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i n j flic W&m to PUBU8HIO AT w I L H I M G T Q (I, H. C, tl,Q0 A TEAR 1H HDVAHGE. 7 1-n- lnLjrid WAV H v v 11 i ii TTTTT ITT H K ; ay TAR, SPIRITS TURPENTINP. SS8S3888S388S8S3S 88888888888888888 S8888888888888388 ..now t gssaggsssssssgssg 88888888888888888 82888888388888883 yuow i -sgssaaaassisggg """""ssssgsssglllllllii 8888S838S88888888 sMAV 8 nmoMOMaaaeaencaii l88888lS8888all . s a .3 a- - v t i (A VOL. XXXIII. WU.MINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOYEMBER 8, 1901. t n'eroi t the Port Office at limtgtoo, N. C, as Second Clan Matter1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star if u follows: Single Cop; 1 year, pong paid.,... $ 00 ' " 8 month " " ........ SO .. Smonthl " " SO A FIELD TO EXPLOIT. Of the nations there is bat one which has carried out the colony idea with system and success, and that is Great Britain. Spain had the enterpriseHo explore, enter prisejtimulated by hunger for gold, and the pluck to seize and hold, but she did not have the genius to colo nize, and govern. In her unscrupu lous greed for gold she misgoverned, oppressed, and lost one of the most magnificent domains ever lorded . over by auy Government on earth. But with the enterprise to discover after others led the . way, Great Britain had the dash to appropriate, the business sense and the foresight to colonize with her own. people, and the sense to govern after she had learned the lesson of modera tion taught her by' her American colonies which protested against arbitrary government and, failing in the protest, renounced ' allegiance and set up for themselves, . Ever since then, while English civilization has gone on, while Great Britain was appropriating more territory and encouraging her ?eopleto settle in it, she has dealt considerately with them and made them feel that they were English, protected by the British flag, and practically let them govern them selves, as Canada, Australia and the South African provinces do. She makes them feel that they are English, simply asks that they re cognize allegiance to her and then lets them govern themselves. In thi3 way she retains their friendship and builds up trade between them and her. It is thus that she has made her flag a power in the differ ent quarters of the globe, became the great commercial nation and sea power she is, and it was this, per? haps, that gave foundation for the theory that "trade follows the flag." Other European powers have in a small way attempted to follow Great Britain's example, but none ofi them has achieved much success. But there is little territory left for any of them to appropriate how. They have seized and divided among themselves about all of habitable Africa that is worth anything and they have made about as many seiz ures in China as they can without coming- into collision with each other. There is one magnificent domain left for exploiting, but not for colonizing in the way of estab liabinar national supremacy. This Germany to get adopting in South. America, gives some idea of the im mensity of that country in speaking of .a part of it thus: "It is not surprising that that vast continent to become the home of a great population, and the scene of great wealth producing industries. A. vast territory inland is as un known as the deepest jungles of dark est Africa. The whole extent of the continent is about double that of Eu rope. It lies entirely within the tem perate and torrid cones, and nearly the whole surface is habitable and produc tive. Brazil alone Is almost as large as Europe and has natural wealth of forests, mines and soil almost unri valled by any other country. Ithas a population of about 18,000,000, includ ing xnaians ana negroes, ana is ca.pi Die 01 supporting a population greater than that of Europe, whidh is nearly uu,uw,uuu. xt nas witninits bounda ries 30,000 miles of navigable rivers, affording natural avenues of trade un rivalled in any other land. "The vast extent of other countries of South America is scarcely appreci ated. Venezuela, for instance, has an area of nearly 600,000 square miles five-times the size of Italy and four times the size of Prussia.' Its popula tion, including negroes, and uncivil ised Indians, is less than that of the city of New York. It has vast fer tile plains, a great river system, up lands with a salubrious climate, moun tains rich in minerals, forests without limit. With a government to give protection to its citizens, it will become one of the richest countries in the world. It is not surprising that the overcrowded countries 0 of - Europe should be turning their eyes upon, the great continent of South America, ly ing fallow and in much of its domain awaiting the touch of civilization. The cultivation of closer relations with the United States may do much .to ward simplifying the situation and bringing about in a peaceful way one of those victories of civilization that are no less renowned , than those of OUR MIJTERAL WEALTH. According to the report of the Geological Bureau of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, the mine ral output of this country in 1900, from mine and quarry, aggregated in value $1,070,108,889. The me tallic products are thus given: Products. Quantity. ' Value. PlK Iron, long tons 13,789,842 (259.944.000 Silver, troy ounces , 60,610,643 77,070,471 Gold, troy ounces -8,837,215 - 79,322,281 Copper, pounds.... 606.117466 ': 98 494 039 Lead, Short 4kns 270,824 23,561,(88 Zinc, short tens 183.866 10.654.196 Quicksilver, flasks...... 28,817 1,802,586 Aluminium, jpounds.... 5,200,000 i,7i6,oco Antimony, short tons... 1,750 846,980 niuutu, pounds... U.UO 8,806 Platlnumytroy ounces,. 400 2.500 "value of metal lic products. 1552,418,627 Of the non-metallic products coal amounted to $307,000,000, natural gas to $24,000,000, petroleum $65, 000,000, precious stones $333,170. This wonld leave about $121,457, 092 for the product of the quarries. COUNCIL EXECUTED. Negro at Fayetteville Met Horri ble Death Friday, Pro testing His Innocence. State or any other State, or govern ment, was a man hung where such a number of , the people thought that he ought not to be hung, including the jury, judge and solicitor, before whom he was tried. , ... TITLE TO BRUNSWICK LANDS. RAIDS ON THE CO AST. NEWS FROM RALEIGH. Diamond Back Terrapin Beds Looted Generally by Un known Parties. Lady Managers Appointed for Charleston. Exposition Report On Condition of State Baoks A Forged Check. DISPLAYED GRFAT COOLNESS. The Boers got most of their powder from a factory on Portugese territory. A ship recently brought the factory 300 tons of saltpeter, and the British consul compelled the factory to send the saltpeter back. But England buys its powder where it sees fit, and its horses and mules where it sees fit. Why shouldn't the Boers have the same right ? war. I Here is a territory more than twice as large as Europe and capable of supporting a population twice as large aa that of Europe, with mag nificent rivers flowing through it to superb harbors, rivers that would carry streams thousands, of . miles into the interior, rivers with tribu taries navigable for hundreds of miles, and all this is practically a terra incognita, as far as utilizing it goes. . The inhabited and utilized portions are the States that skirt the seas, the others being but thin ly inhabited, but little utilized and comparatively unexplored. Here s m 'mi 1 " A ' a held lor xrienaiy exploit Dy me progressive nations of the earth, fn which the United States, being the nearest, ought to lead. Tobin Hasnon, in Montreal, mur dered a boy for money and when he got only fifty cents got so mad at himself and his luck that he went to a police station, told what he did and gave himself up. The police found the body of the boy at the place designated by the murderer. He was the son of a well krAwn coffee merchant. And now they'haye struck oil in Illinois. A man boring for water near Canton, a few days ago, didn't strike water, but he did strike a big tank of petroleum, and now the whole country around there has be come excited and the ground will be filled with holes. And now it is said that we are to have another steel combine by the I die for the love of Christ." Rope Broke and He Fell to the Floor, Bat Soon Regained His Feet and Walked Again Upon the Trap Father Marlon Attended Him. From the Fayetteville Observer of Friday afternoon the Stab takes the following account of the hanging of Lewis Council . in that city Friday morning: Lewis Council was hanged inside the jail of Cumberland this morning at 10 :15 o'clock in the presence of about 25 witnesses .who had been formally summoned by Sheriff - Burns, and which included Dr. J. D. MacRae, county physician, and Dr. A. S. Rose, county coroner. The prisoner was attended in his last moments by Rev. Father Marion, of the Roman Catholic Church, who has been throughout faithful in his spir itual ministrations, and unwearied in his efforts to procure a commutation of sentence for the wretched man. A few minutes before the last mo ments of life, Sheriff Burns permitted the condemned man to come out of hid cell ; and he walked slowly, but with firm v step, by the side of Father Marion, who now and then repeated parts of Holy Scripture or a brief prayer. Then the prisoner kneeled at the feet of his spiritual adviser, and prayed fervently. Rising to his feet, he turned to the sheriff, who, at exactly 10 o'clock, read the warrant of death, his only reply being: "I am" innocent" Between 8heriff Burns and Father Marion, Council then walked to the foot of the ladder and ascended it without aid, to the; top of the line of steel cells, which form a platform, where were grouped about the creature on the verge of death, the sheriff, the priest, and officers Raynor and Monaghan, the last immediately binding Council's feet and arms, his hands being for the moment free, in which he held a crucifix. Council recited the Lord's Prayer, following Father Marion, his confes sion of faith in the . Roman Catholic Church, and again and again repeated : "As Christ died for the love of me, l Philadelphia Parties, Have Grant to Large Area la Adjoining Connty. According to the South port Stand ard Messrs. .Herbert Lex, W. S. Samuels, Jr., and Howard Samuels, of Philadelphia, are in Brunswick county to look after the Interests of certain Philadelphia parties who hold State grants under date of 1792 and 1795 to David. Allison for about 40, 000 acres of land bounded by the Cape j Fear and Lockwood's Folly rivers and the Mill Creek settlement, and sea coast. Tbe grants appear from the records in the office of the Register of Deeds of Brunswick, and the Phila delphia parties have engaged Mr. J. EL Mintz, of Shallotte, to survey it for them. The lands were sold to the Philadelphia gentlemen in 1897 by B. F. Fisher, Esq., of Philadelphia, trustee. -, Some consternation, has appeared among the pepple inhabiting the land, as may be gathered from the following from the Standard: In the century and over, since the grants were issued, no known evi dences of ownership have been exer cised under these grants, and it is well known that lands within this area have been entered by citizens, who, in good faith, have exercised evi dences of ownership after securing State grants, have held the property, paid taxes on the same, and, in num erous instances, have reared families, and even grandchildren on it; and perhaps great grandchildren now hold some of the same property, which has regularly made descent from genera tion to generation. These well Known facts make it highly, improbable that but very little of the land can now be reclaimed by the Philadelphia parties under our existing State laws. Messrs. Rountree & Carr, of Wil mington, are attorneys for the Phila delphia people. NEW R04D TO HOPE MILLS. THE LOSS WILL BE LARGE. Cipt. W, A. Sanders, of Wilmington, One of Heaviest Losers Prices This Year, Are Good, Which Probably Ac counts for tie Thefts. beginning of the next year, a $2, 000,000,000 combine, twice as big as the U. 8. Steel combine. Mr. Frick is engineering it. There will probably be some friction between these two concerns, and the steel consumers will be the gainers by it. "BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.' , Since the outbreak at Catbolo gan, island of Samar, it seems that the American authorities in the Philippines are resorting to drastic measures-" to cow the insurgents. What they propose to do is thus stated in a Manila dispatch of the l8tin8t: - ."The Philippine - commission has drafted an act against treason and se dition. The penalty prescribed for treason is death and the act is framed to include those persons giving aid and comfort to the insurgents. Persons who utter seditious words or speeches, or who write libels against the United 8tates Government or the Insular Government, are punishable by the imposition of a fine of $2,000 or two years' imprisonment or oreaaiuic the oath of allegiance a fine of $2,000 or imprisonment for ten years is fixed as the penalty. Foreigners are placed , under the same laws as are Americans and natives. A public discussion of the act will be had on Saturday." The Cramps are reported to have said the keel of that Turkish cruiser will not be laid until they get the money for it in hand. Turkey is slow pay, and doesn't pay much at tention to duns when the duns are not backed by force. CURRENT COMMENT. Of course an unexpected uprising like that in Samar followed by the slaughter of nearly fifty United domain is South America, on which I States soldiers, would naturally re- Industrial capital of Alabama has increased in ten years past from $46,000,000 to $70,000,000. The value of industrial products increas ed from $51,000,000 in 1890 to $82, 700,000 in 1900. Mobile Register, Dew Nothing so alarms England as the fact that English soldiers are continually deserting to the Boers. Read between the lines Kitchener's disnatches would indicate that many of the soldiers reported cap tured by the Boers marched with trailing colors into the' Boer camp. There is a mystery about the South Then said Father Marion: ''Lewis Council, you know now that there is no hope for you, that you have, but a minute to live. I want you to tell the reporters of the press and other citi zens here assembled whether you are guilty or Innocent." Council replied, holding up his hands with the cross, "Before you all, in the presence of Christ crucified, I proclaim my innocence." The priest asked: "Do you swear it?" "I swear that I am an innocent man." Taking the cross from the hands of the condemned, Father Marion, after bearing testimony to the prisoner's nerve and grit.and after declaring that he had over and over again urged him to confess if be were guilty, raised the cross toward heaven, and solemnly de clared in ringing tones: "I hereby proclaim, in spite of Governor Aycoct and that warrant, ' that this man dies innocent. Good-bye, Lewis," he con tinued. "Have you anything to say to the sheriff f" , . Council thanked the sheriff and his officers for their kindness -to him, de clared that he bad no hard feelings to wards any one and forgave all for per secuting him; that when all came to die they would know he was inno cent. Deputy Sheriff Monaghan adjusted the black cap, the signal was given and the sheriff sprung the trap. Hor ror of horrors, the rope broke and the body fell to the floor beneath. It was a fearful scene, and the terrible silence was broken by Father Marion, who cried for all to keep cool. Council was assisted up the stairs, all the while uttering dreadful groans. He had strength enough, however, to stand alone on the trap while another rope was adjusted around his necs:, Aberdeen and Rockfisb Railway May Ex tend There Shortage of Cars. The Raleigh News and Observer of yesterday says: "Mr. John Blue, president of the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, who was in Raleigh this week, says that he is preparing for a short extension of his road 'and will have it soon com pleted to Hope Mills, a flourishing mill town in Cumberland county, on the Atlantic and Coast Line Rail road. It runs through a fine coun try and has caused the building of the flourishing town of Rae- ford. Mr. Blue's road is now forty miles long. He started building it in 1889 and has built it on year by year, carrying on a big lumber business, too, till he has one of the best pieces of property in North Carolina. He says that the lumber business has been very good this year. "The famine in cars is our greatest trouble now," said Mr. Blue. "We cannot get cars enough to handle the business as promptly as we would like. But this famine in cars is not alone with us, but I notice that the same thing is true also in the North.- In fact, Buffalo has experienced bad business in certain lines because of the unprecedented famine in cars." MR. J. C. GORE MARRIED. ; Owners in Wilmington have just learned of systematic and very exten sive raids that have been made by un known parties during the past week on the "diamond back" terrapin beds along the Caps Fear coast. Several thousand of the valuable crustaceans, the Northern market for which is just now opening, have been pilfered and a number of owners of pens from -which the terrapins have been re moved are anxious to learn the iden tity of the depredators. - The penning and raising of "dia mond backs," as they are commonly called, is an important industry at contiguous points, .and as they are very scarce .this year the season opened last week at prices ranging from $10 to $24 per dozen. The terra pins are kept in a pen near the water, and at this season of the year, when they stop feeding, ' they bury them selves in the ground and - may be stolen without being missed by the owners for several days. The pilfer ing of beds along the coast last week was general and wholesale, which leads the owners to believe that the work is by organized parties, who are equipped for getting them to market and are fully cognizant of their value and shipping. Last week Capt W. A. Sanders re ceived an order from a Baltimore house for a number of "diamond backs" and he went to his pen at Little River, S.C., to procure them for shipment yester day. He was dismayed to find only one terrapin in his large bed of 852. Not wishing to disappoint his custo mer, Capt Sanders hurried a message to Mr. C. E. Wright, kejeper of an other of his pens at Wrightsville, but that too had been raided and 202 terra pins stolen. At Middle Sound Mr. Charlie Mason lost 300 a few days ago, and the Star learns that the depredations have been general all along the coast, the losses perhaps amounting up into the thou sands. It is probable that the aid of the State Shell Fish Commission will be invoked. The .terrapins belonging to Capt. Banders were marked by two niches on the lower right hand side of the shell. HOMICIDE AT WILSON, N. C. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, November 2. Gov ernor Aycock to-day announced the appointment of sixty-six ladies, of all parts of the State, as North Carolina managers of the woman's deparment of the Charleston Exposition. Not able ladies in Eastern North Carolina are: Mesd&mes George Rountree, P. L. Bridgers, Wilmington; Mrs. J. EL Small, Washington; Mrs. Arnold Bor den, Goldsboro; Mrs. Henry W. Lilly, Fayetteville ;Mrs. N. A. McLean, Lumberton; Mrs. E. H. Evans, Laur inburg; Mrs. J. P. Leake, Mrs. Hall Led better, Rockingham; Mrs. W. P. Bur ns, Newborn; Mrs. Jacob Battle! Rocky Mount; Mrs. E. F. Aydett, Elizabeth City; Mrs. Thomas a Skin ner; Hertford; Mrs. F. Adams, Golds boro; Mrs. Albert Anderson, Mrs. F. A. Woodward, Wilson; Mrs. T. J". Jarvis, Greenville. The North Carolina Corporation Commission to-dav issued a summary of reports on the condition of State,' private and savings banks at the close of business Sept. 30th. Reports show total resources of State banks, $13, 097,118.44; private banks, $1,624, 581.21; saving banks, $2,646,077.27. Total resources, $17,387,776.92. A comparison with the last report, July 15th, shows again of $866,408.88; the total resources of. all three classes of banks at that time being $16,501,- 368.04. H. R. Sylvester, passing here ' for several weeks as a New York Journal writer, and more lately as a special detective, disappeared yesterday and is discovered to-day to have forged a check for fifty dollars on United States Commissioner Jno. Nichols. He in duced Jacob Rosengarten, clothier, to cash the check. Sylvester is now be lieved to be responsible for burglaries committed recently. A reward is of fered for his arrest. He weighs 120 pounds, is five feet high, dark skin, through which his beard shows plain ly. mmu Daughters of the Confederacy. Capt. James I. Metts, commander of Cape Fear Camp, U. a V., has ap pointed the following committee to con fer with and assist Cape Fear Chapter, Daughters of .the Confederacy, in their convention Nov. 13th: George W. Hueeins. Dr. W. D. McMillan, T. D. Meares, G. J. Boney, W. H. Northrop, W. J. Woodward. The committee will meet at 12 M. on Monday at the office of the Pannill Paint Company, Princess street, for the purpose of or ganizing. THE COURT OF INQUIRY. Goldsboro Argus: The death of Mr. Tom Johnson, 29 years of age, occurred at his home in the country just beyond Stony Creek, on the road to Bauiston, xnursaay nignt. Concord Tribune: Dr." J. W. "N"0 1 I boro Wednesday. He went to Greens- : ment. He was 40 years of age and was one of Stanly county's most prominent men and physicians. Smithfield Herald: We have learned that a mad dog passed by Mr. Sanders Peedin's several days ago and bit two of his finest hogs. Last . Sun day, about ten days after they were bitten, these hogs showed signs of hy drophobia and had to be killed. It is feared that they bit other hogs before being-killed. - Greensboro Record: A secret service man, it is said, has been "nos ing" around among Greensboro mer chants recently and has found what; he claims is butterine being sold for butter. In every case the merchant knew no better; the goods were sold to them for butter and the substitute being a good one, they never discov ered the difference. Danbury Reporter: Corn and wheat are both quoted at eighty cents per bushel in Danbury. Rain is needed in this section very much. -The ground has become so hard that it is almost impossible to plow. The large herd of Angora goats which were recently placed at the Yade Mecum Springs are reported to be dy ing from eating ivy. Mr. John H. Sparks, the owner of the goats, will in the near future move them down on the large tract of mountain land which he has purchased a short distance west of here. ' J 3 Germany has wistful eyes and where she and Italy already have many of their people located and have formed Iheir trade combinations by which they hope to profit and exercise a potent influence in that quarter of the world, not by asserting, territo tqrial supremacy, but through the agency of their own people who have become settlers. Italy is pursning her course quietly while Germany, or rather the Germans, are more assertive, assuming that the rightto establish colonies by European powers, under the patronage or by direction of the home government wonld be ques tioned and resented by this govern ment as a defiance of the Monroe Doctrine. Some of the spokesmen African situation which neither dis patches nor private letters reveal. I The trap was again sprung by Sheriff Houston (lex.) vnronicie, na. Burns, ana m ume ins ropo uom uu tne negro was swuug mw cmuuj. fourteen minutes ne was pronuuuuou nnU. in morfl atrincent measures to I The Kaiser, must be getting nrevent these outbreaks and awe th I desperate when he declares that if dead by the county physician and the I a. v.?n1 tmofiai ara Tint P.nn- I . disaffected, methods smack of vengeance and desperation, and the more of that the-more difficult and the further off will be the real pacification of these islands. They may smite with the mailed hand, kill, hang, imprison or banish but they will only intensify the hatred and, out of sympathy, alienate many who might ,liave been disposed to be friendly, We have been criticising the harsh and cruel methods resorted to by the British commanders in. South Africa . in their desperate ef forts to crush, the spirit eluded he will "smash everything to bits." However, the conditions that have aroused his wrath are exactly those that call for calm considera tion and statesmanlike treatment of tariff questions, remembering that there's as much profit in buying as in selling, which most oi our pro tected industries seem to nave ior gotten. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. "Human life," said a leading minister of Louisville of the Presby terian faith, in his sermon last Sun day, "is safer in the dominions of the Ameer of Afghanistan than it is in Kentucky. There are more mur ders in Louisville with 200,000 peo ple than there are in London with 7,000,000. There are more murders in Kentucky with its 2,000,000 peo t1o than in Great Britain With a Council's courage through all this dreadful scene was wonderful to be hold. . 4U At 8 o'clock this morning Father Marion visited the prisoner, whona he found cool and collected and thor oughly resigned to his death. He bap tized him and administered the holy communion to the unfortunate man. Council was convicted of rape at the December term, 1900, of the Crimi nal Court and sentenced to be hung March- 6th by Judge Moore. The jury, in rendering a verdict, recom mended that the Judge request the Governor to commute the sentence to fifteen years' imprisonment. The prisoner's counsel took an appeal and this acted as a stay of execution. The Superior and Supreme Courts found no error. The Governor then set J une 24th as the time of execution. Several days before that date he granted a re spite to July 15th. Just before that day was reacnea ne again Kraurou imi-iw .Tniv 22nd. On July 19th came ..ntiiw rABTtita to Auerust 12th, A At Stanley, N. C , He Wedded Miss Callle G. Paysenr, of That Town. Quite a surprise came to a host of friends Thursday when it was an nounced in the city that Mr. J. C. Gore, a member of the D. L. Gore Company, of Wilmington, had mar ried on the Wednesday preceding Miss CallieG. Payseur, of Stanley, N. C. The ceremony was performed at the home ot the bride by her brother, Rev. J. J. Payseur, pastor of Brooklyn Baptist church, this city. It , was a quiet affair, though very pretty. Nothing was known of the ap proaching wedding here, except by a few intimate friends, until Mr. Gore and bride arrived Thursday. They are receiving congratulations and best wishes from many friends. FRAUDULENTLY SOLICITED INSURANCE Saloon Keeper Instantly Killed by Clerk, " Who Attempted His Own Life. Special Star Telegram. Wilson, N. C, Nov. 2. This morn ing at 11 o'clock George Gay shot and instantly killed Wade H. Aycock. Both parties are white. George Gay was a clerk in the saloon of Aycock. As soon aa Gay shot Aycock he (Gay) immediately fired one bullet into his own body, which may result fatally. Gay and Aycock had had some diffi culty, the nature of which cannot be learned. By Associated Press. Charlotte, N. C, Nov. 2. While in his bar at Wilson, N. C, this morn ing Wade Aycock was shot in the head and killed by his clerk, George Gav. The latter then turned his pis tol upon himself and inflicted serious, but not necessarily fatal injuries in the breast. The shooting is supposed to have been the result of sudden in sanity, as no motive is apparent. While in an unconscious condition Gay said that "God told me to do it." THE HARBOR MASTER'S REPORT. Admiral Dewey Tells President Roose velt It Will be Concluded In a Few Oays nf and disarm the Boers who are for German v and other European I ti,a inviAnr of their conn- I nnrnilation of 40.000.000. Finally, j uvumug u - fv I ' - - . i-i n nnwora nnnfar.i i,f Vn ffci'a cinv. I . -, ... : .ni,A. I thara are more murders in cne t--.wj vuuwuu turn nucu vu . trTT arm Tinw LllH AUioUUBU buuuuii- . . , , i nuu.uvi in.)""' --. - " . . , it United States than m tne wnoie oi faw aAVS before the day set ior tne ex- ties are resorting to tne same mem- -stVTtiiiT. and Turkey left -ame the foruth respite to ods to crush the spirit ana aisarm out and BBSSia included." The the Filipinos who, like the Boers, Bpeciai sensation pertaining to Jthis are fighting the invaders of their consits ox its aosoiute ernment went beyond its own borders and planted its flag on the islands in the seas it thereby nulli fied ita Monroe doctrine, and there Me .a good many people in this country who agree with them. One of this country's great blun ts was overlooking the magnifi cent domain South of ns, turning eyes across the seas, and letting ther and rival countries get a foot- Hold where we ought to have prece dence and be practically masters. &is a grand domain, no richer on toe globe, rich in fertile soils, in the variety ofproducts, rich in for et of rare and valuable timbers, ttoh in miarhtv rivers navigable for thousands There is there room and resources for one of earth's greatest empires, when peo pled by a different people from those ho are now doing little or nothing J develop it, and lack the capacity 10 it if they had the disposition. The Baltimore Sun in an edito- ft! on-the disposition shown by country. The British have notnmg to be proud of over their perform ers ,in the TransvaaL nor have we anything to be proud of over our performances in the Philippines since Dewey dashed into Manila harbor and sank the Spanish fleet. That's the only honorable and re deeming feature of the whole busi ness. . v ' It ig mighty 'easy to slide down hill when a fellow starts sliding. Fifteen vears ago Frank 3radley was general manager of the Pull man car works at Chicago at a salary of $20,000 a year. He was detected embezzling the company's money and was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary, which he served. He is now in the uook county jau, arrested aa a pickpocket v This man of God, Rev. J. Kinsey Smith, is even within the facts, on which comment is not needed. Chatta nooga Times, Ind. A Precautionary Measure. Capt. Robert Green, chief nuaran tine officer of the city, left yesterday evening for Mount Oliveand other points on the W. & W. railroad to investigate the prevalence of typhoid fAvei. in that section. Captain Green will make a thorough canvass of the community said to be infected and will advise with the Wilmington health authorities as to the advisa bility of establishing precautionary measures against an introduction of the disease into the city. As the Stab employs no trav elling agents, bills are sent direct to subscribers. These bills should re ceive prompt attention. November 1st. On Monday it was discovered that the death warrant read Saturday, November 1st, when Friday was November 1st. So the Governor issued another death warrant, makiBg the date Saturday, November 2nd, thus granting the fifth respite. . Tremendous pressure was brought to bear on the Governor to act on the recommendation of the jury, by the judge, solicitor, Father Marion and a great many of the leading citizens of Fayetteville. The Governor, how ever, thought the man guilty and so he had to die. Shortly after the man was pro nounced dead and cut down, Council's father took charge of tneDOuyannu was carried to the home near Wade station. Here the funeral will be held to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. Rev. Father Marion, of St. Patrick's church, will conduct the services. ThAMDA which was Used to hang Council, and which broke, was secured from Wake county, where it had been used on a number of similar occasions. West, the husband of the woman who it was alleged was assaulted, was in the city to-day, but the sheriff would not permit him to witness the execution. He is thoroughly disliked here and the atmosphere was chilly about him. Never before in the history of this Man Arrested Yesterday ia Robeson Conn ty On Tbst Chsrge by Commissioner. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, November 1. In surance Commissioner Young return ed to-day from Robeson county where he arrested C. R. Haasell charged with fraudulently soliciting insurance poli cies for the'old Wayne Life Insurance Company, which is not allowed to do business in the State; also, for falsely representing himself as an agent of the Equitable Co. Commissioner Young charges Hassell with ' having done an extensive fraudulent business atEenly, Lucama; Ramaw, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Asbpole and Rowland, N.C. Has Typhoid Fever. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Chadbourn, Jr., and Dr. Charles P. Bolles left yesterday for Chapel Hill in response to a telegram stating that Mr. George Chadbourn, a student at the Univer sity, has typhoid fever. His friends here hope for his early recovery. 18,764 Arrivals of Vessels of 90 Tons and Over Daring the Month of October; The report of -Capt Edgar D. Wil liams, harbor master, shows arrivals of vessels of 90 tons and over during the month as follows: American Nine steamships, 13,201 tons; 8 schooners, 1,945 tons. Total vessels, 17; total tonnage, 15,146, . Foreign Nine . steamships, tons; 2 barques, 1,000 tons; 2 schoon ers, S57 tons. Total vessels, 13; total tonnage, 20,121. v : The grand total number of vessels is 30, with a combined tonnage of 35, 267. While the number of vessels in October this year is not larger than the number for the same month last year, the tonnage is greater by over three thousand, showing that the class of vessels arriving this season is larger than last. j By Telegrapn to tbe Morning star. Washington, Nov. 2. Admiral Dewey called upon President Roose velt to day, but did not discuss with him the Schley court of "inquiry, ex cept to tell the President that the pub lic sessions of the court would be con cluded in a few days. "When we begin to sift the testi mony," said the admiral, "our real work will begin. I told Secretary Long, when he asked me to become nresident of the court, that I would rather go through another battle in Manila bay. The hardest part of this work will be wading through the mass of testimony and reaching our conclusion. I have two able associ ates, however, and realize that we ana on a trial before the country as well as Admiral Schley. Two abler, better men, could not have been secured than Admirals Benham and Ramsey." Admiral Dewey said that the court probably would take up each charge in the precept, review the testimony and then give the facts as they find them and give such an opinion as they called for. He did not know that this would be done, as he had not discuss ed the case with his associates, but it had occurred to him that this would be a good plan. He felt, he said, that the American people would want the court's reasons in details and were en titled to know them. - PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. Sandford Express: The people of the community were shocked Satur day (Oct. 26) morning when they re ceived the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. Thomas Judson Stroud. He died at his home on Hawkins Avenue Friday night about ten o'clock. Mr. Stroud was on the streets during the day and felt as well as usual. He ate a hearty supper and retired about nine o'clock. Soon afterwards some mem ber of the family heard him breathing heavily and upon entering the room found him struggling . in death. A physician was called inj but to no avail, as the patient was beyond. hu man aid. He soon breathed his last. His death was due to heart failure. . Charlotte Observer i The stock holders of the Bluitt Falls Electrical . Power Company met in Wadesboro Friday and organized. The officers elected were : Fred J. Coxe, of Wades boro, president and treasurer; Robert L. Steele, of Rockingham, secretary, and Samuel T. Stowe, of Lodo, Meck lenburg county, general superintend ent Bluitt Falls is a great water power .on the Pee Dee river, between the counties of Anson and Richmond, and is Situated about four miles above the Carolina Central railroad. This power will be developed for electrical , transmission to Wadesboro, Rocking ham and Hamlet. The promoters also contemplate the construction oi an electric railway in the town of Wades boro. . Raleigh Netos and Observer : Tuberculosis has made its appearance among the fine herd of cattle at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Goldsboro. Dr. Tait Butler, the State veterinarian, has gone to Goldsboro in response to a request from Dr. Miller, the superintendent of the hos pital. While there Dr. Butler will make a thorough investigation of the infected cattle. The herd of cattle at this State institution is an exception ally fine one, numbering forty well bred cows. The extent of the preva lence of tuberculosis among the in-1 fecled cattle is not known. There has been more Or less tuberculosis in Raleigh for several years. The disease last made its appearance at the Central Hospital for the Insane, but was stamped out. Alexander county is marketing a fine crop of apples. Some of the farmers have sold apples enough to pay for their farms. Some are getting $500 to $1,500 for their crops of green apples in the orchards. -Alexander county mountain land is getting more valuable. SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY. Expired by Limitation Last Night The Financial Loss Was About Three . Million Dollars. Feaifnl Crime of an Unrequited Lover. Woman and Her Husband Killed. Suicide ot the Murderer. Br Teiegrapn to tbe Morning Star. Amsterdam, N. Ym November 2. Frederick Bankert having gained ad mittance at 2 o'clock this morning to the apartments of Wm. Green, who lived in the second story of a house on Elizabeth street, killed Green by shoot ing him in the neck with a revolver -and splitting' his head open with a hatchet. Bankert also shot Mrs. Green and cut her head open with the hatchet, inflicting fatal wounds, and then shot himself through the heart, dying in stantly. Mrs. Green died later. Bankert gained entrance to ureen a apartments by climbing up a rope ladder on the outside of the building and entering a window. He was a suitor of Mrs. Green before her mar riage, but his love was unrequited. . The first time he shot her was on No vember 23d, 1895, and he then cut her with a razor, but she recoverea irom her wounds. He was sent to prison and was released from there about six months ago. Mrs. Green was formerly miss uora B. Harrison. She was an accomplish ed amatuer actress and a handsome and attractive woman, 26- years old. Bankert was SO, and Mr. Green 22. AN INVOLUNTARY FLIQHT. The Star had the pleasure of a call yesterday from Mr. E. J. Col well, of Sampson county, who is here on a visit of several weeks to his daughters, Mrs. B. B. Rogers and Mrs. R. W. Best. Mr. Colwell was an orderly sergeant in Co. A, Haar's bat talion. during the civil war. and was at that time among the troops stationed I Georgia. around Wilmington. Both Feet Cat Off. Mr. Frank Herbst, proprietor of the Globe Saloon on Market street, Wed nesday evening received the distress inc news that his young brother, Mr. Fred Herbst, aged less than 20 years, had suffered the terrible accident of haying both his feet cut off while attempting to board a moving train at Walden, Ga., nine miles below Ma-, con, The telegram came from Sup erintendent J. E. Hall, of the Macon hospital, to which young Mr. Herbst ' waa sent soon after the accident. Mr Frank Herbst telegraphed in reply to give the young man every attention possible and it is hoped that he will soon be able to be removed to Wil mington. The young man formerly clerked in his brother's saloon here but recently left for a trip through Many friends here hope for I his early recovery. By Telegraph to tbe Monona Star Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 2. The Pan American Exposition ended at 12 o'clock to-night At midnight Presi dent John G. Milburn pressed an electric button and the lights in the famous electric tower grew dim for the last time. Slowly, one by one, the lights on post and pinnacle and- tower faded away. A corps of buglers stand ing in the tower sounded taps and one of the greatest glories of the exposi tion, the electrical illumination, passed away and the exposition was ended. The financial loss will be in tbe neighborhood of $3,000,000. The total number of admissions for the six months was close to 8,000,000. An average of 2,000,000 a-month had been figured on by the exposition offi cials. The attendance had been in creasing steadily up to the date of the assassination of President McKinley. The gates were then closed for two days, and when they . were re opened there was a drop of twelve per cent in the attendance and no improvement followed. The government exhibit, which is a beautiful and instructive collection, will be at once shipped to Charleston, B.C. ? A Narrow Escape: Miss Fisher Quite a confidential chat you were' having with Miss Kutcher. I fear vntrn una me auii uy comparison. Mr. Blunt Not at all. It's a relief to talk to a girl isn't clev that is er not at all I Not at all II Captive Ballooa Containing Nine People Broke From Its Fastenings. By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. San Francisco, November 2. A captive balloon containing nine peo ple one woman and eight men broke from its fastenings at Eleventh and Folson streets this afternoon and floated to the neighborhood of Red wood City, about thirty miles distant The occupants of the balloon are re ported to have landed unharmed. The balloon had been sent up several times during the afternoon with pas sengers. It was fastened to the ground by a one thousand-foot cable, one and a quarter inches in diameter. While descending on the fifth trip, about five hundred feet from the ground, the rone broke, fifty feet from the bal loon. To the horror of the spectators the balloon rapidly shot up in the air to a height of 2,000 feet or more and floated away in a southerly direction. It landed in the hills near Redwood City and a brief report from that place . says none of the passengers was hurt The statement of the Associated Banks for the week ending yesterday shows: Loans $881,923,900, increase, $7,333,200; deposits, $958,062,400, in crease, $3,566,300; circulation I3a,ot&, 900, increase, $112,700 ; legal tenders, $71,534,700, increase, $1,140,800 ;specie, I $178,463,700, decrease, $4,479,100; re- ' serves, f24,8,4w, decrease, o,ooo,- AM ' .vv:'Xj: . '.'--ii' ;"'.' V.- IA 1 1 i t "if 1