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VOL. XXXI.
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1900.
NO. 51
A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A
BITFEBENCE; " "
Mr. McKinley ; has already had
two defenders in the matter of the
"Sulu treaty, which recognized both
of the "twin relics of barbarism,"
polygamy and slavery, but ha had
one too many, for one of these prac
tically contradicts the other, and
disci edits tho whole business. - Mr.
Bryan in his speeches in reply to
questions about the disfranchising
of negroes in the South has called
tho attention of his interrogators to
the inconsistency of Republicans
carpiDg at restricted suffrage in the
South when the Republican- Presi
dent of the United States, the chief
representative of the party, whom
Republicans are trying so hard to re
elect, recognized both polygamy and,
- slavery in the Sulu islands, and aiRe-
publican Congress with the approval
t 1.1 ti ' 3 i. j imi 1
ui tun i. icoiucut poeaou uixia jim
ing for qualified suffrage in Porto
R;co and Hawaii, which practically
disqualify nearly all the black men
in one and nearly all' the natives in
tho other. '
Assistant Secretary of War Mei
klejohn, rushed to the defence of
jtho President in a letter in which he
called Mr. Bryan's attention tojjome
instructions which he dug up out of
the documents in . the War Depart
ment, sent by the President to Gen.
Otis two months after the treaty had
boeu made. Mr. Bryan wrote a re
ply which showed Mr. Meiklejohn
what a ridiculous figure he cut as a
defender.
'About the time Mr. Meiklejohn
was performing with his pen Gen.
Grosvenor, Mr. McKfnley's friend
and reputed spokesman, was per
forming with his jaws.. . He is thus
quoted: -
" 'I want to condemn without qual
ification the assault inaugurated by
Mr. Bryan in the form of a personal
upon President McKinley ana
when they declare there are no
trusts, but simply "combinations of
capital?" . ' !
But Gen. Grosvenor doesn't see
anything in the kind of slavery they
have there to make a fuss about any
way. It isn't slavery in the "modern
acceptation," (whatever that means,)
but a paternal sort of institution
which enables a fellow who 'doesn't
care to hustle for himself to sell him
self to some one who is willing to
pay, for the privilege of taking
him or her under Jus thatch
and ' installing him or her
as a member of his household. It is
a species of paternal,- arcadian sla
very that Gen. Grosvenor seems to
think rather lovely.. Perhaps Mr.
McKinley didn't know it was so
nice when he issued those 'instruc
tions to Gen. j jOtis, otherwise he
might have instructed Gen. Otis to
amend the phraseology of the treaty,
or of Grosvenor'8 "agreement," and
substitute some other word for
"slavery," and then let the thing run
on perpetually as it has been run
ning since the treaty or "agree
ment" was made.
Gen. Grosvenor tells us that the
"agreement" was only "temporary",
and that if it had been approved by
the President and by Congress
slavery would have been "recognized
and possibly fortified in that terri
tory," but it seems the President did
confirm it, which made it "morally
as binding as a treaty," and he con
firmed it with that provision about
slavery in it. That is substantially
what Mr. Bryan charged. Gen.
Grosvenor says he confirmed it, but
the thing being , only temporary it
couldn't do much harm, while As
sistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn
says he didn't recognize that provis
ion in it all, so here is another conflict
between- the defenders. Both can't
be right, so neither acquits the
President of the charge made by
Mr. Bryan that he recognized slavery
in the Sulu islands.
attack
whicu has been reiterated from one
end of this .country to the other by
the smaller lights of the Democratic
parly Orer and over again it has
bm charged that the President had
madq a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu
and others, by which slavery hereto
fore existing in that country had been
ratified and affirmed by the President.
" 'Tne statement was a wicked and
malicious falsehood when it was made
and has been repeated by others, either
in? ignorance of the facts orm disre
gard for the truth. In the first place,
no treaty was made with the Sultan as
described and asserted, but it is true
that General Bates, actios on behalf of
the armed forces of the United States,
entered into temporary agreement with
the. Sultan and others by which, if it
had been approved by the President
and by Congress, slavery would have
' been recognized and possibly fortified
in that territory. -But it must be borne
in mind that the arrangement was only
a temporary one, intended to prevent
an outbreak of war at the time when
Aguinaldo had a large force and which
while it was in no sense a treaty, was
a moral obligation for the time being,
for the President had agreed to it and
conurmed it.'
"General Grosvenor declared that
there was no such thing in the modern
acceptation of the term as slavery in
Sulu, and that the Moro slave, so
called, becomes a member of the own
er'a family.enjoying-certain privileges,
' and that he even voluntarily sells him
self to better his condition and to se
cure some slight temporary individual
benefit" '
Gen. Grosvenor' is a pretty warm
headed old gentleman and in his
instance he permitted his zeal in the
defence of his friend to get the. bet
ter of his discretion and tho fact.
Mr. Meiklejohn,: who had also
rushed to the defence of his chief,
admitted there was a treaty, that
that treaty recognized slavery, but
defended the President from the
charge of recognizing that particu
lar provision of. the treaty by quot-
I ing the instructions to Gen. Otis, to
tho effect that slavery could not be
, recognized because such recognition
would be in violation of the thir
teenth amendment to the constitu
tion. Here is an admission that
there was a treaty, that that treaty
recognized slavery, ! and now comes
Gen. Grosvenor red hot, fairly
sizzling, and denies that there was
any treaty, and that there is , any
Slavery, in then "modern accepta
tion," in the Sulus. Gen. jBroBve
nor says there was no treaty, only
an, ; agreement with the : Sultan
in behalf of the armed forces of. the
United States, but an agreement
which Gen. Grosvenor admits is
morally as "binding as a treaty."
Isn't he, then, when he declares that
"" there was no treatj, but simply an
agreement, drawing a distinction
without a difference,, just as Mark
Hanna and other trust apologists do
REPUBLICAN TRUST HYPOCRISY
EXPOSED.
One, of the strongest and most
convincing exposures of the hypo
crisy of the Republican party man
agers in their dealing with the Trust
question was that made by ex-Attorney-General
Monnett, of Ohio, in
his speech in Columbus, Friday
night. Mr. Monnett was a Repub
lican; as the law officer of the State
of Ohio he believed it to he his duty
to enforce the anti-trust laws of
that State and he instituted-proceedings
against the Standard Oil
Company. In every movement he
made he encountered obstructions;
the Standard Oil influence was felt
every where, in the courts and out,
and he found himself not only fight
ing the Standard Oil Company, but
his party leaders who stood in with it.
The result was that bis efforts
failed, and when the State conven
tion met to nominate, candidates
for State offices the Standard Oil
influence defeated him for re-nomi
nation. As a faithful omcer he
was sacrificed, as every Republican
who honestly opposes Trusts and
advocates the enforcement of the
laws against them' will be where
they are strong enough to icrush.
Mr. Monnett knows what he is
talking, about, fbr he talks from ex
perience and he knows the story of
Republican hypocrisy in dealing
with Trusts, for he has been in
a position to fully test it. With
seventy-six district attorneys in the
Union- there have heen thirteen
suits instituted under the Sherman
law, and only three of these under
this administration, which has been
indulging in so much stage-talk
against Trusts. Such an arraign
ment, and from such a source,
ought to be an object lesson to the
people who read it to show that
they have no relief to expect from
Trust monopoly and oppression
from the men who represent the
Republican ' party, all of whom are
owned by the Trusts.
HOPELESSLY DISCORDANT
' $?he Washington Post is a non par
tisan paper, whioh does not agree
with the Democratic party in its op
position to the administration in its
policy of expansion, but it sees the
folly and the fraud of making the
acquisition of Lousiana, Florida and
other territory on this hemisphere a
precedent to justify forcible ex
pansion in the Philippines, andjthus
pricks that bubble:
"An amusing : feature of this cam
paign is the Republican effort to de
fend its foreign policy by appealing to
Thomas Jefferson, who negotiated the
Louisana 'purchase. It is amusing
because it has not the slightest refer
ence to the existing condition of af
fairs, but it would be offensive were
it conceivable -' that well-informed and
thoughtful men would take it seri
ously. Our acquisition of the Florida
and ; Louisiana and Texas territories
has absolutely nothing in common
with the presentadministration's policy,
lits not our purpose to discuss the acqui
sition of the Philippines, for that act,
whether wise or unwise, is a thing
accomplished, and not, therefore, to be
debated. We merely pause to say, in
passing, that even if this government,
in time past; had seen fit to Absorb
both Canada and Mexico, the fact
would have furnished no sort of prece
dent or authority for what this govern
ment is doing now. In the 'first in
stance, we should have been adding to
our owri territory; expanding upon
our own hemisphere; strengthening
and protecting ourselves. The control
of the Mississippi river was a necessary,
feature of our scheme of empire. The
control of the St Lawrence was equally
important, and we shall live to regret
our failure to include that in our plans
and achievements of the early years of
the nineteenth century.
"But the two propositions are hope
lessly discordant It is one thing for
a nation to fortify itself, to create a
powerful frontier; to absorb all terri
tory indispensable to its integrity and
perpetuation. - All that is sanctioned
by a law or nature tne law oi sju-.
defense; but conquest in remote parts
of the world is a very different matter,
and has not the justification above de
fined. We do not assert that commer
cial expansion is a thing to be avoided
or discouraged. On the contrary, we
realize that this, the greatest producing
nation of the world, is warranted in
opening all possible avenues of trade
and establishing all possible markets
for its promotion. What we insist
upon is that commercial expansion
does not necessarily mean the con
quest of friendless and unprotected
peoples and the forcible destruction of
their political autonomy. And what
we especially deny is that the Repub
lican policy of today has the smallest,
the most Bhadowy, warrant for quot
ing Jefferson in its defense.
This is a correct statement of the
difference between the expansion of
the Fathers and McKinley expan
sion, the first of which was states
manship based on patriotism and
was honest, the second of which is
based on greed and supported by
fraudulent pretence, with nothing
in it to commend but everything to
condemn. As we are in the Philip
pines by fraud we have no right to be
there and the honeBt and the truly
American thing to do is to get out
as soon as we can.
JARVIS WITHDRAWS.
Announces to People of the State
His Retirement from Sena
torial Race.
MIDDLE-OP-ROAD POPULISTS.
NEWS FROM TRINITY.
A LETTER TO THE PRESS.
In Which He Says That a Large Number
of His Supporters Had Already Com
mitted Themselves Before His ;
. Announcement.
Special Star Telegram. I
Raleigh, N. O., October 12. As
was predicted in the. Stab on last
Thursday morning, ex-Gov. Thomas
J. Jarvis has withdrawn from the race
for United States Senator. He to-day
gave to the presi for publication the
following letter: ...
To the Editor: When I announced
my candidacy for a seat in the United
States Senate I thought it likely that a
majority of the Democratic voters
might desire me to be their candidate
to represent the people of North Caro
lina in that great body. I have since
learned that many friends throughout
the State who might under other cir
cumstances have supported me, have
committed themselves to other gentle
men. Now, it is apparent to me that a
large number of Democratic voters are
looking elsewhere for their candidate,
and I have no disposition to question
the wisdom of their course or to con
tend against it Under existing condi
tions it would not be reasonable in me
to ask further support from friends to
whom I am already so largely indebt
ed for their past services, and I, there
fore, beg the use ot your columns to
announce to the public that I am no
longer a candidate. This leaves me
absolutely free to work for party suc
cess in November. Ia thus eliminating
my personal interest, I wish' if dis
tinctly understood, that I do not abate
one jot or tittle of my deep interest in
the success of the Democratic party.
The Democracy of -North Carolina
ought to give Bryan and Stevenson 1 a
rousing majority and elect a solid
Democratic delegation to the House of
Representatives, and it can be done if
every Democrat will do his duty. I
shall go forward to do mine, and I ap
peal to every Democrat to be at his
post of duty until the closing of the
polls. The election of a Democrat as
Senator is already assured now let us
send nine Democrats to the House to
co operate with him.
Thos J. Jabvis.
Raleigh, N. C, Oct 12th, 1900.
COUNTY TREASURER'S REPORT
Small Attendance at the State Conven
tion in Raleigh Bark-errand Don
nelly Electors Appointed.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, October 11. There were
only a baker's dozen of delegates in
attendance upon the State convention
of middle of the road Populists held
here to-day They met at the Yar
boro House Chairman J. P. Sossa-
man, of Charlotte, presided, and P. L.
Gardner, of Cherry ville, was secre
tary. .Electors were selected as fol
lows: At large George E. Boggs, of
Haywood county; Dr. V. N. Seawelj,
of Faison, Duplin counfy. District
electOH-l, A. J. Moye, Farmville,
Pitt county; 2, J. M. Mewborne, Kins
ton, Lenoir; 8, Charles D. Franks,
Richlands, Onslow; 4, J. E. Spence,
Haywood, Chatham; 5, T. J. Oldham,
Teera, Orange; 6, S. A. Edmund, Lum
berton, Robeson; 7, L. A. Lawrence,
Mooresville, Iredell ; 8, 8. C. Kerley,
Morganton; 9, Lindsay Pargason, Lo
gan's Store, Rutherford.
The Secretary had proxies from
twelve counties, and the chairman had
many more. Five Congressional dis
tricts were represented. Among those
present were: J. J. Jenkins, candidate
for Congress in 1 he Fourth; A. C
Shuford, Congressional candidate in
the Sixth; J. E. Spence, of Chatham;
S. J. Gardner, of Harnett, and Robert
Stroud, of Orange. "This ticket will
stay up until election day and Barker
and Donnelly will poll a good vote in
this State," said Chairman Sossaman.
The marriage of Miss Lilla May Vass
and Mr. Sylvester Brown Shepherd
was solemnized this evening at half
after eight o'clockin the First Baptist
Church; Rev. Dr. A. A. Marshall, pas
tor of the church, officiating.
MARRIAGE AT BURQAW WEDNESDAY.
Pirst Issae ef College Monthly Oot Pre
parations for IntercoIIegicte Debate. . :
Other Items of Interest. ,
Special Star Correspondence ',. -
Durham, N. 0., Oct. 11. The first
issue of the Archive under the new
management is out, and it is a very
interesting number. The Archive is
under the supervision of the Senior
class The staff is as follows: Editor
in chief, D. D. Peele, Gibson, N. C. ;
associate editor, G. H. Flowers, Tay
lorsville, N. C ; business manager,; J.
R. Wood, Asheboro, N. C. 1
Drs. W. P. Few and Edwin Mims
will represent Trinity College at the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the open
ing of Vanderbilt University, Octo
ber 21st, 22d and 23d. Dr. Few will
also attend the meeting of the educa
tional, committee appointed by , the
general committee.
The preliminary contest to select
speakers to represent the college in
the debate with Wake Forest, to be
held in Raleigh on Thanksgiving day,
will take place October 20th.; Each
institution will send three represents
tlves. ThjaHiuVjeet to be debated is:
"Resolved, ThaV-tire South Carolina
dispensary system is unwise." Trinity
has the affirmative.
Mr. A. Pi Zeller, who is in charge
of the department of Modern Lan
guages, is a native or uermany, a
graduate of Kansas University, and
for .five years a graduate at Harvard
University.
Prof. Durham delivered an address
at Kenly, N. C, Thursday, on the
Twentieth Century movement
DIAMOND INVESTMENT CONTRACT..
c'-c MR BELLAMY'S CANVASS. '
Spoke at Lsurlnbnrg Yesterday His Ap
- pointments Until Day of Election.
. Hon. John D. Bellamy spoke! at
Laurinburg , yesterday to a .large
crowd. ; He will return to the city to
day and with Elector Dowd will speak
at Southport Monday night.-. Mr. Bel
lamy is confining himself exclusively
to national issues and his masterful
discussions are being heard with great
interest ; ' , 1 f
; Mr. Bellamy's appointments in the
distriet until the day of election are as
follows; Southport, Oct. 15th r Bhal
lotte,, Oct. 17; Pireway, ; Columbus
county, Oct. 20th; Whiteville, Oct.
22nd; Monroe, , Oct. 24th; Marsh ville,
Oct 25th ; Lilesville,Oct 27th ; Wades
boro, Oct. 29th . Charlotte, Oct. 30th ;
Huntersville, Oct '31st; Pine ville, Nov.
1st; Hamlet, Nov. 3rd, Rockingham,
Nov. 5th. ' '
MET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
When the students at Ann Arbor,
Mich:., interrupted and tried to
worry Mr. ' Bryan while . he was
speaking, Thursday, he didn't ftar
up and show his teeth like Teddy
Roosevelt is in the habit of doing,
nor herald it over the country as
an outrageous assault, but he an
awArfld them vleasantly and after
THE DRIFT TO BRYAN IS OHIO.
Ohio is one of the battle grounds
in this campaign. It is McKinley's
and Hanna's State, and therefore
they have personal as well as polit
ical reasons for making a hard fight
to hold it. It is normally a Repub
lican State and under ordinary cir
cumstances might he safely counted
upon to go Republican, but there is
a marked change in public, senti
"ment there, as there is in other
States, which gives the Democrats
high hopes of carrying it. As bhow-
ing the drift to Bryan we quote the
following which we find in the Char
lotte News', of Friday: '
Mayor McCall this morning received
a letter from Mr. Charles W. Con
stant! ne, who, with his wife, spent
las' year here, looking after his m
tArnat in several mines in this county,
and who will be remembered as a man
nt fin sense and judgment. Mr.'
Constantino says, in regard " to the
presidential outlook in Ohio:
"If Ohio does not go for Bryan in
Novbmber next, I will be very much
disappointed. The conditions were
never so favorable and everything
points to our carrying the State. Mayor
Jones is supporting Bryan earnestly
and very effectively, and I believe that
he will carry super cent, oi nis vow ui
last fall with him. Of course the ma
jority of them were Democrats, but the
gain will be from 30,000 to 40,000. His
(Mayor Jones; vote was io,wu.
vote, with the American-German and
Irish Republican vote that will come
to us on the imperial question : the gold
Democrats; the organized xaoor voie,
which is nearly solid; a few negroes;
the fact that the railroads are not coer
cing their men this year are some of
the factors, against which is the full
dinner pail and prosperity. My best
information assures Indiana and Ken
tucky."
Mr.. Converse is a citizen of Ohio,
who is interested in mining and other
enterprises in Mecklenburg county,
and as he here eives his views in a
For Month ef September Approved by the
Auditing Committee of the Board of
County Commissioners.
County Treasurer H. McL. Green's
report of Ji i general county fund for
September is s follows:
Receipts Balance from August ac
count, $2,942.95; jury tax, $3.00 prop
erty taxes, $1,898.45; back taxes,
$227.18 ; rent, $10.00 ; marriage licenses,
$22.80. Total receipts, $5,101.38.
Disbursements Out door poor,
4403.29; Criminal Court, $162.36; Su
perior Court, $31.19 ; roads and bridges,
$782.13; magistrates, $39.88; election, j
$31.96; public buildings! $55.67 tax
listing, $100; stationary and advertis
ing, $15.70; City Hospital, $350;
county home, $326.46; jail, $127.70;
attorney, $25.00; coroner, $2L00; Su
perintendent of Health, $100.00; com
missioners, $28.90; clerk, $50.00; jani
tor, $45.00. Total, $2,486.24. Treas
urer's commissions on receipts, $27.01;
on disbursements, $31.07. Total,
$2,544.32. Balance to October account,
$3,560.06.
Of the special county fund, there
was a balance from August account
of $1,390.84, out of which there were
disbursements of $175.00 for coupons,
and commissions $2.18, leaving a bal
ance to October account of $1,713.66.
COMMITTEES ARB NAMED.
Will Begin Active Work for Col. Waddell's
Success In the Primary.
The president of the Waddell Demo
cratic Club which was formed Friday
night, has made the, following an
nouncement of committee men from
each ward and township in the county
to take up the matter of instituting a
vigorous campaign in the Interest of
CoL A. M. Waddell's candidacy for
the United States Senate :
First Ward Marion Woolard, Capt.
John Barry, Martin Rathjen,
Second Ward J. G. L. Gieschen,
Martin O'Brien, G. J. Boney.
Third Ward a. . Juatnrpp,
Vatot '
CoL
the meeting, when he learned that private letter, he cannot be suspected
oi writing biiuvj vi.w wuvw.
What he says is, moreover, sustained
by testimony from other sources.
nf the more boisterous of the
boys had heea arrested, he "inter
ceded in their behalf and asked for
their discharge, saying he felt
that their behavior was caused more
by boyish thoughtlessness than by
malice. Little things sometimes
show the difference between men.
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Ba
varia, is a very popular fellow. He"
is an M D. and practices his pro
fession. He 'charges tne poor
nothing, but when calledto Bee rich
patients he makes them pay well.
These fees he uses in providing
medicines and delicacies for his poor
patients. His income from other
sources enables him. to do this. In
addition to his free practice lie sup-
portsli free hospital. He is a Prince,
indeed.'-"- - r " ' ' - .
A Kansas City preacher,' who was
"unappreciated, overworked and un
derpaid, has resigned and gone to
selling sewing machines, which -he
finds more congenial. Perhaps he
maybe a better sewing machine
seller than preacher.
WbHtav Taylor c W. Yates.
Fourth Ward W. F. Robertson,
Jos. H. Watters, Charles W. Worth.
Fifth Ward John Sheehan, J. M.
McGowan, B. F. King. .. . . ,
Harnett Township C. H. Alexan
der, R.JO. Grant, G. W. Westbrook.
Cape Fear Township R. W. Bor
deaux, S. T. Kerr, T. J. Belcher.
Masonboro Township D. J. Fergus,
B. S. Montford, James Walton.
Federal Point E. H. Freeman, J.
B. Brinkley, W. H. Biddle.
The gentlemen composing above
committee are requested to meet at the
City Hall on Monday night, at 8
o'clock to formulate plans for the cam
paign all are expected to attend.
Miss Lillian Grady Happily Wedded to Mr.
Alsa Carr, of Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Grady returned
last evening from Burgaw where they
attended on Wednesday the marriage
of Mr. Grady's sister, Miss Lillian
Gradv. dauehter of the late S. M..
Grady, of Duplin county, to Mr. Alsa
Carr, a prominent young business
manof" Wallace. The affair was a
quiet home wedding and took place at
the residence of Mr. J. F. Johnson,
near the town of Burgaw.
The hour of the marriage was 8
o'clock P. M , and the parlor of the
home was handsomely decorated for
the event The ceremony was beauti
fullv nerformed by Rev. D. P. Mc-
Geachy, pastor of the Burgaw group
of Presbyterian churches, and the
attendants were Mr. L. V. Grady and
Mrs. L. V. Grady, Mr. D. H. Wil
liams "and- Mrs. D. ' H. Williams,
Mr. R. G. Grady with Miss May
Henry Herring, Mr. Snyder Carr
with Miss Sallie Herring.
After the ceremony a very sump
tuous wedding supper was served
to the bridal party. Mr. and Mrs. Carr
will reside at Wallace.
REV. MR. PAXTONENQAQED.
Will Supply Pulpit of First Presbyterian
Church for Three Months.
Revt John W. Paxton, of Danville,
Va., recently returned from the mis
sionary, field in China, has been en
gaged to supply the pulpit of the
First Presbyterian church of this city
for three months pending the action of
the committee appointed at last Sun
day's congregational meeting of the
church to select a pastor.
Rev. Mr. Paxton preached at the
First church last Sunday morning and
evening and made a very favorable
impression upon the people. He and
Mrs. Paxton are at the home of Capt
R. W. Price, corner of Fifth and
range streets. Rev. Mr. Paxton
will conduct the usual services at the
First church to-day.
Death of Col. Pemberton.
The numerous friends in Wilmington
of CaptW. H. Pemberton will deeply
sympathize with him in the loss of his
father. Col. John A. Pemberton,
whose death occurred at Fayetteville
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in
the 73rd year of his age. Other sur
viving children besides Capt Pember
ton Tare: Messrs. J. A. and Thomas
Pemberton; Mrs. J. W. McNeill, Mrs.
K. T. B. Glenn, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs.
Harrell, Mrs. O. B. Wightman, Mrs.
John D. Williams, Mrs. J. B. Under
wood, Jr. Col. Pemberton was one of
the leading citizens of Fayetteville
and this section of the State and his
death is deeply deplored. He served
gallantly during the Civil war and
was one of the prime movers in the
organization of the LaFayette Light
Infantry. The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock
from St John's Episcopal Church, of
which he was a member.
Shareholders Are Now Wondering If They
Have Been Fooled.
Those who held "Diamond Invest
ment Contracts," a number of which
were secured by an agent here
several months ago, are wondering if
they have been "hoodoed." A .num
ber of citizens went into the scheme,
paying $1.25 initiation fee and a simi
lar amount each week for twenty
weeks, at the end of which time in
vestors understood they would receive
a diamond valued at $40 or the amount
in cash, if they preferred. The total
amount paid in upon each share is
$26.25 and it is easily seen that the
investment was regarded as a good
one, which the agent very plausibly
explained was made possible by the
large number of "lapses" or those
who failed to keep up payment for the
time specified in the contract.
Yesterday was .the day depositors
expected payment, but instead came a
circular saying that if holders of con
tracts would continue longer the pay
ment would be guaranteed, all of
which, it is claimed, is in accordance
with a istrict reading of the contract,
but which conflicts with the under
standing of many investors here, who
confidently expected their money at
the end of the first twenty weeks. :'
The amount of investment in the
scheme by Wilmington people is said
to be more than two thousand dollars.
As 'a result of a conference of a
number of shareholders at the Masonic
Temple last night, it was decided to
send an attorney at once to the home
office in Baltimore, Md., to investigate
the matter of payments. W. J. Bel
lamy, Esq., will leave this morning
for a conference with the managers of
the concern.
MR. MURCHISON'S SUCCESS.
Board of County Commissioners Disposed
of Several Matters of Note, h
The Board of County Commis
sioners were in session yesterday after
noon. Present were Chairman Mc
Eacbern, Commissioners Alexander,
Vollers, Holmes and Montgomery. '
It was ordered that the county phy
sician be required to visit the county
jail officially once a week. '
On account of physical disability
J. H. Mann was exempted from taxa
tion for peddling medicine of his own
manufacture. -
The application of the Atlantic Coast
Line for a reduction of.tis taxation was
referred to the attorney. '
The Board adjourned, subject to the
call of the chairman.
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The Strike at Caswell.
Mr. William, Weeks, of the South-
port firm of Pullan & Weeks, con
tractors for a part of the extensive
improvement now going on at Fort
Caswell, was here yesterday and says
that his firm was victorious in the
strike with a number of colored labor
ers last week. The strikers were being
paid 80 cents per day, but because they
struck, Messrs. Pullan & Weeks sub
stituted them with other, laborers at a
slight advance in price. This appears
to be a pretty good solution for the
smaller strikes.
They Are Bellamy Democrats
The Goldsboro correspondent of the
Raleigh Post says: f
"I had a talk this morning with a
Croatan preacher. Rev. H. H. Lowry,
ofElrod, who is a nephew of Henry
Berry Lowry, of the Robeson county
swamp-angel days. The .parson tells
me his people are making great strides
along educational lines, that they have
a normal school and right many have
been prepared as teachers. The Post
man suggested that he understood his.
TMwnln worft Rftllamv Democrats and
received the Teply, 'Yes, sir; we are for
John D. Bellamy; he is our friend.'.
Sticking to a friend is a characteristic
of this people." '
Newton Enterprise: The New
ton Hosiery Mill has increased its capa
city to 500 dozen pair per day, which
makes it one of the largest mills in the
80Uth.. .-tx. .iirv't.J r' . y
, . Weldon ZeacJsrr. Mr; Tillman
Pico t of Littleton, tells us that a pack
of wolves are playing havoc with the
sheep ia that Section. He says several
have been killed, and that he has sev-.
eral young ones that he captured.
Yadkin Hippie : , Small-pos ,
seems to be getting a start in some of .
the surrounding counties.; A short -time
ago we noted the appearance of
the disease; near Rural Hall, in Forsyth .
county, and last week it was discov
ered in Wilkes. .'. -
Stanly Enterprise. "It r never
rains but pours." A murder and tbe
discovery ,'and capture of the two
poison murderers, proved quite a storm
in our usually quiet county last week.
It means a heavy court in December,
if the Governor grants the petition of
our commissioners for the holding of
civil and criminal term at the same -sitting.
Roanoke Beacon: The artesian
well bored for this town by Mr; P. G. Ellis
has proved a perfect success. He
got a nice flowof water and it is sup ' .
posed to contain valuable medical
properties. Mayor - Smith has sent
some of the water to the-State Chemist ,
for analysis,' but , has received no. re- -.
port from it as yet The well is aboit
200 feet deep and flows about ten gal
lons per minute. - , , ; v
. Asheboro Courier: There was '
an effort to indict' the registrar of .
Cedar Grove township at Greensboro
Federal Court this week, but the grand
jury ignored the hill. Finally,- they -made
a presentment and at next term
it is hoped to get further testimony.
We learn that Madison Hammond and,
Lowney Johnson and twp negroes are
the witnesses who wen) before the
grand jury. " J
Sanford Express: An addi
tional seventy-five new rooms will be
built to Piney Woods Inn, Southern
Pines, this fall. They expect the hotel
to be crowded the coming season."
Immense quantities of cabbage are
being shipped from Mt. Airy over the
Southern Railway to this place and to
other points south of here. Mountain '
annles are also on the market . Tbe
people who live in the mountains raise
apples and cabbage at a good profit
They are hauled to Mt Airy by wagon.
Newborn Journal: The grand
jury made a presentment in the Chris
tian Science cast). The presentment
is against Miss Hatchie Harrison for
employing the "healing art" or prac
ticing medicine without a license, con
trary to the laws of North Carolina.
The matter will now go Jib-fore the
grand jury of the February term of
the Criminal Court and that jury will
decide whether or not to find a true
bill. In case a true bill is found the
case will come before the .February
term cf court. A number of witnesses
were examined Friday by the grand
jury.
Winston Sentinel: Parties who
have been attending the Federal Court
in Greensboro say that an old man
from Wilkes county made an effort to
shoot District, Attorney Holt in the
court room Saturday of last week. It
appears that the old man's son had
been tried and convicted of blockading.
Besides imposing a heavy fine. Judge
Boyd sentenced him to two years in the
penitentiary. The boy was under bond
and was standing in the court house
door when the sentence was pro
nounced. He heard his "doom" and
immediately skipped to "parts un
known" to the court officials. This is
said to have "riled" the father of the
boy, who blamed District Attorney
Holton for convicting the son. The
father went to his boarding place, got
his big pistol, came back to the court
house and said: -"Show me that man
Holton; I want to kill him." It is
claimed that the old man r would have
shot had not some friends grabbed him.
BRYAN WILL BE ELECTED.
Has Completed His Course in Architecture
in Paris A Millionaire's Mansion, t
Mr. Z.M. Murchison, Jr., a son of
Col. K. M. Murchison, .who is so well
and popularly known to the people of
Wilmington where he has so many
business interests, has just graduated
after a three years course in architec
ture from the celebrated U Ecole des
BeauxlArtes, of Paris. Mr. Murchi
son has on previous occasions shown
by unexampled work a decided talent
in architecture and with his post grad
uate course in France, he is now prob
ably the best equipped architect in
America and, as has been said, he is
now emienently fitted to construct
everything from "a Chinese pagoda
4a a IMAnAh vtoloAA "
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Mr. Murchison prior to his course in
Paris graduate, from Columbia College,
New York, and having returned to has
home is now engaged as architect for
Millionaire Clark's mansion at New
York.
miss Harrison presented.
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Fingers Badly Masbed.
Willie Jones, colored, porter at
Plummer's confectionery store, lhad
several fingers on his left hand badly
mashed yesterday afternoon by getting
them caught between the cog wheels
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on a large ice cream ireezer. ur.
Charles T. Harper rendered the neces
I sary medical assistance.
Wfll Be Married at Plttsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Bynum, of Pitls
boro, N. C, have issued invitations to
the marriage of their daughter, Miss
Julia Rives, to Mr. Frank Caldwell
Poe, on Wednesday evening", October
24th, at 8 o'clock, in the Methodist
Church at Pittsboro.
THE SCHREIBER. ROBBERY. .
N..-
People's
The Indian agent at Vinta, In
dian Territory, died the' other day
because he failed to recognize the
ifffiTflnce between toadstools and
mushrooms. ,
Teddy Roosevelt is playing the
hoodlum assault game , too brash.
He is making himself liable to suspi
WIQ Have No Circuses.
Some people and of course they're
of the younger set are wondering
why none of the half dozen circuses
touring ; North Carolina this year
will visit Wilmington. It is stated
that several advance agents who have
been here have found the. city and
county taxes on the better class of
shows so high as to be simply prohibi
tory. The tax by the city, they say,
is even higher than last year and they
cannot give a :, performance when
Burled In Onslow County.
The remains of Mrs. Charles E. Col
lW whose death was chronicled In
yesterday's Stab, were carried to On- j practically all the gate receipts are re-
slow county yesterday aiiernoon uu
.. -KTanrhAvn train, and were nuerrea
around. The
ill UO jftUIUJ- " 99 '
n k...Afi to the Front street siauon
h r!nnt E. W. Manning, Messrs.
A. J. Hanby, W. L. Holden, , H. H.
Helms, F. W, Ortmann, anu ..w.
Plummer, Jr.
nnired to nav revenue to the city and
county.
-The Mount Olive Advertiser
speaks of a new county which should
be formed from portions oi w ayne,
Duplin and Sampson counties with
Mount Olive as the county seat. ,
First Step Taken Toward Prosecuting the
Christian Science Healer.
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A special to the Raleigh Post from
Newborn yesterday says:
"The grand jury to-day made apres
entment -against Miss Hatcher Harri
son, the Christian Scientist for em
ploying the "Healing art," or practic
ing medicine in this State without a
license. The matter grew out of the
death of Harry Parsons, whose taking
off has created wide discussion of the
Christian Science claims and dogmas.
As the matter now stands the present
ment goes to the grand jury of the
Februarv term of the criminal court,
and it will rest with them whether or
not they shall find a true bill and the
case be tried at the February term of
court"
The Peanut Crop.
County Commissioner W. F. Alex
ander, who was in the city yesterday
to attend; the meeting ot tne eoara,
brought a practical illustration of
the shortness of the peanut crop by
reason of the continued drought dur
ing the crowing and maturing period
of the plant On cme peanut vine of
the "Virginia variety which Mr. Alex
ander showed to a reporter, there were
82 well and partially matured pods,
while there wre 90 faulty ones of no
commercial value whatever. Mr. Alex
ander feels no hesitancy in saying
that the crop is off fully 50 per cent
Detectives on the Defaulter's Trail - His
Arrested Expected Soon.
By Telegraph to tne Morning Star.
New York, Oct 13. State Detec
tive E. B. Kelly, of Summit, N. Jm
was in Elizabeth this afternoon, where
he held a private - conference with
Judge Gilhooly on the Schreiber rob
bery. Kelly - says he is on the de
faulter's trail and is positive Schreiber
stopped at Dover, N. J., Wednesday
night, in 1 company with a young
woman. Kelly has a warrant in his
pocket for Schreiber's arrest which
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was sworn out oy x'resiaent neiutowr
of the Elizabeth bank. - The detective
says the description given him of the
man in Dover as to impediment in
speech, size and general appearance
tallies with that of the defaulter. De
tective Kelly said' he thought he
would capture Schreiber in a day or
two.
ELECTIONS IN ENGLAND.
Forecsst of the Election by the
Party National Committee Classi
fication of States.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning star.
Lincoln, Neb., October 13. The
following statement ' over the signa
ture of J. A. Edgerton, the secretary,
was given out to-night by the Peoples'
Party National Committee:
"Bryan will be elected; he has lost
none of the Bupport he had in 1896,
except a few silver Republicans in the
mountain States. Of these there will
not be enough to affect a single elec
toral vote. He will hold his own '
west of the Mississippi and will carry
every State in the region that he car
ried in '96 with the possible exception
of Wyoming. Ho will gain heavily in
the central West and East; he will not
only have all the Democrats and Pop
ulists who supported him in '96, but
added to these he will receive the
votes of a large number of gold Dem
ocrats and former Republicans who
have left their party on the issues of
imperialism and trusts.
"The following States may be classed
as certain to - cast their electoral vote ,
for Bryan: Alabama 11, Arkansas 8,
Colorado 4, Forida 4,Georgia 13,Idaho
3, Louisiana 8, Mississippi 9, Missouri
17, Montana 3,nebrasxa , JNevaaa ,
North Carolina 11, South Carolina 9,
Tennessee 12, Texas 15, Utah 3, Vir
ginia 12. Total, 153.
"Add to these the following States,
which will probably cast their votes for
Bryan: Illinois 24, Indiana 15, Wash
ington 4, Kentucky 13. .Maryland 8,
South Dakota 4,;West Virginia, 6, To
tal, 84. - m
"These, added to 153 certain, lgi
237, or thirteen more than a majority
in fViA alAAtnrnl rolleffe. 'r -
Outside of these certain and probable
States are tbe following doubtful:
California 9, Connecticut 6, Delaware
3; Michigan 14, Minnesota 9, New
Jersey 10, New York 86, North Dakota
8, Ohio 23, Wisconsinl2, Wyoming 3.
Total 128.
and
Ministerialists Ahead But Oalns
Losses Exactly Balance.
By Cable to tbe Morning Star.
London, October 13. The minis
tAriAliats have thus far elected 398 of
their candidates while the opposition
have elected 258. The gains and losses
now exactly balance, making the re
spective strength of the parties the
same as it was at the dissolution, which
result is not likely to be materially
changed by the returns from tne
bakers dozen of constituencies where
the results are not known.
STEVENSON IN DELAWARE.
CHAIRMAN JONES
He Is
Greeted by Large and Enthusiastic Crowds
- at Wilmington and Laurel.
By Telegrapn to Uie Marntng Star.
Wilmington, Del., October 13. A
large and enthusiastic crowd greeted
Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic
randidata for Vice President to-night
at the Onera House in this city. Prior
to his speech to-night he made one in
the afternoon at ljaurei, wmcu wm
practically on the lines of the one de
livered to-niffht which was mainly
devoted to the problems growing out
of the Spanish war. .
Denies Roosevelt's Charge That
Connected With a Trust. x
By Telegraph to tne Morning star. -
Chicago, October 13. Chairman
Jones, of the Democratic National
Committee, referring to Governor
Roosevelt's association of his name
with "private ownership In trusts,"
said to-day: , ":
"Any statement made by anybody
that I am in any way connected with
or interested in any? organization
that is in any sense a - trust is ab
solutely untrue. - The charge made
that the American Cotton Bale
Comnanv is a trust was the occasion
of a letter written by me,, and pub
lished at the time, in which I stated
the facts of my connection with that
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thing and was published - and exten
sively circulated. If Mr. Roosevelt
had wanted to inform himself, he had
the opportunity of doing so. If he is
a sincere man he will not, after read
ing that letter, makfcv the- statement
that the American Cotton: Bala Com
pany is a trust However, there is an
old adage that a lie well stuck to is as
"good as the truth." t. -i - ,' .