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05518 VOL. XXXII. . . WTT.MTNaThM TVJ P. T7PTHAV ATTmTCTlfi mm . Tf io ! " : . . I PUBLISHED XT . WILMINGTON. N. C, Si. 00 ft uYEUR IN ADVANCE. .ijiuom si I 88S8S388888888888 888888888888? 8888 I s 0 a m m V S : I; "A S : 888888ffS888888lI 8888888888888888 , 8S8888l8HHf8lla 88888858828888888 8S88S88SS8888llIf o.a8 WM,.,os.5S;35a8a883 "V 88888888888888888 a - a r Si : : -. 'it. ; . - X ' - a 5 et l at the Poet Office at ilmtnoa. N Second Oaa la-ter.l C, SUBSCRIPTION P-MCE. -4y 8ter It m The ctscription price of the Wt (oil. w ; Sinsle Copy 1 year, pottage paid , o moDini " " S montht " ...11 00 00 80 A MAN OF SENSE AND TWO FOOLS :y , The negro editors held their con vention in Philadelphia last week, and ;i3 usual on such occasions a good m.injr questions were discussed and spooches made. Among the (luestions discussed was lynching, especially in the South. The two most prominent speakers on this subject were W. A. Pledger, editor of the Atlanta Age, and Thomas Fortune, who edits a paper in New York. They both haB the reputa tion of being bright. Fortune is, we think, of . mixed blood; as to Pledger we do not know, but they are both cheeky and tonguey, and at long range saucy, whatever "the blood mixture may be. They" warmed up on lynching, and came to the conclusion that it should be stopped at once, and that the negro was the fellow to stop it. (They were right in that, although they didn't pro pose the right way to do it). Edi tor. Pledger is quoted as saying: "I believe in the lranimigrtion of souls. It will not be long I believe I will live to see the day before the . soul of Ben Tillman will be wander ing thrnugh the streets in the body of a suck egg doe, with no one to throw ; him :i crust of bread to eat The dol i lar and cold steel are the things the white man respects. Many of them are afrxid to lynch us where they know the black man is standing be hind his door with a Winchester. But' they arri'stua, and then attack us de fenceless in jail and lynch u." The weither was warm up in Philadelphia about that time, which may possibly account, in part at least, for tho ardor of these remarks but it wouldn't do violence to the the probabilities to remark that if the temperature of the weather had, been several degrees warmer, and that meeting had taken place in Atlanta, Editor Pledger would not hare indulged in precisely this kind of speech. Editor Fortune's solution was as follows: "bad nigger to this, but he is "We. have cringed and crawled lone enough. I don't want any more good niggers I want bad niggers. It's the bid nieger with a Winchester who can defend his home and children and wife." At x vi iiuue to a give such advice as not bad enough to come South and show the other "bad niggers" how to manipulate those Winchesters. Ue prefers to tell them what they ought to do at long range, and if thy should follow his advice and get into trouble he would remain at long and very long range. Fortune has been talking somewhat in this strain for some time, but this is the firatr time that he has openly ex pressed a preference for the "bad nigger" as the best kind of nigger. But fortunately for the negroes of the country all their, spokesmen or colored advisers are not like these - two.- Henry P. Cheatham, formerly of thi3 State, but now Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, was interviewed by a representative of the Washington Post, who show- . ed him these quoted utterances and asked his opinion about them, when he replied: . ' . "I am' afraid my brethren are be coming unduly excited. Fortune and Pldger are hardly the men to make se diteous harangues. They are too tal ented and know too much to make such well, say inconsiderate remarks. I am inclined to believe they have been misquoted If they haven't, they must have had a very hot debate up there, and in the very hottest part of it these words slipped out unawares. - "But be that as it may, I want to ay most emphatically that I want lo have no part in this new doctrine of the 'bad nigger and the Winchester.' that combination has caused too much trouble already. Don't understand me w uphold lynching. It is greatly to w deplored, as all crime is. no matter 7 whom committed or where, 0f what the crime is. All law ' Jessoess is to be condemned by the slacks as well as by the whites. But nile that is true, it affords no excuse J01" inciting to crime to check one 'orm of lawlessness. Lynching is no aaon for the general arming of the neero. it would lead to most serious Rouble, and it would be the very wont thing for the negro himself. I unot bring myself to believe that ,ch ruen as Pledger and Fortune. "nom I know to be cool and consid te men, could in all seriousness advice" Rb danKerous and mischievous "Another thing, there is apparently "ason for any such stringent measures. There Is no race conflict. ii'Wtes and the blacks are getting th. ther 7 well all through SStt6 PyaUing friendly rela- uiuro me constanly improv ing industrial conditions, retard pro gress and check the growing devel opment of the negror tpray not, and never shall my voice be raised in sup port of any auch short-sightedness and foolish policy as that reported to have been enunciated by my brethren in Philadelphia. "Who are the white people of the So"1 Are they the men who take part in the lynching or are they the men who are sent to Congress, who are elected governors, the men who nave taken hold of affairs in the 8outh - Hiving it me impetus mat is carrying it on tor a future that our forefathers never dreamed oft Are the lynchers the oeonle of the flnnth or Are the merchants, the farmers, the manufacturers, the doctors and the lawyers, the representatives of the pro verbial Southern chivalry and refine ment? The white people of the South are among the best people on earth. Take them right there in Alabama, where they had the lynching only the other day, and you will find them warm-hearted, chivalrous, and the best friend the negro has. Let Pledger speak for himself. He- knows.- The oesi iriends he has.in the Sonth are white people. He has told me so him self. Fortune knows it, too. ."No, I can t think lhat ntv brethren I meant to incite any insurrection or to KUYine me general arminsr 01 tne ne gro. Their remarks were brought out oy tne neat 01 some debate, and if made, as reported, are not to be taken seriously." m-i a, ' ... xjteu on tne wnoie this is in striking contrast to the fool utter ances of those two. rattle-brain edi tors and is in the spirit spoken sen sibly, and shows that Cheatham does his thinking before he talks and not afterwards, as is the case generally with impulsive firebrands of the Pledger, Fortune type, if they be correctly quoted. He real izes the fact that if the "bad nig gers" had acted upon the advice of these two editors there would be fewer "bad niggers", and it . would be much worse for the good ones for some of these might possibly: suffer for the deeds of the had ones in the event of collision that made excite ment general. Cheatham says to the Post report er what Booker Washington and other well wishers, and true guides of their race have told the negroes for years that there is really no race conflict, that the only conflict is between the "bad nigger", the law less and the bestial nigger, and the white man. He reiterates what Booker Washington has so often said, that the best mend oi the negro, the good, self-respecting, law-abiding and ' deserving negro,- is ' the Southern white man. That kind of a negro never has and never -will look in vain in the South for men to befriend him .and to stand between him and injustice or oppression when these are attempted. During the "revolution" in this city in 1893 that kind of negroes felt as safe from harm as white men were, and where they had occasion to be on the streets they were es corted to their homes by white men if there was any apprehension that harm might come to them. In all the excitement no good negro was hurt," nor was it intended to hurt any such. If any but bad negroes were hurt it was by accident. But we haven't heard of any accidents of that kind. Possiblv in the lvnchings in the South some innocent negro may have paid the penalty of another's crime, but if so such cases have been very rare. It has never yet been shown where a respectable, law-abiding negro has suffered from the mob, and that can't be said of the North, where so many of the negro's professed friends abide. " It is the misfortune oi the negroes of the country that they have any of the Fortune, Pledger stripe among them, and that they heaven't more of the other kind. BECOMING DESPERATE. Yesterday we called attention to the advocacy by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain in the House of Com mons of arming the negroes in South Africa to fight the Boers. That was an admission of the des perate straits to which the British have been reduced, and Ihia is fol lowed up by a proclamation from Gen. Kitchener notifying the Boer leaders or commanders who do not lay down their arms and surrender by September 15th that they will be "permanently banished." This is an other confession of desperate straits. Kitchener has under his command fully 200,000 men, while the Boers at the outside have not more than 15, 000, if so many, which is very doubtful. It is useless to plead in justifica tion of such measures as Kitchener has adopted, and this last one, that the war in South Africa has degen erated into a "guerilla" .war: It is now more a guerilla war than it ever was. The armies are simply small er, that is all; smaller from the fact that the larger armies have been broken up by superior numbers and superior resources and fighting in 8 mailer bodies became a necessity. The Boers are not rebels, England never exercised sovereignty over them and consequently England has no right to banish them permanent ly. She might deport them tem porarily as she didfGen. Cronje and his captured armyj and put them 1 11 ii Fit , wnere tney tney coma oe most easi ly and securely guarded and cared for, but she has no right to perma nently banish them. Annexing the two Republics by proclamation of Gen. Roberts did not make them British territory nor British subjects, therefore they nev er were and are not now rebels against England but are fighting for their country and their firesides, and as heroiclly fighting as any fighter for liberty or against invasion ever fought. As Gen. Kitchener issued this proclamation on the mandate of the "home Government this becomes a part of the Government policy against the Boers. Perhaps it may have a contrary effect from that in tended and instead of intimidating the Boers leaders make them more determined and at the same time give governments which sympathize with the Boer grounds for interven tion, at least of a friendly character, about all the Boers have expected for some time. Some of the Euro pean papers denounce this procla mation as a violation of interna tional law, and this may , result in arousing popular sympathy to such an extent in some of the European countries as to bring power to bear on the Governments that may result in some action to bring this cruel and barbarous war to an end. CORPORATION COMMISSION. CRIMINAt ASSAULT ATTEMPT SPIRITS TURPENTINE. New Cotton Rate On All Railroads Effec tive October First Standard Freight and Passenger Rates. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh.N. O., Aug. 8. The Corpo ration Commission to-day issued an order making the standard rate on cotton applicable to all railroads in the State and the standard freight and passenger rates on the main lines ap plicable to the entire system, inclu ding branch lines. The question of applying standard rates to the South ern's branch lines was continued, owing to their expense of operation and reduced ear nine- canacitr in mountain districts. The new cotton rate is for bale ship ments and is effective October 1st. It makes quite a reduction on branch lines. The new rate on'the Carolina Central, of the Seaboard Air Line, makes a reduction of 25 per cent' The reduction on the Raleigh and Augusta is IS per cent, and on branch lines of the Southern 15 per cent. s CASE OF LOUIS COUNCIL. Again Respited Until November 1st The a. and M. College Order Issued by the Corporation Commission. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 9. Governor Ay cock has again respited Louia Coun cil, the negro under sentence to be hanged August twelfth; this time un til November 1. This is the fourth re spite since the original sentence to hang June 22. It is granted for the reason that Justice Douglass, of the Supreme Court, has ordered a new trial on the strength of evidence submitted by ex-Judge Bryan. Prof. Thomas M. Dick, of Brooklyn, has accepted the chair of mechanical engineering in the A. and M. College. He is an honor graduate in the me chanical engineering department of the Naval Academy, Annapolis. The Corporation Commission issued an order to-day that standard freight and passenger rates apply on all lines of the Southern Railroad in the State. Charge Upon Which Henry tiobbs Was Held Yesterday for the Higher Court. 1 Conflicting Evidence Henry Hobbs, white, whose. arrest upon the charge of an assault with criminal intent upon Mrs. Eph- raim Dale, was noted in yesterday's Stab, was held for the higher count in the sum of $200 by Mayor pro tern. West yesterday morning. He failed to give the bond and went to jail for trial at the Superior court next week. ir i . ... elodds was represented at the pre liminary hearing by Herbert McClam- my, Esq., and City Attorney Bellamy appeared for the prosecution. The evidence of Dale and .his wife as to the occurrence was directly opposed to that of Hobbs and his wife and vice versa. The attempted assault is said to have taken place at the home of Dale, after ha and wife had retired and gone to sleep for the night Mrs. Dale awoke her husband by screaming, and he quickly lighted a match and in quired of Hobbs as to his presence there. Hobbs replied that he had made a mistake and en tered the wrong house, whereupon he made his exit. Dale then went to the police station and swore out the war rant for Hobbs' arrest. ' Hobbs, at the trial, denied being at the house and proved an absolute alibi by his wife. Several other wit nesses testified as to the intoxicated condition of Hobbs, but Hobbs denied tw-ing under the influence of liquor. The evidence is very conflicting and the trial will no doubt be a hard fought one. NEQRO JUMPED AND WAS KILLED. There has been an increase of 163 per cent, in tne manufactories oi Florida in the past ten years. There were in 1900 2,115 manufacturing' plants, with a capital of $34,473,' 997, an increase of 210 per cent. over 1880. MOORE'S CREEK BATTLEFIELD. Annual Meeting of the Monumental Asso elation This Week Officers Elected. Special Star Correspondence.' Point Caswell, N. C, Aug. 9th. Yesterday having been the day for the annual meeting of the Moore's Creek Monumental Association, at the regular hour appointed a large num ber of the onicers and members of the Association gathered in the pavilion and discussed matters pertaining to the preserving of the battle ground. Uwing to the general bad crops in thu section it was deemed wise not to hold a celebration this year. The financial condition of the Association is in good shape and while it feels dis appointed that our Congressman, Hon. J. D. Bellamy, failed to get the bill of appropriation of $5,000 through the House, yet the public appreciates his efforts as much in his failure as they do the success of Hon. Marion But ler for his having the bill passed in the Senate. The Association feels sure that our representatives will suc ceed in getting the appropriation, at the next Congress with which we will be enabled to beautify and improve the grounds, The entire board of offi cers were re-elected for the next year. as follows: Jas P. Moore, president; R. P. Paddison, secretary; Aaron Colvin, first vice president; Dr. E. Porter, chairman board of directors. When the wages of the operatives . -mar it i i 11 in' the Massachusetts cotton muis are reduced 15 per cent, as pro posed, they will probably conclude that the "wave of prosperity" has hit them with the wrong end. DEATH OP CHARLIE AYCOCK, JR. Because the weather was so hot a New Jersey jury cut a case short by decidiner it bv lottery. Slips of paper some with the word "guilty,3 others with the words "not guilty,' written upon them were placed be tween the leaves of a book. The foreman did the drawing, and the first draw was "guilty," and the verdict was rendered accordingly. The counsel for the convicted man, who was charged with larceny, heard of it, and are making it as hot for the jury as the weather was. A Colesburg, Ky., man has had to give up trying to raise chickens because his horse has contracted an anrjetite for chicken meat and eats . . . up all the chickens that come with in his reach, feathers and all. Last Snndav he cot awav with . a brood S3 ef of fourteen at one meal. Mr. A. B. Cummins, formerly of Pennsylvania, is the Republican nominee for Governor of Iowa. As Iowa is a pretty safe Republican State Mr. Cummins doubtless looks upon himself as the cumin' man. The Atlanta Journal is fond of the girls. It Bent twenty-one of Georgia's daisies on a free trip to o the Buffalo Exposition yesterday, Governor's Little Son Died at Wilson at 4:30 O'clock Yesterday Morning. Special Star Correspondence. Wilson, N, C, August 10. Charles B. Aycock, Jr., son of Governor Ay- cock, died in the Wilson Sanatorium this morning at half-past 6 o'clock. The funeral will take place here to- morrow'evening at 5 o'clock. The sympathies of our entire com- munitv sco out to the Governor and his sorrowing family in their sore be ' reavement and great loss. Unknown Colored Msn Leaped to Death From Flying Passenger Train. Wednesday evening just before north bound passenger train No. 40 on the A. C. L., reached Warsaw an un known negro leaped from the baggage car of the swiftly moving train and was instantly killed, his neck having been broken against a whistle post standing on the right of way. After the train left Magnolia Bag gage Master Branch discovered the presence of two negroes on what is commonly known as the "blind bag gage," at the head of the mail car. He west through the train and brought the negroes into the baggage car to collect their fare or put them off at the next station Warsaw. One of the negroes did not like the idea of pacing fare or being put off, as the cue might have been, and made a leap before he could be restrained, out the side door of tbe car, with the consequences related. Capt. Haywood Clark, in charge of the train, stopped at the first section house on the road and the section master went back and found the life less form of the negro. Lieut. Bradley J. Wootten. Pending an assignment to the cav alry service in Cuba, Lieutenant Brad. ley J. Wootten has been ordered to report at once to Fort Caswell for temporary duty. Lieut Wootten and bride have returned from their bridal tour to Blowing Bock and Mrs. Woot ten will be at home for the present at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George P. Cotchett on Market street. Lieutenant Hollyday, who has been transferred from Fort Howard, Maryland, to the 38th company at Cas well, was here yesterday and left in the afternoon for the fort He was the -guest while in the city of Lieut Woot ten. Mrs. W. F. Williams Bereaved. The numerous friends in Wilming ton of Mrs. Emma G. Williams, wife of Mr. W. Frank Williams, of Ports mouth. Va., will regret to know of the death of ber father, Mr. W. L Eddins, of Charlotte, N. C, which oc curred on the 3rd inst, at the age of 80 years and 9 months. Mr. Eddins was a man of many noble traits, pure in character. He died of pleuropneu monia. Sanford Ezbresa: There has been too much rain during the past few days for crops. There is too much sap in corn and cotton, and it looks as if the latter would all 'run to weed. Lumberton Rolesonian: The returns show an increase in the valua tion of property in Lumberton town ship of about 1100,000 over last year. The income tax shows an increase from $18,500 to 100,800. , . . . Tarboro SeutherneriTXeaT Wil son, Reuben White, colored,- was bit ten oy William Liangley's dog, near Langley's home. He swore he would kill the dog. ' Langley's son said if White did so he would be a dead man White went to Langley's and attacked the latter, who seized a club . to fell him, but Langley's'son ran up with a revolver and shot White dead. Liang' ley is in jail. Scotland Neck Commonwealth: You may say that I am 73 years old and I have never seen better crop prospects in this region in my life," said Dr. M. T. Savage a few .days ago. He says cotton is especially fine, pea nuts are good and tobacco is good. Corn is good, he said, where the land is strong and it has -been worked. Travelling men have said here that the crops in this community are the best they have seen in this part of the state. Faison Journal: The bored well at Dr. Seawell's residence is quite a marvelous curiosity. It is about 35 feet deep and the noise com ing through the two inch pipe, can be heard fifty feet away. There is no doubt, and under-ground stream, be low or near by the pipe, and the noise is caused by the gas escaping. The sound when the ear is placed near the pipe is like the wages striking the banks of a river. The air is so strong through the pipe that an apple will turn about when placed over it. Dr. Sewall is going to continue boring this well. Carthage Blade: "Mr. George Hutchinson, a resident of Southern Pines and a Northerner, while out on a prospecting trip in the northern part of Moore county, in the vicinity of Carbin and Bear creeks, picked up a nugget of gold and carried it to the place where he was stopping for a few days, Capt Thomas Brown's, where Mr. Brown weighed it It weighed four pounds avoirdupois. Capt Brown says he never saw anything like it before. The Yankee will not say just where he got it but somewhere near Bear creek and thinks it washed out of the hill near by and thinks there must be more of the same. Wadesboro Messenger-Intelli gencer: A terrible tragedy marked the close of the big educational rally at Ellerbe Springs last Saturday. The people from far and near had gathered to listen to speeches by Gen. Toon, State Superintendent and others, and everything went merry as a marriage bell until a dispute arose between two young men. Jas. T. Baldwin and Watt Ingram. It seems that Baldwin was dancing with a young lady to whom Ingram had been paying attention, when Ingram stepped up and pulled Baldwin's hat off, remarking, as be did so, that no gentleman would dance with a lady with his hat on. The trouble was not allowed to proceed further at this time, and later it was supposed that the young men had settled the differences and made up. Late in the afternoon Baldwin and In gram left the grounds together. .In gram was riding a mule and Baldwin was walking by the side of the animal with his band on Ingram's leg. At this time, to all appearances, they were perfectly friendly. After going a dis tance of some 300 or 400 yards Ingram pulled bis pistol and shot at Baldwin three times one Tball striking his vic tim, penetrating the heart. ' Baldwin ran about 50 yards and fell in the road and died almost instantly. Ingram made his escape, and has not yet been apprehended, though Sheriff Wright has written Governor Aycock, asking that a reward be offered for bis arrest. No one saw the shooting, though there were quite a number in the immediate neighborhood. Watt Ingram is a na tive of this county, being a son of Mr. Press Ingram, of Ansonville, town ship. He is about 23 years old, and has been living for three or four years in Kichmond county, at the Grassy Is lands, where he wasf conducting a Gov ernment distillery at the time of the tragedy. Baldwin was about 21 years of age and lived in Steel's township, Richmond county. He only recently returned from Mississippi. One of the sights of .Jackson Springs a few days ago was a man who weighs 505 pounds The man's name is John Dawkins and he is 43 years of age. He is hve feet eleven and three quarters inches tall and measures 72 inches around the girth. RECOVERED PART OF - THE STOLEN GOLD. Jack Winters, the Suspect, Confessed and Showed Where He Snnk the Bullion r in the Bay.. " By Teiegrapn to tne Morning Star San Francisco, Aug 10. Jack Winters, who was arrested as a sus pect in connection with the Selby Smelting Works robbery, has confess ed and so far $130,000 worth of bullion has been recovered from the bay where he bad sunk it. . ' : For three days the detectives have tried all sorts of persuasion to make Winters confess, but apparently . with out effect. Finally Winters asked to see Superintendent Ropp of the 8elby works, who, he said, was the only friend he had. In his conversation with Ropp, Winters indicated that he knew where the gold was hidden. Ropp told Winters that they had a strong case against him anjdLthat he wouia oe sent to tne prison lor thirty years. He said: "You will be an old man when you get out and it will do you no good to hide the gold. We know it is hidden in the water near the works and we will search every inch. You may be sure the gold will be found before you get out of prison." Winters finally weakened and told Ropp that he had taken the gold and would take him to tbe spot where it was hidden. Winters, in company with Superintendent Ropp and a force of detectives left on a tug last night for Urockett. There they waited all night for low tide. ' Winters pointed out the place at the end of the railroad wharf, behind the coal bunkers, at the head of the Vallejo ferry slip. At that point at low tide the mud is about four feet deep, covered by a foot of water. When the tug reached Crockett Win ters pointed out the spot in the water where he said he had thrown tbe gold. Superintendent Ropp marked the place on the wharf and the tug steam ed away to await for low tide. This morning Winters got in . the mud and water up to his neck and for an iiour and a half groped for the miss ing bullion. Up to 10 o'clock $130,- 000 worth had been recovered This includes the four bars of fine gold. Winters had put some of the bars in bags. He said one of the bags had broken and some small bars had dropped out. It is now only a ques tion of careful search to and the rest of the $280,000. Winters claims he did the job all alone. He" says he made fourteen trips from the vault to the wharf from which he dropped the gold. The tug, with the detectives and the prisoner, returned to this city this afternoon. . In view of the promise of clem ency made to Winters in consid eration of unearthing tbe gold, it is thought his punishment will be light Detective Gibson is quoted as saying that it was promised Winters by Pres ident Ralston, of the Selby Smelting Works, that he should not only be not prosecuted but should receive $25,000. "Winters cannot be prosecuted," said Detective Gibson, "for there is no evidence against him. All that has been drawn from him was secured by the detectives under promise that it would not be used against him. Under such circumstances it would be ex tremely difficult to secure a conviction." U. S. CRUISER RANGER. BRITISH TRANSPORT INJURED Supposed Attempt of a Boer Sympathizer to Blow Up a . Steamer at New Orleans, - By TelegTapb to tne Morning Star. New Orleans Aug. . 10. What is regarded as an attempt of a Boer sym pathizer to blow up a British transport occurred shortly kite? midnight, when there was a terrific explosion at the stock - landing where the Harrison steamer Mechanician is moored. The Mechanician is to carrv mules to South, Africa. The- explosion shook houses, rattled dishes and awakened . people for some distance around. Most of the crew of the ship were asleep, but the explosion brought them quickly from their berths to the deck. An examination showed a large dent on tbe starboard side of the ship. Two plates at the water's edge had been sprung and considerable water was let into the ship Pumps were immediately put to work and when daylight came it was found that the vessel was in no danger of sinking and that the damage done was not serious. The crew of the ves- . sel denied that there was any explosive ' on board and there seems little doubt according to the statements of those who examined the ship that the ex plosion was from the outside and that some sort of bomb or torpedo had been used. New evidences of the alleged plot to destroy the British mule ship Mechani cian were discovered by an officer of that Vessel- to day. Attached to the I anchor chain, near the surface of the water was found - a cotton-wrapped wire about 135 feet long, to which was undoubtedly attached the bomb or torpedo that exploded last night and drove in three plates of the ship on the port side at the water line. Detectives are following up the clue and a search is being made for tbe place where the wire was purchased or came - from. It is the belief of the officers that the parties who perpetrated the -deed took the torpedo with the wire attached several lengths ahead of the ship and set it in the stream where the current carried it around to the side, the time fuse ex ploding after they had gotten safely away. The British officers here and agents of tbe lines employed by tiio British for the transport of mules a-il horses to South Africa are much exer cised over the attempted destruction of the Mechanician, and tbe vessel has been moved out in mid-stream with a double watch on guard. This is true also of the other mule transports in port, the Milwaukee being one of them. But for the torpedo exploding where a bulk-head sustained the plates, the vessel would have undoubt edly been sunk. Mules will be taken aboard Monday and the ship will proceed on her trip to East London. She will probably go into Liverpool, her home port for docking. FIRE IN LEXIN0T0N. TROOPS CALLED OUT. To MANY EXCURSIONS IN AUGUST. LONELY AMONG CROWDS. Suppress a Riot in Springfield, llli nbls, Caused by Drunken Negro Soldiers. Ordered to Get in Readiness for a Trip to Panama Battleship Iowa May Also he Sent There. By Telegrapn to tne Hernlne 8 tat Washington, Aug. 10. The Navy Department officials confirm the press report from San Diego, Cal., that the U. S. S. Ranger has been ordered to get in readiness for a trip to Panama. No order directing her to leave for the isthmus has yet gone forward. The Ranger is a small cruiser of 1.020 tons displacement, and has been engaged for some time past in surveying work down on the Pacific coast and in Cen tral American waters. It is very pos sible that her services at the seat of trouble will suffice and that a battle ship will not be obliged to make the long trip down from tbe north. The Ranger has a complement of twenty- one officers and one hundred and twenty seven men, and is in command of Commander wells Lt. Field. As the battleship Iowa reported her arrival at Bremerton to-day, while the battleship Wisconsin has not yet been heard from, it is probable that the for mer may be substituted for the pros pective trip to the Pacific side of the isthmus, if it is decided to send a bat tleship, although the formal announce ment of the change was not made up to noon to day. COURT OF INQUIRY. Valuable Horse Properties Destroyed. Loss Placed at $50,000. By Telegrapn to tne Jlornlne star. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 10. A de structive fire visited this place this afternoon, destroying property valued at $50,000, including the famous Tat- tersalrs amphitheatre and other noted horse properties A cluster of sale barns, adjacent to the Kentucky Trot ting Horse Breeders Association's track, containing tight sale barns, a brick residence, two cottages on 'Nel I son avenue, a Que stable, 'four offices, the property of a building association, and a horse valued at $500, were de stroyed. . Tattersall's amphitheatre, a handsome structure, built twelve years . ago, which covered a quarter mile track encircled by walls, was re duced to ashes. The fire is supposed to have been started by a smoker in one of the stables. Only $25,000 in surance was carried on the burned property. THE STEEL TRUST. Doing Business In Ohio Contrary to Law. Action to be Taken. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Columbus, Ohio, August 10. Itde velops that, action against the United States Steel Corporation is contempla ted by the Secretary of Btate. It is be lieved by that official that the United States Steel Corporation is doing busi ness in Ohio contrary to law. Tbe corporation has never been admitted as a foreign corporation to do business in Uhio, although tbe property controlled by it in this State is represented by sev eral million dollars' worth of stock. upon which, if the Ohio companies actually have been absorbed, the State is entitled to collect a tax of one-tenth of one per cent, under what is known as the Hard law, the constitutionality of which was recently sustained by the Supreme Court. CONDITION OF RICE. A French investigator says mili-; tary and navy men are most apt to give way in the brain department, and that 199 out of 100,000 of them Wome lunatics. Just at this time th lrinfttin streak seems to have struck our navy. The record-breaking wheat crop of this country was in . 1891, when the yield was 675,000,000 bushels. The yield this year is estimated at from 50,000,000 to 75,000,000 bushels more. It is said that there are 7,000 peo- CURRENT COMMENT. Senator McLaurin seems to have entered upon an effort to prove that be can be as personally bitter as the wielder of the pitchfork. There la little more than personality in the discussion.-! ugusta Chronicle, vera, Now all this talk of nommat in a Southerner for President has simmered down to the suggestion of the name of William J. Stone, for mer Governor of Missouri ! it is Aven said that Mr. Bryan had his eye on Stone when he remarked that the time was ripe for naming a South erner as the head of the Democratic ticket. But Missouri would not af ford a fair test. Missouri is not strictly to be regarded as a Southern State. MoMle Register, Dem. - It is well for the North tp know that the object of qualified suffrage in the South is to wipe out the negro vote and establish white supremacy so firmly that it cannot be endangered. This is known to every one who has taken any interest in the question, and it is puerile as well as useless to attempt to create any other impression. It is better to disfranchise the negro openly and without any explanations or apolo gies for the action, and if the courts decide that it conflicts with the amendments to the Federal Consti tution be ready and willing to abide bv the consequences even nine cou nnnnences Should De reuuuuuu Of inteil inaet, maieiwuy ana i pie who ioiiow uauing iu una ju-ioo- i representation in uongreon jaa- hSlorlwhitaI.,s1 (id hiaTtThand I ""PP1 its tributaries. And the electoral college.- Orleans foere in the South to be allowed to yet the supply of '"cats" keeps up. Dem. No Less Than Fifteen Already Scheduled to Reach Here This Month. August promises to be a gay excur sion month for Wilmington and the beaches. Farm work has been so de layed earlier in tbe year by excessive rains that most of tbe managers at in terior points have postponed their trips until after "laying-by time," and the result is that already fifteen excur sions are scheduled to reach the city in almost as many days. Following is a list of those scheduled to arrive at Wilmington from interior points during the month: - Fayetteville to Ocean View, 16th; EIrod to Wilmington and Carolina Beach, 16th; Conway to Wilmington, 17th; Charleston to Wilmington, 18th; Clinton to Wilmington, 20th; Darling ton, 8. C. to Wilmington, 20th; Ches terfield and Cheraw to Wilmington, 22nd; Lumberton to Carolina Beach, 22nd; Dillon to Ocean View, 26th; Dunn to Ocean View. 26th; Golds- boro to Ocean View, 27th ; Marion, S. 0., to Ocean View, 27th; Williamston to Ocean View, 28th; Fayetteville to Wilmington, 28th ; Warsaw to Ocean View, 29th. In a Miss Norma Foster. - Miss Norma Foster, who for the past three Winters has been studying music in Boston, Mass., will return to Wilmington about Sept. 20th. Miss Foster intends opening a studio for the purpose of teaching violin and moht Binrinp. The number of her studies will be announced later. Traveling Men Are Overcome City of StraJisre Facei. "There are many degrees of loneli ness," reflectively remarked a grizzled rnmmproifll traveler to a correspondent h. Thlnrlplnhia Inauirer. "but there la no thnt. when I used to experience it, hit me worst of all, I tell you," continued the man of mileage books and sample trunks. "It is the sensation that comes over a man, especially a young man, when he is on a train carrying him into a rreat city for the first time. It gener- bIIv strikes him as the outskirts of the cltv are reached and the twinkling elec- trp lnmna heein to come into view. As the train eets nearer the center of the city and the lights multiply tenfold the sensation increases almost in like pro portion, but it doesn't get in its best licks until the train stops in the center of the his station and the nasseneers begin to disembark. "Here is where the newcomer feels, in deed, he is a stranger in a strange land. Say the trainload numbers 300 or 400 passengers. It seems to him that every other man and woman has some friend or relative to meet him or else knows ex actly where to go to meet friends and ac quaintances, and how to get there quick est As for himself, he may know the name of the hotel at which he intends to stop, but he has never seen it and hasn't the slightest idea in what direction to go to reach it. He has to turn to a police- .man for directions as to its location or to a hackman to haul him there. If any man ever thinks of his home town, where he knows everybody and everybody knows him, where he can go about blindfolded almost as well as with .his eyes wide open, he thinks of it then. And in nine times out of ten he wishes himself back there. "With, a second trip to a city the lonely feeling begins to wear off, and after awhile the victim grows to looking for ward to getting back there again. But it hits the most of as hard the first time, just as I have described, and it's a mighty depressing sensation, yon may weU be lieve." Bv Telegraph to the Horning star. Springfield, III., Aug. 10. Gov ernor Yates, at the request of the chief of police, at 10 o'clock, ordered Major Marshall, Eighth battalion, Chicago, now encamped at Camp Lincoln to render assistance in quell ing a riot at F. Fitzsimmon's saloon on the levee in the heart of the city. Fifty members of the colored battalion were engaged in a free hght at the saloon and a number of residents of the vicinity were brutally beaten. rrovost details were sent from camp hand all soldiers found in the city were called to the station and held in read iness for emergency work. Excite ment runs high in the colored portion of the city. Details of colored troops took sides against the police. Men of the Fourth infantry are being held in readiness at Camp Lincoln and should further trouble occur will be sent into the city. ANOTHER Q0LD ROBBERY. Jere M. Wilson Will Probably Conduct the Case of Admiral Schley. By Telegraph to the Horning star. New York, Aug. 10. Jere M. Wil son, of Washington, who will proba bly conduct the case of Admiral Schley before the court of inquiry, arrived this evening on the. American Line steamship St Louis. He said : "1 have received a cablegram from my dear friend, Admiral Schley, in regard to his case, and it is more than probable that I shall conduct his case. 1 am going to a hotel and after I have been there and looked over the matter I'll know more. Though I received a cable from the Admiral l did not hur ry over on that account" Mr. Wilson was met at the pier by Captain Parker, who has been at the JNavy Department looking over the records af the naval operations during the war with Spain in the interest of Admiral Schley. SENATOR VEST'S VIEWS. August Report of the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture. By TeleeraDh to the Hornlna Btar. Washihgton, Aug. 10. The Au gust report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture shows that the condition of rice is, on the whole, favorable, although it is one, four, six and seven points below the average condition on August 1, 1900, in Georgia, Florida, Alabam and Lou isiana, respectively ; on the other hand. it is four and two points above the condition one year ago in North Caro lina and South Carolina. .In South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana tha condition is two, seven and five points above their respective seven year averages, while in North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama it is two, one and four points below such average." EX-SENATOR BUTLER. Clerk in the San Francisco Mint Charged With Theft of $30,000. By Telegraph to the Horning Btar. Washington. Aug. 10. Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, Treasury Department, has received a telegram that Walter Dimmick, chief clerk of the San Francisco mint has been ar rested by Secret Service Agent George Hazen, charging Dimmick with the theft of - cmuuu in goia-irom tne United States mint in San Francisco. The other charere was made bv Super intendent Leach, accusing Dimmick of misappropriating funds placed in his hands for the purchase of sup plies. What Should be the Principal Planks of the Democratic Platform. . By Telegraph to the Hornlna star. Sweet Springs, Mo., Aug. 10. Sen ator George G. Vest, in an interview, says that the principal planks of the Democratic platform of 1904 should be: , First A declaration for a gradu ated income tax. Second An unrelented opposition to trusts. Third A declaration against impe rialism and the colonial system. It would be suicidal, says the Sena tor, to put the silver issue forward again. t Formed a Company to Establish a Cotton Mill Near Clinton. By Teles ranh to tbe Hornlna star. Charlotte, N. 0., Aug. 10. A special from Clinton, N. C, to the Observer says : It is reported here on good authority that ex-Senator Marion Butler has formed a company to establish and operate a cotton mill at Elliott his I county home, several miles from Clin ton. . it is understooa mat tne capital, other than his own was subscribed by parties in the West whom he met on his trip to Alaska. Littleton Female College, adver tised elsewhere in this paper, has made a record of which every citizen of the State interested in education should be proud. The success of this institution has been very remarkable. Look up the advertisement and send for a catalogue.1 - t A Savannah. Ga.. dispatch says : The negro who attempted rape on the wife ! of a railroad section master near Ways statmn, Ga., July 26th, was lynched and burned near the scene of his crime I late last night sr,;; ,:..--
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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