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-FUaUSD AT WILMINGTON, $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 88SSS8S888S8S3SS3 iqioopi til 88888888888888883 88888888888888883 83888888888888888 eqiooH S 82888888282888883 q"W t 88888S58SS88SS3SS 3 JS m at m s m a a 8S88g832288888883 MAt 8 88888888888888888 U U a. Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, ai Second Clasa Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The' subscription 'price of the Weekly Star is as follows: " j . . . Single Copy 1 year, postage paid. ,;.S1 00 6 months " " 60 " " 8 months " i 80 VERY IMPORTANT During the past two months bills have been mailed to about sixteen hundred subscribers to the Weekly Star. jThe aggregate amount due on these bills was very large, but the aggregate amount thus far paid is comparatively small. ' - It is hoped every subscriber in ar rears willead this .notice, and that he will forward the amount due us at once. - It ts unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for it rf ully as much so as tor the proprietor of -the paper to eat the farmer's chickens and eggs and then fail or refuse to remunerate him. We thank those of our subscribers who have paid us, and trust this ap peal will not be lost on those who have not paid. THEY WILL FIGHT IT HARD. Senator Sherman is quoted as say ing not long ago that the Demo cratic tariff reformers would have to make a hard fight to get a new tariff bill through Congress. He . had special reference, no doubt, to the Senate, where the Democratic ma jority is small, for it is large enough in the House to get it through that body without much delay. The rules ot the House give less latitude to the minority than the rules of the -Senate do, where "Senatorial cour tesy" plays an important part, as ' was strikingly illustrated in the Re cent protracted silver debate. Senator Sherman "is probably cal culating on the Republican Senators who opposed to the repeal of the McKinley bill resorting to somewhat similar tactics to defeat the '.Demo- xratic tariff bill, as the silver Sena tors resorted to to defeat the silver purchase" repeal bill, although they would hardly carry the opposition to the srme extent; but they will in all probability interpret the Republican success in the several States last Tuesday, as an encouragement to resist, and to resist with all their might. As far as they are con cerned this is a logical interpretation, too, for the tariff issue figured more or less in all these State elections, and in some of them it was the main if not the sole issue. . ,-. It is not often that there are such' a combination of circumstances to favoradefeated party in its struggle to recover power as the combination which presented itself to the. Re publican leaders and campaigners in the recent State canvasses, and they were shrewd enough to utilize them to the full extent. For them the financial disturbance and consequent business depression came in the nick of time and thev played both for all they were worth, and played them well. The play" in Congress , could not have escaped , the notice of any one who gives ordinary attention to politics and, kept up with the progress of the silver debate in both branches of Congress. The Republicans let the Democrats and the few Republi can silver Representatives and Sena tors do nearly all the talking and all the fighting while tLey sat there en joying it, for they knew that all this contention between Democrats, in Congress meant .trouble in the Dem ocratic party and dissensions which would redound to their advantage. 'There was no coptention among them, but with a-full understanding they worked together and kepttlieir party united. They were playing politics and played them well. : Even when they were professing a desire for the re peal of the purchasing clause of the "cowardly makeshift," they took good care not to admit that the bus iness depression was the result of that, but advanced the theory thaMt was the result In a . much greater measure of the apprehensions among manufacturers of radical and ruinous changes in he tariff system, to which they had Jooked and from which they had so long received the pro tection which they thought essential to their prosperity "land existence. 1 ne campaigners took up the cue until the deluded people to whom they talked became persuaded that the Democrats had caused all the trouble by talking about reducing the tariff duties, even if they" ever lastingly ruined the industrial system which gave employment toso many workmen who. for months had been walking about idle with their hands at -,. ,.- -, :'::JTi -k4, ; 1 I .. 11 1 1 1 J eitA 7 Y?r-;i T 11 l I . IK Vf3 I J ,1 - f 1 1 ..- .V - ?UK I of Polkton. di US l ' ' : - ' ' . VOL. XXV. in theirvpockets because there was nothing for . them to do. Manufac turers who are interested in keeping up the protective system of legalised robbery helped this game along and thousands of workmen doubtless be iie'ved what they were told. " : In addition to this they played the pension scare among the ex-sol diers by misrepresenting pension re form as they had misrepresented tariff reform, and appealed to ' the soldiers as the fnends of the soldiers who would save them from the men who were determined o destroy the pension system established by the Republican party as they intended if they could, to destroy the protec tive tariff system established by the Republican party, f One thing that helped them to play this more effect ually was the fact that a Southern man presides over the ; Department of the Interior and issued the rulings by which fraudulent practices were stopped and certain classes of pen sioners required to show that they were entitled to the 'pensions which tney drew, i ne tact mat tie was a Southern man . gave them a chance to play the sectional issue and make it appear that these rulings and these efforts at pension reform were in spired by Confederate enmity to the soldiers who had overthrown; the Confederacy and "saved the nation. Aside from the dissensions among Democrats on the financial question, these, we think, were the two princi-, pal causes which proved potent fac tors in the recent elections where the Republicans recovered lost ground. -,. :. . But the Democrats must go ahead and keep their pledges, and stick to their principles without any compro mise or yielding, for to stand still or to retreat will be to court disaster. The course of safety is in the march onward with a brave determination I to ao tne woric in nana ana ao it so quickly and "".thoroughly that th"e country may judge from the results and not from partisan predictions as to what these results will be. The Democratic party must make ' its record boldly, go bravely before the people on that record and be judged by it. Tariff reform and pension re form will he opposed but they must come, and the sooner they come the better. ... ' 1 . " V--' KIX0B HENTIOlS. Speculation as to- the course that will be - pursued m reference to Hawaii is set at rest by the report made to the Pesident by Secretary Gresham, the gist of ; which was given in the dispatches of yesterday. There will be no annexation, and if Secretary Gre sham's ideas be carried out, as Xhey probably will be, there will not. be a Provisional Govern ment long. There wil be a pretty loud jingo howl over the reinstate ment of the deposed queen, but from the standpoint of justice, in as much as her deposition was accomplished by the connivance, moral and ma terial support of representatives and armed marines of this Government, secretary uresham holds that in honor and justice this-Government cannot do ' anything else but undo the wrong' it helped"! to do and made 1 possible. There is other wise but one of two' courses left " open for - this Government. One is to recognize j the . Provi sional Government," or to let things drag along as they are, I leaving the islands without any legally recog- mzed ; Government, lo jrecognize the Provisional Government is to re cognize the unauthorized acts of the representatives of this ! Government who connived at and aided the so called "revolution" which succeeded because of the impression that the revolutionists had the support of this Government. In addition to this to recognize the Provisional Govern ment would be to necessitate, speedy annexation, for the representatives of the Provisional Government have repeatedly declared that if this Gov- ernment did not entertain proposals for annexation ' they j would seek annexation with Great Britain. The probabilities are, howeyer, that the gentlemen who have been running the. Provisional Government are sufficiently amused, and that if this Government simply announced its purpose to keep hands off as between them and the Hawaiians they would soon throw up the job. V. . . m m -..a-1'-,- If we were not aware of the fact that there is a great, deal of average human nature In the average man we would be surprised at'the opposition. that coal miners and - iron miners in West Virginia and Alabama show to the proposition to put coal and iron on the free list. Both of these are found in inexhaustible abundance in these and 'other Southern States, and . they can be mined in the South more cheaply than they' can in any other portion of the United States. This being so they ought pto be able. to get along without protection better than 1 .the coal and iron miners of other sections, and therefore we think they are standing in their own light when they insist on continued protection-which protects thefr competitors .more .thaa it pro tects them. . But aside from Cthisy V whatever may be said of iron, coal is I necessary to the comfort of the peo ple, and every cent of j tribute levied upon it in the form ot taxation must be paid by the peopie, . millions of whom have all they can do to.keep themselves warm in wmter,whicU to many is a season of 'enforced idle ness, ana when we : remember-that the coal lands owned by the compa nies that operate themi cost in a ma jority" of -cases a merely nominal price, and that the cost of mining is exceedingly small, the! unreasonable ness of the' demand for "protection against competition is apparent. It is simply the "quintessence of greed. According, (o the latest reports proposition to from Washington the provide for'the deficiency in the rev- eneusby the imposition of an income tax, rather than by an increase of in ternal revenue taxesj is erowme in .favor with the Ways and Means Com mittee. -i While conceding the fact that taxing incomes is more or less obnoxious, yet there jis no valid ob jection that can be made to it that cannot be made against any other form ofL taxation, a4d it cannot be said : to" apply to one particular State or section more than another. It -;v. is ; true that some States and some' sections would pay more ot the tax than others, tax would again ' be but this paid out by the Government more in these States and sect: others, in addition ons than in the to . which the States and sections which would pay the larger prt of ' the tax are the States and sections which have so long enjoyed the" benefits of special legislation from which many of the large incomes and much of the ac quired wealth have come. Whatever may be said about it .the income tax is the most equitable and least op- pressive of all taxes!, for it is laid in proportion to a man s ability to pay and it is only the man 'who can pay without suffering that pays anything. We are- in 1 receipt of "Shepp's Photographed,' a World's Fair superb publication, containing 528 photographic views of the buildings and of many ot the! World's Fair, each exhibits at the preceded by-a terse and well written description and history. To one -who has not seen the- Fair this book will be the next thing to seeing it, and even to. those who have it will be a capital memory! refresher. Aside from its value, as a work, of art it is a model. Published by the Globe Bible Pub lishing Company, 358 Dearborn street, Chicago, and 723 Chestnut street', Philadelphia.1 : Mrs. Anna E. Nash owns and edits the Cannon-Ball, at Gordon, Arkan sas. When she loads up and fires she means business. The following shows the bent of her efforts, when she an nounces that she is running that paper "Not for love, nor fame, nor r-r- - favor, but) for cash, " In the news- paper business Mrs Nash will find cash aboutthe most illusive, thing she ever pursued. She will find fame and favor much easier tot get. Being a Mrs. we suppose she knows how it is about love. J l It is j not complimentary ' to the Republicans of Iowa that to defeat a man like Boies they elected a man who was proven to : be a corrupt sharper and was Jon account of fraudulent practices debarred from practicing before the Pension Office by a Republican Secretary of the Interior from his own State. Under ordinary circumstances to be beaten by such a man might be humiliating, but this is an exceptional year. With sixty-four out of the eighty- eight counties ! in Ohio behind him, and a majority big -enough to satisfy any reasonable ambition, Hon. Wm. McKinley assumes political, propor tions of no small dimensions. - Hon. Thomas Reed, of Maine, can now take in his belt three or four, holes. 'He has "swunk" . very considerably since Tuesday. j - - Some of the coal and iron men in Alabama do not want to see coal and iron put-on the free list, and neither do the West Virginia coal men want' to see .coal put on the -free list, the inference from which is that the average protected coal and iron man has the average amount of human nature in him. " . .. . - - - I . : : There has been a marked decrease of typhoid fever in Chicago, the deaths1 from that cause for the year ending September 30 numbering only 712 compared with 1,790 for the pre vious year, up to same date. This is attributed to measures taken to pro vide better drinking-water. The canal was opened across the Isthmus of Corinth the other day. It was pretty slow in coming, but it came at last. About 2,500 years ago, it was talked about. The Emperpr Nero took a whack at it later, be fore hej became' absorbed in fiddling; The farmers of the North and West are looking for a cold winter. They say the signa "pint'-, that way. The Season jis ' beginning - early Last Tuesday was a very cold day for the Democrats of the North and West CW1LMINGTQN, N. C. FRIDAY, : N OVE MBER 1 7, WILMINGTON'S WELCOME WEEK To Toe Held la' December - BTczt from the v Fourtb to tfa JTinth." Wrtmington , will have her Welcome Week. : This ; announcement " wilt be a surprise to almost every one, but the merchants at last realized what a loss it would be to Wilmington not to have It; so after satisfactory rates were, secured from the railroads the Executive Com mittee decided last eight in meeting to have the W. W. W. celebration on a grander scale, i z:-?1 iThe Wilmington Welcome Week Ex ecutive Committee met last night at the office of the S. AL. on North Front street, 'itb the following gentlemen present : . Chairman Thos .D.Meares .Secretary. E. P. Boatwnght; G. G. Lewis. W. t. Springer, M. W. Jacob!. P. Heins' berger, Jr., J. S. Hooper, R. R. Bellamy and Ike Bear. : After hearing the report of the Transportation Committee that the proper and necessary rates had been secured over the railroads entering this city during that week. -i-tJ It was decided to -have the demon stration from the 4th to the 9ih of December.- There was much talk about the carnival, and every one present said it would be the largest and grandest ever held. v The Finance Committee will start to morrow collecting subscriptions and get' ting merchants to increase theirs. jThe Advertising Committee, through its chairman, Mr. R. R. Bellamy, re ported that the advertising would begin Tuesday with a mil programme of amusements for the week ; Everybody is more enthusiastic than ever and merchants are requested to send tbeir orders m to the "printing offices to have the W. & W. advertisements put on them; the Executive Committee pays for them. The meeting adjourned to meet Mon day night at 8 o'clock -at Mr. Thos. D. Meares office, in the S. A. L. building. A full attendance is desired. ROCKY MOUHT FAIR. Better Weatner-Iiarge Crowds in At tendane-The Btoet A Good Display ' In the Agricultural Department. . Special Star Correspondence , ; Rocky Mount, Nov. 9. Notwithstanding the heavy rain and wind storm ol yesterday, wntcn was calculated to keep people from attend ing the Fair, we had a better day and a much target crowd came in than was ex pected. The ciowd on the grounds was variously estimated from 1.500 to 2,500; 2,000 would be nearer the figures. The town was literally thronged with white and colored people . who did not enter the grounds. The agricultural display was very good better than last fair but not very large. Floral Hall was not as elaborately decorated as hereto fore, nor was the ladies' handiwork so large; though small, some' of it was very exquisite. Pantry supplies, cakes and lelhes were quite small, but what was on band was very tempting to the palate. The racing, running and trotting was very good, and would have been better, out some oi tne unest stocK several horses left on Wednesday evening dur ing the pending of the storm. Uur fair has certainly been unfortu nate for the last two or three years in having bad weather to contend with. It the crowd will be ball as large to morrow,, t riday, the management will about come out even and may probably have a small bonus. . W.B.I. COTTON FACTS AND FIGURES, - Receipts here yesterday 629 bales; same day last year. .781. " Spot cotton jdull in New York at 8c for middling. Futures closed steady; November, 8.05; December, 8.11; Janu uary, 8.14; February, 8.21; March, 8.29; April, 8.86; May, 8.48; June, 8.50. The New Orleans. Times-Democrat notes as a fact that the weight of cotton bales has begun to decrease. -Last year September bales averaged 523.1 pounds. while this year the average of September bales was 516.63 pounds. For the two months of September and October of last year the average was 510.38. and for the same months this year 503.08, a decrease of 7.3 pounds. The decrease seems to be progressive; as the season crows older the bale grows smaller. The decrease. however, is not so -marked in the At lantic States as in the Mississippi Valley and southeastern States. Two years. ago it seemed to be the object of Texas planters to get all the cotton possible into a single bale and they , frequently shipped to market bales approximating l.OOO pounds, and sometimes running as high as 1,100. - Texas is now sending to market bales about the size of those put upon the Atlantic States. 510 pounds. The reason for the big bales in the Mis sissippi Valley and Texas is traceable to the system ot freight charges that ob tained in those sections two years ago. Then a bale of cotton was a bale of cotton on the freight schedules, whether it weighed 800 or 1,000 pounds, and the charge was the i same. The planters. therefore, began 1 making as big bales as their presses would turn out, in or der to economize on freights. Numer ous complaints from spinners to ship pers were received, alleging : deteriora tion of quality, because of bad packing and insufficient covering, but the packers paid little attention to the complaint as long as they could save to $3 a bale in freight charges. The transportation com panies, however, "caught On" to the scheme of the packers some time ago and fixed their rates by . the pound, so that the cost now is in proportion to the weight," and not the number ot bales. This has had the effect of bringing bales down to a reasonable and convenient size. . The ,W., XT. IT. B, B. A Berkley, Va., correspondent of the Norfolk Virginian says: - The connecting link ' between the Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk rail road and the Norfolk and Southern will be completed in a short time, and it will undoubtedly add greatly to the business and prosperity of Berkley, as all the business of this new road will pass through this .town. N. C. Conference. The North Carolina Conference of the M. E. Church South will be held in Wil mington next month. -The C. F. & Y. V. Rv R. announce that tickets at re duced rates will be sold from stations. along the line of its road, December 2d to 7th. with final limit to December 15th. The rate from Fayetteville will be $4.05; Greensboro, $7.45; Maxton, $4.25; San- lord, $5.45; Rural Hall, $8,80. COURT. t In Session AH Night Awaiting a Verdict In the . Caae of Conoley -va. . the T&trw J-TT1L . A a ,1 - r n I ywvw w AHnm vu Ail ma ihum jrn- seated. The U, S. Circuit Court,- Jadge Sey mour presiding,- remained m session Wednesday'night awaiting i a; verdict frotnthe jury in the case of. Margaret Conoley vs. the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company until two 'o'clock in the morning of Thursday, when a recess was taken until 10 o'clock a. m. ; ; ?At l.?2 a.; m. Samuel Hinsdale Mac- Rae, Esq., of Fayetteville, was sworn in as an attorney of the Court and admitted to practice.: f '.Sir 'j 1$ -pSK, In the case of Brockman vs. Mclntyre (tried at this term) a motion was made by defendant's counsel to set aside the verdict,. The motion was dented. In the case of W. G. LeDuc, receiver of the People's National Bank of Fay etteville vs. : Elizabeth MacRae Lilly. and Tier husband. E. I- Lilly, defendant was allowed sixty days to file answer as of this term. .- : ; '. . -. it was oraereo by the court, that in accordance with the 67tb rule governing equity practice, as amended at the De cember term, 1854, of the U. S. Supreme Court, general power, is vested in the Clerk of this (Circuit) Court to jiame commissioners to tatce testimony in equity cases. ; - .'' '"j.-'l At 10 o'clock a. m.. the Court re assembled, and after some routine busi ness had been disposed of the jury in the case of Margaret Conoley vs. The New York Life Insurance. Company was called into Court. Through their fore man, Col. Thos. J. McJlhenny, they told. the Court that they could not agree upon all the issues presented. To the ques tions, "What was the age of Simeon Conoley at the date of the application for insurance," and "Did he sign the ap plication," they returned no answer. To the other issues propounded the answers were . ": .- Did Simeon Conoley know as to the statement as to his age contained in the application as set forth in the answer? Yes. ; ' -i:- Did he assent to the statement as to age in the application ? . Yes. If the, age of Simeon Conoley as stated in the application is incorrectly set forth therein, did Conoley know that it was incorrect? No. Was there any understanding between Kilebrew, the agent ot thexompany, and Conoley, that the precise age of Conoley being unknown or uncertain, it should be agreed upon as "46" and that the in surance should issue as for that assumed age of Conoley, and was such under standing, if it existed, entered into in good faith between the agent-of the company and Conoley? Yes. U j Plaintiff's 'counselj moved for judg ment on the verdict, and counsel for de fendant moved to set it aside. The .verdict was entered subject to opinion ot the Court, and the mo tions - thereon will be . heard at the adiourned term on the 8th of January next, when the Court will decide whether there shalt be a trial de novo or a trial as to the question of Conoley's age. f ; j At 1 p. m.. there being no further business lor consideration the- Court took a recess until Monday the; 8th day of January next. , ,. , The Accident on the W. TS. & TS. B. B. The accident on the W.N. & N. R. R. (mentioned in the St Aft. yesterday) oc curred about six miles from Newbern, Wednesday about 1p.m. It was caused by a wash-out. The engine passed over safely. The Newbern Journal says: ; ""In all there were nine ears in the train; seven of them" were wholly or par tially thrown from the track, five were moderately damaged, one car was turned over. . . , ... . The passenger car stopped with! its foremost end just over the dangerous part. It was tightly wedged against the car mst ahead ot it. : J fortunately no one received any hurt of consequence. . Conductor Pae, when the shock came, struck his chest against a lounge on board, and a colored man received a very slight graze on the head -not enough, however, to hardly break the skin. We believe this was the entire amount of personal injury," .There will be no interruption of traffic or travel on the road on account of the accident. .A Veteran Bailroader The veteran railroader of this section, if not of this State, Capt. James Knight, who has held the position of master of transportation efficiently and acceptably for twenty-three years' celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday yesterday. Capt. Knight has been with the A. C LV or the Wilmington & Weldon rail road, for fifty-four years, and was the en gineer who hauled the first rails to build the road. His life has been spent in railroad work, he haying held positions whena boy on otherjroads before he was employed by. the Wilmington & Weldon road. He is honored and thought a great deal of by the company which he has worked so long and faithfully for. The Star hopes' he' may .celebrate many more birthdays. '- ' . ROCKY MOTTJTT PAIR. Stormy Weather Prevents a Large At- - tendance. i - Star Correspondence. i Rocky Mount. Nov. 9, 1893. This is Fair week and a terrible day it was on Wednesday," the; opening day. At early dawn it was raining, and during the entire day it . was very stormy, the wind blowing a perfect gale preventing everybody from .venturing out. , During the night the wind lulled and this morn ing (Thursday) the weather is not lair, put open enough to induce a large crowd to come in. It was very unfortunate for the Association that it has so happened. as to-day there would have been a tre mendous crowd to witness, the racing which ' would have been fine, as there were a good many horses that wouia have r entered the lists. The weather was so terribly bad a good many horses were taken away. However, we. may have yet a large crowd J 1 " . i J." I '' Register of Deeds Haar issued eight mamagelicenses the past week.. U. S. CIRCUIT 1893. TILLMAN'S TROUBLES. a V Time Jtt the State Fair at Colombia. 8. O. i . -TjB it By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ti Washington, Nov. 9. A special to the Post from Columbia. S. C. says There eame near being bloodshed at the State Fair grounds to-day, "while' the fair was in progress, on account of the attempt of Governor Tillman to prevent TJ. S. Metze from selling rice beer.5 p , 4 Metze killed atrial lustice hei-e sev era! years ago and is a determined man and a dead shot. Everybody momen tarily expected shooting to commence; but it appeared that the State constables were not anxious to be perforated with bullets. When the Governor heard that Metze : was selling beer ; he went to the j erounds and commanded him to stop - Metze refused and said that no man should arrest i him without a warrant, the Governor hold ing that no . warrant was necessary un der the Dispensary law. Metze used plain words, showine no ereat resoect for the Governor, j : : - I ; The Governor ! summoned 1 a bosse. some of whom were penitentiary guards, and the ; captain of. the, guards. 1 The Governor - was at a white beat and de clared that Metze should be stooped if it took all the militia in the city to do itJ lie told the men to get their guns and to shoot if necessary. - While Metze was away from his stand the constables aif-f resiea two oi nis men, ana were about to arrest a third when Metze appeared and chased them but of his stand. He then told them that he would shoot if any one; attempted to arrest him or came in his place without a warrant! The constabulary succumbed to his war4 like words, and went back to confer with the Governor and the Assistant Attor ney General" and his other advisers. who were gathered not far away. ; Metze arew tne dead line and swore e would sell until his stock gave out, which he did. Alter the (governor bad devoted seven hours to the matter, this evening Metze accepted a warrant from a city trial jus tice and will give bond to-morrow. He bad decided to sell again to-morrow, but at the intercessions of the Fair authori ties he. will desist. The Governor holds that his action is outlawry and it may be that be will take further action. There was great excitement among the thous ands oi persons gathered at the Fair. Columbia, S: C Nov. 10. Yester-j day an attempt to stop W. B. Metze from selling rice beer in "the Fairgrounds in violation of the Dispensary law was' icaiakcu uy mow auu iuc ouiic auiuuri-i ties defied. Metze refused to stop sell-! K.n. 1 . '! rant. He was afterwards arrested on la Warrant, and gave bond and stopped sell-j liiH uccr. iuc rair oocieiy lasnea uov, Tillman to eject Metze from the Fair groupds. Gov. Tillman : i referred the ui.tci.r vj luuta nuusuu tur an injunc . A T 1 TT 1 . ' tion, and said It that could not be ob tained he would stop it and eiect Metze lrom the fair grounds if be bad to order out the military to do it. j Judge Hud- son granted the injunction but Metze! made no attempt to sell beer to-day. Metze had a large crowd of his friends around him yesterday who were very! A-G 1 . I ! I uuiaui, auu uuuuic waa icdicu. VJUY.i Tillman Was ready, and determined to enforce the law with military if necesfj sary. The reason Metze was not ar rested at- first, yesterday by the consta bles was because quite a crowd was! present, and innocent persons would have been shot if trouble had been pre cipitated. . .: I - . i THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION Secretary Oreahani'a Beport A Severe ArraiKnment of Mlniater Stevens and! Admiral Skerrett. - , - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. " Washington, Nov. 10. After the Cabinet "meeting to-day, which was of unusual duration, lasting over three hours and a half. Secretary Gresbam, with the concurrence of the President; gave out for publication a long report to the President upon the Hawaiian ques tion, dated October 18th, i in which the Secretary reviews the events one by one; which had transpired up to the time of the departure of Minister Willis for Honolulu. The report is a i severe arraignment of Minister Stevens, then; representing this Government at Hawaii, and ot Admiral Skerrett, j who comH manded the U,. S. Naval forces i at Honolulu.' The report concludes with; these Words: "A careful ! considera-i tion of the facts will, I miniu which! convince you that the treaty was withdrawn -from the Senate fori further! consideration should not j be re-submitted for its action thereon j Should not the great wrong, done 'to : a feeble hut independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States i be; undone by restoring the legitimate Gov ernment ? Anything short of that will! not, I respectfully submit,, satisfy the demands of justice. Can the United States consistently insist that any othefj nations shall respect the independence of yesterday, while not. respecting tbemfj selves?! Our Government was the first to recognize the independence! of the islands, and it should be the; last to ;ac quire sovereignty over them by iorce and fraud. ; f- i' ! Respectfully submitted. (Signed) W. Q. Gresbam. effect accompanies the publication of this document,' it is assumed that the instructions given to Minister Willis, who left for bis post of duty at Hawaii: just about this time, after j being twice delayed in his. departure,- are in conso nance with the tenor of the views there were-! M ilJjby in expressed. . ; f It iselso assumed that the chang Admirals in command at Honoluli the substitution of Admiral Irwinj .for Admiral Skerrett, which was made! to take effect contemporaneously with Minister Willis' arrival there, had in view the contemplated change of policy on the part of the United States. Mia ister Willis and Admiral Irwin have un doubtedly by this time carried out1 the instructions. TWO SUICIDES At Hotels in Baltimore Teaterday, By Telegraph to the Morning' Star, Baltimore, Md.,- Nov. 10. Death claimed two illuminating gas victims this morning, A. R. Mears, a well known resident of Accomac county, Va.,j was found deadin'Reilly's Hotel. He 'ju rived from Virginia on the steamer Richmond yesterday. On retiring! last nieht Mears asked the bell boy to Open the transom of his room. This was done, but when his dead body was found this morning, the gas was turned on and the transom was closed and ooitea. s Frank P. Keenan, . a well known rail road man who was formerly a conductor in the employ of the Northern Central railroad, was found dead in the- Hotel Desch- He had just returned from' a visit to his brother in Virginia. ; He seemed despondent and retired early. This, morning bis body was found while the room was. filled with escaping gas. ft is supposed that both men committed suiciae. 0 NO. 2 EXPRESS. TRAIN ROBBED On the niinoia Central A Paokaite Con- tinins xi.ooa t.vt By Te!esraph to the Morning Star. " Cairo, III., Nov. 11. An Illinois Central train -which was held up by 'masked robbers at Mayfield Creek bridge this morning arrived here at 2.! this morning thirty-five minutes late. The story told by the conductor is that the robbers' boarded the train when it stopped at-Bardwell, two of them climb ing on the engine and three boarding the end -of the baggage and express cars. They ordered the train tq be stopped at once. Fireman Butler, colored, became frightened and jumped from the train as it slowed upL une of the robbers urea at Engineer Richard Clark, but shot 'Wide of his in ark. Conductor C. Shearin land Express MessengerE.B.McNeil made a valiant resistance, but they -could accomplish! nothine in the face of the loaded guni. Conductor Shearin fired once at the robbers, but hit nobody. As soon as the train stopped the robbers entered the express car at the point of their pistolsi securing 133 in cash and a Isealed package containing $7,000. The 'passengers were not molested, but many were badly tnghtenea. t The railroad and express company jointly" have offered a 'reward of $1,500 tor the capture ot the robbers. , Tke SEA ISLANDS. : Asaiataqt Purgeon Magruder Be port. ' Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington. Nov. 11. Passed As sistant Surgeon Magruder, of the Marine Hospital Service, has submitted to Sur geon General Wyman his report on the inspection ct the sea islands. The lslanfs selected for the work of sanitation Were those surrounded by Beaufort adt Coosaw rivers and St. Helena Soupd. Ladies, Was saw, Dattah. Coosaw, Cofn and Paris..The territory which, suffered most trom the storm in eludes an area of about 150 square miles of fiat, low lying land, supporting an es timated population of 9,000 people, al most entirely negroes. Many of the islands do nit contain a single white per son and on tone of them does the white people amoint to ten per cent, of the whole. j Surgeon Magruder says that it does not fall within the scope of his report to attempt, to f epict the devastation and disaster left to the track ot the hurricane whose velocity exceeded 110 miles an hour, and which inundated this low lying countrj with a tide which in differ ent localities reached an estimated height of 1 1 seven . to twelve feet above high water mark, nor to chron icle the individual acts ; of. heroism and daring j performed by the people. The fact thatj in the short space of six nours, on tnis limited area, oou nouses were wrecked and washed away and 211 persons drowned or crushed beneath the timbers ot thfcir falling houses bears wit ness to the horrors of that fearful night. After obtaining all information possible concerning tie islands, be began his in spection, which lasted eight days. Nearly every plantation was visited, every bury ing place wa$ inspected and many houses were entered and the sick examined. It was gratuyinr to see mat tne reports ot unnurieu deap tying on every hand were exaggerated,! It is true that in the hur ried burial juit after the storm, owing to the water rising after a depth of two feet nao oeen rejacned, the graves were necessarily jhallbw ' and considerable stench arose Itherefrom, but prior to the date of this inspection all bodies had been reinterrfd, no oder could be .de tected and the cemeteries thereafter re quired no farther attention with but one exception, .where, in accordance with the teachings of an old superstition, that all persons drowned should con tinue to have, as they expressed it. "a watery grave, tne Durymg place nao. been located Ion the beach, so that the bottom of the graves would be below high water mark and; the body washed- ny every tiaet some ot the graves here were opened jby the gale of October 12 ana tne expeeea ooaies required re-in terment. it: The chief spurces of danger to health at the time of inspection seemed to be polluted drinking water. The high tide passed over many ot the wells, saturat ing them with salt water, rendering them brackish and unfit for use. He had the welli pumped daily for a week and ivo were thus rendered nt for use, When the sea receded to its proper limits . innumerable pools of brackish water were 10. Under the influence of the sultry weather which then prevailed, they gave rise to unpleasant odors and increased tojan alarming degree the ma laria from Which the section is never free. To relieve this unsanitary condi tions, gangs jpf laborers were put to work and thirty-aine miles of drains were cleared and! opened, relieving a large portion ot me country ot the surplus water. t In concluding his report"5urgeon Ma gruder says!: The crops were almost entirely lostl St. Helena and the adja cent territory suffered most, not only in this way, bit also -in the loss of life, stock and d f ellings. It will therefore be readily seen; that the most difficult ques tion which now suggests itself is that of subsisting these impoverished- people during the approaching winter. A very tew supplies were saved from the flood, and these have almost all been consumed. and it is question. of but. a short time before he majority of- these people will be in actual need. Happily lor the country theicolossal work of 'furnishing subsistence o this large population has been undertaken by the Red Cross So ciety, underthe leadership of its Presi dent. MissfClara Barton, who has al ready been n the field for -the past six weeks doing noble work, and it is surely to be hopedthat the approach of Spring will And another magnificent charity brought to I the successful termination which usually characterizes the work of this Society" - TWcj WOMEN KILLED In a 8trugli with a Bobber at Biverton, . Alabama. . By Tefegraph to the Morning Star. . ' Birmingham, November 11. A spe cial from Rfverton, Ala., says that early, this mornijg an unknown man with a mask acroal his face entered the bouse of Mrs. Dawns, who was reputed to have considerables money, m the house. .The woman struggled with the robber and be shot her though the heart, killing her instantly. Her daughter ran to her as sistance and. was also shot-and killed. The man wis in the act of robbing the house whenf Mrs. ' Dayis'.16-year old son returned home. He saw . the , dead bodies of hp mother and sister lying on the floor anil the murderer ransacking a trunk. The son fired three bullets at, him, each of which took effect, death en suing almost instantly. ' The son left the three bodies lying where ther fell and notified the authorities. The -robber is unknown ts the vicinity. - . . The chill and executive council of the Osage Indian nation have just issued an edict ordering all negroes to. leave the reservatioaan thirty aays, ana notuying them that ny negro found in the country after that lime will be given fifty lashes. Observer : ' Mrs. Cora t of Mr. C. B. Ledbetter. Wednesday night, aged about 87 vearf Deceased had been ill tor only tenjggp, and her death was a great shock to her family and friends. ; Mount Alrv '. News: - Depufv V- ; Sheriff I. W.'Reece, who has just re- -turned, from Yadkin county, tells the ' News of a terrible and very distressing . accident that occurred on Monday of last week near Hamptonville. Mr. John v aeagraves, an aged gentleman- of 57 years, was out in the woods with his son. , The latter cut down a tree and. as it fell, his father stepped out of the bushes ' only to be struck by the tree which killed ( y him instantly. v . ';: 'XV:;i ; Hillsboro Observers Special rev enue agents have recently destroyed three illicit distilleries in the eastern ' part of this county, in what is known as the "shooting district," , - Umstead Jones, colored, who was convicted in t our Superior Court last week of murder1 , in the second degree for killing another . coiorea man named Bob Morrow, has . " been sentenced to hard labor in the peni- -tentiary for twenty years.- 4 - v Weldon News i :A respectable looking man, who subsequently turned ' 1 out to be a heartless rogue,-swindled several iamilies here last week. He went " from house to house pretending to be a first-class photographer.. He -said his -tent would be put up that day and in or- - der to introduce bis fine work here he had divided the town into five sections, and to five families only he would give the privilege of one dozen high art, cab inet size photographs -and a large size -crayon portrait, all for. one dollar. He succeeded ,in humbugging one or two -ladies, and probably others were taken in by the plausible villain.1 Heiwas one oi the worst of fakirs. Wadesboro Mes senger'Intelligen- cer: we noted last week that z,eo Gor don, son of Mr. J. D. Gordon, of White's Store, had his right hand badly lacerated ; by being caught between the cog wheel and trundel bed of a horse power gin, .. and we regret to learn that partial am putation of the hand has since been necessary. The thumb , and three fin- , gers were taken off last Sunday. - Enoch Roper, colored, a brakeman on the Seaboard Air Line, was killed at ., Hoffman- last Saturday night by being 1 run over by the Atlanta special. Roper went to sleep while sitting at a switch 4 waiting for the fast train to pass, and i was run over and killed. ' Sanford Express. The majority of the farmers of Moore county cer tainly have no right to complain of hard times, even if their pockets are not full of money. The most of them' made good wheat crops last summer. They have just cribbed fine crops of corn, and along with " that the heavy mast will " greatly assist in making their meat. So they will have provisions for making an other crop. And not only that; they have economized and are not so badly in debt to the merchants as they were during former years. They are in. much better circumstances than the laborers in the towns and cities. Mr. A. A. McPhall, a well-to-do farmer of the St. Andrews community, sustained a considerable loss by fire last Sunday night. Early in the night fire was discovered in his cotton, gin, which with four or five bales of cotton was soon enveloped, in flames. The fire spread from there to his barn, stables and crib. With all these he lost 200 or 300 bushels of corn, 3 head of cattle and a large quantity of forrge. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary, as it occur red on Sunday night when there was no -fire about the gin. Monroe Enqmrer: Mrs. Eliza beth Guin, wife of James Guin, died at - at her home in Buford townsnip last Friday. There are now twelve . prisoners in jail and court is more than two months off. The Hessian fly, which has been so destructive to small grain for the past few years, has not made its appearance in this section this season. Cant. 1. 1. Yountz showed us a bar of gold last Saturday which rep- resented some of the fruits of his labors I at the SurfacetHill Mine. The bar was worth $240. The Surface Hill Mine is indeed a valuable property. . There is an old clock undergoing . repairs . in Mr. ftrauss shop, l he clock is the property of Mrs. Zylphia Simpson and is more than twice as old as the historic clock told of in the old time school books, which stood in a far- . mer s kitchen for fifty years and then suddenly refused to work. The old clock , is eight feet high and is made almost en tirely of wood, there being but two me talic wheels in it. It is wound up by pulling a chard.' Although the make of - the clock is old fashioned, it is a good time keeper and tells faithfully the : , second, minute, hour and5 day of the -month. - Greenville Reflector: Mrs. Rich ard Hozier, whose critical illness from a stroke of paralysis was mentioned two weeks ago, died on Tuesday evening of last week at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, Mr. J- IX Williamson. -The house of Mr. Bently Harriss at Farm ville was entered by a burglar last Thurs day night while the inmates we;e out , visiting, and all Mrs. Harriss' jewelry, consisting of watch and chain, rings,, bracelets, etc., and also what money in the house was stolen. The thief seemed : tobave examined everything as the trunks and bureau . drawers had been searched and many of their contents "scattered ;' over the floor. One of Mrs."r Harris rings was found on the piazza next morning. No clue to the thief, who evidently was acquainted-with the house and was only intent on the money and jewelry, as -nothing else was taken. On Friday a, smart thief went into Capt. Richard Williams' house near Falkland and -x. helped himself to a watch and pistol. Capt. Williams was about the premises and soon discovered his loss as well as ' seeing the thief, who was a negro man and an old penitentiary convict; He gave chase, but thinking discretion the better part of valor and not caring to be shot with his own pistol, he went to Capt. John King's, got a gun and started in pursuit, not, however, before the thief had gone beyond observation. . , Fayetteville -; Observer ; ' Oar, city seems to be infested with robbers. An attempt was made tol break in Mc- , Dome's drug store Monday night, but the thief was frightened awayr On Sunday afternoon, October 5th, that venerable mother in Israel, Mrs. Sarah Tomlinson, breathed her life peaceably away, surrounded by the loving care of her grandchildren to the fourth genera tion. She was a remarkable woman. -Though in her 91st year she retained her intellectual vigor and cheerfulness to the ' last." All her children passed on before her and . she lived to see - one hundred and two of her descendants.. Last Saturday night," between 11 and 12 o'clock, as Mr. W. T. Sloan was " on his way from his store on Gillespie street and was approaching his residence on Winslow street, a man sprang from', behind a large tree and clutched him by the throat with One hand and caught his ; wrist . with the other,? Mi. Sloan having a pistol ..in that ' hand. . A. fierce struggle . ensued, during which v v the man, who was a ,' large 1 heavy , built person, got a little the advan--tage of Mr, Sloan, whereupon he cried out foe help, and his wife immediately rushed to door with a lamp, the villain . . finding the light unpleasant immediately relaxed his hold and made off, followed by several bullets from Mr. Sloan's re volver, but with What effect is not known. Mr. , Sloan had a considerable, sum of money on his person, the receipts Of Sat urday afternoon and '.night's business, and it was1 probably known by his assail ant, whom Mr. Sloan thinks was a white man, but is not certain. ; . ' . ' - it, Hi ! ! !! v r 0 a-
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