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13 D WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - -I - October 13, 1899. THE DRUMMERS AND THE TRUSTS. It is admitted that the commer: cial travelers will be a factor in the next Presidential election, but there is a difference of opinion as to how much of a factor. The Philadel phia Times, generally speaking a paper of pretty good judgment, is disposed to make light of the in fluence they will hare, but in this does not show its usual good judg ment. We clip the following edi torial which, while underestimating the drummer ,: overestimates the trusts, tl says: "President Dowe, of the Commer cial Travelers' ! National" League, as sumes that the 350,000 traveling commercial men in the United States , will be a potent if not a controlling factor in the next Presidential election. They are against trusts for the reason that the combinations of capital and anarom- tn 1aRP71 thft cost of DroduCtion to consumers, lareely- dispenses with commercial travelers. "President Dowe declares that the 350.000 commercial men will drum anti mononolv into the ears of 4,500,- 000 vot9rs during each twenty-four hours, and he assumes that they will be the most important champions of the anti-trust cause. "One feature of the political crusade of the commercial men seems to nave been overlooked by President Dowe. This is an age of free schools and uni versal newspapers, and every con sumer of average intelligence knows that the consumers are to-day paying the needless cost of the 350,000 travel liner commercial men. Their salaries and expenses add just so much to every article consumed by the people, and the business combina tions which have in nearly or quite everv instance reduced the cost of necessaries to consumers, are enabled to do so because they deal more directly with the consumers and wipe out the great army of middlemen who are to-day maintained wholly by the consumers of the country. There is very widespread hostility to the monopoly features of out trusts, but it is not because they greatly lessen the cost of production . and delivery of articles to consumers. Where the iron hand of mono poly is felt by increased prices to consumers there will be aggressive re bellion, and all classes and conditions of our people will demand such regu lations of our trusts by State') and na tion as will strip them of the power to arbitrarily oppress the people by in creased cost of products. "There will be many and powerful champions against trusts in the next campaign, but they will not be the commercial travellers of the country who must simply plead with con sumers to pay the additional cost of their support on the necessaries of life." - t - If the American voters could be persuaded that the consumer got the benefit of the : savings the trusts make by the discharge of the com mercial travellers they might regard that as a good "an age Of free thing, but as this is schools and univer sal newspapers," a3 the Times re marks, it isn't easy to fool the people into the belief that the trusts give them the benefit of the caving made by dispensing with the services of this army of commercial travellers. The commercial travellers go, the ' thousands of other employes go, but instead of decreasing the price of the goods they make, the trusts keep up or increase the price arid put the profits in their money chests. Of course the trust organ izers and their champions will allege that the public is benefitted by this reduction of force, and therefore ought to take kindly to the trusts, but if they ever have the public has not discovered it. ' nuii oe tnis as it may, the com mercial men. will be factors in the election all the! same, for with the .organization they have they will work methodically, and they will 3 j1 mi - epena money, too. xney are, as is well known, a j bright body of men who have rubbed up against the world long enough to wear all the diffidence off of them, and thev will carry with litical mission them into their po- no small amount of the vim they show in their business pursuits. -' In the last Presidential campaign these men were, as a rule, opposed to the Democratic party on the money issue, ahd they were a con spicuous factor in that campaign The same methods they employed to make their j influence felt then they can employ to make it felt in the next campaign and they will have a stronger motive to exert Al , -it . . tnemseives in tne next campaign than "they had in the last because they will be personally more inter seted. I i Suppose; there are 350,000 of these commercial men. That would be a very considerable vote in itself. But every one of these has his friends whb sympathize with him more or less, many of whom will carry their sympathy to the extent of voting against the trusts which have . de prived their friends of employment,- and therefore we think that it is folly to make light of the influence of such a body of men, as snappy and 1 " - 1 i- 1 1 . . ungut as inese are, will nave in an election in which they have a vital interest. Many of these men are Democrats whofor the first time in their lives, perhaps, voted the Republican ticket when they voted for McKinley, and they have a personal grievance in the attitude of McKinley and the Republican party, in practically Btanding by the trusts, which they fear to tackle openly. This feeling added to the enmity they have to the trusts will make them work, all the harder to defeat both. Foolishly they permitted themselves to be in V I LLI A M H. B EBB A Editor and Proprletoi . fluenced and used in the last cam paign by the opponents of silver, when if they haqLtaken the right view and studied their own interests, then as they are doing now they would have stood with the Democratic party which was fighting for them and for all other wage earners and toilers then as it is now, on a plat form that would have made the trusts as wo now have them impos sible, but they didn't see it, permit ted themselves to be made the tools of others, and are now paying the penalty of their' folly. They have discovered after three years what they should have known then, namely; that the men who are tun ning the Republican party are the friends and protectors of the trusts. The effort their opposition to the Republican party may have in the next election! may be a matter of speculation, but it wouldn't be wise in the Republican managers to un derestimate, or make light of it, and we do not think they will be very apt to do it. TEXTILE SCHOOLS. The textile school is taking pretty well in the South and the demand for them is growing. The subject is being agitated in New Orleans, which should be a great manufac turing city. In a communication published, in the Times-Democrat of that city, an observant citizen thus sensibly discusses that question : 'Our climate, -training, industrial and tiocial system are so different from the manufacturing centers of the east that imported skilled labor has proved unsatisfactory and expensive. We have made great progress by shop ed ucation in the past ten years, but we can hardly expect to become a manu facturing center unless some systema tic efforts are made to give the gradu ates from our high schools a technical education. We could not attempt to &Pply technical education to the masses; but we should give the oppor tunity to lads of exceptional ability, fitting them to take positions of fore men and superintendents. We shall first be enabled to manufacture com modities most natural to our markets. and from our own raw material, and later, by reason of our superior class of skilled mechanics, we shall more easily essay competition with other, and perhaps foreign markets. Several Southern States have, within the past few years, recognized the importance of this step, and have appropriated from the public treasury the funds necessary to establish and maintain textile schools." Training "bright young men" in these schools is to some extent train ing the masses, for as these young men become superintendents, etc., of manufacturing establishments they will in. their turn become teachers of others who may be employed under them, and thus the process of educa tion goes on and becomes continu ous. Just as the colleges turn out teachers for the masses so will these textile schools turn out teachers for the masses, who will be benefitted by the knowledge and skill acquired in the textile schools. The South must put herself in a position to secure within her own borders the skilled labor needed and the shortest ana surest way to do that will be by the textile school, one or more of which every Southern State should have. . ' r A BOLD FRONT. After the cautiousness with which the Boer Republic managed their side of the dispute with Great Britain and the yielding disposition shown as to some of the demands that. ultimatum came as a surprise, al though there bjave been intimations for several days that it was forth coming. There are many among those who sympathize with, the Boers who may question its discretion, but there is no one who will question the pluck that dictated and sent it. But the fact is matters had reached such a crisis that some definite action had to be taken and it was ultima tum or nothing. All the time the correspondence and the negotiations were going on between the two Governments- Great Britain was preparing for war and purposely dragging out the cor respondence to give more time for preparation. With the troops she has sent to South Africa and those she has enrolled to be sent, and the concentration of troops near the Transvaal border. there has, as far as she is concerned, been virtually a state of war fnT some time and the only reason why there has not been actual' war w&a because the Boers remained pas sive hoping that actual war might be averted. Possibly the Transvaal Govern ment made a mistake in not taking an aggressive stand in the beginning and issuing an ultimatum then in stead of waiting till the British had so strengtnened themselvesas to be prepared for any attack that might be made As the situation is now Chamberlain has played his game successfully, has massed troops where , he wants them, and ceeded, if the Boers follow up their ultimatum, in making them take the aggressive, when he can cry. "they struck the first blow." But possibly the senders of this ultima tum may have hadsome hints or en couragement from other - quarters, before the ultimatum was issued. Hanna says he "always looks on the dark side when a contest is close." When it gets rieht dark Mark grabs the hatchet and goes to cutting thffhoops on his'barl." Some Lowell (Mass.) capitalists say that' if the Shamrock captures the cup they will -chip in $500,000 to build a better boat than the Co lumbia, i "CHARMING IMPUDENCE." "We have in theso columns fre quently referred to the colossal cheek of -the Republican claimants, who claim everything for their party. Here is a specimen from the St. Louis Otobe-Democrat : Thus far in the fiscal year begin ning July 1st the government revenue and expenditures have just about bal anced. Democrats run behind in peace, Republicans keep even with a war on hand." This is what the Chattanooga Times characterizes, as "Impudence that is charming." It is as colossal as it is impudent. How the Repub licans "kept even' is thus shown by our Chattanooga contemporary: "The Republicans, before the Span ish war was well begun, sold $200, 000,000 of bonds and realized for them about $205,000,000. They also revived most of the civil war taxes, and so changed the tariff that they have been raising about $120,000,000 additional yearly revenue, compared to the rev enue during Cleveland's last term. That is to say, the Republicans' have, by borrowing and taxation, raised $350,000,000 in the last fifteen months, additional to the normal income; and the organ here quoted tells us they have "kept .even." The Republicans think they are doing remarkably well and are de serving of credit if they don't spend money faster than they take it in. That's what they call . keeping even." As to leaving ' anything in the Treasury when theygq out, that would be a marvellous innovation. They have always found i easier to dispose of a surplus than to manage a deficit. . A section of Georgia for a dis tance of about sixty mites had a unique shower a few nights ago. The people thought it was hail rattling on their roofs and windows, but when daylight came they found the earth covered with grasshoppers of all sizes. The impression is that they are Texas stock blown up there by . the windr ' The grasshopper, however, has the happy faculty of adapting itself to any locality it may strike, making itself at home and proceeding to business. It also car ries its appetite with it. Hiram Maxim, the inventor, who was born in Maine, has followed the example of W. Astor and become a British subject. He wasn't mad at this country, but has lived in Eng land since 1884, -has his establish ment there, where he employs 14,- 000 workmen, and as a matter of business has changed his citizen ship. Mr. Bourke Cockran and other well-meaning people want Mr. Mc Kinley to offer his friendly services to avert war between the British and the Boers. But how can Mr. McKin ley consistently do that when he is playing the same game of grab in the Philippines that John Bull is (playing in South Africa? Wm. Murphy, a police sergeant, of Chicago, so-much resembles Mr. McKinleythat he is called his "liv ing image." While tho" President was in Chicago he got a good deal of the cheering that was intended for the President, and took it gdod na- turedly. ' Rev. H. M. Villiers, of London, doesn't believe .marriage a failure. Fashionable people have a preference for being married in his church and his marriage fees are said to exceed $25,000 a year. - : woman in Kew Jersey who mar ried a divorced man, made the bus iness harmonious by .employing his first wife as cook, which means that the ex-first wife will continue to run the institution. . John Bull's reply to the Trans vaal ultimatum will probably be an up-and-at-'em. THE MASONIC FAIR. Additional Donations Made by Home Peo pie and Firms In Other Cities. Since the last report concerning the Masonic Fair, the following donations have been received : A. David Company, one pair panta loons. ; Through The Orton: Beau font Lithia Springs Company, Richmond, one caseBeaufont waters; William Wirtz, Of Newark, N. J., one barrel Salvator beer. Through The Adrian Company : R. T. Davis Mill Company, Nashville, one case Aunt Jemima pancake flour. Through Holmes & Watters : James Pyle & Sons, of New York, two cases one-half pound packages pearline; The Marshall Roller Mills, of Mar shall, Mich., one barrel fancy -patent flour. . t . Through Capt. W. R. Kenan: Na tional Biscuit Uo., or JNew York, one package fancy biscuits. Through M. F. Croom &Co. : Jef- fress& Shelton, of Richmond, box of Graveley's honey dew tobacco; Rod erick, McRae & Co., of Baltimore, one case port wine. -Through W. E. Springer & Co.: Wryne Agricultural Works, of Golds boro, a pea and rice planting machine, one Stonewall totton plow, one Boy Dixie plow, and one Cotton King har row; Bateman Manufacturing Com pany, of Greenlock, N. J., one genuine Iron Age cultivator. Col. Noble F. Martin, manager of the Fair,returned to the city last night from a trip to New York city. He will again take up the arrangements for the Fair and push things most vigorously. He now has two tele phones in his room at The Orton one donated by the Inter-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and one by the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company. His Bell Phone is No. 335 and the Inter-State No. 200. Cotton receipts yesterday were only 1,367 bales. The market locally : was off an eighth. WlLHINQTON TARIFP ASSOCIATION. Hearing of Argument n Case Against the Railroad Set for October 23rd. A letter has been received by Mr. James Kyle, manager of the Wilming ton Tariff Association, from Mr. E..A. Moseley,, secretary of the Inter state Commerce Commission, announcing that the case of the Wilmington Tariff Association against the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia, Railroad, has been assigned for a hearing on October 23rd at Washington. V The testimony of the Wilmington Tariff Association was submitted here last April land that of the railroad at Washington in May. The session of the Commission in the present month is for the hearing of argument of counsel on both sides, the date for which was originally set on July ioth, but which had to be postponed on account of. I press of other business.' Judge Wm. H. Day is counsel for the plaintiff and Edward Baxter, Esq., forthe railroad, The object of the petition. Stab readers will remember, is -to secure freight rates for Wilmington from the West equitable with Norfolk and other competing cities. NEW RAILROADS IN ROBESON. Progress On the C. & N. and the Boardman Line Capt. McRee's Resignation. Mr. John R. Freeman, of Lumber- too, who was until recently connect ed with the surveying corps on the Carolina & Northern railroad, now be ing built from Lumberton to Marion, S. C. was in the city yesterday. He says that work is being rapidly pushed on the new line and that approxi mately ten miles of the road bed has been graded. -Capt. Joe McRee, of Wilmington, engineer in charge of the construc tion, Mr. Freemanjsays, has resigned his position to take effect soon, or, at least that report is current about Lum berton. Work he says on the Ashpole- Boardman link of the Atlantic Coast Line is also progressing nicely and the two new roads have now crossed at a point about nine and one half miles from Lumberton. The White Patent Axle Co. A meeting of the board of directors of the White Patent Axle Company was held yesterday afternoon at the office of Mr. B. F. Keith, the president of the company. Besides Mr. Keith, there were present Mr. J. B. Mercer and Mr. Isaac Hoagland. Mr. F; P. White, the patentee, was absent and could not be present. Besides the r jutine business, corres pondence with parties at Wheeling, West Virginia, with reference to man ufacturing the company's - axles and hubs, was read. It was stated that good progress is being made in the ad dition of new machinery to Mr. C. M. Whitlock's machine shops for, the manufacture of the axles here. ' Mr. Whitlock will be prepared to turn out an axle every three minutes. The ma chinery includes a hammer run by electricity. In accordance with the order of the directors, Mr. Keith left last night by way of Washington, D. C, for Wheel ing. Thence ho will gotoHewxork to exhibit the White axles and hubs at the exposition of the carriage builders and dealers to be held in that city next week. A Robbery in Pitt. News has been received here of the robbery and burning of the office building of the Atlantic Coast Line at Pactolas, Pitt county. The robbers secured among other things a package of money from the office of the South ern tix press uompany in tne same building, containing $1,800, consigned to the Greenleaf-Johnson Lumber Company. Thejrset fire to the office, which is separate from the depot, pre sumably to cover the track of the wholesale looting, ' which they perpe trated about daylight Sunday-morn ing. Pactolus is a small village, about twelve miles frOm Greenville, on the Parmele and Washington branch of the A. C. L , and the depot is situated about a half a mile from the town, There is no clue to the robbers. Doing Casting for the Coast Line. Capt. W. H. Smith, of the Wayne Agricultural Works, Goldsboro, was in the city yesterday calling on the trade. This concern is the largest manufactory of ploughs and- other agricultural implements in the South and is an important industry for our neighboring city. A foundry is run in connection with .the works and the factory has the contract to make the castings used by ine Atlantic uoast Liine car shops in this city. All the castings required in the building or cars, with the excep tion of the wheels, are made in Golds boro. His Mind Impaired. A young white man, whose mind is impaired and who is of a weak physi cal constitution, was sent to the Coun ty Home yesterday afternoon by Dr. McMillan, Superintendent of Health, where he will be cared for until his parents,, who live near Wallace and who have been communicated with, can be notified of his whereabouts and take him back to his home. The young man's name is Charles Bland,. and his father, Mr. Frank Bland, lives ten miles from Wallace. He wan- aerea into the city Monday and was cared for Monday night at the police station. Cotton Steamers. The British steamship Aislaby, Capt. juewis,-. arrived yesterday morning from Boston, and is consigned to Messrs. Alexander Sprunt & Son. The Aislaby is of 1,798 tons burthen and is the seventh of the big steamers which are here for cargoes of cotton from the Champion Compress. The British steamship Slingsiby, the largest now in port, is of 2.094 tons register, and is being loaded at the Wilmington Com press by Mr. J. H. Sloan. The East Carolina Real Estate Agency is prepared to give prompt andefficient service to all "persons wishing to sell farms or town property. -a.aaress ti. G. Grady & Co., Burgaw, N. U. f TO MANUFACTURE V - SODA IN WILMINGTON. The B. P. Keith Company Follows in the Wake of the Roanoke Chemical Co. To Travel Several States. Since the Roanoke Chemical Com- m 1 1 A ' 5: "1 pany has discontinued lissoaa worss m this city, the Star is pleased to be able to state that Wilmington will still number among her industries that4ni- portant brancn oi Dusiness. The B. F. Keith Company h tabiished the "City Soda Worksf'Ttafl connection with their wholesale gro cery. 128 and 130 North Water street, and will manufacture soda on a large scale. A Stab scribe yesterday visit ed their factory and was shown some Of the first goods their works turned out. The goods are put up in exceed ingly neat packages, under the trade mark of "Reliable Brand," and it was learned that the product of the estab lishment will be packed in any quan tity to suit the trade. The quality of the goods turned out by the "City Soda Works'' is guaran teed to be equal to any on the market, and the company expects to push its product on its merits. They will cover about the same territory as that occu pied by the Roanoke Chemical Com pany, including the trade in several Southern and Western States. In connection with their soda inter ests, it is learned that the B. F. Keith Company will hereafter handle only special lines in their wholesale grocery business. . COUNTY FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. Auditing Board Met Yesterday Morning and Approved Bills for September. Treasurer's Monthly Statement. The county auditing board met yes terday morning at 10 o'clock and ap proved the bills of the county for Sep tember. The report of County Treasurer H. McL Green showed receipts and dis bursements as follows: RECEIPTS. Balance from August account, $3,- 547.82: property tax from sheriff, $2,- 251.45; back taxes from chairman Board of Commissioners, $147.87; rent from chairman Board of Commis sioners, $28.54; marriage licenses from Register of Deeds, $22.80. Total, $6,001.48. DISBURSEMENTS. Outdoor poor. $362.27: County Home. $158.42; City Hospital, $264.80; pub lic buildings, $65.10; roads and bridges, $34.83: Criminal Court, $304.18; S3u perior Court, $87.15; jail, $232,25; Magistrates, $113.46; tax listing, $100 75 : printing and advertising, $5.20; county fence, $28.20; Register of Deeds, $29.65; attorney, $25; Super intendent of Health, $75; Coroner, $16.95; Constable, $28.95; Clerk. $50; Janitor, $45; Commissioners, $94.80; Treasurer, $57.09. Total, 2,169.05, The statement shows a balance on hand to October account of $3,852.42 of the general county fund and a bal ance to the credit of the special county fund of $732.44. Cotton and Naval Stores. There were sales of spirits turpen tine on the local market yesterday- at 48J49 cents, which is as high as the quotations have reached this season The tone of the market is firm, and receipts continue light. s There was an advance of three- eighths of a cent in the local cotton quotations yesterday, and the market was quoted at the closing hrm on a basis of 71 dents for middling and 7 cents for good middling, which is the highest point reached since August lam, loa. Keceipts yesterday were 2,408 bales, against 4,778 on the cor responding date last . year. The price on the same day last year was only cents, which is a difference in favor of the farmer this year of 2 cents. Ordination Service. At the 11 o'clock service of St Paul's Episcopal Church Sunday morning, Rev. Milton A. Barber, dea con in charge or the parish, was or dained to the priesthood, Rt. Rev. A. A. Watson, Bishop of East Carolina, officiating. Bishop Watson conducted the ordination and Rev. F. N. Skin ner, former pastor of St. Paul's Church and Kev. Dr. James Uarmichael. rec tor of St. John's Church, assisted. Rev.' Mr. Skinner, who is now station ed at Clinton, N. C, conducted the evening service for Rev. R. R. Wind- ' ley, deacon in charge of the Chape! of the Good Shepherd, and let t yes terday for his home. County School Opening. All the county schools yesterday had auspicious openings and from reports Capt: Manning, the efficient superin tendent, has received, the attendance in the various districts was never lar ger. The Star has already published a list of the teachers in the institutions and made a reference to the improve ments completed during the vaca tion. Capt. ' Manning visited "the new Castle Haynes school house yesterday and two adjoining districts and ex presses himself well pleased with the way they have begun the Fall term. A Loss to Fender. Judge and Mrs. W.JT. Bannerman of Burgaw, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Grady in this city for a few days, left yesterday af ternoon for Thomas ville, Ga., where they will hereafter reside. Judge Ban nerman has been one of render coun ty's very best citizens and he and his charming wife will be a great loss to the community in which they have lived bo long. The Judge is a man of the staunchest integrity, and has been honored more than once in his coun ty, having for ten years under the old regime served as Clerk of Court and Probate Judge. - He and his excellent wife are well known and highly es teemed in Wilmington and their friends regret that they have removed to a distant home. The East Carolina Real Estate Agency has excellent facilities for selliner farms and timhArad landa. It advertises all property and makes only a nominal charge unless a sale is made. Jfor terms etc., address R. G, waay Uo., Burgaw, N. O. RALEIGH'S NEWS BUDGET. State Bank Examiners The Pension Roll. Companies Incorporated The In stitution for the Blind. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, October 9. The Corpora-. tion Commission to-day appointed State bank examiners as follows: Dr. George F. Lucas, of Currie, named by Chairman McNeill; W. B. Shaw, Hen derson, by Commissioner Beddingfleld ; Arthur E. Rankin, Fayetteville, by bmmissioner Rogers. These exami ners examine State and private banks only, seventy-two in number, for which they receive from ten to thirty dollars, according to the capital of the bank. . I The State Auditor has made prelimi nary estimates with rererence to tne State pension roll for the year 1899. The total number of pensioners for 1899 is 5,889. This is an increase of 457 over last year. Of this increase 316 names were placed on the pension roll by acts of the last Legislature. The amount realized from various sources for the pension fund during tho year is $122,000. It will be distributed to 121 first class pensioners, 341 second class, 519 third class, 2,234 fourth class, and 2,674 widows, ."'!''' The following companies were to day incorporated : Benbow Hotel Com pany, Greensboro, $80,000 ;j Wesser Creek Gold Mining Company,-Swain county, $100,000 capital; Cobb and Thomas Company (sash and blinds) $10,000 capital. j Ex-chief Justice James E. Shepherd has been selected to succeed the late T. W. Strange as standing Master in Chancery for this district of the Fed eral Court. T At a meeting of the directors of the institution for the Blind to night, A. M. Scales, Greensboro, was elected director to succeed Pulaski Cow per. Raleigh, resigned. Peter Al Willis, Baltimore, was elected foreman of the broom and mattrass factory, i The in. atitution opens Wednesday, j Bankruptcy Proceedings, Samuel EL McRae, Esq., of Fayette- viiie, referee in bankruptcy, came down to Wilmington on Sunday, and yesjeraay at xne urton he heard a motion for. the dismissal of Scott j& Grisham, of Rose Hill, in bankruptcy. Henry L.Stephens, Esq., of Burgaw, was present as counsel for the bank rupts, and former Judge W. R.. Allen, of Goldsboro, represented Messrs. J. Weil & Bros, of that city, who are among the creditors, j Mr. M. J. Heyer, of Heyer Bros., of this city. who are also, creditors, was in attend ance." The creditors named consented to the dismissal, and the motion was duly granted. ' Referee McRae also received the final report of Mr. C. L. Taylor, trus tee in the case of the Carolina Cooper age- Company, bankrupts. ; After division of the assets among the cred itors the bankrupts will be dismissed. . MESSRS. WESCOTr & STONE. Wholesale Grocery Firm Dissolves and Mr. Stone Becomes Sole Proprietor. Announcement has been made of the dissolution of the wholesale gro cery firm of Messrs. Wescott & Stone, No. 108 North Water street, Mr. Bollie O. Stone, the energetic and popular junior member of the firm having purchased the interest of Mr. R. M. Wescott in the business; becom ing sole owner and proprietor. . Mr. Wescott has retired to devote his entire attention to his extensive real estate interests in the city and Mr, Stone, whose success in the mercan ti'e life of Wilmington, has been al most phenomenal, will concentrate all his energies in building up his whole sale trade, which has already attained a marvelous gro .vth since its establish ment here about a year ago. The Star regrets to lose Mr. Wes cott from the ranks of Wilmington's enterprising grocery men, but under the careful and painstaking guidance of Mr. Stone, it wishes the new firm tnat measure or success which it is bound to attain under such efficient management. State Agency Established. Mr. C. W. Westbrook, one of the Star's esteemed friends, has accepted the State agency for North and South Carolina for the famous Whitmore's Plomo Belt Dressing, manufactured by the Plomo Specialty Manufactur ing Company, of Cleveland, O. The dressing, as its name implies, is a com pound for the preservation of machin ery belts, and a handsome booklet which Mr. Westbrook is distributing to the trade .explains its many excel lent points and guarantees it unap proachable by would-be competitive substitutes. Mr. Westbrook says it is not at all improbable that his com pany may open a branch here, mak ing this city a distributing point for the territory covered by him. A LARGE DERELICT. r : I Abandoned Vessel Drifting Near Cape Lookout Lightship Supposed to be Schooner Carrie A. Lane. Jpe Ipecial Star Telegram. Beaufort, October 11. Captain Sabiston, of the schooner Hettie J Dorman, lumber laden, from Bosrue Inlet, north bound, on October 9th passed a large derelict, seventeen miles south of Cape Lookout light ship, bearing northeast by east Noth . t. 11 .1.1 m ing out me siock or tne foremast was "A ? Jl t . m. standing, witn nag-poie aif out no flag attached. It was apparently abandoned, as so sign of life was seen aboard. The Dorman lay by her part of the night, but a wind sprung up, and she lost sight of the vessel. The derelict is supposed to be the schooner Carrie A. Lane, I lumber daden, which was lost off Frying Pan during the recent gale. The wind has been prevailing from the north east the past week: if it should shift southward, the wreck would drift the beach. Read the advertisement of the East Carolina Real Estate Agency in this issue of the Star, It offers for sale some very valuable farms i t ANNUAL MEETINGS v OF STOCKHOLDERS. The Onslow Land and Improvement Com pany and the East Carolina Pisca torial Association. Yesterday at the office of Hon. Jno, D. Bellamy, in the Smith building, there were well attended annual meet ings of the Onslow; Land and Invest ment Company and of the East Caro lina Piscatorial Association, the for mer at 10:30 o'clock A. M., and the latter at 12 noon, j At the meeting of the Investment company, Dr. E. Porter, the president, was in the chair and Geo. H. Howell, Esq., was secretary; The old board of directors was re elected as follows: Dr. E. Porter. Hon. Jno'. D. Bellamy, Capt. Jno. F. Divine, Capt. George L. Morton, Messrs. Frank EL Stedman, Martin Newman and W. W. Miller. , At a meeting of the Directors, Dr. E. Porter was unanimously re-elected president and Geo. H. Howell, Esq., secretary and treasurer. The company owns some 1,000 acres in oyster beds in Onslow county, and the condition of the organization finan cially and otherwise is reported in good condition. 1 The Piscatorial Association. The election of officers for the ensu ing year and the hearing of the annual report of the president was the chief matter of interest at the meeting of the Piscatorial Association. The directors chosen were Dr. E. Porter, Capt. Jno. F. Divine, Hon. Jno. D. Bellamy, Mr. W. A. Riach, Mr. A. S. Williams, Mr. W. W. Mil ler and Mr. H. P. West. These are identical with the board of the last fiscal year with the exception of Col. Fleming Gardner, whose death was an nounced, Mr. Williams being elected in his stead. Suitable resolutions ex pressing regret at losing Col. Gardner from the Association's membership were drafted and will be spread upon the minutes. i ut. iiu dorter was re-elected presi dent and Geo. H. Howell, Esq., secre tary and treasurer, at a meeting of the directors held after the session of the Association. j - The annual report of the president snows that the Association is in a flourishing condition and that as soon as the weather is favorable there will be some large shipments of very fine oysters from the Association's beds at Stone Bay, New River and other places in Onslow,! which cover about 1,000 acres in territory. The beds were planted about eight years ago and are now in a very healthy shape The Association also owns from 800 to 1,000 acres of fine farming lands in Onslow, and -the j growing crops on this, the president reported, are very promising. Both meetings adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman AN INCENDIARY WARNED. Sheriff MacRae Gives a Good Piece of Ad vice to a Pool White Man. Col. Roger Moore yesterday took a white man to Sheriff Walter G. Mac Rae and informed the sheriff that it was reported that the fellow had been doing some incendiary talking among the negroes in the Rock Hill neigh borhood, several miles from the city. Among other things it is reported that he told the darkies they ought to have bad him for a leader last November, and what great things he would have done. . Sheriff MacRae told the man that he was sheriff of the county, and it was his duty to afford all the protection to people that he could, but if he was fool enough to go around talking that way- he would be powerless to keep some crowd from cracking hfs neck. The man denied that he" had been doing? anv talking, but afterwaids he swaggeringly told somebody he wasn't afraid. It is believed he "is about half cracked. Red Springs on a Boom. 1 Ma j Geo. H. Hall, of the R. F. DeVahe Lumber Company, of Red Springs, was in the city on business yesterday. Major Hall tells the Star that Red Springs is on a great boom. He says he never saw so much building as is now going on there. Numbers of handsome residences are being erected. Spirits On a Boom. , The high water mark in the price of spirits turpentine on the Wilmington market not only for this season but for the past ten years or more, was reached yesterday, ; when closing quo tations were posted at 50 cents per gallon for machine-made casks and 49 cents for country casks. The receipts yesterday were 153 casks, which is an improvement over! those of the past few days when only a small .number of casks were received. There was also an advance yesterday in rosin, and sales were made at 95 cents to $1.00. J IMPROVES WITH AGE. Madison Observer. Last Saturday - the Wilmington Star, one of the best dailies in the State, entered on the thirty-third year. The Star is one of the things that the older it gets the better it is. We hope it will lve and prosper for many years to corns. Rev. L. W. Curtis and family arrived at San Francisco from Laos, Siam, on last Monday and are ex pected to arrive here in a few days to spend jfCwhile with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson J Johnson, of Brunswick county, nSie parents of Mrs. Cur tis.' ilr. Curtis has been a mis sionary of the Presbyterian Church in Siam, but has decided to abandon the work and make his home in America. The East Carolina Real Estate Agency "will sell for cash, or will ex change for desirable house and lot in Wilmington, a farm of 272 acres, three miles from Rose Hill. Address R. G. Grady & Co.; Burgaw, N. O. t TWO BOLD BURGLARIES. Residences of Col. Julias s Carr Judge Winston at Durham Robbed. Valuable Jewelry Stolen By Telegraph to the Morning star. ' Raleigh,' N. C. Octobm. n special to the News and Observer frnm T UT r 'lm isuriuuu, in. j.t says: 37 dari?g burglaries were com. milted at the ivcdAnnM n.. . Julian S. Carr, and Judge R. $ 1 i ' -uiesaaY n ?ht At General Carr's the loss will amount to some $3,500 to $4,000 Tim burglar or burglars entered General Carr's bed room, and cfnU j.- l stud from a shirt beside the bedo2 which the General was sleeping Thi diamond ornament was yaliied a? $1,000, and was a registered stone niMtwrou uuuuK me worm s J air at Chicago, but was afterwards recover ed by Pinkerton men. Agoldwatoh iroiuugiuK m vjrcuorai arr, valued of 500: aold wtY.h hair.;' "J.e,a,at Can valued at $700; a diamond scarf Tfct-n a nail. ef rr"A with diamonds, belono-ino-1 ni;'u.. Carr; gold ear-rings, gold brooches etc., were lauen. it is not known wuai. nine iuo roDDery occurred. Not a clue was left behind the guilty party got in the residenc Some of our nnnnln fhinlr ,"f m.. dently the work of a professional A 1 ll !J 0 V 1 mo residence oi judge Winston as was th6 case at General Carr's it ii nut, iiuu iu wuai way entrance was made. Two wainhpn a imA , a child's watch, two gold necklace two' gold pins and Mrs. Winston's jewel case were stolen. All of these were found this morning near a side gate in tne Dacnyard, where it is sup posed they were dropped by the burg lar in his flight. The front door of me residence was tound open this morning, ana it is thought that exit was made in this way? In neither of the two robberies were the OCCUDants of thpsn hrmspVinlrln A; turbed in the least, and knew nothing1 of it until they awoke this morning. IN THE EVENT OF WAR. United States Representatives Will Look After Great Britain's Interests In the Transvaal. By TelegraDb to the Slornlnz Btai . Washing ton, October .11. It, is practically settled that the United States will look after the interests of Great Britain in the Transvaal in the event of war. Although Great Britain has made no formal request for such action on thepart of the United States up to a late hour this afternoon, it is believed that there is a perfect under standing to that efiect betweesfthe rep resentatives of the two government. Mr. Tower, the British charge d'affaires, had another conference with Secretary Hill at the State Department to day, at which it is believed an un derstanding was reached that the United States would look after British interests in the Transvaal in case the withdrawal of the British rep-esenta tives was made necessary by a declara tion of war. - The United States representatives in the Transvaal and also in the British, colony of Natal and Cape Colony, us well as the consuls in the Orange Frst State, will be very busy men in the event of an outbreak of hostilities, for in addition to the British inten-.st? which will be confined to their care, their first attention must be directed to those of American citizens. These ere by no means inconsiderable in extent and value. The best information the State Department has been able to gather tends to show that there are no less than 1,000 American citizens in the Transvaal and Orange Free State alone, and these Americans are as a rule men of standing, representing in many instances great American man u facturing and exporting concerns, as well as being charged with supervi sion over the interests of American capitalists who have invested in the gold and diamond fields to the extent of many millions of dollars. London, October 11. The Foreign Office confirms the report from Wash ington that Great Britain has asked the United Slates to empower the United States consular authorities in the Transvaal to represent British in terests there during the hostilities. Deafness Cannot be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deaf ness, and that is by constitutional rem edies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rum bling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflamma tion can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed con dition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 25c. Halls Family Pills are the best, t A LOUISIANA TRAGEDY. Sens'ational Killing of Judge Brazil La Place A Young Lady Was . Involved. By Telegraph to tne Mornlne Star. New Orleans, October 11. The killing of Judge Brazil La Place was one of the most sensational which has taken place in Louisiana in years. The report ia. the vicinity is that a young ladv was involved. Her father was connected with the plantation and left thero yesterday, seeking -to take his daughter with him. She escaped from him and remained behind. About 10 o'clock "at night some one came to the door and called for the Judge. He came put, and while walking down th hJoli efaiwvroTr tn thn road a mob wearing white masks suddenly rose around him, seized him and Sinioned bis arms. . He was led some istance when the crowd halted ; one man placed a pistol to La Place's back and sent a bullet through his kidneys, killing him instantly. The body was left in the road, rain fell upon it dur ing the night and it was rescued from the mud by relatives who went up from New Orleans this morning. Tho-o .alattiHM, ova. thof ihp, killing A U1BV1 V V V VUBKV www was political, but the woman story is generally known and the mob's action was based upon the fact that Judge u A. law la uicuiicu uiau, uia acua.j siding at La Place, a few miles away, named after his distinguished father. Judge Rose has called a meeting of the grand jury of the parish for to morrow. Why were 25,000 BOTTLES OF ROB ERTS' TASTELESS 25o. CHILL TONIC sold the first year of its birth ? Answer : Because It la the BEST AT ANY PRICE, guaranteed to cure, money refunded If it falls, pleasant to take, 25o per bottle. It Is sold and guaranteed by ROBERT R. BELLAMY, mar 84 ly. Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
