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A RACE WAR; . - ruiuuuo AT '." V,' -, 'J WILMINGTON, N. C.t 1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. SSSSSSSS888S8S8SS S33g388S8S8S:jg 8S38SSSSSSS88888S iqinow S 83888888888888883 SSS!SS33'5SSSSSS!3S8 j 88888 888888S88888 -qjaow i 88888888283888888 888888S88S888888S o a e o i- oo 828SSS82S8888S888 ?seccoSSSSSS3SeSSl llJiH!Jod VOL. XXX. WILMINGTON, N. G., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899. S88S888888888S888 M 09 K) D . BO M OS . K9 09 fO M -U 04 o io -o as oo as -w 10 Entered at the Port Office at Omtzton. N. C. at Second Clan Matler.V . SUBSCRIPTION P.1ICE. . The subscription price of the "W-ly Star ia at oilowi : , . Wle Copy 1 year, postage paid.. ...... .11 00 " " 6 months " " im. 60 " Smooths " ..80 Trusts he would favor the repeal of protective duties on any article on which a Trust was formed, which is identically what these J;wo "Republi can organs are saving now. Trusts were organized under the McKinley law, hut Hon. John Sher man' never moved to repeal the pro tective duties on any of thenar tides on which they were formed, --as he declared he would The Trust which were organized then were few and dwarfs compared with the Inany and giants that have been or ganized under the' Dingley tariff. These now number something in the neighborhood of 400, with a reported capital stock (mostly water) of over ,000,060,000 (about half the value of all the. railroads in the country);" but when was there any movement made to repeal any of the" protec tive duties on articles upon which Trusts "have been organized ? There is hot an article in thfr tariff list which enters into general consump tion upon which a Trust has not' been formed. . The fact is the whole field of industry, as far as practicable, is covered by Trusts, but it never oc curred to any of these Republican Statesmen or organs to make 'any clamor against them until they dis-' covered that there was danger of there heing made an issue in 1900, and that the Republican party might suffer from the "stigma of . fostering Trusts" if some steps were not4aken to "remove that stigma." This ac counts for. the concern they now show at the growth of the Trusts, and the earnestness of their plead ing that something be done to curb them. This is part of the pro gramme to humbug the people into the belief that the Republican party is opposed to Trusts, j , . Negroes Plot to Exterminate the Whites in Little River NO. 24 Countv. : ' (-- w "'.... "THE STIGMA OF FOSTERING TRUSTS." We have several times lately call ed attention to the growing alarm among Republican" politicians and organs at the . rapid increase of Trusts and the demands that some steps be taken to curb them. Some time ago Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, in a vigorously worded interview declared that if tue Re publican party did not take position against the Trusts it was in danger of being tlefeated at? the next election,- and he quoted Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, now a 'United States Senator, in support of his condemna tion of them. We quoted a few days ago a resolution adopted by the Pennsylvania House of Representa tives providing for a commission to investigate the Trust -question, with a view to ascertaining what remedial measures were necessary to restrain and bring the Trusts within proper bounds, if restraining legislation were thought to be better than pro hibitory, enactments. The speech of the gentleman who offered the resolution was much more significant than the resolution itself and the preamble upon which it was based, for it showed plainly that the movement was inspired by polit-. ical considerations and the fear that the Trusts would prove an annoying factor "in the campaign of 1900, as suggested by the Philadelphia Led ger, from which the speaker quoted. But the alarm "seems to have spread throughout the country and Republican organs of all sections are now denouncing the Trusts as vigorously a3 ever the Democratic papers did. The fact is they are ; appropriating Democratic thunder, and to all "intents and purposes "climbing on to the Democratic platform- 6a that question. The Chi cago Tims-Herald is ond of the leading, if not the leading Repub lican paper of the West. Its editor and proprietor was one of the mov ing spirits in the nomination of Mc Kinley for the Presidency, and co operated zealously with Mark Hanna in boosting McKinley .and in secur ing his nomination. He 13 person ally in such close 'touch with the President that his paper is looked ! have a tendency to upon as a White House organ. For I restoration of peace? THE OREGON. - - f - The .arrival of the battleship Ore gon at Manila, 1 where she will be come Admiral Dewey's flagship, has called public attentionagain to that model ' vessel. The remarkable things about this ship are' that r Bhe was built at San Francisco. . where the shipbuilders had-but little ex " perience n the building of war ships, and where iTwas seriously doubted a first-class warship could be built, and yet she that made the trip around the "South American continent, and reached.Santiago- in time to take part, and render most- effective ser vice, in the destruction of Cef vera's fleet, and without a nickel's worth of repairs to ship or machinery. " She was Nnot designed for speed, being intended for a battleship to give and ' take strong knocks, and yet she - has developed remarkable speetLogt only for short -spurts but for continuous long cruises. She Is one of" the model ships of the world to-day, and a grand monu ment not only to the good work of the builders, but to the American genius that can plan and construct such monarchs of the sea. ' BOARD OF AtDERMEK THE w,Lfflwm,fi i nvTfrjnwr Irene ieornaj KILLED IN FLORENCE. WILL THE RALEIGH WHITE PLANTER MURDERED, The First Meeting for the Fis cal Year Held Yesterday " "Morning. VISIT i WILMINGTON? SOME ELECTIONS WERE MADE these reasons the following from a recent issue is significant: "When the St Paul 'Pioneer Press declares that it is the duty of the Republican party to repeal every pro tective duty under theshelter of which its beneficiaries have organized a trust or combination of any sort to advance prices, it meets the views of the 'Times-Herald' to a dot. The purpose of the protective tariff was to foster industries, not to protect' mo nopolies." "No. mercy or consideration should be shown to any combinaton of capital that takes advantage of a protective tariff to mulct Americans consumers, 'Whenever the protective tariff en nances the price of the product 01 a trust, to the American consumer, it should be reduced or removed entirely. Its adoption will remove the stigma of fostering trusts from the Republican party." The St. Paul Pioneer-Press is the leading .Republican paper of Minne sota, and here we have the leading Republican paper of Minnesota de manding that the Republican party take position against the Trusts, and repeal all tariff .legislation that fos ters them, whihj : the Times-Herald, the leading Republican paper of Illi nois, chimes inland warns the party that it must do something to remove from it the "stigma of fostering Trusts," not to prevent the stigma, but to remove the stigma, which has already been fastened upon it. It may be incidently remarked mac wnne ine protective taniE is not in such high favor in the West as in the Ea3t, both of these organs wheoped it up for Mr. McKinley, Who was the personification of pro tection, the reputed father of the tariff of 1890, and the endorser ofjthe present tariff, which is the fosterer of Trusts, as the McKinley tariff was when it was jri operation. One of the grounds of opposition by Democrats to both of these tariffs was that they by cutting .off for - eign competition would ' beget Trusts, which the promoters of these tariffs strenuously combatted, . T . 1 - ana jonn onerman, wno was a Senator when the McKinley bill was under discussion, declared that if it was found that advantage . was taken of that tariff to establish AT SEA. The Tallahassee dispatch pub- lished'yesterday,-. giving a report of the President's visit to that city, re ferring to the administration policy in the Philippines, says: - . 'The administration will not decide upon its permanent policy' respecting the Philippines -until the Schurmann commission reports. It feels thatits present knowledge of the islands is too indefinite as a oasis iora nxea policy. Moreover, an immediate de cision is felt to be needless, since for the present the only problem is the restoration of law and order and the establishment of stable peaceful con ditions." -J1 - So it seems that the administra tion is at sea as to what its policy will be in those island. ""It doesn't know enough about them to decide whether they would be worth hold ing or not. In his Jioston speecn the President said the administration had no policy, that with the signing of the Paris treaty the duty devolved upon Congress and the people to say what the policy should be, and in that jhe was right for this is the bnsi ness of the American people. It is true that ho-policy can be carried out until peace is restored, anu peacexannot be .restored until the Filipinos lay down their arms or are overcome; but might not the an- noun cement of a conciliatory policy, if not negatived by harsh treatment, facilitate the It may, possi bly be too late for this now, and the ' only way to peace be through blood and slaughter, which might have been prevented if the administration had pursued an honest, candid a ' n 1 course in the beginning, ana naa recognized the fact that the people of those" islands had some rights that wer a, entitled to respect. They had some queer stock in the Klondike country in the early days, about 25,000 years ago. Some prospectors have just run across a mammbth, embalmed in an iceberg, which mammoth was 41 feet 6 inches long, and is estimated to ' weigh about 25 or 30 tons. Its tusks are 14 feet 3 inches in length, and 28 inches in circumference. The var mint was covered with a coat of wool about fifteen inches long. The flesh was in a good state of preservation, but began to decay -after about .twenty-four hours exposure- The hind-quarters weighed 8,642 pounds-each. Messrs. King, White, Meares and Springer ' Chosen Respectively for City Clerk " and Treasurer, Assistant, City Attorney, Mayor Pro Tern. Hon. A. M. Waddell and Capt Ed gar G. Parmele were formally,elected Mayor and Chief of Police, respec tively, at a meeting of the newly elected Board of Aldermen, held' yes terday, at which'all the members were present, they haying been duly s worn in prior to the meeting by Lieutenant Fred. T. Skipper, P. The meeting was called by Mayor Waddell, at the request of -three Al dermen, to be held at 10:30 o'clock, but at that hour a caucus was entered into, which lasted for.threehours. In addition to the election of Mayor and Chief of Police, which was a fore gone conclusion, , the' people having nominated these at the polls on the 13th iiist. , . Mr. B. F. King was elected City Clerk and Treasurer; Mr. O. H. White, assistant Clerk and Treasurer; Iredell Meares, Esq., City Attorney, and Alderman W. E. Springer, Mayor The quantity of coal produced in this country increased from 32,863, 600 tons in 1870, to 147,860,380 tons in 1897, and the amount exported in the same -time fro"m 227,918 tons to 4,008996 tons, which shows that we are doing something in the way of warming up the world and mak ing things hum. The sudden decrease in the num ber of Cuban soldiers from 40,000 to 13,000, looks as if somebody may have been buncoing Uncle Sam on that $3,000,000 arrangement. Their share will now be $230 each, which will buy a good deal of trumpery. The New York Tribune rises to remark that "Georgia always regrets a lynching after it ; has occurred." Well,! Georgia could not very well regrei a lynching before it has oc curred, could she? .Young Charley Rockefeller saws wood for exercise" and fun. There are a good many people who saw wood for a living, but don't see any fun in it. ' . There are now 785 brands of fer tilizers registered for analyses and sale in this State. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. pro tem, each of them having received the unanimous support of the Board" m regular session. Of course there were differences among' members of the board as to who should be elected to the positions named; but these were all settled in caucus and the elections were made unanimously, the whole time con sumed in open session being not more than twenty- minutes. Alderman C. W. Worth acted as teller and Clerk Wm. Struthers was present in his offi cial capacity. The nominating speeches were very short, and after making the elections the Board adjourned to meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock, at which time it is presumed other officials elective by the Aldermen will be chosen, among them being Chief cf the Fire Department, Superintendent of Health, officers of the police force, City Superintendent of Health and City Surveyor; ' , It was expected that these selections would be made yesterday and the City Hall was besieged with applicants for positions, but in order to give time for more mature consideration of the qualifications' of the candidates for office and for other reasons, an ad journment was taken until Tuesday. Upon motion of Alderman Taylor, the bond of the Assistant Clerk and Treasurer was fixed at $10,000 and Assistant-elect White was instructed to file his bond' for this, position by the first Monday in April at which time he goes into office. The oath of office was at once administered to Mayor Waddell by Lieutenant Skipper and as, soon as Chief Parmele recovers, from' his present illness, he also will be sworn in and will enter upon his duties under the new administration. , The Board of Alderman as at present constituted is composed of Mayor Waddell, Chairman ex officio, Alder men J. A. Taylor, Hugh MacRae, Joseph H. Hanby, C. W. Worth, C. G. Parker, F. A. Montgomery, C. L. Spencer, J. M. Woolard. W. E. Springer andH. P. West. . . Organized Yesterday With $59,000 Capital .- Stock N. B. Rankin President and 7- s Hugh MacRae Vice President. A new "fire insurance company with a capital stock of $50,000 was organ ized in this city yesterday afternoon in conformity with the provision sof a charter granted- by the late General Assembly. It is The Wilmington Underwriters Association, which it is expected will be ready"; for business within a few weeks: ' The organization was perfected at a meeting held in the Produce Exchange apartments at 4 P. . M. yesterday. Mr. Geo. - R. French was made temporary chairman and ; Mr. W, M. Gum ming temporary secretary. There after Mr. N. K Rankin-was elected president , of the Association, and the following board of directors was chosen: Mr. J. S. Worth, Mr. Hugh MacRae, -Mr. Sam Bear, Jr., Mr. W. A. Riach, Mr. M. J. Heyer, Mr. W. T. Whitehead, Mr. P. L. Bridgers, Mr. J. W. Norwood, Mr. B. H. J. Ahrens and Mr. J. V. Grainger. ' - Immediately after the adjournment of the subscribers to stock, a meeting of the Board of Directors was held, at which Mr. Hugh MacRae was elected vice president of the association. The secretary add treasurer will be elected at some subsequent meeting of the board. It was decided to inaugurate an active business campaign without delay. With this end in view another meeting will be called very soon for the purpose of perfecting preliminary arrangements. At vthis meeting the order will be made for the payment by subscribers of the first instalment of the capital stock. Mr. Geo. 0. King, Late of This City, Mangled by a Shift ing Engine. THE REMAINS BROUGHT HERE LEFT FOR WASHINGTON. Commander Morton and Capt. Meares Will Ask the Secretary of the Navy to Send Cruiser Raleigh Here. No time is being lost by the special committee from the Chamber of Com merce in their efforts to assure the coming of the cruiser Raleigh to this port for the ceremonies attendant upon the presentation of a souvenir cannon to the city of Raleigh. Com mander Geo. L. Morton and Capt. T. D. Meares, of the committee, left last night f oiW ashington, where they will call upon the Secretary of the Navy for the purpose of presenting the claims of this city as well as the State, in thai the presentation should be made to North Carolina's capital in a North Carolina port. It will be remembered that at the last meeting of the Chamber a com mittee to work-to this end was ap pointed, consisting of Commander Morton, Capt. Meares, Mr. W. H, Sprunt, CoL Walker Taylor and Lieut H. H. Mcllhenny. - Both Commander Morton and Capt. Meares are very hopeful of success. LAID TO REST IN OAKDALE. . SHOWING TWO MUCH ACTIVITY Secretary Alger was somewhat belated in his 6rder forbidding army officers from being assigned to spe cial duty without first receiving or ders from the War Department. This order was intended to prevent army officers from seeking testi mony to be used in the meat inves ¬ tigation, some of them having shown too much zeal in looking up testimony to sustain General Miles' charges about bad beei. This order was not only belated, for nothing could be added to the evidence already in hand, and made public, to sustain the charges in every particular, but it was - a. blunder, for, the natural and only construction will be that Secretary Alger was endeavoring to suppress testimony and prevent light being thrown on that question, when he should not only not shirk full in vestigation, but do all in his power to let the facts be known. If ne had shown that disposition in the beginning he might have s tood ac quitted of much that he is now held responsible for. - It is said that some Danes pros pecting in the Klondike discovered mounds which they say mafk th9 boundary line hi Alaska, and which if correct will put the Klon dike region within the bounds of the United States. That may warm up the Canadians some, but it will not make the Klondike any more com-- fortable. Progressive Japan has increased her annual- appropriation for techni cal education from 150,000 to 250, 000 yen. , ' Greeneville Weekly: Zeb Quin erly, colored, who lives near Quiner ly, claims to be the champion 'possum hunter. His record for last season is 106. - - - y Favetteville Observer: Died, at her home near Fayetteville. in 71st township, February 6th, 1899, Mrs. Mary A. McKay, daughter of Evander Mclver, and wife of James F. McKay, aged 84 years. Winston Journal: We learn to-day that Mr. J. W. Smith and wife, of Bunker Hill, Forsyth county. Were poisoned a few days ago by eating canned corn. At last accounts they were in a very critical condition, and their recovery is considered doubtful. Goldsboro Argus: It is with deep regret that the Argus here chron icles the death of a most estimable young laay, miss jjou kj. xaoore, daughter of our estimable friend and countyman, Mr. John S. Moore, which sad event occurred Friday morning at the home of her parents, in Brogden township, Of consumption. Wilson Times: Last Thursda evening Mrs. Benajah Scott, who lived in Taylor's Township, this country, was .seemingly as healthy woman as was in me neignoornooa. Thursday evening her family heard no complaint; but on getting up in the night to give a child some water, Mr. Scott noticed that his wife did not move. On going back to bed he tried to arouse her and then found her dead. This was about 12 o'clock and it was thpught she had been dead some time. Elizabeth City Economist: Mrs. Martha J. Sedgewick, wife of Mr. J.C. Sedgewick, departed this life on Wed nesday, aged 64 years. - The Dis mal Swamp Canal is expected to be open to navigation about May 1st. Mr. N. R. Zimmerman was brought beU fore Mayor T. T. Whitcomb on Friday on a warrant for refusing to be vacci nated. Before his arrest he was vacci nated and on trial ne was reieasea on payment of $2.25 costs, from which he appealed to the Superior Court. The trial in the Superior Court resulted in a hung jury and the case goes over to the next court. Sanford Express: Moore conn-' ty has the largest experiment farm of its kind pi the United States, not even excepting the United States experi mental work as carried on in Wash ington City. This farm is located in a mile of Southern Pines. Four or five well dressed tramps came to this community a few days ago and went into camp at a place between here and Jonesboro where they have j been making their headquarters ever since, xnese "weary vv imes pay for what they eat and seem to be en joying life They are probably tramp ing for the novelty of the thing. : A BIG FIRE IN 50UTHP0RT YESTERDAY. Loss About $6,000 Store and Residence Owned by R. M. Wescott, of This City Postoff ice Endangered. Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, a store and residence in Southport were entirely consumed by fire, to gether with the contents. Both build ings were owned by Mr. R. M. Wes cott, of this city, and the ' stock was owned by Mr. J. A. Wescott, doing business under the firm name of T. L. Wescott &Co. J. A. Wescott and family also occupied the residence. ..There is no clue to the origin of the fire, it having started in the store building and spread to the dwelling. It was only by the most heroic efforts oa the part of the Southport people, there being no fire- company, that the flames were prevented from spreading to the postoffice building and Captain Harper's store, which is just around the corner. The saving of the post-office is counted especially remarkable, as it is only a few feet from the" Wes cott building, and the partition fence was burned. Both Harper's store and the postoffice building werer however, badly charred on the side next to the fire. ,; The store building which was de stroyed was . a two story frame structure as was the dwelling. The two were valued at about $2,500. Mr. R. M. Wescott carried insurance with Mr. W. W. Hodges; of this city. Mr. J. A. Wescott estimates his loss by the stock of goods and house furniture at S3. 500 and is protected by insurance with' Messrs. J. H Boat- wright & Son. - : , ' Rose and Hawthorn from Ireland. .A day" or two ago Mr. JohnW. Reilly, son of the late Major James Reilly, of the artillery service, C.S.A., planted at the grave of his father in Oakdale Cemetery slips of rose and hawthorn received from Athlone, Ireland, through Mr, James Sprunt Messrs. Dickson & Son, Belfast, Ire land, procured and shipped the plants, which, they, say in a letter to Mr. Sprunt, were taken from afield near Athlone, where the late Maj. Reilly is well remembered ana nas many friends. ' Fnneral of the Late George Q. King Held Yesterday Afternoon. The funeral of the late George G. King, an account of whose horrible death under car wheels was published in yesterday's Stab, was conducted from Grace" M. E. Church yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock- by the pastor, Rev. Andrew P. Tyer, assisted by Rev. A. D. McClure, pastor of St Andrews' Presbyterian Church. The remains of the unfortunate young man were brought to the city on the 9.45 o'clock train from Flor ence yesterday morning, and were carried to the residence of his par ents, No. 504 North .Front street, until the hour for the funeral, when they were tenderly borne to Grace Church and from thence after the services to Oakdale cemetery, where the inter ment was made in the presence of a large concourse of friends, who Lad gathered to pay a last tribute of re spect to one whom they loved and held in the highest esteem. Th pall-bearers were selected from the large circle of friends of the young man ahd were as follows: Messrs. W. L. Williford, J. B. Cooper, R. B. Clowe, Harry Hill, M. M. Parker and James Powers. " - Was Employed As Switchman Qa A. C. L - Yard Was Formerly With Mr. R. B. Clowe, of This City Fnneral . ' at 4 O'clock To-day j Mr. George G. King, late of this city, met with a horrible death yester day in Florence. S. C. He haa been, since March 1st, serving as switchman on the Atlantic Coast Line! yards at Florence and, was working in that capacity yesterday-jwhen he attempted to-mount the steps from the ground to the rear of a shifting engine tender when his foot slipped and he fell un der the engine which passed over and terribly mangled his body, j The accident occurred about 10.30 o'clock yesterday morning and the news was telegraphed here j to the un fortunate young man's parents and other relatives and to the Coast Line authorities about 11 o'clock: The engine which killed the young man was No. 599, in charge of J. W. Holland as engineer, and James O'Hanlon as fireman. So far as has been ascertained there is no blame at tached to either of them on account of the accident i j The deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. King, who reside at No. 504 North Front street, and he leaves three brothers and three sisters. One brother, Mr. H. C. King, of Florence, is private secretary to Mr. G. G. Lynch assistant superintendent of transportation for the A. C. L. An other, Mr. E. B. King, is in the em ploy of the Coast Line in this city. The other brother, Mr. S. E. King, re sides in Atlanta- Mr. J. A. King, thejr father, is truck inspector for the Coast Line. One sister, ' Miss J. T. King, is a saleslady at Johnson and Fore's store. Miss Corrine also resides here, tind Mrs. S. . E. Crane lives in Goldsboro. ! The deceased was in the - 24th year of his age and was an industrious and highly esteemed young man. He was employed for a number of years by Mr. R. B. Clowe, of this city, as up holsterer and paper hanger. Mr. E. B. King went to Florence yesterday afternoon and is expected to return this-morning on the 9.45 o'clock train bringing the remains with him. The funeral is announced to occur this afternoon at 4 o'clock from v Grace M, E. Church and the interment, at Oak dale cemetery. Utility Had to Abandon Dredge. A telegram to the Norfolk Land mark from Vineyard Haven, N. J., under date of Tuesday, says that the British " schooner Utility, Captain Bishop, from Wilmington, N. C, for Halifax, reports that on March llth, latitude 46.20, longitude 74.30, she fell in with the abandoned dredge Admi ral and scow; took a dog off the dredge and cut scow adrift as -it was full of water; took hawser to Admiral and towed her for twenty-four hours; during heavy south gale was obliged to let go dredge. Winter Quarter lightship bearing N.W.l-ZW. 21 miles. Dredge was in track of steamers and very dangerous to navigation. - Safeguards Against Smallpox. Sheriff Walter G. MacRae is in re ceipt of a circular letter from Mr. E. L. Provis, chairman of the executive committee of the State penitentiary, which is being sent to sheriffs of the various counties in the State, in which he advises that on account 6f the prev alence of smallpox throughout, the State, that all convicts sentenced to the State prison be retained in the county jails until all danger of a con tagion is passed. The advice of the Attorney General, the letter says, is that this is a matter of administration rather than of legal character. As all of New Hanover's convicts were sent up more than a week ago, the letter is, of course,' of no interest to Sheriff MacRae. j A TRAGEDY WEAR KINST0N. Mayor Waddell Telegraphed Secretary of Navy Yesterday Insisting That She Come Here The Situation. No news of the result of the efforts of Commander Geo.- L. Morton and Capt. T. D. Meares to have the cruiser Raleigh ordered to- come to this port for the ceremony cannon to the city of presenting the of Raleigh has yet been received -here, they having, as an nounced yesterday, gone to Washing ton to urge upon the Secretary of the Navy the justice; of Wilmington's claim for this ceremony. However, Commander Morton and Capt Meares telegraphed President James H. Chad bourn, Jr., of the Chamber of Com merce, asking hint to request Mayor Waddell to send a telegram to the Sec retary of the Navy on behalf of the citizens of Wilmington, urging that the Raleigh be sent here for the pre sentation -of the j cannon and other trophies. This the Mayor did yester day afternoon. j v The Norfolk papers still claim that it is settled that the presentation will be made in the Norfolk navy yard. The Landmark, olf-Taesday, says ; "A feature of the ship's return here will be the presentation by Mrs. A. W. Haywood (nee Miss Holt), who chris tened the ship when she was launched here, of twelve massive cups to match the bowl. It is also stated the officers will present to the State of North Car olina, a gun captured at Manila and several other trophies of the great May day battle in the Philipines. The Raleigh should arrive here by the 5th of April. The people of New York are petitioning the authorities tp have the cruiser sent there first, so that she may be greeted properly before being repaired, but it is; not thought the offi cial orders already promulgated will be changed." 1 The Washington Post of recent date" says: "The first ship of Admiral Dewey's fleet to return to the shores of the At lantic is 4he cruiser Raleigh. In the great May Day battle in Manila bay, when Dewey's ships so completely and brilliantly vanquished the Spanish fleet, the Raleigh played an important part. Commanded by Captain Coglan, the Raleigh fired the first shot as well as the last shot in that memorable en gagement From first to last she was in the thick of the fray, and since that victory has rendered further excellent service in Philippine waters." LYNCHING IN-MISSISSIPPI. Three Negroes Shot to Death in Yazoo County Ringleaders in a Race Trouble. Heavy Shipment of Wood. Some idea of the immensity of 'the wood business done at adjacent towns and villages in Bladen county along the Carolina Centralrailroad may be gained from a statement made to a Stab reporter yesterday by a gentle man who i in a position to know, to the effect that during the present season the North Carolina Cotton Oil Company has consumed approximately two hundred and fifty car loads of pine wood from the section mentioned, to say nothing of the amount used by other mills and manufactories in the city. Twenty car loads will arrive for the oil mill to-day from Mr. J. C. Stanly,' of Marlville, who is the prin cipal shipper along the line. VIhe Wilmington Stamp Works have just issued a neat catalogue of about a hundred pages, which they are, mailing to customers and prospective buyers. It is handsomely illustrated and descriptive of the articles manu fatured by the firm. Proof of the pudding lies In the eating of it ' Proof of ROBERTS' TASTELESS CHILL TONIC lies In the taking of It COST NOTHING If It falls to cure. 25 cents per bottle If it cures. Sold strictly on its merits by - BOBKET B. BELLAMY, . mar Ml? Wholesale and Entail Druggist. Lonnie Lane Killed' Miss Qlennle Sauls and Then Committed Suicide. Smallpox Cases. j Special Star. Telegram. Kinston, N. C, March 25. Yester day morning Mr. Lonnie Lane, about 22.years old, and ' Miss Glennie Sauls, about fourteen, both of Fort Barnwell, a village nineteen miles east of Kins- ton, were noticed taking a walk. Not returning, the . neighbors began to search for them, and about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, their bodies' were found near the village, it appearing that he had shot her and then killed himself with a pistol, j Both were of well-to-do families. The young man had been forbidden to visit the house, his attentions to the young girl not being acceptable to her parents, and this was probably the cause of the. affair. The young girl's mother was visiting in Georgia, and her father had gone to Newborn at the time of the tragedy. . , Smallpox Cases. " Kinston has eleven cases of small pox, but every effort is being made to prevent Its spreading. Dr. Long, State expert examined the several cases yesterday and pronounced them geuuine. Compulsory vaccination has been ordered. i Seven marriage licenses were granted by the Register of Deeds dur ing the past week, j two to, white couples and five to colored persons. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Jackson, Missl, March 23. Three negroes were lynched by a mob near Silver City, in Yazoo county, last Saturday morning. After being shot to death,the bodies of the victims were weighted with bundles of cotton bale ties and thrown into The Yazoo river. The negroes were-. - Minor Wilson, C C. Reed andJWillis Boyd. They were the ring-leaders of the negroes in a race encounter-4n the Midnight planta tion early last week. They were ar rested and taken, to Yazoo City jail. The offence with which they were charged having been committed in Sharkey county, the Sharkey authori ties were notified. Last Friday even ing Deputy Constable Sylvester ar rived and the prisoners were turned over to him. The constable boarded the steamer Rescue with theneeroes Saturday morning and reached Siler I City with themi The negroes leu into; the hands of the mob near Silver City, were shot to, death and thrown into the river. .The feeling against the neeroes had been very bitter on ac count of a disturbance at the Midnight plantation last week in which they, with two other : comrades, had fired on two whites on the public road. A horse belonging to one of the white men was wounded, but the men were not harmed, j Carolina and Northern Railway. Civil Engineer Joseph H. McRee re turned to the city yesterday from Lumberton, where he has been en gaged the past two weeks as chief en gineer on the survey of the Caroling and Northern Railway, which is being made from Lumberton to Marion, S. C, a distance; of thirty-eight miles. Mr. McRee has associated with him in the work Civil Engineer Henry Cum- ming, of Wilmington, and a third en gineer from Greenville, S. C. He says work hasf been very materially hindered for some time on -account of swollen streams, but that rapid pro gress is now being made, the survey having already been completed to a point six miles from Lumberton. He expects to return to Lumberton on the afternoon train to day. Will Open Business at Rocky Mount. Mr. J. J. Shepard and. family left yesterday for -Rocky Mount, N. C, whejfe Mr. Shepard will engage in-the mercantile business! For a number of years Mr. 'Shepard conducted a wholesale and retail dry goods and clothing store on Market street and his friends here will regret to know that he has ( decided -to locate else- where. 1 BECOMING A MOTHER. - - t A Sure Way to Avoid Danger. ' Every - true woman wants to be a mother. A baby is the dream of her life the crowning glory of womanhood true happiness can never be known without the blessings a child brings. Yet the ordeal through which all mothers must pass is so full of pain, anxiety and fear, that many a young life is sacrificed because of the inability to undergo the struggle of childbirth-. It is not necessary to suffer in bring ing new life into the world. By the use of "Mother's Friend," the suffer ing and danger- can be avoided,- and the hour robbed of itsSdread and pain. This remedy is praised by thousands who have testea it. Every woman is anxious to learn how to avoid the pain and suffering which may be in store for her. The little book, "Before Baby is Born," will be sent free to any address upon application to the Brad field Regulator Co., Atlanta, Georgia. Bloody Reprisal Made Seven Negro Men t- Lynched Armed Bands Scouring j the Coontry In Pursuit of the -Conspirators. , : By Telegraph to the Mernlng Star. ; J; Texarkana, Ark., March 23. The v . - wildest excitement prevails among the v -negroes of Little River county, seven? v', ;- negro men having been lynched by the V 1 citizens of that section. ' c , Among those who have fallen vic tims to the wrath of the whites are - -Edward "Goodwin, Dan King, Joe Jones, Ben Jones, Moses Jones and another whose name could not be ob- . -tained. j The -disturbances grew out' of the lynching of .a negro named General Duckett, near Richmond, . in that county, on Tuesday last Last Satur-. . " day a prominent planter, named James Stockton, was murdered at his ' home near Rocky Comfort by Duckett -The negro escaped at the time, but after remaining in hiding in the . swamps until Tuesday he surrendered, . saying he had had nothing to eat since his flight He was taken to Rocky Comfort and soon after his ar rival there Sheriff Johnson and depu- ties started with him for Richmond They were overtaken by two hundred armed men, who demanded the pris- . oner. - Duckett was taken to the place where he had killed Stockton, and -after making a confession he was . lynched. After the lynching it was learned -that Duckett had frequently tried to get the negroes in the county to join in a race war against the whites. A few hours after he had killed Stockton, he passed several negroes at a farm house . and told them he had killed one white man, and if they would follow him he' would kill more. f The Jones brothers were intimate ' -with the assassin of Stockton and it was discovered that they were leading a scheme to avenge .their, comrade's death. The assault was provoked by the unearthing of plots that the follow- - ,; . ers of General Duckett had concocted and when the revelation was made a ' band of citizens bzn their search for the principals. - Through friendly negroes,- who had v ' originally told Stockton of- Duckett's threat, the facts against the present victims were learned.- These inform ers had been warned under the pen alty of death not to communicate the plans of the outlaws to the whites. . All of the victims that have fallen be- ' fore the whites were pursued singly : r over the country and met their fate at different times and in different locali ties. Ed. Goodwin was shot down on Mud creek, near Rocky Comfort, ahd his body was thrown into the stream. -The Jones' had fled in different direc tions when they learned of their pur suit, and were run down and lynched one at a time. j j . . , ; The Scene of Trouble. j Little River county is in the:!ex treme southwest corner of the State, bordered on the west by the Indian Territory and on the south by Texas. The negro population is large and has for along time proved very trouble- " some to the whites. Frequent mur- ders have occurred and thefts and fights have become common affairs. One or two negroes have previous ly been severely dealt with when the ieople found it necessary to take the aw into their own hand, but it was not until Tuesday that the trouble took on a serious aspect , It then de veloped that carefully, laid plans had . been made by a number of negroes to precipitate a race war, and that many white men-had been marked f or via tims. It is learned that twenty-three negroes were implicated in this plot, and the whites are now bent on met ing out a summary punishment to? the entire coterie of conspirators. Seven have been killed, and the work of win- . ing out the entire list continues with out relaxation. All implicated in the plot are known, and parties of white men varying in numbers from thirty to fifty are scouring the country for them. Wherever one is found he is ?uickly strung up and his body per- . orated with bullets. The work of dis patching the first two or three was an . easy i matter. But j the ' news soon spread among i the negroes, who-" instead of mak ing resistance ' and offering I the -battle that they had threatened, be came panic-stricken and began getting , . out of the community as quickly as possible. Two whose names were on the list or conspirators got a gooa start and succeeded in reaching the Texas State line before being captured. They, were strung up without ceremony. It is. stated that the trouble arose -over the killing of James Stockton by - r Duckett just prior to the lynching of Duckett, the negroes had planned the inauguration of a 'race war. . Duckett was the leader and at his1 death the negroes let the matter out The .citi zens became greatly enraged. I.Joe King and John Johnson Were taken to the woods 'and whipped, tiier negroes made threats but nothing oc curred until yesterday when the whole- i ' sale lynching began. f " : In the gang that was plotting for a race war were twenty-three negroes, and it is likely-the entire number have' been strung up in the thickets. . It is known to a certainty that the seven ring leaders are dead. The negroes are fleeing from the district. 10-aay three wagons full: arrived atJCex arkana, having crossed Red river at Index last midnight ' J ' Ex-United States Circuit Judge Samuel W. Melton died at the home of his son. U. S. Marshal L. DJ Mel ton, in Charleston, S. C, last night Judge Melton was a Republican. The 68th ballot 6f the Pennsylvania Legislature for U. 8. Senator resulted: Quay, Republican. 4; Jenks, Demo crat, 4; Rice, Republican, one; Dal zell, Republican, one. No quorum. PRESIDENT M'KINLEY. 7 Will Be in Washington Late Next, Tues day Evening. - I By Telegraph to the Morning BtajL , Thomasvtlle, Ga., March f 25.--President McKinley has decided defi nitely not to make the trip to Tampa, though he has promised to ' visit j there some time during his Presidential term, and conseauentlv he will ibe in. Washington late Tuesday next I He is looking well and improving in health steadily. " - f ' The 'sloop Florine f pom Mount Pleasant was run down in the Cooper river, Charleston, S. C, by the Clyde ' Line Boston steamer Carib. J The sloop was mammed by three negro men. all of whom were drowned. The Carib made little or no effort to rescue hem . -. . :3 J- - ?f
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