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The Weekly Star. . "HBtiSHSD AT IV ILMI N O TF O N , N . C $1.00A ISiRi IN ADVANCE. V H V-V-- - JhLi Jttj Star i 88888888888888 L -I IH 8S888S888SSS88888 VOL. XX. WILMINGTON, N;: 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1889. NO. 47 - ; S88SSS8S8S38S8888 ! muoK "322SS8SS3J5SS2SPS i 2888888882888888 : 888SS8SS82SS88888 ! : : SgS8S88S8g8SSS88S 8S838S888S8888888 ; " ' "T- . ' "-' ' s t 5 3 S S 8 5 S J $ S Kctered at the Post Office atrwilmlnrtoo, N. C. as Second Class Matt.) . . . - ... , s rTzrsVRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Wkbelt star is as I0110W8 : t z : ' Jingle Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.00 ' " 6 months - " ' . .60 " " 3 monthi " ' .80 SOCi HKKN PROGRESS It is only when the' facts -and fig urea are presented that we realize the rapid progress the South has ni&Je within the past two deoades aud is makiog now. Some of the Western States and -Territories have been a little more rapid perhaps in their development, bat this is dae to two causes, the cheapness of agricul tural lands and the large influx of immigrants from foreign lands. Very few of these have come to the South, and hence her increase of population is almost .exclusively of native birth. It is not so much in the increase of population, although this will bear favorable comparison with that of other sections, that the South has' become conspicuous, bat in the increase of her industries and the resultant product, which wilt more than bear comparison with that of any other section. ' , la instituting comparison between 'tin progress of the respective seo U jus, the large colored population of the Southern States ought to be kept i,i view, and this will ge as a bet t r iiiea of what "the white men of tbe S )uth have accomplished. T-The b-t'k of the negroes aie simply la borers whose wants' are few and eas ily supplied. When employed their wages are small, they earn but little money ynd havo but lit tle to speud. The whiurjaborer in the JJorth earns more money, .he requires more to make him com- - fortable, and consequently he spends more. This pets more money into circulation, increases the sales of the merhaaiB and others who supply his wants. There is more money earned per capita and more money spent in the States where the population is all white, and consequently more ac . tivity in certain lines of trade. If the Southern colored laborer were compelled to spend as much money to live comfortably as the Northern laborer does he would - require three times as much to live on as he now does. But his wants are few and simple and he can manage by work ipg half the time some how to live the other half. Just how he is able to do it we have never been able to find out. bnt he does it. A mild climate, and bountiful na- - tare, which generously v sup plies - the necessaries of life to the moderately industrious man, makes earning a livelihood much easier in the South than in the North, and this will account for much of the shift- lessnees, when we find it, both in black and white. People who are satisfied with enough to eat, if . they are sure of their dinner to-morrow, are not going to run very hard to get it. They will go easy and get there all the same. . The South may not show up as large figures in some lines of trade as. other sections for this reason, but in tho nrod active industries, those which create ' wealth, she has aone wonders. In the products of her farms, in the new in--dnstrial , enterprises; inaugurated, in the mines of iron and coal brought into profitable use, in the new rail roads constructed, in the towns and cities which have sprang into exis tence or taken a new life and growth be presents a marvelous record. Two decades ago a merely agricult ural section, she is to-day not only a great agricultural bat a great manu facturing aeotion; two deoades ago with very few and comparatively very insignificant railroads, tosday k 'Bhe is the great field for railroad building in this country, having con structed within the past six months forty -five per cent of the entire new mileage of the whole country for the same period. It is not a change of . industries . which we see bat an addition of .great and mighty industries to the one great indus try on which the Sooth solely de- pended before. The importance and value of the industry bf the farm have not been diminished.' Agriculture has not been relegated to the rear it is Btill at the front, stronger and greater than ever, but allied to the numerous other industries of more re cenj creation which with it have done so much in creating the grand revo lution which has put this section at the front in the march of industrial progress and achieved results that read like a story of fancy's creation, which without the cold facts and figures would stagger belief. "vtUi,",; :':dTAT topics."' : . . S - One of the best evidences afforded of the' oonfidenoe that capitalists feel in the fature of North Carolina, jand the prosperity of her leading towns and cities, is the readiness with which oity BecaritieB find purchasers and the premiums whioh they sometimes, command. Of the oities which so far have issued bonds for internal I im provements, etc, not one ' aB .far as we know has , found any trouble in finding ready purchasers for the full amount issued. A few days ago the city, of Raleigh sold 150,000 of her improvement bonds to Gustavns Ober, of Baltimore, $1.Q6. This Was part of the $100,000 of bonds voted some. time ago, instalments of which had previously been pat on the mar ket, and all of which commanded a premiamr It is an evidence of con fidence in the continued growth and prosperity of oar towns : and cities when capitalists from other sections, who are not influenced by sentiment but simply by dollar and cent tjon siderationp, thus largely seek with investments. .T-.".f , At a meeting of the direotors of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, held at Raleigh .Wednesday.a resolu tion was passed to co-operate with the directors of the North Carolina Railroad in the erection of a new de pot which would be a credit to the city, provided the oity of Raleigh would grant snob facilities as would enable the oompanies to conveniently use the depot. Thai News and Ob server, trom which we gather these facts, says that the city will co-operate with the railroads, as it has loBg been anxious for a new and respecta ble depot and that the proposed de pot may therefore be regarded as a certainty. ' " PORCB OP HABIT. The Republican, papers of the North have been so aoonstomed to misrepresenting the South that it has become a fixed habit with them and they do it as easily and naturally as if they were born to it. It requires neither talent nor industry' to do this, if it did there would be less of it done. '-7 It seems singular, though, that intelligent Northern editors who have any regard for their reputations would indulge in this misrepresenta tion when the facts and figures oan be so easily produced to prove either their ignorance or their falsehood. As a sample of this stereotyped mis representation we quote the. follow ing from a recent number of the New York TVibune, whioh aspires to. the rank of one -of the leading Re nnblican ionrnals of the country. It I 7 "... , says: "Alabama and Georgia, like the remain ing cotton States, have systematically shirked the responsibility of educating the colored race." V The Tribune writer knew when he penned this, that he was grossly mis representing the Southern people who have not 'only not "shirked the re sponsibility of educating the colored race," but have expended since' the war 137,000,000 for the education of the colored race, in addition to what they have expended for the educa tion of the white race. The Tribune ought to know, too, that ninety-five hnndredtha of this . money was paid by the white people for the ed ucation of the colored race, and that the colored schools of the South have been nd are supportea al most exclusively by the white people of the South. The col ored schools share equally with the white schools m the distri bution of the taxes levied for school purposes, although the negroes pay but an insignificant portion of - the taxeB. But let the figures speak for themselves. ? Te following table shows the tax tavied in the Southern States on each tl00 of property for school purposes: have not only cheerfully paid their money for the education of the chil dren -of ;the . negroes, but in,' Bome States, notably North Carolina, nor mal schools have been established to better prepare negroes for teachers, which schools are looked after with as much interest -as are the white normal schools; and are supported in the same way. -x ..'v: -- If the Tribune and other papers of its school were aotuated by a spirit of candor or. fair play, and not by a oontemptible, . ' sectional, partisan spirit, ; tbey would aooord credit to the white people of the South for what Ibey have done and are doing to eduoate the colored race,, not withstanding the fact that the colors ed race is dominated and led' by men who are and have been inimical to the South, whose-hands have always been uplifted againBt her, and whose -tongueC and pens "have , ever been ready to Blander her. -There is not another people on the - earth that would - do under . the circumstances what the Southern white people have done, and do it bo good-naturedly. ; But in further proof of the malig nant falsehood of the Tribune, we quote the following from the annual report of N. H. R. Dawson, Com miasioner ; of Eduoation, just sub mitted to the Secretary of the In terior, to which we invite the atten tion of the Tribune and kindred slanderers. After referring to other matters the report Bays: . From an tnaljsis of the statistics of public schools for the decade, 1876-77 to 1886-87, it appears that the growth of the system outstripped duiiog that period the growth of population, the excess of the in crease of enrollment over tbe increase in population, 6 to 14 years of age, being 1 6 ner cent. This caiu ia attributed to the progress of the pnblio schools in the two Scmhern sections, and more especially in tbe South central division. ' "Here tbe increase of enrollment shows an excess over the iucrease of population probably never before paralleled in a conn try so long settled. Since 1876-77 tbe in crease of enrollment in the public schools of the South has been 63 per cent. The sentiment iu fayor of free schools sup ported by public fund, says the Com missioner, is becoming escb year more universally prevalent. The public school systems of the Southern States have been undergoing an unprecedented development under laws adopted in each case to local circumstances, and are now practically all established on a permanent. basis. ColoteJ children are appomoooa an eau&l share of the school funde (except to tbe caso of Delaware), end their schools are kept open as long and uuder as well-paid teachers as those of tbe white children. "Tbe funds for tbe support of these schools are furnished mainly by the white Inhabitants, and after makin; due allow ance for all the sums that have buen fur nished for the education of ; the negroes through private sources of benevolence -and through taxes raitei by themselves, it may well be said that tha children cf those once "held in servitude to the South are being educated by the sons of tbeir foimer mas ters." ; ' Does this read as if the ootton or any other Southern States were "shirking tbe responsibility of edu cating the colored race ?" - Alabama Arkansas . . . . Florida...... Georgia Kentucky ... Louisiana. , Mississippi........ North Carolina.... South Carolina. . . . Tennessee ........ Texas...... Virginia Cents. . ... 84 . .81 ,..67 ,..1 ,..86 ,..83 , . .43 ...34 ...86 ...60 ...45 ,L.43 ...40 Average for the South j And the following table shows the eohool revenues for the year 1888: Alabama "3,892 Arkansas. Floiida... Georgia . . Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina, South Carolina Tennessee . Texas........ . Virginia....... 18,905,804 is the sum of $13,905,300, .':'.. STATE TOPICS. At one time the copal tree was re garded as a "thing of beauty and a joy forever," and they were in great demand in various sections of the country as ehade and ornamental trees. But like a great many other of the imported nuisances, it has had its day and in some cities it is out lawed, as itia in Wilmington. Its offensive odor is enough to condemn it among any people who have ipivil ized noses, but in addition- to this inhaling the odoi is declared to be rank poison to" people of : im paired vitality. President Arthur's death 'is said to have been hastened if not caused by this. The roots will travel an incredible distance to wells and poison the water. We re fer to this because tbe Greensboro Wbrkrnan calls attention to a num ber growing in a certain locality of that town "just about the right size for setting out, if any one has a fancy' for Betting them out as shade trees." Such a fanoy should not be enr couraged nor such : an abominable tree tolerated. ; " . - . In reading the announcements of the death of people in different por tions of North Carolina as recorded by our State exchanges, ope is struck with the remarkable longevity that many of "them Bbow. -'There are very many between tbe ages of 60 and 70 years, a good many between 70 and 80, many between 80 and 90, some between 90 and 100, and occasionally some that run over 100. These aged people are not peculiar to any seo tion of the State, but are found in all sections, which gives evidence that the climate of North Carolina, if there ba no neutralizing ' local causes, is conducive to longevity, ; Tfce Color. Exodaa, V The so-called exodus of colored peo ple from this section, to. the Missis sippi Valley took shapeand form yes terday; but after all the blowing; of trumpets by paid agents and.; pro moters of the Boheme, not more than a hundred and seventy-five men, wo men and children took their -de parture on the special train : char tered for the '' party, via the Caro lina Central - Railroad. There ; was a great .-- gathering v of " colored people at the railroad depot during the afternoon, bat the large majori ty were-drawn there" by curiosity to see the crowd off, and', the pressure became so great that it ..was deemed advisable to run the cars containing the exodusters up to the Bluff, where they remained until -after nightfall before proceeding on their journey. The better class of , colored people take no stock in the movement, be lieving it to be merely a scheme to put money in the . pockets of its agents and promoters, and that most , of their 'dupes will be.far more anx ious to return in a short time than they are to leave. - : NBTa Store. - The movement in naval stores at this port shows receipts for -.the crop year . to September SOtb, as compared with receipts to same time last year as follows: Spirits tur pentine, 33,434 casks; last year, 89 -230. Rosin, 99,093 barrels; last year, 101,477. . "Tar, 24,703 barrels; last year, 22,259. Crude turpentine, 10,688 bar rels; last year, 11,099. Stocks yesterday.as compared with same date last year were as follows: Spirits turpentine, 6,933 casks; rosin, 43,082 barrels; tar, 1,243 barrels; crude turpentine, , 541 barrels. Last year- Spirits turpentine, 8,314 casks; rosin, 80,891 barrels; tar, 1,665 barrels; crude turpentine, 883 barrels. Vl.icora from tbo SJr-Coory. Between two land three hundred excursionists from Mount Airy and other points on. the line of the Cape Fear & Vadkin Valley railroad were in the city yesterday. They arrived on an early morning train, and went through to the Hammocks and Ocean View without changing cars. They came up to the city about midday, and spent the time'pleasantly, seeing the sights," about town. To-day, many of them will go down the river to visit Carolina Beach and South- port, returning home to night. tlla lr llftrpool.z Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared yesterday the Spanish steamer Boren quen for Liverpool, Eng., with 2.470 bales of cotton and 1,200 barrels of rosin. Value of cargo, $134,700. The Borenquen will sail for her destina tion at daylight this morning. This is the first cotton laden steamer for a foreign port this season. Last year, the first - steamer the Ravensdale -cleared on the 11th Oc tober. ' ' r JtwUhNew.Tesr. The Jewish New Year, which will begin on next Tuesday evening at twilight, will be celebrated as usnal by the Israelites of Wilmington. The statute for the observance of this sa cred festival is found in Leviticus xxiii, 24-25. As the text declares it is set apart as a day of memorial, a day for peni tence and good resolves. Pernicious vices and vile passions control the heart of man, and pervert his higher nature, and the THew Tear was insti tuted in order that the Israelite might review and closely examine his ac tions during the past year and by this self-examination strive to con quer and control his evil proclivities. It is a sublime conception that this holiday is intended to lift up the soul from the depths of sin and enable it to free itself from degrading passions, and the Jewish sages declare that for Bins against God, He in his mercy only requires true repentance, but for sins committed against a fellow man He demands complete reparation for the injury inflicted either to reputa tion or property. The descendants of Jacob, therefore, solemnly and se riously review ' their past ; misdeeds and determine in future to amend them. The New "Sear, therefore, be comes an important epoch in their lives, as it has been set apart : esa special day for penitence and.contri tion. "' .. ' -' ': - - WASHltiGlOr. KeporU of a ttlotlln HTbleb Americana ; Wtre KllieOs tbet.laad or vaaa-4-&eroaloo' Band or Indiana A Veaaet vltb 'Kellow: Perer from ' Havana . , By Telegraph to the Morning Star. VfWisaiKGTOir,-8ept. 19. A cable mes easre has been receive! t the- Department of Slate from conBul Allen at Kinnstoo. Jamaica, safmg that a riot occurred at Na- vsqa, au isisnu in tbe Uanooean sea.: ia which a number of Americans were killed. The - consul says that at his request, a British war ship had left Jamaica to& the tcene immediately upoa receiptof the sews j of tne trouble. The dispatcn contained no further iafortnation. It is learned at tbe Navy Department that the-Galena is now on her way to Nav&saa and Wili probably at rive there to-morrow. This island is nn- i det no particular lurisdiction. but la re- sarded ; as under . the iprouction . of tbe United States. 1 It is said to. be owned by an American guano compny i It is about 250 miles from Kingston and is known as a guano island. , : - " - .-; ' WASHTNGTOir.Sdpt. 19. The Secretary of War has decided to accept the offer of the Indian Rights Association tij purchase a tract of land in North . Carolina f r. Gc ronimo's band of Indians now confined at there iu a more civilized mode of life . Pr Burgees. 8anitaryiaspector of trre marine hospital service at Havana, Cuba, baa written, to Surgeon General Hamilton, dated Sept. 12th, - that th BritUh baik Jane Law, which cleared for New York on the 17th instant, took a bill of health on that date in which it was slaU-d that all of her crtw were well except the mate, who was cnvaleeing from an attack of yellow feveron that dayi The latter' says the crew (noticed and the vessel remained at Havana till tbe 12 ib, when the doctor says he made ia second inspection of the vessel and found that one of th? young siilors bad been taken the previous night with symptoms of yellow fever. The vessel pro ceeded to sea with the man aboard. ' . ORFOLS. it A VT YAtD. The llaw Dry Doen Porm.liv OpenaA- Bj Teletcranh to the Morning Star.;. . Portsmouth, Vi., September 19 The new rirv dock lust com deled at tbe Nor folk Mavv Yard by J. E. Simpson & Co., of New Tor city, was formally opened this morning in the presence of a large gathering, among the number being promi nent representatives of the Amy, Nay, and business men of Naw York and other cities.! ;'- " ' It took just one hour to pump the dock full, which contains eight million gallons of water, and the same length of time, to pump out tbe caisson. At a quarter, of twelve o'clock tbe dock was redy, and the U. 8. steamer Yantic, decorated with bunting and her band playing the national anthem, cams into the dock under ber own otaum Thaa nnnTKlioiL was' a anccefl in every particular, and elicited groat applause from thousands of spectators. Among the naval officers present were Rear Admiral Jouett and Commodore White, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of the Nvy Department - After the Yantic bad lesn so tuocessful ly docked, the Messrs 6inps:i were en tertained at a baoqust in the Navy Yd The: e were cvr 500 invited gusts from various oarta of the country ; Tb scene was an animated one and tbe affair a brill iant success. - WISCONSIN. NEW JKU8EY. ' " TheTilalof irira. Haaatltoa for aanlttna Iter Nuraa Sen teneea to Tor' ITeara att PrUoe. ; - . By Telegraph to the Horning Star. - -Mat's Landins, Sept 19. Tbe court did not open this uiornioc for a continua tion of the trial of Mrs. Ea Hamilton for an atrocious assault upon bar nurse, Mary .Donnelly, until 10 45 o'clock. Tbe delay was caused by the detention through an ac cident in another train from Atlantic City, upon which were the Judge, attorneys and others officially connected with Jibe case. When the jurors had taken their seats Judge Reed said: "dberiff - bring in the defendant." Tbe sheriff stated ttfat the defendant Mrs. Hamilton, -begged to be excused from appearing on account of seri ous Illness, and the judge allowed: tbe case to proceed. i--: W.-;-: ' -. -. Capt. Perry, council for Ibe" defense, then began bis argument . ; He atd be hoped the jurors would frame their verdict according to tbe testimony u independent of the : newspaper reports or 'other influences. He close y - revie wed the circu tnsta nces which led up to the aftsault, and argued that .the testimony -showed clearly that Mary Ann Donnelly, the nurse, was the first-aggressor, and that she forced Mrs; Hamilton to pick up a koife In self defence. Ww b ad ' tBf MtClfeirtoTtir'ner mistress ; she was hot-tempered and frenzied with brandy, and she assailed Mrs. Hamilton With murderous intent. . ; ' Mat's Lahdimg. September 19 The jury after being out an hour and a quarter, came in at 815 and returned a verdict of 'guilty as indicted" (of atrocious assault.) Mrs. Hamilton was led into the Court room by the sheriff, and when the foreman of the jury declared the verdict she fell in a swoon on the floor. It was a most dramatic scene, and brought tears to almost every eye in the court, room.- Bhe was sentenced to two years in the Statt'j prison. I--.' L.OUIltIAJ'A. Partner Development or Fraud In Connection ntlh tbe Issne of State Bottdo. 7 ty Telegraph to the Hornlc 8tR,. - Nbw Oklkahs. September 19 Investi gation by Stale officials and parties largely interested in State securities, continues to develop new cases of fraud every day. It now appears that foreery has been added to the fraudulent floating of bonds of tbe State through criminal carelessness of the State's servants. In addition to 303.600 of consolidated bonds, upon which interest payments Jiave just been stopped, and many of which (presumably all) have been surrep titiously put upon the market, instead of being cancelled, there have been discov ered in private hands a number of 4 per cents., issued under the act 121, of 1880, and known as tbe constitutional bonds, that are clearly an over-issue, made in fraud. How the blanks got out cf possession of tbeir proper custodian, who filled tbem up and affixed the signatures of the Governor and Slate Treasurer, my only be disclosed through tbe criminal courts. But the fact is settled that while the highest leeal issue of $100 series of these bonds is No 200, cumbers at least as men as 313, are out standing, and of tbe $500 scries (the legal, issue of which is No. "SO) bonds as high as No 56 are afloat. To what extent this fraud may be, and its ramtueatious, a short time will disclose. A dispatch received from Major Burke, ex-State Treasurer, dated London, yeetcr day, says be will sail on Saturday, and hopes to reach home by Monday week. 1.812,986 690.4UU 788,500 1,754.107 666,200 1,095,084 700,946 541,500 1,880,839 2,885,695 1,558,852 A Memphis polioeman called a colored woman "Auntie," a familiari ty which she resented by oalling him a son of a sea cook, or words to that - effect, when he arrested her for making : too free use of for bidden language. She is now suing for $5,000 -damages. AOUU , . Here nearlv $14,000,000 paid by (he South ern States, or rather by the white people of the Southern States, one half of which goes to the schooling of the negro race, whose; education the Tribune falsely asserts the Cotton States have "systematically shirked." i The white people of the South Cap Fear As Yadkin Taller. . Twenty-three miles of the track of theC. P. & Y. V. railroad between Wilmington and Payetteville have been laid. The intermediate trestles between the end of the track and Black - River bridge are being con structed,' ana win not delay tne worK of laying the rails. ' A turn-out has been put In nearMott's Cross-roads, seventeen nines uum wAiuiuigion, in Pender ' county. ' It is proposed to call the place "Ourrie," In honor of Mr. J. H. Currle, of the firm of Woody & Carrie, of this oity. . Xt.atM or Olra. W. Bolladar. ' Announcement of the death of Mrs. Maggie Holladay, wife of Mr. W7 W. Holladav and daughter of Mr. Geo. W. Williams of this city, was received with profound sorrow by the many friends of the family. She died yes terday about noon, and although sick for two or three weeks, her death was sudden and unexpected, and a great shock to her family and friends., Mrs. Holladay was only twenty-four years of age. She was a loving wife and mother, . a dutiful daughter and affectionate sister, and her sweet, lovable ways had gained her A warm place in the hearts of many friends who will long cherish her memory. There are many instances . of her kindness and generosity to the poor, and to these noble traits were added an. exemplary Christian life, for she was a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church. . r . - She leaves two little girls, one about two years of age, and the other an in fant of three weeks. , V : ; The funeral will take place this af ternoon at half past four o'clock from St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. The Stab tenders itssympathy to the bereaved husband and family in this sad hour of their affliction. . ; ; - The Fayetteville Observer .says: 'Capt. J. C. Smith will have charge of the new ferry boat to ply between Point Peter and the city wharves of the Cape " Pear and Yadkin Valley Railway at Wilmington. The boat is in construction At Wilmington, Del. whither Capt Smith goes to remain until It is completed, and bring it around to Wilmington." - ' Darinc Robb.rf of a BaaK Forty Tnoaeend Dollar taken fioro the ' Vanli. ' .' - tV By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Minneapolis, September 21 A special to the Journal from Hurley, Wis . says : One of the most daring scd successful robberies ever committed in this State oc curred at this place last night,, between 9 and 11 o'clock. Over $40,000 was taken from the vault in tbe Iron Exchange Bank. The money was sent from this city last nigbt at 7 o'clock, and arrived there about 9 It was intended for tba Ashland and Germ an i a mines, who were to pay off tbeir mm m da. The cashier put tbe money Inside the Iron vault and left shortly after 9 o'clock. ' The second door of the vault was opened with keys, which indicates the work of experts. Tbe officers ar at a loss to know which way to turn, and great excite ment prevails. The correspondent says G. A Alexander is Bgent for the Ex press company, , but he would say nothing about the affair. A light was lett burning in tbe office, and a tew minutes after 9 o'clock a man was seen working at tbe safe, but he bad on the caslier's office coat and nothing was thought of it by those who passed the bank. The cashier returned shortly after 11 o'clock, when he discovered that the money waa missing. Active mea sures were then taken to get a clue to the rnhtara. hot no trace of them has been dis covered. The Express company had no re ceipt for the money from the bank officials. Tbe large amount of money sent to the mines every month is a tempting plum for robbers. :, Mihhbapoms. Sept. 21. A special from Hurley, Wia. says: Every month about this time tbe Ash' land and Germania Iron Mining Companies pay off their large forces of employes, and for this purpose the cashier (Willy) of the Ashland National Bank shipped an im mense sum of money to Hurley last night via tbe United States Express Co. Upon the arrival sl the money at Hurley be Ex press company sent it to tbe Iron jsxenaage Bank in a wheelbarrow. Between tbe hours of 10 80 and 11.80 last nigbt the bank was entered and tbe entire amount of tbe ahlnment carried away by robbers. Only the minor coin was left behind. According to Wiley statements $41,700 was shipped from Ashland to Hurley. Of this $25,180 was io bank notes, $18,980 in gold, $2,540 in silver. The robbers had their plans laid most perfectly. Like nearly every bank tbe Hurley depository has a vault and. safe inside of h with time lock. As tbe money arrived at 9.15 p. m , after closing tbe bank, the money could not be nut in th safe. It was Disced inBide tbe vault, however, and cashier Reynold re mained in the bank taking care of the treas ure until 10.15 o'clock, when a friend came along and he went out to the theatre with him. When thn cashier returned at 11 80, be noticed that the vault had been opened. Looking inside, he was thunder struck to see that the money was gone. r A large number of small silver coins, were scattered over the floor of tbe vault and all was confusion. BueriH naiteon wasnur riedly telegraphed to, but did not receive any notice of the robbery until too late to catch the train for Hurley. Not even the faintest clue was left by the burglars. The door of the vault bad not been marred, and it was opened by some one who bad learned the combination. There were only two men supposed to be in possession 'of it Cashier : Reynolds and. Assistant., Cashier Leonard Perrin. The exact amount sioien was $59,895 The robbers were evidently in too much of a hurry to take tbe small silver; and $1,805 was left behind, r The United Slater Express Company is the loser of the money. They did not de posit it in the bank, but merely left It there for safe-keeping over night, when it would be delivered to tbe consignee, manager M. M. Lyon, of tbe Asneiana ana uermanin mines. It Is likely that the Express compa ny will announce a heavy- reward ior the apprehension of the burglars. - , v RAILROAD iVUEvK. Several Peraoaa Klll.d and Blaov Iu ' Jared. -Wichita, Kan., Sept. 19 The east bound St. Louis and San Francisco pas senger train was derailed near Lejn, But ler county, yesterday, by the spreading of roils Thrt naananffer poaches left tbe track while the train was going thirty miles, an hour, and rolled down a 1& foot em bankment. The cosche were not well filled and thus Ike loss of life was not so great as it otherwise would have been. R. M. Berries was instantly killed, being thrown tbrtugh tbe roof of a car." Ltaac Dean, of this city, was fatally injured, hav ing his breat crushed in by a car-timber.' Mrs. Matska, also of this city, wss fatally crushed by tbe weight of a car. Mrs. John Mitchell, of Fort Smiib, Ark., bad one arm and one leg broken. Mrs. R. A. Hodgas, of Arkansas City, bad one arm and several ribs broken, and may die. C. L Lathrop. of Kansas City, had bin richt leg broken in two places and receitel in ternal injuries. About ten more were. slightly id urea CANADA. STOLEN DIAMONDS. " An Express ITIesseaKer Arrested for tba , . : " x-: ibsft. -- :" ' r: .-. By TeleerasB to the Morning Star. : LouisviLtB.. Kx , September 21. Thomas Green, an express messenger on the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railroad, waa arrested here last night by detective - Farrell, charged i with having stolen $800 worth of .diamonds from a trunk about ten days ago. The baggage- msster, whose name is w nite, was arrestee, at Lexington yesterday. When Green was captured he was at the races and was just cashing a couple of pool tickets on which he had mads big winnings. Terrible Kiandallde-Larae Number of Persona Barled Alive. - Qtjbbbo, September 20. The work of excavating at the scene of tbe landslide is still going on. .Among those wh it ia alleged are still miesihg, and who are said to be beneath tbe ruins, arc Mr. and Sirs. Charles Allan. Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Henry, Richard Mayburg and wife, Mrs. R Law son, R. Kemp and family, Michael B. Leahy, and a number of children. The loss sustained by tbe surviving victims of tbe disaster is very great. Some of the workiugmen . who are deprived of tbeir homes lose all tbeir furniture and other effects, even tbeir summer earn ings, and : many are left penniless at the commencement of a Qanadian win ter. The injured have nearly all been re moved to the Hotel Dieu, where they will receive all possible care and attention. William Powers' wife and child were saved by the men of -' B" battery, who. aided by a detachment of tbe cavalr school, tffected quite a number of rescues. Boston. Sept. 80. The Jmrnatt Que bec special, timed midnight, says : ' It is known that at leist two hundred dead bo dies still remain under the pile of debris. Rescuing parties are bard at work, but are meeting with accidents, as huge masses of rock still continue to fall from the cliff." &T? LOUIS. The Principals lntae Late Fatal Prlaa Flcnt ta e Proeeeuted. St. Louts. Sept 80 The principals in the recent fatal prize fight will have to pay dearly for their sport. Chat its Daley, Dan Daley, Joseph A. Murphy, the sporting editor of the morning paper, Wa tuln- cy, ana a numoer or otners are neio as ac cessories to murder in the second degree with which Ahearo is charged. Tbe pun ishment is not less than ten years in the penitentiary for the principal and accesso ries. .: - 'T-'-i Tbe moral sentiment of the whole city is thoroughly aroused, and tbe Law and Or der League will conduct the prosecution. Young Jackson belongs to a good family, and it waa bis mania for wrestling and boxing that caused a quarrel with bis fa ther a few mouths ago. Since then he hss associated with nriza fighters and toughs, and finally met a horrible death at tbeir hands. The ro'ico are coming- in for strong censure, as the killing was accom plished right before tbeir eyes. Sparring is a misdemeanor, but tbe law has been a dead letter except when obnoxious profes sionals came to to wn. . DEER PAR;. ; .v Tba Pension, Ooaaanlslo ersUp sail Im Dkeb Pabk, Md., Sept 80. The Pen sion Commissionership is still unsettled, and President Harrison thinks Major Warn ner the best man for the. place. He is ex pected here to-night for another confer ence, which people about the President say will leaa to an acceptance, as. iriaswcu Harrison has from the first .thought Maj. Warner could be Induced to accept. Gen; Lucius Fairchild to mentioned & a pro bability should ', Warner and .Merrill de cline, i .-ri : - .-.-'': -- ' flocretarv Noble ana J&aior warnerwent over all the ground of the Pension Commls sionersbip with the President to-day, but. bo decision was reached. Major Warner will leave Deer ark lor Juntas vny ior morrow, - V: CJO.tCKAU.AVOA. Jk R amber of Visitors to tne Reanlon tn Jared In an Aeeldeat on ska Blee trie BalUroad. . ... - ," iy ' . . Chattanooga, Tenn . Sept 20 An accident occurred thib mornicgon thpElec trio railroad running from tho foot to the top of Mission Bidtpr. : Tbe car bad nearly reached the top of the very steep track when the electric current failed and the car started - down the mountain at a great speed. The motor man tried to stop the ear with tbe brakes, but failing in this the conductor shouted : to the passengers to jump from the car. The car contained 60 people, all of whom were visitors to the re union of the Army af tbe Cumberland, one half of the party being ladies. , Then there was a scene of wild excitement. Panic seiz ing all on board, they began leaping rapid ly from the moving oar down the mountain biub. r ive or aix persons ismtueu on tne car with the conductor and the motor man. and all were uninjuie J, as when the load was partially removed from tbe-car it was stopped before reaching the . foot of the Ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of Casey, Ills , wi'e of the express agent ia that city, iu jumping from the car atiuck one of tbe poles carrying " the ' electric wires and was thrown in front of tbe car and struck on the head and thrown to the side of the track. Battering lojunet from Which she aied this afternoon. Win. 'Wunford, of Casey, Illinois , in lumping :' from : the car. Btruck in a" mass r of : barbed wire and was very , badly cut, - one - eye being literally torn out. Capt. Owen Wi ley, of Casey, III , was badly hurt on the head, and It is feared be is injured inter nally. Mrs. Abram Hollingsworth, of Thorntown, Ind., was badly hurt on the head and about the body, but. not fatally. J. S. Clark, of Owensville, Ind.. was ln jurned but not seriously. A. P. DeBru ter, of Vincennes, Ind., and wile, were on the car. Mrs DoBruler escaping with only a scratch, and Mr. DeBruler being consid erably bruised about the arms and legs and his bead badly cut. Mrs. A. C. Adison, of Casey,. 111., was painfully bruised about the head and shoulders, but not seriously hurt.' M. J. Carthill, of Pdnceton, Ind., had his right shoulder dislocated and it is feared received internal injuries. Mrs. D. B. Mas sey, shoulder dislocated and ankle sprain ed. Mrs. Sturdevant, of Casey, 111 , sus tained injuries about the head, but is not seriously hurt . None of the other passen gers were seriously hurt, though all had more or less bruises and scratches. -. The affair cast a gloom over the visitors in the city who did not attend tbe barbe cue at Chickamauga, and nearly all the in jured left the city on trains. Officers of tbe company rendered every possible assistance to the fhjured and bad a full corps of surgeons on the eround fifteen minutes after the accident occurred. STORM ON THE LAKES. Portions fositloBt of Paseengere on a . Steamer from Cleveland. Detroit, Sept. 80. Tbe steamer City of Detroit arrived from Cleveland this morn ing, after a very rough experience. No sooner had tbe boat left Cleveland last night than she was struck on the port side by a monstrous wave, which fairly llftei ber out of the water. As tbe vessel proceeded the lake became rougher, and by midnight she was laboring heavily ana baaiy strained. The paddle-box bulkheads were sprung a good deal, and a leak was discovered in tbeir vicinity. When this information came to the passengers, of whom there were about 700. thty became very badly fright ened, and most of tbem donned life pre servers, and when tbe bulkheads gave way shortly after a terrible panic ensued.. Water waa forced into the boat at every revolution of the wheel, and rose rapidly. In tbe after saloon on the main deck the officers' apart ments were also soon Hooded as well as tbe ladies' saloon. The water rose inch by inch until it was fully six and a half feet high in the cabins. During this terrible situa tion the passengers were clustered in the saloon, all prepared for tbe worst One man, whose name could not be ascertained, rushed up and down the cabin, shouting, "We are lost; the boat is sinking" This, of course, added greatly to the confusion, and made tbe already terrified passengers very difficult to manage. Tbe male pas sengers seemed more frightened than tbe women. The officers of the boat admit it was as rough a nigbt as tbey want to see. The appearance of the boat this morning shows what she passed through. ; VIRGINIA'. A Crar Collec Student Creates a Sen - satlon at Winchester. . - By Telegraph to the JCornuuc 8tar. . Winchester, September 20. John No lan, formerly of Loraconing, Md., residing near here, presented to-day at tbe Union Bank an improperly drawn check, on which tbe cash, was refused. He then went to George Welle's hardware store, pur chased a pistol, had it loaded, and fired at the proprietor and bis son, but without effect- Walking out of the store he met the Rev. 8 H, Jones, of Sharpsburg, Md., pastor of the Lutheran church, put the pis tol to his face aod demanded bis pocket book. Tbe pastor refused tbe demand. Nolan replied, "I don't want to send your soul to hell," but quailing under the fixed gaz-) of Mr. Jones dropped his hand and was arrested. -. . He bad been in college, studying for the priesthood, and is supposed to be insane. MEXICO Heavy and Contlnned Rains Destruc tive l.andallde Hallway Accident . Governor of Nneva eon. . ' By Telegraph to the Horning Star. St. Louis, September 21. Advices from different parts of Mexico say a very heavy storm has been sweeping over that country since August 15, visiting tbe different States at different times. The latest pre vailed along the Pacific coast, and reports from Mszaltah and Manzanilla are that the steamers Porfirio Diaz and Alata have pro bably been wrecked. After five days' steady rain ia the State of Vera Cruz a cyclone passed over the town of Ghicin tepe; causing great destruction, and to add to the terror or tne innaoitants a great landslide .occurred on the mountain back of tbe town, part of which passed directly through, the town, cutting a great swath through the buildings and carrying away everything in its path. A torrent of water then pour ed through the gulley made by tbe land slide, and flooded that part of the place not already destroyed; There was no loss of life, however." es tbe people had warn ing and sufficient time to escape, but tbe destruction in crops and loss of cattle is very great . Two locomotives and ten freight cars on the Mexican Central railroad were wrecked near Lagos, Thursday, and engineer Brandt, an American, was killed, aud en gineer Garcia and fireman Bolina and Mar tinea fatally wounded. General Bernardo has been elected Gov ernor of Nuevo Leon. V . -;' , Y" TENNERS-EE Tba Bleetrle Car AccVdent at chatta - nooga, .: . ' Br Telegraph to the Horning Star. Chattanooga,' Sept 21". It has been found by the coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs. Adams, of Casey, Ills., who was killed yesterday by jumping from an elec tric ear on Mission Ridge, . that tbe current of electricity did not fail, hut that the cause of the accident was lack of appliance on the car for preventing tbe wheels from slipping, on a slick tiaek. The electric current did Its duty, as it was proved on- the trial, mat tne wneeis r were turning in the right direction to carry the ear up the track, but the car being heavily loaded and the track, being covered with heavy dew. the wheels refused to take the l -- - - - - . . . 1 ,11 ,T ... 1 rails ana slid down tne nut. no lunaer deaths have occurred,' but. Capt Owen Wiley, of Casev, is not so well, and fears am entertained that he will not recover. It ia said that Mrs! William Waldorf As tor is setting the 400 the exam ple of going tO bed nightly at 10 o'clock. Spirits Turpentine. . .JTarboro Southerner: Farmers of Edgecombs have saved more hay this year than ever before. " . . Hickory Fress and- Carolinian: - Died, in this city, of a complication of v . diseases, on tbe-15tb inet, Mia Elizabeth' D. Hoyle, la the 64th year of her age. -.-Hickory Manufacturing - Company have commenced the . erection of their new -brick building to substitute the frame : building now occupied. It wili be a com- , modioua structure, and will be completed by Christmas. , , . - . .Wadesboro Messenger Jb Intelli geneer: Tbe Baptists of Wadesboro will occupy tneir new cnurcu nouse next sun- day, i Mr. Julius W. Burns has lost V another member of bis family from typhoid fever. His son Lee died last Saturday. rrti. 2- el tV r i j ,t i vra m ly in the last two months from this dread J! a J; . t U1SVOOU A4k uwaiui AB nuiu HUt3 IUUUUB V of the papers stating that Carrol Lee, of Wadesboro, N. C, has recently been ar- rwtll1 at Hnnlr' Hill R f! fA nuilni, ' counterfeit mnnnv. Nn tnr.h man aa C!nr . rol Lee ever lived in Wadesboro or in An son county, so far as we have been able to learn. ' . "r'. . Statesville Landmark ; Dip ; . theria is prevalent in parts of Wilkes. Richmond Speakec, of Big Hunting Creek,- : lost two children from it week before last.) and a child of Capt. Cooper is at death's door. ---Sheriff Allison, who came up from Lexington yesterday with a prisoner, rtpnnohf. iuivi nf trait itoH tr in riawiA nij - . juonday . morning. - For some .time there p. -v? nas been a feud between David call and Dc' O. Cornatzer, cf that county. 4' Monday .- rt.i, i , y, . , . : : buiocu auu suuocu uiui, iruciouuu waul la and got his gun and returning shot CallJ . who died shortly thereafter. Cornalau then flail .nrl t loot uvnnnt. hull nnt hntm aoorehended- ' RmithfiAld TJevritill A Teach- ; era lnstrtute rot colored teaonera . win oe held iu the public ' school bouse for the colored race the last week in the month. It will open the 23d and close the 28th. . Chief of Police Miles Goodwin was very painfully bit on both arms last Tuesday night while trying to arrest a white man. from the country. The colored people in and around Smithfield have got the exo dus fever bad. -We have talked with ne groes that had no idea tbey would ever leave North Carolina a year ago, and now they are red hot to go to "Kansas.",. Not- withstanding the bad reports from a ma jority of those that left here in- the sprint;, -' the immigration agents will find a rich bar vest swatting them in Johnston county this fall. - . U'; - - . . Raleigh News-Observer: The directors of tne cotton factory have decided ' to be?in work at once and eround for the building will be broken at once. ' Judas C. D. Unchurch, clerk of Wake flu- - perlor Court, says that be has seven minora to apprentice, three girls and four boys, ranging in age from 5 to 12 years, who by process of law have come into bis hands to be bound out The Governor yester day commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of Henry Win ford, convict ed of burglary in Rowan county and sen tenced to be hanged October 25th. The . commutation was granted on tbe recom- . . mendation of the Judge, Solicitor and a number of petitioners, and it was given as the opinion of the Attorney General, that tbe judgment should have been for burglary -in tbe second degree, and not in the first : degree, under tbe act of March 11th, 1889. . . Lenoir Topic; The work at the furniture factory begins "to look like busi ness. The walls are rising fast and devel oping a series of spacious buildings. Private advices from Morganton, dated Friday, are to tbe effect that the citizens of the town kept an extra guard on duty Wednesday night in consequence of threats to burn the town made by some insubordi cate negroes, who are incensed by the lynching of Boone. The company that has bought tbe Green Hill property at. Blowing Rock J. M. and G. L. Bern hardt. G. W. F. and S. P. Harper, of Cald well, and A. G. Brenizer, of Mecklenburg intend to build upon it a first class hotel. They aay they mean by "first class hotel," a really first class one, witn au tne modern improvements, &o, and one that can com pete with such hotels as Battery Park at Asheville. 4 . . Monroe Enquirer-Intelligencer : The remains of Mr. Franklin Stack, who was lynched by the Burke county mob on Tuesday nigbt of last week, reached Mon-. veyed to the home of hia mother in Buf ord . township. They were interred at Zoar, about four hundred people being present. We learn that the indignation of the peo ple at his terrible end was unbounded, while expressions of grief were heard on all hands.. Remarks touching hia charac ter and the manner of his death were made by several gentlemen, and all present who believed him to- be innocent of tbe crime for which he had been executed, were asked to raise their hands, and every hand in tbe crowd, with six exceptions, went up. A nnlvAvaal AaairA waa BYnranaPfl that tho perpetrators of the deed be ferreted out and punished, the poorest citizens of the community as well aa tbe richest proposing to contribute oi their means it necessary to secure that end. Mr. Stack was about 88 years of age. He leaves an aged moth er and many relatives and friends to mourn hia death. - . '. Winston Republican: Mir. W.I. Hudspeth, of Hamptonvllle, Yadkin coun ty, dropped in to see, us this week land says , he has a coin in his possession dated 1735 and found upon the road leading from Yadkinvllle tp Wilkesboro several years ; ago, Near Longtown, in i Yadkin f county, North Carolina, recently, Mr. Wn. j Ireland breathed his last at the age of 105 years. He was a veteran of the I war of 1812 and baa been drawing a pension as such for 24 years, the total sum thus drawn aggregated nearly $4,000. Mr. W, K. Newgent, of Mt Airy, was in town Mon- , day and Tuesday exhibiting ''Jumbo" the boss rattlesnake, captured less I than a month ago in the "wilds" of Surry. The reptile had 13 rattlea and A button, was 4 feet ft Inches lone and waa a perfect speci men of the (North Carolina rattler. Tho . fangs of hia snakeship had been extracted which rendered it perfectly harmless to those who felt disposed to caress! it, but ; few, except tbe proprietor, cared io accept of the privilege. Tbe exhibitor takes tho snake from here to Greensboro. . J . . Raleigh News and Observer'. The Governor yesterday pardoned Felix Rector of Alleghany, imprisoned for assault. Par don was granted on recommendation of the judge, solicitor, county commissioners and private attorney for the prosecution, r Two negroes who placed obstructions on the track of the R. & G. R.'R. near Macbn -have been tried, convicted end sentenced to five years- each in the penitentiary; Gov. Fowle has appointed the following delegates and alternates to attend tbe Na tional Farmers' Congress at Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 13th: 8 B Alexander, Mecklen burg; J T LeGrand, Richmond; L L Polk. Wake, Joseph Rhem. W A Br Branch, Beaufort; W R Shannonhouse. Perqulm Kliaa Carr. Edsecombe: WHS Bur gywn, Vance; J B Oliver. Wayne; D E Mclver. Moore; W F Green, Franklin; A WAtwater, Chatham; Daniel Richmond, Person; BFHanee. Forsyth; J A Clark, Bladen; David N Bennett Stanley; RB Rheinhart, "Catawba; Julian Allen, Iredell; : W A Graham, Lincoln, W W Lenoir, Wa tauga; Frank Coxe, Buncombe; AH Hayar Swain. ' : . , Raleigh Call: Dr. A. Harris, of Granville county, a physician aind min ister of tbe Methodist Protestant Church, died in this city this morning at 12:15 o'clock, of heart disease He bad just ar rived on tne rtaieign ano jsicnmona : tram from hia home at Sassafras Fork accom- panied by his wife and two of his sons. A letter was received heie yesterday. By a friend, from Mr. Hal M. Worth, of Worthvllle, giving among other things an account of the killing of a huge rattlesnake which was first discovered playing with (, llttln rhlldron. The rentile was killed in the yard of Mr. Gatling, who resides six miles from-Asbeboro. Mr, Gatling was almost paralyzed to see,on the dayi in ques tioc, his two y ouegest children play log in high glee with the huge rattler. He was fortunate enough to oeaoie to aunt ueioro its anger was aroused toward the little ones who were playing with andcaressfng-it all unconscious of its deadly nature. - When killed, hia snakeship waa measured and de veloped a length of seven and oie half feet and was found to to have twelve - rattles and two buttons. It was an awfdl looking 'varmint and almost inspired awfl and fear after it was killed. The escape of the little folks from a fearful fate was almost mirac ulous, v - . -
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