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.V is 1 ' - 'j'- ' '"'r. 'VV-" 1 i : ? 1 .- i "i Mi:- Mi $1 ! ill? Hi- 1- 7 if ftti S l' t V .i ,: 7 fr.'vff f J i 3 Hi f f r'Ji v ' . it ;i it if . 'r; Hi i hc gSlcchtn. Mtou. WILLIAM H. BEBWABD Editor and Proprietor. N. C. WILMINGTON FkiPAY, - Trie 2S 1901. AN ORGAN ON "FRANK ADMIS SIONS." The Philadelphia Press makes the Virginia constitutional convention the text of an editorial od negro I suffrage; or rather on the movement I to restrict negro suffrage. It quotes from a letter addressed to the con vention by some white citizens of one of the strong black districts, .urging it to take effective measures to eliminate the negro vote, because those white men have become tired of perpetrating frauds to prevent the negroes from gaining the ascen dancy. This is what it calls a "frank admission" of fraud, which it fol lows up by other quotations from Southern papers on the same liae, and admitting that the purpose in thus restricting suffrage is to get rid of the negro vote. It would hardly be worth while at this late day. to deny that frauds have been committed in the South, but no one who knows anything about the way elections have been conducted in States and districts where the Republicans were strong enough to hope to win, would assert that the frauds were perpetrated by , the Democrats" only. Fraud was so much resorted to by the Republicans that in some elections they cast more votes than, they had voters, and had more names on the regis tration lists than there were grown men in the townships in which they 7 were registered. In North Carolina that was notoriously tne case ana the election laws enacted by the Republicans and their Populist allies were so framed' as to make fraud - easy. They not only imported ne groes from across the borders, draw ing upon South Carolina on' one side and Virginia on the other, but they went into the grave. yard and resur rected dead negroes, and into the penitentiaries and asylums and bor rowed them,' "for one day only." The frauds became so frequent, so common and so flagrant that we look ed for them as a matter of course. They could not be concealed for the negroes who were used to help carry elections not only confessed them but made them a matter of boast when and where they thought it safe to do so. This, as much a3 anything else, had its influence in cry3talizing the sentiment for re stricted negro suffrage, the only way to get rid of the purchasable and unscrupulous element, which figured so largely in our elections, not only in this but in all the Southern States. ' ' - If under circumstances like these when white men had to contend against conscienceless white men and negroes without moral restraint'or responsibility, they resorted to fraud to prevent themselves from being ruined what reasonable man putting himself in their place would blame them? It Was a matter of self perservation with them, and they resorted to that to prevent the necessity of resorting to some thing more serious. It was simply a case of matching crookedness against crookedness, fighting the devil with fire, and checkmating the Republican managers with their own methods.' When fraud was re sorted to by Southern white men it was not' as a matter of choice, but as a matter of necessity, or last re sort to hold the reins of government and preserve the peace. This is the history of elections in the South, where the Republicans were formidable , enough to make a contest, and that's the reason for frauds where frauds were perpe- - trated, and is also their justification. When a thief enters your house at night you do not stand on ceremony ' asto the way you will will get him mt. But lecturing Southern Democrats for "committing " election frauds when it was a matter of self-preser vation, does not come with good grace from a journal whose columns have been filled with reports of and editorials denouncing the wholesale frauds perpetrated in the rockribbed Republican State of Pennsylvania and in the good, loyal Republican city of Philadelphia, where the op posing factions charge each other with all manner of corruption and election Irauds. In that citv.on the authority! of anti-Quay papers, fifty thousand or more fraudulent votes are cast, and the returns doctored to suit. That is "without the plea of necessity as in the South, but , simply to keen one fac tion ' in, for the spoils of office. purely mercenary and with as little extenuation or justification as the burglar could offer who lifts a win dow and sneaks into' the house h intends to rob. When the Renub licans in the North and in the South get above frauds at elections it will be time for Republican organs to write censorious editorials oh frauds at elections by Southern Democrats But if all this were true and thfiRP. lecturing organs think election franca nvn - MM. i . j.MMv4 mo bvi mucn to oe con i . aemnea and knowlncr. a tv i. : .. . '. ' -"vj do, tnat it is negro suffrage which makes them necessary, when they are resorted to, wouldn't they show more sincerity and more reason by recognizing movement to eliminate thn nh. " 1 I Ijectionable element from politics, I thau by opposing it and continuing the- conditions that make carrying elections by questionable methods a necessity? If they are as honest as j they pretend to be, and knowing, as they must knowthe corrupt and I - that ha hfiftn and I unscrupulous uoo still is made oi m oi5w voter, they would commend these I efforts to protect the ballot box, to eliminate the pliant, venal and dan- gerous element, and let the respect- able, intelligent and responsible citizenship direct the destinies oi communities and of the State. Then the incentive to fraud would be re moved unless the Southern people should become as demoralized by the greed for office as the Republicans of Pennsylvania are. A MEANINGLESS FLANK. Mark Ilanna held the reiivs over the Ohio State Convention, put through the ticket he had slated and had the platform fixed up to snit him and Mr. McKinley. The fact is the whole business was arranged before the Convention met, and all the delegates had to do was to go through the form of ratifying what Hanna and , his associates -had pre viously agreed upon. ' As might have been expected, the platform is an endorsement of every thing the administration has done, at home and abroad, and a sweeping claim to the credit for any good that has come to the country since Mark Hanna and Wm. McKinley took charge of affairs in Washington.This, however, is characteristic of every platform with which Mark Hanna has anvthin? to do. He is a broad-sweeping and mighty claim ant. But the platform is, character istically too, a dodger and a de ceiver, as illustrated by the follow ing plank in reference to Trusts, which Mark Hanna said in the last camnaien were all killed by the Sherman law. We recoenize the right of both labor and capital to combine when such combinations -are wisely admin istered for the general eood. but com binations which create monopolies to control prices or limit production are an evil which must be met by euective legislation, vigorously enforced. This is the vilest kind of rot. They have been playing it for ten years. It is as unmeaning as the croaking; of a frog. . Mark Hanna denies that there are any Trusts such as would come within the description in this plank. According to him all the Trusts we have are simply ''aggre gations of wealth" for the benefit of the public and consequently this fake plank cannot apply to any of the combinations now in existence. Doesn't every intelligent person who reads the papers, or who buys things, know that these combina tions do limit production when it is to their interest to do so, control prices and organize monopolies, but of course there is nothing in their plans of organization to show that and not one of them, of course would admit it. The men who made that platform knew this, every man 7 in the land of ordinary intelligence knows this, and yet they have -the "cheek to utter such rot, not for the first time, for it has become a stand ing fake in Republican platforms. Some men object to familiarities on short acquaintance. A Pennsyl vania farmer standing in some high grass admiring it, felt something coiling around his legs and look ing down saw a whopping big black snake climbing up him. With a stick he had in his hand he smote that Bnake until it uncoiled and made for a tree nearby, up which it climbed. But the farmer, who was mad, also climbed, followed that snake out on a limb and pound ed it into a helpless cripple, when it tumbled from its perch. It was nearly seven and a half feet long. American leather is now competing successfully with German leather in Germany, and is in such demand that the German leather makers want a higher tariff put on leather to protect them. Instead of helping American leather makers, by giving them the benefit of tariff-free hides, the Dingley tariff taxes hides, and and gives' the leather makers an alleged offset by taxing imported leather. That's the way they build up foreign trade. It is said that five hundred persons are killed by lightning in thiB coun try every year. Lightning is sup- posed not to be a discriminator as to I Persona when it strikes, bnt we do not think we ever heard of a light ning rod vendor beings struck by it ii. is estimated tnat tnere are 6,000,000 peach trees in Georgia bearing this year, and that the crop, notwithstanding drawbacks, will ajnount to 4,000,000 crates, worth M,000,000. This does not include the amount consumed at home. lhat negro in Richmond who stole a watch got more time than he expected. He got thirty-six years in me penitentiary. How's This? ' we oner one Hundred Dollars Rnwarri rnr any cane oi Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure ' " F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, o. we. tne underslsroafl. hava knnvn v T nn tor the last 15 years and believe him per tionn t5clKlly alle carrJ out any obllga- TTT 7 n J 111 111. wholesale Drntrelsts. Toledo. O. '"i??' Rinnan & Marvin, wholesale Drue- laoeiS? th?i222Jine-ilooa ana nracois sur- I ternoon, when he was struck by light-SgffiffiSC0"19-601(1 bo'th himself and horse being in- w o vnuirrn i:nn ir to. ran inravnailv ont. .. uwif jt ma are we Desc. A REOIOW RICH IK MINERALS. We have heretofore made refer- . , VI Jawvai to nf flrnvrn- ence to tnemaruio kee county, but we had no idea wnen we did that they were anything use as extensive as they are. in a cir- cular letter published by the jyiur- tj0 nt Trade, which W6 find ipuj' ' . . m me jicik" information is given as to the marble deposits and otner mineniHuxi.ua COunty, which will be read with in- terest by all North Carolinians: Tue great magnitude and varied ss of uneronee coumj """" u l.v-n- hr.n n source or mucu wuu- der to scientists ana mining i er,rral, aod as a wnoie bh m Kartled as beine unequalled by any other on this continent. A lead of marble extends through the county a distance of more than forty miles, and varies in width from 200 feet to nearly one mile in places. It has been exten sively prospected with a diamond drill, and has been ooreu iu mauj cMba feet without going through it, show ing perfectly free from oreaus ana cutters. It is most exquisitely beauti fu! in color, from pure white, pale flesh to coal black, variegated ioy stripes of every tint and color. Two quarries, splendidly equipped with modern machinery, are now being operated, and one other is being opened. t An iron leau, running irom cam u west, contiguous to the Southern and Atlanta, Knoxvilleand Northern Rail road, extends entirely through the couuty. it is very massive iu pmws, and i3 as rich and pure a quality of brown hemitite ore as can be round on the American continent. There are many other deposits of rich and pure iron ore and manganese in the county. No other part of the globe furnishes tale superior in purity and beauty to thn numerous deposits existing in Cherokee county. And five excellent mill plants for grinding same nave already been erected in the county, and others will doubtless be. establish ed at no distant day. The famous Ducktown (Tenn.) cop per lead runs through the western por tion of the countv a distance of twenty odd miles, but has been developed but little. A gold an argentnerous galena lead extends East and West through the county, and quartz taken from this lead on the No. 6' property, lo cated one and a half miles from Mur phy, assayed over $500 in silver and more than $10,000 in gold per ton, but of course nothing in comparison to the extent of richness is claimed for even the very best ore in quality we simply mention this item because it is true. Three properties located on Valley river containing piacer goia nave been most successfully operated for several years on a large scale by well equipped and systematic hydraulic process, ana many thousand penny weights of the precious metal nave b.en secured therefrom." Cherokee is triangular in form, about fifty miles long from east to west, averaging about thirty miles in width, and we doubt if there is another bit of territory on the con tinent of equal area which can pre sent a finer array of wealth-produc ing resources. The surprising thing is that in this wealth-pursuing age they have been so long neglected. U.S. COURT AT AN END. Recess Term Cot Short Yesterday Decree oi Mortjage Foreclosure Against the Street Railway. The recess term of the United States District Court was brought to a sudden close yesterday on account of the serN ous illDess of one of Judge Purnell's daughters, which necessitated his pres ence at his home in Raleigh. He left the city yesterday afternoon. Tbe important matter before yester day's session was the signing of a de cree of mortgage foreclosure in the suit brought by tbe Morton Trust Co., of New York, against the Wilmington Street Railway Company. Argument was resumed in the case when court re assembled yesterday morning at 9 o clock, and speeches were made by George Rountree, Esq., Junius Davis, Esq., and Hon. JohnD. Bellamy. j Upon conclusion of the argument Judge Purnell signed the decree, with a few exceptions, as presented by Messrs. Roumree and Carr, represent ing the plaintiffs. The decree gives the railway compa ny forty days to settle the $150,000 mortgage, which, if not paid at the expiration of that time, is to be fore closed, the property being advertised for sixty days and then sold. Mr. A. B. Skelding, the general manager of the railway, was appoint ed a receiver to take entire charge and deposit all receipts of the railway in the Atlantic National Bank, subject to orders signed by the court. Mr. Skelding'8 receivers office commenced at noon yesterday. The judge ordered stricken out the order made at the last term of court in tbe suit brought by C. L. Parker vs. the Clarendon Water Works Co. The rule was for the company to show cause why judgment should not be entered up against them for failure to file an answer to the com- plaiut. The answer was filed two days after the rule was made. Iredell Meares, Esq., representing Mr. Parker, opposed the order being I stricken out. The suit brought by London Cotton vs. the New York steamship Saginaw, was left to a referee to take testimony, the referee to be selected by mutual agreement of counsel. John H. Gore, Jr., Esq., was intro duced to the court and sworn in. Married Yesterday Afternoon. The wedding of Miss Edith Hemen way Bolles, of this city, and Dr. B. R. Graham, of Wallace, was celebrated at St. James' Episcopal Church yester day afternoon. It was an exceedingly pretty marriage and the edifice was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Mr. Archie Graham, of Philadelphia, was best man. Killed by Lightning. A correspondent of the Star, writ ing from Roseboro, Duplin county, June. 24, says: Mr. L. H. Lyon, a highly respected citizen and well to do farmer, living one half mile of this place, was in his .wa viuniuar buuui o 1J lllYUia. LU IN HI t stantly killed. . I . ' - a ENCAMPMENT WILL BEGIN JULY. TENTH. General Orders IssuedTo be Desigoated Camp Aycock Third Regiment to Open the Camp. i Special Star Telegram. Raleigh,- N. C, June 26. The State Guard encampment will not be postponed. This is the decision reached by the military committee and Gover nor Aycock, and the following general order was issued late to-night for the encampment to begin July 10th. General Order Number 13. I. An encampment of tbe North Car olina State Guard for the current year will be held by regiments at Latimer Park, near Wrightsville, beginning July 10th and ending August 14th, 1901. Camp will be designated "Camp Aycock." II. The Quartermaster General will arrange transportation for the several regimental commanders, staffs, bands, companies, etc., so as to reach camp not later than 5 :30 o'clock in the after, noon of the day named for each regi ment to go into camp. Ill Companies are required to at tend with at least seventy-five per cent, of their muster roll. Failure on the part of any company to meet this requirement will, deprive such com Danv of the annual appropriation. IV. Company commanders are di rected not to permit tneir men to carry unnecessary baggage. Wearing of citizen clothing in camp is prohibited. No arms except such as are issued by the State for military purposes will be allowed in camp. V. Vouchers for transportation will be supplied by the Quartermaster Gen eral. Transportation will be allowed for one cook and two servants to each regimental headauarters : to each com Danv in excess of number of enlisted reported on monthly report of June, 1901, and to each regimental band. (This provision must be observed.) Field and staff officers with servants may be transported with the company nearest them or on single tickets, as mav be most convenient. Company commanders are' required to report regimental and staff officers and their servants, transported with their com panies, in ceruncatesof transportation. VI. Tents, blankets, fuel, ice, cook ing utensils, and medicine will be sup plied by the State. Troops must fur nish their own rations. Convenient and ample kitchens and mess halls will be provided. VII. The Quartermaster General is charged with erecting the tents fur nished by the State and providing the usual conveniences for the use and comfort of the troops. All public property is in his charge and he is di rected to. see that the same is not mis applied, damaged or abused. VIII. Regimental quartermasters and commissaries will report to the Quartermaster General at camp a day or two before the regiments go into camp. The regimental commanders will issue orders to this effect. IX. The work of each regiment will be under the direction of its command ing officer. X. The inspector of small arms practice will proceed to camp a few days before July 10th for tbe purpose of preparing the rifle range. He will remain in camp with each regiment and superintend the work of his de partment. Regimental commanders will arrange to give each company as much time as possible for target prac tic. XI. The Inspector General will visit and inspect the camp of each regiment on such days as he may name. XII. Each regiment will be reviewed by the Commander in chief on days to be hereafter named. XIII. Each chief of department and regimental commander will make detailed reports of the work of the camp. XIV. Tne encampment will be held in tbe following order: Third regi ment, from July 10th to 19th ; Second regiment, from July 22d to 31st; First regiment, from August 5th to 14th Battery "A." of Charlotte, will en camp with the First regiment. By order of the Governor and Com macder in Chief. B. S. Royster, Adj. Geri. Strong pressure was brought to bear upon the Governor and Adjutant Gen eral for postponement, but Gen. Roy ster said they found it impossible to do so without very much confusion. In fact, to postpone would make it im possible to hold the encampment at all. An order was issued to-night dis banding the Rutherford Rifles, Com pany L, Third regiment, the company having failed to comply with military regulations. NEW STEAMBOAT LINE. Charter of the Georgetown, Charleston and Wilmington Steamboat Co. Registered In This County. Col. John D. Taylor, clerk of the Superior Court, yesterday morning received for registration a copy of the charter of the Georgetown, Charleston and Wilmington Steamboat Company. The company is chartered under the laws of South Carolina, the incorpora tors being named as Mark Moses, J. B. Steele and Abe Moses, all of George town. The main office will be in George town and the company will operate steamboats, fiats and a lighter for tbe transportation of passengers and freight. Towing will also be engaged in. The termini will be at Charleston. Georgetown and this city. The minimum amount of capital stock is $30,000, divided into 300 shares of the par value of $100 per share. The entire stock, save two shares, is held by Mark Moses. Each of the other two incorporators, Abe Moses and J. B. Steele, own one of the two remain ing shares. All of . the capital stock nas been paid. Mr. Council Rivenbark, of Wil- lard, arrived in the city yesterday to take a position with the Atlantic Coast Line., i Monroe Journal; Frank Buch- annan. colored, while drunk, went to the house of Julius Helms, another negro, who lives near Griffin's stables, (Saturday evening, ms manner was offensive and Helms ordered him out of the house. Buchannan drew his pistol and shot at him. The ball, from a 32 calibre revolver, lodged in a handkerchief in Helm's hip-pocket and did no damage. Buchannan then ran and got away. Volcanic Eruption Are grand, but skin "eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cares them: also Uld, Kunmng and Fever 8ores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Bcalds, Chapped Hands and Chil blains. The beat Pile Cure on earth. Drives out pains and aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaaranteed. Sold by R. R. Bellamy, druggist. t LEGAL FRATERNITY. The Third Annual Session the North Carolina Bar Association of AT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH. Called to Order by Hon. Clement Manly. Address of Welcome by Robt. Rnark, F?q. Senator Pritcbard Hon. Chas. M Stedman The first meeting of the third an nual session of the worth Uarolina Bar Association was held last night in the spacious ball room of the Sea shore Hotel. The meeting was called to order by Hon. Clement Manly, of Winston, chairman of the Executive Committee, and the major part of the evening was taken up with speech making. Those occupying seats on the rostrum were Hon. Clement Man ly; Major Charles M. Stedman, presi dent of the Association; Senator J. C. Pritchard, Robert Ruark, Esq., and J. Crawford Biggs, Esq , secretary of the Association. As the chairman of the Executive Committee rose to call the meeting to order, and just as bis gavel fell for order, his voice and the sound of the rap for order were drown ed by applause and titters of laughter. An apparition in white flannels had appeared in the hall, and was leisure ly strolling to a seat at the front. The chairman gasped for breath, and the Hon. George Rountree. in a brand new suit of white flannels, with slip pers to match, smiled benignly on the assembled crowd. "Gentlemen of the Bar Association," continued Mr. Manly, after recovering from his surprise, "I would have spoken sooner, but something white appeared." Laughter and applause. In calling the meeting to order, Mr. Manlv in his speech spoke of the Association as "an established institu tion, destined in future days to carry out its high functions." His speech was well received, and in concluding he introduced Robert Ruark. Esq., of the Wilmington Bar, who delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the bar and citizens of Wilmington and Wrightsville, Mr. Ruark spoke for about fifteen -minutes and his address was a gem of its kind. We regret that wanW)f space will not per mit us to publish in full his speech and tbe reply of Senator Pritchard which followed it. The address delivered by Hon. Chas. M. Stedman appears on the 3rd page of the Daily Star. He held his audience spell bound for about three-quarters of an hour and concluded amid pro longed and deafening applause. Senator Pritchard, in his address in reply to tbe address of welcome, paid a glowing tribute to the hospitality of the Cape Fear section, and of Wil mington in particular. He set out tbe aims of tbe Bar Association, describing it as an organization which has for its object the advancement of the interests of the legal profession, as well as tbe enforcement of the laws, in such a manner as to insure the enjoyment of the many blessings vouchsafed to us by the Constitution of our State. "An impression," he continued, "has been created in tbe minds of many that an antagonism exists between citizens of the State and the legal profession. A more erroneous impression has never found lodgment in the mind of man. It is as essential to the welfare of the people that we should have an enlight ened and honest legal profession as it is that we should have good laws in intelligently administered by an en- lightened and honest judiciary. It i therefore the chief object of the Bar Association to keep the legal profession on a plane where its rule of ethics will exclude the shyster and en- . ii courage tbe lawyer wno sacreaiy observes the oath which he took when he assumed the important trust that has been committed to him by the Supreme Court of our State. No law can be successfully enforced which does not have the sanction of the good citizens of the State, and above all things we should remember that no one will respect the settlement of any litigated question when the ver dict upon which it is based is the re sult of unprofessional methods prac ticed by the lawyer who has entered the profession with the 'commercial idea' uppermost in his mind If the members of the bar maintain that high standard which should charac terize our profession in tbe trial of causes, then indeed will we succeed in popularizing the enforcement of the laws. It is with these things in view that we have formed an organ ization composed of the lawyers of the State, and we are here for the purpose of conferring with one another as to the best methods to be adopted in or der to attain the highest professional standard." The routine business of the evening was quickly disposed of. The Secrs- tarv announced the appointment of the following Committees t Committee to recommend officers Chas. A. Moore, C. W. Tillett, John D. Bellamy, W. R. Allen and Jacob Battle. Committee on Publication B. F. Long, I. A. Murchison and A. O. Gaylord. The meeting adjourned at about 11.20 P. M. until this morning at 10 The programme lor to-day is as follows; 10 A. M. Annual address by Hon, Chas. M. Blackford, of Lynchburg, Va. ; reports of secretary and treasurer; reports of standing committees; re ports of special committees; discus sion ; general business. 9 P. M. "Traditions and Recollec tions of the Bench and Bar of North Carolina," by Hamilton C. Jones, Esq. ; discussion ; general business. Among those arriving at the Sea shore Hotel yesterday and last night to attend the Convention were, D. L. Ward, B. A. Nunn, " Newbern ; 8, Gallert, Rutherford ton: Hon. J. C. Pritchard and wife, McKinley Pritch ard, Marshall, N. C; E. M. Koonce, Jacksonville, N. C : H. A. London and wife, Pittsboro; H. L. Lyon, Wbiteville.N. C; Hon.JT. M. com mons and wife, Raleigh ; Chas , M. Bus bee and wife, F. H. Busbee. Raleigh; Judge Jacob Battle, Rocky Mount; A. Hicks and wife, Oxford, N. C. ; T. U,. Guthrie and vrife. Miss Virginia Sho ber, Hamilton C. Jones ard wife, Charlotte; Jno. L. Bridgers, Tarboro; Chas. W. Tillett, Charlotte; J. M. Tur ner, Statesville; W. S. Pruden and wife. Eden ton; John D. Shaw, Miss E. Shaw, Rockingham ; J, A. Giles, Pittsboro: John D. Sbaw, Jr , Laurin- burg; Ed. Chambers Smitti, icaieign; F R. McDowell and wife, Charlotte; Hon. Grove Connor, Wilson, N. C; G.B. Patterson. Maxton ; J.D. Murphy, Asheville: James R. Gaskill, Tarboro; D. H. McLean, Dunn, N. C. ; Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd. Miss Eleanor vass, Raleigh; F. A. Woodward, Wilson; H. L. Stevens. Warsaw-N. C; J- o. Womack, Raleigh: Hon. Robert W. Winston, Durham, N. C; S. M. Gates, Hillsboro; Victor 8. Bryant, Durham. MARTIN'S DEFALCATIONS. Amonnt to Over Seventeen Thousand Dol lars -The Report of tbe Legis lative Committee. i Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, June 24 Report of the legislative committee, compos ed of F M. Arrington, Frai c:. D. Winston and F. M. Shannonhuusa on tbe C( a 'cations of Msjor Marti- was filed n.i, tb Governor tod. It gives d ui ed findings after t-xaoi na tion of the treasury records, bank accouots, and books of several State institutions. The penitentiary short age by Martin's defalcations is $16,550. S3; the A. and M. College, $679.16; the Blind Institute, $79787. Tbe com mittee' recommends that the legislative committee in tbe future be required to examine check books and bank ac counts and compare these with institu tion records. Had this been done, the committee Bays, Martin's first irregu larities would have been discovered and tbe defalcation nipped in the bud, W08K OP LIGHTNING. Barn Destroyed by Pire and Live Stock Bnrned to Death. Mr. J. T. Kerr, who owns a farm at Acorn Branch, about five miles from the city, was a heavy loser by Sunday night's severe storm. While the ele ments were raging fiercest, lightning struck and set fire to his barn, which was a large two-story frame building situated a hundred or so yards from the dwelling house. As soon aa the fire was discovered. which was shortly after the bolt had hit tbe house, Mr. Kerr and the farm hands attempted to put it out. But it was a useleBS task, as the flames made rapid headway in spite of their efforts and tbe heavy rain. They also tried to save the live stock, which consisted of a fine cow and five mules. Here, too, their efforts were almost futile, as the cow and two or tne mules were burned to death before they could reach them. The three remaining mules were burned so badly that they will probably die. Mr. Kerr estimates his loss at $1,500. The pair of mules burned to death cost $400. M'GOWEN.WESTBROOK. A Qniet Home Wedding at Paiaon, Duplin Connty, N. C Miss Elizabeth Amanda Westbrook and Mr. A L. McGowen of Wallace, N. C , were married at th home of the bride's parents near Faison, at 6:45 o'clock yesterday morning. Dr. F. D. Swindell of Goldsboro, officiat ing. The marriage was a quiet one, only the immediate families being present. After the ceremony was performed the happy pair left the early train for Wallace, their future home. MORE CLOUD BURSTS. Another Heavy Rainfall in West Virginia Causing Qreat Damage. By Telegram to tne Horning star. Roanoke, Va., June 26. Word was received here at a late hour to night confirming the report that there had been another heavy fall of rain in the West Virginia coal fields. The intelligence received here says another storm has occurred and that Pocahon tas is damaged more than last Satur day. All railroad repairs are threat ened. Cumberland, Mp., June 26. A series of cloud bursts last midnight devastated the New Creek valley, south of Key&er, W. Va The river rose over ten feet in half an hour. Many farm buildings were destroyed and the valley is strewed with car casses of live stock. BLOODSHED FEARED. Battle Imminent Between Federal Mar ehals and Striking Coal Miners. Bv Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. Matkwan, W. Va , June 26. This morning, when the non union men again attempted to go to work at the Maratime coal mines, they were fired upon by strikers at a distance. The non-union men deemed it best to withdraw and did so before any of their number fell. On to-morrow an other battle is imminent between the strikers and the Federal marshals. Ever since they left, the union men have been preparing for an emergency and to night Marshals Hufford and Tellto and Superintendent Lambert, of the Maratime mines, are expected to arrive here from Charleston. It is said they are heavily reinforced and ready to put an end to all the disturbance in this section. The union . men are equally as determined. Bloodshed is feared. Wilson News: Last year this time cotton blossoms were plentiful and tobacco was feeing cured. It seems that crops are much later than usual this year We have not heard of a bloom in Wilson county, and it will be a week or two before any tobacco is cured. The crop this year in generally considered a good one. Snpeeaa-rWorth Knowing;. 40 years success in the 8outn, proves Hughes' Tonic a great remedy for dolus ana all Malarial Fevers. Better than Quinine. Guaranteed, try It. At Druggists. $otf and SlOO bottles. f BLOODY BATTLE AT ROCHESTER. One Thousand Striking Labor ers in an Encounter With Police. THIRTY-ONE MEN INJURED. Platoon of Fifty Policemen Tackled the Mob With Clubs Rioters Used Picks and Shovels Were Finally - Dispersed by the Police. By Telegraph to tne Morning Btat Rochester,' N. Y., June 26. Strik- ing laborers to tne numoer oi i,w had a brisk encounter with the police to day, in which eleven policemen and twenty rioters were injured. The strikers had set out, as Beveral times before, to drive off laborers who were at work on street improvements. At Mill and Commercial streets they en countered fifty laborers employed by , . 1 T7l a " r tne Jtcocnesier ias ana nieciric uum pany in digging a trench and ad vanced on tnem ana arove mem irom the trench. The workers sought re fuge in the power house of the com pany and Ihe police undertook to dis perse tne mob. The police reserves were drawn up in a platoon of fifty across the street, and upon orders ad vanced with drawn clubs upon the mob. Immediately the air was filled with bricks, stones and wood, and shovels and picks in the hands of the strikers were freely used. Amid the melee, a shot rang out and Sergeant Stein, commanding the platoon, ordered tne policemen to nre over the heads of the strikers. This had the desired effect. The strikers scattered and the police chased them through the streets to the Uity Mall pirk, where they were held awaiting action by the mayor. Police reinforce ments were hurried to the scene of the riot, but their services were not re quired. The injuries sustained Dy several oi the policemen are of a serious nature. The hurts of the rioters were mostly scalp wounds, inflicted by the officers' clubs. TERRIFIC STORM STRUCK PITTSBURG. People and Houses Struck by Lightning. One Woman Killed Homes Wrecked. Property Loss Heavy. by Teiegrapn to tbe Morning Buir Pittsburg, June 26. The .storm which struck Pittsburg and vicinity this afternoon was short in duration but terrific in power and disastrous in effect. The lightning and thunder was practically continuous for about thirty minutes. The wind attained a velocity of thirty miles an hour and 2.46 inches of rain fell. The temperature fell 24 degrees within an hour. One woman was killed instantly by lightning and several other persons may die from the same cause. Numberless houses and churches were struck by lightning and several picnic parties were panic stricken. The waters rushed down the hills around Homestead and literally en gulfed the town. The extent of dam age done there is the worst in the history of the town and will reach many thousands of dollars in property loss. Besides the numerous houses partially wrecked, four steel bridges of the Monongahela Street Railway were washed out. At South Avenue park at the end of the suburban Traction Company's line, a picnic party com posed of 1,200 persons, 700 of whom were children, gathered in the dancing pavilion for shelter from the storm. Lightning struck a tree within eight feet of the pavilion and set fire to. the structure. . Picnickers were panic stricken, women fainted, chil dren screamed and even the men in the party gave way to their fright. Fortunately the heavy rain extin guished the flames and although a large number of the party were more or less hurt in the panic, none wa s seriously injured. ,A similar panic ensued at St. Joseph's parochial school on Mount Oliver where commencement exercises were being held. The hall was filled with children and their parents when lightning struck the building, tearing a portion of the roof away. No fatal ities resulted. DISCRIMINATING DUTIES. Official Statement That Italy Fays No Bounty On Sugar. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, D. C., June 26. An official statement from the Italian government was communicated to the State Department to-day to the effect that Italy paid no export bounty on sugar. This action by the Italian authorities follows eight days from the issuance of Secretary Gages treas ury order suspending the liquidation of all sugar imported from or produced in Italy, on the grounds that the treasury had information leading to the belief that Italian sugar received a bounty. Mr. Gage's circular did not state positively that Italy paid an export bounty, but said that it appeared highly probable that this was the case, and accordingly the liquidation of sugar accounts with Italy were suspended pending further investiga? tion. The discriminating duties are now being enforced against Italy. The action taken by Italy raises a question somewhat analogus to that now pend ing with Russia, each concerning sugar, and each referring to the alleged payment of a bounty. Russia has taken a position that she pays no bounty, and Italy now makes a formal declaration of the same kind. While this is not necessarily a protest, it presents an issue of fact, whether bounty ia Qr is not paid. W. E. Christian, Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Seaboard Air Line, has received a dispatch from Governor C. B. Aycock, of North Carolina tendering the use of 200 tents and cots for the Georgia Masons who make a trip to Wrightsville, N. C., July 5th, for the benefit of the Georgia Mason's horne in Atlanta. The trustees of the University of Alabama elected Dr. Wm. S. Wyman to succeed Dr. James K. Powers as president. Dr. Wyman bas been professor of Latin at the University since 1871. He is a native Alabamian. YJj FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLsU It llcwRIyai, " "leader," nd "Ro neater" InUt upon having them, taktpo other? and ALL, DEALERS To produce the best results in fruit, vegetable or grain, the fertilizer used must contain enough Potash, for partic. ulars see our pamphlets. f re send them free. - "GERMAN KALI WORKS, 9a Nassau St.,ew York. SITUATION IS IMPROVING. In the Flood-Swept District of West Vir. ginia No Danger of Suffering. Rushing Repairs. By Telegraph to tne uorning Rtar Roanoke, Va., June 26. The situa tion in the flood swept district in West Virginia is improving. No late de velopments tend to show an increase in either fatalities or property losses Four more bodies have- been ideuti fled at North Fork. The reports from all over the station are to the effect that while many poor people have lost all, yet there is no danger of sufferine for want of food. It can be definitely stated now that the number of lives lost will not reach more than Gftv XT- i l: - - j . ixv ijuuieei were munu during last A night or this morning. It is impossi J vio tu Kivo B uii nab ui WlOSfi Wl() perished on account of many bodies being buried without identification It is believed that there will be more bodies found, as the work of clearing away the debris progresses. The ef forts of the large force of men at work now are directed towards re establish ment of communication. .The property losses have not Wu exaggerated, but it is not thought w.al outside aid will be needed, as the coal companies are taking care of those of their employes who were despoiled bv the flood. Tbe coal companies as well as the railroads are rushing their repairs and the situationrtoday is more encoura ging. A telegram from Eckman says the telegraph line is now working as far west as that place, which is one ml! east of Keystone and 28 miles west of Bluefield. General Man ager John son says he will reach Vivian with the express to-night. Over 3,000 men are -now at work on the railroad line. Two carloads of provisions and sup plies for tbe needy in the coal fields from the Ne w York Journal passed through Roanoke this evening. The cars were attached to the mail train. Wheeling, W. Va , has also sent a carload of provisions around by way of Kenova. The repairing force reached Vivian to-day. One hundred and twenty five car loads of coal were loaded yesterday and more to-day. The Vivian yard is not in as bad a condi tion as was first thought. At Key stone 12,000" feet of the fifteen feet embankment was washed away. The road now uses the coal track on the end. Bluefield, W. Va., June 26. An other destructive storm -visited the . flood swept district to-night, and while no loss of life is yet reported from this second visitation, yet the damage to property has been great. The work done by the large force of men, repair ing the damage of last Saturday's flood, has been destroyed in many places. Details are hard to gather, for the communication destroyed by 8al urday's flood has not yet been estab lished. Baltimore, Md., June 26. A spec ial dispatch to the Sun from Keyser, W. Va., says: A frightful storm passed through the historic New Creek Valley, south of Keyser, last night. I was an apparent repetition of the cloud- . burst, and in a short time the bottom lands were covered by a roar ing river from ten to twenty feet deep, carrying off newlyj harvested wheat, ruining oats, corn' and gardens and . damaging roads and pasture fields. It is not known that any lives were lost, but several persons are not accounted for. To day the waters re ceded and on all sides are lying the bodies of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and other live stock by the score. The valley is one of the most fertile in the State. New Creek rose a foot' eyery two minutes for twenty mln uies. - TRAINS IN COLLISION. Several Cars Smashed Fireman Killed and Engineer Injured,. By Telegraph to the Mornlne Btar Sayannah, Ga., June 26. A freight train of the Seaboard Air Line ran in to a freight of the Plant system at the crossing -at Bladen, Ga, this morning. It is the law in Georgia that all trains shall stop at crossings. From the e vi denceit seems that H. E. Bradford, en gineer of the Seaboard train failed to stop his train. A crash was tbe result. Bradford was severely injured aod his fireman, Robert Simms, was instantly killed. Nobody on the Plant system train- was hurt. Several cars were smashed and the Seaboard engine waa wrecked. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Fatalities Reported in Alabama and In Lincoln Connty, N. C. By Telegraph to the Morning Btar. Piedmont, Ala., June 26. While stacking wheat on his farm, six miles south of here, yesterday, Robert Coke and his son were struck by lightning and Instantly killed. Charlotte, N. C , June 26. While working in a field in Lincoln county, N. C, yesterday afternoon, William Russ and one son were instantly kill ed and another son probably fatally injured by lightning. As vacelnatlon prevents smallpox, an j mu nine chills and fevers, so TEETHINA prevent and counteract tbe effects of the summer heat, much dreaded by mothers with small ctilldreD. 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