WILLIAM H. BEEHiED
Sdltor and Proprietor.
PltlDAY,
October 25, 1901.
. THBY DOS 'T ANSWER-
The Industrial Commission ap
pointed by the last Congress to as
certain whether the US. Steel
Company and other combines and
manufacturers sell their products for
less in foreign markets than they
do in the home market has not
made much progress, because the
steel combine and other combine
which do a large export business
. have paid no attention to the in
quiries made and consequently it
does hot know what they are doing.
The fact that they decline to an
swer questions may be taken as pre
sumptive admission of the truth of
the assertion that they do sell their
' goods cheaper abroad than they do
at home, for if they did not they
would avail themselves of the op
portunity offered to prove the fal
city of these assertions.
In view of the -bill introduced by
Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin, to re
peal the protective duties on arti
i cles made by trusts which sold their
products for less abroad than they
do at home, the commission was in
structed to make special inquiry as
to these organizations as a guide to
members of Congress, so that they
might not have to rely upon reports
when they come to consider that
matter. Their failure' to respond
to the inquiries made after assur
ance that their answers would be
held m confidential and would be
protected; leaves Representative
Babcock's assertion unrefuted and
is a tacit admission of its truth.
A number of ( manufacturers,
however, who do an export busi
ness, did answer, after being as
sured that their answers would not
' be used to their detriment and that
their identity would be concealed.
Some of these reported that there
was no material difference between
the home and the foreign prices,
and . that sometimes on certain
lines of goods the foreign prices
were higher than the home prices.
What these particular lines af good
are is not stated, but the presump
tion is that the commission knows
what they are.
The majority answering admit
that the prices abroad are lower
than home prices, and then proceed
to give the reasons why this is so.
There are several reasons, one of
them is that the export business is
done on a cash basis, while the busk
ness at home is done on a credit
basis, sometimes long credit, too, of
one or two years.
Another is that certain lines' of
goods made for export, when im
ported materials are used, which
are bought at the foreign prices and
on which they get a rebate for the
import duties paid can and must.be
Bold for less money abroad than at
home, bacause they are made es
pecially for .those markets and must
come into competition with the
foreign made article. Of course
these exporters will have numerous
reasons to give for anything they
may do, but the fact remains that
they are doing a large export busi
ness, which is increasing annually
: and the only way they could do that
is by successfully competing with
foreign manufacturers and under
selling them.
The esseftial point is right there,
for if they can compete with and
afford to sell goods as low or lower
than their foreign competitors, there
is no need of protective tariff duties
on the goods they export and no
reason why they should not be re
pealed. The Steel Trust and other
large combines refused to answer
the questions propounded and fur
nish the commission with state
ments of home and foreign prices,
and it couldn't, if it would, deny
the assertion that the foreign prices
are lower than the home prices, be
cause that is now a matter of public
notoriety, not only a matter of pub
lic notoriety but of public boast,
and it lias been contended that with
our better and more economical
methods of production and lower
prices, all we need to be the mas
ter of the world's commerce is a
merchant marine to carry our pro
ducts to the four quarters of the
globe. This was intended to boost
the subsidy business.
But aside from the motive in do
ing this boasting, the fact remains
that many lines of American man-
.; facture are sold for less price than
they are at home. Mr. Schwab,
President of the Steel Company,
admitted it in his testimony before
theUommisaion and gave some rea
sons why it was so, and Representa
tive Grosvenor admitted that our
manufacturers are enabled to sell
goods for less money than at home,
because they have the protective tar
iff behind them to protect them from
foreign competition in the home
market while they are striving for
expansion of their trade in foreign
markets. He took the fact of lower
prices abroad as evidence of the pro
. gressiveness of our manufacturers
and an illustration of the beneficent
effects of the protective tariff, with
out which, according to him, there
oould have been no such progress,
and no such splendid achievement.
With all this and much more proof
the Commission need not care if the
Steel and other combines played
mum when questions were asked of
" imiiiiiiiiiii1 . - : : s
them. Their silence admits more
and says more on one side than all
their explanations or denials could
have done on the other side,, and
leaves no doubt of the wide differ
ence between the prices charged in
this country and in other countries.
And now what will they do about it?
TRUSTS AHD PRICES.
The defenders of trusts in this
country deny that they increase
prices for the purpose of increasing
their profits, and do jso only when
it becomes a matter of necessity, on
account of the increased cost of raw
materials, etc., etc. Of course every
one who knows anything abont
these things knows better than that.
Take, for instance, the great Steel
Trnst. It has advanced prices
several times, advanced them enough
to make a profit of many millions
of dollars, and vet the Steel Trust
owns the mines from which it draws
its supplies of iron, and the coal
mimes from which it draws its sup
plies of fuel to run . its mills and
coke furnaces. Owning and operat
ing these mines it ought to get its
iron and coal supplies cheaper than
it did when it bought them in the
open market. And so with other
Trusts controlling the market tney
should be, and doubtless are, in a
position to buy the raw materials
they use for less money than before
the Trust was formed. As showing
how the 'trusts work in other coun-:
tries and how they manipulate
prices we quote the following cable
dispatch from London:
"The St Petersburg correspondent
of the Daily Mail, in a dispatch re
cording the failure of all attempts to
form iron and steel syndicates on the
American plan, says: The different
firms found it impossible to agree upon
terms. More than this, the (class syn
dicate, one of the oldest in Russia, has
dissolved, and the price of glass has
fallen 25 per cent, in consequence.
The only trust now existing is the Su
gar Syndicate, which controls the in
dustry and keeps prices twice as high
as those in London!.' "
When the glass trust dissolved
prices of glass fell 25 per cent. The
only trust remaining is the sugar
trust, and that keeps prices twice as
high as they are in London.
We have a glass trust in this
country which has put prices up
several times until they are proba
bly on the average 25 per cent,
higher than they were a few years
ago, and we know what the Sugar
Trust is doing for us. The trusts
all seem to be built on the same
plan and to be actuated by the same
motive, which is grab.
THE COLOR LINE IN AUSTRALIA
The colored Bishop Derrick, a
short while ago, told the negroes of
this country, who are looking to
England for sympathy, that they
were looking, in the wrong direc
tion. These negroes assumed that
because negro bishops were received
and entertained is London hotels
therefore England is favorable to
the negro and sympathizes with him
in the efforts he is making to abolish
the color line and get on the same
plane with the white man, but tak
ing negro bishops into London
hotels, when they are able to pay
their way, and taking an interest in
the negro and trying to help him
along are two entirely different
things.
If the negroes thought for a mo
ment and reflected on how the ne
groes in Africa are treated by Eng
lishmen who rule, and in the British
possessions in the West Indies, they
would not count much on British
sympathy.
The provinces in Australia are
British possessions. They are in
habited mainly by English people,
and their laws are made by English
men. The respective provinces have
recently formed a confederation,
and one of the first things they did
was to legislate on the color line, the
legislation being more proscriptive
than anything ever attempted in this
country. The new parliament com
posed of representatives from the
several provinces has passed laws
prohibiting the immigration of peoj
pie who cannot speak some Euro
pean language. In Government
works white people only can be em
ployed and no colored man can get
a contract to carry the mails or be
employed in the carrying 1 mails,
and there is a movement to exclude
colored labor from the plantations.
They propose in as far as they can
do it by law to make Australia a
white man's country.
These laws are doubtless aimed at
the Chinese and Jpanese as well as
negroes, but they cover all who do
not belong to the white race.
James Hardy, head waiter of a
down town club in New York,
broke the record the other day for
monumental cheek and robust ap
petite. He went into an up town
hotel, ordered a $9.50 dinner, ate it
and didn't have a cent to nav for it.
He had preceded that with a $4
lunch earlier in the day and didn'l
nave a cent to pay for that, either.
He was escorted to the lock-up, but
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BRICK MANUFACTORY
Novel and Important Enterprise
Will Soon be Established
in Wilmington.
VALUABLE GERMAN PATENT.
Excloiive Right Purchased by Mr. Andrew
Smith to Make Chemical Article That
Will Require Extensive Plant
Process of Maanfactare.
Mr. Andrew Smith, of this city,
while on a recent trip abroad, pun-
chased from the owners in Germany a
very valuable and exclusive patent
right 10 manufacture and sell in North
Carolina a chemically made brick,
which it is claimed possesses extraor
dinary merit and which will revolu
tionize the brick-making; industry of
the country.
Interest attaches to the announce;
ment from the further fact that it is
pretty generally understood mat a
strong; company will be organized in
Wilmington for the manufacture of
the brick and that taken as a whole it
will mean a novel and very import
ant enterprise for the city.
While Mr. Smith, for the present,
does not give out the particulars of
his purposes in this direction, it is gen
erally accepted that a large amount of
money will be expended in the establish
ment of a plant which will be located
on the entire block recently purchased
by Mr. Smith at a cost of $2,500 and
bounded by Front and Second and
Bladen and Harnett streets. Here
railroad facilities are the best and
ample space is allowed for the exten
sive worsrs.
Mr. Smith not only has the exclusive
right in North Carolina but he has the
general agency for the Southern
States.
Mr. Smith said yesterday in speak
ing of the new process and the organ -
zation of his company.
"The making of brick out of sand
with a slight admixture of chemicals
constitutes an invention of extraordi
nary importance to the building indus
try, an invention tnat win work, ana
in many respects has already worked
undreamed reforms in the art of brick
making. It can be said of the brick
manufactured according to tnis sys
tem, that they can be used for every
kind of construction, and in all'cases
are much preferable to clay-bricks,
their shape is far prettier, and they
can under this system be given the
greatest variety of shapes and colors;
they can be made equally as well in
Winter as in Summer.
"The idea of manufacturing 'white'
brick out of these materials is found
ed on this property, many a trial has
been made in this direction, but with-
out giving a satisfactory result Suc
cess has been achieved at last and in
deed a brick made out of sand with a
small admixture of chemicals, which
has stood the test in Europe. There is
a brick made which is in every respect
fit for every use to which a good brick
is put. On the other hand the cost or
the same is very reasonable, and is
cheap concerning the quality.
A brief description nere or tne
process of manufacture: The chemi
cals are pulverized in a ball roller
mill ; from the mill the pul
verized chemicals fall into an
apparatus which is used to meas
ure out the required proportions
of chemicals and sand, the latter ma
terial being simultaneously brought
in to another sort of the apparatus.
This measuring apparatus is adjust
able and will be set according to the
quality of sand to be used. From this
measuring apparatus the sand and
chemicals thus measured off fall into
a mixing apparatus in which the ma
terials are thoroughly branded to
gether. This apparatus, like that pre
viously mentioned, runs continuously
and turns the mixture over to an ele
vator which carries it wherever it
may be wanted; the mixture is com
pressed into bricks under a very heavy
pressure; the press is specially con
structed for this purpose. The freshly
pressed brick are stacked on iron tray
cars, which after they are loaded are
run into an iron cylinder fittted with
rails which is then sealed tight, and a
very high pressure of steam is then
turned on and in the time of about
twenty minutes there is created a
pressure of eight atmospheres, which
is the desired standard to obtain the
hydrates and silicates of the sand
combined, which givea to the brick its
hardness and weatherproof qualities.
After the bricks have undergone the
action of the high pressure of steam
for ten hours, the same steam is turned
into a second hardening cylinder that
has been hlled with bricks in the mean
time. The bricks are then taken out
and are ready for use.
"The brick referred to are by no
means a new thing in Europe, but the
process has been wonderfully im
proved within the last four or five
years. This X convinced myself of
while I was over there last Summer
as I looked into every detail of this
industry. The German police officials
of the building department are known
to be extremely pessimistic and con
servative whenever they have to pass
upon a new building material; it went
thus with the White Chemical Brick
industry until something like a year
ago when it conquered their verdict
after being put by them through
every possible and impossible test; no
pessimism could stand against its sale
able quality; and now it is in use by
many or the authorities, royal, state.
judicial and provincial; the superior
ity has cut its way through. No
petty prejudice of unthinking men,
no opposition on the part of the clay-
orick manufacturing interest has been
able to hold its own. The industry
is now fully recognized in Europe and
is very progressive in advancement
Is it not less certain that within a
short time such will be the case here
in the United States!
"There has been now already a ereat
many "rights" sold in the United
States which is an indication that the
industry will come here also.- The
bricks referred to will stand a resistance
pressure of three thousand pounds and
upward, to one cubic inch. The re
sults of the official teals of the
resistance to frost was that the
brick which had been put in the water
for one hundred .and fifty hours
and afterwards submitted twenty
five times in succession alternately
every four hours to a temperature of
63 degrees F. below zero, and for
three hours thawed out in water in
temperate heat have remained abso
lutely uninjured. As a water absor
bent the 'white' chemical brick is on
an average much less so than the clay
brick c the tests for power of resistance
to fire have proven the superiority of
the chemical brick.
"Another factor of great weight in
favor of the chemical brick is that the
older they are the greater becomes
their nower of resistance to conditions
of pressure, frost and fire, the chemic
al nroof of this is found in their sili-
I clous formation. The White Chemical
I bricks absolutely challenge the com-
I bined effects of meterologlcal influ-
fencea."
CORONER'S INQUEST HELD.
Investigated Circanutances of Death of
George WrPflce and Rendered Ver-
diet ColpatiBg No One Funeral.
At thsj office of Dr C D. Bell,
county coroner, yesterday - at 1?:15
o'clock, a uf was empanelled and in
quiry made inut thife circumstances of
the death of the lfte George W. Price,
colored, the atory of whose tragic
death was related in these columns
yesterday. .
The jury was composed of the fol
lowing: John Barry (foreman), B. B.
Pridgen (secretary), G. M Murrell,
M. T. Davis, W. B. Brown and G-. H.
Haskett - '
Only three witnesses were examined.
They were Engineman George W.
Smith and his foreman, who were on
the locomotive which passed over the
deceased, and A. C. L. Yard Conduc
tor John Barry, who was near the
scene of the accident, and heard -the
cries of the wounded . man. Engineer
Smith testified that he was shifting ten
empty box cars that had been unloaded
at the Champion Compress. He pulled
the cars up the switch and stopped op
posite the ice factory for a change of
the switch. He saw up the track and
there was no one ahead of him. When
the switch was changed he started to
back down and heard the cries of the
colored man. Looking? over bis ten
der he saw the body of the man lying
beside the track. The fireman testi
fied to about the same facts.
Conductor Barry heard the cries of
the wounded man and from his testi
mony it was gathered that Price must
have attempted to have gone between
the cars in his hurry to get across and
was caught when the train started.
The jury rendered a verdict in ef
feet that the negro came to his death
by being run over by a train in the
W. & W. yard and that the circum
stances leading up to the accident were
unknown. No blame was attached to
any one.
The funeral over the remains of the
deceased was held at 3 o'clock yester
day afternoon from Chesnut Street
Presbyterian church.
BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING.
Baltimore Creditors Ask That Jacob Res
nick, of Maxton, N. C, be Declared
Bankrupt The Circnmstsoces.
Jacob Besnick, a Jewish merchant
of Maxton, N. C, will be summoned
to show cause on November 9th, be
fore Referee Samuel H. MacBae in
this city, why he should not be ad
judged a bankrupt. A petition in in
voluntary bankruptc was yesterday
filed in the U. S. court here by Proc
tor & Mclntyre, attorneys of Lum-
berton, N. C, who represent in the
petition certain Baltimore creditors
among whom are L. Grief & Bros.,
Markel Bros. & Co. and Horris Silver
man. They have given bond in the
sum of $6,000 with the United SUtes
Fidelity and Guaranty Company as
surety.
Res nick was accused about October
1st of having set fire , to and burned
his store at Maxton.. Very soon there
afterjie made an assignment to J. H.
Cook, Esq., but later at the instance
of Fire Insurance Commissioner
Young, of Raleigh, he was arrested
and charged with incendiarism. Res
nick gave bond for his appearance at
court in the sum of $1,500 and very
soon thereafter made his disappear
ance. It is now sought by the Balti
more creditors to set aside the assign
ment and to have the business wound
up in bankruptcy court
Besnick formerly conducted a store
at Burgaw, Pender county, N. C.
COTTON GROWERS.
Important Action Taken at Meetings - la
Raleigh The State Fair Confeder
ate Veterans Elect Officers.
.Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 23. The State
Cotton Growers' Protective Associa
tion and State Cotton Farmers' Asso
ciation held meetings here this after
noon and to night and formulated
plans to consolidate the two organiza
tions. A constitution and byrlaws
were adopted to-night. Plans are
being formulated to cooperate to main
tain good prices for cotton seed and
other farm products.
Attendance at the State Fair is es
timated at ten thousand. Standing
room is at a premium on all in-com
ing trains.
The Confederate Veterans' Associa
tion of North Carolina met to-night
and re-elected Gen. Julian S. Carr
president; W. P. Wood, of Randolph
vice president, and Capt. C. B. Den-
son secretary.
Sent to County Roads.
Willie S. Mines and Walter Hays,
the young negroes held at the police
station and charged with the robbery
of a number of articles from the resi
dence of Mrs. -Rogers on Ann street
were given a hearing in the municipal
court yesterday at noon. No prosecu
ting witness appeared to support the
charge of larceny, and the warrants
were amended to charge disorderly
conduct. Each defendant was sen
tenced to a term of SO days on the
public roads.
The North Carolina Synod.
Rev. A. D. McOlure, D. D., of St.
Andrews' Presbyterian church, and
Rev. J. M. Wells, Ph. D., of the First
Presbyterian church, this city, are in
attendance upon the North Carolina
Synod at Charlotte this week. The
Synod convened Tuesday nieht in the
Secood Presbyterian church, Char
lotte, and will remain in session until
Sunday. -
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MARRIED AT WALLACE, N. C.
Miss Ar ale Qrabao Married Yesterday to
Mr. Henry A. Qrady, Prominent
Attorney of Clinton.
Specie Star Telegram.-
WALLAOB,N.a. Oci 33 One of the
most beautiful marriages in the history
of our little village was celebrated
to-day in the Presbyterian church
when Henry A. Grady, Esq., of Clin
ton, led to the altar Miss Annie Gra
ham, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Graham. The ceremony was impres
sively performed by Rev. P. Mcln
tyre, of Faison, assisted by Rev. R.
Murphy Williams, of Wallace.
At the appointed hour, 9:80 A. M.,
the bridal party appeared and entered
the church in the following order to
the strains of Lohengrin's march, Mr.
Alfred Yopp, of Wilmington, presid
ing at the organ: Mr. Archie Graham,
of Philadelphia, with Mr. Benj.Grady,
of Clinton. Mr. G. H. Robinson and
Mr. J. F. Barkley, of Wallace. Misses
Mary and Jeanette Moore, of Burgaw,
maids of honor.
The groom entered upon the arm of
his best man, R. G. Grady, Esq., of
Wilmington; the bride upon the arm
of her brother.Dr. B. R. Graham. After
the ceremony the party retired to the
strains of Mendelssohn's march.
The bridesmaids were beautifully
attired in pink and blue organdies and
carried white carnations. The bride
was gracefully attired in a going
away gown of mode broadcloth and
carried pink carnations. The groom
and groomsmen wore the conven
tional black.
The bride and groom left on the
10:30 A. M. train for Clinton, N. C.
where they will reside in the future.
Mr. Grady is a son of Hon. B. F. Grady,
of Sampson and a leading member of
the Clinton bar as a member of the
firm of Faison & Grady.
Among those from Wilmington in
attendance was L. V. Grady and R.
G. Grady, Esqs., cousins of the
groom.
JOHN ROBINSON'S GREAT CIRCUS.
Ten Big Combined Colossal Shows Com
. Ing to Wilmington Monday Week.
There ia certainly no travelling ex
hibition in America, perhaps in the
world, which presents entertainment
so varied, so attractive and so multi
tudinous as do John Robinson's Ten
Combined Great Shows. Since the
days of Noah, a more complete men
agerie has never been seen. Poetical
and enchanting scenes never before
equaled are witnessed in the sublime
bibical spectacle of Solomon, his Tem
ple and Queen of Sheba.
Every act in the monster programme
is a revelation to the people. The
finest specimens of horse flesh in the
world, the highest aerialists in the cir
cut profession, all the champion
riders, both male and female. The
finest specimens of the cutest ponies in
the world. The grandest specialties
ever produced. The funniest clowns
on earth are with the Robinson Shows.
They are coming to Wilmington on
Monday, Nov. 4th.
Death of a Widow Lady.
Mrs. Kate Williams, Fifth and
Queen streets,died yesterday morning
at 12:30 o'clock after an illness of
about two months. She was the widow
of the late W. T. Williams, a well
known painter, and was a member of
Fifth Street Methodist Church. She
leaves to mourn their loss three sons,
Herbert, Fred and William Williams,
who have the sympathy of friends in
their loss. The funeral will be con
ducted from the late residence at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon.
Some Large Mullets.
The "fish editor" of the Sab re
ceived yesterday with the compli
ments of Mr. W. B. Cooper, the enter
prising wholesale grocer, two of the
largest mullets seen on this market in
many years. They were measured in
the "piscatorial department" of the of
fice and although figures never lie,
editors are sometimes accused of that
pastime, and the "feet and inches" are
not given except where the actual
fish and tape line are available to cor
roborate the statement.
News of the Shipping.
The Spanish steamship Orinon
arrived yesterday from Hamburg with
a cargo of 3,000 tons of kainit for the
Navassa Guano Company. The vessel
is consign ed to Heide & Co., and is
the first flying a Spanish flag to enter
tnis port since the late war. The Nor
wegian barque Join was cleared yes
terday by Messrs. Heide & Co., for
Bristol, Eng., with a cargo of rosin
and tar consigned by Peterson, Down
ing & Co.
Blankets for Prisoners.
Yesterday was not a day in temper
ature to suggest blankets, but the
county authorities, acting upon the
maxim, "In time of peace prepare for
war," have had delivered at the court
house for the use of prisoners in the
jail and at the oonviet camp seventy
five pair of Franklin blankets of
heavy weight. They were purchased
from Mr. Wm. Goodman and will be
sent out to-day.
Fishing Steamer Laid Up.
The steamer Beatrice, of the At
lantic Fisheries Company, is here for
repairs to her engine. A cylinder
head blew off Monday evening as she
was entering the mouth of the river
from a haul. on the outside. The Clara
Ellen has returned to this port and is
employed while the Beatrice is laid
up.
Ex-Governor D. L. Russell re
turned yesterday from Raleigh where
he appeared, as counsel in the Superior
Court for a number of liquor dealers
who are sueing the city ofRaleigh. for
the recovery of about $6,000 in license
tax paid for several years under the
misapprehension that they were doing
business in the city limits. The cases
were decided favorably to the plain
tiffs.
A Blomter Devil Flsb
Destroying its victim, is a type of
Constipation. The power of this mur
derous malady is felt on organs and
nerves and muscles and brain. There's
no health till it's overcome. Put Dr.
King's New Life Pills are a safe and
certain cure. Best in the world for
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels.
Only 25 cents at B. R. Bellamy.s
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THE STREET RAILWAY
Decree Confirming the Sale Re
ceived by the Clerk of the
U. S. Circuit Court. 1
DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.
Allowsnce Made for Services of Special
Master, Trustee, Receiver and Others
The Total Indebtedness Before
Coart Was $10,162 49.
A supplemental decree and one con
firming the sale of the Wilmington
Street Railway Company by Special
Master THomas W. Davis, and order
ing the conveyance, possession and
distribution of the funds was yester
day received from Judge Purnell by
Mr. W. H. 8haw, DeputyClerk of
the United 8tates Circuit Court in this
city.
The fact of the confirmation was
givetj in these columns yesterday
morning, but other facts of the same
became apparent from the decree it
self. The total indebtedness of the
company was found to be $160,162.49.
Of this amount $72,593.83 was to
Thos A. Mclntire, and the indebted
ness to Chas. M. Warner, in two
amounts, was decreed to be $49,010.75
and $38,557.91, the three amounts
making the total as given.
The confirmation of the sale was
made upon motion of Messrs. Root,
Howard. Winthrop & Stimson and
-George Rountree, Esq., solicitors for
the Morton Trust Company, plaintiff
in the action by which the sale was
made, and by. Junius Davis, counsel
for the purchaser, Dr: Chas. P. Bolles,
acting for the firm of Hugh MacRae
& Co.
In the allowance of fees, etc., Thos.
W. Davis, Esq., is given $500 for ser
vices as Special Master in the pro
ceedings. The Morton Trust Company
is allowed.$250 for service as trustee,
and it is also allowed $3,000 for its
counsel and solicitors, Messrs. Root,
Howard, Winthrop & Stimson and
George Rountree, Esq. Mr. A. B.
Skelding isa llowed $500 for services
as receiver in addition to a monthly
allowance heretofore made to him.
He was also allowed $250 for his coun
sel fees as receiver.
The decree instructs the receiver to
pay all taxes and also other debts of
the company contracted during his
administration as receiver. The re
mainder is to be paid to Dr. C P.
Bolles, the purchaser.
The document also provides for the
legal transfer of the property upon the
payment of the purchase money. In the
event of any forfeiture the decree is
continued and a resale of the road
is made possible.
STOLE WATCHES AND DIAMONDS.
Negro Servant Arrested and Charged With
, Larceny Prom Residence of Employer.
Martha Clark, colored, residing on
Sixth, near Walnut street, and em
ployed for a time as a servant at the
residence of Mr. William H. Konig,
No. 826 North Fourth street, has been
arrested and placed in jail charged
with stealing from her employer a
silk umbrella, a black skirt, a lady's
belt, a lady's gold watch, two diamond
rings and another ring with turquoise
setting.
Mrs. Konig has been sick for the
past several weeks and during her ill
ness the negro had access to the house
without fear of her misappropriations
being immediately detected. She at
first stole the umbrella, later the skirt
and belt and subsequently went into a
jewelry box in a bureau of one of the
rooms and stole the rings, watch, etc
Mr. Konig says many other articles
are missing and there is evidence of
systematic stealing for some time.
The Clark woman denies having stolen
anything but evidence will be intro
duced to show that she told another
negro at church that the rings had
been given to her by Mrs. Konig. The
negro is from the country.
Japanese Bird Concerts.
Nightingale competitive concerts are
held every year during April in various
cities in Japan.
The main feature of this quaint recrea
tion is to bring together tame nightingales
of melodious voice, according to the ac
cepted standard of the connoisseurs, and
to let each of these nightingales sing in
turn. By this singing the grade of the
songsters as to their musical talent is de
termined. The method adopted in collect
ing the concert expenses is peculiar, for
the amount levied on the owners of song
sters is greater as their exhibits get a
higher grade.
It is said that this refined competition
is inore popular in Nagasaki than any
where else in Japan and that consequent
ly the best songster? command an extraor
dinary price in that city, as much as
1,000 yen a bird. In Tokyo they can hard
ly fetch more than 300 yen. Japan
Times.
Another Opportunity.
A Certain Man. Laving "read some
where that Opportunity knocks only once
at each one's Door, concluded to Sit up
all Night for fear he would Miss ilie Call,
go, while he was Sitting nenr his Door,
there enme n heavy Knock thereon. !
When he opened the Door, a Stranger
seized him and Beat him all up and Took
his Money ! and Garments and Chided
him for being so Easy.
"But," said the Man. thinking to ex
cuse himself, "1 thought It was Oppor--tunity
who knocked."
"So it was." responded the Other, "but
it was my Opportunity."
Moral. It is Better to Carry your Op
portunity with you. Baltimore" Ameri
can. Ware of Wasting Time.
A naturalist w .:. a pi : sevnance
worthy of a better cuuse tian-.l a thrush's
song and found that this particular bird
Sang for 10 hours one day, practically
without stopping.
The waste of time which this implies
somehow reminds us of the story of the
clerk who remarked apropos of some
builders who were working on a house
opposite his employer's window: "Well,
the way some people waste their employ
er's time is scandalous. That man hasn't
done a stroke of work for two hours. I
know I'm right, because I haven't taken
my eyes off him once." -London Globe.
A Tribute.
Walter They'd.. s:. ye're a great hand
at a Welsh rabbit sir.
The Chib-iiau They do, eh?
The Waiter- Vis, sir. Oi heerd wan
man say ye mode wan that was worth
all the throuble it gev kim afther he ate
it Puck.
The annual re-union of Georgia
Confederate veterans in Macon is the
largest in point of attendance in the
history of the State organization.
Nearly ,000 veterans are assembled.
JUDOR FULLER'S FUNERAL.
Held Prom Presbyterian Church ia Raleigh
Yesterday Afternoon The Twentieth
, Centnry State fair. '
f Special Star Telegram. t
Raleigh, N. C, October 21. The
funeral of Judge Thos. O. Fuller was
held from the Presbyterian Church this
afternoon at 4 o'clock. He died early
Sunday morning after a protracted ill
ness for the past ten years. He has
been judge in the United States Court
of Private Land Claims and was be
fore the civil war a practicing lawyer
in Fayetteville. He joined the Con
federate army at the beginning of the
war and was a First Lieutenant in
Starr's battery, light artillery. He
was a member of the Confederate
Congress and was also elected to the
Congress of the United States at the
close of the war, but was, like all other
Southern representatives, not allowed
to take bis seat He removed to Ra
leigh about thirty-one years ago and
practiced law until 1890, when he
received the appointment to the judge
ship. People are pouring into the city by
the hundreds for the great Twentieth
Century Fair. The exhibits, midway
and racing programme far exceed all
previous records. The formal open
ing will be at noon to-morrow. Better
weather could not be wished. A re
cord breaking success is assured.
DESCRIPTION OP HORSE THIEF.
J. A. Lambeth, Liveryman of Fayetteville,
Wants Man Arrested for Theft.
Mr. J. A. Lambeth, of Fayetteville,
writes the Stab of the recent theft of
a horse from him by an unknown man
of whom he asks the following de
scriptions be published:
The man is about 5 feet five inches
high; weighs about 140 pounds; Very
dark complected; hair dark and curly;
small black eyes; big nose; high cheek
bones; sunken jaws; wears a plain gold
ring on left little finger; about forty
years old; is a Jew and very genteel;
sells jewelry and has one grip in which
he carries his clothes; telescope in
which he carries his jewelry is dove
colored and new ; he has two suits, one
common light suit with black stripe in
them and a lighter pair of pants which
he wears with a black vest and coat
about new; wears derby hat, black
and about new. He is supposed to be
the same man who stole a horse, buegy
and harness in Durham and brought
it near Fayetteville and sold to a far
mer by the name of A. C. Rackley.
By deed filed for record yester
day of date August 19th, 1901, Edwin
Keith Calder et al. transfered to Wm.
Calder a number of tracts of land in
Columbus county belonging to the
late firm of Calder Bros. The amount
was $1 and other valuable considera
tions. v
PRETTY ROUGH SPORT.
A Cruel (hme Played In tne Camps
of Canadian Lumbermen,
So full of peril is the lumberman's
life that even his sports and games
must be spiced with danger or they
wHl pall upon his taste. On the long
winter nights a cruel game called
"Jack, where be ye?" Is frequently
played. ' ;
The middle of the largest room in the
camp Is cleared. Two men are secure
ly blindfolded and, baring previously
drawn lots for the first whack, they
kneel on the floor. In his right hand
each man holds a stout leather strap,
in his left another leather strap, or a
rope is held by the end, either close to
the floor or, in some camps, actually
on it. The latter strap, being kept
taut by the combatants, guarantees a
uniform distance between them. They
are quite near enough to hurt each
other severely, which not infrequently
happens.
Now, the man who has been lucky
enough to draw the first call shouts,
"Jack, where be ye?" to which his op
ponent must immediately answer,
"Here I be." Then the first man
strikes at the place where he imagines
his adversary to be with the heavy
leather strap. If he hits his man, he
Is entitled to another blow mav call
out again, "Jack, where be ye?" and
the other must answer, "Here 1 be."
This is continued till the first man
misses, when he must take his turn
at being struck.
The others form a ring around the
two combatants, bets are made and
each faction encourages and applauds
Its chosen man. There are regular
rounds, and the game is usually kept
up until one or the other has had
enough or perhaps till one Is carried
off the scene wounded. Hard heads
can stand hard knocks, and volunteers
for the sport are numerous. At the
beginning there is generally no mallce.j
A hard blow is struck it is expected
it is the game. But it occasionally
happens that the game develops Into
a fierce duel. Pearson's.
Durham Herald: It waa af at.Ai3
yesterday that Luther Bowles, who
recently became the husband of Mrs.
mary tjoie, naa SKipned out. It will
be remembered that Ytnwlaa fint
ed a licensA to mam Mieo iur:.
" J ".o IUIUU1S
Cole, daughter of his present wife.
out carnea ine license back to the reg?
ister of deeds and secured license to
marrv the mother of thA Ohi
intended to marrv. On Saturdav
Bowles told several that he was going
to gei mmseii irom nome, where he
was not known, and addad - that wtwn
he married Mrs. Cole he did not know
wnat ne was doing. Yesterday the re
DOrter Was told that hn cania1 nut Ma
threat and left either Sunday or early
Monday morning.
Shelhv Ati.Tnvn' & i;m..i.
name Mnnila in CI. -ill - - . .
j ouorm ouiue stating
that a negro answering Jim Lowery's
lerboro,.S. O. The sheriff wired for
O nknfAHMMll A M 4. 1 . I
ruuiugiapu ui ma negro 10 oe sent
here. The photograph came yester
day, but does not bear any resemblance
to Jim Lowery. Messages from Little
T?rly Awl- , HL..J : T . r . .
"""M nut! jDnuarwn, uLU,, Stal
ing that negroes filling Lowery's de-
vnpuuu uiu uncu arreBtea at inese
places were also received. Sheriff
graphs, but they have not yet been
a vjwi v
Resolutions
President RooaevAlt in hain pi,..
T. Washincton. thA Y1 AffVA ArliiAarA
dine with him At thA WKifi tt
were adopted bv the National v.n.
campment of the Union Veteran's
Union, in Chicago.
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THE BI-CENTENNIAL OF YALH
Justice Brewer Delivered the Commemo.
rative Address Degrees Conferred.
President Roosevelt.
By Tolegraph to the Morning Star.
, New Ha-Ven, Conn., Oct. 28. R, ,
presentatves of many peoples and
creeds, of the learned professions ant
of the industries and literature were
honored by Yale TJniversity to-day
and in turn paid homage to the great
institution of learning which h cele
brating its completing the second
century of its existence, as they marci
ed behind Yale's colors, delegates in
the great festival, and participated in
the closing functions of the celebr--tion.
President Roosevelt and President
Harley entered the theatre at 10-30
The President of the United States was
led by the University's President u,
the seat of honor, directly behind the
orator'a desk. President Harley took
his seat beside him
The set programme was carried out
with precision. David Josiah Brewer
LL. D., Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, delivered the com
memorative address. Early in his ad
dress Justice Brewer elicited a nearly
applause from the audience when ,
referred to Yale as a place "wher..
men are taught to recognize a Wash
ington, whether his name is Qeoree
or Booker."
The presentation of candidates for
honorary degrees followed the com
memorative address, and the function
occupied about an hour. Secretary
John Hay, Joseph H. Choate, Chief
Justice Fuller, Archbishop Ireland
Mark Twain, Beth Low and Rear Ad
miral Sampson received tremendous
ovations. The foreigners who wer
honored with degrees were received
with great enthusiasm.
. When the long list had been finish
ed, President Harley advanced a step
or two and with great impressivencss
said "there yet remains one name."
In an instant the great audience was
standing. The President of th
United States also arose and the thea
tre rang with cheers. The air was.
filled with waving handkerchiefs and
programmes.
Remarking that Yale bad' choseu
for the degree this candidate before h
became president, President Harley
announced that all Yale men uu
were doubly honored by greeting the
man and the President as the son of
Yale. Specially addressing Presides
Roosevelt, President Harley spoke a ;
follows: "Theodore Roosevelt, whil
you were a private citizen we offerai
Eou most worthily the degree of
L. D. Since, in His providence, it
has pleased "God to give Theodom
Roosevelt another title, we give him
on that account a double portion of
welcome."
A MANIA FOR MURDER.
Seems to Have Broken Out Among Negroes
Around Selena, Alabama.
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
SELMA, Ala., Oct. 23. A mania for
murder seems to have broken out
among the negroes who live in the im
mediate counties surrounding Selms, '
and in the last two weeks there has been
not less than twenty negroes killed by
other blacks. Three are reDorted to
day, one being near Brown's station,
where a negro man met bis paramour
in the cotton field and pulled out a
knife and stabbed her through the
heart. The other two occurred over
on Southside, where a negro man
quarrelled with a negro preacher at a
protracted meeting and called the
preacher out of the church. The
preacher left the pulpit and when on
the outside they pulled "out their pis
tols. Both were mortally wounded
and died in a few hours.
MURDER IN ATLANTA.
Jesse Wall Shot and Instantly Killed by
Robt. A. Keith.
Dv Telegraph te the Morning 8 tar.
Atlanta, Qa., October 23. Jesse
Wall, a switchman for the Southern
Railway, was shot and instantly killed'
this morning by Robert A. Keith,
a grocery man. Mrs. William Slap
bach, the mother of Mrs. Keith, who
accompanied Keith to Wall's house
and identified him to Keith, has been
arrested as an accomplice, The tragedy
was the result of an unpleasantness
over the alleged attentions of Wall to
Mrs. Keith. Keith did not know Wall
and prevailed upon his mother-in-law
to accompany him to his victim's
house.
All who use Atomizers in treat
ing nasal catarrh will get the best re
suit from Ely's Cream Balm. Price,
including spraying tube, 75cts. Sold
by druggists or mailed by Ely Bros..
56 Warren street, N. fY.
New Orleans, Sept. 1, .1900.
Messrs. Ely Bros: I sold two bot
tles of your Liquid Cream Balm to a
customer, Wm. Lumberton, 1415 Pe
lachaise 8t, New Orleans; he has used
two bottles, giving him wonderful and
most satisfactory results.
GEO. W. MoDTJFBvPharmacist.
For over Kirtr Tears
Mas. Win8low's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by mil
lions of. mothers for their children
while teething with perfect success.
It soothes the child, soften the gums,
and allays all pain ; cures wind colic,
and is the best remedy for diarrhoea.
It will relieve the poor little sufferer
immediately. Sold by druggists in
every part of the world. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for
'Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,
and take no other kind.
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