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BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION.
The Philadelphia Press, in com
menting upon the Philippine tariff
bill, which passed the Senate, re
bukes the statesmen for not keep
ing np with the movement of pnblic
sentiment and then proceeds to
draw a rosy picture of the Philip-,
pines under beneficent American
rale, as illustrative of "benevolent
assimilation" viewed from the dis
tance. It says:
"The Senate, if it had been wise,
would have adopted Benator Foraker's
amendment reducing the tariff on
Philippine products by 75 or even by
50 per cent. A reduction of 25 per
cent la bettertban nothing. . It onght
to b adopted by the House.
"The country it in advance of both
Senate and Houte on these issues.
Senators and Representatives are still
listening to special Interests, when the
mightier and saner tides of public
opinion are setting to the open seas of
a wider trade and tbe larger claims
and demands of a national policy
wb'ch Is looking oat as well as in, for
ward as well as backward, and lends
a hand at every point to expanding in
fluence and II creasing commerce.
"Philippine imports to tbis country
are small. The largest item, hemp, is
free. Tbe sugar of Pane and other
islands is tbe product of a primitive
manufacture, dark, unrefined and put
up in small bags, It has been driven
out of markets by sugar more skilful
ly refined. Aid of four-tenths of a
cent a pound, wblch a 25 per cent re
duction will give, wilt not make up for
distance and crude methods until new
capital improves the sugar. Manila
tobacco, mj highly as it is valued in
East Asia, as highly as Havana tobac
co with ui. is not likely to penetrate
American markets wilb tbis reduction,
though it may stimulate the produc
tion of Sumatra tobacco. For this
pans of the islands are probably suit
ed. This large thin jeaf rf quires special
clin.uic conditions, and these are so
definite that tbis tobacco is successful
ly grown on the south coast of Sumat
ra and cannot be on the northern, nar
row as is the island.
"The new tariff ia at best, however,
Intended for but two years. It is tem
porary and meets the conditions created
by the decision of tbe Supreme Court
holding that duties could not be col
lected on products from the islands un
der the Dingley tariff. What ia done
now is, however, a precedent. The re
bate for Philippine export duties, the
payment of all duties received into the
Philippine Treasury aod a reduction of
25 per cent oa all duties are provis .
ions which collectively constitute a
liber A fl,cal pilicy. No European
cou i try thus reiurnajluties on colonial
products Eaglaod makes no reduc
tion upon them. France and Ger
muy give colonies tariff advantages,
but tne rsveaue received goes into the
national treasury.
"The Uoitetl States proposes to give
this revenue to tbe colony. It pays
all military expanses, by other coun
tries levi il nu the colony. Pensions
earned ia Iuiiia are paid from Indian
revenu? Pensions earned in the
Philippines are paid at Washington.
Tbe cost of transporting teachers is
paid by the Federal Government The
police or tbe f nilippine seas and ita
weather service is a Federal charce.
Tne result is that the Philippine bud
get ror education is larger tnan that
of all India, paid from the Anglo In
dian budget, and there are more Amer
icans teaching at the public cost in the
archipelago to-day titan in all India,
wilri Uiirty times tbe population.
"More and better, no land has ever
done for a dependency. Peace and
order have come under this policy.
The statutes as to treason and its mis
prision, copied from those in our own
States, which Senator Hoar is so de
sirous of amending, will soon be as
forgotten sa little used as the statutes
against treason here. When this tem
porary tariff expires ia 1904 a Philip
pine legialature will b passing ita
own laws and making its own tariff.
lancTtbe islands will be on the high
road toward whatever form of govern
ment they are best fitted.
f "In three vears, since the United
Duties enterea in islands, day labor,
wages have doubled. Does any sane
man imagine that the great body of
the ialand population obj-ct and op
pose a rule which brings this advance
and a peace the islands have never
known!"
As coming from a leading Repub
lican organ this quoted editorial
is a decidedly sharp rebuka to the
majority in both branches of Con
gress, and what gives point to the
TBbUlce is that it is tme and dARnrvAd.
is not referring to the Philippine
arifl alone when it says: "Theconn-
jrjr is in advance of both Senate and
Ilouse on these iBaues. Senators
ana representatives are still listen
ing to special interests, when the
mightier and saner tides of public
opinion are setting to the open bam
of a wider trade," &c. This means
reciprocity, which may be brought
about by discriminating tariff modi
fications. What an arraignment of
the Republican statesmen by a lead
ing' Republican paper. "Still listen
ing to special interests," as, for in
stance, in the case of Cuba.
Congress has hA nni,.n
procity propo8itiong before .t eyfir
aince it met. tmM! ...
nzmustakiibly in r of such tariff
VOL. XXXIII.
concessions as would make possible
a substantial reciprocity by which
both Cnba and this country wonld
be gainers, bat the majority in Con
gress haa been "listening to special
interests" and these special interests
have been able to delay action and
possibly to make worthless such
action as may be taken. These
"special interests" are "potent in
elections; they can make or unmake
Congressmen; they know their power
and they use it. When the Presi
dent of the Colorado Beet Sugar
Manufacturers' Association declared
that if Congress didn't take care of
their interests in the matter of con
cessions of Cnba the Republicans
need not look for any more aid for
them, he made a center shot which
has doubtless had its effect. A man
with a fat wallet, which may be
drawn upon, wields a mighter in
fluence in Republican party coun
cils than a brigade of men without
wallets. They never antagonize the
man with the wallet if they know it
and can avoid it. ' v
They have been "listening to special
interests" in all this tariff business,
and that's why they have done their
best to freeze tariff reducer JBabcock
out, -why every movement in the
direction of tariff reform Is headed
off and why the much talked of rec
iprocity to which all the Republican
statesmen seem to be committed, has
proved so far and probably for good
a mere delusive hnmbug.
But there is abont as much sub
stance in that as there is in the
optimistic picture which the Press
draws of "benevolent assimilation"
as it will pan out in the neat future
within the next couple years.
This will be necessary to get in the
work before the next Presidential
election, for it would never do for
the party to enter another Presiden
tial campaign with a racket on in
the Philippines after the broadcast
prediction that everything wonld be
serene over there within three
months after the announcement that
President McKinley was re-elected.
Possibly there may be peace in
those islands soon and it is to be
hoped there will be both on account
of the Filipinos who for some time
have, with the remnant of armies,
been waging an unequal contest,
and on account of this cousjtry
which is sacrificing lives and a good
deal of money in this work of ben
evolent assimilation, which the
Press anticipates in such optimistic
phrases. Assuming all this is to be
true, if, as the Press says, 'this
country is generously footing the
the bill for all, that is being done
for the Filipinos, more than any
other country does for its colonies,
how is this country to be reim
bursed for all that? How is it go
ing to get back the $400,000,000 or
$500,000,000 it will have expended
in this work of benevolent assimila
tion, in lifting the little brown man
up against his will? Possibly if the
Congress of the United States
would endorse the Press's editoral
and circulate it largely in the isl
ands, the dove of peace might light
at once and. the loving work of
benevolent assimilation begin at
once; but one thing that is rather
against these prognostics is that Gov.
Taft says the Filipinos are expected
to foot those bills themselves, and
he thinks he knowB something about
it.
In Mobile some of the wooden
block pavements are being removed
to make place for asphalt. The
Register says if repairs had been
promptly made the wooden pave
ments would be as good to-day as
when they were put down thirteen
years ago. In some of the Western
cities where wooden block pave
ments were tried, and gave way to
asphalt, they are being replaced as
preferable. In the Southern pine
timber belt, it seems to us that with
the process ' of creosoting wooden
blocks ought to make ideal paving
for streets.
The blue ribbon joker, or idiot, is
a Mr. Gourlay, who is one of the
representatives from Nova Scotia,
in the Canadian Parliament. ' He
doesn't like the proposed way of
settling the Alaskan boundary ques
tion, and thinks the best way to
settle that question would be to
whip the Yankees and annex the
United States to Canada, which he
thinks Canada could do in abont
six months.
The superintendent of public
schools in Kokomo, Ind., who has
been making some observations on
the cigarettes, says that out of the
1,300 boysinthe schools he found
400 cigarette smokers, and these
were at least two years behind the
others in their studies.
One of the questions in England
is how to encourage the British hen
to supply more of the $25,000,000
worth of eggs now imported to meet
tne demand.
A New England railroad gave out
to Legislators last year $40,000
worth of free passes and thinks it
got off cheap.
STRENUOUS AMERICANISM.
J. W. Ivey is TJ. S. Collector of
Customs at Sitka, Alaska. Some
time ago he issued an order to his
deputy at Unaliska not to permit
Canadian vessels abont to engage in
sealing to take on supplies at that
port. In view of the mutual swap
ping of "kinship" talk&c, between
this country and Great Britain,
when the Treasury at Washington
heard of this it asked him to report
and if he had issued any orders' of
that kind to revoke them. Collector
Ivey thereupon telegraphed the fol
lowing: "My Americanism will not allow
me to rescind an order which gives
British subjects privileges within our
marine jurisdiction which are denied
our own people. There is another
matter that may attract your attention.
I have recently issued orders to the
deputy at 8kagway, a copy of which
has been sent to you, which has
put the Canadian officers located there
out of business and sent them
to their own territory. ,You are
aware of the fact that this of
ficer became so offensive that he in
terfered with the Americans in the dis
charge of their official duties, opened
the United States customs mail, domi
nated over the railway officials, dis
criminated in the order of shipment in
fayor of Canadian merchandise against
that shipped from Seattle, and collect
ed moneys and performed other acts
of British sovereignty, hoisting with
bravado the cross of St George from
tbe flag staff of his custom house. I
have sent the concern, bag, baggage,
flag and other paraphernalia flying
out of the country. You may fear the
shadow of international complications
and rescind th's order, but a Reed, an
Olney nor a Blaine would not."
This ia a fair sample of strenuous
Americanism that will hardly be
appreciated by the gentlemen to
whom it was addressed. Mr. Ivey
doesn't propose to reverse himself
and he doesn't propose to let any of
our British cousins np there put
on scollops in his bailiwick.
When Mr. Gourlay, of Nova
Scotia, reads that telegram he will,
doubtless, unless the Treasury De
partment sits down on Collector
Ivey, advocate declaring war instant
ly and annexing the United States.
Chin Tan Sun, a son of China, is
a multi-millionaire, and the richest
Chinaman in this country. He
came to San Francisco as a
boy, without a nickel, saved his
earnings, started in the fish busi
ness, caught an American wife,
started a lottery and the rest was
easy.
The Marconi system of wireles
telegraphy is now in operation on
twenty-five ocean steamers, with
twenty-two land stations, which
transmit messages at the average
speed of twenty-two words a min
ute. It has passed the experiment
al stage.
An anxious enquirer asks the New
York Sun why a dog wags his tail.
That's what the dog's tail is for,' to
wag, and the dog has to wag it him
self because if he wanted to he
couldn't get any other dog to wag it
for him. Some people ask such fool
ish questions.
In Kentucky they don't mind
vendettas and that kind of thing
much, but they are drawing the
line on the wife beater. There is a
bill before the Legislature to estab
lish the whippingpost for that kind
of fellows.
France has the distinction of hav
ing more dogs to the square acre
than any other European country,
2,864,000 in all, or 75 to every 1,000
inhabitants. And France isn't much
of a country for sausage, either.
CURRENT COMMENT.
In eight years after the dis
covery of oil Baku, Russia, a mere
village, convenient to the oil fields,
became a city of 140,000 poulation
and bad 120 oil refineries. Baku is
in an inhospitable climate, is hem
med in and is 560 miles from the
principal seaport. What a future
awaits Houston and Beaumont.
Houston Chronicle, Dem.
There is trepidation among
the iron manufacturers of Germany
over a report that President Schwab,
of the Billion Dollar Steel Trust,
bought np during his recent visit to
Europe nearly all the shares of the
Swedish Ure Company. This is re
garded as preliminary to a more ac
tive invasion of the European market
by the Steel Trust. Swedish iron
ore is of excellent quality, and if
imported to the United States in
ballast free of duty it would serve
to further stimulate American steel
manufactures. At any rate, free
ore would be a good thing, whether
coming from Sweden orany other
region. Jfhiladelpna Jiecora, JJem.
General Joe. Wheeler says
that there were more persons killed
in the Galveston horror than in all
the battles on this Continent, ex
cept those in the four years' conflict
beginning in 1861. With the in
troduction of long-range guns, when
battle began at a range at one and a
quarter miles' he argues, the death
rate is comparatively small. Indeed,
"the danger in modern warfare is
little greater than that of dodging
around street-cars in Philadelphia.
In the future, battles will be at a
distance of one and a half miles on
level stretches of country, and near
er, perhaps, in hilly positiona," the
General conciua.es. nicnmuu vis
patch, Detn
WILMINGTON, N. C,
STRAWBERRY CROP.
Outlook for Approaching Season
is Bright for Yield, Prices
and Quality.
THE REFRIGERATOR SERVICE.
The Fruit Growers' Express Promises Im
proved Traasportatloi Track
Growers' Joarul's View
of the Slustioa. -.:-
Forty days hence this section of
Eastern North Carolinia, or at least
that portion of it devoted to strawberry
culture, will be all aglow with fever
ish excitement over the approaching
heavy movement of the berry crop,
which, this - year, all concede, will be
the largest in the history of the Indus
try in this section.
The Carolina Fruit afffiTruck
Growers'1 Journal, the official organ!
of the Eastern Carolina Fruit and
Truck Growers' Association, in itsissue
of yesterday presents a psge review
of the outlook for the season, whieh
makes altogether interesting reading
for growers'a and those interested in the
handling of the crop. Altogether the
Journal's estimate of strawberry in
crease in acreage this year over last is
fully 20 per cent Much of the increase
however is of last fall's planting which
will hot yield more than half crop.
The vines have been well cared for
all through the winter and the
field- are generally all well strawed.
From every point at which inquiries
have been made respecting conditions
and the general outlook for the 1902
crop, reports of a most encouraging
character have been received and the
growers generally are in a very hope
ful frame of mind. By all it is con
ceded that the yield this year bids fair
to be unusually heavy and the fruit
of a superior quality. Vegetation has
been held back by reason of the cold
winter thus far, as a result of which
there has been no premature budding
or forward growth of the vines. When
spring opens, therefore, and the sea
son for budding is ripe there will no
doubt be a harmonious blending of all
the elements in favor of a good and
wholesome yield and a high order of
fruit
In the vegetable line, the Journal
says, the outloook is equally bright
Lettuce shipments have been going
forward practically all the year round,
and shipments are of good average
value. The bean and pea crops will
be up to the average this year and far
ahead of last season, while the potato,
canteloupe and watermelon crops will
be among the most important in the
history of this section. The farmers
have their work of cultivation-well
under way, and the season's returns
should be large and remunerative.
Mr. H. T. Baumar, the enterprising
business agent of the Truckers' Asso
ciation, at the last meeting of the Ex
ecutive Committee in this city, sub
mitted a statement showing the acre
age in strawberries to be about 4,767
acres along the lines of the W. & W.,
W. C. & A. and A. & Y. roads. This
indicates an increase over last year of
not exceeding 10 per cent, but the
Journal yesterday differed with Mr.
Bauman on that point and places
the increase at fully 20 per cent De
tailing its reasons for that estimate,
the Journal says that along the
W. C. & A. road and connections, the
increase will be fully 50 per cent, over
last year, while the greatest increase
along the W. & W. road is to be found
south of Wallace. Above that point
there will be no increase to speak of,
the decrease at some places offsetting
any increase at others. Along the
Yadkin division the increase will be
largely confined to the territory be
tween Wilmington and Parkersburg,
although at Fayetteville a slight in
crease is reported.
In a detailed report of the recent
meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Truckers' Association in this
city, upon which Mr. G. B. Bobbins,
of the Fruit Growers' Express, was in
attendance, the Journal says of the re
refrigerator service this season:
"With Mr. Bobbins the question of
equipment for the coming year was
discussed most saiisiacioruy ana ne
assured the committee that no stone
would be left unturned by his com
pany to give the shippers a gilt-edge
refrigerator service in every particular.
Although he would hot commit him
self in words and language to that
effect Mr. Bobbins, gave the committee
reasonable assurances that the C. F.
X. cars would most likely form a part
of his company's 1902 equipment for
this territory, uur people are quite
familiar with tbe O. F. X. cars and are
generally preferred by our shippers to
anv other eaninment for the transpor
tation of strawberries. Year In and
year out it is a good carrier and with
additional icine stations in this terri
tory at various points along the Wil
mington ox Weldon and w. u. cc -railroads,
facilities are better than
ever before."
MONEY WILL BE FORTHCOMING.
Board of Education Makes Certain Foods
for Poor Months' Term Will be Paid.
News and Observer, $8fh.
At a meeting of theBtate Board of
Education, held yesterday afternoon,
it was made certain that sufficient
money would be forthcoming from
the State Treasury to insure a four
months' school term in all of those dis
tricts where the county school fund Is
not sufficient to secure the constitu
tional requirement No county board
need have any uneasiness lest their
share of the appropriation be not paid
over in due time.
Rev. J. J. Paysenr returned
Friday from Fortress Monroe, Va,,
where he stood his examination for
enlistment as chaplain in the U. S.
army. He it now awaiting orders
from Washington.
FRIDAY, MAECH 7, 1902.
. 8UILDINQ BOOM AT BURQAW.
Pender's Consty Seat Is Floorisblor.
! Army of Prodoce Solicitors Arriviog.
Brace Williams, Esq., of Bargaw,
was in the city yesterday on one of his
periodical professional visits. When
asked by a reporter for the news, Mr.
Williams said: "Yon can aay that our
town, Burgaw, is now on the boom.
Tbree large brick stores are just being
completed there and they will be occu
pied very soon by wide-wake mer
chants, who are on tbe look-out for
the strawberry business about 60 days
hence. The stores are all handsome
otes, of large size and are a valuable
addition to our place. I have travelled
from Wilmington to Rocky Mount
much in tbe past few weeks and I find
no such building boom as there is now
on at Burgaw." .
8peakiuie of the strawberry outlook
Mr. Williams said that the advance
guard of the small army of produce
solicitors was already arriving' in tbe
strawberry belt He also said that the
disposition on tbe part of the growers
this year seemed to be to sell their
berries on the spot and not risk con,
surnments to parties of unknown res
ponsibility in the North. They were
badly fooled in some instances and
paid for1 their berries in bogus checks
last season and dpn't want a repetition
or that treatment this year.
HAKB0R MASTER'S MONTHLY REPORT.
Vessels of Ninety Tons aad Over That Ar
rived Here Onrinf February.
The monthly report of Ca.pt Edgar
D. Williams, harbor master; shows
arrivals of vessels of 90 tons and over
during February as follows:
American 8 steamships, 9,460 tons;
1 barge, 1,600 tons; 10 schooners, 2,-
915 tons. Total vessels, 19; total ton
nage; 13 975.
Foreign 4 steamships, 4,712 tons;
1 barque, 410 tons; 4 schooners, 718
ton 8. Total vessels, 9; total tonnage,
6,840 -
Tne grand total of vessels for the
month was 28; the combined tonnage,
19,819. Tbe report compares very fa
vorably with that of February last
year.
Telephone to Lumberton.
The merchants of the city have re
newed their efforts of a few months
ago to get the Inter-State Telephone
Company to build a connecting link
between Cronly and Lumberton, N.
C, giving Wilmington connection at
the latter place with the various towns
on the Lumberton exchange, includ
ing Fayetteville and Rockingham, N.
C, and Marion, S. O. The route to
Lumberton was surveyed some time
ago, but for some reason the line was
built as far as Cronly and stopped
there. . Merchants along the proposed
line are very anxious for the service.
Letters advocating the construction of
such a system were received this week
from J. B. Stancill, Allenton; N. A.
Currie & Bros., Clarkton; Caldwell &
Carlyle, Lumberton, and others
Great Falls Mfg. Co.
The Great Falls Mills, near Rock
ingham, recently purchased by Mr.
D. L. Gore, of this city, have begun
operations and are'turning out a hand
some product in Rockingham A. sheet
ing and heavy drills. About 85 hands
are employed and six bales of cotton
consumed per day. Mr. Claude Gore,
formerly of Wilmington, is superin
tendent and secretary and treasurer of
the milL Contracts have been placed
by the company for a , new electric
lighting system and automatic sprink:
lers, which will be Installed during the
summer. The mill haa 4,500 spindles,
but will be enlarged if conditions are
favorable.
300 Delinquents in the County.
Apropos Chairman Simmons' ref
erence in his call for the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee meeting
to the poll tax requisement for voting,
a reporter yesterday glanced over the
list of white delinquents in New Han
over county and found that there
were 800 good and lawful white citi
who will be deprived of their franchise
at the polls unless the tax of $2.69 is
paid before May 1st. Of course many
of those on the list have removed from
the county, but there is yet a goodly
number who will have to settle up be
fore voting next election.
New Sballott Steamer.
Mr. F. P. White, owner and builder
of the new steamboat now being con
structed at Shallotte N. C. to ply be
tween that point and Wilmington,
was in the city yesterday. He says
the hull has been completed and the
machinery is now ready for installa
tion. The new steamer will be ready
for her trial trip in about to days and
will cost $2,500 when completed. .
To Be Elected This Year.
In response to- several inquiries the
"political editor" of the Stab finds
that the officers to be elected this year
are a Chief Justice and two Associate
Justices of the Superior Court a State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
four Superior Court Judges, Congress
men and all county officers. A United
States Senator ia to be elected by the
next Legislature.
Clear Factory at Fayetteville.
Fayettevile Observer 28th: "A Cum
berland county man (a Mr. McKay)
has established a cigar factory in the
brick row. It In on a small scale and
at present only two expert operators
are employed. Mr. McKay is using
tnhamvi trnmn on hia f arm in this
county for the present and it makes a
very good cigar, too, we are toia ay
thncA whn hstvA nnolrfld ihftm. Suc
cess to the little factory; mar it grow
and grow."
COLUMBUS SUPERIOR COURT.
Adjourned Sslardsy Very Utile BusL
' aess Transacted Daring the Week. .
L. V. Grady, Esq., returned Satur
day from Whiteville where he had
been in attendance upon the one-week
term of Columbus .Superior Court
which adjourned Saturday night
: The court was engaged a greater
portion of the week in hearing a long
case entitled Lucas vs. the 8eaboard
Air Line railway, in which the plain
tiff seeks to recover of the defendant
$3,000 for an alleged overflow of bis
lands near Marlville, N. Q, by water.
The suit was begun in Bladen Superior
Court on one occasion a verdict of
$3,800 having been set aside and on
the other, the case having been trans
ferred to Columbus county for trial.
The hearing tbis time began on Wed
nesday afternoon. Maj. Jno. D.
Shaw, of Rockingham; Jno. D. Shaw,
Jr., Esq., of LaurinbuVg, and D. J.
Lewis, Esq., of Whiteville, wrethe at
torneys for the railroad, while those for
the defendant were O. O. Lyon, Esq.,
of Elizabethtown, and J. B. Schulken,
Esq., of Whiteville. The remainder
of the Columbus term last week was
devoted to criminal cases.
Judge Shepherd A Candidate.
A Greensboro correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says :"A gentleman
who is in a position to know what he
is talking about says it is a fact that
lion. James K. Shepherd will be a
candidate before the Democratic State
convention for the nomination of
Chief Justice of the Surpreme Court
of North Carolina A rumor to this
effect was heard ten days ago, but it is
only within the past day or two that
it has been known that Judge Shep
herd would oppose Judge Clark. It
is also said that Judge George H.
Brown, Jr. of Washington, who is a
brother in-law of Judge Shepherd, will
not be a candidate for an associate
justiceship".
Abont to Lose the medsl.
Particulars have not yet reached the
city but from meagre reports the med
al long held by Wilmington for fisti
cuffs on the streets by prominent indi
viduals is about to be wrested away
by Kenansville, Duplin county. A
series of fights in which town and
county officials, lawyers, doctors, etc,
figured is reported from that quiet
bailiwick this week.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Mount Airy News: The furni
ture factories are shipping large quan
tities of goods, considering the fact
that this is the dull season of the year.
Elizabeth City Economist: The
fatal disease that has been going the
rounds among the horses is getting to
be very severe In this city, r'essrs.
Kramer Bros, have lost five in the
gast few days; also,. A. B. Seeley &
on have lost three. Several more of
our citizens have lost horses by this
disease during the past week.
Raleigh News and Observer:
On account of heavy rains Friday
night the French Broad river has
risen far above the high water mark,"
flooding the river district. The waters
are higher tnan in years, two teet
above the flood of last fall. Business
is practically suspended in the river
sections of the city. The cotton mills
have been forced to close down with
much damage and loss. The tannery
is surrounded and there is serious loss
to property. Inmates of houses along
the river were forced to leave their
homes. Some narrowly escaped be
ing drowned during the rescue of sub
merged home holders.
Greensboro Record: Dave
Sergeant has started out in the inven
tive line quite young. If he will de
velop his talent he can "make quite a
good thing of it, if Jiis first venture is
criterion. He has invented an elec
torical trip for use in liberating horses
connected with the fire department.
It is connected with the alarm and
when the bell sounds the first
stroke tbe trip is thrown, liberating
every horse in the stable, the contri
vance being so arranged that the
halters are unfasted at once and the
animals take tbeir places under the
drop harness. One of his inventions
Is in use at the engine house, at the
Eagle headquarters, Southside, etc.
Durham Herald: From a mes
sage received here Thursday mgnt
about 12 o'clock it seems that incendi
aries are making a determined effort
to burn the town of Thomasville. The
message simply stated that the town
had been fired three times during the
last three nights and asked the police
to get the Durham blood hounds in
readiness to start there at once. Thom
asville's first fire came on Tuesday
night At that time a numer of busi
ness houses were burned and the loss
was estimated at about $10,000 with
one-third insurance. On tbe follow
ing night Wednesday there was
another fire and this time the loss was
about $4,000. The fire last night
three in three nights confirmed the
suspicion of incendiarism.
Ch&th&mRecord: Mr. .Henry H.
Fike died at this place on last Sunday,
and in his death our town has lost one
of its oldest and most respected citi
zens. He was the last survivor of
twelve brothers and sisters, most of
whom died when quite old. It was a
family remarkable for their height
several having been six feet and five
inches. This family was also remark
able for the singular fact that of twelve
brothers and sisters, only two of them
ever married. The deceased was in his
76th year. We much regret to
hear of the death of our good old
friend, Mr. W. G. Murchison, of Al
bright township. He was a brave sol
dier during the war, volunteering as a
member of Company G, Twenty-sixth
Regiment, and never shirked any duty.
Miss Sallie J. HiU died in Wash
ington Citv on last Monday night and
was buried ih the Episcopal church-
vard in this nlace Thursday. She was
born and reared in this place, but for
the oast fifteen years she had been a
clerk In the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing at Washington.
Some Doubt Abont It: "Do
you think your father is pleased with
?'our engagement to me!" he asked.
Tm just a little uncertain as to that"
she replied. "Has he said anything
ahnntitt" "Not direetlv. but after
your interview with him the other
evening be looked at me a long time
very solemnly and then said: 'And I
alwavs thought you were a girl of
reasonably good judgment too.
Chicago Post.
NO. 19
HADSER HOST SERVE.
Appeal of Case to Supreme Court
for House-Burnidg Has
Been Abandoned.
HIS SENTENCE TEN YEARS.
Will Begin Upon His Term In Penitentiary
as Soon as Olsmisssl Is Certified
Down From Higher Tribnnsl.
Convicted November flh
H. Qauser, the Swiss watchmaker
tried and convicted at last November's
term of the New Hanover Superior
Court for having set fire to and par
tially burned, his jewelry store on Mar
ket between Front and Second streets,
will not have the advantage of a hear
ing of bis case on appeal to the Su
preme Court as was expected.
Tbe case would have been heard by
the Supreme Court in Baleigh next
Tuesday, but the attorneys for
the defence in the action decided
that there was no longer any use to
fight the case and failed to perfect the
same on appeal, which virtually
amounts to a withdrawal. On Tues
day, therefore, the case will be called
in the Supreme Court and it will be in
order for the Btate's attorneys, Messrs.
Bellamy & Bellamy, Herbert Me
Clammy and Wm. J. Bellamy, Esqs.,
to make a motion for dismissal, which
disposition of the matter will, with
out a doubt, ba made. The dismissal
will then be certified down to the
Clerk of the Superior Court
in New Hanover and Hauser will be
sent to tbe penitentiary to begin a
term of ten years in that institution.
The trial of Hauser lasted four days
in the Superior Court and created
much interest at the time from the vol
ume and sensational character of the
evidence for the prosecution. Attor
neys for Hauser made every effort to
get a verdict of guilty with recommen
dation to mercy set aside and a new
trial ordered, but without avail The
case was then appealed to the Supreme
Court and bond flxed at $3,000.
Hauser could not give the bond and
has since been confined in jail here,
pending tbe result of the appeal to
the Supreme Court. He has been a
most exemplary prisoner and a num
ber of friends have worked bard to
secure his release. He is 51 years of
age and a matt of much more than
ordinary intelligence. The crime of
whieh he stands convicted was com
mitted on August 11th, last year. He
was tried in the Superior Court No
vember following.
TILLMAN TALKS WITH PLATT
SnfieBts Tbst It Wonld Not be Politic for
Presldeot Roosevelt to Mske n .
Visit to Sontb Carolina.
ay Teiegrapn to me morning star
New York, March 1. Tbe Times
will say to-morrow :
Senator, Benjamin R. Tillman, of
South Carolina, was a caller on Sen
ator Piatt at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday (Saturday). The talk last
ed over half an hour. One of the prin
cipal topics of conversation was the
proposed visit of president Koosevelt
to the Uharieeton exposition.
Senator Tillman is said to have been
very explicit in his assertion that it
would not be politic for President
Roosevelt to make a visit to South
Carolina, owing to the state of publio
feeling there over - the McLaurin-Till-man
incident and the withdrawal of
President Roosevelt's invitation to the
8enator to meet Prince Henry at din
ner at the White House, which was
followed by the telegram from Lieu
tenant Governor Tillman of South
Carolina cancelling henvitatiomto the
President to present a sword to Major
Micajah Jenkins.:
Senator Piatt, when asked about the
conversation, said: "I have had a
talk with Senator Tillman The facta
which have been brought to my atten
tion will be laid before Roosevelt. I
shall advise the President not to go to
Charleston." Senator Piatt declined
to discuss the matter further.
THE DAMAGE AT ASHEVILLE.
Miles of Railway Track Washed Away
and Bridges Gone Town of
Marshsll Flooded,
By Telegraph to tne Morning star.
Ashevhae, N. C, March 1. The
damage done by the storm here to rail
roads is incalculable and no trains
have arrived since Thursday. Miles
of track in all directions are washed
away. The Asheville-Knoxville di
vision is almost completely submerged
and railway bridges gone. The Mur
phy branch la undermined. .
Great damage was done at the Van
derbilt farm at Biltmore, where part
of the truck houses and heating plant
were swept away.
At Marshall the waters flooded the
entire village. Live stock, buildings
and railway cars were swept away,
leaving the people terror stricken for
fear all would be lost Nearly levery
building in Marshall is undermined.
In the rush of waters at Marshall the
building containing the library of Sen
ator Pritchard, valued at $2,000, was
swept away. A reward of $1,000 was
offered at once to have the books
saved, and men struggled to do this,
but the force of the waters could not
be overcome and they were lost
. SCHOONER FOUNDERED.
John B, Prescott From Newport News
With Coal Crew Saved.
07 TMesracn to tn KorninK etar.
VrjnETABD Haven, Mass., March L
News that the five-masted schooner
JohnB. Prescott of Fall River, bound
from Newport News for Boston with
4,209 tons of coal foundered, February
23rd in latitude 39.04 north, longitude
72.13 west was brought in here to
day by the schooner Savannah, which
came in with Captain Harding and
the crew of twelve who were rescued
from the Prescott which went down
while the Savannah wan standing by.
James River Still Rlslsx-Lower Psrt of
Richmond Will be Hooded Destroy
' ' Uloa and Havoc at PalasU. ' ;v
: WIsitaraohtotteMorninassar.' 5
I Richmond,. Va,, , March 1. James
river is still rising, and by to-morrow
the lower part of the city will be .
flooded. Ode freshet is following an
other and the prospect is that the gas "
supply will be cut' off,' and work
stoppedatthe Trigg shipyards. ;
The W.eatber Bureau to-night calcu
lates on a twenty-foot rise, seven feet
less than the highest in recent years,
but all persons who could be seriously ,'
damaged bave had ample warning.
: A Hot Bprings, Va., special says it 1
will cost $20,000 to repair tbe damage
by the flood in the Warm Springs val
ley, and a heavy force has been put
to work on tbe Hot Springs branch of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and '
travel will be running through by to
morrow night
Whirlwind at Pulaski. " -
Roanoke, Va., March 1. The train
service is much improved over what it
was in southwest Virginia on Friday,
though traffio is still seriously delayed -on
account of the many wasbouts and
inundated tracks.
The town of Pulaski, Va., presents a
scene of havoc and destruction, tbe
damage caused there by a whirl-
wind amounting to many thousand
dollars. The entire roof of the hotel
Pulaski was blown away. The damage
to the hotel is more than $2,000, and
scores of other buildings were un
roofed. The rich farm lands along tbe
Roanoke river between Salem and
Christiansburg have been denuded of
fences and crops.
At Clifton Forge last night,' Guy
Craft was standing on a bridge that
crossed Jackson river when it gave
way beneath the pressure of the raging
waters. Craft was thrown into the
stream and drowned.
"A REBELLION IN CHINA.
Mlsslonsrles and Other Foreigners Or
dered to Lesve Province of Kwsnfsl
Under Pledfed Protection. .
Bv Cable to the Horning Btar.
Pekin, March L The Chinese for
eign office now admits that the rebell
ion in the vicinity of Nanning, pro
vince of Kwangsi, seventy miles north
of the Gulf of Tonquin, is very grave,
though tbis was denied yesterday.
Over 1,000 former soldiers are engaged
in pillaging. An edict has been issued
commanding the Chinese authorities
to afford protection to the missionaries
and other foreigners. Mr. Conger.tbe
United States minister, has notified
Prince Ching, head of the foreign
office, that he expects China will
speedily suppress the rebellion
and protect the foreigners in that part
of the country. .
Washington, March L The State
Department to-day made public the fol
lowing cablegram from Consul Mc
Wade at Canton, China, dated Febru
ary 27th. reporting the outbreak of a
rebellion at Nanning: "I learned al
most at midnight that a rebellion had
broken out at Nanning, in the province
of Kwangsi. At the request of the gov
ernor or Kwangsi the missionaries were
ordered by me to leave immediately
under a pledged escort to .be taken to
wuchow. Details later."
DISASTERS TO SHIPPING.
Tramp Steamer Wllster and British
Steamer Acsra Ashore Crews Res
coed by LIfe-Ssvers.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Rookpoet, Mass., March 1. The
tramp steamer Wilster, from Fiumei
for Boston, is hard and fast on a ledge
off Thatcher's Island. Her crew of
twenty-three men have been rescued.
The Wilster is in grave danger, as tbe
sea is breaking over her. She has a
cargo of sugar consigned to Boston
merchants. The Wilster lost her bear
ing in last night's fog and rain storm
and brought upon tbe ledge less than a
quarter of a mile off shore. Being in
the midst of the breakers, tbe steamer
could not be reached in boats and it.
was some time before tbe life-savers
succeeded in getting a line to the
stranded vessel. Then the breeches buoy
was adjusted and alter aeveral hours
all the members of the crew were
brought ashore.
New York. March 1. Oak Island
Life Saving Station reports that the '
British steamer Acara, from (Jhina
ports for.New York, is ashore at Jones
inlet
The crew have been landed at Jones
Beach. The captain, ' engineer and
the first mate are still on the vessel.
The sea is breaking over the steamer
but she does not appear to be In any .
immediate danger.
MURDER. ROBBERY, ARSON.
A Merchant nnd His Clerk Killed In Tbelr
Store and the Building Burned
Over Tbeir Dead Bodies
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Savannah, Ga... March 1. Michael
Shrenck and Jacob Carter, a merchant
and his clerk, - were murdered last .
night in Shrenck's store, sixteen miles
in the country, and the store burned
up on the (dead bodies. Shrenck's
body was found in the embers near
the safe, which had been blown open
with dynamite or gunpowder, and
evidently1 rifled. The store was situ- ,
a ted In what is known as the Black
Ankle district near the Ogeechee
river. Shrenck's place was called
Whiskey Hill. It was much fre
quented by hunters, hence persons in
the neighborhood thought nothing n
strange when they heard two or three
explosions like gunshots.. Carter's
body waa found lying where his bed
had been, covered with the remains of .
blankets. He had evidently been
shot while in bed and asleep. There
were several evidences of murder,
robbery and incendiarism, but no .
clew to the perpetrators. Heavy rains
have probably obliterated the trail so
dogs cannot trace it
BUILDING COLLAPSED.
Five Persons Bnrled In the Debris and
Undoubtedly Killed Fifteen Injared.
BY Telegrapn to tbe Hernlnn Btar. .
Cleveland, O., March L The
fourth floor, of the Cleveland Baking
Company's plant on Central avenue,
fell beneath the weight of a large
number of barrels of flour to-day.
Crashing through . the three under
floors into tbe basement. There are
five persons missing,, four girls and a
man. They are buried beneath the
mass of debris in the basement and are
undoubtedly dead. Their names: May
Kelly, Mollie Roomer, Florence Mo
Grath, Maggie Heiaer and Joseph
Woelker. Thirteen persons were in
jured. ' .' 1 " '