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It is not surprising, then that Mark Hanna should stand by the Trusts which have stood by him and the party. , In the interview with him which we published Friday he indicated the position he and other friends of the Trusts will take when the move ment is made in Congress for the repeal of the duties on articles made by the Steel Trust. The argument for the repeal will be that the Trusts do not need protection, but take ad vantage of it to raise prices and com pel the home purchasers to pay them an exorbitant profit on the goods they sell. The friends of the Trusts will admit, as Mr! Hanna does, that they do not need protection against competitors across the seas, but they, must have it against the terrible in fant on the Canada side of the line. English and Canadian capitalists, and perhaps some Americans with them, are going to establish some steel plants on the Canada side, and the3e are going to do the mischief, and will get away withour billion dollar jumbo unless their products are kept out of our market by a high tariff. Thia- same jumbo has secured con trol of nearly all the anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania, of the best of the soft coal mines, and is now head ing straight for mines in West Vir ginia with the intention of taking them in. It has already decided to raise the price of coal about a dollar a ton, and had previously served no tice that the price of steel rails would be increased $2 a ton. But, accord ing to Mark Hanna, this mighty jumbo is in danger of being badly crippled by this Canadian infant and therefore must have protection to prevent the infant from striding into our home market and chasing the . jumbo out. , It has control of the iron and coal supplies, but if the tariff duties be re moved from- coal and iron, New England and other Atlantic- States would get cheap coal and iron from ova Scotia, and could snap their fingers at the jumbo. .' Admitting, as they do, that the Steel Trust no longer needs protec , tion against European steel makers, will it not seem absurd when they demand it to protect , our colossal concern from Canadian competition? What good reason can they give for it? Does it cost less to mine coal or iron in Nova Scotia than it does in this country? Will it cost less to make steel on the Canadian side of the line than it does on this side? If our Bteel makers can compete with the rich and long established plants in England and Germany, why can't they compete with the plants that may spring up in CanaSa? These questions will be asked of the friends of the Trusts and they will have to answer them with something more convincing than 'mere asser tion. But admitting, as they do, that our Steel Trust can compete with all the world save Canada, (but Canada . hasn't -yet become a com petitor for the steel industry has not yet been established), they ad mit that the Trust is strong enough to take care of itself without the protection which they said an "in , fant industry" needed, and can find no decent or plausible pretence for continuing it. They ought to be , ashamed to acknowledge that they can not compete with the young concerns that may spring up in - Canada. Steel plants do not spring up in a day, nor by magic. They require large capital and men who know something about the business, and therefore there is little prospect of - New England becoming the dumping ground for Canadian steel. But even if the prospect were for the rapid growth of this Indus-. - try in Canada,-where the production VOL. XXXII. of steel will cost as much as as it does in - this country if not more, why should the people in New England or other States be deprived of the privilege of buying Canadian steel, if they could buy it cheaper than the Steel Trust will sell it, when the Steel Trust could af ford to sell it twenty-five or thirty per cent, cheaper than it does, and then make a handsome profit? Ac cording to the reports it made money enough the past year to pay the In terest on its bonds and have about $8,000,000 left. If the railroads which the Trust will compel to pay $2 a ton more for rails than they did last year ; could buy rails from Canada at the price phey had been paying the Trust or for less, why shouldn't they have the privilege of doing it? If the Trust could make and sell rails for $28 a ton last year, and sold about 2,500,000 tons at that price, why can't they do it this year, especially since it operates its own iron and coal mines r under its own man agement the iron and coal should not cost as much as they last year. When the Trust sends its advo cates and hirelingsjbefore Congress to demand the continuation of the protective tariff, it can plead neither helpless infancy nor poverty, for it has estopped both of these pleas by its achievements and its colossal combinations. The people demand protection from the Trusts and if after the1 developments of the past lew years Mark Manna suc ceeds in preventing tariff reform which he sneers at as "tariff tinker ing," it will be proof vositive that the Trusts own the majority in Con gress. Failing there, if the advo cates of reform do fail, the contest will be carried to the hustings and become the leading issue in the next Congressional campaign. SB. PAEKHUE8T AHD THE , NEGRO. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, was one of the party of Northern gentle men who recently came South on that educational tour. They visited a number of institutions and doubt less acquired considerable informa tion as to what was being done in the way of educating negroes. Some men. learn, or think they learn, more in a week's trip through the South, than other people of equal intelligence and powers of ob servation do in a life time. Dr. Parkhurst belongs to this class. He learned it all and told his congrega tion about it in his sermon last Sun day. A good deal he said was true and some wasn't. As, for instance, speaking about the treatment of negroes, he said the Southern people hate the negro; but so do white people in the North. The only difference between them is that the Southerners do not deny it, while the Northerners lie about it. While his rebuke to the pretended friends of the negro, in the North had some foundation, he was far from the truth when he said the whole people of the South hate the negro. The negro hasn't a better friend in the world, a more indul gent employer, or one more cOnsid erate of his short-comings than the Southern man. There is no enmity to the negro in the South, unless when he presumes, forces himself into positions for which he is not fitted, and thus comes into conflict with the white man. Then there is friction, but it isn't enmity against the negro race, but simply against negro assumption and presumption In his place,, honestly struggling for a livelihood, no where in the world has the negro better mends or is more kindness shown to him than in the South. This is freely acknowl edged by some negroes, one of whom, Eev. C. T. Walker, a Baptist minister in New York, in a sermon BDeakine about the treatment of negroes in the respective sections, said: "Having lived in the South all my life, except nearly two years spent in the pastorate in this city, from my personal observation I must confess that prejudice against my race in some sections of the North is as strong as in the South, only it is met and dealt with in a different way. The South gives every man an opportunity to earn a living; tbe .Northern negro is given an opportunity to spend his livintr without the I opportunity to earn it." " , ? He has in the South abetter chance to earn a living, and that is all he ought to expect anywhere, but that's more than he gets; outside of the South. i A negro "doctor" was arrested in New York the other day for selling colored people bottles of croton water variously colored. They fined him $150, not for practicing fraud on his victims, but for doing it without license. The grave diggers in Philadelphia have struck. This looks like a grave case of the hoodoo.. What's the mat ter with the old town, anyway. Some trees in Tennessee are pro lific. A man got out of one the other day four cords of wood, three gal mm tarn ra i i mm Mrtft THE CHINESE MIX. Notwithstanding all the talk about agreements, withdrawing troops, etc., the Chinese question is very far from settlement yet, isn't much nearer it than when the representatives of the several allied powers first met after the entry into Pekjn. We have had propositions, counter propositions, modifications of propositions, heads chopped off and all that sort of thing, but there has been nothing definite and there is not one even among the far-seeing of the statesmen prophet enough to tell what the outcome will be. The latest is that possibly the disagree ment among the Powers may re result in each taking possession of a piece of territory as a guarantee of its claim. When each one takes possession of a piece of territory, when each one will let go will be quite another matter. It has been the experience .of China and of other helnless countries that when a stronger nation takes pos session of territory it seldom lets go, but always finds some pretence for holding on, and if it can't find one makes it. This will simply be a prelude to the partition of China, which many have looked for as the inevitable outcome of that tangle. The dilly dallying, insincere and conflicting positions taken by the respective nations in their management of this affair have indicated that and given ground for that opinion. If the United States, which are opposed to partition, had not been in it the probabilities are that partition would have been decided upon before this. There was a report a few days ago that Germany had secured conces sions in Canton, and if so the other Powers, if they do not object, will seek and insist on other concessions to offset this. Thus it is. Thev have China down and are going for the spoils. Governor Stanley, of Kansas, is in trouble. He announced when re elected that he would make presents to all parents of triplets born in the State during his two years incum bency. His term hasn't fairly be gun out ne nas already sent out six silver cups. But he will now for self protection require the certificate of the attending physician. A little later he will probably require the affidavit of the physician. Kansas is a great country, According to the New York Her nia 87 per oent. of the 3,8X3 men who are estimated to own in the ag gregate $16,000,000,000 of the $81, 750,000,000 wealth of the country are self-made men and made their piles themselves. But they probably had a little help from others, and some of them from the legislation that favored them. The British Secretary of War said in a speech at a recent banquet that Great Britain would fight to maintain her rights on the Nile, or the Yang Tsi, the Congo River or the Indus. If she didn't make any better show ing on these other rivers than she has on the Orange, she would be glad to let the job out before she got through with it. Some time ago the billion dollar Steel Trust took in a lot of the Pennsylvania soft coal mines, and now it is reaching out its tentacles to take in the WeBt Virginia mines. The Sugar Trust has agents in Porto Rico, and may soon have its clamps on it. It is reported that it is taking options on all the best sugar plantations. A Chicago Professor, over thirty years old. told his class that he had never kissed a woman. The prob abilities are that he didn't go out of Chicago much. WEDDED AT AUGUSTA, OA. Miss Nellie Scattereood, Well Known In Wilmington, Married Last Week. The Augusta Chronicle of May 2nd has the following account of the mar riage of a young lady well known in Wilmington: "Miss Nellie Scattergood and Mr. St. Clair Williams were quietly married at 6 o'clock last afternoon at the First Presbyterian parsonage. Rev. Dr. Plunket impressively officiating at the beautiful ceremony. Miss Scatter good waB visiting at the home of the groom's sister, Mrs. Bcaroorougn, o. 10 Greene street. "She is an unusually attractive young woman whose charm of man ner ana superior accompiisuuiems have caused her to be widely admired Her marriage to Mr. Williams will be a great surprise to her friends in this and other cities. Sincere good wishes accompany-her in her future life. "Mr. Williams is an emciem ami popular telegrapher of the Western: Union xeiegrapn uompany, ana is possessed of a gentlemanly, and cour teous demeanor which gains for him the estimation of every one with whom he comes in contact, ins hosts of friends will hasten to extend their hearty congratulations upon the an nouncement of his marriage to such an excellent young woman. Seven United States prisoners sentenced to various terms of confine ment in jail at the present term of the Federal Court were sent up to Rock Weekly WILMINGTON, N. C, CASE OF H. T. ALLEN. Laurinburg Printer Gets Eigh teen Months in Penitentiary and $100 Fine. FRAUDULENT USE OF MAILS. Trial Consumed Greater Portion of tbe Day la Federal Court, Which Con tinues to This Week Number of Uninteresting Matters. The Federal Court was engaged for a greater portion of yesterday in the trial of H. T. Allen, of Laurinburg, . charged with fraudulent use of the mails. It was 5:30 o'clock in the after noon when the jury took the case and within about five minutes it rendered a verdict of guilty, although the de fendant had plead not guilty. The case was taken up at 11 A. M., Jno. H. Cook, Esq., of Maxton, ap pearing for the defence and District Attorney Bernard and Assistant At torney Spears conducting the prose cution. Postoffice Inspector Jere Con naily, who worked up the case with ex ceeding cleverness, was the first witness and gave substantially the same testi mony as that printed in these columns soon after the arrest. Of his trip to Laurinburg he said he found no labo ratory, no "Doctor Allen," but an or dinary printer, who had assumed the prefix "Dr." for business purposes. He also testified as to having Been no "Station A" at Laurinburg and also as to his methods of collecting the evi dence. The next witnesses were W. S. Booth, of Rochester, N. Y. ; L. H. Petty, of Parson, Tenn., who made purchases of recipes and Confederate money from Allen; J. H. Gregory, of Morris Plains, N. J., who sent $2 to the defendant simultaneously with an inquiry to the postmaster at Laurin burg as to Allen's standing and who received a return of his money upon the postmaster's inquiry of Allen; Ira S. Cleary, of Columbus, Ga., who received circulars but did not pur chase; R. W. Cavaness, of Southern Pines, N. C , who purchased recipes and Condfederate money ; H. J. Channel, of Brookwood, Ala., who sent along $10 and received seventy five fac simile $5 notes of old conti nental currency, ten recipes and ten copies of a "Guide to Wealth," price $5 per copy. Postmaster W. H.Cooper.of Laurin burg, testified as to having 139 receipts for money orders sent to Allen, out side of registered letters and of his having received a fraud order as to Allen from the Postoffice Department. L. H. Matthews, of Teachey's, N. C , and Alfred Prevatt. of Lumberton, testified as to purchases. After the recess for dinner, Allen went upon the stand and claimed legitimacy for his scheme, and pointed out to the court that he had a large family and received the small salary of $25 per month. . There was argument then by coun sel, District Attorney Bernard making an especially strong appeal for the prosecution, and Jno. H. Cook, Esq., for the defence. Tbe jury in the case was as follows: J. T. McLamb, Jesse Lancaster, Rich ard Smith, Wm. Daughtry, George E. Brooks, Eugene Philyaw, E. W. Hinson, H. P. Clark, Autry Baggett, J. P. Alderman, W. A. Tillinghast and C. W. Maultsby. J. M. Ham and W. W. Cocke, de faulting witnesses in the case were each fined $80. Attorney Cook made an appeal for the defendant as Judge Purnell was about to impose sentence, just before ad journment at 6 o'clock last evening, but Allen was given the extreme pen altyeighteen months in the peniten tiary and $100 fine and cost, the place of confinement to be named by the Attorney General. Nashville, Tenn., it is said, will likely be the place. The following other proceedings were had during the day and a recess taken until to morrow morning: Daniel David and Wm. Brannon. retailing liquor without license; not guiltv. Jesse Wall. Richmond, retailing; plead guilty and sentenced to 18 months in penitentiary and to pay a fine of f 100 and cost. Sam Wright Richmond, retailing. plead guilty; sentenced to 60 days in iail and $100 fine and cost. Kirt Chavis, Richmond, retailing; plead guilty, thirty days in jail, $100 fine and cost. Thos. Steen, Richmond, receiving and concealing spirits; called and failed. Phoebe McNeill. Cumberland, re tailing: continued. Sandv Thomas. Scotland, retailing; called and failed; judgment nisi aci fa and capias to next term. Robt. W. Davis, Esq , of Southport, was admitted to practice in the Circuit and District Courts as attorney acd counsellor. . The following jurors were excused for the term: M. M.Moore, Jas..,C. Cromartie, Geo. E. Brooks, William Dauehtrv. J. R. McPhail. J. E. Dr ham and J. M. Smith. ) INVOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY. Creditors of O. P. Justice, Snead's Perry, N. C, Piled Petition Yesterday. Certain Wilmington creditors, hav ing claims aggregating $575.24, 3 terdav filed through their attorneys. Russell &' Gore, a petition in the TTnitnH St.atflH rtaurt here. - asking that n w JuBtiftA. ceneral merchant, of sAfinrl'a Ferrv. Onslow county, be ad inAaA n hnnkrunt and the said peti tion b heard bv the referee for this riir.trict on Mav 13th. at 3 P.M. The creditors who filed the petition, nf Aach. are as follows: mv. tw rtr Km.. S163.39: Hall & Pearsall (Incorporated), $122.58; Wil liams Bros., 1118.69; V. U ore vahu nanv. $84.93. and W. B. Cooper, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1901. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Number of Sales Recorded la Register of Deeds' Office Yesterday. The Register of Deeds yesterday re -ceived deeds for the following prop erty transfers: Jno. J. Fowler, commissioner to W. J. Reaves for $2,500. the Marl borough House property, near Front and Orange, 47x90 feet in size. W. L. Smith and wife and J. V. Grainger to Adam G. Latta, of New York, for $50, all their title and inter est in certain lands on Masonboro sound. Also M. Bellamy, Jr., com missioner, to A. G. Latta for $1,000, the Henning place containing about 70 acres on Masonboro Sound. Mrs. Elizabeth Vollers to Mrs. Nel lie Draper Dick for $2,800, residence and lot on west side of Second street between Ann and Nun, the lot being 66x165 feet in size. Edward McCabe to James H. Loftin, :or $33.70, small tract of land on Wrightsville sound. Cotton and the Late Spring. Mr. B. O. Stone, travelling salesman for Stone, Rourk & Co., who returned yesterday from a business trip through Robeson and Scotland counties, re ports that the cold weather has been very disastrous to cotton farmers as well as to the truckers of that section. Seed planted several weeks ago have lain in the ground so long that farm ers have decided there is little hope for their germinating now and are ploughing up their fields and planting over again. Mr. P. H. Hay den, the well known carriage and buggy builder, yesterday received from New York for Dr. E. S. Pigford, one of the latest vehicles a three-wheeled buggy. It was put together yesterday afternoon and created mueh interest among lovers of nobby rigs. M. E. CHURCH SOUTH. The Assignment of Bishops for the An nual Conference Year Announced. Bv Teleeraph to the morning 8 tar. Louisville, Ky., May 4. The im portant work of assigning the bishops for the annual conferences for the coming year has been completed by tbe College of Bishops of the Method ist Church, South. Following are the conferences assigned to the vari ous bishops : Bishop Wilson Japan, ii.orea. Chinese. Western Missouri, St. Louis and Southwest Missouri conferences. Bishop Granberry Florida, North west Mexican. Central Mexican and Mexican border mission conferences. Bishop Hargrave Kentucky.Louis ville. Western North Carolina and North Carolina conferences. Bishop Duncan Montana, East Oolumbia, Columbia, Pacific, Los Aneeles and v ireinia conferences. Bishop Galloway Brazil, North Georgia, South Carolina, South Geor gia and Baltimore conferences. Bishop Hendrix New Mexico, Den ver. Holston, North Aiaoama ana Alabama conferences. Bishop-Key Indian Mission and the three Arkansas conferences. BishOD Fitzererald Tennesse. and Louisiana conferences. Bishop Candler The' six Texas con ferences and the Cuban Mission. Bishoo Morrison Western Virginia, Illinois, Memphis, North Mississippi and Mississippi conferences. MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. Doable Murder in tbe Town of Warren, New York. By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. Little Falls. N. Y.. May 4. A double murder occurred in the town of Warren, near Richfield Springs, to- mpht. The victims were Benjamin ttoyt and Mrs. John C. Wallace. Hoyt murdered Mrs. Wallace and was after wards shot bv Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wallace is a wealthy farmer and Hovt was employed by him as a hired man. A year ago Mrs. Wallace, who was about fifty-five years of age, eloned with Hovt. who was only thirty- five. Thev returned to Wallaces home last Fall and the wife was taken back by her husband and Hoyt has been imnortuning Mrs. Wallace to elooe with him again, but she refused. A bitter quarrel started to-night and Hovt was ordered to leave the house by both Wallace and his wife. He refused to go and Wallace stepped into another room, presumably to get a pun. As soon as he left the room Hoyt shot Mrs. Wallace, tne Dan killing her instantly. Mr. waiiace then rushed into the room. As he did so Hoyt shot at him but the bullet went wild. Wallace then snot ana killed Hovt. Wallace is not yet un der arrest, but is at his home awaiting the arrival of the sheritt. A BATTLE IMMINENT Between a Lane Porce of Boers Under Gen. Delarey and British Troops. By Cable to the Moraine star. Johannesburg, May 3. General Delarey, the Boer commander, has now four or five thousand men in the hills around Hartherstefontein. Gen eral Babington, in command of the British forces in the district, is without a sufficient force to attack and is ob serving the Boers, while Generals Methuen and Kawlinson are converg ing hither. A battle appears imminent. London. May 4. The War Office has received the following report from Kitchener, under date of Pretoria: "Ten Boers have been killed, three wounded, thirteen have surrendered, and 280.000 rounds of smU arm am munition, 100 wagons ana z,U7U norses have been captured since the last re port." CLASH AT TIEN TSIN. A British Tuz Fired Upon by Germans. Two Men Wounded. By Cable to tbe Morning star. Tien Tsin, April 5. Some German soldiers who were guarding a German bridge across the Pei Ho river, at tbe South end of the British concession here, fired on a British tug, the Ego, this morning, wounding two of her crew. The bridge impedes river traffic and the tug touched it. Star SPIRITS TURPENTINE Goldsboro 'Araus: The first "berry" train of tbe season passed through the city to day (Friday.) It was loaded with strawberries picked up along the line between here and Wilmington. - Louisburg Times: Messrs. J. W. King and E. C. Barrow have started up their broom factory, which at present is mainly experimental. While thev have not eone into it very deep, the capacity is ten dozen brooms per day. Rockv Mount Araonaut: From what we can learn in regard to the fruit crop in this part of the State is that it is not damaged but verv little if any so far, and if we have no more cold weather and no frost the fruit crop will be a good one in the eastern ana central parts of this State. Carthage Blade: The McDon ald Brothers are beginning the estab lishment of a veneering factory at West End. The lumber and shingles are already on the ground and also a 40 horse power boiler and engine. The work upon the building has or sun acd the factory will soon be ready for op era tion. Jacksonville Times: Seth Phil lips, a young man about 22 years of age, son of Mr. William Phillips, near Swansboro, was drowned last Wednes day in a singular manner. He was out on Bear Ureek in a boat clam ming, was supposed to have had a fit and fell over the boat with head in the water. J. H. .Hancock went to him and pulled him back into the boat, but life was extinct. Salisbury Sim: Mr. M. L. Jones, of High Point, a brother of our townsman, Mr. J. W. Jones,- was in Salisbury yesterday on his way to Charlotte with 27 pounds of rich gold ore in his possession. The ore was taken from the rich gold mine in Montgomery county, which was sold last week, and in which Mr. Jones had a large interest. Our townsman, Mr. J. W. Jones, was also interested in the mine, which brought $24,000. Mount Airy News: There will be a good crop of apples and son- e peaches this year. It is pleasing to note the fact that the cold snap did not destroy the crop. The fruit crop is becoming the best money crop we have. It seems that those farm - ers who own and cultivate lands on creeks and rivers in this county are having a hard time. Their bottoms are gradually but surely washing away. Low lands have been damaged more by high water during the past hve years than all put together since we can recollect. Elizabeth City Carolinian: Mrs. E. F. Whitson, relict of the late Rev. Samuel Whitson, died on the 23rd inst., aged 57 years. She was an esti mable lady. Mr. Wm. Thomas, a well known citizen residing near town, was stricken with paralysis on the 19th inst., and died on the 20th in his 75th year. It cost the United States about $1,100 to prosecute the swindler Arthur B. Alexander at the late term of the Federal Court here. Parties who had been defrauded were subpoened from Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Kinston Free Press' The Kinston Mantel Company Thursday started up all the machines they had in position in their new building in East Kinston. Iu all there are 28 machines in the building now, with three more ordered, making a total of 3127 of them beii.i: on the main floor. A 60 horse power engine is located in the basement. The two big boilers are placed some distance from the main building, as is also .a dry kiln now in course of erection. The machinery cost something like $8,000. About 13,000 is invested in the plan so far. Sanford Express: The fruit in this section was not killed killed by the frost last week. One hundred new looms were put in operation at the Sanford Cotton Mill Tuesday morning, and one hundred more will be ready to start up in a few days. Heretofore the mill has turned out nothing but thread, hereafter both cloth and thread will be made.- The Express is told that there are now more illicit whiskey stills m operation in Moore county than ever before known in the history of the county, It is said that a still can be found on nearely anv branch in the western part of the couoty. Elizabeth City Economist: Mr. William Banner of Edenton depart ed this life on Thursday of last week. He was one of Edenton's oldest and best citizens and was a lineal repre sentative of one of its old historic families, his ancestor having been one of the vestrymen of old St. Pauls church who adopted the the famous Resolutions of protest against the aggressioDs of the parliament of Great Britain and their oppresive taxation The fruit crop is supposed now to have passed the danger frost line and will go on to maturity: A silk factory is in progress of formation in Elizabeth City and the stock is being taken preparatory to organization. Rockingham Anglo Saxon: All the early planting of cotton in this section is being replanted this week. The cold wet weather caused the seed to rot, and early Monday morning the planters set to the work of replanting. About half the entire acreage is to re plant. Messrs. Croslandand Everett are replanting a thousand acres. They cultivate about two thousana acres in cotton. That is about the acreage that will apply to this en (ire section. Our information is that the per centage will probably be greater in Scotland, This has created an unexpected de mand for cotton seed. Seed is being rebought from the oil mills at ad vanced prices, and it is douhtiui u enough seed for all can be secured in time. A SHOVEL COMBINE. Combination of Manufacturers to Shut Off Competition. . By Telegraph to tne Morning star. PrrTSBSRO, May 4. An attempt is being made now to unite the shovel concerns of the country into a com bine that may be known as the Amer ican Bhovel and Tool Company, which will have a capital of $10,000,000. The obiect of the combination is to shut off threatened competition, new snovei - " . .... . , works being projected at Richmond, Ya., and other points. Between 8.000 and 9.000 employes in the forty-three shops of the entire Illinois Central railroad system have been granted a horizontal increase of five per cent, in wages. Although just issued, the order was made to take ef fect May 1st and will increase the an nual pay roll of the company nearly $300,000. , NO. 28 LATEST FROM TBE JACKSONVILLE FIRE Fifteen Million Dollars Worth of Property Gone Up in Smoke. 10,000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS The Entire Business Section of the City is in Ashes and Numerous Lives Have Been Lost Fire Caused by An Electric Wire. By TeioKraun to tbe MoruinK euu Yule, Fla., May 3. Fifteen mil lion dollars' worth of property gone up in smoke, and ten thousand people made hqmeless, is the result of the fire in Jacksonville to day. The entire business section of the city is in ashes, and numerous lives have been lost, and the end is not yet, as the fire is still burning furiously, defying the assaults of water, dynamite and the supreme efforts of the entire .population, aided bythenre departments of numerous sister cities. Such is the Bad story of destruction caused by the displacement of a bit of innocent looking wire which accident ally got into the shredding machine of the American Fiber Company at the comer of Davis and Union streets. The fire started between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock P. M., and owing to this fact the loss of life will be com paratively smalL The fiber factory was a wooden shell full of inflamma ble material and in a few moments was a mass of flames. The wind. which was already blowing strong from the southwest, seemed to be pos sessed with a sudden fury, and soon was carrying destructive embers all through the doomed city. It took just four hours for that resistless sea of flames to consume every building in its wake for a space of six to eight blocks wide from Davis street, near where it started, to the Hogan's Creek viaduct, a distance of over one and a half miles, and then not satisfied with eating the heart of the residential por tion of the city out, it doubled on itself and came roaring up the princi pal thoroughfare of trade, destroy ing everything in what was the origi - nal incorporation of Jacksonville. The government building, which caught fire at one time, but was saved, is the only pretentious building left standing. Bight into the heart of the town the flames swept. The Windsor Hotel. the St. James, both of which are among the finest Winter resorts in the South, were consumed in an incred ibly short time. The Opera House followed next, and then row upon row of elegant residences were offered up to tbe insatiable fare fiend. As the viaduct leading over the marshes of Hogans Creek to East Jacksonville was reached, it was plain that the limit of the progress of the flames westward had been reached. The hope of the people grew strong that the worst was over. But as far as the money value of the damage was concerned, the worst was yet to come. J ust as the material for tbe flames was apparently consumed a shift of the wind sent a roaring sea of flames southward to the river. Then it was beginning to dawn on the minds of the unfortunates who bad fled to the river side that they were in danger of being cut off and suffocated. A rush was made for the South Jacksonville ferry and hundreds sought refuge on the other shore. Then- came the most thrilling scene of the entire day. The flames caught the freight warehouses of the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western rail road and began from there its back ward march in the eye of the wind. Slowly but surely it ate its way again&t tbe wind, taking either side of Bay street until it reached Jones' boatyard The wholesale grocery store of F. & H. Dowling & Co., Muller & Co. and dozens of smaller concerns were slowly wiped up. While tbe flames failed to cross the open space known as Jones boat yard, a new danger threatened. The flames swept down in the rear of the United States hotel, and that with the Law Exchange was doomed. Meantime the county court house caught fire and another splendid edihee was soon a total wreck. From the United States hotel the flames again jumped across the street and the line of march was taken up again, only to be checked when the last building between McCoy and Hogan's creek had been destroyed. Among the houses that had sue cumbed to the flames on Bay street were the Monhawk building, the Gardiner block, Furcbgott's mam moth dry goods house. Benedict and Poilak's wholesale dry gooas, unrist Rug Company, McAliter, wholesale liauors: Cohen Brothers, dry goods: R. L. Harrison, dry goods; Iseman & Skinner, wholesale grocers; I. E. Baird, paints; W. A. Bourse, hay and grain; jj. m. uowiing, wholesale grocer: Clausson, wholesale grocer; Florida Hardware Company ; United States Hotel; E. F. Clark, furniture house: Henry Clark, carpets; D. E. Cooper; furniture; Fettings & Reich- ard. furniture: tlarlnsheimer, grocers; estate of McNeery, grocerB, wholesale ; Uolemanr, tailor; half dozen drug stores; retail groceries, millinery and other stores ; Summer wholesale butter and cheese store. The hotels destroyed include the Windsor. St. James, Placid, United States, Girard, Glenada and Oxford. Jacksonville, Fla , May 4. Jack sonville's great fire which began yes terday has burned itself but One hundred and forty-eight blocks of a beautiful city have been laid waste. The loss will not be known even ap proximately for a week; but it is be lieved it will amount to $10,000,000. There are many rumors afloat of loss of life, but as every undertaker in the city was burned out it is impossible to obtain an official report. One story, which is persistently reiterated. is to the effect that a party of men and women driven to the docks by the fire were compelled to jump into tbe water, and that several on them were drowned. A colored woman named Hogan was burned in her house and her charred remains were buried by friends this afternoon. The burned district is thir teen blocks wide and two miles long, and extends from the St. John's river, where it burned ten docks to the wa ter's edge, to Catherine street on the east. Orange on the north and Davis on the west; this immense area was swept as clear as a floor. Tbe city is under martial law and all of the available constabulary is on duty on the streets of Jacksonville. Some order is being brought out of the confusion. Jack son ville is facing the emergency calmly Htt uh urKHUifcou jUr reiiei worK. Tea Thousand Homeless. ' Ten thousand people are homeless. and many of them left on afternoon and night trains for St. Augustine and other coast cities and near by towns, while numerous river craft took many to little places on the 8t. John's river. Supply stations have been established in various parts of the city and all day they have been thronged by the hun gry. The prompt action of Secretary of War Root in tendering the use of the barracks at Fort Barrancas, near St. Augustine, was received with grat itude on every- side. The east coast train leaving here at 5 o'clock this af ternoon carried over 2,000 people to St. Augustine, who hope to receive tempo rary shelter from tha government. A committee was appointed at a meeting of citizens this afternoon to telegraph the governors of various States to send all tents they can spare to Jacksonville. It will be weeks be fore anything like permanent shelter can be provided for the homeltss thousands, and Jacksonville for son o time to come will be a city of tents. The relief fund raised by the citi zens of Jacksonville at a meeting this afternoon amounts to $15,000. This was augmented to night by a telegram from tbe Armour Company, at Chi cago, instructing Mayor Bowden to draw for $1,000. Other subscriptions are being received from many places. The city of Jacksonville has not yet made an official appeal for aid. There seems to be some objection to this, but it is based mainly on the assertion by many leading citizens that Jack sonville and Florida can meet the emergency and care for its own. martial Law Declared. ' The following was received from the Governor: "Tallahassee. Fla., May A. Your call for Gainesville and Stark compa nies is approved. Have appointed L'Engle, Broward and .Rogers special relief committee, placing $20,000 at their disposal. , (Signed) "W. 8. Jennings, "Governor." At 7 o'clock this morning. Governor Jennings declared the city under mar tial law. Col. Lovell, of the First reg iment, is in command of the troops. The following troops, in addition t local companies.arrived during the da y and are on duty : Governor's Guards, Tallahassee :Oolumbia Rifles, Lake CH y Guards, of Palatka. - Maior Bradshow, under (Jolonel Lovell, is in immediate command of the troops. The city is patrolled and the entrances to the burned districts guarded by sentinels. Military head quarters are established on the vacant lot behind the Federal Postoffice building. Passes are necessary to en ter the lines in any part of the city- Drays loaded with furniture and trunks filled the streets all day. Home less people slept on improvised beds near their furniture quarters away from the burned district. In the early hours of the fire many people moved their property distances of a half mile or a mile, only to find it necessary to move it again, as the names en croached. N Origin of the Fire. E. E. Cleaveland. proprietor of the Cleaveland Fibre Company, made the following statement to day regarding the originof the fire : "Uutside the factory there is a dry ing platform two hundred feet square, upon which the moss is piled after it has been ginned. Twenty feet away there are two negro cottages and the chimney of one of these cottages was on fire. This, however, is a frequent occurrence, and once or twice before the fibre on the drv ing platform had been set afire from the falling sooti from the chimneys of the cottages. The men knocked off at 12 o'clock forJ dinner and were lying around in the shade, when one of them discovered that from the middle of the pile of moss smoke was issuing. This having happened before no importance was attached to it, and two men seized buckets of water and -went to extin guish the fire. "But the tire by this time had gained considerable headway. The hose was quickly brought into play, but the fire got away from the men and tbe alarm had to be sent in. 'There was no fire in the building, the factory being worked with electricity, and it is two months since the boilers were in use. "Every effort that could be made to put the fire out was made, but the strong wind and the dryness of every thing was too much for the men at the factory, and when the department reached the scene the pine buildings and tbe flying shingles made it impos sible to control the fire." County Affairs. Chairman of the board of county commissioners, forcner Li. iLngie, said to-day: "A bill will be introduced in the Legislature at once to bond Duval for perhaps $200,000, to rebuild the court house and the county jail. The bill is being prepared. 1 understand that a Dill lor tne issuance of $500,000 city bonds will be at once introduced also. ' Of this, 1300, 000 will be used to take up the judg ment debts of tbe city and the re mainder to rebuild city buildings." The prisoners in the county iail, thirty five in number, including many for serious offences, some capital, were marched to Riverside under heavy guard before the fire reached them. This morning the prisoners were taken by the sheritt to Green Uove springs, Fernandina and St. Augustine. The county records" were placed in the vaults in the court building. Their condition will not be known until the vault cools. The disaster has effectually obliter ated the dividing line between, the rich and poor and a common catas trophe has made all akin. Beautiful women, wealthy yesterday, penniless to-day, sat on the curbing beside the beggar, sharing alike the pitiless fate that befell them both. To-night the sidewalks are thronged with homeless people. The . wharfs are crowded with sleepers and every available craft in the harbor has been made' into a temporary hotel. Keligious services will be held to morrow in the open air. Not a city church remains standing. Fire Chief Hanev is improved to night and it is thought he will entirely recover. . The children oi ur. tr. a. uean, re ported as burned or missing this morning, have been iouna anve. Dr. Dean's injuries are slight Pres ident Barnett, of the First National Bank of Jacksonville, is not seriously hurt There were many prostrations from heat during the day. Situation Last Night. Jacksonville is in total darkness to night, save for the red reflection that burns in the sky in the western por tion of the city, marking the vast fielts of glowing embers that now and then are fannedlnto flames. At six o'clock the first trolley, car was operated since noon yesterday. Later in the evening semi-schedules were maintained on the western end of the Bay street and the Riverside line. At 7 o'clock additional State troops reached the city to relieve the soldiers who had been on duty for more than twenty-four hours. Crowds are leav--ing tbe city on outgoing trains, yet the multitude of homeless people on the streets does not appear decreased. The night scenes are picturesque and pitiful. About the city a cordon of soldiers and policemen have been placed and at each corner a sol dier stands. lons of honey and five coons. ingham yesterday. $85.65.