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CALLING MR. ROOSEVELT SOWN
A report cornea from Washington
that the managers of the trusts are
-not pleased with the freedom with
which Mr. Itooseyelt is discussing
the trust question. ! They think he
is going too far and showing more
than necessarj, earnestness in call
ing for more expeditious and effec
tive methods in dealing with them.
While he was talking in a general
sort of way to humor the populace
they didn't mind that and didn't
see any danger to them in that, but
when he goes so far as to talk about
the excesses to which organized
capital sometimea goea, the harm it
does itself, others and' the country,
and expatiates on the necessity of
more stringent laws and more power
- to the Government to curb combi
nations and keeptthem within limits
they feel that he is getting down to
business aud starting a ball -rolling
that they will not be able to
stop. A good , many of the
Republican politicians take the same
view of it, and express an apprehen
sion that if Mr. Roosevelt continues
on that line the trusts will combino
against him and work to prevent his
nomination, and that if nominated,
the; would work and contribute their
money freely to defeat him. That'd
what's troubling the politicians more
thn the antagonisms that Mr. Roose
velt may be arousing among the
friemla of the trusts They are much
more oucerned in the success of the
rn t? fVian itiav ova in Kim Tn via or
fill! VJ IUHU .UbJ W IU IllUfi At.
. f I. ! v iL A h. m Ann A m iB..r 1 4 l a
presaure will be brought to boar on
Mr. Roosevelt to induce him to dis
cn?a the trusts less,' and Ica-i strenu
ously when he does, and that he will
pi ' -eed accordingly, say less and say
it L as aggressively. ;
The New York Sun is one of the
papers that never took any . stock in
hi j reported anti-trust programme
from the Btart nor in his anti-trust
speeches. It has been sneering at
ilr. Littlefiold, of jMaine, who, it
waa alleged, 'was selected by the
President to help ! him smash the
trusts which violate the law. It
hasn't a very high; opinion of Mr.
Littlefield's ability, at least his
ability to do that, t
Commenting upon the remarks
that M r. Roosevelt - made in his
Boston speech that ! he was not ad
vocating anything very revolutionary
when he asked greater power for
Congross to deal effectively with
the trusts, adopting, if necessary, a
constitutional amendment, it says:
t
Tn President is miukr. His zeal
for ib accomplishment of certain mod
eratc legislative change which he re
KirHs as desirable from the point, of
vi v .f public policy hns blinded him
temp mrily to the real sigrniBcance Of
. In) m-uui he proposes fur accomplish
lng ihos- changes. I
Trie extent to which his proposal is
revolutionary is not) measured by the
more or less mild and possibly bene
flcul character of the Massachusetts
lUlut which he hat in mind. The
measure of the 'revolution Is in tte
radical change in the svslem of our in
stitutions wthich proposed Constitution
al amendment would rff -ct. He would
take the pwer of control over the busi
ness from the several St.uL-sislatures,
whbro it bag been exercued since the
biri'rthe Federal Government, and
lodge it in the Congress at Washington-,
where it has never been exercised
or asserted except through a strained
interpretation of certaiu provisions of
the Constitution, or advocated by any
body except the wildest Btata Socialists
uotii lately, when the Hon. Charles 8
LittleQeld arose as the champion of
men a change in the organic law, and
the House actually passed the resolu
tion, for political effect only, know
ing well that It would go to speedy
death in the BenateJ
Iastead of beinor "an? thing but r
. tolutlonarT." Mr. Roosevelt's Const
tutional amendment contemplates the
post fundamental change in the fa
bric of American institutions tbat bas
been proposed by any Chief Magis
trate since the Government began to
ziit. This is true whether his pro
Parnate be regarded as the fruit of
consummate wisdom or as the crude
Project of reckless and short sighted
ollv. Tha rTolut!on once effected.
he power which the States reserved to
themselves more than a century ago
having been transferred to Congress
jnrough Mr. Roosevelt's! efforts, how
oe to answer for the moderate and
fjuonable exercise of that power
"trough all time to cornel ills own
intentions regarding the exercise of the
Power bv Congrats miv ha 'anything
M revolutionary the first legislation
uected under that power may re
aect his moderate and reasonable
iS.tnl h4 difference will that
.The mlld nd beneficent
application of thm 1.1.
?k?'1 ""W'TWon must in the nature of
thins. . , M m wo naiuro ui
CSS SLra; SL SS
wwer which he has helped to central-
VOL. XXXIII.
we at Washington will never be re
stored to the 8tates and by means of
that Constitutional tjowkt thwi- on K
enacted, through all time locome, any
legislation affecting the business of the
county whloh may commend itself to
the successlTe Congresses, Republican,
Democratic, or Socialistic In majority,
as the case may be.
For neither Mr. Roosevelt nor the
Attorney General, nor Mr. LUtlefleld
himself, can draw a Constitutional
amendment which shall effect what
Mr. Roosevelt now wishes tn
pliah and stop right there. In the
power of deanitlonof "trust, monop
olies and combinations" la insepara
bly involved not only -Ihe power to
regulate and control, butalso to pro
hibit and disiolve any form of busi
ness enterprise, any business partner
ship whatsoever, which the Congress
may cnoose 10 regard as a trust, mo
nopoly or combination; to short, the
absolute power of life or death over
all the industries of all the Btater.
The Sun has no apprehension of
a constitutional amendment for the
pnrpose proposed, but speaks thus
to call Mr. Roosevelt's attention to
the fact that he is treading on dan
gerous ground, and doesn't compre
hend what he suggests. It doesn't
fear any amendment of that kind
for it knows that such an amend
ment could not go through the Sen
ate, even if it got through the
House, and that if it went through
both, there is not the slightest prob
ability of its 'being ratified by the
necessary number of States. The
States do not take kindly to consti
tutional amendments, especially if
their intent be to take power from
them and transfer it to the Federal
Government, so that it isn't hardly
worth while for Mr. Roosevelt or
anyone else to seriously discuss that
suggestion.
A bill conferring noon Congress
sweeping power over trusts, even to
the extent of destroying them,
passed the House of Representatives
of the 56th Congress, and was, as it
was confidently expected, quietly
pigeonholed in the Senate, never to
be heard from.
Most of the Democrats in - the
House voted against it, while the
Republicans, who were playing it
for politics, voted almost unani
mously for it. The Democrats vot
ed against it for the same reasons
that the Sun, in the editorial we
quote, opposes the suggestion, name
ly that it is unnecessary and a dan
gerous power to put in the hands of
Congress, a power that might be
fearfully abused. The fact that
Democratic Representatives voted
against that bill has since been pa
raded by Republican papers and
speakers as a proof that they were
not honest in their professed desire
to regulate and control the trusts.
While the Sun is showing up the
revolutionary tendency of Mr.
Roosevelt's suggestion, it also vindi
cates the Democrats in Congress
who anticipated it and voted against
some of those "revolutionary"
methods.
NOT THI8 YEAB.
Elsewhere we have commented
upon senator mtchara s tricky,
Senator Pritchard's
evasive way of dealing with the con
stitutional amondment in his speech
before the convention, and of the
failure of the convention to speak
definitely and candidly on that
point.
As a matter of fact a resolution
accepting the constitutional amend
ment in good faith and pledging the
party to so accept it, was prepared
and presented to the committee on
platform by Prof. J. J. Britt, of
Mitchell county. It was a straight
and unqualified acceptance and was
approved by the committee,, but
Serlator Pritchard heard of it, in
sisted upon being heard by the
committee, .and after an hour's
work succeeded ' in having the Britt
resolution Strangled and the tricky,
evasive, non-committal resolution in
Pritchard's cut and dried platform
retained. The Pritchard plank reads
thus:
We declare that when the constitu
tional amendment was adopted by the
people of North Carolina two years
gc. it pased oat or in realm or poli
tic, and that if Oovernor Aycock,
Senator 8immons and others keep
faith with the people in the pledges
then mad?, there can be no such thing
as a race issue la the present cam
paign.
"Passed out the realm of poli
tics." but not out of the realm of
the courts. Where .is the. pledge
here that they will not try to have
it set aside, by the courts, in the
event they succeed in getting con
trol of the Supreme Court, and thus
bring it back into "the realm of
politics" another year, if not "this
year."
They know they can't do any
thing this year, bnt there are lots of
- 11 r ;i.-V-j
years aneaa oi mem. rmunaru
thought he was playing it cute, but
not so cute that sensible people
couldn't see through his game.
A Boston burglar, 72 years old,
was recently nabbed in that town.
Served him right. An old fellow
who had been in the business so long
ought to have made enough to re
tire on.
It is estimated by catalogists in
Berlin, . Germany, that there are
i jtUiUWusu m tuat wnu. u vv
the burgers are liable to attacks of
katienjammer.
A '- EVADING THE QUESTION. ;
In his speech before the Republi
can convention at Greensboro, Sen
tor Prltchard devoted muoh of his
time to remarks on the constitn-
tntional amendment, r trying to cre
ate the impression that as far as the
Republicans are concerned qualified
suffrage is a settled question, and
therefore there is no reason to
make negro suffrage an issue direct
ly or indirectly in the campaign this
year. Bat he didn't say that his
party accepts in good faith that
amendment, or that his parcy would
not have it set aside or nullify it if
it can. He didn't pledge his party
to anything, but did oondemn the
amendment, because by virtue of it
some white men will lose their votes
this year because they failed to pay
their poll tax within the prescribed
time - '
Ift he said, Senator Simmons
and the numerous Democratic law
yers whom he consulted were right
in the opinion they expressed that
the amendment was constitutional,
then Mr. Simmons ought to be satis
fied with that and be governed by it,
but he didn't say that he agreed with
those Democratic lawyers and was
willing to accept their opinion and be
governed by it. All that part of his
speech was simply a tricky evasion of
the question. m
If he and the other men who ma
nipulated that convention had been
honest and candid they could very
easily have, passed a resolution ac
cepting in good faith' that amend
ment as final. Bnt they didn't do
that; they simply dodged, evaded the
question, and charged the Democrats
with needlessly reviving the race is
sue. '
The convention, it is true, froze
the negro delegates out, and Chair
man Price, in a speech, congratula
ted the party on at last being "re
leased from the body of death," but
they did this on the assumption that
they could corrall and vote the ne
groes as they have been doing all
along. "
The customs officials at New
York intercepted an Egyptian
mummy the other day and seized
it . for duty. They couldn't find
any classification for it, so they
put it down as an article of manu
facture and slapped a duty of $9.80
on it, which the importers paid un
der protest. These officials didn't
intend to let pur mummy industry
be put in peril by encouraging
the importation of Egyptian mum
mies, we done know what pro
gress that industry has made in
this country, but it is said that ex
perts in England can beat the old
Egyptians out of sight in turning
out mummies on short notice.
The oil wells in the Beaumont,
Texas, field are becoming mischiev
ous. Since they ceased gushing
and have to be pumped, they emit a
poisonous gas. It is so powerful
that over 100 men are overcome by
it daily, and total blindness will re
sult from constant contact with it.
President Roosevelt incidentally re
marked that 'being an old-fashioned
man" he believed in large families.
In this he is not in accord with
the new-fashioned bon ton Bociety
of New England, which looks upon
large families as an incumbrance.
The delegate in Congress from
Hawaii, who wants to go back, has
been studying Republican politics in
the South during the reconstruction
era,andhas resurrected the40-acres
and-a-mule legend. But if he had
one how would the unsophis
ticated Hawaiian ever acquire the
art of navigating a mule?
a X 41. l.t. ,jb& wmmawwm.
the deaths from cholera in the Phil-
ippineB number between 350 and 450
a dav. The natives believe it is a
malady doctors can't cure, and there
fore iust lie down and die when it
gets a grip on them.
The President remarked in one
of his New England speeches that
it "is difficult to make our material
condition better by the best laws."
Bnt it is micrhtvi easv to" make it
worse by bad laws,
- !
Some of the Japanese papers are
lauding this country because she
didn't make any "racket over Marcus
island, bnt let Japan hare it. . It
wasn't worth a racket, Jappy.
It is figured put that there are on
the ocean floors 200,000 miles of
cable, costing $275,000,000. The Pa
cifio cables for some reason are not
included. .. !
The Philadelphia Telegraph claims
that nearly one-half the carpets man
ufactured in this pountry are turned
out by the looms bf that city.
The trust business is taking a
wide sweep these days. The latest
is a $5,000,000 broom trust.
WILMINGTON, N. O., FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 5,
COTTON YEAR CLOSED
Receipts "Since September 1, 1902,
Have Crawled Up to Near- '
ly 300,000 Bales..
HEAVY SHIPPING IN AUGUST.
Arrival of Vessels Breaks All Records
for the Month Since 1895 Vessels
That Arrived and Departed Yes '
terday Other Notes.
The cotton crop year for 1901-1903
comes to a close - with the receipts
which will be brought In over the va
rious transpoftation lines to day. The
official figures will be. posted on the
tExchne' boards of -the Chamber of
Commerce to-morrow, but through'
the courtesy of Secretary James Kyle
the following data is now available;
The net receipts for the year, esti
mated, 'are 284.299 bales, while the
figures at the close of business yester
day were 282,025.. Last year the re
ceipts for the year were 258,561, show
ing a gain in favor of this year by
about 25,000 bales. The receipts of
new crop cotton this year at the begin
ning of new season were 6,000 bale,
while last year very little new staple
was received in August
The exports, of course, show a gain
in view 'of the Increased receipts, and
they are divided as follows: Great
Britain, 119,075 bales; Continent, 142,-
781 ; New York, 7,846 ; Interior, via rail,
1,001.
The receipts of new crop cotton yes
terday were as heavy as were ever re
corded in one day in August at
the Exchange 1,135 bales. One day
last week the receipts were exactly the
same. All roads shared in the trans
portation yesterday but the W. C. &
A., as usual was ahead with some
thing over a thousand bales.
Heavy Shlpplaj la Anjost. .
The monthly report of Capt. Edgar
D. William,' harbor master, for Au
gust shows a ' material increase in the
port's shipping over the sane month
last year. Thirty vessels of 90 tons
and over arrived and their combined
tonnage was 27,283 against 16 vessels
of 18,676 tons during August, 1901; in
fact, the August, 1902, shipping is
ahead of all August records since
1895. The detailed report for the
month is as follows:
American Ten steamer, 13,741
tons ; 2 barges, 2,885 tons ; 14 schooner,
7,317 tons. Total, 26 vessels; 22,944
tons. ;
Foreign Two steamship, 3,645
tons; one barque, 498 tons; one
schooner, 196 tons. Total, 4 vessels,
4,339 tons. -----
Capt. Edgar D. Williams' books also
show a very interesting compilation
of the tonnage of vessels that entered
the port during the cotton year ended
Aug. 31sL The report shows a total
of 150 steamers, ,210,947 tons; 21
barquer, 11,471 tons; 3 brigs, 686 tons;
119 schooner?, 40,963 tons; 11 barges,
18,976 tons. The grand total vessels
is 304, with a combined tonnage of
283,032. These are divided into Ameri
can and foreign vessels as follows:
American 111 steamers, 145,001
tons; 3 barques, 1,679 tons; 1 brig, 294
tons; 11 barges, 18,976 tons; 11 schoo
ners, 33,868 tons.
Foreign 39 steamers, 65,940 tons;
18 barques, 9,791 tons; 2 brigs. 392
tons; 9 schooners. 2,094 tons.
The : total foreign vessels is 68;
American, 236.
The Day's Arrivals aid Departures.
The following vessels passed out at
Southport yesterday: Steamer Oneida,
New York, 2:50 P. M.; schooner
Chat. Linthicum, Baltimore; 8:30 A,
M. ; schooner Jno. Ttoohy, Boston.
7 A. MJ, and Swedish barque Her
mod, Amsterdam, 8:30 A. M.
The schooner Wm. F. Oreen, in
charge . of the jovial, good-natured
Capt. Stratton, cleared yesterday with
a cargo of rough and dressed lumber
consigned by the Kidder Lumber Co.,
to Grenada.
The schooner .Frank W. McCul-
louah, 137 tons, Capt. Brink, arrived
yesterday afternoon from Beaufort,
N. C , f or a cargo. She sailed up the
river from Southport.
Ia the Florence Shops.
Florence Times: "Things continue
to be busy down at the shops. The
number of men in the different de-
ntrtments is on the increase. Very
S.TT. . . a m
little work has been orougni irom
the old Plant system in comparison
with what was expected. The Plant
system engine 4, which was brought
to these shops some time ago for re
pairs, bas been overhauled and tent
out as A. u. Li-170. a. Bumper oi me
coal burners have been changed to
wood burners since the coal strike.
The coal strike is too doubtful and too
high, so the front ends look different."
Died of His Isjuries.
Charleston JPosf: "A. D. Stafford,
the vounar white man who was run
over by an Atlantic Coast Line train
aver.1 diva aco. died last night in the
city hospital from the results of his
intarles. The accident occurred be
tween Pembroke. N. C. and Florence.
This morniag Coroner u uonneu neia
an inquest over the body and the jury
returned a verdict that the deceased
mm tn his death bv being run over
by train No. 210 of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad and that it was the re
sult of an accident"
Probskly Struck By Train. ,
A negro badly used up was found
nn thM rati road track a few miles this
side of Whitevllle Friday night. He
wm cashed about the head and was
unable to give an account of himself
when taken to Whiteville for surgical
treatment It - is presumed that he.
was struck by or fell from the Colum-
hi. tviin' which left Wilmington at
8:45 Tuesday.
CAPTURED Bid RATTLER
V IN ONSLOW COUNTY.
Colored Maa Broatht a 81 Reptile
to
the City Cssibt by His Owa Hssd.
;1 - Pnrcksser Wasted.
: y . . - :
- Solomon Beatty, a colored man who
lives near Edgecombe, Oaslow coun
ty, arrived in the city yesterday with a
reminder of circus times a large,
five-foot ground, rattlesnake which he
captured alive two weeks ago while
cutting turpentine boxes In a pocosin
three miles from Els home. The big
snake, haa 10 rattles and a button and
his body is about 8 inches in diameter.
The colored man brought him to the
city iu a wooden box witbTglass cover
and exhibited him at the City Hall,
where he j is left for sale. The daily
diet of the big . reptile since he was
captured has been frogs, mice, squir
rels and anything of that kind that
Beatty could get for him.
Beatty tells a remarkable story of
how he captured the snake. He says
he was barefooted and had just stooped
to cut a box when he discovered that
he had stepped on some cold, clam
my subaUnce.. He looked down and
was alarmed to find the big snake
coiled as if to strike. Beatty said he
withdrew and sat down upon a log to
catch bis breath and to formulate a
pian oi reducing the reptile to cap
tivity At last he decided to catch him
back of the head and - he put
h:s decision into execution at
oner. The fangs were extracted
from the snake's mouth with a turpen
tine, knife. He j carried-the snake
home, after killing another on his way
out of the pocosin, and yesterday
found his way to Wilmington, where
he hopes to find a purchaser for his
prisoner. . - J .
And he says the above is no "snake
story" either, i 5
AQED NEQRO FLATMAN DROWNED.
Fell Into River Near Point Peter Thurs
day Night Body Foood Yesterday.
i
Glen more Battle, a colored flat
hand, 50 years old and a native of
Summ6rvill, Brunswick county, fell
into the river at Point Peter Thursday
night and was drowned. His body
was recovered ' yesterday morning
from the bottom of the "river near
where it went down, by Larry Loeve,
colored, who has probably recovered
more drowned bodies from the Cape
Fear than any man living. Dr. Bel?,
the coroner, viewed the body soon af
ter it came from the water and as there
was no evidence of; foul play, an in
quest was deemed unnecessary. The
body waa sent to the negro's old home
far burial, V I
Battle came here on a flat which
brought cross-ties for the Hall Tie and
Lumber Co. Thursday night he got
very drunk and was seen asleep betide
bottla oT liquor j ten feet from the
water. The night-watchman on the
premises later discovered the bottle of
liquor and the colored man's hat, with
the owner nowhere in sight His
exact fate was unknown until the body
was fished out of tha water yesterday
morning. ,
Death of Aged Resident.
Wm. J. Brown, an aged and will
know citizen of the northern section
of - Wilmington, died yesterday at his
home near Fourth-and Taylor streets.
The cause of his death waa gastritis.
He was 62 years of age, and leaves a
wife and several children, all grown.
The remains will be taken to Burgaw
for interment. t!
I The Crops Are Fine.
Mr. R. ML Wescott returned yester
day from a business trip through Bla
j den, Pender and Brunswick counties.
He says the prospects for crops were
never finer and that farmers are in the
best of spirits. j ;
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Senator fron Harnett.
The Senatorial j Convention of the
Fifteenth district met at Dunn, N. 0.,
yesterday'. H. L! Godwin, Esq., and
C. W. Richardson were nominated by
1 acclamation. j
BUILDINGS COLLAPSED
Two
Five-Story Brick Structures Filled
With Qreea Coffee.
Bv Telegraph to foe Horning 8 tar.
Nkw Yobk, Aug; SO. Tons of brick,
ortar. beams and coffee fell with a
crash Into the street -and on the ele
vated structure and trolley tracks to
day when two five story brick build
ings on Fulton street, Brooklyn, col
lapsed. Twenty-five thousand bags
of green coffee, owned by J. H. Tay
lor and Smith Gc weiDridge, oi Man
hattan, were stored in the building
and proved too great a burden. By
marvelous,, good iortune noi a man
was inthetmildin at the time. Wo
one was on the sidewalk, nor were
any trolley cars on eievawa trains
near by. The loss ia esumatea at
about $60,000. i
STEAMERS IN COLLISION.
Side-Wheel Boat Ssoiertles Badly Dam-
sied la New York Harbor.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
New York.-Aug. SO. The side-
wheel steamer Sanger tier, of the
I Saugerties Line, and the steam-
lighter Bessie, of Yonkera, collided
in the North river to-day off Seven
tieth street, this city. The ttaugerties
had a big hole atove in her port bow
only a few Inches away from the
water line. The Baugerues- twenty
five passengers were asleep in their
bunks when the collision occurreu,
and for a short time there was con
siderable .excitement The Bessie
stood by and took off the passengers
of the Saugerties and landed them.
i 1 r
1902.
HEW RAILWAY COMPANY CHARTERED.
ThroBfh Line for Soatheri from Ksox
' vllle to Chsrlestoa aad Savaassh. ,
. ISpecial Star Telegram.
Baleiqh, N C, Aug. 29. The
Carolina and - Tennessee Southern
Railway Company was chartered to
day with fsou.uuo capital, to build a
road from franklin, Macon county,
along the valley of the Little Tennes
see River, t rough Macon, Graham
and Swain counties to the Tennessee
line near where it I crossed by the
Little -Tennessee River. This Is a
movement by the Southern Railway
oompany to complete a through line
from Knoxville, Tenn.t to Charleston
and 8avannah. A road is now build
ing from Toccos, Ga., to Franklin and
another from Mayesville, . enn., to the
worth uarouna . line. These, with
the road proposed by the new com
pany, completes connections for Knox
ville, Charleston and Savannah. Col.
A. B. Andrews, W. W. Fin ley, H. O.
ler, and F. H. Busbee are directors.
NEW INSURANCE COMPANY.
Chartered la Raleigh To Fight South
eastern Tariff Association.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, August 28. The
United States Insurance Company was
chartered by the State insurance com
missioner to-day, with $25,000 capital.
The home office will be in Raleigh.
A general fire insurance business will
be conducted. Frank A. Coley, xt
Boston, is president, and John B.
Kenny, of Raleigh, is secretary. It Is
understood that the company will take
up the fight with the Greensboro com
panies against advanced rates ordered
by the Southeastern Tariff Atsodation.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Charlotte News: Mary Samp
son, an aged colored woman, was
found de i in bed in a room on Mr.
W. R Taliaferro's place, at Dilworth,
Friday morning. It is supposed that
the old woman in turning off the gas
Thursday night failed to cut it entire
Jy off.
Greensboro Telegram: It is
learned that at an early date the peo
ple of Rockingham county will erect
a handsome monument to the memory
of the late Governor Reid, the first free
suffrage Governor of Worth Carolina.
His remains are buried in Greenview
cemetery, in Reidsville, and the grave
is unmarked.
Kinston Free Press: Mr. An
drew J. Grant says there was a severe
hail storm at his place in Falling
Creek a few days ago that beat the
leaves of his tobacco badly. He pick
ed up twelve hundred sticks of tobac
co after the storm. The storm was
limited in its scope, only touching
three farms.
Tarboro Southerner: Luke Nor
fleet, an aged colored man, died Thurs
day bight near Conetoe. lis claimed
to be 108 years old. There are no
means to verify this. . Undoubtedly
he was a very old man. Capt. Orren
William, who knew him well, says
that if be was not a centenarian he was
very near it; tha'. he had known him
over sixty year?.
Salisbury Sun: Two colored
convicts endeavoring to escape from
the Wilkes county camp Thursday
were killed near the camp by guards.
The negroes had attaked one guard,
when another came to bis rescue and
killed one of the convicts. His com'
panion shot the guard, who was se
riously injured. The latter fired.how
ever, and killed his assailant "
Salisbury Truth Index: A
robbery occurred at the home of
Joseph Council, on Chestnut Hill
Sunday night, which takes the cake
for pure, unadulterated nerve. Thirty
five dollars ws concealed in the bed
upon which Mr?. Council was asleep.
8be was awakened some time in the
night by a hand passing over her face.
She called to her husband, but before
he was aroused the intruder left the
room and made good his escape.
Henderson Gold Leaf: Col. W.
E. Sturgis, of Ransom's Bridge, was
here this week and was showing some
beautiful specimens of gold found re
cently on his place (the old Portia gold
mine), which indicates that there is
wealth in the old land yet, thereabouts,
One of his hands found a piece of quartz
rock weighing two pounds and six
ounces, containing 297 pennyweights
of pure gold. This find was made
within 200 yards of the house and other
finds have been made in that vicinity.
As going to show that gold abund
antly exists in this locality near the
junction of the Halifax, Nash and
Warren county lines Mr. .Charles J.
Alston has a quantity of the yellow
metal found on his land near the
Portia gold mine on the opposite side
of Shocco creek. While in search of
black lead he found a vein- of gold
bearing auartz 11 inchea wide from
specimens of which a handful of gold
nuggets were extracted.
Troy Examiner: Miss Sarah
McAulay, a highly respected maiden
lady, of Onvil, died under rather
strange circumstances, at the home of
her brother, Mr. K. E. McAulay, with
whom she had lived all her life. She
awoke her nephew, Kennie MoAulay
and George Yarboro, the only per
sons in the home last Friday night by
screaming; ahe said when she awoke
a necro man waa standing at the foot
of ber bed, and as she arose and
screamed he caught at her throat, but
missing his aim. ran out at the
door. When the young men reach'
ed her. they saw no one at
all, but the door was open and there
was unmistakable sign where some
one had crawled under the house. On
Saturdav she seemed to ba in ber urn?
al health, but very nervous. That
night after she had gone to bed and
had fallen asleep, they heard her
struggling and when her bedside was
reached she was dead. Some fiend
mav have entered her room and the
shock may have caused nervous pros
tration . sufficient to produce heart
failure, caused bv the ravages of dis
ease, in either case, . it was Indeed a
sad affair.
Virgil Garvin, the Chicago Ameri
can League pitcher, who in a saloon
row Thursday night, at Chicago shot
the proprietor Lawrence E. Flanigan,
in the shoulder, waa arrested. Fiani
gan'a wound ia nor thought to be seri
ous, and Garvin probably will escape
with a fine.
George Gardner, the middle weight
boxer, bas accepted Sharkey's chal
lenge for a contest The contest wiu
probably be brought off in San Fran
cisco some time in October. If Gard
ner defeats Sharkey, he will challenge
Jeffries.
NO. 45
"ARBITRAMENT
OF TflE SWORD."
President Roosevelt's, Recent
. Pronouncement Regarding
the Monroe Doctrine.
DISCUSSED BY BRITISH PRESS.
A-Loar. Sermla on Anserlcsa Greed aad
Hypocrisy Daaier Threatealaf the
British Empire from the United
States' Fatnre Expansion.
bv oabla to the uorniaa mar. ..'
London, ' August 30. "A heated
rivalry, which may some day be settled
by the arbitrament of the sword, "seems
to fairly sum up the Saturday Review's
opinion of the relations between Great
Britain and the United States. Discuss
ing President Roosevelt's recent pro
nouncement on Monroeism, the al ways
bitterly ahlP American Saturday Re
view uses the President's speech as a
text on which to enunciate a long ser
mon on "American Greed and Hypoc
risy," and the. danger threatening the
British Empire from the United States'
future expansion. It say, in review
ing the history of the Monroe Doc
trine:
"It is unfortunate, if not exceptional.
that the United States cannot be satia-
fied with the plain, straight forward
fiolicy of self-interest without attempt
ng to explain it as a disinterested and
highly moral position. It was on this
basis that the war with Spain was un
dertaken, resulting In the Philippines
being annexed and Cuba being put
under the heel. South America's nat
ural resources are enormous, but the
individual States cannot act together.
It is plain that they will not long re
sist American extension southward,
and American "protection" from Eu
ropean aggression will soon incubate
Into occupation by the United States."
To Acquire Canada.
Proceeding to discuss the effect of
Monroeism on the British Empire the
Saturday Review jttju:
The United States is the only great
power separated from the British Em
pire by nothing but a land frontier,
and it is the settled object of the Uni
ted States to ultimately include Cana
da. The United States is commer
cially growing fast at our expense, and
judging from its present progress the
power of the united states in wealth
and numbers will soon exceed that of
any rival we have, possibly excepting
Russia, whose position in relation to
us territorially is not nearly so critical.
Under these circumstances, it is sure
ly clear that the power we need be
mcst concerned about is America.
Acute territorial and commercial rival
ry always results in an ultimate trial
by force, it is the only nnai settle
ment. "There is no question of liking or dis
liking Americans. It is simply a
question of rhlch shall ultimately get
the better of the other aide."
A Diverfent View.
A curiosly divergent view is ex
pressed by the Spectator on the same
topic, it says:
"We hold tbat the maintenance m
the Monroe Doctrine is as good for us
as for the United States. We, like the
United States, have no desire to see
the status quo violently altered by
the efforts of continental European
statea to carve out for themselves co
lonial empires in Central and South
America. It would suit us no more
than the United States to see Germany
established in Southern Brazil or else
where on the western continent"
Proceeding to point out that Mon
roeism cannot rest on air and that un
less based on power it is sure to be
exposed to be pushed aside and disre
garded, the Spectator continues:
'To make the doctrine elective
America must build a fleet unques
tionably stronger than that of France
or Germany. She need not trouble
to outbuild us, as we not merely agree
to but may be said to be passive sup
porters of the Monroe Doctrine,
Qerman Opinion.
Berlin, Aug. 30. President Roose
velt's fresh declaration of the Monroe
Doctrine has been received here with
an air of wonder. The tone generally
assumed is one of surprise that the
doctrine should be affirmed so ener
getically at a moment when no Eu
ropean power disputes it, least oi an
Germany. Moreover, it is asserted
that Germany gave her assent to the
doctrine soon after President Roose
velt's assumption of the presidency,
and that the . State Department
has abundant knowledge that
Germany does not even con
template securing coaling stations
In the western hemisphere. Some
suspicious critics suggest that some
thing must be going on behind the dip
lomatic screen to occasion the Presi
dent's enunciation. The Foreign
Office tells the correspondent of the
Associated Press that official circles by
no means share the newspaper excite
ment It reads the speech in connec
tion with definition of the doctrine
contained in the President's last mes
sage to Congress which thoroughly
satisfies Germany. The disposition In
some quarters to regard President
Roosevelt's speech as directed against
Germany is wholly inadmissible,
because Germany, aa the American
government knows, never designed
territorial acquisition bn the American
continent
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Msde Eight Speeches Dnrlsc the Day. -v;
; Accoapsnled ly Mr. Shaw.
. ' 8yTMearaphtottsMoratogBtar. .
Burlington, -Vt., August 80. '
Everywhere in the State of Vermont
to-day President .. Roosevelt waa re
ceived with enthusiasm.' : He crossed :
over from New Hampshire Into Ver
mont about noon in a tally ho drawn
by six horses. Seated on the box with
him were Mr. and ' Mrs. Winston .
Churchill and Senator Proctor. ? Four
stops .and as many speeches were
scheduled for today, but the Presi
dent yielded to pressure and made ,
elght speeches. South Royalton,
Bethel, Randolph and Waterbury were
the places at - which the additional
stops were made. At the platform at
Bethel was Mrs. Chapman, who had
all but rounded her century of life.
Still another centenarian, Marshall , '
Shaw, was on the platform.
Northfield gave the President greet
ings aa the train sped by. The place
has been made famous since the battle
of Manila for it was at Norwich Uni
versity that Dewey secured his early
education. . '
To-nlghtv after paying a brief visit r
to the home of ex-Governor Wood '
bury, President Roosevelt, accom-'.
panied by Secretary Shaw, boarded a
yacht for the Secretary's Bummer
residence at Thompson's landing,
where he will remain until Monday ' '
morning.
AQED COUPLE MURDERED.
Shot to Death at Their Home Near Bros
soi, Fla by Robbers,
ay leiezrapb to ue Morning sue.
Gainesville, Fla., August 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Brit Lewis, residing five
miles south of Bronson, were mur
dered last night by robbers. The aged
couple had been calling on their son,
who resides only a short distance
from where the killing took place.
They returned at night and surprised
two robbers who were -in the act of
opening a large iron safe in which the
prosperous farmer kept his money.
The son of Lewis heard shots In the
direction of his father's house and ran
at once to the place. When the son
arrived he found the dead body of his
mother lying across, the corpse of her
husband near the entrance to the
house. Both had been shot several
times and then knocked in the head.
The belief is tbat the murder was
committed by two-parties, and the
general impression is that they are
white men who are acquainted with
the premises and knew of his wealth.
Sheriff Sutton, with a large posse, is
scouring the country for the fugitives '
and bloodhounds have been brought
from Marion and Alachua counties,
and developments are momentarily
expected. If captured a lynching will
follow, it is thought
WRECKED BY A TORNADO.
Train Hurled Down Embankment Two
Persons Killed and Others lojared.
Br Telegraph to the Horning Btar
Waesca, Minn., Aug. 30. Two
persons were killed, three fatally in
jured and more than a score of others
hurt this evening in the wreck" of a
train which had been hurled down an
embankment by a tornado. The train,
west bound on the Chicago and North
western, consisting of an engine, bag
gage, coach and crowded passenger
Ctrl', while running at the rate of thir
ty five miles an hour, was struck by
the .tornado two miles from Merridan.
The passenger and baggage cars were
hurledeighteen feet down the embank
ment. A brateman was putting on
the clamps when the crash came and
the wreckage was Ignited by the oil.
The dead are: Peter Eterson, age 5
year, Waseca, Minn.; woman, sup
posed to be Anna-W. Bickford, Albert
Lea, Minnesota; the fatally injured
are: Miss Eva Richardson, New Eulm,
Minn., hurt Internally; A. O. McOon
nell, Vrookings, S. D., hurt internal
ly; unidentified woman, crushed.
STARTLING SCHEME.
For a Close Union ol the Church
and
Stare In the Cause of Rellgloa.
Bv Cable to the Horning Btar.
London, August 30, The Rev.
Forbes Phillips, vicar of Gorleston, ,
near Yarmouth, who aroused wide
spread comment by permitting Mrs.
Brown Potter to recite from his pulpit
in June, 1901, is agitating a fresh and
more startling scheme for a close
union of the church and stage In the
cause of religion. He proposes that
each parish maintain a theatre, under
the management of the church. In an
outspoken interview, the clergyman
says: ''Clergymen overdo the reli
gious side of life, thereby ruining the
spiritual liver, like that of over-fed
Straaburg geese."
The plan of the Rev. Mr. Phillips
includes a revival of the mystery plays
of the Middle Ages and the establish-'
ment of a sort of Oberamergau society
in each parish.
A BOLD ROBBERY.
Trsy Containing Diamonds Tskea fron
a Jewelry. Store.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 80. Early to
night an unknown man entered the .
jewelry store of Charles R. Wilsdorf,
on Payne avenue, and after the lew
I eler had placed a tray containing about
$1,000 worth of diamonds on the coun
ter the man threw a handful or red pep
per In the jeweler's eyes, grabbed the
tray of diamonds and made good his
escape.
Mr. Wilsdorf, notwithstanding the
fact that he was blinded by the pepper,
grasped a revolver and followed the
man Into the street, firing as he went.
A big crowd joined In the chase but
the robber succeeded in eluding his
Smrsuers. Later Mr. Wilsdorf was
ound wandering helplessly about the
street and the physician at the hospital
to which he waa taken Is of the opin
ion that his sight has been totally de- -stroyed.
' FIQHTINQ IN HAYTI.
Between the Provisional Government
Forces and the Revolutionists.
B Telegraph to the Horning Star.
Washington, August 80. Under
date of last evening from Port-au-Prince,
TJ. & Minister .Powell cabled
to the State Department that severe
fighting had taken place the day be
fore near Cape Hay tien and that it
was in progress at the time his cable
gram was sent ureat ion nas oc-.
curred on Doth sides. The provisional
army was under command of General
Nord, while General Jumeau was in
command of the revolutionists.
- Boarritt Moreno, a timber dealer of
Pensacola, Fla., has filed a petition in
voluntary bankruptcy, scheduling his-
liabilities at iU5,ouo nd bis assets as
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