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THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM.
One of the problem by which
Congress will be confronted and on
which it will be called upon to act
among the first, will Jbe the
Philippine question, concerning
which, since hostilities began on the
islands, there has never been an
authoritative declaration. TheAmeri
can League has formulated a peti
tion which will be presented to Con
gress praying it to declare that it is
not the purpose of this Government
to subjugate aid hold these islands
as dependencies, but to restore law
and order, to the end that stable
government may be established, and
when that is done, when the people
show capacity for self government,
thenthis government will retire, and
recognize their independence under
a U. S. protectorate. This is substan
tially, with the exception! of the
protectorate, the course declared
as to Cuba. ,
Gen. Wheeler, who seams to have
constituted himself a sort of Mentor
in this business, has written to
President McKinley expressing the
opinion that Congress should im
mediately after it meets pass a reso
lution declaring that this Govern-
-ment has no thought of ceasing hos
tilities or withdrawing its troops
from those islands until its suprem-
acy is acknowledged, and that the
war will be vigorously prosecuted
.uutil'that is accomplished, There
' . is a material and a very material
difference between what General
Wheeler proposes and what the
American .League proposes. The
latter defines a policy, which-gives
the people of the islands some as
surance a3 to what they have to ex
pact, while the former means noth-
. irig but absolute and unconditional
surrender.
It isn't ea3y to foretell what course
Congress will pursue but, judging
from the utterances of leading Re
publicans, it is safe to predict that
the course pursued, if anything be
: done, will be more in line with Gen.
Wheeler's ideas than with those of
the American League. The fact is
that the administration has resolved
to retain those islands, although it
ha3 never had the courage to open
ly declare that as its purpose. It has.
substantially admitted it by the ar
guments advanced in justification of
it, notwithstanding the Bolemii de-
clafation of the United States Sen
ate to the 'contrary, and notwith
- standing the repeated declarations
of Mr. McKinley to the contrary, al
though his phraseology was con
structed with a skilful ambiguity,
that permitted him to move forward I
or backward as circumstances might
dictate.
Shortly after they began to hold
anti-expansion meetings in Boston;
nine months ago, he visited the
Xew England States, and made a
speech in Boston, in which refer
ring to the Philippines, he said,:
"No imperial designs lurk in the
American mind. They are alien to
American sentiment, thought and
purpose. Our priceless principles
undergo no change under a tropical
sun. They go with the flag.
"If we can benefit these remote
peoples, who will object? If in the years
of the future they are established in
government under law and liberty.
who will regret our perils and sacri--fices?
Who will not rejoice in
our heroism and humanity! Always
perils, and always after them safety:
always darkness and clouds, but al
ways shining tqrough them the light
and the sunshine. Always cost' and
sacrifice, but always after them the
fruition of liberty, education and civ
ilization. I have no light or knowl
edge not common to my countrymen.
I do not prophesy. The present is all
- absorbing to me, but I can't bound my
visioa by the blood stained trenches
around Manila, where every red
drop, whether from the veins of
an American soldier or a misguided
Filipino, is anguish to my heart;
but by the broad range of fu
ture years when that group of islands,
under the impulses of the year just
Past, shall become the gems and
glories of those tpopicil seas, a land of
plenty and of increasing possibilities,
a people redeemed from savage in
cipience and habits, devoted to the
arts of peace, in touch with the com
merce and trade of all nations, en joy
joying the blessings of freedom, of
civil and religious liberty, of educa
tion and of homes, and whose children
and children's children shall for ages
hence bless the American Republic be
cause it emancipated and redeemed
their fatherland and set them in the
pathway of the world's best civiliza
tion." -This
was poken to anti-imperialists
and is simply an anti-imperialistic
utterance from Mr. McKinley's
standpoint, bat that is ajl. There
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VOL. XXXI.
was not the slightest intimation of
any policy ta be pursued; in fact,
Mr. McKinley himself said he had
no: policy, that this was a matter
for Congress to deal with, but he in
a measure disclaimed imperialism,
leaving his hearers and those who
read his speech to construe it as
they could or woulfl.
; With the progress of events and
the movements of the expansionists
he moved and later on in his Pitts
burg speech last summer, forgetting
his Boston speech, said: '
- "Peace brbucht U8 the Phi14rmino
by treaty cession from Spain. The
Benate of the United States ratified
the treaty. Every step taken was' in
ooeaience to trie requirements of leg
islation. It became our territory, and
is ours as much as the Louisiana pur
chase, or Texas or Alaska."
! . This is an unqualified claim to
ownership based on the treaty which
transferred the islands to us in con
sideration of $20,000,000. The Sen
ate ratified that treaty, which gave
us the disputed territory, but Mr.
McKinley knew when he made that
speech and this claim that there was
a condition attached to the votes of
some of the Senators who were op
posed to it, and that condition was
that the islands were not to be an
nexed and that this Government was
not to exercise permanent supremacy
over them, as stated in the following
resolution adopted by the Senate
after the ratification of the treaty:
"That toy the ratification of the
treaty of peace with Spain it is not in
tended to incoporate the inhabitants
of the Philippines into citizens of the
United States, nor is it intended to per ,
manently annex said islands as an in
tegral part of the territory of the
United States."
Mr. McKinley knew that this
resolution was a part of the under
standing by which some of the op
ponents of the treaty agreed to
vote" for its ratification, and he
knew,, too, that it could not have
been' ratified without such, a con
cession to the opponents of ratifica
tion, and ' he had not forgotten
when he made his Pittgbnrg speech
that this resolution had been
adopted and that it. pledged the
United States against the perma
nen annexation of the islands, and
yet he claimed by virtue of the
treaty and its ratification that those
islands are as much ours as Lou
isiana, Texas or Alaska. "
If Mr. McKinley ventures to re.
commend a hold on policy he will be
confronted by hii several changes
of base pending the proceeding,
and' if the policy of absolute su
premacy be advocated Congress
will be , confronted with this
resolution of the Senate, which
stands as an ineffaceable part of the
record. But it will have ;to do
something, for the mum policy has
SENSIBLE NEGRO TALK.
There is a good deal of nonsense
talked these days on the negro ques
tion, but, there is a good deal of
sense, too, and a good deal of it is
Coming from negroes, and for that
reason ought to have some influence
upon the people for whom it is in
tended. The following is from Dr.
L. A. Suggs, a negro physician and
editor at Southern Pines:
'This poor and unfortunate fellow
seems to be a wanderer and a stranger
in a 'weary land,' for he has been dis
cussed more times than can be num
bered. ! "To day the civilized world has its
eye upon him. He is very much to be
compared with the children of Israel
in their journey through the wilder
ness. '
'rtnrl -rrill vrrtr him Gilt if he Will
nnv nt himself in the line of His Pro
vidence, for he is a just judge who will
not be partial. He will note his faults
as well as his merits. .
"To speak of the black man in
North Carolina, we . would suggest
that his prospective future is bright
however, that is in his own hands
largely. He needs to think more and
labor more, and save more and talk
less. Let him- resolve to do right for
the sake of being right. He cannot
flord to do wrong or be "wrong be
cause, ashe says, some other man is
doing wrong. This will not mitigate
his punishment for wrong doing.
Let him observe the Golden Rule:
'.'Therefore all things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to, you, do
tou even so to them ; for this is the
law and the prophets.' Matt. 7:12.
He needs to care less for politics
and follow less some of his present
Eolitical leaders and turn his care to
is home, his race, his church and not
least his God."
"The white man of the South, and
of this State, who knows him best, is
his f riend. Let negroes believe this
notwithstanding the recent local race
trouble in the State Virginia, Georgia,
South Carolina and Tennesse nave iso
had their little petty race troubles. Let
the negro in North Carolina do the
best thing by being.patient, prayerful,
industrious, wise and prudent and he
shall do well and prosper right here in
North Carolina. ,,
"The South is his home and here he
will ever be found in great numbers.
Let him make his neighbor his friend
by recognizing his interests and the
white man's interests as mutual." . Let
him; 'live and board at the same place
in his own well kept home." i
Dr. Suggs may or may not pre
scribe well for his patients, but in
this utterance he prescribes in an
eminently level-headed way for the
race trouble. "1
A St. Louis coroner's jury, called
upon to hold an inquest over a man
killed in a foot-ball game, came to
the conclusion after due investiga-
tion arfd deliberation, that althougn
the man was killed according to
Rugby rules, the game is a danger
ous one.
A "WARNING. ..;
Commenting upon some vigorous
utterances on the tinplate trust, and
other monopolistic combines, by the
Cleveland, Ohio, Leader, the Re
publican organ in ' Boss Hanna's
town, the Washington : Post gives
the following warning: . .
"There is just one way in which this
trust can be deprived of power' to
prey on the public. The duty on tin
plate can be reduced. The McKinley
tariff created the tin plate industry.
It was a magnificent creation. Free
trade in tin plate would destroy it.
That would be a disaster, a calamity.
But a reduction of the duty is impera
tively demanded, and no discreet pro
tectionist should object to that simple
auu wmcieni remeay ior a most ex
asperating wrong.
"Will the Leader, will Senator
Hanna, will the administration, will
the Republican Congress take this
offender in hand and administer that
remedy? If not, are we not com
pelled to believe that the Republican
party 'will go down in defeat?' ".
The Post is politically speaking,
a non-partisan paper, although it
takes a very active interest and
freely discusses political questions.
It is a protection paper, but does
not believe in or endorse robberv
under the name of protection and
hence this deliverance on the tin
plate trust. This is in line with the
demands of a number of the leading
Republican papers in the West,
when they began to force the effort
of the rapid organization of trusts,
and the advance in prices made by
the trusts called on the party to
tackle the trusts and as a means of
curbing them to modify the duties
on articles' contracted by trusts,
some of them going so far a3 to ad
vocate putting such articles in the
free list. Thi3 question will come
up in Congress and we, will see how
the Republican majority will face the
music.
ACROSS THE LINE.
In commenting a few days ago on
the fraudulent claim that the re
vival of industries in this country:
was the result of the protective
tariff we cited the fact that the re
vival was not confined to this coun
try, but was shared by England,
Germany, France, Spain and other
European countries. But, to come
nearer home, we find Mexico, across
the Southern border, enjoying a re
markable amount of prosperity and
giving evidence of much enterprise
in the development Of her resources,
the building of railways, manufactories,-
to. , wkilo Canada, across
the .Northern border, is also re
markably prosperous her trade hav
ing increased in the past year from
$119,375,013'to $131,942,275.
Mexico and Canada are both near
neighbors, neither has a protective
tariff, and yet they are both hust
ling and , doing a tip-top business.
Is our tariff helpingthem? It is in
some respects,' because it is driving
trade that we might have away from
us to them, and preventing us from
selling them much stuff that; with
out it, we . might sell them. But
doesn't the business activity and
prosperity in European countries
and in these neighboring countries
knock out the fake of the beneficent
effect of the tariff in this country?
Col. J. G. F. Blake in command
of an Irish-German regiment in the
Boer army is an Arkansas man, and
a student of West Point in the class
of 1879. After a few years service
he resigned from the army, and later
went to South Africa. He got mad
at the British about something,
went into the Boer country and
joined the Boer army. Inv army
circles rS London much of the Boer
manoeuvring is attributed to him.
The Baltimore Herald quotes the
.Louisville Curier-Journal as saying
."the South is practicaliy solid for
expansion" and adds "this is true,
despite the protests of noisy poli
ticians." Brit it isn't true despite
the 7.-J".-and B. H.
They have some pretty well grown
infants in New York. The latest at
the front is a 195-pound, six foot
one inch chap, who wants a divorce,
and pleads the infant act.
COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL AFFAIRS.
Teacher for Federal Point School Secured.
Forfeited Pick-Pockets' Bonds.
Miss Lucy Smith, of Leon, Duplin
county, arrived yesterday and on
Monday' she will open the public
school in District No. 8, Federal Point
township. It will be remembered that
this school was not opened as usual in
October with the other schools owing
to the failure of the committeemen
to secure a teacher.
Those interested in the county pub
lic school system will be gratified to
learn that yesterday in the proceed
ings of court Judge Battle ordered
paid into the - county iund the
$600 cash bonds forfeited by the
three pickpockets who failed to
appear at the Spring term of Criminal
Court. Out of the amount, or course,
will have to be paid the cost of the
action, the parties 'who were robbed
receiving nothing.
The case will be remembered by
Stae readers as Jthat of Ed Cornell,
.Tnhn Moselv and Joe Herman, who
attempted to rob Bruce Williams,
Esq., and who secured $30 from Mr.
A. J. Galloway on the train from
Goldsboro one morning just prior to
the re-union of Confederate Veterans
at Charleston.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1899.
DELQADO COTTON WH,LS
' TO MAKE FINE GOODS.
Rapid Progress Made in Patting ia the Ma
chinery Factory to Have Bleacbery. .
To Start Up January 1st.
Rapid progress has been made the
past week in putting up the machinery
at the Delgadd Cotton Mills. Fifteen
or sixteen erecting engineers, repre
senting the various machine compa
nies, are here superintending the in
stalling of the machines. 'They have
about ;.thirty machinists , with-them,
and, added to the men employed by
Messrs. Zachary & Zachary, the con
tractors, nearly a hundred' men are at
work at the factory.
The big Corliss engine has been in
stalled, and many . of the spinning
frames have been put up. - There will
be 46 frames, with 10,300 spindles.
There will be 450 looms and a number
have arrived and are being put up as
fast as they ccfmV The boilers have
not arrived yet, but "are expected any
day. .
The factory building, with the ex
ception of the finishing .touches on
the tower, has been completed. The
engine and boiler house has been
finished and work is nroeressing on
the dye house and the office.
The Dslgado Company will put in a
complete bleachery, and will manu
facture a fine grade of goods. The
factory will start up about the first of
January and will first manufacture
thirty seven -inch drills and gray goods
till the machinery gets to rfnning
smoothly. Then a specialty will be
made of fine goods. It is proposed to
manufacture mostly a handsome line
of madras cloth, outings, and fancy
shirtings,
The company lias already placed
orders for a large lot of its manufac
tures and has bought the cotton to
make them.
COTTON AND NAVAL STORES.
Comparative Statement of Receipts
for
the Week and Past Crop Year.
The following comparative state
ment of the weekly and part crop year
receipts of cotton and naval stores at
the port of Wilmington was posted
yesterday afternoon at the Produce
Exchange:
Week ended November 24th, 1899
Cotton, 7,703 bales; spirits, 438 casks;
rosin, 2,566 barrels; tar, 1,134 barrels;
crude, 326 barrels.
' Week ended November 24th, 1898-
Cottoa, 14,605 bale3; spirits, 542 casks;
rosin, 4,808 barrels; tar, 877 barrels;
crude, 169 barrels.
Crop year to November 24th, 1899
Cotton, 100,917 bales; spirits, 24.087
casks, rosin, 95,801 barrels; tar, 37,887
barrels; crude, 8,781 barrels.
Crop year to Nov. 24th, 1893. Cot
ton, 208,408 bales; spirits, 22,517 casks;
rosin. 108.917 barrels: tar, 36,944 bar
rels ; crude, 8,027 barrels.
' A noticeable feature of the state
ment is the remarkable falling off in
the current week's receipts of cotton
from those of the same period last
year, But few more than half the
number of bales were received during
the week than durinsr the correspond
iDg time last year, and in the matter of
croD vear receipts the port is thus far
nearlv 70.000 bales short of last year.
With the same conditions prevailing
elsewhere the short crop for the world
is apparent.
RAILROAD MEN IN CHARLESTON.
Were Entertained at Lunch by Business
Men President Walters' Speech.
At a lunch given by the business
men of Charleston at the Isle of
Palms on Friday, iacompliment to a
number of visiting - railroad men of
prominence, the following list of At
lantic Coast Line guests was printed
in yesterday's News and Courier: H
Walters, president of ., the Atlantic
Coast Line system ; J. R. Kenly,
general manager of the Atlantic Coast
Line system; B. F. Newcomer, vice
president of the Atlantic Coast Line
system; Waldo Newcomer, director of
the Atlantic (Joast Line system;
Michael Jenkins, member of the At
lantic Coast Line executive commit
tee.
There were speeches by a number of
those present, one of the happiest
being by President Walters, of the
A. C. L., whose remarks are given by
the News and Courier as follows :
Mr. H. Waiters president of the
Atlantic Coast Line said that his road
was an old factor in Charleston's com
merce and that there was no need of
nromises on hi3 part until the new
comers had trotten on a level with the
Atlantic Coast Line. He said the At-
1 antic Coast Line had a railroad and ter
minal facilities in Charleston and had
iilwavs been able to do a little more
business than it couiaget. xne At
lantic Coast Line hoped to be able to
keen on imnrovinsr a little ahead of
business. That's all a railroad could
do the balance of the work of devel
opment depended on the citizens. All
of the railroads in the world would
nof make a city unless its people wree
alert and affjrressive. Mr. W alters
said one of the encouraging!signs in the
Charleston situation was the fact that
a vouncrer and more progressive busi
ness element seemed to be taking hold
of affairs and were working in a way
that boded success,
Burglary in Johnston.
A correspondent of the Stab writing
from Benson, Johnston county, N. C,
November 23rd, says: "Burglars en
tered the residence of Mr. D. E. Edge
last night and stole 'therefrom $31 in
cash. An . entrance was effected
through a back window. There is no
clue to the identity of the robber or
robbers. Two negro women were
arrested on suspicion this morning but
were subsequently released. Other
arrests may follow." ,
The name of the government
inspection boat Evelyn has been
changed to Mary Lilly. ;"
ELY
MOUTH OF TOWN CREEK.
Steamboat Men Complain of Damage by
Storm and Want Improvement.
Steamboat men re complaining of
what the recent Storm ha3 done for
the mouth of Town Creek, up which
course there is considerable shipping
traffic in rice and naval stores.
They say that in the first place all the
mud, logs, etc., dredged from the bot
tom by the government just prior to
the storm have been washed back into
the channel and the stream is now
even less navigable by boats of any
considerable draught than before the
work was done. Then, again,-, ihey say
that the ranges have been destroyed
by the storm and it is with the greatest
difficulty and danger that vessels can -
go up the stream without probability of
being "stuck" or of suffering damage
to machinery by obstructions under
waters '
They will urge, it is learned, that
the government appropriation for the
improvement of the mouth of Town
Creek be used at once, so as not to inter
fere with the movement of the rice
crop, which is a large one, over iu.uuu
bushels having been already brought
from the plantations ia this vicinity.
At low water there is said to be only
about three feet in the mouth and the
ordinary harbor vessels sometimes
have to wait for flood tide to pass in
and out.
LIBERAL DONATION.
President Walters, of the Atlantic Coas!
Line, Donates $250 to the Building
Pond of the Masonic Temple.
Mr. H. Walters, President of the At
lantic Coast Line, has made the most
magnificent donation yet received by
the board of directors of the Ma
sonic Temple Corporation. Mr. Wal
ters recently enclosed to Mr. M. S.
Willard, president of the corporation,
his check for $250, to be used in erect
ing the temple and as a contribution
to the building fund.
It is understood that Mr. Walters
is not a Mason and his donation is
therefore mo much the more appre
ciated. It also shows that Mr. Wal
ters takes a deep interest in all public
matters in Wilmington aad is ready
to help any enterprise which adds to
Wilmington's importance and con
tributes to its development and pro
gress. The Masons all over North Carolina
will deeply appreciate this gift from
Mr. Walters. -
ELECTED PORT WARDEN.
Mr. W. N. Harris Elected to Fill Vacancy
Caused by the Death of His Father.
At a joint meeting yesterday after
noon of the Comfmissioners of Navi
gation and Pilotage, consisting of
Messrs Thos. C. Evans, (chairman)
James Sprunt, Samuel Northrop, C.
W. Worth, J. W. Craig and S. F.
Craig, Mr. George Harriss, Jr., was
elected a member of the Board to suc
ceed his father, the late George Har
riss, who was so prominently and so
long identified with Wilmington's
marine interests.
At the meeting Mr. W. N. Harriss,
the surviving member of the firm of
George Harriss, Son & Co., was also
elected in his father's stead to the posi
tion of Port Warden. The office is a
very important one in Wil min gton
shipping and the election a handsome
testimony to Mr. Harriss' judgment
in marine matters.
CATHARINE WHITINO'S CARGO SAVED.
It Will Probably be Brought to Wilmiog-
. ton and Re-Loaded for Shipment.
A Star representative learned yes
terday that Messrs. George E. Brooks
& Co., of Little RiVer, S. G, had suc
ceeded in recovering all the lost cargo
of lumber of the steamer Catharine
Whiting, which went ashore near that
point on the coast during the Carib
bean storm. It was at first thought
that there was little chance of saving
any part of the cargo and Messrs.
Brooks & Co., were awarded the con
tract for fifty per cent, of the net pro
ceeds. Singularly enough the entire
cargo has floated ashore very little
broken and it has been saved.
The Whiting carried about 350,000
feet, valued at $4,500.00. On account
of the shoals on that coast no sea
going vessels can get up to the water
front where the lumber is deposited
and the Stab is informed that it will
be brought up to the city by small
boats and re loaded.
Only a few parts of the vessel have
been saved and these are of very
little value.
EVERYTHING BOOMING AT WILSON,
Tobacco Sales Will Reach 18,000,009
Pounds Wilson Oil Mill Company.
A correspondent of the Star writ
ing from Wilson, N. G, sends the fol
lowing items indicative of the growth
and prosperity of that enterprising city :
Large sales of tobacco are daily
made on each of the floors of our five
warehouses now. This market has sold
over thirteen million pounds of tobacco
since the first of August, and the pros
pects are that the total sales for this sea
son will reach eighteen million pounds.
The Wilson Oil Mill Company have
completed .their large brick building,
and are now busily engaged in plac
ing in position their machinery, which
is of the latest and most improved pat
tern. This new enterprise will be of
great benefit to this community, and
the enterprising gentlemen ,at the
head of it have the heartiest co-operation
of all our people.
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JURY CANNOT AGREE.
Are Tied-Up in the Case.Against
Tony Swain for Entering
Dwelling House.
THEY WERE OUT ALL NIGHT.
Yesterday's Session of the Criminal Court.
Grand Jury Made Report and Recom
; tnendations Number of Petty
Cases Disposed Of.
The most important case docketed
for trial .at the term of the Circuit
Criminal Court uow in session here, is
that of Tony Swam for entering the
apartments of Mrs. W.T. O'Neill, refer
ence to which has .been made f re-
quently in these columns. -
The grand jury returned a true bill
in the case Thursday and yesterday
afternoon's session was entirely taken
up in hearing testimony of witnesses
and argument of counsel in same.
The evidence was practically tha same
as that given in at the preliminary ex
amination before Justice Northrop,
except in the very essential point that
Mrs. O'Neill at yesterday's trial posi
tively identified Swain as the man
who entered the apartments on the
night in question. Mrs. O'Neill ex
plained that before s the charge was
amended by the grand jury from
burglary, jin which instance if the de
fendant had been convicted, he
would have been hanged, she
probably was overguarded in her
statements, the case involving, as it
did, human life. Since the bill was
amended by the grand jury to enter
ing "fa dwelling without burglarious
inteiit, however, she said that she
could positively identify Swain as the
man who entered the room. The pen
alty in the latter instance is fixed by
statute at from four months to ten
years imprisonment, either in the
county jail or in the State peniten
tiary. (
The case was vigorously prosecuted
by! Solicitor Duffy and J. O. Carr,
Esq., and the defence was ably and
ingeniously conducted by W. J. Bel
lamy and Herbert McClammy, Esqs.,
who made eloquent and convincing
appeals to the jury in behalf of their
client.
The case went to the jury after the
foriuar charge by Judge Battle at
about 6.30 o'clock, and up to the hour
of going to press this morning they
had not agreed upon a verdict. They
came out a few minutes after retiring
and asked of Judge Battle what aspect
the failure of the defendant to testify
in his own behalf would place upon
the case. Judge Battle enlightened
them upon this point, and they again
retired with the result as stated.
The jury is composed as follows:
Capt. R C. Orrell, Messrs. R. S. Mur
ray, E. T. Mason, W, V. Hudson, J.
H. Rourk, T. J. Ashley, J. A. Mote,Z.
V. Croom, W. J. Spooner, J. B. Hew
lett, J. H. Huhn and Walter Melton.
The following is the official docket
of cases disposed of yesterday morn
ing: M.- Greenblot, assault and battery
with deadly weapon; not"" guilty and
on motion of counsel for defence, no
tice was served upon Hiram Moore to
show cause why he should not be
marked as prosecutor and be taxed
with the costs.
Chas. Williams, resisting ah arrest;
guilty.
Peyton Williams, larceny; con
tinued and defendant held in bond of
$25 cash, r
Willie Yopp, assault and battery
with deadly weapon ; not guilty.
I. Breece, R. Sellers and W. Ris
ing, disturbing religious meeting; con
tinued. 1
Julia Murray, larceny; deferred for
State witnesses.
George Roonck, assault and battery
with deadly weapon ; recognized each
day of the term.
A. Beattv, cruelty to animals, guil
ty ; four months in jail.
The Grand Jury's Report".
The grand jury concluded its work
about noon and was discharged. The
following report' as to the various
county institutions was read and
placed on file:
His Honor, Dossey Battle. Judge East-
em District Criminal Court.
We have the honor to present the
following report.
We have had before us 67 bills of
indictment sent to us by the solicitor
and found 62 true bills, 4 not true
bills and have returned one bill from
failure to get the witnesses before us
though capiases were issued in every
such case.
We visited the jail and found the
building in good repair. The building
was found very much over crowded
with prisoners. Its capacity to ac
commodate comfortably is limited to
40 or 50, whereas there' are more than
60 prisoners now confined therein, the
result being very great discomfort to
these poor creatures. We found the
prisoners generally complaining of
being very cold, there being no fire in
the furnace. One very respectable
young "woman was evidently suffer
ing from this cause and said she had
had a severe chill. This girl we un
derstand was not confined on any
charge of crime, but merely for fail
ure to pay some court costs. The
sleepinsr arrangements in the jail im
pressed us as very inadequate and
even inhumane, partly owing, no
doubt, to the unusually crowded con
dition of the jail. Many of the pris
oners are compelled to sleep cm the
cold and hard cement floors, with no
other covering than an inferior
blanket. The unhappy creatures must
suffer from such discomfort. Now
when it is remembered that many "of
these prisoners have not been con
victed of any crime and hence under
the genius of our benign laws must be
held to be innocent until proven guilty
of crime; the torture of such discom
fort is inexcusable in a County profes
sing to be Christian.
We therefore recommend, most ' re
spectfully, that the officer in charge of
the jail shall be immediately furnished
with 15 thick woollen blankets and 15
hammocks.
In this connection we desire to state
that we do not regard the jailor as
wanting in consideration for his pris
oners. He informs us he had re-
peatedly asked for additional blankets
NO. 6
and hammocks, but heretofore un
auccessf ully. j He expresses himself
as every way anxious to minister to
their comfort. In the basement
kitchen of the jail we found a very
offensive odar arising from vessel
therein filled with slops and garbage.
Nothing has been dote as yet toward
puting prisoners to work on the
public- roads ol. the county but the
Chairman of the County Commis
sioners assures .us he is now making
arrangements to effect this and these
he thinks will be perfected by the first
proximo.
- We inspected the Court House
building and find it in fairly cleanly
and good condition save only that the
bottom step; of the front door was
sunk about one inch from the proper
position.
We approve the report of the com
mittee who visited and inspected the
County Home.
Respectfully Submitted,
John Wilder Atkinson,
Foreman.
The committee who were appointed
to visit the County Home, made its
report as follows and the same was
filed with the regular report:
To the Honorable Foreman and
Grand Jury of the November Term
of Criminal Court for New Han
over County. Gentlemen:
We, the committee appointed by the
aforesaid body to inspect the New
Hanover County Home, do herewith
bejr to present this their report of said
institution..
We find the Home has now 25 or 26
inmatea in its care, and with one ex
ception, Wm. Moore, found them all
faring very comfortably. This man
who is a negro, needs prompt and im
mediate attention. We found him
lying upon the flnor and complaining
of being in great pain.
Another patient, Henry Middleton,
an insane inmate, needs clothing and
claims the only clothing he has had
since put at the Home has been fur
nished him by his mother. We would
suggest that the superintendent of
the Home be instructed to furnish the
inmates, both male and female, with
more and warmer clothing, especially
as winter is coming and from personla
observation the inmates as a rule are
poorly clad. We especially instructed
ourselves in regard to the food fur
nished the inmates but found them
all very well pleased and no com
plaints made regarding the food.
In fact each and every one. freely
spoKe oi me Kina ana humane treat
ment they reoeived at the hands of
the superintendent and his wife.
We would respectfully call atten
tion to repairs that are needed to be
made at once to the out-houses, one -of
which is liable to tumble over at any
time; also the drain or open ditch into
which all night soil is dumped should
be open and in place of allowing the
open sewer ia the form of a ditch, we
suggest boxes, being used and these at
regular intervals cleaned.
The stockade we found rather in
need of the scrub brush and water and
the prisoners' bedding is not so good
as it should be. The buildines and
premises as a. whole were clean and in
good condition.
Yours, respectfully,
IW. A. French, Jr.;
Secretary for Committee.
J. M. Branch,
B. F. Penny,
Committee.
Will Probably Adjourn To-day.
mi
j.nere are j now only a few very
trivial cases on the docket for disposal
audit is probable that these will be
taken up to day and Judge Battle will
be able to adjourn the term this after
noon, i
BITTEN BY A DOG.
Captain A. L. DeRosset Had An Unpleas
ant Experience Yesterday Morning.
Yesterday j morning about 10:30
"clock while : standing conversing
with Mr. E. Peschau on Water street
near its intersection witp Princess,
Capt. A. L. DeRosset was viciously
attacked by a dog and severely bitten
about the hand.
The dog without provocation what
ever trotted up the street and seized
Capt. DeRosset on the calf of. the leg,
tearing his trousers hut not reaching
the flesh. He immediately thrust out
Ms hand to frighten the animal away
but the dog seized it violently, biting
him on the fleshy part of the hanp
just between the thumb and fore
finger, two teeth having penetrated
from above and two below.
Capt. DeRosset immediately went
to the office of Dr. W. D. McMillan,
where the wound was cauterized and
dressed.
Although it is contended that the
dog was not a rabid one, Policeman
Bowen, who was on that beat, gave
chase and overtook him at the corner
of Water and Dock streets where he
shot him through the neck, though
this did not stop him. Policeman J,
A. Martin on - the adjoining beat,
joined in the chase and at Front and
Wright streets the pursuing party was
reinforced by Mr. Joe Everett, watch
man at Kidder's mill, who was ' on
horseback. Taking officer Bowen's
pistol he fired at the fleeing canine
several times and at length had to Are
three loads into, him from a douole
barrelled shot gun bafore bringing
him down.
xne aog was nrst reported yes
terday morning at or near the corner
Of Seventh and Nixon streets, where
he is said to have bitten another do?
Death at Whiteville.
A correspondent of the Star wr tes
under date of yesterday as follows
Little Arltne, daughter of Mi d
Mrs. C. G. ! Richardson and g i z.a
daughter of Capt. V. V. Richar ya,
or tms place, cuea here yesic; ay
morning at one o does, her birthday,
aged 3 years. She was a bright and
lovely child and the large gathering af
ue ianerai aitesiea me sympatny oi
the community.
WMKfflft
thougnt
pregnai
without
tncy so prepares tne symicui iorine event
of women through this great crisis without suffering, and they declare
nt anv alscomzorc wnaxtnr. i ms uuuucdi
It a eodsend to women . Send for free boos: containing lniormauon oi
priceless value. Address, Bradfleld Regulator Co Atlanta, Ga.
CRUMBLING LIKE A
DOUSE OF CARDS.
The So-Called Filipino Republic
Appears to Have Gone
! 1 to Pieces.
AQU1NALD0 IS A' FUGITIVE.
His Army Scattered The Ruling Spirit
the Cabinet is a Prisoner In Manila.
Small Fry Tumbllog Over Each
Other to Make Submission.
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By Cable to the Morning Star.
Manila, November 25. The news
that the steamer Brutus brings from
Dagupan dispels all doubts that the so
called Filipino republic is crumbling
like a house of cards. AguiDaldo is
deserted, or being abandoned, by the
politicians, and the army, which a fort
night ago was entrenched at Tarlac
and exercised a defacto government
over nine tenths of the people of
Luzon; he is a fugitive among the
the mountains, with small hope of .re
establishing the machine. The army
is scattered in the hills on both sides
of the railroad, and widely separated
detachments are within the cordon
which Generals Lawton and Wbeaton
have cemented. The ruling spirit of
the cabinet is a f prisoner in Manila a
white elephant' on the hands of the
authorities and the small fry are
tumbling over one another to get to
Manila.; Three provincial governors
have arrived in Manila to request
General Otis to install them in their
old officers under the new regime.
Advices From General Otis.
Washington, November 25. The
adjutant general has received the fol
lowing cable from General Otis:
Manila, November 25. Vessel
from Lingayen gulf with dispatches
from Wheaton to the twenty third in
stant, brought in Buencamino, the in
surgent secretary of state, captured
on the 21st instant. He was with
Aguinaldo and the party left Tarlac
on the nieht of the 13th, to be escort
ed north by two thousand troops from
Isayambang and Dagupan. These
troops Wheaton struck at San Jacinto
and YouDg eastward. Aguinaldo, with
part of his family, escaped north with
two hundred men, passing between
Young and Wheaton. Young is still
in pursuit at last accounts, and has
been rationed at San Fernando. Agui
naldo, mother and oldest child, with
Buencamino, separated from the rest
of the party; the mother was lost in
the woods, and the child, four years
old, is with Wheaton's troops. Two
thousand dollars, in gold, belonging to
the mothe--, was captured, and is now ,
ID toe numu treasury. - .
MacArthur has captured the insur
gent director of the railroad who en
deavored to destroy the railroad to
Dagupan ; also, Captain Lawrence, an
Englishman, who served Aguinal&n's
artillery. The telegraph is not work
ing north of Tarlac to day. I
Lawton is believed to be .on the
military road to Bayambang. Roads
are now practicable- for wagons, and
supplies for him are being forwarded.
(Jur troops have n Derated some tnree
hundred Spanish prisoners recently.
, o i
Washington, November 25. The
nKurveniH AiiacK imus.
following cablegram has been -received
at the War Department from
Ueneral Utis: .
"Manila, JSIovember 5. The msur-
o-fnts mariA a faint attack on Imus
last night. Three enlisted men were
wounded; the enemy s loss was two
killed and one captured. They quick
ly withdrew. Additional troops .were
sent from Manila to day. The insur
gents will be driven south. Reports .
from Negros are encouraging. The,
chief insurgent leader in the north of
the island surrendered voluntarily.
More planting is being done. More
sugar mills are at work than at any
time since the revolution against
Spain began. Officers report the peo
ple apparently cheerful and hopeful;
that the form of g 'vernment in oper
ation is well suited to conditions and
workinsr smoothly." I '.
The War Department omciais are
disposed to account for the sudden ac
tivity developed by the .insurgents
south of Manila, as reported this morn
ing, on the assumption that the insur
gent general in command there, who
is believed to be Pio del Pilar, has re
ceived notice through some of his spies
of the desperate straits of Aguinaldo
and is'manfully trying to create a di
version in bis favor by attacking the
American force in the rear. He occu
pies strong defensive ground, and Ca-
vite province, the home or Aguinaldo,
has never been taken by the Spaniards '
since the first hostilities. j
A SOUTH CAROLINA QUARREL.
Sellers Brothers Accuse J. D. Hazelden,
of the Board of Dispensary Control,
: of Arrant Cowardice.
i '.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Columbia, S. G, November 25. J.
Dudley Hazelden, a member of the
State Board of Dispensary Control,
has been accused of cowardice, of
running from . fire and of wearing a
steel breast-plate. The charees are
preferred in the State (newspaper) by
Benj. B. Sellers and Jno. C. Sellers,
with whom Hazelden and his party
had an encounter at Sellers' depot.
Hazelden took refuge on the' premises
of .a negro cabin. His brother, Luther
M. Hazelden, admits running under
the depot I
This morning the Hellers produced
siaterr cnu iron- J. JBVopears, u.nos
Powei . Car datthews, that Ha
zelden rsi) had i . o breast-plates made
of stxi at the arion Iron Works
where they are employed. The pro
prietor.1 McDulfio declines to deny the
staterceC' thus giving force to the
charges ; ainst Hazelden. Each of
the tjreait-plaUs 'weighed twelve
Siunds, an I the charge is made that
azeldc i ras s en to remove one af
ter the cc:ount His friends here
are thunderstruck. Hazelden's high
position a Slate official makes this
the greatcs? sensation in the State for
several ycais ! .
Hazeldcs i cousin of the late Gov.
Ellef be acc c ; I. E. Ellerbe who bit
terly oppou d Congressman Norton
for his seal. Sellers is a ''brother in
law of Norton and this old feud had
much to do with the shooting- caused
by the recent State dispensary scan
dals. It is thought that the incident
is not closed.' i
No woman's happiness can be complete without children :
it is her nature to love and want them. The dreadful ordeal
through which the expectant mother must pass, however,
is so fraught with pain, suffering and danger, that the very
ot it mis ner
is no necessity for :
the ordeal of child- j
birth to be either
painful or danger
rata. The use of
Mother's Friend dunns
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