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WILL HE LEAD OR FOLLOW?
President RooBevelt has declared
that it is his purpose to follow the
policy foreshadowed by his prede
cessor in his Buffalo speech, that is
to promote the expansion of our
commerce by reciprocity treaties
with other countries, Reform in the
tariff by removing the protective
duties from articles on which pro
tection is no logger necessary, by
encouraging the building of an
- American merchant marine with
the aid of government subsidies,
anil by aiding in the construction of
. the Isthmus canal. These were the
cardinal points of the policy out
lined in that speech.
There is nothing' in this that Mr.
Roosevelt could not pledge ihimself
to, as it was simply a reiteration of
what Mr. McKinley had previously
a33erted and what his party, includ
ing Mr. Eoosevelt,- had virtually en
dorsed. He will doubtless follow
that policy but he is not going to be
a mere follower for he is a man who
does some thinking for himself and
will hardly be content with follow
ing strictly on the lines drawn by
some one else, and however much
he may be disposed to do that out of
regard to the memory of his prede
cessor and to quiet apprehensions
of t any radical departures, new
(ixicstions will arise and these he
will meet in accordance with his
own views. ,
There is nothing now which
might call for action of this kind
but in these days of planning and
plotting for national advantages
there is no telling what ' the condi
tions may be three or six months
hence, or what questions he may
have to consider. There is no appre
hension at present of complications
with any foreign government and
there is no foreign government which
would not do a very large amount of
cmbassadorial correspondence before
it would give offence to this coun
try, whose friendship, whatever the
motive may be, they all desire. There
is not one of them which has any
thing to gain by becoming involved
with this country, . they all know
that, and hence while their newspa
pers indulge in more or less anti
American talk, their government
directors will let them do the talk
ing while they do the thinking and
the acting. Therefore there will be
little occasion, as far as indications
now point, for Mr. Roosevelt to have
to deal with important international
questions; but we have little doubt,
if there were, that he would do it in
a conservative, but manly and thor
oughly American way. He, as all
Presidents are supposed to do, would,
. if any serious question should arise,
counsel with with his cabinet, and
be governed by their views; and cab
inets, as a rule, are conservative, as
they are not directly before the pub
lic, and are not seekers for fame.
They know the President gets credit
for any particularly popular disposi
tion of any question that comes be
fore the cabinet, and is held respon-
aiblo if there should be. dissatisfac
tion. As indicating the course he.would
pursue in the event of misunder
standings with'other nations his re-
marks in his Minneapolis speech on
tlin Mn,.A,i rt.; w tWiTur
the substance of which was that if
we have misunderstandings with
other Governments about that or
anything else we should exhaust
every possible effort to maintain
friendly relations and peace, but if
that failed then we must assert our
readiness and determination to re-'
sist and resent imposition or aggres
sion and be prepared to do so. That
is precisely what any other thor
oughbred American would do, first
get on the right side, do what we
could to avert trouble, and failing
in that, let those who challenge us
know that we are always ready and
willing to fight when necessary, or
when justice or our -manhood are
involved. - , .
Mr. Roosevelt will have three
years and a half to serve as Presi
dent, three years and a half that
way be pregnant with mighty
events. He ia a young man, a
virile man, an ambitious man with a
commendable ambition and he is not
going to be content to meekly fol -
low the linea laid down by any one.
VOL. XXXH.
TT - , . . J
e naa oeen quoted as having said
I n"e he iw : candidate for
the Presidency he is no longer a
oandidate. Possibly not in , the
sense of soliciting support in the
next convention, but that does not
preclude the desire to be' President
Dy the vote of the people, instead
oi oy accident. He feels, and Says,
the Presidency did not come to him
in the way he -would have liked it to
come. Now he regards himself as
an accidental President and his am
bition will be to so administer his
office aa to win the endorsement of
his party and become his own suc
cessor, li ms party win. - It is not
to be supposed for a moment that in
ceasing to be a "candidate," as he
expresses it, he has ceased to desire
tne nomination for which he had
begun to work. He will continue
to work for it, but in a different and
less conspicuous way. Of course he
will have opposition unless develop
ments in the future show that op
position would be useless.
ms most formidable prospective
competitor, Mr. Hanna, is eliminated
from the contest now, and will
henceforth never be the factor in
national politics that he was. .He
deeply feels the loss of his friend,
the late President, to whom he was
attached not only by political but
by strong personal ties, for he loved
McKinley, and that was one of the
reasons why he took such a deep
and active interest in politics. He
is a master organiser, knows the
power of money and hence was a
potent factor in our politics and
perhaps enjoyed his triumphs on
account of his friend and the satis
faction that victory brings to the
average man, especially when he
has to fight hard for it. But his
main inoTliraf iati Vioo raaaaA ovav
M VAX UlfH SVUSBUIA M VT fJ y
11 . .
mere is no personality now in
whom he takes much interest; his
Presidential aspirations have sus
tained a serious setback and it
would not surprise us to see him
retire from political life at the end
of his term as Senator. While he
will continue to have influence with
his party and command the ear of
rresiaent uoosevelt. He will no
longer be the factor at the White
Houae nor in national politics that
he was. Mr. McKmley s friends
will gradually drop out and Mr.
Roosevelt's come in, and then, per
haps, new policies ' will develop,
which will he Bhaped by circum
stances. A NEW KIND OF PROTECTION.
Since the New England mills have
begun to feel the effects of competi
tion by Southern mills efforts have
been made to secure the passage of
a law by Congress regulating the
hours of labor in mills throughout
the country, designating the num
ber of hours which shall constitute
a day's work, Ac. In , most, if not
all, ofthe Eastern States there are
State laws making ten hours a day's
work,' but in the South there are no
such restrictive laws and the opera-
tives in many if not most of the
mills work twelve hours.
A bill for this purpose was intro
duced some time ago by a member
of Congress from Massachusetts,
but it didnt go through. But they
haven't abandoned it and the prob
abilities are they will try again. The
following unique extract Irom an
article in Gunton's Magazine is the
latest and richest we have seen in
that line:
"Svmotoma are again visible of a
labor disturbance in Fall River, Mass.,
becauieof a threatened wage reduc
tion , which is really due to the pres
sure of competion between New Eng
land and the South in cotton manu
facture. Nothing could better illus
trate the need of a broad protective
policy. In this instance, of course,
it cannot come in the form of tariffs,
nor should it, but it can and ought to
oome in the form of uniform hours of
labor throughout the country. The
interest of civilization demands that
the more advanced sections of the
country shall not, by reason of their
advancement, be put to a disadvantage
as compared with the less advanced.
As far as possible, without paternal
interference, public policy should m-
tiat that the comnetitive opportunities
shall be approximate equal. Wages
and other items of cost must be left to
the free action of economic forces,
hut the fltate can and ought to see
that, so far as the legal length
or tne
wnrkinc dav ia concerned for compe-
J ting industries, it should be alike for
I all. It is a matter or national impor
tance that the social conditions of the
mnnt advanced sections of the coun
try shall not be injured and the stand
ard or lire or the laoorer iowereu uj
nrtpmial economic conditions which
might and oughi to be made uniform
throughout the country
This guardian of the New ;Jling
land mills wants Congress to step in
on nmfAnt fVia mills Tin there from
the Southern mills, which sell goods
cheaper than they can, because la
bor costs less. But why didn't he
while he was about it ask for the
enactment of a law prohibiting the
Southern millsv from selling' goods
for less than the New England mills
ask, or requiring that whenever the
New England mills are compelled to
shut down the Southern mills
should also be required to shut
down, and that the Southern mills
be not permitted to buy cotton for'
less monev than the New England
mills have to tiav ? If the New Eng
land mills have BDecial claim on the
paternal care of the Government as
against the Southern mills, they
mi or lit to make their demand compre-
1 hensive enough to give them a dead
sure thing.
THEY CAN BE BARKED OUT
Since the assassination of Presi
dent McKinley some of the most no
torious .anarchists in Europe have
announced their intention to come
to this country to live, and the ques
tion has been asked can they, under
our immigration laws, be excluded ?
The Washington Post believes they
can be, and thus forcibly supports its
contention s
"The complaint is heard on vnrirma
sides that we cannot keep alien anarch
ists out of this country till we get some
amendments 10 our immigration laws.
Is this true I The law of March 3d,
1891, defines the classes of alien immi
grants who are to be excluded, besides
contract laborers and Chinese. These
are idiots, insane persons, paupers, or
persons likely to become a public
charge, victims of certain kinds of dis
ease, convicted criminals, polygamists
ana -assisted' immigrants. Possibly
the ban upon 'persons , likelv to be
come a public charge" was originally
designed to keep out a shiftless and
irresponsible class rather than persons
capable of bearing their share of the
burdens of their new national affilia
tion; but although the act contains
several moderating provisos, it no
where limits the broad terms used in
this passage.
In his own field the Secretary of the
Treasury is clothed with almost des
potic power in administering the im
migration laws. He may not make
regulations outside of the laws for the
purpose of extending their scope; but
every wnere wiinin the ordinary mean
ing of their phraseology he is the final
arbiter. A citizen whom he under
takes to exclude as an alien can sue
out a writ of habeas corpus and have
his status judiciously determined, but
otherwise the courts are practically
without power to interfere. Why,
then, should not the Secretarv of the
Treasury add to his regulations one
declaring that from this time forward
anarchists are to be regarded as persons
ngeiy to Decome a public charge and
leave it to the anarchists to say what
they are going to do about it?
"There can be no Question that the
Secretary would be upheld in taking
such a step. If it be within his pro
vince to decide that one man with a
single gold piece in his pocket has in
him the making of a good citizen, and
may, therefore, be allowed to land,
while another with ten times as much
must be shut out as on the way to the
hospital or poorhouse, why has he not
an equal right to say that a person
who belongs to a criminal-breeding
cult is on the high road to prison or
the gallows, and that the government
therefore, cannot afford to let him inf
The courts put forth constructions of
the law as broad as this every day.
Common sense and sentiment would
approve it. Let Congress have an ex
ample of independence and courage
such as was set to the Illinois Legisla
ture when Judge Gary snapped his
fingers at quibbles and undertook the
administration of substantial justice
in the Haymarket cases.
"Amend the immigration laws by
all means. Make them as drastic
against murder-preaching as against
poligamy. But, meanwhile, there is
no reason why we should not enjoy
the whole benefit of such laws as we
already have. Congress will then
have no excuse whatever for further
ignoring the demands of the entire
American people."
Where there is any doubt as to
whether the immigrant is an an
archist he might be given the bene
fit of the doubt, but in that case he
should be held until this doubt is re
moved, but when anarchism is openly
avowed and the man is a self-con
fessed foe of society and an
inciter
to riot and murder then the law,
if
there be any elasticity in it, should
be stretched to cover his case, and
relieve a threatened community from
the peril of hia presence.
Such a man has no more right to
thrust himself upon us than an in
cendiary with a torch in his hand
has to demand hospitality under the
roof he intends to destroy. There
is no oppression or proscription in
that. It is simply telling that man
he is not wanted, to stay where he
ia and that he will be shut out if he
comes. If he come after such a
warning he doe8 it knowingly and
takes the chances of being sent back.
Although the average age of the
inrvmen who tried ana conviciea
i . j -t
Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield,
was fifty years, eight of them are
still living, one in Washington
hale and hearty at the age of 70
years. Guiteau hurled his curse at
them, but it doesn't seem to have
hit.
In the event of the death of Pres
ident Roosevelt the Secretary of
State would become President. It
has been said that Secretary Hay
may retire, in which event Presi
dent Roosevelt would name his suc
cessor and the man who would be
come President if a vacancy should
occur.
The Atlanta Journal has started a
movement to erect a monument to
the late President McKinley in that
city, where he made the speech in
which he proposed that the Federal
I ftnvArnment heln to care for the
graves of the Confederate dead.
When a man deliberately commits
suicide, like that Ohio man did re
cently because he was alraia ne
wouldn't be happy with the woman
he was to marry it looks like jump
ing fiom the anticipated frying pan
into the fire.
President Roosevelt , has Dutch,
French, Irish and Scotch blood m
hia veins, and a Northern father and
a Southern mother. A pretty good
combination. '
As the Stab employs no trav
elling agents, bills are sent aireci to
hihAiu. These bills snouia re-
B W W"V mmr
ceive prompt attention.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
FAIR AND CARNIVAL
Representative of Bostock-Perari
Company Here to Excite In
"terest in the Event.
THE TRAINED ANIMAL SHOW.
Mr. Huffman Says It Is Attractioa Enonjh
in Itself to Say Nofhlor of a Dozen
Others The List of Contrlbo
tors to Fond.
Mr. F. C. Huffman, a representa
tive of the famous Bostic-Ferari
shows, which will be one of the main
attractions at Wilmington's bps Elk's
Fair and Carnival next month,' ar
rived in the city yesterday and will
remain here-in th'einterest of the Fair
until it is formally ' opened. October
14th.
Mr. Huffman is thoroughly conver
sant with every detail of fair promo
tion and promises the people of this
section great things in the gala week
being arranged. He has established
headquarters at Ger ken's and would
be glad to entertain any proposition
looking to the welfare of the attrac
tion. He says the shows that will be
brought to Wilmington by his com
pany are all first class and will draw
the crowds for miles around.
The Trained Animal Show.
The big feature and principal
attraction in the amusement line,"
says Mr. Huffman, "is the colossal
collection of trained wild animals
presented, exhibited and trained in
mammoth fifty-foot steel arena under
the personal direction of Col. Ferari.
This particular exhibition was before
the inauguration of street fairs in
America, the recognized amusement
institution of England, where for
forty years it sustained it's established
reputation for exhibiting the largest
and costliest collection oftrained wild
animals in the world. Since ' its ar
rival in this country it has more than
doubled its former size. Its costly
massive exterior is in itself worth
travelling a hundred miles to see, for
nothing like it is on either side of
the Atlantic ocean can compare
with it . for its perfect beauty.
This magnificent front and entrance
cost alone $50,000, built of solid oak
and embelished by the master carvers
of the world. Five hundred French
plate mirrors of unique design are ex
travagantly enlaid over the entire
vast exterior, which measures 100 feet
in length and 25 feet in height, sur
mounted by domes of great value and
structural beauty. Occupying the
center of the great double entrance is
a mammoth Parisian orchestrion that
cost to import from the Paris Exposi
tion $10,000. This equals in volume
and tone forty perfect performers.
This magnificent musical invention,
together with the entire exterior, are
at night time a blaze of light and
glory. Hundreds of beautiful col
ored incandescent lights add richness
and luster to the scene, and the fairy
tale of Aladden's lamp is almost veri
fied in actuality."
"Then comes its startling and sensa
tional exhibition of human daring and
wild animal training. In the center
there is erected a mammoth fifty foot
steel arena, the animals are trans-.
ferred from some of the smaller trav
elling dens into the great enclosure
and while therein turned loose with
no confining bars to impede their
movements, a daring trainer enters
and puts them through the most re
markable performance ever witnessed.
The most prominent among the great
est trainers to-day appearing before
the public is Princess Delaware, the fa
mous lady animal educator, who was
formally the greatest European fea
ture of the Hsgenback shows in Ham
burg, Germany. After many months
of tireless training that runs into
years, she has succeeded in breaking
for exhibitional purposes in the great
arena five full grown forest bred Afri
can and Nubian lions, they are taught
to play see-saw like children, roll
barrels, leaping objects, form beautiful
pyramids and tableaux pictures and
walk the tight rope. Madame Pauline
DeVere, another lady trainer of great
note, will enter the arena and
demonstrate her wonderful powers
over the den of beasts."
'Upon the whole," says Mr. Huff-
til i 1 4. a. 1 a.
man, mere wm oo pieuvjr u iuu
and admire for a week. The trained
animal show is only one of the many
departments with the greatest aggrega
tion of entertainers in the world All
of the show will be here for the week,
October 14th-19th "
Those Who Have Subscribed.
The soliciting committee, perhaps
the most important of the many that
have been appointed. lat night closed
a week of arduous work and others are
yet to be approached. Many who have
not yet been seen, but who desire to
contribute may do so by calling on or
telephoning Mr. L. Stein, who is the
enterprising chaiman of this commit
tee. The names of additional contrib
utors will be given from day to day.
Those who have thus far contributed
are as follows :
The A. David Co., Fishblate Cloth
ing Co., A. Shrier, J. M. Solky, M. H.
Curran, L Shrier, M.W. Divine & Co.,
Jacobi Hardware Co., J. W. Murchi
son & Co., R. W.Wallace & Co., Hugh
MacRae, I. M. Bear & Co., Morris Bear
& Bros., The Rheinstein Dry Goods
Co., The C. W. Polvogt Co., Geo. O.
Gaylord, S. & B. Solomon, J. B,
Mercer, J. Weil, The Sneed Co..
Geo. R. French & Sons, Ches
nut & Barentine, Peterson dcRulfs,
I. L. Greenewald, Wm. E. Worth,
Vit.nv TC Zneller & Co.. George Hon-
nett, Geo. W. Huggins, S. P. Cowan
Livery Co., Orrell & Carroll, A. G. &
R. F. Warren, W. A. Farriss, Frank
TTArhat. fteiaehen Bros.. W. v. xiar
din,
J. K. Hinnant & Co., F. K. J.
Fuchs, Jno. O. Boesch, F. W. Ort
mann, -Kress & Co., D. N Chad wick,
C. W. Yates & Co., R. C. DeRossett.
The Clarendon Water Works Co..
H. J. Gerken, J. H. W. Bonitz, H. A.
Tucker 6c Bro., Andrew Smith, J. Q.
Wright & Son, W. M. Cumming,
Yftrborough & Murray. J. H. Sloan, H.
C. McQueen, J. F.Woolvin,Willard&
Giles. W. L. DeRosset, Jr.. A. M. Bus
no m, W. H. Green' & Co., J. Hicks
Bunting, Chas. M. Whitlock, T. Quia
livan, D.Qainlivan, J. O. Brown, O.P.
Cazaux& Co., C.D. Foard, K. Poezolt,
Taylor's Bazaar, Jurgen Haar, Stern
burger Bros., 8. W. Sanders, A. 8.
Winstead, B. F. Hamme, W. J.Penny
& Co., J. T. Burke, C. H. O'Berry,
W. B. Pate & Co.. Wm. Tienken. Dr.
J. EL Dreher, Jno. S. McEachern
Sons, P. EL Harden, C. B. Bellois, F.
G. Punke.
THE DAUGHTERS OP CONFEDERACY.
Eighth Annual Convention Will be Held in
Wilmington DorlBg November.
- Miss MaryeEfMeares, correspond
ing secretary of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, which will meet
in Wilmington Nov. I3tb, next, is
mailing to the hundreds of chapters
throughout the country a circular
letter giving all preliminary data con
cerning the forthcoming convention.
All chapters are urged to send dele
gates or proxies. The railroads have
given a rate of one and one-third
fares and delegates are instructed that
full fare must be paid coming and
up. -a presentation of proper certificates
will be entitled to one third rate re
turning. '
The Orton has been chosen as head -quarters
and a rate of 2 per day is
offered, two or more in a room. Pri
vate board can be had at $1 to 1.50 per
day. r-tf
Mrs. R W. Hicks, No. 418 South
Third street, is chairman of the
Bureau of Information and will cheer
fully answer all inquiries. The cor
responding secretary will also be glad
to be of any assistance to any of the
delegates or visitors.
New Wharf Buildings.
It is announced that the A. C. L.
will shortly begin work on a hand
some two-story brick store and office
building on Water street, between the
location of its new warehouse, built
since the fire, and Grace street. The
old C. F. & Y.V. depot, now occupied
as offices by Mr. 8. P. ?.cNair,willgive
way to the new building, as will also
the cold storage plant of the Schlitz
Brewing Company and the office of the
Wilmington Brokerage Company. Tne
new building recently completed by
the Coast Line will be occupied by
Messrs. C. C. Covington & Co., and
Mr. McNair's office, and others in the
path of the new building, will be
moved temporarily until it is comple
ted. First Cargo of Cotton.
The first cargo of cotton of the season
for foreign export is aboard the British
steamship Torgorm, which cleared
yesterday for Ghent, Belgium. The
cargo consists of 5,872 bales, valued at
$251,500 and is consigned by Messrs.
Alexander Sprunt & Son. The first
cargo last season went forward on
September 11th on the German steam
ship Arnold Luyken, It consisted of
5,300 bales, valued at $287,124. Two
other cargoes were shipped on the
14th and 17th of the same month.
New Y. M. C. A. Secretary.
Mr. George H. Fitch, for eight years
in association work in Cincinnati,
Ohio, a Kentuckian by birth, a mem
ber of the Methodist church, and a
young man of striking personality
and pleasing address, has been elected
and has accepted the general secretary
ship of the Wilmington T. M. C. A.
He recently spent several days here
looking over the field, and writes from
Asheville, N. C, that he will be here
October 1st to take up his duties.
Moore k Priok, Bankrupts.
Southport Standard: "Messrs. T. L.
Vines, Jackson Stanland and Peter
Rourk, the appraisers appointed in the
Moore & Frink bankruptcy case, met
at Shallotte on Tuesday and appraised
the real estate and personal property
of the partners in the bankrupt nrm.
It develops that there is only about
$1,100 resources in sight, after deduc
tioifs of real estate and personal prop
erty exceptions are made, while the
parties to the bankruptcy proceedings
hold claims aggregating about $4,300."
Hop. John U. Bellamy Will Speak.
' Hon. John D. Bellamy has accepted
an invitation to address the citizens of
Sampson, Pender and Bladen counties
at Beattie's Bridge, upon the occasion
of the "Farmer's Dinner and Picnic,"
in honor of the completion of the
bridge, October 3d. The public is cor
dially invited to attend the celebra
tion.
Monroe Enquirer', There was
a very gruesome object taken from a
branch in the Carmel neighborhood,
three miles south of here, last Mon
day. A newly born .babe had been
nut in a bag. and the bag weighted
with rocks was nut into the bottom of
a stream and the bag tied to a stake
which was driven down in the mud in
the branch. The body was discovered
over three weeks ago by some small
bova who were playing in the branch,
but as thev had been threatened with
whipping if they went into the water
thev deemed it best to keep their
discoverv of the bag and its 'con
tents a secret, wnicn iney aia until a
few days ago. When the children
reported the matter Messrs. Bradly
Price and Fletcher Broom made an in
vestigation and found that some one
was guilty of the loui crime oi lnian
ticide. The bodv was so decomposed
that the color and sex of the child
could not be determined. ' The body
was taken to an old barn and will be
kent until an investigation is made by
the proper authorities. We learn a
certain party is suspected and it is
thought that there is a very good clue
to the perpetrator of tne crime.
1901.
SHIRT WAISTS IN SCHOOL.
Boy With Modern Dress Excluded From
Qraded School in Piedmont North
Carolina A Local Comment.
A Wilmington ' school committee
man, who is interested in no small
degree in all matters' of public educa
tion and thoroughly up-to-date in his
ideas pertaining to the same, has de
rated the attention of the Star to a
letter recently received by the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
from a lady patron of a graded school
in Piedmont North Carolina, who has
been the victim of "arbitrary and ty
rannical rules" imposed by the super
intendent of the school by not allow
ing her thirteen-year-old son to wear a
neat, well-fitting shirt waist to school
during the very warm days early in
September, The letter continues with
the statement that tlie lad in the case
has gone to school in Baltimore, New
York and Brooklyn without being
sent home for a coat, and that such
action as this "does not encourage a
New-Yorker to settle ia your State to
be obliged to pass the censorship of a
man who may know how to teach,
but not necessarily be the final Tsar
on the subject of dress or fashion."
The letter has in it the following
question : "Is U permissible in a pub
lic school, presumably for the educa
tion of the masses, for a principal to
make an arbitrary rula on the subject
of dress? If a boy is sent to school,
clad in clean, whole garments, with
clean hands and face, has the principal
any authority to send him home for
his coat when the temperature is such
that every man in town is working in
his shirt sleeves??'
Because of the annoyance caused
the lady, she has withdrawn her son
from the school until State Superin
tendent Toon- shall have decided
whether or not he can be admitted
without a coat.
The local committeeman, who calls
tne attention or tne star to the inci
dent, makes the well founded com
ment that "the letter not only con
tains good advice that fits the local
case referred to, but that a great many
teachers who arrogate to themselves
the right of passing final judgment
upon all matters affecting the interest
of pupils in the public sehools could
read between the lines and profit by
the good advice contained in the well
written letter."
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Tarboro Southerner'. The far
mers are seriously considering what
to do with their cotton saed. It is
maintained that the oil trust have fixed
a price too low. So low, many say.
that they will save money by putting
the seed on the land underground.
Wilson News: Wild geese
were heard in great numbers last
night. Flock after flock passed over
the city going South. It is an old say
ing that when they begin going south
ward so early as this, a severe winter
and early cool weather are assured.
-r Kinston Gazette: Mary Parker,
an old colored woman, said to be
more than 100 years old, was found
dead in her b9d this morning at her
home near Kinston. Some member of
the family went to call her to break
fast as usual, when she was found on
her side dead.
- Maxton Scottish Chief: The
wife of "Bub" McLean died Tuesday
morning under rather suspicious cir
cumstances. It is alleged that her
death resulted from brutality at the
hands of her husband, tie was under
arrest. An inquest has been held, and
sufficient evidence to hold McLean
was not forthcoming, and he has been
discharged and the remains interred.
emithheld Herald: The exces
sive rains the past few daye have had
a very depressing Influence on the
farmers everywhere. The crops in
this section are very short and the
rains have already greatly injured the
opening cotton, causing the outlook
to seem gloomier than ever.
Elizabeth City Economist: The
excitement over the burglars entering
so many houses in .town has been
growing for the past few weeks. The
greatest care in closing up at night is
exercised. Guns have been placed in
convenient places, and the master has
made it known that shooting is strict
ly in order. The ladies of the house
hold are in a constant state of terror.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr. G.
B. W. Dunn, a prominent farmer re
siding near Lumber Bridge, died on
Thursday night, aged 67 years. -
Mr. J. Sam Harper has five or six
specimens of mineral ore from his
place at Uumnock. including Iron,
iron pyrites, soapstone, slate and paint-
ers's clay. Mr. D wight Ashley,
of Paterson, N. J., of the Ashley
Bailey silk mill, says he has no inten
tion of building another silk mill here
for the present. He also informed an
Observer reporter that the Hogging of
the negro employes of the mill here
had been discontinued, tie says he
thinks that better results will follow
its discontinuance. The whipping was
confined to the more youthful em
ployes and was done with the consent
of the parents.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth:
On Wednesday night of last week Mr,
B. J. Shields' ; store at Hobgood was
robbed,- but the robber escaped. Mr.
Harris, one of the clerks in the store.
was sleeping upstairs, and about 10
o'clock he was awakened by the strik
ing of a match. He got up and look
ed through partition window down
into the store and saw some one mov
ing. He opened fire upon the in
trader, shooting him four times. The
robber called out, "Don't shoot any
more. I'll give up. You've killed
me now." Mr. Harris, howevor, un
willing to believe that a dead man
could speak so plainly fired in the di
rection of. the voice five times more.
The robber escaped out of the front
door through which he had entered.
He had prized up the shutters to the
door and thus effected an entrance. It
was found that the safe door had been
opened by a proper turn of the combi
nation, but the money drawers had
not been opened, and so no money
had been taken out. , Hats, shoes, ra
zors and perhaps some other things
were missed, but it was impossible to
tell what had been taken. Hounds
were sent for from Suffolk, but it was
next morning before they came and
they could trace the robber no fur
ther than the railroad.
NO. 48
COURT CONTINUES
INVESTIGATION.
Only One New Witness Intro
duced at Yesterday's Session
of the Naval Inquiry.
OTHER WITNESSES RECALLED
Testimony of Commander Schroeder as to
the Cruise of Flying Squadron and
Bombardment of the Spanish
Ship Cristobal Colon.
By Telegrapn to the MornlnK Btar
Washington. Sept. 2L Only one
new witness was introduced to-day to
the naval court which is investigating
the conduct of Admiral Schley during
the Spanish war. -This, witness - was
Commander Seaton Schroeder, who
was executive officer of the battleship
Massachusetts during the War and is
now Governor of the Island of Guam.
His testimony dealt with the cruise of
the "Flying Squadron" from Cienfue
gos to Santiago, and the bombardment
of the Spanish ship Cristobal Colon as
she lay at the mouth of the harbor at
Santiago on May 31st. The comman
der said that the cruise was not aa ex
peditious as it should have been; He
also said that in the bombardment of
the Colon the fleet had not acted as
deliberately as the commander-in-chief
had announced it to be his pur
pose to have it act.
While Commander Schroeder was
giving his testimony Judge Wilson,
counsel for Admiral Schley, sought to
have him make a comparison of the
distance of the fleet from the shore
under Admiral Schley with the dis
tance under Admiral Sampson, after
the latter officer arrived and took com
mand. The Judge Advocate objected
and Mr. Wilson withdrew the ques
tion, saying, however, that he did so
temporarily and that he would raise
the point at a later stage in the inves
tigation. Capt. Harber Called. .
The first witness called was Captain
Harber, executive officer of the Texas
during the Spanish war," who was on
the stand when the court adjourned
yesterday.
The judge advocate asked no ques
tion of him and he was immediately
turned over to Mr. Baynor of counsel
for Admiral Schley who questioned
him concerning his statement made
yesterday to the effect that he did not
recall that there was any picket line
established inside the line of blockade
atCienfuegos. A report by Admiral
Schley was read to the effect that a
picket had been maintained, but the
witness declined to change his state -
ment.
Asked if the Brooklyn had not, on
May 24th, signalled the Texas to go
alongside the collier and coal, he said
be did not recall anything of the kind.
Mr. Baynor read the signal message
as follows "Go alongside the collier
and coal as rapidly as possible." But
no amount of pressing could bring the
witness to say that he remembered the
incident. He had, he said, had very
little to do with the signalling. '
Captain Harber was also questioned
closely concerning the rate of speed
of the fleet on the sail from Cienfue
gos to Santiago on May 25th.
He said the-weather was fresh and
the sea moderate; that it was hard for
small vessels, but it was "nothing
much." He thought the Texas could
have made from ten to twelve knots.
Mr. Baynor had the witness read
from the logs of the Massachusetts,
the Iowa, the Brooklyn and other
vessels concerning the weather at
that time.
Ulterior Motive Alleged.
Mr. Baynor read a report from
Capt. Higginson, saying that the
weather had been rough and squally"
on the 25th. Captain Harber stated
the report of Captain Higginson was
not borne out by the log book of his
ship. "It does not correspond with
the log," he said, and ne aaaea mat
having given his best recollection con
cerning the weather, he thought Mr.
Baynor had an ulterior motive in his
questions. Mr. Baynor declared that
he had no such end in view.
Capt Lemly objected to the exam
ination of Capt. Harber on the record
of a ship which he had no part in pre
paring.
The court retired to consider tne
point, and after an absence of ten
minutes the court returned and sus
tained the objection that the witness
could not be examined upon the log of
the Massachusetts.
Captain Harber maintained that it
was his recollection, as stated yester
day, that the fleet was further out at
night than in tne daytime, w nen nis
attention was, called to a contrary
statement by Admiral Higginson, the
witness said that it was not material
to him what any other man had said.
"Then you object to having your
memory refreshed," said Mr. Bayner.
"I said nothing or tne kind," re
plied the witness. "I am here to give
my testimony and I object to being
spoken to in the way you speak to
me."
"Admiral Higginson, who proceed
ed vou on the stand," said Mr. Bay
ner. "testified that the blockade of
Admiral Schley cruised nearer at
nieht than in the day. Now do you
still maintain that you did not cruise
nearer at night than during the day!"
"Certainly. I gave you my esti
mate.".
This concluded Captain Barber's
testimony, and he was excused.
Admiral Hifginson Recalled.
Admiral Higginson then was re
called and Questioned especially con
cerning his statement of yesterday
that the fleet was only two or three
miles out from Santiago. He modi
fied his statement by saying that dur
ing the first portion of the blockade
the fleet stood out farther, probably
five miles by day and four miles by
night He confessed, however, that
after this his memory was indistinct.
By the Court: "From the distance
at which the blockade was maintained
at night could you have seen any ves
sel attempting to leave Santiago un
der ordinary conditions of weather!"
Admiral Higginson: "I think it
would have been difficult on account
of the high land and the shadows un
der the land."
Admiral Higginson was then ex
cused, and the court at 1 o'clock took
a recess for luncheon.
' Promptly upon the striking of the
hour of 2, the court reconvened after
the noon recess. The first witness
called was
Commander Seaton Schroeder,
now Governor of the Island of Guam.
who during the Spanish war was ex
ecutive officer of the battleship Massa
chusetts.; His appearance created
slight stir of interest
Commander Schroeder was ques
tioned as to the details of the entire
campaign. He knew, he said, of no
efforts to communicate with the shore
while the "Flying Squadron" lay off
Cienfuegos. The witness stated in re
sponse to questions asked by Judge
Advocate Lemly that the squadron re
mained out about six or seven miles,
maintaining this distance during the
day, and keeping under way, counter
marching eastward' and westward at
night. At one point they were near
er shore than at another, the ships de
scribing an elongated ellipsis in -their
maneuvres. The average distance out'
however, was about the same at night
as during the day.
Referring to the bombardment of
the Colon May 81st, Commander
Schroeder said he did not observe that
there was any firing from Spanish
shore batteriea.-
He testified that he was with Cap
tain Higginson when he went to meet
Commodore Schley as the latter came
aboard the Massachusetts and that the
commodore had remarked to Captain -Higginson
upon boarding the ship.
Bombarding the Colon.
"I am going, to take you and the
Iowa in this morning to pot the Co
lon." The bombardment had. he said,
begun about 2 o'clock and had contin
ued for only about half an hour. He
said that the instructions had been to
put the range at nine thousand yards.
and told of seeing the first shot fall.
lie said it had been a fine line shot, but
bad fallen short There had been two
passages across the Colon.
"What was the effect of that bom
bardment?" asked Captain Lemly.
"There was no effect of it so far as I
could see," the witness replied.
Captain Lemly asked for a statement
of what was left undone on that date
for the destruction of the Colon. "One
thing," Commander Schroeder replied,
"that might have been done and which
was left undone, was to have gone to
closer range. Furthermore, we might
have passed the mouth of the harbor
more slowly so as to have given time
to correct the range."
"Was there anything to prevent go
ing nearer?" .J. -
"Nothing."
, What Schley Said.
Asked to state in more detail any
conversation on the part of Commo
dore Schley during the engagement.
the witness said that at the end of the
run to the eastward he had gone to
the conning tower and found Com
modore Schley talking with Captain
Higgmson.
The captain had then directed him
to port helm and he (Commander
Shroeder) had suggested that in case
this order should be observed the Iowa
would blank the fire of the Massachu
setts. He was proceeding with this ,
statement when counsel for Schley
raised an objection because the wit
ness could not say whether the com
modore had overheard the conversa
tion. The Court withdrew to decide the
point at issue, and upon returning an
nounced that the objection had been
sustained.
The witness then stated that the
commander-in-chief had addressed him
later, telling him to starboard the
helm, adding, and let us get out of this.
but be found when be started to give
the order that it was already being
executed, from which he had inferred
that the order had already been given
to the captain of the ship.
The witness also said, that when
Commodore Schley first came aboard
he bad said that it was his intention to
take the bombarding ships by slowly ,
and to have them-fire deliberately, "so
as to sink the Colon at her moorings."
This intention had not been carried
out, he said, as the ships had passed
the mouth of the harbor at the rate of
ten knots an hour and the firing was
as rapid as possible to get good point-
The court at 3:40 adjourned until
Monday at 11 o'clock.
A YELLOW FEVER SHIP.
British Steamer Ethel Bryhta Arrived at
Santiago From Jscksoovillr, Fla.
By Cable to the Moraine star.
Santiago Dh Cuba, Sept. 21. The
British steamer Ethel Bryhta, from
Jacksonville, September 14th for this
port arrived here yesterday with three
cases of yellow fever on board. She
left Progreso six weeks ago and ar
rived at New York with a yellow f ever
case on board. The man died in the
harbor and the ship was disinfected.
The : captain's wife died while the
steamer was on her way from New
York to Jacksonville where she load
ed lumber for Santiago de Cuba. One
man died yesterday and tne autopsy
showed plainly that he had been suf
fering trom yellow fever. The crew
of the j&thel Bryhta was removed to
day to the yellow fever hospital,
which is situated on an island two
miles from the city. The steamer was
fumigated and is held in quarantine in
the lower bay. No cargo is allowed
to be landed from the vessel. The
Marine Hospital authorities say there
is absolutely no danger to the city.
where there haa been no yellow 'ever
for two years past. -
LETTER FROM ROOSEVELT.
Proud of Fact That He Had Kinsmen In
the Confederate Navy.
By Telegraph to the HornlQK Btar.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21 The Jour
nal to-day prints a letter from Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt, in reply to a com
munication sent him by Mr. J. B. Nut
ting, of this city. The letter to Mri "
Nutting is from Oyster Bay, and bears
date of June 14th. The then Vice
President says in part:
"I am extremely proud of tne lact
that one of my uncles was an admiral
in the Confederate navy and that an
other fired the last gun fired aooara
the Alabama. I think the time has
come when we can all of us be proud
of the valor shown on both sides in
the civil war. . In my regiment I had .
more men whose fathers fought in the
Confederacy than I bad men whose
fathers fought for the U nion. ,
"I am anxious to visit Boswell, and
if I get the chance I am going to stop
at Atlanta sometime next fall. "
Boswell is a Georgia town where
Mr. Roosevelt's mother lived.
Sanford Express: The corn and
cotton crops will be short in this sec
tion this year, but there win pe an
abundance of hay and the farmers are
saving it, too. we Are told that ;
there are three families living near
Lemon Springs of 15 children each,
making in all 45. - The Sanford
Funiture Manufacturing Company is ,
receiving more orders for furniture
than they can possibly fill. They manu
facture an excellent quality of furni
ture, for which there is a great demand,
Several new hands have been added to
the factory force during the past few
days. -
The statement : of the 'Associated
Banks for the week ending yesterday
shows: Loans $865,949,200, decrease
$5,316,900; deposits $930,851,900. de
crease 11,671,100; circulation
098,800. increase $302,200; legal ten
ders $70,843,700, decrease 1,17U,2W;
specie $175,401,800, increase $7,446,-
100. Reserves, Z40,44,7UU ; increase.
$6,375,900.
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