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b 1 II M - "-" U t V - ' - :fr : r N " - ; ' ( hie fflaceWg tar. f p B ISHID AT I L M I N G T Q N, W. C , SPIRITS TURPENTINE. .00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. , SS88SSSS88SSSS8SS -mow 81 J 83S?88fgff2ggg$ VOL. XXXII. 88888888888888888- WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAYr APRIL 12 1901. NO. 24 SS8SS8SSSS3SSSSSf 6t a eo oo io 35 io 25 56 eb,o ifer-il at the Pent Office at ilmtgton, K. C, as i aecona t :ias mi n.i S333SS3S38883SS88 tiaois- I 8S888888SSS8t8888 888888S882888888S 8288888S28888888? '",oe-,25S2222SsSSS 888888888888888 U a. n. SUBSCRIPTION P ICE. The subscription price of th W- l"r Btz 1 i '".w-i . .. .... pgie copy l year, postage paia.....,..,,..,,,,ji eg o montna - ........... do ' " Smooth " 80 GRASPING AT ALL It was predicted when the great loran-Kockefeller steel combina ion was formed that it was bat the leginning of the consolidating sys tem which would go on until all the treat industries of the country were n t he control of a few men. Events nave since pointed to jthe verifies- ion of that prediction. It was in ontemplation when this big combi- ation was formed to take in the teel and iron plants in the South, at for some reason that was aban- oncd. Those steel and iroa plants avo now effected a consolidation ,v hie h puts them in a position to deal more directly with the other combine "and we need not be sur prised to learn at any time that it has been taken in by the great octo pus, and become a part of it which will put the iron and steel industry of the whole country absolutely under one management. We consider this a certainty, be cause the Southern combine cannot, if it comes to a matter of competi tion, hold out against such a mighty competitor as the Northern -combine with its colossal capital, and its control of , nearly all the steel plants of the country. Therefore it will be simply a matter of expedi ency to go in with the other to save itself, or to effect such an arrange ment with it that they may not come in conflict with each other. If this be done the Southern" combine may continue business on its own account and carry on business as long as the colossus does not deem it to its own interest to interfere with it. - This latter consolidation pats the iron and steel business of the coun try in the control of two combines, a great and a lesser one, which for mutual interest may decide to move along amicably, dividing territory so as to avoid friction and conflict. The only difference between this and the single combine is that con sumers will be fleeced by both, each having its own victims. But the - probabilities are that in due time, if the bottom does not fall out of the first big combine, it will take in the second, and one set of heads will run the whole business. We have heard a great deal about imperialism in Government, but this colossal combination is an illustra tion of imperialism in business, with supervision to see that no injustice is done, to American Bhips,etc, by which they say the Government will secure all it expected or wished by the construction of the Nicaragua canal without spending a . dollar. Another incentive to securing con trol of the Panama canal and com pleting it (which they say they can for $300,000,000) is the discovery of an immense area of anthracite coal at the Pacific end of the canal, iequal in extent to the Pennsylvania hard coal field and equal in quality, and also rich gold fields. The bom bine has its eye on these, and will have its clamps on them if it makes the canal deal. All this will give some idea of the gigantic proportions and mighty sweep of the monster TruBt of Trusts, which has absorbed Trusts that were giants themselves, and inaug-. urated a new. and wonder exciting era in industrial movement. What next ? Who cantellwhat.it will next reach out for? Will it form a combine to control the grain crops and the grain-grinding mills, the cot ton crops and the cotton mills, the wool crops and woollen millB, the leather and the shoe manufactories, the canning industry as it controls the making of the cans ? All this would mot be any more surprising than what it has already done, or has in process of doing. : And then, to hold its grip without legislative an noyance, may we not expect to see it taking a hand in politics, to elect Presidents, Congressmen, Gover nors, State legislators, j udges, &c? And then we will have not only a combination playing monarch in the industrial field, but also a. dictator in the political field, a mighty power and a dangerous power. The issue must come between it and the people some day and the sooner the better. GRIGGS AND XH0X, Attorney General Griggs, who was a friend of the Trusts, has retired and has been succeeded by Mr. P. C. Knox, another friend of the Trusts. How that was brought about is told in the following, which appeared in the New York World a few days before the appointment of Knox was made: "1 Attorney General Griggs will retire from the cabinet. on Saturday.. Be has formed a law partnership with J. B. Dill. Dill some time ago re ceived a large fee for Twinging about the combination of the Carnegie and Fnck iron, steel and coke interests. . "2. The President has summoned Philander O. Knox, of Pittsburg, to Washington to offer him the Attorney Generalship. Mr. Knox has been for many years the attorney ror me uar negie Steel Company in Pittsburg. "3. Until last Friday the President, while considering Mr. Knox for the place, had not definitely decided to ask him to become a member of the cabinet.'-'- -ry? v.- -4. List Friday night J. Pierpont Morgan was in Washington and spent two hours with, the President at the White House. "5 - Mr. Morgan is at the head of the billion dollar steel trust which has taken over the Carnegie properties. . "6. On Saturday it became" known semi officially that Mr. Knox would be offered the place in the cabinet to be vacated by Mr. Griggs. On Tuesday of this week, after a cabinet" meeting, it was officially announced that the place would be offered to Mr. Knox. 4 7. Mr. Morgan's bit lion-dollar steel trust will have the most cordial rela tions with the outgoing Attorney Gen eral, who has formed a partnership with a steel lawyer and truat promoter, and with the incoming Attorney Gen eral, who has been a steel and corpora tion lawyer for years." There has been a great deal of talk about a fight on the Trusts by lead ing Republicans in Congress, but the Trusts are not worrying over that much when they have their clamps upon the administration and have one of their own men as Attorney General. What do laws amount to if they are ignored and not executed? STATE PENITENTIARY Affairs Said to be in Bad Condi tion Mismanagement of Something Worse.' MA J. MARTIN, THE EMBEZZLER IT .DON'T FIT. The New York Sun, one of the Trust organs, pretends to see in the movement to restrict cotton acreage in the South "a cotton growers' Trust," and delivers itself as fol lows: ''Strong efforts are being made to induce the Southern cotton growers to meet at the county seats, April 6. for the purpose of coming to an agree ment not to add to the present cotton acreage. , Such agreements have' been proposed frequently, but in the case of a staple of so vast a production it U hard work to get the consent of a majority of the growers, even though their own interests point to sucn a course. But prices in the last three years have been a great lesson to the planters. Three years ago an immense amount of cotton whs put upon the market and the farmers had to take five cents a poind. In the last two v ears the crop has been smaller and th prices have gone up. The Democratic papers and legisla tures of the South rage continually azainst the desperate wickedness of Trusts, but any plan to hmit the pro duction and increase the price, of Southern farm products is received with enthusiasts. Bryanism has to ttive way to business when the busi es happens to be your own. And in kDite of Col. Bryan's passionate re iteration of the theory that all Trusts are bad, your own Trust can't help seemiog good to you. When the Sun goes out looking for Trusts it can find them lying around loose everywhere. But there is no more pertinence in this article as it applies to the movement to keep" the acreage of cotton down than there would be in the oase of AFRAID OP THE TRUSTS. A few days ago we published an extract from the speech of a promi nent iron and steel maker be fore an association in London in which he discussed American com petition and the difficulty English men would have in holding their own against it. This feeling is be coming widespread in England, and not only in England but in other foreign countries, where American enterprise and aggressiveness are looked upon with alarm. In line with the views of the Englisman to whom we have referred above, we quote the following from a speech by the President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris a few days ago. Speaking of the tariff and Trusts he said: "The United States and Germany are our most formidable rivals. Not Sunday School Association Peabody Educational Fund Wilmington So cial Clnb Chartered The Ap pointment of Judges. . Special Star Correspondence. Raleigh, N. C, April 5. The Secretary of State issued a charter this morning to the Wilmington Social Ordera club organized, for the pur pose of promoting the pleasure of its members. The incorporators are E. L. Burruss, T. M. Morse. J. S. Sellers, J. N. Bennett and T. E..Mayer. They are granted the privilege of opening and maintaining club apartments any where In the city of Wilmington they may desire and to serve wines, liquors of all kinds, cigars and various re freshments to their members. The capital stock is $500 with the privi lege of increasing to $10,000. The stock is not transferable. Very general satisfaction is ex pressed here with the appointment of Hon. Francis D. Winslow, of Bertie county, Judge of the Second judicial district and Hon. George A. Jones, of Macon county, judge of the Sixth dis trict' - Judge Winston has been one of the most active members of the present General Assembly and is a trained and versatile lawyer, who, it is be lieved, will make an. enviable record on the bench. Judge Jones is one of the most prominent Western North Carolina lawyers, practiced for many years in the Western circuit and was for some time solicitor. He has rep resented his district in the General Assembly and held with distinction many offices of ' honor and trust.' Since" the appointments were made, late yesterday afternoon, there are being heard expressions of general approval on every hand. Raleigh. N. C, April 6. Mem bers of the sub text-book commission are putting in some hard work now, examining text books with a view to reporting April 23rd to the Text Book Commission (State Board of Education, as to their merits and de merits, so that the commission may adopt text books for use in the public schools of the State in accordance with the provisions of the Aycock school law. A prominent member of the commission tells me that the sub commission will scarcely be ready to report by the 23rd. Such a great quantity of books have have been sub mitted in connection with the bids that the sub-commissioners find them selves in the midst of almost an end less task. There are ten members, all prominent: '-educators from various parts of the State and they are all here working like beavers. There are also many representatives of book publishers here who Lare, as far as they can, indirectly helping along the work, in preparing briefs of their books,' etc., so that the members of the commission may the more quickly arrive at their merits. Chairman N. B. Broughton, of the executive committee of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, tells me that the work of the associa tion, which is an inter-denominational movement, bids fair to break all pre vious records this year. With Prof. S. H. CroweU, of High Point, at its head, directing the field secretary work, an aggressiveness will be in jected into the work which will insure greater usefulness. The report prepared by Chairman John C. Drewry, of the 8treets Com mittee, and presented to the Board of Aldermen, shows that Raleigh has du ring the past six years macadamized seven miles of streets, put down thirty one miles of curbing, and paved nine teen miles of sidewalk. The cost of this work has been thirty cents per square yard for macadam ; . eighteen cents per yard for curbing.and twenty- five cents for Belgian oiocbt. juaieign will be made next week. Several em ployes are already 'discharged. -The director aald one man is receiving $30 a month and board to go a mile to town twice a day for the mail. Major Martin, the. embezzler, was carried to the penitentiary this morn ing. He was completely broken do wn when he reached the prison, and wept like a child. He will not be given any work for some time. The direc tors instructed the superintendent .to give him good fare and plenty of op portunity for exercise. Will decide .the work to assign him later. Some clerical Work in the prison office is most probable. : The two.men recently apprehended, charged with cracking the safe of M. EL Lowryj & Co., of Morven, were given a preliminary hearing at Mor ven todajt and were required to give a justified Jxnd of $5,000 for appear ance at September Superior Court In default of bond they were recom mitted to jail. Defendants gave the names of J. H. Traver and George Ellsworth. - Martin's Defalcation. i Judge Francis-Df Winston, of. the committer examining the State Treaa urer's took as to Major Martin's de falcations, said to night the examina tion had progressed to the close of the fiscal year '97. nearly three years of Mr. Worth's administration, and they find plenty of evidtnee of embezzle menta large number of false entries as far back as '95 and '96. He thinks Martin's shortage will certain fy be $15,000; He expects the examination to be completed Wednesday. - ' Hon. Frank I; Osborne is here to night He says he has had in forma tion from United States officials at Washington and Greensboro to the effect that all suits against Demo cratic election officers will certainly be nol prossed. This is the meaning of the action at Greensboro in noti fying defendants and witnesses not to attend court. Overcharge en Fertilizer Freight. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad to day paid the State Treasurer $6,613, overcharge on fertilizer freight being the difference in the rate fixed by the Corporation Commission and that charged by the road ' during, pro ceedings in the fertilizer freight rate suit, gained by the Cor poration Commission. The treas urer will refund the amount to shippers along the Seaboard in North Carolina. The greatest amount goes back to shippers at Wilmington ; and Cronly, and points on the Carolina Central, notably the Navassa Fertilizer Company, Hall & Pearsall, S. P. Mc Nair, D. L. Gore, Smith & Gilchrist, R N. 8weet, Calder Brothers, Wil miugton; Acme Manufacturing Com pany, Cronly. Chairman McNeill, of the Corpora tion Commission, says-it will be sev eral weeks before a division of the money can be made. LEGISLATURES LAST SESSION. Passed a Number of Bills an0 Adjourned Sine Die at 12.30 P.' M. Thursday. Agricultural Department to prepare for the exhibit and requesting Gover nor Aycock to appoint a number, of additional commissioners. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. W. H. MARTIN SENTENCED. Will be Taken to the Penitentiary To-day to Serve a Term of Ten Years The Mangom Murder Trial A Ver dict of Acquittal. MAY Be BROUGHT HERB. rulers mdjre absolute in their sphere I farmers raising fewer potatoes when i nan is tne ozar ot an ine xtussias i they iouna tne potato market over- onlv have thev beaten us out of for eign markets, but have even invaded our own islands and are beating us at home. Americans, not satisfied with their successful tariff policy, have de ised a new scheme, which is intend ed to oust even the Germans and leave America the purveyor of the world." Mr. Robertson thought that the dan ger for England was that the country would be swamped by the surplus pro ductions of American trusts. If this feeling continues to grow, as it is growing, the logical result will be tariff against tariff, and rem edial protection against the Trusts. Other Governments will fight ns mitt, nnr nurn wnaTtoriR. ftdorjt Tjr&C- " " " r- , 1- i I . - .i .inn nnn WKiWfi tariff and OTffftn- 18 BOO lo 1WUW l" v.4J I street improvements . in his. The monarchs in the indus trial world on this hemisphere are J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rocke feller and their associates, the origi nators and so far the successsful conductors of the greatest business schemes this world has ever seen, schemes that embrace within their scope and under single direction a multitude of industries of divers kinds and apparently no way re lated, but brought into relationship by this single management. With contrbl of the main lines of railway, control of the coal mines, of the iron mines, of the steel and iron manu facturing plants, this combine is in a position to dictate terms andlevy tribute upon all with whom it dealings. - Bat its plans of absorptiot A not yet " completed, for every day adds some new feature to the scheme. We wouldn't expect to find an fish in it, but we see it reaching out to absorb the salmon packing industry of the North ' Pacific. We see it planning for giant . plant to build ships', and following this up with a scheme to get posses sion of an Isthmus canal bo thai it may have a voice in controlling the commerce between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. To do this and put the canal under the control of the railroad combinations which have been fighting the Nicaragua canal for years and spending mints of money to defeat it, Mr. Morgan and his associates have been planning to buy out and thus get control of the Panama canal, which they think they can do. for about 140,000,000. then comnleta it, control it and kill the Nicaragua canal. To bribe this Government not to give any material aid to th ' Nicaragua scheme thev offer to irive its vessels free passage through the . canai ana also giye it a sort of ize Trusts to fight American Trusts, and then the tariff and the Trust will become not simply an Amer ican bnt a world issue. stocked and potatoes a drug. The cotton planters are not asked to act in concert to run the price of cotton up, but simply to protect them selves from ruin. They have no chartered organization nnder one management!, which can fix the price twhich cotton buyers will have to pay for the cotton they want. They simply propose to govern their aoreage to keep the product within the world's demand for con sumption and thus keep themselves nnr. nf debt and bankrUDtcV. It is simply a measure of necessity, in- It is said that Andrew Carnegie : A v V o..tt, irvaon hnt. I IB r.niT, Km IT OI UB1UE BUUIO wi. uio Bpil CU UUb UJ giasfiug gi.yvv. - I o s by self preservation,, the first law of nature. A Connecticut man who rifled a bank some time ago and eloped to Europe is working his way back, although he knows he will land in the penitentiary. As between being in Europe and in the penitentiary in this country there are some Americans who would prefer the penitentiary. millions to elevate the stage and will build and endow a big theater in London and one in New York. There is no counting on some 'Frenchmen, and you "are not sure they will stay dead when they to all appearances ought to be dead. A Boldier in France prowling around one night feel into an old mine shaft fifty feet, deep, lay there for twenty-eight days before he was discovered, without food or drink, but revived. James G. Blaine, Jr., has opened a ladies' tailor shop in Washington. In this young Jim has possibly struck something that he can measure up to. Explorations in Egypt show that golf was played by the kings in that country 4,000 years ago, from which it seems that the kings had about as hard a time killing time in those days as they have now. A Massachusetts man has offered a prize of $100 to . the person who will furnish some method for bring ing sleep without the use of sop orifics." Let him try sitting up two or three nights. In his late campaign for Mayor in Chicago Carter Harrison made 125 speeches and fourteen of them on Sunday. That looked like over work, but he got there and downed Altgeld, too. Sarah Bernhardt took her com pany to see Niagara Falls the other day, and after seeing the sights, treated them to a $500 breakfast. Sarah, is a thoroughbred. - How small those Havana and Manila thieves must feel when they read of $33,000,000 stealings in the Russian Comptroller General's of fice. ' ' New Jersey finds the Trust busk ness a paying -one. She got enough ont of them last year to pay all State expenses and have $2,000,000 left over for incidentals. A contemporary says Col. A. K. McClure yhas been in newspaper work for 7 years. As that is about Ms age he mnst have been a born newspaper man. Durinsr the past six years Raleigh has spent $210,000 for permanent street improvements; $150,000 from bond issues and $60,000 from the general fund. North Carolina's capital city is pronounced by all visitors as rapidly becoming one of the most beautiful cities in the South, largely as a result of these street improvements. The city furnishes to all property owners on improved streets, gratuitously, handsome maple shade trees, to which they require the property owners to give proper care. Special Star Telegram. N. C. Sunday School Association. The Executive - Committee of the North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation is in session here today. It instructed President G. H. Crowell to open Association nead quarters at High Point and authorizes him to as sume charge of the work as field sec retary and employ any necessary help. J. M. Broughton was elected editor and manager of the Sunday School Beacon. The committeemen here are F1, B. Broughton, chairman ; O. H Crowell, High Point; S. M. Smith, Elon College; Geo. W. Watts, M. M. Snow, Durham; T B. Parker, Hills boro; R. A. Southerland, Pavetteville; S W. Bryan, Goldsboro; R. B. Lacy, J. M. Broughton, Raleigh. The Superintendent of Public In struction to-day sent out $1,650, of the Peabody educational fund, to va rious schools in the State. In a few days $350 more will be sent Of the eastern schools the Fayetteville nor mal gets $50; Newborn graded school, $100; Washington, $200; Elizabeth City normal, $100. There remains in the hands of the superintendent $100 for Kinston. - The State Penitentiary, 1 . There is a general shaking up in store for the penitentiary. A promi nent director said something would drop decidedly next week. Every employe is over a volcano. He de clared that the prison affairs are in a very bad condition and hints at mis management, and even worse. rector threatens to resign rather than nr.dnrtake to straichten out affairs. Safe Crackers in WadeBboro Jsil Likely to Be Transferred to Wilmington There is a movement on foot to have the two alleged safe cracksmen in jail at Wadesboro for the Morven, Red Springs and Raleigh robberies re moved to Wilmington for safe keep ing. As stated in yesterday's Stab the prisoners were bound over to the Superior Court in the sum of $5,000 each, and as that court does not meet for the trial of criminal cases until September 2nd, it is believed safest to have them in New Haoover jail. CoL W. J. Cross well, superintend ent of this division of the Southern Express Company, who is interested in the conviction of the prisoners for the Raleigh express robbery, yesterday called on Sheriff Frank H. Stedman to ascertain if they would be admitted here. He was informed by Sheriff SUdmanthat he would receive them at any time, and it is presumed the necessary legal steps for the transfer will be had at once. THE LOCAL PEANUT MARKET Effected Very Little by Reported Corner from New York Spanish Muts. In view of an Associated Press dis patch sent out from New York last week to the effect that a corner had been effected in the peanut market, a Stab representative yesterday called upon a number of the . local dealers and inquired as to the effect the re ported "trust" would have here. It was ascertained that the dispatch was correct so far as regards Spanish nuts but that it did not apply to North Carolina and Virginia varieties, in which there is no rise in price. Spanish peanuts, however are finding sale at 80 cents per bushel, which is an advance over quotations a short time ago and they are said to be very scarce even at that figure. The rise in the Spanish nut is said to be attribut able to the fact that there has been a patent granted recently upon an auto matic device for selling peanuts in bags and as the Spanish nuts are in much more uniform size and more palatable, they have been chosen for use in the machines and, hence the result is large purchases which amount, with the scarcity, almost to a corner. The warden is the only officer yei requested to resign, but other changes A Snake Story. Mr. J. L. McKay, of Columbus county, near White ville, who arrived in the city yesterday with a herd of cattle for Wilmington batchers, brought with him a mammouJ rattle snake, which he exhibited yesterday morning at the Stab office for the One di- benefit of the "reptilians" of the city. The rattier measuren tt ieei in lengiu and had ten rattles. It was killed by Mr. McKay on his way to Wilmington in the Seven Mile Bay, about 88 miles . from Wilmington. Special Star Correspondence.' Raleigh, N. O., April 4 -r-Toe jury in the Mangum murder trial after being out since yesterday at 1 P. M. returned a verdict of not guilty at 10 o'clock this morning. This is a case with" a remarkable history. Samuel Mangum shot and killed Peter Griffin on the night or uctooer 7. A coroner's jury the next day rendered a verdict that the killing was justifi able. Two weeks later a warrant was issued for Mangum and the prelim ioary trial before a justice of the peace resulted in Man gum's committal to jail without bail. Tne case was car ried before Justice Montgomery of the Supreme Court, in habeas corpus proceedings, and the judge sustained the action of the magistrate in declin -ing bail. Thus the case dragged along until the final trial, just closed. Mangum is a well-to-do farmer in the country and the sympathy of the public hag been with him throughout his trouble. The man Griffin was a bad character,. and while drunk 'had been to Mangum's home and be haved very badly in the presence of his wife. No one saw the killing. The board of directors of the Hos pital for the Insane at Raleigh met last night and re elected W. R. Crawford. Jr., as steward and Mrs. W. F. Whitaker as matron. The following executive committee was chosen: Dr. R. H. Standi (chair man), W. B. Fort and Dr. W. H. Nicholson. Mr. J. D. Biggs, the veteran chairman, was reelected chairman of the board of directors. The new board of directors of the State prison are now engaged in the taking of a complete inventory of the prison and prison equipments. The superintendent of public in struction has instructed the county superintendents to have the newly ap pointed boards of education meet on the second Monday in April and ad journ until the first Monday in July, as the old boards will hold over until that time. - The repeal of the Forshee legalized primary law as as far as it applies to Wake count?, is the result of dissatis faction growing out of the Raleigh primary Tuesday. The- amendment exempting Wake was adopted by the Assembly yesterday. Raleigh's was the first primary held in the State under the new law and the dissatis faction of the citizens as to its opera tion is significant of the growing un popularity of the legalized primary idea. Special Star Telegram. The General Assembly. The General Assembly adjourned sine die at 12 :S0 p. m. Both branches were in session nearly two hours. Sev eralnew bills passed and those enacted yesterday and to day were all ratified. Four Senators andn eight Representa tives were present as follows: Sen ators London (president pro tern) Arrington, Broughton, Woodward. Representatives Lawrence Winston, Russell, Wilson, Simms, Beddingfield, Watts, Richardson. To convey a complete idea of the business transacted during the sessions yesterday and to-day it is necessary to give the following list of bills ratified this afternoon; all passed during the two days' session, to-wit: Amending judicial district act, 1901; amending Wayne stock law act; amending Chapter 203, Private Laws, 1889; to allow clerks per diem and mileage for this adjourned session ; to regulate fees of witnesses and of ficers in Iredell county; to strike out Wake from the primary election act; to compel attendance upon public schools in Mitchell county ; to amend the county board of education act so far .as Iredell county is concerned (correcting name) ; to allow increase to $300,000 the capital stock of the Goldsboro Lumber Company ; to ap point J. E. Peterson, G. W. Langston and W. H. Collins justices of the peace for Wayne connty; for relief of Miss E. C. Spruill, public school teacher in Nash county: to provide for the publication of the proceedings of the Court of Impeach ment; to increase the number of com missioners in Iredell county from three to five; to abolish the office of enrolling clerk and delegate the duties of the office to the Secretary of State; to increase the number of commis sioners in Wilson county from three to five. . Embezzler Martin Sentenced. Maj. W. H. Martin, defaulting in stitutional clerk in the State Treasur er's office, was brought before Judge Starbuck in Wak Superior Court this afternoon, and sentenced to ten years in the State's prison. The Judge stated that he would give Maj. Martin the benefit of the doubt as to whether he was a State officer or not. Had he ruled that Martin was a State officer the least penalty would have been twenty years. Martin is sixty years old. He will be tarried to the peni tentiary to-morrow. He has declared he will never enter the penitentiary : some fear he may commit suicide. CoL W. A. Hemphill (editor of the News and Courier), J. H. Everittf Messrs. Ficker and Gadsden, all offi cials of Charleston's West Indian Ex position,' spent to-day here in confer ence with Governor Aycock and other State officers regarding North Caro lina's exhibit at the exposition. Governor Aycock told the visitors hecould "safely say North. Carolina will make an exhibit." During the conference with the North ' Carolina commissioners to -the exposition, a resolution was adopted asking the Hearlor in the Case of the Alleged Safe Crackers at Morven Recommltfed to Wadesboro Jail. Special Star Telegram.' Mobveh, N. C, April 5. The hear ing in the case of the two alleged safe crackers was held here to day. The citizens of the place and surrounding, country treated the occasion as a sort of holiday, work generally beiog sus pended. The streets have been crowded,. nearly one. thousand people being in town. About thirty witnesses -were sworn, all of whom identified the defendants either as being 6een near here on the day of the robbery, near Wadesboro, at Lilesviles,' or on the train at Marshville, where the bur glars were arrested. The burglars' tools found on the men and in their overcoats were fully iden tified. A very strong case was de veloped against them, the chain of circumstantial evidence being com plete and reflecting great credit upon the attorneys for' the prosecution Bennett and Bennett, J as. A. Lock hart and L D. Robinson. The hear ing was before Justice John A. Niven, of Morven township. The men were held in the sum of five thousand dol lars bail each, pn default of' which they were recommitted to Wadesboro jail. Mr. W. J. Crosswell, superin tendent of the Southern Express Company and Postoffice Inspector Jere Connelly, of Wilmington, "were present at the hearing, as was also Special Agent P. i R. Burns, of the Southern Express Company and sta tion at Chattanooga, Tenn. DEATH OP A RESPECTED LADY. Mrs. Simon Lewis, of Cnrrle, Bladen Co., Passed Away Last Week. Mrs. L. M. Smith returned last evening from Currie, Bladen county, whither she was summoned last week on account of the death of her mother, Mrs. Simon Lewis, an aged and highly respected lady of that vicinity, who passed peacefully away on Tuesday. Mrs Lewis was 68 years of age and was noted for her great piety and noble character. She thad been a member of Long Creek Baptist church for 51 years and. was univer sally esteemed by all who knew her. The survivors besides a sorrowing husband are four children : Mrs. L. M. Smith and Mr. J. W. Lewis, of Wilmington, and Miss Florence and Mr. S. W. Lewis, of Currie. The funeral was conducted from Long Creek church Wednesday morn ing at 11 o'clock by the Rev. D. W. Herring and the interment was in the family burying ground. i FIRE NEAR MOUNT OLIVE. Favetteville Observer: Farmers and truckers inform the reporter that there is nothing the matter .with the fruit so far, and that the prospect is , good for a bounteous crop of apples, peaches, pears, etc., as well as the small fruits. ,, , . Fremont .'.Visitor' The guano deliverer informs us that 140 tons and seven bags of guano was delivered to the local trade of Fremont last Wed nesday. The sale of guano in this State is officially reported to be 30 per cent, in excess of last year's sales, and this la taken to indicate a large Increase in the cotton crop. Wilson Times: A good deal of complaint is heard about the alow growth of the tobacco plants. There is more guano .being hauled away from Wilson than has been for many . years. As one merohant told us this week, the farmers will have a hard time if cotton is six cents next Fall, even to pay . for the enormous supply of fertilizer purchased. Greensboro Record: A death under rather pecular circumstances i reported from Washington township. The young son of Mr. Samuel May went out into the woods to fell trees and was struck on the chin by a limb. : The blow caused an abrasion of the skin, resulting in blood poisoning, and a few days later the young man died in great agony. Charlotte Observer: The Winston Salem special in this morning's paper tells that the indictments against the Democratic registrars and judges in the United States District Court at Greensboro have been nol prossed and thedefendants and witnesses notified that they need not appear. This, pre sumably, carries the quaahing of all other indictments of like character in the Federal courts. Sanford Express: From the way the farmers are movirig fertiliz-r is looks as if thev will use more of u than they did last year Thia prob ably means an increased acreage t f cotton. The whistle of the Stan 'ord Furniture Factory was heard ft e the first time Tuesday. The company expects to put the faotory in opera' tion in about two weeks. They nan a big lot of hard wood on hand tl.- most of which was purchased froi.. parties in thia aection. Thia factory will employ some forty or fifty hand Goldsboro Argus: While work men were digging clay Friday morn ing at Maj. Grant's brick yard, near the site of old Waynesboro, they un earthed a metallio coffin, which waa entirely intact, save the rust from long burial. It had no name plate by which it could be identified, neither was there any sign in the way of headstone to indicate the existence of a grave. The casket had four handles, two on either side, and from the size it waa supposed to contain the remains of a youth some 12 or 15 years of age. Maj. Grant had it reinterred in the old Churchill burying ground, near by. -t FORTY PEOPLE INJURED. Saw Mill of Mr. W. D. Price Badly Dam aged by Pire. A correspondent of the Stab writing yesterday from Mount Olive says that the saw mill of Mr. W. D. Price, one mile from Mount Olive, was partially destroyed by fire Friday afternoon about 3:30 P. M. Mr. - Price is an ex tensive manufacturer of berry and veg etable crates and this part of his plant was totally destroyed, causing a li from $1,600 to $2,000, upon which there was no insurance: The Stab's correspondent says that this is the third fire loss which Mr. Price has sustained in business and the people of the community very gener ally sympathize with him. in his re peated losses. Street Car Thrown Into n Canal by the Collapse of a Bridge at Syracuse, New York. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Sybaouse, N. Y., April 6. While a car of the Rapid Transit Co, was cross-' ing the James street bridge over the Oswego canal in the heart of the city, about 5:50 this afternoon, the bridge suddenly gave way, dropping the car and its sixty passengers to the canal bed, thirty feet below. Several per sons were crossing the bridge at the time and went down with the car, while a horse and loaded lumber wagon piled on top of the heap. Abput forty persons were injured. It is not believed that any deaths will result, although there are reports of several of the worst injured being dangerously hurt. Had the canal been filled with water, the result of the accident would have been terrible. The car-, struck the towpath first and then slid off into the mud at the canal bottom, where it stuck. The water would have been deep enough to cover all but a few windows and the front door and many of the passengers would have undoubt edly perished. When the crash came, persons on the street called v the fire department. Ladders were quickly lowered and the injured carried up and sent to their homes or to hospitals in carriages and ambulances. For more than a year there have been criticisms of the condition of the bridge. The bridge was about eighty feeUj&Dg, and sixty feet wide. It was broken off sharp at both enbankments, the entire structure- going into the canal. LYNCHING IN ARKANSAS. DENIES THE RUMOR. Dr. Galther Says There la No Truth in Rumor About Suicide. Dr. W. W. Gaither arrived in the city yesterday, and says there is no truth in the rumor about his having attempted suicide at Burgaw Tuesday night. Dr. Gaither said he had been very ill with lagrippe, and had come to the city to enter the hospital. Friends of the Doctor in Wilmington are glad to learn that there was - no rash inten tions upon his part as were reported, and hope that he may soon recover from his illness. Death of Thomas B. McPadyeo. The Stab regrets to chronicle the death of Mr. Thos. B. McFadyen,which occurred at 1:30 o'clock Thursday af ternoon at his home. No. 804 Bladen street He was 47 years of age and his death was caused by la grippe. Mr. McFadyen moved to Wilmington about five years ago from Bladen county and was at the time of his death interested in the woodyard of McFadyen & Kelly. He is survived by his wife, a son, and the following brothers: Messrs. Baskin, John and Graham McFadyen, of Bladen county, and Walter McFadyen, of Virginia. CURTAILINQ PRODUCTION. Yonng White Man, Charged With Mur der, Taken from Jail and Hanged by a Mob of Citizens. Bv TelegrsDn to the Morning Btar. Osceola, Abe:., - April 8. May Hearn, of Luxoria, Ark., was taken from the county jail here early this morning and lynched. The victim of the mob was a young white man, the son of J. R. Hearn, one of the most respectable farmers living in the neigh borhood, ana tne cruel crime ior which he was hanged was the shoot ing of Clyde King in Luxoria on the night of Sunday, March 31st The mob, numbering about fifteen persons, entered the city about mid night 8entries were posted along the main street, and a posse waa aent out to effect the capture of Deputy Sheriff Goodrich and N ght Watchman Skig- worth. Both of the officers were round. Deputy Sheriff Goodrich had the keya to the jail and these were taken pos session of by the mob. . Arriving. at the jail the lynchers entered. Hearn sank on his kneea and began to pray. Although his sentences '.were almost incoherent, he insisted that he had not killed King from malice, but that the shooting waa accidental. The mob was unmoved, and placing, a rope around Hearn's neck they took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree. DEPOPULATION OF INDIA. The Tremont and Suffolk Cotton Mills at Lowell, Mass. By Telegraph to tne Horning Btar. Lowell, Mass , April 6 Agent Thomas, of the Tremont and Suffolk cotton mills, has received orders to stop three-quarters of the machinery until further notice. In consequence of this order about 1,000 persons will be thrown out of work. The pro longed depressed condition of . the trade is the reason given by the man agement of the mills for this step. Operations will be resumed as soon as the' market improves. - - Five Million People Have Died Since 1896 from Famine and Cholera. Bv Cable to the Morning Star. c London, -April 6. The depopula tion of India, through famine and cholera, is assuming alarming propor tions. The latest advices from Simla Bays the census returns of the central provinces snow a decrease ox over a million since 1891, - when under nor mal conditions an increase of a million and a half might have bees expected. It is estimated that five millions have died in India since 1886 from causes directly due to the famine.' In Western India things are even worse. The Oodeypoor state returns show a decrease of 840,000 or 45 per cent of the population ; the state of Uhopaul snows a decrease or bu,uw; the district of Banda ahowa a decrease of 184,000. In Bombay city the popu lation has diminished by ou.uuu. V