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AS A NORTHERN MAN 32SS IT.
TIT . i
vve nave recently m tnese coi
umns presented some articles show
ing how the proposed constitutional
amendment is viewed by Northern
men, how .they in BOtne instances
have solved the race problem for
themselves, as in the case of South
ern Pines, in this State, where four
fifths of the peoplo are of Northern
birth, and in the case of the colony
and city of Fitzgerald, in Georgia,
.where probably nine-tenths of them
are Western or Northern people. We
have also presented some articles
snowing wny. .Northern settlers in
this State and Northern men con
templating the investment of capital,
favor the adoption of the amend
ment. , -
-Macon county is not weighted
down with the presence ot very
many negroes; there are compara
tively very few there, aa there are in
many uuuei cuuutiea m tuu weamrii
part of the State, but Macon county
suffers more or less from the large
negro population in the State and
from the part that element has
played, ana may yet play as a factor
in the Government Of the State and
as a factor in retarding its progress
and prosperity. Mr. Henry M.
Stewart, a Northern man by birth
and a Republican in politics, but
for many years a citizen- of that
county, has written a letter in ad
vocacy of the amendment, which,
although written by a Northern man,
is one of the strongest; arguments
for the amendment that we have yet
seen. It is published in the Frank
lin Press. - :
After giving briefly the history 6f
negro enfranchisement, which was
inspired by political considerations
and not for the betterment and ele
vation of the negroes, and showing
its titter failure to accomplish the
purpose for which it was professedly
forced upon the South,' he proceeds
to give the reasons why the franchise
should be taken away from men who
as a race have shown their utter un
fitness to wield it and have not only
thereby totally failed to better them
selves but have done incalculable in
jury to the South and to the white
people of the South whose efforts at
progress have been so much retarded
by the weight of the negro they have
had and still have to carry. Having
shown that nothing has been gained
either by the South or by the negro
from negro suffrage, but much lost
to both, he proceeds:
''Nothioe nas oeeu gained by X he
political freedom of the negro. On
oping the enormous agricultural, and
other industrial resources which now
lie idle for want of hands, and heads,
and capital, to fertilize and make them
productive. So our. gain will be tan
gible, while our loss will be an intan
gible, and unnoticeable, and unnoticed
quantity. For these reasons I cordially
support the amendment to our State
constitution, and urge others inter
ested in the future progress of the
State, to support it, and use all their
influence in the same direction.
"It would be unjust to include in
the foregoing those of the colored peo
ple who have had the rood sense and
enterprise to avail themselves of what
opportunities they have had to fit
.themselves for the duties and obliga
tions of citizenship. The color of a
man's skin is no bar to his right to all
the consideration due his .manhood.
And there are many colored men in
the State who are as well fitted to ex
ercise the obligations and enjoy the
rights of citizenship to the full as any
white men. These, are not in any
way interfered with in this proposed
amendment, and their aid and help
in the duties of self government I am
sure will be welcomed by the whole
body of the white race. And we may
be sure their efforts to improve the
condition of others of their race by
education will be fully and cordially
aided by all their fellow citizens irre
spective of color. .
"We cannot say what the precise
effect of the amendment if carried into
force may be.1 But we may ba Bure
there will be a wholly, new departure
in regard to the management of our
domestic affairs. A ..sore will have
been healed, unquestionably a healthy
and vigorous growth of and develop
ment of the material resources of the
State will result, and the rapid im
provement in all our industrial condi
tions will tend to attract thousands of
energetic and industrious citizens
from other parts of the Union,
and bring them here to help in the
work of making North Carolina one
of the most prosperous and wealthy of
the grand community of States. Then
the negro will stand on his own merits
and if he is worthy of joining hand in
hand with his whith brethren, he will
be entirely welcome to take his part
in the responsibilities of a free and in
telligent government, as soon as he is
fitted by the reasonable requirements
of this proposed amendment to our
constitution."
AFRAID TO SUPPORT IT OPENLY
There are a good many of the
more intelligent negroes in this
State who favor the adoption of the
constitutional amendment, and
would support it openly,- but from
fear of social ostracism or personal
. T . 1 It.- 1 ' -
injury, in reierenceio mis we cup
the following from the Windsor
Ledger:
"We have heard several of the bet
ter class of negroes speak in favor of
the Amendment. They say the law
will do for the race what they have
been unable to do and that is to draw
the line between the good and the bad,
the decent and the worthless, the law
abiding and the criminal, the in tell i
gent and ihe ignorant. That is true.
The few intelligent voters and compeT
tent negroes in each locality will thus
be lifted out of the great mass of igno
ranse and vice. But few of them will
vote for it. If one in this county was
to announce his purpose of voting for
it the negro women both high and low,
would mob him before night."
There never was anywhere a more"
complete despotism exercised over
any people than that exercised over
the colored men of North Carolina,
by their own race and more especial
ly by the women. To vote against
the ticket approved by the machine-
runners of the Republican party in;
any election National, State, coun-i
THE WADLEY CASE. : WASH'NQT0N KEWS LETTER-1 DEATH 0F E-PARKER TDE ELK'S BUILDING.
Supreme Court of Appeals Has
Granted H. 0. Wadley a
New Trial.
CASE OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Defendant Once a Resident of Wilming
ton Charged With Embezzlement ,
of $196,000 of Pire Insurance
Funds The Decision.
Much local interest has .recently
been manifested in the case of H.' G.
Wadley, a former resident of Wil
mington, who was convicted of em
bezzlement in the lower courts of Vir
ginia several months ago, and it will
now be of interest to his numerous ac
quaintances here to know by a deci
sion of Judge Harrison, of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, that he is
to be granted a new trial.
The Richmond Dispatch of yester
day in printing a resume of the case,
says that several years ago Mr. Wadley,
who was one . of the best j known
business men of Wjtheville, Vir
ginia, was mainly instrumental
in organizing an insurance com
pany, of which he
ty or municipal is to Bubject the! qUired all the stock.
From a purely business stand
point it would be difficult to make a
stronger argument than this for the
adoption of the' amendment, and
force is given to it by the fact that
the writer has been identified with
movements in which he .has en
countered the blighting effect of too
much negro. Northern people do
not understand the negro as South
ern people, who have been accus
tomed to them all their lives,
do, and they, as a general thing,
have not half the toleration for
them that Southern people have,
and that is one reason why they ob
ject to being thrown into close
qontact with them when they may
be dependent upon them for labor
or run the risk of being dominated
by them in ' public affairs. Mr.
Stewart simply speaks as thousands
of other Northern settlers in Nojth
Carolina and other Southern States
speak and feel, every one of whom, if
in North Carolina, would advocate
the adoption of the constitutional
amendment, as he so forcibly does.
negro voter to social ostracism by the
women and to danger of personal vi
olence by the men, agged on bj the
women, who have proved the most
powerful aids the white bosses have
had in keeping the negro voters solid
for the ticket endorsed and sup
ported by the machine. Everybody
who knows the negro knows what
this means, and knowing this can
readily understand why so few ne
groes vote any other than the Re
publican ticket, when there is a Re
publican ticket in the field, no mat
ter what the material may be of
which the ticket may be composed,
or the issues it represents.
The adoption of the amendment
would relieve the better class of ne
groes from this intolorable despotism
and would be a good thing for that
reason if .for no other, and they
know it, and would therefore sup
port the amendment openly if they
were not afraid to do so.
gradual y ac
As president of
the other hand mucn has been lost.
Immigration avoids the South. For
eign immigrants will not associate
with the net roes Educated farmers
do not wfsh to employ the blacks, and
white working men will not consort
with him. In every way heis an ob
stacle to the advance of th South,
and while the increase of wealth iu
the North has been phenomenal, that
of the South is really advanced only
in estimated value. It is true, that
more recently, the appearance of pros
perity has brightened, but it does not
yet appear as a tangible fact. Let us
realize that nothing has been gained
by his enfranchisement, when the
Question arises what will be lost or
gained by his disfranchisement.
"It is certain that in proportion to
the numerical force of his vote, the
South will lose a corresponding repre
sentation in the Congress. But how
much does that amount tot What ad
vantage does the South enjoy now that
may then be missed? It is difficult to
perceive any such loss of advantage, in
the national affairs. But there will be
a substantial gain in our domestic af
fairs. The incubus of the nigger in our
politics will be swept away, and really
we may believe that it will enure to
the benefit of the State to a very con
siderable extent. Great dissatisfaction
will be removed throughout the I State,
and the disappearance of the negro, as
a class, from public affairs, and the
loss of bis prestige as an element in
politics will be felt as an enormous re
lief at home, and abroad it will put the
South in a very much a ore favorable
light towards immigrants than it has
enjoyed previously.
"I think, I know more of this than
many others who have not the wide
. acquaintance I have with industrial
matters in the North, especially as to
agriculture and related industries. I
know that our present condition is a
great obstacle to immigration, which
otherwise would be attracted by our
cheap lands, and favorable climate.
Twenty years spent in constant efforts
to enlighten the people of the North
as to the enormous advantages for in
vestments in the South, has given me
experience and opportunity for judg
ing accurately in this, and almost in
variably, persons coming from the
.North and discovering the con
dition of our labor supply have
returned discouraged. With the
disfranchisement of the negro
this serious objection will be removed,
and with the white man unmixed,
other white men will be glad to come
here, and take an active part in devel-
THE "IF" THAT ACCOUNTS
FOR IT.
As far, as the tariff on Porto Rico
and the Congress of the United
States are concerned that question
is temporarily settled by th passage
of what is called the relief bill, turn
ing over to the island the moneys
which had been collected. But the
Supreme Court will yet have , some
thing to say about this kind of legis
lation and the peoplo will have a
good deal to say about it between
this and the next Presidential elec
tion. It puts the Republican party
on the defensive and its' spokesmen
will have a sweet time defending
this business and reconciling the con
tradictory reasons for it The boldest
and most candid reason assigned by
any of them is in the following from
the speeph of Senator Foraker, in
the Senate, when he said: .
"If we cannot levy a duty on the
products of Porto Rico, we cannot
levy a duty on the products of tbe
Philippines. If the Philippines are
now a part of the United States, and
if we cannot levy a tariff on their pro
ducts, we might just as well disman
tle our custom houses and go out of
the protection business.
"There can be no intelligent legis
lation on this question until we get a
commanding view of the situation
that will bev afforded us by a decision
of the Supreme Court."
The President had three, months
previously said in his message that
it was our "plain duty" to giye free
trade to Porto Rico, but Senator
Foraker discovered that free trade
to Porto Rico logically meant free
trade for the Philippines and this
involved the distraction of the pro
tective tariff system, and therefore.
the protection of the beneficiaries
of that system necessitated ignoring
the President's "plain duty" mes
sage, and putting the screws on
Porto Rico in spite of our pledges to
her people.
The American people see through
this thing, they understand and are
even now asking why these states
men bo conflict with each other,
why injustice must be done to Porto
Rico and our national honor be
smirched for the benefit of the pro
tected interests which have so long,
without any need, been levying
tribute upon the American people.
WHY SHOULD THEY.
The latest advices from the field
of strife in South Africa are that
Gen. Roberts has begun his march
on Pretoria and that the Boers are
so much discouraged that many of
them ale going to their homes, and
that even some of the generals have,
done this, being unwilling to fight
longer in what they deem a hope
less cause. This is not cowardice,
for these men have demonstrated
their valor on too many fields to
have it questioned now. To con
tinue this fight indefinitely now
would be to wage a war which must
in the end prove disastrous to them,
for the whole world knows the un
equalness of the contest and the
ntter impossibility of a little army
of probably less than 30,000 men,
hemmed in and. cut off from
all outside source of supplies,
successfully contending against over
eight times as many men, and indefi
nite numbers to draw upon, with all
the supplies they need, Bhips to go
and come at call, and ports and rail
roads for the delivery and rapid
transportation of men and supplies.
In the wars between civilized people
there never was a more unequal con
test. It is only a question of time when
the Boers must succumb to this, and
consequently it will not be surpris
ing if Presidents Kruger and Steyn
after making some show of resist
ance to Roberts' advancing army
recognize , the inevitable and sur
render Pretoria asJBloemfontein was
was surrendereeUThey might con
tinue the fight in their desperation
and inflict much damage on the
British, but it would inflict more
damage on themselves, and therefore
humanity will dictate that they
should realize the hopelessness of
the struggle and make the best terms
they can, and in doing so they will
hot in the least tarnish the glory
they have won as a people. All that
braye, liberty-loving men could do
they have done and more should not
be and is not expected from them.
The Philadelphia Record seems to
think it is about time the color line
were drawn in that burg, to elimi
nate the thirty or forty thousand
colored denizens, "armed with the
rights, but mainly ignorant of the
duties of citizenship,"" whose ballot
swinging very seriously complicates
the problem of good government in
that town. They will all come to
it after they have had some practi
cal experience with "the man and
brother" as a ballot slinger.
According to the
McKinley's "plain
duty of fifteen per cent,
plain enough.
pan
duty"
out Mr.
means a
That's
Some of the gold democrats (?)
of Indiana have had a meeting and de
cided that they can't support Bryan
or any one else on the Chicago plat
form, and they are not much stuck
on McKinley, either. Well, all we
can Bee that they can do will be to
play their old game, put up a little
golden calf of their own and then
vote for McKinley.
the com Dan v he exchanged its assets
for other assets. In the meantime Ihe
company sustained heavy fire losses.
When payment was sought the com
pany was found to be without assets
upon which the insured could realize.
As a result, a creditor's suit was insti
tuted in the Federal Court The com
pany was placed in the hands of a re
ceiver, and a commissioner was ap
pointed to take an account of the
claims, and assets. Wadley appeared
before the Commissioner, and in a
voluntary deposition set out in detail
all his transactions and submitted the
books of the company, kept mostly by
himself, which showed these transac
tions. Creditors of the company then
threatened him with prosecution for
embezzlement of assets unless their
debts should be paid by him out of
his private funds. This he declined
to do, on the ground that he had
acted in good faith, and for what he
considered at the time to be for
the best interests of the company.
Indictments followed and tee case
went to the-Federal court which en
joined the lower court from
using the books of the company in ev
idence and upon war of habeas corpus
sued out before Judge Simonton, Wad
ley was releised from jail. The case
was next taken to the Supreme Court
of Virginia with the result as stated
and as is set forth in the following
opinion handed down Thursday :
Wadley vs. Commonwealth. Opinion
by Judge George M. Harrison.
The plaintiff in error was convicted
in the County Court of Wythe for
alleged embezzlement of the assets of
the Wytheville Insurance and Bank
ing Company. ' 1
The case came up to the Supreme
Court of Appeals upon a" bill of ex
ceptions to certain rulings of the trial
court.
The Court of Appeals held that the
motion to quash the indictment upon
the ground that it was based upon
illegal and inadmissible evidence was
properly overruled.
"It is the policy of the law," says
the court, "in the interest of justice,
that this preliminary hearing should
be conducted with closed doors. This
secrecy is not only consistent with,
but essential to the nature of the in
stitution. The sufficiency of the proof
cannot be enquired into to invalidate
an indictment found by a lawfully
constituted grand jury. The presump
tion is that every indictment is found
upon proper evidence."
As to the exception to the ruling of
the trial court in refusing to discharge
the prisoner because four regular terms
of said court had been held after the
indictment was found before the same
was tried, the Court of Appeals said :
"There was ho error in this ruling.
This delay was caused by injunction
proceedings by the defendant in the
Federal Court, restraining the State
Court from proceeding with his trial,
and by this means he caused the de
lay which he now seeks to profit by.
The sole object of the statute was to in
sure a speedy trial. It never meant by
its enumerationized exceptions, or ex
cesses for failure to try to exclude
others of a similar nature or In Pari
Ratione, but only to enact, if the
Commonwealth was in default for
three terms without any of the excuses
for the failure enumerated in the
statute, or such like excuses, fairly im
plicate by the courts from the reason
and spirit of the law, the 'prisoner
should be entitled to his discharge,"
As to the admissibility of the evi
dence to establish the value of certain
securities, viz : The Cannouchee bonds.
the court held that witnesses T should
have been brought forward to testify to
facts within their own knowledge, and
to permit a-witnessto give his opinion
upon the question at issue upon in
formation derived from his correspon
dence with others, was violation of
the most fundamental principle of ev
idence; even in a ciyil case it would
have been inadmissible. "Tbe diffi
culty or impossibility of proving an
inculpatory fact by lawful evidence is
not a foundation upon wmcn to rest
the introduction of improper evidence."
1 1 reference to the objection by the
defence to the language of one of the
instructions asked by the prosecution,
to-wit: "With intention to defraud
said company and thereby render it
unable to meet its obligations," the
court held that the liability of the com
pany to meet its obligations bad
nothing to do with the issue before the
jury. "It is as much a crime1 to em
bezzle the funds of a solvent company
as an insolvent company. We do not
see, however, that tbe prisoner couia
have been prejudiced. The effect of
the language is rather to impose an
additional burden of proving, the in
solvency of the company upon the
prosecution."
As to the instruction asked for by
the defence, to the effect that the jury
must believe there was a criminal in
tent to convert to his own use the
property of the company, the court
held that if there was evidence to sup
port such instruction the lower court
- m a Y V 1
erred in refusing n. "in emnezzie
ment, as in larceny, there must be a
fraudulent purpose to deprive the
owner of his property and appropriate
the same."
Judgment of the County Court re
versed, the verdict of the jury set
aside and the case remanded for new
trial
Bills Providing for Survey of Cape Pear
and Nense Rivers by Representa
tive Thomas.
Special Star Correspondence.
Washington, D. C, March 14
Representative Bellamy last evening
called at the jail to see Michael Dowl
ing, arrested for robbery and who was
a witness against Mr. Bellamy in the
Bellamy-Dbckery contest. Mr. Bel
lamy said to-day that he called simply
to ascertain for certain whether the
man arrested was the same who figured
so conspicuously in Gen. Dudley's ar
gument for Dockery. He found that
he was tbe identical "Mike."
Representative Thomas' bill for the
improvement of tbe Cape Fear river
between Wilmington and Fayetteville.
is in detail as follows: "Be it enacted
by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of
America assembled, that the Secretary
of War be, and he is herebj, author
ized and directed to cause a survey to
be made of the Upper Cape Fear river,
from the city of Wilmington, North
Carolina, to the city of Fayetteville,
North Carolina ; said survey to be made
for the purpose of estimating theost
of producing four, six, and eight feet
of water at all times between said city
of Wilmington and said city of Fay
etteville. That the sum of three thou
sand dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to cover the cost nd expenses of said
survey."
The following is his bill in detail for
the deepening of the'Neuse river:
"That the Secretary of War be, and
he is hereby authorized and directed
to cause a survey to be made of iNeuse
River, North Carolina; said survey to
be made for the purpose of estimating
the cost of producing a depth of water
in the harbor of Newbern. North Car
olina, sufficient at all times to permit
the free passage of steamers and ves
sels in and about said harbor and up
to the wharves and freight depots of
the city of Newbern. That the sum of
two thousand dollars be, and is here
by, appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropri
ated, for the purpose of making said
survey.
.A PUBLIC EXECUTION.
Two 'Murderers Hanged at Nashville, N.
C 6,001 people Present.
Special Star Telegram.
Nashville, N. C, March 15 John
Taylor and Robert Fortune (negroes)
were hanged to-day for the robbery
and murder of Robert Hester, near
Rocky Mount, December 21st, 1899.
Sheriff 'Warren threw the trap at 1:10
P.M.
Fortune died in four and three-quarter
minutes. Taylor in eight min
utes. . Taylor made a few remarks,
He confessed the crime, also the
murder and robbery of the negro Law
rence Jackson at JWeldon December
18'h, 1899. The crowd was estimated
at 6,000. . -
Cotton and Naval Stores.
The following comparative state
ments of the weekly and part crop
year receipts of cotton and naval stores
at the port of Wilmington were posted
yesterday at the Produce Exchange.
Week ended March 16,1900 Cotton,
3,358 bales; spirits, 78 casks; rosin,
2,140 barrels; tar, 2,350 barrels; crude,
161 barrels.
Week ended March 16, 1899 Cot
ton, 1,021 bales bales; spirits, 109
casks; rosin, 2,036 barrels; tar, 1,966
barrels; crude, 39 barrels.
" Crop year to March 16, 1900 Cot
ton, 261,895 bales; spirits, 29,442 casks;
rosin, 164,915 barrels; tar, 76,611 bar
rels, crude, 11,996 barrels.
Crop year to March 16, 1899 Cot
ton, 287,843 bales; spirits,27.599 casks;
rosin, 155,793 barrels; tar, 69,927 bar
rels; crude, 10.972 barrels.
From Hallsville by River.
The steamboat E. A. Hawes, Capt.
Ward, arrived yesterday from Halls
ville, Duplin county, witL large
freight, consisting of forty-one bales of
cotton, ten tons of cotton seed, naval
stores and country produce." Capt.
Ward says that boating on Northeast
river is troublesome and difficult on
account of the numerous snags and
other obstructions. Hallsville is about
one hundred miles from Wilmington,
and people there are anxious for regu
lar communication by river with Wil
mington ; good freights can always be
had.
She Passed Peacefully Away at the Home
of Mr. W. E. Springer Early Yes
terday Morning.
Many friends in this city will hear
with unfeigned sorrow of the death of
Mrs. Mary E. Parker, relict of the late
Capt. W. M. Parker, which occurred
yesterday morning at 7:15 o'clock at
the residence of herbrother in law, Mr.
W. E. Springer, No. 214 North Sec
ond street.
Mrs. Parker had been in ill health
for a week or ten days but not until
last Sunday was her condition consid
ered serious. She rapidly grew worse
and Rev. Dr. E. A. Yates, her former
pastor, was summoned to Wilmington
from his home in Durham. He was at
her bedside when she died yesterday
morning in the triumph of a Chris
tian faitb, and will conduct the funer
al services this afternoon, which will
be from Grace M. E. Church at four
o'clock.
Mrs. Parker died ot Bright's disease. .
She was a daughter of the late
lamented Capt. Benjamin Rush, of
Fayetteville, and her husband, who
died several years ago, while attend
ing conference at Fayetteville, was a
member of the well known hardware
firm of Parker & Taylor. Mrs. W. E.
Springer is the only member of the
immediate family surviving the
deceased, and to her is extended the
sincerest sympathy of a wide circle of
friends in the irreparable loss which
she has sustained.
There was a large attendance of rela
tives and friends upon the funeral ser
vices of Mrs. Mary E. Parker, which
were impressively conducted yesterday
afternoon from Grace Methodist Epis
copal Church at 4 o'clock. The ser
vices were by Rev. J. N. Cole, assisted
by Rev. Dr. E. A. Yates, of Durham,
the former pastor of the deceased lady.
The interment was at Oakdale ceme
tery, where there were also assembled
a large concourse of friends to witness
the last sad funeral rites of one whom
they loved. Many beautiful floral
tributes were laid upon the grave in
token of their love and esteem. The
following were the pall bearers upon
the sad occasion: Col. Roger Moore,
Messrs. EL P. West, W. B. Cooper,
F. H. Fechtig, E. B. Borden, Jno. F.
Garrell, J. C. Springer and W. W.
Hodges.
Plans for the New Temple Prac
tically Decided Upon by
Committee.
HOOK & SAWYER, ARCHITECTS,
Have Submitted Specifications Which
Provide for Magnificent Structure
October Pirst Will See Comple
tion of the "Home."
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Work of White Cappers.
It is reported that
white cappers
visited the houses of two obnoxious
colored persons in the First Wan last
night and administered a sound thrash
ing in each instance. It is learned
that incendiary talk and general bump
tious conduct was the cause of the
whipping. One of the negroes, it is
said, lives on Sixth between Brunswick
and Bladen streets and the chastise
ment was administered between 6 and
7 o'clock in the evening. The other
negro was found in "Dross Neck" and
was whipped between 11 and 12 o'clock.
Wreck Removed.
. The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey publishes the following notice to
mariners:
On January 30. 1900, tne remaining
spars of the sunken schooner Fannie
Brown, lvinsr in latitude 35 deg. 34
min. N . longitude 75 deg. 17 nain.W.,
about 23 miles NE by N. from Cape
Hatteras Beacon Light, were pulled
put and towed into Hampton Roads by
the revenue cutter Onondaga. Care
ful soundings failed to develop less
than 12 fathoms over the wreck, which
is therefore believed to be no longer a
menace to navigation.
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Plans for the erection of the new
"Elks Home" on Front between Ches
nut and Grace streets as drawn by
Messrs. Hook & Sawyer, architects of
Charlotte, N. C.,j were yesterday - on
exhibition at the 1 store of Exalted Ru
ler H. J. Gerken, of the Wilmington
Lodge of Elks, and the Stab is inform
ed that it is very probable that the
specifications as drawn by this firm
will be accepted. ,The matter, however
has not yet been definitely determined
upon and a ' meeting of the
building committee, which is com
posed of Messrs. F. H. Stedman, Wil
liana J. Bellamy,, R. W. Wallace, M.
W. Divine and Jno. H. Sweeney, will
be held in a few days to decide defl
nitely upon the question.
Tbe plans as drawn by Messrs. Hook
& Sawyer are peculiarly unique in
their character ! and are different
irom any architectural designs in
the city. The building will be
a three-story i structure and its
dimensions will ; be 33x65 feet. It is
proposed to build! of New Jersey brick
with brown stone trimmings and the
"Home" will be one of the prettiest
buildings in the city. On the first
floor there will be a commodious store
room with solid plate glass front. At
each corner of the front of the build
ing there will be a door-way, one of
which ' will lead up a stair-way to the
second and third floors and the other
will open into the store room.
Upon the second floor there will be
reception rooms, parlors, banquet
hall, reading room and other apart
ments set apart to the social pleasures
of the order and upon the third floor
the lodge room proper will be located.
On this floor j there will also
probably be erected a stage for
amateur theatricals or similar enter
tainments that may be arranged from
time to time by the lodge.
It can now be positively stated that
ground for the new building will be
broken by May 1st, and the building
completed by . October 1st, at which
time it will be dedicated with appro
priate ceremonies by the fraternity,
The committee in charge has already
begun collecting subscriptions of
bonds of the first instalment, and it
is learned that flattering success: has
rewarded the effort.
The building will prove a handsome
addition to the already pretty struc
tures on Front street, and the Wil
mington Elks .are to be . congratulated
upon the substantial prospects for their
new home. -
IRITS TURPENTINE.
lount Olive Advertiser: The
farmers are preparing for large crops.
From daylight to dark teams are en
gaged in hauling fertilizers from ware
houses to the farms.
Concord I Standard: Numbers
will probably be prepared to hear that
attachment papers have been taken
out against the Union Copper Mining
Co. and the Gold Hill Mining Co.
Numbers of persons are numbered
among the ones who have accounts
and are joining in the effort to collect -their
debts.
Fayetteville Observer. The
Messrs. Cook and H. M. Pemberton
are meeting with fine success in the
knitting mill which they have, so
greatly enlarged and improved. They
have no trouble in disposing of their
product, which is now over 100 dozen
pairs a day. This is one of many
similar enterprises which will start up
in: Fayetteville when we have the
electric power and deep water to the
sea. . .
Salisbury Sun:' Sheriff J. M.
Monroe spent yesterday afternoon at
Gold Hill. While there he levied ten
tbe property of the Union Copper'
mine and Gold Hill mine such of
the property as he found on this side
of the county line. The levy was
made under warrant of attachments
for debt, tbe warrants being secured
by the Salisbury Supply & Commis
sion Company two and the Salis
bury Hardware & Furniture Lompa- .
ny one. i .
Jonesboro Progress: Buck Cox,
colored, formerly of Jonesboro, only .
about thirteon or fourteen years old,
and for one so young, a chicken thief
of so small repute, has turned his
hand to bigger game and is in trouble.-'
On Friday he stole a horse from a
colored man near Diggs saw mill, and
rode him here. ; He told several tales
as to how he came in his posessioD,
nnd finally rode off towards McKay's
Quarter. Soon people came looking
for the boy and horse and followed
and caught him near the Quarter.
Wadesboro. Messenger 'Intelli
gencer'. Mr. Julia Ratlin! died at her
home in McFarlan yesterday morning
at 2 o'clock, after a long illness, aged
49 years. - There is every prospeot
for a large fruit crop this season
throughout this section. The recent
cold spells have kept the fruit back to
such an-extent that only some varie
ties of plum tress have bloomed. We
have seen no peach blooms at all, as
yet . James Capel,the negro boy who
attemptetd assault ona young white
girl near Albemarle last summer, and
who was captured in this county the
next day, was tried at Albemarle, last
week, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for 15 years.
... Nashville Graphic: It(is with
regret we chronicle the death of Mrs.
J. L. Hilton, who died at her home a
few miles from this place Saturday
morning. An altercation occur
red a few nights ago near Springhope,
between Mike Brantley and Frank
Anderson, both wite and as a result
Brantley came near killing Anderson
by cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. It seems that bad blood exis
ted between the two men on .account
of the former reporting Anderson for
running an illict distillery. Ander
son in company with anoter man went
to Brantley's bouse at night and called
him out to the barn and a difficulty at
once ensued with the above result.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
COLLISION! AT NORFOLK.
To Connect with the S. A. L.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of the
15th inst., says:
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the East Tennessee & Western North
Carolina Railroad, held at Johnson
City, Tuesdav afternoon, it was decid
ed to extend the road from Cranberry
to Lincolnton, N. C, about 75 miles.
Lincolnton is about 30 miles west of
Charlotte, N. C. The extension will
nenetrate the rich des posits of mag
netic iron ore, for which western North
Carolina is famous. It will also touch
the Mitchell county gold section. Mor
ganton, N. C, will probably be on the
route.
Receiver Appointed.
The Greensboro correspondent of
the Charlotte Observer of yesterday
says: "
At chambers, in Graham, this morn
ing, Judge W. S. O'B. Robinson ap
pointed J. W. Lindau receiver of the
Fishblate-Katz Uompany, ciotmer oi
this city. The liabilities are $8,000,
while the assets will amount to $12,000
or $15,000. The concern ha a been in
business under different firm names
for a number of years, but had been
making an effort to retire for the past
year. t
Cosmorama of Trade and Art.
. The Cosmorama of Trade and Art
under the auspices of the First Baptist
Church choir, to be given March 30th,
is progressing very nicely. Seventy
nine merchants have taken advertise
ments and a good many more will be
added to the. list in a few days, it
promises to be a very novel and at
tractive entertainment
Members to Investigate Conditions In the
South Assembling in Atlanta.
By Telegrapb to tne Horning Star.
Atlanta, March 17. M. D. Ratch
ford, of Washington, a member of the
United States Industrial Commission,
arrived in Atlanta to day. Senator
James Q. Kyle, of South Dakota, chair
man : Colonel L. F. Livingston, Cap
tain Ellyson A. Smyth, of South Caro
lina, and Mr. C. H. Harris, of North
Carolina, and other members of the
commission appointed to investigate
the industrial condition in the South
are expected to-morrow.
A number of prominent Georgians
have been summoned to appear as wit
nesses. The hearing begins Monday.
NEGROES NOT WANTED.
U. S. Transport Somner Ran Into a Barge
at a Railroad Pier.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Norfolk, VA.i March 17. The new
United States army transport Sumner,
commanded by Captain Charles T.
Baker, and said to be tbe finest troop
ship afloat, sailed from the navy yard
to day at noon for Hampton Roads
where her compass will be adjusted.
When the transport left the yard, out
ward bound, a stiff breeze was blowing
from the south. : The big ship became
unmanageable when off the Southern
Railway pier, this city, and was swept
aeainst a car float which lay at the
pier. A tremendous crash followed, as
the transport smashed the barge, and
the latter broke down the front tier of
piles on which the wharf stands. The
men at work unloading the cars on the
float escaned to the pier. Tbe barge.
with its half loaded cars aboard was
towed over on the Portsmouth flats.
where it sank to the bottom. The
Sumner proceeded uninjured, save
that her bow was pierced above the
water line by her anchor fluke. The
accident is said to have been avoida
ble. mm
GEN. JOE WHEELER.
Eulogies on the Death of Senator-elect
Hsyward Coeur D'Alene Investi
gation Continued
By Teleerech to the Morning Star.
Washington, June 17. Members
of the House to-day pronounced eulo-.
gies upon the late Monroe L. Hay"
ward, a Senator-elect from Nebraska,
who died before taking the oath of
office. No other business of impor
tance was transacted.
The Coeur D'Alene investigation
was continued before the House com
mittee on Military Affairs to day.
Allan F. Gill of Spokane, Washing
ton, a mechanical engineer, was placed
on the stand by Mr. Lentz. He testi
fied that he heard Major Morten
order some of his troops to break
into his (Gill's) house. The soldiers
broke in the door. He noticed other
instances of a similar character. He
testified to general rude and harsh
treatment suffered by the arrested
miners at the hands of the troops. The
only disturbance made in Burke that
day was the disturbance created by
the soldiery. There was no necessity
for the soldiers he said, as civil process
could have been served. In his opin
ion the advent of the military defeated
the ends of justice.
.Representative iticnarason oi Ten
nessee, to day introaucea two more
anti trust resolutions, one against the
Federal Steel Company.
MINISTER MERRY'S MISSION.
Citizens of a Michigan Town Appointed a
Committee to Run Them Out.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star:
Houghton, Mich., March-17. Citi
zens of La Rium, a fine residence
suburb of the big mining camp of
Calumet, have appointed a committee
to rid the town of negroes. They ob
ject to having it called a vigilance
committee, and announce that only
peaceable and legal methods will be
used, but that the negroes must go.
Colored men were almost unknown
there until a sewer contractor brought
in several carloads from Tennessee
and Alabama eighteen months ago.
Several white girls have eloped wijh
negroes and constant trouble has
to this action.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
led
An Effort Being Made to Induce Him to
Withdraw Bis Resignation.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washinton, olarch 17. It is evi
dent that an effort is being made by
some of the administration officials to
induce General Wheeler to withdraw
his reauest for immediate action on
his resienation. It is intimated that
this effort is attributable solely to an
interest in the ' personal welfare of
the G neraL In this connection
it is recalled that the President
has had it in mind to ask Con
cress for soecial legislation empow
ering !him to retire General Lee and
another brieradier general or volun
teers with the rank of brigadier gen
erals in the regular army. Some of
the persons who are interested in the
success ot tms movement ieei mat ov
immediate resignation and the prota-
cution of his present determination to
attempt to secure his seat in the House
of Representatives, General Wheeler
will arouse antagonisms which may
make it difficult; thereafter to secure
from the House the legislation needful
to secure his retirement.
To Settle Controversy Between Nicaragua
and the Maritime Canil Co.
By Telegraph) the Morning Star.
Washington, March 17. Minister
Merry, by direction of the State De
partment, is now on his way from
Costa Rica to Mangua, the capital of
Nicaragua. His mission is not, as has
been surmised, connected with the re
ported issue between Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, but relates entirely to
canal matters. Up to . this time there
has been no satisfactory outcome of
the controversy between Nicaragua
and the Maritime Canal Company re
specting the status of the latter's con
cession. The Nicaragu an government
claims that the concession has expired
hv failurA nf tfcft Maritime ComDanv
to perform the amount of work re
quired by the concession. Arbitration
Has been attempted, out matters nave
become so involved that Minister
Merry has been ordered to Mangua to
make a personal investigation and do
what is proper to protect the interests
of the Maritime Canal Company.
NOT SERIOUSLY HURT.
The Result of an Attempt to Start a Fire
With Oasoliae.
E7 Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Columbus, Ohio. ' March 17. Five
persons killed, one fatally and one
seriously injured, resulted from an at
tempt to start a lire with gasoline here
last night George White used the
flmd at James weaver s resilience ana
an explosion followed; the building
was set on fire and the inmates were
covered with the burning fluid. The
dead are: Philip Weaver, aged 49;
Roy "Weaver, aged 14; Loray Weaver,
aged 3, Tully Weaver, aged 5; George
White, agea ss. ratauy ournea,
Alwyo Weaver; seriously burned,
James Weaver.
UNDULY ALARMED.
Exaggerated Reports About Whitecapi in
Orangeburg County, S. C.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Columbia, S. C, March 17. Last
night Governor McwSeney received
startling dispatches from Neeces, in
Oranflrebursr county, stating that white-
caps had threatened parties there and
. m a. a
that tne community was leronzeo.
He was requested to send militia.
The Governor hurried the Sheriff to
the nlace and received a dispatch from
him to-day saying that everything
was auiet and that the people were
unduly alarmed.
The Effects of the Cold Weather on tne
Georgia Frnit Crop.
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
Atlanta, Ga., March17 .Few re
ports have been received at the Agri
cultural Department, in the last few
days regarding the effect of the cold
weather on tbe iruit crop or tne dumb
but it is not believed that considerable
damage has been done.
While the cold in some localities
has been severe, it is not thought that
the crop was far enough advanced 10
materially injure the tender buds -unless
the low temperature, continues
for several days.
The weekly bank statement shows
the following changes: Surplus re
serve, decrease $2,989,950; loans, de
crease ll,3li,4uu; specie, aecrease o,
453,100; legal tenders, decrease $1,372,
600; deposits, decrease $15,343,000; cir
culation, decrease $62,500. The banks
now hold $2,686,425 in excess' of the
legal requirements of the 25 per cent,
rule. I