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WHY AMERICA LEADS
It is universally conceded that in
productive capacity where skill and
method are essential, the United
States lead the world. We beat the
Englishmen making steel and imple
ments of iron and steel. We beat
the Bohieman making glass. We
beat tht, Swiss making clocks and
watches. VVLe can take up almost
any European machine and improve
on it, and find possibilities in it that
the original inventor or builder
never thought of. That is one of
the reasons why America has forged
to the front a3 she has in the pro
ductive industries.' It is American
genius, skill and method aided by
labor-saving and production multi
d1 vine devices'.. There is no other
country in the world where the
skilled workman stands upon the
aamejplane, or where his individual
ly counts for as much as it does in
tnis country, and no country where
the laborers in the aggregate com
mand so much attention and res-
pec c.
i
In the older countries the work
man is regarded as a mere machine,
employed to do a certain kind of
work, and that is all that is expect
ed of him. Iu this country it is rec"
Ofrni'zed that he is something more
than a mere machine, that he has a
thinking apparatus over his shoul
ders, that he uses it, and that out
of it come sometimes useful and
imuiensaly Valuable ideas and sug
gestions, a fact to which is largely
due the wide range and excellence
of our labor-saving machinery,
which has put us as a productive
nariou so far ahead of the other
countries, which is as true of the
farm as it is of the shopor factory.
The European farmer, who stift
sotvs his grain by hand and harvests
with the scythe, thinks he is reading
a fairy tale when he reads of the
American farmer riding his plow
when he plows his fields, sowing
his grain with machinery, harvesting
it with machinery that' cuts and
binds the .grain, threshes it
with machinery threshes, win
winnows and bags the grain. They
don't all do that but they can if
they want to and have the money
to purchase the machinery, which
ia cheap compared with its useful
ness 'and the seryice it renders.
This is one of the chief reasons
why this country produces such an
; abundance of the food stuffs.
The European butcher would
think he was reading a fairy tale
when he read' about a hog going
alive into the fourth story of one of
our, big slaughtering plants and
doming out on the ground floor cut
up into hams,' sides, sausage, etc.
That's whv the American meat-
packer can ship meat to Europe and
sell it cheaper than they can raise
L Y 1
it. abor-saving machinery ngures
in all this. ' '
The European paper maker would
think he was reading a fairy tale
when he read of a tree standing in
the forest being cut down and
converted into paper in a few hours,
and the woolen manufacturer bo in
credulous when he read of a sheep
being shorn and the wool made into
, cloth and cut for garments in a few
hours and the shoemaker would feel
likewise when told that a piece of
leather may go into a shop and come
out a pair of shoes in fifteen min
utes. They don't do this as a reg
ular thing, but it has all been done
to demonstrate what American
Method, skill and' machinery can
accomplish.
In European countries they have
' sometimes hard tasks to overcome
the hostility to labor-saving de
vices, because workman have an idea
hat they would be deprived of work
bv th
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course in some of the industries ma
chinery is necessary and there there
ig no opposition to it, but on the
farms and elsewhere where it takes
.the place of manual labor there is.
there is no such hostility in this
country, for here the machinery
which helps men to produce more,
to produce it more cheaply and thus
create an increased demand for and
cnsumption of it is welcomed as an
a'd to the laborer. Large and cheap
Induction leads to large consump
tion and this in turn to larger pro-
vul. jla;a11.
duction, giving employment to more
people.
As an illustration, Mr. B.. P.
Jones, for many years identified with
the iron industry in that great iron
center, Pittsburg, in speaking of the
causes which have pnt America at
the front as an iron and steel
maker, pays tribute to the indi
viduality, intelligence and skill of
American workmen, which have
made the progress of the last half
century possible. In comparing the
progress and methods of this day with
the days in which he first be
came identified with the iron in
dustry, about sixty years ago, he by
way of illustration cites the fact that
it then required three men to handle
a 150-pound bloom in the forges.
Now a single man :who may wear
kid gloves, if he.chooses, can pull a
lever and a 50-ton mass of molten
ton is lifted and carried wherever
-e wants it. This is but one illus
tration, showing what, has been
achieved in the way of labor-saving
machinery and how the effective
power of one man has been multi
plied. .
The result of this multiplied
power of production has been a
corresponding cheapening of pro
duction, and cheapening of prices,
with a comparative increase of con
sumption, with the result that the
people of the United States use more
iron per capita than any other people
in the world, and the per capita con
sumption increases, every year. The
use of iron is a barometer of pro
gress, and judged by that standard,
if no other, this is the most progres
sive country in the world.
The American workman is a king
in his calling.
RESULT OF TREE SLAUGHTER
ING. The groat damage done along the
Catawba and other rivers in Western
North Carolina by the recent, floods
is said to be directly the result of
the great slaughter of timber on the
hill sides which has been going on
for some time. Companies or indi
viduals buy the forest lands or the
privilege of cutting timber and with
their portable saw mills cutup into
lumber every tree in sight that has
any commercial value in it. They
have been doing this for several
years, and the result is that great
havoc has been done with the for
ests that in the past served as a
yeak water in seasons of heavy rains.
rivfrrW. E. Meyers, of Chapel Hill,
who is connected with the United
States Geological Survey, was sent
to make a tour of inspection of the
flooded district on the Catawba and
is thus reported by thet Charlotte
Observer:
The velocity of the water, said Mr.
Myers, was greater than ever before.
At Rock Hill the current ran about
ten miles an hour, which is a terrific
and hurtful pace for the Catawba.
And it is universally admitted that
during the recent flood the river was
much higher than ever before.
"The hurtful effects on the velocity
of the water was not due to the
amount of rain that fell, for the
Weather Bureau reports indicate that
much heavier rains have fallen in the
past and the volume of water was car
ried off without injuriousconsequence
The whole secret of the bad effect and
extent of the flood lies in the defores
tration in the western part of the
State. Along the Linville river
aod in all parts of western
Carolina the country is being
stripped of trees, and this is followed
by the forest fires which swept away
all vegetation or undergrowth. When
the rains fall on such land there is
nothing to retard the current of the
water. With great force it strikes the
river; the velocity of the Catawba is
increased by the mad violence of the
water and the current develops a won
derful and dangerous power. Every
man who lives by the river, said Mr.
Myers, says, without hesitation, that
the cutting away iof the umber is en
tirely responsible for the serious
flood. Ia the future said he, the land
along the Catawba will be more at the
mercy Of the river. The last freshet
tore off veeretation alone the banks,
made new channels, or cut offs, and
broke through all the elbows of the
river. So the farm land is much un
protected than formerly and it is in
the power of tne rresnei to ao vast, in
jury?" He estimates the actual damage
in money done at over $500,000. If
that were all it would be bad enough
but such of their bottom lands as
have not been damaged beyond re
cuperatior, are liable to be ruinously
flooded at any time when there may
bo an unusual quantity of rainfall,
for the sume reason that the recent
flood proved so; disastrous, namely,
the removal of the timber which
formed breakwaters and prevented
precipitate flow into the rivers and
rushing, devastating torrents.
When asked if there was any rem
edy, he said there was no present
remedy, and the only prospective
remedy he saw was in restrictive
legislation that would put a stop to
this wholesale destruction of tne
forests. f
It took 4,000 words to define
Senator McLaurin's political creed,
when a dozen or so would have suf
ficed. A creed that is based on self
ishness does hot require much defi
nition. -
According to the census reports
there were in 1900, 5,700,000 farms
in cultivation in this country .
, against 4,564,691 in 1890.
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SENATOR PLATT'S LETTER.
No one who reads Senator Piatt's
etter jn reply to the inquiry of
Secretary Boot, which letter was
given to the Cuban commitee, will
doubt for a moment that the Ad
ministration is playing a tricky game
in refusing to accept the constitu
tion with the Flatt amendment
adopted on the construction war
ranted by that letter, practically
endorsed by Secretary Hoot when
he gave the letter to the committee,
and also practically endorsed by the
President, who must have seen the
etter or been made acquainted with
its substance, and also have known
that it had been given to the com
mittee. '
It may be argued that this letter
was not an official document issued
by pne whose name would give it le
gal standing, which may be true,
but the question was as to the con
struction of the language and the
scope of the doubtful clauses. Who
could or should be better qualified to
explain that than the drafter of
those clauses,' who didn't do it alone,
but with the co-operation of others
who with Senator Piatt jointly plan
ned and framed this amendment?
That was the view taken of it by
Secretary Boot, otherwise he
would not have asked Sen&r
tor Piatt for an interpretation
of his work, and that was the
view he took of it when he handed
this letter over to the committee as
an answer to the inquiries they pro
pounded. With this and the other answers
that had been made, the committee
went back to Havana, believing that
the matter had been satisfactorily
explained and on-that understand
ing the Piatt amendment, as ex
plained by Piatt, was accepted. And
now they are told that the accept
ance will not do. This would be
simply trifling, if it was not somey
thing more serious. (
Major George W. Littlefield, of
Austin, Texas, is said to be the
argest individual land owner in the
United States. He owns a patch of
1,250,000 acres. He also owns a
ittle stockfarm, having 5,000 Hert
ford cows, 340 Hertford bulls and
ots of horses and mules. lie does
not know exactly how many cattle
he has on his ranch, but somewhere
between 70,000 and 80,000.
Edison's storage battery, which it
is now said he has made a success of,
will relegate the trolley wire, dyna
mos, gas engines and all that
sort of thing. Storage batteries have
been used for propelling street cars,
&c, but for various reasons they did
not fill the bill, which, it is claimed,
Edison's does.
The bees in Trinidad are cute.
Instead of laboring and wasting
time making wax to build their
honey combs, they gather the resi
nous exudation of trees and utilize
that. They find the rubber trees
very handy.
And now the Britishers have
struck another blue streak.' Wm.
Whitney's horse Valodyovski captur
ed the Derby Blue ribbon. But
that name ought to get away with
an Englishman. Where did Whit
ney find it?
If this country were as densely
populated to the square mile as
England is it would have a popula
tion of 1,194,000,000. When that
time comes the farmer will not be
bothered to find a market for his
truck.
Chin Du, who ran the washee-
washee business in Atlanta for some
years, and made between $4,000 and
$5,000, has gone back to China to
enjoy his wealth. With all that
lucre he can live like a lord there.
Death of Mr. B C. Bowden.
Mr. Bem'amin C. Bowden. one of
the best known and most valued
citizens of Duplin county, died early
Saturday morning at his home at
Kenansville, N. C, in the 72nd year of
his sura. The news was received in
Wilmington bv private telegrams and
it was beard with great regret by his
numerous friends. Deceased is sur
vived by his wife and three children,
two of whom live in this city. They
are Mrs. Jos. C. Shepard, Jr., and Mr.
R. H. Bowden. of Wilmington, and
Mr. J. J. Bowden, of Kenansville.
Mr. Huzh Blackwell
Mr. Hugh Burke Blackwell, the
1dst son of Dr. C. S. Blackwell, of
this city, will be graduated this
m-r a t TT
week from the university or Vir
ginia, after completing a full four
year's course of nine months each
year in medicine. Mr. Blackwell is
the youngest man in his class and
will receive his degree before he is
twenty. He will begin an extensive
line of subgraduate work in New
York hospitals, after spending a short
vacation with his mother in Norfolk.
Last Monday was the anniver
sary of the Battle of Bethel, fought
June 10, 1861, just forty years since.
Several of the survivors are citizens of
Wilmington ;v but probably fourth
fifths of the participants have "crossed
over the river."
WILMINGTON, N. C,
CURRENT COMMENT.
: And now we are told that the
Filipinos do not even know whether
they are "appurtenant" or not. Pos-
sioiy they are just plain chattels.
jyorjoic virginian-rilot, Vein.
La Lucha says fully 85 per
cent, of the people favor the Piatt
amendment, which the members of
the constitutional convention . .op
pose. If this is true it would seem
that the people of Cuba are quite as
mueh fit for self-government' as the
people of this country at least, in
tne matter of having their wishes
overridden by the politicians. At
lanta Journal, Dem.
Our sales to Asia in 1891
were $90,300,000, in 1900 $204,756,
000', a gain of ,$105,000,000 in ten
years. In the same years our" sales.
to Europe gained $33CV5S0,000.
About 4 Der cent, of onr exnorta an
to Asia and the Asiatic islands, and
16 per cent, of our' imports come
from the same quarter. Our alleged
"great oriental trade is something
of a myth. We sell more to Great
Iiritian and hfvr nnlnnips in nun vnnr
than we sell to China and Japan and
the other independent powers of
Asia, in ten years. Chattanooga
l imes, li em.
If we add to the army of
nearly one million pensioners the
soldiers in the field, the sailors in
the navy and the great array of
names borne on the civil list it will
be found that about one person in
ten of the adult male population of
the country has a direct pecuniary
relation to our paternal Federal
Government. The proportion of
taxeaters to taxpayers cannot be
much further enlarged without
graverdanger. It will be an unhappy
day for the country when men shall
be forced to weigh the cost of gov
ernment against its quality and
worth. -Philadelphia Record, Dem.
ESTIMATE OF THE COTTON ACREAGE.
Messrs. Latham, Alexander & Co., Make
1 a Statement for the United States.
With the view of obtaining the
most reliable information possible
concerning the cotton acreaee of the
United States for 1901, Messrs Latham,
Alexander & Co., bankers and cotton
commission merchants, New York,
addressed 4,000 letters to banks, bank
ers, cotton commission merchants and
responsible planters, embracing every
cotton growing county in the South,
asking acreage estimates.
Up to June 3rd they had secured
2,155 replies, of average date May 24th,
and have made a statement which, in
their opinion, is as approximately cor
rect an estimate of the cotton acreage
as could be secured by direct commu
nication with parties competent to
judge, residing in the Southern States.
Their view of the situation is ex
pressed as follows:
"The total estimated increase of
cotton acreage in the United States for
1901 is 9 08 per cent, or 2,161,957 acres
more than last year, and the average
planting of the crop is about seventeen
days later than last year.
"From all the States our correspon
dents report the crop late, due to the
necessity for general replanting,
which was slow in germinating.
"Altogether the crop has had an
unpromising start, and there are
generarreports of irregular stands:"
THE OCEAN VIEW COMPANY.
Will Complete Its New Hotel at Wrights
ville This Week The Management.
Contractor D. Hanna has a force of
thirty-two men hard at work rebuild
ing the Oefean View property at
Wrigbtsville beach, which was burned
several weeks ago. He will complete
his contract by the middle or near the
last of the present week and the new
hotel will be thrown open to the pub
lic on Saturday.
Of course, it was impossible to get a
building ready for this season as large
as the one burned but the new one
will -be much more convenient and
comfortable. It is 35x70 feet in size,
and has a large, airy diuing room and
saloon and kitchen on the first floor,
with ten sleeping apartments upon the
second. It will have all modern con
veniences and will be conducted by
the Ocean View Company, owners of
the building.
A new bath house, 58x72 feet in size,
is also being built on the premises and
it will have seventy five apartments,
each of them being furnished with fresh
water pipe fittings. The bath suits
are new and first class,
Horned Toad from Arizona.
The reptilean editor of the Stab was
favored with a call yesterday from
Mr. C. G. Miller, of Castle Hayne,
who exhibited one of the genuine
horned toads, sent him by mail by a
friend in Arizona. It is a great cur i
osity and the reptile editor, while it
was not strictly in his line, was glad
to get a peep at the queer looking
creature.
CITIES AND TOWNS.
Census Bulletin Giving the Population of
Incorporated Places.
By Telegraph to tne MorninK Btar.
Washington, June 8. The Cen
sus Office to-day issued a bulletin
srivinsr the population of incorporated
places in the country. The bulletin
shows that there are 10,602 such places
oa onmnnmil with 7.478 in 1890. The
incorporated places contain, in the ag-
greeate,35,84y,5ieinnaoiianw, as com
pared with a total of 26,079,828 persons
living in incorporated places in 1890.
hinnd nnnnlation in incornor-
oiurl InmriB onrl ftitlnn constitute 47 per
cent, of the population of the entire
country, as against 41 per ceni m mo
towns of 1890.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1901.
SEASHORE HOTEL OPENING.
Brilliant Affair at Wrigbtsville Beach Last
Evening A Throng of Visitors to
the Popular Resort.
The final opening of the remodelled
Seashore Hotel took place Saturday
at Wrigbtsville Beach. It was like an
evening at the season's height. The
same crowded verandas as of yore;
the music, the laughter and the min
gled hum of many voices. The hotel
has been thoroughly overhauled this
year and extensive additions made.
The new ball room in the annex with
its broad verandas has increased the
floor room materially, and the space
was certainly needed last night.
The trains leaving the city during
the day over the Seacoast Railway
were all well filled and six coaches
were fouud necessary to accommodate
the crowd that left the city at 7.30
o'clock last evening to partake of
supper and attend the openiDg dance.
A supper consisting of all the dela-
cies of the sea was served by Manager
Hinton in the style for which the
hotel is justly famous. The menu
included:
FISH, ETC.
Pig Fish.- Clam Fritters.
Soft Crabs.
COLD MEATS.
Deviled Crabs. Shrimps.
Ham.
POTATOES.
Saratoga Chips. French Dried.
Potato Salad.
BREADS, ETC.
Bolls. Biscuit.
Corn Bread.
Dry, Buttered or Milk Toast.
Plain Bread.
Lemon Sherbet, Sponge Cake. ,
Coffe, Chocolate, Milk, Tea.
Dancing in the new ball room be
gan at 9 o'clock with about 75 couples
participating. Hollow bush's Orches
tra, of which the 8tate can probably
not boast an equal, furnished the
music. This band has been secured
by the management of the hotel for the
season and promises to be one of the
special attractions at the beach this
Summer From a point of enjoyment,
the dji.ee last night was an immense
success. Everybody Irom Wilming
ton was there, and everybody from
Wilmington, together with the hotel
guests, enjoyed themselves.
The register of the hotel is increase
ing daily and already about fifty
guests have been received. Among
the late arrivals are ; Mrs. A. Q. Ha-
good aod maid, Charlotte, N. C. ; J.
R. Parker, J. C. Post, Philadelphia; G.
J. Prior, J. S. Mitchell, W. E. Adam-
son, Geo. H. Sims, B. E. Gardner, F.
T. Peekins, Atlanta, Ga. ; Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Crampton, Charlotte, Miss
Alice Powers, Charlotte; Mr. and Mrs.
Montgomery Waddell, Jr., and maid,
New York City ; H. M. McKemmon,
W. Carter, Maxton, N. C. ; Spencer
Fountain, Rocky Mount, N. C. ; Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Cook, Fayetteville;
W. J. Bennett, Philadelphia; W. B.
Fort, Pikeville,sN. C; Mrs. C. M.
Davidson and maid, Charlotte; Mrs.
Daniel and Capt. E W. VanC. Lucas,
wife, child and maid, city.
THE DUEL WITH SWORDS.
Resumed Yesterday After Nineteen Re
saltless Rounds M. Regis Was
Wounded in the Arm.
By Cable to tne Mornine Btar.
Paris, June - 8. The duel with
swords, which was begun yesterday in
the Pare des Princes between Max
Regis (the anti-Semite Mayor of Al
giers) and M. Laberdesque, an Alge
rian journalist, and which was ad
journed after nineteen resultless
rounds had been rougnt, was resumea
this morning. M. Regis was seriously
wounded in the forearm, a copious flow
of blood resulting and the duel there
upon was stopped. .
A quarrel then oroice out among tne
seconds and several spectators, who
included the well-known fencers Mal
ato, Thomegueux, Suitxbacher and
others. Several challenges were ex
changed and finally friends succeeded
in leading away M. Kegis who was
furious over the seconds' decision. Be
fore he left the ground M. Regis shout
ed to M. Laberdesque : "I fought you
to show I was not afraid of your
swords." "You are, nevertheless, an
assassin."
M. Laberdesque promptly retorted,
askirig the seconds to arange another
duel.'
FRAUDULENT USE OP MAILS.
A Prominent Citizen of Sandersville, Ga.,
Arrested and Held for Trial.
By Teiegrapn to tne Horning Btar.
Macon, Ga., June 8. Warren P.
Lovett, a prominent citizen of San
dersville, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Erwin here to
day, charged with using the mails for
fraudulent purposes tie was put
under $900 bonL which he gave.
It is contended that he bought all
snrt.9 nf onnria frnm nil nftrts of the
country without any intention of pay
ing lor anem. ms correspondence
was conducted, it is claimed, over
various names, among them William
Parker. Robert L Jackson. James
Crow, Jim Crow and Seco Poultry
Varda. Aftnmlinr to the govern
ment's contentions, he secured goods
in small quantities mostly in sample
lots and would sell these to bis ac
quaintances at greatly reduced prices,
wnatever ne receivea Deing prom.
HELD CONSTITUTIONAL.
Iowa's Anti-Cigarette Law United States
Court Decision.
By TeleffraDb to tne Morning Btar.
Marshalltown, Ia., June 8. In
the TJ, 8. District Court - to day the
Iowa anti cigarettee law was held con
stitutional. The court, through Judge
Burnbam. held that the property of
cigarette dealers and the owners of
buildings where it shall be proyea
that cigarettes are sold, may be at
tached for the payment of the tax
levied under the new law. The case
will be appealed, it is stated.
RAILROAD TRAINS
BLOWN TO ATOMS
Rear-End Collision Exploded a
Car of Dynamite Near Bing
hamptoo, N. Y.
SIX MEN KILLED OUTRIGHT;
Three Others Fatally Injured Towns In
the Neighborhood Suffered Sur
rounding Hooses Damaged.
Shock Felt Thirty Miles.
By Telegraph to tne Morning star.
Binghampton, N. Y., June 8. At
9:30 P. hi. a heauy explosion shook
thiscity. Street car men just in from
Union, ten miles west of here, say that
it is reported there that a car of dyna
mite blew up at Vestal, across the river
from Union, killing- four men and
badly wrecking surrounding houses.
The Casino, a resort at Union, is badly
damaged, as is also the house of the
Binghampton County Club. All com
munioation is cut off and special trains
have gone to the scene.
Rear.end Collision.
Binghampton. N.Y.. June 8. While'
a freight train on the Lackawanna
was taking water at Vestal ten miles
west of here, at 9:45 o'clock to night
it was run into from behind bv a
double header wild-cat 4reight. In
tne second car from the caboose of the
stationary train was a large quantity
of dynamite, which was exploded by
the impact Two men are known to
have been killed, three others are
thought to be in the wreck, and a
number of others are known to be bad
ly injured.
The explosion completely demol
ished four freight cars. Much dam
age was done by the concussion, most
of the windows in Vestal, and Union
across the river from Vestal, being
shattered. Binghampton's plate glass
fronts did not escape, many of the
largest glasses in the center of the city
being broken. The shock was felt at a
distance of thirty miles.
A later dispatch says:
Six men were killed and three
fatally hart. Both trains were blown
to atoms, but the remainder of the
crews escaped with slight injuries.
WARM WIRELETS.
Joseph Farrand Tuttle, D. D., for
thirty years president of Wabash col
lege, died yesterday atCrawfordsvmo.
Ind.
The new battleship Illinois left
Newport News for Boston yesterday
for the official trial trip next Tuesday
off the New England coast.
The quarantine in Texas which has
been maintained against San Fran
cisco for some months on account of
the alleged bubonic plague will be
raised in a day or two.
The horse Commoner, by Hanover,
dam Margerine, by Algerine, former
ly the property of William Wallace,
has been sold to General W. H. Jack
son, of the Bell Meade stud, Tennes
see, for $15,000.
Dr. A. J. Bloch died at Denver, Col..
from the effects of dose of cyanade of
potassium taken, it is believed, with
suicidal intent. He was formerly one
of the most prominent physicians and
surgeons in New Orleans.
Dr. Rixey left the White House at
11.20 last night. He said: "Mrs. Mc
Kinley's condition is about the same
as reported in this morning's bulletin.
There has been no material change,
though possibly there has been a
barely perceptible improvement.
Memorial exercises were held over
the graves of the Confederate dead at
Camp Chase, Ohio, yesterday. School
children sang and addresses were
made. Floral offerings received from
the South wer e placed on the graves.
Fire originating in the plant of the
Hamilton Paint and Glass Company,
Dallas, Tex., caused losses of 190,000;
insurance about $55,000. The Hamil
ton Company's loss was $50,000. The
remainder was divided among sur
rounding stores. v
Governor Jeff Davis, of Arkansas,
declines to become a candidate for the
United States Senate, to succeed Hon.
Jas. K. Jones. This leaves the sena
torial race between Senator Jones and
ex-Governor J. P. Clarke, both being
avowed candidates.
C. C. McCormick, of Pennsylvania,
has received title for a tract of 525,000
acres of land in the State of Campeche,
Mexico, on the eastern Yucatan pen
insula, bought for a company of Irenn
sylvanians. The tract is entirely cover
ed with payable timber.
In a fit of jealousy William J. Stone,
of Warrenton, Va., last night stabbed
to death May Curson, an inmate of a
disorderly house in Baltimore, and
then cut his throat. It is thought he
will recover. Stone abandoned his
wife in Warrenton some months ago.
Signor Guicardini. the reporter of
the budget committee, speaking in the
Italian Chamber Of Deputies yesterday
on the Albanian question, said it was
in his opinion critical, as the move
ment in Macedonia might precipitate
a surprise at any moment.
An imperial Chinese edict announ
ces that owing to the hot weather
and the advanced age of the Dowager
Empress the returning of the court to
re kin has been postponed until tsep
tember 1. which the astrologers pro
nounce to be a lucky day on which to
commence a journey.
Yesterday morning while the tug
boat JohnS. Heath was being towed
from the foot of 20th street to the Erie
basin. N. Y.. she foundered and sank,
James Clvde. a boiler maker of Brook
lyn, who was inside the tug repairing
her boiler, was carried down and
drowned.
George Smith, a colored man, is
dead at Indianapolis, Ind., at the age
of 105 years. He died at the house of
Captain David Braden, who brought
him from the South during the civil
war. The old man said he had been
married thirty-four times and that he
was the father of hfty-two children
Dr. E. P. Sale, one of the most
prominent physicians of Memphis ana
for many years president of the board
of health of Mississippi, died yester
dav. His death is attributed to a fall
from his office steps several weeks
ago, when he sustained a broken hip
and was otherwise injured.
Colonel W. F. Cody is making an
effort to locate the proposed National
home for indigent Elks at Cody, a
new town in the Big Horn basin,
Wvominff1. which has been recently
laid out and named after him. The
matter probably will be settled at a
meeting of the home committee at
Columbus, Ohio, auneiu.
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THREE DESPERATE CONVICTS
Only One Living Survivor to Serve Out a
Sentence of Twenty-one Years'
Imprisonment.
by Teiegrapn to the Morning Star.
Toronto, Ont., June 7. Of the three
men, Fred Lee Rice, Thomas Jones
and Frank Rutledge, extradited from
Chicago to stand trial for the robbery
of a bank at Aurora, Ont., Rice is the
only living survivor to serve out the
twenty-one years imprisonment to
which he was sentenced this morn
ing. Two tragedies have put Jones
and Rutledge beyond the reach of the
aw. Jones died from bullet wounds
received in a desperate attempt toes-
cape from the officers who were trans
femi)g4he prisoners from the court
house to the jail last Tuesday and
Rutledge committed suicide to-day bv
jumping from the gallery in the jail
to tne stone court, thirty feet below.
The first tragedy which startled the
citizens of this city was the daring at
tempt made by the three prisoners to
escape form the constables on Tues
day. While the carriage containing
Rice, Jones and Rutledsre and two
constables was proceeding from the
court house to the jail an accom
plice threw three revolvers through the
cab window. The desperadoes evi
dently were expecting outside help.
for they acted promptly. Securing
possession of the revolvers the three
men opened fire upon the constables.
County Constable Boyd was shot and
killed. The officers returned the
fire and Jones was wounded in the
groin and arm. He died at the hos
pital. A street car conductor, whose
car the burglars attempted to board,
struck Rutledge over the head with
piece of iron, knocking him
senseless. Rice surrendered. To
day Rice and Rutledge were sen
tenced to twenty-one years imprison
ment in Kingston penitentiary. Rut
ledge was being taken with another
prisoner in charge of one of the jail
guards to dinner about three o'clock.
Suddenly he made a dash and spring
ing up the stairway mounted to the
gallery running around inside of the
jail, thirty feet from the floor. Climb
ing over the railing Rutledge jumped.
He fell nead foremost on tne stone
floor fracturing his skull. He was im
mediately taken to the hospital, where
ne died witnout regaining conscious
ness. MOTHER AND SON ARRESTED
Madame Monnler Kept Her Daughter In
carcerated for Twenty-five Years.
Horrible Disclosures.
By Cable to the Morning Btar.
Paris, June 8. The sensation of
the week has been the arrest of
Madame Monnier, a rich and miserly
land owner of the neighborhood of
Poitiers, and her son, a former sub
prefect of the department of Vienne
and a leader of Poitiers'.- society, on
the charge of incarcerating Mile.
Blanche Monnier, daughter of
Madame Monnier, for twenty five
years in a room of Madame Mon
nier's house. The police were anony
mously notified of the woman's de
tention, entered the house and found
Mile. Monnier shut up in a room, in
darkness, lying on a mattress, stark
naked, and so emaciated that she ap
peared to be a living skeleton. The
room was covered with filth, bones,
refuse, food, worms,- rats and all kinds
of vermin.
The unfortunate woman, who had
partially lost her reason, was taken to
a hospital. It was tnougnt sue would
die, but she is now improving. Twen
ty-five years ago she was a beautiful
brunette and fell in love with a law
yer without means. Her mother dis
approved of their love and confined
her in the room which she has only
recently left The son, after his ar
rest, pleaded that he acted as he did on
account of hhal piety and that the
mother was responsible. The lawyer
died in 1885.
There was another dramatic develop
ment in the case to-day. Madame
Monnier died in prison of heart disease.
The gravity of her crime was brought
home to her at the judge's examina
tion Thursday. She became ill and
died suddenly in the infirmary of the
prison this morning
ALABAMA'S CONVENTION.
A Design Adopted for the Great Seal of
the State.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Montgomery, Ala., June 8. Gen.
Samford introduced an ordinance to
day in the constitutional convention
to establish a great seal for the State.
It will symbolize the story of Emma
Samson, showing the ford of Black
Creek to General Forrest, one of the
romantic incidents of the war on Ala
bama soil. The ordinance was re
ceived with great enthusiasm.
Miller, of Marengo, introduced a
resolution "to prevent corporations
from having any exclusive contract for
supplying books to State, county or
district schools."
DESPERADO CAPTURED.
Wanted for Mnrders Committed ia North
Carolina and Other States.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Middlesboro, Ky., June 8. Louis
Myers, alias Williams, a notorious
moonshiner and desperado, has been
captured here. He is charged with
the murder of two women in Vir
ginia, three men in North Carolina,
including a United States marshal,
one man in South Carolina and the
sheriff of Unicoi county, Tenn. Re
wards aggregating $2,500 have been
offered for his capture. The Gov
ernors of these States have been noti
fied of his canture. He has several
times been captured, but has always
managed to escape.
A FLORIDA STEAMER.
Will Ron Between Dnlnth and Mackinaw
During the Summer.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Orangeburg, N. Y., June 8. The
steamship Miami has arrived up the
St. Lawrence from Miami, i? la., ana
after coaliner here cleared for Duluth.
8he is 251 feet long, 40 feet beam, 11
feet drauehL twin-screw and can carry
2,200 passengers. She will run be
tween Duluth and Mackinaw during
the Summer, returning in the Fall to
run between Florida and West India
norta. The enlargement of the St.
Lawrence canals is introducing a num
ber of strangers to the lake shipping.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Sanford Express: Eleven bask
ets of homing pigeons, shipped to this
place by a Baltimore olub, were liber
ated last Sunday morning. The morn
ing being bright and clear they soon
"got their bearings" and left on their
homeward journey.
Littleton Reporter: Miss Lucy
Allen lost an eye this week from a
shot from an air rifle in the hands of
her smaller brother. He had snapped
the gun several times and thought it
without a load and pointed it at Miss "
Lucy with the results as stated.
Mount Olive Advart iserr
Huckleberries, beans and potatoes are
being shipped in large quantities.
Every year witnesses an increase in
the volume of the trucking industry,
and if the increase continues for a few
years, the business will te of huge
proportions.
Fayetteville Observer: Sheriff
Burns left this morning for Winston.
carrying with him Henry McAden,
the crazy white man, who was arrested
on Hay street several weeks ago while
insulting several ladies. He will be
turned over to the Winston authori
ties, and will be sent to the asylum
irom mere.
' Stanley Entemrisn: Tho nanr-h
crop in our county will be compara-
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iiveiy small, vv uuo to ere are consid
erable apples, the fruit is falling off
and it is thought the yield yield will .
not be a full one. The damage to
crops has been great in our county.
Uur farmers are sadlv behind with
their work, and it is impossible for
most of them to secure the necessary
help to get their corn and cotton work
ed before harvest time.
Newton Enter wise: Wheat is
beginning to ripen, and bv the last of
this week or the first of next, harvest
ing will begin in Catawba county.
- Did anybody ever hear of crows
catching young chickens? What they
do with the -chickens is not known,
out all this Spring crows have been
darting down in Mr. A. A. Hoover's
barn yard and carrving off young
cnickens. They are beating the hawks
at the hawks own game ten to one.
There is no mistake about this, be
cause they have frequently been seen
in the, act of grabbing up the chickeiis
and hying on with them.
Statesville Landmark: Mr. 11.
J. Croaker, late of the 29th volunteer
infantry, United States army, and oa
duty in the Philippine Islands from
November 2, 1890, to March 23, 1901,
to March 23, 1901, was in Statesville
this week on a brief visit to his sister,
Mrs. E. W. Culbreth. He went from
here to his home at High Point, Mr.
Croaker bought with him from the
Philippines an interesting and valua
ble curiosity. It is a petrified apricot
and a perfect specimen. It was given
to Mr. Croaker by a Spanish lady at
Catbalygan, province of Samar, P. I.
The lady's great grandfather had an
orchard on the spot 103 years Ago. The
place is now a cocoanut grove. Twenty-three
years ago the apricot was
found. It is in as perfect a state of
preservation as the day'it fell from the
tree and is as heavy as lead. Mr.
Croaker says he was offered $250 in
gold for it by a travelling man at Salt
Liake City, Utah, but declined. He
wrote to the Smithsonian Institution.
in Washington and was told if the
specimen was genuine it was worth
$600. He expects to send it to this in
stitution.
Wade8boro Messenger-Intelli-
gencsr: Mr. urimn Richardson, a
prominent and well known citizen or
White Store township, died at hir
home in that township, Sunday, aged
about 72 years. Mr. Richardson was
a native of Union county but had
been living in Anson some 33 years.
He was a Confederate veteran and a
splendid soldier. Perhaps there
never was a time when the farmers or -Anson
county were busier than they
are this week. The long wet spell left
the cotton fields in very bad condition
while many have not yet planted corn.
Small grain is ready ' to cut and
added to the other troubles of
our agriculturists, labor is exceedingly
scarce. Considerable excitment
was caused in Polkton last Friday by
the report that a number of wild peo
pie bad been seen near the town. Ac
cording to the report the wild people
consisted of a man, woman and two
children, all of whom were perfectly
nude, except that their bodies were
covered with long, shaggy hair. They
were first seen by a colored girl, in Mr.
W. F. Crump's oat patch. Afterwards -
quite a number of colored men and
women caught "glimpse" of the wild
things as they darted through the
woods.
TRAIN WRECKED.
Ten Persons Injured Two Fatally Two
Coaches Were Burned.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Witohita, Kan., June 8. The
eastbound 'Frisco passenger train,
No. 108, which left here this after
noon, was wrecked at Greenwood, a .
station sixty miles east of here, injur
ing ten persons, two fatally. All of
the injured have been taken to Fall
River and physicians have gone from
here to attend them. . .
The train was going at the rate of
thirty miles an hour and at an abrupt
turn near Greenwood station the din
ing car and a sleeper jumped the track.
A range in the dining car was upset
and the live coals in the range set fire
to the car and within thirty minutes
both of the derailed cars were consum
ed. None of the other passenger
coaches were injured.
ESCAPED LYNCHINQ.
White Mao Charged With Criminal As.
sanlt at Mt. Carmel, III.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Princeton, Isdm June 8. Henry
Reynolds, white, thirty years of age,
who was arrested in Mount Carmel,
III, Friday night, charged with as
saulting Lida Chase, the 13 year old
daughter of a prominent farmer, was
lodged in jail here to-day, mty men
having crossed the river, in
tending to lynch him. News
of their coming caused the au
thorities at Mount Carmel ab
ruptly to stop his preliminary hearing
and he was sent to Princeton at once
under guard of the sheriff and a posse.
Extra precautions have been taken to
protect the prisoner from further at
tempts at lynching. Reynolds has
confessed. The girl is in a serious
condition.
"CHICAGO MAY."
American Woman Arrested In Paris for
Complicity in a Robbery.
By Cable to the Morning star.
Paris. June 8. The police of this
city haye arrested an American wo
man named May Churchill, who had
maintained intimate relations with
"Ton" Edwards, one of the burglars
who robbed the Paris office of the
American Express Company in .aprii,
thn anthriTitiftB h&vincr decided to
charge her with complicity in the rob
bery. ne was lormeny h muBiu un
performer and had made a tour of the
United States under the sobriquet of
Chicago Jttay.