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SECRETARY ROOT ASSUMES
RESPONSIBILITY.
Secretary Root has at last assum
ed responsibility for the retaliatory
measures resorted to by onr com
manders in the Philippines. He
says they were justified by the order
100, which was first issued during
the war between the States, was
signed by President Lincoln, and
was sent to the army Commanders
in fiTC Philippines when the Fili
pinos became troublesome and re
sorted to guerilla warfare. Thia is
interesting, but it suggests the in
quiries why Secretary Boot was so
long ifassuming responsibility, and
what becomes of the Apologies by
the organs and spokesmen of the
administration, chief of j whom was
Senator Lodge, who declared that
the War Department was ignorant
of the barbarities reported and that
as soon a3 it learned of .them it took
steps to put a stop to them. Now
Secretary Root answers' the resolu
tions of inquiry by the' Senate and
the House by admitting that he
knew all about them and approved
them, and thinks the country ought
to approve them because they ac
complished the purpose-'by suppress
ing resistance more speedily and
effectively than it could be done in
any other way. j
When the apologists' of the ad
ministration were ' pleading the
"didn't know"act,we remarked that
it was exceedingly strange that the
War Department was j ignorant of
what nearly every newspaper reader
knew, that the orders of General
Bell and Smith and Chaffee had
been published several months ago
and were freely commented upon at
the time by many papers in this
country which condemned them as
outrages and a disgrace to the com
manders who issued them. There
wa3 no reference made then to gen
eral order 100 or any other order.
The War Department paid no atten
tion to what was being done by the
soMiera who were carrying out these
orders, and when some of the atroc
ities perpetrated by them became a
subject of inquiry by Congress the
attempt was made to acquit the War
Department on the ground of igno
rance. Now since thej acquittal of
Major Waller and the court martial
of General Smith have brought out
the orders under which they plead
justification, it is up to the War
Department, which can no longer
plead ignorance, and j hence Secre
tary Root' does the only thing left
for him to do assumes the respon
sibility and justifies the perform
ance by the results. '
But why didn't he do that before?
Why did he wait so long and permit
these generals to be denounced as
savages, disgracing the uniform of
the American soldier, one of them
branded by a Republican Congress
man as the Herod! that it took
eighteen centuries to produce? Why
did he do this when .he knew what
their commanders had done, knew
that they had the sanction of the
War Department instructions which
he now offers as; . their justifi
cation? Why did 'the war man
agers in Washington profess to be
horrified when the testimony came
in the Waller trial 'and why did it
order the court martial of General
Smith on the strength of .that
testimony? - i
Ile does not, it seems, assume re
sponsibility for the barbaric orders
of Gen. . Smith. But why not?
Smith's orders were substantially
the tame as those issued by Gen.
Chaffee and Gen. Bell, the only dif
ference being that Gen. Smith may
hare been more blunt and showed
less regard to civilised phraseology.
As brutal and savage as Smith was
there is no reason why he should be
condemned and made to bear the
odium when his methods were as
successful in accomplishing their
purpose in Samar 'as Gen. Bell's
were in pacifying the province of
Batangaa. J
But assuming that they acted un
der the instructions issued by the
War Department, instructions forty
years old, taken frdm the war codes
approved by the nations, and en
dorsed by President Lincoln, whose
name they are lugging in to justify
savagery, there isn a clause in the
I : . . ; : -
VOL. XXXIII.
long list they plead to justify the
butchery of children, or women or
non-combitants, . or the burning of
of houses when that is done simply
through vengeance or to strike ter
ror into the people. These rnles
justify retaliatory measures, the
taking of a life for a life, as
a means of preserving other lives
and preventing treachery. They
justify the killing of men who have
violated the rules of war by treach
erously killing their enemies, but
there is not one of them which jus
tifies needless killing or the wanton
destruction of property out of a
spirit of deviltry or of vengeance,
when there is no real benefit to be
gained by such destruction. When
excesses are committed by armed
bands, our soldiers shot by them or
led into ambush by their sympa
thizers, retaliation by shooting or
otherwise killing might be justified
as necessary as a means of self-
protection; but when it comes to
retaliation on a whole people by
making war on women and chil
dren and. Bhoo ting down boys, be
cause boys may sometimes be found
carrying arms, that is another mat
ter. There is nothing in the order
referred to to justify that.
But Secretary Root, who seems to
shrink from assuming responsibility
for the general "kill" and the "howl
ing wilderness" order, justifies the
retaliatory measures resorted to on
general principles, because they more
speedily and effectively accomplished
the suppression of resistance, thus
did good and really proved to be hu
manitarian measures. On the as
sumption that "war is hell," the hot
ter it is made the better, and the
sooner the scortched and burned will
call for peace. This is the essence
of Root's vindication of -the atroci
ties perpetrated in the Philippines,
although it took him a good while to
muster the courage to assume the
responsibility. But they did their
work, apd having done there work,
they are, according to Secretary Root,
good and to be approved. This prac
tically acquits Gen. Smith and every
other officer or private in the Philip
pines. The court-martials might as
well be abandoned for they will be
mere mockeries.
FARM SCHOOLS.
Mr. Gerald McCarthy, Biologist
of the N. C. Department of Agri
culture, has published an article ad
vocating the establishment of farm
training schools in this State as in
every way preferable to reforma
tory schools. He argues, and cor
rectly, that one of the great draw
backs to agriculture in North Caro
lina is the lack of intelligent labor,
the remedy for which, he says, is
the training of the boys under com
petent instructors, who are practi
cal farmers and understand not only
the theory but the practice of what
they teach. After calling attention
to the fact that 90 per cent, of the
population of the State depend di
rectly or indirectly upon agriculture
for a living, he says:
"The agriculture of North Carolina
has for many years been in a moat
unsatisfactory condition. With a soil
and climate eaual to any. with the
possibility of producing all the most
nrofltable croDS known to commerce.
the condition of farmers and land
nwnen has for years past been
oninv from bid to worse. ' Hlgh-
rrata. moderized. rational farming is
Iirrelv renderned impossible in this
8tate by the lack of trained and trust
worthy labor. The enormous agricul
tural Dossibilities of the State are un
tried, or tried and abandoned, for the
lack just specified. Good farming
the only kind that is profitable under
modern conditions is impossible with
out trained labor. Such labor is easily
nhtained Bv Northern farmers who
can emolov immigrants from older
civilizations. This resource is not
nmn to the Southern farmer. We
must develon satisfactory labor from
thn material at hand. The writer has
f or TMn been an employer of colored
agricultural labor, and can say with
out hesitation or reserve that this class
of labor, when orooerly trained, is
eaual to the best any country can
show, and is under the climatic condi
tions of the Southern States the most
suitable in this section.
" This is followed with the follow
ing suggestions:
"Every county in North Carolina
should have a farm school where boys
can be anorenticed of their own wills
or at the desire or merr parents, xo
this school magistrates should com
mit all voune loafers and others who
seem to be reclaimable.
Such a school should not be a prison
school. Discipline should be strict and
enforced by corporal punishment
when necessary, but no stripes or
degrading treatment
At the head of such a school should
be a thoroughly educated farmer wbo
has faith in his work, and the ability
to create in his pupils a like faith in
the future of farming."
There is no questioning the utili
ty of such schools, but the practi-
cability of the proposition is another
question. Unless it is intended to
have them.. for negroes only two
schools instead of one would be
necessary in every county, and these
would have to be supported by taxa
tion, voluntary contribution, or by
fees for tuition, the latter two of
which would not fill the bill, and
the former of which -would not meet
with favor in the respective coun
ties. While the advantages accru
ing from such a scheme might be
freely conceded the objections would
be so numerous that it would be an
uphill business from the start.
A PROTECTED "nrFAHT."
The steel Trust is a nrettv farca
sized "infant," but it is one of the
protected infants all the same. The
following hich we clip from the
new lork Commercial Advertiser,
a Republican paper, throws some in
teresting light on it and its oper
ations:
"Some htohW fnfAttn Italia n
the Steel Corporation's first business
which were compiled too late for
publication in the annual report, are
men out In this morning's papers.
They confirm the idea already quite
generally entertained that the com
pany produces all the materials for
its various processes, with the ex
caption of pig iron. Of iron ore
13,300,000 tons were mined last year,
and upward of 9,000,000 tons of steel
ingots were turned out But the pig
iron production which is intermediary
wetween meso two processes amounted
to only 7,153,000 tons. For the coun
try as a whole, the production of nio-
iron In 1901 was 16,000,000 tons. The
furnaces belonging to the Steel Cor
poration; therefore, accounted for
only 45 per cent, of the total, while
the company's steel mills supplied 67
per cent of the total make of steeL
This shows the reason more clearly
why the management of the trust
proposes to use some of the proceeds
of its new bond sales for the erection
of new bessemer and foundry iron
furnaces. The detailed figures also
point out very instructively that the
profits from steel manufacture were
$95,000,000, or 30 per cent of the gross
volume oi saiea. fronts from coke
production were $6,000,000. and from
transportation, chiefly by lake the
steamers, $13,000,000. This last item
is perhaps as significant as any, show
ing to what extent the partial control
of transportation facilities has entered
into the economics of the trust form
of operation."
Here is a profit of 30 per cent.
and yet when a proposition is made
to repeal the protective duties on
such articles as this Trust ships
abroad and sells for less than it sells
on the home market, the Republi
cans shrink from it and the spokes
men of the Trust declare that to
deprive it of the tariff protection it
has would ruin it, by which we
suppose they mean it couldn't make
30 per cent, profit by gouging
American purchasers whom this
protection puts on its power. It is
satisfied with moderate profits from
its foreign trade but squeezes its
American customers and makes the
big profits out of them. Is there
anything fair or honest in that?
And yet while the Republicans in
Congress and out of it talk about
curbing, regulating and restraining
the Trusts, there isn't one of them
who will dare to touch it and come
to the rescue of the people who are
in the clutches of this Trust.
The gushers in the Beaumont oil
belt in Texas, of which there are
about 250, ceased gushing after the
earthquakes in South America, and
this was supposed to be the
cause. Stocks took a tumble. But
a couple days ago, to show that this
had nothing to do with it, but that
the gushers were only being given a
rest, they were tnrned on again and
resumed business as usual. But it is
only a question of time when they
jrill play out as gushers.
The latest in the big gun line is
the invention of a Norwegian, who
claims that his gun, an electric one,
will throw a projectile weighing two
tons ninety miles. If they had a
few of them over in the Philippines
they might shell the woods and ex
tend our jurisdiction. Admiral
Dewey said it extended in shore as
far as our guns could throw a ball.
Some of the railroads in the
Southwest have been experimenting
with Beaumont oil by saturating
coal with it. It is said that this
makes the coal burn better and
give more heat, with less smoke
and ashes, and avoids the necessity
of changing the furnaces.
Dr. Edson, of New York, sees no
reason why reputable pnysiciana
should not advertise. Quacks do
and specialists do, and in this way
very often get the advantage of the
nhvsician. who doesn't consider it
consistent with prof essional dignity,
K . I '
Andrew Carnegie has given away
$67,000,000. . But he has enough
left to support him comfortably,
provided he doesn't get too much
tancled nn with newspapers, Of
which it is said he is going to start
a number for friends.
The Canadians show a disposition
to be miffed because the United
States have such a pre-emption on
the name "America." There is
only one remedy that we see . Let
them come in and be "Americans"
like the rest of us.
In Maryland they are finding lots
of 17-year locusts under ground. If
they will be patient and wait a little
tne lecnsis win gouge f w u.
. . . f J.1
and save them tne irouoieoi digging
for them.
When Minister Wu visits Mil-
ledgeville, Ga., the denizens will see
the livest Oriental that ever struck
their territory and one who speaks
the American language better
than
the average Congressman.
Marconi claims that with his sys
tem of wireless telegrapy a message
onnid tiA snnt around the earth in
aHnnt nnft Afirhth of a second, which
is about as fast as light travels.
WILMINGTON, N. 0.,
JUDGE CLARK'S
REPLY TO WILSON.
The Russell-Busbee-Clark Cor
respondence and Other Let-
ters Made Public. ; J
REVIEWS THE SITUATION.
Explasstloa of the Letters ReasoBS for
Asking That Certsin Letter Be
Destroyed Fesred the Sonth
era. Railroad Compaoy.
Br Telegraph to the Moraine: Star.
Raleigh,. N. C, May 10. Judge
Walter Clark makes public to-night a
letter addressed to Col. E. J. Holt, of
Smithfield, N. C, in which he gives
the noted Russell letters and the recent
Russell-Busbee-Olark correspondence,
with elaborate explanations in his own
defence. The letter makes nearly six
newspaper columns. Among other
things. Judge Clark says: -
"On May 4 th I received tne follow
ing letter from Ex-Governor Daniel
L. Russell:
"Wilminaton. N. C May t. Dear
Sir Mr. W. P. Batchelor, professing
to be authorized to speak for you, in
newspaper . articles, makes demand
upon me for publication, for any let
ters or papers that I may have in my
possession written by you to me. i
have never authorized publication or
these papers. I did show them
privately and confidentially to one of
the counsel for the impeached judges.
I did this because these judges were
my friends; one of them was my ap
pointee, and both of them were, as I
believed, cruelly persecuted by a pro
ceeding which, as I believed, was insti
gated by you and in wnlch you were
regarded as substantially the prosecu
tor, and in which you were expected to
be a star witness against them, i reit
that to defend these gentlemen was
about the same thing as defending my-
sell, if exposure or tnese papers was
to contribute to the defence of the
judges I felt it might be justified on
the ground or seir-aerence, even n it
were to be conceded that l was other
wise, on general principles, in honor
bound to keep them sacred. They re
lated to matters that were entirely po
litical and official; but as some of them
were marked "private," I was and nave
been unwilling to make them public. It
is easy, perhaps natural, for you to say
that I have already made them public.
because the letter of Mr. Wilson pro
fesses to give their substance, and that
this shows ne must nave seen tne pa
pers. Whatever information Mr. Wil
son may have received about them was
not authorised by me. l never neara
of his purpose to attack you and
knew literally nothing about it until
I saw his publication. It is not clear
that communications to a puoiic of
ficer regarding1 his publications im
pose an obligation on him to keep
them secret because they are marked
secret or because tbeir text or attend
ing circumstances show that the writer
desired them to be concealed. But I
have chosen to. refuse to make them
public, and at this writing do not in
tend to do so without yew consent.
"I write this to enquire U you de
sire tnese papers to oe puDiisnea, or
to be delivered to responsible persons
for inspection. Yours truly.
"U. U. KUSSKUj."
rHere follows Judge Clatk's re
ply, under date of May 5th, in which
h charges at leneth that any official
communications from him should still
be in the executive office, and it per
sonal and confidential, should not have
been known bv anybody else, and ac
centinir a proposition for the letter to
be put in tne nanas oi a responsioie
" . m - . ! 1
friend of Russell's. The letter to Mr. Bus
bee, as counsel for the impeached
judges, entrusting Judge Ulark's let-
ters to mm. is eivea aiso iu iuo bi-
tan dad correspondence, and comments
leading up to the ultimate delivery of
the letters. Here are tne letters tne
sandwiched comments by Judge Clark
omitted. - 1 M
,L.euer no. i.
"My Dear Governor I enclose Ed.
stating on Mr. 1 rage's autnonty tnai
his road cost $150,000, and has been
a frood paving road from the begin
ning.' On page 9, K. K. Uom. Ke
nort. 1896. you will see that this road,
coatinor $360,000 and paying well, is
rated for taxation at $113,000 only.
On page 323 of same you will una
that the 'sreneral officers' are Page
and his three sons, but they attend to
a saw mill, etc , so that in fact Henry
Patre is practically sole omcer. un
next pige (324) the debt is put at
$50,000. On page 326, gross earnings
ssi. 053. wnicn is nearly ou per cent.
. . s asv a.
nn tax valuation. This is reduced.
you will see on page by cnargmg
nn new cars, buildings, etc., to opera
ting expenses and .'salaries general
officers. B.6UU: (.page jwsm, on a w
miles road and an unexplained addi
tinnal item. Veneral expenses.' $8,837.
On page 329, you will see that cost of
General officers, (tne lamiiyi is one-
third of the total salaries. You will
see on the same page, low rates paid
hia men. i. e. engineer fa 50, etc. in
the Newa and Observer. July istn,
Jou will see H. A. Page's speech, that
is tax value was high enough, and in
two other numbers are letters of ms
attacking you and me for meddling
with tax valuation rate. The numbers
in lHa Library, but I can give you
reference to dates, if you wish to read
them. I enclose you letter snowing
.t vr Pearson is willing, l also am
in receipt of letters from leaning demo
crats endorsing : tne suspension n uio
two railroad commissioners, rveu
me Pearson's letter. -
'VYours,
(8igned) "W. O.
Letter No. 8.J
"Whatever thoudoest.dO OUickly,
Ere they have wit enough to (nomin
ally lease out to another.
You nave mem on me run, ot
them agoing."
it .atter No. s ia omitted. Judge Ulark
saying: "This is a nine longer, uum
Mr Lack certifies, 3t is also typewrit
ten, unsigned, undated, ana wuu
nothing to connect me with it, and I
ali eVhavine seen it and It
u-egarytoUke space to print it"j
i Loiter
ir - TWr Governor There are
spies watching your house and mine
Ki. . vt Ti if the matter is im-
crh In Justify it. I will
about 9:30 O'clock. But
If you can conveniently write the sub
At matt annd TTiB a note by bearer.
I will not hesitate to come, if subject
is important enough, in your opinion.
f -xoura,
ra?,dl "W.G."
TLetter No. 5. personal.
HTw TW n-nvernor You will
probably not be at your office until
onnvt ihmu. SO I drOD VOU WIS note.
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1902.
Would not Aycock be the best man.
And if for any reason he is not avail
able, I respectfully suggest Judge
Connor. The grand jury, before they
adjourn, surely ought to investigate
Messler's case, or" the one-half rate
from here to Bound Knob, or Simon -ton's
coming to court in a palace car
free. Each is a $5,000 offence and no
torious. If It was a little chicken lar
ceny it would be hunted and some
body sent to the penitentiary.
"Yours,
LSigned ; , "W. C."
Letter No. 6.1
"My Dear Governor See last quar
ter of page 458, in 115 N.O., and refer
ences there cited, Le. "laws on con
troets"and Mechemt on officers, 360,
and eases there cited. You can get
these books of the court library.
"Yoursj truly,
WALTER CLARK.
Letter No. 7. .
" permit a suggestion Act
189L chapter 320. section 4. clearly
and unmistakably makes any discrimi
nation "an offence" punishable "by
fine not less than $1,000 nor more than
$5,000." 8end W.O.Douglas to-day to
Solicitor Pou, Inform him of what he
beard of Page, and have bill versus a.
R. sent for, for hauling freight one-
half price. Summon Page and freight
agent here with his boors, and the
party whose goods Were hauled free
(or one-ball price). ne cannot refuse
to testify as be is not indictable, only
the common carrier;.
"In this way, you can get the evi
dence ' you want i Again, last year
Simonton came here to hold court
not only on a free pass, but in a private
palace car free. He is not indictable,
but the railroad can be made to swell
our school funds $5,000 for having had
the honor,' etc., to give him free cars.
free passes, free food, etc , and the na
tional and State publicity given the
transaction will open the eyes of the
'plain common people'very effectively,
both in North; Carolina and through
out the Union! A very little trouble
will get a bill as to both of the above
transactions, and it is worth it
"Destroy after reading."
Letter No. 8,' Marked "Destroy This,
rlvate."j
My Dear Governor All that hulla
baloo about impeachment' comes from
J. W. Wilson. I saw Fred Merritt in
there yesterdsy and he was taking it
down. I have letters from different
points and find public sentiment else
where, as well as here, is with you. as
you prophesied, knowing the facts are
against them, tney deny your jurisdic
tion, relying on the Supplementary
Act of 1891, page 565, making them a
court of record. They are a long time
finding out they are judges, as Ma;
son, Beddingfield,! and Otho Wil
son, all canvassed regulsrly. But
there is nothing in the point
any way. The act creating them pro
vided how their terms conld be ended.
Besides, you are only given power to
suspend; the power of removal is vest
ed in the Legislature. They have
been trvins? to charge I had. part in
drafting the notices, so as to affect my
sitting. I did not see the notices till
Issued, and did not Know tney wouia
be issued. There were some typewrit
ten points, however, interlined or cor
rected in my hand. Please get that
paper and destroy it
ue&troy tnis. jena me any duw
you wish by bearer.
"xours,
Signed ! MW. 0."
These are all tne letters.
As in explanation of his writing the
letters Judge Clark reviews the situa
tion at the time uusseu -became
Governor. He says Russell tried
to ride into t popular favor
by proceeding j -against corpora
tions, the Southern Railway particu
larly. That he (Clark) did not exceed
the duties of his office in giving Rus
sell the advice asked in his item, to
put down the abuses the railroads were
practicing. Bays tne reason ne asaea
that a certain lettersoe aestroyea was
that he feared the; Southern railroad
would get on to it and use it to mis
represent him. He refers to Dr. King
bury's removal from the Messenger,
and says railroad opposition to Clark
was the cause, ne says regarding
th.s: "Their prescriptive spirit was
shown but recently, when a rauroao
organ removed from its head an able,
amiable and patriotic North Caro
linian, Dr. Theodore B. Kingsbury,
simply because he asked that it might
be stated in regard to a viie ana iaue
attack upon me in its editorial col
umn sthat it had. not been written by
him." i . i
Regarding his connection witn ana
correction of Russell's notice to the
Wilsons to show cause, Judge Clark
says "Governor Russell submitiea to
me a typewritten paper of his notic to
show cause, or summons, to the Wil
sons to appear. I made in it s ap-
Twtara bv the document which i saw
yesterday, some half dozen corrections.
mostly of grammatical or ver ui errors.
It was sent to me i because the pro
ceeding for removal of an official by
the Governor was new in this State,
and this was the first statute autnor
izingit. If the case could have been
carried by : appeal to the Supreme
Court it is clear that the fact tnat x
had corrected the summons would not
have debarred me at second-hand
from sitting on the case, when it did
not debar the officer who issued it In
deed, as every one knows a justice of
the peace wno issues a pencn waranb,
is in nowise. incapacitated to try tne
case." ' J . .
In concluson, Judge Ulara- isays:
"My fate is in the hands of the peo
ple. I have served them faithfully in
peace and in war; to the best of my
humble ability, i Should they decide
to retain me in their service or not is
for them to deotde. Whatever tneir
decision is, I shall bow to the will of
the sovereign people. This is their
government and l wisn tnat tney
and they alone shall determine public
policy and the selection of their pub
lic servants. ! !
"I have said this much in the defence
of my personal and official integrity,
and henceforth shall leave the matter
to those wbo must make the decis
sion the people of North Carolina."
Boy Came Nesr Drowalar.
An 8-year old son of Mr. John
Stubbs, No. 303 Wright street feu
into the river at foot of Dawson street
yesterday and was all but drowned.
He was fishing with another boy about
the same age from the wharf and was
pulled off his balance by something
biting at his hpok. He sank imme
diately and his companion ran for
help. - Messrs. Jno. Williams, A. J.
Dicksey and R. McDougald, who were
half a block away, ran to the scene
and seeing the fishing pole standing
up in the water they pulled on it and
found it heaty. .They at lengtn puiiea
it to the surface.and found the lifeless
boy in a death! grasp upon the "last
straw," so to Sspeak. They put the
little fellow on tne wnari
timely means managed to resuscitate
him.
The CoBiressiossl Race.
Hearing the name of Henry L.
Cook, Esq., of Cumberland, who is
here attending Federal Court men
tioned as a probable candidate for the
Congressional nomination ia this dis
trict a reporter met him yesterday
and asked him if there was truth in
the report that he would make the
race. Mr. Cook replied that it was
well known in. the old Third district
that he was a candidate, as he can
vassed tne autrict two years ago as
Presidential elector, but that the
change in the districts made by the
Legislature left but three counties of
the old district in the present Sixth
district and he had not yet decided
whether he . would be a candidate in
ii i ...... .
me new district; tnat ne had many
offers of support and was considering
the matter and as soon as he confers
with some friends, he will decide
whether he will enter the race.
To Develop Wrirhtsvllle.
in consideration of its purpose to
convert the Seacoast road into a trolley
line a" number of the prominent prop
erty owners on Wrightsville sound
have entered into an agreement with
the Consolidated Railways, Light and
Power Co., by which they wilksllow
their lands to be laid out with roads,
streets and boulevards looking to the
development of the place into a desir
able location for attractive suburban
Winter and Summer residences. The
agreement is signed by Col. J. W.
Atkinson, Capt Jno. H. Hanby,
Messrs. Oscar Pearsall, G. A. Croft
W. H. Northrop, Jr., Mrs. W. A.
Wright and Mrs. F. G. Pritcbard,
capi. waiter u. ataettae with a
corps of engineers is now laying off
the grounds as sgreed by the owners.
Pise Fibre Plaot at Cronly.
The American Consolidated Pine
Fibre Company, of New York, is push
ing work as fast as possible on its new
mill at Cronly, N. 0., and expects to
have it in operation by July 1st. The
new mill will have three modern tex
tile machines and in connection with
the old plant will consume about 60,-
uuu pounds or pine straw a day, con
verting the same into about 20.
000 pounds of fibre for which there
is an unlimited and growing demand.
The fibre is used principally in the
manufacture of matrasses. Contractor
Tyler, of thia city, has in course of
construction a number of cottages to
accommodate the increasing popula
tion at the mill.
Cracked Ssfe at Warsaw.
Information reached the city yes
terday that on Thursday night some
professional cracksmen or "yeg-
men," at Warsaw, broke . into
the store of Mr. L. P. Best, blew
open a safe and stole $204 in money
therefrom. Another safe in the build
ing containing about the same amount
of money was left untouched. The
tools with which the work was done
were procured from J. W. Whitman's
blacksmith shop, about two blocks
distant Bloodhounds from Golds
boro were telegraphed for.
Mr. Walters' Purchase of Art.
The Rome correspondent of the Bal
tTmore Sun sends that paper a long
story of the purchase by Mr. Henry
Walters of the great Marcello collec
tion of art containing more than 900
paintings and coating Mr. Walters
$1,000,000. A special steamer has been
engaged to bring them to Baltimore,
The great purchase includes a Titian a
Raphael, a Bernini and is perhaps the
most interesting group of art of the
best Italian period that has ever
crossed the ocean.
Wescott'CIaytoo.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wescott last
evening announced the forthcoming
marriage at noon Monday, May 26th,
of their daughter. Miss Minnie, to Mr,
William Sydney Clayton, a popular
member of the Wilmington High
School faculty. The ceremony, will
be performed at the home of the
bride's parents, No. 214 South Fourth
street No cards are issued.
Preacher for Town Creek Circsif.
Town Creek circuit, which has been
.without a pastor this year, will be
served from June 8th by Rev. W. R.
Royal. Be will preach at Summer
ville and . Gay's Chapel the second
Sunday in June, at Zion the third anc
at Macedonia and Bethel the fourth
Sunday.
Royal Arcanum.
Mr. O. EL O'Berry. secretary of
Carolina Council 1874, Royal Arca
num, yesterday received a check for
$1,000 from the Grand Lodge, Royal
Arcanum, the same being the amount
of policy on the life of the late Dr. O.
T. Hawes' and payable to his mother,
Mrs. Evelyn Hawes, of Duplin county.
Last Cotloa Cairn.
The British steamer Tolosa cleared
yesterday with perhaps the last cotton
cargo of the season. The cargo con
sisted of 10,936 bales, valued at $512,
600, and consigned by Messrs, Alex
ander Sprunt & Son to parties in Bre
men, Germany.
Subscribers who receive bills
for subscriptions due the Stab are re
minded that it is not fair to expect a
publisher to supply them with news
for nothing. Many, however, seem
to think otherwise. As soon as a bill
I j, jeciyed a prompt remittance should
m-d.
- The trouble at Clemson College, S.
C, the farmer boys' institution, found
ed mainly by Senator Tillman, has
been settled.
NO. 29
VOLCANIC OUTBURST
IN MARTINIQUE.
Further Particulars of the Ter
rible Catastrophe in the
West Indies.
AN ERUPTION IN ST. VINCENT
The Northern Third of the I sis ad is
Flames sad Cat Off from Assistance
by Burning Lava and Showers
of Ashes More Detslls.
y oable to tne Morning star
Castries, St. Lucia, B. W. L,
May 10. Mont Pelee, a volcanic
mountain some ten miles north of St
Pierre, the commercial capital of Mar.
Unique, is the mountain which made
a faint show of eruption fifty years
ago. On May 3rd last it began to
throw out dense clouds of smoke.
At midnight the same day flames ac
companied with rambling noises light
ed the sky over an immense area.
causing Iwidespread terror. May 4th
bot ashes covered the whole city
quarter of St. Pierre an inch thick and
made Mont Pelee invisible. At noon,
May 6th, a stream of burning lava
rushed 4,400 feet down the mountain
side, following the dry bed of a tor
rent and reaching the sea, five miles
from the mountain, in three minutes.
in its rush the fiery Hood swept
from its path plantations, buildings,
factories, cattle and human beings
over a breadth of about half a mile.
As the lava rushed into the sea the
latter receded three hundred feet all
along the west coast Returning,
with greater strength, a big wave cov
ered the whole sea front of St Pierre,
but doing little damage ashore or
afloat
Terrible detonations, heard hundreds
of miles northward, followed at short
irregular intervals and continued at
night In the intense darkness the
electric light failed, but the town was
lit up by lurid flashes of flame from
the mountains. The terror stricken
inhabitants rushed for the hills in their
night clothes, screaming, shouting and
wailing mad with terror.
The British royal mail steamer Esk.
which called off Martinique at 10 P.
M.. last night reports standing off
shore Ave miles, sounding her whistle
and sending up rockets. She received
no answer. The whole sea front was
blazing for miles. The Esk sent a boat
ashore but it could not land on account
of the terrifio heat which was accom
panled by loud explosions, not i
living soul appeared ashore after the
boat bad waited for two hours, fire
and ashes fell all over the steamer.
In the afternoon a French coasting
steamer arrived here from Fort de
France, seeking assistance, as all the
country was burnt np. the stock was
dying, all the plantations were charr
ed, the country people were nocking
into the towns and famine was feared.
The steamer was loaded with food of
all sorts and was sent back to Mar
tinique at 7 P. M. The captain of this
vessel reported that some thirty per
sons left St. Pierre by the six o'clock
boat Thursday rooming for Fort de
r ranee ana consequently were bhvcu.
All attempts to get to tit. Fierre are
barred by fire. The closest observa
tion possible Bhowed houses still-blaz
ing and steeets strewn with charred
bodies.
It is certain that the whole town and
neighboring country for miles were
utterly destroyed and it is feared here
that few, if any, ot the inhabitants es
caped.
The volcano of the Island of at. Vin
cent has burst out in sympathetic
eruption. A steamer which returned
from there last night reports that tne
northern third of the island was in
flames and cut off from assistance, be
cause of a continuous stream of burn
ing lava and ashes falling in he&Vy
showers as far as one hundred and
fifty miles away. Kingston, the cap
ital of St Vincent, is safe, but people
here are very anxious as to the fate of
that island.
Dominica and Bt Liucia have very
active geysers, but they show no de'
parture from normal conditions
heretofore.
Foodstuffs of all kinds are urgently
wanted.
WlLLEMSTBAD. ISLAND 07 CUEUAOO.
May 10. The Italian steamer Pede-
monte, which arrived this morning at
La Guaira, reports that while passing
near the island : of St Vincent Thurs
day night her deck was covered to a
depth of two inches with ashes and her
passengers were nearly sunocaiea
with the smell of sulphur.
During Thursday all along the coast
especially in the Gulf of Paria. subter
rahean noises were heard. The In
dians were terrorized.
The statement of the associated
banks for the week ending yesterday
shows: Loans, $960,235,600; decrease
$7,954,OOO.tDeposits, $964,546,600; de
crease, $1,772,400. Circulation, $31,
229.600: increase. $180,300. Legal ten-
ders. 173.029.600: decrease. K.esx.5W.
Specie. $170,490,400: decrease, $3,360,-
000. Reserve, $243,519,900; '.decrease,
$5,011,500.
Jeff. Roberts was shot from ambush
ann instantly killed yesterday near
Duffield. Va.. supposedly by members
wife started to hi reeoue witn a snot
gun but was disarmed.
Money!
Are you indebted toTHE :j:
WEEKLY STAR? If SO,
when you receive a bill
for vniirftuhftcrlntinnftAnd X
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Remember, that a news
paper bill is as much en
titled to your consldera
tion as Is a bill for gro
ceries.
a , m Aunt iiaii nuia
ItiMHs Cant I
Be Mini Hi
other frost before summer comes, be
cause frost always bites the persim
mon leaves in the spring, and the
leaves have not yet been bitten.
Littleton Reporter'. The Medoo
Vineyards, including the wine eellara
of the late O. W. Garrett were sold at
Halifax a few days ago at public auc
tion to Mrs. jki. a. uarrison for $30,
000. Mrs. Harrison is a daughter of
the late O. W. Garrett the founder of
the Medoo Vineyards.
Favetteville Observer: E. G.
Siggers, of Washington, reports that
on Tuesday Captain J. B. Underwood,
of Favetteville. obtained a valuable -
patent for improvements in refriger
ator car, and that Mr. George E.Paton,
of Fayetteville, also obtained a patent
Tuesday for a mechanical toy.. Mr.
f aton has died since making the an- .
plication for the above patent i
Chatham Record: Mr. Thos. J.
Poe died very suddenly on last Thurs- .
day at his residence between here and
Moncure. He had been in feeble ,
health for sometime, but was walking
out in his yard when he suddenly fell
and died in a few minutes, aged about
70 years. Rev. Stephen Gilmore
died at his home near Goldston, on
Tuesday ot last week, aged about 83
years. He had been a Baptist preacher
for many years and was indeed "a
father in Israel."
Nashville Graphic: Coronor J,
H. Griffin was ealled to Spring Hope
Monday to investigate the matter of
tne nnding of a dead colored inrant,
as there was evidence of foul playon
thr part of someone. An investiga
tion revealed the fact that Dney Per
ry, a colored woman, employed as ser
vant in the family of Mr. W. U.
Griffin, was the mother of the child to
which she had given birth In the barn
of Mr. Griffin. The inhuman wretch
left the infant lying on the barn floor
for several hours until about sunset,
then digging a hole near the wood
pile concealed the child until dogs un
earthed the body and carried it to a
neighbor's house, wbo frightened the
dogs away and notified the authorities
of Spring Hope, who phoned for Coro
ner Griffin.
Sanford Express: The Sanford
Cotton Mill Company is shipping this
week 100,000 yards of their fine do
mestics direct to Shanghai. China.
They recently shipped 150,000 yards to
tnat distant point, xne rate per iuu is
$1.07, the same as to Jacksonville,
Fla. . Mr. W. H. Britton, of Tim-
ber land,' recently sustained a loss by'
fire of some $3,500 or $4,000. His
barn, ten or twelve head of mules and
horses and a quantity of forage were
all destroyed. 'The fire is supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
The Express learns that there are
about 400 voters in this county who
failed to pay their poll taxes In time to
vote. They are about equally divided
between the two parties. It is said
that a number of negroes have paid
their poll taxes who will not be able to
vote.
Charlotte Observer: In their
rambles about the city yesterday the
health officers discovered more cases
of smallpox. Katie Smith, a colored
woman, who lives near the old col
ored hospital in ward 2, was touna
well broken out and was taken to the
pest house, while four others were
taken to the house of detention. The
smallpox situation does not improve.
it is as bad now as it was over a
month ago. There are sixty-five peo-
Ele now in the pest house and the
ouse of detention, while almost daily
recruits are added. Kd. Freeiand,
Jack McKenzie and Charlie Allison, .
three bright young Western Union
messenger boys, handsomely supple
ment their earnings by catching bun
frogs, which they have been supply
ing to-the local market ever since the
warm weather, commenced. They bad
poor luck last night and bagged only
forty-two pairs of legs, but on the pre
vious n:ght they Caught 110 frogs,
which they sold (bunched) for 5 cents
a piece, in the future, however, they
expect to realize from 6 to 10 cents a
piece on every pair of legs. The three
boys are from 14 to 16- years of age,
and have been catching frogs for
about six years.
THE BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Five Thousand Delecstes at Yesterday's
Session Ssvsnnsh Recommended
as the Next Piece of Meeting.
bt Telegrapn to tne Morning Star.
Asheville, N. 0., May 10, Five
thousand delegates were present at to
day's session of the Southern Baptist
Convention. Rev. J. B. Granfelt,
editor of the Baptist Standard, call
ed the morning meeting to order.
The committee on time and place of
next meeting announced that Savan
nah, Ga., will be recommended as the
city in which to hold the convention
of 1903. I
Reports pertaining to the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, at
Louisville, Ky., and Home Missions
were taken up by the convention as
special orders. Careful attention was
aid to the statement of Dr. E. Y.
Eullins, the seminary's president who
told ot the work of the seminary, and
also plead for the further advance
ment of missions. He was followed
by Dr. Joshua Lovering, of Baltimore,
who urged additional interest in tne
seminary's labor and increased appro
priations for its maintenance.
MRS. S0FFEL SENTENCED. -
Qiven Two Vesrs In the Penitentiary for
Aiding the Biddies to Escsps.
ay Telegrapn so tne Morning Star.
Pittsburg, May 10. Mrs. Cath
erine Soffel, the wife of Warden Peter
Soffel, of the Allegheny county jail.
who entered a plea of guilty to the
charge of releasing Edward and
John Biddle, the burglars and mur
derers of Grocer Kahney and Detective
Fitzgerald, was sentenced to-day by
Judge Frazier to two years in the
Western penitentiary. Mrs. Soffel re
ceived the sentence calmly and with
no show of emotion. She was taken
to the penitentiary.
Walter Dorman. the member of the
Biddle gang- who turned State's evi
dence and entered : a plea of
guilty to the murder of Kahney,
was called up and sentenced to aeain.
T. 1 1 4 1 L. AM ll A .MllfflllM
rendered the State he will never be
executed and the pardon board will
commute his sentence to life impris
onment. To Fill Another Want: "If you
had $460,000,000, which would you do
start universities or build librariest"
"Neither ; I'd establish free soup houses
for educated people- whose 'refined
tastes unfitted them for ordinary
work.' "Chicago Record-Herald.
"What is a political platform,
father?" "Well, my boy," returned
the old gentleman thoughtfully, "a
really successful, up-to-date political
platform is usually a prize-winning
specimen of ambiguity." Chicago
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