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fSl8SSS8SSSS888SS ggg88888888S88S88 Sfff8888888888888 SSSS88SSS8S8S888S l---i5f8888S88S8888888 If1 fiSSSS88888888888 asasassassaa gg88888S888888883 - s S" O :..!.'! in . I : n m o t- o o jj 21 S S yzrtTroit Office at Wflmtgton, N. C, as Second Class Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. " . nrice of the Weekly Star is as ..$100' .. 60 .. " 80 fV't months u M nffS MINING INDUSTRY. i'Aongb iron mining Is, carried in twenty-tour uiucrcut ocaies . f f iL ' 1 :a. IB !nd Territories, Dy iar mc largest j s.nmc from . frtiir Sates, Michigan, auu A t"uaJ'1 jx Vnrt. in the order fcnva anu iv . . v which they come, Micnigan ieaa- , -ith 5.856,169 tons, AiaDama If. ;ih 1 S70'.319 tons, Penn- these four States aa aggregate of ),324,259 tonsf out of the total facts' of 14.518,041 tons from; the . 'i '!' . i : . . Tt.. jj mines, up mis uuuuuy. ims ies 70.49 per cent of the whole, Lremaindericoming from the other fWy States I and Territories. . Of feMinnesota leads with 864,508 S3 tons., ' .. . 1 . " I .; . -. The sinallest output is reported OB lesas, ucuijj aj,vw iuiia. ., xui v.... . 1 11J Oil niiniiJg cau xvj uc uuucu Lindustry in Texas y"et, as railroad Asportation j is yet insufficient to yourage capital to embark in it ex-. bastvely.; The next few years, how- ver, will tell; a different story for 'exas when railroads will have ben btended into the Liano iron region, Lljich is said to be a greater depos- than that of the viLake Superior There is one significant fact in is connection which is that while ie average value of the. ore per ton, j cars was 2.30, the lowest was in Iabama,wh6rje it was 96 cents; that while it costjs on an average in the kr States anid territories $2.30 a ton mine the orp and put it on the cars lor shipment, it costs in Alabama only cents a ton, or not much over lae-third. Throughout the South there the iron industry has been en ered upon the ore can be mined and pat upon the cars for considerably less than in the mining sections of ie North, for the reason that aside pom cheaper labor, the ore a a peral thing ies nearer the Surface, lequiring less stripping,! less lifting. p consequently less handling. In this da of the multiplied and ultiplying uses of iron it is no mat roLsurprise1 that Alabama is forg- g to the front as an iron ore pro- peer and iron manufacturer, when jic tan -oe mrnisnea at less tnan a lollar a ton. and when coke and mestone for! smelting purposes can furnished at oroDbrtionatelv low agures. .1 '. .. ;1 renn'sylvariia leads Alabama now the production of pig iron be cause havingj an abundant supply ot anthracite coal and natural gas she smelts the larger part . of the ore mined in Michigan and Northern it: . . . ' ''?w. York, while Alabama smelts 0Dfy thaj mined in her own terri tory. '! ' " .y w the mere mining of iron there not,muc'h profit, 'especially when ton of it is hot worth more than wjents, the1 stated value in Ala bama, and thieref ore the mining of a very large amount would become a necessity to leave any margin for reasonable profit over and above the 5alt of this will be that the South wiN give less attention j to the ship' mitof pig iron and will turn her etgies to the manufacture of iron .n lts Wished forms, thus reap- g the fun profit . that there may e ia the iron business, just as she is now manufacturing much. UQ WlI manufacture more of the wcton which she was content in former .timoc .u; einni "wrcnern tmllo tw mrr, tnr l"s industry, for even if she did .not ?hiP a Pound! of her manufactured iron north of the - Potomac "we is demand enough' for it in f! btates sputh of these rivers to ep a very considerable number of tablishments in active oDeration: 1 Capitalists ., - - 1, ........ to - : a P'ants .that are being erected ,u.e half dozen or more steel P fltS that 4to' t srrr '" iinvlaii - ttt n XT . vci& no reason why the. manut wwui r- nr el-AAl MlnA chn M t v ottti j 4 alio ainw auuuiu ut oecome a creat industrv when consider the number of miles of way that are annually laid in the South' and the abundance and cheap- ness of the ore suitable for making eV either by the i Bessemer or tner processes. Within ten years in1 hpA V nad;.3Urw; o town begging , food I s-. IT lkT r- I i II II 1 II II ' 1 , ll II 1 n TT . W TT T IV t 1 II II . A II ... . f - ,,g .-I l y- VOL. XXII. ... - . - WTT,MTlNrmviisr Tr- rv ttott. a v ' nrvrraivo iqqi ! - ' "7 . " TTTT A PLirNDERED PEOPLE. I There are oo other people on the face of the earth plundered as the American- people are in the name of protection. They have paid since the protective era was inaugurated, In tribute to the protected manufac turer's, money enough to buy over and over again every protected man ufacturing plant in America"" The protectionists call it a protective tariff j but it is plunder, pure and sinu pie, the only difference, between it and the plunder by the bandit being that it is done by the Government" under forms of law while the plunder ot the, battdit is done m a bolder and manlier way at the' muzzle of a car bine.; What has the result been? The wealth of the country which thirty ye,.rs ago was distributed among the people more evenly than it has ever beeni since," has passed- out of the hands of the, many into the . hands of the few, and these few by their money and the influence that money wields practically control the Gov. eminent and make its laws. They have! not only possessed themselves of the larger part of what was once the property ofthe people, but r . J..Ui . - i I n A VP tyinrtnrairse nn im T-T . .jvanid with l.DOU.p Vu ; uu i ! r v" . ' F1V : , v,t. 1 9J7 .M7"' tons, makin? I wi. wuai remains. 1 nere is not a mare iiu iuc-uuiun wnere.ine mort- gages on real estate, chiefly farms, don'4t run from millions to hun dreds of millions. It must be re membered that ; all this has been since the high protective era began. Thirty years ago the farmers of this country were out of debt, pros perous, contented and independent;; now as as class they are practically pauperized, for if their debts were paid they would have nothing. For twenty-five years their condition and the condition of all men who live by labor, has been getting worse, be cause the legislation of the country has not been to protect the laborer, or to make his labor more profitable, but to 4jrotect the dollar ' and make its investments more 'profitable. Kansas -is a good farming State, with rich lands, and good railroad transportation, lands that cost the owners very little, tor they were bought at Government- price, and whati hae they to show for the twen ty-five crops they have raised in the past twenty-five, years? Mortgages to the amount of $335,000,000, all fastened upon them within that timej under the operation of this ben eficent protective tariff. With the exception of stock rai sers, iwe (lo not beueve tnere is one farmer inj ten jn the Western States who,) allowing him reasonable com pensation foj his labor, and interest on the money invested in his farm, is any better off to-day than he was twenty-five years ago, while the nine- tenths are really worse off. ; What jbave the toiling millions who earn their living by their daily labo Jto show for their twenty-five years of toil ? Nothing. All gone for the clothes they wore and the food their ate, all made dearer than otherwise would have been by they the propjortion of the tariff plunder they had to pay to the protected in dustries. And yet these plundered, mort gagee-ridden farmers, and these plunr deretjl and oppressed toiling millions are askedto-go to the ballot boxes and vote to perpetuate the system of plunder which has eaten up the crops of twenty-five years, covered the farms with j mortgages, and. made (the lives of the farm ers I which ought to be, un der ordinary circumstances, the most comfortable and contented, the most miserable, and has made the toilers in the mines and the shops and the milU the slaves of the money power thatlfixes their wages and practically tells1 them to starve if they refuse to work tor it. Why all . these struggles between laboir arid capital ?, Because capital oppresses labor and does not give it a t-Mcmnahlfi share of the wealth it creates.! Why all this banding to getber 6f trade and labor organiza tions ? To protect themselves against the larbitrary dictation of capital. Were! these , heard of thirty years ago were orgauizcu suiw,"u of thirtv vears aero? Were lock-outs heard i of thirty years ago? : "No. They are all the natural products of tViAf nlnnriftrinp' svstem which has enabled the' few to become 'rich VSi ft 0 J enough to lord it over the many, and look upon the many as their legiti mate iorey. How long this thing wiH last depends upon how long it will be before the American people recover their reason, and take commdn-sense view of a subject which so many' of them have viewed froirFk beclouded or insane stand point.!. , .. " - .. ' ... .. The starving peasantry in the farmirig districts of Russia are flock ing into the towns in search of ood, many perishing on' the roadsides from Cold and, hunger; The towns have no food to give and no money to buy itnd the 'result is robbing and incendiarism. Within a short while" over 50,000 passed " through And yet bJ "porting and shipping steel rails L the vfork of forced collection ot taxes orth- j ' . - I goes on. - "V. ... j. . . . DEATH OP C0MM0D0BE UTGltA ' HAM.. The Charleston News and Courier of Saturday announces the death in that city Friday, of Commodore Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, a vete ran of the navy, at the age of nearly ninety years. Born in Charleston in 1803, at the age of 9, in 1812, he en tered the naval service and so-continued to serve until South Carolina seceded from theJTJnion, when he, upon learning - that fact, resigned command, of the cruiser Richmond. xf which he was captain, and his com mission as -an officer in the' U. S. navy injanuary, 1861; and. immedi ately entered the naval service of the Confederate States, , where" he did much i n organizing the 'flavy and the gunboats which did such effective service. He commanded a brig during the Mexican war, and took part m-the capture of- Tampico. .1 1852 he was ordered to the Mediter ranean In command of the brig St. Louis. It was when 01 this cruise the Koszta affair happened which gave him a -world wide celebrity, which is thus recalled by the ; News and Courier It will be well to recall the circum stances of this case. KostzahadL during a brief residence in this Country, de- cii.vj mi lureuuuu ui uccuiuing an American citizen, and, before filling all the conditions entitling him to citizen ship, returned to Europe. He took" up his residence in the Turkish part of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, un the even ing of the 22d of June, 1853, he was pounced upon by a cane of Austrains. and, after a brief struggle, was carried on board an Austrian brig of war, the Huzzar. 1 he American consul made protest on the following morniner. but the arrival of the United States corvette St. Louis, under the command of the gallant Capt. Ingraham, in the harbor, put a new face on the matter, Some days passed, during which the Austrtans refused to deliver up their prisoner. 1 VUn the morning of the 2d of July Capt. Ingraham was informed "that the Austrians were about to carry Koszta to Trieste. He went on board the Huzzar and saw the man in chains. He asked Koszta if he claimed American protec tion. Koseta said he (lid. 'Then,' added Ingraham, you shall have it.' Returning on ; board the bt. Louis, he wrote to the Austrian captain (Schwartz) giving him until to 4 o'clock to deliver up the prisoner, and cleared his guns for action, although there were -two Austrian war yessels m the; harbor. While Uncle Sam. showed his teeth on the water in this determined manner a compromise was being effected on shore. and as its result K.oszta was handed over for safe keeping to the" French con sul at Smyra, thus fciving the victory to the plucky American." Secretary of State Marcy not only sustained his action but commended him for the 'vigilant dignity" he showed in his brave defence of American citizenship. Since the war Commodore Ingraham has lived a retired life in the city of Charleston, where he died. , AN H0H0RED LIFE CLOSED. The announcement of the death, at Baltimore;- Friday, of ColJ Walter L. Steele, of Richmond county, will be read with deep regret throughout North Carolina, not only by those who know him t personally, but by thousands who know him by reputa tion. As a representative North Carolinian he stood among the first of North Carolina's sons, and through his long life of sixty-nine years, when he passed from time to eternity, he bore an' honored name, tie was a man of liberal education, a! strong, independent and original thinker, firm in his convictions and bold in their utterance. This was his recognized characteristic both as a representative of his peo ple for several terms in the Legisla-. turer and later when he represented the 6th district in Congress for two terms, being first elected in 1876, and again in 1878, when he declined renomination and withdrew from public life, although he always took a deep interest m public affairs. At the time of his death he was Presi dent of the Pee Dee Manufacturing Company, to which position he was chosen when he retired from Con gress. ' .'. , MINOR MENTION. x Some of the McKinley organs are trying to humbug the farmers into the belief that the McKinley tariff has lowered prices because twine is cheaper now than it was before the passage of the McKinley bill, but they hide the fact that twirie is cheaper because-manilla, jute and hemp, the materials out of which twine is made were put upon the free list, and the tariff on twine was re duced from 2.5 cents to 0.7 of a cent per pound. Under the old tariff manilla was taxed 25 per cent., sisal SH15 per ton and jute 20 per cent. Don't it follow if admitting duty free the material of which twine is made, and reducing the tariff on twine has made it cheaper, that putting other raw materials on the free list and re ducincr the tariff on the 'articles of which they are made wopld also make them cheaper? The McKinley tariff is good only when it approaches the Democratic idea and gets the tariff down to the lowest notch, and opens the way for the free admis sion of raw material. , - Why is it that the Republican ma chine managers have not given Mr. Ingalls, "the statesman out of a job," $ job whoojping up for' McKinley or some of the other fellows? They don't seem to have any further use for him since he has turned farmer. - - - . . -I .1 III MM I II I aome Mongolians are -hard to suit in the matter of Amprirarl wives.- ;, A.California' Chinaman afte pnet experience wanted a divorce for the following reasons: "'.'She to6 muchee talkee, too muchee pamtee facee, too muchee dlink' blandy, too muchee fightee, too muchee snolee,. too muchee boss, too muchee dleam, too muchee say "killum husband," too muchee no good." But the cruel judge held that hetook her for bet ter or worse. " and that sh wontrl have to be a good deal worse than she was not to be good enough for Chinaman. McKinley talkingto the pensioners say? "we want. no short dollar.'. Who ever heard of the Republicans when they were raiding the Treasury stopping to ask whether the dollars were'short or not? Their Style t to go to everything tni sight, and get! it.: too. if thev can. ' j.- - , COTTON FACTS AN ft FIGURES. The eighteenth annual edition of Cotton Movement and Fluctuations," 1888 to 1891, issued by Messrs. Latham, Alexander & Co., New York, has been received. As this is a standard book of reference in the cotton trade, it is only necessary to say that the present edition is fully equal to previous issues, and Messrs. Latham, Alexander & Co. inti mate the crop of 1891-92 at 7,600,000 bales. Thie is very encojuraging to the cotton editor of the Star, whose guess, forwarded to Messrs. H. P. "Hubbard & Co.. was 7,599.000 baW. That thousand dollar prize is almost in sight. Augusta Chronicle: What then is the remedy? Must the-farmer continue from year to year the helpless victim of this inexorable fate and annually be forced to run down, the market by pour ing in his cotton at the opening, of the season? He must, unless he will profit by a sermon which has been preached until it is threadbare, viz: Raise his provisions at home, be. independent and make his cotton simply his money crop. The more nearly he approaches to this standard the less money he will have to borrow from factors and the less cotton he will be forced to market to meet his Obligations. From the cotton circular of Hub bard. Price & Co.: So unanimous is the testimony regarding the yield of the plant that 7,500,000 bales is now regard ed as a maximum estimate, after due al lowance is madejortbe natural tenden cy to underestimate the crop; but the Conditions which have caused this re duction in the estimated yield have opened tne entire crop at once, and the cotton is being picked and pressed to market more rapidly than last season, when the crop reached 8,650,000 bales. It is difficult to believe from the reports being received that the crop will reach the estimate before given, as the reports of reduction in yield range from 20 to 40 per cent., as compared with last year; but the "doubting lhomases are so many that ocular proof of the truth of these reports may be necessary before a permanent advance can -be established. In the meantime it is well to remember the price of cotton is low, and in view of the certainty of diminished supply not unreasonable, while our exports are now behind those of last season. ' DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. " A Young Woman Assaulted in BCaoon ,; County Escape of Her Assailant. Persons arriving by train on the C. F. & Y.i V. Raiload yesterday evening re port a terrible outrage committed on a respectable young white girl at Frank- linsviille, Macon county, last Wednesday night. 'The victim is a Miss Russell, aged about sixteen years. She had been suffering all day with toothache, and after nightfall, throwing a shawl over her head, went out of the house into the backyard, where "she was assaulted by some unknown man who overpowered and j choked her, leaving her insensible upon the ground, where she was found sometime afterward by members of her family. There is no clue to the perpe trator of the crime, but a posse of citi zens is scouring the country, and if the guilty party is caught a lynching will follow. Miss Russell is reported to be in a precarious condition, with little hope of recovery. Americai Railway Association. Mr. T. M. Emerson, Traffic Manager for the Atlantic Coast Line, returned Friday from New York city, where he has been attending' the usual Fall meet ing of the American! Railway Associa tion, (formerly the General Time Con vention), which was held in . New York city, at Hotel Brunswickj on WedneS day, October 14th, to arrange the win ter schedules. He says the fast mail and winter schedules generally;, were thoroughly discussed, but were, not fully decided upon. As soon as the different schedules are determined upon they will be furnished the public through the columns of the Star Nearly every railroad in the United States was represented at this associa tion meeting, there being over two hun dred railroad officials present. Besides Mr. Emerson, the following Atlantic Coast Line officials were there looking out for the interest of their system: Mr. H. Walters, Vice President; - Mr, J. R. Kenly, General - Manager; Capt. J. F. Divine, General Superintendent, None of these have returned yet except Mr. Emerson. - 5 Baits Commenced. Saits have been commenced in Bun combe Superior Court against the Rich mond& Danville Railroad Company by parties who received- injuries in the wreck at Bostian's Bridge, near States- ville, for damages . amounting to over (100,000. Twelve of Asheville's leading lawyers are occupied in these cases, among them Maj. Chas. M. Stedman, formerly of this City, who appears in fourteen cases. Mr. L. A. Galloway, who has been postmaster of bouthport since the administration of President Pierce with the exception of four years, was among 1 the callers at tne bTAR,omce -yasterday. NOTICE, f This is intended only for subscribers : whose subscriptions have ex pired. ' It is not a dun, but a simple request that all who are in ar rears for the STAB will favor us with a prompt remittance, i - We are sending out bills now (a few each week), and if you re ceive one pleaso give it your attention. An Actor's Good Fortune. R. D. MacLean, who played in Wil mington with Marie Prescott, left his company last week in Topeka to go to his home near Shepherdstown, W. Va., where his father had just died, Mac- Lean was the maiden, name of the tragedian's mother, which he adopted for the stage. His real name is R. D. Shepherd. His father, Henry Shepherd, was one of the social lights of New Or leans, a man worth several millions, the owner of the finest block on Canal street of that city, the! largest cotton press in the South, estimated at a quar ter of a' million, and the j inheritor of an old estate of the .Shepherd family in Jefferson county, . W. jVa. , He was acknowledged to be of e of the most Shrewd and brainy men jknown in New Orleans. He leaves his superb estate in Virginia and a million of dollars to his son, R. D. MacLean, whpse friends ex pect he will leave the stage after a few months, as the care of such a property will be incompatible with stage life. NAVAL BATTALION. A Possibility that Wilmington May Fall There is some talk aimong the boys here of forming a naval battalion. There is plenty of material here and an abun dance of water not far off. In this con nection the following frqm the Norfolk Landmark is pertinent: J A forcible writer) in the Forum for October strongly approves the establish ment of a Naval militia land reserve by the States, and it is gratifying . to see that the idea us gaining ground. We have endeavored in ouri feeble way to impress its importance upon the people of Virginia, and especially ot tidewater Virginia. As the writer) in the .Forum says history has taught us that the na tions that have developed their sea pow er are the strongest; than the youth of the land where education is broadened on the 'lines of order, duty and atten tion to detail required by military obe dience, are most useful tor wise com mand: and in these davslof larce affairs it is especially needful toj train the com ing generation intelligently and im partially to control bodies of men with justice to the employer and the em ployed. We trust the time will soon come When our young men will see the advantages to be gained jin an organiza tion of Naval Militia here. . Ex-Sheriff Elijah j Murrill is among the excursionists. from Onslow. Mr. T. T. Colling, of Burgaw, was a visitor at the Star office yester day. Mr. S. Mears, of Clark ton, was a welcome visitor at the star office yesterday. Mr. and 'Mrs. J T. Elmore, of Maxton, were registered at The Orton yesterday. I Mr. H. Blount, editf r of the Wit- son Mirror, was m our city yesterday. registered at The Orton Mr. B. R. Hallet of ML Olive, but for many years a citizen of Wil- mington, is here on a short visit. Mr. K. M. Barnes and Miss U. Barnes, of Barnesville, N. C, were among the arrivals in town yesterday. Mr. Calvin Bowenj accompanied by his brother and little daughter, ot Harrison's Creek, were ia the city yes terday, and paid us a very pleasant visit. ". j Norwegian barque Spes, cleared yesterday for Antwerp, IBelgium, with 3,816 barrels rosin, valued at $5,205 47; shipped by Messrs. Paterson, Down ing & Co. British steamship Mltnete cleared yesterday for Liverpool, England, with 6,000 bales coUon, valued at $255,000. Vessel and,, cargo by Messrs. 'Alex, Sprnnt & Son. - Mr. and Mrs. NJ Sidbury, of Scott's HilL were in the pty yesterday visiting friends. Mr. Sidbury, who is a prominent merchant and farmer, reports the peanut crop the best he has seen in several years. One of the oldest subscribers to the Daily Star is Col. Murdock Mo Rae, of Robeson county, who has been on our books nearly eighteen years. In renewing he refers to hist strong affec tion for the paper.- j Schooner Anna Z.' Lockwood. cleared yesterday for Ayroyo, Porto Rico, with 255,451 feet lumber, valued at - $3,235, shipped by Mr. E.r Kid der's Son. Vessel by Geo. Harriss, Son & Co. - . The Seaboard Air Line wil sell reduced rate tickets to Durham, N. C. on account of the Presbyterian Synod., The following will govern from competitive points : Forest City, $9.50; Maxton, $7.40; Hendersoji, $2.45;Moores- Doro, $.u; Kutnenoraton, $.ou; dan- ford, $4 10; Shelby, $8.5f ; Wilmington, $8.15. ' Tickets on sale November 9th to 13th, good to return till November 18th. DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL. Conference of Leading Members of the Party at :Baleigh Great Unanimity Allianoe Speakers Disclaim the ' Third Party Movement The Platform of the Ij&st. Campaign Urged for Adoption. Special to the Star. Raleigh, N. C, October 15. A con ference of leading Democrats from all parts of the State was held at Commons Hall to-night. There was a large at-. tendance. Addresses were made by ex-Gov. Tarvis, . Alexander Robbins, ; Thos. Skinner, Capt. Kitchen,' and others. Great unanimity of spirit pre vailed. The sentiment of all the speak ers opposed any movement outside the Democratic party - for redress of griev- ances. it was the general recommenda- : tion that the committee should urge the : adoption of the platform of the 'last campaign. All the Alliance speakers disclaimed the Third Party movement. The conference adjourned at 11.10 o'clock, when the State Democratic Committee met with closed doors. Its proceedings were not given to the public. Senator J. W. King, of Guilford, pre sided at the conference. .(.... -B" j COTTON CARGOES. Complaints of Alleged Frequenoy of Fires on ! Board Vessels Iiaden with Cotton Eemedial Measures Suggested. Washington,' October 15. The act ing Secretary of State recently received a letter from the British Minister at Washington relative to the packing of American cotton intended for shipment, in which the Minister refers to the great risk to human life which has been shown to exist fro:ii the Joose balmgW cotton, and remarks that- the subject is one of such great importance to both countries, and indeed to all nations, that in addition to theevidence.readysubmit- ted by bim he desires to invite attention to a letter of Edward Atkinson, stating that ! American cotton is treated more dangerously than any other great staple ot any kind or than any other kind of cotton in the " world,; and to fur ther! remarks in the latter 's letter, as follows: "Bales are badly made, badly covered, badly cut, . and badly broken. They are rolled in the mud and exposed to weather and are alwavs in a condition in, which they may become liable to im pregnation of cotton seed oil and liable to spontaneous combustion. . When a oaie ot cotton which is slightly mois tened with oil on the end or side be comes broken so that air can enter into the interstices, among the fibres, it may happen very often that the r.ght combination- of fibre, oil and oxygen will occur, causing rapid Oxydation which is known as spontaneous combustion. - The Minister also draws attention to Atkinson's suggestion that there should be careful examination of bales before shipment, which examination the latter saysj might abate part of the danger, although the whole danger will not be abated until a bale of cotton . is made up, compressed, guarded and protected, as it ought to be." Correspondence with the secretary of the Treasury shows that he has repeat edly instructed custom officers to take such measures as may be practicable for the enforcement of penalties presented by law for improper shipments of cot ton.! It is assumed by the Treasury Department that these instructions will lead- to examination of cotton bales" shipped and to prosecution of offenders. DREADFUL SCENE Enacted at an Execution in Minnesota. By Telegraph to the Mornin Star. Redwood Falls, Minn Ocl 16. A dreadful scene was enacted this morn ing at. the execution ot Wm. Rose. The prisoner was awakened at 4 o'clock, ate a hearty meal, heard the reading of the death-warrant with great coolness and mounted the gallows with a firm step. He ! made a short speech, in which he protested his innocence and accused a man named Stone of the crime. The trap was sprung at 4.56 a. m. lhere was a dull crash and the rope parted, three feet from the. neck. With out a word being spoken by any one the limp body was picked up, carried on the platform, laid down face upward upon the readjusted trap. A second noose dangling from above was pulled down, adtusted quickly, and the trap again sprung without any attempt to raise him to his feeL 1 hen ensued- a slow process 01 strangulation, the trap was sprung a second time at exactly 5 o'clock. COL. WALTER L. STEELE. Announcement of His Death. Yesterday at : " Baltimore, MoL Baltimore, OcL 16. Col. Walter L. Steele, President of the Peedee Manu facturinz Co., of Rockingham, N. C. died at Johns Hopkins Hospital this morning, aged t9 years, tie was a mem berof Congress from North Carolina a lew years ago, and was one of the most influential men in the State. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and recently had the degree of LL.I D. conferred upon him. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Board of Trustees of his Alma Mater. GEN. W. H. F. LEE Died Tee terday at His Home in Fairfax j County, Virginia. , j - By Telegraph to the Morning Star, Alexandria, Va., Oct. 15. Gen. W. H. F. Eee, second son of Gen. R. E. Lee, died at his home in Ravensworth Fairfax county, this evening, aged 54 years. On receipt of the intelligence of his death all the bells in the city were tolled He had faithfully represented this dis trict for two terms in Congress, and was member-elect of the next House. The cause of his death was heart trouble and dropsy. BRUTAL OUTRAGE. A Woman Mutilated by an Escaped Con.' 1 viot. Columbia, S-C, October 15. Fred Kempson, an escaped convict, went to the house of a; woman in Lexington county who had been instrumental in securing his prosecution and conviction for assault and battery, with intent to kill, tied her up and told her he would either cut her throat or chop off her ears, and that she might choose. - The woman decided to lose her ears, and the scoundrel hacked them off with a dull knife. He then untied the woman and left the neighborhood. . At Clarksburg, Miss.,yesterday Bond's saw mill boiler exploded, killing bam Herald and Ephraim Ely, and mortally wounding Allen Lindsley. IN GEORGIA. ITogro Murderer Pays the Penalty of .v - - his Crimes, f " Madison, . October -16.4 Alexander Morris was hanged to-day Sin the pres ence of about thirty persons in Morgan county jail. ' He ate a hearty breakfast, and appeared " in &ood spirits all day, saying he was ready and walling to die. He said God had forgiven his sins. 1 he Home Guards were in attendanceand the utmost order brevailed . un tne night pt uctooer 1st, is. Dan Lockett, an fold negro, was shot through the headland his pife's throat cut from - ear to (ear. Their ' daughter Mary was also a victim, hef throat being cut. suspicion pointed stmongly to Al exander Morris, Mary's husband, but he bad fled. Rewards were offered for bis apprehension, but 'he could not be found. Last August, however, he was discover ed in Savannah aid arrested. He was tried in September, found guilty, and. to day paid the penalty of his; crime. He acknowledged his guilt and said it was right that be should die. : - GEN. Wj H.V LEE: Funeral Services sit Kavensworth Atten dants from Many Places, v By Telegraph io the Morning Star. Washington, bet. 17. iFuneral ser vices over the remains of Gen. Wm. H. . Lee,- Representative inf Congress of the 8th Virginia district, were held from his late residence at Ravensworth to day. There was fa large attendance of friends of the Le0 family from Alexan dria, Washington and Baltimore, who came dv special train, ana a targe num ber who came from the (surrounding country in teftmsland on foot. The Lee Camp ot Confederate vejterans trpm Alexandria, numbering . about thirty men, with A. bi Smoot commanding: about twenty members of sons of Con- 1 1T... i L.J icucratc v cicrdns ui uq kuuc cny. G. tJrent commanding, and the ex-Confederate .lAssociatioin lof Wash ington, in a body attended! the funerals The funeral services were eonducted by Dr. Randolph McKim, of the bptphany Church, of Washjington, assisted by Dr. I Cleveland Hall. rectr of z,ion Church, at Fairfix Court House, Va., of which deceased 'as a vettsyman. They were the simplef burial services of the bptscopai church I ; At their conclusion the remains were taken to the farnaly burial plot in rear of the house, where! after further brief ser vices , they were interrefl. After the body had been lowered into the grave and before the attendants commenced to fill it in, manjr veterans in turn took possession of the shovels and deposited some earth over the remains of one they loved.. f j The honorary fpall bearers were Capt. Upton Herbert, 8 Col. Arthur Herbert, Gen. Wm. H. Payne, Cant. Alexander D. Payne, Mai. James M. Love, Mr. C C. Willard, Rek Gaillarl, Col. John W. Bui ke. and pr. D. C Gordon. ibe body hearers werel bands em ployed by Gen. Lee on his? farm.. A SAVAGE FIGHT f I Between STegroes and Tom Officers of Clifton Forge, va. Two men Killed Iivnehinir Hirflatennd. - ." .1 Clifton Force, Va., !Oct. 17. A savage fight occurred between five groes and Clifton Forge officers in the Mountain pass, lone and a. half miles fr5ln here near the Iron Gate, this af ternoon, resulting in the death of a white man and h negro. (The negroes came to Cluton forge: this morning from Big Hill, pinety-eigbjt miles from here, with the avowed purpose of cre ating a disturbance.. Aided by whis key they became boisterous and de fied arrest, leaving in the same direc tion they came, but followed by town ouicers. 1 ney were cauep ; 10 iiait at the above point where a fight ensued, in which t. A Bowhn. f fope, was Wilkinson was shot killed, and Fre in the abdomen nd in the knee. Wil- k in so will reco er, it is thought, tsoth were Drakemen on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, nd were summoned by rmer -..from Albemarle officials, the fi county and th latter frpm Bedford Ounty. The l rmer was emarried ana lived here. News of the hooting spread rapidly with great exc: ement, aad in a short time fifty men were scouripg the moun tains, where j the negroes took refuge, hunting them down. . All were captured after several hoars' search land a second battle in the mduntains between police men and negroes. One of the negroes is supposed to be dead from his wounds: The other four are in jail here, three of them having been shot before they were captured. At this writing indications are that a lynching will take place' at Vko 1 frrQt ton rrrr -v 1 evY thAiinh uctii pooh vvaa v(; uiw vv uiu buvrug the Mayor is determined to defend them. j j -r Later. A itoob of ; three hundred men took threelof the negroes from jail here to-night it half-past- ten o'clock and hung and shot them lull of bullets. ' : ! I .; A DANVIllLE SENSATION. A Prominent I Citizen Charged with Bending Obscene Iietters to a Handsome Widow. r , j ' By Telegraph to the Morning Stat. Danville, Va., Octoier 17. Geo. W. Martin, a citizen of Highlands, was .before a U. S. Commissioner to-day on a warrant,charging him Iwith sending obscene letters! to a handsome widow living in North jDanville. jThe evidence against him waf strong, but he declares his innocence, and his previous character has been such as 'to make it hard for his friends to believe he is guilty. He js married and, is connected with fam ilies of great prominenc. here. The case was sent ( on to thef grand jury. The matter caujsed a profound sensation here. f - f ' ' . THE EXRRtSS ROBBERS. Attachments Issued Against Vice Presl- - j---. f - 1 dent Spooner's Property. By Telegrayih to the Morning Star. New YoRKi, Oct. 17.-John Hoey, the deposed President ofl the Adams Express Co., this morning tendered his resignation as Manager of the Company, which was promptly accepted. The company have attached all the ' real estate and personal J property of Clapp Spoonet, late vice president in both New York State and Connecticut, pending suits ffor the recovery of $700, 000, alleged ti have beea taken by Spooner and has confederates. - SrHOT DEAD. Harwood Manning Killed by Henry Till man in Colq.ntt County, Qa. - Bt Telesraph to the Moramx Stat.. ' Savannah, pA., Get. 17. Haywood Manning, a fanner of Colquitt county, was shot dea4 last night by Henry Tillmann, as he was advancing on the latter with a J drawn knife. Manning was made bloodthirstvbv drink. Seven small children kre left orphans by, his death. 1 he coroner s jury exonerated Human. -i- HANG NG RutherfoM-!rfmrr The total amount of taxable property in Ruther ford coanty listed in 1891 is $2,538,300, against $2,252,009 in 1890,1 an increase of $286,291. Of this Rutherford township paid $506,774, against $413,788 last year, an increase ot $92,986. , . - ......... .. - . .... ; ..... ... ... , , - . ... . - Gastonia ' Gazette: We had' good reports of crops at LDallas Court. . All we saw were, fairly good. Upland t corn is good; cotton doing first rate for the season. One man we heard of, Mr. ' Adam Pasour, says he wijl . make.; more corn this year than he has made at any one time 111 me past xurty years, , Mount Holly News: One day last week; while "ditcher!" Jim Wilson's wife was scalding her beds and cleaning up, while removing the bed. clothes from one of the beds, was supprised to find a -black' snake between the : straw and feather bed, four, feet and nine inches long. She at once killed the snake, and proceeded 'with her work. . Morganton Herald: We are . sorry to learn of - the serious accident ... which happened to Mrs.l . D. Kincaid a few days ago. While walking a foot log across a streami near her home, in Lower Creek township, she fell, break- ' ing her leg in two 1 places. - Mrs. Kin caid being a very bid lady, it' is thought ij by her physician that she will never re cover her former self again. Shelby Aurora: Ed. Thomas George Martin (George Logan), two ne groes who were - arrested in Shelby last , month while on the way to their homes ; in Rutherford, were tried last week at Lincoln court and sentenced to the pen itentiary. Thompson, the leader in the stealing, has gone! for I ten years,' and . Logan or Martin for six years. They . were indicted for burglary and larceny, but submitted to the charge of larceny. They entered the store-house of J. W. McLurd at Crouse's station. ; Wilson Advance: Twenty-seven convicts in charge of four guards armed with repeating Winchester Rifles, pass ed through here Monday. They were going to the.State farm hear Weldon. la. the party we noticed eight to ten your.oj negro boys. They! did pot look a day over fourteen years old. j But it is all ti;e same. They are doomed tobe shut up with the most hardened criminals and reprobates, and.when their term is over, are ripe for any deed of fcvil. i The State must not permit this, ijiooner or later a change will come. It cannot come too soon. Last week a sang of sixty-seven old offenders went down to build a rail road from the A. & R. Junction to Washington.-' The road! is to be com pleted by January 1st, 1892. r Maxton ' Zu'on: ) Mr. L. TV Peterson, who, upon h is! recoyery from" a spell of typhoid fever ajt Washington, came up to Alma I to recuperate. about five .weeks ago; died at that place on Thursday last of pneumcjnia. - The Fair of the Border Exposition begins next Wednesday the 21st. The. build ings and race track have been put up in excellent condition and every arrange ment made for the advantageous dis play of all articles jplacedr on exhibition. The display promises to be an excellent one, and there will be Amusements of various kinds each day. j A negro man was run over and killed by an extra train on the C. F. & V. V. Railroad, near Shannon, yesterday It is supposed mat tne man was stealing a riae anu -fell between the cars. He was cut two just above the hips and portions ot his body and clothing along the track for two dred yards. were scattered or three hun- Winston Sentinel We are in- formed that Mr. B. I. Sheppard, Presi- 1 dent of the Twin CityClub, is in receipt of a letter dated Greensboro, N.C., from Mr. J. M. Pendleton,! Secretary and " Treasurer of the "Club,'1 and also tele graph operator at this place in which he '. states he is short in his accounts, the result of playing games of chance. The . President of the Club thinks the short age will amount to something between eight hundred and a thousand dollars. A Jew minutes after nine o'clock this morning a little colored boy was run over by engine No. 100 at the Richmond & ' Danville freight depot, crushing the right leg, diagonally from, the calf to above the knee, necessitating an amputation some inches above the latter. The little boy, j five years old, was with his father oh the side track and became frightened! at the exhaust from one of the engines land jumped on the main line immediately under the ' engine. , . . : , . Chatham Recofdi Thus far only ; about one-half of the persons in this county, who are entitled to any of the land tax, have filed applications for it. Very many are entitled to such small . amounts that it will not pay them to take the trouble to apply,for it. Where the amount is less than one dollar the clerk of our court makes no charge for making out the application, One per son, who lives .several . miles from here, . spent a whole day in coming here and 1 returning home merely; to file an appli cation for 82 cents ! j One day last 1 week Miss Dora Pike, a daughter ot 1 Mr. Moses Pike, of Albright township, 1 met with a peculiarly sad death. She 1 was visiting the family of Prof. Zeno H. ( Dixon, at Yadkinvillej and was taken j sick with typhoid lever, but was sup posed to be getting well. While in this t condition she either in delirium jumped 1 out, or by some accident fell out, of the j second story window of the dwelling , and was killed.! - Her remains were j brought to her home in this county for t interment on last Friday. - i Charlotte 'News: The Linden, Davidson College's new cotton mill, will begin work this week, r The first cotton was- run through the: machinery this evening. The. Linden is a.mill of 2,200 . spindles and is equipped first-class in all its appointments. A few weeks ago a lady at Shelby was robbed of a gold watch. A day or two after the robbery the watch was Jeft at; Farrior's jewelry store in this city by a negro boy. This morning the boy called for the watch and w,as turned over to the police, who had been watching for just such a thing -to happen. It seems to be the amusement of little boys along the A. T. At O. Railroad to place Crossties on the tracks The train which left " Charlotte, for Taylorsville last night encountered a tie on the track near Huntersville, at about the same place the; tie was en-. countered on October 7th. The culprit in this instance, was a 10-year old col ored boy. He was arraigned before a magistrate in Huntersville, who released ' him upon condition that his mother would give him a good flogging. Charlotte Chronicle: From what the Cabarrus men say the only talk over about the Mt. Pleasant section is on what they think is a rich find of first class iron ore. The hill that is composed almost entirely of solid iron is located nearMt. Pleasant, and will be very easily reached. - Some of the Farmers' of Providence, who were in the city yester day, say the opossums are playing havoc with the late corn, in that country. They cut the stalks down and then eat the ear off. They have made a raid or two on the pumpkins, but prefer the corn. One : man has shot as many as two of the "grinning critters" off one stalk. A new kind of cotton is on exhibition at Dr. J;H, McAden's drug 5tore, , It has been the cause of a great many curious inquiries. The leaves are 1 forked and lood very much like a crow's foot. The imeol it is okra-cotton. and it seems to he a mixture of the two plants. It produces well and may become a more valuable article, of commerce than any other cotton plant m existence. . It will go far ahead of either the oM fashioned cotton or the lintless seed, inasmuch as it can be ginned and the seed used for table purposes just as okra is used. ; 1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Oct. 23, 1891, edition 1
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