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tUKUSKKO A- w i jl M 1 N G T O Si . N C .1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 88888 88S888S88SS2 - i 3 H 01 8 fSk 8888888888888888 SS888 888888888888 " 88888888888888888 iyHS 3588ggS33iS3388gg S88SSSSSS8SSS88S8 '"rt 1 ""asssssaas&aagg 888888S88S88S888S S28S4S8SS2888888S8 " 38888888888888888 ? ! . . . i 2 J ' ' Is : 5 " s s " tered at the Foet Office at Dmtgtoii, N. C, at SUBSCRIPTION P.SICE. T!.e subscription price of the "We-Uy Star to u I ueie copy i year, pttcepaid............,...f4 oo I 'I SSi -.. g I INCREASING ARMAMENTS AND DEBTS. '' . A few days ago we wrote on Ithe increasing amies and navies of the leading nations of -the earth, these increases being made necessary, or at least thought to be, b the land- nations. There never was seen in the world such armaments as these nations now have, and they are, not withstanding the talk of disarma meat,' constantly increasing:.; For all this ' the nations have to pay. IT ' 1 . ' ' m now neayiiy some oi them pay is shown by the following, which -we clip from the New York Tribune : Our London dispatches have tolchof the increase of Ureal Britain s naval budget. Last years was the largest on record to that time, but I this year's surpassed ii oy some i5,uuu,uuu, and there is every reason to expect that next year s win oe a lew millions larger still. The estimates this year are about twice what they were ten years ago, the increase being: from less than $70,000,000 m 1890 to nearly $135,000, uuu in icsaa. rue numoer or men in the service has also increased in equal ratio, from 58,000 in 1886 tollOp 000 at the present time. Qf course, this growth of naval armament has been altogether out of proportion to the growin or popuiatioa or commerce or national wealth. It is made in competition with the increase of Con tinental navies, which latter is 'being pressed at a great rate; and the mten tiqn is not merely to keep the British isavystronger tnan any other or any combination of others, but to put it so far ahead of them that Other!- Gov ernments will give up trying to rival it. UndVr the present policy of the Admiralty it seems not unlikely" that end will be attained. . -v ! "ine question or national debts is one of the most important factors "in the f problem.. But it is only third in size in Europe, and it is rapidly be ing; paid off. Indeed, British finan ciers are beginning seriously to con sider the question of how capital is to ti-i invested when there are no more Consols' in existence. On the pother nana, an omer national debts among trie ureat f owers are increasing. J en years ao the British debt was next to the largest. Since then it has been de creased by $355,000,000. and has fallen to third place, being now surpassed by Russia's which in the ten years has been increased by no less than $1,225,000,000. At the present time the national debts of "the chief Powers are in round sum bers as follows: France, $5, 440, 000, 000; Russia, .$3,218,000,00;- Great Britain, $3,172,000,000: Italy. $2,581. 000,000; Spain, $1,848,000,000; Austria, jij.uoo.ouo, and JFrus3ia, f 1,532, 000,000. 1' '.." . In the great game of nayal construc tion that nation will win which is most skilled in ship-building, and which is able to appropriate most money for the purpose. The nation that can increase its navy more rapid' Iy than any two or three others put together, and at the same time can be paying off its debt, while the others are adding to their debts, is assured of retaining it? advantage. And that is the happy lot of Great Britain." )t course all or these oebts are -not the, result1- of the land grabbing propensity only, but trace them back and itj would be safe to attribute nine-tenths of them to that. But increasing armaments of nations is a different thing from what it was a half or even a quarter of a century ago. In "the days .of .wooden-warships a respectable fleetj could be built for what it now costs to build one of our first-class battle ships, the floating fortresses that the sea-fighters of a generation ago never dreamed Of. One of these -in action would shoot away in a few hours projectiles enough to build one of the first-class fighting ships of a generation ago. v With the ambition of nations that can-afford to have the; best, with the rivalry between them and the continued improvement in war ships and the provisions to make them more formidable and destructive, there is no telling - what the next generation may bring ! forth, and we may 'yet see ships on the water that in power of destruction may bear about the same .relation to our present steel-armored battleships ' that the battleship of to-Hay does to the warship of thirty years ago. This means the expenditure of millions of monay not by one nation but by many nations, for the stupendous war preparations by I one nation -necessitate stupendous preparations by other nations which have inter ests that must be protected from the grasping propensity or ambitions aspirations of some other nation,. Great Britain, which has many i outlying and distant possessions to : look after, adds to her already most powerful, navy because Russia, Ger many and France add to theirs," and they in turn make theirs stronger because Great Britain adds to hers.' And thus it goes, ech. nation 71 VOL; XXX; being led or forced by the action of others, and; thus it will continue un til diplomacy, the' magnitude of the expenditures or .something else may bring about an understanding which will put an. end; to "this increase of armaments. - V r Perhaps when each 'has done all the land-grabbing: it can", they may come to some such understanding, but before that the racket may come which will add many millions to their national debts. - There are no indications to justify the belief or the hope .that these debts may become materially lessened, but on the contrary abundant indications that .'they will be largely increased. What makes it necessary for Great Britain to be spending $135,000,000 Ior "OW WarSMpS, ana tO Keep 110,-': wrmea men anoac on tne seasr Kot her commerce for that is in no present danger. It is to. be" prepared to cope with other maritime nations and to protect her possessions '-scat tered on the face of the earth, to protect the property .she wrested from peoples who could, not cope with her battleships, or stand up before her armed tfcivilizers." To the same auestion applied to other nations that aspire to rival great Britain, the same answer might be given, and then the question might be asked, "what are these 'grasping nations really gaining by their land grabbing?"; - - We have seen all this: we hare congratulated ourselves that burs were the ways oi peace and pro gress, while other 'nations were fac ing each other. -in a spirit of de fiance with great armies and navies. And yet from, some incomprehensi- bie infatuation or folly we are en tering upon a course which will put us precisely in the same condition they are in, and tangle ns up with them as they' are tangled up with each other. That is what expan sion will mean, and that will be its inevitable result. A LONG WAR. - The tenor of the officialdispatches sent from Manila these days, is that the situation improves from day to day; that the "rebels" have become tired, of the war and despondent, and that Aguinaldo's power is broken and his influence about gone.' "So Bay the dispatches "in substance, if not in so many words. ' . No other dispatches come from Manila with out passing through the -censor's hands-and having the blue pencil run through anything objection able. As a matter of factthe dis patches we get from thero are all one-sided, favorable to the Ameri cans. It does not follow from this that the ; officers are" falsifying the situation, but simply that they take the most encouraging view: of it, as they see it, and are rather disposed to-underrate the enemy, for whom they, seem to have a thorough con tempt. ' But that is a different land of a dispatch that was published yester day from Hong Kong, cabled by an agent of the Associated Press, and giving, with other things, the sub stance Of an interview with TL S. Consul Williams, who is quoted as saying that , he "does not expect to live to see the end of the war." And he gives his reasons for it. Consul Williams has had opportunities to become pretty well acquainted"with the Filipinos, and he hadmuch to do with securing their co-operation with Admiral Dewey, and therefore some importance attaches to his visws, especially since he could have no! "prejudice io color his views, nor motive for drawing a gloomy picture. ! As we see it, Consul WiJ liams comes nearer sizing up the sit' nation and the prospect than any or all of the official dispatches that are sent outj apparently to prevent or remove the impression ' that we have a tough-job on hand over there. IS IT A GAME OF DECEPTION ? In his Boston speech Mr.. McKin- ley spoke very conservatively about the policy of his administration as to the future of the Philippines. He practically told the Bostonians that he had no policy, , that with the fcign- ing of the Pans treaty his responsi bility ceased and that it now re mained for the Congress and the countryto declare what that policy shall be. That was right, and the utterance was received with respon- siveaccord not only in "Boston but throughout the country. Was Mr. McKinlev speaking- candidly and honestly then? Perhaps he was; perhaps, not. Bui we do know that he has "changed his views several times oh this question, and perhaps he- has changed them again,- if he really meant what he said at Boston. Senator Hanna has an organ the Leader published in his home City of Cleveland, Ohio. It has a cor respondent in-Washington. A few days ago it published a letter from that correspondent, which contained the following ; "It is possible to-night to state, with-out-the slightest qualification or equiv ocation, that the Jlxed aim and purpose of the national administration respect ing the Philippine islands is now, and without doubt will continue to be, to retain the great Asiatic archipelago as a permanent acquisition of the' United states. This is a-statement of absolute f acf3;here is no conjecture or surmise about it. Moreover, it is official, and. therefore sanctioned by the highest authority." - - - - i : This is the-administration pro gramme, according -, to this .corre-; Bpondent, to retain.. permanent pos session Of the Philippines, "it isn't stated who the i'authority" he refers to is; but Senator Hanna wouldn't be 'a very wild guess, and what Hanna says goes, provided" it" isn't demonstrated thai it can't go, for Hanna is not only the power behind the throne, but many : think the power on the throne. He and the other expansion boomers, all they may have said to the contrary," not withstanding, have made up ' their minds to hold the Philippines un less they become" convinced that the scheme, will not . pay. They may come to that conclusion later, after they have spent a' few - more hun- dreds of millions of dollars and sac- ... rificed several thousand more Amer ican lives. - 1TQT AS NICE AS THEY THOUGHT. The people of Hawaii had little or nothing to do with the question of annexation to this country. That thing was worked up tha Americans who overthrew the monarchy and established the Republic. They didn't likeGthe prospect of standing on their arnis to protect and defend the Republic against the people who might - prefer the monarchy and therefore they worked for annexa tion, to throw the responsibility of preserving what they had won upon this Government. But the follow ing which we clip from the Wash ington Post shows that there is "con siderable dissatisfaction among the annexationists, and that the thing isn't panning out altogether to their fancy. It says: ';.''.. ."; "Private advices from Honolulu are to the effect that a very unsatisfactory state of affairs exists in the Hawaiian Islands, owing to the failure of Con gress to enact legislation. -The citizens of Honolulu- are said to be greatly dissatisfied with the neglect which has been shown them. Particular com-, plaint is made of the alleged payment of dutiesupon articles which for merly came in free under the reci procity treaty "with the United States, making annexation a burden instead of a blessing. It is said that the abolition of the treaty and the non establishment of the customs laws has led to a very annoying and anomalous situation. : "I can readily understand," said Senator Cullom vesterdav. "that the condition of affairs in the Hawaiian islands is most unsatisfactory. ' I think; however,' that there must be soma mistake about the impression that the reciprocity treaty has been abrogated. My judgment would be that as, the Hawaiian enaDnng act continued all laws, it also continued the treaty. The question, however, has not yet been settled definitely, so far as 1 know." - Assistant Secretary Spaulding said that the treaty was still regarded in the" Treasury Department las- being in force.- "If any new duties are being collected in Honlulu." KeSaid. "this department is in i&rnorance of it. " We have no collector of customs at Hono lulu, and no one will be appointed until the necessary legislation is en acted by Congress.1' August Becker, . the Chicago- butcher, who removed his wife to make room for another, confessed at first that .he threw her into the Lake, and now confesses that he killed her, cut her body up and burned it and buried what he couldn't burn. If he goes on this I way peoplmay come to the conclu sion that his veracity is - not to b' relied upon, and that he didn t kill the woman at all, but just let her stray off. as Lueteert says his wife did. ' -'-- .--1'; The glass Trusts are not bother ing the Flipinos much Nearly all the better class of houses there have in the windows translucent oyster shells, which admit the light, but mellow it so that it is not so hard on the eyes "But if America gets a tight grip an oyster shell Trust will not be backward in coming forward. The Filipinos mayvbe excused for doing considerable running when they get before the American arjmy. They were accustomed, to fighting Spaniards, and that Vas a, sort of pic-nic compared with the racket - - they have on hand now.: . The Philadelphia papers take com fort in the announcement that there were only 443 new cases of. typhoid fever in that city last week, and but 49 deaths. Since January 1st there have been 3,649 jcases and 380 deaths, and typhoid is a preventable disease. The city ' of Los Angeles, Cali fornia, draws her electric power "to run her street ears, light plants, &e., from a mountain 1 stream -. ninety miles away. Thus in time many mountain streams will be 'harnessed and put to work.1 . An Albany, N. I., boomer is be hind a somewhat unique enterprise f nr that bnrisr. It is a cemetery for the interment of animal family pets, where they will be interred with due decorhm and their graves looked after and kept green. . . There is said to be a hitch in the proposed yarn -Trust. ; It is getting jntQ a tangleso to speak. - .Weekly WILMINGTON; N; C, FRIDAY; MARCH 24, 18991 RALEIGH'StNEWS BUDGET. Penitentiary Case Argued Before Supreme Uurt N. C. Bar AgBOcjation job bery Sadden Death.: - Special Star Telegram. IvAXiEiQEC, March 18." The case of the new board of directors of the pen- livnuary. against uapt. iay for pos session of the State's prison, was ar gued before the Supreme Court to-day by Messrs. C. M,- Busbee and R. . O. Burton for plaintiffs, "and Mr. C. F. MacRae, Judge Thos. N. Hill, Cd. T. M. Argo and Judge McRae for de fendant. The court -will render no decision before next week. Priseilla Smith, colored, was buried this evening. , She was found dead at her home yesterday. She was on her knees at her bed "when she died -from violent - hemorrhageTand was later ' found dead in .this position by her daughter. , : The office of the Excelsior steam laundry was entered last night by rob oers. xney.broKe open the money- drawer, but got only 32 ceutsT; News is received here of the sale of the Blue -Wing copper mines,"' Cas well county, to a Boston syndicate. Recently specimens of "pure copper," the finest grade of ore, have . been- found in it. The fact that these mines also have silver enhances" their value. . - ' - I A charter was granted at Charles ton, W. Va., yesterday to the Cum berland- Cotton Mills Company; of. Cumberland, N. C. On account of opposition to the pro posed issue of $100,000 for street im provement bonds by the city of Ra leigh and because of its influence on city politics, the date for a vote on it has been indefinitely postponed. The executive committee of i the North Carolina Ear Association is called to meet here in the Supreme Court library at 11.30 o'clock on Sat urday, March 2501 to select a place and speakers for the annual meeting. Either Asheville or Morehead will be cnosen. Charles Kunold Arrested for Desertion. Charles W. Kunoldr who is, well known about town, was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Captain of Police Jno. Furlong and sent aboard the revenue cutter Algonquin, from which he deserted - last December while the cutter was lying at the dock at Philadelphia, Pa. Kunold claimed when he came here that he had re ceived an honorable discharge from the service and upon the arrival of the Algonquin here displayed no signs of uneasiness and. was engaging a number of the crew of the vessel in conversation when arrested. - Capt. Furlong delivered - him ' over to the first lieutenant of the ship and he was placed in chains and -sent below He was one of the non-commissioned officers and will probably be tried By court martiaL - Dr. R. M. Norment, Postmaster. This week's issue of the Lumberton Bobesonian says: . Dr. R. M. Norment was last week appointed postmaster at Lumberton and will take charge of the office as soOn as his bond is accepted and his commission is received. The present efficient postmaster. J. H. Wishart, than whom there has never been a bet ter or more popular one, has served for more than two years under the present administration, and fully four fifths of the patrons of the office would have been glad if no' change had been made. This was not unex- pec ted, however, for Republicans don't want such sterling Democrat as John Wishart in office where they can help it The appointment of Dr. Nor ment is acquiesced m necause it cannot be helped and it may be satisfactory. to the few white Republicans who patronize the office, also to probably a majority of the neerroes, but a ma ty of the white patrons oi tne omce would have preferred some one eise. Off for the Penitentiary. H Deputy Sheriffs W, W. King, J: P. Flynn, Capt. W. P. Oldham and J. Oscar Millis, left yesterday morning for Raleigh with eight prisoners, re cently sentenced at the Criminal Court to various terms in the peniten tiary. Jailor Millis now has only two prisoners in jail, Judge Battle having. made a clean sweep of all the county's boarders. They are Iredell Loftin, committed since the adjournment of court for crushing the s&ull of an other nesro on Middle Sound, and Pat Murphy, the negro bicycle .thief. whose, original sentence was two years in the penitentiary.. Dut wmcn was commuted by Judge Battle at the re quest of Sheriff, MacRae to a payment of all fines and costs. He will be hired out for this purpose. . -""- - " ' - . To Enlarge Its Capacity, The current issue of the Southern Milling and Jjumber Journal has . the f olio wing.i tern of local interest con cerning one of Wilmington's foremost lumber firms: "The Bridflrers & McKeithan Lum ber Co., of Wilmington, N. CL, and Burke. S. C. has Viust uurchased a fine bodv of yellow vtnne in south Carolina and inside or nmety-aays wui build and equip throughout a large band .mill thereon. The- plant will have a daily capacity of between forty and fifty thousand feet and will be up" to date in every particular. ' The two mills will enve this well known nrm a daily capacity of between seventy-flve and one hundred thousand feet."- -Milton Park, of Dallas. Texas, chair man of the .ropunst national reor ganization Committee, has. issued a manifesto setting forth the nomina tion of Wharton Baker for President and Ignatius Donally for Vice Presi dent. . Notice was posted yesterday bv the Ponemah Mills Company in Taftville, Conn.,, that beginning April 3, the wages of the 1,500 employes: will be increased on a scale of from five to ten per cent The'company manufactures white goods. - ,T . TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS Movement to AscertaiirtWho Will At- ; tend tlnrKeanion to be Held in ) .: Ctasrlestoa. - j' 1 An'eff ort is being made by Comman- derGeo. W. Huggins and other offi cers of the Cape Fear Cains United Confederate Veterans-to ascertain : how many of the veterans will attend the Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans to be held' in Charleston, S. C, May, 10th to the 13th. And vet erans who will go are urged to notify Mr. P. Hemsbergeir in person or by mail as early as possible. The follow ing circular letter has been issued by Chief Quartermaster W; J Woodward of this city, to-wit. -- The rates of transportation from all points in North Carolina will be one cent per mile travelled, or round trip two cents per mile. North Carolina headquarters will be at the - Mills - House, corner Meeting and -Queen streets, ' Charleston; the rates at the Mills House, which is on the European plan, will be $1.00 per day for eacn person, or if one. person occupies tne enure room, fx.uu per aav. Meats ou cents each.- I have secured the option for the accommodation of fifty persons at these rates and desire to know at once how many . wish the rooms, secured. The rooms are all on the parlor floor and nave double beds; please say if you desire the room secured at $3.00 or if you will have some one to oc cupy it with you at $1.00. each. Your immediate reply will oblige, , : Yours, fraternally, W. J. WOODWARD, Chief Q. M. N. C. D. U. C. V., P. O. Box 601, Wilmingkttj, N. C. CAROLINA' MFG. CO., OF CHARLOTTE. Air. J. A. Fore, of Wilmington, Elected Treasurer and General Manager. The Charlotte Observer of yesterday has. the. following notice of the an nual meeting of the Carolina Manu facturing Co., Of "that city, of which Mr. I J. A, Fore, of Wilmington, has recently become one of the principal stockholder, treasurer and general manager: "The stockholders of the Carolina Manufacturing Company, at a recent meeting, elected the- following officers for the ensuing year: J. H. Wedding- ton, president; Dr. leorge W. Gra ham, secretary, and James A; Fore, treasurer and general manager. The stock was increased to $20.Q00 by Mr, J. A. Fore taking $5,000. He will have entire control of the operation of the plant. He expects with the plant's present facilities, to more than double the output. The company has secured property adiommsr its plant. Mr. Fore owns one-third of the Fore & Foster Company, of Wilmington. TIRED OP LIFE. Suicide of Mr. Sig. Einstein, a Merchant I of KInstos, North Carolina. , Special Star Telegram.T Kinston, N. C, March 18. This morning about 8 o'clock, the clerks in the large store of Einstein s Bros., at Kinston, were startled by a pistol-shot in a room in the rear of the store. Breaking open the door, which was locked, they found Mr. Sig Einstein lying across a bed in a dying condi tion, he having fired a bullet into his brain. Physicians were summoned, but he lived only a few minutes. Mr. Einstein was junior member of the firm,- about 26 years old, was univer sally popular, and no cause can be assigned for the act except ' mental de pression. A note was found in his pocket in which he stated that he was urea OI Uie auu wiaueu WJ uic. NEW PEANUT TRUST. Buys Norfolk Factories Five Million Dollars in the Deal. Special to the Baltimore Serald. j Norfolk, Va., March 17. It de veloped to-day that the much-talked-of peanut trust has been practically formed. An expert accountant irom the American Edible Nut Company, which concern has about S5.000.0UU capital, and which will control the several factories in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, arrived here to-day and ex amined the books and accounts of all of the local factories. The accounts cave evidence of an unusually profi table season, it is unaersooa that tne trust, - which will practically control the country's supply of nuts, will take charge of the factories within thirty days, the only thing now necessary being that tne statements oi tne van ous factories snail oe verinea. j.t is stated, upon good authority, that $1, 000,000 of the $5,000,000 capital of the trust is now on deposit in JNew xorK, TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Boiler of a Shingle Mill at Cedar Creek. Six Persons Injured. The Fayetteville Observer of Friday last says: Last night the boiler of Mr. David Clifton's shingle mill, a large plant on the banks of : the Cape Fear, at Cedar Creek, exploded'; with terrific force,, hurling -great sections of the boiler and plant hundreds of yards away, injuring more or less fatally the following all white David Ulifton, wounded in a num ber of places and severely hurt: O. H. Wheeler, frightfully scalded and otherwise wounded: Robt. Watson dangerously hurt and badly mangled: Sylvester Edwards : and his son both seriously hurt A negro named Ed wards was also seriously wounded. It is thought that several; if not all, of the above will die. Mr. N. C. Thaggard was standing forty yards distant and was so badly shocked that he required medical aid. Naval Reserves Cruise. -The itinerary marked out -for the big converted, cruiser .PratWe this Summer embraces the following "Southport May 22d to May 30th, nroceeding from there to off W limine- ton. and picking up the Wilmington and other divisions atthat point; these divisions to - be brought out by the Hornet t and afterward landed., on May 31st." -I - ADJOURNED FOR TERM A Work of the District Criminal Court, for New Hanover ? Finished. J THE GRAND JURY'S REPORT. The Jury Retained for the Jane! Term. Ed'. Haywood Acquitted of Burglary. Was Defended by B. Q. Empie. Judge Battle's Courts. :i Judge Dosey Battle adjourned the March term of New Hanover's Eastern Carolina District Criminal Coutrt yes terday afternoon about 5.30 o'clock, two days earlier than was at first ex pected that the work would be com pleted. However, the entire docket was disposed of and the grand jury work finished, i r - : . r : According to previous arrangement, the negro Ed. Haywood was put on trial as the first order of business yes terday, on the charge of breaking into a small house onJPrincess street, be tween Fourth and Fifth-streets on the night of March 3rd. The jury selected to try the case was as follows: W. N. Parsley, N.B. Vincent, Chas. W. Kunold, A. J. Hanby, Harry Hill, James M Black, C. D. V. French, J. R. Orrell. J. E. Piner. C. W. Woodard, W. F. Robertson and E. L. Davis. The trial consumed the greater portion of the day and resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner.! Brook Empie Esq., who served as counsel for the defendant, succeeded early j in the trial in having the charge changed from burglary in the first degree (a capital offence) "to burglary; in the second degree, it having been shown that at the time the offence A charged to have been committed, there was no one in the house, j Subse quently he proved an alibi for his client and it was on this ground that the jury acquitted.. Mr. Empie is receiving many congratulations and compliments on the manner in which he conducted his case, as well as his subsequent argument before the jury. Solicitor Duffy also made quite a good argument for the prosecution. 1 Other cases disposed of were: Fran cis Davis, colored, assault and 'battery with deadly weapon ; two months in county house of correction; same de fendant, carrying concealed weapon. judgment suspended, and Robt. James, colored, larceny, twelve months in the penitentiary, r S j The Grand Jury submitted their -re port to Judge Battle yesterday fore noon and were dismissed for the term with instructions to report for . duty again on June 5th when the next ses sioa of the court " will be convened. Judge Battle said that he was so wel pleased with their work that he felt called upon to exercise his right to continue the same jury for the next term. ' .- I The Grand Jury's report is as fol lows, to-wit: To the Honorable Dossey I Battle, Judge Criminal Court for the Eos- tern District of Jsorth Uarouna: We, the Grand Jurors, for tie coun ty of New Manover, beg leave to re port, we have found z2 true bills and not true puis. We have examined the jail and found same in fair condition with the exception that the closets, both up and down stairs, are broken and j in bad condition and- need -immediate atten tion. We think the food should be cooked twice a day instead of 'once as at present, so that they could have two warm meals and food should - not be left in the cells all day. We also recommend that vegetables 'be fur nished at least twice a week, .'j . t We have examined the court house and found the building in excellent condition, with the exception that the window sill in the furnace room is badly broken, and we recommend that a'wooden coal schute be "furnished or an iron sill be put in ta prevent this sill from being broken by dumping coal through the window; we find glass broken in the record vault in the basement and also in two rear rooms in the basement; we find one inside blind each in the sheriff's office and that of the clerk of the Superior Court broken and in need of repairs; plumb ing in the main building needs atten tion. '""".'""'.'II :':'-'! We have examined the work-house and county home and found ! them in excellent condition and the! inmates contented. We would recommend that the front door of the sick ward needs renewal, also that the locks in the same" building need repairs, a new cellar door is needed for the basement of the main building, a new fence is needed to di vide the insane ward yard from the other yards, the furnace in the insane ward has been dismantled and the keeper has no means of heating this building. , This should have : immedi ate attention. . f i We have examined the city hospital and found the same nice and clean and ingood condition with the exception of a very foul smell . in the ' male de partment in the colored ward. If this is due to the nature of the disease of some of the inmates, we beg to recom mend that those patients that do not have such loathsome diseases be put in a separate ward. .It has been re ported to us by . one of our members who lives in the vicinity, that the re fuse and washing of the operating room are buried on the lot to the an noyance andtliseomfort of fine neigh bors in the rear of the-hospital. We recommend that the attention of the resident physician be called to this fact and the practice be discontinued. - Respectfully submitted, '".-"--"' ''l ' -u D. L. Gore, I Foreman Grand Jary. Juds-e Battle left last night for Rocky Mount where he wiltspend several days with his family." He was to have convened a court in .North ampton county next Monday, but has been advised by Solicitor W. !E. Dan iel that it will be impossible for the reason that there has not been suffi cient time since the passage of the act establishing the . ' District ; Criminal Court to allow the county commission ers to draw a grand jury. 1 j " . The next court will be at Charlotte on April 10th; on April17th Robe son court will be convened, v:" t-;--if- NO. 23 CHARQED WITH A SERIOUS CRIMEf Young -White Maa from Rowan" County Arrested Here for Arson.- ; Frank Curllee, a well dressed and L respectable looking young man about 27 years of age, was arrested in a Front street barber shop yesterday soon after noon by, Policeman C. E. Wood on a warrant issued by Mayor Waddell upon the affidavit of Mr. J; F. McLean, of Rowan county, charging him with ar son, in that he set fire to and burned a hotel at Salisbury, N. C, on the night Lot January 18th, 1898, and in which there were a number of persons sleeping."- i Mr. McLean has been here for sev eral days on the, watch for Curllee, for whom : he stated the erand jury of Rowan county had already returned a true bill of indictment, but not until yesterday was his search rewarded. Curllee came here from Charlotte yes terday on the noon train of the Caro lina Central, to accept a position as lineman with the Bell Telephone Co., and upon identification by Mr. Mc Lean, 'was arrested in less' than an hour afterward. - ' He refuses to speak of the crime for which he was arrested!, beyond that he was in the hotel in question at the time of the fire and that his cousin was proprietor of the same. Immediately after his arrest Mayor Waddell telegraphed j the Sheriff of Rowan for instructions as to what dis position to make of the prisoner and received a reply to hold him to await the arrival of an officer. Curllee was remanded to jail without bail. -The officer is expected for him to-daj . AMERICAN FORCE IN MANILA Reorganized Into Two Divisions, Com manded Respectively by 0en. Law f ' ton add Oen. McArthur. By Cable to th9 Morning Star. Manila, March 18, 10.20 P. M. The entire American force has been re organized, two divisions of three brigades each being formed. k 7 General Lawtpn to-day assumed command of the first division, which consists of the Washington, North Dakota and California volunteers, un der General King; six troops of the Fourth cavalry, the Fourteenth regu lars, the Idaho volunteers and a bat talion of the Iowa - troops, under General Overshine;j the Third and Twenty-second regular infantry and the Oregon regiment, under General Wheaton, and Dyer's and Hawthorne's light batteries. j v General Mac Arthur's division con sists of two batteries of the Third ar tillery, the Kansas and Montana vol unteers, under General H. GiOtis; the Colorado, Nebraska andouth Dokota regiments, and six companies of the Pennsylvanians, under Gen. Hale;' the Fourth and Seventeenth regulars, the Minnesota and Wyom ing volunteers, and the Utah ar tillery, j A separate brigade will be assigned to provost guard duty, consisting of the. Twentieth and eight companies of the Twenty-third regular infantry. General Anderson, now in command of the first division of the Eighth Army Corps, Will return to the United States, in accordance with the order of January 24 . j ' . TROOPS TO LEAVE CUBA. Great Efforts Being JQade to Have, the Volunteer Regiments Landed Be- , fore April First. i ' ' " ' i i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washtkotgn, March 18. The Presi dent has become interested in having the volunteer troops in Cuba hurried out of the island before there is any danger of infection from yellow fever. " He has given very; positive instruc tions "to the War Department upon the matter, and the quartermaster's de parment is making a great effort to secure i transports - and , have them ready fto embark troops within a few days. It is desirable to have all the troops destined for Southern camps landed in the United States be fore April 1st, when the quarantine regulations of the South will make it very difficult to get. the men into this country. The quartermaster's depart ment has started several transports for Cuba which have not been in service of late. Arrangements have been made with the Ward Line steamers to carry troops to the United States and the Plant Line steamers have been se cured for the same purpose. General Humphrey, chief quartermaster at Havana, has been ordered to prepare the volunteers for embarkation so- that there will be no delay when the ships arrive. Where it is practicable, the troops will be Inspected and the baggage fumigated- before leaving Cuba. The quartermaster's depart ment has been working in conjunc tion with Surgeon General Wyman,, of the Marine Hospital service, who is doing what he can to overcome the difficulties of quarantine inspection in the United Statea y'- '---'. the parIs peace treaty. M Camboo, the French" Ambassador, f Will Act As the. Representative of Spain. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, ; March 18. M. Cam bon, the French ambassador, called at the Department of State to-day" and served formal notice of the signing of the peace treaty at Madrid. -. -It was agreed upon that the ambas sador should act as the representative of the Spanish government in making Anal exchanges, while Secretary Hay will Represent the government of the United States. . Although not custo mary on such occasions, it is probable that President McKinley will be pres ent at the final ceremony of exchang ing ratifications, which in that, case wul take place at the White House, where the peace protocol was signed. It was said at the State Department that the Spanish government request-, ed that M Cambon's services as ' its agent be accepted; the French govern ment gave its authorization and his designation was gratifying to our gov. ernment., ,.--,:.- '-- I - - ' -: The California joint assembly ad journed without electing a United States Senator , ' ' - ; . aseries.of; TERRIFIC STORMS. Swept Through" Portions of Ala- : baina, Mississippi - and -Kansas KILLED A NUMBER OF PEOPLE Many Injured Dwellings, School Buildings' ana wnurcnes uemousnea cnor- mous DamageTown In Arkin-, N sas Practically Destroyed. . BylegraphtotheMornlns;8tar. j , Memphis, Tknn., March 18. A ries of terrific wind storms swept through portions of Alabama, Missis sippi and Arkanses to-day, doing an immense amount of property damage and killing a number of people. The storms covered a radius of several hun dred miles, destroying telegraph wires and cutting off communication with a large part of: the J affected j coun try r Cleburne county, Alabama, seems to have suffered the most severely, the storm j there assuming the proportions of a tornado. The re ports of .fatalities .in the county i vary from six to twenty, and many more . At Sellers'and Luvern, Ala., much damage is reported, and at Rob Roy. Ark., one man was killed and several badly injured. Dumas, Ark., was prac tically wiped out of existence, and. sev eral other towns in the-vicinity suf fered severely. One person is reported killed at Hickory Flat, Miss., and as the farm houses in the vicinity suf fered heavilv. it is not unlikelv that many fatalities occurred which have not yet been reported. The Storm in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala., March IB. A cyclone passed over different portions of the State to day, but on account of the telegraph wires being down no particulars can be learned. At Selma, the spire of the First Methodist Church was blown down, crushing throueh the roof and doing much damage. - At Sellers, a small station on the Plant system, south of Montgomery, . the.entire town except three houses" was destroyed. '-, 1 j ' ' : Luvern suffered greatly bufna de tails can be gotten. j Birmingham. March 18. A passen ger on the Southern train whicb left Atlanta at 4 P. M.. confirms the. news of the cyclone. It was told him by citizens of Edwardsville. It is said a house near there in which twelve persons lived was wrecked and nine out of the twelve killed. Another passenger said ne had heard that; seven more were killed near Heflin. In Mississippi. "VXtmrrva-xr Ptup TdTrcsa "MaAL 1Q A tornado struck this place to-day f doing considerable damage to build- ": ings and other property. The (school -building and two churches were de molished and twenty-five dwellings j blown down or unroofed. Several per- i sons received painful injuries. A family ! living west of here lost their dwelling and a young lady, name as yet un known, was killed. Trees were torn up by the roots, twisted off like! reeds, i and all fencing in path of the cyclone i was levelled to the ground. On some i farms near here hardly a building was left standing. Doubtless other fatali ties will oe- reported, but news -is i meagre. The course of the storm was from southwest to northeast and the -track was nearly half a mile; wide. . In Arkansas.. ' Little Rock, Ark., March 18.- ! A tornado passed through portions of Jefferson and Desha counties this afternoon. Telegraph- wires are pros trated and the details are coming in slowly. ' .- . . i . At Rob Roy, five houses were blown -1 down and one man was killed. , i At Dumas- nearly all the houses c in the town were blown down 1 or damaged and several persons were wounded, but so far as has! been learned no lives were lost There are several small towns in this section through which the storm passed and as yet no news has. been received from any of them. BRYAN IN KN0XVILLE. Met on Arrival by Several Hundred Dem ocratsHis Lecture Banquet in His Honor. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Knoxville, Ky., March 18.t CoL W. J.-Bryan arrived here this morn,- u nig at 8 o'clock. He was met at the passenger station by several hundred Democrats who had assembled despite -the terrible rainfall. The "rain . con- tihued throughout the day and night. ' This morning at eleven o'clock Colonel Bryan was joined by Governor Ban- i ton McMillan, of Tennessee. , The two i held a public reception in the womans' ' building. This afternoon they were i entertained1 at dinner by L. EL Spil man. Sixteen Democrats and - one Republican assembled around the i: . festal; board. Mr. Spilman and Colo: i nel Bryan were boys together in fialem, 111., and later were friends in l Chicago - .,, To-night Colonel Bryan deli verd his lecture on "Pending Problems," in the large public hall of thiscity. He. was heard by fifteen hundred j people After the lecture he was entertained at a banquet as the guest of Kuoxville Democrats. He responded to a toast, "The .Democracy of Jefferson, Jack son and Bryan." j This morning Colonel Bryant re- -ceived a telegram irom a Cincinnati-1 ' newspaper asking for an expression in i reply to Bob Ingersoll's criticism that i Bryan is a back number and has no . political future. Colonel Bryan's ' telegraph reply was that he did not : regard Colonel Ingersoll as a capable j authority to speak of his eligibility for 1 the back number list, nor upon his j prospect for the future, as Colone : Ingersoll does not believe in a future. Colonel, Bryan will celebrate his thirty-eighth birthday here to-morrow i aa 4-Via miAcf rt Vk-ia AAiiein - fB 'UTacrf aw wife of Rev. Dr. Henry D. Easter, an jupiscopal rector of this city. U. S. CRUISER RALEIQHi Exchanged Salutes With Spanish Squad. roo Near. Gibraltar. ByfJable to the Morning Star. Gibraltar, March 18. As the United States cruiser Raleigh from here for New York this after noon, homeward bound from Manila, to be put out of-commission. she hoisted the Spanish ensign and fired a salute while passing the Spanish squadron, commanded by ; Admiral Camara, off Algeciras.' The Spanish flagship Carlos Quinta thereupon hoisted the Americanr ensign' and re - tujrnedthe salute. - s f. a dis i - General Miles has " received patch dated Ponce, Porto Rico, stat- much better. f ... ft- i
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