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CAN'T UNDESSTAVO IT.
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Speakmg of the. coal strike in
Pennsylvania a few days ago a
prominent Englishman in Washing
ton said he could not comprehend
why it was that a few men in a
country of 70,000,0Q0 of people,
could bring-ahoat a condition that
would practically deprire many of
those people of fuel and paralyze
many of the leading industries.
This may seem strange to an Eng
lishman, and it also seems to a great
many of oar own people, who can't
understand why the people who use
coal shonld be at the mercy of either
the mine owners or the miners, or
ot both. If this was the first strike
of the kind they might understand
it on the principle j that it- was
something unanticipated, never
thought of, that it came as a sur
prise, and that not anticipating any
thing of the kind as j at ny time
probable, there was no occasion to
take legislative action to guard
against it.
But it is not, for 'we have had
many such strikes, rarely one so
formidable, and therefore the thing
that strange about it and hard to
comprehend is why no legislative
action has been taken to prevent
inch conflicts of employer and em
ployed, in an industry which so
greatly affects the public at large.
Whether they do things any better
in England or oiner European coun
tries we do not know, but when
they have strikes ever there they
manage to end them some way be
fore the public suffers materially,
and end them by arbitration,' too,
a way that has been suggested to
" put an end to this strike, but a sug
gestion which the mino operators
would not listen to. J
In reply to the suggestion to arbi
trate they said there was "nothing
to-wbitrate," and if there was. they
aaktd how could men who know
nothing about the business of oper
ating coal mines arbitrate a dispute
between the operators of the mines
and the miners employed? They
contend that it is they alone who
can or shonld run their business, or
make terms with the men who work
for them. One, at least, of them
declares that they own the mines as
a gift of Providence, ' and therefore
have a divine right to rule in their
own way, and that it is an officious
impertinence for anyone to tell them
what they ought to do, or how they
should conduct their mines or estab
lish rules for their government. Be
ing the owners of the Amines, not by
gift of Providence, but by purchase
and by virtue i of law regulating
property ownership," they have the
right to operate them in their own
way, a right In which they are pro
tected by law. But j this is a right
which carries with it reciprocal ob
ligations. One of the spokesmen
of the mino owners has declared
that the law eives ithe owner of
property trie right to 4o with it as he
pleases. Not always1." He has no
right to use that property so as to
inflict injury oh others or upon the
property of others. Some countries
retain title to the mineral of min
erai bearing lands and claim the
ownership of an? minerals that mat
-e found in them. These are claimed
by tho crown and are used for the
beneGt of the crown.! In this conn
try that is not done, the opinion be
iQg that in the hands of private indi
iduala or companies such properties
would be more quickly and generally
aeveloped. and the creator the ben
eQUo the country. and the people
Qld be. It is said that under tho
laws of Pennsylvania that State
Wuld now claim, if it would, title to
minerals in the lands in which
uete mines have been worked, be
tonse they were in colonial days the
Property of the crown, and when
that title was lost by the crown it
Passed to the sovereign State, and
we has never been any surrender
m Vj lfl8 ocate oi jreuuBji-
1 lania. The matter has simply rested
I 'lere and tha
wa ihjuuo uavc won
Permitted to pass into the possession
individuals and companies without
J ' objection by the State or any as-
of claim for her.
"eing the owners of the mines,
so recognized by law, they have
VOL. XXXIII.
tne right to work them, and to
work them in their own way, pro
vided they do no injury to others,
but it doesn't follow from this that
they have the right to do with them
as they please. It may not, strictly
speaking, be a supposable case, but
for sake of illustration suppose that
all the mine owners" in the United
States got together and decided to
close their mines for one or two
years or more. That would be
"doing as they pleased with their
own property," but how long would
they be allowed to do it? How long
before the courts would be called
upon to assert the right of eminent
domain and force these conspiring
mine owners to open their mines or
turn them over to others who would?
A man who owns land through
which a stream runs, which Is nec
essary to the welfare or comfort of
the people further down the stream,
has no right to dam or otherwise ob
struct it so as to deprive others of
the use of it. He is entitled to all
the benefits he can get from that
stream, but he has no right to abuse
his privilege to the extent of doing
injury to others, who have rights as
well as he.
.While the mine operators own the
mines they owe obligations to the
State and the publio, to the State
which holds the right of eminent
domain, and to the public who. are
entitled to a supply of fuel to keep
factories rnnning and for domestic
purposes, and the mine owners who
are protected by law should be re
quired to discharge their obligations
to the State and to the public, and
so the laws of every State where coal
mining is an industry should provide.
When the mine owner fails for rea
sons of his own or from inability to
agree with the miners employed, to
comply with his obligations to the
State and tho public, then the State
should step in and take his place
until the conditions become such
that he conld operate the mines and
supply the fuel needed.
THE COLOB LIVE IN HAITI.
A report comes from Washington
that the subject of taking forcible
possession of Haiti has been serious
ly considered there, the reason as
signed being that it is necessary for
some strong hand to take possession
to restore peace and law and order
and protect the interests of aliens
residing or doing business in that
so -called black Republic. It is
thought that satisfactory arrange
ments can be made with the Oov-
ment of San Domingo by which
both of these negro republics could
be taken under the protecting wing
cf this. Government.
Whether there be anything in this
or not the fact remains that both of
these so-called republics haye been
signal failures and that both are
sadly in need of some guardian to
protect them from themselves and
to check the drift to barbarism.
We have heard much about the
color line in the South, and there
has been a good deal of tart criticism
of Southern white people by North
ern Republican journals and politi
cians, for drawing the color line po
litically as a means of self -protection
from ignorant negro rnle, but the
color line in the South can t bear
any comparison to the color line
against the whites as it is drawn by
the negro in the republic of Haiti,
as will be seen by the following from
a letter of a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record. After describ
ing the conditions that prevail in
this black Republic, he says:
Philanthropists to the contrary not
withstanding, the experiment of Afri
can self-rule has been a signal failure.
even here where the race has enjoyed
every advantage. For almost a hun
dred yean (since 1804) tne biacx man
has had things all bis own way in
Haiti, and been undisputed lord of the
country, unhampered by political disa
bilities, prejudices or degrading memo
ries This Is the only cDuntry in the
Western Hemisphere where negroes
are tho rulers, legislators, judge, gen
erals, authors, artists, and where the
where the white man is indebted (o
the black for liberty live. By the
Qaitien constitution the white race has
no legal right which anybody is bound
to respect. They cannot own real
estate, nor bold mortgages for
longer than nine years, nor
even become citizens consequently
they cannot vote nor obtain political
position. Even if they marry Haitian
women they cannot inherit their
landed property, but only the pro
reeds of ft when sold at publie auo
tion. Thsy are not allowed to engage
in the retail trade, and are not eligible
to the bar, the bench, the pulpit, to
military honors or any civil distinc
tion whatever. They may be me
chanics, merchants, clerks, teachers,
engineers or servants In any capacity
to the black lords of the island.
However, there are some concessions.
The whites may be wholesale mer
chants (for that requires more
money, learning ana rnerprn uau
belong to the average Haitian), and
all the foreign trade is in the hands of
Englishmen, French and a few Amer
icans. Some of the latter would amass
colossal fortunes in a few years' time,
if they were permitted to get away
with them; but it always happens that
just as the merchant has accumulated
a competence an incendiary fire sweeps
his warehouse out of existence, or his
goods are plundered by a band of so
called revolutionists,' and he has to
give up business altogether or begin
the weary death-in-life all over again.
Ninety-nine times in a hundred the
foreigner feels that he has already had
more than enough of Haiti, and he de
parts for pleasanter fields of labor no
richer than he came.
Self rule has not only been a fail-
ure with them, but so ' has civiliza
tion, for instead of progressing they
have been retrograding, and have
relapsed intomany of their ancestral
savage customs and beliefs. It is
true that they have not been thrown
into sufficiently intimate' relations
with the white race to oheok the
drift to savagery as the negroes of '
the Southern StateB have been, but
even here in the South in sections
where the negroes are very num
erous and the white people corres
pondingly few that same tendency
is noticeable, and we see "hoodoo
ism," "witchery," "charms," a su
perstitious following of negro
"Christs," and other wild forms of
religion that border on insanity. Of
course this does not apply to the in
telligent class of negroes who have,
benefited by contact with the white
people, but there is enough of it to
show that the untutored negro of
the South is not many degrees re
moved from the negro of Haiti.
CO-OPERATIVE OIL HILLS-
The State .Farmers' Association
which met in Raleigh last, week
recommended co-operation among
farmers on general lines, by which
they could sell what ' they have to
sell and buy what they need to much
better advantage. 1 ,
Among other things it urged upon
the cotton growers the advisability
of establishing co-operative cotton
seed oil mills, thus getting all the
value there is in the seed, double or
treble as much as they realize from
it when sold in its crude State.
Several such mills have been already
started,bf which mention has been
made in these columns, in connec
tion with which we have urged cot
ton planters in sections where much
cotton is grown to do likewise, for it
is practicable in any such section,
the cost of an ordinary mill not
being large enough to be beyond the
means of an ordinarily thrifty com
munity. If the building of such
mills became general, the seed crop
would be worth double, or more, as
much to the planters as it is, and
they would have many thousands of
dollars more in their pockets.
We have long been an advocate of
co-operative cotton mills, the prac
ticability and value of which have
been fully demonstrated in Char
lotte, which, beginning with co
operative mills, has grown to be one
of the great cotton manufacturing
centers of the South. With the
cotton mill and the oil mill, the
planter would get all the possi
bilities out of his crop and all the
I. profit there is in it. Then he might
make money growing cotton even if
the price fell to what would be a
losing figure if he depended upon
marketing his crop as it comes from
the gin. j
It isn't the farmer who produces
the most who makes the most out of
it, but the man who shows the most
sagacity and thrift in handling
what he produces, i
That Illinois editor who under
took to furnish his readers with some
biblical news by publishing'chapters
of the Bible, ran against a snag be-1
fore he got a good start. There hap
pened to be a banker among his
readers, who occasionally relieved
the monotony of figuring on accounts
and discounts by perusing
'the
Book." Now he is applying to the
courts for an injunction to prevent
the publication of certain chapters,
which he declares are not edifying
reading for the family circle.
A Washington dispatch says this
government has been considering the
advisability of seizing Haiti, because
the colored sovereigns persist in
keeping up a racket,; knocking each
other on the head and annoying
other peopie who have business there.
We haven't a sufficient assortment of
islands vet. which suggests some
more "benevolent assimilation."
The town of Swissvale, Pa., is,
mourning the loss of population it
sustained when Wm. Barrett and
wife and 22 children migrated to
other points where there was more
room to expand. As Mr. Barrett is
only 45 and his wife two years younger
and most of their children come in
triolets, they propose to establish a
colony of their own. !
An old soldier in the Soldiers'
Home at Lafayette, Ind., has varied
the monotony of every day life there
by building his own coffin and con
structing and carving a tombstone
to his own notion, j He has carved
noon it the legend which will tell
a -
who and what he was.
There are more prairie chickens
in South Dakota than one conld
shake a stick at, but a telegram
from Arlington, in that State, says
that when the President's son went
there to shoot some the pesky pro
prietors of the broad acres set their
rintra on him and he had to hunt for
other hunting grounds.
HftiifiBtv is not only the best
policy, but it is the only policy that
suceeeds m tne long run.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,
COAL SUPPLY SHORT.
Winter's Approach Suggests
Passing o! . Ice Man and
Return of Fuel Dealer.
EFFECT OF THE COAL STRIKE.
Cross Jle loiostry Claims Attention of
Woodmen and Prognosticates Still
Hither Prices AU Qrsdes of
Black Material Soaring.
: The weather ia hardly suggestive of
the topic, but there are many signs of
the season which admonish the ob
servant citizen that the rigors of Fall
and Winter are close on the way and
the provident mind turn seriously, if
not complacently, to. fires, wraps and
overcoats; and last but not least, the
warm opeij grate or, perchance, to the
comfort-giving heater. These In turn
naturally suggest fuel a potent sub
ject just at this time and one which has
given all cities and towns in the United
States more or less concern within the
past few weeks in view of the con
tinued strike in the anthracite coal
region and the consequent shortage in
the world's supply.
To ascertain exactly .the conditions
as they exist locally a representative
of the Star yesterday visited several
of the local dealers and found that
while not! a great deal of anthracite
coal is used here by reason of the
almost inexhaustible wood supply and
facilities for getting the same to mar
ket,, the situation is very uncertain,
with the probabilities very much on
the side of higher prices and scarcity of
fuel this Winter. Last week there was
an advance of 50 cents per ton in an
thracite, making the local price range
about $7.50 per ton, while soft coal ad
vanced 35 cents per ton or 4.85. Even
at these prices the supply is an un
known quantity and a real cold snap
in early Winter might enlarge the
semewbat j strained conditions to the
proportions of a famine.
One of the most discouraging features
of the situation here is that even when
President Mitchell gives the signal for
the strikers to go back to work, it will
be months j before Wilmington will be
able to get any of the hard combusti
ble. Oold weather begins very soon
in the North and the people there are
absolutely dependent on hard coal and
must have! it at any price. It will be
a long time before the enormous de
mand from that vicinity can be sup
plied, and until that time the chief sea
port of North Carolina will have to
wait as patiently as may be and do the
best she can under the circumstances,
By far, however, the most serious
aspect of the fuel question in Wil
mington, is an impending shortage in
the wood supply this Fall and Winter
by reason of the concentration of the
efforts of all choppers in the up coun
try upon the cross-tie industry, which
has developed to immense proportions
in this vicinity. The land owners and
others find it abundantly more profita
ble to "get out" the ties and raft them
to Wilmington at 12 cents each, quick
sale, than to spend their time and la
bor in bringing down wood flats and
keeping them tied up at the docks a
day or two while the cargo is being
retailed out or sold in bulk to the
dealers at the prevailing rather low
prices. One dealer said yesterday that
even now he round wood very scarce
and little' disposition on the part of
flatmen to bring it to market, although
a good advance over last season's prices
is being offered. The hundreds of
hands employed in "getting out" tele
phone and telegraph poles and gum
timber in the up-country is also hav
ing a depressing effect upon the wood
supply.
la view of the fact that wood largely
takes the place of anthracite here and
the supply of that material is necessa
rily short for the reason stated, we may
look for some pretty frigid times this
Winter and a "warm feeling" toward
the dealer who will have no alterna
tive but' to charge the Klondyke
prices, j
I COAST LINE STOCK IS
SOARING SIGNIFICANTLY.
Common Sold Yesterday at $172 Msy
Mean Tbst System Is Soon to Con.
! trol Several Roads.
There were sales yesterday of Atlan
tic Coast Line common stock at
S172.00. iThe air is full of rumors
which, after simmering the chaff from
the wheat. Indicate that within a com
paratively short period the Atlantic
Coast Line will control and operate
the Louisville and. Nashville; the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis;
the Georgia: and the Atlanta and
West Point railways and their de
pendent connecting roads.
This will make the Atlantic Coast
Line one of the most formidable rail
way systems of this or any other
country,! and one that would cod.
tribute enormously to the trade and
prosperity of Wilmington.
Telephone to Canetock.
Oanetnck Correspondence, Pender
Chronicle-. "Cane tuck will have tele
phone connection with the world in
few days. A line ia being built from
Drnnlv : to Mr. B. G. - Keith's resi-
I w a mm . m mi
dence. near &.eiin post omce. xnere
will be a phone at uaneiucx ana irom
Mr. Keith's residence the company
will extend the line to Keith and Still
Bluff, and in the near future it will
continue to Gurrie.9 It is being con-
atraatad bv the Bell Telephone uom-
any, whioh gives connection with the
ong distance line, ' and with the
world. iWe want a rauroaa now, nu;
the Still Bluff bridge, tne Lyon canax
and the telenhone is enough for one
year."
WAKE INDEPENDENTS IN
CONVENTION YESTERDAY.
Mixed Assembly of Former Democrats.
Populists aid Sepabllcaos Judge
Poraell's Caustic Letter.
- Special Star Telegram. .
Raleigh, N. O., Sept. 6.-t-The mass
meetings of Wake county independ
ent Democrats held here at noon to
day decided ; to hold primaries " for
nominating county i officers on Sep
tember 18th and the convention for
confirmation ) on . September' 80th.
About seventy-five straight Democrats
and a hundred Populists and Republi
cans attended the mass -meeting. Only
democrats ot at least two years stand
ing were allowed to participate In a
caucus prior to the convention which
cut and dried the work of open meet
ing. The independent move develop
ed more strength than' many thought
it would and. managers of tne straight
ticket arej preparing for a vigorous
fight aga&st them. u!
The Nawih Carolina State Tax Com
mission issued instructions to-day to
the chairmen of all County Boards of
Commissioners to place on their lists
for income tax salary, every United
States officer and employe whose sal
ary is over $1,000. tl I
Judge Thos. Ii. rumen, ot the u.
S. Court, recently wrote the Commis
sion a caustic letter; charging ' that
"peanut politics" actuated them in
moving them to put his salary on the
income tax list. In making reply to
day the Commission . says among
other things: i H i
'We have always had great respect
for your office and the distinguished
men who were your predecessors.
Such dignity and, courtesy always
characterized their intercourse with
their fellow men that it will be a mat
ter of surprise and regret to all to
know that one who now occupies this
exalted position should be the author
of the letter you sent us. We knew
you were a United States Judge (who
did not know it!) and we must confess
that we have no better sense than to
think that the revenue law of North
Carolina is constitutional and that it is
eminently just in its -reaching you,
although a United States Judge, ljust
as it does every other citizen of the
8tate. We hope the day will never
come in North Carolina when those
who enact and those who enforce laws
will be so great and si wise as to be
come respecters or persons in tne
discharge of their duty."
Col. J. O. Li. Harris has been em
ployed by South Dakota as counsel in
the celebrated Houtn uatota bono suit
asrainst North Carolina and will take
depositions before Mr. Ed. Battle, who
nas been named special commissioner
for that purpose. Col. Harris will act
in conjunction with ex-Gov. Russell,
who is attorney for private bonu-
bolders of the same class of bonds.
The work of taking depositions begins
Sept. 23. r ;
BOY KILLED BY ACCIDENT.
Clarence Klvers, a Colored Lad, Victim of
Accidental Discbarge of Night Watch
ma a's Pistol Last Tuesday.
Clarence Rivers, 12 years old, the
little son of Tho?. Rivera, Jr., the
well known colored undertaker, died
yesterday at 10 :30 o'clock at the family
home, No. 410 North Seventh street,
as the result of his being accidentally
shot at Front street market house early
last Tuesday 'morning, particulars of
which were given in these columns at
the time. The ball entered the thigh,
near the groin, and was never located.
although DrJ Frank H. Russell and
two colored physicians, Drt . J. H. W.
and T. R. Mask, worked faithfully to
extract it and thereby save the life of
the little fellow, j :
8tab readers will remember that the
ball was from a pistol in Night Watch
man McClammy's coat, which was dis
charged by the garment falling to
the ground from a market wagon,
where it was hung while the owner
stepped into the '; market. The boy
was employed about the market to de
liver goods and was a remarkably
well-behaved and courteous little fel
low. White and colored person?, who
knew him, speak in the highest terms
of his character and regret the acci
dent very much. ; Mr. McClammy is
also much distressed over the boy's
death, but the child's parents bear no
ill will towards him. They regard it
as an accident pure and simple and
hold no one responsible.
BRUNSWICK CLAIMS ITS OWN.
Jealoos of Its Distinction as Potato Grow
ing County Honors Transferred.
The land is yet undiscovered which
can excel the ocean-lashed coast of
Brunswick, when it comes to raising
large, luscious Norton yam potatoes
of the kind that lake joy wherever
they go. Brunswick is likewise noted
for its pork and 'possum and perhaps
country sausage, toe, but of those we
shall, perhaps, speak later the Nor
ton yam is at present under discussion
with the relative supremacy of Oolum
bus and Brunswick counties in its pro
duction. No sooner had the challenge
of Mr. O. 8. Garrell, of Tabor, Colum
bus county, been thrown down in yea
terday's Stab than it was taken up by
Mr. J. C. Brooks, of Calabash, the
countv of Brunswick, who forwarded
to the agricultural editor ot this publi
cation several "sampler," which the
tape line failed to take and the news
paper scales failed to weigh. A con
sultation ot the. "uom" ttaitor, tne
Agricultural expert, the religious pre
varicator and the poetic dreamer re
suited in a decision to return to
Brunswick i the i ribbon temporarily
transferred to Columbus.
Fight on the Show Groands.
In a general fight of negroes at the
show grounds at Twelfth and Chesnut
streets last night. Policemen Leon
George and C. G. Jones succeeded In
making the following, arrests for
charges named: ! Frank Davis, disor
derly conduct and carrying knucks;
Willie Clark, disorderly conduct and
carrying a razor;! Richard Grant and
Oscar Waddell, colored, were arrested
at the same place, earlier in the night.
One negro was slightly injured. He
was employed by the show. -
1902.
R08ES0N COUNTY CONVENTION
Pall Democratic Ticket Nominated Thnrs
day Captaia McBryde for Senate.
Luxbebton, N. C, Sept. 8. The
Robeson 'county Democratic conven
tion Thursday made the following
nominations: For Senate, Oapt. T.
McBryde; for House, Geo. H. Hall
and K. I. Britt; Clerk of the' Superior
Court, W. H. Humphrey; Sheriff, G.
B. McLeod; Register of Deeds, J.N.
Buie; Treasurer, T. Klnlaw; Coroner,
R. 8. Bond; County Commissioners,
A. R. McEachern, E. O. Nye. J. W.
Carter, R. D. Caldwell and M. L. Mar-ley-
'
Low Water la Black River.
A correspondent writing from Ra
leigh of the low water in Black river
ana tne general condition of crops
says: "Black River in Harnett coun
ty, SO miles south of here, is a river
without water. Its bottom is but
sand and dust in p'aces where last
May there was 6 to 8 feet of water.
Great numbers of wells have had to be
deepened and springs which as far as
as man's memory goes have been un
failing are now dry. It is not the
crops alone which are hurt the water
supply is threatened. lathe rolling
sand hill country, from, all accounts,
the springs are running better than
elsewhere. Along the coast, say for
25 miles, there Is a strip of territory on
much of which rain falls three to four
times a week. This was the case all
during August. In this belt are the
best crops in the State. The decline in
condition of crops in most other sec
tions since August 1st is really start-
line." -mmm
The Kitty Watts Burned.
Beaufort, N. C, Sept, 6th. The
Naththa launch Kilty Watts, owned
and operated by IheBeauforUMorehead
City and Ocracoke . Steamboat Com
pany, was burned and sunk at her
dock at Ocracoke at seven o'clock Fri
day night. The boat was a total loss;
no insurance. The crew had all left
her for an hour. The engineer re
turned first and opening the saloon
door struck a matcb, there being a leak
in a' gasolene tank and it is suppos
ed an explosion occurred, blowing the
engineer overboard, lie was rescued
but slightly injured;
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
High Point Enterprise: Win.
Collett, the Enterprise's weather
propher, who never fails, was in town
this week and says. Look for seven
snows tbi swinter nve big ones, a
record of the August fogs has been
kept.
Stanly Enterprise: We were
shown a silver dollar last week, coined
in 1860, that has an interesting history
connected therewith. Mr. Henry Mills,
of Norwood, an old Confederate Vet
eran who has braved the frosts of 82
Winters, was the proud possessor of
the Coin. When asked as to the "J.
D." engraved on the face of the coin,
Mr. Mills said the letters stoodjir Jeff
Davis, and that at the close of the war
he ferried Mr. DavIp, his family and a
party with him across the Yadkin river
between Lexington and Salisbury, and
that Mr. Davis handed him the coin
upon landing. The initials were cut
soon after the event by Mr. Horab, a
jeweller at Salisbury. Mr. Mills re
members distinctly every detail of the
incident, and tells an interesting story.
- Weldon News: Lewis Gunter,
colored, who says he has been at work
for Major Wm. Burnett, near Enfield,
jumped from the Seaboard Air Line
bridge to tne grouno, a aistance ot
sixty feet, Tuesday afternoon.- Offi
cers were after a negro who had
drawn a gun on some one at Garys
burg, and seeing Gunter on the bridge
they called to him to halt. The negro
ran to the edge of the bridge, and
leaped to the ground, falling upon
rocks and hard earth. His tongue was
cut and there were bruises about the
head. It was thought at first that he
was Louis Kerney, wanted at Enfield
for murder, but later developments
established his identity a Louis
Gunter. He was placed in the lockup
here and when seen and questioned
yesterday he did not appear to know
that he had taken such a terrible
jump.
- Favetteville Observer: The
whereabouts of Taylor McAlpin Edge,
who escaped from the Marsh-High-
smith Sanitarium Monday night, has
at last been discovered. A letter was
received from Dr. Bullard, of Samp
son county, to-day stating that Edge
arrived at nis borne, thirty mixes from
Favetteville. the morning after the
night of his escape, and at once left
for White Oak, in Bladen county, ac
companied by his wife to visit his old
home. The doctor did not know now
Edge made the journey but stated when
he was in fairly good condition when
he arrived, and that he learns that he
has been getting on very well since
he arrived at White Oak. We know
of no more remarkable case in medi
cal history than thip. A man who
had an iron bolt driven two inches
into his brain, coming thirty miles to
a hospital, having the bolt cut out,
leaving a hole in the centre oi tne
forehead as big as a half dollar expos
ing the brain, part of which had been
spilled, a few days afterwards escap
ing from tne nospitai, waiting nome
thirty miles, and now living and do
ing well.
Raleigh News and Observer:
The five-year-old son of J. T. Harris,
of Asheville, bitten a month ago by a
mad dog, returned Wednesday from
the rasteur institute, new xorr,
where the case was pronounced nope'
1a Tha UHA . wVi rk ip n-fTAvtno tar.
ribir. Is dvirnr. Physicians say he can
not live but a short time. The child
is a nenhew of Senator Pritchard. The
journey back to Ashevuie from jNew
York was a terrible experience to the
father. After the train left Salisbury
the child was seized -with convulsions
so awful that it was necessary to tele
graph ahead for physicians at almost
every station to , administer opiates.
At his home in Asheville it was
necessary for some one - to hold
the child in bed and he frequently
tore at the pillow, as though defend
ing himself from an imaginary foe.
He frequently called for water but
would never drink. Robert Wil
liams, engineer for the Cleyelandcotton
mills, was instantly killed at Lawn
dale Wednesday night in a dynamo
belt. While he waa standing near the
belt, working with a pump, the steam
began to ooze from it, when he stepped
back into the belt, which carried him
around the wheel twice, breaking his
neck, jawbone, leg, and mangling his
body very much.
NO. 46
VIOLENT ERUPTION
IN ST. VINCENT.
Soufriere Volcano Enveloped the
Island in an Electric Cloud,
and Smoke.
AN APPALLING PHENOMENON.
Sua Obscured Oppressive Heat Load
Explosloas Cimmerian Darkness .
.nominated by Lightning-Balls
of Fire People Fleeing.
. Bi Cable to the Morning utar.
KisosTOwir, St. Vinokst, Thurs
day, Sept. 4. An appalling phenome
non was witnea.ed here last night. It
lasted from 9 P. M. to 5 o'clock this
morning..
A dreadful eruption of the Soufriere
volcano enveloped this whole island
in an electric cloud and smoke. At 11
o'clock this morning the atmosphere
ia still unsettled,' but the eruption is
apparently subsiding. The sun is ob
scured and oppressive heat prevails.
The sea is slightly agitated. Sand has
fallen ten miles from the crater. No
sand has fallen here. The northern
centres are deserted.
The eruption of yesterday was long
er in duration and more violent in ac
tion than even the first outburst of
May 7th. With a haunting recollec
tion of the fate of St. Pierre, Marti
nlque, and the last disaster here, the
people converged on Kingstown and
ran to and fro, seeking the sarest shel
ters from the threatening electric
cloud spreading over the hills towards
the town, while shocks or earthquake,
though not severe, increased the panic.
At 2 o'clock in the morning loud.
rapid explosions were mingled with
the continuous terrible roar, and the
Cimmerian darknes changed into a
glimmering firmanent, lumed by fork
ed lightning, balls of fire ascending
from the crater and bursting into me-toric-like.
showers. 8uch an awe in
spiring scene the wildest flights of
fancy could not haye imagined. This
lasted until 3 o'clock in the morning.
The rumor that a tidal wave was ex-
Eected caused increased agitation and
undreds of people fled to the hills
adjoining the town. Superheated
clouds rose to an immense height and
rain clouds below sent down two
showers.
At 6 A. M. silver cloud isssuedfrom
the crater and throughout the day
they moved slowly northward. The
heat was abnormal and there were re
newed indicat ons of an outbreak of
the volcano.
Last night there unmistable signs
of Mont Pelee, Martinique, being in
eruption, simultaneously with the
Soufriere, distinct electric flashes
being observed on the northwestern
horizon. I
Quadaioupe Safe. I
Washington, September 6. In re-
spons to a cable inquiry made yester
day by the State Department in view
of the recent volcanic eruptions in
the West Indie, the following was
received to-day:
"Point-a-Pitre, September 6, 1903,
Guadeloupe safe. ; Eiobahdih,
"Vice Consul."
MARRIED AT WARSAW WEDNESDAY.
Miss Ozella Woodard the Bride of Mr.
J. E. Johnson, of Wilson.
Wilson Daily News, 4th.
Last night at the Baptist church in
Warsaw, Mr. J. E. Johnson, of Wil
son, and Miss Ozella Woodard, of that
town, were united in marriage by Key.
Betts, pastor 'of the church. The cere
mony was a beautiful one and the
decoration were elaborate and mag
nificent.
At 6 o'clock the bridal party entered
to the strains of the wedding march
and the words were said that made
them man and wife.
Dr. J. N. Johnson, brother of the
groom, was best man and Mrs. J. 11.
Newbury dame fiof honor. The fol
lowing gentlemen and ladies were
waiters and bridesmaids: Dr. A. S.
Williams. W. G. Hussey. E. J. Hill.
D. E. Best, Dr. J. H. Newbury, Miss
llattie French, of Wilmington; Miss
Estelle Williams, of Kenans ville; Miss
Stella Williams, Miss Eva Hussey, of
Warsaw, and Miss Daisy Johnson, of
Warsaw.
After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson took the train for Wilson.
They are at home at the Hotel Impe
rial. VIRGINIA COAL FIELDS.
More Striking Miners Resume Work All
Armed Qnards Withdrawn.
bv Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Beam well, W. Va., Sept.' 6.
About a thousand more striking min
ers resumed work to-day in the Nor
folk and western fields, making a to
tal of 2,500 to go back since yesterday
morning. All armed guards have
been withdrawn from the coal mine
iroperty. Hundreds of miners' fami
ies are to-day moving from the little
tents on the mountain tops back Into
the company houses in the narrow
valleys from which they were- evicted
since the strike began. Many mines
are to-day running in full, employing
more men than before the strike.
Business in this section will be fully
resumed by Monday.
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Body of the Supposed Mnrderer of His.
. Mother and Sweetheart Pound la
. Iowa Shields Indicated.
By Telegraph to tne Morning star.
Chicago, Sept. 6. -The body of a
man, thought to be William Bartho
lin, . murderer of his mother ' and
sweetheart In Chicago, six weeks ago,
was found to-day in a field- near
Lowthen, lows,' 290 miles from Chi
cago. A bullet hole in the head and a
revolver on the; ground beside the
body showed how' the hunted fugitive
had died. In the pocket of the man's
ooat was a letter-confessing to the
murder of two women in Chicago. .
Letters signed "Minnie Mitchell,"
the name of Bartholin's murdered
fiancee , also were found in the sui
cide's pockets.
Nothing was said of the death of his
mother, Mrs. Anna Bartholin, who
was found burled in the basement of
the residence at 4310 Calumet avenue
nearly three weeks after the son had
fled. Neither was any direct refer
ence made to Minnie Mitchell. The
letter simply says that "two women"
had been murdered.
The body was found in a .rice field
six miles from Rlcevllle. The discov
ery waa at once reported to the town
authorities and the body was removed
to Klceviue. There it was recognized
as that of a man who had been In the
locality for some time. A number of
Eersons recalled that the stranger had
een seen around the town for several
days. To some who had talked to
him he bad given the name of "Wil
liams." To others he had said he was
William Boscoe. At a hotel he had
registered as "Edwards." He disap
peared a week ago to-day, and it is
resumed it was then that he took his
ife in despair of eluding the police
and in terror of being captured.
Chicago, September 6. The con
fession which was found in the dead
man's pocket was dated August 81st,
and in it the writer declares that he
killed his mother, Mrs. Annie Bar
tholin, for her money, and later mur
dered his sweetheart. Miss Minnie
Mitchell. All others who have been
arrested in the case have been exon
erated in the confession, although
Bartholin accuses Minnie Mitchell of
being a party to the plot to murder his
mother. -
The murder of Mrs. Bartholin, 'the
confession runs, was accomplished ac
cording to a plot arranged between the
two lovers, and later Bartholin killed
Miss Mitchell.
MULLINS AS TOBACCO MARKET
Yellow Leaf Rapidly Superseding King
Cotton In That Vlclsity-Advaatsges
and Growth of the Town.
Special Star Correspondence.
Mullins, S. C, Sept. 6. Mullins'
marked advance as a tobacco market
has been something phenomenal In the
past four years.
Six or seven years ago tobacco
cultivation in this section was unheard
of. To-day almost every farm has
more or less tobacco under cultivation,
and it is now the moneyed crop of the
section, where "King Cotton" has
heretofore reigned supreme.
The tobacco now marketed at this
place brings ten times the value of the
cotton, and the cotton received at this
point is something near 4,000 bales an
nually, so one can judge of tho enor
mous volume of business done in to
bacco. It has three very large warehouses,
and these are hardly able to handle
the business, and already stock Is -subscribed
for the fourth ; same to be
erected for.next season's business.
There are four large stemmeries, and
they are taxed to their full capacity,
running until 10 o'clock at night.
Their daily output is from ten to
twenty thousand each.
This market has sold, since the
opening of this season, about four
million pounds of tobacco, and by the
endoffthe season, its sales will foot
up seven or eight million pounds.
Tobacco is brought to market in
wagons as far as fifty to sixty miles,
some coming from Williamsburg
county, between Florence and Char
leston, and it is shipped from more
distant points, coming from Brun
swick and Columbus counties in North
Carolina. -The
largest tobacco concerns in the
world have buyers on this market, no
tably the American Tobacco Co. of the
United States and the Imperial To
bacco Co. of England, and there are
about a score of other buyers who buy
for domestic and export trade. The
pricea paid on this market are most
satisfactory to its patrons, ranging
for ungraded tobacco from 6 to 15
cents, and for graded 8 to 60 cents per
pound.
Mullins is a very healthy place, be
ing one of the highest points on the
W., O. & A. road between Florence
and Wilmington. Her religious and
educational advantages are superb,
having one of the best schools in the
State and three churches, namely,
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian.
Mullins' population has increased
more than 100 per cent, since the last
census, and no doubt before another
census her population will entitle her
to be called a city.
WAR GAME AT AN END.
Ships of the Squadron Separated to Qo "
to Varloas Stations Whether Army
or Navy Won Not Vet Decided.
Br Telegraph to tne Horning Btar.
Block Island, R. L, Sept. 6. The
mimic war being over, the North At
lantic squadron which mobilized here
to-day after the manoeuvres of the
week separated to go to various Sta
tions. The flagship Kearsarge and
battleships Massachusetts and 'Ala
bama proceeded to New London to
pass in review before the forts.
Before the Kearsarge left to-day .
Rear Admiral Francis J. Hlgginson .
made the following statement to a
representative of the Associated Press:
"I regard the manoeuvres of the week
as being most beneficial to the navy.
We have been taught to know what .
to do under conditions of war, and
our exnerlenoe has been of almost in
calculable value. In my opinion these
manoeuvres should be held every
summer. The presence of the naval
militia added much to the Interest of
the occasion, and the services of these
men have been very satisfactory."
The admiral refused to give 1 an
opinion whether : the army or i the
navy had won in the war game, but
he manifested great satisfaction with
the manner in which the ships in his
command had been conducted. ..
, Father of the Pastor (after the
sermon) How Horace has changed
since , he was a baby! The Mother
What an idea t Of course he has
changed. Father What I mean ia
that when he waa a baby he used to.
keep me awake. Boston irantonpt.
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