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The state laws make trusts impossible, and I want to tell you that every anti-trust law on the statute books of State or nation was enacted by the Republican par ty.". " Taking this as a subjectsome of the comic artist's have drawn a pic ture of IIanna declaring that he doesn't believethere is a Trust' in the United States, surrounded and overshadowed -by about two score or more of Trusts the Oil Trust, the Sugar Trust, the Salt Trust, the Steel' Trust, the Tin Plate Trust, the ail Trust, the Wire Trust, the Glass Trust and numer ous otherTrusts, which the Honor able Mark Hanna doesn't seem to know anything about. But he pulls most of them for contribu Jions, all the same, and doesn't trust them either, for he insists on cash. lie added another piece of sur prising information to the statement that he didn't believe here is a Trust in the United States when he exclaimed, "And I want to tell you that every anti-trust f law on the statute books of State or nation was enacted by the Republican party Whether this is to be attributed to colossal cheek or amazing ignorance, we don't know, but it is worthy of Mark Hanna. and we don't believe there is another man in the United States who has any regard for his reputation who would have made it. There is but one anti-trust law on the national statutes, and that is the so-called Sherman anti-trust law, it has never been enforced. As for the State anti-trust laws, there are some in the North and some in the South. Some States have none. Wherever they are in exist ence in the States reaching from Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland southward, they have been passed by Democratic legislatures, but with a broad sweep, and a brazen con tempt for the truth, Mark Hanna, presuming on the ignorance of his audience, declares that "every anti trust law on the statue books of State or nation was enacted by the Republican party." What confl uence can be put in the veracity of a ' man who makes such bald-faced as sertions as this, when he must know better? When he had finished this surpri Bing bit of information, some 'one in the crowd shouted: "But they are not enforced." To which Mr. Hanna shouted - back. "Yes. thev are enforced." Mark Hanna knew better than that. When was the Sherman anti trust law ever enforced? When the present U. S. Attorney General was asked why he did not enforce it he replied that he did not have the power, that the trusts were al operating under State charters and that the Sherman law was inopera tive as to them, and could not reach them. that thev must be reached through State laws. Who has ever heard of a Trust being prosecuted under any of the laws in Republican States? The lnof Aftvrnair da-naval rtt Ohio TWO' j - i ceeded against the Standard Oil Trust but found himself so ham pered by courts supposed to be un der the influence of the Oil Trust that ho was balked in every move ment, and his term of office expired without his making any substantial progress, and the party managers who stood in with the Trust took good care that he wasn't nominated again. That's the way . the laws against Trusts have been enforced in Hepublican States one solitary at tempt and that a failure, because o; obstacles thrown in the way of the Attorney General who tried to "en force the law. They have been enforced in Mis souri, Arkansas and Texas, and as a result it is asserted that a good deal f capital has been kept out o those States. ' But if there are no Trusts, as ' - - 1 ' VUL. AAA1. Hanna asserts, how could the laws ! be enforced against, them? Thev i couia not enforce a law againat something that did not exist. If they ever did exist, when did they cease to exist? Has the enforcing of the law driven them out or have they simply played out and fallen into "innocuous disuetude?" We have not, as we have just remarked, any evidence that they have been driven out by. the enforcement of the anti-trust laws, so that they must either have died natural deaths, or be still alive. 1 Here and there one may have gone to wreck because it was trying to carry too much water, or was absorbed by some stronger Trust, but there is one thing pretty well established, unless all the re cords lie, and that is that we have more Trusts and bigger Trusts in the country now than - we ever had and bigger than any country ever before saw, and they are being added to every day, the last three men tioned within the past few days be ing a bank trust in New York city to absorb five other banks; a sea food Trust to control the fish and oyfter trade, and a telegraph and telephone Trust to control all the telegraphs and telephones in the United States. And yet Mark Hanna had the amazing audacity to declare before an American audience, who were presumably jeaders of newspapers, and moderately well informed on current events, that he did, not be lieve that there ..was a Trust in the United States. Such colossal cheek would be marvellous in any man but Mark Hanna. BRYAN'S ACTION VINDICATED. Moorfield Storey, an eminent Bos ton lawyer and writer, who was of fered but declined tho nomination for the Presidency by convention of Independents which met at Indian apolis a few weeks ago, has declared for Bryan, and issued a statement giving his reasons, from which we clip the folio wing: "I am not disturbed by Mr. Bryan's course as to the ratification of the treaty with Spain. His position was explained at the time and is entirely defensible. The treaty gave us abso lute power over the Philippines, and the Republican Senators who urged ratification were arguing that it ended tne war without in anyway committing us to any course in the islands. Mr. Bryan urged ratification, coupled with a declaration of our purpose to give the islands tneir independence. His policy was that often adopted by the anti-slavery men, who would buy a slave and then free him Instead pf try ing to persuade his master to free him. "Had Mr. Bryan's advice been taken there would have been no Philippine war and the issue which makes his election possible would not have ex isted. Hence there seems no ground for charging him with acting with in terested motives. "The Republican leaders are trying to stifle the conscience of their follow ers by appealing to their fear of pecu niary loss. We did not abandon the Revolutionary War because our conti nental currency became proverbially worthless, nor did the fear of business reverses prevent our prosecuting the Civil War. The American people will be less virtuous than their fathers if they persevere in a policy of wrong for fear that they may lose money by do ing right. It is a bad sign that such arguments are weighed, against the claims of justice. "The cry that the only issue is 'the full dinner pail' is an insult to the American intellect and conscience. "Another false argument against Mr. Bryan is that he will pack the Supreme Court. I yield to no one in jealous solicitude for that great tribu nal, but the President alone cannot injure it He can at most nominate judges when vacancies occur; but no man can take a seat on the bench un til the Senate has confirmed his nomi nation. A Republican Senate which rejected such excellent nominees as Mr, Hornblower and Mr. Peckham when made by Mr. Cleveland is not likely to confirm unfit men nominated hv Mr Brvan. "There is far more danger that President McKinley, with a Senate of his own party, will pack the Supreme Court with men who will sustain the novel views of constitutional law upon which his imperial policy is defended than that Mr. Bryan will injure the court. Certainly such an appoinment as Mr. McKinley has mgae to me v ea Aral hnnch in New York aeainst the protest of the bar, to say nothing of other appointments, does not encour age us to expect any improvement of the bench at ms nana s. This is not only a withering re buke to the Republican leaders for the campaign t methods they have adopted, and the immoral pleadings they resort to to secure popular en dorsement of their wicked policy of grab and "criminal aggression, but it is a forcible vindication of Wm. J. Bryan for the part heok in advising the ratification of raie Paris treaty, for which he is now denounced, misrepresented and abnsedbythe very men who then commended that advice as wise and patriotic, Mark Hanna, Mr. Mc Kinley's Mentor, among the num ber. They implored the opponents of ratification to yield and premit the treaty to go through, and thus put an end to the war which was only temrjorarilv stopped by the protocol, and prevent complications that might involve us with other nations which were not friendly to us, and at the same time they virtually pledged themselves to pursue prac tically the same course m the Philip pines that they were pursuing in Cuba. For these reasons and influenced by these pledges, Wm. J Bryan advised the ratification of the treaty, . and seventeen Democrats in the Sen ate ceased their opposition and let it ; IVA fVwwnwVt , AnJ mam 11.. iuiuuj;ui ouu uuw me very men who applauded their action then are denouncing Bryan and are at tributing his action to sinister mo tives, inspired by politics only. This is the pretence that whipped-in old man Hoar makes for criticising ' Bryan and ' supporting McKinley, whose "criminal aggression" policy he denounced with the mostiyigor- ous language he could command. Bryan wanted to avert a conflict in tho Philippines, and let our soldiers come home, and if the supporters of McKinley had kept their faith and their pledges to those who on the strength of those pledges voted for tho ratification of , the treaty there would have been no war and that shameful, horrible story of vandal ism, butchery and loot would never have blackened the pages of our his tory. - COTTON SEED. Until the establishment of the cotton seed oil mills in the South, the seed was regarded as a worth less article, and was looked upon as a uuisance. About the only use that was made of it was to turn it under the soil as a fertilizer. Since the establishment of the oil mills, it has become a source of considerable income to the planters while the oil extracted from it is worth annually $50,000,000 or more. But investi gation shows that it is not yet fully appreciated, and that it has in it properties that make it a food crop that will add immensely to its value. As bearing upon this we clip from the Philadelphia Record the follow ing, which will be interesting to the people of the South generally but especially so to cotton growers: "Within a few years . cotton seed has jumped from a place among the waste products or tne farm to a posi tion among the staples. It is now worth as much or more than oats at the point of production. Mr. Edwin L. Johnson, in a very interesting ar ticle in The Forum for September. shows that cotton seed is no mean rival for the wheat crop of the coun try. The analytical value of the food components in 100 pounds each of wheat and cotton seed, as deduced. from tests made in accordance with the methods in use by the agricultural experiment stations, are given as fol lows: Protein. Carbohydrates. Fat. Value. Wheat 11.87 .73.60 2.09 Ji.oo Cotton S69d.17.57 10.82 30.19 1.39 "But the food value of cotton seed as compared with wheat is not the only surprising fact set forth by Mr. John son. He declares that there are raised in the Southern States five-tenths as many bushels of cotton seed as there are raised bushels of wheat in the whole United States. He also shows that, notwithstanding the defective methods of some of the cotton raisers in the south, the yield of cotton seed taking no account or the nbre is greater, per acre, than the average yield of wheat. This statement is veri- ned by the following table compiled from the reports of the United States Department of Agriculture: Acres. Bushels. Yield per acre. Wheat 39,465,000 538,000,000 13.48 bushels. Cotton seed. 24,818,500 363,281,000 14.9 bushels. "He asserts that the cotton seed has half the intrinsic value of the cotton fibre, and insists that cotton seed oil, comprising nearly one-fourth part of the seed, is "sweeter in flavor and more neutral in odor than almost any known oil or fat," and is suitable as a perfectly pure and wholesome constituent of hu man food. Large quantities of cotton seed oil are used as a cheap adulterant of olive oil; but there is a certain res inous quality in raw cotton seed oil that is disagreeable whenv used for cooking." 'l"Mr. Johnson denounces as an in justice the tax on artificial butter of whicn cotton seen on is a constituent part, but omits in his argument to deal with the fraudulent practice of color ing the artificial butter to imitate the dairyjproduct. This is the single flaw in his argument. , " ' 'There is no doubt that the intrinsic worth of cotton seed will in time com pel for it a due position in the mar kets in accordance with its merits. The facts set forth by Mr. Johnson put cot ton alongside of corn among the most valuable of farm products. To many of the readers of The Becord the mag nitude of the bulk and value of the cotton seed product will no doubt be as novel as interesting." Speaking of the fattening prop erties of the seed there are thou sands of beef cattle annually fatten ed in the South on cotton seed hulls, which were for some years treated as waste or used as fuel in the mills. A little corn meal . is sometimes mixed with these hulls, (which we believe are ground,) but nothing else. These beeves are in demand in the Northern and West ern markets, where they rank among the best. If the ground hulls are good food for beef cattle, why should not the seed properly prepared be good food for the human family? Possibly there might be a prejudice against it for a time as there is against manv new articles of food, and as there was and still is, to some ex tent, in Europe against Indian corn, which some people regard as fit food only for horses. Twenty-five or thirty years ago Edward Atkinson, of Boston, speak ing of the lack of appreciation of the value of the cotton plants and incidentally of the thrift of the New England people, remarked that if the Yankee farmers had the plant they would make money out of it without the lint at all, and it is not improbable that the day may come when cotton may be profitably culti vated for the seed alone. Hanna would like to have some body tell him what a trust is. Mark is rapidly winning a reputation as a great joker. WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 28, CROKER BACKS BRYAN Tammany's Leader Accepts With Alacrity Every Offer at Pre vailing Odds. SIGNIFICANT ELECTION BETS. Judge Dewey, of Idaho, Pots Up $10,000 In Pittsburg to Back His Faith in Bryan's Success Republicans See Handwriting on Wall. New TorkJournalf 18th. BETS BY CROKER ON BRYAN: $20,000 to $50,000. $20,000 to $50,000. First bet with Louis W. Wormser through Bell & Co. Second bet with an unknown Mc Kinley backer through Bell & Co. Besides these Cvoker is reported, and does not deny, that he has made a third bet of $2Q,000 to $50,000 and other bets aggregating nearly $100,000 in all, through Bell & Co., with several McKinley backers. He stands ready to covar Louis W. Wormser 's latest offer to back McKinley for $10,000 more at the prevailing odds of 2 to 1. Richard Croker's offer to bet Louis W. Wormser $10,000 against $25,000 tbat Bryan will defeat McKinley was not covered yesterday. Wormstr in sisted that, having, agreed that the winner should donate the proceeds to some charitable institution, no more than even money should be exacted. Mr. Croker, on the other hand, con tended: "The prevailing odds on McKinley have been two and a half to one for some time. If Wormser or any other man is so confident of McKinley's election, all he has to do is to put up nis money witn cell & Company or any other reputable brokers, and it will be covered. This talk about even money within six weeks of the close of the campaign shows how scared the Republicans are. "Just think of it! Republicans were offering first tenithen nine, then eight, then seven, then six, five, four and three to one, on McKinley. Sud -denly they drop from two and a half to one to even money. I guess they see the handwriting on the wall." "That Mr. Croker has from the moment Mr. Bryan was nominated at Kansas City had great faith in his elec tion, has been manifested by the alac rity with which he has accepted nearly every offer of a wager at the prevailing odds. On August 30 Louis W. Worm ser announced that he had $50,000 which he would bat against $2U,0U0 that McKinley would defeat Bryan. The instant that Mr. Croker learned of this he authorized Bell & Co. to cover the money. Within a few days thereafter Bell & Co. produced a customer who desired to repeat the wager, and he was accomodated by Mr. Croker." - Within the past week the Tammany chief has made enough private bets to lose $100,000 should Bryan fail of election, and win $250,000 should Mc Kinley be beaten. Colonel W. H. Dewey, of Idaho, put up $10,000 against $20,000 yester day in Pittsburg to exhibit his confi dence that Bryan and not McKinley will be elected President. In an inter view Colonel Dewey said: "Since the nominations of Bryan and McKinley I have visited thirteen States Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kan sas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, -Oregon, Washington, Idaho and others. The real fight will be in Ohio, the President's own State; Illinois and Indiana. I found such an overwhelm ing sentiment for Bryan that I have wagered $10,000 on him and may wager some more if the opportunity offers." EARLY MORNING FIRE. Dye Room of Wilmington Cotton Mills Damaged by Slight Blaze -Origin of the Fire Unknown. Fire in the second story of the dye house of the Wilmington Cotton Mills did considerable damage this morning about 2:30 o'clock, but the approxi mate amount of the damage could not be ascertained. The dye house is situ ated some distance from the mill building and is constructed partly of wood and partly of brick. Watchman Thomas C. Ramsay discovered the blaze., and gave the alarm by blowing the whistle of the engine. Later, an alarm was sent in from box 42, to which the fire department re sponded and soon had the flames un der control. The origin of the fire is unknown, as that part of the mill had not been in operation during the night. The operatives in the mill proper had gone home at II o'clock. The damage, it is said, is principally to the building, as there was very little machinery in the burned portion. Advance in Peanuts. Further reports from the peanut growing section of Eastern North Car olina confirm the idea of the shortness of the present crop, which is variously estimated at from 50 to 75 per cent, Along with the news of the curtail ment of the production comes the news from dealers that within the past ten days there has been a phenomenal ad vance in price. One dealer probably the largest in the city said last night that during the past ten days there had been an advance in all grades from ten to twelve cents, as will appear from the Star's local market reports on the inside pages. The" advance is due solely, he says, to the expectancy of a short crop. JARVIS A CANDIDATE. Has Announced His Intention of Making . the Race for the Senate. OreenviUe Reflector, 80th. The Daily Reflector to-norrow will contain a letter from Governor Jarvis announcing his candidacy for the United States Senate. . The letter is now in the hands of the printer and will appear in to-morrow's issue oi this paper. It will be worthy of a careful reading. THE SENATORIAL PRIMARY. Facts About the Plan as Formulated by Democratic State Executive Com ' mittee The Poll Holders. So many inquiries have been made recently as to the plan of holding the Senatorial primary simultaneously with the presidential election, No vember 6tb, that the Stab condenses from its account of the action of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, at its meeting September 5thK the following facts: The primary shall be held at or near the place for holding the na tional election. Democratic, county committees are required to meet on; the first day of October at county seats and appoint two Democrats, who shall be men of different views on the Senatorial question, where possible, for each voting precinct in the county, whose duty it shall be to hold the primary as. provided for from sunrise to sunset. They shall be men of good moral character, able to read and write, and qualified to vote in the primary. They shall have power to decide all questions and ex ercise a general control over the pri mary. Returns shall be certified and made to the County Executive Com mittee on or before the day appointed for the canvassing of the national vote. In the event one or both of those appointed to hold the primary shall fail to appear it is then incum bent upon the registrar and Demo cratic poll holder to fill the vacancy by appointing persons qualified as above. It will be observed that Monday week is the day for the appointment of the primary poll holders. INSPECTOR GENERAL HERE. Col. F. P. Hobgood Arrived Yesterday to Inspect Wilmington's Military Com paniesThe State Guard. CoL F. P. Hobgood, Jr., Inspector General of the North' Carolina State Guard, arrived yesterday and will re main in the city until Tuesday. On Monday evening he will inspect the Wilmington Light Infantry, Company C, N. C. S. G., and.Wilmington , Di vision of the North Carolina Naval Brigade. From Wilmington Col. Hobgood goes to inspect the Maxtpn and Lumber Bridge companies. He has already visited about three- fifths of the companies in the State and speaks most encouragingly of the pros pects of the State Guard. With but a single exception Col. Hobgood found all the companies he visited decidedly improved from every view point over last year and everywhere interest is being manifested in things military. By concerted action of the Adjutant Generals of all ' the States in the union, they succeeded last year in securing from Congress an appro priation of $1,000,000 for State Guard instead of $250,000, as before. Of the increased amount North Carolina's share is about $25,000, making with the appropriation from the State a total of $40,000, as compared with $9,000 received from the government hitherto with the usual State appro priation. This all goes for equipment, ordnance and encampment. This year there was no encampment, but Col. Hobgood thinks in the future, en campments will be held each year. Eventually he says the North Caro lina military will be equipped m first class style, and North Carolinians will indeed be proud of their State uard. ONE NEGRO STABS ANOTHER. Officers Gave Chase to Offender and Were Outclassed in Lively Sprint. Two negroes, one of them hailing from Southport, became involved in a fight last night about eleven o'clock in an alley next south of Canady's Milli nery store, as a result of which one of the combatants received a gash several inches long just above his heart. The neerro who did the cutting, made a dash to get out of the alley just as De puty Sheriffs Millis and Daniels were passing on the streets. They heard the cries of the wounded negro and -.combing the circumstance with the hasty departure of the other negro they gave chase and were led a lively run up Orange street with no avail, the offending negro being very fleet of foot. The officers fired in the air to halt the fleeing negro, but this merely increased his pace. The fight and sub sequent shooting by the officers caused quite a bit of excitement in the crowd ed market. - James Walker Memorial Hospital. The walls of the fourth story of the James Walker Memorial Hospital are now "about up and the new building shows that through the bene ficence of Mr. Walker, Wilmington will have one of the prettiest as well as one of the most conveniently appointed hospital buildings in the South. The Moore county brown stone which is to be used in trimming the building is being ' dressed at the marble yards of Messrs. H. A. Tucker & Bro. The Bird Law. The Wilmington Gun Club has re ceived information that certain parties are already killing partridges in this county in defiance of the law which prohibits bird hunting before October 15th. The Stab is authorized to say that the Gun Club will vigorously prosecute evey infra stion of the law to the fullest extent The penalty for killing birds before the date mention ed is $10 fine for each and every, in stance. 1900. CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Reunion of Survivors of First North Carolina Battalion and Thirtieth State Troops. Special Star Correspondence. Wallace, N. C, September 2L The reunion held here yesterday of surviving members of Company B, First North Carolina Battalion, C. S. A. (heavy artillery), and Company, E, Thirtieth North Carolina State Troops, was crowned with abundant success. Company B was present with twenty- lour men ana uompany J with four teen members. It was noted that out of nine commissioned officers in Company E none were killed in battle and eight are still living. Only one commissioned officer survives in Com pany B, the venerable Lieut Wells Taylor. The Rev. R Murphy Wil liams, by invitation, made a speech of welcome to the veterans, which was very feelingly delivered and tenderly received by the gallant old soldiers as sembled. Calls were then made for Capt. McMillan and Dr. J. D. Croom, who responded in appropriate remarks, after which the crowd repaired to the fjrove near by to fiK the good adies in charge of faA table well filled with the delicately pre pared viands as only their deft hands can provide, aad it was a pleas ant sight to see the old veterans rally around the table aud proceed to the task of relieving it of its burden. But alas 1 this was not the first failure they ever made. After their appetites were all satisfied there,still remained many baskets full. After dinner a joint meetine was; held and it was agreed to have an an-J nual re union jointly between thesejl iwo companies ana to respectfully in vite all Confederate soldiers to meet with them. The third Thursday in September, 1901, at Teacheys, N. C, was appointed as the time and .place for the next meeting. &. very enthusiastic vote of thanks was tendered to the people of Wallace and surrounding country for hospi talities shown, which made the day one of unbroken pleasure and will ever be sweetly cherished in the de clining years of the old soldiers, who iought so valiantly in a cause they be lieved was just and glorious enough to die for. INTO NEW QUARTERS. Mr. W. B. Cooper Has Moved His Whole sale Grocery Establishment to Nutt Street Splendid Location. Mr. W. B. Cooper yesterday moved his wholesale grocery establishment from No. 226 North Water street into the very commodious building on Nutt street situated next south of the Boney & Harper Milling Company's establishment. The new store is admirably adapted to the wholesale grocery business and gives Mr. Cooper much more stock and office room, in- response to the growing demand for such conven iences incident to a steadily increasing trade. The old building was formerly known as the "Danenhart property," and it has given away to what is prac tically a hew building. ' The plans for the overhauling and remodelling of the old structure were drawn by Mr. H. E. Bonitz, and he gave the work his personal supervision, work ing wonders and giving Mr. Cooper one of the most eligibly located whole sale grocery stores in the city. LOYAL TO NORTH CAROLINA. Graceful Act of a Wilmington Gentleman in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Commercial Tribune, of Cincin nati, of Sunday, contains the follow ing: "Walter Pegram, the sixteen-year-old Charlotte (N. C.) boy, who at tempted suicide in the Grand Central Station Friday night, because he was out of money and could not find work. was reported very much improved last night at the city hospital. Pegram has found a friend. Yesterday morning a Mr. McKoy, of Willmington, N. C, who is visiting in this city, read the account of the boy taking laudanum in the Commercial Tribune, and called at the hospital and informed the au thorities that while unacquainted with the vounsr man. the fact that he wa3 from North Carolina was sufficient to secure him assistance until he could find work. Mr. McKoy will at the hospital this morinng and take charge of the young man." The Mr. McKoy referred to above is Mr. Edwin Anderson McKoy, son of Wilmington's esteemed townsman, Maj.lT. H. McKoy. Mr. .Ed. McKoy has been residing in Cincinnati nearly a year. MANULED IN COTTON GIN. Prominent Citizen of Spring Hope Victim of Painful Accident. Special Star Correspondence. Spring Hope, N. C, September 20. Yesterday morning about 8 o'clock Mr. W. W. Richardson, of the firm of Frienk Richardson 8c Co., was very painfully cut in his cotton gin. Mr Richardson was picking cotton from the sa ws when his right hand was caught and carried in and in:trying to pull away his left arm shoulder, side and- breast were terribly lacerated. ms upper lip and nose were also cut, Mr. Richardson rested very well last night and is doing well to-day though ms wounds are very painful. Wilmington is Now Third Port. 'Wilmington this week ' is third cot ton port in America with respect to receipts. She is eclipsed only by.New Orleans and Savannah in the race for first place. Her old time rival- Charleston has received since Sep tember 1st only 19,731 bales while the receipts here have been 43,623 bales. Magnolia correspondence of Sampson Democrat : "The-H. E. New bury Company purchased to day, from one farmer. Mr. Andrew Pickett eigh teen hundred and forty-two pounds of hams. Mr. .Pickett is one of Duplin's largest and most successful farmers, and expects to make one thousand bar rels of corn and kill ten or fifteen thousand pounds of pork next winter." NO. 48 1 HIGHWAY ROBBERY. James Marine, an 18-Year-01d White Youth, Locked Up on Serious Charge. LURED OFF DRUNKEN MAN. Preliminary Hearing Yesterday Afternoon Before Justice Harriss-Snatched an Amount of Money from White Draymen-More Warrants. Jim Marine, aged about eighteen years and a son of Archie Marine, the well known diver of the city,,wa3 bound over to the Criminal Court by Justice W. W. Harriss yesterday af ternoon on a charge of highway rob bery. Bond was fixed at $100, justi fied, and failing to give the same, young Marine was sent to jail. The hearing took place in the City Court room at 5 o'clock and both sides were represented by counsel, Iredell Meares, Esq., appearing for the prose cution and William J. Bellamy, Esq., for Marine. Young Marine is said to be a boy of rather unsaory character and the charge upon which he is held is the robbery on Thursday night of between $60 and $75 in money from a white drayman named Josiah Vincent, whose purse was snatched by the boy while Vincent had it in his hand about to change a small coin for Marine, who, it is claimed, took this opportunity to ascertain the amount of money Vin cent had upon his person. Vincent, it was shown from the testi mony was, somewhat intoxicated in the rear of the saloon on corner of Sixth and Castle streets and vounsr Marine "tolled" him off with the pre sumable intention of robbery. Marine evaded arrest until Friday' night when Policeman J. S. Bryan arrested him at corner of Seventh and Wooster street. His case was called in the municipal court and was transferred to the Justice's Court. Another warrant is also out for Marine on the charge of the larceny of a package of laundry, which had been left by a gentleman in a store. PROMINENT WILSON LAWYER DEAD. J. W. Lancaster, Esq., Died in His 80th Year Heavy Tobacco Sales. V A correspondent of the Star, writ ing from Wilson, N. C, under date of September 21st, says: Mr. J. W. Lancaster, one of our old est and most highly esteemed. citizens, died here early this morning. Mr. Lan caster was in his 80th year. He grad uated from the State University about sixty years ago, and for more than fifty years has been in the practice of law. He was indeed a most hichlv cultured, kind-hearted, Christian gen tleman, and departs the shores of time, after a goodly life, with the assurance of that better life beyond. Great quantities of tobacco are be ing sold daily on the floors of the five large warehouses here, and the ruling prices being paid are highly satisfac tory to our farmer friends. BOLD MASKED ROBBER. Held Up Passenger Train and Secured a Large Amount of Money. By Telegraph to the Mernlne star. Spokane, Wash., September 22. Single-handed a masked robber held up the westbound passenger train on the .Northern facihcatl o'clock this morning and succeeded in getting away with about $500 in cash, several watches and a quantity of iewelrv. The robbery occurred after the train left Athol, Idaho, and the; lone robber left the train atRathdrum. The hold-up was evidently carefully planned and was executed with a cool deliberation which showed the robber thoroughly understood his business. Until he left the train few of the passengers realized that only one man was in the plot. Conductor Dunning was the only per son on the train who offered serious resistance, and a few shots from the robber's gun effectually silenced the trainman. SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE. Annual Session' Closed Appointments by the Grand1 Sire. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Richmond, Va., Sept 22. The Sov ereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows closed its annual session this after noon. The only matter of public in terest developed was tbat of appoint ments by the Grand Sire, as follows: On revision of the digest Hon. Chas. M. Busbee. of North Carolina, and on review of such revision. Past Grand Sire Pinkerton, of Massachusetts; w right, or Pennsylvania, and Waldo. of Colorado. Grand Chaplain The Kev. John w. v enable, of Kentucky. Grand Marshal Hon. J. B. Cockran. of Indiana. Grand Herald Charles H. Lyman, of Ohio. Grand Messenger John Welch, of Ontario." All were confirmed by the lodge. The total cost of the session in this city has been $30,127.58, leaving a small balance in bank to the credit of the Sovereign Grand Lodge. TO EXTERMINATE BOXERS. Proclamation Issued in Chi Li Province by U Hung Chang. By CaDle to the Morning star Taku, Sept. 10. Li Hung Chang has caused a proclamation to be posted in the principal cities of Chi Li prov ince, calling upon the people and sol diers to exterminate the Boxers. All the taotais, magistrates and prefects, deserting their posts, will be replaced by others. The military officials art directed to count the troops and to re port to Li Hung Chang, who, proclamation says, will arrange matters with foreign nations. I the all The lawyers who are defending Estes G. Rathbone, the former director general of posts in Cuba, have asked the authorities in Havana for the in' dictment and extradition of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow. He is charged with being technically more culpable than Rath- bone. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. . vvuson j.imes: t use as we go to press (Friday) we learn the sad news , of the death of the venerable ex-Judge : J. W. Lancaster, who has been sick : some weeks. The deceased was 84 years old, and the oldest member of the Wilson bar. I ; Fayetteville Observer: The sad news was received here this (Friday) morning by telegraph of the death at midnight of Mr. B. R. Taylor, ' who had been for some time under treat ment at a private sanitarium in the vicinity of Baltimore. Fair Bluff Times: Fair Bluff has two flowing wells now, which add much to the health and comfort of our thriving town. Dug Johnson, colored, was brought over from Chad bourn yesterday and committed to jail without bail. He and another negro became involved in a difficulty, John son striking the other fellow in the head with a brick-bat, fatally wound ing him. Sanford Express: Two hun dred and fifty sheep Were recently shipped from Sanford to a sheep ranch - on the Southern Railway in Virginia. They were picked up from the farms of Moore. Chatham and Harnett coun ties, and as they were in poor condi tion the ranchmen purchased them for a mere son sr. After crazine in the Shenadoah Valley for a few months these sheep will sell for $5 and j$$ . apiece. Every Summer the farms of this section are stripped of their sheep in this way. Shipments of cattle are also occasionally made from this sec tion to cattle-dealers in the Old Do minion. : Concord Times: Mr. Benia- ' min Burleyson, a well known citizen of No. 10 township, met with an acci dent last Tuesday wuich resulted in his death a few hours later. Mr. Bur- eyson had recently erected a new gin at Flows, and at the time the accident occured was engaged in cleaning out cotton undsr the saws. His left arm was caught by them and almost torn f rom his body. This dre w his body to she saws, and his head was also badly cut by them in four places. -Mr. Bur leyson's skull was fractured oy the contact with the saw, and Dr. Black said that either this or the loss of blood would have resulted in his death. - Greenville Reflector: J. L. Per kins & Co., of Stokes. lost their entire mill plant by fire Wednesday night about 2 o'clock. The mill first caught about 12 o'clock, when they discovered it and put the fire out, as they thought at the time, and left it to retire again. But it seems that it was only stopped . temporarily, as the fire rekindled again at 2 o'clock and had gained such head way that it was impossible to save the mill when the fire was discovered. The loss is four bales of cotton, two hun dred and fifty bushels of cotton seed, one planing mill, one grist mill, gin and saw mill, estimated at $2,000. No insurance. ' - Tarboro Southerner: Luke Moore, a white man living on Sheriff Knight's place near tsparta, bad a -warm place that nothing but a few pounds of congealed water would assuage, about 4:30 yesterday after noon, w aising into Arnheim iJros. bar he made the unusual request to Mr. Leggett who promptly proceeded to serve him by-placing a block of ice on the bar and chipping, from it small pieces. Mr. Leggett soon found that he was working to slowly for the champion and called for assistance, claiming that he could hear the ice boiling as it went down. Inside of thirty minutes Mr. Moore had disposed of five pounds and decided to leave that for a record for whomsoever could beat it, and will be willing to meet him or her for any sum, at any time or place. Monroe Journal: Mr. Joshua D. Whitley, of south Monroe town ship, died last Saturday. He was about forty years of age and a highly respected and useful citizen in his community. We published last week a report that Mr. Blakeney Burch, of Anson county, had died from cuts received at the hands of a negro. This report we are glad to say, was not true.:, Mr. Burch is get ting along very well. It was also re ported here Saturday that the, negro who cut Mr. Burch had been arrested at Darlington; S. C; but it has since developed that he was not the man and he has been released. - Those who kept ilate hours Fri day night tell of an unusual (occur rence in the passing of numerous flights of birds. The birds were about the size of a pigeon, with a white breast and dark sides and back.ll There were thousands of them, passing in continuous droves from 11 to 1 o'clock and going northeast ' They were fly ing low over the house tops,! some times darting down around the elec tric lights and among the wires. CAPTURE OF PEI TANG FORTS Chinese Garrison Escaped Four China men Kllled-Allles Had Three Killed and Fifty Wounded. . By Cable to the Morning Star. 1 TAKU.September 20. Four thousand Russian, 3,000' German and j 1,000 French troops, with a detachment of Austrian, marines, began the attack upon the Pei Tang forts at daylight. The attack was answered briskly! from the forts, the bombardment continu ing until noon, but it was noticed that the forts did not reply after 10 o'clock. The allies sent forward at noon to discover the reason of the cessation of the fire from the forts and found them deserted, there being only four: dead Chinamen within the walls. The allies were much chagrined, as they believed they had the place completely sur rounded, making escape impossible; yet overfS.OOO men got away in broad daylight The Russian artillery fire had proved effective and the forts were badly damaged. ' The British and Italian commanders had decided to join in the attack but their troops had not arrived in time. The entire line between Tien Tsin and Taku shows reinforcements were heading for the forts. Three' members of the allied- forces were killed and fifty were wounded through the explosion of mines laid along their line of march. Berlin, Sept 21. A dispatch re ceived here from Tien asm gives the loss of the allies at the capture of the Pei Tang forts at 120 men, including seven Germans. The Chinese, the dispatch adds, escaped in boats. -. SITUATION IN GALVESTON. Sixtyfonr Bodies Recovered Yesterday By Telegraph to the Morning star. Galveston, Texas, September 22.-Sixty-four bodies were recovered to day, fourteen being takehr from one building .at 22nd and Beach streets. With the exception of the abolishment of the temporary hospital, which was established in the United States cus tom house directly after the storm, there were no developments in the health situation to-day. The sick and injured who appliedlfor treatment re ceived attention, . There have been but few deaths since the storm; so far but fourteen have been reported, all of which were directly or indirectly caused by hurts received during the storm.