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CHEAPER SUGAR FOR THE CON
SUMER.. Mr. Havemeyer, President of the
Sugar Trust, ia showing a remark
able interest these days in the con
snmer of sugar. He thinks he, she
or it should have cheaper sugar and
more of it and that the way to get
it is to open our ports to free raw
sugar from Cuba. Some time ago
he issued circulars, thousands of
which were circulated . in the West,
especially in the States where sugar
beets are grown. The object of
these circulars was to influence sen
timent for free raw sugar and one of
the. arguments used was that it
would mean a saving of $85,000,000
a year to consumers. A few days
ago the stockholders of the Sugar
Trust had thtir annual meeting in
Jersey City, where President Have
meyer, in making his report, made
a plea for free raw sugar as follows:
"It would seem that with an over
flowing Federal treasury there bad
dirap ppared any reason for continuing
the existing high tariff upon raw su
gar. 'It conctitutes a charge upon the
consumption of nearly two cents a
pound. Tbia repreteots an annual
consumption or 2 860,000 ton -$85,-000,000
a year. Of this, however, only
1,360.000 ton a are imported, yielding
cm to aii r venues of $ 49,000,000. Tne
balaucr, $38,000,000, pota into the
pockets of the planters A removal of
this du'.y on raw sugar wuld rssuit in
a saving to the consumer of $85,000,
000." Xotwithstanding Mr. Havemey
er'a assurance that "the consumers
would save $85,000,000 a year this
may be doubted, for when we had
free raw sugar under the Wilson
tariff, refined sugar was protect
ed, and the Trust didn't show itself
particularly anxious to reauce prices i
! on their Bugar for Which
augur lur wmuu, tuey
about four cents a pound-
, It may be observed in this conned
tion that Mr. Havemeyer is not so
much interested in the consumer
getting cheap sugar as to suggest
removing the duty from all . sugars,1
raw and refined, thus saving the
consumer agood deal more than
$85,000,000 ayear. If he had done
that we might come to the conclu
sion that he was really interested in
the sugar consumer and anxious
that he should have cheaper sugar,
' Mr. Havemeyer wants the sugar
consumer to have cheaper sugar
(so he says) but he wants him to
get it from the Sugar Trust, and,
-therefore, he wants to get the beet
sugar men out of the way. To get
them out of the way he is pulling
for free raw sugar from Cuba. This
would accomplish two things at the
same time; it would give his Trust
cheaper raw sugar and thus put it
in a position to place its sugar on
the market cheaper than the beet
sugar men could put theirs,' or it
would (if the beet sugar men tell
the truth) ruin them and drive them
out of the business, which would
leave the Trust' supreme, without a
competitor. Then with a duty still
on refined sugars duty enough to
keep German and other beet sugars
out of the market the Trust would
have full swing and could give the
consumer cheap sugar or dear sugar
just as it saw fit.
Mr. Havemeyer says that $36,
' 000,000 out of the $85,000,000
extra that the people now pay
for sugar, (the amount they have to
Jay iu consequence of the tariff on
raw sugar) goes into the pockets of
. the planters, the other $49,000,000
going into the treasury. It would
have been interesting if he had told
us how much of the sugar tax goes
into the coffers of the Trust. If
the object of the tariff on sugar is
, to encourage the sugar growing in
dustry, as it is alleged to be, then
. this $36,000,000 goes in the right
direction when it goes into the
, pockets of the planters, a statement
which we are not disposed to be-
; lieve. Our opinion is that it goes
into the coffers of the Sugar Trust,
jand that beet sugar makers and the
cane growers and beet growers get
j very little, if any of it. They, es
j. 1 pecislly the sugar beet growers
may have been benefited by it, to
; the extent that.it has 'encouraged
- the establishment of manufactories,
; and thus made a demand for beets
and cane for which there would be
no demand without the mannfacto
. ries. To that extant thnv We
beejyenefited by the sugar tax,, a
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VOL; XXXIII..
tax: that covers both raw and re
fined sugar. -
The boat sugar manufacturers say
that to remove the duty , from raw
sugar would ruin them and the bee)
growing industry, while others say
it would not, but that they could
still afford to pay the sugar beet
growers as much for beets as they
are now paying them. We don't
know how this is, but it seems to us
that with untaxed-raw sugar, and
the possibilities of Cuba as a sugar
producer, and its proximity to this
country, the Sugar Trust would be
in a position, to undersell the beet
sugar manufacturers who say it
costs them three cents a pound to
make sugar and could thus soon
drive them out of the business. If
the Trust got free raw sugar it could
soon destroy the beet sugar industry
any way, by putting sugar on the
market cheap, to run beet sugar out
of the market. Now the beet sugar
manufacturers are sort of check on
the rapacity of the Sugar Trust; an-
tnereiore serves a good purpose, in
coming between the consumer and
the Trust. With the beet sugar fac
tories out of the way it would have
an absolute monopoly of the market,
and therefore the people would profit
but little from free raw sugar.
We believe in untaxed necessaries
of life as iar as possible, and sugar
is now from its large and universal
use one of the necessaries. We do
not believe tnat sugar needs any
protection in this country but that
it could be grown and manufactur
ed if our ports were open to the
sugars of the world. Perhaps the
proms might not be .as large as
they are now, but they would be as
large as they are on any pro
ducts of the farm which are gen
erally raised. But at the Bame time
we do not believe in making a dis
tinction between raw and refined
sugars, taxing one and not the
other. There should be tariff re
duction but it should . apply to both
raw and refined, and the Sugar
Trust should not be favored at the
expense of the beet sugar manufac
turer, beet grower, or the cane
grower. We want cheaper sugar but
we don't want it in such a way as to
make the Sugar Trust absolute dic
tator, and put it in a position to
make its own prices and have the
consumer at its mercy.
WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH
P0ETO BICOf :
The general impression In this
country was that Porto Rico, which
is well plovafAd ftVinvfl thn baa.' wan ft
healthfal islandj but the mortaUty
ftH 4 A t . arftnnrl
for that impression. The following
are the official figures from the year
1888 to 1900, inclusive:
Births.
Deaths.
1888 27.151
25.568
1889 ..'... 25.113 26.251
1890 ..,. 24.230 26,947
1891... 23.496 23.989
1893 25 302 24.474
1893 ..... ..25.457 . 21.616
189 24.548 24 892
1895 25.090 " 26.284
1896 .. 26,270 25,435
1897..... ..25.827 31,980
1898 19,719 33 614
1899 23.931 38,727
1900 20,259 41,854
In several of these years the
deaths far exceeded the births,
while in others the births exceeded
the deaths by comparatively small
numbers. Adding these figures up
it gives births 316,393, and deaths
371,631, or 55,238 more deaths than
births in these thirteen years, an
average decrease by death of 4,249
per annum.
There is. no reason assigned for
this, and no reason why it should be
in an ordinarily healthful ' country,
but the probabilities are that it is
largely due to bad government and
to starvation and poor living as con-
jjequences of that kind of govern
ment. When the war between Spam
and Cuba was on we never heard
much about the conditions in Porto
Rico, or about the government they
had there, but these figures tell a
story of their own,, and account for
the welcome which the American
troops received when they landed on
that island, and the cheerfulness
with which the Porto Ricans trans
ferred their allegiance to this coun
try. Conditions under American
rule are improving somewhat, al
though they are not yet what they
ought to be, and" will doubtless con
tinue to improve.
A son of Hon. Abram S. Hewitt,
of New York, has invented a ' light
for which great claims are made.
He uses a glass tube kith a bulb,
which ia filled with gas generated
f-tem mercury. ; When the electrio
'wife is attached the bulb is flooded
with light and makes the ordinary
electric light look like a tallow dip.
He claims that he can produce these
lights at one:eighth the cost of the
incandescent lights and One third
that of the aro lights.
A Chicago man has come to the
front with what he claims is, the
only automatio nut cracker in the
world, hit invention. It will crack
200 pounds of nuts an hour and
keep right on at. St. Louis is his
field for she claims to be the nut
cracking town of the continent.
For the edification of the esteemed
New England organs -which make
such a racket about the negro in the
South the Charleston News and
Conner publishes a bill of sale
by which Seth Ingersoll Brown, of
Boston, did, for . the sum of fifty
pounds lawful money, bargain and
sell to Cvrus. wholes, of the same
town, one Uato rye, - a negro man,
the lawful property of Seth" Inger.
soil Brown. The money was paid
and Cyrus took the "goods." That
was in 1786, the tenth year of Amer
ican independence.
Af a religious meeting in the town
of Verona, Ontario, a few nights
ago, a man became so filled with re
ligion that he concluded he could
fly like an angel. He plunged for a
soar, but overestimated his buoyancy,
-i
ana ,came down caonunc. on a
lighted lamp, knocked that over,
set fire to a half a dozen men and
women, caused a stampede, - and
came very near burning the meeting
house. As a flier he proved a fail
ure, but as a mover an eminent suc
cess.
The New York Tribune "Almanac
and Political Eegister," for 1902 is
a work of great scope and very com-
piete. its xour hundred pages are
filled with valuable information;
splendidly condensed, with much
practical information, not so com
prehensively found in similar publi
cations. As a book for ready refer
ence it will be found, very valuable.
Published by The New York Tri
bune Association. Price 25 cents.
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or tne nrst time in forty years
Senator Stuart, of Nevada, had his
whiskers cut a few days ago. There
is accounting for what he may do
now since he - went back into the
Republican party and swallowed
himself.
President Roosevelt is quoted as
saying that he didn't see "any dan
ger in a big surplus." No, there
isn't. The danger isn't in the sur
plus, but in the- fellows who have a
chance to tackle it.
A gushing young woman tackled
Tom Reed In Washington a few, days
ago and asked him to make a smart
epigram for .her. He excused him
self as that was his "day for com
posing epio poems.
It is estimated that within the
past nine years four hundred mil
lions dollars have been devoted to
educational and charitable institu
tions in this country by wealthy
people.
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We read of several ship building
companies being organized, to begin
operations as soon as the ship sub
sidy bill passses. This is one of the
devices to boost the subsidy business.
Une tmrd of tne 7,6ZJ bills in
troduced in the first eight days of
Congress were pension bills. They
are bound to get away with some of
that surplus.
It is said that the average human
lung contains about a gallon of air.
But Senator Billy Mason, of Illi
nois, carries about a hogshead in
his lungs.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Occasionally a hide-bound
Republican editor thinks it necessary
to "knock Admiral Dewey in order
to keep in line with the administra
tion. This sort of loyalty will be
sure to miure the gentlemen lor
whom it is intended. Washington
Pout, 2nd.
ue uus otauuiug niuijr,
says Jiidward Atkinson, "upon
whom restB the safety of this nation,
consists of the four hundred and
odd thousand teachers in our com
mon schools, 70 per cent, of whom
are women." And it is proper to
remark, perhaps, that they cost the
nation considerably less than a
thousand dollars a head annually.'
Charleston News and Courier, Dem.
Members of the Senate
Committee on the Philippines are
reported as not in favor pf reducing
tariff dutiea on goods irom the is
lands. If this ia so, they are not in
accord with the members of the
Philippines Commission; nbr, for
that matter, with .the sentiment of
the American people, who cannot
that we have a right to take, and
give nothing in ' return. Brooklyn
Citizen, JJem.
The New York Tribune
gravely asks: "Are we too prosper
ous?" and looking over the field of
trade and industry finds cause for
grave apprehension that following
the enormous inflations of late we
may soon expect the lean years to
follow thefat years, it thinks we
should take in sail while we may.
President McKinley in his last pub
lic deliverance, possibly with wise
foresight o! what the nation may
reasonably expect in the near future,
called our prosperity "appalling."
Philadelphia Record, Dem.
Third Assistant Engineer Gns
taf E. Peterson, of the steamer Spen
nymore, who lost an arm by the acci
dental discharge of a gun in December
last, has left the hospital here and
through the kindness of Messrs.
Bprunt & Son, will leave on the steam
er Oymerio in a few dayn for Liver
pool, going later to his home at South
Shields. . .
WILMINGTON, N. O.; FRIDAY, JANUARY 17,
REDISTRICT OF STATE
List of Counties That Compose
the Jen New.Congres
. sional Divisions. ! 1
POPULATION AND MAJORITIES
AH Except One Showed Democrits la As-
ceodeocy la November and Aagast
Elections Good Table for Fa
tare Reference. : :
Now that the season for Congres
sional conventions is drawing near in
terest has revived in the redisricting
of the Bute by the last Legislature
and so frequent are Inquiries concern
ing counties that compose, certain dis
tricts, that the. Stab prints the follow
ing list of districts with the suggestion
that it would not be a bad thing to cut
out and use for future reference:
First Beaufort. Camden. CL-wan.
Currituck, Dare, Gates, Herlfort.
Hyde, Martini Pasquotank. Peraui-
mans. Put, Tyrrell and Washington.
Second Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene,
Halifax, Lenoir. Nortbamoton. War
ren and Wilsan.
Third Cartaret. Craven. Dunlin.
Jones, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender,
Sampson and Wayne.
4'ourtb Uhatbam. Franklin. John
ston, Nash, Vance and Wake.
Uiitn Alamance, Uaswell, Dur
ham, Forsyth. Granville. Guilford.
Orange, Person, Rockingham, and
Stokes.
Sixth Bladen.. Brunswick. Colum
bus, Cumberland, Harnett. New Han
over and Robeson.
8eventh Anson. DavidsonDavie.
Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Rich
mond, Scotland, Union and Yadkin.
Eiehth Alexander. Alleghany.
Asbe, Cabarrus, Caldwell. Iredell.
Rowan, Stanley, Surry, Watauta and
Wilkes. i
Ninth Burke. Catawba. Cleveland.
Gaston, Lincoln, Madison, Mecklen
burg, Mitchell and Yancey.
Tenth Buncombe. Cherokee. Olav.
Graham, Haywood, Rutherford,
Swain and Transylvania.
The population and the Democratic
majorities in these districts ia the No
vember and August elections are as
follows: ..
Popnla- Dom. mal. Dem. maj.
Dls'rlcta. Hon. Nut. 190O. Anor lBua.
First 173 018 4 688
Second 172,496 9.271
Third .......157 704 3.463
7.575
16,351
6.430
Fourth 178.061 4.890
6.319
2,967
Fifth 248 928 2,025
Sixth .......163,001 4,470
Seventh 193 086 2,407
Eighth 217,604 800
8,927
5,125
1,189
Ninth 210,908 1,212
Tenth ..... . .178,999 1.047
. 3,594
1,077
'"Republican majorities.
MACHINISTS ASK FOR INCREASE.
Delegations Proa Floreoce and Rocky
Mount Here for Conference.
Florence Times, 11th J
In Wilmington to-day committees
from Unity Lodge, of Florence, and
Rocky Mount Lodge, of Rocky Mount,
International Association of .Machin
ists, will meet General Manager Kenly,
of the A. C. It., relative to the petition
already presented for an increase of 10
per cent. Mr. Kenly appointed to day
for the conference. The representa
tives of Unity Lodge are Messrs. Geo,
McU Wilson, Ed. Woods and Chas.
M. Newman. They went to Wilming
ton this morning. The Rocky Mount
machinists will be represented by
Messrs. Uebder, Kumartin and Jen
kins.
The kindliest feeling seems to exist
between the employes of the two
shops aud the officials of the road, and
no clash of any sort is expected. Never-
,K l.ta Mat. am Af .it.l .w.AMaa.
to the machinists, acd they are in
high hopes of the increase being
granted. They base their hopes, it is
said, upon the attitude of the officials.
who seem disposed to be reasonable.
The increase desired applies only to
machinists, ir granted it means 25
cents more a day for a ten hour day.
The present scale in force in the
shops . in this city is $3 60 a day.
8horter hours will not be asked for.
All the emoloyes in the shops, even
those not siiected, are greatly interest
ed in the outcome of the conference.
Pell Prom Passenger Train
George Roderick,' a well known
white man of this city, fell from the
incoming S. A. L. Dassenger train
about noon yesterday just beyond
Hilton Bridge ' and .was sd badly
wounded about the shoulders that he
was sent to the. Hospital a few hours
later. Roderick, it is thought, was
riding the trucks and as the train
slowed down for the bridge he at
tempted to get off and fell. He was
walking to town.Jwhen he gave out at
the mill of the.N. O. Cotton Oil Com
pany and from there a telephone mes
sage was sent to the city and a shift
ing eugine sent out for him. From
the station he was taken to the Hos
pital in the city ambulance. His
wounds are not serious. ,
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Wife of Ex-Mayor Dead.
Mrs. W. P. Canady, a most estima
ble lady of Southport and relict of
the late ex Mayor W. P. Canady, of
Wilmington, died yesterday about
noon at her home of catarrh of the
stomach. She was of an advanced
age, and leaves surviving an only
son. Mr. Percy Canady, formerly of
this city and an employe of the U. H.
Eogineer's office. The remains will
be brought to Wilmington to-day for
interment, but the exact hour of the
funeral could not be learned last
night - . - .. - '
Was Built in Wilmington.
Florence Times, 11th : "A new vesti
buled combination baggage and chair
smoking car, built in the Wilmington
car shops, A. C. L., was greatly ad
mired this morning by all who saw
it. The car was carried through to
Charleston on the ahoo-fly. It will
be used between Ashlv Junction and
Charleston in connection with the
Florida Special, which will be put on
next week. The smoking department
of the car. which ia finished in oak.
ia a veritable drawing" room. The
chain are the oersoniil cation of ele
gance and comfort, being finely up
holstered in horse hair. The floor ia
covered with fine carpet." -
CH'LDsiTRAQIC
' in ruKianuuin, vii
Little Soa of Mr. tod Mrs. Joha Maunder
Drank Carbolic Acid and Died
Very Sooo.
The numerous friends in the city of
Mr. and Mrs. John Maunder, of Ports
mouth, Va, pour out to them their
tenderest sympathy in the. death of
their little eighteen-months-old son,
Charles, which occurred at the family
home in Virginia yesterday morning
under most' trying circumstances, the
child" having died from swallowing
carbolic acid while for a moment from
under the watchful care of his devoted
mother.
The news of the distressing affair is
thus told in yesterday's Norfolk Land',
mark before the sad death of the little
one:-
'Yesterday " morning about 11
o'clock at the residence, 630 Harrison
-street, this city, the 18 months-old
son of Mr. and . Mrs. John Maunder
drank a small quantity of carbolic
acid, and as a natural consequence
now lies in a most pitable condition.
' Mr. Maunder, in talking to a Land
mark man about this mucb-to-be-re-gretted
affair, said he formerly lived
in the house, had moved out and had
just moved again, and his wife was
very busy arranging the furniture in
the house and setting things to right.
"The little fellow was playing about
the floor, and no thought entered the
mind of his mother that harm could
possibly befall him, such a thing as he
going in a trunk never for a moment
suggesting itself. But it is the unex
pected that generally happens, as ex
emplified in this case. He did lift the
lid of a trunk in which there bad been
stored several bottles of various kinds
of medicines, and selecting one he
drank from it a portion of its con
tents, which happened to be the worst
and most dangerous of the lot car
bolic acid.
'.The screams of the child were or
the kind to melt the stoutest heart,
and messengers were dispatched in
every direslion to summon physicians.
Dr. T. EL Wilkms responded, and he
did everything the science of medicine
could suggest to alleviate the horrible
suffering of thechild, and after patient
attention for about two hours was re
warded t a considerable extent. Dr.
McMurran. the family physician, took
charge of the little fellow upon his ar
rival upon the scene.
The mouth and tbroat are urned
in a horrible manner, but the physi
cians and parents are hopeful that but
little, if any, of the dangerous liquid
found its way into the stomach, and
the belief is strengthened by the small
amount of the acid finding its way in
the baby a mouth.
'Mr. Maunder some lime later said
that his baby boy was easier, and be
had high hopes of ultimate recovery."
The remains of the unfortunate lit
tle child, accompanied by the Borrow
ing parents, reached Wilmington last
night and were taken to the residence
of Mrs. Maunder'a father, Mr. Geo,
W. Hughes, Eighth and Harnett
streets, whenee the funeral will be
held at 8P.M. to-day.
Mr. Maunder is a son of Wilming
ton's esteemed citizen. Alderman J.
Frank Maunder.
NEW RAILROAD IN DUPLIN.
To Rnn Prom Point On Wilmington and
Weldon nnd Connect With tbe
Oay Lumber Company.
Mr. 3. O. Middleton, of Duplin, who
has been a visitor in Raleigh, says to
the Neibs and Observer that the people
of his county are deeply interested in
a new railroad that will shortly be
built.
It is proposed to build the line from
some point on tne Wilmington ana
Weldon railroad m Duplin county be
tween Teachey's and Wallace and con
nect with tbe road of the Gay Lumber
Company at a point on the northeast
river, its present terminus.- This road
runs to Kinston and is already in ope
ration a distance of 20 miles. The
Kinston Carolina railroad is said to be
back of the enterprise, though Wil
mington people are interested in the
Dunlin end of it. When completed
this road will be about 55 miles in
length.
Several big lumber companies bave
purchased large tracts of timber lands
in Duplin and it is proposed to run the
road through this' territory, and con
nect with tbe road of the Gay Lumber
Company, at the same time opening
ud a fertile county. Tbe Wilming
ton lumber concerns want the timber.
and it will be necessary to build the
road to get at it. Tbe new road will
ba beneficial alike to Kinston and
Wilmington.
Died in Sumter; Bnried Here-
Friends in the city will regret to
know of the death of Mrs. Susan A.
Reding, a former resident of Wil
mington and sister of Mrs. Miles
Costin, which occurred at her late
home in Sumter, S. C, Friday night
at 11 o'clock after a long and painful
Buffering with cancer of the face. She
was 83 years of age and a most estima
ble woman. The remains, accompanied
by Mr. Wm. Hall, of Sumter, reached
Wilmington on the Southern train
yesterday and impressive funeral ser
vices were conducted from the station
by Rev. Dr. Calvin 8. Blackwell, pas
tor of the First Baptist church. The
remains were interred in Oakdale
cemetery, the following having acted
as pall bearers: Messrs. Jno. J. Fow
ler, T. P. Sykes, Wm. Hall and John
Odom.
Farmer in Bankruptcy.
mi L T TTT T J Viii
of Rockingham, Nathan L. Hender-
aon, a farmer near Laurinburg, N. C,
filed a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy in the United States Court
here yesterday. The liabilities are
scheduled at $3,578.25; assets, $1,-
655 50, out of which the homestead
exemption is asked. The petition will
be heard by Referee Samuel u. Mac-
Rae at hia office in Fayetteville at
1:30 P. M. to-day. Nearly all the
creditors reside at Laurinburg, and
the principal ones are Jno. F. McNair
and M. M. McKuxnon.
1902.
WEDDED AT : CLINTON N. C,
Miss Eva Boykio Lee Became (be Cbaroi-
Ing Bride of Ms Oeor.e EC Butjer ' j
Oa Wednesday Afternoon;
Messrs. Jno. K. Williams and Alex.
M. - McClure returned last evening
from Clinton, N. C, where on Wed
nesday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock they
attended the marriage of Miss Eva
Boy kin Lee to Maj. George .Edwin
Butler, both popular young people of
Clinton.. ' - v .
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. F. N. Skinner, the rector, assisted i
by Rev. LW. HugLes, of Fayetteville,
in 8t. Paul's Episcopal church.Clinton
and the pretty service was witnessed
by hosts of friends of the bride and
groom. Miss Allie Lee, sister of
the bride, was maid-' of honor
and the bridesmaids, all handsomely
. costumed, were Misses Louise Dick, of
Randleman ; 8allie Lee, of Goldaboro;
Bessie Patrick, Florence Hubbard and
India Bumgarlner, of Clinton. . Mr.
Lester Butler, . brother of the groom,
was best man and the groomsmen
were Messrs. Jno. K. Williams, of
Wilmington ; Henry Johnson, Joseph
Beaman, Howard McKinnoo, B. E.
Lee and D. H. Bumgartner, of Clin
ton. The ushers were Messrs. L. A.
Betbune and Henry Grady, of Clin
ton ; C. P. Sellars, of Greensboro, and
A. M. McClure, of Wilmington. :
The bride and groom left by' private
conveyance for Faison, where they
left on the evening train for the
Charleston Exposition. An elegant
reception was given at night at the
home of the bride's parents. Dr. and
Mrs. A. M. Lee:
ROW IN SYRIAN QUARTER.
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Belligerent Negro, Whom Storekeepers
Accosed of Theft, Fought Accusers.
There were lively times in a Syrian
quarter at No. 24 North Water street
last night about 7:30 o'clock.
Elias Wackeem and GilreanKhowri
conduct a store there and a short time
before the disturbance an unknown
negro walked in the store and was
looking at some razors, ostensibly
with a view to purchasing. .The
Syrians claimed the negro slipped one
of the razors in his pocket, the colored
man boisterously protested and a gen
eral row in which men women and
children participated was the result. .
The "push" soon . moved into the
street and the negro went for the
8yriana with razor and pistol. One of
tbe proprietors of the store was cut or
wounded by a pistol shot under the
right eye and very "near the nose, and
the other war severely gashed about
the shoulder and arm in three or four
places. Drs. F. H. Russell and W.
E. Storm gave them tbe necessary sur
gical attention, and they were allowed
to remain at their homes over the
store.
Tbe police made a diligent search
but were unable to arrest the negro.
whom the 8yrians did not know nor
of whom could they give the least
description.
DAR1NQ ROBBERY NEAR BURQAW.
At Pistol's Point, Aeed Men Is Made to
Turn Over $200 to $300.
Parties who arrived in the city yes
terday told of a daring highway rob
bery pear Burgaw Friday night about
9 o'clock:
Mr. I. H. Lamb, an old man, nearly
70 years of age, and living alone seven
miles west of Burgaw, was the victim.
At the time indicated tbe man was
called to his door by six or eight men,
who seized him and at pistol point de
manded his money or his life. Two
of them held him while others ran
sacked the house, obtaining between
$200 and $300. Bloodhounds from
Goldaboro were telegraphed for but
with what result is not, learned.
Oysters at Newbern.
Newborn correspondence in Raleigh
Post: "The receipts of oysters are now
large and very fine in quality. Ship
pers are busy filling orders. During
Christmas week the oyatermen took a
holiday, as if by common consent, and
the receipts were nothino until a few
days ago. The Wilmington dealers are
complaininsr of the small quantity of
oysters received there and say that the
quality ia poor, which is the reverse
here. Their oysters come a gooa aeai
from New River and east winds have
made the water too salty, so that large
beds of tbe cultivated oysters are unnt
to ship."
Better Mall Facilities.
Soutbnort Standard : ' 'An effort ia
being made to get the northern mail
to Southport from Wilmington as soon
after its arrival in the latter city aa poa
sible, and the prospect now is that the
effort will be successlui. cv courtesy
of the (.uartermaster at Fort Caswell
the steamer Southport, which leaves
Wilmington at S o'clock daily, could
bring the northern ' mail and other
mail that bad collected to tnat nour to
Bouthoort. Such a plan ia purposed.
which would be a great aavaniage
here."
SESI0US CONDITION OP AFFAIRS.
British Government's Call for Volunteers
Meets With Absolutely No Response.
By Cable to toe Horning Btar.
London, Jan. 1L The British War
Office is confronted with a most serious
condition of affairs. Its call for vol
unteers to relieve the regiments at the
front has. so far, met with absolutely
no resnonse. and baa served to in ten
sify the widespread indignation exist-
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tng among an tne volunteer renuouw.
In the first nlace. volunteers answer-
ins to the Call would only receive a
shilling per day, while the yeomanry,
in which minT volunteers nave ai
ready enlisted, receive five soilings
np da-. The onlv solution for the
deadlock appears to be for the War
Offica to introduce conscription or
withdraw the new regulations.
NO. 12
TURPENTINE AND
ROSIN INDUSTRY:
A Total Capital of $11,857,465
Invested id tbe 1,503 Estab- j
lishments Reporting.; ,i
TOTAL VALUE OF PRODUCTS;
Spirits Terpentine, 744,670 Casks, Valued
at $H,0,23S-Roslo, 2,563,087 Bar- )
rele. Valued at $5.129,268 -Produced
In 1900 Crude.
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' ' Br Telegraph to the Horning- star.
Wabhinqtoit, Jan. 1L An increase
of almost 193 per cent, in the capital
invested in the turpentine and rosin in
dustry and 152 per cent. In the value
of the products therefrom, is shown in
the census report issued to-day on the
manufacture of these products in the
United States. The report shows a to
tal capital of $11,817 495. invested in
1,503 establiabmenta reporting for the
country. This sum represents . tl
value of land, buildings, machinery,
tools and implements and the live cap
ital utilized, but does not include the
capital stock of any of the manufac
turing corporations engaged in this in
dustry. The value of the products is
returned at $20,314,888, to produce
which involved an outlay of $778,694
for salaries of officials, clerks, etc.,
$8,393,483 for wages; $476,171 for mis
cellaneous expenses, including rent,
taxes, etc., and $6,186,492 for materials
used, mill supplies, freight and fuel.'
The total product of spirits of tur
pentine in the ; United States during
the year 1900 was 754,670 barrels, of
which 461,227 were received at the
principal ports for distribution, leav
ing 293,454 barrela as. the amount
shipped direct from the distilleries to
internal points of consumption.
The total value of turpentine and
rosin products consists of $14,960,235,.
the value of 754 670 barrels of spirits
of turpentine; $5,129,268. the value of
2,563,087 barrela of rosin, and $255,
385, the value of miscellaneous pro
ducts, such as tar, pitch, rosin oil,
charcoal, refined tar. etc.
From the distillation of the 4.033,
161 barrels of crude turpentine by the
1,503 establishments reporting, there
resulted 24 per cent, of spirits turpen
tine, 55 per cent, of rosin and 21 per
jcent. of other products.
" The consumption of spirits of tur
pentine in the United States is 20,397,
588 gallons Or 53 per cent of the
quantity manufactured; and of rosin
193 969 barrels or 7 6 per cent.
The amount of crude turpentine
(barrels) gathered and total value by
States is as follows:
STATES.
BARBELS.'
. 853,005
. 1,212.935
.. 1,515.569
.. 20.299
VALUE.
$2,033,705
6.469.605
8,110.468
115.324
1,772 435
1,055 695
789,856
Alabama
Florida
Georgia........
Louisiana
Mississippi.....
359 629
361,729
North Carolina
South Carolina.. 190,095
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Mount Airy News: Mormon-
ism is not dying out it is growing and
spreading while the people sleep. We
have Mormons in Surry lots of them.
Rocky Mount Spokeman: Mr,
Reddin Fox, an old Confederate veter
an, died at hia home near Hilliarqston
lrst Tuesday, Jannary 7th. He bad
been an invalid for several years.
Fayetteuille Observer: We note
that the Fayetteville Oil Mill is paying
$25 a ton, equivalent to 24 cents a
bushel, for seed to-day (Fridav) This
is said to be as high as seed haa sold in
sometime. .
- Newton Enterprise: Farmers
are considerably alarmed about tbeir
wheat. They held off late in sowing
this year to avoid the fly, and the cold
weather came on before it got a start.
They fear that much of it haa been
frozen out, and aome has not yet
come up.
- Nashville Graphic: Corn in
now selling at $4 50 per barrel and
meal at $2 00 per sack. The farmer
wbo last year put all bis nopes in
cotton and tobacco and cut his feed
crops feels like ordering a large supply
of automatic kicking machines and
getting in close proximity to all of
them.
- Scotland Neck Commonwealth:
Monday Superintendent J. S. Mann
and Messrs. Nathan O'Berry, of
Goldsboro, Q. Hackett, of Wilkes-
boro. and J. A. Brown, of Uhad-
bourn, visited the Caledonia State
farm near Tillery and viewed the de
vastation wrought by tho late freshet
in Roanoke river. Mr. Mann thinks
that the freshet took away $20,000
worth of dykes. The forces had been
working on them five or six months
and had just completed them.
Gastonia Gazette: A disease
which some suppose to be cholera,
but others take to be something else.
haa wrought havoc on many farms in
the Snano section. Tbe chtei losers
we have heard of are Messrs. Jacob
Kiaer and Moses Stroup, but the
disease is no respecter of persons it
seems to kill anybody's hog that
catches it The malady kills some
times within two daya, sometimes the
afficted animal will linger three
weeks. In. some cases the ears and
under side of the body would turn
red, and then a day or two before the
hog died the ears would turn black.
Charlotte Observer: Friday
morninsr about 2 o'clock the Monarcn
Roller Mills. Hizh Point, were dis
covered to be on fire and before neces
sary aid was forthcoming the building
and all its contents were doomed to
destruction. .Tbe mill waa recently
purchased by Yow & Doraett from R.
W. Thomaa & Co., and waa doing a
good business. About $2,000 had
been paid on the property. It was in
sured for $3,000, about half its real
value. The Alma Furniture Com
pany's plant, in close proximity, waa
in danger for aome time but the course
of the wind waa favorable to it. Thia
leaves only one roller mill in the place
but it is one of tbe largest in the
South.
Capt. E. Cliff Cohen left yes
terday on the A. O. L. pay train for
Charleston and Denmark. This week
he .will go to Rocky Mount and on
Thursday will take up his, new duties
aa conductor on the -Florida Special"
between that point and Charleston.
Capt. Cohen has numerous -friends
here, who regret to have him change
headquarters. - - -
American' Acquitted
at cape town.
Dr. Richard S. Anthony . Charged With
High Treason and Aldlnf the Enemy
- Agaiaat tbe British.
By Telegrapn to tne Horning Star.
Washington, Jan. 11, A. cable-
gram received at the State Depart
ment from United States Consul
General Bingham, at Cape Town,, an
nounces the acquittal and release of
Dr. Richard 8. Anthonv. who has
been .on trial there on a charge of
high' treason and aiding the enem?,
Anthony la an American citizen, but
haa lived for aome time in South Afri
ca, where he married a Boer woman.'
Mrs. Anthony ia at nresent in Ban
Franciaco. . . .... ....
Mra Crissie Weasels Anthonv. wife
of Dr. Anthony wbo baa been acquit
ted of tbe charge of high treason iu
South Africa, received the news of her
husband's release to-day with every
evidence of joy. - Mra. Anthony is
stopping at a local hotel while her
children are with reiativea ia Ban
Francisco, Dr. Anthony being acitisen
of that city. Sbegave the following
explanation of tbe manner in which
her buaband got into trouble With tbe
British authorities:
M have two brothers In the Boer
army and am an Afrikander myself
Tnia fact wan used to get Dr. Anthony
into difficulties. A man came to my
husband and told him that my young
er brother Matthew, was hiding In the
bushes near by in great . need
I of clothing. He fell readily into tbe
trap and -ave th boy clothing. Mean
while tbe man who had brought th
appeal to bim hastened to tbe author!
ties and accused him of high treason.
Hearing of the arrest I secured the aid
of Secretary of State Hay, who cabled
the United. 8tates consul at Cape Town
to see that my husband bad a fair trial.
I am overjoyed at the outcome of the
trial."
TAMMANY HALL LEADERSHIP
Richard Croker Announces His Retire
meat Lewis Nlxnn Cboaen aa Mr.'
Croker'a Sncceaaor. ,
Bv Telegraph to the Horning Star.
New York, Jan. 11. Richard
Croker announced hia retirement from
the formal leadership- of Tammany
Hall thia afternoon. The anuounce
meat was made at the meeting of the
executive' committee, at which the
plan of organization for the year 1902
was' agreed upon. Lewis Nixon was
chosen ss Mr. Croker'a successor, as
the chairman of the finance commit
tee. Thia position, by long usage, car
ries with it the leadership of tbe or
ganization. Lewis Nixon, the new Tammany
leader, was born in Leesburg, Va.,
April 7tb, 1861, and received his edu
cation in the schools of that town.- In '
1878 he was appointed a midshipman
and in 1882 he graduated from the
United 8tatea Naval Academy at the
head of hia class. He waa sent by the
Navy Department to the Royal Naval
college, Ureenwicb, England, and in
1884 he was transferred to the con
struction corps of the nary. In 1890
he designed the battleships Oregon,
India u a and Massachusetts, and then"
resigned from the navy to become su
perintendent constructor of the
Cramps' shipyard, Philadelphia. In
1895 he left there and on his own ac
count started tbe Crescent shipyard at
Elizsbethport, N. J., where he has
builtjooe hundred vessels in six years,
among othera the torpedo boat Hol
land and the Monitor Florida. In
1898 he was appointed president of the
East River bridge commission by
Mayor Van Wyck.
NEGRO LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY
Charged With Aasaoltlog a Young White
Woman Taken From Jail and
Heated to a Tree.
By Telegraph to the Horning Btar.
8PRINGFI eld, Kt., Jan.11. Jim .
Mays, a negro, charged wifll assault
ing Lou la Jeans, the daughter of ,
Joseph Jeaca, one of the most promi
nent farmers in the county, near
Simmstown, six miles from here, waa
taken from jail by a mob early tc- ,
day . and hanged to a tree in the high
school yard.
The mob came into town quietly,
and after arousing Jailor Catiett de
manded the keya to the jail. Their
demand waa refused, however, and
they immediately began to hammer '
the locks on the jil doors. In a few .
momenta they effected - an entrance
and found Maj a cowering in hia cell,
begging the other prisoners to protect
him. The leaders of the mob took
charge of the negro, and telling the
jailor to watch the, rest of the pris
oners they dragged' Maya to the high
school yard, where he was speedily
strung up to a tree. . .
The negro was arreated and brought
here Wednesday. It was charged that r
the assault was committed while Miss
Jeans waa returning home from a
neighbor's. Bhe fought stubbornly,
and her screams brought two of her ,
brothers to her rescue. They pursued
Maya and aucceeded in capturing him
after a long chase.! The brothers beat
tbe negro severely and were only pre
vented from killing him by the ar
rival of aome farmers, who turned
the negro over to a constable.
WOMAN ASSAULTED.
Her Throat Cut Almost From Ear to Ear
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by aa Unknown Negro.
' -Bv Telegraph to the Horning Btar.
Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 11 Mra.
Ralph Webber, wife of the auperin
tendent of one of the departments at
the cotton mill, waa outraged and her
throat cut by an unknown negro this
morning. Tbe crime waa committed
ahortly after 7 o'clock, berore it was
daylight, at her home on Monroe
atreet, and after her husband had gone
to the mill. Her throat waa cut al
most from ear to ear, but it is thought
she will recover. Her hands were also
badly lacerated by the knife.
A reward of f 50D baa been onerea Dy
the city and tbia will be increased by
private subscription. No clue haa yet
been found aa the criminal'a where
abouts.. ' .
CLERK
M1SSINQ.
F. It. FHzrerald ot tbe Southern Railway
Charted With Embezxlement.
By Taleaxaoh to the Horning Star.
Riohhond, VaJ, Jan. 11. It devel-
I ops here to night that a warrant has
been sworn out for V. 11. Fitzgerald,
clerk in the supply department of Che .
Southern Railway, charging bim
with tbe embezxlement or some i,buu
worth of stamps and other property of
the company. He cannot be found. .
His home is In Manchester. It la
claimed that the i amount specified in
the warrant does not anything like
cover the loss.
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