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All tariff protection on articles
that can be adulterated, counter
feited or imitated tempts to
fraud, provided the protection be
sufficient to materially increase the
price of the article. There may be
and doubtless are frauds and imita
tions regardless of tariff duties, for
these are days of frauds, but high
duties offer much incentive and as'
a result frauds become more general
and more systematic. High taxes .
on foods, beverages &c, increase the
price and stimulate adulteration,
while the pure article becomes the
exception instead of the rule, and
so with anything else where adul
teration or imitation is practicable
and profitable. Columns could be
filled with lists of the fraudulent
,ar tides put upon the public, embrac
ing about everything solid or liquid
in common use.
When the Democratic Congress
repealed the McKinley tariff and
gave ns the Wilson tariff in place of
it wool was" put upon the free list,
the framers of that tariff taking
the wise position that au article
of . such prime and general ne
cessity should be put as nearly as
possible within the reach of all the
people, and that any policy which
restricted the use of an article so
important to the comfort and health
of the people was an essentially mis
taken and a bad policy. The con
tention of those" who favored a high
tariff on woollen goods and on im
ported wool was that it would stim
ulate -the raising of sheep and the
manufacture of woollen goods, the
result of which would be an abun
dance of home-grown wool and
cheap woollen goods. The "answer
to this by the advocates of free wool
was that instead of promoting the
industry of wool-growing and giving
us cheap woollen goods it. would
foster the shoddy industry, give us
frauds and imitations, and dearer
woollen goods, .which contention
as been more than sustained by the
acts, as an illustration in part we
quote tbe following from the Phila
delphia Ledger, an independent
Bauer politically and - a friend to
moderate tariff protection,' when
there may appear to be any plaus
ible reason for such protection.
Speaking of the proportions of the
shoddy industry it says:
"A Cleveland shoddy manufacturer
in & letter to The American Wool He
vorter says that 125,000.000 pouods of
noddy, equivalent to 860,000.000
pounds of wool in lb grease, are used
annually in the United States Oa the
assumption that the American produc
tion of wool is 300.000.000 annually, it
would appear tbal more shoddy than
wool enters into the so-calkd woollen
clothing of the American people. As
the Boston Herald says:
. "If to the quantity of shoddy thu
annually employed is . added the
amount of cotton, which in tbe last two
or three years has entered in increas
ing quantities itito tbe manufacture of
worsted ana woollen ttooas, ine
amount of adulteration to which
these manufacturers are subjected
becomes even greater than would
appear from the figures given
above. There is no other civil
ized country, except tbe United Butts,
which imposes a customs duty upon
wool. Io all other countries exorpt
our own this commodity is consid ted
one of the necessaries of life, r quired
for the health and well-being of the
people, and on this account i freed as
far as possible from Government tax-s
We have aaopiea a uitrerent p:n,
with the result tbat we nave artmciti
lv held the price of our wool above
the market price Of other countries,
and are now using, to an unparalleled
dezree. substitutes for wool in the
manufacture of our textile fabrics
"The high tariff on wool con win
ed the manufacturers to m inferior
srrades of wool. ltari i- clarctep
and poor in staple and to liberally
adulterate with thftidy. American
ingenuity found a way to use cotton
in mixed goods to au f xtent unprece
dent-4 The natural effect of this was
preludical to the interests of this wool
grower, while the consumer suffered
because his garments lacked in warm
ing and wearing qualties. This con
dition still continues under the stim
ulus of the tinff barrier, and of keen
competition. The New Yors Com
mercial, in its issue of yesterday, dis
eussing men's woollen wear, says tbat
agents and manufacturers have been
and are pursuing a cut throat policy.
"If the substitution movement had
not oecome io general mere is no
question but that tbe change in the
wool market would bave bad an im
mediate beneficial effect upon the
. goods market. Now tbe goods market
must reach a much more settled price
position before v e improvement ia
the wool situation can become an in
fluential factor. Tbe majority of
agents admit that the aggregate yard
age of goods under contract to day is
but little in excess of that booked two
weens ago. The substitution move
VOL. XXXII.
ment has displaced a yard of some
old fabric for every yard of new
goods ordered. It has caused some
cancellation that have not resulted in
new business. It has unsettled the
little confidence buyers bad in orig
inal prices and has generally demor
alized a market that was seemingly
on a rock bottom and healthy price
basis.
"Woollen goods at a reasonable
price would be always in demand. But
the market is now flooded with imita
tions, and there ia no prospect of a
change, so long as wool is artificially
advanced to an almost prohibitory
price by means of an unjust tariff that
punishes the whole American people
without affording satisfaction to the
American wool grower and his output,"
for which there is lessening demand.".
All this shoddy may not be used
in the manufacture of clothing,
but it ia usedi every pound of It,
as a substitute for wool. But the
shoddy manufacturers have become
so expert that it is said they can
make a shoddy cloth which looks
and feels so much like woollen goods
that it would puzzle an expert to
tell one from the either. It stands
all the tests pretty well but water.
Getting caught out in a rain demo
ralizes and ruins it, and it also de
moralizes the unhappy victim inside
of it, who for the first time realizes
that he was buncoed when he thought
he was buying a good article of
woollen goods. .
It may be that some of these
goods are sold for what they really
are. This may be so between the
manufacturers and the jobbers and
wholesalers, but the retail buyer
does not often get the benefit of
this candor, for in nine cases out of
ten he or she buys and pays for the
article for what it seems to be, not
what it really is. There are imita
tion goods,' mixtures of wool and
something else, which are sold as
such, but these are not shoddy.
But whether . fraud, or honest imi
tation without fraud, they are all,
more or less, the result of the legis
lative protection given to the
genuine article which makes the
fraud and the imitation profitable.
While ostensibly to benefit the
wool growers and the people who
buy woollen goods, the high tariff
that stimulates the use of shoddy
and fraud upon and imitation of
woollen goods hurts both the wool
grower and the people who buy the
goods, for it- decreases the demand
for wool, keeps down the prices and
cheats the buyer out of his money
when he pays for what he supposes
to be woollen goods and gets a
counterfeit which soon betrays it
self after a little wear or a little use.
If it were hot for the protective
tariff on wool, which practically
prohibits the importation of foreign
wool, there would be no 300,000,-
000 pounds of shoddy used
in this country as a substi
tute for wool, and there would
be proportionately a greater de
mand, for American wool. Pos
sibly a few men who raise.' a certain
kind of wool which is in demand
and cannot be profitably imported,
may be benefitted by it, but the
wool-growing industry generally is
injured by it. The benefit it may
be to the few to 'whom we refer is
overbalanced a hundred fold or
more by the injury done to the in
dustry generally and to the users of
woollen goods who are not only
heavily taxed but mercilessly
swindled besides.
While it standsthis tariff so called
protection to wool will be an injury
to the average wool-grower and an
imposition on every person who has
use for and buys woollen goods or
what they suppose to be woollen
goods, but in no way related to
them.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
News has discovered a five-year-old
boy in Ellenboro, Rutherford county,
in this State, who is nearly all head.
The head does all the growing.
while the rest of the boy is nothing
but skin and, bone. Head and al
his weight is said to be 65 pounds.
They allow 15 pounds for body, legs
and arms and credit the head with
the rest. With a fifty pound head
on such frail support it is" not sur
prising that the boy should find it
too heavy to carry' around and pre
fer to spend his time lying down.
Mrs. Hay, who died a few days
ago at Tarry town,. N. Y., had con
scientious scruples against story
telling, and was therefore in the
habit of putting her money and
jewels in a satchel and hanging it
before she retired on the limb of a
tree near her window so ' that in
case she was visited by burglars
whom she was constantly expect
ing, she could truthfully tell them
she had no money or jewels in the
house. Sometimes she had several
thousand dollars worth of them in
that satchel. rxl :
That anti-cigarette solon in the
Minnesota Legislature who has in
troduced a bill punishing by a $50
fine any one who sells or offers to
Bell, or gives any one ai cigarette or
cigarette paper, or anything out of
which a cigarette may be made, has
followed it up with a clincher which
imposes a $50 fine on any person
fofind smoking a cigarette.
TAKIHG A GLOOMY VIEW.
Lord Koberts, after his return to
England from South Africa, showed
discriminating judgment in de
clining any public ovations in
celebration of the triumph of Brit
ish arms. He intimated that such
celebrations were, somewhat prema
ture, that they were not, so to
speak, out of the woods, and might
have some pretty hard work to do
before they got out. When Pretoria
ell London went on an insane
saturnalia and the town gave itself
up to dissipation and revelling riot
ousness. They believed that the
fall of the Transvaal capital meant
the end of the war ? and it might if
the English managers had not be
come inflated by success and arro
gantly demanded too much. Gen.
Roberts imperiously dictated terms,
Gen. Kitchener, his successor, fol-
owed his example and went further
by inaugurating a system of severity
and cruelty, the object of which
was to terrify men who would not
be terrified, and this made them
more determined in their warfare
and more intense in their hatred of
the English. -
Now instead of seeng the sun
shine of peace looking through the
war cloud they see more and a long
and wearing war, at a time, too,
when England is confronted with
embarrassing questions and . threat
ening situations in other parts of the
world, and wishes from the bottom
of her heart that she were out of the
South Africa ordeal. The follow
ing cablegram from London gives
some idea of the feeling that pre
vails in London now:
"Tbe Times prints long dispatches
rom Pretoria and Bloemfontem ad
mitting that Lord Kitchener's policy
and operations have failed to achieve
the results hoped for and pointing out
that the British public must be pre
pared to return the original policy of
occupying districts and studding the
country with military posts as the
only means of effecting complete
pacification.
"This process, tbe correspondents
say, will occupy much time and neces
sitate a constant supply of fresh troops.
'The strain on both officers and
men has been and will be immense.
and arrangements must be made to
send absolutely fresh - troops to the
front in order to enable the others to
be sent home.
" 'Unless this aspect of the case is
grasped by the authorities,' say the
advices to tbe Times, 'there is a possi
bility of the war lasting for years. It
is quite useless to renew peace negotia
tions. Nothing approaching terms, as
the word is generally understood.
would be politic or even possible with
with the Boers.'"
If the fighting were confined to
narrow areas witn Jngiana s large
armies and superior resources the
Boer armies might .be driven to bay,
cornered and captured as Cronje
and his little army were, but there
is a vast territory to fight over where
even a few braye, determined men
may make a protracted fight if they
can secure the munitions or. war,
and there seems to be no trouble
on this score. They manage some
how to capture a good deal of
ammunition, arms, etc., from the
British, and to get supplies from
other sources, enough to meet the
wants of the fighters they have in
the field, and they seem determin
ed to use it, too, and make the Brit
ish pay for every foot of ground they
cover.
It wouldn't be surprising that a
man wearing the distinguished name
of George Washington Adams should
become distinguished himself. G.
W. A., of West Virginia, has ac
complished the feat of marrying
seventeen women, before he reached
the age of 68 years, all of whom are
living but one. He has done all this
marrying within twelve years, and
then retired to the poor house. His
last wife was a girl of 74 years.
A new 1300,000 cotton mill is to
be built at Athens, Ga., to be run
by electricity generated at Tallusee
Shoals, eight miles distant.
CURRENT COMMENT.
In Rhode Island thore is an
average of one divorce for every
eight marriages. A good deal of
useless formality and expense might
be saved by merely adopting a sort
of probationary system whereby con
pies can take each other, not for
better or worse, but until they can
find out the difference on trial, as
it were -without calling for the
sacrament of marriage until they
are sure about it. Certainly the
percentage of "sticks" could not be
any less than under the present
come-easy-go-easy system. Atlanta
Journal, Bern-
Much comment has been made
in resrard to the recent sale of 2,-
000.000 acres of pine land (Disston's
purchase) in Florida for only $70,
000. The Jacksonville Metropolis ex
plains tbat the price was a "nominal"
one, and adds: It should be remem
bered that the men who paid the
$70,000 had about $2,000,000 al
ready invested in the land. Their
original investment was $1,928,000.
The interest due was $635,778,
while the taxes amounted to $12,871,
which, with the $70,000, paid at the
time of the sale, brought the price
up to $2,646,949, or alittleless than
$2.75 an acre. A few 'years ago
DisBton bought the land for 25 cents
an acre, and the sales to the rail
roads, colonist and others have
caused the advance to nearly eleven
times the original cost." Charleston
News and Courier, Dem.
Weekly
WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1901.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
The Court Acquitted Chief Jus
tice Furches and Associate
Justice Douglas.
TEST VOTE ON FIRST ARTICLE
Two-thirds Majority Was Necessary
for Impeachment The Vote la Detail-Trial
Cost the State About
$7,500 Senator Morton.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh. N. C... March 28. The
Senate as a court of impeachment thla I
afternoon voted to acquit Chief Jus
tice 'Furches and Associate Justice
Douglas of the Supreme Court, who
have been on trial the past three
weeks, charged with high crimes and
misdemeanors in office. There were
five articles of impeachment; but the
test vote was on the first, which
charged the judges with violating sec
tion 9, article 4 of the Constitution, by
issuing mandamus against tbe State
Treasurer. The vote on this article
was 27 for impeachment, 23 for ac
quittal. A two-thirds majority (34)
was necessary f or i mpeachment . Th e
vote was as follows:
For conviction Alexander, Arring
ton, Aycock, Broughton, Burroughs,
Calvert, Foy, Gudger, James, Justice,
Lindsay, McNeill Miller; Morrison,
Morton, Scott, Smith, Speight,
Thomas, Travis, Vann, Ward, War-
reo. Webb, Wood, Woodard. Total1
(all Democrats) 27.
Against conviction Brown (Demo
crat), Buchanan (Republican), Cand
ler (Republican), Crisp (Republican),
Currie (Democrat), Dula (Republican),
Foshee (Democrat), .Glenn (Demo
crat), Henderson (Democrat), Leak
tocrat), London (Democrat),
ig (Democrat), Marshall (Republi
can), McAllister (Democrat), Mcln
tosh (Populist), Mclntyre (Democrat),
Michael (Republican), Miller (Repub
lican), Pinnix (Republican), Roberson
(Populist), Stikelather (Popuiist)
Stringfield (Democrat), Sugg (Demo
crat. Hence 23 voted not guilty 12
of them Democrats, eight Republicans,
three Populists.
The second article charged violat
ing section 3, article 14 of the Constitu
tion, by drawing money from the
State treasury without legislative
authority. This vote was 24 "guilty ;"
26 not Vguilty." Aycock, of Wayne,
cast the twenty fourth "not guilty!'
vote.
The vote on the third article was the
same as on the second. It charged
violation of chapter 19, section 9,
Laws of 1899
Tae fourth article charged violation
of chapter 21, Laws of 1899. The vote
on this was 25 to 25; Sanator Lindsay
coming over on the "guilty" side.
Tbe firth article charged that the
court (accused judges) during the past
two years by specious course of rea
soning made decisions with partisan
motive, and disregarded and sought
to bring into disrepute the will of the
Legislature. The vote on this article
was: "Guilty," 16; "not guilty," 34.
Those voting "guilty" were;. .Braj.-
Burroughs, Foy, Gudger, Justice,
Lindsay, Miller of Pamlico, Morton,
Scott, Smith, Travis. Vann, Ward,
Warren, Webb and Wood.
Judgment acquitting the judges was
then adopted, and the court adjourned
sine die.
Most of the, Senators left for their
homes this afternoon
The State Auditor said to-night that
the impeachment trial cost about
$7,500.
State Geologist J. A. Holmes re
ported to Governor Aycock to-day that
he has purchased Piver's island, near
Beaufort, for the U. S. Fish Commis
sion, by whom there will be estab
lished thereon a marine biological
laboratory, the building and equip
ment for which will cost $25,000.
Governor Aycock to-day issued to
Senator Morton a commission on his
staff as naval aide, with the rank of
colonel.
Senator M. H. Justice, of Ruther
fordton, was commissioned to-day
Judge of the Superior Court of the
Fourteenth district.
WANTS $89,000 FOR DAMAGES.
Mrs. P. M. Premont Sues Metropolitan
Street Railway for Husband's Death
The New York Herald of Thursday
has the following item relative to the
widow of the late F. M. Fremont, a
former resident of Wilmington :
Mrs. Frances M. Fremont is sueing
the- Metropolitian Street Railway
Comnanv for $89,000 damage for caus
in? the death of her husband. Mr.
Fremont was an agent for. manufac
tures of machinery and had an office
at No. 26 Cbrtlandt street. On October
11 last he was hurrying home about
six o'clock, and in attempting to board
an Eighth avenue electric car at
Church and Cortlandt streets, fell and
had one foot nearly cut off and the
other crushed by tbe wheels. He died
soon afterwards.
It is alleged tbat Mr. Fremont wan
earning $7, COO a year and as he was
still voune the large sum asked as
damaces is only a fair amount, con
sidering his earning capacity.,
His Feet Badly Mashed
D. B. Faison, colored, of Warsaw,
a train nana on a ioci ireigoi ruu
. m u a.
ning between Wilmington and Wil
son, had his feet badly mutilated
while coupling cars at Castle Haynes
yesterday morning. ' He lost his foot
ing and fell and a wheel passed parti
ally over both feet He was brought
to the ciy on the. morning passenger
train and his wonds were dressed by
Dr. DW. Bulluck. He was sent to
the hospital at Rocky Mount last
;nightv
FIRE AT LONG CREEK.
Destroyed Gin Honse, Grist Mill and Two
Stores Yesterday Afternoon Tram
Railway Being Built
Mr. S. P. Taylor, . timber agent of
the Angola Lumber Company, who
arrived in tbe city last evening on the
A, cV- Y. train, told of a destruc
tive fire at Long Creek, Pender
county, which occurred yesterday
afternoon about 1 o'clock The gin
huse, grist mill and store of Mr. W.
yt. Larkins, Clerk of the Superior
Court of Pender county, was de
stroyed and a vacant store adjoining
belonging to Mr. J. F. Bell was also
burned to the ground. Tbe loss of
Larkins is
about $1,500 on the
gia bouse, grist mill and storeroom;
about $300 on goods that were hot
saved from the store, 'and about $250
on the vacant store belonging to Mr.
Bell. . None of the property was in
sured, policies on tbe same having
been recently made invalid by reason
of the insolvency of the Farmers'
Mutual Fire insurance Association.
The origin of the fire was the furnace
of the boiler of the ginning and grist
plant.
Mr. Taylor also informs the Stab
that tbe Angola Lumber Company is
building a tram railway from Long
Creek about eight miles in the di
rection of Mr. A C. Ward's plantation
in Pender. Timber will be freighted
to Long Creek and sent thence to
Wilmington by raft on the river.
ALLEGED SAFE CRACKSMEN.
Arrest of Men at Marghville Verifies In
spector Connolly's Theory.
The absolute correctness of the
theory of Postoffice Inspector Jere
Connolly in regard to the number of
safe robberies that have been going on
in the State for the past several weeks,
appears to have been well vindicatd
in the arrest at Marsh ville, Union
county, N. C, on night before last of
two men, who robbed a safe in the
store of M. H. Li wry & Co , at Mor
ven, Anson county, on the night
previous to the capture.
Subsequently they had cracked a
safe at Clio, S. C , and at Morven, they
first broke into a blacksmith shop and
procured the necessary tools with
which to place the dynamite, just as
Inspector Connolly anticipated They
secured about $900 and went across
country to Lilesville and boarded the
Carolina Central train, going ia the
direction of Charlotte. They were
taken off the train at Marshville upon
telegraphic advices from Sheriff
Gaddy, of Wadesboro. and it is believed
that on their persons were found
enough to convict tb A third man
of the party who boarded the train at
Lilesville succeeded in making his
escape.
Will Unveil Monument.
Live Oak Camp, No. 6., Woodmen
of theWorld, of this city, according to
its long established custom, will erect
.a monument over the grave of its late
sovereign J. B McDaniel, who died
in Wilmington and was interred
at Newborn, his old home. The shaft
will be unveiled by a large delegation
of Woodmen ' Wilmington, who
will go to Newborn on a special train
on a Sunday during the latter part of
May. A very low rate of fare is ex
pected to be secured on the special
train and the Woodmen expect to take
a large party of their friends on the
trip with them.
Stamp Sale Discontinued.
Mr. 8. M. Boatwright, deputy collec
tor at Wilmington for the sale of in
ternal revenue stamps, has received
official notice that the office will be
abolished April 1st This is for the
reason that after July 1st, stamps on
checks, drafts, etc., will be no longer
required, ti e act requiring the same
having been repealed by the last Con
gress, it would be well tor business
men, however, to lay in a supply of
stamps for use in the interim between
April 1st and July 1st, as after the
abolishment of Mr. Boatwright's office,
all purchases will have to be made at
Raleigh.
Seacoast Railroad Suit.
, Yesterday afternoon's Fayetteville
Observer says: "The case of Ray nor
vs. the Wilmington Seacoast Railroad
for $5,000 damages was given to the
jury at 4:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon. The jury remained out all
night, and it was not until noon to
day that they announced they had
reached a verdict. This verdict gave
the plaintiff five hundred dollars. The
defendant took an appeal to the Su
preme Court"
Here For Deserters
Orderly 8ergeant Thos. E. Lesesne,
of Company A., 17th regiment United
States Infantry, is in the city under
special detail to look after a number of
deserters and will remain in the city
about ten days. Serge nt Lesesne has
seen service in the Philippines under
General MacArthur and under Gen
eral Law ton and speaks interestingly
of his experiences there He is a native
of San Francisco,Cal.
JAPAN IN WAR PAINT.
Staff
Officers Dispatched to Korea to
Make Investigations.
By Cable to the Horning Btar.
London, March 30. The Yokohama
correspondent of the Daily Mail wires
'There 'is great tension in officia
circlet. The foreign office is open day
and night Freauent conferences are
held between the senior generals. The
Emperor has been present thereat, and
has made anxious inquiries as to the
condition of the services. Three staff
officers have been dispatched to Corea
to make investigations. The possi mil
ties. of war are freely discussed."
NEW CORPORATIONS.
Farmers' National Fertilizer Co.
Will Erect a Mammoth
Plant in Raleigh.
WORTH BAQLEY MONUMENT.
The State Guard-Appointment of Jodi'es.
Penitentiary Convicts Pardoned-The
Safe Crackers Will First Be
Tried at Morven.
Special Star Correspondence.
Ralkiqh, N.O., March 30. Tho
Secretary of State to-day . chartered
the Lenoir Cot'on Mill Company with
$75,000 capital stock. The incorpor
ators are J. D. Moore, J. O. White,
G. W. Harper, N. R Richardson,
N.' M. Courtney, P. J. Juhuson. Tho
principal place of business will be
Lenoir, Caldwell county.
The promoters of Raleigh's latest
stock company, the Farmers' National
Fertilizer Company, say that they
will begin within a few weeks
the erection of a mammoth plant
here. Their capital stock is $100,
000 with the privilege of in
creasing to $1,000,000: the incorpora
tors are Col. Jno, S. Cunningham of
Person county and Messrs. Jno. C.
Drewry and N. W. West, Raleigh.
Dr. D. E. Everett, treasurer of the
Worth Bagley Monument Fund has
received a donation of $100 from Lieut.
Jno. B. Bernadow of this U. S. cruiser
Dixie. This brings the amount now
on band for tbe erection of monument
to the brave young ensign up to $2,
830.
Practically all the State Senators
have left for their homes. Chief
Clerk Maxwell will be here for a week
or more yet preparing the report of
the impeachment trial for the
printers.
Adjutant Geueral B. S. Royster is
issuing to-day the following gen
eral order which will be of
interest to members of the
Wilmington military compai.ifs:
"Col. T. H. Bain, Inspector Gen
eral, will, at his convenience, make
the usual annual inspections of the'
companies and divisions of the State
Guard and Naval Brigade, as re
quired by Jaw.
"He will also inspect and audit the
books and acc unts of the Paymaster
General, and inspect and make a
careful inventory of the property in
charge of the Quartermaster General
and Chief of Oranance.
"The inspections of the troops will
be made in heavy marching order.
"Timely notice of all inspections
will be given to commanding officers
of regimenis and the Naval Brigade "
Special Star Telegram.
Ralkiqh, March 30. Governor
Aycock announced today that he
will appoint the judge for the Six
teenth judicial district from the ex
treme West, Monday. This appoint
ment wiil be effective April 28th; all
the others July 1st. It is officially
announced that Hon. Francis D. Win
ston will be commissioned Monday
judge of the Second district.
The Governor has pardoned William
Cox. a young white man of Anson
county, sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for larceny September
9th. The pardon is on recommenda
tion of Senators Leak and Morrison
and Representative Robinson. Wm.
Alexander, of Mecklenburg, a life
prisoner for burglary, is also par
loned He has served twelve years
and is 59 years old.
Manager Poe, of the Raleigh Ex
press office,, identified one of tbe safe
crackers in jail at Wadesboro as a man
who shadowed him here several days
before the raid on the Raleigh office.
They will not ben brought to Raleigh
for trial, as they must first answer for
safe-cracking in Morven, Clio and
Red Springs. If hot convicted at the
first place they will be tried for the
others, in order.
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IN THE TRANSVAAL.
AH Standing Crops Destroyed by British.
Train Derailed by Boers.
By Cable to the Morning star.
London, March 31. A special dis
patch from Standerton says the Im
perial Light Horse have captured
Commandant Prinsloo and a convoy
of tweuty eight wagons. Commandant
Englebrech, the dispatch says, has
surrendered. The British are sweep
ing the eastern Transvaal clear of
everything useful to the Boers. All
standing crops have been destroyed.
but tbe women and children are being
cared for. Five hundred of them have
been conveyed to Utrecht, where their
wants are well attended to.
Pretoria. March 30. The
Boers
derailed and plundered a freight
train
near Johannesburg last night
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WAR REVENUE TAXES.
The Receipts from Jane I3tb, 1898, Were
$281,311,515.
x By Telegraph to tbe Horning star.
Washington, March 30. The fol
lowing statement prepared at the inter
nal revenue bureau shows the receipts
by items,f rom the war revenue act only
from June 13th, 1898, the date on
which the act went into effect to Feb
ruary 28th, 1901, cents omitted :
Schedule A (documentary stamps),
$98,420,099; schedule B (proprietary
stamps), $12,784,694; beer, $89,154,822:
special taxes, $14,026,859; tobacco,
$43,405,869: snuff. $3,393,275; cigars.
$8,921,608: cigarette's, $3,547,490; lega
cies. $6,889,055; excise tax, $3,398,823;
mixed flour. $20,609; additional taxes
on tobacco and beer, $978,815. Total,
$281,311,515.
TO CURTAIL PRODUCTION.
Twenty Cotton Mills at Fall River Shut
Down Yesterday.
By Telegrapn to tbe Horning star.
Fall River, Mass., March 30.
Twenty cotton mills in this city were
shut down today and will remain
closed until April 8th for curtailment
These mills employ about 8.000 bands.
Six mills, which are closed this week
will resume next Monday, and shut
down again later.
NO. 23
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Goldsboro Argus: There was
frost in these parts Friday morning.
and now the growing fear is that the
peach crop is done for.
Carthage Blade: Revenue of
ficer S. Hare, Wednesday captured
nine barrels of whiskey from Mr. W.
R Trogden on the dremises of his so
called government distillery. The
barrels showed sign of being buried in
tbe ground. They, were brought to
Cirthage and lodged in the depot and
shipped away the same day that they
were captured.
Sanford Express: It is said
that the prospects for a good straw
berry crop this year are bright.
The Sanford Cotton Mill Company
have received several car loads of
new machinery, which will be in
stalled during the next few weeks
They expect to fill the mill with
maohmerrr and run the plant to its
full capacity. This will make it sec
essary to employ about a hundred-
more operatives.
Wilson Times: About the mid
dle of last week two brothers in-law
Ollie Lewis and Will Dawes Strick
land who reside in Nash county near
Stanhope, became involved in a diffi
culty over a horse, and words passed
between them, when Lewis grabbed an
axe auu made for Strickland, run
ning him into tbe house. Strickland
procured his pistol and shot Lewis in
the abdomen and thigh. All the par
ties lived together. Lewis lived a day
and a half, and the coroner's jury de
cided that the killing was in self
defence. Mount Olive Advertiser: Our
truckers are making heavy shipments
of onions and salad. The acre
age of watermelons and cantaloupes
will be tbe largest ever known in this
section. It costs $22 to produce
a five hundred pound bale of cotton
in Wayne county. According to this
there will be about $8 00 profit per
bale on the next crop. The acre
age of Irish potatoes at Norfolk,
Charleston and in many portions of
this State is much less than it was last
year. The prospect is favorable for
good prices. The last week has
witnessed a phenomenal improvement
in the strawberries in this section.
Should this weather continue as it has
been for that period, the crop will not
te as late as anticipated.
- Raleigh Post: The State Board
Education has had a report of
of
Bwamp lands compiled from the rec
ords and maps of the late State
engineer, which shows the following
interesting facts: The State owns
745,413 acres of swamp lands, 561,413
acres having been surveyed and 184,-
000 not surveyed. Of these lands there
are 190,653 acres in Hyde and Tyrrell
counties. 120,857 acres in Carteret
county, 205,705 acres in Jones Craven,
Onslow and Pamlico counties. There
are claims against 48,864 acres of
swamp lands in Hyde and Tyrrell
counties, against 5,575 acres in Ur
teret county, and against 29,787 acres
in Jones, Craven Onslow and Pamlico
counties. Mr. Richard Jones of Coar
lotte has an option on all swamp lands
owned by the State, except in Onslow,
Richmond and Jones counties, and it
will be in force until February 11,
1902
Weldon News: Very few
farmers get ready to plant corn in
March. In old times march was the
regular month or corn planting.
Owing to a mild winter, and very
little snow, the wheat crop is not
what it should be. Halifax
county is a most inciting field for
sheep raising, and the only drawback
is, there are too many worthless dogs.
Some days ago we noticed in an
exchange a letter from one of the
the lower Rappahannock counties
in Virginia, saying that not
a robbin had been seen there
during February, and expressing sur
prise at it, and wonder as to what bad
become of the little redbreasts. TbeH
same thing is noticeable here. Ordi
narily at this season of the year when
farmers are busy turning up the sou
hosts of these birds are-seen hopping
nvfll' thn flnliifi and in Mnen" Talftnd.
particularly, they are genercfiS
iuiv& ucoo, umiureui ui tucui ultra
appearing in a single field. But so
far only one or two robbins have been
seen and they were as wild as the pro
verbial March bare.
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelli
gencer: Mr. Wilson Williams died at
his home near Cairo, Morven town
ship, Tuesday, after a long illness.
He was about 70 years old. since the
above was written we learn that Mrs.
Williams, wife of Mr. Wilson Wil
liams, died Wednesday. "The M.
1 inadvertently failed to note the
death of Mr. D M. Gilmore, which
occurred at his home in An son ville
township on the 8th inst. Mr. Gil
more was a veteran of the Mexican
war and bad been receiving a pension
as such for a number of years.
There was great excitement in Morven
Thursday morning the when the citi
zens of tbe town learned that tbe sale
of Messrs. M. H. Lowry & Co. had
been dynamited last night and almost
blown to pieces. The robbers are sup
posed to have been professionals. A
small hole was bored in the door just
uader tbe combination and a dyna
mite cartridge placed in it and dis
charged. The door was split to pieces
and the conte; ts of the safe badly
damaged. The thieves got about
$800. Mr. Peter Jones. Sr..
one of the best known of the older
citizens of the county, died at his
home in Qu liege township Saturday
afternoon, in the 88th year of his age.
SAVED FROM LYNCHING.
Plve Negroes, Convicted of Murder, Taken
from Sylvania, Ga., to Savannah
Jail for Safe Keeping.
By Telegrapn to tbe Herning Btar.
Savannah, Ga., March 30. Five
negroes Augustus, Hudson, Belden,
Sanders and Davis who were taken to
Screven county Thursday to be hanged
Friday for the murder of two deputy
sheriffs, and for whose protection
the Governor held Savannah troops in
waiting, were returned to the Savan
nah jail to-night for safe-keeping.
An appeal to the Supreme Court
acted as a supersedeas, suspending the
sentence. There was much talk of
lynching and relatives of the murdered
deputies gathered at Sylvania mur
muring against tbe law's delay.
When it was learned tbat the super
sedeaa was operative the officers of the
law spirited the nve men to the train
in tbe midst of a ram storm and
brought them to Savannah this after
noon. It ia learned that there was a
movement on foot to lynch the men
to-night but their removal to this city
prevented the consummation of any
fetch purpose, ?
j AQUINALDO IN PRISON. ;
Closely Guarded Bat Courteously Treated.
Praises the SklU in Audacity of
Qeo. Ponston.
Bv Telegrasb to tne Hording Star.
Manila, March SO. In company
with Colonel Vellia, his chief of staff
and Dr. Barcelona, ex-treasurer of the
Filipino government, Aguinaldo oc
cupies one of the nicest apartments of
the Milacanang palace. He is closely
guarded at;d courteously treated.
Captain Francis J. Eernan, of the
Second infantry. Captain William L.
Kenly, of the First artillery, members
of General Mac Arthur's staff. Captain
Benjamin H. Randolph and Lieuten
ant Gilbert A. Youngberg, of the
Third artillery, with five guards, are
watching him. Aguinaldo nervously
paces tbe floor, and, deeply thinking,
thrusts his hands through his hair.
He smokes many cigarettes and cigars
and has a hearty appetite. He speaks
only a few words of English. He is
conscious of his dignity but
tries to talk pleasantly with
his guards. He often praises the skill
and audacity of General Funston in
effecting his capture, saying tbat only,
by strategem could he have been cap
lured. It is said that Aguinaldo is
very strongly averse to reverting
from his former attitude, but that he
must regard the best interests of the
Filipino people. " ' .
The sisters of Dr. ' Barcelona have
called upon him, bringing a plentiful
supply of linen. Aguinaldo is well
supplied with money and has ordered
a supply of new clothes. He is care
ful of his personal appearance. He
celebrated his32d birthday the day be
fore he was captured. The birthday
festivites were prolonged, and only
terminated upon the arrival of General
Funston. Aguinaldo tries to read
the American newspapers and is anx
ious to learn the state of opinion in the
United States concerning Philippine
affairs. He has again conferred with
General Trias and the chief justice,
Arellano, but his future intentions
have not been announced. He spends
much time seated by a barred window
watching the boats passing up and
down the Pasig river.
This morning Aguinaldo was recog
nized by a crowd of natives going up
the river in a lighter. The natives
gazed on him awhile in silence and
then began to jeer.calling him Emilio,
and vile names in the Tagalog lan
guage. Tbe guards quieted the dis-.
turbances aud Aguinaldo left tbe
window in disgust
The natives in Manila are undemon
strative concerning the capture of
Aguinaldo, and it is difficult to
ascertain what the majority of them
really think of it. It is certain
Aguinaldo's influence is less strong
than formerly, though it is still great
The representative of the Associated
Press has interviewed many Filipinos,
including both business and profes
sional men in Manila, as well as rep
resentatives of the lower classes
and former insurgents, on the cap
ture of Aguinaldo. 'The majority
of the persons questioned were
unfeigned; glad that Aguinaldo
had been captured, and said they con
sidered tbat the worst obstacle to the
speedy pacification of the islands had
been removed. Some men distrust
Aguinaldo aud advise his immediate
deportation. Others believe he can,
render vast assistance by urging his j
countrymen to acquiesce to American
authority. All men agree that the
outlook to-day is much brighter.
Manila March 30. Toe wife and
mother of Aguinaldo, who have been
living at Binacayar, near Old Cavite,
have been granted permission to visit
him. .
The Spaniard, Lorenzo Prieto, who
was charged with assisting the insur
gents by furnishing information to the
insurgent General Cailles, in exchange
for tradine privileges, was tried by a
military commission, found guilty
and sentenced to death. General
Mac Art bur commuted the sentence to
imprisonment for ten years. Prieto
was the agent of the firm of Mendesna
& Co., and to a certain extent was
associated with D. A. Carman, tbe
American contractor, also charged
with aiding tbe Filipino insurgents.
FUNSTON GETS HIS REWARD.
Appointed Brigadier General io Regular
Army Other Appointments oy
the President.
. Bv Telegrapn to the Mornlnu star.
Vv'ASHINaTON, March 80. The fol-
owing important army appointments
were announced at the White - Bouse
to-night:
To be major general United States
army, Brigadier Ueneral L.loyd
Wheaton, vice Miles, promoted lieu
tenant general.
To be brigadier general in tbe reg
ular army, Colonel Jacob H. Smith, j
17th United States infantry, brigadier ,
general of volunteers, vice Daggett
retired.
Brigadier general in the regular
army, Frederick Funston, U. a. v.,
vice Wheaton promoted.
The announcement of these ap
pointments was made after a confer
ence between the President, Secretary
Koot and Adjutant ueneral Uorbin,
and at the same time the long expect
ed list of appointments of majors and
captains in the quartermasters and
commissary departments, and of
chaplains was made known. All of
these appointees are in the regular
army, under the recent act of Con
gress enlarging and re-organizing tbe
army, and without exception the staff
appointees are from volunteer officers.
The chief interest, however, centered
in the three high appointments of a
major general and two brigadier gen
erals and more particularly in the
selection of General Funston after his
gallant exploit in capturing Aguin
aldo. Following the announcement
General Corbin sent the following to
General Mac Arthur:
"The following appointments made:
Wheaton, major general ; Smith and .
Funston, brigadier generals. Secre
tary of War joins me in congratula
tions to all."
THE NAVAL STORES YEAR.
Close of the Season of 1900-61 Receipts
of Savannah and Gall Ports the
Largest on Record.
By Telegrapb to tbe Horning Btar. "
Savannah, Ga., March 30. The
close of the naval stores year of
1900-01 to-day showed the receipts of
this port, the leading one for this
commodity in the world, to. have
exceeded those of any other year on
record. The receipts were 339,649 casks
of turpentine, against 313,061 last year.
This is an increase of 10 per cent over
last year. Gulf porta, however, show
an increase of 30 per cent over last
.year, showing the crop to have been a
record-breaking one. Tbe average
prices 'for turpentine and rosin were
not so high as last season, being about
47c. for turpentine but still high
enough to induce heavy production.
The highest price reached this year
was 53a against 54c last year.