North Carolina Newspapers

J p. PI T!1 She eeMg WILLIAM H. BEEUABD Hdito and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C January 26, 1900. AFRAID TO TACKLE IT. Some of the Republican Congress men who haye been approached on the subject of repealing the tariff duties on paper and paper-making materials, to break the monopoly of . the paper trust, hesitate to tackle the trust because they say it would open up the ' whole tariff question. That's what they say to placate the Republican newspapers and other publishers who feel the grip'of the trust and are now enjoying some of the luxuries of the high protective tariff which they have advocated and which they have done so much - to fasten upon the country. . The demand of newspaper and other publishers for the repeal of these duties puts the Republican Congressman in a rather embarrass ing position, for they don't want to antagonize the newspaper men and they don't want to tackle the trusts and the tariff. "We are not sur prised at their hesitancy. - How can they put the curb on the paper trust and pay no attention to other trusts which are practicing extortion upon and oppressing other people as the paper trusts are practicing extortion upon and oppressing the consumers of paper? If the paper trust were the only trust they would t not hesitate to confront it and call it .to taw, but the trouble is there are scores of trusts, many of them as bloodsucking as the paper trusts and they all owe their existence to the same cause the protective tariff - --which excludes foreign competi tion and gives them a practical mo nopoly of the home market. ' If they moved to repeal or reduce the tariff on paper to placate the Republican newspaper men, what decent excuse - could they offer for refusing to do something to call down the sugar . trust, the standard oil trust, the glass trust, the tin trust and -the Bcorea- of other trusts which-are levying tribute on the American people, and annually squeezing mill ions of dollars out of the American people who are forced to buy their goods? There is the wire trust, for instance, in which every one who has any use for wire'- and nails (and these are millions) is interested, the operations of which are thus com mented upon in an article which we lip fronrthe New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin'. 'This paper commented at the time upon the' remarkable admissions of I Mr. John W. Gates before the Indus trial Commission that his company - was exporting 700 tons of wire a day, ' but that it could not spare tariff pro tection, that it was selling abroad at less prices than it sold for at home, and that, although his company was making; good profits, he had been ' abroad trying to organize a wire trust ". of the world in order to advance prices $10 a ton, but he and the Ger man makers could not agree on the division of business. Mr. John De Witt Warner has used Mr. Gates' statement as an introduction to a striking sketch of the operations of the present Wire Trust and of that of four years ago, considerable portions of which we reprint. i . "Why should an American concern that is supplying England with 60 per .cent, of the wire consumed there care about tariff protection against foreign competition ? There is but one an swer, and that is that while abundantly able to meet foreign competition it prefers the high prices which it can extort by virtue of being a monopoly. - Domestic competition being suppressed . by consolidation, foreign competition is averted by the tariff, and the trust can fix prices as high as the trade will . stand, or in its short sighted eagerness for profits even higher. "Mr. Gates admitted that wire was old to foreigners cheaper than to Americans. In November, 1896, un der the former Wire Trust, one dealer bought a quantity of nails for export at $1.30, the price to Americans being ' $2.70, shipped them to Amsterdam and back, and sold them at home at less than the Trust price. But the Trust , was strong enough to prevent his buy ing any more nails either at the for eign or the domestic' rate. Before this - Trust was formed wire nails were sell ing at a "base" price of 75 and 80 cents ' in Pittsburg. The average price in 1894 was $1.11. In 1896 it was $2 54, the price having been held at $2.70 from May to November. In Decem ber it dropped to $1.60 because the Trust had collapsed. In spite of its exclusive contracts with the manufacturers of nail making ma chinery the independent production had greatly increased and the methods of the Trust had aroused much enmity in the trade, and the result was dis aster. ' Although the control of wire making machinery by this Trust broke down, the present Trust, which is far more comprehensive and powerful, is believed to have recovered that control and even increased it by acquiring valuable patents for nail making ma- , ehmery and for making fence wire. The Government, therefore, is sustain ing the Trust in two directions; it is excluding foreign competition by the tariff, and it is suppressing domestic competition by . means of the patent laws. In the suppression of domestic competition the patent laws are often much more effective than the mere fact of consolidation, for they prevent -. the starting of new competing estab ; lishments. . The average 'base' price of wire . nails in Chicago and New York was $1.45 in 1898. In January, 1899, the American Steel & Wire Company was : organiied with $90,000,000 of capital, represented by $20,000,000 of slants. ift nnn rwi nf nftiw oonit.i and $52,000,000 representing the power oi consolidation ana tne tannr to pre vent competition, xne price oi wire ' nails war steadily raised from $1. 69 - in January to $3.63 in December. With this price exacted from Ameri- cans,' seies abroad are made at $2 14. The exports are increasing very rapid ly, which proves that the Trust can 47" make good profits at its export prices: what it can make on its domestic prices, therefore; can be imagined. Although there have been, some in- - -creases of wages, as to which the Trust - has made considerable display. Mr. Warner quotes from the Iron Age of January 4th, a Pittsburg dispatch to the effect that the rod mill workers "have asked for the restoration of the wagea in force prior to 1893." . The paper from, which we quote is not a political paper, and there fore it cannot be accused of criticis ing to the nail trust to make polit ical capital. It gives jfacts and figures and makes such comment as these facts and figures suggest and warrant, and yet the nail trust is no worse than many other trusts which have doubled and trebled the prices of their goods within the past couple years. - But - this Republican Congress is not going to tackle trusts nor tne tariff, which has called them into existence, for they need the trusts as co-workers in elections, and they need the other beneficiaries of this protective tariff, who chip liberally into Hanna's hat when it is passed. around. If they began reducing the tariff on one thing or repealing the duties on. one article controlled by a trust, where will theystop without going through the whole tariff busi ness, and by the time they got through with it what would their protective , tariff look like? They would doubtless like to accommo date the Republican newspaper men whose services they need, ba$ they can't very well do that without get ting into a tangle in which they would ' antagonize the trusts whose money they need, and that is about the situation as far as they are con cerned.! They may do some talking on that line, but it will consist prin cipally of protests against extortion, and professions of a desire for fair play, but 'that will be simply to fool the victims of the trusts and to stave off action. They are not going to tackle either the tariff or the trusts. GIVIlffQ WARNING. The Teport comes from Alabama that influenced by the better prices received for the cotton they raised last year the planters of that State will increase the acreage for the next crop, and this, notwithstanding the warnings of friends both North and South, who are familiar with the cotton movement in this and in other countries and have pointed out some of the inevitable consequences of an increased acreage in this country, assuming that an increased acreage will give a proportionately increased yield. Among those who have raised the warning voice is Mr. Stephens, president of the late convention of State Commissioners of Agriculture; of the cotton States at the recent meeting in New Orleans, who in his address urged the cdmmissioners o: the respective States to do all they can to persuade the cotton planters to keep down the acreage and raise home supplies. Following on this line ex-Commis sioner Uesbit,' of Georgia, has pub lished an appeal to the planters of Georgia in which he urges them to Keep down tne acreage, and gives reasons to show that even if cotton, of the next crop bring seven cents a pound, they will run the risk of los ing money owing to the increased cost of making it. The Atlanta Constitution which agrees with him, and has done all it could to prevent the planting of an increased acreage, thus summarizes the points he makes on this line: - "It is right at this point that the farmer needs information and advice. He has just disposed of his crop at a fairly good price. That crop was raised under conditions which gave him a margin of profit in its sale. If he goes into his next crop under the idea that he will have the same ad vantages, he will soon awake to the delusion under which he has acted. Even the current prices for cotton. which have given a profit on the croD of 1899. will not give a profit on that of 1900.. Why? Just let us see! i "The coming crop will be the most expensive to produce, since those of the flush days recalled by Colonel Nesbit as the era of speculation "Labor will be 12 to 15 per cent higher than last year. "The fertilizer trust has already levied a 'rake off of 25 per cent "Muies nave advanced 30 per cent "Plows have made a jump of 100 per cent "Corn is 10 per cent hieher. and thousands of farmers, unfortunately. "All agricultural lmnlements have advanced at least 50 per cent "it is-under such conditions that the farmers have to begin their work of 1900. Can they invest in such levies as these upon their earnings and come out clear, even upon 7 -cent cotton? This is the problem which they have to solve before they commit them selves to a course which may mean bankruptcy. "r ace the situation and learn the truth I j! "Live at home upon your own sup plies. "Do not make investments which will not pay. "Keep within your means, and that which you cannot do to a profit, lay aside for something which has profit in it' "Above all remember the old Georgia adage that foresight is a long ways ahead of hindsight.'' :: , , , . , . To promote purity one of the New York Solons proposes to re quire Hhe 'canned food - establish ments to put labels on showing the year in which they were put up. The Brooklyn Citizen amends that by requiring that the date be stamped in the tin, which would block the removal of old labels, and substitu ting more modern ones, aawas done in the case of much of the canned meats that were shipped to the army during the Spanish war. "; It Saved HUa Iaeg;. P. A. Danforth. of LaGrange. Ga. suffered intensely for six months with a frightful running sore on his leg. but writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured 1 it in ten days. For Ulcers, Wounds, Burns, Boils, Pain or riles, it's the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents. Sold by a. a. Bellamy, druggist - t A Buenos Ayres dispatch says the bubonic plague has broken out at Ro- sano, and a rigorous cordon has been established at that place. leaves -tfie lungs weak arid opens the door for the germs of - Consumption " Don't wait until they get in, and you begin to cough. Close the door at once by healing the inflammation. . . makes the lungs germ proof; it heals, the inflam mation arid closes the doors. It builds up and strengthens the entire system with wonderful rapidity. ' 50c and 1.00, all druggUtf, SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. New York. DROWNED IN f Negro Fell Headlong Thirty Feet and Was Drowned Almost Instantly. Spencer Stanford, an old negro wood sawyer aged about w years ana wno has spent much of his old- age in the station house where he was confined for drunkenness, fell into a well at the rear of the residence of Miss Lou Smith, at corner of Second and Bed Cross streets last night about 7.30 o'clock and drowned. Theoldnegrohad finished sawing some wood for Miss Smith in the afternoon and at night he returned badly intoxicated and asked Miss Smith for something to eat, which she wrapped in a paper at the same time telling him to sit down in the back yard and eat it He went to the well and sat on the edge of the stone curbing, which is round and- which extends about two feet aboye the ground. . Miss Smith, after handing the lunch to the old negro through the kitchen window, resumed her household duties, when a few minutes later she and an old colored woman living at the rear of the residence were surprised to hear Stanford falling into the well, which is about thirty-five feet deep and curbed in a circular form from the bottom. The old negro woman notified some one, who telephoned the occurrence to the City Hall and to Dr. Price, the coroner. The body was taken from the well by the hook ana ladder dots, ana after viewing the same Dr. Price or dered it placed in the morgue at the City Hall for burial to-day. There were no bruises on the body and from the position in which Ladderman Jake Wannamaker found him when he went down in the well and attached a rope to the negro's body, it is sup posed he fell headlong and drowned before he could make an outcry, a The water is about five feet deep in the well and the distance to the sur face of the ground from the water line is about thirty feet staniora was a harmless old negro and his only fault was in drinking too heavily. He weighed over two hundred pounds and was one of the old type of negroes. He has no rela tives here. tottoi Advancing. In sympathy with the New York and Liverpool markets the local cotton market took a decided advance yester day, quotations having been posted at the Produce Exchange yesterday af ternoon on a basis of 7 cents for mid dling, which is as high as recorded lo cally this season. Receipts at this port for the past two weeks have shown material increase over the receipts of a corresponding period last year, and speculators are asking themselves the question if there was not a more gen era! "holding" of the crop by the far men during the early part of the sea son than was at first anticipated. Yes terday's receipts, however, indicated a falling off from' last year. There is now only one tramp steamer in por awaiting a cargo of cotton for the for eign trade, Will Not Pardon Wadley. Richmond Dispatch : Governor Tyler decided yesterday that he would not interfere in the case of Wadley. the insurance-company president in jail in Wytheville lunder a sentence or one year in the penitentiary for em rozzung IUD.UUU. ttovernor Tyler says the case must take its course in 1 I J a4 AA rt mm the courts. After haying been to the Supreme Court of the United States the case is now to be taken to the Su preme (Jourt of Virginia. Master Car Bnilder Resigned. Mr. John H. Davis, who is Master Car Builder for; the Atlantic Coast Line and who has been in the employ of the Atlantic Coast Line shops for twenty-five years,: has resigned his position to General Manager John R, Kenly, the same to take effect Febru ary 1st Mr. Davis has made no an nouncement of his plans for the future.- Prevented A Tragedy. ' . ' ' Timely information given Mrs. ueorge ixrag, or New Straitsville. Ohio, prevented a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives. A frightful cough had long kept her awake every ujkuii, duo uau ineu many remedies and doctors but steadily grew worse until urged to try Dr. King's New Discovery. One bottle wholly cured her, and she writes this marvelous medicine also cured Mr. Lone of severe attack of pneumonia. Such Cures are positive proof of the match less merit of this grand remedy for curing all throat chest and lung troubles. Only fiOo and $1.00 Every bottle guaranteed. Trial bottles 10c at R. R. Bellamy's drug store. f wor ot Finr leari Mrs. WnrsLOw's SooTfipra Steup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for'VMrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other. . - TOE DELGADO MILL. Wilmington's New Cotton Fac tory Began Operations Yes terday Afternoon. THE MILL WAS CHRISTENED. First Cotton Fed by Mrs. Holt The Fac tory Will Employ About 250 Hands and Consume 3,700 Bales of Cotton a Year. . This time last January the "Mineral Spring." two miles from the city, on the shell road, was a lonely but pretty spot in the midst of a young long leaf pine forest The wind' sighed cease lessly through the pine tops and little did the , people of Wilmington dream that the scene would soon shift 1 In dustry, however, spread her., magic wand over the spring and there, has been a change, as sudden as it is aston ishing. The cognomen, of the "Min eral Spring" has. vanished and the Delgado Mill has superseded it The old spring is still there but enterprise and capital has surrounded it with a pretty village of five hundred people and a magnificent 1300,000 cotton mill. Yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the new factory "broke cotton," which is mill parlance for beginning opera tions. A Star representative was in vited out to see the performance and witness the christening of the mill. When he arrived he found assembled in the picker ' room Mr. E. C. Holt, president of the mill, Mrs. EL C. Holt, sir. and Mrs. K. ti. uenamy, vr. w. J. H. Bellamy, Miss Eliza Bellamy, daughter of Congressman John D. Bellamy and Mr. J. W. Williamson, secretary and treasurer of the com pany. With the party gathered around the picker and the machinery in full motion, Mrs. Holt," for whom the mill is naxed, tossed in the first handful of cotton and christened the mill. Then the other ladies added some of the fleecy staple to that thrown in by Mrs. Holt, the gentlemen followed suit, and then everybody began to fill up the "opener" of the machine. The ma' chine knew its business, &nd in a few seconds the picker was delivering large rolls of cotton at the opposite end. The machinery did its . work admira bly, and everybody was pleased, n all probability Mr. and Mrs. Holt being the most gratified of all present Thus the pew mill begins operations and henceforth the work of manufac turing will go on steadily.' To day the cotton goes from the picker to the cards, and thence in turn to the draw ing frames and slubbers, next to' the speeders, and then to the spinning frames. Having become thread or yarn, it goes to the .warps and then to the looms to be woven into cloth. With the mill running every day from now on, it will be about two weeks before the various processes of manu facture are complete, as sufficient thread has to be spun before the looms can be started up. All the machinery, however, was in motion yesterday afternoon, and with the whizzing of the cards, the whirring of the spindles, and the rattle and clash of the looms, the sense of hearing was lost and, as it were, only the eyes were left to take in the scene. It will be: about a month - be fore the factory will be in full opera tion. Until then the mill will only make white cloth, but as soon as all the departments get to running smoothly a specialty will be made of outings and madras cloth, material for shirtings. A fine Quality of goods will be manufactured and the company has orders ahead for several months. The f mill will turn out a daily product of 25,000 yards of white cloth, and will consume twelve oaies oi cotton per day, or 3,700 bales per year. The Stab has already described the extent of the buildings, and it will be only necessary to repeat that the mill embraces 10,300 spindles and 440 looms. Two hundred and fifty hands will be employed, and the weekly pay ment will be from $1,200 to $1,500. The mill plant now is. about com plete. The two story brick office build ing is nearing completion, and the finishing touches are being put on the dye house. The company store, which is a nice two-story building with at tractive plate-glass show windows, opened up . yesterday under the man agement of Mr. J. H. Stackhouse, a clever gentleman from Marion, S. C. Like magie the village of Delgado has risen up around the Mineral Spring. The village comprises ninety five handsome cottages, with from two. to seven rooms, all handsomely painted and exceedingly comfortable. The village has a fine sewerage system, and the sanitary condition have been augmented with about ten miles of ditching. To all appearances the vil lage is one of healthf ulness, and with its niee houses will be a comfortable abode for the operatives and mill folks. The village of Delgado will embrace a population of 500. About forty families have already moved in and about forty five more families will be domiciled ! in the next few weeks. Most of the families which have come here are from North Carolina, but there are als9 families from South Carolina and Virginia. The Delgado mill is one of the most modern in all respects in America.The machinery is the very latest up to date, and the handsome buildings are heated with steam and lighted by elec tricity, the company having its own electric lighting plant for lighting the factory and the village. The equip ment of the entire factory is modern, and is a credit to Wilmington. The mill will be under the most ca pable management p Mr. E. C. Holt, the president comes ' from a family, which has made a success of manufac turing for a century, and though a young man, he has had experience and acheived success as a cotton manufacturer.-Mr. J. W. .Williamson, the secretary and treasurer, is a most cap able and experienced gentleman, and all the departments are in expert hands. Mr. J. 0. Reed if superinten dent, Mr. D. F. O'Brien is boss of the weaving room, Mr. James .Ezell boss of carding and spinning, and Mr. Jno. Barr boss ayer. - ; . The new factory, which is Warning-, ; ton's second cotton mill, has flashed upon Wilmington like a meteor. Messrs. Zachary & Zachary of Raleigh, were the contractors, ana unaer we management of Mr. H. O. Zachary the' mammoth factory building and the entire town have been completed since the middle of last June. It was a stupendous undertaking, and itesi dent Holt says it has been one of the quickest jobs on record. - . The Stab is gratifiedto see the new mill begin operations, and it heartily bespeaks the splendid success, which the management is sure to achieve. HORNETS' NEST FOR MORGAN. Presented Throotb Hon. Jno. D. Bellamy by Democratic Committee of Meek lenbnrg as a Token of Esteem. Yesterday Col. D. G. Maxwell pre sented to the county Democratic ex ecutive committee of Mecklenburg a large and most beautiful hornets' nest ; "the finest," said the gallant colonel, that was ever made on Sugar Hill the spot where the brave Major. Locke lost his life." It is stated as of a truth that hornets of unusual size and valor built and in habited this big gray shaded nest They -Were, stern, virtuous, hard-wor long hornets and whiter than is the wont of common' hornets. All of the nest they built endunngly. with much care and patience and strength. - Then, havinx fastened it firmly to a proua young tree and having buzzed an inspiring war song, they flew, away and left the nest as an omen or a sign, thinks Col. Maxwell. ; At the particular request of the col onel, the hornets' nest is to be sent to Hon. John- D. Bellamy, the member of Congress from the sixth district to ' be handed by him to Senator John T. Morgan, as an evidence of deep ap preciation of his speech in the Senate in defence of the white people of North Carolina. And already the executive committee have forwarded the nest to Mr. Bellamy, to whom is also sent the following letter: "Dear Sir: We send you by to-day's express a hornets' nest Please be so kind as to place same on the desk of John T. Morgan. '- (Signed) "J. D. McCall, Chairman ; F. M. Shannonhouse, secretary; Heriot lin. E. 8. Williams. "Democratic Central Committee for Mecklenburg county. N. , C." , It is willed and decreed that this house of the hornets the hornets of Mecklenburg shall go forth to fulfill two missions, it becomes a message of thanksgiving to Senator Morgan. And on the day that Senator Pritchard makes his speech against the constitu tiooal amendment the neat of the hor nets will be in plain view on the desk of the Senator from Alabanr a. Thus it likewise becomes the gauntlet of war. Death of Mrs. James F. Post The Stab regrets to chronicle the death Of Mrs. Mary Russell Post, widow of the late Mr. James F. Post, which occurred yesterday at 3 P. M. at the residence of her son, Mr. James F. Post Jr., 112 North Seventh street The deceased has been in precarious health since early last Summer, and was seriously ill when her husband pased away on the 15th of last July. She came of a long-lived family and up to the first of last year she bore' her ad vanced years remarkably well. Mrs. Post was born at Petersburg, Va., and was aged 76 years and months. She married Mr. Post at Petersburg in 1843, and that union lasted for 57 years up to the death of Mr. Post She came to Wilmington several years after her marriage and has resided here for a half century. She leaves only two children, Mr. James F. Post, Jr., secretary and treasurer of the Atlantic Coast Line, and Mr. Thomas R. Post, cashier of the Wil mington & Weldon Railroad Com pany, both highly esteemed citizens of this city. The deceased was an unostentatious woman and was devoted to her home circle. She was much beloved by circle of close friends, and the d-voted sons, who have sustained a double be reavement in the death of their father and mother within six months, have the sympathy of their numerous friends. .The funeral will take place at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon at the residence of Mr. James F. Post, Jr. The inter ment will be made in Oakdale ceme tery. . The White Labor Movement. If anything was emphasied in the campaign of 1898 for the redemption of North Carolina and the achieve ment' of white supremacy it was that white labor would be given the pre ference over negro labor. In a number of instances, however, the slogan seema to have died away. 7 The Stab says this much in order to record a complaint that colored labor is at this, very time being employed in stringing the new fire alarm wires, when." as the Stab is informed,' white labor was ready and anxious to do this work at the same wages paid for the negro labor. Store Robbed and Barned. There was an alarm of fire this morn ing at 1.28 o'clock from box 16j on Fourth and Brunswick streets. The caue of the alarm was fire in a store on Fourth and Nixon streets, occu pied by J. H. Thomas, colored, and owned by Mrs. Ahrens. ' The building was destroyed, together with the stock of groceries. , - ' Thomas' stock was insured for $200, but it was not learned whether the buildingwas insured or not , ' Investigation showed that the store had been broken into, robbed and set on fire. Mr.Thos. Sesgoms Dead. Fayetteville Observer: Mr. Thos. Sessoms, one of the oldest citizens of Cumberland county, - died at his home at Stedman Sunday. He was an unoie of Messrs. David and Jeff . Sessoms, and father of Mr. Neill Sessoms, Mrs.. Ringold, Mrs. Wm. Maxwell, . Mrs. T. F. Hall and Mrs. McR. Autry. The deceased was highly respeeted. in his community and was an honored mem ber of the Methodist Church. He was born on the 8th of November, 1806. His father died one of the oldest citi zens of North Carolina, being more than one hundred years old. A we Iii .baking powder, in these W V r f days . of unscrupulous aduW f teration, a great name gives the best security. . There are many brands of baking powders, but "Royal Baking Powder 'Ms recognized at once as the brand of great name, the powder of highest favor and reputation.' Everyone has absolute con fidence in the food where I Royal , is used. ! Pure and healthful food is a matter of vital im portance to every individual. Royal assures the most ART LEAGUE FAKIR ARRESTED The One Who Worked Pender is Thognt to Be la Umbo, la Nash County, la Jail Awaiting Trial. Special Star Correspondence, j Nashville, N. C, Jan. 22, 1900. There is a man in jail here awaiting trial for 'getting money under false pretences. It is thought that he is the same man who travelled through Pender county some time ago, as he is engaged in the same business. . He says that his name is W. H. Hamil ton and he represents the Southern Art League and Conservatory of Music, of Richmond, Va., who en large pictures for IL50 and require the payment of fifty cents cash, the balance of one dollar to be paid when the work is done, and this includes a large frame, with gold leaf finish. In the Weekly Stab of Jan. 19th some of our citizens saw the letter written by the special corresnon dent of the Star, under the head of "Fakir Worked Pender Well," and they believe that the man who passed off as Thomas in Pender is the same man who has been working Nash county. His trial will come up at Nashville, N. C, on the 26th day of January, 1900, and we will be glad to have you notify the corres pondent at Point Caswell that we want a man sent here to the trial who knows Thomas well and has been swindled by him, so that we may join hands with the good people of Pender in this prosecution of this man and his associates who we are confident are now .working other sections of the State. I regard your paper as a great ad vertiser, as but for the letter in The Stab of the 19th our people would have been too late, as the people of Pender were. Please have us a man here on the 26th to identify Thomas. - R. A: P. Cooliy, Attorney for prosecution. Mr. Bellamy's Contest. Election Committee No. 2, of the House, which will pass upon the merits of the contest brought by Dockery against Hon. John D. Bel lamy for his seat in. Congress, will have a hearing of the case and a re view of the depositions on Friday, February 9th. The committee is composed of the following members: Walter L. Wea ver, (Rep.) of Ohio; William E. Olm sted, (Rep.) of Pennsylvania; Charles B. Landis, (Rep.) of Indiana; J. M. Miller, (Rep.) of Kansas; Charles H. Burke, (Rep.) of South Dakota; Lot Thomas, (Rep,) of Iowa; James M. RobinsoBr (Dem.) of Indiana; Charles E. Snodgrass, (Dem.) of Tennessee; H. D. Green, (Demi.) of Pennsylvania. It will be seen that of the nine mem bers composing the committee, six are Republicans and three Democrats. Marriage Last Evening. At the residence of Mrs. A. I. Cook sey.No. 305 Brunswick street, last even ing at 8 o'clock, Miss Mattie J. White, of Wilmington, was happily united in marriage to Mr. Charles G. Sellars, Son of. Mr. J. F. Sellars, also of this city. The ceremony was performed by Justice J. M. McGowan in the pres ence of a number of relatives and im mediate - friends of the bride and groom, after which a reception was tendered the party at the home of Mr. Sellars, No. 1,116 North Fourth street. Algonquin Back. The revenue cutter Algonquin,C&t. O. S. Willey commanding, returned yesterday about noon from her first cruise since she has been assigned to duty at this port Capt Willey says he went for only a very short cruise this time and had a pleasant trip around the lightship and to sea from South port. The AJaonquin will leave on her next cruise Friday. Capt. and Mrs. Ingram Bereaved. Capt and Mrs. A1G. Ingram have the sympathy of numerous friends in the death of their little daughter, Mar garet Cathem, aged four years and eight months, which occurred yester day morning at 9.30 o'clock, at their home No. 519 South Fifth street. . The funeral will be from the residence at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon and the in terment will be at Oakdale. A -JFW r - i - - ' - : - Baking Powder finest wholesome ROYAL .BAKING POWDSn CO.. 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. HON. WM. J. BRYAN TOURING CONNECTICUT. Trusts, Imperialism j and tke Currency Question DiscassedBefore Large Qatheriafs of People. 1 By Telegraph to ttie Morning; star. , i fNKW York, January 24. William J. Bryan made a journey into Con necticut to-day, addressing meetings at Stanford and New Haven, and then hurried back to New York to ad dress a public meeting in Jersey Ciiy to-night To-morrow he will go to Harrisburg, Pa., where he will meet the Democratic leaders of. Pennsyl vania. -;.. .1 j ' Stanvobd, Conn., Jan.24.f-William J. Bryan arrived here at 10 :55. A big crowd had assembled on the depot platform and at the Town Hall, where Mr. Bryan spoke to over a many of them thousand people. working men. The speech was about equally divided between the currency question, the trusts and imperialism. "I believe," said Mr. Bryan, "that the tendency of the Republican party is to exalt wealth and to debase com mon humanity. The dollar is plainly stamped upon the Republican policy and there is no policy of the Republi cans to-day that does not bear that stamp." , i He went on to say that the Republi can party is not applying to-day the principle enunciated in the declaration of independence. That principle ap plied to taxation would mean that every man bear his share of the burden of taxation, but now an unjust propor tion of that burden is placed upon the poor. ' j 'The Republican party js trying to fasten .upon the country a system of taxation made by financiers for their own benefit When the doctrine of fa voritism is once started, it cannot be stayed. To fasten upon the country the gold standard means that it will be affected by every change in Eu rope." : j Mr. Bryan explained his plan for the regulation of trusts under a law of the general government He asserted that the Republican party had no desire to kill the trusts, which were the hens that laid the golden eggs for that party. Mr. Bryan questioned the right of the government to rule the Philippines by force, and said the title it obtained to the islands was a title to the land, not to the people. At New Haven. New Hatkn, January 24. William Jennings Bryan arrived in New Haven at 2.15 P. M., and was driven to the City Hall, where a reception was held. After a brief rest Mr. Bryan repaired to Music Hall, where fully 2,000 peo ple awaited his coming. Several hun dred more crowded into the aisles af ter he arrived. His entrance was the signal for a wildly enthusiastic demonstration. Men and women rose to their feet and cheered themselves hoarse. Mr. Bryan bowed his thanks. I He plunged im mediately into a discussion of the "three great leading; questions of the day; nameU, trusts,! imperialism and money." Which of them as paramount depends upon the point of view of the individual and, he said, "personally, I do not care to specify." He believed that to assert that the money question is a; political issue is I dead is folly, for the reason that it vitally concerns all men, and because they are thinking of it no matter what their station in life. . Remedies for Trusts.' "The Republican! party," he said, "is afraid to kill trusts because they constitute the hen that lays the golden eggs in campaign times; but trusts are bad, intolerable and indefensible. But bad things need not be tolerated in America. And trusts, though now only in the intermediate process of development and bad at that will be much more worse in effect when they reach the consummation of their devel opment They were bad in principle in 1896 ; they are bad in principle now, and so long as a principle continues bad the effect will be disastrous. As remedies . under the constitution, I would demand that the Congress be fore granting a corporation the power to do business outside the State in which it is organized should stipulate as a condition that there must be no water in the stock.) Squeeze out the water and you have gone a long way toward killing the trusts. Next I would have Congress insist that the corporations must prove that they have not and will not hold a monop oly on any manufactured article.". No woman's it U her nature to 1 through mm mugm uwuigm with ifl 'mm -''"' " ' . la no neceaaity for the ordeal of cbUd birth to be either -nainful or damrer- ona. - - - k " Homt'i Fnmodnnni pregnancy ao prepares the ftxnx fat the event that it ia aafely pamed without any diacomtort whatever. Thia liniment baa carried thousands H a godaend to women. n women utrongn uua zraat criata without aufiermr. and thev declare omen. Bend for Tree boox containing information of prweMM value, Aoaraae, snoncM Recalatar Co is' - - a guarantee of i superior itwriie4at and food. Avoid alum baking powders. They make the food unwholesome. DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE. To Consider the Question of Party Policy on -the Various Questions Now Before tke Congress. . i By Telegraph to the Morning: Star. Washington, January 24. The Democratic members of the Senate held a conference to-day to consider the question of party policy on the various questions before Congress They have found themselves follow-, ing somewhat divergent paths. No definite conclusion was reached, but a general understanding of the lines to be pursued was had. - The Philippine policy attracted more attention than any other. On this point there was a very general ex change of views, the concensus f opinion evidently favoring the policy outlined in Senator Bacon's resolution of protecting life and property in the islands until quiet is restored, vtl m the United States shall provide th opportunity and prescribe the methr d for the "formation of a governmeai by and of the people of the Philippic islands to be independently exercised and controlled by themselves." There was also more or less discus-. sion of the bills providing a form of government for the Hawaiian islands and for Porto Rico, opinion being most favorable to the bills for absolute free trade between the United States and these islands as a part, of this country. With reference to the financial bill, it was practically decided to offer a substitute providing for the' free coin age of silver. Senators Lindsay and Caffery were ! present, and while they indicated their intention not to be bound by any decision upon this line they recognized the futility of any ef fort to prevent its being pursued. There will be another conference soon. I : NEW COTTON MILLS. To be Erectel Is Gaatos, Guilford sod Johnston Counties. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Charlotte, January 23. -Capital has been subscribed for a 3,000 spindle cotton mill at Lowell, in Gaston county. The organization has been perfected. 8. M. Robinson is at 4he head of the enterprise. A large mill is to be erected also at Bessemer City, near by. J. S. Rags dale, of Jamestown, Guilford county, is organizing a company to erect anew cotton mill at that place. The Holts of Alamance and the Fries of Winston -Salem are interested with him in the movement i Citizens of Clayton, N. C, last night organized a company with a capital of $75,000 to build a cotton mill. CHINESE PIRATES. Afalo Attempting to Blackmail Foreisa Firms at Canton. Br Cable to the Morning Star. London. January 25. The Hone: Kong correspondent of the Times says : ' "The pirates, emboldened by recent successes, have been again attempting to blackmail foreign firms at Canton. They have demanded ten ' thousand taels from the China Merchants' Steam ship Company and fifty thousand taels each fromReuter, Brockelman & Co. and Deacon & Co., under threats to blow up their offices with dynamite. xne (jninese autnorities are consult ing with the foreign consuls. The German gunboat litis was telegraphed forand is now anchored off Shameen." , A tael is about 71 cents. FREIGHT RATES TO CUBA. Ao Increase of Twenty to Twentyfive . Per Cent. Decided Upoa. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Atlanta,- Ga., January 24. At a meeting of representatives of all the important railroads and steamship lines in the South and Southwest hel d in this city to day it was decided to raise the rates on all business for Cuba from 20 to 25 per cent. - The railroad : men present - at : to-day's meeting constituted a committee an- Ginted at.a conference in Louisville it October and today's- action will be embodied in the form of a recom mendation to the general committee of all. the roads interested which will meet in New York, February 17th. hmn and want them. The dreadful ordeal which the: expectant mother must paaa, however, . lasa, howerer, , , that the my wiu pain, aunenng ana onager, tnat vi n nit ner horror. There The nae of - 4 Atlanta, Oa. ' T f