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WILLIAM B. BBB04 R D.
Editor sad Propttstot.
WILMINGTON, N."C
Feidat, - Demmbrb 28, 1900
SOME SOLID OBJECTIONS TO
H&ff STA'S SCHEME.
The indications now are that
Hanna's ship sabsidjgrab is as good
as dead. - It cannot pass this session
for if it became a necessity its op
ponents would talk it to death. Bnt
that will hardly be necessary, for
Republicans enough hare tamed the
cold shoulder to it to freeze it ont.
The fact is that some of the hardest
blows it has received have been given
by Republicans organs, and leading
Republican organs, bat of the kind
that have the candor .and the cour
age to condemn Republican measures
when they think them wrong. The
New York Post,. Republican paper
of this class, is one of the most
strenuous opponents of this subsidy
grab, of which it has made a most
thorough study. O ae of the articles
in opposition to it presents fourteen
solid objections as follows:
(1.) Ocean freights : are regulated
largely by the charges made by tai
lag Teasels and by tramp steamers, to
which are due the present low rates
on grain and other Don-perishable
products.
(J ) The proposed Shipping-Subsidy
bill will drive toe sailing craft and
tramp steamer off the biirb seas, be
caiue it pays subsidies primarily by
-mileage and speed, instead of tons,
and by capacity, rather than by actual
freight car.ied. The great bulk of the
subsidy will go to the large aiidsift
steamships, and tbj whether they car
ry bitf or In le lon'Js or run emutv.
(3) With sailing vessels and tramp
steamers out or tbe way. and also with
sucb lines of steamer as omld not ob
tain bounty either reduced in number
and lit of hius or entirely removed
to for-iu watersthecondi ions for the
formU'O ) of a gigantic ocean steam
ship Trust would be ideal. The fact
thai our ocean wharfs and docks are
large y owo-d by railroads which are
also interested in various lines of
steamships would pive the way for
such a Trust.
(4) Sii' h conditions are not favor
able for lower freight rates on exported
farm products. A possible slight re-
auction during the nrst year or two,
while the government's favorites w-rb
getting rid of competition, would be
more than counterbalanced by tbe
artiflcialy high rates, once the Trust
was in lull control.
(5 ) It is certain that such a bill
would take hundreds of millions of
dollars from the people and distribute
them among certain shipowners. It is
not certain that any considerable por
tiou of tbese millions would, through
lower ra'es. higher wages to seamen or
shipbuilders, get rack to the farm
ers aud others who contributed to the
subsidy fund.
(6 ) It is of consequence to farmers
wnetner tneir products are exported
unaer American or under foreign
flags?
(7 ) Will any of the subsidy ever
get pt tbe .shipowners and into the
hands of wage earners?
lo. our snipouiiders need a
stimulus when they are already over
crowded with work?
(9) Is it not generally conceded
that we cad now build ships as cheaply
as any other nation?
(10.) Are we not destined, with or
wnnout DJunties, to become tbe great
maritime nation of the future, and
this even in spite of onr absurd and
antiquated navigation laws?
(IL) 8imilar subsidies have for
years been paid by France and Italy,
and have not resulted either in giving
them a mercantile marine or lower
freight rates, though tbe subsidies
have enabled the shipbuilders to get
high prices for their ships.
(18 ) English ships carry the
freights of the whole world on the high
seas, jet only .about S pr cent, of
these ships receive reasonable prices
forctrrying mail.
(13 ) Those who are the most eager
for "American built. American
owned, and American-manned mer
chant ships" are those who expect to
pocket the subsidies, and who will re
sort to any means to get this bill
through congress. Such resounding
woras mean ior most people only
higher taxa.
(14 ) Tne fact that this subside
scheme is launched by the very people
wuu are to DeciMU oy it, and is pro
moted almost entirely by the must
persistent atd rapacious lot of bounty
oeggars- mat ever beset congress.
ought to condemu it ia the eyes of
honest cililets.
fir i
xuesaay we published an ex
tract from an article in the Phila
delphia Manufacturer showing how
the subsidy scheme ignores lake
shipping clearing for foreign ports. I
The framers of this bill might, how- I
ever, to placate opposition from this would have been incomparably bet
source, iuclade lake vessels engaged ter off, and industrially would have
in foreign commerce. There are prospered and progressed as other
not many of that kind now, but be
fore this subsidy scheme gets well
under way,, if it ever does, there
might be a good many, if they could
stand the competition by the subsi
dized ships. But there is enough
in these fourteen objections to doom
this scheme in the estimation of any
honest man, however anxious he
may be to see an American
mer-
chant marine or to
see our corn-
merce expand.
In this scheme the obligation is
all on one side - without auy balanc
ing obligation on the other. The
Government obligates itself to pay
ship owners a . stated amount of
subsidy on the freight they carry,
regardless of the number of ships
they may operate, the amount of
freight they , carry, or the number
oftrips they might make. They
might carry as much or as little
freight as they chose, and they
might make as many or as few trips
as they chose. Of course the sub
sidy as far as freight is concerned
would be regulated by the amount
of freight carried, but if the pur
pose ia to promote the extension
of onr commerce then there should
be some obligation . imposed on the
beneficiaries of the subsidies to do
their part in providing ample trans
portation for our shippers. As far
as We can see the only reciprocal oh
ligation imposed on the ship owners
wno receive suosiaies is on tbe
iteamera which are required to carry j
tne United States ' mails " without
charge. Bat as the bona to this
I class of ships is princely they can
very well afford to do that.
They are under no obligations or
limitations as to freight charges.
That is a matter which may be regu
lated altogether according to their
own interests, freights being high or
low, in accordance with the compe
tition they have to meet, or the con
ditions as they may shape or control
them. They might make the freights
low to drive out competition, which
they might do by combination, aided
by the subsidies received, and when
they had done that put the freights
np to their own figure, just as the
beneficiaries of the protective tariff
do when they have a - monopoly.
American railroads are now paying
a hundred per cent, more for steel
rails than they ought to be required
to pay, and with this subsidy scheme
in operation and shipping combines
or Trusts formed, as they would be,
our shippers might soon find them
selves paying a hundred per cent.
more for freight than they ought to
pay, that is on the assumption that
the subsidies would do what it is
olaimed they will, give American
ship owners control of our commerce.
And then what assurance have we
that these subsidies, which it is now
asserted will be only temporary, may
not be perpetual, or .that if they be
withdrawn the men who receive
them may not go out of the shipping
business, and throw us back again on
foreign or unsubsidized ships? The
protective tariff was to be only tern'
porary, Due it has lasted in exag
gerated degree for four decades, and
it wiil take pretty hard fighting to
get it down to moderate figures,4f
we ever do. We might run the sub
sidy business for. a number of years,
pay out millions of dollars, princi
pally to a class of ships which ren
dered but little service as commerce
promoters, then find ourselves with
out a merchant marine, and the
whole business a failure, the mil
lions expended squandered on men
who did little or nothing to earn the
money.
WHAT 8LAVEEY DID FOB THEM
slavery is nnding defenders in
some unexpected quarters these
days. A few days ago Maj. B. H.
Pratt, superintendent of the Indian
Training School at Carlisle, Pa.,
delivered an address before a teach
ers institute in which he said that
slavery had been a boon to the ne:
groes, whom it brought from sav
agery to civilization and in - touch
with the white race. A colored
Bishop, in a letter, took exception
to what he said. . to which Maior
Pratt replied in an open letter as
follows:
"What I did sav was that slaver
naa orougni iu.uuu.uuu or blacks from
the torrid zone into this enlightened
country, and bad taught them a new
language and bad prepared them by
association for citizenship, and that
no Christian or other civilized schema
that I know of in the history of the
world bad done or was canable of do-
ing a icing use mat.
! -s .
"we blame tbe neonle of the South
for Jim Crow cars, and vet v our own
people are regularly in the Jim Crow
car business everywhere by this reli
cious. school and local organizing.
The United States makes a constitu
tional amendment that there shall
be no distinction on account of
race, color or nrevioua condition
of servitude. Then immediately
Congress legislates that there shall
be two regiments of cavalry and twr
of infantry made up entirely of col
ored men. So the Government sets
tbe example in the Jim Crow car busi
ness. But it is a lonsr Question. I
have thought about it for a great many
vears. I do not regret that I fought
from April, 1881, to May, 1865, for tbe
ireeaom or your peopi-.
"You certainly have no eroundu tn
quarrel with slavery unless you regret
oeing transplanted from the jungles
of Africa and your low estate there to
tbe citizenship, freedom, and intelli
gence in the United States you now
enj y, for slavery was the bridge that
carried jou over, and there was not
and is not another bridge equal to do
mat joo. II
The real gainer from slavery, as
far at least as this country is con
cerned, was the negro. If there had
neve been a slave brought into the
South, the white people of the South
sections did.
D. Q. Mills, the millionaire phi
lanthropist of New York, has got
himself into trouble. He has erec
ted two big hotels for the accommo
dation of respectable people who
cannot afford to pay the prices
charged in the nobby hotels. One
of them a few nights ago entertained
a lawyer with one undershirt. Some
how the lawyer slipped out of the
undershirt, which disappeared, and
now the lawyer is suing Mr. Mills
and wants to grind 75 cents dam
ages ous oi mm. Mr. Mills isn't
worried so mnch over the 75 cents
demanded but he objects, to being
held as guardian over fugitive un
dershirts.
mere are in the United States
.444,527 school houses and other
buildings devoted to edncation,
valued at $524,689,255. There are
415,660 teachers, of whom 131,793
are men and 283,867 women. The
sefcfM bill for the vaai irqq .
$197)81,603, or $3.32 per capita
for children of school age.
Jim O wen, a tramp, was hanged
in Illinois last Friday for the mur-
3 M Li j -r.
uer uj. anobuer tramp. j lm was a
Kentuckian, and a college graduate,
who went crooked, was disowned by
his people and took to the road.
his people and
When he started tramping he didn't
exneet to end it with a awinir.
TE03I PAGimD ISIAVD3.
. The Washington war managers
will go slow in bringing home the
soldiers in the Philippines whose
terms o'f enlistment will expire next
June. It is . now conceded that
there must be a force of 6,000 men
kept in the islands and therefore
the work of bringing back soldiers
now there must move Blowly and in
accordance with the provisions made
to replace them with recruits. As
showing how the soldiers jiow there
like or rather dislike the service,
there .is no disposition to re-enlist,
and therefore Gen. MacArthur sug
gests offering a bounty of $250 as an
inducement. But that would hardly
be temptation enough, for a soldier
who is really anxious to get out of
that mess, as nine out of ten ' of
them doubtless are.
But if they have to offer such a
bounty to keep the necessary force
up in those islands this will add
another pretty large item to this
already very expensive war, remark
ably expensive in view of the fro
quent official declarations that the
war was over, the only remaining
resistance being by a handful of
malcontents.
There is no intimation as to how
long it mav be necessary to keen a
I force of 60,000 men in the islands.
0 rf . rf L
but the presumption is that they
mast be kept there until those
"semi-savages" are civilized and
trained to like the American way of
doing things. Judging from the
slow progress made so far this job
will last for some years to come at a
cost of many millions annually. If
it were closed up now it would take
a good many years to get even on
the money that has already been
expended, not to speak of the lives
that have been and the others that
will be sacrificed. What a wretched
blander this whole shotgun expan
sion has been.
IT DEPESD3 UP0S THE CUBANS.
Considerable comment is being
made on a speech recently delivered
by Gen. Lee, at Omaha, in which,
speaking of Cuba, he said that the
duration of American occupation
would depend upon the Cubans
themselves, that this Government
was pledged to see a "stable govern
ment" established on the bland, and
until that was done and the Cubans
showed they were fully capable of
self-government, and giving full
protection to life, property, etc., we
could not withdraw from the island.
This is about as far as any one in
any way connected with the Gov
ernment has gone on this line, so
mas tne question or. evacuation is
one of the things that the future
must determine and "will depend on
the Cubans themselves." But will
it depend on the Cubans themselves?
Who will determine whether they
have a "stable" government, they,
orthe administration at Washing
ton?" They may establish a govern
ment that would suit them, that
would do all' that they think a gov
ernment ought to do, and yet that
may not be a "stable" govornment,
according to the American idea,
especially of those Americans who do
not want to let go of the "Pearl of
the Antilles" after once getting a
grip on it.
All this talk about a "stable gov
ernment" is simply a part of the
game the grabbers are playing to
tarry there until an "annexation"
sentiment can be worked up and the
island taken in, as Hawaii was.
That will be all right if it comes
right, but the people who are work
ing for annexation ' don't care
whether it comes right or wronsr.
The flag is up and they think we
own Cuba now.
The Crane Company, of Chicago,
distributed 9100,000 as a Christmas
gift among its 3,000 employes, each
one getting a sum equal to five per
cent, of the wages earned during
the year. This company has a
Btriking way of showing its interest
in its employes, and consequently it
is never troubled with strikes.
When it struck on that plan as a
harmony promoter it made a ten
strike. New York city is behind on cows
as compared with a number of other
cities, but is ahead on goats. It has
only 6 cows to the 100,000 in
habitants, but 73 goats. But the
goat is encouraged in New York as
an assistant disposer of garbage.
The lynchers of those three ne
groes recently, in Indiana, have dis
covered that one of them was 'inno
cent, and now they are disappointed
because they wasted all that energy
on the wrong fellow.
The Boer war was hard on tbe
horses as well as on the John Bulls.
A London paper says over f100,Q00
horses have perished in that' neck of
land up tothis time.- i
Some bad men in Baltimore formed
a combine, gobbled np all the Christ
mas turkeys, and made the people
Who wanted turkey shell out. .
$100 Keward, $100.
The readers Of thUr nannr will to nlwuuul n
learn that there is at least oh dreaded disease
that setonce bas been ablt to core In all its
stages and that is Catarrh. Ball's Catarrh
Cure is tne only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Citarrh being a Constitu
tional diwia-e, requires a con cur tonal treat
meiit. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally.
aoTtiur direotiy npoa the blood and mucous
Burac?s or tne system, uwrenr destrojlns tbe
foundation of tbe disease, and giving the patient
strength by building np the coofcti union and
aselsttne natntw In doti m Ha wnrk Th nmnpio.
"tors hare so much faith Tn Its eorolT powes.
that f ey offe- one Hnndered Dollars for any
cane that it falls 10 cure, send for list of test!
monlals.
Addrsfs F. J. CH15XT CO Toledo, O.
gold by Dragglsts, uc
Hall's ramify Fills are the best. t
Every cotton planter should
write forourvaluableiUustrated
pamphlet, " Cotton Culture."
It is sent free.
Send name and address to
GERMAN
KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., N. Y.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON S. A. L.
Negro Brakemia Killed and Coatfnctor
Love bared at Crooly Saturday by
Freight Train Parting.
An accident occurred at Cronlji on
the Seaboard Air Line, Saturday night,
in which a colored brakeman. whose
name is unknown, was instantly killed.
and (Japt Love, conductor of the
freight train, was badly burned and
bruised.
A freight train was going down a
grade and broke in two. - When the
engineer slowed down at Cronly, the
back , section of the train which had
broken loose, crashed into the front
part of the train with much force. Up
to the time of the collision nobody
knew that the train had parted.
Tbe negro brakeman, .who was in
the caboose, had his head out of the side
door when the collision' occurred and
the door was forcibly shut and caught
the negro's head, breaking his- neck.
Capt Love was thrown violently
against the stove in the caboose and
was painfully burned. Bis arm was
severely hurt and he also received sev
eral bad bruises on his body. No one
else was hurt aud there was very little
damage to the train. The engine and
caboose were detached from the train
and brought the injured conductor
back to Wilmington, and as soon as
he arrived was sent out to the City
Hospital, where he received the neces
sary medical attention. The negro's
body was sent to Hamlet for buriaL
It 8a ve4 HI Leg.
P. A.Danfortb. of LaGraDpa. Oa .
suffered intensely for six months with
a frightful running sore on his leg.
but writes that Buckien'a Arnica
Salve wholly cured it in ten days.
For Ulcers. Wounds, Burns, Boils,
Pain or Piles it's the best salve in the
world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c
Sold by B R. Bellamy, druggist, t
SUNDAY SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
la tie Lecture Room of the First Baptist
Church Last Evening.
The Sunday school entertainment
in the lecture room of the First Bap
tist church last night, was a yery de
lightrul affair and was very largely
attended. The evening: was enjoyably
spent by those present and . the pro
gramme rendered was highlyj enter
taining. After a song: by the school and a
recitation by Mr. Guy Lemoin, a
beautiful cantata, "The Charmed Gar
den," was presented by children of the
infant class. The staire was effectively
decorated and a picturesque look
ing background representing a garden
wall was, filled with charms. The
fairy queen was Miss Lucile Biley,
and the three roses were Misses Hattie
McEachern, Mary Wescott and. Bessie
Whitney.
The wall was torn down and the
gifts, -which consisted of fruits and
candies, were distributed among the
children of the Sunday School by Santa
Glaus, Mr. George E Leftwich. 1
Tbe success of the entertainment is
due to the efforts of Mrs. EL Q. jTen
nell, Mrs. John Hanby and Miss Liszie
Strathers, who had it in chatge.
"HALL & PEAKS ALL, INCORPORATED."
Charter Has Been Issoed to Wen Known
Wholesale Firm of Wilmivtoa.
r Application has been made to the
Secretary of State for incorporation
papers for the firm of "Hall Pear
sall, incorporated," of this citjf. The
capital stock is named at $60,000 with
the privilege to increase at any time to
$200,000. The principal incorporators
are Messrs. B. F. Hall and Oscar
Pearsall and they propose to conduct a
general wholesale grocery business.
The firm of Hall & Pearsall bas for
many years been one of Wilmington's
largest and most influential mercan
tile enterprises and the gentlemen who
now ask for a charter- in the new
name are those who founded the busi
ness many jears sgo and fostered it to
its present yery large proportions.
This evidence of the firm's continued
growth and prosperity will be received
by friends and customers in a very
large territory with much pleasure.
Schooner Made Fast Time.
Tbe schooner Cora M, Capt. Mitchell,
which arrived in port yesterday and
which trades here regularly, succeeded
in making record breaking time from
this port to Porto Rico on her last
trip. She took a cargo to Mayaguez,
discharged and arrived here on there
turn in twenty-three dsys. " She came
light on the return with the exception,
of 5,000 oranges whichlshe brought for
private parties. The vessel will load
lumber at the Kidder Lumber Com
pany's mill.
Dr. Strange Was ILL,
- The Richmond Dispatch of the 25th
insL says: ' -
"Bev. Dr. Kobert Strange, who was
to preach hit. first sermons Sunday as
rector of St. Paul's church, was ill all
day, and unable to fill either appoint
ment. Large congregations came out
to hear Dr. Strange, and many regrets
were expressed at the rector's illness.
His ' sickness, however, was by no
means serious, and be will be able to
preach at 11 o'clock this morning. He
will be assisted by Bey. L. B. Levering."
IT MAY BE MORDBR.
Young W hite v A' an Received
: juries That Will Likely
; Prove Fatal.
In-
HIS SKUl L WAS. CRUSHED IN.
Found oa the Street Chrisftoss Nixkt and
Picked Up for a Drunken Maa-Many
v Hours Without Sorriest Atten
tion Ab Operation.
- jonn uaam, a young white man,
well known to many people in the
city, is in a ward at the City Hospital
with a compound fracture of the skull
which will very likely cost him bis
life. At whose hands the wound was
received is a mystery to the police and
unless he regains consciousness before
his probabledeath,his murderer or mur
derers will likely never be brought to
justice. . - ' ' :'
Oa Christmas night rather early,
some persons passing on Fourth be
tween Church and Castle street stum
bled up oa Odam lying on the side
walk " in an insensible condition
Knowing bis general reputation for
drunkenness and not examining him
for wounds, the persons who found
tbe unfortunate young man, picked
him. up and carried him into one of
tne several nouses of unsavory repu
tation in that vicinity and requested of
the proprietress that he be allowed to
"sleep off his drunk" there. Odam was
carried into a room, placed on the floor
and left for the balance of the night.
Tbe inmates of the house did not arise
yesterday morning until 13 o'clock.
and upon investigation they found that
Od.nr ws still ljiug on the floor in
the position he was left about fifteen
hours before. Further investiga
tion showed an ugly wound on his
bead and a surgeon was quickly
called. The wounded man was sent
to the hospital and it was then ascer
tained that his skull was completely
crushed in and that he was most
probably fatally injur d. .
Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock
Dr. F. H. Russell assisted by Drs. W.
J. H. Bellamy, J. C. Shenard.
K ' J. Wood and Jamea M.
Hall performed a trepanning oper
ation and at last accounts this morn
ing he was doing very' well and ex
hibittd some signs of recovery.
Odam is about 25 years of age and
was a volunteer in the Spanish
American war. For some time he
conducted a small fish and oyster
buuaess in the Front street market
bouse and more recently he joined
- 1 WW
ine u. o. revenue cutter service as a
seaman aboard the Alaonauin. Stall
more recently he was dismissed from
the service and for the rast several
weeks had been unemployed. j
8peaking of the case laat night Chief
of Police Parmele said, after detailing
the particulars of the finding of young
Odam : .
"An investigation established the
fact that John Odam and four other
companions arrived at the corner of
Fourth and Castle streets about 9
o'clock, all more or less under the in
fluence of liquor. They met at this
corner W. H. Costin and another party.
unknown. Odam accosted them rough
ly and asked thena to furnish some
thing to drink for the . crowd. This
Costin and his companion stated they
were unable to do. Odam told them
that they lied.and struck Costin in the
mouth with his fist, cutting Coetin'a
lip. Costin returned the blow, and
they sparred for a moment, until Cos-
tin wrenched a paling off the fence and
made at Odam with it Odam ran
across the street and back again, to
where his friends stood, Costin pursuing
him. Two of Odam's friends interfered
and tried to stop the fight, and while
they stood between Costin and Odam
trying to settle the matter peacefully.
a party, they say unknown to any of
them, struck Odam on the back of the
head with a fence paling, knocking him
down. Two of Odam's companions, 8.
G. Watson aud Walter Bell, picked
Odam up and carried him to tbe house
of Josie Drew, where one of her women
did what she could to assist his two
riends to quiet Odam, They bathed
his bead with camphor and finally, as
they thought, he went to sleep. None
of them, as they claim, thought he was
seriously hurt.
''The police believe that they have
reliable information as to who struck
tbe fatal blow, although all of those
immediately around Odam profess to
be densely ignorant as to who the as
tailant was!"
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when bilious or costive.
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Jen own to act most Aeiencialfc
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NICE BABY
All babies are'
"nice,"
to
their mothers." :. J -i
We all lpve children. Great
big men, with hard hands,
have soft hearts - for - helpless
new-comers to earth with the
smile of heaven fresh on their
innocent faces. "No man is too
high or low, too proud or hum
ble, too busy or idle, too good
or bad, too great or small ex
cept' a few very small mean
men to 'throw up their hats
at the sight of a plump little
cherub; or to pity a thin one.
Plumpness and thinness are
accidents. Nature is boiinti
ful ; parents want to be. Scott's
emulsion or. coa-liver oil cor
rects their mistakes. ;
We'll tend yon s little to try If youjike.
SCOTT & BOWNE, . 409 Pearl street, N-w York.
KILLED A Bid BEAR.
Onslow County Farm! r Had Thrilling Ex
. perience on His Place Satnrdsy.
Among the curiosities on Market
street Sunday afternoon, was a 196
pound bear which a farmer killed
Saturday on his farm in Onslow
county. The farmer, who brought
the bear here to sell him, said he was
out squirrel hunting, his dogs treed, and
When he came up to the tree expected
to find a squirrel,' he was surprised to
see a bear instead. His gun failed to
fire twice and about: that.; lime the
animal descended from bis position in
the tree and engaged in a fierce fight
with his dogs. The bear then climbed
another tree nearby and he brought
him down with a load of bird shot
from his muzzle loader gun. The ex
perience was rather an interesting one
for the farmer and hia dogs.
PROMOTED TO .GENERAL AGENT.
Mr. Wa. W. Harris, Jr.. Is Advaaclag
Rapidly la Railroad Easiness.
Mr. William White Harriss, Jr.,
a former Wilmington boy, and a son
of onr esteemed townsman. Dr. W.
W. Harriss, is making quite an envi
able mark for himself in the railroad
business, and his many friends here
will be glad to hear of his success: He
has been appointed general agent of
the Gainsviile and Gulf Railroad
Company, with headquarters at Gains
viile, Fia. : The appointment will go
into effect on January 1st
At the time of his promotion he was
local agent at Gainsviile, and had
been before, that time in the employ-
.ment of the Florida Central and Pen
insular railroad.
Aa Aged Lady Isjnred.
xars. uary u. Mouaniei, the vener
able mother of Mr. J. B. McDaniel,
lurem&a 01 tne btab'8 composing
rooms, suffered a severe acccident on
Christmas afternoon about 5:30 o'clock
oj 1 ailing irom tne irons steps or a
residence at which she had just called
and from which she was returning to
tbe home of her son at No. 409 Church
street Mrs. McDaniel is 74 yearn of
age and her physicians are as yet un
able to determine how serious the
injuries really are. .
r
Burst la His Hand, j
A young negro at Rocky Point had
one of his hands badly mutilated!yeste-
day by a cannon cracker bursting in
it He was betting with some by
standers that he could hold the cracker
in his hand when it exploded As a re
ams 01 nis louy, au 01 nis nngers on
one hand were blown off except the
thumb and little finger.
Raleigh Netos and . Observer:
In November Miss Clara Barton, urea.
mem 01 tne itea uross Keller Associa
tion, then operating at Galveston.
placed with the Continental- Plant
Company (O. W. Blacknall & 8ons),
of Kitrell, an order for 1.000.000
atrawDerry plants. This was prob
ably the lanrest order of the kind
ever placed, with one exception, the
same company bavins once before
oooked an order for 1.800.000 nlant
These plants were for distribution
among the fruit srowera of that nart
or xexas wmcn suitered such devasta
m a . - r -
tion from the storm that destroyed
uaivesion. un Sunday "Nib'
err a- a. .
wasmngton, a-coiorea woman, en
tered the home of Miss Mollie Merritt
a young white woman, in Golrfsboro.
and severely beat her. - Miss Merritt
is a dress maker, and had finished a
dress for the woman. The latter
called for the dress and when told
that she could not take it away till
psid for, the negro declared she would
take it and assaulted Miss Merritt
beating her severely. Afterwards ahe
ransacked ths house. .
Greenville Reflector: We de
not believe that Pitt county has had a
more cold blooded and unprovoked
murder than one that occurred at
Falkland Saturday, when John Par
ker wilfully slew Elex Little, both
parties wniie. Saturday mornmc
John Parker was sworn in a special
policeman at Falkland. During the
night be heard a noise in Nichols bar
and went in to tell the parties inside
to maxe less noise. Aiex Millie was
in there quietly settling Borne bills.
Parker said to Little "You are the
very man I have been lookin? for. I
understand you said no Falkland pol
iceman could arrest you." . To this
Little replied "I have made no such
remark and had no occasion to make
it for I have done nothing to be
arrested for." ''Come take a drink
with me then." said Parker, f Little
a areed to take the drink with Parker.
They went up to the counter and the
drinks were poured out when JParker
stepped back and said. "Before we
take this drink I want to know if you
will take back what you said."' Little
again replied "I have said nothing to
take back-. What is the matter with
you?" Quick as a flash Parker drew
hia pistol andemptied it into Little,
killing him almost instantly. Parker
made his escape. v
m-m-m
An unknown American steamer
went ashore on the reef a few miles
south of Miami, FUt, Tuesday. The
sea has been running so high since
that wreckers have been unable -to
reach her.
HEARINGS RESUMED.
; Railway Tax Assessment Cases
t " Aomin Rpfawt fnrlar CtiAn. ' '
berd in Wflmington. - -
EVIDENCE FOR THE STATE.
More Thsa a Haadred Witnesses to. Be
Examined f ren This and Adjoining
" Counties Scbednle of Work
Laid Out for Several Dsys. .
The North Carolina Corporation
Commission will resume the taking Of
the testimony of its witnesses in the
railway tax assessment cases in the U.
8. court room in this city this morning
at 9 30 o'clock. A large number of
witnesses were heard for the Commis
sion in Raleigh last week, and for the
convenience of. those from this section
who- expect to testify, tbej sittings of
the standing master's court were trans
ferred to Wilmington and .will con
tinue here until January 1st, if, in
deed, not longer. The hearing is, of
course, before ex Judge Sbepherd.who
will take the evidence and submit it to
Judge Simonton. The status of the
cases are now. so familiar to the gen
eral public that a review of preceding
events in tie litigation is unnecessary.
The railroads have already submitted
tbeir direct evidence, and tbe Corpora
tion Commission will now have five
months in which . to submit evidence
supporting its contentions in the suits.
When this ia concluded the railroads
will then have an additional six weeks
in which to present evidence non
cumulative and strictly-in reply to that
offered by the commission. The case will
then be argued before Judge Simonton
and decided.
There are more than a hundred
witnesses for examination here, con
sisting principally of tax assessors
and others acquainted with the usual
rule of value for taxation in this
and adjoining counties. The next
hearing will be at Warsaw and thence
at points along; the W. & W. railroad
nntil the opening of the sessions of
the Legislature, when the hearings
will b temporarily abandoned, " as
many of the attorneys will be en
gaged at the State Capital during this
time and will be unable to Rive their
attention to the tax cases.
Col. John W. Hinsdale, of Raleigh,
and counsel for the Corporation
Commission, arrived last evening to
pe in attendance upon the hearings
this morning. Judge Shepherd and
other attorneys interested in the cases
are expected this morning, among
them beinsr Judse Connor: of Wilson.
and Capt Charles D. Price, of Salis
bury. Maj John D. Shaw, attorney
for the Seaboard Air Line Company,
is expected to morrow. George Roun
tree. Esq , of this city, will, of course,
be in attendance as counsel for the
A.'C. L. Railroad Company.
For convenience Bake it has been
decided to take the evidence of wit
nesses from, the several counties in
their order, as follows:
Pender Thursday, Dec. 27th.
Columbus Friday. Dec. 28th.
Brunswick Saturday, Dec. 29tb.
Bladen Monday, Dec. Slst
New Hanover Tuesday, Jan. 1st
Col. Hinsdale in speaking of this
arrangement, said last night that the
sub oenasmay not be served on all
tbe witnesses in time, but any witness
who is is not summoned in time to be
to be present on the day named for hia
county, is expected to come to Wil
mington as soon thereafter as possible
and report to him or Judge Connor at
The Orton or at the U. S. Court room.
The examinations will commence each
day at 9: SO o'clock A. M. and continue
until 5 o'clock or perhaps later in the
afternoon.
In regard to the amendment of the
answer asked by tbe State at tbe time
of the last hearing here. Col. Hins
dale said last night that Judge Simon
ton had refused it on the ground that
if the issue of undervaluation of rail
road property was already raised it
was not necessary to amplify it and
that if it was not raised by the former
answer, it is now too late. Since that
time, however, CoL Hinsdale says
that Judgj Simonton has written
Judge Shepherd to take all the testi
mony of this character presented and
that it will then be subject to excep
tion.
The hearing will begin promptly
this morning at 9 :30 o'clock.
NE0RO SUSPECTED.
Wife of a Well Kaowa Farmer
Found
Murdered ia Her Home.
Br Telegraph to the Koroma star.
Maoon, Ga., December 28. Mrs.
Dave Birdsong, wife of a well known
farmer living about six miles from
this city, was murdered at her home
this morning. John Battle, a neero
laborer, is suspected of the murder and
posses are now searching for bim.
Mr. . Birdsong and a friend went
hunting this morning, and on tbeir re
turn home the body of the woman wss
found, lying partly on her bed, with
her skull- fractured and stone dead.
Goldsboro Arausi An attempt
was msde Saturday niehtto "hold an"
Sheriff Scott by three unknown men
near the railroad bridge oyer Stony
Creek, but by havine a fast horse the
sheriff made good his escape. It is not
anown or even surmised for what sup
pose Ihe "hold up" was attempted.
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Wilmington, N.'c
SERIOUS RACE RIOT.
Negro Mob Armed With Pistols sod Rieg
- Make aa Attack Upon the. Whites.
Oae of the Negroes Killed.
-By Telegraph to the Morning 8tar.
MaooIjKNIYY, Fla , J)ec. 26 There
was a serious race riot in this place
yesterday afternoon. At 6 o'clock a
number of young ladies visited a photo
graph gallery and a negro woman
also in the gallery is alleged to have
used obscene language. 8hewascom
manded to keep quiet by a white man
Pfout A negro man, who accom
panied the negro woman, took the
matter up and it is alleged used insult
ing language to ihe young ladies. The
negroes retired and in a few minutts
a mob of negroes, armed with pistols
and rifles, assembled. One of them,
named Washington, opened fire on T.
M. H. Herndon with a Winchester. By
this time a crowd of whites bad assem
bled and opened fire on Washington,
who ran, firing back at the crowd. He
was pursued to a swamp nearby and
disappeared. The excitement in
creased but there was no further firing
until 9 o'clock last night when several
shots Jin quick succession were fired
in the business section of the town.
When the smoke cleared John Hun
ter, a negro, was found dead in the
street The coronerVjury returned a
verdict of killing by a gunshot wound
inflicted by a party or parties unknown-
The town is well guarded by
officers to prevent any recurrence of
the trouble.
Trast those ha have tried.
I SUFFERED from catarrh of the
worst kind and never hoped for cure,
but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do
even that Oscar Ostrom, 45 Warren
Ave., Chicago, 111. .
I SUFFERED from catarrh ; it got so
bad I could not work; I used Elj'a
Cream Balm and am ent rely well.
A. O. Clarke, 341 Shawmut Ave,
Boston, Mass.
A RECEIVER APPOINTED
For
the Old Town Bank of Baltimore.
It Has Recently Incurred Very
Heavy Losses.
Br Tefeerapb to the Morning Star.
Baltimore, Dec. 26 BogerT. Gill,
of the law firm of N. Eufus Gill &
80ns, was, late this afternoon, ap
pointed receiver for the Old Town
Bank by Judge Stock bridge. Theap
pointment was made with the consent
of the president and officers of the
bank.
Mr. Gill was bonded in the turn of
$1,600,000, the assets of the instiiution "
being valued at ha f that amount
George Schilling, a stockholder and
depositor, and Robert L Gill, a de
positor, were the complainants. In
tbeir statement to tbe court they
state:
"While the bank, until a recent
period, has done a successful and
profitable business, it has recently in
curred heavy losses by the bad faith
of Ha cashier, Theodore iF. Wilcox,
in that, without authority, he wrong
fully, without tbe knowledge of its
president or board of directors, per
mitted Isaac Robinson and the United
Milk Producers' Association to draw
from tbe bank large sums of money,
and incurred losses thereby which the
bank is unable to bear."
Storr of a Slave.
To- be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is tbe worst
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that she could not turn over in bed
alone. After using two bottles of
Electric Bitters, she is wonderfully
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A SENSATIONAL ARREST.
Young Society Woman Charted Witb Con
spiracy to Kill Her Divorced Hasbsnd.
By Telegraph tqthe Morning Btar.
Concord. N. H., December 26. A
sensational episode came to a climax
to-night in the arrest of Mrs. Carrie .
Sinclair Huntoon, 26 years of age, well
known in society, on the charge of
conspiracy with intent to kill her bus
band, Walter C. Huntoon, of whom it
la asserted she bas been extremely
jealous. Mrs. Huntoon had been
granted by the court a divorce' from
her husband on statutory trronnds.
On Monday Mrs. Huntoon, it is al
leged, went ' to Boston and. in the.
Union station thre, accosted a youne
man. William H. Dutton. of Dor
chester, a total stranger, askine bim
if he. was looking for work and
would like to earn a dollar. He ssid
he did not but she outlined to him to
kill her husband, promising a reward.
The police were notified and the ar
rest followed.
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