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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 ; :. - i 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 Money I Are you indebted toTHE I WEEKLY STAR? If so, T when you receive a bill for your subscription send us thff amount you owe. Remember, that a news- paper bill is as much en- titled to your consldera-x !. LIU X-H MM V 9 ii on as is a uiii iui yiu X ceries. Received Everywhere With Eatkaslssm. 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 "V. ..y " i - : j , 11 'v. "'' 3 -I'

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