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THEN AND NOW4 -
When the Presidential Campaign
was in progress Mr. McKinley's
Philippine Commission in a report
on the conditions in tlie islands de
clared that if "McKinley was re
elected the insurgents would recog
nize the hopelessness of continuing
the struggle, would lay down their
arms. and that we would have peace
withitf sixty days. That declaration
was seized by the campaign orators
and it was rung from a thousand
platforms and Republican organs as
authority that was beyond doubt,
the foundation for which was be
yond question. This declaration
was supported by quotations from
military reports and soldiers' letter's,
all predicting the speedy collapse of
the "insurrection" in the event of
McKinley's election, and thousands
of voters who did not endorse the
Philippine " war policy voted for
McKinley because they believed
that his election would be tho
speediest way to the restoration of
peace in those islands, after which
the question of permanent occupa
tion could be discussed and settled.
They acted on the principle that "it
wasn't a good timet to swap. horses
while crossing a stream."
There isn't a Republican politi
cian from McKinley and Hanna
down to the smallest stumper and
machine follower who didn't tacitly
or openly endorse these predictions,
but the sixty days are up and how
much nearer are we to their verifica
tion than we-were then? There has
really been more fighting since the
election thau there was in the same
time before it, and if ther9 has been
any indication of a disposition on
the part of the "insurgents" to lay
down their arms and acknowledge
allegiance to this Government it has
not become apparent, but we have
the assurances of Gen. MacArthur
that 65,000, or 70,000 men will be
necessary fora long time yet to es
tablish the authority of this Govern
ment and establish law and order.
There is-no more talk about end
ing the war in sixty days, nor in
twice sixty,
purpose, is
hence the
That fake answered its
no longer useful, and
object of jt having.
been accomplished they practi
cally confess the fraud and - some
of them are now as candid
in admitting the difficulty of subdu
ing, those "semi-savages" as they
were loud in proclaiming the speedy
collapse of the "insurrection."
Having accomplished their purpose,
and elected McKinley they now
want a big army to carry out the
McKinley scheme of expansion and
are pleading the necessities "in the
Philippines, (where the trouble was
giving to be over in sixty days) as an
argument for a big army. They
show no reluctance now in admitting
that .they can't tell when it will
be. Ignoring the fact that
they herald their own duplicity
by endorsing predictions which
they knew to bo 'unfounded,
or bv tactlv conniving at
them, some of them from their places
in the U. S. Senate confess that
they didn't believe these predictions,
and don't believe. now that the end
of the trouble in these island is in
Bight. In the debate on the Army
Reorganization bill several days ago,
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, said:
"The Senator from Georgia will re
member that when this matter was up
for discussion a year ago, I said, to the
astonishment of everyone, that it would
take 50.000 or 60.000 men several years
in the Philippines. Nobody believed it
at that time, but it has turned out to be
correct, and it will continue to bS'ao.
It was Admiral Dewey's opinion
at one time that 5,000 men would
be enough to meet all the require
. ments of the situation, but that was
before the grab Bcheme had been de
veloped. It would have been enough
if the grab scheme had not been at
: tempted. A year ago Senator Sewell,
I who is a member of the Senate Mili-
c tary Committee, thought 50,000 or
1 60,000 men Would bo needed, with
out fixing any time limit. It will
continue to be so, he says, which
interpreted may mean two, ten or
twenty years. Senator Sewell doesn't
mind posing as a prophet now, al
though he didn't air his prophesy
much when that sixty-day prophesy
of the Taft commission was being
so conspiciously circulated and wide-
m ; :: n nr way Hj nii:rrr; ;k. -a - r
VOL. XXXII.
ly used. Now that there is no elec
tion pending he has no hesitation in
telling the Senate and the country
what he thought about it then, and
posing as S prophet who hasn't been
fooled.
But Senator. Sewell isn't alone.
There are others, others who do not
hesitate to virtually admit that they
believed the sixty-day prediction a
fake! Senator Garter, of Montana,
is the gentleman who a year ago or
more , frankly declared that there
was "neither sentiment nor religion"
in the grab business, but simply a
question, "would it pay?" If it
would pay they would hold on,
and if they concluded that it
wouldn't pay they would pull out.
But he believed it would pay. He is
now free to confess that we have a
large-sized job on hand, and thus
replied to some questions by Senator
.Bacon: -
"By the concurrent testimony of
all the officers having to do with the
situation, at least 60,000 men will be
required to maintain this police sys
tem.' "Mr. Bacon How long?
"Mr. Carter That remains to be
seen.
"Mr. Bacon In the opinion of the
Senator, how long?
"Mr. Carter I have not sufficient
knowledge upon which to base an
opinion that would be worthy of any
sort of reliance. I know as much
about it probably as the Senator from
Georgia and no more.
"Mr. Bacon The Senator recog
nizes, I presume, that it will be for an
indefinite period. I entertain a simi
lar opinion.
"Mr. Carter I think, the word 'in
definite' would fit verv'jwell.
There may be a preCty wide period
of time between sixty days and "in
definitely," but that is as near it as
Senator Carter is willing to go while
he is pleading for that big "police"
force, which is about as much of a
fraud as that sixty day, prediction
- - w
was. If they want police they ought
to say so and not ask for an army of
100,000 . soldiers. They propose,
however, to arm these ''police" with
guns, not clubs.
Senator Hawley is one of the
Senatorial fighters who believes in
walloping those little brown chaps
into humble submission, before he
would consent to let Uncle Sam
swap any remarks with them on the
peace question. He also connived
at the sixty day fake, as he virtually
confesses in the following. He is
now free to admit that we nave a
job on hand that we cannot finish
up in five or ten years. Speaking
of letters he has received from sol
diers in the islands, he said:
"Ihev have no idea that it will be
anything less than the greatest cruelty
to withdraw from the islands or to re
duce the force to 20,000 or anything of
that sort. Those people are tne ae
scendants of those who for 300 years
have been trampiea upon ana roDoea,
and whose gospel U is to hate their
ruler. They are constitutionally ene
mies of the man who is over them, for
whatever reason. They cannot be
cured in a week, in a month, in a year,
in ne or ten years."
This means that it cannot be fin
ished np as he thinks it' ought to be
on the McKinleSy plan. As there is
nothing more to be gained by decep
tion this Senator and his colleagues
quoted frankly confess that the Mc
Kinley administration has a large
sized job on its hands in the Philip
pines, and no sixty days business.
THE GROUT BILL.
The Grout Anti-Oleomargarine
bill is encountering so much opposi
tion that it will in all probability be
very much modified before it gets
through the Senate. Speaking of
the progress made in the Senate
Committee on Agriculture, which is
now giving the friends - and the op
ponents of that measure a "hear
ing, the Washingtonxorrespondent of
the New York Journal of Commerce
ru T..n;m
and Commercial Bulletin, under date
of the 8th inst., says:
"Some hard blows were struck to
day in the Senate Committee on Agri
culture at the bill imposing a tax of
ten cents per pound upon oleomarga
rine when colored. Senator Dolli
verl of Iowa, who was appointed to
the vacancy on the committee as
a friend of the dairymen, pre
aided over the hearing and tried to
put some puzzling questions to the
witnesses who appeared against the
bill, but he got at least all the facts
which he wanted from its opponents.
One of the strongest arguments was
made by Mr. Person, of the firm of
Ammon & Person, of Jersey City. He
was preceded by several represent
tives of the cotton seed oil industry in
the South, who. pointed out that the
destruction of the oleomargarine busi
ness woufd mean a serious loss to
them. About 200,000 barrels of refined
cotton seed oil, it was declared, are
used annually in making oleomarga
rine and the demand is increasing.".
Under the false pretence of pro
tecting the butter-makers of the
country from competition of fraud
elent and unwholesome compounds
this bill really strikes at the poor
who cannot afford to buy high-priced
butter, at the many people to whom
the oleomargerine industry gives
employment, and at the cotton seed
oil industry of the South which sup
plies such a large amount of the
material which is used in the manu
facture of oleomargarine.. It is
simply a scheme to give the butter
dealers of the country absolute con
trol of the market at the expense of
the people and of other "industries
which are as much entitled to live
and be protected as their business
is.'-
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AN EXAMPLE FOB ALL
The sermon" by Cardinal Gibbons
in Baltimore, last Sunday, from
which we made an extract a few
days ago, has attracted much atten
tion and been the subject of much
comment by the press. The anti
grab papers laud his ntterances as
they deserve, while the grab papers
which mentioned the sermon spoke
respectfully of it and of the "amia
ble," "sweet tempered" speaker,
who rebukes, them so kindly, but
nevertheless so keenly and forcibly.
The Philadelphia Press, deep-dyed
expansionist, commends the sermon
for its conservative tone, while the
Philadelphia Times thus comments
on it:
"Cardinal Gibbons' courageous de
nunciation of the military tendency of
the age is a most timely one. It is to
the lasting discredit of the American
people that such an utterance should
have been necessary. The history of
the century just closed, which has been
an almost unbroken record of costly
and bloody conflicts, the spectacle of
Europa turned into an armed camp
with 14.000,000 of its healthiest, most
Vigorous men withdrawn from the pro
ductive walks of life to be supported
by the exacting system of taxation
on the rest should have served both as
a text and sermon upon the injustice
and costliness of war to all who pos
sess the seeing eye, the bearing ear
and the power of reflection."
"Unfortunately the so-called civil
ized and Christian world seems to have
gone war mad. The cost of the main
tenance of ereat armies and the de
struction inflicted by great wars have
taught the present generation no les
son, if the present military craze can
be accepted as a true index of public
sentiment. It was quite time that one
preacher of Christianity of recognized
ability and world-wide influence
should insist that Christian nations at
the dawn of the twentieth century
should begin to practice a little the
peaceful tenets the Founder of Uhns
tianity taught. Cardinal Gibbons has
set an example that all Christian
clergymen ought to follow. Christ
taught his followers to propagate
Christianity by quite other agencies
than the sword, and Cardinal Ciibbons
has rendered humanity a service in
his denunciation of the war spirit of
the present age."
As the Times truly says he has
"set an example that all Christian
clergymen should follow," for who
can more appropriately rebuke and
attempt to stay this fell spirit of
grab and butchery of the weak, un
der the false pretence of spreading
civilization and Christianity, than
the ministers of the Prince of Peace
and the God of Righteousness.
THE
CONGRESSIONAL
TI0NMEHT.
APP0R-
The Burleigh Congressional Ap
portionment bill, which passed the
House of Representatives last week,
having passed the Senate without
change, the representation for the
different States will, after March 5,
1903, stand as follows:
Alabama.. 9
Arkansas.... 7
California 8
Colorado . . .' - 3
Connecticut 5
Delaware 1
Florida S
Georgia 11
Idaho... .... 1
Illinois... 25
Trfi,,. is
Iowa. ................. .......... .11
Kansas 8
Kftntnnkv " " 11
T.nii.t.n. 7
wQ: a
Maryland-' 6
5rlfr7'7: H
mimwatUWilH.
Minnesota 9
MiBBiBBinni 8
Z,.,. i
MoK...w r
XT tt'11 li'tll ' ' - o
New Teruw iq
m!I viry a?
" iuxa..
North Carolina.
North Dakota. . .
Ohio..:
Oregon.'. .,'
Pennsylvania. . .
Rhode Island...
South Carolina. .
South Dakota...
Tennessee
.10
... 2
...21
.2
...32
... 2
... 7
.10
Texas.
.16
Utah. 1
Vermont 2
Vermont.
Virginia
Washington....,
West Virginia. .
Wisconsin
Wyoming.. . .-.
.10
. 3
. 5
.11
. 1
This gives a membership of
386
against 357, as at present, an
in-
crease of 29. Under this bill none
of the States lose any representa
tion, while the following gain: New
York, Illinois and Texas, three each;
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Min
nesota, two each; Arkansas, Califor
nia, Colorado, Connecticut, Flonda,
jonisiana. Massachusetts, Missis
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina,
North Dakota. Washington, West
Virginia and Wisconsin, one each.
The Crumpacker bill providing for
a reduction of representation in the
Sonth in proportion to the number
of negroes disfranchised got its
Quietus in the House by a vdte of
136 against to 94 for it.
According to official reports the
losses to our troops in the Philips-
pines since August 6, 1898, were 692
killed, 439 died of wourids and acci-
dent8,'2,120 died of disease; total
deaths, 3,251; wounded 2, 547. Grand
total 5.789. The McKinley brand
of expansion conies high, not count
ing the dollars,
Poor old China will iave to 'do
some hustling to pay the $600,000,-
000 indemnity the rowers propose
to demand of her. The probabili
ties are that she will have to swap
.'em some real estate.
WILMINGTON. N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1901.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Of Florida's Gubernatorial
family nly one was born in the State.
Who dare accuse this people of nar
row proscription or of inability to
appreciate worth wherever found
in the ranks of Democracy? If all
are sons of the Sonth but one, let us
not lorget that the one is Governor.
Jacksonvelle Times-Union, and
- Senator Wellington com
plains that-the government has no
visible policy with, regard to the
Philippines. It appears to ns that
the policy of the government with
regard to tne irninppines is to let
Mr. McKinley do what he pleases,
as long as he pleases, whether any
body else is pleased or not. Nor-,
folk, Landmark, Dem.
It is estimated ihat the. Sen
ate Finance Committee is delaying
action on the Hduse Tax Reduction
bill until the fate of the ship Subsidy
bill and of other measures involving
heavy additional Federal expedittire'
snau nave been determined, i J, is
argued that the cut in the Revenue
should be adjusted to the measure of
probable expenditure. If tax reduc
tion shall fail the taxpayers will un
derstand the reason. Philadelphia
Record, Dem. ...
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Reapportionment May Change the Sixth
District Indifferent As lo the
Dockery Contest.
. Special to Raleigh Posf.l
So far as the figures of North Caro
lina have been examined here as to in-'
creases in a general way by reason of
the reapportionment, the Piedmont
district shows the greatest increase,
and it may be that a new district can
bs carved out of this section. An
other proposition that has been ad
vanced is to form a uew district with
Mecklenburg county as the backbone.
This county can be taken from Con
gressman Bellamy's district and still
leave him with sufficient population
to form a district. As now constituted
under the census of 1900 the Sixth dis
trict has a population of 248,000.
Mecklenburg county has a population
of S8.000. Taken out, the district
would have a population of 193.000.
about the number required under the
new apportionment bill.
unaurman weaver nas been impor
tuned and button-holed for the past
week to call his committee together so
that a report could be made to the
House in the Dockery Bellamy con
test. So far he is unmoved or indif
ferent. It is certain that should the com
mittee assemble and a vote be taken.
the majority report would be in favor
of Bellamy. There seems no present
prospect tnat the House will nave an
opportunity to vote on the case this
Congress. During the last few days
or this Uongress Mr. w eaver may re
port the case, so tnat both the contes
tant and contes lee may receive $2,000
each, the usual sum allowed each party
by uongress for expenses in contested
election cases.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPBCI.
Confederate Veterans' Camp, of Qoldsbero,
Honors Name of General Lewis.
Special Star Correspondence."
Goldsboro, N. C, January 11.
At a meeting of Thos. RuEin Camp
No. 798, U. C. V., held herr on Janu
ary 8tb, 1901, a committ e was an
notated to draft resolutions of resoect
I in memory of Comrade General Wm
1 Gston Lewis. The following resola-
1 were uouuiuguiMj auupiea:
I Resolxxd, That it is with sincere re-
I gret that we have heard of the death
01 our inenu ana uomraue. vxenerai
Wm. G. Lewis; that in the
General Lewis the State h
I ...... J rr- . rr. , r
I Thos- Raffln 798 U a V- deoted
1 d best loved comrade; that in all
said of General Lewis, "that he was
I true to ms irust ana iaiiniui 10 nis
J friends."
I . That these resolutions be inscribed
I on a page of our records and a copy
sent to the family of the deceased and
I , . ... T-,-!t. XT -
also to the Raleigh News and Observer
and Post Wilmington Messenger and
Star, and Goldsboro Argus wnn a re
quest that they publish.
(Signed, b. W. lsler, w. 1. Smith,
D. J. Broadhurst, 8. B. Hollowell and
Thos Hill, committee.
STORE BURNED IN ROBESON.
; . ,
Second Largest
Mercantile Establishment
in County Destroyed by Fire.
Special Star, Correspondence.
Lxjmbebton. N. 0.. Jan. lL The
store, of Bullock Bros., at Alfoxdsville,
this county, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night causing an esti
mated loss of $11,000 with insurance
amounting to $6,000. It was the
second largest establishment of its
kind in the county and will be replaced
at an early date. The origin of the
fire is unknown and Mr. Ij. tl. uui-
loch, who slept in the store, escaped
with difficulty.
J. B. Sellers.- & Do., of Maxion,
have filed a deed of assignment here
naming J. H. Cook, Esq., as assignee.
Assets and liabilities are unknown.
Wreck Near Hope Mills.
The Fayetteville Observer of yester
day afternoon, says:
"The freight train which left here
this morninc at 7 o'clock for Bennetts-
ville, met with a mishap at nope
Mills, which resulted in the turning
over of the engine. Luckily the en
gineer and fireman jumped just in
lime to save themselves, it seems
that a defect in the track lust this side
of the station had been discovered and
a signal set to give the coming train
hut the sicnal was over
looked and the engine, wnicn was just
about to come to a stop, ran over it
and was nrjseL The track was cleared
within two hours and tne tram went
on its way."
Rev. J. W. . Cobb, formerly
with the North Carolina. Baptist at
Fayetteville, will succeed Mr. J. C.
Caddell as travelling representative of
the Biblical Recorder.
The last quarantine in the city
wan raised vesterdav. ... There is now
not a contagious disease in Wilming
ton.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The Message of Governor Rus
sell Was Read in Both
Houses.
A FEW BILLS INTRODUCED.
In the Senate, to Repeal the Oreensboro
Dispensary LawIn the House, to
Regulate Labor In Textile Fac
tories Other Bills
V Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, January 10. The
General Assembly met at noon to day
and received the message of Governor
Russell, which was read and ordered
printed. In the introduction the mes
sage congratulates the State on the
fact that' cotton manufacturing in
North Carolina is increasing beyond
the dreams of the most thoughtful
men" of the past. Work in the eco
logical survey is reviewed. The Ag
ricultural Society and Agricultural
Department are commended most lib
erally to the Assembly. It is recom
mended that a liberal treatment be
given the State University and Nor
mal School and the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, and all charita
ble institutions. Special emphasis is
put on the necessity of establishing
a State reformatory, and action is
strongly recommended. The litiga
tion in which the State was in
volved the past two years is
reviewed and the Legislature is
advised to clear the stock in the
North Carolina Railroad Company of
liens, so that ' the proceeds can be
available for school and other mir-
poses. The Governor says the reve
nues of the State are not adequate to
the demands of the times; reports
showing a deficit' of $29,821.08 for last
year. Referring to this matter, he
says if charities are to be sustained and
enlarged to meet the manifest wants
and relieve the sufferings of unfortu
nate and abolish existing horrors such
as confinement of lunatics in common
jails and in. private houses with fami
lies unable to care for them and with -out
means of proper treatment; if re
formatories are to be established, and
if legitimate wants of the University
are to be met; if common schools are
to be enlarged; the General Assembly
mubt find additional sources of income.
Attention is directed to the fact that, if
a good price is obtainable, that the
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad
property will -furnish good assets
available for increased expenditure.
Recommendation is made that the
Governor's salary be increased to an
amount nearer in keeping with the
demands and dignity of the office,
The present salary is not adequate.
and entails serious pecuniary loss on
a man of moderate . means who quits
-personal earning to be Governor on
$3,000 a year.
in conclusion, the message says:
There are subjects ' of legislation
worthy of your consideration and not
specially mentioned in this message.
Among these are the establishment of
a code commission; increase of the
number of superior court judges; res
toration of authority to the judges to
limit or regulate the time consumed in
nisi prius trials; and equal if not su
perior in importance to all other sub
jects of legislation, is the enactment of
an election law by which every con
stitutional elector shall be able to vote
and have his vote counted as cast.
The Legislature.
In the House a bill to change the
name of the Guardian Security Trust
and Deposit Company of Wilmington
to the People's Savings Bank, passed
a second reading ; also its readings in
the Senate.
Rountree introduced a bill to revise
and digest the laws of the State.
Nichols, to amend the Code of
North Carolina in the school law.
Wright, to regulate labor in textile
factories by prohibiting work by child
ren under eleven years and compel
ling children between eleven and fif
teen to attend school three months in
the year. Hours of labor are limited
to eleven, except by special contract
The following were announced as
the Committee on Privileges and
Elections: Winston, Watts, Thomson,
Weaver, Spinghur, Nicholson, Daught
ridge, Lawrence and McCulloch.
In the Senate a bill was introduced
by Glenn to repeal the Greensboro
Dispensary law.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 11. The bill
of most importance to the people of
the lower Cape Fear introduced in the
House of Representatives to-day was
by Carlton, of Duplin, to prevent
obstruction to the passage of fish in
Cape Fear and Northeast rivers, by
the use of stationary nets, it is
claimed that these nets threaten to
drive out small fishermen and ulti
mately seriously curtail the supply of
fishrin the ' upper channels. The bill
is not ODDOsed by New Hanover's
representatives.
Bill by Rountree, to prohibit the
making of artificial islands in Myrtle
Grove Sound, for laying off fishery
claims.
Bill by Rountree, to allow Commis
aioners of New Hanover to pay the
chairman a stated salary, as practiced
now in Mecklenburg and other coun
ties. Also, by Rountree, a bill to em
power New Hanover Commissioners
to sell the old court house.
By D&ughteridge, bill to allow
Rocky Mount to issue bonds for elec
tric lights and sewerage.
The bill to repeal Guilford County
Dispensary law, which passed the
Senate yesterday, passed the House
today.
The bill to amend the Code by mak
ing the Governor's salary four thou
sand dollars, passed readings in the
Senate and was referred to la special
committee Rountree, Hood. .Hayes.
uomns, tobm8on ror report: : It : is
expected o be amended . to five thou
sand dollars! when"reported back to-'
morrow p . .-- '
Republican Senators . made a hard
fight against the -. Governor's salary
bill The vote was 35 to 12. ; v
Senate; adopted the committee ap
pointments named by the caucus last
night.
A bill was introduced to repeal the
section of the Code prohibiting forma
tion of corporations with over a million
capital. Also to authorize the forma
-tion of street railway corporations
under the general law; :
By permission, Mr. Ward withdrew
the bill introduced yesterday to amend
the trust pool and conspiracy law.
-
Raleigh, N. C, January 12. The
Act changing the name of the Guar
dian Security and Trust Company, of
Wilmington, to the People's Savings
Bank, was ratified by the General As
sembly to day and is now a law.
The bill to amend the charter of the
Howard Relief Fire Company, Wil
mington passed readings in the Sen
ate and was sent to the House for con
currence.
Important calendar bills were acted
upon to day as follows:
To allow Rocky Mount to issue
bonds for electric lights,, a sewerage
system and other purposes; passed
second reading.
Resolution requesting the Treasurer
of the State to famish the General
Assembly a list of names and amount
of salaries- of all superintendents,
teachers, presidents and officers of all
State schools, the University, the.
asylums, the penitentiary, and other -
State institutions, was referred to
committee.
Senate Proceedings.
Very little interest was taken in to
day's session of the Senate. Bills of
interest were introduced as follows :
By Foy, to exempt Pender county
from the 1899 road law.
By Brown, to create a new town
ship in Columbus.
By Broughton, to incorporate the
State Optical Society, establish a
board of examiners, require a license
to practice, etc.
SUPERIOR COURT CALENDAR.
Members of the Bar Met Yesterday and
Arranged Cases for Trial at Forth
coming Term.
Members of the bar of the city met
yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at the
office of Col. Jno. D. Taylor and ar
ranged the calendar of cases to be tried
at the term of New Hanover Superior
Court, which will be convened to
morrow week, Judge W. A. Hoke, of
Lincolnton, presiding. Eugene S. Mar
tin, Esq., presided at the meeting and
Marsden Bellamy, Esq., was secretary.
Following is the arrangement made
for the trial of cases:
FIRST WEEK.
Monday J. R. Strauss, Executrix,
vs. uity ot Wilmington; Liaura u-.
Hales vs. Jnb. W. Harper.
Wednesday W. T. Dortch, Admr.
vs. vv x. uannerman, et at. ; J, r .
Parker vs. Walter G. MacRae, sheriff.
Thursday Zulah Fowler vs. Jno.
J. Fowler; J. G. Wright & Son vs.
Zillah Fowler; Edward Moseley, by
ms guardian, vs. M. ii. Chad wick.
Friday J. Davis. Receiver, vs.
Butters Lumber Co. ; Meta H. Hullen
vs. City of Wilmington; W. E. Worth
vs. Uity of Wilmington: w. Jfi. worth
vs. Li. U. Pennington; u. u. Peterson
vs. (Jitv of Wilmington: ueoree Hil
ton vs. Mattie Hilton; Gilbert L. Miles
vs. Geo. E. Pope.
Saturday City of Wilmington vs.
N. Jacobi; Roberts & Hoge vs. J.' T.
Bland; Navassa Guano Co. vs. Mc
Nair & Pearsall; J. D. Bidbury vs.
W. T. Bannermann, administrator.
SECOND WEEK.
Monday J. C. Shepard, Jr., vs. At
lantic Coast Line R. R. Company, of
South Carolina: W. B. Shepard vs.
A. C. L. R. R. Co.. of South Carolina;
J. EL Sloan vs. J. L. Hmes.
Tuesday City of Wilmington vs. J.
D. Bellamy.
Wednesday J. E. Taylor vs. W. H.
Howe; R. W. Smith vs. Inter-State
Telephone and Telegraph . Co. ; I. J.
Sternberger vs. L Shrier and wife.
Thursday W. E. Worth &Co. vs.
T. J. Ferguson & Co. ; W. A, Farriss
vs. T. J. Ferguson & Co. ; J. Lu Boat
wright vs. T. J. Ferguson & .Co. ; S.
W. Sanders vs. T. J. Ferguson &Co
Giles Cannon vs. T. J. Ferguson 8c
Co.;B. F. Penny vs. W., O. & A.
R. R. ; Timothy Donlan vs. American
Bonding and Trust Co.
Friday H. E. Bonitz vs. Frank T.
Mills.
Saturday National Cash Register
(Jo. vs. Liucy J. Farriss.
There are twenty, seven -cases on the
summons docket and eighty-five on
the motion docket.
The following rule was made and
agreed to by the bar : "That all cases
that are not reached on the day upon
whicK they are set upon the calendar,
that they stand continued until the
next term of the court, and that the
order adopted by the bar at the last
meeting he and the same is hereby re
pealed."
GREEN
OPERA HOUSE
Leased bVMK SrA. Schloss, of This City,
Begimring June 1st, 1901.
The Greensboro Telegram of yester
day says:
"Mayor Taylor to day closed a trade
with Mr. S. A. Schloss, of Wilming
ton, for the Opera House for two years
from June 1st, 1901, he to take charge
of it as soon as it is ready fot use. The
trade is subject to the approval of the
Aldermen at their meeting to-night.
"Mr. Schloss is a successful mana
ger, naving been in tne business tor
years. Lie is now, and nas been lor a
long time, manager of the Wilmington
Opera House. He has put upon the
boards there some oi tne nest piays
and players of the coantry. and as
good as has ever been to this State. It
is safe to say that he will give the
Greensboro people as good as can be
brought to this section." '
SB0R0
NO. 12
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Lumberton Rolesonian: Mr.
Stephen Brison, who lives with his son
near Shaw's mill, in Bladen county,
i 86 years old. is the father of 18
children, has 108 grandchildren and
64 great-grandchildren.
Asheville Citizen'. Thomas N.
Stevens, of Buena Vista, is in luck.
Thursday he brought to the CtUzen
office a section of mica three inches
square and one inch thick, which he
plowed up m his field, and which is
considered to be a remarkably large
sample to be found so near the surface,
and an excellent indication that the
deposit located at the usual depth will
win pan out mica diocks of unusual
size. A-S the value of mica depends
very largely on its s?z9. Mr.-Stevens is
happy. His land also contains gold
andiron.
Sanford Express: Since the
holiday season is ova- Northern tour
ists are arriving at Southern Fines and
Pinehurst by nearly every train. The
large new hotel The Carolina at
Pinehurst is now open and is rapidly
filling with guests. -This promises to
be the most successful season iu the
history of that popular resort.
Mr. Henry Petty.. of near Cameron.
and one of the State's largest fruit
growers, was awarded a premium by a
ssed concern of Florida for haying
raised the largest watermelon grown
in this State last year. The melon
weighed 87 pounds. Mr. Pettv's fruit
farm now covers about 200 acres.
Raleigh News and Observer:
Ex-Judge A. W. Graham, who is a
member of the House from Granville,
is largely interested in copper min
ing. He says it is very active in that
county and Person, as well as in Hal
ifax county. Va. Most of it is in
Granville. Five companies are min
ing. It is intended this year to de
velop many more properties, which
are owned by capitalists of Boston.
New Yoik. Pittsburg. Colorado and
Norfolk. Some Norfolk men have
lately made large investments. The
mines are found to be even richer
than the most sanguine hoped for.
Rocky Mount Motor: We are
sorry to note tne death of W. M.
Bullock, which occurred at his home
in this place of consumption.
Young Mr. Wright, of Battlebpro, has
caught 65 opossums and 19 raccoons
during tne Fall and up to January
1st. Recently the dogs treed an old
brown coon that-had baffled hunters
and dogs since way back yonder in the
past xoung Wright cumbed the
tree by way of a grape vine of over
sixty feet and shook the varmint
down, where in the weeds and under
erowth he soon escaped and took to a
larger and taller tree. As the young
man didn't care again to climb, bis
fattrer, Mr. Thomas Wright, said he
would go up and shake him down.
Though over sixty-five years old, Mr.
Wright climbed the tree like a boy
and soon a dead coon was the reward.
Durham Herald: , There is a
negro Jew in the city probably the
only one that has ever been in Dur
ham. His name is Samuel V alskovitz.
and he hails from Africa. Valskovitz,
speaks, it is said, the pure Hebrew lan
guage and in all including the Yiddish
and Patois of the Hebrews, can speak
ten languages. Me says that he is a
Jew by religion, was taught that reli
gion, from infancy, and that he and
bis people have spoken the Hebrew
language for generations. He speaks
English very poorly, but enough to
carry on a convervation. This negro
Jew says that fox ten years he has been
on a boat than ran from Liverpool to
this couutry. Finally he left the boat
at Norfolk and decided to live in the
United States. In Raleigh he received
aid and came on nere, wnere ne re
ceived some help. - He says he is going
to locate in Greensboro, where be in
tends to go to-work and live the re
mainder of his life. Valskovitz is
quite an attraction, and especially so
among the Hebrews of the city.
KinBton Free Press : W e learn
that a little colored child, aged three
years, was burned to death at Hooker
ton Tuesday evening. Tne child s
father, Sam Dixon, and its mother
were two or three hundred yards from
the house feeding hogs. When the
mothnr returned she found the child
sitting in a corner with its clothes all
burned off, and its flesh in places was
baked, causing the skin to peel off.
The child lived only a few hours.
Last Tuesday two little colored chil
dren were fighting at their home on
Mr. w. Li. Kennedy's place,, near
Falling Creek. Susan Pool, an aunt
of one of the children, tried to stop the
fight and in the excitement of the mo
ment, struck her niece, Pearl Pool, on
the head with an iron fire poker. The
girl was in an unconscious condition
most of the time after she was hurt.
Her parents, however, did not think
the case serious until yesterday even
ing, when they summoned Dr. Ray
Pollock. It was too late then to do
any good as the child died within a
minute or two after the doctor reached
the house:
TROUBLES IN SAN DOMINGO.
U. S. Government Will Take Action Neces
sary to Protect American Interests.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Washington, January 10. The
government will probably take cogni
zance of tne troubles in ban Domingo,
and will take such action as is neces
sary for the protection of American
interests. Thus far, however, the State
Department has not heard from Con
sul ueneral Maxwell on tne reports
that the St Domingo government has
resumed the direction of its own fiscal
affairs, thus terminating the sys
tem by which an American syndicate
collected the duties and paid the debts
of the government.
A MIGHTY GUSHER.
Important Oil Discovery on Sabine River
In Southeastern Texas.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Petersburg, Pa., January 12. J.
M. Cuff ey has made the.' most impor
tant oil discovery of the past ten years.
.Last Thursday noon ne drilled in
mighty gusher in Southeastern Texas,
located on a 3,800 acre tract, eighteen
miles from Sabine Pass, on the Sabine
river, and fourteen miles frm ' Port
Arthur, in Jefferson county. -
Mr. Guffey stated to-night that he
thought fifteen barrels a day will be a
conservative estimate of what the .well
is producing, and thought it would
reach 60,000, which would make it the
largest in the world.
President Cunningham, of the State
Agricultural Society of . North - Caro
lina, made argument yesterday -before
a meeting of members of the Senate
Committee on Finance in support of
the proposition to reduce the war re
venue tax on tobacco. The commit
tee took no action,
I Louis Currier, a Painter, Killed His Wife
and Son ud Then Cot Hit Own
7 Throat.
Bj TelegraDh to the Morning star.
Albany, N. Y., January 13. Louis
Currier, aged 40 years, at an early
hour this morning cut his wife's throat,
broke his son -Archie's head with a
base bail bat, took a dose of Paris
green, and then cut bis own throat
from ear to ear with a razor. All three
are dead. Currier left a letter ad
dressed to the police, which shows that
tne murder was premeditated. The
letter is as follows:
"To whom it may concern: When
you find our dead bodies you may call
upon the president of the Painters'
Union and get one hundred and flftv
dollars for my funeral and one hun
dred dollars on my wife that: will bury
the three of us, I guess. Notify my
brother-in-law and his wife, who is
my sister. She keeps a store on the
corner of First and Lexington streets
I give them all my belongings, and
also her father in North Adams. I
have a sister in Morton street. . Don't
let her see any of us. ? Wit
my best wishes, I remain, till death.
LiOUIS UtTRRIER.
'She bought the Paris sreen herself
last week from Harvith's drug store
for the purpose-of poisoning mev but I
watched ber too close and I gave her a
hard death.. I wish I could have
given her more, for that is not half
enough. I wish I had done it before." -
Currier was a painter by trade and
was 40 years of age. His wife, whom
he married thirteen " years ago, was
then employed in a woollen mill at ,
North Adams, Mass. The .one child.
the second victim of the father's grue
some deed, was twelve years of age. -r
Mrs. Israel Uurrier. sister of the VT '
murderer and suicide, exonerates the
dead woman and states that her
brother made life most wretched for
his wife, drinking to excess and abus
ing her.
ASSAULTED BY A NEGRO.
Miss Eva Rotb, of Leavenworth, Ks., the
Victim The Negro Spirited Away
to Avoid Lynching.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star. -:
Leavenworth, Kan., January 12.
Miss Eva Roth, a well known young
woman of this city, was assaulted on
South Broadway, a fashionable resi
dence street of the city, at 6.40 o'clock
to-night by Fred Alexander, colored.
who had followed her for twelve
blocks. Alexander was arrested
shortly after the occurrence and was
taken to the office of the chief of po
lice. News of the assault spread rapidly
and in a few moments the streets about
the station were filled with a mass of
excited men, determined to lynch
Alexander if he could be reached; but
the police had placed him in a hack
and taken him to the State penitenti
ary at Lansing.
Miss Roth recognized her assailant
and identified him to the police. Alex
ander has been watched by the police
lately, as he is the suspected murderer
of Miss Pearl Forbes, who was as
saulted and killed November 6th,
three blocks west of the scene of to
night's attempt.
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.
Chartered by Philadelphia Capitalists to
Transport Cotton to Europe from
Southern Ports..
By Telegraph to tne Horning Btar.
Philadelphia, Jan 12. For the
purpose of operating steamers direct
from Southern ports to foreign ports, a
company has just been chartered in
New Jersey by Philadelphia capital
ists. The enterprise is to be known as
the Ocean Steamship Line, and is cap
italized at $1,000,000.
The incorporators are: Eugene Wil
liams, P. Jenks, Eugene F. Caldwell,
Jr., Charles T. Schenk and George
K. Apple.
Parties interested in the company
state that its object is the building, of
steamers and to transact a general
traffic business. The plans are, it is
said,- to establish steamship lines
from the liulf and South Atlantic
ports, mainly for the purpose of trans
porting7 cotton to Europe direct, t
i
MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.
Waters Subsiding and Trains Resuming
Their Runs.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star .
Jackson, Miss., January 12. Al
though the trains are behind their
schedules, traffic, which was interrupted
yesterday by washouts, has been re
sumed on tne railroads entering Jack
son. The waters at Baker's Creek,
which spread over the surrounding
country, have subsided,' and the an
nulled trains oi tne Alabama and
Vicksburg road are now being sent
through, the first passenger train in
twenty-four hours leaving this place
to-day. On the Gulf and Ship Island
road trains are running with extreme
caution, as numerous washouts have
occurred from the boft condition of
the road -bed. -The rainfall for forty
eight hours has been more than four
inches.
AN EPIDEMIC OF GRIPPE.
Airthe Hospitals In New York City Filled
With Sufferers.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
New York, January 12. The wet
weather of the past three daya has in
creased the number of cases of grippe.
All the hospitals are congested and
some have notified the superintendent
of the outdoor poor to send no more .,
cases. 'The dispensaries are crowded;
from morning till night and an extra
force is at work preparing enough mix
tures and prescriptions for the grippe.
The total number of cases of all kinds
in Bellevue to day was 840.
Superintendent George Blair of the
outdoor poor department, who has
charge of the sending of patients to all
the charities hospitals, said tnat an tne
hospitals in the city were filled.
REAL ESTATE DEAL.
Said to Belhe Largest Transaction Ever
Made la the Northwest
Br TeJegraph to Qm Morning Btar. .
St. Paul, Mnnr., 12. What is
said to be the largest - real estate
transaction ever made in the North
west -was closed to-day, wwgreby
the Northern Pacific Railway tym
pany disposes of the entire remain
ing portion of the : Federal land
grant of 1864 to a syndicate
composed of Mawkato and SLJPaul
capitalists. The .purchase price) runs
into the millions. - . ' -.
AThe lands lie in North Dakota be
tween the Missouri and James river,
and embrace a tract of a million and
a half acres. . " . . ..
Settlement will be pushed at once.
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