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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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