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J- . r r She mzdify ta. . PUBLISHED AT- WILMINGTQ N N. C, . at : ' SI. 00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. " 88888888888S8888 " 88888888888838888 " - 188888883888188888" ' 888888S88S8888888 iJMAV . 8S88S88SS88888888 -wmi '8888888888888888 I ' . - a 3 2 - tr 0 Kntrrcil it the Post Office at tlmtgton, N. C. Second Claw Mrier.l SUBSCRIPTION P. '.ICE. The subscription price of the We Single Cop; 1 year, pottage paid " S months " 8 months " Jj Star U u fl 00 60 80 HOW CAN IT BE DEFENDED? An attempt has been made by the beneficiaries of protection and the Republican leaders,' who speak for them,, to bluff Kepresentative Bab ' cock, of Wisconsin and prevent - tiiui from introducing his bill at the next meeting of Congress for the reduction of the tariff on articles which can be made "as cheaply in this country as they can be in other countries. So far they have not succeeded, for he says he is deter mined to introduce and push that bill, for a protective duty on arti cles wiich do not need -protection I -is not only indefensible, but in op position to the very principle which underlies protectionwhich should protect not only the manufacturer and other producer, but he con sumer also. In this latter statement seems to have hit on an orig inal idea, for this is the first time we have ever heard of the protec tive tariff protecting the consumer. While contending that the du ties should be reduced where it has been demonstrated that the" pro tected articles are made as cheaply in this country as they can be abroad, he declares that he adheres as strongly to the doctrine of protec tion as ever, and would not touch the tariff on any article where there may he any doubt of the ability of our manufacturers or other pro ducers to successfully qompete with the manufacturers or producers of those articles in other countries. He would still give them the benefit of protection. Nor does he propose to repeal the protective duties on articles controlled by trusts unless it appears that the trusts can and do make those articles as cheaply as they are made abroad. He has no hostility to trusts and is not fight ing them only in so far as they are receiving the benefit of the protec tion which they do not need, and the! only result of which is to give them a monopoly of the home mar ket and enable them to extort from the home purchaser' while selling cheaply to the foreign purchaser. Such a tariff as that, he says, cannot be defended. A3 all Republicans do, he as sumes that the great progress this country has made lately in! manufac turing is the result of the protective policy. There is some truth in this, perhaps, because the protection given was practically a bounty on home manufactures, the very thing that Secretary Gage objects to in other governments and is the ground of justification -on which he bases his countervailing sugar and oiL duties against Russia and his peun i tervailing duties on sugar against Italy, although Italy doesn't make any sugar for export; Mr. Bab- cock proposes to strike at the trusts only when they strike "at the people and take advantage of the prbhibi tive effect of the protective tariff to extort unreasonable profits from the American consumer while selling at a much smaller profit to foreigners. After assuming that the protective policy has built up our industries, until we, have reached the point not only of being independent of other nations, but exporters of things that not many years ago we im ported, he in a letter to a friend thus defends his position: u After we have builded so well," and ftany of these industries have become giants such as the world has never be fore known, shall we continue a tariff on articles that vield no revenue, need jo protection, and that, in fact, like we products of our farms, are; articles M export? How can such a policy be defended? If Congress maintains a tariff on such articles, the whole theory f protection falls to the ground and it limply inures to the benefit of those ho may secure the control of any such commodity, since by its aid they Jn fix exorbitant prices in the domes llc market. I maintain that it is a part the policy of protection to protect wec0usumerg This is perhaps the Q1; thing that Congress can do at the wesent time. I would .not touch 'a cnedule where the tariff was -needed w protect labor. - The only answer that has been so 'f made to my proposition to' place certain articles of iron and steel on the e list is that it would injure small Manufacturers and would benefit the h-o This statement has been made ' O. E. Pavno nh.1i.man of thn WftVS JJ Means Committee, and by John v wno is second on the commii I have great regard for both of for n,- gentlemen and due respect ' their opinions, hut am a business m I realize that the small manufac- turei 1 it:UB' P'oauce nis gooasas cneap- " the larger one. It is a settled, nxea rule of trade that if nn fnnri1 cannot produce equally with another it must go out of business. Therefore I cannot see the force of the argument used by my distin- tinguished colleagues, but it is to be re marked that the trust is rapidly buy ins up the smaller concerns, owning now about seventy-five per cent, of all in niMii haImm li i ... y viuis eauacuj, ana will no HouM secure aosomte contfol of prac tically all in the near future. The ,!n,nsy Vnia Railroad Company, re alizlng the conditions, has just pur chased one of the Urge Pennsylvania steel plants. presumahl-r n that n might be in a position to protect itself ana mate its own rails. Would they for a moment enter into this new field, which is foreign to their business as common carriers, unless they consid ered the danger of exorbitant prices for steel rails imminent." This is good argument with any one who does not look through the oycuwtuieu oi crusts ana other pro tection benficiaries, not one. of whom will admit that protection is not necessary. Mr. Babcock himself, while recognizing . the imposition on the American people, indulges in that old v fake about "protecting American labor," when, he says he would not deprive it of "protec tion ; when any one Who has studied the tariff question knows that the difference bet ween-the cost of labor in this country and in European coun tries is so insignificent as to "really constitute no factor in the cost of manufacturing, especially when the advantages the American manufacturer has are taken into consideration, while it is contended by many familiar with these matters that considering the character and the amount of work done by the American work man his labor costs less than the labor of the European workman does. But that is simply a tub thrown to the American workman by Mr. Babcock to make him believe that the Republican tariff builders have been and still are looking out for his interests. Mr. Babcock differs very much from Senator Hanna and other friends of the protected interests, bnt he has the logical position and when put to the test they will find it impossible to give a plausible rea son why this protective policy should not be modified to meet the condi tions as they are to-day, when the infants are not only fully grown, bnt are standing up and defiantly challenging the world. . The protection given to industries that can compete with other coun tries, with all their "Cheap pauper labor," is not protection, it is simply another name for a system that encourages extortion and plunder, for the benefit of Republican cam paign contributors. FIGHTING THE WHITE WITH THE NEGRO. Han - A Cleveland, Ohio, press dispatch published yesterday, announces that the U. S. Steel Corporation had en tered upon a systematic plan for the importation of Southern negroes to take the places of the white strikers in its mills. It has negroes employ ed in drumming up these negroes and has given orders to secure as many as possible and center them at various points where the strike is on. This is something which affects not only the strikers but also the iron industry of the South, for these agents are sentto Alabama, Tennessee and other iron -producing and manufacturing sections of the South to find men who know some thing about that business, and in dnce them to leave by the offer of higher wages than they are receiv ing. II tney take as many negroes as they hope to, of course this will have its' effect on the iron industry of this section, which will be ham pered by the loss of this labor, un less it nan retain it bv increasing wages to the amount lofferedjroy the Northern Steel Corhbine, which might be a heavy tax on it. But this is not the worst feature of it, for this importaion of negroes I if not a bluff to break the strike) I will in all probability result in col- lision, riot, and bloodshed, which it was hoped would be avoided, and the importers of the negroes know it. It can't be said in reply that the imported are jnen looking for work, as one Republican organ puts it, and that the plants needing labor have a right to employ them, (which is true.) They are not men seeking work. On the contrary they are sought by agents of the combine and enticed away from the work they have, with which they were very well satisfied before these emissaries went amongst them. The fact is' the U. S. Steel Cor poration is forcing the fight against the strikers, at the risk of riot and bloodshed, using the Southern negro to fight the Northern white man, to get him down and keep him down. The negro is figuring in something more than politics these days, and very mnch to his own ultimate harm. Twenty years ago the negroes were in a majority of 27,374 in Louisiana. To-day as a result of white immigration, and perhaps negro emigration, the whites have a majority of 78,808. That's solving i the negro problem. HOBSON'8 BIG JOB. Captain' Hobson is achieving some fame these days as a public speaker and well he may for he is abont as strenuous a talker as he is a ship sinker. - No narrow Utica contracts his powers bnt the whole boundless universe is his. There is nothing small about him, or the job he maps out for the United States. He can give Teddy Roose velt two or three in the game and beat him on strennosity. -Friday he delivered an address before an educational assembly at Manona Lake, near Madison, Wis consin. It was a plea for a great navy, not only one to match any other navy bnt to buck up against an aggregation of them. Everv Congress, he said, should appropri ate $25,000,000 to build more war. ships. How" long the" appropriation of 125,000,000 annually is to con tinue he didn't say but the pre sumption is until we have a navy that wonld make any other navy in the world look like a measly thing afloat. The reason for this, according to boomer Hobson, is because this na tion is the "natural protector of weaker nations" (as illustrated in the Philippines) and "the principle of the Monroe Doctrine, and the blessings of free institutions should be extended throughout the world.' To do this we must have a great fleet in the Of ient and another great fleet in the Occident, both of which should be capable of bucking up against any European fleet or com bination of fleets. Isn't this a pretty large-sized job that Captain Hobson is putting up for Uncle Samuel? If European na tions ceased building ships and let their navies stand as they are it would take the United States con siderable time to catch up on the Hobson programme even with the expenditure of $25,000,000 a year, but as all the leading European na tions are adding to their war fleets annually, we would have to do some mighty hustling to make much progress in equalizing the numbers, even by the time that Captain Hob- son's hair had tnrned white, his blood much cooler and his brain better poised than it is now. We appreciate the pride he takes in his profession, but we can't help thinking that the job he maps out for Uncle Sam is rather large even for a person of his enthusiastic and impulsive temperament. When Mr. Kennon,' the writer and lecturer, arrived in St. Peters burg from" Denmark, last Thurs day, a policeman waited on him and politely informed him that he must get outside of Russia within twenty-four hours. The Russians had doubtless read some of George's lectures on Siberia and wanted to let him know how they appreciated the pictures he drew of Russian barbarity. South Carolina now ranks second as a cotton manuiacturing oiaie, surpassed only by Massachusetts. The probabilities are that as South Carolina has reached this place within twenty years, in the next twenty there are at least three Southern States which will lead Massachusetts South Carolina, mi North Carolina and Georgia. Mr. Cortez, the Rio Grande Mex ican bandit, has been tried in Texas for one murder and been sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary. He is to be tried for two more. On the same scale this would give him one hundred and fifty years, by which time he will probably con clude to be good and quit killing people. The Baltimore Herald rises to re mark that "In England a newspaper is not 'patriotic' that fails to slap the chief of the war office on his official shoulder and admire him ex travagantly." In the language of TTfifttben Chinee it is "allee samee" on this side of the salt pond. fluntain Schlev. son of Admiral Schley, propounds the conundrum: If Admiral Schley had lost that Santiago fight, would Admiral Sampson have rushed to assume tMo TAfmnnsibilitv as he did the glory of the victory? Not much. Forty-five thousand people at Chicago bathed in the lake one day root. wooV. This was above the av- AMW M IT or a or a. Thfilake is the reservoir from which Chicago gets her drink ing water. TVio RoTnibliftah Daners obiect to the "grandfather" clause in our suf- fraee law. They don't seem to ap preciate the veneration we have for our ancestors. The latest scheme is a Boston man's proposed $50,000,000 cotton planters' trust. But the cotton planters are not .putting mnch truBt in that. VETERANS' REUNION. Indications That Attendance Will Surpass All Expectations of the Promoters. NOTED SPEAKERS COMING. Nearly All the Counties Will be Repre sented by Large Delegitions Qen- " eral Matt Ransom Has Been Secured to Speak. From all over the State comes en couraging reports for the encampment of the Confederate Veterans of North Carolina at Wrightsville Sound on August 14th. It is confidently expected that fully a thousand of those "who wore the gray" will be in attendance and that the reunion will surpass all efforts of former years. Veterans in nearly every county in the State have taken hold ol the en campment idea and it looks as if all the camps in the North Carolina Division will.be well represented, to say nothing of many old soldiers who will come down from communities in which there is no organization. Char lotte, Raleieh and all the larger towns are making unusually elaborate pre: partitions for the event. Maj. Br. A. London, of Pittsboro, was in Kaleigh Thursday and is thus quoted by the News and Observer: A great feature," said he. "will be the address to be delivered by ex-Sen ator Ransom. I have' just had his acceptance of our invitation to speak and this is very gratifying. He will speak on Thursday, August 15tb, and his presence and address will attract many who otherwise would not eo. It will be the last opportunity which some of the veterans will have of meeting General Bansom. and they are going to be there." "tiere is something i wish vou would say," continued Manor Liondon. "It is that we suesrest and uree that all veterans, as far as possible, attend . L. n : i J ; i i - .1 tuo rouuiuu m uouies, ana urine meir own cooks along. All that the State will furnish will be tents, stoves- and cooking utensils,- and the food and its preparation must be looked after by those who attend. I urge that they matte their preparations in advance so as to have no inconvenience or dis comforts while in camp." BRUNSWICK PIRM E VI BIASSED. Petition Asking That Moore & Prink, of Shallotte, be Adjudged Hankropt. A petition of certain Wilmington creditors asking that Moore & Frink, of 8hallotte, N. C, be adjudged bank rupt, was filed by Messrs. Russell & Gore, attorneys, in the United States Court in this city "yesterday. The pe tition will be heard August 12th by Referee Samuel H. MacRae, of Fay etteville. The creditors represented in the pe tition and the amounts due each are George R. French & Son, $330.50; Rhein3tein Dry Goods Company, $241, and Cooper & Cooper Company, $52.13. , Other claims are in the hands of the attorneys for the petitioning creditors but are not represented in the proceedings. . The firm of Moore & Frink is com posed of' Mr. Allan Moore and Mr. Wm. Frink and has been regarded as one of the strongest in Brunswick county. Offers to compromise certain debts are assigned as reasons that the petition should be granted. Harbor Master's Report. The report of Capt. Edgar D. Wil liams, harbor master, shows arrivals of 22 vessels at this port during the month of July. Of this number 5 were foreign and 17 American. The American vessels were 10 steamships, 12.627 tons. 1 barge 1.740 tons, and 6 schooners, 2,392 tons. The' total ton nage is 16,759. The foreign vessels were 3 steamships, 4,846 tons, and 2 schooners, 385 tons Total 5,272. The grand total tonnage of all vessels for the month was 22,031, which is an in crease over same month last year of about ten thousand tons, the number nf vessels in that month having been only 15. Prom the Corporation Commission Clerk H. C. Brown, of the Corpora tion Commission, has certified down to the various counties the amount of taxes due from railroads, steamboats, water works, gas, electric plants, etc., under the recent assessment of such property by the Commission. The t to New Hanover county is $702,799.84. Wake, Johnson, Mecklen burg, Guilford, Halifax, Wayne, Cum berland, Pender and Robeson each have over a million dollars assessment from this source. New Hanover is eighteenth in the list. Charlotte Clerk Won Prize. The prize of a week's stay at the Seashore Hotel, with all expenses paid, offered by the Charlotte News to the most popular lady clerk in the Queen City, to b9 indicated by cou- non votes clipped from the columns of that enterprising afternoon daily, was won by Miss Flora Russell, sales lady for Belk Bros. She received 6.962 votes, while the next highest was 5,441. - Mr. N. A. Carter, of Rayn- ham. N. C, has made arrangements with the Atlantic Coast Line for a big excursion which he proposes to bring from Elrod and points on the South eastern railroad as far as Chadbourn, An Amriiat 16th. The nartv will be taken to Carolina Beach. Oanrrra Ammnns. the Toledo. Ohio, jailor who allowed "Topeka Joe" and v,io naia tn ASftAnA. and who was ar rested by the Federal authorities, had a honi-ini? and was bound over to court. GOV. AYCOCK'S SON. Physician's Say There is No Hope for Re coveryLewis Council's Case. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 2. Col. Pear- Ball, private secretary, has received a letter from Governor Ay cock, at Wilson, stating that physicians say there is no hope for ; the recovery of his son, Charles B. Ay cock, Jr. Announcement was made at the executive office to-night that the Gov ernor will not interfere further with the death sentence of Louis Council, for outrage on Mrs. West. Council has been respited three times, but is to hang, sure, August twelfth. TRUCK FARMING IN THE U. S. Report of the Department of Agriculture Reviewing the Qeneral Growth of the Industry. By Telegraph to the Morninu ftta Washington, Aug. 3 Tn- Agri cultural Department is preparing to publish an exhaustive report by Ed ward G. Warde, Jr., and ElwarJ 3. Holmes, on truck farming aud the transportation of fruits and vegetables in the United States Tre report covers the following points. 1 A description of the transporta tion of fruits and vegetables from Southern truck farms to Northern markets 2. A description of the California fruit industry and the movement of California fruits to interior points and Atlantic seaboard cities. 3. Freight rates and refrigerator charges on perishable products in all important sections of the country. Keviewine the general growth of these inteiests the report says: "Truck larmine in the United States has been recognized as a distinct agri cultural industry for a period of about forty years. The increasing popula tion of the cities and a consequent de mand for a great quantity and larger variety of vegetables at all seasons of the year, the changed conditions and the surplus of labor in the South after the close of the civil war, and the building of many thousands of miles of railway, have given this industry an impetus which has caused it to de velop with remarkable activity, and large areas throughout the entire country are now devoted almost ex: clusively to the growing of what is known as garden truck. This is es pecially true of all Southern States, where from late Winter until early Autumn thousands and thousands of acres are under cultivation to supply Northern markets with fruits and vegetables, there being hardly a Northern city of any size which is nob- receiving its out-oi-3eason garden truck. The Southern planter has made new use of his farms. Many of the improved facilities which have been adopted by the freight departments of our railroads are directly attributable to the hand ling of perishable agricultural pro ducts. Routes have been shortens through schedules adopted, moti power increased, better refrigeration, speed and quick delivery. Railroads are enabled to place the truck in the Northern markets in as good condition as when it left the Southern farm, even when it necessitates a journey of many hundreds of miles. Such a thing as a particular season for any kind of vegetable in our prin cipal markets is at this time practically unknown, and it is now possible to draw upon the ditferent sections or the country and receive at any season of the year nearly all the standard vari eties of vegetables. In .the late Au tumn and early Spring, Florida and the Southern States furnish the supply for the Northern markets, until the advancing season (which moves north ward at the rate of about fifteen miles a day) matures the crops through, the Eastern and central States-; theseStates supply the midsummer markets until the frosts of winter once more' compel the return to the South, where a fresh crop is at the command of the mar ket." ONr MAN DROWNED. Party of Bathers Caught In the Under. tow at St Augustine Pour Were Rescued. By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. St.Atjgustine, Fla., Aug. 3. Alparty of prominent people from this city were in bathing at South Beachthis af ternoon. Five of them, Major J. W. Sackett. J. W. Adams. H. B.Woodard Mrs. Sackett and Miss Florence Wood were caught in the under tow beyond the breakers. By the assistance of a number of people in the surf and on the beach four were rescued, some of them exhausted and unconscious. J. W. Adams was drowned. . The party of five were in a group when the undertow took them off their feet. Calls for help were heard by the bathers but at first no one could reach them. Finally a life line was taken out by an expert swimmer who managed to get it to all. When the strain was put on it the line broke and the party was again taken further out to sea. The line was carried out the second time. Mr. Woodard. who was by this time utterly exhausted, was pulled out by having the line tied to mm. ay this time no trace of Mr. Adams oould be found as his drowned body had sunk. The drowned man was an Englishman. 40 vears of age. and claim clerk in the freight department of the East Florida railroad, ms relatives live in New York and Philadelphia. RAIN IN NEBRASKA. Claimed to be Result of Piring Gunpowder in the Air. y TelesrraDh to the Mornlnir Star Lincoln. Neb.. 'Aug. 3. Lincoln and a greater part of the State have experienced a drop in the temperature of forty-one degrees within the past thirty-eight hours, in tne same dis tricts there were intermittent showers during the day and evening, amount ing to a heavy fall in tne nortneasi part of the State. For the local pre cipitation, w, 11. wngni, wno nas been firing gunpowder into tne air ior forty-eight hours, claims all the credit He says the rain came in airect oppo sition to natural conditions and in the face of contrary predictions of the Washington forecaster. He will, he says, continue his efforts, if necessary, on a larger scale. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Elizabeth; City Economist-. At the time of the drowning on the sea at Nag's Head on Friday a fishing boat in the sound was capsized and all the men on it were drowned. Mr. Whed bee, of Hertford, was one of them. The names of the others we have not learned. Sanford Express: One of Moore's oldest inhabitants says there has not been Such succession of thun der storms and freshets since 1867. Nat Clark who was recently cap tured at his illicit distillery near Cen tre Union church, brought to this place and given a preliminary hearing and in default of bond sent to jail at Carthage, succeeded in making, his es cape on Wednesday night of last week. some one from the outside handed mm a crow bar with which he broke out of jail. Smithfield Herald: The Smith field Cotton Mills are now ready to be gin operation. The force of operatives are now arriving and the mill will startup on full time Monday, Mr. J: T. Barham showed us a stalk of cotton yesterday morning which meas ured 5J feet high. It was well limb d and filled with squares and bolls. It was taken from the field of Messrs. W. L Fuller and J. T. Barham, of near town. They have fifteen acres that will average as good as the stalk shown us. The rows which are four feet apart now lap throughout the field. If nothing happens to retard its growth from now on they confidently expect 25 500-pound bales off of the fifteen acres. It is perhaps the best field of cotton in this section of the State. Scotland Neck Commonwealth'. .At 1 o'lock last Monday morning the store house occupied by W. H. Rac dolpl & Co , Tillery, was burned with all its contents. The editor of the Commonwealth called upon Mr. P. C. Gregory Monday to learn the particu lars of the fire and the losses. Mr. Gregory says that his stock of goods was worth anywhere from $13,000 to to $15,000, His insurance was only $4,500, and he thinks that the loss above his insurance is $9,000. While the origin of the fire, was mysterious Mr. Gregory sees no reason for con cluding it was the work of an incen diary but thinks it was accidental. He, with three other young men, Messrs. C. W. Gregory, Jack Jones and Ernest Lawrence, was sleeping in an upper room in the building. Newton Enterprise: The. pros pects are now very good for a $20,000 furniture factory in Newton. The hot weather the last two weeks has made a wonderful change in the cot ton fields. Some say the cotton has about caught up, and will start outin August almost on schedule time. Policeman P. P. Jones, of Hickory, brought to jail Monday afternoon two negroes, named Ed and Will Watts,, for burglarizing the house of Mr. A. D. Hutton. Mr. Hutton discovered Saturday that his house had been en tered at the window during his ab sence North and a great deal of cloth ing and other things stolen. He met one of the negiroes Monday morning with some of the clothes on. He was arrested and confessed that he and his brc ther were the guilty parties. Monroe Enquirer: Corn which was plan ed about the first of Jul v, and there was a great deal of it plant ed in the section about tbat lime, has made most remarkable growth. Mr. J. W. Cbaney, of east Monroe town ship has corn which measured 2i feet in height four weeks from the day it was planted. Mr. 8 A. Lathan, of Buford, township has been troubled with snakes, the water moccasin spec ies, in the box at his spring where he keeps his milk and butter in the sum mer time. Mr. Lathan says that hund reds of young moccasins have been killed near that box within the past eight years A few days ago Mr. Lathan killed what he thinks was the mother of all the young . moccasins around his spring. The old snake weighed four and one-half pounds and with her there were eighty-one young snakes. Greensboro Telegram: Mr. Wal ter Greene, the newly elected keeper of the Greene Hill Cemetery, was in the city this morning and left at the Telegram office a sample of the "Bag Worm," an insect that is destroying all the arbor vitse trees in the ceme tery. The bag worm is a worm whose home is carried about in something of the same fashion in which a terrapin carries his habitation with him. The worm itself is a small bodied creature. The home consists of a small bunch of what at first sight appears to be a dead bunch of the tree itself. But as soon as the worm mints no one is watcn ing, out comes his head and then fol lows about an inch of body and the worm is ready for business. After destroying that portion of the tree that he can reach, he crawls along, dragging behind him his abode. Shak ing the trees does not cause him to fall off, for the minute he feels a motion he clings lightly to whatever is near est, and awaits the cessation of the motion. VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA. L. S Government Will Take No Action to Protect American Interests. By Telegraph to the Morning; Star. Washington, July 3. It is stated upon authority to-night that unless the Venezuelan-Colombian imbroglio grows more serious, no measures be yond those already taken will be in stituted to protect American interests in that section. For the present at any rate, the government will content itself with maintaining close scrutiny of events. The most recent informa -tion leads to the conclusion that the trouble will be short-lived and it is not believed in official circles that American interest are liable to suffer. For this reason, and also because no vessel is available for the purpose, no effort will be made to make any naval demonstration on behalf of the United States in the waters of Venezuela and Colombia. TRAGEDY AT TAMPA. Italian Shot and Killed His Wffe Mur derer Gave Himself Up. By Telegraph to the Hornlns Star. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 2. Antonetto Castellano declared that she was going visiting this afternoon, and Leopoldo Castellano, her husband, told her not to go. She started and when about twenty feet from the house he shot her dead. The murderer fired two shots, both of which took effect in the back of her head and either would have produced death. The shooting occurred on Eighth avenue, in the Italian settlement, both being of that race. Castellano made his escape im mediately after the shooting, bat at 7 o'clock this afternoon he walked into the police station and said he wanted to give himself up for killing his wife. NEITHER WOULD CONCEDE A POINT. Officials of the Big Steel Trust and the Strikers Fail to Reach Agreement. RENEWAL OF THE STRUGGLE. Conference of Officials With Officers of the Amalgamated Association Steel Trusts' Ultimatum A Counter Proposition by Strikers. By Telegraph to the Hornlns Bi&t New York, August 3. Another effort to perfect a permanent truce between the great army of steel work ers and the giant corporation which employs them has failed and to-night the conflicting sides are as sharply and widely divided as ever. The lead ers on either side met here again this morning and after a day of fruitless conference and discussion parted in a spirit thai shows no tinge Of concili ation. Neither side would surrender a position or concede a point in the dispute in which they are involved and present indications point to a re newal with vigor of the struggle. The first conference of the day was between President Shaffer and twelve of bis associates on the executive board of the Amalgamated Associa tion, and a group of officials of the United States Steel Corporation, head ed by J. P. Morgan and President Charles M. Schwab. At the end of an hour the conferees parted, having failed to reached an agreement. The second conference was participated in only by the officials of the Amalgama ted Association. It was a secret ses sion, lasting for over two hours, at the close of which the following statement was eiven to the press: "We, the members of the executive board of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, considering it incumbent upon us to enlighten the public through the press, with reference to the present relations between our association and the United States Steel Corporation, pre sent the following statement: Steel Trusts' Ultimatum. "The officials of the United States Steel Corporation, instead of resuming negotiations where they were suspend ed at the conference held on July 1, 12 and 13, have withdrawn the propo sitions made at that time and are now offering much less than they agreed to sign for then. The following is the proposition which the United States Steel Corporation gave us to-day as its ultimatum: "It will be observed that the pre amble states simply that the United States Steel Corporation officials will advise settlement by the underlined companies : "Preamble, conditions under which we are willing to advise a settlement of the labor difficulties : " 'Tin Plate Company Should pro ceed under the contract signed with the Amalgamated Association as of July 1st, 190i: " 'American Steel Hoop Company Company should sign the scale for all the mills owned by the American Steel Hoop Company that were signed for last year. " 'American Sheet Steel Company Company should sign the scale for all the mills of this company that were signed for last year except the old Meadow mill and the Saltsburg mill.'" The Strikers' Proposition. "We desire to preface our proposi tion by directing attention to the fact that it is a modification of that which was offered originally. At the last conference, as at those preceding it, we required the signature of the scale for all the mills owned and operated by the United States Steel Corpora tion, while in the proposition given below we ask that the scale be signed for none but those mills which are or ganized and where the men ceasing to work have signified their desire to be connected with the Amalgamated As sociation. "This modification has been made bscause the trust officials declared that we wished to force men into the organ ization against their will and desire. We, therefore, asked that the scale be signed for only those men who desire it. "Now comes the proposition of the Amalgamated Association: "We, the members of the executive board of the Amalgamated . Associa tion, hereby present this proposition as a reply to that received from the steel corporation : "Sheet mills All mills signed for last year, with the exception of -Baits-burg and Scottdale and with the ad dition of McKeesport and Wellsville. "Hoop mills All mills now known to be organized, viz: Youngstown, Girard, Greenville, Pomeroy, Warren, Lindsay, McCutcheon, Clark, Bar mill, Monessen, Mingo, 12-inch, 9-Inch, and hoop mills of the Cleveland roll ing mill company. "Tin Mill All mills except Mones sen. ' s," "Note All other matters of detail to be left for settlement by conference. "We furthermore wish to state that our purpose in coming to New York was not because we aouDtea our presi dent, T. J. Shaffer, and our secretary, John Williams, who have our confi dence and endorsement, but in the hope of obtaining a settlement of the strike." The Conference. 'The meeting between the representa tives of the strikers and the officials of the Steel Corporation was arranged by telegraph last night and sprang from a mutual desire for peace. President Shaffer and his brother officers of the Amalgamated Association left Pitts burg to-night and reached New York at 8 o'clock this morning. They parted at the ferry to meet again at 10,30 o'clock at the office of the U. S. Steel Corporation, the hour and place ap pointed for the conference. President Schwab, of the Steel Company, re ceived the representatives of labor and conducted them to the consulting rooms of the directorate. J. P. Mor gan came to the conference, 'ac companied by Robert Bacon, one of his local partners, and C. E. Dawkins, head of the English house of Mbrgan &Co.. D. G. Reed, of the American Tin Plate Company, and other officials of the other companies of the federated general steel corpor ation also joined the conference, and it was some time after the time first appointed that the conference was formally opened. Mr. Schwab spoke first for the employers and was follow ed by Mr. Morgan. They declined to make any modification of the terms offered by them just one week ago, rhen Messrs. Shaffer rand Williams lourneyed here for the first confer ence.' 1 - ' Asked More Liberal Terms ' Mr. Shaffer and the other men of the Amalgamated Association insisted that more liberal terms be offered to them. There was a general discus sion a to the whole proposition in volved and each mill, the unionization of which has been disputed, was con sidered in detail. When either side had fully expressed itself, . the steel officials withdrew from the room in order to let the labor representa tives confer privately. ,Th latter de cided to reject the offer of the steel corporation, and when Mr. Schwab returned to the room so informed him. ' Mr. Morgan and his two oart- lers withdrew almost at once, and a ' little later the Amalgamated men took their leave also. The latter went at once io the Stevens House, and after a hasty lunch went into executive ses sion. It was 2 o'clock wheu their meeting began and 4:15 o'clock when President Shaffer came down into the lobby and announced that they had concluded their work here and would leave at once for their homes. Presi- tleni Shaffer declined to say a word in audition to the formal statement which was given out by Secretary Williams, and his companions were equally reti cent. Shaffer asked that the statement be printed in full, saying that the strikers wished the public to understand their position. Not an intimation of the future policy of the Amalgamated As sociation in waging the great indus trial battle which it faces, could be ob tained from any member of the party. -Shaffer seemed grave and serious de spite the vindication which his com panions gave him in their official state ment, while the other 'Amalgamated men seemed in very high spirits, Shaf fer paid the bill for the party at the. hotel and left, saying he intended to take the first train to Pittsburg. Immediate Action Expected. When the Amalgamated men left him President Schwab went at once to . the office of J. P. Morgan and had a talk with Mr. Bacon. He went home early in the afternoon as did all the otner men wno represented tne cor poration in the final debate on the issues which divided them and their men. No statement in behalf of the steel corporation was made and none of its representatives wonld talk for publication. It is believed here that there will be immediate ac tion from both sides, the expectation being that the steel corporation will attempt the operation of some of its mills independent of the union, and that the Amalgamated Association will call upon those in sympathy with them to strike. If there are no further efforts at conciliation and the strike is extended, it may develop into the largest conflict of the kind in the his tory of the country. Figures lat this r time as to the number of men and . properties that would be involved are ' pronounced unreliable by conservative men who know the trade, because many of the claims of strength put forward on either side are disputed and can be tested only in actual conflict. IT WILL BE A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. Between tbe Big Steel Trust and Members of the Amalgamated Association No Quarter Will be Given. ay TeleKraph to the Memina Btar. Pittsburg, Aug. 3 "It will be a fight to a finish. No quarter will be given. We are prepared to spend all the money and time necessary to wipe out the Amalgamated Association In all of -our mills." This was the message that came over tbe wire from New York to local offi cials of the United States Steel Corpor ation this afternoon. The officials were waiting long after the usual Saturday afternoon closing hour to get word of the conference in New York between the executive board of the Amalgamated Association and the general officers of the big trust. Two' messages came. The first stated that the conference had adjourned between the workers and Mr. Morgan after re ceiving his ultimate decision in the matter in dispute. The second message contained the statement also that appears above. Some of the officials heard the message with misgivings; others with uncon cealed satisfaction. One of the offi cials left his. office declaring that he was glad of it. The fight would surely be carried to a finish and the corpora tion would once and for all be freed of the influence of the union men. At the headquarters of the Amal gamated Association few were about. The only regret heard among the strikers who were about, was that President Shaffer had temporized with the trust officials so long. While the workers are themselves ignorant of the general plans of the officials of the or ganization regarding the extension of the strike throughout the union mills of the trust, they are confident, how ever, that the general strike order will be issued in a short time. That the officials of the United States Steel Corporation have been1 preparing for this battle was made apparent dur ing this afternoon. It was learned on the best authority that an attempt is to be made at once to break the strike by the importation of non-union men in to all the idle mills. Une or tne offi cials of the companies now involved said so far as furnishing skilled men for the idle plants was concerned, it is only necessary to distribute the skilled workers in the present non-union mills in all the plants and make them gener al instructors of green hands to soon , develop more of this class of trades men. 4 . - PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS. Regulations for the Mounted Patrol Which the Chinese Propose to Establish in Disturbed Districts. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Washington, Aug. 3. The State Department has received through Mr. Squires, secretary of legation at Pekin, a note from Li Hung Chang, describe ine the regulations for the control of the mounted patrol, which it is pro posed to establish along the road ben tweenChing Ting and Pao Ting Ftl. Mr. Squires says this is tne nrsi step on the part of the Chinese authorities to ward the protection of foreigners trav- elline through the disturbed districts .i ai... as mw.A rn,K OX VllC prOViavea ui uu KJ. auu vuu LL The regulations are quaintly ex- J tressed, but in substance they provide or the establishment of military posts at nine stations on the road, the com manders of which are to furnish es corts for travellers. The escort is to keep within twelve feet of the trav-' eller. whose pace must set theirs. It is to disperse people who gather about the traveller and are boisterous, and its members are not to accept any pay from a traveller under pain of dismis- saL A post will be forwarded . every two days. A Berlin telegram says the end of Dowager Empress Frederick is expect ed at any moment Professor Ren vers. who was suddenly canea, nas arrived at Friedrichshof. - x ' I,
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Aug. 9, 1901, edition 1
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