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THE COAL PROBLEM.
The anthracite coal 8trike has
ceased to be a question confined to
tho State of Pennsylvania, or one in
which the coal mine operators or
the miners only are Interested.
Every one has become interested in
it because it presents a condition
which applies to the Pennsylvania
minors now, but may at any time
apply to the mines of the country
generally. Had the soft coal miners
joined the anthracite strikers, as it
was thought at one time they might,
1 m
ic wouia tnen be a mucn more seri
ous question than it is, fofthen the
supply of soft coal also, which is now
to some extent being used when
practicable as a substitute for hard
coal, would be cut short.
The North Atlantic cities are de -pendent
for their coal supplies,
(and that means for their fuel),
upon the mines of I Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Ohio, but mainly
upon Pennsylvania as they use prin
cipally hard coal. Suppose the
strike involved these three States
instead of only a portion of one,
what would be the condition of these
cities? A strike embracing all of
these and the practical closing up
temporarily of all these mines is not
a bit more improbable than the pro
longed strike in the anthracite
mines was when it began. It was
thought it might last a month or so,
no one thought it would last five
months and yet it doesn't seem any
neirer tho end now than it was
daring the first week of the "strike.
In this case neither the strikers
nor the mine operators are acting
individually. The miners are acting
ITiuembors of a Union, and the op
er.itora as members of a Trust. Com
bifi ition on both sides. Ia these
'lay of unions and combines it may
not lit long before the miners of sev
eral States will be acting in unison
as members of a Union that em
braces them all, arid the mine opera
tors of a Trust that embraces them
til. And then such a 'strike as we
tee now would Involve hundreds of
' mines, thousands more ment and
toakl mean a coal famine sure
enough compared with which the im
pending famine would ! be a trifling
matter. That is just one of the con
ditions that may confront the Ameri
can people at aay tim& It is a con
dition to which they cannot close
their eyes, but must see and must
,take preventive measures before they
are up face to face with the reality.
The question is now being aBked,
"is there no remedy in law, and if
there is not can't some remedy be
domed to protect the people' from
the consequences of obstinate broils
between the mine owners and the
men who mine the ' coal ?" As far
u has been developed there seems to
b no law to meet the emergency as
now pressented in Pennsylvania.
There is law to protect' the mining
property, to prevent violence and la
leaaness, and to protect men who are
wuung to work and incur the en-
, mity and invite assault by the
strikers. Bat that is only a partial
and altogether ineffective method
f procedure, for it is operative and
respected only as far as the soldier's
gun can snoot, it is a very costly one,
too- It is now costing the State of
Pennsylvania thousands of dollars
day, fer she has nearly four thou-
land men under arms in the mine
region.
Some way must be devised to
void this, to prevent strikes, to
Protect the people from the results
of the obstinacy of two conflicting
todies of men, each seeking its own
interest and neither! carrying the
flip of a penny for the public at
. wge, who ought to be the law
ft'ers and the arbiters in such
cues. This question has gone so
that even if the striko were end
eQ now and work in all the idle
"rines resumed, it will come up in
Btate Legislatures and in Congress
nd become a subject of earnest dis-
ensaion whether anything be done
I to rneet guch emergencies or not.
I It la iMt..j.J i : IV.k
for the elaatin mnaflfnfUnal "nnh
lie welfaro" provision', Congress has
fright to take action to protect
wwpeoplo from the, effects of coal
"IKes. Senftf.ni- M... -a Til! !.
ii -ovu, 111 A.1UUU1B,
n' contends and will present ft
VOL. XXXIII.
dui wnen the . Senata .. mnt nf
which the" following ia the sub
stance: " ' ' -
"WheneTftP dIflPMnnriTa M,n Am.
ployeri- and employes operating the
coal mines shall arise and continue. If,
In the opinion of the acting attorney
general of the United Btates or United
Btates district attorney, the rights and
laterals oi we people are being preju
diced, the attorney general or the dis
trict attorney is authorized and direct
ed to appear before any judge of the
United Btates circuit court and ask for
a receiver or tne property. It shall be
the duty of the court, upon being sat
isfied that the rights of the public are
being impaired, to grant the appli
cation and to contine the recelverahiD
until the court la satisfied that the
differences have been adjusted."
This is a pretty radical proposition,
for which no authori ty could be found
in the constitution, save, as we have
remarked,in the elastic "general wel
fare" clause, which has heretofore
been astonishingly stretched to au
thorize measures that the majority in
Congress favored.
There are others who, while not
believing that Congress has the con
stitutional right to assume control of
State mines, wonld still, in view of the
motive and the provocation, offer no
protest, but wonld give their tacit
consent, the necessity being such, in
their estimation,that,"the end wonld
justify the means," if it ever does.
But whatever the opinion as to
opinion
the constitutional right of Congress
to intervene in suoh cases, there is
little doubt that the States have or
should have the right and power to
protect themselves and - the people
from the results of clashes between
the owners of public utilities and
the men they employ. They have s
right to take measures to prevent
strikes, and if they have they have
a nght to take measures to stop
strikes. They have a right to adopt
compulsory arbitration laws and
they must be compulsory, because
without that they would command
no respect. There is an arbitration
law in Pennsylvania, but it lacks
the compulsory feature and has
therefore been a dead letter. What
is needed is a law something similar
to that suggested by Senator Mason,
to be enforced by the States in
wmcn tne industries in view are
' , a
located. If such a law were in
operation in cdal mine States there
would be no strikes, for the strike
wonld be anticipated by the ap
pointment of a receiver, who would
stand between the mine operators
and the miners and between both of
these and the public, protecting all
three.
THE CURRENCY STRAIN.
Generally speaking heretofore
there has boon a movement of cur
rency from the money centers of the
East to the West and South to sup
ply money "to move the crops,
but we are now presented with the
remarkable spectacle or money
going from Western banks to relieve
the stringency in New York, the
great financial center of the country
Exactly what causes this unpre
cedented condition we confess we do
not know, whether the Eastern banks
had sent too much of their money
out, or whether too much is locked
up in the sub treasuries and Treas
ury, but the fact remains that there
is such a .stringency, that money
on call commands in New York
from 12 to 20 per cent., depositors
are wicnarawing ineir deposits to
lend, the Secretary of the Treasury
has come to the relief of the bank-
ers, and J. f lerpon Morgans nscai
acencv announces that it will anti
cipate payment of the October
dividends, which will put about
$14,000,000 more in circulation.
And all this is happening when
the Republican financiers are boast
ing that there is more "money in cir
culation, and a larger per capita cir
culation, than there ever was in the
historv of the conntry. But the cir
culation doesn't seem to circulate.
m ...
There must be a big screw loose
somewhere in the financial machin
ery, notwithstanding the fact that
Rennblican statesmen have been
boasting of their eminent success in
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handlinnr tha financial question, and
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putting it on a sound basis. Secre
tary Gage didn't believe xit was
on a sound asis, but on a
erv unsatisfactory and what
might prove a , very dangerous one,
and be kept pleading with them to
do something to avert impending
perils, one of which was the very
condition which now presents itself,
and Secretary Sherman has also been
makin? some suggestions and has
had to resort to makeshifts to re
lieve the pressnre, as all the Secreta
ries for some years past have had to
do. It is either a question that they
feel incompetent to deal with or that
they fear to tackle.
But it. may be incidentally re
marked that a system which takes
1600,000,000 out of circulation at a
time when it is most needed and
locks it up in the treasury vaults, is
not a good system.
The Mexican National narrow-
gnage railway, wmcn . wun its
branches extends over 1,200 miles
bas never, it is claimed, killed a
passenger, in oyer twenty years.
Perhaps most of the people .m tnac
country prefer to walk. " v
PLATT'8 " TUB TO THE WHALE.
As all the Republican conventions
which have met so far this year,
with the exception of Pritchard's
convention at. Greensboro, have felt
the necessity of saying something
about curbing trusts, so the Repub lican
convention of New York did,
which met last Wednesday at Sara
toga. The platform was cut and
dried r by Boss Piatt and his asso
ciates before the convention met
and consequently there was little
opposition to 'it when it was pre :
eented and read. But Senator
Depew didn't like it and came to the
defence of the trnsts thus:
"These trusts, or combinations, or
whatever you may call them, hav-
gone on quite as rapidly In the older
countries of Europe aa io America.
They have gone on in free trade
England and in high protective tariff
Germany. Individual knowledge and
genius for affairs under our Institu
tions and the inspiration and ODDor-
imniiy or amencan iioerty will lore a
ahead. In. forging ahead, however.
such constructive business genius
carries with htm a multitude who en
joy what they never ; would if he had
not succeeded.
"Suppose that the Democratic man
agers should dissolve the Steel Corpo
ration, as they say they would, Into
its original units. Paralysis occa
sioned by dissolution and reconstruc
tion would throw one hundred asd
fifty thousadd men, with their fami
lies numbering a million more, out of
employment It would twic9 or three
times that number out in associated
industries depending upon the produc
tion of the 8teel Corporation. When
the original units were again restored
it would be found that the industrial
procession had marched past that con
dition and they would be unable to
compete as in . the old days. The ex
periment is destruction. Destruction
is not statesmanship.
This is; the same unfounded as
sertion so common among Repub
lican trust defenders, that trusts
are not confined to this 'country,
but are found in all countries, when
as a matter oi fact . no country in
the world has the trust system as
we have it, and the only two coun
tries in which they have any resenv
blance to the American trust are
Russia and Germany, both protec
tive countries, which foster and pro
tect trusts by protective tariffs and
export bounties, as our trusts are
protected by the tariff.
But as it was decided as a political
necessity to pass an anti-trust reso
lution, the following plank was run
through:
While we would encourage busi
ness enterprises which have for their
object the extention of trade and the
-upbuilding of our State, we condemn
all combinations and monopolies, in
whatever form, having for their pur
pose the destruction of competition in
legitimate enterprise, the limitation of
production in any field of labor or the
increase of cost to the consumer of the
necessaries of life, and we pledge the
party to the support Of such legisla
tion as will suppress and prevent the
organization of such illegal combina
tion. Of course this is only for election
purposes, and doesn t amount to
anything, but it Is an evidence, all
the same, of the strong hold the
trust question has taken on the
people when Piatt, who had a trust
organizer, Sheldon, slated for
Lieutenant Governor, but bad to
takehim down, incorporated it in the
.platform. He pulled Sheldon down
because Odell refused to run with
him on the ticket and then he put
this fraud anti-trust plank in the
platform to fool the people by pre
tending that his party is opposed to
trusts.
The Britons blundered when they
tackled the Boers, and blundered,
too, in estimating the num
ber of men they would have to
buck up against. They estimated
abont 30,000 men as the full fight
ing force, when the Boers could and
did put in the field between 55,000
and 60,000 men, and men who knew
how to shooc, too. .'
There is a report that Secretary
Shaw will shortly resign on account
of a rupture between him and the
President on the tariff and trust
question. It is almost ludicrous
that he should be going around the
country lauding the trnsts while the
President is pleading for power to
regulate them.
, This time a year ago the Pennsyl
vania anthracite mines were produc
ing 150,000 tons of coal a dey. Now,
they are said to be producing about
20,000 tons. A year ago it was worth
$5 a ton, now it is selling at from $12
to $15, and impossible, - except for
regular customers, to get it at that.
A New York' instice. who -has
of the milk of human kind
ness in him, has decided that con
tinuous banging on a piano in a flat
where other people live is disorderly
conduct. There is no danger of that
man losing his job." if there Is a flat
constituency in his bailiwick. '
. Appendicitis must be catching in
the German Hospital in Philadel
phia. Eight out of the twelve doc
tors in the hospital have been oper
ated upon for it within that many
days. 1 -" - ' r
It has ' been discovered that a
slight mixture of gold with aluml
nnm makes a beautiful metal for
.nnratim nnmoRRs. and one that
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WILMINGTON, N. O., ITIIDAY,
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS
Distinguished Banker and Finan
cier to Address Wilmington
Business Men. ' .-'
HON. F. A. VANDERLIP.
Former Assistant Secretary of Treasury
Will Be Dellgbted to Come Move
meat for New Ctstom House.
Mr. Gsylord Jolas Chamber.
The Chamber of Commerce is soon
to enjoy an address from one of the
most distinguished business men and
financiers in the country Hon. P. A.
Vanderlip, vice president of the Na
tional City Bank of New York, and
formerly! assistant secretary of the
treasury under President Cleveland.
Mr. Vanderlip in a letter to Presi
dent Cbadbourn, of the Chamber, read
yesterday at a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee, not only accepted the
invitation to come and speak, but ex
pressed pleasure at the opportunity of
visiting Wilmington and addressing
its business men, which he deemed an
honor He also said he would be
obliged if Mr. Chadbourn would have
the kindness to suggest a date which
would be satisfactory to him and his
fellow members. - As he is to make
several addresses between now and the
middle of October, he further said a
date near the end of the month would
be most convenient to him. Mr. Chad
bourn and the Executive Committee, -
therefore,; decided to write the distin
guished speaker that any date he
would name between Oct. 22nd and
30 th would be perfectly satisfactory.
Mr. Vanderlip also said he would be
glad to know about how many people
there will be present; the character of
(the meeting and any suggestion as to
the particular class of subjects in
which they might be interested. This
information was conveyed 'to Mr.
Vanderlip and the theme of his ad
dress and the date thereof will be an-
nounced by him very soon to the Pub
lic Entertainment Committee, into
whose hands the matter was left yes
terday by the Executive Committee.
This committee Is composed of Messrs.
M. W.' Jacob! (chairman), T. O. James
and Jno. R. Turrentine.
It is probable that the committee
will decide to give a supper and the
address will take place after the same.
The question as to place and all other
arrangements were left with the com
mittee, i .
Mr. Vanderlip concludes his letter
to President Cbadbourn as -follows:
There will, of course, be no expense In
connection with my visit to Wilming
ton. As I have before suggested, I
consider it a great honor to appear be-
fore the. Chamber of Commerce of
your city and shall look or ward with
pleasure to meeting you and your fel
low members."
It is nedless to aay the pleasure is
mutual. Mr. Vanderlip is with one
of the strongest financial institutions
in the United Stater. The National
City Bank, of which he is president,
has a capital fully paid of $25,000,000,
and a surplus and undivided profits of
$15,000,000.
Present at the meeting of the Exec
utive Committee yesterday were Pres
ident James H. Chadbourn, Vice Pres-
dent H. W. Malloy, and Messrs. 8.
P. McNair. L. B. Rogers and G. J.
Boney. -
Aside from consideration of the
matter of speaking, the only other
item of business transacted was the
unanimous election of Mr. George O.
Gavlord as a member in Class B and
his appointment on the Committee on
Industrial and Business Enterprises,
which has the tobacco 'warehouse
movement underwits special care.
Movement For New Court Boise. '
In view of the recent purchase by
the government of the property of the
Parslev estate, adjoining the- Custom
House site, the Chamber has appoint
ed a committee to gather facts con
cerning this port and to urge our mem
bars in Congress and our Senators for
n aDoronriation of $300,000 for the
erection of a new Custom House.
The committee is composed as follows
MessN. O J H. Robinson, Jas. Sprunt,
H. W. Malloy, W. H. Chadbourn and
H. G. Smallbones. The committee
will take the matter up at once and
push it to a conclusion.
HANNA SPEAKING IN PAYETTEVILLE.
Denial and a Reiteration Couceroluf a
Political Move la the Sixth District.
Special Star Telegram.
Goldsboro, N. C, Sept. 27. I wish
to state that I sent the recent special
from Dunn, N. 0., the first pargraph
of which read "The Republicans will
make a desperate effort to capture the
Sixth Congressional district for A.'H.
Slocomb. Senator rrltcnara on yes
terday at Fayetteville advised mem
bers of his political household that
Senator Mark Hanna would speak at
Fayetteville in October." And that
the information was given me by a
reputable gentleman in the presence
of ex-Congressman John G. Shaw and
John A. Oates, editor of the North
Carolina Baptist. Some discourteous
brother quill-driver having seen fit to
haetAn with a denial, which is not a
denial, from Senator Pritchard,
prompted me to telegraph Fayetteville
for farther information and i am ja
InreceiDt of the following telegram
dated Fayetteville, Sept. 27th:
Postmaster McCaskilt tells me
Pritchard, said he (Hanna) will speas:
in Favetteville and two or three other
North Carolina points In Uctober."
(Signed) J. A. Oates. - -
. - .0. J. RrvESTBAEK.
LIVELY SCRAP BY CROWD
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- OF FOREIGN SAILORS.
They Orer-rao Salooa oa (be Wharf Lsst
NlfhV-4 Noa-CombstSBt Had His Lip .
Laid Open and Went to Hospital.
There was a lively encounter last
night about 11 o'clock in Mr. Carl
Stern's bar on North Water street
between a dozen or fifteen English and
Norwegian sailors , who got into an ar
gumentover the j prowess of their re
spective countries. ,
They were all i from vessels in he
harbor and came ashore to have a big
time Saturday night. They tanked up
pretty well on liquor and when the
argument becam; heated, they r all
pitched in for a general figbt. Beer
and whiskey glasses .flew at all
angles and in all directions. One
non-combatant, a Norwegian sailor,
who had - a seat t in the corner.
was urack -lu tne mouth with a
glass and his lip split open. He was
found by the police when they rushed
in, just in time to see the belligerents
scatter.
Police Sergeant Smith conveyed tbe
wounded foreigner to the hospital,
where his lip was sewed up. He was
unable to give an intelligent account
of the scrimmage: when all his speak
ing machinery was normal; much less
when bis tongue was tied up with
liquor and his lip split open with the
glass in which it was served.
The proprietor of the saloon made
every effort to quell the disturbance,
but he had as well attempted to quiet
a cage of monkey. The sailors were
out for a good time and nothing but a
scrap was appropriate for a final.
PURCHASED VALUBLE PROPERTY.
I
Mr. Chadbooro Has Acquired Tract
of
Realty at Third and Market Streets
By a deed executed on Sept. 18th
and filed yesterday for record at the
Court House, Mr. W. H. Chadbourn
purchased of the school committees of
Wilmington township, the valuable
parcel of city real estate at northeast
corner of Third and Market streets,
paying $4,000 therefor, j The property
is described as beginning in the north
ern line of Market street at a point
91f feet east from northeast corner of
Third and Market streets; running
thence westwardly along said northern
line of Market street, 53 feet; thence
northwardly and parallel with Third
street 100 feet; thence westwardly
and parallel with. Third street, 38 feet
to the eastern line of Third street;
thence northwardly along said eastern
line of Third street, 65 feet; thence
eastwardly and parallel with Market
street 911 feet; thence southwardly
and Eparallel with: Third (street 165
feet to the point of beginning in the
northern line' of Market street.
The deed is signed by Messrs. James
F. Post. E. Borden and Richard JJ
Jones,, of Bchool Committee No. 1;
Messrs. Samuel Northrop. U. W.
Worth and W. R. Kenan, of School
Committee No. 2; Uol. W. A. John
son ana rror. .Washington Uauett,
chairman and clerk, respectively, of
the County Board of Education.
TOBACCO CROP ACROSS THE RIVER.
Bruaswlck Farmers Watchier Wilmior
ton's Movement for a Wsrehsase.
Southport Standard.'
Messrs. Drew, Southerland & Co.,
who planted tobacco this year, have
made sales land the price is 'satisfac
tory. They sold one grade of their
tobacco at 1654 cents per pound and
their crop of long wrappers for 27
cents, which fs considered a good
price. y
Mr. Drew ! tells us that tne sou in
Brunswick is adapted to the growth of
tobacco." It Is considered by experts
that a fine grade of wrappers can be
grown here, and; they bring fancy
prices.
Tbe enterprising firm named above
gives the Brunswick county farmers
an object lesson as to the possibilities
of our soil, which, rests with them to.
develop. : . -
The agitation of the question of
building a tobacco warehouse in Wil
mington is watcbed with Interest. Mr.
Drew advances the idea of a warehouse
at Southport Should the farmers in
the community go into the tobacco
business, an expert could be secured
to come here and assist them in the
growth and curing of the crop.
Will Command "City of Fayetteville.
Fayetteville Ofwewer:: "Capt. J.
O. Smith has been appointed to the
command of the new steamer City of
Fayetteville, of the Fayetteville and
Wilmineton Steamboat Company.
Oapt Smith was one of, the best of the
Upper Gape Fear river captains, with
a record of more than ufteen years in
the service. A number ' of years ago
Oapt Smith left tbe Upper Cape Fear
service to accept command of the O.
F. and Y. V. railroad's transfer steam
er Compton, where he remained until
the service was abandoned by the sale
by the A. U. Li. Uapt Smith has since
been in command ; of several river
craft, so his hand -is well in. Mr. John
K. 8trnze was some time ago ap
pointed purser, and Mr. L. L. Moses,
chief engineer.
Bruaswlck "Independents?"
Seeking to interest an alleged dis
satisfied element in the Democracy of
Brunswick county, it . is said that the
Republicans and Populists over there
will attempt to give a color of inde-
pendentlsm to their county convention
which has been called for next month.
When the time comer, however, re
marked a well informed man yester
day, it will be seen that it is the same
old crowd of Republicans, no matter
under what guise they may attempt to
bring themselves out for omca. cir
culars intended to give a shade of ln-
dependentisi to the convention are
already being distributed.
Tarboro Southerner: Tho price
of cotton seed Is out of proportion to
that of cotton. The trust has put up
the seed , to 281 cents and there
strong probabilities of its going still
higher. The object is to kill out tbe
Independent mills.
THE "STATE PAIR MARSHALS.
About Seven Hundred la All Those from
wnmioftoa asd Payetfeville.
Special Star Tdearam. I
Raluqh, N. 0., September 2$.
Marshals for the 8tate Fair, October
27th to 31st,' as selected by Chief Mar
shal J no. - L. PattersonJ were an
nounced to-day. There are - about
seven hundred in all. The following
are from Wilmington : John J. Blair,
Jfi. P. Bailey. John D. Bellamv. Jr..
3rd., 8w"ift Boatwright, Clayton Giles,
Bia tioit, w. is. Kenan, Major K. w.
VanCourt Lucas, Dr. T. R. Little, EL
H. Mcllhennv. Dr. Pride Thomas. Dr.
Tom Steele, Frank Stedman," James
Btevenson, John K. Williams, Au
brey Parsley, E. P. Willard and Wal
ter Williamson.
Those from Favetteville are W. W.
Hume, . A: McKethan, H. . Mc
Geachy.. H. M. Pemberton. J. R .
Thompson, J. B. TUllnghast. G. Un
derwood, A.- is. Williamr, Jr, J. B.
Williamson and K. H. Williamson. '
HALF-WIT SUBMITTED TO MURDER.
Sentenced to Thirty Years la Penitentiary.
The News from Raielfh.
Special Star Telegram
Ralbiqh, N. 0., Sept. 25. Lorenzo
Morris tc-day submitted to a charge of
murder in the second degree for kill
ing Mrs. Katherine White, near Ra
leigh, four months ago and he was
sentenced to thirty years imprison
ment. Morris is half-witted.
The Republican convention of the
Fourth district met here this evening
and decided to leave th i nomination
of a Congressional candidate against
E
W. Pou, Democrat, to the Executive
Committee of which Frank D. Jones,
or uuir, is chairman.
The State Treasurer charters the
Bank of Union, at Monroe: capital
$25,000. W. 8 Blakeney, Plains, S.
C, F. O. Blakeney and Shute & Sons.,
of Monroe, are among the largest
stockholder.
CRAlfj AND PRITCH4RD AT RALIE0H.
Many Heard snd Many Turned Away
Marlon Butler Heard from Again.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, September 27.
Ex-Senator Butler gave out to-night a
letter he has written Senator Pritchard
in which he declares he will support
mm ior re election.
More neonle were turned awav from
the Hall of Representatives to-night
than got in to hear the Oraig-Pritchard
joint debate. It was a clash of politi
cal giant?, and both were heard with
intense interest. A good majority of
the crowd were with Craig and ap
piauaed enthusiastically. However.
Pritchard had a large following, who
accorded him considerable applause.
Mr, Patterson's Appointments.
G. B. Patterson, Esq., Democratic
nominee for Congress in this district,
and O. a Lyon, Esq., Democratic
nominee for solicitor in the sixth
judicial district, will speak at the fol
lowing places in Columbus county on
the dates given: Sidney. Wednes
day morning, Oct. 1st; Whiteville,
Wednesday night, Oct. 1st; Cerro
Gordo, Thursday morning, Oct. 2nd,
and at Fair Bluff on the night of the
same day.
Convicts From Brunswick.
Sheriff Walker, of Brunswick coun
ty, yesterday brought up from South-
port four convicts sentenced at last
week's term of Brunswick Superior
Court to terms on the New Hanover
chain- gang as follows: Ben Edge,
larceny, one year; Jonah Green, false
pretence, four months; Abe Hanklns,
retailing liquor without license, three
months; Joe Porter, larceny, one
year. All but the last named are col
ored. Mr. Ed. Huf zios to Wed.
uandsome wedding invitations re
ceived in the city yesterday read' as
follows: "Mrs.. Jan ie E. Clark will
give in marriage her daughter, Janie
Elize, to Mr. Edwin Toomer Huggins,
on Wednesday, October the eighth,
nineteen hundred and two, at half
after one o'clock, Grace Methodist
church, Savannah, Georgia. The
honor of your presence is requested."
The farmers of Marlborb county
who are interested in tobacco culture
will meet at Bennetts ville on the
second Friday in October to discuss
tobacco growing with a view to intro
ducing it more extensively in that
very fertile county.
The British steamer Baron
Eldon. from Philadelphia, and the
British steamer Acacia, from Balti
more, are expected to arrive this week
for cargoes of cotton.
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NO. 49
MURDERED IN A
NEW YORK CAFE.
A Wealthy Resident of Qlencove,
Long Island, Killed for the
Purpose of Robbery.
IN A TENDERLOIN RESORT.
Body Decapitated Charred Head Found
la Furnace at the House A Walter
. and Two Other Men Arrested
Charted With the Murder.
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o By Telegraph to the Morning Bur.
, Nuw Yobs, September 27. James
B. Craft, a wealthy resident of Glen
cove, Long Island, was murdered to
day and his body decapitatedwin a Ten
derloin resort known as the Empire
Garden Cafe, in West Twenty-ninth
street, within a few doors of Broad
way.
All the evidence goes to show, says
the police, that Craft, who had been
making the rounds of the Tenderloin,
Incautiously displayed a large amount
of money in the Empire and was killed
by one or the waiters, known as Taos.
Tobin, for the purpose of robbery.
The police say that knockout drops
were first administered and that then
the victim was dragged into a base
ment and killed with a cleaver. -
The odor of burning flesh attracted
the attention of the occupants of the
upper part of the house early this
morning and led to the discovery by
detectives of the nude and headless
body of a man in the basement The
charred head was discovered a few
minutes later in the furnace, in which
a fire had been recently made with the
evident intention of destroying all
possibility of identification of the re
mains. Later, the body was identified
by Walter Craft, of Qlencove, as that
of his father. The murdered man was
about fifty-one years of age and was a
manufacturer of refrigerating ma
chinery in Cortland street, this city.
Tobin, who is charged with the murder,
was caught hiding in the house, xne
police also arrested Alexander Mc
Anerney, the bar-tender, Robert Kelly,
a porter in a Chinese restaurant in the
building, and several women wno
were known to be frequenters of the
5 lace. The' police said to-night that
chin's real name is Thomas Kelly,
and that he is a brother of the porter
Kelly. They also learned that Craft
attemnted to ret a check for $1,250
cashed before he went to the Empire,
A woman named Mamie Moore, who
is known to have been in the place
with Craft and who is held as a wit
ness, made an important statement to
night which the police declined to make
public. She is is said to have impli
cated McAnerney as an accomplice of
Tobin.. -
At the examination at the coroner's
office the police declared that they
found on Tobin, McAnerney and Kel
ly letters and papers belonging to the
dead man. In his story to the cor
oner McAnerney said the man who
was killed exhibited a big roll of bills
and Tobin suddenly told him he lied
and struck him over the head. He
dragged him down stairs, and as be
passed through one-of the lower floors
he picked up a cleaver and struck the
unconscious man across the chest. I
followed him down to the cellar," Mc
Anerney continued. "I watcbed To
bin drop his burden and begin to hack
at the man's neck. He chopped and
chopped and when the head refused to
come off he began to saw it with the
cleaver. He suddenly turned round
and discovering me he said he would
cut my head off too."
As MeAnernev related the story To
bin jumped to his feet and said it was
McAnerney who murdered the man
and not he.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
High Point Enterprise: The
new company mentioned in tne last
issue of the Entervrise ior the manu
facture of sideboards was organized
this week with a paid up capital of
$20,000. with privilege to increase to
$50,000. ,
Wilson Times: Mrs. W. E.
Lane, who resides near Faro, in
Wavne county, has a hen she is ' posi
tive Is over eighteen years old. nor
eighteen consecutive years and longer
she has raised two broods of chickens
each year and always had her nest in
one place in a nail keg near the front
porch.
Chatham Record: The Bepub
lican leaders are meeting with no suc
cess in their efforts to stir up dissen
sion and dissatisfaction among the
Democrats of Chatham. They have
their hands full in trying to whip
their own followers into the party
traces, many of whom declare they
will not vote for the ticket forced on
them by the court house ring.
Fayetteville Observer: ' The
Robeson county Independent conven
tion, BO-called,met at Pembroke Thurs
day and endorsed the ticket recently
put out by the Republican convention.
Most of the "independents'" came irom
the Red springs and JUumber Bridge
sections, while the bulk of those pres
ent were Republicans and uep-ropu-
can. The convention ignored tax. ft.
RMeKethan's candidancy and favored
Mr. Slocomb, the Republican nominee.
Sanford Express: Hundreds
of hands are at work on the site of the
proposed cotton mill to be built by the
Dukes on the Uane Fear river in Har
nett county. Tbe land is being cleared
off. streets laid out and thousands of
brick made. The investment will be
between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000.
ur. T. Li. unisnoim is naving one
dozen cottages erected on the ntl op
posite the Sanford cotton mills: As
the $30,000 annex to the mills is near-
lng completion, these houses will soon
be needed for additional operatives.
Monroe Enquirer : Last Sun
day afternoon the wire of air. Jas.
Smith, who lives in the western por
tion of Vance township, committed
suicide by taking strychnine. The
facts, as we learn them, are that Mrs.
Smith and her husband had both been
drinking and that Mrs. Smith, about 2
o'ciocic declared tnat sue was coins? to
take poison and kill herself. Mr. Smith
I told his wife to go ahead and carry out
i dl(L m tht h thonrflthis
wife to be joking abont killing herself
and that he had no idea that she was In
earnest Mrs. Smith was about
years old and was the second wife of
her husband. Mecklenburg conn-
ty claims to have the champion cotton-
p'ker, Joe Redfearn, colored, who
picked 458 pounds of cotton last Mon
day in seven hours and fcnrtyfminutes.
Harry Rose, Stsre Manager of the Qar-
rlckv Theatre, New York 'City The
.Womaa Formerly aa Actress. -
By leiegrana to the rning star.
New Yobs, Sept ; 27. Harry Rose,
stage manager of the Garrlck theatre,
shot and Instantly killed his wife to
day at their apartments In . West
Thirty-third street. Immediately after
wards he surrendered himself at the
nearest police station, where he handed
the revolver to the sergeant, saying:
"I have just shot my wife." -
Jealousy was the cause of the
tragedy, Rose,' according to his state
ment to the police, having .detected ;
his wife in an intrigue and being mad-,
dened by her admission of guilt . -
Mrs. Rose was formerly an actress
and was known on the stage as "Belle :
Berger." She was a sister of Mrs.
Charles Zimmerman, whose husband
is a partner in the Philadelphia firm
of Nixon & Zimmerman?'
The man charged by Rose with hav
ing alienated the affections of his wife .
is Samuel F. Adams, a wealthy real
estate dealer and a constant . attendant
at first night performances, with whom
Rose was on terms or friendly inti
macy and whom he says he introduced
to his wife.-
Mr. Adams was greatly overcome
on learning of Mrs. Rose's tragic death,
but denied that there had been any
impropriety in his relations with her.
Rose was held without bail by the cor
oner and committed to the Tombs.
Rose made the following statement .
to Coroner Scholer this afternoon:
"Samuel F. Adams has caused all
my trouble. Three days ago I had
absolute proof that he had alienated,
the affections of my wife. Rather than
to live in the asme house with her I
moved 1 -my belongings to the" hotel
Vendome I did not return to my
apartments until this morning. I
asked my wife why she had betrayed
me. She said: 'I love. Adams and
cannot live without him.' That settled
the matter for me and I shot her."
STORM IN SICILY
IS STILL RAGING.
Hundreds of Bodies of Desd Recovered.
Volcauos la Active Eruption New
Craters Opened.
Br Cable to tne Morning etar.
Rome, Sept 27. Advices received
this evening from Sicily show that the
tempest that worked such damage in
that island is still raging. Details of
the storm multiply the number of
deaths. On the east coast 370 bodies
have .been recovered and the sea' con-
tinues to give up corpses .which were 1
swept , down by the torrents from
the interior. It is estimated .that-
500 bodies have already been
recovered. Three hundred lives were
lost at Modica. The -churches there
are filled with dead and the cemeteries
are wastes of mud, rendering the in
terment of the bodies of the victims
impossible. Salvage operations con
tinue, troops and peasants .working
without intermission.
Catania, Sicily. September 27.
The whole country about Mount Etna
has suffered greatly. Mount u9tna is
sending up a thick column of steam
from the vicinity of th scene of the
eruption of 1892. Two fresh craters
have opened on Btromooil since (Sep
tember 13th.
London, September 27. A dispatch
from Rome, after confirming the re
ports that Stromboli bas been In full
eruption recently.says : The night scene
was grand but terrifying. Lva
streamed down -the mountain aider
seawardr, whilst huge boulders were;
hurled from the crater lo a great
height, falling into the sea fully two
nd a half miles from the short. . ... v
The observatory, at - Monnt Mm '
says there has been no earthquake in
Sicily, bat that probably there has
been a submarine eruption between .
Stromboli and Sicily.
THE TOBACCO WAR ENDED.
Amalgamation Under Name of the British-
American Tobacco Co.-Capltal $30, '
000,000 Duke to Be President.
bt Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
London, Sept 27. The tobacco war
has been ended bf the amalgamation
of the American and British interests.
The papers were finally signed to-day. .
The business of Ogdens, limited, has
been transferred to the Imperial To
bacco Company and the export busi
ness of the Imperial, Ogdens and the
American Tobacco Company and its
allies have been amalgamated and a
joint company is in course of forma-'
tion, under the name of the British-
American Tobacco uo., limited. Tbe
result is that the Imperial Company
will, as agreed between the hitherto
competing parties, be left in possession
of the trade of the United Kingdom,
while the American company is not to
be disturbed in the United States or
Cuba, and the British American Com
pany will compete for tne trade of tne
other parts of the world. -
"We are decidedly pleased at tne
outcome of the negotiations' said one
of the highest officials of the American
Tobacco company, discussing the situ
ation with a representative ' of the As
sociated Press. .
"Regarding the details you can say
that the capital of the British-American
Company will be $30,000,000. Mr.
Duke will be tbe President.
"Regarding the Imperial Company's
factories in the United States concern
ing which considerable matter has been
printed in England, they are merely
leaf factories and will be operated for
that purpose."
THE COAL STRIKERS.
Rallrosd Trsla Dynamited No One Hurt.
No Cnsure la the Situation. .
By Telegraph to tne Horning star.
Woeesbabbx, Pa., Sept 27. The
Eighth and Ninth regiments of the .
State Guard had easy times in the
Wyoming region to-day. : The strike
district was quiet. .. -
Borne unknown persons placed a
stick of dynamite on the Lehigh Val
ley railroad, - near Yatesville, - last 1
night. When a big freight engine,
passed over the dynamite there was an
explosion and the pilot of the engine '
and the windows of the , cab were
broken, but none of the. crew was
hurt The close of the twentieth week
of the strike sees no apparent change'
in the situation. .
A Houston. Tex., telegram savs:
During the past twelve hours there
has been a terrific rainfall over the'
whole southeast portion of east Texas, .
which has done great damage to open
cotton, drowned cattle and . caused
other destruction. - : r
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