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BRYAN'S VISIT TO RALEIGH.
Will Make Two Speeches Tuesday-State
Democratic Convention Licensed
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VOL. XXXI.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1900.
NO. 17
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WHY THEY DID IT-
The motive behind the amend-
the Republican leaders to take it up.
. Bat they only took it up with the
bimetallic attachment, which the
gold men understood perfectly well,
and didn't mind for they even then
had their minds made up that if the
Hepublicans carried the election
they would insist upon such legisla
tion as would settle the money ques
tion definitely as far as gold and sil
ver were concerned bv outlawing
silver. .
In all that campaign no represen
tative of the Republican party dared
to declare for the single gold stand
ard, or intimate that it was the in
tention if they were successful at
the polls to-fasten that upon the
country. They stood upon the St.
Louis platform and ' if any one
charged them with favoring the
single gold standard they for answer
pointed to the bimetallic declaration
in that platform, and that was all
the answer "they 'would deign to
make. 1
They are even now afraid of thfr
possibility that some other nation
may be dragged into the fight, when
mediation would be too late and out
of the question.
EXECUTION AT LUMBERTON. LOCKYVOOD'S FOLLY RIVER.
ment offered by Senator AldC to J wort they have done and are trying
the currencv bill now under dis
cussion is so apparent that it can de
ceive no one of ordinjrj intelligence
and while it deceives no one it has
created , intense disgust among the
straight-out gold advocates, who do
not hesitate to denounce it as a
"cowardly" dodge and evasion. The
view that is taken of it by these,
and the motive that inspired it is
shown in the following5-from a letter
of the Washington correspondent of
the New York Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin, a gold
paper that doesn't believein any
half-way action or hypocrisy. It
says:
The action of the Senate Finance
Committee to day in reporting a new
section to the Gold Standard bill de
claring that the Act was not intended
to place any obstacles in the way of
the accomplishment of international
bimetallism caused a good deal of
criticism among sound money a embers
of the House. It is not probable that
the provision will be allowed to became
law without sharp resistance by the
House. Members of the caucus com
mittee which framed the gold standard
bill passed by the House in December
did not hesitate to declare that the
Senate amendment, while it has no
legislative effect, impaired the
whole force of the cour
ageous action of t the Republican ma
jority in planting the country upon
the gold standard. Unanimous praise
for the clean-cut, direct and effective
character of both the House and Sen
ate bills in respect to the standard has
come from business men and the press
in all but a few extreme silver dis
tricts. The members of the House who
owed their election in some measure
in 1898 to their support of currency re'
form and the votes of gold Democrats
were fearful to-night that these ele
ments would be lost to them if they
voted for an evasive declaration de
signed to pander to the silver extrem
ists who turned most of the Western
States over to Bryanism in 1896.
"The provision for international bi
metallism seems to have been adopted
at the suggestion of certain silver Re
publicans from the West, whose votes
for the bill have never been counted
upon with any certainty. Their votes
may be secures by tnis provision, but
it is declared by members of the House
that thousands of votes will be sacri
ficed in the county, especially among
the gold Democrats, by what they will
consider a cowardly concession to an
element that ought to be allowed to
go over to Bryanism if Bryanism ex
presses its real purpose. It may de
velop that after the passage of the
bill in the Senate with the bimetallic
amendment the Senate conferees will
Eromptly abandon the amendment,
ut if this is not the case they will
encounter something , like a disposi
tion to deadlock the bill on the part
of the House conferees rather than
permit it to become a law with a sop
to the silver extremists incorporated
into it."
But if "a sop to the silver extrem
ists of the West"" is such a reprehen
sible thing now as to call forth the
denunciation of the gold men,-why
was not the "sop" incorporated in
the St. Louis platform equally repre
hensible? Everybody knows that
the bimetallic declaration in that
platform, with the supplemental
pledge that the party would
use its efforts to secure inter
national bimetallism and world
coinage for silver the same
as for gold, was a "sop" to the sil
ver Republicans to keep them within
McKinley. Everybody knows that
the St. Louis platform was dictated
by Eastern gold men, who were
finally persuaded to lend themselves
to the trick of fooling Western sil
ver men whose votes it was believed
would be necessary to elect Mc
Kinley. " Every one who knows
anything about the manipula
tors of the Republican party
and the campaign following the
iaBuingjof the platform knew that
Mark Hanna, who was managing
McKinley and his campaign, tried
to ignore the money question or at
least subordinate it to the tariff
question and he contrived to do so
until the Eastern gold men gave
him to understand thaithat wouldn't
do, and that he must pull with them
if he expected their support and
their dollars to elect his man. As
Hanna is in politics for business,
and isn't giving much thought to
the matter of principle or prece
dent, he came to time and the
money question went to the front
inthe Republican party. They
were forced to meet it by the ag
gressive campaign of the Demo
crats, who honestly and boldly de
clared for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
1. The Democrats threw down the
gauntlet and the gold men forced
to put themselves back on the bunco
trick that worked so : well in 1896
and hence Senator Aldrich's thin
device to keep up the delusion, even
after 'the party managers have so
discredited themselves by showing
their hands, and . through their
recognized spokesmen so fully de
clared their purposes. It is rather'
late to be playiflg this game now.
It is entirely too thin, and it is not
surprising that the straight out gold
men are disgruntled and pronounce
it a "cowardly" dodge and evasion.
POLITICS IN THIS, TOO.
A report comes from Washington
that, there is a movement on foot
among friends of the administration
to have tenders made of mediation
between the British and the Boers.
It is said the negotiation of the
treaty modifying the Bulwer-Clay-ton
treaty opensthe" way for this
Government tomake the advance,
which earlierwould have been out
of place. Jlow this changes the
situation as far as this Government
is concerned or makes it proper to
do .what before was pronounced im
proper we fail to see, but that is the
statement.
We do not see why this Govern
ment at any time, as a friend of
both warring countries,' might not
have 'offered its friendly offices to
stop the bloodshed ' and end the
war, and our opinion is that after
each realized what the war was it
would instead of taking ' off ence
been glad of the offer. ,
If the 'offer be now made by this
Administration it will be inspired
more by politics than by a desire to
put an end to the horrors of the
fearful slaughter or out of sympathy
with a brave people, few in num
bers, battling with Spartan pluck
and patriotic , devotion against a
powerful nation that had. the repu
tation of being a sort of world
terror. They met its armies at the
threshold and have hurled them
back as British armies have never
before been hurled. They have
won the admiration of the world by
their heroism and by the skill they
have shown in meeting and defeat
ing Great Britain's ablest Generals,
backed by the flower of her armies,
and they have surprised, humiliated
and enraged their arrogant foe.
Whether with foundation or not
this Administration is popularly
supposed to be in sympathy with
Great Britain. It has not done any
overt act to justify this belief but
its silence when it might have
spoken has been so ponstrued, and in
addition to that its organs have
shown a decided leaning towards
Great Britain, some of them being
quite as British in tone and even
more so than some of the British
papers, for Borne of these severely
criticise while others denounce the
war. .- - .
The effect of this is becoming ap-'
parent and some of the Republican
leaders are becoming alarmed at it,
and fearful if the war be prolonged
it will become a live issue in the
next campaign, which would be bad
for the Republican party as popular
sentiment in this country is de
cidedly with the Boers, who are
fighting to resist an unwarrantable
invasion of their country .and to pre
serve the Republics which they
founded in the wilderness.
.This sentiment is strikingly ex
hibited in all public meetings where
the war is discussed, and notably so
in the Western States where Ger
mans, ; Norwegians and Irishmen
form a large part of the population.
Some of these States are close
enough to make the vote of any one
of these nationalities an essential
factor in the result, and ho one
knows that better than the leaders
who stand close to Mr. McKinley.
It has, therefore, become a sort of
political necessity . for them to do
something to placate the people who
are opposed to this war, before ,the
matter becomes alive and dangerous
issue in onr politics, and hence it
will not be surprising to hear that
offers of mediation have, been made.
But if that be intended they had
better hurry up, because there is a
SUBSIDIES NOT NECESSARY
There is abundant evidence in the
activity and prosperity in American
ship yards that subsidies are not nec
essary to enable Americans to build
or sail ships. An illustration of this
is given in he following, which we
clip from the Chattanooga Times:
"Wm. E. Curtis says that C. H,
Cramp, head of the big shipbuilding
concern on 'the Delaware, informs him
that the users of steamships are not
waiting for the passage of the subsidy,
bill to build up their fleets. His com
pany has on the stocks or has con
tracted for . ten first class passenger
steamships. Two of them, being con
structed for the American line to sail
between New Yorft and Southampton,
are to be the largest and finest ships
ever built in America, surpassing the St
Louis and St. Paul in speed, tonnage
and all other respects. They will
each be 15,000 tons and make twenty
two knots and hour. The Cramps are
also building three ships of 5,500 tons
each for the Spreckles line to run be
tween San Francisco, Honolulu, the
Samoan islands and Australia; three
ships for the Cuba Mail Company, one
5,500 tons and two of 3,500 tons, and
two of 2,500 each for the Clyde line to
run between New York and the West
Indies. The two ships for the Amer
ican line will cost a little more than
$3,000,000 each.
"The Cramps are also building one
battleship and an armored cruiser of
the first class for the Russian govern
ment, and the battleships Maine and
Alabama, for the United States."
"Whether or not these very rich and
prosperous shipbuilders, and others in
the same line, are waiting for public
subsidies, it is a fact that all the owners
of shipyards, in the country, favor the
subsidy bill, and have been 'legging'
to secure its passage. They want a rat
contribution from the treasury. There
is nothing in the subsidy scheme, but
the gratification of the greed of the
few, at the expense of the many.
"Wise navigation laws will develop
our merchant marine, and no amount
of subsidy will or can. A few men
will profit by that policy, and that will
be the beginning and end of it." .
The Cramps are' not waiting for
subsidies, but are in favor of them
because subsidies would be that
much clear profit to them, an extra
bonus given for building ships that
they are now building without any
bonus. The subsidy boomers are
amending their bill to placate oppo
sition, but they can never so amend
it as to make it anything but a
colossal grab.
Reuben Ross, the tfegro Rapist, Handed at
Lnmbertoa Confessed to Assaulting
a White Womao at Rockingham.
Special Star Telegram. .
Lumbbrton, N. G, Feb. , 9. Reu
ben Ross who was convicted of rape
upon Mrs. Bettie Ingram several
months ago, was hang' d here to day.
The execution was private. Ross pro
tested his innocence on the scaffold.
The drop fell at 12.U o'clock, and
Ross' neck was broken. Death was al
most instantaneous. He met his death
with apparent indifference.
Lumbebton, N. G, February 9.
Reuben Ross, convicted at the Novem
ber term of the Criminal Court, of
rape on the person of Mrs. Bettie In
gram, was hanged to day at 12.40 P. M.
It was not known till about 10 A. M.
what course the matter would take, as
he had been respited three times, and
hence there were not many people
in town. About this time a message
from Governor Russell, that he would
interfere no further, was received.
Ross was visited by his counsel and in
the interview affirmed his innocence
to the last, when urged to confess if
he was guilty.
About 12.30 o'clock accompanied by
his counsel and a guard he was con
ducted to the place of execution. A
colored minister, i Rev. A. G. Davis,
read a passage of scripture and prayed.
When asked by the deputy sheriff if
he had anything to say, Ross again
affirmed his innocence, and- warned
the people to avoid -lewd womeD,
ascribing his ruin to them. He then
stepped on the trap, the, deputy ad
justed the noose and the black-cap and
sprung the trap. Death was almost
instantaneous. Ross' neck was broken
by the drop, and he died without a
struggle. The whole proceeding was
marked by perfect quiet and order.
B7 Associated Press, j
Lumberton. N. G, Feb. 9. A ne
gro named Reuben Ross was hanged
here to day for criminal assault upon a
white woman named Mrs. Bettie In
gram. Ross was twice reprieved by
Governor Russell on account of a
shower of protests from white J people.
These were met by equally strong pro
tests demanding the hanging of the
negro. He finally took no action, the
reprieve expired and the sheriff quietly
executed him to-day. He declared his
innocence of this crime, but said he
was guilty of the assault on a young
white woman Of Rockingham for
which a negro, John iLvans, was
hanged.
A Petition Asking for Appropriation from
. Congress for Its Improvement Will -Be
Forwarded To-day.
Mr. J. B. Mercer, of this city, who
is thoroughly alive to the industrial
development and prosperity of his
native county, Brunswick, and whose
efforts in this direction in more than
one instance have culminated in the
greatest success, yesterday received
from Mr. R. M. McKeithan, a repre
sentative merchant of Supply, N G,
and Dr. D. B. McNeill. Brunswick
county's representative in the last
Legislature, a copy of the petition re
cently drawn up for presentation
through Hon. John D. Bellamy, to
Congress asking for an appropriation
of not less than $15,000 for the further
improvement of Lockwood's, Folly
river. The petition for Borne time
ba been in the hands - of : Dr.
McNeill and Mr. McKeithan, who have
been circulating the same for sign a
tures of residents in the locality of the
proposed improvement. It has been
liberally signed by representative citi
zens of the county and before it went
to Brunswick -Mr. Mercer secured the
endorsement of the leading business
men of this city. It has now in all
about two hundred names affixed and
Mr. Mercer is confident that it will
ultimately receive favorable considera
tion by the body of national law
makers. It will be forwarded by registered
mail this morning to Mr. Bellamy.
SCHOONER LIBELLED
FOR SALVAGE CLAIM.
NEW Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY.
THE HEARING POSTPONED.
The Bellamy-Dockery Contested Election
- Case Will Net Come Up Until Mon
day, February 19th.
A Chicago man has recently im
ported seven hundred Belgian hares
with a view td breeding for market.
In England the B. h. is popular and
is sold as a substitute for chicken
and turkey. Some time ago a Cali
fornia man imported some of these
hares and since then they have been
imported into other States, where
the breeding has proved profitable,
and the flesh of the hare in demand.
There is about twice as much meat
on them as there is on the ordinary
rabbit, and much more succulent.
There were 400,000 men employed
in the coal mines of this country
and Canada, of whom 993 were
killed last year by accidents. Al
though this is a large number, it is
not large in proportion to the num
ber of men employed, considering the
fact that they are always more or
less exposed to accidents. , '
THE SEABOARD AIR LINE.
Ryan's Case Decided in Seaboard's Favor.
Richmond and Washington Line.
The following message was received
hero last night by Mr. Thos. D. Meares,
general agent of the Seaboard Air
Line, from Mr. E. St. John, vice presi
dent and general manager: '
"For the eighteenth time the de
cision in the case of Thos. F. Ryan
versus the Seaboard Air Line is in the
Seaboard's favor, the judge declining
to grant the injunction asked for. The
vote of the Senate committee upon the
new railroad between Richmond and
Washington was eleven to four in
favor of the proposition of the Sea
board Air Line, which indicates with
out question that the charter will be
granted and that the road will be
built, thus furnishing to the people of
the South additional connections and
more facilities for their growing busi
ness." It is understood that the building of
the Seaboard Air Line's new road be
tween Washington and Richmond
will not only give another through
line through North Carolina to Florida
and other points South, but Wilming
ton will ultimately come in for her
benefit, as it will open the way for
better passenger and mail service on
the Carolina Central and will also
necessitate better freight service.
Passed Away at Nearly a Hundred.
There died in this city yesterday morn
ing at 3 o'clock Mrs. Eliza C. Smith
who passed away at the residence of
her son-in-law, Mr. Joseph O. Jones,
1514 Market street.
Mrs. Smith was doubtless the oldest
resident of Wilmington, as she
was born August 7, 18Q7, and con
sequently was in the ninety third year
of her age. She was five years of age
when the war of 1812 broke out be
tween the United States' and Great
Britain. Mrs. Smith's daughter, Mrs.
Jones, died several months ago and
since then her aged mother has ' been
in failing health. For one of her ad
vanced age, however, she has been
very active and up to about a - week
ago she had been able to go about the
house unattended. She was the widow
of the late Mr. Wm. H. , Smith, who
died of smallpox in Wilmington, dur
ing the civil war. He was her third
husband and they were married in
Fayetteville. .
The crime of which Ross was con
victed was committed about 11 o'clock
in the day of September 30th, 1899,
near Singleton's mill, in Lumber
Bridge township, Robeson county. He
was tried before Judge Battle at the
November term of the Criminal Court.
The trial was not completed until after
midnight, and on the following morn
ing the iury reached a verdict of guilty
on the first ballot i
There was the sharpest conflict of
testimony in.the affidavits presented by
the two sides to Governor Russell,
both as to the character of Mrs. Ingram,
the circumstances surrounding the
crime and the evidence of violence.
Both in Robeson county and else
where there has been much doubt as
to Ross' guilt of the crime charged,
though it is admitted even by his at
torneys that he was a negro of shady
character. He is described as having
an exceedingly brutal and repulsive
appearance.
Death of Mrs. J. D. McOeacfay. '
The Stab records with - sorro the
death of Mrs. J. D. McGeachy, which
occurred on Wednesday night at her
home at Rex. Robeson county. She
had been an invalid for several months
and her death was not unexpected.
The deceased left a large family, of
whom there are Mr. J. A. McGeachy,
bookkeeper for Mr. S. P. McNair, of
this city.and the Rev.D. P. McGeachy,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Burgaw. She was a member of the
Presbyterian church, and was a chris
tian woman of the most exemplary,
character.
The funeral took place yesterday and.
she was buried at St. Paul beside her
husband who died several months ago.
Mr. J. A. McGeachy who left here
on Wednesday was with his mother
when the end came.
The contested election case brought
by Oliver H. Dockery against Hon.
Jno. D. Bellamy for his seat in Con
gress from the Sixth District, was
called yesterday morning before Elec
tion Committee No. 2, and postponed
until Monday, February 19 th. No ac
tion whatever was taken.
The committee which will consider
the case is composed of Messrs. W eaver,
Olmsted, Landis, Miller, Burke of
South Dakota, Thomas of IowayRob
inson of Indiana, Snodrass, and
Green of Pennsylvania. '
A Charlotte News special from
Washington relative to the postpone
ment of the Bellamy-Dockery case says
that Mr. Bellamy is confident of suc
cess and that there seems to be good
grounds for this feeling of security, as
he is very popular and one knock-out
in North Carolina seems to fully satisfy
the Republicans.
COUNTY TREASURER'S REPORT, i
Captain Harper Instituted Proceedings
Agaisst the Penobscott for a Bill -
Amounting to $2,600.
CapL J. W. Harper, owner of the
steamer Wilmington, yesterday insti
tuted in the United States District
Court libel proceedings against the
American . schooner Penobscott upon
the repudiation by her owners of a
bill of $2,000 alleged to have been
contracted by them in favor of the
steamer Wilmington in a salvage
claim incident to the going ashore of
the schooner on the Cape Fear bar
yesterday morning a week ago.
The Penobscott is of 348 tons reg
ister, and is in charge of Captain Fell-
brook. She is owned by Pendleton
Bros., of New York, and her value
has been placed by Mr. W. N. Har
riss, port warden, at $2,750, while that
of her cargo is estimated at $3,200.
At the time of hr going ashore she
was in distress, laden with rough
lumber from Jacksonville to New
York, and was attempting to put in
at Southport. On the Sunday pre
ceding her mishap she encountered
very rough weather about 145 miles
east of Frying Pan shoals, lost part
of her deck load and was reported
leaking. She went aground about
6 o'clock in - the morning, the
Wilmington was signalled and the
owners contend that with the use of
their own hawser she was pulled off
on a rising tide by 8' o'clock and was
towed into -port by 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. It is understood that they
off eredjonly$200 for this service.
MrpTsTPendleton, of the firm of
Pendleton Bros., has been here for
the past two dasifeafcHlg out for the
interests of his ftgW andjCapt. E. H.
Weaver, a pronunfcnt insurance man
of New Haven, rConn., who is inter
ested in the cargo, is here to guard
the interests of nis tsonipany. Ar
rangements have beep made to give
bond on Tuesday next and the Charles
ton tug Wdban has been engaged to
tow the Penobscott to2Tew York.
Mr. W. W. turner, of. Chattanooga, Has
Announced Acceptance of Proposition
to Come to Wilmington.
A telegram yesterday morning to
President W. Lalta, of the Young
Men's Christian Association, from Mr.
W. W. Turner, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
announced his acceptance of the call,
which was tendered him over a month
agp to the general secretaryship of the
Y..M.C. A. in ths city.
Mr, Turner is a man of experience in
the work, at present being engaged as
secretary of the Chattanooga Assooia
tion, and the announcement of his ac
ceptance will be hailed with delight by
Y. M. C A. members and the Wil ,
mington public generally. -
It was with difficulty that the ser
vices of Mr. Turner were secured, but it
is now definitely settled that he- will
arrive soon to assume charge of the
work here. He is a young man of,
from twenty -eight to thirty years of
age, and has been actively engaged in
Y. M. C. A. work for quite a while at
Richmond, Cincinnati, Chattanooga
and other cities. !
WANTED AT SOUTHPORT.
WILMINGTON'S CONTRIBUTION.
Examined Yesterday by the Finance Com-
"mlttee of Board of Commissioners.-
The audit and finance committee of
the Board of County Commissioners
concluded its work for the month yes
terday morning. The report of Coun
ty Treasurer H. McL. Green for the
month of January was examined as
follows:
Receipts Balance from December
account, $10,054 13; road tax for Har
nett township, $28; marriage licenses,
$27.55; back taxes, $43.18; rent, $15.
Total, $10,167.86.
Disbursements Public buildings,
$229 17; roads and bridges, $312.08;
county home, $120.41; city hospital,
$250; outdoor poor, $355.76; jail,
$69.90; Superior Court, $26.62; Crim
inal Court, $155.25; county fence,
$6.60; magistrates, $96.95; stationery
and advertising, $26.50; attorney,
125; register, $68.70; coroner, $62.95;
superintendent of health, $75; com
missioners, $84.80.; clerk for commis
sioners, $50; janitor, $45; commis
sions, $37.17. Total, $2,097. 86 leav
ing balance to February account of
$8,070.
FOUR YEARS IN PENITENTIARY.
Has Already Given $1,232 for Success of
Constitutional Amendment.
Raleigh News & Observer, 10th.
The men who have organized to
fight the Constitutional Amendment
do not conceive the magnitude of the
task they have undertaken. If they
understood the determination deep
seated and not to be shaken of the
white people to be rid of the great
mass of ignorant negro voters they
would pause before trying to over
come a people who have sworn that
"the whites shall rule the land or
die."
As one indication of early activity,
we may note that, through-Mr. Wm.
Gilchrist and Mr. Hugh MacRae, a
number of ardent Democrats of Wil
mington yesterday sent the State
chairman $1,232 in cash to help circu
late literature in the initial work of
the campaign. They write that there
are otner contributions mat wm do
sent later.
When before in North Carolina did
business men, six months before the
election, contribute money to send out
literature in inaugurating the cam
paign of education? Wilmington
suffered from negroism and Rus
selism more than ; any of our
cities, and the, are resolved not to
permit such a plight , to befall their
progressive city again if they can
prevent it. They are Democrats, but
more than party fealty characterizes
their early contributions. It isHnthe
nature of a thank offering for their
deliverance through the white
man's Legislature and a way of show
ing that they have enlisted for the full
campaign until White Supremacy is
made permanent. :
The men who are fighting for White
Supremacy in North Carolioacannot
be defeated 1
CRIMINAL COURT IN NASH.
Negro Who Stole $32 Adroitly Cooped by
the Police Yesterday Afternoori.
Hall officer H. H. Woebse and
Policeman I. F. Huggins yesterday
arrested a young negro man named
Robert Hankins, who came up in the
afternoon on the steamer Southport,
the charge being the larceny of $32
from some onet in Southport. The
arrest was made upon the authority
of a telegram received by Chief Par
mele early in the afternoon from
Deputy Sheriff J. L. Daniels, of
Brunswick county. The negro was
carefully searched at the station house
but no trace of the stolen moaey was
found.
As the boat landed at the pier, how
ever, the officers detected the negro in
hurried conversation with the fire
man on the steamer, and thinking a
clue could be obtained from an ex-
amination of this personage, they re
turned to the steamer and with the as
sistance of Captain Peter Jorgensen,
they induced the fireman to tell of the
interrupted remarks of their prisoner,
which led to the recovery of $31 of the
money, which was found concealed in
an out of the-way apartments on the
boat.
BEFORE U. S. COMMISSIONER.
rangements were to night completed
for Hon. W. J. Bryan's reception and
speaking here next Tuesday night. He
will make two speeches one in the
afternoon and one at' night If the '
weather is not top inclement the te.it
of a circus in winter quarter here will -.'
be used. If it is cold or rainy he will
speak in the Opera House.
. A committee will go to Richmond on
Monday to meet Mr. Bryan and bring
him to Ralrigh. He will arrive at 8 :30
Tuesday afternoon. 1 , .
Chairman Simmons to-day issued
his call for the State Democratic con
vention to meet here on April 11th
next. ' j '
Of the forty seven young men who
stood examination here Monday for
license to practice law, thirty-three ,
passed as follows: Von Cline Bullard,
Cumberland county; John A. Hoi
brook, Willis Garland, E. Midgette
Martin Thomas J. Murphy, Sampson ; '
Jacob H. Quinn, Cleveland; Fred J.
-Coxe. Anson; Luther M. Carlton,
Durham ; Seed V. Long, Iredell ; Allan
L. Holmes, Henderson; John C. Mc
Cormick, Robeson ; Jeremiah C.
Meekins, Jr., Tyrrell; MarvinW.
Nash, Beaufort ; Junius I. Scales,
Guilford ; Joseph A. Spence, Stanley;
Reuben H. Staton. Henderson; Gar
land S. Ferguson, Jr., Haywood;
Junius E. Shipman, Henderson ; Wil
liam F. Rucker, Rutherford ; Hamston
D. Williams, Duplin; George H.
Humber, Moore ; William J. Christian,
Jr., Durham; Emmett R. Wooten,
Lenoir; Thaddeus. Jones, Jr, Duplin;
John M. Greenfield, Jr., Forsyth;
David L. Russell, Catawba; Daniel L.
English, Transylvania; Raymond J.
Mauser, Catawba; James L. Telfair,
New Hanover: Wiley V. Hartman, -Davie;
Jasper N. Moody, Graham;.
Thomas W. Alexander, Mecklenburg;
Absalem.T. Grant, Jr., Davie; Walter
D. Slier, Chatham. Only one of the
four colored men who stood the v
examination passed. He is James
Telfair, from New Hanover county, 1
and is now a student at Shaw Univer
sity. 4 CAR LOAD OF CONVICTS.
Forty More Came Down Last Evening to
Work in the Phosphate Mines at
i Castle Haynes.
Gilbert Hollins, Colored, Brunswick Co.,
Charged With Illicit Retailing.
Gilbert Hollins, a well known col
ored man, who is managing a rice
farm near Town Creek, in Brunswick
county, was before U. S. Commis
sioners. P. Collier yesterday morn
ing, charged with illicit retailing of
scuppernong wine. He was bound
over to the May term of the U. S. Dis
trict Court in the sum of $100, justi
fied, which he gave without difficulty.
Hollins, it appeared from the evi
dence, bought a, quantity of wine for
his own use and dispensed it to sev
eral neighbors, contrary to the law. -
The passenger train which came in
last evening at 6 o'clock on the At
lantic Coast Line with Capt. H. O.
Mc Arthur as conductor, brought forty
convicts and six guards as far as Castle
Haynes. The convicts came from the
State farm at Tillery, and will work in
the phosphate mines of the Hanover
Land and Improvement Company, at
Castle Haynes.
With the other convicts which
arrived a couple of weeks ago, the
company will have fifty able bodied
men for the operations at the
mines. They will now operate the
phosphate mines and rock quarry on
an extensive scale.
THEATRE DARK THIS WEEK.
FIRST BILL BY NEW MEMBER.
Mr.
Lettuce Sells at $5.50.
Mr. G. R. Sterling, of the firm of
Sterling & Franklin, commission mer
chants, Baltimore, who is well .remem
bered by the truckers hereabouts, as
he has been coming here several sea
sons to represent his firm, arrived in
the city yasterday.
- Mr. Sterling comes to look after the
Spring shipments of lettuce which be
gins to go forward in considerable
quantity in March. The Winter crop
has about been cleaned up now. Some
shipments are yet being made, how
ever. The Rodgers Bros, received a
telegram yesterday from Mr. Sterling's
house, saying that a shipment of theirs
sold in Baltimore yesterday at $5.50 a
barrel.
Columbus Citizen Dead.
A correspondent of the Stab writ
ing under date of yesterday from Vine
land, N. G, sends the following item:
Mr. Elias Newman, one of Colum
bus county's most prominent citizens,
died this morning at 6 o'clock, at his
home near this place. He was about
65 yearsbld, and had been in feeble
health for several months; but for the
last day or two he seemed unusually
bright and active, and his death comes
as a shock to his many friends. Mr.
Newman served gallantly in the Con
federate army as a member of Com
pany H, Eighteenth N. G Kegiment,
and was severely wounded at the battle
of Hanover Court House. - He leaves
a wife, a daughter and son, who have
the sympathy of friends in their sad
atmction.
Sentence of Picture Fakir Who Operated
in Peader and Nash Counties.
Special Star Correspondence.
Nashville, N. C February 8. I
am glad to announce through your
valuable paper that the picture fakir,
Frank Cor win, alias D. J. Wilson,
alias B. F. Thomas, alias W. H. Ham
ilton, who was indicted at the present
term of the criminal court in Nash
county, has been sentenced to a term
of four years at hard labor in the peni
tentiary. I know some of your readers
will be very glad to hear this, and I
take this method of informing them of
the result of the trial. I have some
pictures taken from the defendant
which I will be glad to return to the
proper parties.
Very truly,
R. A. P. Coolet,
Attorney for Prosecution.
Death of Mrs. Watrous.
Mrs. Eva Louise Watrous, wife o
Dr. Erastus Watrous, the well known
teacher of mental healing, No. 134
South Front street, died Thursday
night of cancer, after an illness of some
time. She was 47 years of age and
leaves to mourn their loss, besides a
sorrowing husband, two daughters
and one son, The .funeral was con
ducted at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
by Elder E. Fiske from the residence,
and the interment was at Oakdale
cemetery. The pall-bearers were
Messrs. J. S. Sneeden, Sam Bordeaux,
Joe Everett J. P. Montgomery, H. O.
Craig and W. J. Reaves,
Orders For Delgado Manufactures.
A number of Wilmington merchants
have already placed orders for the out
ing cloths and other manufactures of
the Delgado Mill which has . just been
started up in this' city. These goods
are secured through the Philadelphia
agent of the Delgado company,
Two Negroes to Hang March 15tb Other
News from the County Seat.
Special Star Correspondence.
Nashville, N. G, Feb. 10.
This is the closing day of one of the
largest criminal courts ever held in
Nash county. There i were five de
fendants to be tried for their lives.
One of them, Gillea Allen, for arson,
was acquitted because the State failed
to make out a case. Two negro boys,
John Taylor and Robert Fortune,
were convicted of the murder of
Robert Hester on December 21, 1899.
It appeared that these young negroes
lay in wait for Mr. . Hester, who
was on his way to Rocky Mount
They asked him for change and when
he took out his money to give them
change they presented pistols and one
shot twice and the other once. Mr.
Hester died in four days. The boys,
one of whom is about 21 years old
and the other about 19, are tobe
hanged on the 15th of March next.
This will be the first hanging in Nash
county in two generations.
People are selling the remainder of
their cotton and seem pleased with
the advance in price. !
The amendment is beginning to be
discussed among the masses now and
is growing in favor. Judge Connor,
we learn, will make some amendment
speeches for us soon.
COTTON MILL BUILDING.
Thirty New Factories Projected in North
Carolina for This Year.
Mr. Thos. 8. Bowles of the firm of
Bowles & Warwick, Richmond, Va
who are largely engaged in supplying
machinery to cotton mills in the'
Soutbi yesterday told a Star represen
tative that thirty cotton mills are pro
jected for this year in North Carolina.
He thinks most of them will be built,
and says that the capital is already in
hand to build seventeen of them.
Besides the mills projected, the re
port of the commissioner of labor
statistics a few days ago . stated
that twenty-five mills are now under
construction.
Bellamy Secures Passage of South
eastern Railroad Bridge Permit.
A Washington special to the Raleigh
News and Observer says :
Representative Bellamy has the dis
tinction of being the first member of
the North Carolina delegation to secure
the passage of a . bill this session.
To-day he called up and had passed his
bill to authorize the Southeastern
Railroad Company to construct and
maintain a bridge across the Lumber
river within the boundary-lines of
Robeson county. Mr. Bellamy was
warmly congratulated on his success.
Petitions are pouring in on the mem
bers from all parts of the country pray
ing for the passage of the Bellamy bill
to place printing paper on the free list.
Mr. Bellamy will shortly appear before
the Ways and Means Committee and
make an argument in favor of his bill.
Reformatory Needed
Petty thievery by what appears to
be an organized band of small colored
boys is growing to alarming propor
tions in the city, judging from the
number of urchins that have been in
tercepted and looked up by the police
during the past week.
Yesterday Andrew Bell and Harry
Thomas, two colored boys, scarce over
twelve years of age were, arrested by
Policeman Woebse charged with steal
ing a pocket knife and a dumber of
tow sacks from the feed room of the
stables of the Home Brewing Com
pany on Water street. On ac
count of their youth, it is diffi
cult to conceive how they may
be punished for such offences, and the
need of a reformatory for such a class
of criminals is in tnis ana similar in
stances strongly emphasized.
The Elks' Building.
The Stab learns that there is little
doubt that the plans of Wilming
ton Lodge, No. 532, Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, will be car
ried out. It is proposed to erect a
-handsome $12,000 building, and al
ready the subscriptions amount to
several thousand dollars.
The committee recently appointed
by the lodge to further the scheme
consists of Messrs. H. J. Gerken, F.
H. Stedman, Wm. J. Bellamy, R. W.
Wallace, G O. Chadbourn, M. W.
Divine and Sam Bear, Jr.. It is under
stood that they are making arrange
ments to have the Elk Company
chartered, as the first step towards
carrying out the plana for a building.
The , Stab wishes the Elks com
pletest success in their enterprising
undertaking. ..
Hoyt's "A Texas Steer" Will Be Seen To
morrow Night Week.
There will be no offerings at the
Wilmington Opera House this week
but on to-morrow night week, the
19th inst., Manager Schloss has ar
ranged for another of Hoyt's famous
comedies entitled "A Texas Steer,"
with that charming and entertaining
little actress,' Miss Katie Putnam, as
the star. Wilmington theatre-goers
always have a warm welcome and a
big audience to greet any of Mr. Hoyt's .
companies, !"A Milk WhiteTFlag and
"A Stranger in New York" both
productions of his being most pleas
antly remembered here.
On Wednesday night of next week, ,
21st inst., comes Morrison's great pro
duction of "Faust." This attraction is
owned and directed by Mr. Morrison, ,
and while he is not in the company he
assures the public, through Mr.
Schloss, that both the production and
cast are equal to any ever seen in this
city. Mr. Morrison adds that he baa
never yet broken faith with the public
and is too old to commence now.
Steamer Richmond Delayed..
Some apprehension is felt here for
the welfare of the Clyde steamer
Richmond, which sailed from this port
Tuesday last for Georgetown, S. G,
and has not since returned, though
she is more than two days overdue.
She was reported in Friday's New
York Herald as having sailed for the
return trip to Wilmington on Thurs
day, 8tb, but up to early this morning
she had not put in her appearance.
Her sailing day J rpnS here to New'
York has been on Saturdays, but she
will be considerably behind her
schedule this trip. It is probable that
after sailing from Georgetown she en
countered rough weather and put to
sea and will come in soon.
Howard Relief Anniversary.
Among the events of this week will
be the anniversary ball of the How
ard Relief Company which has been
appointed for Wednesday night, Feb
ruary 21st The arrangements are in
the hands of a committtee consisting
of Messrs. Martin Sehnibben, W. H.
Coleman, E. B.Haar, George Tiencken
and J. H. Mohr.
The anniversary balls of the Howard
Relief are always exceedingly enjoy
able affairs and the one this season is
being anticipated with more than usual
pleasure, j
Policeman Resigned.
Policeman W. E. Watson, one of
the best- known and most efficient
officers on the Wilmington police
force, yesterday morning handed in his
resignation and has been honorably
discharged from the service. He will
leave at once for Jacksonville, Fla.,
' where he will engage in other business.