- 1 - ' rUBUSHXD AT WILMINGTON, N. C, $1.00 a tehr'Tn advance. SgffSSl8lS3S33SSS 8SS8S88S83S8888S8 Jv" 8 22SSSS5SSS2SSESS -T 88888888883388888 82883388382888383 maolv i s5i5ssaaasss8ss 8888383828333383 " 82888888388888888 3SS3388888SSS383S " "s . j . ' , s . .: .1 t the Poet Office at Second Claia Ma Imtgton, N. C, aa n.l SUBSCRIPTION P.ICE. i ' Tbc itibjcriptkm price of the We'kly Star la aa SiiiiTcopy 1 yaar, poetafa paid ... tl 00 " month "1 8a .. S month, " j "J 80 THE 80TJTBT SHOULD PROFIT BY IT. -) The action of the Beef Trust in running up the prices of meats has furnished some object lessons for the American people! that they may study with profit to themselves. - They see one of the -results of the protective tariff that ; keeps the cat tle, she9p, hogs, etc., and meats of other countries out and thus gives the beef packers a practical mo- nopoly of the home market and helps them at the same time to crush home competition, jit also serves to illustrate the effect of the protec- tive tariff generally by encouraging the organization of Trusts and the monopolizing of the! home market by these Trusts. They may have I had some conception of this before, but they never realized it so fully as since the Beef Trust has exacted from them its monstrous tribute on the necessaries of life, tribute not only on meats, but on other things that may be used as 'substitutes for meats, and they now ' understand better than they ever did before what protection means', especially when it applies to articles constituting ne cessaries of life. For years they hare been paying tribute to Trusts of many kinds, controlling a multi tude of articles, but the tribute came indirectly and they never felt it as they did when the Trust cor- -rrered their meat,: poultry and eggs and put extortionate prices on them. Ouc opinion is that this object les sen has made more free thinkers on tho tariff question than all the other Trusts combined did in ten years. They were told by Mark Hanna and other Republican campaigners in the last two Presidential elections that there were no such things as Trusts in this country, that they had been suppressed by the Sher man anti-Trust law, and that those which were commonly called Trusts were "beneficent"1' institutions, which were of vast benefit to the people, and existed for their good. -Now, however,' we have the autho rity of U. S. Attorney General Knox, based on the investigations made by theU.S.District Attorneys, that there are Trusts, Trusts in the full sense of the jword as it is generally applied and understood combinations in restraint of trade and in restraint of trade on the nec essaries of life, which is a good deal more odious and infamous than com binations to control the trade in iron, steel, copper,) glass or any thing of that kind: And it effec tually disposes of the assertion that there are no trusts, but simply "beneficent" organizations, which instead of doing the people harm do them inestimable: good. Bat it presents a still more im pressive object lesspn to the people of the South, for in addition to its tariff lessons, in which they are in. terested in common with the peo ple at large, it illustrates the impor tance to the people of the South of raising their own cattle, hogs, sheep and thus becoming independent of other sections and of Beef Trusts . for their meat supplies. There is not a city or town of any size in the South which is not j dependent upon this Beef Trust for much of the meat its people eat. Even the far-. mers are dependent upon it for much of the meat they eat, and supply their help with. It comes into our cities in car-load lots, and U sold to our butchers and retailed from shops run by some of the firms composing the Trust. - . , As a rule it is pretty fair meat, some of it very good, but right here just as good, if not better, can be raised on our own pastures. We have seen as fine cattle driven into this market from Sampson county as ever pastured on Western grasB, or fed on Western corn, young steers that would weigh oyer 2,000 pounds, and didn't seem extraordinarily fat. There is no reasonable excuse for a State which can produce such cattle as that buying i(s beef from the West or from anywhere else. There is not a State in the West which produces finer hogs than North Carolina, ranging all the way in weight from 20Q to 800 pounds, and sometimes heavier. There is no excuse for a State which can pro- VOL. XXXIII. duoe such hogs buying its fresh pork from the West or from anywhere else. There is not a State in the South which cannot raise fine cattle, and fine hogs and all the sheep it wishes to raise, and as fine as can be raised anywhere, and these can all be raised . 1 J. - 11 m as cneapiy, too, as iney can be on the pasture ranges of the far West, and more cheaply than they can be injthe Central West, where the farms are small, no open range, and land is comparatively high. With its favoring climate and other advantages the South ought to be the greatest stock-raising sec tion of the country, and every day adds to " the reasons why Southern land owners should turn their atten tion to cattle, hog, sheep and goat raising, both as a matter of self protection from the exactions of grasping combines and as a mat ter of profit from an industry that m a nas practically unlimited growing capacity. The Beef TruBt now complains of a scarcity of cattle, caused by the taking up and enclosing range land on which the herds once grazed without hindrance. The pasturage is annually becoming more contracted and 'it is only a question of time when all these ranges will be taken up and turned into cultivated farms and the herd ing of cattle must cease as an occu pation, In the meantimelthe popu- lation of the country will be increas- ing at the rate of a million a year, causing an increased demand for beef, while the supply of cattle will be diminishing as compared with the increased population and the demand. Where is the supply of beef and other meats to come from then? And where will the South's supply come from? If we pay extortion ate prices now what may we not have to pay years hence when the demand will be greater and the sup ply less? This will depend upon our Southern farmers and land own ers. If they be wise and turn their attention to stock-raising they can not only supply the home demand but supply Northern butchers with many of the cattle they need to sup ply the demands of their markets. Then the South will have not only a new and a money making industry but one that will be of inestimable value in other respects, for cattle will stimulate grass culture and grass and cattle are land enrichers. If Southern land owners say so and proceed accordingly, years hence the country will look to the South for its beef as it now does for its cotton. THE ATHENS CONFERENCE. North Carolinians were prominent in the educational conference at Athens, Georgia, last week. Gov ernor Avcock, Professor Mclver of the ' Greensboro Normal College, and Professor Alderman, now President of To lane University, in New Orleans, each made addresses, the one by the Governor captivating the audience by its eloquence. While there is an educational movement throughout the South, stimulated by the encouraging and material assistance of Mr. Robert C. Ogden and other Northern phil anthropists who are taking an in terest in uoDular education in the South, it is nowhere more active or conspicuous than in North Carolina, where it meets with the hearty co operation of the State Government, and has an eloquent: and zealous ad' vocate in Governor Ay cock, who in his campaign for the Governorship declared himself a friend of popular education and has been zealously verifying his declaration ever since. There is no warmer, more sincere, or eloquent advocate of the schools in the South, and Mr. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, paid him a deserved and truthful tribute when he said, after listening to his address in the conference, that he wished there were more politicians like him. These movers for general educa tion in the: South have undertaken a stupendous work, not for lack of co-operation, but from the condi tions that prevail, which makes this a much more difficult problem in the South than it is in the North, and from the lack of funds to meet the demands of the movement in which they are engaged." With our two races, necessitating two schools and two teachers, where one suffices in the North, and our comparatively sparse population, the problem of many schools, with long terms and good teachers, Js a much more difficult one down here than it is up there, but our people are facing this problem with charac teristio pluck and are accomplish ins? more than thev might have thought possible a few years ago. The mistake which Fnnston made was in pitying "the senior Senator from Massachusetts," who was suf fering from a superheated conscience. If he had thus sympathized with' tome Democratic Senator the pad lock might not have been put on so t soon. TEE HEQEOE3 PAYIIG. We published a statement yester day from the Winston Journal to the effect that an inspection of the tax books shows that a large num" ber of white voters have not yet paid their poll tax while "a sur prisingly large number of negroes are paying it." Are the negroes of Forsyth county better able to pay their poll tax than the white men, or do they value the franchise more than the white men? No one who knows anything about the people of that county will be lieve for an instant that the negroes are in better circumstances than the white voters or that they value the franchise more. If they are paying their poll tax in "surprisingly large numbers" many of them are doubt less doing it with money furnished from the fund collected from the Federal and other Republican office holders by Mr. Pope, of Charlotte. That is what this fund was collected for although Senator Pritchard denies it. The denial amounts to nothing. for indications point to that. It is unprecedented for a party to send Around an agent to collect campaign funds when there is no campaign on, and eight or nine months before an election. They don't do that way and all the denials that might be piled up could not convince any sensible person that the money thus collected was not intended to pay poll tax for negroes and white men whose votes the Republicans can control. The "surprisingly large number of negroes" who are paying the tax in Forsyth county, compared with the large number of white voters who are not paying it, can be reason ably accounted for in no other way. The negroes of that county are no more thrifty than, the average negroes of other counties while the white people will compare in thrift with the white people of any other county in the State. General Fnnston says he will not discuss the Philippines any more if is not acceptable to "his chief," but when he talks about them his tem per gets away with him. For that reason he should refrain from dis cussing that subject. The best thing a young man can do who can't control his temper is to re main mumunless there is some cool headed person around with a strong string tied to him to pull him down when he gets on the high horse. J. S. Morgan, a nephew of J. P. Morgan, returned from Europe with a bible of the 8 th century, valued at $50,000 and the custom house peo ple at New York want to collect du ties on it. They didn't mind the book so much but the cover is an exquisite piece of workmanship set with precious stones. The indications are that the St. Louis Exposition will be postponed from 1903 till 1904. The reasons are that it will be difficult to get things in shape by 1903, and a num ber of European nations have writ ten that they cannot arrange for ex hibits in that year, which they might do a year later. Hanna is sticking to Rathbone, which recalls- a remark that Rath bone made when he was put on trial, "If I am deserted I will pull down the columns of the temple." He was one of Hanna's lieutenants, and Hanna doesn't propose to have the ''columns of the temple pulled down." It is said that the mill riots in Paterson, N. J., were caused by the advance in the prices of meats and other eatables. The workmen de manded an increase of wages to en able them to buy enough to eat. This was refused; hence the strike and the riots. The New York Commercial Adver tiser, Republican, warns the Repub licans in Congress that they had bet ter be doing something on the line of tariff revision if they don't want the Democrats to get a twist on them. . - The latest reported combine is a "Window Cleaning Trust" in Chicago, which is running all the in dividual window cleaners out of the business. The next thing in order will be a floor scrubbing trust. Some of the English papers are excited over J. Pierpont Morgan's ship-merging scheme, bnt how will they feel when he gets under them and secures control of their under ground railways? John D. Rockefeller has done a very clever thing in giving $1,000, 000 to the Ogden fund for Southern education. But then we have been burning a good deal of - his oil down this way. The late Rev. Dr. Talmage did not agree with Andrew Carnegie in the assertion that it is "a disgrace to die rich." WILMINGTON, N. 0., ROANOKE ISLAND TELEGRAPHY TESTS A Wireless System Working Un der Direction oi the Chief of the Weather Bureau. PROF. FESSENDEN'S SYSTEM. Experiments Establish Beyond Doubt That Wireless Messages Can Be Sent to Vessels at Sea a Distance of Over Two Hundred Miles. ' By Telegraph to tne Morning star. Norfolk, Va., April 26. The wire less telegraphy tests at Roanoke Is land to-day were the most important since the experiments began, our days ago. It was a test of an Ameri can wirelesB telegraphy. This system has been perfected by Prof. Reginald Fessenden, working under the direc tion of Prof. Willis L Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau These experi ments have been going on for two years, at intervals; but not until to-day was it established beyond a doubt that wireless messages can be sent to ves sels at sea for a distance- of over two hundred miles: Fairly good results were obtained several months ago, but Prof. Fessen den did not wish to make the result public or have any of the test witness ed by other than government officials, until the details of his system were sufficiently developed to prove beyond question that it would be relied upon to work under any and all conditions of weather, at all seasons of the year, night or; day. These conditions have now been reached, and Prof. Fessen den invited representatives of Jhe gov ernment to witness his tests. The tests to-day were witnessed by General A. W. Greely and Captain Russell, of the Signal Corps of the army. Both of these officials were very enthusiastic over the results, and were loud in their praises of Prof. Fessenden and his associates and the remarkable work that they had ac complished. Their tests to-day were more rapid than those of yesterday and much fas ter time was made. Among those who witnessed the tests to-day were Lien- tenants Beecher and Hudgtns, who were present as representatives of Ad miral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment of the navy. The government has a testing sta tion at Weer Pqint, on the northeast shoals of!toanoke island, and another about seven miles west of Uape Hat teras. The two stations are fifty-three miles distant from each other. The Intervening points between the two posts is nearly all over Pamlico sound, which at this season of the year is fresh and not nearly so good for the transmission of wireless messages as salt water. The tests made by Prof. Fessenden show that the energy re quired for successful transmission over such brackish water Is about thirty six times greater than over salt water under the same conditions. At each station a mast, 45 feet high, is erected for carrying arrival wires, which con sist of firs copper wires, strung five inches apart. The transmitting apparatus consists of the usual inductive coil, common with other systems of wireless telegra phy, but the receiving apparatus is alto gether different from that used in other systems. This part of Prof. Fessendea's in vention is for the breaent keot nro- foundlv secret, although the workings were'exhibited to the experts present at to-day's tests. A telephone receiver is employed and a remarkable fact is that messages can be sent and received as rapidly as by land wires and with greater rapidity than by cable. To-day's tests were sent at a rate of thirty words per minute and this is by no means the possible limit. Prof. Fessenden says that with a stated operator fifty or possibly as many as seventy words can be sent in that space of time. The success of Prof. Fessen den in ' developing this remarkable system of wireless telegraphy is due to the great care and attention bestowed upon all the minor details, not only as regards' mechanical construction of his apparatus, but also in measuring and employing the electrical energy best suited to the conditions involved. The experiments to-day established without a doubt that wireless messages can be sent to vessels at sea, notifying them of storms, for a distance of two hundred miles. The experiments will be conducted from time to time until absolute perfection is attained. CURRENT COMMENT. The Rev. Dr. Talmage left a fortune of $300,000. During his pnlpit career he laid great stress upon that passage oi scripture wmcn declares: "And the greatest of these is charity." When his will came to be read, however, it was discovered that Dr. Talmage had left all of his ample fortune to his family, and not a cent to charity. - Possibly the em inent divine proceeded upon the theory that charity begins at home. Savannah JSews, uem. 1 A business bo well established and so profitable as to attract the in vestment of $200,000,000 at the hands of successful and experienced UUB1UOOO UHU ut u.uabi.vu rope would Beem aDie to take care I 0f itself without the aid of Govern- hnsinesa men in America ana Ju- xnent subsidies. Instead of sub sidizing a combination amply able to take care of itself, the Govern ment should repeal its absurd Navi- gationlaws so as to insure free ships and free competition for the ocean carrying trade, and thereby protect American producers form over charge at the hands of monopoly. Philadelphia Record, Dem. ! "The Republican insurgents in theHouse," says the Indianapolis Sentinel, declare openly that they purpose now to defeat the Cuban reciprocity bill, and the impression at Washington seems to be that the removal of the differential will have that effect. If it does, it will be an open admission that the Sugar Trust controls me Aanunubrauou, u "o I change makes no difference to any- body but the Sugar Trust and the sugar j consumers. If the Sugar Trust does not control the Adminis tration forces the bill will be passed just as if the amendment had never been made." Charleston News and Courier, Dm. i ; FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1902. COLLISION ON THE S. A. L. Two Frettht Trains Wrecked-Three Men Is jared Traffic Delayed Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. O., April 26. Trains on both the Seaboard and the Southern road were tied-up here nine hours this morning on account of a rear end col lision between two S. A. L. freight trains in front of the nenitentiarv. where the tracks of the two roads par allel. Three men were injured, five ears smashed up, and an engine and a mountain of debris piled across both tracks. The accident . occurred at S o'clock and travel was resumed at 2. One train was standing at the block house, and the other came from the south and collided before it could be stopped. Engineer Harding is blamed for the wreck, because he was runninsr in the yard limit without train under control. 1 The Oornaration Commission wrote Superintendent Barger, of the second division, to-day, that the frequency of wrecks caused them to feel it their duty to make an investigation of this one and called for a detailed report on tne conditions at the time of the wreck and the cause of the same. DEATH OP T W. McBRYDE i Yoaag Man Well Known Here and Former ly Might Clerk at The Orton. Special Star Telegram. Greenville, N. O., April 26 T. W. McBryde, foreman of the Reflector, died here this morning at 8 o'clock. He was a native of Moore county and an excellent young man. A few weeks ago he was called to the bedside of his parents near Jonesboro, where both of them and a sister died of pneumonia in a few days. He returned to Greenville and a week later took the disease him self, i The plant of the Rollins Lumber Company, a mile from Greenville was partially destroyed by fire last night. ACCIDENTALLY ' KILLED HIMSELF. Sampsoi Yonnf Maa Lost His Ufe by the Discharge of a Pistol. Special Star Correspondence. RosxBORO, N. 0., April 25. Willie Owen, son of Mrs. Elm in e Owen, who lives a mile from . town, accidentally shot and killed himself early this morning. He was handling a pistol that he traded for last night when it went off, the bullet penetrating the right eye. He was an industrious boy about 17 years of age, and the only help of a widowed mother. Mr. KIrkkam's Death. Richmond Times, 23rd: "Mr. Charles E. Kirkham, of this city, fell dead in the office of the Southern Express Company a few minutes before 12 o'clock this morning. Mr. Kirkham was a florist and was in the express office attending to the shipment of flowers to New York city. He was seen-to rise and support himself to a chair. In an instant ho fell mod dsd within two minutes. Physicians attri bute his death to apoplexy. Mr. Kirkham was about 60 years of ago. and was one of the most popular citi zens in Petersburg. ; He served with distinction in Company A, Twelfth Virginia Infantry during the war be tween the 8tates. A widow survives him." Married Last Evening. Miss Annie G. Kerr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerr, of this city, and Mr. Tonie Sellers, of Hamlet, N. C, were married at 7 o'clock last evening at the parsonage of Bladen Street Methodist church, Rev. Geo. B. Webster, the pastor, officia ting. The bride and groom will leave this afternoon for Hamlet, their future home, Mr. Sellers being a valued em ploye of the Seaboard Air Line at that point. Hss Smallpox. Postal Clerk D. L. Gray, who has been running between Wilmington and Mount Airy onihe A. & Y. road, has smallpox at his home at Ooalfax, Guilford county. There are a number of cases among the postal clerks and letter carriers of Winston and new cases are being reported there almost daily. Crate Factory Burned. Thursday morning about 3 o'clock the large crate factory of Mr. H. A. Rankin's, at Atkinson. N. U.. was burned. The origin of the fire is un known. Mr. J. A. Murphy, of Atkin son, who came down to the city last evening, brought the news of the fire. -1 Jadfe Hoke for the Senate. The Charlotte Observer is author ized to announce the candidacy of Judge W. A. Hoke, of Lincolnton, for the United States Senate. Judge Hoke had been considered a formidable can didate in the Superior Court race. FIRE AT NORFOLK, VA. Thirteen Tenements Destroyed The Loss Was Abont $30,000. Br Telegraph to the Morning Star, Noefolk, Va., AprU. 36. Fire de stroved thirteen frame tenement houses on Princess Anne avenue this afternoon. The flames- were fanned by the heavy jwind and sparks were carried a distance of 800 yards, setting fire to another house, which, bow ever, was saved.i Owing to thelow water pressure the fire got beyond the control of the department The fire Is supposed to have originated from the explosion ' of a lamp. The place in which the fire raged was occupied almost exclusively by negroes, who lost everything they had. Tn nnn of the burnlnsr houses was the corpse of a child, the removal of which caused; the report that it had lost its life in i the fire. The property was of the ordinary kind, but was onlr nartiallv insured. The loss was about uw,m D. McEACHERN CO. INCORPORATED. Chartered by Secretary of State Big Salt Against the Seaboard Air Line. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, April 26. The D. McEachern Company, of Wilmington, wholesale and retail groceries, was chartered to-day with $10,000 capital. Incorporators, D. McEachern, Alex. O. McEachern and Jno. 8. McEachern. Chalmers Glenn has resigned as teller in the State Treasurv and Treas urer Lacy has appointed P. B. Flem ing, oi Liouisourg, in Us stead. Glenn resigns to become secretary and treas urer ,ot the Washington Loan and Trust Company, of Fries, Va. He is a son of Hon. R. B. Glenn, of Wins-ton-Salem. . The jury in the case of R. O. King against the Seaboard Air Line was dis charged this afternoon and a mistrial entered. The suit was for $40,000 for injuries sustained at Cameron in a wreck last September. The jurors stuck out that the comDanv was not liable, and that th accident was due to malicious wreckers. CANDIDATE FOR LYNCHING HONORS. White Youth Killed Near Clsrkton by Stont Negro Fireman lie Escsped. ' Special Star Correspondence. Clabtkok, N. C, April 26. At Mc- Kee's saw mill, three miles from here, yesterday Will Memory, a white youth, was killed by Billie McCall, a stout black negro. Memory, who was a mild and pleasant boy and highly respected by his associates, was employed at the mill. Yesterday about 3 P. M., he was told by the foreman to oil a part of the machinery. When he went for the oiling can the negro who was employed as fireman told him not to take the oil as there was not more than enough for the engine. Memory replied the "captain" had told him to get it and he was going to doit Altera few words, the negro struck the youth in the head with an iron bolt, wounding him fatally and -making an escape. Memory died at 8:30 P. M: The whole community is aroused and parties are out searching for Mc Call. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Chatham Record'. Mr. Malcolm Small died at this place Wednesday afternoon after a long illness. He was a faithful ex-Uonfederate soldier. Dunn Banner: The Dunn Oil Mill has bought ten acres of land in the northern part of town and will soon begin the erection of the build ings necessary for the plant. Sanford Express'. There is more property advertised in Moore county this year than there has been in sev eral years past There Is a great deal of land advertised for sale in Sanford township, but not so much as in some of the other townships. Littleton Reporter: Deputy Collector R. ' J. Lewis, assisted by Messrs. Johnston and Passaman, made a raid Wednesday, near Ring- wood, capturing an entire sixty gallon still and outfit, 600 gallons beer, 17 fermenters, 10 gallons singlings, 20 pounds of malt and five gallons of whiskey. . ' Tarboro Southerner: Tuesday night of this week ' some miscreants attempted to break into the railroad warehouse at Speeds. Thev left a record which tells of the entire trans action. They procured some jack screws and i went underneath the house, which is about four feet above the ground. The floor was broken up but on this floor was a large quantity of loose lime. No sooner was the floor ing broken than the lime poured down upon the robbers. They gave up the job and carried the jack screws back to the engine where they lound them. Concord Tribune: Mr. James W. Foil has two hens that have been more productive than any ' yet on re cord. He has four Plymouth Rock hens that he has been getting six eggs from for some time, two ox them lay ing two apiece. ' On yesterday he got nye single eggs and one aouoie one, one hen laying three eggs. The double egg has two well developed eggs with shells on and joined by a small neck about an inch in length, one egg being larger than the other. They appeared something like this O-o. This is the largest production we have ever heard oi from one nen tnree eggs in one day. Raleigh News and Observer: Complaint was made some weeks ago to Representative Fou that Post master Exum, of Four Oaks, John ston county, wilfully refused to de liver seed sent out by Mr. Pou. The Postomce Department has investi gated the complaints and found them well founded. The postmaster nas been removed, and the office is now in charge of the postmaster's bonds men. Papers were nied Thurs day in Asheville granting lease of nineteen tracts of lands at ueaver Dam, four miles from Asheville, com prising 5,000 acres to the Sidell Stewart Oil and Gas Company, which proposes to bore for oil and gas, be ginning operations in a snort time. Fayetteville Observer: Mrs. John Johnson died Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at her home at Hope Mills, where she has resided for 56 years.. She was 78 years of age James Monroe, a negro boy, was pro bably fatally shot in 71st Sunday, and suspicion rests upon one of two com panions who were with him at the time. Magistrate Gillis is making a thorough investigation of the affair. After hearing the evidence of a number of the residents of Quewhiffle township Wednesday in regard to the desperate character of the Blues, who have been committing many desperate acts in the nelghoorhood and defying arrest, Magistrates Overby and Mc Lean declared Galloway and John Blue outlaws. Of the rest of the gang Alex is now in jail here badly wound ed, and the evidence against the other two was insufficient to warrant out lawry. Mr. Charles Rankin receiv ed a telegram Thursday from' his brother, Mr. H. A. Rankin, at At kinson, N.O., stating that hislarge crate factory there was burned that day. Miss Mary Custis Lee, daughter of General Robert E. Lee took a promi nent part in the exercises of Confede rate Memorial day in Savannah. Miss Lee rode in the parade in a carriage with a veteran and laid wreaths on the Confederate monument and on a number of graves of the Confederate dead. The jury in the case of Walter N. Dimmick, accused of stealing 130,000 from the mint, at San Francisco, OaJL, failed to agree and were discharged. NO. 27 CARfllACK ON THE PHILIPPINE BILL. Continued His Sharp Criticism of the Policy of the Republican Administration. THE CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL. Disscreement Over the Conference Re port -Resolution for Investigation of Alleged Control of Cnban Soger Crop Forest Reserve. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Washington, April 26. Mr. Car mack, of Tennessee, in the Senate to day.completed his speech on the Philip pine government bill, which he began yesterday. He continued his exceed ingly caustic criticism of the adminis tration's policy and the ultimate end to which it would lead, concluding by expressing the hope that the adminis tration would turn from "the bloody gospel of the strenuous life" to the paths of peace. M". Jones, Nevada, chairman of the Committee on Contingent Expenses, reported favorably the resolution of the Committee on Relations with Cuba providing for an investigation by that committee of the alleged control of the Cuban sugar crop and sugar lands in Cuba. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Piatt Connecticut, presented a conference report on the Chinese ex clusion bill, asking that the Senate disagree to the report and insist upon a further conference. He explained that the only point of difference be tween the conferees of the Senate and House was that the House conferees asked the Senate conferees to eliminate from the substitute passed by the Senate that portion which provides that the present Chinese exclusion law be extended through the life of the present treaty and remain in force un til another treaty shall have been ne gotiated. Mr. Piatt's motion that the Senate insist upon its amendment and agree to another conference was agreed to. Messrs. Piatt Connecticut Dilling ham, Vermont, and Clay, of Georgia, were named as conferees on the part of the Senate. At the conclusion of routine bust Bess Mr. Pritchard, of North Carolina, addressed the Senate in support of the bill for the purchase of a national forest reserve in the Southern Ap palachian mountains. Mr. Carmack resumed his speech on the Philippine government bill, which he began yesterday, tie reaa rror. Schurman's criticism of the bill; to show that Prof. Schurman believed that the Philippine government should be administered for the Filipinos. By the terms of the pending bill, he said, the islands were for the Filipinos, as the pasture was for the sheep they lived and browsed there In order to raise wool for others to wear and mut ton for others to eat '! "If the carpet-bag government you help to establish in the Phllppines," he cried, "is not a thousand times bet ter than that which you established in your country after the civil war, Lord God have mercy upon the people of those islands I" Mr. Carmack referred to the cabled reports from Manila that General Smith had acknowledged he had given orders to make Samar a howl ing wilderness and to kill all over ten, as horrible beyond the description of words. The programme, he said, was to practice unheard-of barbarities in the slaughter of the inhabitants and to have the torch complete the work of. slaughter. "When the land is without a home and the country without a people the word 'pacified' will be written upon the tombstone of the province or Sa mar." From the very outbreak of hostili ties in the Philippines, he declared, there had been a systematic conceal ment of the truth, which was now com ing out It is now known, he said, that 100,000 people had perished in a single province containing 300,000 in habitants, and yet the people of the United States knew nothing of it until recently. The civil government estab lished by this bill, he predicted,' would result in ever-recurring insurrection, to be put down by our blood and our treasure. What for t In order that a few rapscallians and carpet-baggers might have unlimited license to thieve and plunder. In the course of his remarks he called attention to a report that an American corporation which proposed to raise rubber trees in Mindano had ar ranged with the Dattos for slave labor and he had read an amendment he pro posed to offer prohibiting the grant of any franchise to persons or corpora tions which proposed to employ slave labor. He asked Mr. Lodge If the amendment would be agreeable to hlmf "I cannot speak for the committee," replied Mr. Lodge. "For myself, it is perfectly agreeable to me." He also gave notice of another amendment he would offer to pro hibit the entry of the Philippines aa states in the union, and asked for Mr. Lodge's opinion, but' the latter declined to reply categorically, saying he wonld answer in his own time, in his own way. Bat Mr. Dolli ver. of Iowa, asked Mr. Carmack to define his own position, having first inveighed against holding the islands in "perpetual despotism," and being now solicitous lest they be admitted as states. Mr. Carmack responded that his own position was clear. While the carpet baggers and adventurers were plunder ing and getting control of the islands, he said, the government provided in this bill would be just what they wanted. When they had everything they wanted, he said, they would clamor for American markets and American statehood. " . House of Representatives. The House to-day after devoting an hour to the passage of bills by unan imous consent suspended public busi ness and for the remainder of the af ternoon listened to tributes to the memories of the late Representative Stokes, of South Carolina, and the late Representative Crump, of Michi gan. There comes this deep and simple rule for any man as he crosses the line dividing one period of his life frym another. Make It a time in which you shall realize your faith and also in which you shall expect of your faith new and greater things: Take what you believe and are. and hold it in your hand with new firmness as you go forward; but as you go. hold ing it, look on it with, continual and confident expectation to see it open into something greater and truer. Phillips Brooks. TO FIGHT THE BEEP TRUST. Action Taken by the Attorney General Afalast ths Packing Firms fa 6kN ct (o for sn Iajsnctlon. Br Telegraph to the Morning star. Chicago, April 26. William A. Day, assistant to Attorney General Knox and special counsel to the Inter state commerce commission, arrived in Chicago to-day to confer with Dis trict Attorney S. H. Bethea relative to taking action against the so called beef trust. Mr. Day said he did not bring with him the application for an Injunction whloh the attorney gen oral had ordered filed against the pack ing firms.Qf Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Nelson, Morris & Co., G. H. Hammond Packing Company, Oudahy Packing Company and the Schwars, Schild & Sulzberger Company. Fur ther, he said, no bills would be filed by him to-day. The matter of the in- "' vestigation, he said, bad been placed entirely in the hands of District At torney Bethea. Attorney Day said : "I want to cor rect a misconception of my position in this case. I am here merely aa a representative of Attorney General Knox. District Attorney Bethea is to have sole charge of the prosecution. I have no authority to direct his actions, but merely to convey to him certain instructions of his superiors in Wash ton as to the outline of the bills. I have also brought some additional evi dence which I secured in New York. This will be sifted by him and will be used to supplement his proof of the existence of a meat trust I do not think the bills will be drawn .hurried ly, as they' must stand the severest scrutiny of the best corporation law yers. For this reason care must be taken to withstand the. assaults of a demurrer. I have no authority to say anything concerning the evidence I have secured. It is sufficient to state that the attorney general has approved of the proofs secured by Mr. . Bethea and myself, and unless he was certain that we had strong evidence to support the applications for injunction, ' under the , Sherman anti-trust he would not nave ordered the prosecu- 1 tion started at this time." As soon as the bills are ready for filing notice will be sent to the de fendant's. iThirty to fifty days will be allowed to answers or demurrer. It is stated authoriatively that the center of the government's action against the packers will be Chicago and if any bills are to be filed at New York it will belabor. - A DASTARDLY ATTEMPT. To Wreck a Tunnel and Kill Workmen nt Niagara Falls. By Telegraph to' the Morning Star. r Buffalo, N. Y., April 27. A special to the News from Niagara Falls says: By the merest accident the lives of about thirty men and the tunnel work of the Canadian-Niagara Power Com pany were aaved from destruction. Last evening, as the night shift went on, the discovery was made of a most dastardly attempt to wreck the tunnel and kill the men working 160 feet be low the surface of the earth. The shaft leading down to the tun nel is 160 feet deep. From the bottom of the shaft the tunnel runs north and 'south and men work at both headings. The blasts are discharged by means of batteries which are operated at the foot of the shaft, the wires extending to the headings. When the night shift went to work one of the Nipper boys disooverd that at a point one hundred feet from the bottom of the shaft the wires from one of the batteries had been cut and a cartridge cap con nected and placed in a stick of dyna-. mite. The stick of dynamite had been placed between two boxes of dynamite containing 7,5 pounds of the material. It is customary for the day shift to arrange the blasts and the night shift sets them off when it comes on. Had the "Nipper" boys failed to discover, the plot the damage and death list would have been fearful. The men at the headings would have been killed and Imprisoned and work which has cost many thousands of dol lars ruined. The object or the motive is not known. Detectives are at work on the case. ST0RN AT NORFOLK, VA. Two Vessels Wrecked on Hsmpton Bsr. No Other Disasters Reported. By Tewzrapo to tne Morning star. Norfolk, Va., April 26. Two ves sels were wrecked on Hampton bar last night The schooner - Addie, owned by Captain Cline, struck on the bar in the afternoon and sunk. She was loaded with lumber and was bound for Old Point. - An unknown pungy, loaded with oysters, from James River for the Rap pahannock, went on the bar and sunk until her hull was completely sub merged. The crews of the vessels experienced considerable hardship owing to the high winds and rough weather. No casualties are reported. The southeast storm predicted by the Weather Bureau has been raging. The wind blew thirty miles an hour dur ing the day. On the coast the blow was quite severe, although no marine dis asters of consequence have been re ported up to a late hour to-night The wind at Cape Henry reached a velocity of twenty-four miles an hour, while it only blew about sixteen miles an hour at Cape Hatteras. THE SHIPPINQ SYNDICATE. Denial ol Report That the White Star Line Had Been Sold to the Combine. By Telegraph to the Mernlng star. Liverpool, April 26. J. Bruce Is may, chairman of the White Star Line, in an interview, this afternoon, posi tively denied that the American snip ing syndicate held any shares what ever in the company. Mr. Ismay said that Mr. Pierre, head of the shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, had not sold his shares in the White Star Line and he did not in tend to sell them. The statement of lug nusiuj via uio jjfiuau auiiuniii Mr. Arnold-Forster, in the House of Oommonsi regarding the White Star line, was not correct as to the reports of negotiations oi J. Pierpont Morgan with himself, with the object of the former puronasing shares in the White Star Line, Mr. Ismay said that any information on the subject must be obtained from Mr. Morgan himself. W. H. Reeves, who was recently sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment and to pay a fine off 35,516 for com plicity in the Cuban postal frauds, but who was paruonea a.pru zzna cy gov ernor uenerai wood, leit Havana for Miami yesterday. It wan stated in St Louis financial circles yesterday that the Mercantile Trust Company has finally closed a deal by the terms of which it pieages i to finance the Tennessee Central rail road to the amount of 1 15,000,000, ft

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