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tit ffiSceMg JL5ta&i SPIRITS TURPENTINE;' rr ir. jLmington, n. c, YEAR. IN ADVANCE, 0OA 8S383883S838S8SS3 SI ?gSS333333383333 888888888888 i(floK sssssasssnsssa i38838S3883888883 flA 338283333333 83533888888888883 I U 0 PU , o . n(C at Wilmtfftmi Mr a J l J ft... Matt 1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. . ,ilaip0B price of the Weekly Star Is ae .$1 00 00 SO J month ITALY'S DEMAHDS. seems that Italy, has seen fit at -waiting to ascertain whether eged Italian subjects killed in Orleans were Italian suDjects tomake certain, demands of llltey OiaiCS unuci imv-ai. y ng off diplomatic relations, demands are indemnity to the es of the men killed and an as- ci by the Government that .layers shall be punished. The n Government does not say hat kind of pun'ishmeut shall cted, bat as it holds that the was murder it would proba?' nUhe "murderers" hanged or heir heads choppe'd off. there are some obstacles way right here to begin-with, the Italian Government should popped to consider before it Sated its demands. In the first the Government; of the 'United cannot promise indemnity t thereby acknowledging itself sible for the acts of the men J the killing, which it does not II not admit It cannot give nee that the slayers will be ed even if it had the power, fore they' are punished they r apprehended, arraigned and uilt established. Now it so that there were about ten nd citizens, more or less, who ated in that fracas, and it be a moral impossibility to tell t of these ten thousand, more fired the shots which ended the the four alleged Italian , sub It would be rather too much gn and condemn the whole usand, more or less, and thus the wholesale gibbet busi placate Italian anger and ap- he wrath of the Mafia sym- rs. - As punishment must be ed by the catching of the man unished; his arraignment and Von. it is pretty - safe to sav na of the men who figured as n that tragedy will ever be) is be one of the conditions of muing diplomatic m relations an Government may as well them off without further par call its representatives great mall . home, and while it it it might! as well at' the me suggest to the getters up ticipators in those red-hot in- on meetings, : who so loudly. ed that the home Government hand in. talked about iron- en gea nee, &c., to pack their and go with them, or with all dispatch after them. This' Kan manage! to worry along t an Italian Legation at Wash- and without; these alien ln- prs, who, while enjoying' all ileges accorded to other "resi- panifest a spirit of hostility Fould make them very nnde- residents iri the event of with the government which em to prize above this, al- many ot them have.volunta esworn allegiance to it and Heeiance to this. ! . . 1 - f tary Blaine blundered in his p to Gov. Nicholls, but we e what there is for him to do It to inform the Italian Gov- , as he in a measure does in note, in the polttestj but most phrase that he is master of, (is Government havintr ex- its recrrt at an - nrcurrnr las entirely beyond its power Ft or Drevent. and is now eh- wnd its power to avenge, it f o more, and then let King t and his advisers proceed as best. In the meantime. line may i attend to his Pd. Other mafffr no, iicnal het.the" summary taking off ti even Mafia assassins was wrong, justifiable or unius 'he intellioWt d Will not hold this f.nvf'm. sponsible for it and its ver- be that under the circum- 1 has done all that could he fly demanded, all that honor e requires.! To do more uh- FPerious demand, instigated WWU-A ow the white feather, which 'iCdn Deonlc ar nnt in h . - y - -- Wa W MVS dong, to forfeit self-respect '"Pect of mankind. Italy hears from those Mon- "aineers'and Kansa n. she will be i-apt :.to draw vol; xxii. 3HN0S MENTION. "! The ; hitch between : this Govern ment and Italy is still the looming topic ol discussion in the' European press, where there are somewh&t di vergent, views as to the course pur sued by Italy in ."acting ; with such haste in recalling her Minister, but there is a general agreement as to the improbability of anything more serious happening. Most of them recognize the ability of this Govern ment to take care of itself, and, that Italy; has enough to keep her busy in looking after her affairs at home and keeping her-eye on the chess board on the other side,; where she may iri the near future have more use for her iron-clads than she has in Ameri can .waters. Germany and Austria are interested somewhat in the move ments of Italy 'and . they will not permit her to make a fool of herself and send her ships across the Atlan tic to be swallowed up if they can prevent it. Rudlni and even - that red-hot Under Secretary" d'Arco,. who a few days ago didn't care a continental about our Constitution, will cool down after the first heat, and rest long enough to let reason and common sense catch up. In the meantime Secretary Blaine is fabri cating some remarks for Premier Rudini. .'"! ; The public road question is begin ning to command the serious atten tion of some of the Legislatures in the j Northern States. There js a bill pending before the Legislature of Pennsylvania proposing to appro priate, $2,000,000 for the construction of roads and keeping them in repair. The State of New Jersey has waked up, too, having passed acts authoriz ing localities to issue bonds for road improvements, and to extend State aid to communities in need of assist ance in such work. It is now fur ther proposed to construct two great highways, one from North to South, the . other from East to West, through the ' entire length and breadth of the State, at a cost of from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. Governor Hill recom mends a similar plan for New York. Massachusetts is waking up on the same line, while a similar plan is ad vocated in Missouri, where a level headed representative from St. Louis proposes to use the Stages' convicts in that work. It is about time : the commonwealths of this country were waking up on that question for there isn't one of them that has a road sys tem, if there is such a thing as a road system, proper,- at all, that it shouldn't be ashamed of. Hon. David B. Hill made a ten- strike in his letter declining to par ticipate in the free-trade meeting held in Cooper Institute, New York, I last Thursday evemncr. If anv one entertained the idea that Gov Hill was sailing, or contemplated sailing, under . free-trade colors he will doubtless conclude he was mistaken after reading this letter, which don't leave anything further to be said by him on that subject. It is not one of Governor Hill's weaknesses to be caught napping, and he has the faculty of using his mother tongue in such a way as to make himself thoroughly understood when ; he deems it advisable or necessary for him to speak. He seems to ; have thought it was both in this instance. He can see frontward as well as backward has a vivid impression of how the free-trade racket has been blaved on the Democratic Dartv; bv its opponents in past years, ' and J - -H don't propose, in the (Event the Presidential lightning should strike him anv time in the near future, to have anv free-trade rocks thrown at him. : - ' -. One . of the peculiar features of the protective tariff, as the Republi can statesmen built it, is that it en ables the protected manufacturer and others to sell their wares and pro ducts in foreign markets at a figure aWav under what, they charge the home purchaser for the same article. It was shown during : the discussion of the McKinley bill in the Senate, from printed price-lists produced by Senator Vest, that American manu facturers of,, agricultural implements, carpenters' and other tools sold those in South arid Central American mar kets for thirty per : cent, less than they sell the same articles to the trade at home. Copper mining is one of the protected industries and now Lake Superior copper is being ship ped to Europe and sold for a cent a pound less than the American pur chaser is required to pay for the same.brands. Protection is a good thing for the protected and in some respects for the fellow who lives in a foreign country. ; VJ ;". ; During. 1890 the United States imported from ' Italy merchandise amounting to $20,330,051, and ex ported products to ithe amount of $13,048,846. A break with this coun try would be seriously felt in Italy. She couldn't very well afford to lose that trade, nor to look elsewhere for the breadstuffs, cotton, naval storea and petroleum which she imports frvat tki'S eyo-afty. ;WI1UAM L. SATJBTDl&S. In the death of Col. William Lawrence Saunders our Stote has suffered a seri ous loss. It is doubtful if she ever had a son whose whole , life was passed in a more single-minded devotion to her honor nd welfare. His love of North Carolina was as unselfish as it was strong and sincere, and, with his whole heart, he trusted and believed in her people, and was always ready to sustain and vin dicate them against assailants from any quarter. This spirit is first commented upon because it was his most marked characteristic-as a public man, and was well-known to his fellow-citizelis. Wounded nigh unto death several times during the late war. and crippled permanently thereby, he, nevertheless. in the equally trying times "of "Re construction did as much, if not more. to rescue the State from the ruin and degradation which threatened her, as any man within her borders. Cool, self- possessed, courageous and able, he ren dered invaluable service as an actor and counsellor In those dark davs; and as the State began to recover her equilib rium from those assaults which rocked her to her , foundation his hand was potent in steadying and shaping her coursctQwards peace and prosperity. He was the wisest and one of the most useful editors that ever controlled the Press of the State,' and one of the safest advisers to the Executive Department at critical periods. In politics he was rec ognized as a man of very superior abili ties, and it was a saying among the people that if his ' physical condition would have permitted he would long since have been" elected Governor or Senator. The service, however, by which he will be best known hereafter was his compiling and editing ' the Colonial Records of North Carolina another labor of love and, patriotism, the value. of which can be fully appreciated only by those who know the importance : of such a work, and how much the State has heretofore suffered for the lack ot it. He was engaged in this work for eleven years, and only finished it a few months ago. It consists of ten large volumes and is a monument of patient, pains-taking, conscientious labor. The spirit in which it was done, as well as some idea of the character of the man himself, may be gathered from the concluding words of his Prefatory Notes to the last volume, which are in these words: And how the self-imposed task, be gun some eleven years ago, is finished. All that I care to say is that I have done the best I could that coming gen erations might be able to : learn what manner of men their ancestors were. and this I have done without reward or the hope of reward, other than the hope that I might contribute something to rescue the fair fame and good name of North Carolina from the clutches of ig norance. Our records are now before the world, and any man who chooses may see for himself the character of the people who made them. As for myself, when I search these North t Carolina scriptures and read the story of her hundred years' struggle with the mother country for Constitutional Government and the no less wonderful story of her hundred years' struggle with the savage Indian for very life, both culminating in her first great revolution; and then comme down to her second great revo lution, when I remember how the old State bared her bosom to the mighty storm, how she sent her sons to the field, until both the cradle and the' crave were robbed of their just rights; how devotedly those sons stood before shot and shell and the deadly bullet, so that their bones whitened every battle field; when I remember how heroically she endured every privat.on, until star vation was at her very doors, and until raiment was as scarce as food, and with what fortitude she met defeat, when, after "Appomattox, all seemed lost, save honor; especially, when I remem ber how, in the darkest of all hours, ral lying once more to the struggle for Constitutional Government, she enlisted for the war of Reconstruction, fought it out to the end. finally wresting glorious victory irom the very laws of disastrous defeat, I bow my head in gratitude and say as our great Confederate commander, the immortal Lee, said, when watching the brilliant fight some of our regiments were making, at a critical time in one of his great battles, he exclaimed in the full ness of his heart. "God bless old North Carolina." So that his last public utterance was an invocation of God's blessing on his native State fit conclusion to a life de voted to her service. . Col. Saunders was born in Raleigh July 30th, 1885, and was therefore little over 55 years of age. b or many years he had been so crippled by rheu matism. or rheumatic eout, that he was unable to walk and was wheeled about in a chair. He was always of a cheer ful temperament and enjoyed the society of his friends, who made his rooms a sort of headquarters when they visited Raleigh. In his boyhood his mother. the widow of an Episcopal minister, re moved with her family to Chapel Hill to live, in order to educate her three sons at the University, and he entered that institution in 1850, and graduated in the class of 1854. He afterwards read law and settled in Salisbury, where he lived for some time, pursuing his pro- , fession. He married in February, 1864, Miss Florida Cotten, of Raleigh, a sister of Mrs. Engelhard, whose husband, Mai. Joseph A. Engelhard, had been his life long friend, who was afterwards his as sociate in business, and his predecessor in the office of Secretary oi .State of North Carolina. About a year after his marriace he lost his wife. When the war came on he entered the service as a Lieutenant in the Rowan Guards. He afterwards joined Reilly's Battery and than raised a company for the 46th Regiment of which he became, by regular promotion through all the ffrades. the Colonel . in 1864. He was wounded at Fredericksburg, and after wards, at the second battle of the Wil derness, he received a terrible wound in the mouth andthroat which was thought at the time to be fatal. He was Secre tarvof the State Senate in 1870 and again in 1878-8. In 18TS he joined Maj. Engelhard ia the editorship of the Wilmiagton w- Wrf a-ad s cciotif4 for fWiir vMri WILMINGTON, N. O., His services to the people of ! North Carolina during this period were beyond praise. In February' .1879, upon the death of Maj. Engelhard, who had been elected Secretary of State in 1876,' Col. Saunders was appointed his successor. He was elected to the office in 1880, again , in 1884, and again in 1888 and was holding ft at the time of his death. The foregoing are the leading facts In the histbry'of this able and true North Carolinian, whose death the people of the State will sincerely mourn, but they present only the most meagre outline of a life the full record ot which 1 will be hereafter written by some one fitted for the task, and preserved in a form more permanent than the columns ot a daily paper can afford.; - v ' ' Ail M. WADDELL.. : THE COTTON OUTLOOK- . Of Interest to Cotton Men-A. Hia Au thority oa tht World's Supply and .Consumption. .. i ; i.: ., , It'seeras clear, says the Boston four- a of. Commerce that the world's sup ply of this season's cotton crop will be all sufficient to meet the wants of spin ners, wherever located. The supply is extraordinary, especially the American. Yet it would be anything but safe to calculate that the same relative yield to the area cultivated would continue from year to year, or even be repeated for the season just being entered uponl -The spinning capacity of the world is rapidly increasing, and any; surplus of the raw material that may how exist will soon be exhausted in the ordinary course of events relating to . production! The progress that is being made in this country is evident, and it is no less con spicuous in England. Last year it is es timated that 640,000 new spindles were started in England, i while for this year there will be, at least, 800,000 ;more. already in operation or contracted for. besides 725.000 projected. This state of the cotton manufacturing industry shows prosperity and faith in the future. The present rate of consumption is put at .84,000 bales, of 400 pounds, per week, for Great Britain, and 87,000 bales for the continent. Ellison & Co.. in their March report, are still in a quandary as to the yield of this season's American crop. It is their impression that a crop of 8,300.000 bales will not be reached, but they have "no wish to dogmatize on the point." They, like a good many others, have had their early estimates of the crop badly interfered with in the receipts at the points of shipment. MORTUARY. Dr. Potter's Annual He port A Loir Death Bste. The annual report of Dr. F. W-Pot ter, city physician, and superintendent of health, gives the . total number of deaths in the city of Wilmington for the twelve months ended March 81, 1891, as 434, including 55 still-birth,. 10 drpwned, and 8 accidentally killed; leaving the total of deaths from other causes, 861. Of the still-births 8 were white and 47 colored; of the killed, 8 white colored; of the drpwned, 8 white colored. The total number of deaths for the white race was 133; colored, 801 Taking the whole number 434 -with a population of 21,000, the Doctor esti mates the death rate (white and colored) at 30.76 to the 1.000. For the! whites alone, estimating the population at 9,000. the death rate per 1,000 is 15.80. and for the colored (population ; 12,000) 25.080 per 1,000. The death rate for white and colored, excluding the still-born, killed and drowned, is 17 per thousand; and for the whites alone, excluding still born, killed and drowned, 13 per thous and. . The chief causes of death, the report shows, were: consumption, which car ried off 14 whites and 41 colored, pneu monia, 6 white and 8 colored; convul sions, 1 white and 13 colored; dysen tery, 4 white and colored; congestive fever, 5 white, 4 colored; continued fever. 2 white, 4 colored;, malarial fever, 1 white, 9 colored; typhoid fever, 5 white, 4 colored; typho-malarial fever, 2 white, o coioreu: pernicious maianai icvci, i white, 2 colored. There were 8 deaths from paralysis, 10 from apoplexy, and 11 from heart disease, five aeatns are reported from old age. SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. Alex. Green Shot "by Iaham Thompson, a Short Distance Beyond the Oity Idmita. Information was received at the City Hall late last nieht that a colored man was lying mortally wounded with a bul let shot in his breast at the corner of Seventh and Wooster streets. Upon in vestigation by Chief of Police Hall, it was ascertained that the man was one Alex. Green, and that he had been shot by Isbam Thompson, colored, living on Middle Sound nine miles from the city. The shooting took place about a mile from the city limits, Green and Thomas and the latter's wife being on their way home together from the city. The cause of the shooting was not definitely known but it is believed to have resulted from jealousy on the part of Thompson. The wounded man was taken to the City Hospital, and Sheriff Stedman he me apprised of the facts called at the hospital about eleven o'clock last night. Dr. Lane, the surgeon in charge, said that Green was shot in the right breast; that there was no internal hemorrhage, and that while no attempt had been made to find the ball it was not likely that the wound would prove fatal. Later in the night deputy sheriff Wm. Sheehan and special deputy J. B. Brink- ley went oat to Middle Sound to arrest Thompson. j County Treasurer Elijah Hew lett, who had been taking the Daily Star for a number of years, discon tinued last month on account of the irregularity in receiving it, there being no mail route to Masonboro. Butj he came in yesterday, said he couldn'tj do without it, and subscribed again, par lnr six months ia advance. : By the way, he celebrates te-day.the forty-first samvewary ei ais marriage. "itj FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1891. This is intended only for subscribers i whose subscriptions have es pired. It is not a dun; but a simple - request that all who are in ar rears for the STAB will favor us with 'M prompt remittance. - 7 we arel sending' out (a few each bills now week), and if you Te- ceive one please givelt your attention, v THE SUGAR QUESTION." The Decline in Sugar a Very Interesting Topio Just Now to Housekeepers. Everybody isi hterested in the sugar -- question just now; in fact the interest felt in what is termed "free sugar" is greater than could be excited by the itional f Local." Wilmington is not so favorably situated as some of the other cities for taking ad vantage of the fall in prices, but in a week! or ten days, the family pass-bookl when it- is return ed from the grocer's will show a change of figures that will delight the thrifty and economical housekeeperr The universal interest felt in the sub- lect induces the Star to reproduce the following extracts! Savannah News. . .. ! I The duty goes off sugar to-day and the dealers have been letting stocks run down so as not tor be caught with any high priced goods on hand. A number of wholesale dealers have been for some time bringing out sugars in bond. M. rerets Sons & Col will be the first to make deliveries under the new order of thints. They! will deliver to dealers about 600 barrels of sugar before ten o clock this morning. The orders ar riving here wilt keep the wholesale job bers bustling to make deliveries this week. Over 1,000 barrels ot sugar will go through the custom house to-day on the free list. Richmond Dispatch. i t i Between 4,000 and 5.000 barrels of 6ugar were released from bond yester day by the customs officials from the various warehouses and depots. At the custom-house a Dtspatch re porter was shown a sample of the gran ulated sugar that is to be retailed for five cents per pound. It was quite noticeable that the grain is much coarser than formerly. The public at large does not seem to have a very clear idea of what consti tutes "free sugar." Inquiries were made at several srrocerv stores vester- day if it was to be given away. sugar is tested by what is known as the "Dutch standard." This begins at No. 7, which is the lowest and darkest grade imported and runs up to No. 82, which is the best granulated. A , sam ple ot each grade is enclosed in a sepa rate sealed glass bottle, and it is by a comparison with these that the quality is determined, the standard peine based entirely upon the color. Under the new tariff law all sugar un der- "16 Dutch standard" is admitted free of duty, "his grade is a very light orown, ana is rennea in tnis country. Charlesh n News 6 Courier I ne housekeepers of Charleston can now afford to use more and better sugar than heretofore. The duty on sugar was taken off yesterday, and the reduc tion in the price ought to make it possi ble for lovers of sweet things to get enough sugar.! The placing bf sugar on the free list- means a very great deal to the con sumer. Taking granulated sugar as a standard the import duty was 2.60 cents a pound. The wholesale merchants will allow a reduction of about two cents pound. There have been immense quantities of sugar received at all American ports and placed in Ithe bonded warehouses to be taken out on the 1st of April, when- it was placedlon the free list, There were about three thousand barrels of sugar in the Charleston bonded ware house, on which the duty, had it been paid, would have amounted to about $18,000. The retail merchants throughout the State have, in consequence of the reduc tion in the price of sugar, allowed their stocks to run very low. Yesterday F. W. Wagner '& Co., who had about 2,000 barrels in the warenouse, snipped to points throughout the State about 1,000 batrels. This will allow the merchants to sell their sugar at the reduced rates very much sooner than they could have otherwise done. But for this action it would have been weeks before the inte rior merchants could have secured it from the New; York markets, which now have advance orders for 400,000 barrels of sugar taken out of the bonded, ware houses on the iree list. . While sugar was constructively in the warehouses it was allowed to be refined. Most of the sugar brought here is in a crude condition... -I- Savannah' Naval Store Trade. i The annual statement of the naval stores movement at .Savannah, Ga., for the year ended March 81st, makes the following exhibit : :- The receipts from April 1, 1890, to March 81, 1891, were 196,166 casks spir its and 768,448 barrels rosin. The In crease for the present year-just closed over the previous year was 12,608 casks spirits and 79,871 barrels rosin. . The ex ports for the year ending March 81, show an increase over the previous year bf 14,685 casks spirits' and 88,653 barrels' fOsin. i : .- . - SECRETARY OF STATE. Oetavius Coke Appointed to the Fesitloa. Spedal StarTelegraa.1 , Raleigh, April 4. Gov. Fowle to day appointed Octavius Coke, Esq., Secretary pf State, to succeed Hon. Wm. LI Saunders, who died on Thurs day fast, WASHINGTON NEVVSj Wothin. Hew ta the- Italian Situation . ; Canadian AAairt IOTerument nuances President Harrtsom - Preparinc for His .Southern Tewr.!-1'-5 T , By Telegraph to the Moralng Sut.' Washington! April- 8. Secretary Blaine was at the Department of State this morning transacting routine: busi ness and; prepared to receive the usual Thursday diplomatic visitors. . i There is nothing new ia the Italian situation to-day, Baron Fava has not yet made application for a passport, nor has the Marquis Imperial! acknowledged receipt of 1 Secretary - , Blaine's letter, which was sent to bim yesterday even- ' Among the first callers on the Secre tary were the j British Minister, - Sir Julian Paunceforte, and Sir Charles Tapper, of the Dominion of ' Canada, wno -talked with the Secretary fpr an hour, presumably about seal fisheries; reciprocity and other matters foremost in the minds of the Canadians; - A. spirit of war has invaded the' far. West, and the : first offer of volunteers for service in case of trouble with Italy, came to hand at the War Department to-day ia the shape of the following telegram received by acting secretary Grant: "Boulder, Montana, April 2. The Secretary - of War: We hereby tender you five hundred mountaineers Irom Jefferson county, State of Mon tana, in case of war with the Italian, government. - ; -.- . ,-- - "JAMES T. SwKBT The Secretary of the -Treasury to-dav forwarded a check for $377,836 to the Governor of North Carolina in settle ment of the direct tax claims of citizens' of that State. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that there wes a net increase of tl.641,145, in circulation during the month of March, principally in silver certificates, treasury notes and U. S. notes. During the same period there was a net increase of $4,084,580 in lreasury holdings, principally in. U. S. IlUkUfa . 1 The following statement was made by Private Secretary Halford this after noon, in regard to the President's con templated trip to the West. The Presi dent has not fully determined yet whether or not he will go West; but pending his final decision he has adopt ed a provisional schedule for the route that he will take in case he should go. Unless matters intervene to prevent, he and his party, which has not vet been made up, will leave Tuesday morn ing, and win travel southward.' the following cities will be ; briefly visited: Roanoke, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Bir mingham, Little Rock, Dallas. Reaching Galveston Saturday night, they will leave Galveston Monday morning and go to El Paso, Yuma and Los Angeles. California will be entered about -Tues day or Wednesday of the second week. caiitornia will take about a week s.time, a short tour being made through the State. From San Francisco the party will -go to Portland, Olympia and Puge,t Sound, and at the latter place the turn homeward will be made, taking in Boise City, Ogden, Salt Lake, Pueblo, Den ver, Hastings, Omaha, Moberly, Spring field and Indianapolis, spending Sun day, May 10th. From Indianapolis the next move will be made to Washington, which will be reached m about a month from the start. Washington, April 4. -Mr. Tsuko- wine, Chinese Minister and suite, ar rived here last night from Pern, to which country he is also accredited Minister Plenipotentiary. A reporter called at the Legation to-day and as the Minister could not be called the attention of Mr. Ho, an attache, to a telegram irom San Francisco published in the afternoon papers, to the effect that the Chinese merchants in San Francisco would forward to Washing ton a protest against the appointment of ex-Senator Blair as Minister to China. Ho, evidently speaking by authority, said that no information regarding such protest had been received, and that he was confident that should it arrive the minister would sot present it to the President. He believed Blair would be acceptable to the people and the Government of China. Blair was among the President's call ers to-day. He confirmed the report that he was going to China, but said he did not expect to leave for that country tor several weeks yet. He said his sen timents in regard to the question of Chinese immigration had been misrep resented by a number of newspapers. He was willing to stand by his record on that question and did not care to an swer newspaper attacks on him person ally- ' . . i i . THE COKE REGIONS.; No Further Disturbance Treops Still en the Grounds Funerals of the Dead Bloteni. Br Telegraph to the Honing Stat j Mount Pleasant, Pa.; April 4. The situation in the coke regions has not materially changed within the last twenty-four hours. Troops have charge of the coke companies property, and a feeling prevails that as long as the muitta remain there will , be no more lawlessness. The soldiers cannot stay always, however, and it is feared that unless the strike is settled before tney are called home, depredations will be renewed just as soon as their backs are turned. The feeling among the strikers is intensely bitter, but they are careful to commit no overt act and content themselves with scowling at the militia and muttering: in unfamiliar tongues. Some apprehensions are -felt i that aa outbreak will occur at ; the funeral of the victims this afternoon. Strikers are massed at Scottdale and the largest demonstration ever held in the coke country is expected. The funeral will start from Mount fieasant at z.suo ciock and the cortege will reach Scottdale about an hour and a half later. Harrisburg, April 4. Gov. Paul son is in receipt of the following tele gram from the coke region to-night: Mount Pleasant, 8.16 p. m. Have just returned from Scottdale, - The fu neral passed off quietly, . The disposi tion of troops is' the same as at last message. : The weather is cold and dis agreeable.:. :V,-;-;j ..?:.'; Mo trouble oi any kins is manuesteo. The presence of the guards and . the execrable weather have a repressing effect. The guards are in good health and showing good soldierly qualities. ! $70,000 LOST. By the Merchants' Betional Ba&k of 8avanaah( Oa. - vV , Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. Savannah, Ga., April 4. President John L. Hammond, of the Merchants National Bank, ; announced to-night that the bank's loss through the irregu larities of its cashier, Thomas Gadsden, who committed suicide, would not ex ceed 70,000. . The directors have been at work on the cashier's accounts since yesterday. The bank's capital is half a million dollars, and the undivided profits THE ITALIAN AFFAIR. PREMIER RUDINIS REPLY TO SECRE- .; TARY BLAINE. He Wants the Federal Government to Prosecute the New Orleans Lynohets : Fava Going Home Saturday More News- paper Comment. - ; V i 1,7 Cble to the Morning Star.' . ROUE, April 2 Premier Rudini to day telegraphed to Imperiali, Secretary of Legation at Washington, instructing him to hand the message to Secretary Blaine. The message' is a reply to Blaine's last note, and in it Rod ini says that Italy has asked nothing but prompt institution of regular judicial proceed ings against the guilty parties at New urieans. He add that it would . have been absurd to claim punishment for the offenders without the euarantees afford ed by regular trial,;. Ibe diplomatic incident, Rudini says, "can only be considered closed when the Federal. Government has declared in precise , terms that , prosecution- will be Commenced. , " -In the meantime the Italian Govern-. ment takes cognizance of the Federal Government's declaration acknowledg ing the fact that compensation is due to families of the victim by virtue of the treaty existing between the two coun tries. '; - Rome, April 26. In a long interview with the Marquis Di Rudini, Minister. Porter ; stated that the ; United States Government is willing to materially com pensate the families of the New Orleans victims; but that it is impossible for the Washington Government to place the lynchers on trial, that being a matter for the grand jury in New Orleans to de cide. The Premier insisted that Italy's dignity . demanded that, the culprits should be punished. Nrw York, April 2. The editor of the Eco D 'Italia has received a dispatch from Fava stating that he will sail for home Saturday. London, April 2. The Pall Mdll Gazette this afternoon, commenting on the recall bf Baron Fava, fays that it is probable that the rupture between Italy and the United States will end after such an interim as the dignities of di plomacy demand, in a compromise. Italy demanded justice and compensa tion. I The United States will probably give the the latter and deny the former. The incident will not add to the reputa tion of the United States. It has re vealed a weak place in the American constitution with all its pretensions. Blaine would . probably be glad enough, perhaps, to depose King Lynch, but Louisiana is of a different opinion. Berlin. April 2 The National Zeitunz -says that Baron Fava's note to Blaine is perfectly correct, adding: "it is the duty of any government to prose cute whenever such a horrible crime as the New. Orleans lynching is com mitted, and it is a duty also to recog nize the principle of indemnity to fami lies ot the victims. Italy is quite right in not wishing to discuss American in stitutions and in calling attention to principles of international law." . The Vossiche Zeitung to-day remarks that the Italian news is somewhat reas suring, in the face of the hostile tone of the American press, and hopes that more reliance can be placed upon the former than "on the bombastic utter ances of Blaine, who is accustomed to hide weak reasons with strong words." FROM RALEIGH. DEATH OF COL. WM. L.. SAUNDERS. .) .... , The Capitol Closed Emblem of Mourn ingArrangements for the Funeral The Be41road Commission Organised. Special Star Correspondence. Raleigh, April 2, 1891. . Col. W. L. Saunders, Secretary of State, died at 1.30 a. m. to-day, at the Yarboro House. His body was taken this morning to Christ Church, where it will lie until to-morrow, when it will be taken to Tarboro, N. C, for interment beside his wife. There is profound sorrow felt all over the city at the death of this distinguished son of North Carolina. The Capitol has been closed all day; the flags droop at half-mast from the top of the build ing, and his offices have been heavily draped in mourning. The Council of State met to-day and will accompany the remains to Tarboro to-morrow. They have ordered a hand some floral offering to be placed on the casket. . When Col. Saunders died he had at his bedside his sister, Miss Ann Saun ders, and his nephew, Fred. Saunders, Esq. He passed peacefully away, as if falling Into slumber. RAILROAD COMMISSION. The Railroad Commissioners met yes terday, and after qualifying, proceeded to elect a clerk. They elected Mr. Henry C. Brown, of Mt. Airy. Mr. Brown is brother to J. M. Brown, chief clerk of the House of Representatives, and the selection is regarded as a wise one, as Mr. Brown is a most competent busi ness man, having been Cashier of the Bank of Mt. Airy for several years. The new offices of the Commissioners have been fitted up very handsomely and are in the Agricultural Depart ment. 1 The Supreme Court has finished hear ing appeals from the Ninth district. ' BISHOP GILMOUR. Sminent Catholio Prelate Dying at St. Augustine, Fie. -Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. St. Augustine, FlA., April 4. Father G. F. Houk, Secretary to Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, Ohio, reports the chances for the recovery of the Bishop very slight. He has been pros trated here for several weeks with a complication of several diseases. ' Bishop McCloskey, ot. Louisville, ar rived at the bedside of the dying prelate to-night, i; Bishop Gilmour is ' famous in Ohio for his stand against taxing parochial schools. MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. n Serious Break ia the Xvee at Longwood. T" . , By Telegraph to the Moraiog Star. Memphis, Tepn., April 4. A Green ville, Miss., special says: A large levee, two miles below Longwood on the Mis sissippi side, about 80 miles south of Greenville, broke about 12 o'clock last night. : The crevasse was 200 feet wide at nooa to-day. Efforts to tie the ends will be made at once. Most ot tne low lands ot Issaquena county, a portion of Sharkey and several fine plantations m South Washington county will be flood ed. The levee was an old one and the break was altogether unexpected. The main line of the Louisville, New Or leans and Texas railroad will probably e sertarsly affected. , . . , Charlotte News: Messrs. D. M oaKcr a company nave Dougm tne oia tsutiaio paper mills, near Shelby, and . will convert the property into a cotton factory. ' . Lexington Dispatch : Pedro" Cash, whose ineffectual attempt to com- mit suicide was reported in this paper last -week, took laudanum at Salisbury on Saturday and got out of his misery. SalemVYew r ' Brickmaking will be a big industry in Winston-Salem this . summer; A Washington manufacturer , will set up machinery for making all kinds of brick, and we hear of . numbers . of other firms who will engage in the : business. : ' - .- : - .; Oxford Day: It is learned here this morning that Charles I. Wyche.who was bitten by a mad dog at Dabney yes terday, had a madstone .applied to the . , wound immediately upon his arrival at l I inrham vAerrnav Qir,rnrtAn . i h, itin, . is still sticking, and Mr. Wyche will re- . main in-Durham as . long as it sticks. Mr. Wyche is a brother of our towns man. Dr. J. E. Wyche. ; : -r- Goldsboro Argus: Five white tramps were apprehended by the police in this city Wednesday evening, and on ' . ! 1 W . . - J Li liii in luc mayui aivuuii jC3i.ciuy morning, they, were duly fined for their indigency anyway ward wanderings, and in consequence of their financial inabili- . ty to meet the demands of his Honor, -they are now engaged in improving the -, condition of the City's thoroughfares. Raleigh Visitor: The appropria tion made by the last General Assembly for ' the Agricultural and Mechanical '. College was for the - special purpose of adding more rooms to the building. The ' rse ismv st 4 se mi tame tr rnm modation of ..more students will soon commence. There are now seventy three students in attendance, and the new' dormitories will afford room for about fifty more.' ; 4: . Durham Glebe: Cora Brandon, the colored girl who was shot Sunday by George Warren, her sweetheart, died this morning alter much suffering. Young Warren, who was the immediate cause of the girl's death, is suffering deep remorse. From all the particulars which we have been able to gath-r, there is no real blame attaching to the com mission of the moral crime. The case, however, will be investigated by the au thorities, and if young Warren was crim inally negligent, he will, be .called upon to explain his conduct, Greensboro Workman: A very important meeting of the directors of the North Carolina Steel and Iron Com pany was held at the office of the com pany on Saturday, and we learn from the Secretary that the Executive Com mittee was instructed to secure at once the services of a competent man to build the furnace and open the mines of the company at Ore Hill. Mr. Arendell Mulville, an Englishman who came here from Cedar Grove, Amelia county, Va., several weeks ago. attempted suicide this morning by cutting his throat with a razor. . Durham Sun: Mr. Barnes Whit aker, one of Durham's oldest citizens, died Sunday at 2 p. m., after an illness of several weeks ; The colored ex cursionists who went to Holloway's sta tion yesterday had quite an exciting day of, it. Some of the crowd from here started a game of ball with nine of the country darkies, and they had not been playing long when some dispute arose about the game. : Pistols, razors, knives, base-ball bats and other things were used, and there was a general row. One of the fellows from Durham, named Wil liam Carter, was shot through the shoul der, and one of the country negroes had an ear shaved off with a bat. Chatham kecord : On account of the long continued wet weather (which it seems will never end) the farm ers are very much behind with their work. . Indeed little or nothing' has been done in preparing to plant corn and cot ton. Consequently many farmers are quite "blue" over their prospects. Mr. Joseph Gilmore, of Oakland town ship, died yesterday, aged about 70 years. He was one of the first men in Chatham to volunteer at the beginning of the war and enlisted in the "Chat ham Rifles." At the battle of Malvern Hill he was wounded, and afterwards discharged from the army on account of disability. New Berne Journal: We are glad to learn that the work of extending the Onslow railroad to New Berne will be resumed next week with a large force of hands. A big shipment of rails for the road is soon expected to arrive and the road will be built to Mayesville and then to this eity as rapidly as possible. Many people of Onslow county are dis satisfied with the road built only as eager for it to be finished to New Berne as New Bernians themselvesjare. Well, if no untoward circumstance happens the indications are that we will soon be gratified by the completion of the road, giving through connection between New Berne and Wilmington. Weldon News: About five or six miles from Scotland Neck lives an old gentleman about 90 years old.- His name is Jethro- Edmunds. Mr. Ed munds has been married twice and is the father of twenty-nine children, most of whom, however, he has survived, He is still in remarkably good health and walks to town any time with ease. On the 22nd of March Capt. James Simmons celebrated his ninety-second birthday. Capt. Simmons is the oldest man in the county and the best. He knows everybody and he is a veritable history of the most interesting period of the county. He was sheriff of the county many years and has occupied other positions of trust and honor. t u d'., r. t.... r Reese, a young man aged about 25 years, who lived in the southern part of the county, left home last Tuesday morning and went to the mill of C. J. Neese & Co., near Mt. Hope church. He asked I :l l a tne miuer ior a pencil a.nu went, uu, say ing he would be back by the time his grist was ready. As he did not reach home, some of his family lriends went to the mill to look for him and learned the above facts. They supposed he had gone to a neighbor's probably, and would be along by night. But not coming home, the next morning search was made and his coat was found on the fence above the mill and in it a note to his wife which, in substance, was about as follows: "Dear Wife I don't ex pect to seeyou any more till I meet you in Heaven, s Don't look for me." , Since that time a number of people have been looking for him, . but cannot discover any trace whatever. There is much ex- C1LCI1JC11L ill bUCUCiJUWluuuu. a sick wife and two small children. . ; Charlotte Chronicle: S. J. Sloan, of Berryhill township, died last Monday 'night, after a brief illness, at the age of 60 years. -1 here was a mao aog ex citement last night at the corner of Tryon and Fifth streets. Policeman Morris shot at the dog five times, and finally killed him with a brick. About a hundred people congregated at the spot, being attracted by the shooting and noise generally. Several evenings aero Mrs. John Rav. of Lone Creek, was suffering from om a pain in her shoul ders and back and . thinking that she would be relieved by cupping, she asked her husband to perform the cupping op eration. He acknowledged his ignorance of the cupping method, but said that he would try bis hand anyway.' He knew that it was necessary to have a burning process somehow, so be poured turpen tine on his wife's shoulders, set it on fire and clapped the cup on. The ignited turpentine in an instant spread over her shoulders and neck, setting her hair on fire, and burning her back severely. It was with some difficulty Mr. Long suc ceeded in extinguishing tie fame.
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