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THAT IOWA FAKE.
Tho Republican organs are trying
to humbug their readers into the
beliof that the Republican Conven
tion of Iowa meant what it Baid
when it promulgated its utterances
on tariff revision, trusts and dis
crimination by railroads They try
to make it appear that these decla
rations express the sentiments of
the masses of Republicans through-. I
oat the country. The Indianapolis,
Iml., Journal, one of the leading
papers in the West, chips in as fol
lows: j-
Tbe mass of the Republican party
believes that If any schedules of the
present tariff are turned by manufac
turers to the disadvantage of the
American people they I should be
changed. They believe that Congress
should prevent favoritism! in the way
of freight rates to a few,; and, if fur
ther legislation is needed, that it
should be enacted at onceL In short,
the Iowa platform is the latest and
best considered of Republican belief
and ispiratioo. j
This is not a fair nor honest state
ment of what the Iowa platform de
clarea. it didn't declare that legis-1
lation "to prevent favoritism shonld
be enacted at once," but "from time
to time" when such! legislation
might be "advisable," without spec
ifying any time or any j prospective
time. The time might come in the
estimation of the framers of this
platform anil of those whose senti
ments it expressed in live, ten, twen
ty or moro years or never, so non
committal it is as to time. It is,
therefore, not in accord with the
"Republican belief and aspirations,"
if the Journal voices that belief and
those aspirations. But the prob
abilities are that it is playing a
a banco game on Its readers as the
politicians in the Iowa convention
were whon they adopted that -plat
form, j
urn -tncy are not fooling many
people with that fake,, because it
isn't in keeping with their actions
when they , had an opnortunity to
show that they were in accord with
tlso declarations, when by doing
something on that line they might
justify the belief thatj they might
do something more when "advis-
.able." We have quoted. some of the
comments of independent papers on
this fake, and herewith present an
other from the New York Times,
suggested by the above .extract from
tho Journal. It says:
It is quite useless to talk of belief
aod aspiration. .The responsible and
controlling leaders of the Republican
party stand ready to throttle and sub
due tariff reform beliefs and aspira
tions m whatever quarter tney may
be exhibited. The leaders -look upon
any and all attempts to change the
Dingley schedules an dangerous.- They
will unitedly resist them. Whatever
State conventions maV. do or Repub
Hcfn newspapers say,! the Senators
who hold in their hands the life or
death of tariff bills will, pronounce for
aeavn every time.
The Iowa Republicans and the In
dlanapolis Journal seem not to know
what they ask. Republican leaders in
the Senate know perfectly well. The
attempt to pass a bill striking off da
ties which are availed of by American
manufacturers to maintain . monopo
lies ana oppress the consumer would
result in an ugly scandal. That was
demonstrated by the behavior of the
beet-sugar men. The Cuban Reel pro
city bill provided for poly a trifling
reaucuon or me duty that protects
them, but they fought like wildcats
against it. They would have fought
still more savagely aod would have
exhibited a still more -reck less and hos
tile spirit had they not become con
inced quite early In! the fight that
they were going to succeed.
The protected interests and the Re
publican leaders are bound together
by ties such as those which link men
who have conspired 'for and accom
pushed a criminal purpose. The alli
ance has been the cloak of political
corruption and immorality. - If the
Republican Senators should desert and
turn against the men who have bought
these rich tariff favors, the protected
trusts and corporations, or some of
them, would auickly turn State's evi
dence in revenge. Their rage would
do boundless and they j would not besi
tate about the means of Us gratifies
lion. The exposure of the Iniquities
. w me umgiey larin and of the lnl
quiloue method by which it was Dut
together would destroy the Republi
can Partv. J
Senator Piatt of Connecticut knows
this, Senator Aldrich knows it. All the
Republican Senators foresee and dread
ine calamity to their party which an at
tempt to revise the tariff wonld involve.
congressman Baboock - was . full of
beliefs and aspiration, but even
he has been made tof take the back
track.
i h ?0w Republicans demand the
S5R"lbLe- The' lk of removing
fhilelwhloh breed monopoly aa if
uuLWrAmer? iMdTertencee of legls-
. L conscientiously corrected
!2?a U them was .ex
posed.
But the
Dingley
drawn
tariff
up and
enacted
with
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Knowiea:e ana delloerate intent : to
enable the American manufacturer to
fleece the American consumer. It
was the result -of a corrupt compact
which the Republican party cannot
break: without being made to feel the
fatal resentment of Its betrayed accom
plices. There will 'be no revision of
the tariff by the Republicans ,
! This is to the point. It snbstan
tantially asserts that the Iowa tariff
revision utterances were a fake, a
premeditated fake that "the men
who c framed this platform knew
there would be no tariff revision,
and were simply playing this fake to
fool Republicans who believe the
time has comeVhen there shonld be
tariff reduction. - Didn't they know
and does not every Republican Con
gressman know. that, to quote the
0wrno7,;"the schednles of the pres
ent tariff are turned by the manu
facturers to the disadvantage of th'e
American- people?" " Don't they
know that the protected manufac
turers soil their : goods - to other
countries" at from 25 to 100 per
cent, less than they demand and
get for 'them from the American
people? Thejr couldn't do this if
it were not for the
Dingley I
tariff wall which prevents competi
tion by foreien manufacturers and
don't ' they know that these tariff-
fostered trusts strangle home com
petition to the- disadvantage of the
American people ?
But if the Iowa - politicians were
honest in their declarations thev
wouldn't amount to more than
waste paper in the Congress of the
United States, especially . in the
Senate, which stands in with the
protected manufacturers, with the
trusts and with corporations and
combines generally. The Republi
can, statesmen agree to differ on
some things for effect and then
whenjit comes to the point they hold
their differences in abeyance and
agree. They get together and pull
together as if they had never differ
ed, for the scent of the spoils and
"tho cohesive power of publio plun
der" is more potent with them
than all the so-called principle this
aide of the Arctic circle. '
As an illustration of the power of
the machine, which is lubricated by
the protected manufacturers the
trusts and other beneficiaries' of fa
voring legislation,, note how they
muzzled Mr. .Babcock, who started
out in the last Congress with such a
grand flourish as a trust-crusher.
He is now actually parroting that old
rot about the manufacturers selling
their 'surplus" abroad cheap to avoid
overstocking and demoralizing the
home market.' He is now actually
chiming in with Hanna, Orosvenor
and others, who talked that kind of
rot and Bcolded him for going Over
to the Democratic "free traders."
The trusts and combines which run
the machine know how to hold down
or gag the too free talkers when
they find it to their interest to do so.
Hence the man who is fooled by
Republican talk about tariff revision
and anti-trust legislation has more
crednlity than any ordinarily level
headed man ought to carry around
with bim.
NETJTBALIZIUO GOOD ADVICE
A few days ago we made com
mendatory reference to the address
of Bishop Gaines at -the Negro
Young People's Congress in Atlan
ta. But there were hot heads and
fire brands there too, who were there
to give something else than ' good
advice. One of these was a sable
orator from New Orleans who had
his say and achieved some tempor
ary notoriety by ' taking diametri
cally the opposite position from that
of Bishop Gaines, and defiantly wav
ing a fire brand aa a panacea for
the negro's complaints. He' was
a fool, of course, for . no' man with
two grains of aense would have ut
tered the insane ravings that he did,
ravings that would bring chaos, and
rnin to the negroes if they attempt
ed to act upon them.
'This sable orator who advised the
negroes to resort to the terrorizing
process, had undoubtedly . read the
article which appeared in the Chi
cago Tribune a short while ' ago on
the same . line, giving thq same
counsel, and went to Atlanta filled
to the brim with it, but in talking
in the silly and rabid way
he did he showed - that
he knew neither the white men of
the South nor his own people, and
he showed alBO that he is too stupid
to understand and learn from the
numerous object lessons we have
had on that line since negro emanci
pation; That kind of advice has
been frequently given to negroes in
the South, and sometimes they have
been foolish enough to act upon it,
but they invariably came io grief
when they did. . . . ; ; .
Unfortunately; there Is a disposi
tion among yonng and -ignorant ne
groes to listen to just such ravings
as this fellow indulged in, and that's
where the good advice Is to some ex
tent neutralized and harm is done.
Such lunatics should be' put on ice
and cooled thoroughly before -they
get up as counsellors to 1 advifee and
speak for their race in any publio
gathering. ' They simply seek .noto
riety, regardless of the harm they
do or what that notoriety might cost
their race. ; : - - . - v:
Siberian town. Which elohe
girdler xDewindt ;pro4onnces the
most desolate .and - God-forsaken
spot on earth, Srednikolynsk, is the
farthest north "of. "any - villaee in
the worlds just on the Arctic circle.
His arrival there Was the first com
munication the villagers had from
the, outside world . in thirty years.
What, a nice, quiet time, they must
haver All they have to do is to try
to keep warm and find something
i to eat. a -."'1. r- .- - s
Boston seems to be ' having a
, rough time. In addition to tho
"black terror," which makes it un
safe for women to venture out after,
dark,' there is a : Jaok-the-Slngger,
wno sneats around waiting trie op
portunity to hit a woman on the
head with an ugly club which he
carnea. In the - past six weeks he
has knocked down font, fracturing
the skull of one. He seems to have
a mania ' for clubbing, as he does
nothing more. t:;f 1': . "
A Texas paper says i the cure for
bodily ailments is to eat sixteen Al-
berta peaches a day as long aslyou
can get them and "fill j your bunker
on the seventh day with a forty-
pound" watermelon. We should think
that a fellow who could "bunker1
I a forty-pound watermelon wouldn't
need a prescription for ; anything ex
cept his ravenous hankering for
w. m. : -
Lieutenant -Hobson seems to be
having about all he can attend to in
the courting line. In one day, July
26th, dispatches reported him to be
engaged or thereabouts to seven
girls, strung alone from Texas to
Oregon, swinging around, taking in
five other States, and he never 'res
cued" one of them. -;' '
Andrew Carnegie, the twelve-
year-old nephew of the gentleman
who is trying not to die rich, was
One of Ihe special delivery boys, in
the Pittsburg poatoffice until the
other day, when he inaugurated and
led a strike by the boys The strike
failed, and now Andrew is hunting
another job. i
Massachusetts is proud of her
eminence as the leading -shoemaker
of the country. . Out of the total
prodnct of the country in 1900,
valued at $261,028,580 she turned
out $117,115,243 worth. Massachu
setts wants nntariff-taxed leather.
When "Tommy Atkins" comes
home from Africa . GenT Kitchener
hopes he will not be given an alco
holic reception. He probably thinks
' that a roast beef and plum pudding
reception would be l more filling,
more substantial and better.
The owners of the Hygeia Hotel
at Old Point Comfort, who have
been notified to move it from the
Government reservation, will solve
i the difficulty byoating it across the
water eight miles. .
tired of the lonely monotony of a
childless home, concluded to break
it and adopted the whole bunch of
twenty-two children in a little orphan
asylum.' .
A California astronomer says he
has discovered 100 pairs of new
double stars. Perhaps he has 'ac
quired the habit of seeing things
double. . ' -
CURRENT COMMENT
Cuba, with a population less
than Tennessee by a half million
people, is about to acquire a publio
debt of $35,000,000, iwith more in
prospect. Shrewd and long-sighted
observers see the finish of the young
republic, and- that,! too. not far
ahead. Chattanooga Times, Ind.
Forty-two out of the aixty
six counties of the State report a
total registration of 121,882. In the
same proportion the registered vote
for the whole State would be 190,
000. This is practically a white
registration, for the negroes regis
tered will net number more than
5,000. Mobile Register, Dem.
It has been calculated that
out of the 951000 voters in South
Carolina, fully 2,000 are candidates
for offices, State, county and mu
nicipal. That is a pretty large pro
portion, but if there- were any way
of making more offices there would
certainly be many more candidates.
There is no fear that the dear people
will, ever suffer from a lack of
natriota willing to serve them.
Charleston Post, Ind.
The Republican campaign
book might have zone a step further
and called attention to the. way in
which the big corporations are water
ing their stock as another evidence
of prosperity. It never does for a
corporation to pay too heavy divi
dends, you know, and they seldom
do it when it is just as easy to cut
them in half by making two shares
of stock show wcre one showed be
fore. Atlanta Journal, Dem. ;
- Jjicense was issued yesterday
for the marriage of Maggie M. Wil
liams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Syl
i vester Willlami, of Brunswick coun
ty, to Matthew a Rivenbark, son of
David D. Rivenbark, of Wilmington.
That"
WILMINGTON, N. C:, FRIDAY,- AUGUST 15, 1902.
Y00NGMAOR0WNED
Cyrus s ThbmasV : SonOof -r
WcU
r Known Contractor, in
- . . Watery Orav.
BATHING t IN THE RIVER.
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Practlclflt With a Boat at Foot of Qaeea
Street, He Went Too Far from the
Shore Yesterday Aiternooa r
X Pitepna Cries foi Help. . .
While bathing in the river at foot of
.Queen street yesterday afternoon at
4:80 o'clock, j Cyrus Thomas, aged 18
years and a son of the well known
contractor,; Mr. John Thomas, of the
firm of Thomas & Rogers, was drowned
under most unfortunate circumstances.
At a late hour last night the body
had not been recovered from the water,
Young- Mr. Thomas, with several
companions' o&. about ..his own age,
went in the- water early: in the after
noon. JuBt before the drowning oc
curred all the bathers had come out of
the river, put on their clothing and
gone away. - Young Thomas was an
expert swimmer and was amusing
himself with a boat which he kept at
the Queen street ' dock. ; He would
push the small craft out in the stream,
swim to it add bring It back to the wharf
for another trial. He was also prac
ticing falling overboard from the boat;
recovering possession of it and bringing
it back to the wharf. '
It was on one of these trials that he
lost his life. The tide was running
down stream swiftly and the wind was
directly opposite. In ' pushing' the
boat from him, it got beyond his reach
and he made superhuman" effort to
recover it and went far out into the
stream where the water was from 25
to 30 feet in depth.' When he found
it useless to swim further for the boat,
he started back to the wharf, but he
had gone too far and very soon
realized his perlL ' He i cried aloud
to a number of men working on some
scows in the government yards, but
before the could do anything to save
him he went down for the . last time.
Messrs. J. R. Brown, Robert Robblna,
Frank Lewis and J. R. Newton were
among those on the government yard
who saw the young man drown, but
were powerless to save him. Messrs.
Frank King and! Kelly Smith heard
cries from the second story of the
factory of the American Textile Color
ing Co., and they reached the window
in time to see him drown 100 feet from
the shore. X
Mr. J. W;. Willis and other friends
of the family dragged for the body in
three boats until a late hour last night
but the search was fruitless.
Young Thomas was a bright fellow
and popular in the neighborhood in
which he lived. - Be was once a mem
ber of the.; Boys' Brigrade and had
charge of a delivery wagon for the
Holmes Grocery Co. At the "time of
his death he was a member of the crew
of the revenue cutter Algonquin, late
ly stationed here,, and was on fur
lough, having recently, been badly
scalded on the ship by the overturning
of a coffee urn. i He had onlyna short
time been out of the hospital.
He leaves a sadly bereaved mother
and father, two sisters and two
brothers, Messrs. Harry and John
Thomas, the first named being em
ployed in the office of the Southern
Express Co., in this 'city. The family
have the sympathy of the community
in their bereavement.
iaSBSBVBsV
THE CONQRESSI0NAL CONVENTION.
Vote to Which Each County la the Sixth
District Is Entitled.
The following table shows the popu
lar vote cast for Aycock for Governor
in the several counties of the. Sixth
Congressional District and the vote to
which each county will be entitled in
the CongreMonal convention to be
held at Fayetteyllle, August 20th. On
all questions on which a vote by
counties is - demanded the counties
will be called alphabetically.
'Counties.
Gov. Cong.
Bladen.. 3...;
Brunswick.
1,589 S3
915 18
1,515 SO
2,178 44
2.719 .. 54
Harnett, j........
Columbus .... ...
Cumberland......
New Hanover;
2.963 59
Kobeson. ..
4.100 82
Total.. 15,979
319
Neceassary to a choice, 160.,
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Judge; Bynum Passes Away.
Greensboro Record Thursday
- The announcement Of the death of
judge John Gray Bynum this morn
ing occasioned no surprise, for the
event had been expected since early
ve8terdav morning, yet it was re
ceived with evidences of deep sorrow
by the community. He rallied again
last BTenlnsr about 8 o'clock and took
a little nourishment. Two hours after
this he fell into a stupor which became
deeper aa the hours of the night wore
on. At a few minutes before ten this
morning his nurse again administered
nourishment Soon after this he ceased
to breath: The exact moment of his
demise was in fact hardly noticeable,
an easilv did death come. There was
no Btrurffle. no evidence of dissolu
tion: he simply ceased to breathe and
the spirit took its flight.
FIRST BALE NEW CROP COTTON.
I;
Sold at Morves, ft 6., Yesterday Morning
' for Tea Cents Per Posad.
, Special Star Telegram.
MoBVXar, N.' Q, Aug. . The first
haiA of new cotton : for the State was
sold at Morven at 8 o'clock this morn-
in to JJT ; little' ft Oovi or ten cent
Mr nnnnd. Tha bale . weighed 603
tionnda and was raised by Mr. P. E.
Ratllff. ! .
QEN. CARR WRITES OF
- - GREENSBORO REUNION.
Veteraas Are Urged ; to Attend la Lane
Nonrbers Details of the Trie aid X
Eotert ainment. t;--: i :-1 : v
Oapt. J amea 'L " Metts ' has received
the following Tetter which explains It-
elf from General Julian 8. Carr";
Commander Cane Fear : Camn No.
254.' Wilmington, N.C; r
W.Y ukab out: It la mv desire that
the reunion at Greensboro shall prove
a big success. I ask your aid and co
operation. It is the finest r opportuni
ty we nave bad in a good many years
to collect together the old Confederate
Veterans of North jCaroiins, and per-
naps tne finest one jre will , have for
sometime to come.? The people of
Greensboro promise to be very hospi
table, ureensboro IS so situated that
It can - be reached most conveniently
from all points in j the 8tate. The
railroads have ' been - very liberal in
the rates they propose to give us. As
there is some business of considerable
importance to ' come before ihe
meeting, I - trust you! .'will . in
terest .v yourseir in J navlng - as
many veterans - attend : from your
section- as is nosaible.i We 'want to
make the parade of the veterans quite
a feature at tnia reunion. r-xh. more
veterans we can have in line, the bet
ter fitted we will be to stir the hearts
of those who remember the davs from
wewillmake. i j ! 1 '
I am writing to ask your further in
terest in the matter. ; Mention it to
the veterans in your communitv.
Talk to them about it, and insist upon
their presence at ttreensboro. Tents
will be prepared for all who will come.
and rations will be furnished free to
all who will ask it, 'Every veteran is
expected to bring his own blanket or
other material fori covering. .Bring
these matters to the attention of your
camp, and try and get us a good crowd.
x ours, very truly,
4j ! J. 8. Oaek.
DIDN'T BURN THE P0ST0FFICE.
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Reported Smallpox at Newbera Erroneous.
Probably Applied to Newport.
Capt H. D. Burkhimer, railway pos
tal clerk 1 between I Wilmington and
Newborn, arrived in the city at noon
yesterday. He says the people of New-
barn were much! wrought up over the
news contained in an Associated Press
dispatch from Washington yesterday
morning that the-' Poatoffice Depart
ment had been requested to burn the
poatoffice building at Newbern because
it was reported the postmaster had the
smallpox. ' jj ;
'We people over.; there," said Capt
Burkhimer," have a 175,000 poatoffice
buiiding and the idea of i sticking fire
to that was preposterous so prepos
terous, in fact, that e very body at once
knew it was a mistake; probably made
in giving out the news at Washington,
Superintendent Dill's .telegram to the
Department having-been dated at New
born, but applying to Newport, a small
town in Carteret bounty, where the
conditions .coinplained of.no doubt ex-
isted.
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CHARGE AQAINST DUPLIN PHYSICIAN.
Dr. T. R. Hatcher Easily Not Qnilly of Re-
tilling Llqoor Trial Here.
Dr. T. R. j Hatcher, a prominent
physician of Rose Hill, Duplin county,
N. 0., was given a preliminary hear
ing before TJ.j B. 'Commissioner 8. P.
Collier in this city jreaterday morning
at 8:30 o'clock and r was acquitted of
the charge of, selling : liquor without
license. ' ! .. -1 ;
The warrant was served upon Dr.
Hatcher Wednesday.' He was repre
sented at the hearing by L. V. Grady,
Esq., and was discharged upon the
ground that there was j. no evidence
against him. i The j government offer
ed three witnesses i but the defendant
offered none and did not find it neces
sary to go upon ' the stand himself.
The government Witnesses were Ellis
Wells, D. D. Bradshaw and Geq.-Cox,
all of Rose Hill. L l I
In Ssvaoaab's Interest.
General Superintendent W. B. Den-
ham,, of the ; Atlantic Coast Line at
Savannah, arrived in the city Friday
night in his private car, and yesterday
laid before General Manager Jno. R.
Kenly a petition; of the Savannah
Retail Merchants' Association asking
that there be no further diminution of
the office and shop fdrce of the system
in that city. AH the trade bodies of
Savannah have taken up the question 1
of removals and it's a lively time they
are having down there ever . the sub
ject 'J 8upt. Denham expected to go
from Wilmington, to ennebunkport
Me., to spend a short while with his
family who are summering there. ,
Excursions Daring jlaxust.
The following excursions are sched
uled to reach : Wilmington 'over : the
Atlantic Coast Line during the month
of August: t Williamston . to Ocean
View 14th; Conway, 8. C, to Wil
mington 16th; Florence. to: Wilming
ton 18th; Dunn toi Ocean View, 21st
Washingtob, N. CM"" to Wilmington,
25th; Goldsboro to Ocean View, SOth.
All those to Ocean View are by Hatcn
Bros., of Mount Olive. . .
... CARRIAQEst AND ; WAGONS.
Cessna Bureau's Report oe the Capital
- lavestedJi Maaof actare.
. . by Telegraph to tne Horning Btar. .. .
WASHraoTOW. Aug. 9. The Census-!
Bureau of to-day ssued a report onlthe
manufacture of carriages and wagons
for the census year ending May 31st
1900. The report shows a capital 01
tU8.187.838 invested in this industry
In the 7.632 establishments reporting
for the United States, The statistics
show that the trend of the Industry is
toward the- central t- States wnere
land fa cheaner.1 and suitable lumber
abundant Rapid development 01 tne
Industry is seen in Norm uaroiina,
Tennessee and Virginia. - -----...
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER i !
- WITH BOLD BURGLAR.
Early This Moraing Ex-Mayor ' Harrlss
: H4 Trylef Experleace With White ?
- Mm ! His Residences;
v Ex-mayor W. N. Harris, who lives
three doors from- the City Hall, on
Third street, had a desperate encounter
with a white burglar whom he, found
j in the .dining room of his residence
this morning at 2 o'clock. ; : ' 1 v
-About the hourjndicated, Mr. Har
riss was awakened by a shower of rain
whichcame on and ' hearing- a . noise
downstairs,' he at once armed himself
with a revolver and a baseball bat,
which he v has; been v keeping the past
several weeks for just such an emer
gency, and crept downstairs. He
stopped near' the, dining room door
and listened, to make sure-some one
was in the house. r Bis "suspicion hav
ing been confirmed by the rattling of
I disher, he jerked opened the door and
Came face-to face with a white man at
whom he lost no, time' in snapping
his -. i pistol three . ', times. - Seeing
Mr. - Harriss' determination, the
intruder ran around the table and
grappled with him, tearing a sleeve
out of Mr.. Harris shirt. At this stage
of the proceeding Mr. Harriss dropped
the useless pistol, which had failed to
fire, - and 'swung hard at the burglar
with the bat. The stranger dodged the
blow, which fell heavily against the
dining-room door, and made his escape
out of the window he had just entered
by means of a step-ladder. Police Ser
geant Smith f made an investigation
but found to clue.
Liater this morning a man was ar
rested and locked up in the city prison
who wss identified by Mr. Harriss as
the burglar. He refused to give his
name. ,
-CRIMINAL
ASSAULT IN WAKE.
Two Nejroes Jailed la Rslelgh WHbob
Light Infantry DIsbsaded.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, August 2. The
Wilson Light Infantry, Company K,
Second Regiment, is disbanded by Ad
jutant General Royster upon recom
mendation of the Inspector Generator
failure to comply with the laws and
regulations governing the State
Guard.
The H. A. Powell Grocery Com
pany, of Goldsboro, is chartered, with
125.000 capital.
. Lonnie Davis and Guy Fowler, two
negroes, were brought to jail here to
night charged with criminal assault on
Joelle Merritt, colored, in Little River
township, this county. The negro men
broke down the door of the woman's
house with an axe, accomplished their
purpose and fled. The victim is highly
respected in her locality. .
OPPOSITION TO CLARK. -
Thos. N Hill Announces Himself a Candi
date for Chief Justice.
- Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 9. A special
received to-night from Weldon says
Hon. Thomas N. Hill, a well known
lawyer, announces himself a Demo
cratic candidate for the office of Chief
Justice of the Supreme. Court His
candidacy is subject to such action as
may be taken by any State conven
tion composed of Democrats that may
assemble hereafter for the purpose of
making a nomination in opposition to
Judge Clark.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Mark Henna's Address to an Audience of
Ten Thousand. ;; -By
Telegraph to the Horning; Star.
Chautauqua, Aug. 9. Senator
Marcus A. Hanna addressed an audi
ence of ten thousand persons at Chau
tauqua to-day upon "Labor and Capi
tal." He said:"
''As long as labor was in a situ
ation that it must submit, it
did so, but in the twentieth cen
tury, when thinking - men began
to think seriously upon this question.
they made up their minds that they
must give consideration to the fact
that the laboring man is entitled to a
greater share of the products of in
dustry than he had enjoyed in the past
We must give them a larger share of
the profits of Industry which they
helped to create. . .
"We must forget the idea that there
are any classes in our government;
we must forget that mere is any differ
ence between the man who labors with
his hands and the man who labors
with his brain. -We must - strive
bring the different factions
together, upon . the ' ground that
both sides want to do what Is right
It is a fact that more than fifty per
cent, of the strikes in this country
have been settled in favor of the labor
ers. We must concede then that they
are right in the majority of cases and
that capital is wrong."
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MURDERED WOMEN'S
: V BODIES FOUND.
Tragedies Unearthed by News-
paper Men "and Police in the '..
v City of Chicago, t -
MAN ; SUSPECTED MISSING.
Soa of Oae of the Murdered Women.
Believed te Be Still ia the City No r
Apparent Motive for Kitting. I
-; A Man Stabbed to Death. -
at Telegraph to the n onung Btar. '
Chicago, August 9. With a jagged
wound in the left temple and physical
evidence that she had - been strangled
or smothered, the almost nude body of
Mrs. Annie Bartholin was found this
evening buried beneath the cellar floor
of the house in Which she lived at 4310
Calumet avenue. Coincident with the
finding of the body the police 1 re
doubled their efforts to find the missing
son, wm. Bartholin, wno is aiso sus
pected of the murder of Miss Minnie
MItcheli, whose bxiy was found in a lot
at 74th 'and State streets last Thurs
day evening. The police have evi
dence that Bartholin slept in the house
on Calumet last Tuesday night, three
weeks after his mother had been mur
dered and six days after he is supposed
to have killed Minnie Mitchell. He is
believed to be still in the city..
The body of -Mtb. . Bartholin was
found by a party of newspaper men,
after the ' police - had searched the
house and had concluded that if the
woman had been murdered her body
was concealed somewhere away from
the residence. .
A crowbar. auDarentlv stained with,
blood and a hatchet which bore dark
marks were found in the basement
To-night some one found a small crev
ice in the cement noor, indicating that
the cement had been disturbed and
then skilfully patched. The cement
was broken away and under a bed or
white sand was found a dress skirt and
other., articles of woman's wear.
When these had ..been removed the
body of the woman was found. It was
wrapped in a blanket and practically
was without ciotning, tnere oemg
only a stocking on the left foot and a
corset cover around the chest. -
From the annearahce of the body it
was believed that Mrs. Bartholin was
struck down either while disrobing for
the night or when dressing In the
morning. -
The body was removed to an under
taking establishment, where the coro
ners inquest will be held on Monday..
There is no apparent motive tor the
killing of Miss Bartholin or of Minnie
MitchelL The theory that finds most
favor at present Is that the young
man? being in debt, killed his mother
in order that her equity in the mort
gaged property might revert to him.
Stabbed to Death. -Chicago,
Aug. 9. Walter A. Scott
president of the Illinois Wire Com
pany, was stabbed to death in the
Monadnock building to day by waiter
L. Stebbings, a civil and consulting
engineer, with offices in the same
building. Btebbings used a paper
knife, stabbing Scott twice.
The stabbing occurred in dcou's
private office. Mr. Stebbings had done
some work for the Illinois wire uom
pany over which there had been some
dispute. The two had a quarrel, and
Stebbingr, it is said.called Scott a liar.
There was a scuffle, and the two burst
from the private omce with blood
flowing from Scott's wounds. Steb:
blngs made no attempt to escape.
BtebblnH. when arrested, rsaid ne
had struck Scott in self defence and
that be nad not intended injuring mm
seriously. The fight was witnessed wy
Miss Myrtle Shumate, a stenographer
in Scott's office. According to Miss
Shumate's story the two men were in
Scott's private office for nearly an
hour, disputing over a claim for $3,000.
Suddenly the door was thrown open
and the men staggered into the outer
office, kicking each other and using
their fists. Stebbings held the long
steel paper-knife in his right hand and
. n i
tne weapon could oe seen nasaing aa
the men struggled. Stebbings
struck Scott in the body. The blow
wasreneated a moment later. Scott
staggered backward and finally fell to
the floor, lie died witnm nan an
hour. V - .
Mr. Scott was 43 years of age and
lived at the Virginia Hotel. He leaves
a widow and one son who are at pres
ent in the East He was reputed to be
a millionaire.
POUR MEN INJURED.
Explosion of Several Cases of Percussion
Caps la a Freight Car.
By Telegranh to tne Morning Btar.
Newport News, . August 9. Four
men were seriously injured by the ex
plosion of several large cases of percus
sion caps in a car At the Chesapeake
and Ohio freight depot here this alter
noon. The injured are: W. J. Cannon,
loading clerk, and three negro labor
ers, James Washington, John Taylor
and Frank Ashe. Taylor is the most
I seriously injured, one of his eyes hav
ing been blown out The others are
badly burned about the arms, face and
neck; but all will recover., xne men
were loading a car with ammunition
"consigned to pointrln the West when
the explosion occurred, the exact cause
of which is unknown. The car was
badly wrecked. The Injured men were
removed to a hospitaL
. IN THE COAL REGIONS.
Warrants Issued for Arrest of Strikers
r Charred With Rioting.
. ' Bv TelegrapH to the Morning Btar. '
Wilkesbarbe, Pa., Aug.' 9. War
rants have been issued ; for the arrest
of thirty-one striking miners at Kings
ton. Luxerneborough and Edwams
yille, charged with rioting while doing
picket duty, in the vicinity or. the
Woodward Breaker of Ihe Delaware,
Lackawana and Western Company's
colliery. ' It is alleged that the strikers
intimidated men who wanted to go to
work and turned them back by force.
Four men are ,; now in -the county
jail charged with murder " of. Daniel
Sweeney,- the mine watchman who
was found dead in: the ' roadway at
Nanticoke last.. Wednesday ; morning.
TheDemocrata of the Tenth North
Carolina district nominated J. M.
Gudger, Jr.i for Congress on the third
ballot . - - y. - " '
Tarboro Southerner:
weatner. nas affected corn on some. '
farms to such an extent that the farm
ers are cutting If down and cutting It
up for Vlong" forage." -., , ; "
Nashville Graphic: -Dr. T. T. r
Rosa Informs us that on the 16th day
of June be set out a lot of tobacco and
Just forty -four days after, it had been
cured and marketed. . The doctor says
the crop could have been marketed
several days earlier. v; ;;: : - : ,c
, Greensboro ; Telegram'.; - The
fifteen-year-old son of Rev. O. E. M.
Raper, of Guilford College station,
while hauling brick from Elrkpatriok'a
brickyard, two miles north of this city,:
to Guilford last Monday, was held up
by a maaked white highwayman and r
relieved of about . five dollars. The -
boy was traveling a by-road through. ?
the woods at the time, and readily de- ?
livered up all the money he had when - : '
a big revolver was thrust in his , -face.
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. -ocky Mount Spokesman: It' .
is how beyond question that there are '
1,003 dwellingJiouses within the cor-
E irate limits of the city of Rocky
ount : Mr. W. E. Jeffreys tells
us that he and Mr. R. H. Ricks will in -the
near futute establish a flrat-class-brick,
tile and terra cotta plant on the
farm of Mr. Jeffreys that Ilea on the, -'
west side at, the Coast Line railroad, -which
will give them good shipping
facilities,' S ..v .
RaJeighjyws and Observer:
F. L. Underwood, head of the big mill
merger scheme spent Thursday in ,
Charlotte and left that night for New
York. R. H. Rheinhardt accompanied
him. . Mr. Rheinbitrdt stated that in
two weeks the merger would be effect-: .
ed. He does not expect many of the
weave mills they are expected to
enter the Fries combination, but they
seem to be confident of getting all the -
spinning mills to enter.' The fac- '
toriesln High Point last month ship
ped 165 solid cars of goods to one
firm only.' The Alma Furniture Com" s -pany,
of that placeThuraday made a
shipment of 200 tables to Australia. .
There are .188 citizens in this
township who have given in incomes
of more than $1,000 for taxation ac-"
cording to the law requiring that a
tax of one per cent, be levied on the
excess over $1,000 of all gross incomes.
Lumberton Bobesonian: It is
with regret that we chronicle the death '
of Mr. Solomon H. Crump, which oc
curred at his home in East Lumberton
Wednesday evening about 8 o'clock. '
He had suffered for some time with .
malarial fever, but his condition was ,
not considered critical until, within
the last few days, when his disease be- '
came complicated. Crop prospects
now are most gratifying and indicate
that this will probably 'be the most'
prosperous year our section has known
at any time within the memory of our ;
oldest citizens. -The tobaccolcrop is by .
far the largest ever grown In pur sec-"
tlon. Both corn and cotton will yield
much larger than last year and the
price of cotton will be quite as high as ,
then. Some publicity through '
the press has been given to the report -that
the. Carolina Northern Railroad ,
has been purchased by the Seaboard
Air Line and that the formal transfer
weuld take , place the 15th of this
month. It is also reported that
the road will be extended at once to -Charleston,
S. C, and to Fayette ville.
Mr. L. O. Williams, of Saddle .
Tree, is- the champion - watermelon
raiser of the county. Last week he ;
gathered oneon his farm which was -twenty-two
inches long, forty and
one-half inches in circumference and '.
weighed seventy pounds. ,
Greensboro Record: "There is .
too much prosperity in this country,"'
said Mr. Isaac Frossef, manager of the .
Empire Steel and Iron Works of this
place, "at least, I am having a great ;
deal of trouble in . securing material - -for
the work of remodelling the fur
nace. Every plant in the country is
behind with orders and I have had to .
beg and almost steal to get enough to
keep a few hands going.. However, I
hope to get the furnace in blast by
September 1st, though we are greatly ,
behind with everything. I have spe nt
the best part of my life In the busi
ness" said Mr. Prosser, "but I want
to say I never saw a finer deposit of
brown ores than are to be found
at Wilsom Mill on which the com-
Sany has- a , ten-year lease. It
i about a hundred miles from Greens-,
boro, but a track is being put in lead
right into the mine and as soon as It
is completed we shall begin to ship in .
ores to the works. The Southern,
however, is having trouble in securing
iron. It is very scarce, but the offi
cials are stirring around getting some
at one place, some at another and we
hope to have the track ready for use
before very long." The discov
ery of platinum in Rockingham coun
ty is creating considerable interest
Mr. Z. V. Gwynn has just refused an
offer off $15,000 for his farm near
Ruffln. It is claimed that this farm
has a vein of earth rich with plantl
num and that Mr. Gwynn will make
a fortune if he holds it. Northern
speculators are trying to buy the lsnd
Monroe Enquirer: Very few
people are turning out to hear the
candidates on their canvass of the .
county and about one-fourth of the
candidates are making the canvass. r .
At Unionville Wednesday there were
seven candidates and five others at the , '
speaking. Eli McOorkle, a col
ored convict, escaped from the convict ;
camp, three miles aouth of town, last
Monday afternoon. The escaped con- -vict
has rheumatism and was unable
to work. He waa pursued, by Super
intendent B. T. Fletcher, but the
heavy rain, which fell Monday after- -noon
while the chase was on, made it
impossible to trail the fleeing man.
McOorkle is heavy built and is very
black and limps in walking. A reward
of $10 la offered for his capture. 4
Mr. Richard Shute, of Monroe, was
killed on the Carolina Central rail-'
road, about two miles west of '
here, last Thursday night by the
east-bound- passenger train which,
reaches Monroe at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. '
Frank Cook, who lives about three
miles from here, waa going home and
waa walking on the railroad, and dis
covered the" body about 9 o'clock.
When found Mr. Shute was laying, by
the aide of the track with his head split
open and his brains scattered along the ,
track, and with an arm broken in two
laces. The supposition is that Mr.
hute had fallen asleep with his head -between
two crossties and he did not -,
wake untirfhe engine bad passed over
him, but stkrted to get up just as the "
front box on the tender struck his head :
and crushed it Engineer Miseheimer '
waa on the engine and Mr. 8. H. Green '
was conductor of the train, but neither
of them were aware of the accident ;
until the news was brought here that a
man had been found dean; on the track.:-;
NOT IN NEWBERN.
The
Case of Smallpox la a Postof flee
BoUdlif Is at Havelock, N. C. '
BT Telegraph to tne Morning star. .. ..
Washington, Aug1. 9. It develop- '
ed to-day that the case of smallpox-in
apostoffice building In North Caro
lina exists at uaveiooa, and not at
, Newbern, . as stated yesterday. The
postmaster at Havelock. Jno. I. Rus
sell, has a serious case of smallpox. '
Railway mail officials nave ordered
that all mails from there be fumigated
and the supplies at the office have
been ordered destroyed after an ac
counting has been made.
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