuttel
presided, with Mr J. iD. Kelly Isecre
tary.; . ,; . :--'r-:-
It was resolved to hold the tourna
ment on the -15th, 16th and . 17th of
August and the Secretary was in
structed . to send invitations to the
different volunteer .fire departments
in. this State , and South Carolina to
attend and participate. :
I Mr. Martin Newman was elected
treasurer, and committeed were se
lected as follows: , ' .
On Music H. J. Gerken, W. C. Von
Glahn, H. H. Gieschen. ';
To Select Prizes-. G.Parmele, H.
H",. Gieschen, J. D. Kellyl . .
"On Invitation and Reception J. G.
Oldenbuttel, Martin Newman, George
Tienken, W. C. VonGlahn, H.J. Ger
ken. On Transportation J. D. Kelly, E.
G". Parmele, J. Greenwald.
On Refreshments W.C. VonGlahn,
George Tienken, H. J. Gerken, J.
Greenwald.
On Tournament Rules J. G.: Ol
denbuttel, Martin Newman, E. G.
Parmele, George Tienken, H. J. Gerr
ken.
On Housing Visiting Engines, &c
W. P. Oldham. E. G. Parmele, J.
Greenwald.
The meeting adjourned until next
Wednesday when the committee will
meet to further perfect arrangements.
The committee on'.invitations will
go to work at once end mail invita
tions to-night,as directed, with copies
of the rules governing the tourna
ment and list of the prizes to be com
peted for. It is hoped that all the
companies invited will give prompt
reply, so that proper arrangements
may be made at once for the care and
housing of their engines, etc. j
Arrangements have been made with
all the railroad companies to trans-;
port the apparatus and horses of vis-;
iting firemen free of charge.
The rates for firemen and visitors ;
round trip tickets will be as follows:
From points in South Carolina
Sumter $4 30, Darlington $3 70, Co
lumbia $5 00, Florence $3 50, George
town $4 50, Greenville $8 50 and Ander
son $8 00.
Points in North Carolina Golds-i
boro $3 00, Raleigh $4 15, Wilson $3 50,
Newborn $4 30, Fayetteville $3 95,
Durham $4 50, Winston $6 25, Reids-
ville G 00, Greensboro $5 50, Monroe
$4 65, Charlotte $4 90. j
Robbery I
The residence Qf Col. B. R. Moore,!
on Red Cross street, near Third, was
"entered through an open window be-l
tween two and three o'clock yester
day morning. The Thief took a pock-
et-book containing twenty-five dol-j
lars, belonging to Mr. R. Chapman,1
who occupies a room on the first floor
of the dwelling. Nothing else was
taken, and a gold watch and a satchel
containing a large sum of money ly
ing conveniently at hand, were not
disturbed. The empty pocket-book,
was found some time after the
robbery in the yard. During the day
two colored men Fletcher Gause and
Sam Caldwell alias Sam Larkins ;
were arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the robbery. Both men
were searched on being taken to the
City Hall, but only twenty-five or
thirty cents in money was found on
their persons. Caldwell was released
upon his personal recognizance to ap-i
pear at the Mayor's Court this morn
ing and Gause was held for further;
examinati'on.
Mrs. Cleveland' Arrival Tallow
Favor Report from Tampa, Fla.
.Washingtoh, August 2 Mrs. Cleve
land and Mrs. Folsom arrived in Washing
ton at 4 o'clock thia afternoon and were
driven to the President's country home at
Catview.
Surgeon General Hamilton this morning
received the following telegram from Sur
geon Murray at Tampa. Fla.: House in
spection completed on the 29th with nega
tive result. : The first two suspicious cases
occurred last evening. Two others this
morning. Manatee village is guarded by
twenty-five men. Suspicious houses have
been disinfected. Probably one hundred
persons are liable to take the fever. No
panic among the people.
Washhtotos, August 4 Maj. Barnes,
the Representative in Congress from the
Augusta (Ga.) district, accompanied by Se
nators Brown and (Jolquilt, ami tne two
South Carolina Senator?, H&mplou and
Butler, called on tho President yesterday,
and extended an invitation to him and Mrs.
Cleveland and the members of his Cabinet
and their families to visit Auguata during
the exposition to b8 held there this fall.
The affair was of an. entirely informal char
acter and devoid of ceremony. Maj. Barnes
was the chief talker, and his remarks were
endorsed by the other members of tine dele-,
gation . He said that Augusta bad raised
for the exposition by private subscription a
larger amount of money than had ever been
raised by any other Southern city tor such
purpose; that the exposition was to be of a
national character. The people of Augusta
had depended entirely upon themselves.
and had not solicited outside sid. . The ex
position building would be larger than any
which had ever been erected in the South.
Auguata, Mr. Barnas said, was different
from other Southern cities. It was an old
town, -and its people were old-fashioned
conservative folks The history of the
town was spoken of and the attention of
the President was drawn to the fact that it
had welcomed Washington to its hospitali
ty during his first admin htratioh. The
people of Augusta, he said, would rejoice
to welcome the President as an illustrious
successor of Washington
The President, in reply, cordially thanked
the delegation for the invitation extended
to him. but said that in the present state of
the public business, Congress being still in
session, it was impossible for him at pre
sent either to accept or decline the invita
tion. He would, however, take the matter
under advisement, and would subsequently
inform the delegation of his decision.
Major Barnes expects to .receive a defi
nite answer in about ten days.
FOREIGN.
France Incensed at Italy Earthquake
SbocK In Scotland Egyptian Cotton
Crop Emperor William' Muve
ment. By Cable to the Morning Star.
Parts, August 4 The protectorate
established by Italy over ticulla has in
censed France. Newspapers claim that
Sculla belongs to France, under treaty
signed by Abyssinia and France.
London, August 4. A slight shock of
earthquake iwas felt to-day at Kilaytb,
twelve miles northeast of Glasgow.
Alexandria, August 4 The Produce
Association has issued a report in regard to
the Egyptian cotton crop. It says the
plant is growing vigorously. Heat has off
set the injury done by worms. The culti
vated area ; has increased 18 per cent,
since 1887. j
Rome. August 4. Immense damago has
been caused by volcanic disturbances in the
Lipari Islands. No details have been re
ceived, owing to the fact that telegraph
lines between the islands and mainland
have been destroyed.
Berlin, August 4. Emperor William's
monarchial i itinerary since his interview
with Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe,
has been modified in most important direc
tions. It was supposed that the Emperor,
in accordance with family arrangement,
would pay his respects to the Queen
of England during bis projected stay at
Baden. TheQneen, however, intimated
through the German embassy at London,
that she did not intend to go either to
Baden or any other place on tho Continent.
Yesterday a formal note was sent by Prince
Bismarck, through the English Embassy,
asking that the Queen receive Emperor
William, who, the note-stated, intended to
visit England. If the plans of Prince
Bismarck are executed in time. Emperor
William will arrive in London in Novem
ber, during the winter session of Parlia
ment. Under present circumstances his
visit to England will be a State and hot a
family affair, and the Queen must meet
him cither in London or at Windsor, i
Trajttdr lu a Hotel at FItUbnrs A
Young Woman Kill ber Iovr and
Heraell.
C? Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Pittsburg. Aug. H. Shortly after 9
d'clock this morning, May Palton, of
Johnstown, Pa., shot and killed Charles
DeKnight, a well known young man of
Lawrenceville, and then blew her .brains
Out. The tragedy took place in the Metro
politan Hotel, corner of Grant street and
Seventh, The couple called at the hotel at
5 o'clock this morning. DeKnight register-
ed as Ui Lewis and wife, of Johnstown.
They were given a room and nothing more
was heard from them until 9 o'clock, when
the guests were startled by the report of
two pistol shots : in quick succession..
The hotel clerk ran to the room- but
the door, was locked and it was ntces&ary to
break it down to effect an entrance. On
the floor was DeKnight, dead with a bullet
hole in his temple, and lying on the side of
the bed. was the woman, also dead, with
blood trickling from 'the wound in her
head and a revolver still tightly clasped in
ner nana, uejnignt was in street attire,
but the: woman en dishabille. It is sup
posed that they quarrelled, and ' that De
Knight was about to leave the room when
he waB shot. Both moved in good society.
The girl was the daughter of a furniture
dealer of Johnston, and has always borne
a good reputation She -was quite hand
some and about twenty years of age. De
Knight was a Pullman car conductor, and
lived with bis parents in Lawrenceville. He
was about twenty-four years of age In
searching tho room a letter was found from
the girt. It was addressed to Jesse Thur
lqw, Huntingdon, Pa., and stated that she
was going to commit suicide.
Xbe Steven County Trouble Fnr
jtber Particular Relative to tbe Kill
ing be Sheriff Cro and bis Five
Deputlea.
Chicago, August 2. A dispatch from
Topeka, Kansas, says: Attorney General
Bradford returned last night from Stevens
county; where he went to investigate the
massacre of sheriff Cross and his five depu
ties. He examined a large number of peo
ple ia the. different towns, and three eye
witnesses of the affair. The testimony is
unanimous that that Cross and his party
arrived at camp tired and worn out, that
they asked permission of the haymakers to
lie down and rest, and that they were
sleeping and apprehending no danger, when
they were suddenly surrounded by Rob
bins and his men and shot down without
having any chance to defend themselves.
All three of these witnesses say that not
one shot was fired by sheriff Cross or any
one of his. men. i General Bradford has
gathered a large amount of testimony which
he will submit to the Governor. General
Myers found that no troops were needed
and so the mission of the two officials is
ended for the present.
Business is reported to be at a standstill
at Hugotown and Woodsdale. Everybody
is armed and i ready for an attack, and
waiting to he&r from Gov. Martin -. The
Governor has appointed a new sheriff for
Stevens county in the place of tbe one
killed, and both towns submitted a name
from their respective places to General
Bradford, but it is not likely that either one
will be appoiuted. as that will not facilitate
peace.! I
Robinson, who shot the five men, is re
ported as taking things coolly.
TERUIBLtS VATA8TBOPHE.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Tbe
Iron and steel
Agricultural implements
Silk goods, etc. . .
Men's clothing. . .
Cotton goods.....
Saw mills..
Average wages.
of hands.
...145,851
.140.978 .
. 89,5801
. 81,837'
.160,818
..185,472
.147,956
wages.
$455
893
888
292
286
245
215
...1311
2. UNPROTECTED, OB SLIGHTLY PROTECTED.
Printing and publishing. . . 58,478
Marble and stonework. , . .. 21,471
Carpenters ....l.'f.. 64,138
Bakers.. ...........J .. 22.488
Carriages and waeons. . . .. 45,894
Slaughtering and m a
nackine ..
Blacksmithing . . . . . 34,528
Average wages. . .
What does this
show? It
$522
477
454
419
418
' 88 5
322
...$428
proves
A Rold Robbery.
A littie after nine o'clock last night
Mr. Jno. L. Boatwright's store was
robbed in a most daring manner.
It seems that there is a cash drawer
in the front part of the store which is
located near the window, and was left
open while the clerks were in an
other part of ! the store waiting on
customers. When Mr. Boatwright
went back to; the cash drawer he
missed ten dollars, and his suspicions
were aroused by the way in which
the money was arranged, so he went
to the door and caught a little negro
boy named Walter Scott, who told him
that several small negro boys had
been taking money ont of the drawer
by means of a stick, which was
smeared at the end with molasses. In
the meantime the boys had fled.
Captain! Boatwright immediately
went to the City Hall, and the Chief
of Police sent out policemen who af
ter a thorough search arrested
Thomas Jefferson. John Mosely, Gus
Walker, Walter Scott, Joe Johnson
and Larry Davis. Joe Johnson con
fessed that he had taken two dollars
ont of the drawer, and from whal
eould be learned all the others were
implicated in the theft.
The boys' ages are from ten to sev
enteen years, and all of them seemed
to be running in the city at large, and
have the reputation of being very
hard cases All of the money found
on the persons of the boys was eighty
five cents, they having spent or hid
away the balance. After mvestiga
tion it was ascertained that the boys
had one $5 bill changed on Second
street, and another at a store near
Eighth and Chesnut. -
The boys will have a hearing Mon
day morning, when all of the facts in
the case will be brought out. The
amount stolen could not be ascertain
ed exactly, but it is supposed that at
least fifteen dollars was taken.
A Dry Joke. !
One of our down-town merchants
hadaerood ioke played on him re-j
cently. A particular friend from
the country being in the city a few
days ago, told the merchant that
when he returned to his home in the
country he was going to send him a
barrel of cider and that he must in-j
rite all his friends to call at his store
and try it. The cider arrived yester-i
day per express, freight unpaid; but
it turned out to be a diminutive toyj
barrel, holding about half a pint.
And all day long friends of the mern
chant who had been invited to sam
ple the expected barrel of cider, were
dropping in, anxiousiy inquiring if it
had arrived.
Cotton and Naval Store.
The statement of stocks, etc., posted
yesterday at the Produce' Exchange, I
shows the following: j
Receipts from the 1st to the 4th
inst., as follows: Cotton 56 bales,
spirits turpentine 1,076 casks, rosin
1,649 barrels, tar 431 barrels, crude
turpentine 803 barrels.
Exports for the same time 121 bales
of cotton, 2,477 casks spirits turpen
tine, 94 barrels of rosin and 250 bar
rels of tar.
Stocks (estimated) 490 bales cot-j
ton, 4,558 casks spirits turpentine, 6i,-
600 barrels of rosin, 2,023 barrels of
tar, 825 barrels of crude turpentine.;
Stockslast year at corresponding date, j
were 37 bales cotton, 6,031 casks
spirits turpentine, 91t262 barrels rosin, J
3.024 barrels, tar. and 2,506 barrels
crude turpentine.
Captain Ingram, of the Gulf
Stream, arrived from. New York yes--terday,
reports that on Thursday
Hatfleld-RIeCoy Feud-A Reign
of Terror on tbe Border.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Chicago, August 4. A dispatch from
Charleston, W. Va., says: A gentleman has
arrived in this city from the scene of the
late disturbances in Logan and Pike coun
ties, and reports that Asa Hatfield, Capt.
Hatfield. Elias Hatfield and Tom Mitchell,
who were quite prominent in the late
troubles, and for whose arrest the State of
Kentucky has offered increased rewards
aggregating $5,000 or over, have left or are
leaving the State to escape arrest, believing
that it is not safe for them to remain in their
present locality. About thirty Kentuckians,
memDers oi tne jucuoy pany, an ui wuum
are under indictment, are banded together
near the mouth of Peter's creek, armed
with rides and openly defy arrest. A num
ber of families living near the scene of the
trouble have been compelled to move away
on account of suspicion that they were
friendly to the officers of the State. Every
body in that section of the country is
armed in anticipation of trouble from one
party or the other.
INTENSE SEAT.
many
Deatbs
Tbe Sweltering Nortbwcst
Prostration and Several
Reported.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning star.
! Chicago, Auggust 4. Dispatches from
many points in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa
report the heat of yesterday as having been
intense. There were many prostrations
and several deaths are reported. Ia this
city Wednesday's temperature waa repeated
and several persons were prostrated, among
them an unknown young man, who had
letters in his possession addressed "Frank
Smith, Boonville, Mo." At Evansville,
Ind., three prominent citizens suffered
fatal sun stroke; among them Prof. Otto
A. Schmidt, well known in musical circles
in St. Louis, Fort Wayne, Buffalo, and
other places. i
VIRGINIA.
afternoon,.-Cape Charles bearing WJ
i S. and Winter Quarter Lightship NJ
E., he passed a spar standing up
right six feet above the water. It is
probably attached to the wreck of
xnmn VpirsaI and ia verv daneerous to-
crafts bound either north or south or
into or from Chesapeake Bay.
Foot Cruabed. t
A colored man got his right foot
badly crushed yesterday at the Coast
Line depot on Nutt street. He was
crawliner tinder a train to cross the
track, when the cars Btarted and one
of the wheels caught his foot before
he could get ou of the way. iae
Annld not be learned, bat
it was stated that he lived at Meares'
Blnff. He waa sent to the City Hos
pital for treatment.
Hotel and Otber Building Burned at
BlacKatone Loaa f 30,0O0.
Br Telegraph to the Horning Star.
Richmond, August 4. Fire occurred at
Blackstone. a village on the Norfolk &
Western Railroad, to-day, which destroy-)
ed the Southern warehouse, hotel, and a
number of other buildings. The ware-4
house and hotel were owned by the same
company. The low is esumateu at ou,
000; insurance $12,500, mainly in Richj-
mond companies anu a company at voun
cil Bluffs, Iowa. But for a fortunate
change in the direction of the wind the
town would probably have been destroyed.
The fire is supposed to nave originaieu
from sparks from an engine in the ware
house, j
Thirteen People Burned to Dcatb In a
Tenement House Fire inRew xortt.
New York, August 3. Thirteen peoplo
were burned to deeth in a six-story brick
building in the rear of No. 197 Bowery;
this afternoon, and two others were killed
by leaping from windows of the upper
stories of the building. Six more, burned
so badly that they will probably die, were
removed to various hospitals. The house,
was a ramshackle affair, hidden in the
middle of the block, the only entrance to it
being a narrow alley-way from the Bowery,
In front of it was four-story building, on
the first floor of which was a saloon called
the "White Elephant." Adjoining this is
Harryj Minor's People's Theatre. In the
rear of the burned building were two
houses, hemming it in on the Christie street
side.
In this caged-in building lived about one
hundred and fifty people. Each of the six
floors was occupied by a single family, the
head of which was a tailor who made cloth
ing for cheap wholesale clothing houses,
and employed from fifteen to twenty men,
women and children, in addition to his own
family, in making up clothing. They were
all Polish Jews, and employers ana em
ployed worked, ate and slept in the crowd
ed rooms of the dingy tenement.
About 4.15 o'clock this afternoon, while
all the occupants of the building were busi
ly at work in the closing hours preceding
their Sabbath eve, flames broke out on tbe
lower floors. It had already gained such
headway that it was in full possession of
the stairway and escape by it seemed im
possible. Most of the frightened inmates,
however, rushed down through the flames,
and escaped to the narrow court yard, with
clothes ablaze, and hands, face and bodies
burned. Six of them were so severely
burned that they were taken to a hospital
and may die.
There were fire escapes on the house, per
pendicular iron ladders, running down the
front and rear of the building, but before
any of the inmates had tried to escape by
them the flames had ascended through the
house and were rushing from the windows,
so that deecent by fire escapes was impos
sible. j J JOIIN ROBINSON.
Ueatb of tbe ; Veteran Snowman
Over Elebtr "If ear of Age.
j By Telegraph to the Horning Star.
! CiNcmKATi, August 4. John Robinson,
the veteran showman, died at 8 o'clock
this morning. He hart been for snme weeks
in a critical condition. Mr. Robinson was
i more than eighty years of age, yet, until
within a very short time, he maintained a
remarkable degree of vigor. He has spent
almost his whole life in the management of
circuses, being succeeded by his sons within
the past few years. He had amaEEcd a
large fortune.
YELLOW. FEVER.
Report from tbe Several Inrected
Piacea In Florida. .
By Telegraph te the Morning Star.)
Washington, ; Aug. 4. Tho Marine
Hospital Bureau is informed by telegraph
from Tampa, Fla., that fumigation is go
ing on at Plant City, and that there arc no
new cases. Dr. Murray reports that there
is no change at Manatee since yesterday.
Dr. Guiteras reports that a suspicious case
at Sandford, is probably not yellow fever,
and that there does not appear to be any
fever there, but he will investigate further.
Charlotte Democrat : While
there has not been a good rain in Charlotte
for six or eight weeks, there have been fine
rains in various parts of the county; some
w iium one or two miiuB or me city.
-New York Tobacco Leaf oi July
25th: Mr W. S. Clary, of Henderson.
N. C, passes on bis way to Europe, per
Etruria, to-day. He is thj first direct ship
per of bright tobacco from Henderson i.
England, .and a large, shipper t ttia
market. ; j j i
Washington letter: Thei
Thomas Li Clincman is sometimes, seen n
our streets. He, and the Hon. Jt QVrg-n
Davis are the only surviving ix Senators
who resigned their commission in the Urn
ted States Senate to ' link their fbriun s -with
the Southern Confederates. j . j
i We read -the Wilson Mirror an
preferring Fort Macon If we read it
wrong, as it says we did, we beg paidcu.
It says: "We simply suggested two orihrm
places as suitable, and' from all Ihrrc tl,.v
choice to be made. We suggested 8ouM.
port and Fort Macon, two government
posts without garrison, because ot iheir
barrack accommodations, and proximity -to
those delightful resort h. j !
t Greensboro Patriot : North
Carolina's two United States Senators visit
PittsborO to-day, for the purpose of tiHetu!-
ing the! Confederate Soldiers' Rcnnioc.
Thd report shows a mortality, oif 04!)
per centl per annum for the whites, iu -i
population, including South Grccnsttoro.
of 6,000; or, expressed iu another form,
about 2 whites per month during the! time
embraced in the report. Only a small pro
portion say one half of the colored lnul
are buried in the. Cemetery.
Sanford Express: August the
8th the farmers in tbe Carbonton commu
nity will give a grand agricultural f(ete at
the Masonic Lodge. After a useful
and honorable life of about ninety years,
Mr. W.! D. Harrington of Deep River
township, expired at his residence last
Tuesday We are dun Mr. A. H Mc
Neill, of Carthage, an apology for publish
ing the report last week that he bad mado
an assignment. It appears there was r.o
foundation in fact for such a report, j
I New Bern Journal: At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Eastern! Car -olinaFish,
Oyster, Game and Industrial
Fair Association it was decided to open the
next fair on the third Tuesday in February,
1889. -j Our Wilmington friend are
moving; for a firemen's tournament.: All
the volunteer companies of the Carolinns
are to be invited and test prizes are to be
offered. Now put up a prize worth; con
testing for and John Green, Bill Ellis,; .Tim- -mie
Moore and Ed Pavie will smile.
Raleigh News- Observer: prof.
Holmes, of the State Uoiversity, has! been
employed by the State Board of Agricul
ture to take in hand the matter of examin
ing, identifying and labeling the specimens
- in the State Museum. Prof. Holmes has
taken an office in the agricultural building
and began his work last week. In the
Museum there are 18,000 specimens, all of
which are to be labeled and catalogued and
many of them are to be identified, i The
work is one of considerable magnitude and
Will demand much careful study. j
New Bern Journal.' There is
a general complaint of poor corn crops in
the county, but. cotton, though small, is
fruiting well and promises a good jield.
The union meeting of the Atlantic
Baptist Association was held in Einston ou
Friday and Saturday of last week. There
were many churches represented and! some
able sermons delivered by the ministers,
notably one by Rev. J. 8. Dill, of Golds-
boro, on Saturday night. A petition
was circulated last week praying the Gov
ernor to pardon ChaS. H. Brown, Esq., who
was sent to jail by Justice 8. H. Rountree,
for contempt of court. .
j Wilson Mirror: A vicious oow,
belonging to John Sclby, made a furious .
attack upon the little son of Mr. Wall the
other day, and but for the timely arrival of
Mr. R. B. Evans, the boy would have been
gored to death. The cow made a dash at
the little boy, who was standing quietly in
front of his home.caught him on her horns
and tossed him at least ten feet in the air,
and then made another rush at the little'
fellow who had been knocked senseless by
the severe blow. Mr. Evans reached the
spot just about this time, and with a hero
ism worthy oi the Knigntnest spirit, saved
the life of the defenceless little fellow,
i Asheville Citizen : Our coun
tryman, J. C. Currie, Esq., informs us
that very heavy aud destructive etorina
have visited Upper Hominy township the
past few days. Last Thursday the thresh- -ers-out
at Mr. William Wight's, on Polo
Creek, when the storm came up the stock
was put into the stable, and lightning
struck the stable killing a pair of mules for
Mr: Edom Cole, and a fine mare for Mr.
Wight. On Saturday Mr. Thrower
Higgins started from his home in Tancey
to Asheville. having with him his little son
Parham. Mr. H. was driving a four
horse wagon loaded with produce, and tbe
little fellow sat in the wagon. The wheel
ran into a rut and threw the little boy ont,
the wheel passing over his body. He
merely spoke, saying "I am killed!" and
died at once. He was about 12 years of
COTTON.
A Summary of tbe Crop to Iaio.
t By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New Yobk, Aug. 4. Receipts of cot
ton for all interior towns, 6,182 bales; re
ceiptafrom plantations, 1,906 bales; total
visible supply of cotton for the world,
1,140,865 bales, of which 763.965 bales
are American, : against 1,423,2313 and
801,133 bales respectively last year; crop in
sight 6,911,145 bales.
NEW YORK.
IOWA. j
etretlve Hurricane In Taylor
County.
By Telegraph to the Mornmg Star.
Des Moiots, August 4. A hurricane
struck New Market, Taylor county, yes
terday. There were high winds and rain
from miamgnt un morning, uarge "ceo
were torn up by the roots, buildings moved
from their foundations, and others fatally
demolished. The damage Is quite heavy,
but no loss of life is reported.
Severe Storm many Bulldlne Struck
by Eilcbtninc
IBy Telegraph to the Horning Star. i
New Yobk, August 4. A series of
thunder showers, the most severe for years.
visited the metropolis this evening. The
lightning was very vivid, and struck many
flagstsffs and tall buildings. Similar news
comes from the suburbs for miles in all
directions.
Seven buildings were burned at
Windsor Tuesday night.
i Fayetteville Observer: Mount
Airy hay is brought here by the peniten
tiary authorities to feed their stock.; It is
very near equal to the Northern hay, will
answer in place of it. and we hope ere long
to see it made an article of merchandize in
this section in preference to the Northern,
unless Bomo of our enterprising farmers
should supply the demand. (From
the Messrs. McMillan Brothers who supply
the farmers with crushers and evaporators.
&c, for their sugar cane, we learn that the
crop of sorghum molasses made in this
county last year was between 20 and 30,000
gallons, and from the orders he is receiving
for mills, and from the reports from the
farmers that the amount made this year
will be nearly double that of last year, and
that by experience tbe farmers are now
able to make a molasses as good as Now
Orleans. ! " I
i Rockingham Rocket: Most f
those burned out by the recent fire will u
build at an early day. Among! those
who will rebuild at once are W. PJ Stan
sill, whose building we last week credited
to Dr. John Stansill, W. T. Covington &
Co., J. W. Covington, W. A. McDonald,
and perhaps others of whom we have not
heard. We learn that a colored wo
man was struck by lightning at Gibson's
Station last Saturday, during the prevalence
of a heavy storm, and instantly killed. She
was at the well drawing water when the
bolt descended. There was a! severe
storm of wind and rain at Hamlet on
Thursday evening of last week. The Ham
let woollen mill was moved from its foun
dation by the force of the wind, and tbe
roof of the grist mill blown off. All the
machinery in the factory was thrown out
of gear and had to be overhauled. The fall
of rain was also heavy and did considerable
damage, cutting through an embankment
on. the Palmetto railroad. Col.! W. L.
and R. L. Steele, Esq., left on Monday last
on a trip to the far West. They will ex
tend it to San Francisco, California, and
return through Oregon by way of the Yel
lowstone National Park. They were to
join Mr, T. W. Steele and others, of Little
V. i i . r. . t I 1
HOCK, AJKansas, at OI. UVUIB, JUimuuii,
last night. !
Henderson Gold Leaf, Tho
protracted meeting which has been! going
on at the M. E. Church at Middleburg,
closed Sunday. The pastor, Revi J. N.
Cole waa assisted by Rev. J. R. Nelson,
Presiding Elder, and Rev. L. L, Nash, of
Raleigh. As a result of their earnest labors .
there were fifteen conversions a'nd fourteen
accessions to the church. About fif
teen minutes after 7 o'clock Tuesday even
ing the large five-story tobacco prize factory
of Dibrell & Walker, situated on the corner .
of Main and Church streets, was djscoveied
to be on fire. .Owing to the greatl height
and size of the Dibrell & Walker factory,
and the immense quantities of tobacco
stored on every floor of the building, it
made the biggest blaze and hottest Are evtr
known hereabouts. Th is of .course greatly
endangered neighboring houses, and it was
seen at once that the three-story factory be
longing to Perry Bros., situated just below,
and the two-story building in the rear j
owned by Mrs. Leah H. Cooper were bound
to go, and men went vigorously to work to
remove tbe contents of both. The first
named was occupied by D. Y. Cooper indi
vidually. On the opposite side; of tbe
street from Dibrell & Walker's and Perry
Bro's factories a number Of small! hous( s
belonging to the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
were burned. The individual losses we
have not been able to arrive at yet, but the
estimated loss in the aggregate is put down
at abont $30,000 with $24,300 insurance. I
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