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Here is his plan, as stated to So the committee a few days ago : "First A qualified suffrage, with a jradual growth in popular govern ment, as education in the English fish lanpuage progressed and knowl edge of American institutions was ae Squired. 1 "decona me institution, wumn a 'MlBAn.Kl. fellAt I i w. A . m ImaI IaaI.- lalure, to consist of two bodies, one to be chosan by vote and the other to be appointive. "Third Permission for the islands to send two or three representatives to Washington." It will be noted that the first pro vino he puts in is for qualified suffrage, which is proper enough. (In this case we presume, although this ia not intimated, that the ntrn.1- ifioation wonld be both edncational and property, as this has been the rule adopted in Porto Rico and in the Hawaiian Islands. As it would be a considerable time before the masses of the people conld catch on to the English language and make progress in the knowledge of Amer ican institutions it wonld be some time before there would be much votings done. The local legislature he has in view, we suppose, is to represent something like one of our' State legislatures with two houses, one elective the other appointed bv this Government, or its representatives in the islands, a sort of Philippine House of Lords, which would have very little in common with the Governor Taft has not much con fidence in the success of the govern ment he proposes himself, for" he says the people are not fit for it mow, and it is evident Irom his esti mate of the mass of the Filipinos .that he has his doubts if they ever will be, so that this scheme is more ifor the purpose of making them Jthink that some time they may have elf-government than to give it to hern. This problem rould be very much implified if -We had but one island, ike Luzon, for instance, to deal vitb, where, although there are sev iral tribes, there might . be a possi bility of getting them together for . common purpose, but where there ro sixty or more tribes, speaking afferent languages and having lit 2e or nothing in common save their lostility to the Americans, to estab lish a government of any kind nn- ler American direction is quito an ither matter. Even if there were :ongeniality among them and com nnnity of feeling and the other conditions were more favorable than hey are H -wonld be a lonar time be fore those people would be competent to conduct government according to the American idea, while it is at east-questionable if such a form of overnment wonld be suitable to hem, the masses of whom have ittle conception of what popular overnment really means. That he ppreclates this is shown by the f ol- owing taken from the report of hi testimony before the committee on he occasion referred to above: V"In reply to questions Got. Taft Id he agreed with Gen. Funs ton that he establishment of a popular assem S'age would give opportunity to dem agogues to swr up the people, but that ,he did not include in that designation . Jr. " "upuseu 10 Ameri can control. There are, he said, many men la the islands who conscientiously oppose the domination of the United States. "To grant independence would have the effect of consigning the 90 ner cent, of the uneducated people In the islands to the same servile position tbey held under Spanish rale. There should be a declaration on the part of the United States or its intention to hold the islands indefinitely, with the understanding that when they are suitable for such a condition they may bejeiveo a quasi-indenendence. Such a pronouncement by this country -uj be welcomed by many and rLdo muco Rod- Many of the rlr-niJrD,e10 not know the dif rlnHC W?a Impendence and de- rmS3 h.!2dmfn7of lh in formed have .not followed the agita - -' - . . . i i i ' i i .. - i i 1 1 1 a ' irj ii i ii.' 11 i v r i- M ii ii - ... i VOL. XXXIII. tion for independence to its last analy sis. " Some of the agitators seem to count on a protectorate by the United Bute. If the . government of the islands should at this time be turned over to the islanders themselves there would be nothing less than an abso lute oligarchy. They have no idea of civil government." The sum and substance of this is that Governor Taft believes that ninety per cent, of the Filipinos have no idea of what popular gov ernment means and that it is doubt ful if they ever will, and it may be inferred from this that the civil government he proposes to estab lish will be, as we have remarked, simply to' make them believe that they are doing something in the way of governing themselves while they are being really governed by the representatives of this country. What complicates this problem still mqre is the fact that while the ma jority of the people want independ ence there is a minority who do not want it, not even, with a protector ate, but want annexation to this country, to come in as Territories first and afterwards as States, while there are others who would be con tent with a quasi independence under an American protectorate, which is substantially what Senator Teller proposes to do for them. Before any kind of a government could be successfully established it wonld be necessary to get these con flicting factions reconciled so that they might co-operate in instead of oppose everything that might be proposed or attempted in that di rection. Possibly it may be there as it is in Cuba where the remnants of the Spaniards and the property holders would prefer to have the United States hold its grip, which they think would ensure order and give them and their property inter ests better protection from the mass of the people who have little in com mon with them and with whom they have little sympathy. The people to whom we refer here are about as far removed from the average Fili pino as the white man in the South is from the negro. The masses of the Filipinos were under Spanish rule, looked upon as little better than helots and are not looked upon as much better by the higher class of Filipinos. This is probably what Governor Taft means when he talks about an "absolute oligarchy" if the government of the islands was turned over to the people of the islands. So that the situation is about this: The masses of - the people are not compe tent for self government, and if it were given to them they would be ruled by ' the educated Fili pinos who wonld establish an "ab solute oligarchy" over them so that neither the masses of the people nor the educated Filipinos can be trust ed, which means that this Govern ment must continue to govern them either directly or indirectly. Evidently Governor Taft thinks we have tackled a tough proposition over there. THIS PITS NORTH CAROLINA, TOO. There isn't a southern State in which the dog and sheep question has not been more or less a subject of discussion and occupied more or less the attention of the legislators. In this State it has become almost ancient history and yet we have the dog with us very numerously, dogs of all degrees, and the 'sheep less numerously than twenty-five or thirty years ago. In the neighboring State of Ten nessee it is also a live question, for there, too, the dog seems to have downed the sheep, which calls for the following vigorous protest from the Chattanooga Timer. "Nothlne has more distinctly mili tated against the best int. rests of our farmine business than the destruction of our sheep industry by dogs. In thirty years the sheep of the State were reduced from 800.000 to 200.000. The only considerable fl. tcks in the 8tate are owned by Eastern companies and kept under guard of herders the year round. They are of fine quality and pay their owners big profits. . ' There would be now at least 2,000. 000 sheep in Tennessee, if the dog nuisance had been abated twenty-five years ago: but the politicians and their editorial servants have been too much for the flock masters and the large and small farmers. If we had 2.000,000 sheep Ohio, a smaller state. has 5,000,000 the agricultural indus try would have at least $10,000,000 more of wealth than it has. We have a beggarly tenth of what ought to be here at a low estimate, because 800,000 curs make the profitable keeping of sheep except by rich syndicates, im possible." We do not know what the latest dog and sheep figures are for North Carolina, but suppose they are in about the same proportion as in Tennessee: but however this may be, this protest fits North Carolina abont as well as it does her neigh bor. There ought to be ten times as many sheep in this State as there are, and about one-tenth of the dogs But it will never be a sheep-growing State while the dogs most of them worthless curs have the freedom of the range. The winter is so mild in Bussia that in soue parts of it the trees are budding and the flowers blooming. Perhaps they haven't any ground- i hog over there. ..... t . . . ZSZSSSUSS ' . I " THE QUICKEST WAY. A negro doctor in Georgia has hit on a way to solve the race problem and put an "end to lynching. It isn't altogether original, but coming from a negro, presumably a man of some intelligence, it is worthy of the attention of negroes. He thus presents his views in the Valdosta Times: :, ' : Agreat deal Jias been said about solving the race problem. : I think the easiest and quickest way to solve it is for- the colored man to know his place and stay it, and direct himself to moral and industrial .. education - in order to make loyal and useful citi zens. The Southern white man is the negroes' friend and is willing to help him when he deserves it, ror instance, Mr. F. D. Peabody, born and reared in Columbus, Ga., has offered the colored men of this city a Y. M O A. building to coat f30,000 for the moral and religious elevation of the race. This alone shows that the white man south of the Mason -and Dixie line sympathizes with the black as well aa the white man north of it. "I have been asked mv ideas about IvnchiDsr Mr reply was, if the crimes leading to the lynching were stopped. 'there wonld be no cause for the evil. While I do not endorse lynching. I do ssy it is high time that the elements who commit the crimes that lead to it, would resort to something that would be elevating and an honor to the race." If the negroes keep within their own lines and don't undertake to rub up against the white man or get into the White, man's place, there will be no friction or collision. There would be no race problem to solve. While they do that there is neither interference nor disposition to interfere by white people. They have their schools, their churches, their benevolent, trade and other organizations, in all of which they enjoy the fullest liberty, without the slightest meddling or interfer ence by the other race. On the con trary, they receive much assistance in all of them from white people. The way to put an end to lynch ing is not by holding meetings And denonnsing as "barbarians," ''sava ges," etc., men who participate in lynchings, but by removing the cause. However, much, protesting and denouncing may be done lynch ing will not cease while the crime that provokes it continues to be perpetrated, at least not until jus tice is more swift in the courts than it is now. If the negroes of the country were as quick to condemn crime as they are the lynchers who push it, and showed one-half the zeal in running down and bringing to punishment the perpetrators as they do in howling against lynch law, there would be less occasion to resort to this "wild justice." When Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, was in the Senate oleomargarine was a subject of contention as it is now. He once said that he didn't know anything about oleomargarine as he had never, te his knowledge, run up against it, but he did know some thing about butter, and had "stood in the presence of genuine butter with awe for its strength, and rev erence for its antiqnity." In Los Angeles, Lai., it is an offence punishable with a five dollar fine for the owner of a hen to per mit it to go upon the streets or across a neighbor's fence. The police lay for the hens and go for the owners. There is a similar law in this State, although we never heard of its being enforced but once. When Sam Jones was in Chatta nooga, he imparted the startling in formation that only the thin crust separated that town from hell. Sam seems to be getting nearer to it. The nearest he got before that was when he was in Savannah and dis covered that it wasn't more than mile and a half from that town. George and Allison Armour, of Chicago, were among the number who at one of Sing Edwards' re ceptions kissed his hand. If it had been on the royal programme they would probably have kissed his foot aa willingly as they did his hand. If they felt mean about it afterwards they didn't tell any body. E. H. E. Green, president of the Texas Midland Railway, is equip- in g his road with apparatus for the Marconi system of wireless teleg raphy. If it gives satisfaction he will adopt it on his road. In this he has the lead of all the other rail roads. "Good roads" are becoming such a live topic or. aiscussion in jmbw York that the State engineer has asked for an appropriation of $1,000,000 for work this year, and some of the leading papers are urg ing it. In Hayti they grow a kind of to bacco from five to seven feet in height, with leaves 2 inches long and 15 inches broad. That kind of a leaf ought to make a pretty good 'wrapper." The Atlanta Journal, noting the increase of fruit and vegetable can neries in that State, remarks: "There is room for scores of them in -Georgia." Ditto for North Caro lina. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY1 28, . - ' - 1 TiiH SHAI I PAY FVf Continued Prevalence in the Up Country May be Disastrous to Strawberry Growers. ; BAD SITUATION APPROACHING Several Pronlaeat Men Ssy Epidemic May Serloasly Retard Crop Moveaeat la April Unless Abated Sooier. Deaths la Sasopsoa. The smallpox situation in Sampson and Duplin counties, although less portentious under - ordinary circum stances than a few weeks ago, is yet regarded aa most serious In view of of . the near approach of atraw- berry picking time, which always brings to that district hundreds of laborers of more or less migratory character. v Several gentlemen who have been to the city within the past several days have spoken in a very pessimistic way of the consequences that will result to the strawberry growers along the line of the Wilmington & Weldon railroad unless the conditions, materially change. The hundred and hundreds of produce solicitors who visit that section each year and combine to keep up a lively competition, ensuring a high price for berries, will be practi cally debarred from the territory either by their own personal feelings or from the enforcement of rigid quaran tines between neighboring towns. Another important consideration is the bringing into the territory of hun dreds and hundreds of colored laborers to pick the crop and their subsequent removal to all parts of the country. The season for picking berries opens about April 10th and the people of the infected district are much interested in stamping out the disease before that time, which appears altogether not im possible but improbable. The hotel proprietors in the territory are especial ly interested in the matter from the fact that the coming of the produce solicitors in almost countless numbers is a bonanza for them. ' H. L. Stevens, Esq., of Warsaw, who was in the city yesterday, talked interestingly but not altogether encour agingly of the prospect. He Is coun sel for the local health authorities of his town, who still maintain a strict quarantine against Clinton and all other infected districts. Mr. Stevens, n speaking of the quarantine, which has been the object of some adverse criticism, says: "The Warsaw authorities dislike no little to inconvenience the public, but until people stop dying of the disease in the territory quarantined against, including Clinton and the border of Sampson, our regulations for the pub lic safety will be strictly enforced as they are being done now." Mr. Stevens said he had just heard of the death of smallpox of Mr. D. J. Rose, a well known citizen of Clinton, which occurred at his home there last Sunday. Mr. Rose was secretary of Clinton Lodge No. 124, L O. O. P., and was about 45 years of age. Three of his children, who have the disease, are improving. Asked about the smallpox in his own county Duplin Mr. Stevens "con fessed the corn," to use a trite expres sion, and said there were five cases on Mr. J. H. Fonville's plantation, seven miles from Warsaw, and one case from the same family had developed and been promptly isolated at Mag nolia. All the patients are colored and are closely quarantined. Mr. Tim Merritt, a white man, liv ing at Waycross, Sampson county, fifteen miles from Clinton, died also last Sunday, leaving a wife and three children. Mr. Btevens says that while condi tions have grown much better in the vicinity of Clinton there is still reason for a serious view of the situation. He says that Mr. A. H. Herring, a mer chant of Warsaw, who went out to his home, eight miles west of Clinton, before the quarantine went into effect and was unable to get back, writes that there are fifteen cases within a radius of two miless of his place. Mr. Stevens says one of the primary reasons for tne maintenance oi toe quarantine by the Warsaw authorities. is to guard against the terrible conse quences that would follow the contin ued prevalence of the disease through the strawberry gathering period. He says farmers failed in their crops of cotton and corn and are depending largely on their strawberry yield. If smallpox continues epidemic In the counties along the W. & W. road he thinks it will amount financially to nothing less than a public calamity. The Sampson Democrat of yesterday says: "it is with great satisfaction. mat we state that smallpox is stopped in Clinton. We have not had a single new case, not even in the lightest form, since our last issue, when we reported it confined to Mr. Hose's fam ily alone. The members of this fami ly are All practically well, and our superintendent of health is only wait ing lor tne sixteen days to expire tt ucu tug jiuanuuug nui wa i.iwiw. Csrollaa Beach Next Season. The annual overhauling of the track and rolling stock of the Caro lina Beach railroad will begin next week, Capt. Tom McGhee in charge. Uapt. Harper has several inquiries as to the lease of the hotel at Carolina Beach for next season, but has not yet decided what he will do in the matter. The season at the beach this year promises to be much better than last. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. H. Land, Jr., child and nurse, of Chadbourn, and Mrs. Land's mother, Mrs. Seymour A. Johnson, of Teachey's, arrived last night en route to Teachey's . to spend sometime. A card from dr. r. e. lee. Saperiatesdest of. Health of . Saaipson Coaaty Takes Exception to Warsaw's Attltade Teward Smallpox. To thb Editor MoRnraa Stab: I see in your paper of Friday that H. L- Stevens Esq., of Warsaw, gave to your readers a great deal of fiction concerning smallpox In Sampson. I wish to givt, in justice to all parties concerned, a few actual facts concern ing the smsllpox situation. xhe amount of fiction that the neo- ple of Warsaw -has been fed on, con cerning- Clinton, for the past few weeks has grown to such an amount, mat lntneir eyes we are ail in sucn a bad condition that we should go about crying "make way, unclean, unclean," whereas the facts are, that in the hole epidemic only four houses in uunton nsvooeen quarantinecLAt pres ent -every case in the county, except one, nas passed through tne several stages of the disease and we are onlv waiting i car tne given time so pass, be fore we rrse the quarantine. - u . Mr RtiVMinnntM fmm m. Inti nt Mr. A. ELI Herring, saying that there were fifteen cases In a radius of two miles of Mr. Herring's home His quotation reads as if Jhere were 15 cases there now. This is another ex ample of fiction. The facts in the case are these: at present there is only one casein Mr. Herring's neighborhood, an old aegro woman, who waited on one of the other cases; she is now shed ding and nearly well. Counting all of tie cases in a. radius of five miles of Mr. , Herring's, there has been only 15 cases. Eight of these cases oc curred in December, 1901, and were called chicken pox; six of these cases ran their course in January, leaving only one case in February, that of the old woman above reported. tr a -i i .1 . . jut. Dtevens mentions tne ueaioa oi Mr. Sose and Mr. Merritt. Has Mr. Stevens ever heard of a severe epi demic of smallpox occurring in un- vacciaated people without some deaths? If I remember correctly the mortality is given from S3 to 50 per cent. The deaths in this epidemic have been 15 per cent. In not a single in stance have 1 had a death or even a case of pure variola in a person who had ever been vaccinated. UoncerniDg air. Merritt, 1 will re mind Mr. Stevens that Mr. Merritt lives a few miles nearer Warsaw than Clinton. . In the family of Mr. Rose, there were six cases; nve or these were se vere, and of these only one death. and that was Indirectly caused by un necessary exposure. now about the Duplin cases? lwiii ask if there are any cases at Dr. Matt Moore's place, and if the jronviiie plantation Isn't five miles instead of seven from Warsaw! R, E. Lib, M. D., 8upt of Health. Clinton, N. C. A RAILROAD RUMOR. Carolina Norther aad Raleigh aad Cape Pear May Combine to Give Direct Line to S. C. Coast. Newa and Observer, 22nd. "You are getting mighty hot," said gentleman who keeps posted about railrod matfer yesterday in writing about thai new direct line of railroad from Raleigh to Charleston, via Sippe haw. liillington. Fayetteville. Lum- berton and Marion, 8. C. It is going to be built, and will do srreat good to Raleigbland all the section through which ft passes. Do not ask me ex actly how it will be built, whether by merger of the' Mills road with the Carolina Northern or some other way. But that line is going to be built, and will be running before a great many months pasa by. Just make a note of that if you please." 1 was examining the map to-day with a view to seeing how the route was between Raleigh and Lumberton. via Lillington and Fayetteville. If you will draw a line from Sippehaw (Fuquay Springs) the present terminus of the Mills road (Raleigh and Cape Fear) you will find that it is as straight a line as the crow Hies, it is a per fectly straight line, and runs through a heavily timbered country. It is sixty-three miles from Raleigh to Fayetteville. The Mills road is already built twenty miles, leaving forty three miles to get to Fayetteville. The plans have already been made and bonds sold to build It fifteen miles further south. It is something like thirty miles from Fayetteville to Lumberton. The road South of Lumberton Is al ready built to Marion, 8. 0., and Is in operation. More than that; it ia pay ing interest on its bonds and is earning a dividend besides. It has plenty of canital behind it and wants connection to Raleigh. Mr. Mills is going South and wants connection to Fayetteviile and Lumberton. The road is going to be built and before great while you can get on a train on the Mills road and go into Charleston without chang ing cars. The conference held in Raleigh be tween Mr. Mills and Mr. rroctor rep- seating the Carolina and Northern road, will bear fruit with a lew days. U. S. Coart Clerk. For some time an effort has been made to have Congress convert the office of Deputy Clerk of the United States Court in this city into a regular omce instead of a deputyship as now. Of course it would amount to little more than a change of name but it is regarded as desirable by the legal folk. A telegram yesterday from Hon. Jno. D. Bellamy stated that the Judiciary Committee of the House had reported the bill favorably. Will Not Oppose Thomas. Major Jno. D. Kerr, of Clinton, in a signed card in yesterday's Sampson Democrat, says he will not oppose Hon. Chas. R. Thomas for Congress in the Third District Major Kerr aays in his card: "While I thank all my friends for their kind expressions, I do not think I ought to oppose the present incumbent, because of the nature of his contest for his seat during his present term, and for this reason will not be before the next convention as a candi date." The New, Orleans papers an nounced the engagement of Hon. Jas. R. Toung, State Insurance Commis sioner of North Carolina, to Miss Vir ginia M. Nichols, daughter of ex-Governor and the present Chief Justice Nichols, of Louisiana. The marriage will take place In April. 1902. funeral op general toon. Coodacted ia Ralelrh Yesterday After. ooi A Very Impressive Service. V Many Possible Successors. Special Star telegram. c Ralegh. N.C., Feb. 81 The funeral of Gen. Toon to-day, was very large ly attended and according to the very impressive programme published this morning. It was carried out with the addition of the following musical selec tions: "Abide with Me",bythe con gregations as the remains were brought into the church. "Soldier of God Well Done," by the choir. Safe:Within the Veil," solo by Rev. R. T. Venn, D. D. "How firm a Foundation," by the choir. "No Night there." solo by Miss Rosa Broughton. It will probably be several days be fore a -successor 10 lien, icon is -ap pointed by the Governor. The claims of several candidates are being press ed, among them Prof. J. T. Joyner, of Greensboro; Prof. J. Allen Holt, of Oak Ridge; Prof. M. O. S. Noble, of Chapel Hill; Hon. B. F. Grady, of Sampson, and Prof W. H. Ragadale, of Greenville. Some of the candidates have friends already here pressing their claims. It seems to be the impression that Prof. Joy ner has the best prospect, if he will accept QAVE BOND 0P $10,008. Oardser-Lscy Lumber Company Filed Se curity In U. S. Coart Yesterdsy. The Gardner-Lacy Lumber Com pany, of Georgetown, S. O., yesterday executed in the United States Court here the bond of $10,000 required of it in the recent order by Judge Purnell in the famous Green Swamp land suit from Brunswick and Columbus coun ties. The sureties are Messrs. J. W. Norwood and Jno. S. Armstrong, of Wilmington, who signed the instru ment with President H. H. Gardner, of the company. The condition to the obligation is such that if the Gardner-Lacy Lum ber Company "shall, If so required, by order of this court, account to complainant and pay for such timbers as it shall cut and use from the land claimed by, or which it shall be ad judged by the court, the New Jersey and North Carolina Land and Lum ber Company, was and is the owner and entitled to the possession of them, this obligation shall be void; other wise it shall remain in full force and effect" The Gardner-Lacy Company had been restrained from cutting timber on the lands in question until the bond was given. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Stanly Enterprise'. Mr. W. S. Swarineen. familiarly known "Billy Shake," dropped dead Monday at his home near ttandalrs Unurch, east of Norwood. He was about 85 years of age. and was well known to many people in various parts or tne county. Gastonia Gazette: A hen egg that is a rouser was brought us this morning by Mr. George Dickson. It was laid a few day ago by a hen of mixed Cochin and Dominique strain. The egg weighed four ounces. It was Si inches long and had a rim . seam somewhat like a barrel hoop around the body not far from the middle. Greenville Reflector: Mr. Hector McLean died Saturday at his residence Harnett county,' aged 93 years, be ginning to pass away with the setting in or the great snow storm, ms twin brother, Hugh McLean, died three years ago, and it is a singular fact that a great mantle of snow covered the earth in his last hours. Statesville Landmark: Some of the Statesville butchers are -selling Armour beef and pork from Chicago They get it from the Armour agency in Charlotte. The pork retails here for 15 cents and the beef from 10 to 15 cents, This Is something new for 8tatesville but the market men say they are forced to buy on account of the scarcity or hogs and cattle and consequent high prices asked. Concord Standard: In Salis bury, on Wednesday, there was a case in which a white lady of unimpeach able character, who was the victim or assault by three negroes, was on the stand. She asked the coart to be allowed to testify only before such as must necessarily hear the harrowing tale. Judge Bhaw said he had no right to compel the people to with draw, but he requested them to do so, when all save a few negro women com plied. Fayetteville Observer: Shortly after Hon. John G. Shaw arot off the train at Sanford Thursday, where he had gone on professional business, he began kicking himself for losing a fine umbrella when a young man came up and asked him: "Have you lost any thing, sir!" "Yes, my umbrella." "Nothing else!" "Nothing else." "Look well through your pockets." The fact then developed that he had also left behind his pocketbook, with valuable papers and $8. which waa handed to him. Nashville Graphic: Deputy Collector Wood and a posse made a raid in this and Franklin counties last Thursday and captured two large illicit distilleries. The price of corn has been so hiffh that moon-shiners, are now using molases, exclusively. More was found at one of the illicit distiller ies caotured. The last capture by Col lector Wood makes a total of eight in a radius oi ten mues irom spring Hope since last November. John Henrv Rose, who waylaid and killed Tom Farmer, near Wilson, on the 81st of July, 1900, and who was tried at the September term of the Superior Court and convicted and sentenced to be hansred on the 27th of February, has made a full confession of the killing of Farmer and given strong . reasons for the terrible deed. Rose alleges that Farmer had threatened time and time agin to take his life and on several oc casions had waylaid him for that pur pose, but waa prevented by others being in the way at the timer that friends had come to him and told him that Farmer was determined to take his life, and that he was liable to be shot at any moment and that his only syfety and security of life lay in the killing of Farmer. NO. 18 HOTEL FIRE IN NEW YORK CITY. Resulted in the Loss of Eighteen Lives and Many Persons Being injured. PROPERTY LOSS" OVER $750,000 The Deed All Qacsts of the Hotel More Thas Five Haodred Persons la the Hoflse Mssy Were Rescsed by - Firemen aad Police. By Telegraph to tne Morning Star. New York, Feb. 32. Fire early this morning in the Park Avenue hotel and the, Seventy-first regiment armory,, this city, resulted in the loss of eighteen lives, many persons Injured and the ' destruction of property valued at $750,000. The dead per sons were all guests of the hoteL Flames were first discovered in the armory, and forty-five minutes later it was found that the hotel was on fire. The dead are Norman Acton. Ala bama; CoL Chas. L. Burdette, Hart- rord, uonn., of the First regiment of the National Guard of that Bute: Mrs. Ellen Foster, a Tombs prison missionary: Fred 8. Hovev. Lvons. N. Y.: Thos. P. Hore, Denver, Col.; jno. L. l verso n. Denver. Uol. : an un known woman: Chas. U. O'OonnelL new i or, died or nis injuries in a hospital; Col. Alexander Piper, U. S. A., retired, resident of the hotel: Gt. A. Robbins, a lawyer of Selma, Ala.; Miss Esther Schiesinger, ' Chicago; jacoo Bpann, a lawyer or Rochester, JN. Y.; Jno. E. Walker. Columbia. Tenn.; Wm. H. Barnhart, Chicago; an unknown woman, body found on the sixth floor wore five rings on the leit nana. It was the worst hotel fire since the Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen at about 1:80 in the morning in the armory and in a remarkably short time that buildinglwas aflame from end to end. The firemen r made their way aa best they could through the streets, deep with slush, and did all possible to con line the Ore to armory. but after tbey nad been at work near! v an hour the discovery was made that the hotel was on tire. Crowded With Quests. The hotel was crowded with guests who had come to attend the festivities in honor of Prince Henry. More than nve hundred persons were in the house." The fire was confined principally to the fifth and sixth floors, near the ele vator and air shafts. At about the time the hotel was found to be on fire, the lights went out and the corridors were filled with smoke. The guests, unable to find their way through the darkened hallways, jump ed from windows or. ran directly into the name-swept portions of the build' ing. It is this fact which accounts for the large loss of life, although the hotel was not destroyed. The are in the armory started on the third floor. Within five minutes the whole structure was beyond saving and ten minutes later the roof fell in with a terrific crash. There was no one in the armory at the time except a janitor and bis family, and they escaped. Caufht From the Armory. It was not until almost S o'clock that flames were discovered in the Park Avenue hotel, directly across from the armory. Manager Reed, of the hotel, had been on the roof watch ing the fire in the armory with guests from the hoteL He had descended to the first floor and was standing talking to a guest when a burst of flame came up through the eleva tor shaft Immediately he ordered his men to go through the hotel to give the alarm. The names mounted rapidly and the fire extinguishers made little impres sion. The guests on the fifth and sixth floors had been aroused and those who had not lost their heads started for the stairways, clad only in wrappers, and some with only sheets thrown over them. Scores of people were taken from the windows of the third, fourth and fifth floors of the house by firemen and by police, many of the rescued being made hysterical from fright Harrowiof Scenes. At the windows on the Park Avenue aide of the hoteL many persons ap peared. Women were screaming frantically for help. A Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, guests of the hotel, who were to leave to-day on the transport Mo- Clellan for Manila, appeared at a fifth floor window on the Thirty-third street side, screaming loudly. A Mrs. Char lotte Bennett and her husband, of Ala bama, stood on the fifth floor on a ledge directly over the portico and mam entrance or the hotel. Mrs. Ben nett evidently thinking no one was going to rescue her, struggled from her husband's grasp and shouted that ahe was going to jump. The firemen gathered In a circle below and stretched out their arms. She broke away from her husband and flung her self out of the window, while the flames had almost enveloped ier. She is killed. Her husband rushed into the hall and made his escape, though he was slightly burned and almost overcome by smoke. A Shocklsf Death. CoL Buedett after making a desper ate attempt to save his life, met death in a shocking manner. His skull waa split open and he was found shortly after 6 o'clock lying in the court yard within the hotel. He had fallen six stories. w Col. Burdett waa a guest on the fifth floor -of the hoteL Soon after the alarm of Are reached - him all escape was cut off. He dragged, the mattress from his bed and dropped it to the roof of an extension over the hotel dining room, three stories be low. Then by tying the sheets to gether he made a rope and secured it to the window. His object was to land on the mattress and thus break his falL He miscalculated the dis tance and fell to the court' - One of the saddest incidents of the fire was the death of Mrs.' Salome Fos ter, the 'Tombs angeL" who for fif teen years has been in service in be half of female prisoners in the Tombs and other city prisons. . 'Pink" Long, a negro accused of murdering a negro in Caswell coun ty, N. O., was arrested yesterday at the Little Run Baptist church, near Springfield, O. Long boasted that he would not be taken back. The Gov ernor of North Carolina has sent re quisition papers for the man. DAVE SULLIVAN. Salllvaa Was Whipped after Fifteen gonads of Desperate Pi(htlsf , Bat Was Qame to tie Very Last. mm ASjaajajtftsaiMa sv sauv aiawsa siiim DMH . LouisviLiJB, Kt., Feb. 22. Terry McGovern defeated Dave Sullivan to night in the arena of the Southern Athletic Club, after fifteen rounds of as desperate fighting as was ever seen in any ring. From the first tap of the Eong until the end it was slam-bang, ammer and tongs, ' nearly every second, both men working away with an tne energy tney possessed. There has seldom been seen a battle where the issue was more in doubt In one round it would be Sullivan and in the next McGovern.. Then Bullivan would, come atrong again ; and even things up once more. Mcliovern. knowing that the fight , meant his position in the front rank as a fighter, was after bis man every second. In the majority of the rounds he was on the aggressive and Sullivan waa foiced to do far more defensive work than his opponent. He put up a wonderful fight, however, was game to the core, and lost the fight more i through a blunder of bis own than be cause he was knocked out When the finish came, however, he was groggy and going fast The chances are that be .would not nave lasted many more rounds, even had he risen to his feet before Fitxsimmons called ten. In the fifth round Sullivan-waa at his best He forced the fighting, es pecially in the last half, and had Me Govern plainly going. The latter Walked In a nr uuaWji feahinn ju ho went to his corner and nothing but his splendid recuperative power en abled him to come out in ahape for the sixth round. He came out atrong, however, and although there were times when Sullivan seemed abont to turn the tide his way again, from that time on Mcuovern kept steadily out very slowly getting the upper hand. He fought ever forward and Buiii- van was gradually but surely going backward. Sullivan was badly pun ished, his left ear being split open, his lips cracked, his nose well pounded up, and his right eye partly closed. The latter happened early in the fight and McGovern paid particular atten tion throughout During the twelfth and thirteenth and fourteenth rounds. Sullivan was slowly going. McGovern was at him like a wild cat in every instant He gave him no rest and Sullivan wan hanging on for his life. ' The end came when tne niteentn round was nearly over. McGovern had forced Sullivan into neutral corner, ue landed a storm oi rignts. and left swings and catching Sullivan with the left square on the jaw, sent him down on his back. Sullivan was up like a flash, but did not rise from his knees. He was confused, groggy and nearly out Fitzsimmons counted nine and aa he uttered the last word 8ulliyan started to rise but did not get higher than a low crouch. The instant his knee was off the floor, McGovern came after him and Sullivan hardly knowing what he was about went down again. The referee promptly de clared him out and Mcuovern tne victor. Sullivan attempted to ques tion the decision, but Fitzsimmons would not listen to bim. SEVERE SLEET STORM AT PHILADELPHIA. The City Completely Shut 0(1 From Elec- tricsl Commonicstlon Fatalities Prom Live Wires. Br Teieorrapn to me uerning star. Philadelphia, Feb. 23. Philadel phia is as -completely shut off from electrical communication with the out side world as thongh such a thing as a telegraph or telephone wire never ex isted. The storm appears to have been more severe in the vicinity of Phila delphia than anywhere else. Infor mation received nere is to ine eneci that south of the Susquehanna river on the route to Baltimore and the South, the wires are in fairly good condition, and that west of Harrisburg the condition electrically is not so serious, within tne city limits, how ever, it is no exaggeration to aay that scarcely a single overhead wire is In good working order. Poles are down in all directions and wires are dangling from house-tops on near ly every street Officials of the tele graph companies say that it will be fully a week before all of the routes are even in fair working order. In this city four persons were killed during yesterday and last night by coming in contact with heavily charg ed wires. The most singular of the fatal acci dents occurred down town where two men died together. Charles Sack and an lanknown companion were walking down a street when Sack became en tangled in a broken electric light wire. He dropped dead and his com panion in trying to escape the wire touched it and also ien oeaa. A coal wagon driver, while driving hia wafon at Thirtieth and Chestnut streets, came in contact with, a broken wire snd was also electrocuted. The same fate also befell Robert Macadoo, who in trying to avoid a broken wire accidentally came in contact - with it and fell off his wagon dead. NEW YORK'S STORM. Streets Nearly Impssssble-Qrestest Dam ' age la Brooklyn Horses Killed. - By Telegraph to tha Horning Btar. New York, February 22. The sleet storm that struck New York E roved to be the most severe "that as been experienced - for sev eral years. Telegraphic commun ication was almost completely sus pended until this evening when it was generally restored. , - Throughout the day the streets were . rendered nearly, impassable by slush. many of them almost presenting me appearance of rivers, the sewers being incapable of carrying off the overflow... Owing to the holiday, street car traffic was at a minimum. The greatest damage waa sustained In Brooklyn where scores of horses were killed by contact with live wires which were everywhere prostrated. In Prospect Park and in many of the avenues, hundreds of trees were de nuded of lee ' laden 'branches. The Brooklvn Bridce nresented a brillant spectacle, being completely encased In a glittering crystal coating. TOTAL NET RECEIPTS OP COTTON. By Telegraph to the Horning Star. -Nbw York, Feb. 22. The follow ing are the total net receipts of cotton at all porta since September 1st. 1901: Galveston, 1,740,833 oaies; ew Or leans, 1,806,127; Mobile, 144,888; Sa vannahr89,683; Charleston, 242,801; Wilmington, 257,092; Norfolk, 887,-; 1 927; Baltimore, 64,272; New York, 134,418; Boston, '93,220; Newport News, 12,617; Philadelphia, 23,470; Port lownsend. 96.129: Brunswick. 90,844; Fernandina, 4,550; Pensacola, 140.824: Ban Francisco, 16,775; Port Arthur, 2,554; Portland, Ore., 6, 970 J Total, 6,805,215. j u