WILLIAM H. BBBHABD
Xdltor ud Proprietor.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
Fkidat, - - Sept. 6, 1901.
"HOTHING ELSE TO DO."
A short while ago Mr. Thomaa
Settle, of Asheville, published a
letter describing 'the treatment of
Southern Republicans by the leaders
of the Republican party in the
North, to which treatment the
utter ignoring and abandonment of
the White Republicans ' of the
South be attributed the demorali
zation and the decay of the Repub
lican party in this section. There
was a good-deal of foundation for
the charges he made whether there
was for his conclusion or not.
One of the charges he makes is
interesting as coming from a Re
publan, and one of the very few
white Republicans born in the South,
one whose father did much to build
up the party in this State, and to
give it some semblance of the little
respectability that attached to it.
The charge is substantially this:
That the Republican leaders of the
North being so long in exclusive con-
trol of the Government and having all
the law-making machinery in their
hands, might have protected the ne
groes in the South in the exercise of
their political rights and thus made
the Republican party strong, but
they deliberately abandoned the
negro because they wanted to keep
up the sectional cry, believing there
was political capital in that. They
didn't care about a solid Democratic
South as long as they had a solid
Republican North, and the way io
have a Bolid Republican North was
to keep up sectionalism, andthey
used the negro and Southern vio
lence for this purpose. One dead
negro was worth more to them than
the votes of thousands of live ones,
and consequently they had no tears
to shed over dead negroes, but
found cause for rejoicing when a
clash between the races took place
and the shotgun got in its work.
He doesn't make this charge exactly
in this language, but that is pre
cisely what he meant; the Republi
can leaders in the North worked
Southern disturbances and race con
flicts for political effect, and finding
them useful didn't want to check or
stop them, but preferred to have
them continue, in election years es
pecially, though they were shedding
crocodile tears all the while over
the "poor," "hunted," "persecu
ted" negro.
Mr. Settle might, if he had seen
Jit, gone further and expressed the
opinion, if unwilling- to make the
charge, that many of these disturb
ances and race conflicts were fo
mented by these same Republican
leaders, through their agents and
tools in the South, who could very
easily do it by shooting a random
shot into a party of white men at a
political or other gathering, and
thus provoke shooting in response.
One or two shots were all that was
necessary to start a melee that
would end in blood and the "raee
conflict" they were looking for. Be
ing a good, loyal Republican Mr.
Settle wouldn't like to charge this,
but we have kept a pretty close
eye on election disturbances in the
South during the years that the Re
publican party was strong enough to
make a contest, and we have no more
doubt that many if not most of the
conflicts in election times were the
work of Republican agents and tools,
white and black, than we have that
the Cape Fear river flows into the sea.
As they in years past worked race
troubles for political effect, and en
couraged them, they work them
yet, and there are few outbreaks of
any kind where the negro figures as
principal" or victim that they do
not seize upon and work for politics.
The following is an illustration
from the Philadelphia Press, in
which it appeared several tdays
ago:
"The colored criminal who was
burned to death at Winchester, Tenn.,
on Sunday was asked by the mob
why he committed the murder for
which he was to be lynched, and his
answer was: "I just done that be
cause I had nothing: else to do.' The
reply was probably a truthful one, al
though the subsequent talk of the
brute would tend to raise a doubt as to
his sanity.
"If the real facts were known as to
the commission of crimes for which j
colored men are lynched in the South '
it would be found in a majority of
cases that the victims became crimi
nals because they had nothing else to
dor Thirty-six years after the close of
war and abolition of slavery there is
still a large class of colored men in
the South who have nothing else to
do but to commit crime. The creation
of such a class in that neighborhood
was doubtless inevitable. The break
ing up of former social conditions and
the sudden freeing of 4,000,000 slaves
and the growth of a new generation
while these unsettled conditions pre
vailed were sure to be followed by an
idle class. The presence of this class
is one of the penalties exacted of the
South for its long and persistent ad
herence of false economic idea.
"But this class need never have
been so large as it was. and it would
before this time have been absorbed
into an industrious population had
' the Southern people been faraichted
enough to discard old ideas and adapt
, themselves to the new order of
, events. Instead, however, of pursu
ing that course they tried to restore
former conditions by enacting the
'black cod 68.' bv OTmoelnir th nWa-
"lion of the colored naonla and hv
making their section solid for the
party that had svmnatbized with the
"rebellion and thrown every obstacle
in the way of its suppression. If the
Southern whites- had cordially ac
cepted the results of the war and sun
norted the nolicv of nrotection to
home industries the Bouth to-day
would nave treble me manuiacturing
plants it owns, its idle population
would be better employed; more col
-a Muinla wAtilH find work in the
country and fewer would drift to the
cities and there would be a smaller
class to be tempted into crime be
cause there is nothing else to do.
"The Southern white people have
been using their best energies for thir
ty years in seeing how they can de
prive the colored man of his vote. If
they had spent the same amount of
time and energy in getting him work
there would be no race problem to be
solved to-day. It would have solved
itself. How much longer does the
South propose to go on twisting the
phraseology of constitutional clauses
so as to rob the colored man of his vote
and depriving him of work by sup
porting Cleveland's free trade poverty
.ml Ttpvan'a ftttA silver hankrunt-
"cy. and at the same time shocking the
T . - . . 1 ll
civilized worm oy ourning auve meu
who commit crime because they have
nothing else to do?'"
This is a unique editorial, so
unique that it borders on the ridicu
lous, when an editor, in all serious
ness, takes a cremated negro rav
isher as a text for a political essay
which is as absurd in its illustra
tion, argument and conclusion as it
is unseemly and lacking in pro
priety. There is much assumption
and assertion in it that are net sup
ported by fact?. iwhile most of the
results that the Press deplores are
the natural consequences of the acts
of its own party leaders, who thrust
the negro to the front out of his
sphere, not out of regard for or in
terest in him, but to make votes for
the Republican party and give it a
grip upon the South. As soon as
they discovered that this would not
give them the grip they calculated
on they lost interest in the negro,
left him to take care of himself and
turned their efforts to making capi
tal out of dead negroes that they
couldn't make out of live ones.
70S TARIFF REVISION.
A Philadelphia dispatch reports
that the executive committee of the
National Association of Manufactur
ers is considering the advisability of
calling a meeting of the convention
to memorialize Congress for a "rad
ical revision of the tariff" and to en
courage reciprocity treaties with
other countries. This is in pursu
ance of the sentiments of manufac
turers of the country, which this
committee was delegated to ascer
tain by the Association at its last
annual meeting, when the senti
ments expressed were strongly in
favor of tariff revision and reciproc
ity. Reciprocity, by the way, is noth
ing more nor less than free trade un
der another name, for it is an agree
ment with other nations to admit
their products into this country on
the same terms that they admit our
products into their ports.
But Mr. Urosvenor, Mark Hanna,
Senator Depew, and some of the
statesmen who are in with the trusts
declare that there must he no tariff
revision, because it would unsettle
business and . do much damage.
These manufacturers, most if not all
of whom now have protection under
the Dingley tariff, do not seem to be
afraid of this, but on the contrary
believe it will help business. . If
they didn't they would not favor
tariff revision.
In favoring it now they show a
good deal more sagacity than the
trust politicians do, for they realize
that as a matter of business it will
be better for them to have the revi
sion done by a Congress which be-
ieves in protection than to fight it
off until it becomes a great national
issue and the revision be done by a
Congress governed by the principle
that the protection given by "a tariff
or revenue" will be protection
enough. They are keen enough to
see that and sensible enough to take
timeby the forelock.
Warren D. Merwin is on the road
o fortune, after spending four vears
in the Connecticut penitentiary for
forgery. While in prison he in
vented a shoe making device by
which it is said the shoe making
convicts can make twice as many
shoes in the same time as they did
before. He had his device patented.
Now the State has given him a job
as superintendent of the peniten
tiary shoe shop and pats him a
royalty for the use of his machine.
He will also get a royalty from fac
tories which will use it and is on the
way to fortune, all the result of the
four years thinking in the pen.
The dogs of Borneo are no
Blouches. Alligators have a par-
iality for them, as thev have in
other regions where the alligators
do congregate. The dogs are aware
of this fact. When they want to
cross a stream they gather on the
bank and set up such a howling and
barking that all alligators within
:our miles can hear it. , Then the
amphibians make a break by the
shortest cut for that howl, i When
the dogs sniff them and are satis
fied their ruse works, they scorch
it on a bee line up the bank and
swim across before the alligators
discover how they have been sold.
The corn shortage this year is es
timated at 675,000.000 bushels.
That is a pretty long shortage.
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Hall's Family puis are the best.
AFTER THE EARTH.
If J. Pierpont Morgan continues
at the consolidating pace he is now
moving, it will not be many years'
before he has the whole industrial
world on this side of the ocean con
solidated and under syndicate man
agement. The latest is his reported
coal deal by which all the bitumin
ous coal mines in Ohio, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky
and West Virginia have been
brought under his syndicate man
agement. He had previously got
control of the anthracite mines of
Pennsylvania so that now his syndi
cate has practical control of the coal
business of the country, as the coal
mines South of Kentucky will not
figure much as competitors. Their
shipments will be southward in a di
rection that this syndicate probably
does not care to go. - '
With such a monopoly, of course,
this trust can regulate the output,
control the market and make its
own prices which consumers will
have to pay, because they can't help
themselves, for they have as yet no
substitute to fall back upon. A
small advance in the price of each
on of coal will put millions of
profits in the coffers of the trust,
which it could do without any ad
vance in prices, because it will con
trol wages, and pay only what it
sees fit.
One of the arguments in defence
of such consolidations is that it
makes better and more economical
methods practicable and thus re
duces the cost of production, which
should have some influence on the
selling price, if the public is to be
benefited by the consolidating sys
tem, but it has not, for there is no
instance yet where the trusts have
owered prices, but many where
they have raised them without any
apparent reason. And that s what
;his- trust will do with coal.
It Saved His lies.
P. A. Dan forth, of LaGrange, Qa.,
suffered intensely for six months with
a frightful running sore on his leg,
but writes tbat tsuckien's Arnica salve
wholly cured it in ten days. For Ulcers,
Wounds, Burns, Boils, Pain or Piles,
it's the best salve in the world. Cure
guaranteed. Only 25 cents. Sold by
R R. Bellamy, druggist. t
REWARD FOR MURDERER.
County Commissioners Yesterday Paid
Amount Offered for Capture of Negro
Wbo Killed Will Dudley.
The reward of $100 offered by the
County Commissioners several months
ago for the capture of the murderer of
Will Dudley and his delivery to the
sheriff of the county was paid yester
day.
Payment of the reward has been
held up on account of a dispute over a
division of the amount between Capt.
P. Cutts, the A. C. L. conductor
who shut the negro in a box car at
tached to his train, and Chief of Police
A. B. Freeman, of Goldsboro, who,
with two of his men, took the negro
from tha car upon the arrival of the
train at Goldsboro.
Chief Freeman and Captain Cutts
were both in the city yesterday, and
after a conference with several of the
County Commissioners and agreement
between themselves, the amount was
paid over and receipts taken therefor.
By the division, Chief Freeman re
ceived $65 of the amount and Captain
Cutts the remainder. The latter will
divide with the negro train hand who
informed him of the murderer's pres
ence on the train, and Chief Freeman
will divide with his officers who as
sisted in taking the negro from the
car.
MARRIAGE OP MISS HARRIS.
Popular Young Lady of Wilmington Wed
ded by Mr. Yarbrdfagb of Sumter S C.
At the residence of the bride's
mother, Mrs. Lillie J. Harris, Fourth,
between Nun and Church streets, a
very pretty wedding ceremony was
solemnized yesterday at noon in the
marriage of her daughter Miss Martha
Sholar Harris to Mr. Edgar Calvin
Yarborugh, of Sumter, 8. C.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. John H. Hall, pastor of Fifth
Street M. E. church, in the nresence
of a few friends and relatives. The
maid of honor was Miss Lillie Kate
Harris, sister of the bride. She wore
a costume of lovely white organdie
and carried a bouquet of roses. The
bride wore a becoming gown of gray
silk, with hat and gloves to match.
She carried a bouquet of bride's roses.
The best man was Mr.' E. Schulken,
of Wilmington. Among the out-of-town
attendants upon the ceremony
were Mrs. C. L. Coghill, of Rich
mond, and Mr. Yarbrough, of Green
ville, B.C., brother of the groom.
The bride and groom left in the
afternoon, via the S. A. L. train, for
Greenville, 8. C, which city will be
their future home.
CONDITION OP LAURENCE SPRUNT.
The News Last Night Was More Encour
aging Than in the Forenoon.
The news last night at 10 o'clock
from the bedside of little Laurence
Sprunt, whose critical illness at Ashe
ville has been noted from time to time
in these columns, was more encour
aging than in the forenoon when the
reports were most alarming.
Yesterday afternoon, however, he
rested more easily and last night a
telegram from the parents stated that
unless other complications set in the
boy's recovery is possible. The news
will be received with much gladness
by hundreds of anxious friends of the
grief stricken parents in the city and
elsewhere.
As the Stab employs no trav
elling agents, bills are sent direct to
subscribers. These bills should re
ceive prompt attention, .
BIG TAX INCREASE.
Nearly Million and a Half Dol
lars Shown in the City
Property Valuation.
THE STATEMENT IN DETAIL
Books Are Now Complete With Exception
of the Computation Which is Held
Up Awaiting Fixing of the Rate.
Final Recapitulation.
Capt. A. It. DeBoBset and his assist
ants, Capt. T. M. Morse and Mr. Alex.
Greenabaum, yesterday completed the
final recapitulation of taxable property
in the city and the books will be turn
ed over to the City Clerk and Treasur
er for collection as soon as the com
putations are complete. It is impossible
to make these computations at once as
the Board of Audit and Finance, has
suggested a still further reduction in
the tax rate to $1.60 and until this
figure or some other is definitely de
cided upon by the Aldermen, Capt
DeRosset cannot proceed.
From Capt. DeRosset's final com
pilation it is seen tbat the increase in
the valuation of city real and personal
property is $1,378, 339. The total ag
gregate value of property in 1900 was
$7,051,452 and this year it is $8,439,791.
The difference in favor of this year is
therefore, easily apparent.
The property is listed by 5,471 per
sons against 5,213 last year. The num
ber of polls this year is 2,926 against
2,875 last year. Of course all those
who- listed property were not sub
ject to poll tax. The number of
polls listed this year is 1,777
whites and 4,149 colored. Last year
the figures were 1,750 whites and
1,125 colored. The number of white
poll tax payers has increased 27
while the number of colored polls has
increased 24.
Therreal estate valuation this year
is $5,697,957; last year $5,404,139; in
crease $293,818.
The personal property valuation
this year is $437,416; last year $348,
368; increase $89,048.
The money on hand given in this
year is only $46,657 ;last year $173,033 ;
a decrease of $126,376.
The value of solvent credits this
year is $524,580; last year, $191,115;
decrease, $333,465.
The value of stock in corporations
this year is $1,060,432; last year, $357,
852; gain, $702,580.
The value of stock in trade is given
in at $662,749, against $576,945; in
crease, $85,804.
It is expected that the Finance
Committee of the Board of Aldermen
will very soon adopt the recommen
dation of the Board of Audit and
Finance as to the further reduction
of five cents on the one hundred dol
lars' worth of property, and then the
books will be completed and turned
over to the City Clerk and Treasurer
at the earliest possible moment.
FUNERAL OF MR DICKSON MACRAE.
Services From the Late Residence and In
terment in Oakdale Cemetery.
The funeral of the late Mr. James
Dickson MacRae was held yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock from the resi
dence in the presence of a large num
ber of friends and relatives. The ser
vices were impressively conducted by
the Rev. Dr. A. D. McCIure, the Rev.
Dr. Alexander Sprunt and the Rey.
P. C. Morton.
The interment was at Oakdale Cem
etery and the following were the pall'
bearers upon the sad occasion: Hon
orary, Mr. Wm. Waiters and Capt.
W. R. Kenan ; active, Captain R. W.
Price, Dr. O. P. Bolles, Messrs. W. A.
Rourk, Chas. W. Stewart, William
Flynn and Swift M. Empie.
CITY HALL IMPROYEMENTS.
Contractor D. Hanna Expects to Begin
Work On Police Station This Morning.
Contractor D. Hanna will begin this
morning the improvements at the City
Hall, which were spokeu of at length
in these columns yesterday. His first
work will be in the old band room in
the basement of the building, which
will be con verted into a police station.
He expects to rush the work to an
early completion Mr. H. E. Bonitz
is the supervising architect of the con
struction. Negro Accidentally Shot.
A colored man employed on Gover
nor Russell's place across Brunswick
river was brought to the city yester
day afternoon and sent to the hospital
for treatment of a gunshot wound in
flicted accidentally by an associate
with whom he was employed to drive
birds from the rice fields. The wounded
negro was in a shanty on the place
and his 'associate, having his gun
loaded with nails, buck shot, etc., for
alligator, sought to empty it for re
loading with bird shot. He fired it
into the hut, not knowing the colored
man was inside and the effect was
rather surprising to both parties con
cerned.
Wilmington Well Represented.
JThere will be quite a colony of Wil
mingtonians at the University when
the Fall term opens next Monday.
Among the number will be the follow
ing: Jno. B. Cranmer, Reston Ste
venson, Charlie Yopp, Dave Chadr
wick, Edward Brown, Lawrence
Webb, Benj. Bell, Jr., Preston Cum
ming, Jr., Milton Calder, Burke Brid
gers, Jno. Giles, Horace M. Emerson,
Jr., Thos. D. Meares, Jr., Willie Bel.
lamy, Christopher' Pierce, Adolph
Ahrens, Jno. W. Gafford and H. B.
Short, Jr., of Lake Waccamaw and J.
A. Stone, of Little River.
A Marriage Announced.
Mr. and "Mrs. W. E. Powell. No.
509 North Fourth street, have issued
invitations to the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Delia Maud, to Mr. E.
Clayton Moore, on Wednesday even
ing, Sept. 18th, at 9 o'clock.
MRS. MARTHA MEBANE.
Remains of Wilmington Lady Wbo Died in
Norfolk Reached the City Last
Night Funeral To-day. v
The remains of the late Mrs. Mar
tha Mebane, relict of the late C. P.
Mebane, whose death at Norfolk was
noted in yesterday's Stab, reached
Wilmington last night on the A. C. L.
train from the North and were taken
to the home of her brother, Capt. W.
M. Stevenson, No. 510 Market street
The remains were accompanied to
Wilmington by Mr. and ; Mrs. H. 8.
Ful wood, Mrs. Fulwood being a daugh
ter of the- deceased, and the funeral
will be held this morning at 10 o'clock
from the residence of Capt. Steven
son, the Rev. Dr. A. D. McCIure offi
ciating. The interment will be in Oak
dale Cemetery.
Mrs. Mebane was 65 years of age and
is the third of a family of brothers and
sisters to- pnss away within the past
year. Mrs. R. N. Sweet and Miss Ste
venson, the last named of whom died
at Ashevillle some time ago, are the
sisters who immediately preceded Mrs.
Mebane to the grave. She is now sur
vived by a brother, Capt. W. M. Ste
venson and a sister, Mrs. A. A. Wil
lard, both of this city. Besides her
daughter, Miss Fullwood, who accom
panied the remains to Wilmington,
she is also survived by a son, Mr. O.
P. Mebane, who is an electrician in
the United States Navy and is now
stationed on the coast of Japan.
Vegetable Insects On Sound.
Early vegetables on Middle Souid
are said to be suffering from the rav
ages of a small insect known as the
"fire bug" or Lincoln bug, as they
were called just prior to the late Civil
war. The bugs are always present in
limited number, but this year they are
said to be in countless millions. Col
lards have been destroyed on the stalk
by them and green peas and turnips
have also come in for their share of the
injury.
VETERANS' REUNION AT TEACHEY'S.
Annual Meeting of Companies B and E On
September 19th Basket Picnic.
Special Star Correspondence.
Tbjachey's, N. C, 8ept. 8. The
annual reunion of Company B, First
North Carolina Battery, Heavy Artil
ery and Company E, ThirtiethNorth
Carolina troops, will take place at
Teachey's on September 19th. A full
attendance of the members of the com
panies is desired. Let all who wish
to meet with them, come and bring
full baskets and give Jthe boys tbat
wore the gray a Rood day.
WESTERN N. C. RAILROAD.
Advertised for Sale by the Sheriff of
Rowan County Under Judgment Given
by the State Court.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star.
Salisbury, N. C, Sept. 4. The
Western North Carolina railway was
to-day advertised for sale by Sheriff
Julian of Rowan county in execution
of judgment. This road is a branch
of the Southern Railway. The execu
tion sale order was precipitated by the
failure of the Western road to pay a
judgment given by the State court to
the estate of Engineer W. W. James,
killed in 1897. Suit was Brought out
in the State court and the James
estate given $5,000. The Southern
claimed it had absorbed the Western
North Carolina and -counsel for the
plaintiff contend that a domestic cor
poration cannot be absorbed by a for
eign corporation without legislative
sanction. The defendant company
contends to the contrary. Suit has
been on both in the State supreme and
Federal courts and an important issue
is the question of jurisdiction. Unless
restrained, Sheriff Julian will sell the
property October 7th.
Tobacco Stories.
The Westminster Gazette gives some
interesting information concerning the
use of tobacco by the clergy in different
religious bodies. "John Wesley," it says,
"forbade his preachers 'to smoke or chew
tobacco or take suuflf.' This jmle still
obtains in the Wesloyan ministry.
"Thackeray hoped the day would come
when he would see a bishop lolling out
the Athenaeum with a cigar in his mouth
or at least a pipe stuck in bis shovel hat.
He did not live to see this, but the Bishop
of Manchester has publicly proclaimed
the virtues of tobacco as a bond of sym
pathy between man and man.
" 'At your idol again, Mr. Hall,' ex
claimed a lady on discovering Mr. Robert
Hall, the celebrated divine, with a pipe
in his mouth. 'Yes,' said the preacher,
'burning it, ma'am.' "
Dogr Whtpper Slngrsard Waker.
A dog whipper was an ancient parish
official whose duty was to drive out all
the dogs from the church. The Wake
field account? contain the items:
1016. Paid to Gorby Stbrk for whipping
dogs 2s. 6d.
1703. For hatta shoes and hoses lor sex
ton 'and dog wbipper 18a. 6d .
Another official was the person ap
pointed to arouse members of the congre
gation from their slumbers during divine
service. Tbe parish accounts of Castle
ton record:
172. Paid to Sluggard Waker............. 10s. Od.
Chambers' Journal.
It Was All Arranged.
"How much tor a magpie?" he askgd
as be stepped quietly into a hardware
store. .
"A magpie? My dear sir, do you take
this for a bird store?" was the reply.
"'Then you haven't any magpies for
sale?"
"Of course not. This is a hardware
store, as you will see if you cast your
eyes around you."
"Yes, I see it is," said th man, after
gazing around for a minute. "Being it's
a hardware store I suppose 1 could no
buy a magpie here."
"No, air. You might as well go into a
drug store and ask for a ton of coal."
"I see. You keep crowbars, however?"
"We do."
"Well, I'll take one. Being as you don't
keep magpies, but do keep crowbars, I'll
take along a crpwbar to kill a magpie
which I'll buy somewhere else." Chicago
News. '
! Wove Aatlane.
Impecunious but Enthusiastic Collect
or Let me see, what Is the price of that
picture? '
Art Dealer Eighteen hundred pounds,
madam.
"Eighteen hundred pounds I "Why, this
is the third time I have asked the price
ff painting within three days, and it
is 100 more each time I ask I"
"Yes, bat madam must remember it is
an antique and that it grows older every
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PASSENGER -TRAIN HELD-UP.
Express Safe Blown Opea With Dynamite.
Robbers Secared Two Sacks of "
Loot and Escaped.
V : By Telegraph totne Morning Star.
St. Louis; Sept. 4. Only meagre
information has been received at the
offices in this city of Vice President
and General Manager Britton of the
St. Louis Southwestern road (cottonH
belt) regarding the robbery of a pas
senger train lasf night near Eylau
(Texas) station. After blowing open
the express safe with dynamite, it
stated, the robbers secured two sacks
of loot. This they transferred to an
eng-'ne which had been detached from
the train. Engineer Henderson was
compelled to put but the headlight and
the robbers took charge of the engine.
Two of the robbers assured Hender
son they knew as much about run
ning the engine as he did. The
engine was run south at full speed,
followed by Engineer Henderson on a
baud car which he bad secured, from
a near by section house. ' Henderson !
came up with his engine about four
miles from the scene of the robbery.
The machine bad been deserted by the
robbers, who the engineer believes
were all-railroaders. The bandits had
escaped into the dense woods sur
rounding the track at this point. Hea
ders' n ran his engine back, couuled
the train together, and the run south
ward was resumed after several hours'
delay. " -
The robbers had not molested tbe
passengers nor did ihey attempt to
breas open the mail car.
The train- left St. Louis Mouda;
evening. At 2 a. m. a posse of horse-'
men under the sheriff of Boyd county
left Tex rkana to scour the woods on
both sides of tbe track They were fol
lowed at 2:30 a. m. by another posse
on an engine. Bloodhounds kept- at
the penitentiary at Busk, Texas, for
pursuing escaping convicts, were im
mediately taken to the scene of the
robbery on a special train. Everything
that can be done to capture the rob
bers, the Cotton Belt officials say, will
be done.
Engineer Henderson was unable to
give a definite description of the gang.
They were all closely masked, but he
was sure they were young men.
Robbers Got $35,000.
Tkiarkana, Ark., Sept. 4 The
six men wbo held up the Cotton Belt
passenger train last nightmare still at
large. The robbers evidently rode
their horses up Akin creek and left
them standing in the stream. They
used a hand car and went five miles
north, as the hand-car was found near
where the train was first stopped.
After looting the mail "and express
cars the robbers returned to the creek,
mounted their horses and again rode
down the stream, thus obliterating
their trail.
The robbers secured one package of
110,000, and it is said the entire haul
was about $35,000.
At noon to day the pursuing officers
returned to Texarkana and reported
that they could not find a clew.
At 1 o'clock a special train went to
the scene of tbe hold up with Col. O.
K. Wheeler, chief of the Cotton Belt
detectives. Sheriff Edwards, U. S.
Marshal Grant and a large posse of
deputies, who had with them a pack
of bloodhounds.
At' 4 o'clock another posse headed
by Constable Bochelle left for Eylau
to try for a trail.
Texas sheriffs are rushing here from
every direction, bringing deputies with
them.
Rewards Offered.
To-night the railroad's posse return
ed here, having called the bloodhounds
from the track. It has been discovere d
that the robbers secured one bag of
gold which took the combined efforts
of two men to carry from the express
car to the engine. The through safe
was dynamited. It is claimed enough
was learned to place the guilt on parties
believed to be Texarkanans or at least
one man, the rest being boys The
arrest of the leader is looked for hour
ly. The amount of booty, it is now
said, will reach nearly $50,000.
The Cotton Belt has offered a reward
or $1,800 for the robbers and the Ex
press Company ten per' cent, of all
money recovered. All of th posses
have been recalled to Texarkana, and
the search is now confined strictly to
Texarkana..
COLUMBIA'S REVOLUTION.
Fighting Expected at Bocas Del Toro.
Threatening Attitude of the Rebels
Near Colon.
By Telegraph to tne Morning star.
Colon, Colombia, Sept. 4. --The
United Fruit Company's steamer Sun
rise, chartered by Herr Beck man, the
German consul at Bocas del Toro, ar
rived here this morning with a view of
obtaining the presence of the United
States gnnboat Macbias at Bocas del
Toro, where fighting is expected to
begin at any moment, the government
troops having advanced within a mile
of Provision island, where the insur
gents are, and now occupying a supe
rior position. Herr Beckman failed
to obtain the presence of tbe Machias
at Bocas del Toro, as she is needed
more urgently at Colon.
Last night the Colombian govern
ment brought troops, artillery and
ammunition by special train from
Panama to Gatun, on the outskirts of
Colon, owing to the threatening atti
tude of the rebels there.
One thousand troops have arrived at
Barranquilla from Honda, destined
for Bio Hacha, where Gen. Pinzon,
Colombian minister of war, has lately
been busy mobilizing troops.
Monroe Special to Charlotte
Observer'. A deplorable tragedy was
enacted here this (Tuesday) morning
about 8 o'clock in the death at his own
hands of Osgood Heath,, the 15-year
old son of Mr. O. P. Heath. Just how
the accident happened is not known.
There was the muffled crackof a pis tol
in an upstair bedroom, the family at
breakfast heard it and with alarm
rushed upstairs to see what was the
matter. There a terrible sight met
their eyes. Lying on the bed with a
bullet through the heart lay the life
less body of the boy who but just a few
minutes before had finished his break
fast and left the table. Lyii g by his
side was the pistol which toid in some
measure how the awful iragtdv hap
pened. - Mr. O. L. Shields, of
Long Creek, yesterday brought the
Observer several cotton stalks that
were over six feet tall. Mr. Shields
has a large field of this cotton, but
therif are no bolls to amount to any
thing. It only shows what very fine
land will produce. The rain destroyed
the blossoms, consequently there will
be very little cotton produced from
these fine stalks.
Raleigh News and Observer:
Before Judges Simoi ton ai d Boyd, in
the United States Circuit Court at
Greensboro Tuesday, the matter con
cerning the transfer of tbe property
of the Greensboro Water Supply
Company to the city came up for
argument. The judges issued an or
der directing that the purchase price,
$75,000, be substituted for the prop
erty, and that all further litigation be
over the proceeds of the sale instead
of the property itself. If this order is
assented to the city can take a valid
title to the property at once.
TERMS OF PEACE
WERE DISCUSSED.
Secret Conference of Steel Trust
Officials and Leaders of
Union Labor.
NO CONCLUSION WAS REACHED
The Decision Eitner to Terminate or to
Continue the Strike Must be Made by
the Strikers Members of the
Conference Refuse to Talk.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
New York, Sept. 4. Terms of
pehce in the si eel strike were discussed
at length tc-day at a secret conference
in which were several officials of the
United States Steel Corporation, lead
ers of Union labor and representatives
of the civic organizations which have
intervened. Unusual safeguards of
secrecy were resorted to in order to
preserve the privacy of the proceed
ings, but it was evident that no con
clusion waa reached and that the
decision either to terminate or to con
tinue the strike must be made by the
strikers. The nature of the agency
from the Amalgamated Association
held by the labor leaders who partici
pated in the discussion is not known,
but it is believed they possessed at
least an outline of terms from Presi
dent Shaffer, and that they will place
before him and his associates the terms
resubmitted to President Schwab, of
the United States Steel Corporation.
It was also apparent at the conclusion
of the discussion that if the conference
is to be resumed or any further action
toward peace taken, the strikers must
take the initiative.
Labor Leaders Discuss the Subject.
The labor leaders were in communi
cation with Pittsburg during the day
and it was anticipated they would
further discuss the subject with the
Amalgamated men before they pro
ceeded any further with the peace
plan.
The parlicioants in the conference
to-day were President C. M. Schwab,
of the United States Steel Corpora
tion ; President W. E. Corey of the
Carnegie Steel Company; Yeryl Pres
ton, of tbe United States Steel Cor
poration ; President Samuel Gompers,
of the American Federation of Labor ;
President John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers' Association; Secretary
Harry White, of the Garment Makers
Association; Professor Jenks, of the
Industrial Commission, and Ralph M.
Easley, secretary of the National Civic
Federation.
Refuse to Talk.
' Several officials of the companies
controlled by the United States Steel
Corporation were called to the confer
ence chamber during the day. The
conference was asked for in ; behalf of
President Gompers and President
Mitchell and the request reached Pre
sident Schwab early to-day. He made
favorable reply at once and at 12:15
o'clock the two labor leaders, accom
panied by the other intermediaries
who had participated in the Pittsburg
meetings of last week, reached the of
fice of the United States Steel Corpor
ation. The session lasted continuous
ly for more than six hours. No state
ment as to the proceedings was made
by any of the participants. John
Mitchell was the first to leave
the meeting room. He positive
ly refused to make any statement
in connection with the peace plan.
President Gompers and Ralph M.
Easley, who followed, were equally
reticent and said that it bad been
agreed that nothing was to be said.
President Schwab came out later in
company with President Corey, Sec
retary Wren and Veryl Preston, and
all successively refused to talk. Presi
dent Gompers said later that he would
be in New York to morrow and that
statement was taken as an indication
tbat he has not given up his efforts to
effect a settlement.
Situation Unchanged.
One of the steel officials made this
brief statement: "Nothing was ac
complished by the conference. The
strike is just in the same position as
before it was held. Future action is
with the strikers. I do not know of
any thing that is to be done. The Steel
Corporation has re-stated its position
and the men themselves must elect
what they will do."
Excitement at McKeesport.
Pittsburg, Sept. 4. Preparations
have been completed for the starting
up of the Demmler tin plate plant at
McKeesport. The start will be made
with a full force of deputy sheriffs on
guard, the American Tin Plate Com
pany having served notice on Sheriff
McKinley, of this (Allegheny) county
that violence was feared.
The request for protection was made
by Superintendent Lauck and Sheriff
McKinley at once made arrangements
for dispatching a large number of
deputies to the scene.
McKeesport was thrown into a state
of consternation this afternoon by the
arrival of the force of deputies. At the
first intimation that such a course
would be pursued, Mayor R J. Black
held a conference over tbe telephone
with the sheriff. Later he went
to Pittsburg and on his re
turn he was boiling over with
indignation. He denounced the ac
tion of Sheriff McKinley in the bitter
est terms. Chief of Police Patrick J.
Morrissey volunteered to land every
deputy at the police station if the
mayor would only give the word, but
the mayor cautioned him that such ac
tion would transcend his powers. The
mayor gave out a signed statement
shortly after the arrival of the
deputies in which he denounces the
action of the sheriff as totally unwar
ranted by the situation and asserts his
ability to prevent lawlessness. He
says:
"I now call upon the striking work
men of McKeesport to give the lie to
the alleged necessity for the presence
of these deputies. Stay away from the
Demmler mills and let the officials
fight their battle for resumption with
incompeient assistants. Ignore the
stealthy operations and remain quietly
about your homes. You will lose
nothing and at the same time you will
emphasize the falsity of vicious criti
cism directed at both yourself and me."
Schwab's Proposal.
New York, Sept. 4. The latest edi
tion of the Evening Telegram says:
Charles M. Schwab's proposal to the
strikers was that the comoany shall
retain as "open" mills all those which
it has succeeded in starting and oner
ating since the strike was declared.
All mills which the strikers have kept
closed, Mr. Schwab agrees shall re
main union mills.
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ALLEGED WAGER OF $250,000.
Declared to be a Pake by One of the Per
sons Mentioned as a Member of
the Syndicate.
By Telegraph totne morning- Star.
Pittsburg, September 4. James A.
Chambers, president of the American
Window Glass Company, whose nam
has been used in connection with tin
stories of gambling on the recent trip
of the Deutschland and as a member
of the Pittsburg syndicate, which as
was alleged bet $250,000 to $150, 000 on
the American cup defender, to-night
issued the following statement:
"Regarding the alleged wager o'
$250,000 to $150,000 said to be made by
a Pittsburg syndicate of which I am
supposed to be a member, I want tr
say as plainly and distinctly as I car.
there is no such wager so far as Pitts
burgers are concerned. No syndicate
of Pittsburgers was formed in New
York or in this city to put up $250,000,
or any other sum and no certified
check on any prominent bank or asv
other bank for that purpose, was
issued here yesterday. I do not kno?.
tbe intention of the publications
of the story of the bet and the publi
cations about heavy gambling, but I
do know there is no truth in them."
"Owing to the wide publication the
matter has received within the past
few days, I deem it necessary to make
this statement on behalf of myself and
friends.
(Signed) "j. N. Chambers."
THE CAPTURED DESERTER.
Arthur Howard, the American Who Fought
With the Filipinos Denies Being
an American Soldier.
By Cable to tne Morning Btar.
Manila, Spt. 4. Lieutenant Haz
zard, of the Third cavalry, has brought
in here Arthur Howard, the American '
deserter, who was recently captured
by the lieutenant while in command
of some Macabebe scouts in the Island
of Mindori. He was placed in jail am!
will shortly be court martialed.
Howard denies tbat he was ever si.
American soldier. He claims he was
born in Spain; that his father was
English and his mother Spanish, but
tbat he espoused the cause of the Fill -pinos.
In 1896, after peace was declared,
he went to Hong Kong and returned
in 1898 as Aguinaldo's chief of artil
lery. While in that position, Howard
says he made friends with many
Americans before the insurrection, in
cluding Gen. Green. He cast his lot
with Aguinaldo at the time of the
rupture with the Americans, and lit
says that he brought in sixteen Amei
ican prisoners, under a flag of truce
at Angeles, in September, 1899. How
ard denies that he., commanded the
force at San Mateo, which killed Gen
Lawton. He speaks like an educated
Englishman. Lieut. Hazzard says he
himself saw Howard at Angeles in
189. Two former Californian volun
teers to-day identified Howard as a de
serter from their regiment named
Walley, of company A, who deserted
in 1899.
CHESAPEAKE LUMBER CO.
Another Receiver Appointed On Petition
of Citizens' Bank of Norfolk.
By Telegraph to the Moraine Btar.
Baltimore, September 4. Judgo
Sykes to-day, in Circuit Court No. 2,
on petition of tbe Citizens1 Bank of
Norfolk, signed an order appointing
the Leigh Bonsai Co. receiver, with A.
deR. Sappington and Edward W.
Brown, of the Chesapeake Lumber
Company. Messrs. Sappington and
Brown were appointed August 19th,
on petition of Charles E. Corkran, of
New York.
The Citizens' Bank, the petition says,
is a creditor of the Chesapeake Lumber
Company to the amount of $1,240.04.
The receivers originally appointed, it
says, do not represent the creditors of
the company, "but are simply the rep
resentatives of Mr. Corkran, by whose
management the said lumber company
and other companies allied to it have
become insolvent."
Tarboro Southerner: A well
known gentleman was speaking a few
days ago about railroad construction
in this State. He says its peculiarity
is that the roads are all on ridges save
in the mountain sections, where they
perforce follow the streams. As a re
sult of the ridge roads only the poorest
part Of tbe farming section is seen
from the track. The school cen
sus .for this township shows 1,972
children of the school age; 802 white
and 1,170 colored. There is a small
increase for the colored, -and a large
decrease for the whites. The net de
crease is sixteen. The decrease in
whites is probably due to much of the
night force at the Tarboro cotton fac
tory leaving since part of the night
work has been discontinued.
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