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' They charge that the depression, the smokeless chimneys, &c, were all thvresult of the tariff bill passed in 1 si 4 . TheXlevel&nd Leader ; pub lisheil in Hanna's town, in an article against Bryan, charges him with re sponsibility for these smokeless chimneys and business depression in a3 far as he voted for the Wilson Gprman tariff. The Washington Post, a non-partisan paper, but in favor of protection and opposed to Bryan, shows the absurdity of this charge against jBryari and this hold ing of the Democratic party respon sible for the 'j business depression which prevailed from 1893 till 1897. It pricks the Leader's bubble thus: "The Wilson-Gorman tariff act that highly protective act which Mr. Cleveland described as a measure of perfidy and dishonor' was passed about the middle of August, 1894. How" could Mr. Bryan's vote for that bill have helped to precipitate 'the panic of 1893,' a disturbance that had open precipitated twelve months earlier, un der the McKinley tariff of 1890, and the worst effects of which were ancient history long before a line of the Wil son Gorman bill was written?. The Post cheerfully concedes the possibility of any achievement that does not call for the suspension of a law of nature. But the Leader charges Mr. Bryan with having perpetrated a malicious, if not diabolical, miracle by helping in August, 1894, to 'precipitate' the dire ful disaster that came upon the coun try In the Summer of 1893. It is a repe tition of the fable of the wolf and the' lamb. Ntiiher the tide of time nor the current of a stream flows backward or upward." - ' "It may never be possible to ascer tain all the causer, domestic and foreign, that conspired to produce the distressful panic of 1893. . It certainly will never be possible for partisans to agree as to the relative influence of such alleged causes as the Sherman silver act and the Democratic triumph of 1892 But it should be easily prac ticable for intelligent and honest Re publicans to recognize in the Gorman Wilson tariff a happy escape from the free trade menace of the platform on which that victory was won. If the editor of the Leader will recall the in dustrial and commercial record of the country under that 'measure of perfidy and dishonor,' he will find that that there was great improvement in business; that many suspended factories resumed ; that the army of the unemployed decreased in numbers; tbat .wages were voluntarily 1 increased. In' fact, that tariff, with a very few amendments, would have been a model, judged from the pro tection standpoint It was so liberally protective that th$ tin plate industry, against which the free traders had a special spite, continued to flourish under its operations. And we may. add that if the Dingley act bad le the tin schedule just as the Wilson- Gorman act fixed it, one of the most vicious of the protected trusts could not have risen up to prey on the peo - pie and trouble the friends of protec tionr Tho panic came in 1.89? before the Democratic party touched the tariff, a panic with which the democratic party had nothing to do'for which it was in no way responsible, and which would have come whatever party might have bee'n in power. It began in England by the failure of the Baring Brothers, London bankers, whose failure forced other failures r and thus started the collapse which was felt, more or less all over the world. But wo had begun to re cover from the effects of that panic before the McKiniey administration, and the Wilson Gorman tariff had much to do in helping along the re - coverv. for it was that which gave a stimulus to the exports of American manufactures, which have been in creasing steadily ever since. That tariff gave our manufacturers the benefit of free raw materials and thus enabled them to compete with for eign manufacturers, whicji they have-bem successfully doing ever since, notwithstanding they haye not now the advantage of free raw 'materials, which they had then. But having entered into foreign markets and found that they could compete with their foreign rivals they concluded, they would follow on these lines and with their cbar . acteristic energy and the matchless ' genius for the construction and working" of labor-saying machinery they have been ' enabled to hold the ground they won and extend the territory in spite of the fact that their raw materials cost them more. VOL. XXXI, With all the talk about cheap foreign labor, there is no country in Europe which can manufacture more cheaply than, this country can, because there is no country in Europe which so successfully makes, machinery take take the place of men and - thus make one man perform the labor of a number of men. The labor of one man costs more than the labor of one man does in the European countries, but the output of that one man is much more than the output of one man in ISurope, making the cost of production less. This with the low cost of the imported raw materials, which also lowered the cost of :raw materials produced in this country, gave a stimulus to manufacturing for export and to the export business, for which the coun try is really indebted to the Demo cratic Wilson-Gorman tariff. i ollowmg right on the heels "of this, and after the McKinley admin istration came into power, the short crops in Europe caused an extra ordinary demand for our foodstuffs, the price of which ran up to double the figures our farmers had been re ceiving for some years before. Then came the "wave of prosperity" which the Bepublican politicians have been talking so much about. Europe s calamity , was our good fortune; its misfortune gave us pros perity which the Republicans have the cheek to claim as the result of their policies." That's what they are claiming before the people now, even while the fires are being ex tinguished in manufacturing estab- nsnments ana nunareas or. men are being thrown out of employment, and many are fools enough to believe it, and some of them are in the South too, and give that as a reason for voting to keep the Bepublican party in power to continue the prosperity which the Bepublican party didn't create. ' " ORGANIZATION IN SEW YORE. The Democracy of New . York was never better organized than it is in this campaign, and never under more alert, active and vigorous lead ership, and that means a good deal in an election. Wm. E. Curtis, a Bepublican, and one of the best known newspaper correspondents in this country, tells something about it in the following extract from a letter to the Chicago Record: "As I told you the other day, the the Democratic committee has rented every available hall from the Battery to Harlem for every day and every evening from Oct. 16 to Nov. 6, and every night there will be fireworks, torchlieht processions and political pandemonium. More than 500 spell binders will speak every night in . the thirty-five assembly districts and will be . escorted to their plat forms by processions of Democratic clubs, a blare of trumpets, a display of fireworks and other evidences of enthusiasm. The streets through .which the processions pass are to be . illuminated with bengal lights, mov able searchlights and every other con ceivable display. Tammany orators will not only be talking in the halls, but from platforms at the street cor ners and from the tailend of carts. Croker has notified the district leaders of Tammany hall that their 'future happiness and peace of mind depends upon the noise they make and the ex citement they raise intheir precincts between now and election day. and there is a rivalry among these leaders to see which shall carry out the1 orders of the boss to bur greatest satisfaction. "In 1896 there were only two Bryan banners to be seen in New Xork city, On a of thfwin stretched across Four teenth street at Tammany hall and the other across Broadway from the Bar tholdi hotel, where the Democratic National Committee had its head quarters. To dav twice as many Bryan ha&ners as McKinlev banners are 'to be seen on the streets of the metropolis and they are scattered at frequent in tervals from the Battery lo we Bronx Rome of them are fixed so that search lio-htx ran be turned unon them with startling effect at night At City Hall sauare. at Union square, at Madison souare and at five other places stere onticons throw UDOn screens Demo cratic sAntimnnta and mottoes. POr traits of Brvan and Stevenson and other Democratic candidates and epi grams against McKinley and the other Bepublican candidates. "Pago advertisements-7 are taken in every theatre programme. Illumina ted political posters appear on every billboard and on every dead wall, fan ciful signs appear in the street cars and on the ferrv boats, thousands of conies of lithoeraohs of Bryan and fltevenson are displayed in shop win dowsandin the windows of private maidnnceB where never one was visi ble in 1896, and there are innumerable other evidences of Democratic activity which ought to be a warning to the ite publicans." This is not proof that New York is going Democratic, but is proof that the Democracy of New York 1 cy a working with might and main, aua u ta woof, too, of a marked change in public sentiment, which the Democrats while it alarms the Republicans. Tho, .Tftrtkson villa Times-Union, arid-Citizen predicts that within five years Florida will be producing more sugar than Louisiana. She is now rivalling Cuba as a tobacco grower, while on alligators she has no com petitor. ' - ' ' Henry Clews, the banker, says he has " the highest . respect for the man who in the face of adversity turns his pennies into dollars and his dollars into millions." It de pendson how he does it, Henry. The Argentine Republic is iricreas ing ' rapidly in population. Last year 1,200,000 immigrants entered that country. , . . - : HI JL1 QUESTIONS FOR MOTHERS The trust question is not one-that affects our economic system-only, or involves only dollars and cents, but it is one which, enters the household and vitally affects every one whose members most earn their living by labor hand or head. And this is one of the most serious phases of the question. In his speech at Youngs- town, Ohio, in addressing the mothers who were present, Mr. Bryan forci bly condensed that issue in the fol lowing inquiries. to mothers: 'Mothers, what would you have yoursondo? Would you have your boys go on the farm? Why? You know that today the farmer takes more chances than any other man and has less influence in the Government; at least he is less considered by those who govern.. Are you going to have your boy go among the laboring men and have but one ambition, and that to haye a full dinner pail, and only to nave that when the trust will let him have Ut Are you willina to 1st your son go into the anthracite coal region uuu nis cnances ai less man a ' dollar a day, with powder a 3 75 a keg? Are you satisfied to have your boy go there? Do you want him to go into a store? Don't you know that to-day the trust is hemmine the about? Don't you know that the trust is shortening credit? That it is laying upon the retailer all the chances of business? Don't you know that the trustto day is compelling the merchant to agree not to sell any but trust-made goods?" "Would you have your boy eo into a big factory when to morrow the trust may come and bankrupt him? Would you haye your boy buy stock in a trust? The big stockholders will freeze him out before the year is over. "What will vou have vour bov do? Will vou have him become a lawyer? Why, the law business is eravitatine toward the offices of the large corpor ation attorneys and the other lawyers are olerks in their offices. Is it not time that you were think ing? Is it not time that you were us ing your own influence to take this government back, place it on its old foundation and make it again a free government of the people, by the peo ple and for the people, in which the humblest citizen may aspire to the highest reward in the political world?" There is not an .avenue of indus try now which is not more or less controlled by the trusts, and that will not be effectively controlled by- them in tho near future, unless the trusts are curbed and their power broken. To-day they, dictate the price of labor, and the price of farm products, and thus .have in their power the great mass of , the toiling people, the people whtmake the wealth of the country, and make prosperity possible. ' 7 PLAYING THE GAG. We have heretofore referred to the system of intimidation resorted to by some establishments in the North which employ workmen and are opposed to the election of Wm. J. Bryan, giving some instances of this, alleged orders for goods to be cancelled in the event of Bryan's election and the use made of these influence the workmen to vote for McKinley. But not satisfied with this, they are applying the gag to deter men whom they think they can intimidate from speaking for Bryan, an illustration of which is given in the following press dispatch from San Francisco, under date of the 16th inst: "John J. Valentine, President of Wells. Fargo & Co., stated at a politi cal meeting which he addressed in. Oakland, that he had received a letter intimating that he would be removed from the Presidency of W.. F. dr. Co. if he did not abandon the advocacy of the Democratic ticket in the national campaign. " No,' said Valentine to-day in re ply to a request that he give out the letter for publication, 'it was purely a personal letter, and I will not give it out I only wish to say, in order to avoid some misconception arising from reports, 1 that the letter was not from any oi our own peopie in ine ex press company. It was, in lact, irom a banker. I only referred to it at the meeting to illustrate the fact that there is a disposition b$oerce people in this campaign, whicMias many strange fea tures, and none is more strange man the desire of working people to pay the enormous cost of the war in the Phil ippines. ' . , ' "The Spanish ana rnuippine wars will cost the American people $600,- 000,000 by the end of the fiscal year next June. Tis the nature ana law oi taxation to fall the heaviest on the great consuming classes. Now what do they get for it?" ' This is a repetition of the gag ap plied in 1896, when college presi dents were informed that if they did not cease speaking for Bryan they would lose their positions. And the men who resort to these methods profess to believe in free speech and a free ballot. - . A retired San Francisco merchant is going to spend- $4,000 to erect a 350-foot flag pole in Golden Gate Park, from which will float a 100 foot flag. This might be called lofty patriotism. The Bepublican campaign com mittee is this year circulating liter ature in ten languages. This does not include Hanna's language. He circulates that exclusively himBelf. - Just a little comma stands be tween Louis Mohl, of New York, and $25,000. When little things like that get in the wrong place they sometimes make trouble. One of the characteristics of Gen. Boberts is that he neyer boasts, but tells the truth about his battles. What a contempt Teddy Roosevelt must have for Roberta. - Weekl WlLMINGrTON, N . C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Attendance Shows Gratifying Gains During the First Fit-, teen Days of Term. WILL LIKELY REACH 2,500. Extra Number of Teachers Had to Be Employed to Meet the Exigency. School Machinery Now in Ex cellent Rannloz Order. The total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools of Wilmington during the first fifteen days of the Fall session was 2,309. This is a remarka bly good showing and the attendance upon the white schools is larger now than ever before. It can be safely es timated tbat the attendance during the coming week will reach 2,500. The additional rooms at both the Hemenway and Peabody schools have been filled, and the increase in attend ance at the Union school has been so large that two more teachers' have been employed. The entire faculty of the public schools at present consists of a superin tendent, a. supervising principal and fifty-seven teachers. Based upon the number of teachers employed and the number of pupils already enrolled, it will be seen that an average of fifty pupils are under the supervision of each teacher. The schools have already been thor oughly graded and teachers and pupils have entered upon their work in all earnestness. Notwithstanding the addi tion of rooms to several of the school buildings, it is evident from the at tendance, especially upon the white schools, thai additional room will have to be made in the near future. The school committees have given this matter considerable thought and will no doubt find a way to accommodate all pupils who present themselves for admission. The attendance, as will be seen and as we have stated above, is gratifyingly larger than last year. Though the list was compiled a little earlier than this year it shows that the enrollment for the session of 1899 1900 was only 1,985, a difference of 324 in favor of this year. The attendance at that time was dis tributed as follows:. Union, 656; Hem enway, 540; Tileston, 170; Peabody, 291; Williston, 328. rcommnnlcated. AT S0UTHP0RT. MR. BELLAMY I doubt whether the people of Bruns wick have ever before listened to a national speech confined exclusively to the issues concerning our govern ment, which so fully revealed the treachery and duplicity of the present administration, as that delivered by the Hon. J. D. Bell&my Monday night, the 15th inst - It was court week and every portion of the county was represented; the court houst wis packed from .top to bottom, scar, ely standing room for those who wished to be enlight ened upon the deep and abstruse Questions, that concern us all. Mr. Bellamy was in his prime, and with tbat silver tongue, which few men are gifted with, for an hour and a half held his audience spell-bound; his beautiful rhetoric, and smooth de livery, and perfect articulation, was penetrating and comprehensive in the extreme. It was generally conceded by those present to be the finest effort ever made in the county. He paid many compliments to that great and wonderful man, W.J. Bryan and predicted his election. He drew a vivid picture of the horrors that will result from our expansion policy and what might orcur with the aboli tion of the Monroe doctrine. He made plain the danger to the far mers of the country, when the pro ducts of pauper labor from our "new possessions" come in contact with American productions. He spoke con cerning the danger of a large standing army. He reverted with force to the impossibility of our ever making Chris tians or good citizens out of the inhabi tants of the Philippines, and stated that Spain had made a perfect failure after hundreds'of years of ownership. He did not spare the trust and expa tiated upon their ill-gotten gains and their nefarious and oppressive acts. He paid his compliments to the pomp, parade and ostentation when a President was inaugurated and said the signs of the times indi cated we were drifting into a mon archied form of government unless the centralization of capital and the Kwer of trusts, combines and the :e could be impeded before their de struction coil encircled our land. He spoke of the enormous amount paid for pensions and the millions of in crease to be raised each year for this purpose, and how it oppressed the tax Eayers. I will not attempt to follow im further, but simply say it was a great speech by a great man. Yesterday Morning's Fires. The kitchen of the residence, No. 308 North Third street, owned by the Jew ett estate and occupied by Mr. W. H. Brown, was damaged.about $100 at 4.35 o'clock, yesterday morning by a blaze which started from a defective flue. The property was insured. The fire was discovered by the department while responding to an alarm from box 31, on account of another fire, which did about $500 damage to a two-story dwelling.owned and occupied by Mary Turner, colored, at 620 MacBae street The house .was insured with Boat wright & Son for $600 and the furni ture for $200. William Sweat, a col ored boarder, also had $200 insurance with Boatwright & Son on furniture and personal effects. Extra Freight on S; A. L. Owing to the press of shipments just now, the Seaboard Air Line has de cided to put on an extra freight train, leaving Wilmington daily at 8 P. M. and Hamlet daily at 1 P.M., making connection with the fast freight trains to and from all points North and South. The schedule goes into effect to-morrow. Y0RK IN JA,L HERE- Promoter of Paint Maanfactnring Scheme, Who is Well Remembered is WUmlng . t on.Sent Down from Fayettev Hie J. L. York, known to many Wil mington people as the man who spent Several weeks here over a year ago in his efforts to establish a paint factory In Wilmington and who was later ar rested in Fayette ville on the charge of fraudulent use of the mails in a similar project in that town, is now in the New Hanover county jail, having been removed here byU. S- Commissioner A. D. Morrisey for safe keeping, the jail at Fayette Vil'e bei g regarded by him as unsafe since the wholesale de livery there several days ago. - Deputy Marshall Averitt arrived with York and two other prisoners, Chas. Butler and John Freeman, col ored, charged with retailing without licenser They will be tried at the term of Federal Court which will be con vened here by Judge Purnell Monday week. : Mr. York is the same well dressed and cultured-young man that he was when in Wilmington and is given quarters in the jailor's office, which is quite safe, but removed from the many objections of prison life inside the sec ond door. He is almost a continuous smoker, and talks unconcernedly, but with a conversation indicative of the embarrassing condition under which he is, at least temporarily, living. He maintains that the paint factory project here was perfectly legitimate, as were also his operations in Fayette ville which got him into so much trouble. The machinery for the fac tory, he says, is at Greensboro, and there is nothing wrong in his promo tion sehemes7 , Judge Sutton, of Fayette ville, and A. J. Marshall, Esq.; of ilmington, will likely look after his interests here before the court COTTON 0R0WERS' CONVENTION. Call for a Meeting to Be Held In Raleigh During Fair Week. Special Star Telegram.! Raleigh, October 19. State Com missioner of Agriculture Paterson to day issued a call for a meeliog of cotton growers of the State, to be held here Wednesday night of Fair Week. The objects of the meeting are to con sider the cotton situation, discuss the advisability of forming a State cotton growers' association and sending dele gates to the convention of interstate cotton growers to be held in Macon, Ga., on November 20th. CAPT. ROBT. W. LAMB. Prominent Virginian Died Thursday, Who is.WeU Known Here The Funeral. The Norfolk Landmark of yesterday contains an account of the death in that city Thursday of Capt Robert W. Lamb, which occurred at 6 o'clock after an illness of but a single day, re sulting from a stroke of paralysis. laptain Lamb was in the sixtieth yearor . his age and was the son oi Hon. W. W. Lamb, who for some time was Mayor of Norfolk and a brother of Colonel William Lamb, now a resident of that city. At the breaking out of the late war he joined the regiment of which his brother was Colonel, and at Wilmington and Fort Fisher, served as captain and adjutant of it It was while in Wilmington he married, his wife being Miss Sallie Repiton, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Repiton, a prominent minister of this city and for many years pastor of the First Baptist Church. She, with one daughter, Miss Sarah Lamb, survives him. Dog-Stealing Mania. "No less than a dozen, valuable bird dogs have been stolen in Wilmington since last Wednesday," remarked a well known local sportsman last night "The reason is apparent" he con tinned; "the 'black tongue' disease killed many of the setters a few months ago and the canine ranks suffered dreadfully from the effects of the mad dog scare. The country was denuded of dogs of every description and now that the bird season has opened dog thieves find it profitable to ship them to the country nd everywhere they can realize from their thefts. Dog owners were taxed to keep their dogs all through the Summer, when it was necessary to fight the mange plague and other diseases to which the canine race is heir and we're not going to stand it longer. Some of these dogs have been listed as personal property, making the thief or receiver of the dog amenable to the law. The Gun Club has employed counsel to assist ihe solicitor in the prosecution of all cases where stolen dogs are found in possession of anyone and no stone will be left unturned to give them the fullest measure of the law." DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN SPEECHES. B. F. Aycock In Pender, Columbus, Bladen, Cumberland'aud Harnett Counties. State Chairman Simmon s has an nounced the following list of appoint ments for Hon. B. F. Aycock: Pender county Rocky Point Oc tober 23d. i Columbus county Lee's, October 24th; Cerro Gordo, October 25th. Bladen county Lisbon, October 26th; White Oak, October 27th. Cumberland county Cedar Creek, October 29th; Wade's Station, Octo ber 30th. Harnett county Troyville, .October 31st; Angier, November 1st State Chairman Simmons will speak by request at Lumberton, November 3d. ? rlKc.-IN COUNTY JAIL. Caused a World of Disturbance Bnt No Damage Resulted York Cool Under All Circumstances. At nine o'clock last night fire broke out in the jailor's office on the first floor of the county jail and there were some lively 'scenes thereabouts fa fifteen minutes or more. The flames were extinguished without damage, however, and none of the prisoners escaped. The fire was caused by the catching of some trash in the pipe leading up from the f urnace in the cellar to the heat register in the office and the first intimation of any trouble was a flame which shot up through .the aper ture and filled the whole building with a dense smoke. Cries of about a dozen negro female prisoners on the second floor attracted the attention of Capt. of Police Furlong across the street at the City Hall and an alarm was sent in by him from box 27, corner of Third and Princess streets. The imperturbable disposition of J. L. York, the U. S. prisoner who was confined in the office when the flame shot up from the register, is told of by Capt Furlong, who, when he reached the jail and peeped through the bars, saw York quietly sitting in one corner of the room t moking a cigar and gaz ing indifferently at the flame. Upon being questioned as to the cause of the, trouble, he replied complacently that "the was a small "fire over there in there corner." The jail office was opened by Mrs. Millis in the absence of the jailor and the fire extinguished. York did not make the least attempt to escape though the room was filled with people from the street. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS Have Opened Handsomely Furnished Reading Room in Masonic Temple. Services Every Sunday. The reading room of the members of the Christian Science denomination in Wilmington, reference to which was made in a recent issue of the Stab, has been opened in . room No. 10 in the Masonic Temple, for the benefit of those who are interested and desire to read literature bearing upon the be-' lief. The main and ante-rooms have been handsomely furnished, being fitted withjelegant furnitare and anew piano. The best literature of the Christian Scientists and other reading matter pertaining to the doctrine are supplied on the tables. The room will be open daily and all who want to know about Christian Science are cor dially invited to visit it. The apart ments are complete in their every ap pointment and the members of the de nomination feel much encouraged over the outlook for the growth of the doc trine in Wilmington. Services will be held every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the reading room. The service -consists of song and prayer and a lesson taken from the Christian Science Quarterly, which is edited by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy. Each lesson is based on refer ences to the Bible and the text book of Science and Health. The meetings are open to all who care to attend. Col. Kenneth Murchison. The Stab learns with regret from a correspondent writing from Dunn, N. C, under date of October 17th,' of the death of Col. Kenneth Murchison, of Harnett county, which occurred at his home near Lillington on Wednesday. This tribute is paid to the deceased by the gentleman who writes of the deathj 'He was a prominent citizen of the up per Cape Fear; the recognized chief tain of the Scots of his section, and by nature and training, a gentleman, a staunch Democrat and honored citi zen." Dickinson Dwelling Entered. It was discovered yesterday morn ing that the Dickinson dwelling, cor ner of Front and Chesnut streets, had been entered by burglars and the house completely ransacked from 'top to bottom," figuratively speak ing. The residence has been unoccu pied since the death of Mrs. Walker, but much of the furniture and house hold goods are still there, and this fared badly at the hands of the bur glars. The matter has been reported to the police. ' Land Sale in Onslow. Raleigh News and Observer: "Some time ago, Mr. S. W. Isler, of Golds- boro, through his attorney, Mr. Frank Thompson, of Onslow, bought 10,000 acres of school land, known as White Oak Swamp, in Jones and Onslow coun ties. The land was bought for a Phil adelphia capitalist and the price paid was $25,700. Mr. Thompson and sax. Isler are in the city for the purpose of completing the sale, but owing to the absence of Governor Kussell, a meet ing of the School Board could not be held and the matter has been deferred until Governor Russell returns." . Waddell Badges. A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, writing from Monroe, says: "Union county keeps to the front in the matter of campaign badges. The Waddell badge, made by printing the letters D E L L on a gun wad has relegated the more perishable 'green Simmons' badge to the rear, and while the green persimmon as a badge is a thing of the past Run wads are in great demand. Mr. is. u. Ashcrait, ot the Monroe Enquirer, I am informed, was the originator of the unique de vice." - r The weekly bank statement shown the following changes: Loans, de : crease $10,005,800 ; deposits, decrease $15,155,900; circulation, increase $157, 700; legal tenders, decrease $1,700,- 200; specie, decrease $3,605,000; total reserve, decrease $5,305,200; surplus- reserve, decrease $1,516,225. NO. 52 KINSAULS IS DEAD. Mooted Question is Settled by Sheriff Marshburn, of Samp son County. TELLS OF THE EXECUTION And Confesses That He Is an Unmistak able Failure at Hanging Favors a State Executioner at Raleigh. A Change Badly Needed. - The Raleigh "Post of yesterday says: There are many people who believe that Archie Kinsauls, the Sampson county murderer, who three weeks ago was twice dropped from the trap of a gallows, is still a live man. Sheriff J. ML MarsKimwa, of tiampoon county, who arrivedin Baleigh yester day, is not one of these. Be it said to the sheriff's credit that he is not boast ing of the celerity with -which he dis patched Kinsauls, nor will he base his campaign in future elections as a com petent and up to date executioner. In fact Sheriff Marshburn has come to the conclusion that he was not cut out for this particular work and that he made a pretty sorry job of the Kin sauls affair. I asked the sheriff, who hails from Butler's strong county of Populists, whether the story that Kinsauls is alive is based on fact. "I know it's a lie," the sheriff promptly replied. "I hung him twice and I reckon I ought to know. He is dead and there is no doubt about it Robert Crumpler was present at the funeral which took place Saturday after the hanging on Friday. He told me that he closed the coffin and that the body was 'smelling right high.' The people down my way don't take much stock in the story about Kin sauls beine alive." The facts connected with the bung ling and revolting execution of Kin sauls have never been fully told. The statement has been made by persons that the condemned man, after hang ing in the air, begged the officers to take him down, and quickly end his life. I asked Sheriff Marshburn about this yesterday. He said r "Kinsauls' throat wounds were just healing and when the rope was placed about his neck he complained that it hurt him. My deputy loosened -the rope slightly. The result was that the rope slipped and caught under the chin when the trap was sprung. Un der the circumstances he was able to breathe. After hanging seven or eight minutes the mistake -was discovered and it was the decision of the doctors that he should be hung over. 'One of the arteries had been severed and he was bleeding badly." When we lifted him on the scaffold the second time he was still alive. Some of those around him said he cried out "O, Lord.' I did not hear. He appeared to be making an effort to talk, though he could not sit up." , Sheriff Marshburn is of the opinion that he is an unmistakable failure as an executioner. "I am fully satisfied that all executions in this State should take place at the penitentiary," Sheriff Marshburn said. "I say this from experience. If the executions were conducted at the prison there would be less of the revolting un avoidable features so often experienced at hanging in this State. . Kinsaul's neck was never broken and it is seldom that a sheriff breaks a man' s neck by the method of hanging practiced here." SHOT HIMSELF ACCIDENTALLY Mr. F. J. Dempsey Seriously Wounded While Unloading His Winchester ' Rifle Not Considered Fatal. Mr. Frank J. Dempsey accidentally shot himself with a Winchester rifle yesterday morning at his home on Acorn Branch, and the wound is con sidered very serious. Mr. Dempsey was out in the yard trying to unload the rifle, when, in some way, the lock was caught and a cartridge in the chamber exploded. The gun was breeched and the barrel was pointing towards him. The ball entered the right breast and ranged outward towards the right shoulder joint without entering the hollow. He drove to the city immedi ately and placed himself under the care of Drs. O. D. Bell and D. W. Bulluck. After an examination of the wound the physicians decided that it would not be advisable to rei ball at present The wound is considered by the doc tors to be dangerous, but not necessa rily fatal. Mr. Dempsey drove back to his home yesterday afternoon. Y0UTSEY FOUND GUILTY. The Jury Fixed His Punishment at Im prisoment for Life. By Telegrapb to tne Morning star. Geobgetown, Kym "October 20. "We, the jury, find this defendant guilty and fix his punishment at life imprisonment" This verdict was returned by the twelve men who were selected to try Henry E. Youtsey, formerly Gov ernor Taylor's stenographer, on the charge of being a principal in the shooting of Governor William Goebel, in front of the executive building at Frankfort, Ky., January 80th. The defence filed a motion for an ar rest of judgment and Judge Cantrill set it for hearing on the second day of the February term. Therefore, Yout sey will not be sentenced until next year. J- Youtsey was ordered removed to the Frankfort jail. ARMENIANS MASSACRED. Eight Villages Destroyed and the Inhabi tants Killed by the Turks. Dy Cable to the Morning Btar. Paris, October 20. A special dis patch from Constantinople to the Petit Bleu says new and frightful massacres of Armenians have just occurred in the district of Diarbekir. The Musslmans, it is asserted pillaged. outraged and killed during five days without the intervention of Turkish troops. Eight villages, it is added, were entirely desroyed and burned. -i SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Hockingh&m Anglo-Saxon: Ut. Jesse Caudle has a hen which is en titled to get into the almanac. He brought her from Anson county -eleven years ago, and says she was about three years old then ; that she has raised two broods' of chickens a year and is still living and doing well. I Monroe Enquirer: Just as we go to press . (Thursday) we learn of the death of Mrs. Sarah Griffin, who lived with her son in-law,Rev. J. A. Bivens, about six miles east of Monroe. . Mr. C. D. Benton, whose illness of ap pendicitis was noted last week, died in Chester, S. C, last Thursday morning. . Mount Airy News: A move ment, we understand, is on foot for another and very extensive furniture manufacturing plant in Mount Airy. - The produce shippers are making things stir at the Southern depot at this place. The force works nearly all night sometimes, and extra trains are coming and going constantly. ; Greensboro Telegram: There are no new developments in the cot ton mill situation in Alamance county. The union operatives are' still out and say they will never go back to work until the union is recognized, unless forced to do so by hunger. It is esti mated that nearly 5,000 people are out of employment So far as can be as certained, the sympathy of the general public in Alamance is Mlth the opera tives. Mount OHto uiiivertiserr" Mr.' Herman Cbeyney died at his home near this place last Monday night af- . ter an illness of only three days. ' That farming pays is . the opinion of , Mr. W. B. Hood since computing the cash receipts from his two-horse farm. ' From his tobacco, cotton and straw- . berries he has realized about $1,250,. and when he estimates the value of his , corn, forage, meat, etc., the figures will no doubt convince the most skep tical, that farmers in the Mount Olive section are the most prosperous in the country. Washington Messenger: A novel -sight can rht can be seen any afternoon' by those of our citizens who will take the trouble to visit any of the wharves late in the-afternoon. The river at ' this hour seems to be working alive with mullets and the curious antics they cuf up are really interesting. About this time the whole mullet tribe seems to be trying to see which one can jump the highest out of the, water. An old fisherman said in all his experience he had never seen as . many mullets as this near the town. Clinton Democrat: Mr. Frank Marshburn, who was a brother to Sheriff Marshburn, died of typhoid fever at his home in Bladen county on Ihe morning of October 7th. The sudden fall in the price of cotton has a rather depressing effect on busi ness. The price has gotten down to 9 cents. The greatest disappointment is to those who have been holding for . 12 cents. However, these are few. The . cotton is nearly all gone out of this county, and the very little that is be ing held is in the hands of people who keep it over until next year unless the price advances. Wadesboro Messenger Intelli gence: Miss Harriet Tarlton died at her home, one mile west of town, Tuesday night, aged about 72 years. Miss Tarlton lived with her brother, Mr. Richard Tarlton, and for over 40 years she had not been in Wades boro, notwithstanding the faet all that all that time she lived in sight of town. Only twice in 40 years had ahe been off her own premises, and those times she attended her father's and mother's -funerals. She had never seen a sowing machine or steam engine and had no faith in the efficacy of doctors' medicines. Mr. J. D. Lowrie, who has the contract for bor ing the well, at the depot, for the Atlantic Cotton Oil Co., has struck a plentiful supply of water at a depth of 200 faet. - The water rises to within 8 feet of the top of the well. The capa city of the well is about 25.000 gal Ions a day. Scotland Neck Commonwealth: The Scotland Neck cotton mills, which have been in operation for about ten years, have steadily increased in out put all the while. The mills are doing more business now than ever before, and the capacity is greatly enlarged. Lockland Knitting mills, a few months ago purchased by Messrs. An drews, McDowell and Pittman from Andrews & Coughenour, have been quite prosperous under the new man- ' agement, as well as under the old. The capacity of the mills will soon be enlarged one-third. Mr. Ed. Shields, who built and commenced to operate a knitting mill about four months ago, says the enterprise is prospering as well or bettor than he anticipated, The Scotland Neck shirt factory, which was opened the first of this year, has done welL The management has been well pleased with the enterprise. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Chas. H. Eastman, an Instructor at Har vard University, Arrested Last Night In Boston. By Telegrapb to tne Horning star. Boston, October 20. Charles R. Eastman, an instructor in zoology at Harvard University, was arrested at the Parker House to-night and taken to the Middlesex House ot Correction, as the result of an indictment found against him which charges the murder of Richard H. Grogan, Jr. The shoot ing of Grogan occurred July 4th last, at the house of the late Alvan Clark. the famous maker of telescopes in Cambridge. Eastman and Grogan both married daughters of Mr. Clark. Eastman admits that the bullet from his revolver caused the death of Gro gan, but maintains that the shooting was entirely accidental. The menwere target shooting and Grogan was mor tally wounded in the breast Before he died he conversed with several peo ple. According to the testimony in the lower court he told three or four of them that he had beeen murdered by Eastman. HANNA'S NARROW ESCAPE. Fen from a Stand Upon Which He Was Speaking at Auburn, Neb. By Telegrapb to the Horning star. Omaha, Neb., October 20. Senator Hanna concluded his six-days speak ing tour of Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska, in Omaha to-night, ! a ! fl! " I winning up nis itinerary ay maxing four speeches, three in South Omaha, where are located the big packing in terests of the city, and where his audi ences were for the most part composed of laboring men, and one at Omaha. Late to-night the special train left over the Burlington road for Chicago and will arrive there to-morrow morning. .Senator Hanna narrowly escaped serious injury at AuournK wnere a stand had been erected on the race track of the Fair grounds. The over crowding of the frail structure, and the crush of people around it caused the stand to collapse. Although thrown on his nactc by the fall of six feet Sen ator Hanna was entirely unhurt A boy clinging to the structure had his leg broken under the timbers. - 4 J
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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