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1 3?iue WUzMq Mx. PI7BLI8BXD lT V W l t M I N 6 T.Ci Mf M. C., , $1 00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE I 8S88S8S888SS88S8S i) 188888883888888888 PW8 s88S8Sg8S3:SggggS 188888888888888888 . 1 8888888888888888'i . 8S888SS8S8888888S , 8S8S8SSS3S88SS88S s5?SS58Sa88S8 mu S288888.3288888S88 , S8888&88888888S8S ,,HHHg I .J a ' S - jf - - Entered at the Post Office at timtgtoa, ft. C, as oecona uui juucr.i , . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Toe inbtcriptlon price ol the We-iiUy Btu is as follows: Sinjle Copy 1 year, postage paid $1 00 51 " 8 monthi " " ., Co " a moauii " SO PLAYING WITH RECIPROCITY. The convention of manufacturers, which met in Washington Tuesday for the purpose of discussing the re ciprocity question, took a good deal more interest in the question.of con tinued tariff protection than it did in reciprocity. It was for protec tion first and for reciprocity next, 1 ' A 1 1 ' . . a . . proviaea mac reciprocity didn't in any way interfere with the grip that protection gives them on the home market. It resolved in favor of that kind of reciprocity. After hearing from a number of the manufactur ers present, only a few of whom de clared for reciprocity in preference Ho protection, a committee appoint ed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the convention, report ed as follows: Whereas the growth of -manufactures in the United States, represented in values and in round numbers, has been at follows i 1850..'. , ....$1,000,000,000 1860 2,000.000,000 1870 4,000,000,000 1880 i 5,500,000,000 1890.. 9.000,000,000 1900. .....15,000,000,000 And whereas these figures exhibit at the same time (1) a splendid result for the past industrial policies of ur Government and (2) a growing need for the development of larger markets in foreign countries: and. Whereas it would seem desirable not only to maintain our policies un der which sueb splendid results have been accomplished, but also devise means to develop increased markets for the increased and increasing man ufactured products; therefore belt Resolved, That this convention rec ommpQds to Congress the maintenance of the principle of protection for the home market and to open by recirc city opportunities for increased foreign trade by special modifications of the tariff in special cases, but only where it can be done without loiur r to-any of our borne interests of manufactur ing, commerce or farming. That in order to ascertain the ififlu ence of any proposed treaty on our home interests this convention recom mends to Congress the establishment of a reciprocity commission, which snail be charged with the duty or in vestigating the condition of any in dustry and reporting the same to the Executive and to Congress for guid ance in negotiating reciprocity trade agreements. r These resolutions were adopted by a practically unanimous vote, there being only three votes in the nega tive. one of which changed to the affirmative, leaving but two against, one a tanner from Pittsburg, who wanted the duty removed from hides, the other a manufacturer of agricul tural manchinery in Chicago. In arguing for free hides the former, among other things, said: ' Otber countries are not interested in our tariff on hides, They have sale for all the hides they produce. To re tain our duty does not reduce the price ; to remove the duty would not secure for them any advance in price. If we are fools enough to charge ourselves an unnecessary tax they have sense : enough to let us do it until we get tired. Are we unreasonable in asking prompt action of our representatives to relieve us of this burden and without delay correct a great wrong committed through a political compromise? Pro tests are coming from all sections and multitudes of manufacturers in vari ous lines of trade are beating at the doors of our National Legislature clamoring for relief: but our Congress men, like the clown's dill ass, will not mend theirpace with beating.' This is a tanner talking, talking for himself, and condemning a policy which puts little if any money into the Treasury, and bene fits only the Western trusts, which control the hide market in this country; but he was while speaking for himself speaking more for the shoe manufacturers of the country who are really more interested in free hides, which would mean cheaner leather to them, than the tanners are. The shoe manufac turers can in eight months make shoes enough to supply the home demand for twelve months, and consequently there must, if they de pendupon the home market, re duce their output or gd idle one third of the year. Of course this means loss to them and the only way this can be averted, is by find ing foreign markets for the surplus that cannot be sold at home. But in these foreign markets the Amer - ican shoe-maker most compete with the shoe-makers of other countries, some, at least, of whom have the advantage of free hides and free leather. Doesn't it stand to rea- ton that our shoemakers would be better able to compete with these foreign t hoe-makers if they could bnyxheaper leather? Possibly some of our manufacturers can compete : ' JL;JbiUBa.'- ' : W JElidKJL Y AR '...v?,.. -' ? - . ' :',. -v. .. .. tQL. XXXIII. I WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1901. : NO. 5 now with their better mfitrmda and labor saving, machinery, but they COUld flo it ImnnV more easily, build up a large foreign trade and make larger profits if they could buy their leather as cheaply as the European manufacturers can. With free hides they could do that. When tbey could do that thev could J is sney wouid, give their home cus xi i 'I tomers cheaper and better shoes for their moneys for getting cheaper material they could afford to do that and make as large profits as they do now, and sell more shoes, too, which would mean greater profit on the ag gregate year's work. In speaking for reciprocity Mr. Deering," the representative of the Chicago, inanufactory of agricultural machinery, said: . , "I want to saT a word eoneevnimy the manufacture of harvestiac ma chines. That is an industrv nrodue- mg a surplus, and that surplus is, to a large extent, sent to foreign' mar kets.. I come here. aa: an advocate of manufacturer producing a surplus. That surplus must be sold abroad, and with reciprocal arrangements with foreign countries ur markets there will be greatly broadened. 'It is true that a few manufacturers are opposed to reciprocity in the ab stract. But we must consider thia nh. ject from a liberal standpoint and from me viewpoint or just what benefit it will accomplish for the whole neonle. We ought to ratify the? reciprocity treaty with France. We must ratify it unless we wish to turn our backs upon our industrial destiny. The knit goods industrv offers the most serious objection t the ratification of this treaty, but I say that with the enforce ment or the provisions of this treaty we make reciprocity a living thing, a vital force and one with Which Ameri ca can march on to her destiny as the greatest manufacturing country in the wona." This is an industry which em ploys 8,000 men in manufacturing agricultural machinery and imple ments for export, not a small indus try by any means. It not only em ploys these men, but it gives em ployment to many more who fur nish the metal 'and timber used in the manufacture of those p imple ments and machinery. With reci procity and less tariff handicapping this business might be largely in creased and markets found for all the machinery and implements they could supply But this industry has been injured by a ruling of the Treasury in the interest of the Sugar Trust, when the Secretary of the Treasury ordered a counter vailing duty on sugar from Russia, one of the largest buyers of Ameri can agricultural machinery. Mr. Deering was doubtless think ing more about his own interests than about the public when he de clared that a question like this should br viewed not 'from a narrow but a broader standpoint of "what benefit it would be to the whole people." The men whom he was addressing were not thinking about the whole people or what would benefit them, but about themselves and how they could keep their grip on the whole people. They Bhowed that in the resolutions which they adopted, which, while professing to be for reciprocity, are only for that kind of reciprocity which will not reduce their hold on or profitfrom the home market. -Mr. Deering Concluded by warning them that if they did not approach this question in the right spirit and meet it squarely, after aH that talk of reciprocity, the people would take the matter in their own hands after a while and smasn cne wnoie pro m mm m 1 a 1 1 1 tection business. Another reciprocity advocate, Mr. K. E. Young? of New York, believed in reciprocity which means something and talked sense in the following "The Dolicv of selling everything and buvine nothing is not sound. It will not stand argument. This is tne time for the adoption of wise reciproc ity treaties to strengthen our industries where it can be done and wiinoui nuri- inz our manufactures to any extent. We should have reciprocity arrange ments with Mexico Australia, Canada and the South American countries. No one man should be allowed to make excessive profits to the detriment of other lines of business. We must sell our finished products in all the markets of the world.and this end can not be accomplished without the adop-' tion of reciprocity. Take the case of Japan for instance. . We are now im- Eorting from that country every year 25,000,000 worth of goods and selling therein only S8.uuu.uuu worm, wun Enirland this situation is exactly re versed, the figures "being: Belling to Japan, $25,000,000, and buying, $5,- 000.000. With reciprocity arrange ments we can effect tne same situation as in the case of England. The three men from whom we have quoted wanted reciprocity with something in it, reciprocity not simply with 'countries whioh produce things which - we do hot produce and buy things from us which they cannot produce, but reciprocity with countries whose trade amounts to a large item and would amount to much more if we bought some from them. But if we I are to keep np the tariff wall against r every country which may produce 0 1 anything that would come into com petition with any of the protected products, artificial or natural,of this country, what would reciprocity amount to and where would the American people, who are entitled to some consideration, or even the manufacturers be the material gain ers by this so-called reciprocity? But this is the kind that this manufacturers' convention declared xor and that is the kind that will probably be favored by their agents I Whn YiaIA laata !n Pnn mm fT1u5 whole business is a ridiculous fake. A GOOD EXHIBIT. i The exhibit published in The Qwm a A. 5B ' oxaa yesieraay, snowing the in crease in manufacturing . industries in this State within the past decade, as reported by the census of 1900, is a good one. The figures show an investment of over' $76,500.- 000 capital; 7,226 establishments, nearly twice as many as ten years ago; 70.570 workers who draw $13,- 863,530 in wages. They paid $53, 072,368 for material, an increase of 132 per cent., and turned out $94, 919,633 worth of work, an increase of 135 per cent. This includes the whole State, of course, but the bulk of the indus tries covered are located in a com paratively small area. . The . cotton and woollen factories, tor instance, are mainly found in a narrow belt running through the center of the State, East and ' West, while the furniture making industry, which has assumed large proportions, is confined to a still more limited area in the same belt. Both are susceptible of indefinite en largement within the same area, and both are still in their in fancy. Jt would not be a wild pre diction to say that the output of both, if not the number of plants, may be doubled by the end of the present decade, provided the coun try meet with no industrial reverses in the meantime. There is so little parade over the industrial progress of our State that few of us fully realize what is being done until we see the figures pre sented, and then they come as a sur prise to many of us. With the N variety of natural re sources, the genial climate, the cen tral location making it "the great highway of travel between the North and South; the transportation by land and water, and its numerous and unlimited water powers flowing from the mountains southward throughout almost the entire length of the State, it is an ideal region for manufactories, in which it should and doubtless will take a front place in the near future. Mr. C. Cook, who went to Syra cuse, JN. x with two cents in his pocket and by close application to business amassed an estate of $700,- 000, has concluded that he can get along on $100,000, and. divided the rest Among his children, which is better than a family squabble over it after he passes away. Great Britain has purchased $16,- 000.000 worth of horses and mules in this country for the Boer hunt. There is good deal' of sympathy for the Boers in this country but the horse and mule men are not doing any kicking. Mr. Hugh O. Pentecost rises to remark that Andrew Carnegie is "a conscious or an unconscious hum bug." Maybe so, but he has a very good way of showing it, and making the country hanker for more hum bugs of t.he same kind. The oil field in Texas is expand- mg. A gusher has been recently . - - turned in thirty miles from Beau mont. Nit runs a hundred and fifty barrels a day of fine lubricating oil, which is more valuable than the Beaumont fuel oil. One of the discoveries made by the pure food inspectors in Illinois is called Vclover honev." a stuff made of glucose and sold at about one-fifth of the price of sure-enough honev. That is taking a mean ad vantage of industrous little bee. A negro who ran- for the Legisla ture in Ohio at the last election made a phenomenal run. He got a total of ight votes, seven besides his own. They don't draw the color line np there; oh, no. As an illustration of the business depression in Germany it is stated that while in October last year there were 153 applications ,t or each 100 vacant situations, last October there were 198 applications. It is said that the English people drink every year 208,000,000 cubic feet of beer. The Englishman goes in for solidity and hence he takes his beer by the cubic foot. Sometimes there is something in a name and sometimes there isn't. Mr. Wolf, a rich Chicago man, will feed 10.000 noor children on Thanks giving day. The sportsmen in Maine have Tun up a phenomenal record so far this season. The have shot twelve per sons for game, five of them fatally. There ia a young man in Des Moines, Iowa, whose brain "ticks like a watch." He runs on tick, as it were. CURRENT COMMENT. The average dailv shipment of oil out of Beaumont is approxi mating 100 cars a day tangible evi dence that Texas fuel oil is finding a market, and a large one. It is said that if there were more cars available the shipments would be larger. JbWfo Register, Dem. The aftermath of the Roose velt-Washington dinner is appear ing. ' Negroes object to a group typifying negro life in the South which it is proposed to place in front of the negro building at the West Indian and: Interstate exposi tion of Charlefton. The central figure of the group represents a negro woman bearing a basket of vegetables on her head. Their ideal is evsdently a negro in a silk hat swinging a cane. Houston Chron- There appears to be a divi sion of opinion among Republican Congressmen as to the wisdom of abolishing or reducing still further the war revenue taxes. 'It the Ship Subsidy bill should pass," says one of the Ways and Means Committee, "we shall need some of that sur plus." So, then, if you cut off the surplus, there will be no subsidy bill.. As this would be to nip that nower m the bud, why not nip r Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. At least the Reciprocity Con vention will break the ice of protec tive conservatism. The time has gone by for the worship of a fetich that has done more to demoralize the people of the United States than any other policy of government ever ventured upon. At last the Protectionists themselves have dis covered the defects and limitations of the scheme which seeks to build up certain favored interests at the expense of other interests. Phila delphia Record, Dem. THE RICE ASSOCIATION OP AMERICA. It Has Accomplished aad Is Accomplishing Much for the Rice Grower. Wilmington, N. C, Nov. 22. Editor Stab: , Dear Sir Less than a year ago, and upon short notice, there assembled at Lake Charles, La., a convention of rice growers, rice fac tors and rice millers in short, all those interested in the rice industry, throughout the gulf coast sections of Louisiana and Texas, where within the last few years rice growing has made such phenomenal 8trides,and where the industry has now reached such pro portions that a statement as to the total expenditure in irrigating canals, rice farms and rice mills would sound like "a fairy tale." This convention (which I believe to be the first organized effort in behalf of rice at large ever made in America) proved so congenial, so instructive and so thoroughly satisfactory from every standpoint that great efforts were at once made to perfect a perma nent organization ; so there and -then, amid such sentiments as Kica is an American staple food. nutritious and economical, and its in creased consumption is to the interests of the consumer as well as the pro ducer. Until rice is recognized as a staple article of food, and the cost of handling, from the producer to to the consumer is placed on the same basis. as the great staples, whose equal, if not superior it is, it is a discrimina tion, preventing the maximum of con sumption in the United States." The Kice Association of America. was born, inviting all those interested in the success of "rice in America" to lend a hand, and become one of us. in placing tne industry on as sound a basis as our own loved country rests. While not quite a year has elapsed since that evensrul day, it would stag ger the most sanguine to realize how much has been accomplished and the good thus far derived. When we realize the area of sou adapted to the culture of rice is con fined to few ttoutnern states, can we of the Carolinas afford to let any such idea as sectionalism creen in I Let's do away with State lines, and together assist in building up that dis tinctive Southern industry, by getting together, pulling together, And under the banner of the Bice Association of America, place the industry where it belongs, viz: on a paying basis lor all sections of the rice belt. It can be done; will we, of the Carolinas, assist! The first meeting of the Kice Asso ciation of America, since its organi- tion. is to be held at urowiey, Lia., on December 12th. 1901, where the committee, to whom was intrusted the duty of presenting a constitution and by-laws, will report. The organi zation is not in behalf of any one in dividual or section, but for all inte rested in rice, so let's bury State lines and attend.- The initiation lee is one dollar, and its members will not be subjected to innumerable assessments or expenses, uvery one is engioie. everv one is invited, and a full attend ance so earnestly desired. There will be matters of vital importance to the industry considered and discussed, and an aggregation of such ' talent, on all lines connected with the industry. that from an educational standpoint alone one can be repaid. I earnestly trust the uarolinas win avail themselves of the .privilege and opportunity and send a rousing dele gation. very truly yours, DkL. Evans, Vice President. The Bice Association of America. WILL BE A MASSIVE VOLUME. Reoort of Impeachment Trial Will be ls sued by State Printers. Newaand Observer, 22nd. A report of the trial for the impeach ment of the Supreme Court Judges, which the State is printing as an offi cial document, will be issued from the nresses of the State printers. All the copy has been turned in and the fin ishing work Is being done. The publication will be in one volume, though a very large one. It will comprise about 1,000 pages. The testimony and all the speeches save two will be contained in the one volume. It has been impossible to obtain the speeches delivered by ex Gov. T. J. Jarvis and Cant Chaa. M. Cooke. Neither of these gentlemen wrote their speeches and they were not taken down by a stenographer. The publication of this report will be considerable and will swell the cost of the impeachment court. : Bid CONTRACT FOR CEMENT. Largest Award la the Seatk Secared by a WnalBftob Finn Coal, Cement aad Sapply Compasy. The largest contract for cement per haps ever given in the South has just been awarded to The Coal, Cement and Supply Company, of this city. J The Ann tract ia for n abpIv tnnr hurt. cured car loads or the material and Is to bs used by the Catawba Power Com pany, of Bock Hill, 8. O., which will sooriiy oegm the construction or a mammoth plant on the Catawba river. near Book Hill, for the purpose of generating electricity and transmit ting the pdwer to the numerous cotton mills and towns in that vicinity. It will be one of the largest electric power plants in the entire South and the cement,-of course, is to be used in building the dam and other appliances for harnessing-the stream and de voting its undeveloped power to the uses bt th enterprising promoters. Theuoaj, Cement and Supply Com pany will furnish for the contract its well known brand of Giant Portland cement. The award to a local firm speaks well for r Wilmington as a distributing point and suggests the possibilities of the future when its un bounded advantages of water 'and rail shipment are considered. BIO DEALER IN RAW PURS. One of the Largest. Establishments of Its Kind ia the Sooth. Perhaps few people in the city ap preciate the fact that in Wilmington we have one of the largest dealers in raw furs in the entire South, barring none. That dealer is Mr. Samuel Bear, Sr., who has offices and warerooms at No., 18 Market street, and a large storage capacity in other sections of the city. Mink, o'possum, fox and raccoon skins and furs of all description find ready sale at the store at highest prices and quotations may always be had for tbe asking. Parties who have furs to ship would do well to correspond with Mr. Bear, who not only disposes of the large shipments he receives in domestic markets but he already has a very ex tensive foreign trade. LIEUTENANT NEWCOMB'S REWARD. Received Only Gold Medal Awarded Congress lor Heroism in War. . Tbe New York Herald, under a Washington date line, prints the fol lowing in regard to Lieut. F. H. New- comb, who has many friends Mere and who married Miss Prioleau, of South port: "The only gold medal authorized by Congress for heroic conduct during the war with Spain was sent to-day to Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, now in Patchogue, N. Y., by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor. "Lieutenant Newcomb commanded the revenue cutter Hudson and res cued the officers and crew of the tor pedo boat Winsloto from a very peril ous position off Cardenas, Cuba, while the action of May 11, 1898. was in progress. To each of the officers un der Lieutenant Newcomb was awarded a silver medal and to each member of his crew a bronze medal." Stricken With Paralysis. A telegram to Capt. Preston Cam- mine yesterday brought the unwel come news to him that his brother, Capt. James D. Cumming, so well and' favorably known in Wilmington, had suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home. No. 647 Madison street, Brook lyn, N. Y., on the night previous. The telegram did not give particulars beyond that since the stroke Capt. Cumming had been practically un conscious. Capt Cumming is well known here as the commander of "Cumming's Battery" which played such a conspicuous part in the war for the Confederacy. Hundreds of friends in Wilmington hope for his early re covery, though tbe worst is reared. Fred Herbst at Home. Mr. Fred Herbst, who recently sus tained a painful injury near Macon, Ga., by which both legs were cut off by a moving train, arrived home yes terday afternoon and is at the Memo rial Hospital until his wounds can heal. He came alone from Macon where he had been under treatment since the accident and was met at the station here by friends and relatives and sent in a carriage to the hospital. His wounds are healing well but the young man appears mucn depressed in spirits, knowing the unfortunate condition in which he will be left when he is entirely well again. He will be given every attention possible at the hospital and friends hope to see him out ere long. New Cape Fear Steamboat. Tbe steamer Highlander, the hand some new steamboat being built here by Mr. T. D. Love, will be ready for her trial trip on the Cape Fear this week. She will begin "her regular schedule to Fayetteville on Monday, Dec. 2nd. She will be "the finest that ever came down the pike" when com pleted and will be a valuable adjunct to the river craft Rev. J. X Paysear. The Stab learns that through the influence of Senator Jeter O. Pritch- ard, Bev. J. J. Payseur. pastor of Brooklyn Baptist Church, has secured an appointment by President Boose- veltto a chaplaincy in the army. It is believed that Mr. Payseur will accept though every effort will be made to retain him by bin Wilmington con gregation, by whom he In much loved. TO SEND TROOPS TO CHARLESTON. i" - .. . t ' Movemeat Oa Foot to Have N.C. Military r Attend the Exposition. 7 . It is understood that Governor Ay- cock is at the head of a movement in the State to send one whole regiment to Charleston during "North Carolina Week." which will come the latter part of January. The regiment isi to be composed of companies' selected from the three North Carolina regi ments, giving precedence to the senior companies in each. , i It is also said to be the Governor's intention to have the twelve compan ies ' and the Heavy Artillery from Charlotte, which is not in either regi ment, assemble at Wilmington and embark from here on a Government transport, I which has been promised. The North Atlantic squadron will be at Charleston about that time and it is expected that one could be gotten here with little difficulty. . It is the plan for the State to pay the cost . of the trip. ' - - Will Manage Argyle Hotel. Mr. Jos. EL Hinton will be manager of "The Argyle notel" in Charleston during the Exposition. The Argyle is a handsome new hotel situated in the center of the city, and is owned by Mr. Thos. Wilson, of Salem, S C., president of the Northwestern railroad. The hostelry has modern equipment throughout and has about two hundred rooms, half of which have baths attached. Mr. Hinton will return to Wilmington in time to take charge of the Seashore Hotel at Wrightaville as usual during the Sum mer. Hiramttoore la Newbern. Newbern Journal, 23rd : "The case of Hiram Moore, who set fire to his mattress while confined in the city jail, was tried before Mayor Patterson yesterday at 11 o'clock. Moore was bound over to the next session of the Criminal Court and under failure to furnish bond was lodged in the coun ty jail." TRAGEDY ON A STEAMSHIP. Crazy Passenger Attempts to Kill His Wife and Commits Suicide. bt Cable to tbe hoi urns olar. Queenstown, Nov. 23. As the steamer Cymric, from Liverpool yes terday for New York, was coming down the channel this morning Thomas Halliday, of Ohio, one of her passengers, attempted to kill his wife and then committed suicide. Halliday had recently been complaining of sleeplessness. He and bis wife board ed the Cymric at Liverpool after passing a couple of months visiting in county Down, Ireland. The husband prayed all night and showed evidence this morning that his mind was affect ed. After breakfast he announced that all people on board the ship were to be killed, and drawing a knife he commenced hacking his wife and slashing at his throat. Mrs. Halliday struggled desperately to secure posses sion of the weapon, receiving terrible gashes on her bands and neck and was finally obliged to desist. Halliday then continued to hack his own throat until he had severed all the veins and muscles and dropped dead outside his state room. M0RTH CAROLINA INDUSTRIES. Census Report Oa Mannfactories In the State The City of Wilmington. Br TelezraDb to the Kornlnz Btar. Washington, Nov. 22. The pre liminary report of the manufacturing industries fof North Carolina shows a total capital of $76,503,894, an increase of 133 per .cent, during the decade: number of r establishments 7,226, an increase of 97 per cent. : average num ber or wage earners 7u,57U total wages $13,863,430; cost of material used $53,072,368, an increase of 132 per cent., and value of products, in- $94,919,633, an increase of 135 per cent The city of Wilmington, which is separately reported, shows a total of 123 establishments capital $1,819,333, an increase of almost four per cent : 1,469 wage earners total wages $446, 413, a decrease of over three per cent, and value of products, including cus tom work and repairing, $3,246,237, an increase of 18 per cent MURDER TRIAL AT ASHEVILLE. Negro Escaped Hanging Because the Jury Determined the Verdict by Lottery. By Telegraph to tbe Horning Star., Ashevxlle, N. C, Nov. 23. John Miller,-a negro, who was convicted of killing a negro woman and cutting up her body, escaped hanging because the jury determined the verdict by lottery. To-day it was shown that the jury, standing six for murder in the first degree and six in tne second de gree, placed in a hat two slips of paper one for the first and the other for the second degree and a blindfolded juryman drew the first degree slip. The jury all agreed to stand by tne result' To-day they said they thought it was a fair test but the judge set the verdict aside and a plea of guilty in the second degree was taken and' thirty years sentence imposed. KENTUCKY MINE TROUBLE. Strikers Continue Defiant Gen. Mnrrny Preparing to Enforce Judge's Order. Br Telegraph to tbe Horning Star. Madisonville, Kt., Nov. 23. The striking union men continued defiant and remain to night in camp near the mines. Tbey hold that the order of Judge Hall is illegal and treat it with contempt :, ,. The strikers are in camp to-night in greater numbers than before, notwith- standing the time limn 01 juage Hall's .order , that tne camps snouin be disbanded and moved out of the county expired ' more ' than ; twelve hours ago. General Murray is pre paring to enforce Judge. Hall's order. SPIRITS TURPENTINE Plymouth Beacon: After a long and painful illness Capt C. W. Martin departed this life at his home in this town on Tuesday night last aged forty years. T Wilson Times: Last Monday Mr. Joseph Ferrell, who had been in bad health, went to Lucama in this county to see the doctor.:-While tying his horse he .was stricken down with heart disease and died instantly. Tarboro Southerner: The top crop--appears much larger on -the stalks . than it does on the scales. Those who have been relying upon this top crop to make ' them are rea lizing that they have expected too much. , . . Weldon News: Deputy Sheriff LL a. t&le, who was here Tuesday, .informed us that there were tnirty- one prisoners in. jail and that twenty five would be tried at .court next Week. A few more may be added be- lOre Saturday night, and there are some out on bail. .. ,; Winston Sentinel: Mr. Jeff Yokely, aged about . 60 years, . was found dead Tuesday afternoon two miles south of Union Cross, this coun ty. He was sitting against a tree in a new ground which he .was burning off. It was reported at first " that he was burned to deatb, but investigation proved this to be a mistake. It is true however, that the fire had burned up to him. His shoes and pants, were scorched. Tbe family say he had been troubled with heart disease and this is given as thd cause of his death. Sandford Express: The San- ford - Furniture Manf acturing Com pany are now working day and night to catch up with their orders. The San ford Sash and Blind Company are also behind with their orders and have to work at night. - There have been very few illicit distilleries destroyed in Moore county this year. The "moon shiners" have either gone out of busi ness or else tbe revenue men are not doing their duty. The scarcity of corn will probably interfere with the busi ness for the next twelve months. Lumberton Rolesonian: Mr. Duncan Munroe, one of the oldest citi zens of the county, died at his home in Alfordsville township Tuesday in the 88th year of his age. : r Tne an nouncement of the death of Mrs. H. B. Jennings has cast a pall of deepest sadness over our town and commu nity. For several days past her con dition has been critical in the extreme, but hope of her recovery wasnotjdis paired of until late Tuesday afternoon when life'e vital spark waned and her soul winged its flight toward the spirit land. Kinston Free Press: Intelli gence reached Kinston Friday morn ing of a very sad and horrible occur rence in Woodington township, this county, Thursday afternoon. Miss Lena Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kit Turner, while no one was in the house but herself and aged mother, told her mother that she was going to commit suicide. She secured a bottle of carbolic acid that was kept in the house for the purpose of administering to stock, and before she could be prevented by her mother, drank half of the contents of the bot tle. Mr. - Turner, working . , about 200 yards from the house, heard his wife's screams and came immediately, but when he arrived, so quickly the deadly drug got in its work, tbe un fortunate woman was unconscious, and a few minutes later, before any antidotes could be administered, was dead. There is no apparent cause for the suicide. She was about 35 years of age and was highly thought of in the community. She was in apparent good health, always cheerful and seemed to enjoy life, and ber horrible act is a great surprise and shock to the commu nity in which she lived. Wadesboro Messenger - Intelh' cpncer: The farmers say that tbe frosts have ruined tbe top crop cotton. All the bolls, except those that were grown when the frost came, are rot ting and will make no yield at all. Last Friday Deputy Marshall Hamp ton, of Uharlotte, arrested w. JcL Odom at his home in McFarlan, on a caoias issued by the clerk of the Fed eral Court of this district on the charge of defrauding the government Mr. Odom was brought to Wadesboro Fri day afternoon and taken before U. S. Commissioner F. O. Broadaway. who required him to give a lustified bond in the sum of $300 for his appearance at the next term of Federal Court in Charlotte, December 9th. The bond was given and Mr. Odom returned to hishome. Last Friday morning between 3 and 4 o'clock the dead body of Bev. J. M. Mitchell, .col., was found lving in the fire at the home of Walker Meachum. who lives in Gul ledge township. The body was first discovered by waller's wire, wno at once raised the alarm. When tbe body was taken from the are it was found that tbe unfortunate man's race was almost cremated and that his body, arms, hands and knees were also ter ribly burned. . The body when diseov ered was in a kneeling position, the forehead resting against the back of the fireplace with the hands and knees in the fireplace. MRS. ELIZABETH HOWE DALE. Woman Accused of Killing Her Child De Clares That She Conld Derive No Benefit From Its Death. . . s -" - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, November 23. Eliza beth Howe Dale, who is accused of the murder of her five-year old child, Emeline, is still in St. Mary's hospital, Hoboken, where she was taken after her arraignment in court She is said to be much improved in her physical condition. Mrs. Dale is under guard dav and meht In trying to establish a motive for the alleged crime it has been asserted that according to the will of her father Mrs. Dale would become the sole bene ficiary in the event of her child's death. Mrs. Dale, however, claims that she derives her income from the estate of her grand-father and that it is hers during her life time, she could derive no benefit as she Is said to have declared, by the death of her child. and she pronounces the story ground less and denounces it as a cruel out rage.- - ' - Elbert Waller, arrested for maintain ing improper relations with Mrs. Dale, was released to-day on $1,000 cash bail. The money was deposited by a representative of the Dutch consul. The body of the Dale child was placed in a casket to day but will not be buried at once. By direction of the father it will be kept at one of the re ceiving vaults at Hoboken. Fire at Memphis, Tenn., damaged the plant of the Perkins Oil Company to the extent of $50,000; partially in sured. -V -.. . - ONLY EIGHT DAYS j TO-THB OPENING. The South CsroHnf Interstate and West j Indian Expositlon-Every thing On ' L: ue Rash-Floe Prospects,' Bt Telegraph to the Horning star. Charleston, a OL, Nov. 23. The week ends- with : the opening, of .the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian -Exposition only eight days off and all the builders and exhibitors on the rush. The United Slates marine corps has gone into, camp on the Ex position grounds for the entire Ex- position period. Tbe government fish- eries exhibit has arrived and will be ; installed within the next few days. Nearly all the asphalt roadways in -the grounds have been laid. The prin cipal groups of statuary have been -placed in the Court of Palaces. A car load of art exhibits, valued at $80,000. came last night and several more are on the way from - Buffalo and New York. The interiors of the buildings are being beautified by their rich dec orations, and the merchants and man ufacturers of the city have declared their intention to make the open ing day a public holiday. The grand parade on Monday, Decem ber 2d, will be under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Morris, of the United States army . A letter was received from Secretary Long to- day, saying that the ships of the North ' Atlantic squadron win be at unaries-, ton as near the opening day as possi ble and the great undertaking is devel oping into the most significant event that has taken place in the South in the last quarter of a century. Some weeks ago a delegation from the Ex position Committee conferred with the Secretary of War at' Washington as to the practicability of sending one of the government transport ships to Cuba to brine a large number or uuban mer chants and planters to the, Exposition for the purpose of examining toe con ditions of cotton manufacturing in this country, with the view of extending tbe markets for American goods in tbe West Indies. A letter was received from the Secretary of War to day say inar that the ship would be sent on this mission of peace and it is expected that there ' Will be a "Cobao Day," at Charleston some time during tbe Exposition which will open a new door for the cotton products of the South and New England in a country which is now largely supplied by for eign manufacturers. This Is one of the first practical proofs 'of the great importance of the Exposition from a commercial and industrial standpoint and there will be a great many more. as the full purposes of the enterprise will develop from time to time. The interest in tbe Exposition is growing steadily every day. Two or three days ago the construction of the Louisiana Purchase Company's build ing was begun and the site has been - finally determined npon for tbe Alas kan exhibit and to-day the site -was selected foMhe Cincinnati building. The Philadelphia building will be formally accepted by the commission" ers from that city during the next few days and the Illinois building is ready to receive its furniture and all lucky ' visitors whp shall have the good for tune to be entertained under its hos pitable roof. There is nothing like it in the eventful history of this town. . EIGHT MINE OFFICIALS SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES. All Hope of Saving Them Abandoned. Rescuing Party Unable to Pene trate the Mines. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Pocahontas, Va., Nov. 23. All hope of finding the eight mining offi cials who entered the West mine yes terday to search for bodies entombed by the recent explosion in the Baby mine, has been about abandoned. Up to 1 P. M. nothing had been beard from them. A rescuing party entered the mine this morning, but were able to proceed only three hundred yards. They found a coat of Superintendent O'Malley hanging on a peg about two hundred yards in the mine, but dis covered no other trace of the party. . The mininar experts now here baye decided upon a plan of attempted res cue, but the mine officials refuse to give any information to the . public. it is said that anoiner enort win oe made this evening to enter the mine. . Hopes have been entertained up to this morning , that the party had es caped through . the Tug river outlet ' ten miles distant and messengers were dispatched at an early hour to this point. They failed to nno any trace of the party. Assistant Superinten dent King, who led the rescuing party yesterday and who was overcome by black damp, nas , entirety recovered. He says it is impossible for a human being to live uiteen minutes in a mine in the condition in which was the one his party entered yesterday. It has been raining hard since morning and the main entrance to the mine pres ents a gloomy appearance with the friends and relatives of the missing men standing around. At 9 o'clock to-night nothing had1 been heard from the mining mine officials. No effort has ben made to enter the mine since early morn ing, it being impossible to do so on account of the enormous accumu lation of gases from the Baby mine. Until the passages connecting the two mines are entirely closed and the gas . forced out by means of large fans it Will be. impracticable to explore the mines. -Large forces are working day and night to free the mines from gas, but it is impossible now to form any : definite idea as to when'.the mines will be considered safe for searching parties to enter. Some who are familiar with the mines claim that it may be several daya before such party could enter. U S. Thome, of Philadelphia, the secretary and treasurer of the com pany, is still on tne ground ana is in direct charge, sparing neither expense or energy in an effort to recover the bodies. President Campbell, or Philadelphia, is enroute to the scene and is expected to arrive to-morrow morning. 1 The nre has now been burning ten days. Including the eight missing men the probable total death list dur ing the period numbers seventeen per sons. As late as six o'clock this evening hundreds were gathered about the mine entrance anxiously awaiting some tidings. , SHIP IN DANOER. Large Vessel Drifting Ashore OH Mon mouth; New Jersey. , By Telegraph to toe KornnuStar. "New York, Nov. 23. A large three- masted ship is lying in a dangerous position off Monmouth, N. J. She ia slowly dragging her anchors and drift ing ashore. There is. a very heavy sea running and the wind in blowing about forty knots.. It is impossible to launch the life boats, but the crews from stations Nos. 4 and 5 are on the beach ready to shoot a line to the ship as soon as she strikes. At midnight the ship was about three hundred yards from shore and appeared to be hard aground. 'I t i - if v-' v
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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