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pit Weefelg gtev. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicionm. roBUsmo at WILMINGTON, N. C., $100 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. s 1 88888888888888888 The Weekly Star 88388888888838888 ! SMiaoW9 2SSSSS58S5S6S;giS8 T"l 88888888888888888 Jj i gT" -sqiaoH Z C " - -qjoow I I- 88888888888888888 88888888888888888 S2!2:28gasS;S88a 838888S8388888888 82886888838388888 ssaaM Z 3838888883388888 HJO(Bt. ODCft O eO -V M5 5 1 o I Entered at the Post Office at ilmtgton, N. C, as 1 Second Clan Mater.l J" StJBSC RIPTION P ICE. The subscription price of the We?i.ly Star Uai fellows: I - Jogle Copy 1 year posttge paid. t! B months " ' . u " 3 months " . 91 oo w? 00 ANOTHER RUMOfi. If the Nicaraguajcalial doesn't at tract attention owe way it does an other. A short' while ago we bad a rumor Jhlu. the Japanese Govern ment was intriguing to get control sty the franchise. This was shortly afterwards denied. Then we heard another rumor. that the company hich held the franchises was nego tiating with an English company, to whica it proposed to turn over the" franchises, and now we have re peated a rumor which was sent out several months ago to the effect that an English company had secured from the Nicar.igujn Gjverntnent the exclusive right for tnirty years to navigate lake Nicaragua and San Jaan river, both of watch are to form apart ot the proposed canal. If the concessions to the canal company have not expired this would be a violation of the agree ment between the Government of Nicaragua and the company, which will of course protest against it, if there be anything in it. The dispatch- states that this reported con cession to the English company may become a subject of investigation by the canal company and by this Gov eminent. Perhaps this Government may feel called upon to have some thing to say about this, and to insist that tne canal company, which is composed of American citizens, be protected in whatever rights it may have in that enterprise, for it has spent in round figures about $1,000,000, which, of c urse, would be so much sunk if the exclusive right to navigate that lake or that river were given to another com pany, It would mean a quietus on the canal, for that is what the "ex elusive" provision in the reported concession means if it has been made. . There mav be some doubt abix it and yet there is gooji-ground for the belief thatH3nziish influence has long at work in the effort to either, get control of these conces sions or t j defeat that enterprise un der American auspices. There is more ground for this belief now smce it has been announced that English capital'sts have secured a controlling interest in the Panama Canal upon which work is now and bas been progressing for some time. Two canals through the isthmus will be one too many as profitable ventures, and heuce the capitalists who have put their money in the Panama scheme would like to see the other securely tied up for all time. They can't show their hand too openly for fear that it would stimu late interest in the Nicaragua scheme and hasten action by this Government, and hence they play cunningly and under cover. If 'they canh'jld it in check until they make the connection between the two oceans, and have their waterway open for business, they have little fear of another canal being built any time in the near future and they will hive a sate monopoly, with no com petition. Perhaps this may be the secret of th;s reported concession to this English company, if it be trae. It is not very improbable that the Nicaraguan Government would have granted such a concession for a con sideration f ir there has been so much dallying with the canal scheme s'nce it was first launched that the Nicaraguans have probably aban doned the hope of seeing it built by the company now holding the con cession or under the auspices of this Governmetat. There has been so much talk about it, so much said and o little done, and, so little assurance 1 anything ever will be done that toe Nicaraeuan Government has Probably trion ,,n 9n. hnn. that it j s"5wwwsj mi8ht have entertained when the cncessions were originally granted, and to which it has once or twice famed an extension of time. I 'rne canal company has been play- in? the Government of Nicaragua o one side and this Government on he other hnMinn ik. nneainnfi ,ro it, which really cost nothing , UVIUIUK bliV. VV.-" UQt Dromicpc r( c.thinir in the Promises of srmet hinir ,Qture, and working to get this Gov ment to build the canal. This is 0Qe of the considerations which has Perated against this scheme from the start, because there wre many no regarded it as a scheme of some hrewd maH to make a lot of money 0ut of nothing, and make tbe Gov- VOL. XXVIII. ernment of the United States as sume all the responsibility and take all the risks. If the canal company were out of it altogether, and the work to be done and the responsi bility assumed -by the Government in other words, if it was to be exclu sively a Government enterprise with out any company mixed up in it to reap the profits, they would be more tavorably disposed towards it. Bat be this as it may, whether this company Is taking advantage of the situation to make some money for itself or not, the scheme is a good one and should have been pushed to completion long ago. There are few people who have given it any vuyugui who ao not admit that it would be a grand thing for this coun- njr aau oi mesumaDie importance from a naval standpoint, as opening a short route for the passage of our war ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific, for the protection of the P4 cific coast, which has become all the more important siace Japan is loom ing up as a naval power and show ing a disposition to contest suprem acy in Pacific waters. This consid eration, leaving commercial consid erations out ot view, should have been sufficient to have enlisted the active interest of this Gov ernment in this scheme several years ago. We may keep on fooling with it until finally it passes into other hands and we will lose the op portunity of controlling it and mak ing it ours. MINOR MENTION. The nomination of Henry George by the ami Tammany Convention (after the Tammany Convention made its nominations) on a platform so aggressive, uncompromising and denunciatory of the Tammany Con vention, doubtless means that Mr. George is io for the race and that there will be four tickets in the field if Mr. Low sticks. It is evident not only from the platform adopted,, but from its caustic denunciation of the influences that shaped the Tammany platform, that the friends of Mr. George are not asking any favors of the gold men, and under the circum stances it is not likely that they will receive any. A united Democracy can carry New York at any time, but with a divided Dem ocracy the only hope for either faction j is in division on the other side. That's the situa tion now. Two Republican candi dates in the field, one representing the regular Republican organization, the other an independent; two Dem ocratic candidates, one representing the Tammany organization, the other the opponents of Tammany. As we see it at this stage of the pro ceedings the chances are in favor of the regular Republican ticket which will have the support (under cover, of course) of the Washington admin istration, and more money than either of other tickets can command. The gold Democrats, who voted for Mr. McKioley last year, are not go ing to let Mr. George win if they can prevent it, and If they find it rough paddling for the Tam many candidates, and their chances doubtful, tbey will cast their votes for the Tracy ticket. And the prob abilities are that a good many of the present supporters of Mr. Low will do the same. f , An impression seems to prevail that Hon. Marlon Butler is playing Governor Russell to carry out his own schemes. We do not know bow that is, whether Mr. Butler Is play ing the Governor, or the Governor is playing Mr. Butler, but they are probably trying to play each other and for that reason they are playing together. Russell Is brash and bull beaded, while Butler is cunning, un scrupulous and wary. He will sug gest and put the Governor in the front to assume the responsibility, while be will keep in a position to slip out if it should be advisable to slip. Butler may find support from the Republicans necessary to hold his grip since the middle-of-the-road fellows have begun to kick, and Otho Wilson has put on his war paint and threatened to "mash Butler's mouth." The Russell Butler programme seems to be to make the North Carolina railroad lease the issue in the next campaign, and they have an idea that a good many Democrats will bite at that and go with them in it, but they are reckoning without their host if they Lnnnose that the Democrats of this i ""-far State are going to let tnem mane issues to divert attention from the short comings and tbe devilment of the Rep.-Pop. combine, which has done so much to disgrace and humil- late this State since it has held tbe reins. There are differences of nnininn amonff Democrats on that I I W lease question, but the Butler-Russell -.mhlne ran t DlaV tnat tO Caicn Democratic votes There has been much glorification over the return of the long-looked-for prosperity. High wheat brought it, but it didn't distribute it over the country, it struck tne wneai gtuw ing section and helped the men wbo I 3 Jr 1 " ' ' ' ' I . a I. - , - - " . .. i .n had wheat to sell to Dav some of superior gourt. their debts and to bay things they needed, and thus others were bene fitted by the prosperity that came to the wheat grower. But so far the prosperity has been sectional, and very little of it has spread south ward. Cotton is to the South what wheat is to the West. High priced Lwheat means prosperity for the West; high priced cotton means prosperity for the South; but in stead of high priced cotton, we see cotton five or six dollars a bale lower than it was this time last year, while nearly everything the cotton planter has to buy is higher. If be has to buy flour or corn, he has to pay more for them than he did last year when he got more for his cotton, and everything else he has to buy has gone up, while cotton has gone down, with very lit tle prospect of its going up much. We are not disposed to do an unne cessary amount of grumbling, nor to look on the dark side of things, but the prosperity over which the Re publican papers are making so much ado, seems to be confined to that section for which the Republican party principally legislates, although it didn't legislate the prosperity in this time. The wpmen of Montreal, Canada, struck a lot of cheap bicycles lately. The bishop prohibited his priests from riding the bike and as the kind they used are the kind used by women, they were thrown on the market cheap. la a recent election in a New Jer sey township there wasn't a single vote cast for coroner, although two candidates were running. This puts both of these citizens above the sus picion of having voted for them selves. A paper bottle, a German idea, is among the latest inventions. It is made impervious by some chemical process. They are intended princi pally for use on vessels at sea, where the rocking plays smash with glass bottles. A lot of those colored Liberian colonists who left Savannah about a year ago, singing and rejoicing, reached Liverpool the other day, but were not in a festive mood. They were sufficiently amused with Li beria. Congressman Livingston, of Geor gia, predicts that Cuba will be free and doing business on her own ac count by the 1st of January. This isn't giving Mr. Weyler much time to pack up aud pull out. A Catholic pastor in Pittsburg, Pa, will not admit the public to weddings in his church. He thinks that people about to marry have ordeal enough to go throngh with out running the gauntlet of a mob. Bismarck says the Kaiser's hatred of England has almost isolated Germany. Well, what of that ? Hasn't Germany got the Kaiser, and can't he entertain it and keep it warm ? Canada juries do not put a high price on the kiss in the family. A young woman who sued her 76-year-old uncle for $2,000 for kissing her while driving her somewhere, got a verdict for 20 cents. Mrs. Luetgert, who is supposed to be dead, must be ont on a prospect ing tour, if she was seen in Wiscon snn and shortv afterwards in Nebraska. ' The Russian police have discovj ered another conspiracy against the life of the Czar, and have made 120 arrests, among them two officers Of Kaiser William's army. Several slight shocks of earth quake were felt in Maine the other day, but it was probably only Tom Reed. doing some of his emphatic thinking. Boss Quay, of Pennsylvania, ad mires the dexterous manner in which Boss Piatt runs the machine in the Greater New York. 1 Meat is said to be so scarce in Cuba that there is none to be found in Havana, and poor people are eat ing cats and dogs. - That X ray machine, with which it is said that a man may be seen clean through, has been constructed for a Washington doctor, who will use it. Bar a Instead oi Horne. The Observer is responsible for the following horrible story: "Three well known Fayetteville gen tlemen went deer hunting this morning. At noon a telegram Was received from Manchester stating that one of these rntlttmen. a popular raiiroaa omciai, had killed one of Mr. Tohn Clark's mules, mistaking it for a deer. catton DrcBi Agsin The cotton market seems never to make a change now, except for the worse. The quotation for middling yes terday was exactly 3 cents per pound lower than it was on the corresponding day of 1396. And the prospects are that it will get lower still. One buyer remarked yesterday that he wouldn't be surprised if it got as low as 5 M cents. WILMINGTON. N. C.f FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1897. jodgmett im the ci m one t the b. Tax Cases-An Appeal Ttkm br D:- andant Other Bmlieii-C.f ea 5 Set tot Tflal Tc-moTi w. When the Superior Court reassem bled yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the trial of the case of City of Wilmington vs. Mrs. R. C. Stoker, et al.. suit broaeht by plaint' ff i to recover back taxes, was resumed, and argument was made in be half of the defendants by Jno. D. Bel lamy, Esq., and C. P. Lockey, Esq., and in behalf of the plaintiffs by Geo. Roan- tree, Esq., A. G Ricaud, Esq.. and E. K. Bryan, E;q. Judgment was eiven to the plaintiff) for $418, taxes for years 1891, 1892 and 1893, with interest from the time doe at 8 per cent, per annum. Counsel for the defendants appealed aod notice of appeal was waived. The appeal bond was fixed at $25 and the defendants were allowed thirty days in which to make a statement of the case. Ia the case of Sol Bsar & Co. vs John Gill, receiver, et al., judgment was given for the plaintiff. The sntt brought by The B. F. Mitchel Co. vs. C. M. Wait lock consumed the time of the Court for tbe remainder of the day. A verdict was rendered for the defendant. Shortly after 8 o'clock Court took a recess until 10 o'clock to-morrow morn ing. T. B. Burnett vs. W., N. & N. Railway company, an action broaeht bv the plaintiff to recover damages sustained while a passenger on that road, is the first cise docketed to be tried tomorrow. This case was tried at the September, 1896. term of Court, and a judgment given the plaintiff, bat upon an appeal of tbe counsel for the defendant the Supreme Court granted a new trial. C. P. Lockey, Esq . A. J. Marshall, Esq . and Bellamy & Bellamy will appear lor the plain tig and Col. A. M. Waddell and Jno. D. Bellamy, E q , for the defendants. There are also several more of the suits brought by the city of Wilmington against individuals for tbe recovery of back taxes set for trial to-morrow, bat it is stated that all will bs continued until the next term. OCTOB-R MOVING Crnnges in PJaoss cf Husin ss Since the First Ice' ant. Messrs. Wm. E Worth & Co., ice manufacturers, have moved their down town ice department to No. 10 D ick street, between Front and Water. Tbe capacity of their ice plant now is 100 tons daily. L R R. LOVE A BRO. Messrs. R. R. Love & Bro. give notice of the removal of their wholesale gro cerv and commission business from 21 North Water street to 110 North Water street, tbe store formerly occupied by Mr. J. A. Montgomery. A growing business compels Messrs. Love & Bro. to seek more room. MP. TAYLOR JR., a CO. M. P. Taylor. Jr., & Co. have ther bi cycle parlors, work sbopi and renting department in the old National Bank building, into which - tbev have moved in tbe last few days. This is a good stand, centrally located, and tbe "bike" business ought to thriva there. C. D. FOARD. Mr. C. D. Foard has removed his stock of hardware and house furnishings to No. 29 South Front street, formerly occupied by the Alderman Hardware Company. This has been a hardware store for some time and is in a pood busi ness portion of the city. Mr, Foard an nounces that he will keep always on band a complete stock of everything in bis line. THE SNEED COMPANY! as announced previously, will occupy the large building on the southeast cor ner of Second and Market streets, and will have it fitted up in good shape for the furniture business. CITY MARKETS. Tbe Usual Assortment Orst?rs BesinntOSC to Come In Fruit Growing Searoe. There was tbe usual assortment of edibles on the city markets yesterday. In addition, oysters are beginning to be in abundance. There were a few dressed birds on sale, rice birds at 40 cents a dozen and coots at 50 and 60 cents per dozen. Of fruits, watermeions are play ing out and North Carolina apples be ginning to be replaced with Northern fruit. Grapes are still plentiful. Eggs sold at 16?s and 18 cents per dozen Prices as follows : Vegetables Sweet potatoes, 80c per peck; Irish potatoes. 85c per peck; toma toes, 5: per quart; collards, 5c per head; field peas, 5c per quart; butter beans, 10c per quart; string beans, 5c per quart; okra, 5c per quart; onions, 5 to 10c per quart; cabbage, 5 to 10c each; turnips, 5c per bunch; roasting ears, 30c per dozen; lettuce, 5c per head. Meats Steak, loin, 13c; round, 10c; chuck beef, 6 to 7c; stew, 5 to 6c; mat ton, 10 to 18Kc; veal, 10 to 13Jc; tongue, 18 to 15c; fresh pork, 10c; sausage 10c. Clams, Crabs and Shrimps Clams, 15c per quart; soft crabs, 80 to 40c per dozen; channel crabs, 10c per dozen shrimps, 10c per quart. Fruit Watermelons, 5 to 15c each; grapes, "& to 5c per quart; apples, 80c per peck; pears, 40c per peck. Poultry Grown fowls, 35 to 85c each; Spring chickens, 30 to 80c each; dressed chickens, 80 to 85c. Fish September mullets, 10 to 15c per bunch; drum, 15c each; pig fish, 15c per buach; blue fish, 15c per bunch; spots, 15c per bunch; 'flounders, 10c per bunch. Oysters New River, L00 per gallon; Stump Sound, 75c per gallon. During tbe past week marriage licenses were issued to two white and three colored couples, and daring the month of September thirty-two marriage licenses were issued, divided equally among the whites and colored. COTTON EXPORTS. Expats of Cotica Hve Bean TJanuHy Lugq In tbe Month JaSt Eiid d-Cal-oulatlon Shews rh9 Value of B le of Oo'.'on to bi S'x or tteTen Djllara Xieas Tnan IiMt Y:a A comparison jpf the cotton shipments for the month fust ended with those of September, 1896. is decidedly in favor of this year, as is also a comparison of the number of cotton steamers in port and cleared daring the month. In September,' 189S, six steamers ar rived, with a net tonnage of 9,143 tons; three steamships cleared, of which the net tonnage was 4,340 tons, and they carried out 31,288 bales, or 10 648 831 pounds, valued at $853,000. Id September, 1897, there were nine arrivals of steamships, with a net ton nage oi 10135 tons. Counting tbe Vera, cleared by J. H. Sloan last night. there were in September, 5 clearances, the net tonnage being 8.011 tons. These 5 vessels carried oat 88 674 bales 19,962,184 pounds, valued at $1,833,048. rne increase in arrivals is 8; in clear ances, 3; in tonnage of arrivals, 7,295; in tonnage of clearances, 3 671; in num ber of bales taken out. 17 886; in pounds. 9,815,808; in value. $485 048. The calculation shows that a bale of cotton this year is worth on an average $34 60, a bale last year was worth $40 07. At tbe prices ruling now there would be a greater difference in the values for this year and last, but early in the sea son, as will be remembered, the price was higher. The average bale this year is heavier by fifteen or twenty pounds than the average bale in September, 1896, and that makes the average value seem higher in the comparison. The Artesian W U at Hilton. The work of boring the artesian welt for the Glarecd in Water Works Com pany, at contracted for with Messrs. Thompson & Storey, of Wheeling, W Va., and which is to be located at Hilton at the station of the company, will not commence until about the 13ch inst., as Superintendent W. F. Robertson, of the Clarendon Water Works Co., has received a letter to that effect from Messrs Thompson & Storey. The derrick and all tbe necessary tools, however, will ar rive in a few days and wiil bs immedi ately transported to Hilton so as to cause no delay when the force of hands arrive. The force will be divided into two parties, one working during the day and the other at night. When the well is bored sufficient to yield pure water the suction and force pump of tbe com pany will be attached to tbe well and the water distributed through mains around tbe city. In Fayetteville, an ar tesian well has been bored to a depth of from 200 to 337 feet, and fine water is obtained. QUARANTINE AFFAIRS. , Poilee Capttia Green on a Tour of Iapeat oa. Captain of Police Robert Green left last night on the 7.15 o'clock north bound Wilmington & Weldon railroad train lor Wilson to inspect the different quarantine officers now out and to see if everything is working all right. From Wilson Captain Green will go to Florence, S. C. Oil Barge No. 58, of the Stand ird Oil Company, arrived in port yesterday af ternoon, and Dr. McMillan, accompa nied by a Star representative, went aboard, to see if there was any sickness among the crew, wbicb was found not to be the case, and Dr. McMillan issued health certificates to Capt. August Neil son, tbe master of the barge and bis crew. BURNED WITH MOLTEN METAL- A Young Walts Mn of Cltrkton Sustains a Painful Ic j it j . J W. C. Eaton, of Clarkton, a young white man, arrived in the city yesterday suffering from a very painful accident. Yesterday morning about 8 80 o'clock be was pouring some melted babbit into a box at a saw mill, when tbe metal ex ploded in some way, owing- togas for mation probably, and new into his face and eyes, causing great pain and tempo rary injury of the sight. He came in over tne seaboard Air Line, and called, on Dr. W. C. Galloway for treatment. An examination showed that the metal had struck the balls oi both eyes, and of tbe left in such a way as to make it probable that the sight wiil be weakened lor a time at least. AH the lashes were burnt from the left eye lids, and the tear-ducts of the right eye were seared, so that Mr. Eason will shed tears habitually nntil medical treatment corrects the defect. : I The Quarantine Affects the Newiboya' Ea?ni ng?. Under present quarantine regulations news dealers on tbe trains are not al lowed to sell bananas or any other fruits comihg from infected districts, so the news dealer on the Caps Fear and Yad- kia Valley Railroad was informed yes terday by the quarantine officer at Fay etteville. This restriction will lessen tbe newsboys' receipts quite a little, as the sales of bananas are larger than of any other frnit it not of every other article sold on the train. Mortuary Bsocrd. The record in tbe office Of Dr. W. D. McMillan, superintendent of health, for the past week shows twelve deaths, two white and ten colored, and fourteen births, six white and eight colored. Daring tbe week five residences were quarantined, two on account of diph theria and three on account of scarlet fever. Deaths the past week were caused by the following diseases, viz: Paralysis, 1; typhoid fever, 3; gastto entritis, 1; tuber culosis, 8; malarial fever, 1; meningitis, 1; accident, 1; unknown, 8. Weather in September. Tbe meteorological summary for Sep tember, furnished by Mr. Chas. M. Strong, local forecast official of the Weather Bureau, shows that tbe mean temperature daring that month in Wil mington was 73"; highest, 94, lowest, 63s. Tbe prevailing direction of wind was northeast; maximum velocity 36 miles, on the 33d. Tbe total rainfall was 1.54 inches; average rainfall this month tor 87 years, 5 17 inches. There were 17 clear days; 5 partly cloudy; 8 cloudy. Before many moons have wax ed and waned, middling cotton will sell for more than six cents. BALL. The National Irtsgne Hesnh ot Yesterday's Games and Other Intn?ein Veatnres. Since B 5-ton beat B'ooklyn Thurs day and B ilt i more lost on the same day to Washington, which assured tbe Beaneaiers of tbe ownership of the pen nant for '97, the ball games between tbe clubs of the first div.sion have been merely farces, as none of the clubs in that division can possibly lese tbeir standing, while Brooklyn and Wash ington will remain neck and neck. So it was with a feeling of relief that we hail tbe news that Baltimore and Bosk ton have run tbeir championship race. Bat our intetest is once more arousad and excitement gets the best of us when tt is announced that the Tem ple Cap series commences to morrow at Boston; and that both of the two leaders will be at their best. Umpires Alnslie and Hurst will 'officiate daring the games, as they were both acceptable to manager Hanlon, of the Orioles, and manager Selee, of the Beaneatere. To those who have not a clear under standing of tbe "Temple Cup" series the following article, from the Baltimore Sun of yesterday, wiil prove of interest: According to the stipulation of the donor of the cap; Mr. W. C. Temple, of Pittsburg, it is to be played for by the two clubs finishing first and second, tbe series of games to consist of seven, un less one of the clubs win four be fore tbe fall seven be completed. Tbe cup was given in 1894, when New York, the second place club, won Irom the champion Baltimores in four straight games, Cleveland, which was second in '95, won it from Baltimore by taking four games to Baltimore's one. Last year, as it is well known, the three-time champions beat Cleveland four straight and got the cup for the first time. Tbe receipts are divided among the players, the victorious club getting 60 per cent, of the profits. YESTERDAY'S GAMES. Brooklyn 15, Boston, 6.. Washington, 6; Baltimore, 8. Philadelphia, 18; New York. 5. Pittsburg, 7; Cleveland, 4. Chicago, 8; St. Louis, 3. Cincinnati, 9. Louisville, 8. WHERE THEY PLAY TO DAY. Cincinnati at Louisville Chicago at St. Louis. STANDING Or THX CLUBS. Per Won. Lost. Cent. 03 89 .705 90 40 .698 88 48 .684 75 56 .578 68 63 .583 61 71 .463 61 61 .468 60 70 .461 58 71 .450 55 77 .417 58 7ft .400 89 101 .838 New York. Washington Pittsburg Chicago Philadelphia Louisville ,v. . St. Louis To-day others out the league games for '97 and the strife is o'er, although there are several postponed games that ought to be played, but will probably not be, as the outcome will in no way effect the standing. The Orioles merely went through the necesaary movements yes terday, and that was all. The day was on the stormy order and less than two hundred people siw the Senators win a dull and tiresome battle. The Boston and Brooklyn teams placed their man yesterday anywhere and everywhere. Lewis pitched for the Bridegrooms, bnt didn't exert himself. It is whispered that he is slated to shove the sphere against Boston in one of the "Temple Cap" series games. The Phillies certainly yesterday made tbe G acts remember the closing of the sea son. BALEIQH NEWS ITEMS. A New Republican Orgaa Peni eotiary Coe xists to Work tbe Halifax Farm Bain Heeded Saloons to Have Poll Swias Pali Week. Special Star Correspondence Raleigh, N. C, October 8 Col. W. W. Hayward will soon begin the publication of a weekly paper at Hendersonville. It is his intention to transfer the property to Raleigh before the next campaign gets under way. He says Russell and his element have not the least bit of following in western North Carolina. Col. Hayward re turned to Hendersonville to-day. The Republicans are very desirous of establishing a weekly paper here. Of coarse it would be hostile to Russell. That worthy is never classed as a Re publican at present. Superintendent John R. Smith will send every prisoner that can wotk to the Halifax farm on Monday. He is now con ferring with tbe county commissioners with the view of borrowing fifty con vtcts from tbe county workhouee for im mediate use. Superintendent Smith proposes to repav the county later in the Fall by giving the workhouse the use of the same number to work the roads. The scheme is a new one and it is pos sible that the laws of the State may in terfere. The aldermen decided last night to allow the saloons to remain open night Fair week. Rain is very much needed here. The streams are very low. Senator John W. Daniel, who has been in the city for several days, said, in speaking of the late Senator Vance, that were that honored statesman Hying North Carolina would have a united Democracy which would sweep Repub licanism and Populism before it. HENRY GEORGE. A Movement on Foot Among Tammanyites to further His Norn (ration on the Chicago Platform. By Telegraph to the Morning Stat. "'New York, Oct. 3. Henry George is attracting more attention from politi cians than any other factor in the mu nicipal campaign. It was learned to-day that a movement is on foot among tbe rank and file ot Tammany Hall to over throw the regular nomination and in a monster mass meeting nominate Henry George on the Chicago platform, with such additional planks as tbe local situ ation may call for. The movement has developed to tbe extent of a meeting of its promoters informally and to-morrow thev will meet and formally organize. A program has been prepared and at to morrow's meeting it will be lormally adopted. la tbe foot ball match at the Virginia University between The Franklin and Marshall, and the University teams, the latter won by a score of 38 to 0. NO. 49 POLITICS IN ENGLAND. PEOPLE WEARY OF LORD SALISBURY'S BLUNDERING Sisnatf Tioiblj brewiug laWtit Africa Tbe Frenen Hnorajobinsj on Eritiah Territory The Monetary Oomnaia- sioc T.t k t Ha t atloi with Qsrai-y for a Defen eiva f. Ulanor. . By Cable to the Morning Star. London, October 8 The recent by- election in East Denbighshire, resulting in a greatly increased Liberal majority. seems to be a warning tbat the people are wearying of tbe blundering which has marked Lord Salisbury's policy. Mr. Russell recalled several instances in which be said the Premier always start ed with a fine display of vigor which oozes away so soon as bis opponent sbows fight." Continuing, Mr. Russell said Lord Salisbury backed before Sec retary Olney and is now backing down before Secretary Sherman, and tbat dur ing the course of the peace negotiations between Greece and Turkey the Czar and Emperor William bandied Lord Salisbury so effectually that he was made to eat his own announcement. Unless the signs are deceiving, trouble is brewing in West Alrica between tbe British and the French, who since 1889 have doubled their protectorate in the Western Soudan, and tbe great bulk ot the accession to French territory has been carved out of country generally re garded as being within the British sphere of influence. There are mysterious stories tfloatof disturbances at Lagos, on the weit coast of Africa, and the movements of British troops to that part of the world from ad joining colonies, coupled with the news that the French Colonial Minister is go ing to the Senegal coast, aod other suns lead to the belief tbat the situation is threatening and that the conflict ot in terests is becoming scute. A high Co lonial Office official said to a representa tive of the Associated Press: "The na tive ferment amounts to nothing; but the fact is the French are pushing us into the sea and unless we are rehabilitated by a commission to deli m mate the Anglo French lrontier more successfully than formerly there is bound to be trouble. The chancellor of the exchequer Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, returns to Lon don next week, wbere his arrival is eagerly waited by the United States monetary commissioners. While the cha&celtor of the exchequec may com municate a message immediately to tbe commissioners, it is not unlikely that it will be a notification that the govern ment is still unable to give tnem a defi nite reply to tbeir proposals, but hopes to be able to announce its conclusions at some specific future time. Public men, who are in the best position to judge, think that recent developments foreshadow a negative answer. Mai. Moses P. Handy, the special United States commissioner to tbe Paris Exposition ot 1900, has had a cordial interview with the French min ister for foreign affairs, M. Hanotaux, in regard to the objects of hit visit to Europe; bat he and .his associates are dissatisfied with the small amount of space allotted to the United States, and threaten to withdraw. It is practical ly impossible for tbe authorities to ex tend the space. Apart from the fact that the ground has been definitely chosen, the borse car and railroad line! approved and the concessions granted. there is no available space whatever in proximity to tbe building. Berlin, October 8 Tbe reports in the Turkish newspapers to the effect that Turkey is negotiating with Germany for a special defensive alliance and that Turkey is on tbe point of lotning the Dreibund, are denied emphatically at tbe German general office. The corre spondent of the Associated Prets, how ever, learns from diplomatic circle tbat approaches to that effect b a ve repeatedly been made by Turkey during the past three months and there is a variance of opinion between Emperor William and Baron von Buelow and Prince Ho henlohe, the imperial chancellor, the lat ter distinctly rejecting all such overtures. The burned arrival in Berlin of Count von Munster Ledenburg, tne German Ambassador to France, and his subse quent movements have created a sensa tion. Immediately alter tbe ambassador arrived here from Paris on Monday, he had a lengthy conference witb Dr. Miquel, Prince Hohenlohe being still away, and the same aay ne startea for Rominten to see the Emperor. After tbe ambassador's return to Berlin on Wednesday there was a special session of tbe cabinet and Count von Munater- Ledenburg then returned to Paris. There are many surmises regarding tbe mysterious movements of tbe ambassa dor; but nothing definite has been ascer tained concerning them. LU ETGERT MURDER TRIAL.. It Will Last at Lea t Three Wetks Longer Lnetgert Himself to Testify. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chicago, October 3. The close of the sixth week of the celebrated trial ot Adolph Lnetgert for the alleged murder of his wife showed the Case far from completed. Luetgert 's story has not been heard. Tbe big sausage-maker may be on tbe stand a week. The greater part of last week was de voted to threshing over old straw. The consensus of opinion at the close of the week this alternoon by close observers oi the trial since the opening was tbat the prosecution had tbe better of the ar gument. Experts of tbe defence have contradicted each otber on cross-examination. They have also made blunders in the identification of bones which amused the jurors and apparently weak ened their testimony. Both of the hands of Charles Boos, a stenographer in the Stale's Attorney of fice, are swollen badly and much inflam ed. Boos has been reporting tbe Lnet gert trial and has handled the bones .placed in evidence quite freely. A phy sician who to day examined the steno grapher's hands, said they showed evi dence of tubercular germs. Tbe result may be serious. The trial will Ifllt at least three weeks longer. MOBBED BY STUDENTS. An Editor at Waco, Who Had Befleeted on Taylor University. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Waco.Tex . October 3. W. B Brann, editor of Brann's Iconoclast, was tbe vic tim of a mob of 300 students of Taylor University, a Baptist institution, this afternoon. Mr. Brann was sitting in his publishing house, when four men took him by force to the college campus and threatened to hang him. Under threats of death be was compelled to sign a re traction of an article he bad written re flecting on Taylor University. The fo lowing fourth cus3 oostmasters were appointed ycs .erday in North Caro lina: Ek Park, Henry T Norman; Lor- eta, John f. Dav s Onlev. Mrs. V. T. Tvior; Rodatbc. F. P. Mndget; South Mills. Wilson S wyer, S.anley. Mrs Ella J. Newell; Thermal Cuy L D. Allen. POWDER Absolutely Pure ftOVM. BAKING POWBCR 00., NEW VOBK. THE FEV15R SITUATION GROWING STEADILY WORSE AT NEW ORLEANS. A Large Number of New Oaaea Bnt the Death Bate Continues Small M ire Eo eoaraelnsT Advlcea from Mobile O ly One N w Case and One Death At Bil XI the Dis ease Here Ual'Rea-1. By Telegraph to the Morning Star, New Orleans, October a Numer- ous cases of yellow fever appeared here to-day. as was expected. The weather : is warm and tbe foci of infection heve increased. The malignancy of the dis ease, however, has not been emphasized. There bave been four deaths to day and thirty-one new cases, but there have been many discharges of patients, among them being Mr. R. P. Reynolds, of the Illinois Central road. Mr. Roddy, of the same road, is doing well. The n w cases are widely scattered. No section of tbe city escapes Infection. Gov. Foster to-day wired Gov. Culber son, of Texas, and Gov. McLaurin. ot Mississippi, asking icr a cpnferecce of bealth officials on the question of mov ing mall and freight matter. Gov. Culberson to-night wired the following answer to Gov. Foster: "In view of tbe spread of yellow fever there, it is not believed to be safe to admit freight, express or passengers to Trxas from New Orleans or other Infected points, But State Health Officirr Sear ingen will confer with the aa nor lea named at any time and place vu nny v appoints " Edwards, Miss., October 8 U to, 1.80 seven new cases of veil" - . vtr have been reported, all of wbic are) whites. Two of these casts are nurara seat from Vicksburg, h did not c j"n to bave been immunes. Total case 391; number under treatment, 113; num tier convalescent and discharged, 168; num ber seriously ill, 8. Mobile October 8 Frank Pierre, a mulatto, is the only new case to en v. There was one deatb, tbat of Alexander Sellers, on Bayou street, near Eimira. Two patients were discharged. Total cases to date. 83; total deaths, 18. The occurrence of one case only is taken as evidence tbat tbe work of dis infection is having its desired eff'Ct.55 St. Elmo, Ala., has one case, George Cassibry, Jr. At Persian d there are two dases. Mrs. Mary Deekle and Miss R sline Dceme. At Scran ton, Miss., there is reported to-day five new cases and three sus picious cases. Biloxi, Miss , October 2 A. study of tbe week's report does not offer much encouragement as to any rffective measures having been put in practice to check the fever. The disease has pro bably Invaded every quarter of tbe city and there are now but few families tbat do not report cases of fever. From two to three new cases the list has gradually increased to 80 or 25 cases a day. The type is becoming more malignant. The Health Board reports : Total yellow fever cases to date, 808; deaths to date, 7; new cases to day, 16. McHeiyy, Miss , reports all fever pa- . tients doing well, with no new cases. Louisville, Ky., October 3. At a citizens' mass meeting to-day a signed statement was issced declaring untrue the rumors that yellow fever bad broken out in Louisville. The only two cases in Louisville were imported and there has been enough frost to prevent any fear of an epidemic. THE SPANISH CRISIS. Madrid. October 87. Senor Sagasta the Liberal leader, has been entrusted by the Queen Regent with tbe task of forming a new cabinet in succession to the Azcarraga ministry, which resigned on Wednesday last. Senor Sagasta, after leaving the Queen Regent, had a long conference with the Marquis Vega de Armijo, who accepts the presidency of the Cnamber. Admiral Bermejo becomes Minister of Marine, in succession to Admiral Be ranger. The financial question is demanding the greatest attention and tbe Liberals j will, at the outset of the coming session 1 of Parliament, frankly expose the posi tion of tbe Spanish treasury. Washington, October 8 Tbe news from Madrid to tbe effect that t b Q jeen Regent had, invited Sagasta to form a cabinet to succeed the Azcarraea cabi net was bailed with a feeling ot relief in official circles here. In view of the administration tbe United States and Cuba have aii to ain and nothing to lose in tbe Liberal acces sion to power. Even if the pry is not willing to go as far as the extreme Cu ban sympathizers in the United States, it is felt that there certainly wiil he a most liberal offering oi concessions to secure peace in Cuba. Sagasta is said to have stood from the first in opposition to the policy pur sued by Spain for the last year. Tboe familiar with affairs in Spam say that the Sagasta view has become very pop ular in Spain, mainlv because the war policy had served to draft most of the young men from the interior and ex pose them to disease and death. At a result of this sentiment, it is said tbat an election would give Sagasta a Liberal majority in the Cortes and thus permit him to carry on the government with out being hampered by tbe Conserva tive majority of over one hundred, which now exists in tbe Cortes. The retirement of Senor uupey de Lome is probable as a result of the formation of a Liberal ministry, and it is believed the minister will tender bis resignation as soon as he is officially advised of the advent of the Sagasta cabinet. CONSUMPTION To the Editor : I have an abeolnte Cure for CONSUMPTION and all Bronchial, Throat and Lung Troubles, and all conditions of Wasting Away. By itstimely use thousands of apparent- ly hopeless cases have been n permanently curea. of its power to cure. I proof-positive am i will send FREE to anyone afflicted. THREE BOTTLES of my Newly Discovered Remedies, upon receipt of Express and Postoffice arUrwaa. Always sincerely yours, T.'A. 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