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RESOLUTION FOR THE ANNEXATION OP CUBA. At I ill ii I I . 11 W II VI II 1 11 i JL 11 , ;J ,,, UIN6TQN, N. C, it ' ,(00 AjfEUR IN ADVANCE. 1 ggsgS88888S888S8 83888888888888888 SS1IS8S8S88S88888 VOL. XXXIII. WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1902. NO. 34 u S2SSSS8S28S88888S S22 5 S S S S S S'SS8S8SS8S8888888 1TS88S88S2888S8888 v eoo jj e o g gj g g g SS88S888888888888 n " - - - - 3 - s cr 4iioBOie4Avin( r.J t he Po,t mc " llm,t0 N. " Second una M'i ICT.l C, at SUBSCRIPTION P.-:iCE. Tht jubtfriptlon price ol the W or lily Star It at ffitGW 1 r. pottage paid SI 00 Sr Smooth! " " 80 ,. Jaoothi " " 80 f mSE IS ANOTHER SIDE TO IT. There re two aider to most ques tions, but there are three sides to the coal strike question. The oper ators have their side, the miners their side and the public, (which does not seem to be considered at all) hare their side, and their side is the biggest side for they are vast ly more interested in and affected by such conflicts than either of the principals are. In an article 1 which we published yesterday the miners' gideoftlwqnestion was given, the reasons which impelled them to re sort to the strike. The following taken from the answer of the opera tors to the letter of the miners, gives tie gist of their side' of the question: . 'iDere cannot be two masters in the management of business. Discipline it estential in the conduct of all busi ness You cannot have discipline when the employee disregards and dis obe;s the reasonable orders and direc tion! in tne conduct of business of bis luperior officer, relying upon some outside power to sustain him. Your organizations hare no power to-enforce their decrees, and thereby insure . discipline, and we hare no pewer to maintain discipline except the power to discharge. " "It is the inalienable right of a man to labor and this without regard to na tionality, creed or association. To seek to prevent jt is a crime, sgJ we cannot, (Ten by implication, sanction such a course. "The anthracite companies do not undfru' in the slightest manner to discriminate against members of the United Mine Workers of America, but they do insist that members of that or faniziiion shall not discriminate agHiott ) or decline to work with non munbrn of such association." TheJcw York Sun, from which we clip, calls these "fundamental pr'mclple3,"which they doubtless are, but that does not necessarily simply that the mine operators have the un - qncationable right to insist on the carrying out of those fundamental principles regardless of th cost to themselves, to the miners or to any one elser- They admit the .right of the miners to organize, bat deny the right to do anything more jthan or ganize. As far as physically inter fering by intimidation or 'violence to prevent men who do not belong to or recognize the miners' organi zations from working, they are right, but they deny the miners the right to prevent by persuasion and other peaceful means other men from tak ing their places, hence we, read of injunctions applied for and. granted against miners marching in bodies or sending representatives to meet and persuade imported and other men from taking their places. That is about all the miners can do unless they resort to violence and go to clubbing or shooting instead of : marching and persuading.' tnless the miners' organization can prevent the mines from being worked they might as well have no organization, for their places would soon be filled with men picked up or imported. While thominers try to do that without resorting to vio lence they,- are simply doing the only thingthey can 'do, and they have or ahbuld have as much right tO dO tbat as the miriA nneratnn have to organize, to work in unison, to arbitrarily discharge men and to keep a black list as one of the ways of punishing those who may be too assertive, and holding; the others down. ' No one approves of violence by the miners and no one should ap prove of despotism by the mine operators, within the law, because bej claim the inherent right to towiaste their own property and con- Uf-t their business in! their own Way. ;. . TbtBe "fundamental principles'' apply to all indnstries and to a IPcat many of them with much more Pertinence than they will to the in dustry of coal mining or to other in duatriea in which the public is di rectly and vitally concerned, and by the stoppage of which the public u directly and vitally affected. Coal mining is not like quarrying jock or mining iron. There might bo a strike by the workmen in the jock quarries, or by the workmen in the iron mines and comparatively lew be seriously affected by it, but those directly interested as the own- of the quarries or.the mines, or . rm? iQ them A Protracted nke in either would injure some industries, and cause the enforced idleness of a good many people, but the injurious effect would be noth ing in comparison to a prolonged stop page of work in the coal mines, for peo ple could manage to get along for a while without stone or iron, but coal is one of the absolute necessities that must be had every day.- This makes the coal-mining industry different from other industries and gives the public a claim upon it which it has not upon others. It is necessary to keep manufactories running by which thousands of people earn their daily bread. It is necessary in the household, where people must cook the food they eat, and in cold weather it is necessary to keep their bodies warm and prevent them from suffering or freezing. Considering how vitally thtpublio is affected by the stoppage of work in coal mines, and the serious conse quences that might ensue from it if such stoppage extended into the winter, we hold that while the mine owners have the legal and unques tionable right to manage their own property,in their own way, they have no right; to manage it in a way to inflict incalculable injury upon the public and therefore if they obsti nately insist on this right and, as serting "fundamental principles," resolve not to yield, but to let the mines stay closed until the miners surrender or are starved into sub mission, they should not be allowed to do it. When it becomes evident that there is no disposition on the part of the mine owners or the mine workers to adjust their differences before the public suffers, then the State, as the guardian of the public welfare, should assert authority, take possession of the mines and keep them running until the owners and the workers come to an agree ment, the representatives of the State and the people taking tempo rarily the place of the mine ope rators and employing such help as might be necessary to keep the mines in operation and in good con dition and to prevent a coal famine. There may be no way now under the law to do this, but there should be a way and if there was the public would be safe, there would be fewer strikes in the coal mines and none protracted enough to do damage to anyone. - PROFITING BY THE THRIFT- LES3NE3S OF OTHERS. One of our Eastern exchanges tells of a young farmer who is making money by buying the cattle of his CUBAN QUESTION IN THE SENATE. N C. AND VIRGINIA TRUCK. he finds a good market for all he can furnish and makes handsome profits in the business. These cattle he buys at a low price because their owners, who do not appreciate their value, are willfng to sell them at a low price, then he puts some more flesh on their bones and sells them at a high price. Thus he converts his grass, forage, and other things that others let go to waste, into money and gets more money out of it than some of his neighbors do out of crops that they work hard over and spend a good deal of what they get in the raising. That may be something new for that particular section, but there are others who do it in other parts of the State and find it a good business too. There are others who live in the border counties of Virginia. where they grow grass, instead of spending a large part of the year in trying to kill it, who visit ' some of the middle counties of this State every Summer or Fall and buy all the young cattle and sheep they can, which they drive across the border, turn out to grass, keep until grown or in condition for market and then ship. That they find it a profitable busi ness is shown by the fact that they follow it up year after year, and al ways seem to find as many cattle and sheep as they want. The peo ple who sell these young or poor cattle or sheep could just as well fatten them and make the profit on them that these buyers do if they had the gumption to see it. These are illustrations of thrift and thriftlessness, showing how some "sensible men profit by the folly of others. Press the Matter to an Issue. ARE CONFIDENT OF WINNING. serious AH APPEAL TO GREED. The message of President Roose velt urging the adoption of reci procity with Cuba was an appeal to the greed of the men who are opposing it, in the front of whom stand the beet sugar makers. But the appeal, or the reasons ad vanced why we should have reci procity with Cuba will haye no more effect on them than a shower of rain would have on Mont Pelee. They are actuated solely by selfish greed and no argument or appeal will move them one jot. The ap peal may have some influence on Senators who may not yet have decided as to how they will vote, if there be any such, but that is all. The reason assigned by the beet sugar men and others who are so stubbornly fighting reciprocity, is that it would jeopardize important and growing home industries, but argument based on experience has shown conclusively that there is no good foundation for this. The beet sugar men seem to be particularly concerned as .to the threatened fate of their industry, which has had protection for over twelve years and yet does hot produce sugar enough to supply a decimal part of the amount consumed annually in this country. If all the sugar grown in Cuba, or likely to be grown for some years to come, found a market here there would not be enough to meet the present demand for con sumption not to speak . of the an nual increase with the increase of population and the continuous per capita increase in consumption. The only possible effect, and that only in case the reciprocity extended to refined sugars, would be some what cheaper sugar to the people of this country, but not enough to seriously affect the home sugar mak ing industry. But there are moral and friendly obligations involved in the question of reciprocity with Cuba which its opponents in their selfish greed totally ignore and in doing so place this country in an unenviable and dishonorable attitude of deserting the young republic which it called into existence, deserting it at the time when it most needed the sap port of & friendly hand and when it had most reason to expect it. And here comes Prof. Hamilton, of the New York Museum of Natural History, predicting -that some day Manhattan Island, Staten Island, Long Island and a big slice of adja cent Jersey will be demolished and submerged by volcanic action, which he says created them. In the mean time they are working up the scheme for a railroad tunnel under Manhat tan, just as if it was never going to be blown up. The Critical Point Will. Come Upon the Acceptance of the House Bill With : Its Amendment for Removal of Differential Doty on Sugar. By Telegraph to the Horning Btar Washington, June 14. The pres ent plans of the senatorial support ers of Cuban reciprocity are to press the question to an issue next week. This was the result of the conference held to-day and yesterday. Accord ing to the programme as now arranged the Republican members of the Com mittee on Cuban Relations will meet either Monday j or Tuesday and finally agree upon the exact terms of the bill to be reported as a substitute for the House bill. The measure thus agreed upon will be reported to a Republican caucus to be held Tuesday or Wednesday, and if the caucus endorses the measure it then will be brought before a meeting of the full Committee on Cuban Re lations and reported to the 8enate. The desire is to have all this done by the time the Isthmian canal bill is dis posed of on Thursday, so that the re ciprocity bill may be given the first place in the order of business. The reciprocity advocates still profess the utmost confidence in their ability to pass through the Senate any bill that may be recommended by the commit tee and caucus. The critical point will come upon the acceptance of the House bill, with its amendment for the removal of the differential duty on refined sugar. The beet sugar Republicans are all protectionists, and there has been from the beginning a division as to the ex- fiediency or advantage of a policy ooking to the abolition of the duty. This opposition found voice in Thurs day's beet sugar caucus, but the de cision to stand by the House bill un amended was secured largely upon the understanding that such a course would inevitably result in the defeat of all legislation. Recent develop ments lead to the conclusion that if 'any considerable number of Republi cans shoeld adhere to the determina tion to vote with the Democrats to support the House bill it would pass the 8enate. There would then be no chance for a conference, and the bill would go to the'President, who it is expected would attach his signature and thus make a law of the bill with the Morriss amendment included. MR. J. H. SLOAN TO. LEAVE US. Statement y Commissioner of Ajrlcnl tore The Pederal Court Clerks. Special Star TdegmtrL Raleigh, N. Q, June 13. Judge Purnell, of the Federal Circuit Court, issued reappointments to-day of Cir cuit Court Deputy Clerks as follows: Geo. L. Tonnffoski, of Raleigh; J. P. Overman, Elizabeth City; Geo. Green, Newbern; W. H. Shaw, Wilmington. The appointment of Mr.Shaw is only operative until he qualifies as full clerk of the Circuit and District Courts, to whlchvhe has been appoint ed by the Circuit and District Court Judges. Commissioner Patterson, ' of the Agricultural Department, issues to-day an important summary of the trucking conditions in North Carolina and Vir ginia, Showing this State's results from crops very gratifying with bright pros pect for a continuance, owing to the poor Virginia outlook. i The following extract shows the poor. Virginia conditions: i "The bean crop about Norfolk, now being marketed, is short by one third, with normal acreage. Shipments will be over within a few days. The dry weather has affected the crop The cabbage crop is about over, with a yield of fifty per cent. I below the average; acreage normal. Dry weather accounts for the shortage, t In the potato crop there is an ; increase of acreage by ten per cent , but the yield will be fifty per cent off. i The season opened June 15th. Dry weather ruined the prospects and very few were dug. Cucumber acreage about normal, with yield of twenty-five per cent off. Rain would improve the prospect. Truckers about Norfolk are blue over the Outlook." ; IMPORTANT COURT DECISION. PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT SAYS PRESIDENT McNElLL. Aansal Meeting and State.Flremen's Toor- nament in Raleigh la July Confer eace-With Secrefsry Vandlshn. Capt James D. MeNeill, of Fayette - ville, president ofithe North Carolina State Firemen's Association, arrived in the city last evening to have a con ference with Secretary and Treasurer W. C. VonGlahn, of the same organi sation. Capt McNeill was in fine spirits over the prospect for this year's tournament which will be held in Ra leigh July 22. 23 and 24th. It was in regard to that great meeting of the Stales' firemen that Capt McNeill came down to talk wither. VonGlahn. "On account of favorable legislation regulating the fire departments of the State, secured at the last session," said Capt. McNeill, "the meeting will be the most largely attended and valuable in the history of the Association. Mr. VonGlahn tells me that the financial condition of affairs was never better and the exhibition of apparatus and demonstrations by expert firemen from a distance will all go to make up a big tournament The premium list will be out in a few days and while the prizes will not be as large or as numer ous as those offered at Wilmington two years ago when there were Inter State features, the meeting will draw large crowds and will le a big success. GOLD HEELS WON THE SUBURBAN. Great Race of Thoroughbreds Over vthe Coney Island Club Course. 50,000 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT The Betting Enormous At Least $800,000 Was Handled In the Rlng-The Flnsl Price Against Gold Heels Was Thirty to One to Win u The young man who on returning from a hunting expedition under took to ride his horse into one of the palaces in Rome, was said to have been bitten by one of his dogs, which accounted for - the freak. Probably the dog had been imbibing too freely of some of the young man's stimulants. One of the original panels of the Michigan Smiths died in Saginaw county a few days ago aged 111 years. He never tasted liquor and never smoked, but compromised on chewing tabacco day and night. If it hadn't been for that he might have lived to be 122. In New Orleans the experiment of sprinkling the., streets with petro' leum, to lay the dust, has proved such a success that the papers favor adopt ing it throughout the city as a sub stitute and big improvement on water. Will Become President of the New Bank at Spartsnburg, S. C. A special to yesterday's Columbia State aays : 'Spartanburg, June 11. Spartan burg is to have a new national bank, with a capital : stock of $100,000, in which some of the most practical and successful business men in th s por tion of the South will be materially interested. Mr. J. H. Sloan will be the president of the new bank. The loca tion has not yet been decided upon; nor are the other officers selected. Mr. Sloan will live in Bpartanburg perma nently, having fitted up a residence on East Main street. He has given up the export cotton business in which he has heretofore been largely engaged, and his future transactions In that line will be for the mill trade. This will be his headquarters, , with branch offices at Charlotte, Greenville and Augusta. I "Neither the names of the other officers nor the-site of the building have been determined upon. The other capitalists interested are: J. W. Norwood, president of the National Bank of Wilmington; D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte; J. K. Reynolds, president of the Mercantile Trust Company, of New York, together with capitalists from Eastern cities. The capital stock of the new bank will be $100,000." Raleigh Baseball Management Changes Hands-New Lumber Company Char tered State Cspitol News. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. CL, June 14 An opinion was received here to-day from Judge Simonton, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding the case of Bingham vs. Worth Manufac turing Company in favor of defend ants The properties of the corpora tion were placed in the hands of a re ceiver last Winter by Judge Boyd at Greensboro and the case went up on appeal. Judge oimonton'i opinion decrees that the order of Judge Boyd in the Circuit Court be reversed with costs; that the receiver be discharged and the property of the Worth Manu facturing Company be restored to the possession of its corporation and its officers. The property is principally three cotton mills on Deep river, Ran dolph county, valued at $300,000. H. M. Worth, president of the company, was here to-day and will assume con trol at once. ". Special Star Correspondence. Raleigh, N. C, June 14. A char ter was granted this morning to the Ha viland-Warren Lumber Co., capi tal $25,000 with privilege of an in crease to $125,000. The principal office is to be at either Stump Sound or Folkstone, near Wilmington. The in corporators are Frederick Haviland, Isaac W. Warren and Junius Davis. After a meeting of the directors of the Raleigh Athletic Association last night, continuing until past midnight, it was given out that R O. Rivers had resigned and a committee of ten of Raleigh's staunchest baseball retainers had agreed to take the Raleigh team and do what they can with it appeal ing to the people of Raleigh for more liberal support It was decided furth er this morning to elect W. J. Andrews president ; Vance Scott,1 secretary and treasurer and make Capt Barley Kain manager of the team.; Material im provements in the team are promised. Bitten By a Rattlesnake. A two-year-old son of Mr. George Trask, who resides a short distance from the city on the Federal Point road, was bitten by a large ground rattlesnake Wednesday afternoon, while he was playing near the edge of his father's house. The snake was killed soon after the child was bitten. The little fellow was brought to Wil mington and given medical attention by Dr. Charles T. Harper. He waB doing very well yesterday. Onr Long Distance Telephone. Burgaw Chronicle: "The erection of the long distance telephone lines, be tween Wilmington and Raleigb, is progressing rapidly. The extension of the lines already reaches from Wil mington to this point. A section of 55 men are engaged in constructing the lines, and they are proceeding towards Raleigh at the rate of about two miles per day. Four lines are being placed on this branch of the company's sys tem. It is the company's design that Wilmington and Raleigh shall be con nected by the latter part of August.' The Trolley Line a Puller. Greensboro Telearam: "There is one place in North Carolina that is prov ing a mighty fierce rival for Greens boro in the convention business. . It is Wilmington. .The Masons, Pythians and Odd Fellows sit meet there next year. That trolley line to the beach is a puller " SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Bid FOURTH OP JULY CELEBRATION. It is said that inventor Gatling, who haB quit inventing man-killing machines, has invented a plow, ope rated by a gasoline motor, at a cost of $2 a day, which will do the work of thirty men and eighty horses. DEVELOPING TRDCKINQ INDUSTRY. Some of the stockholders in Sir Thomas Lipton's vending enterprises are complaining of decreased divi dends, and think that if Thomas gave more attention to business and less to yachts they would fare better. CURRENT COMMENT Laura Tallbot Gall is a little 13 year old unreconstructed reb, who lives in Louisville, Ky. Her teacher had the gall to ask the scholars to sing "Marching through Georgia." Laura kicked at that. Her grand mother, with whom she lives, told her to obey her teacher, but to pro test against the song. Laura obeyed her grandmother by refusing to join in the singing and protested by sticking her fingers in her ears when the other children sang it. When labor shall learn to make its striko at the polls it will have everything its own way. In this country the sovereignty rests in the hands of the voter. Philadel phia Record, Dem, The report of the Boers chper King Edward after they surren der, renews the suspicion that England imported the Mole St. Nicholas liar early in the war, and told him to get busy and stay busy. "-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Dem. The South Africa war ap pears to have been more terrible than was even generally supposed. Figures, of course, never lie,and yet, according to two sets of statistics published in England, the Boers had 50,000 men in tne neia ana lost v, 400. Philadelphia Press, Rep. . ,A Washington dispatch says President Roosevelt hopes to end the Btrike of the coal miners through publicity. How would it do to ap ply the same remedy to the Philip pine war? That there has not been full and frank publicity in connec tion with that affair was shown in the Senate the other day by Senator Culberson. "The President wants all the facts in connection with the strike," it is announced. That is all right. No injury can come from a fair and square presentation of the whole situation. And that is true also of the Philippines. Savannah News, Dem. The Carolina NorthernRallroad Employs an Industrial Agent for the Purpose. Florence Times, Uth. The Carolina Northern Railroad Company, extending from Lumber ton, N. 0., to' Marion, 8. C, is under taking to develop the territory through which it runs, for its own ' benefit as well as Uiat of the country. Not long ago the company distributed a lot of strawberry plants among the-farmers on and near the line, to encourage the industry, and there were good results. Now, in order to promote the trucking industry further, the company has employed Mr. K. F. Long as industrial agent to loobi after the1 interests of the farmers. Mr. Long will meet the truckers at different points on the line at stated times and will hold a sort of trucking school, which will be of un told benefit to all the farmers. Bad on Tobacco Crop. Richmond.' Va;. DisDatch': "Dis tressing news conns, from many sec tions of Virginia and North Carolina of the damaging effect that the ex tended drought is having on the to bacco crop. (Accounts given by farm ers coming to town and received through letters from others, indicate that planted; tobacco is being badly burned, and the ground is so hard and dry that no plants can be set Not more than half the crop has been planted. The burning heat of the last day or two but adds to the gravity of the sit uation. The situation is said to be as bad in North Carolina as in Virginia." Dr. Cnlvlo S. Blackwell Will Deliver the Oration Elaborate Preparations. The people of Southport are again hard at work arranging for a big Fourth of July : celebration and the attraction will doubtless interest many Wilmington people on that day. Last year the celebration was a most en joyable affair and was largely at tended. The Southport people pro pose to repeat the success and invite the public to co-operate with them to that end. j A citizen's meeting jwas held in the Court House Thursday night and the proper committees appointed. M. G. Guthrie, Esq., chairman of that on arrangement, yesterday telegraphed a very cordial invitation to Dr. Calvin B. Blackwell to deliver the oration for the occasion. Before leaving in the afternoon Dr. Blackwell telegraphed his acceptance, with acknowledgement of the compliment. THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST UNION. May Encamp at Wrlghtsville. Atlanta Constitution, 13th: "The officers of the Fifth Georgia regiment, at a meeting in the armory Thursday night, decided to have the Summer camp of the regiment at Wrightsville, N. C, if sufficient space for tne sol diers could be secured at that place. A committee will inquire about the fmilltiM At Wriffhtaville. and if they nnnnt trnt anace enough there the camp will; be at St Simons Island, Ga." - Important Organization of the Wilmington Association Will Meet In June. The Southern Union, of the Wil mington Baptist 'Association will hold a meeting at Riley's Creek Church In Pender county, 'on Friday, Sat urday and 8unday, 'June 27th, 28th and 29th, and it promises to be a most delightful and interesting session. The introductory sermon j will be preached at 11 A. M. by Rev. L. B. Boneyj and there will be interesting discussions on the following topics, as announced in the programme: "The Destitution in Oar Bounds.and How to Supply It" Eiders O. B. Paul, D. N. Page. j "Is There Undue Uoldness in tne Churchest If so. Why!" Elder O. W. Triplett D. J. Corbett "The importance or the rastorai re lationship" Elder O. 8. Blackwell, D. D., J. T. Bland, j Pastor's Conference, 8 P. M., Fri day. ' Sunday School Mass Meeting, 10 A. M. Sunday and preaching, 11 A. M. Steamer Franklin Pearce. The new freight steamer Franklin Pearce, recently built at Shallotte, N. O., and named for its owner, Mr. Franklin Pearce White, is expected in port next week for official entry at the Custom House. Capt W. A. Snell left yesterday to bring the new boat around to Wilmington. Sanford Express: The Sanford Furniture Manufacturing Company have on hand over $18,000 worth of orders for work and the plant will soon be put in operation to its full capacity. A man by the name of James A. Southall was arrested here Monday on the charge of carrying concealed weapon and peddling with out license. In the Mayor's court he confessed that he was a deserter from the United States army. He is now being held here awaiting orders from the War Department at Washington. Wilson Times: C. R. Thomas, of York, Pennsylvania, a bird fancier, is making record flights with carrier pigeons. He sends mem 10 aiuereni places by express,, where they are lib erated in order to see how quickly they, will return to their loft in York. Last Saturdav Mr. Jule Hardy liberated 23 birds and the owner wired him they returned in just eight hours, making the 320 miles at the average speed of the fastest express trains on the Coast Line forty miles an hour. Next week he will ship these birds to Lanes, S. C, where they will be freed for another trip. 'Raleigh News and Observer: W. M. Nelson, a merchant of Colletts ville, a married man with three chil dren, has deserted his wife and family and eloped with Mrs. Lawrence Coffey, the wife of one of the most esteemed citizens of Lenoir, N. C, and moreover a mother with a child a year old. Mrs. Coffey left Friday to come to Lenoir to attend Davenport com mencement and pay a visit to her par ents. Mr. Nelson came down Friday and the two left on Friday's tram, go ing to Newton, and bought tickets for Knoxville. Mr. Powell and son, Rus sell Powell, father and brother of Mrs. Coffey, went to Knoxville, where they learned that the eloping pair bought tickets for some po nt in California. Raleigh Post: Manuel Palmer, a negro lineman in the employ of the Interstate Telephone Company, met a horrible death Wednesday evening by tha breaking? of a cable distributing pole. Palmer and. another colored lineman, James Wilson by name, were up on the cross arms of the pole tight ening the wirea with a view to pre venting the possibility of trouble by crossed wires, when the pole snapped in two just below the cable box and about two feet below the bottom cross arm. Palmer fell to the pavement and was killed but, James Wilson held onf to the broken section of the pole and cross arms, which fell about ten feet and was suspended in mid-air by the wires catching the cross arms of a lower pole which stood on the curb probably ten feet from the one which broke. Monroe Enquirer: Last Satur day twelve men were Btanding In front of a store here and some one ioox ;me pains to find out how may candidates there were in the group. There were just five candidates, not counting a man who is thinking of running for office. A few nights ago some one went on Esq. M. L. Flow's premises and cut down a number of fine grape vines. Last Thursday night the water was turned on at four hydrants in dif ferent portions of the town and before the police and waterworks force could locate the open hydrants thousands of gallons of water had been wasted and For a while the town would haye been at the mercy of flames, had fire broken out Every effort is being made to catch the one who turned on the water. Br Teiesrapa to tne Morninar star. New York, June 14. Gold Heels, worthy son of a great sire, bore to the front and gallantly held them there to the end, the colors of McLewee and Brady in the Suburban handicap to day over the Coney Island Jockey Club course, stripping two-fifths of a second, on a track not at its best, from the mark set by the speediest of his predecessors, Alcedo, who last year was victor of this greatest classic of the American turf. Courage and speed won for the son of The Bard Heel and Toe in 2:05, favorite by a slight margin in the betting and ridden in masterly fashion by young Wonderly, who first knew to-day the thrill of tbat brief ride in the floral horseshoe, amid the wild plaudits of half a hundred thou sand lovers of the sport of kings. It was a day of records. Never on any course to every part of which an admission fee is charged, has such a tremendous concourse of humanity witnessed a struggle between thorough bred racers. Fully fifty thousand per sons watched the Suburban from boxes and the grand stand, from trees, from roof, and from lawn, from cheap field and from the stable enclosures. Men who have seen every one of the eight een Suburbans that preceded to day's, gazed in wonder at the masses of hu manity. Luck put down her finger and stopped a new record. She said no three-year-old shall shatter the tradi tion of the American turf's greatest event by winning it Pentecost was her victim, mayhap. Badly bunted at the far turn, be came through the stretch like a tornado and "Pentecost" "Gold Heels" shook the air as the two thoroughbreds whirled toward the goal, the older horse holding the ad vantage by a short half length at the end. Never has there been such a betting race, say the7 book-makers. There were 103 of the regulars in addition to those who accept bets of $1. At least $800,000 waslhandled in the ring on the Suburban alone. There had also been a tremendous amount of betting in the Future books in this event. The final price against Gold Heels was 30 to 1 win. and even money a place; Pente cost, five and two. Blues six and two; Sadie S., forty and ten, Herbert, six and two, and Advance Huard, six and two. There was much generous back ine of Monograph, the hope of tbe West, which closed at 150 to 6. Starter Fitzgerald sent the field away in excellent style with none of the eleven starters. Trigger having been scratched at 3 20 p. m., not hav ing any great advantage or disadvan tage. The track had been redeemed from an inch of mud by bard work on the part of the superintendent. Rain threatened all during the afternoon, but none fell; and a fine breeze cooled the crowds in the grand stand. Gold Heels was once owned by William O. Whitney and later by the Sloans. He won races of merit last year, but no classics. Provides for Its Admission Into the Union as a State Introdnced In the Senate by Senator Elklns. By TeieeraiA to tbe Homing Btar. Washington, June 14. Senator Elklns to-day introduced a joint reso lution in the Senate providing for the annexation of Cuba and for its admis sion as a State of the Union. The resolution grants the consent of Con gress to the erection of the republio of Cuba as a Btate of the Union, to be called the8tate of Cuba, with a repub lican form of government, to be adopt ed by the people of said republic by deputies in convention assembled with the consent of the existing govern ment A condition is specified that the constitution of the proposed State shall be submitted . to Congress 'not later than January 1st 1904. There also is a provision that the debts of Cuba shall not become a charge upon the general government There also is an alternative proposition giving the President authority, if he prefers, to proceed in a more direct way for Cuba's admission as a State. This provision permits the admission under tbe terms of the reso lution itself, "instead of proceeding to submit the resolution to Cuba as an overture oh the part of the United States." If this latter course is pursued a State Is to be formed "out of the pres ent republic of Cuba, with a republi can form of government and with rep resentatives in Congress and to be ad mitted into the Union by this act, on an equal footing with - the existing States as soon as the terms and condi tions of such admission shall be agreed upon by the governments of the re public of Cuba and the United States." The resolution provides for the ap- riation of $150,000 to carry its proyis on into effect. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. Nicaragua Canal BUI Debated Irrigation Bill Finally Passed Prlvnte Pen sion Legislation. Br Telegraph to the Horning 8tar. Washington, June 14. The Nica raguan canal bill was before the Sen ate for a short time to-day, Mr. Mor gan, of Alabama, continuing , his speech in support of the measure and in criticism of the Panama project The District of Columbia appropria tion bill was passed and a large num ber of private pension bills were dis posed of. The day closed with eulo gies on the late Representative Stokes, of South Carolina. Senator Tillman and McLaurin were the speakers. The Irrigation bill, which passed the House yesterday, was laid before the Senate and the House amendments were agreed to. Thir passes the measure. House of Representatives. The feature of the session of the House to-day was the attempt of Mr. Hay, of Virginia, to secure the adoption of a resolution cal ling upon the ' secretary of war for information as to the cost, from all sources, of the war in the Philip pines. The resolution had been re ferred to the committee on insular affairs and not having been acted upon within the time limit prescribed by the rules, became privileged. When Mr. Hay called it up Mr. Crumpacker, of Indiana, moved to lay it on the table and his motion prevailed by a par ty vote 91 to 66. The latter part or the session was devoted to private pen sion legislation, 199 bills being passed. DEMANDS REINSTATEMENT. LONG ISLAND TRAQEDY. Bodies of Clsrence Foster and Miss Sarah Lawrence Found in Shinnecock Bay. By Telegraph to tbe Horning star. New York. June 14. The body of Clarence Foster who has been missing since Monday night, was found in Bhinnecock Bay, Long Island, to-day. Indications are that he was murdered and the body thrown into the bay. Later in the day the body of Miss Sarah Lawrence, in whose company Foster was last seen, was found in Shinnecock Bay, near where Foster's body was found. The coroner inquired into the case and returned a verdict of accidental drowning. Foster was married and he and hir wife went from this city to Good Ground, L. I., for an outing. Miss Lawrence was staying at a notei there with her mother. Miss Lawrence left the hotel Monday night and walk ed towards Shinnecock Bay, where she is said to have met Foster. MONT PELEE. Miss Tsylor, Clerk in War Depsrtment, Dismissed for Criticising Roosevelt. By Telegraph to the Horning Btar. Washington, June 14. Miss Re becca J. Taylor, the clerk in the War Department who was dismissed for publicly criticising the administra tion's Philippine policy, has written I o the President and the secretary of war demanding reinstatement in office within three days, railing which sue says she will take the necessary legal steps to secure her rights. In her letter to Secretary Root. Miss Taylor referred to that gentleman as an "imperialist" Secretary Root this afternoon sent a copy of all the cor respondence in this case to the chair man of the House Committee on Re form m the Civil Service. This was done at the request of that committee, which has the case under considera tion. . CHERRY TREE CO. SWINDLE. Another Eruption of the Martinique Vol cano Reported. Br cable to tbe Horning Btar Roseau, Island of Dominica, June 14. The French revenue cutter L'Aigle came in here to-day. '3he re ports that while passing St Pierre, Martinique, at 2 o'clock this morning, an eruption occurred from Mont Pelee and that a quantity of volcanic matter settled upon the vessel's deck, although she was ten miles distant from. the island. I tapp Cant ! 1 Be MDshed Wltiioiii Three of the Defendants Found Qnllly In U. S. Court nt Charlotte, N. C. By Telegrapu to tbe Morning star. Charlotte, N. C, June 14. Dr. Frank Bright, his father, Rev. T. Bright, a Baptist minister, and CD. Wilkie, a newspaper man of Ruther- fordton, were to-day found guilty of using the mails for fraudulent pur poses, after a trial of three days in tbe United States District Court here. Sen tence has not yet been pronounced. The men indicted were at various times within the past two years pro prietors of the Amos ywen Cherry Tree Company, with headquarters at Kllenboro, jn. c. xne auegea pian oi the operations was to employ agents by an endless chain letter scneme, at i $20 per month, after $12 for cherry trees had been sent The alleged vic tims of the company are said to have been mostly women who lived in va rious Btates, and numbered several thousand. The amount secured is es timated at $50,000. United States Senator Pritchard was among the counsel for the defence. DR0WNINQ ACCIDENT. i Money ! X X t you indebted to THE KLY STAR? If SO, when you receive a bill Are : WEEKLY i?AM BiAtSM ASsllAilBlBBailSkM k ABtfl iur yuuT&uu3brijuuiisuiiu us the amount you owe. Remember, that a news paper bill is as much en (tied to your consldera tion as is a bill for cenes. V X Three Children Lost Their Lives nt Nash ville, Tenn. " By Telegraph to the Horning star. Nashville, Tenn., June 14. A special from Dyersburg says three per sons lost their lives by drowning in Abion river yesterday. A Mrs. Cooper was washing on the bank and had her children with her. One of the children. I a baby, fell Into the water. Tbe mother rushed to its assistance ana ireari, Cleveland and Robert aged 15, 13 and 11 years, respectively, followed their mother and were drowned before help arrived. The baby and Mrs. Cooper were rescued. The bodies or the I children were buried to-day in one grave. Smithfield Herald: Last week, in the Federal Court at Raleigh, J. T. Corbett former postmaster at Selma, was found guilty of the embezzlement of registered mail matter and packages containing jewelry. He was sentenced to five years at hard labor in the peni tentiary. Corbett was appointea post master at Selma under tbe McKinley , administration. , i 1 if