North Carolina Newspapers

t" - - .v.v f. - - i V ,a-W. .i1""' -"Mr - 1 V. . WILLIAM H. BBBNABD Xdltor and Prowls Vt. , Friday, - October 24, 1902. Democratic State Ticket Thli is the Democratic Slate Ticket, to be TOted on November 4th, 1903. Superintendent of Public Instruction: JAMES T. JOYNER, Guilford County. Member of the North Carolina Cor poration Commission: EUGENE O. BEDDING FIELD, Wake County. Chief Justice of the Suoremr Court: WALTER CLARK, Wake County. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court: HENRY G. CONNOR, Wilaon County. PLATT D. WALKER, Mecklenburg County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Second Judicial District: ROBERT B. PEEBLES, Northampton County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Fourth Judicial District: 1 CHARLES M. COOKE, Franklin County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Sixth Judicial District: WILLIAM R. ALLEN, Wayne County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Eighth Judicial District: , WALTER H. NEAL, Scotland County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Tenth Judicial District: BENJAMIN F. LONG, Iredell County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Eleventh Judicial District ERA8TUS B. JONES, Forsyth County. Judge of the Superior ; Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District: WILLIAM B. COUNCILL, Catawba County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District: MICHAEL H. JUSTICE, Rutherford County. Judge of the Superior Court of the , Fifteenth Judicial District: FREDERICK MOORE, Buncombe County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Sixteenth Judical District: GARLAND 8. FERGUSON, Haywood County. For Congress Sixth District: GILBERT B. PATTERSON, of Robeson. For Solicitor: . Fifth District Rodo'ph Duffy, of Onslow. " i Seventh District C. C. Lyon, of Bladen. ' LEGISLATIVE TICKET. For the House George L. Morton. For the Senate George H. Bellamy. - COUNTY TICKET. Clerk Superior Court-Jno. D. Taylor. Sheriff Frank H. Stedman. Register of Deeds W. H. Biddle. Treasuer H. McL. Green. Coroner C. D. Bell. Surveyor Alex. P. Adrian. Constable, Wilmington Township W. B. Bavare. SECRETARY SHAW AS A SUB SIDY BOOMER. Some people have concluded that because the ship subsidy advocates have not had much to say about it for some time they have abandoned it and that it is dead; but it is very far from being dead or abandoned. There was a meeting a few days ago of some commercial body in Phila delphia in which this subject was brought np and resplutions were adopted favoring the establishment of a merchant marine, and subsidies for that purpose. This will prob ably be followed with similar de clarations by other commercial bodies for which the resolutions will be prepared in advance by gentle men interested in getting a pull on he"U. S. Treasury. One day last week Secretary Shaw delivered, a speech in Detroit, in which he told his audience how necessary it was to increase our trade with other countries, and how essen tial an American merchant marine is to accomplish that. The gist of his remarks is embraced in the fol lowing extract: "A ship-subsidy bill has passed the Benate. I am not speaking in its favor, but after all that has been said against it, it is due those who have la bored in Its interest to say that the drain upon the treasury would be in finitesimal. It costs our people $200, 000,000 a year to carry their trans oceanic freight, and under the bill as it passed the Senate, not to exceed $1,200,000 can in anywise be paid out until more ships are built, and when ever a ship is constructed, 95 per cent, of its cost goes to labor, and I have never yet raised my voice against ex pending the public revenues which come from the rich and well-to-do, in , such ways as throws 95 per cent, of it to labor. So, without discussing the merits of the bill now pending, I want tourge the Importance of a bill con structed upon very different lines, one that shall insure regular steam ship communication to South American countries. South African cruntrlesand the islands adjoining. It is idle' to suppose that steamship lines will be established to those ports without government aid. There is lit tle freight now to carry, and no in ducement, and a steamship line would perish before sufficient trade could be built up to make it profitable. It took long yean to establish such commerce to make our Pacific lines of profit. It - will take perhaps longer still to make steamship lines to the southward prof itable, and In many opinions, any ship subsidy bill that will meet the appro val of both houses of Congress will contain special provisions for these new lines and at rates in excess of what is necessary to Induce competi tion wun uuropeon lines In trans-Atlantic commerce. The marvel to me Is that the cotton-poducing states are not a unit in iavor or every means that shall enlarge the markets for their surplus, xo my mind, there Is no public question of so great importance as loreign markets for our manufatur M products. Every one will agree with the Bee retary that we should do everything we can, within reason, ' everything that is proper, to build up our mer chant marine and extend our trade. He is right in advocating both, but wrong in the method he proposes. He may be sincere when he says 95 per cent, of the $1,300,000 which mavTbe 'drawn" from the treasury when ships are builtr goes to labor,1 or he may be indulging in a little" demagogy to secure the support of laboring men for the subsidy scheme. Does any one suppose that the builders of ships get only only 5 per cent, of the donation, while la bor gets 95? This is the most lib eral estimate we have ever seen for labor's pull out of the subsidy bag." It seems to have escaped Mark Hanna and the other subsidy boom ers and been left to Secretary Shaw to discover. It was also left for Secretary Shaw to dis cover that "the public reve nues come from the rich and well-to-do?" for which reason he, has never been opposed to giving 95 per cent of it to labor. The gener al opinion is that the "rich and well-to-do" are the people who are most farvored in the matter of pay ing revenues, and that it is the poor who pay by far the larger part of them, so that when this question is honestly presented it simply means that other labor must pay tribute to furnish subsidies so that 95 per cent, of these subsidies may be divided among the compara paratively small number of men employed in ship building and in supplying the materials needed in the construction of ships. Secretary Shaw does not make any reference in this to the en couragement of the ship building business, with the aid of subsidies, but if he has that in view 5 per cent, encouragement would not be much, and would be little encour agement if the difference between the cost of labor in European ship building countries and this be as great as they say it is (which is one of the principal reasons assigned for asking for subsidies). But if this is not the object why not repeal the acts prohibiting Americans from flying their own flag over ships bought in other countries? If our carrying trade languishes for want of ships, and the main thing is to encourage our foreign trade, why not do that and let our capitalists who desire to engage in ocean car rying buy . their ships where they could buy them the cheapest? Wouldn't this help? It took years, he says, to make our Pacific lines profitable. These ines have been subsidized, and not withstanding that the Japanese ship owners have taken the profit away rom these subsidized ships and are practically capturing the carrying trade of the Pacific. Bnt even as suming that these subsidies would be some help, that they, would de- ray a considerable part of the ex pense of operating steamship lines, how are they going to build up a arge trade with countries that are practically barred out by our pro tective tariff F Secretary Shaw says the Dlngley tariff is about as perfect a piece of work of that kind as could be devised, and therefore, of course, should not be revised, which means that there must be no lowering of the protection wall, so that to protect the manufacturers and other beneficiaries of the protective system, our traders must be handicapped in their efforts to expand our foreign trade, subsi dies or no subsidies, ships or no ships. t isn't so much a lack of ships as the ack of fair trading conditions that has hampered our trade with foreign countries. International trade is to a large ex- tentent international barter. The na tions that have the products that each has use for can doa barter business profitable to both, and it is such na tions that do the most of that kind of business. This is one reason why our trade is so backward in some countries, althoughjwe have so many advantages in point of dis tance, in the cheapness of produc tion and in other, respects, but where other nations have gotten the start of us and gained a strong oothold while we have secured no 'oothold at all and are complaining because we have not. If Secretary Shaw is really anx ious to open new markets for Ameri can products let him cease boosting ship subsidies and advocate the repeal of the navigation laws which prevent Americans from buying foreign-built ships, and the reduc tion of the tariff, which would en courage trade with other countries and create a demand for our sur plus products. That would be a fairer and a better way to do this than by subsidy pampering, which he admits may take "long years" even wicn subsidies. The losses by the coal strike are estimated all the way between 1140, 000,000 and 1200,000000. A con siderable margin, but it does not make any difference to the barons or the miners, as the publio will have to foot the bill in the long run. A writer in a Chicago paper savs the water of that city is the best' of all the cities. But what does a fel low who was raised on Chicago water know about good water r Deafness Cannot be Oared by local applications as they cannot reach the tusMMd portion oC the ear. There la only one war to core deafness, and that i hi mnKtitn. tlonal remedies- Deafness is caused by an In flamed condition of the mucoua lining ot the AUHUMJU1U1 X UUQ. WUOU tOlS tUDS IB lOUtmed ron have a rnmbllDE sound or imnrrwt hur. lng, and when It Is entirely closed. Deaf nesa Is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition. heaitaK will be destroyed forever. nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, woicn in no wing du a uwamea condition Ot the mncons serrtaea. we will glTe One Handred Dollars for any ease ot Deafness (caused by chtarrb) that can not be cored by Hall's Catarrh Care. Bend for circulars, iree. . old by all aragglatt, 75c. 1 T 3. OjbCMTT. A CO, Toledo, O, Hall's Family Pills are the best. t Money! Are you Indebted toTHE WEEKLY STAR? If 80. I when, you receive a bill for vouraubscriDtionsena us the amount you owe. $ Remember, that a news- a per bill is as much en-1 titled to your consldera-x to tionasis a diii lor gro.: ceries. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON TRUSTS. Attorney General Knox delivered a speech in Pittsburg 1 several days ago in which he discussed the trust question, and argued that Congress has the power to deal effectively with trusts of a monopolistic char acter without waiting fox a consti tutional amendment. Here is the argument: "If it be true that Bute can au thorize or permit a monopoly of pro duction within its borders because it has the power over production us sucb, although it indirectly affects interstate commerce, may not the United 8tates regulate interstate commerce over which it has exclusive control, even though it indirectly affects produc tion, over which, as such, it has no control t "If Congress under its power to reg ulate interstate commerce may utterl j destroy a combination and forfeit its property in-interstate transit, as the Sherman act provide?, because it re strains sucn commerce. It seems- rea sonable to say that it can in the ezer- ci e of the same power deny to a com bination whose life it cannot reach the privilege of engaging in interstate commerce except upon such terms as Congress may prescribe to protect tbat commerce from restraint" The New York Sun, one of the trust champions, pronounces this "probably the most startling doc trine ever emanating from the De partment of Justice.'' But papers which are not trust organs take a different view, one of which, the Washington Post, independent in politics, thus comments upon it: In view of the opinion expressed by Attorney General Knox, in his Pitts burg speech, that under the constitu tion as it stands Congress has power to regulate and control the trusts, why do our Republican contemporaries continue to advocate an anti-trust amendment! ' It is reasonably pre sumable that, if the Attorney General bad arrived atnis present conclusion on this great question a few weeks ago, and acquainted the President therewith and with the argument he made at Pittsburg in support of it, there would have been no Presiden tial suggestion of such an amend ment. Mr. Knox is excellent authority in this matter. His dis cussion of it shows that he has given t serious attention. Why, then, should the practically impossible scheme of an amendment continue under discussion! Why seek to give to Congress a power with which it is already clothed, a power which, ac cording to the Attorney General, it has possessed since the government was created! It is scarcely to be expected that the President will recommend to Congress the submission of the much-talked-of amendment. That would not be a high compliment to the Attorney Genera). And pending further devel opments on this subject, it would seem to be fitting for Republican or-, gans to desist from their daily waste of space and energy in advocating what nqne of them has any reason to be lieve will ever be accomplished. The Post's comment is quite pertinent, or would be if the Re publican pretended anti-trust states men had not struck on the consti tutional amendment scheme as a ruse to gain time and placate pub lic sentiment, which is aroused as it never was before. If it could be carried through at all it would take several years to do it, and in the meantime tfie trusts would proceed with business as usual. The consti tutional amendment plan has no terrors for them. A writer in the New York Mail, figuring on the earth's 1,600,000,000 population now, informs us that by the year 2091 the earth will be so crowded with people that it will not be able to produce food enough for them. By that time they will get used to short rations. A good many of us have to scramble pretty lively to get enough now. The announcement is made that ex-Senator Peffer, of Kansas, has shaved off his whiskers. This is the first we have heard from Peffer since he crawled back into the Republican party. LOCAL DOTS Negro pickpockets plied their vocation to some extent with the cir cus at Florence Tuesday. One negro lost 140 but recoveredihalf of it, and a white man lost $30. Winston Sentinel: "Letter Carrier Arthur Prempsrf, who sent in his resignation Monday, was persuad ed to withdraw It. His route is in Salem and he is popular with the peo ple he serves. " Einston has raised its small pox quarantine against Newborn, but will watch closely the situation as it de velops n the latter city. Charlotte re ports several cases but none danger OUS. ' I - License was issued yesterday for the marriage of j Miss Catharine Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, of Brunswick county, to sir, Jno, T. Stokley, of Harnett ' township, this county. Be Pol llit BIG FIRE A11A11ILET. Property Loss of NeW $200,- 000 and a Young M an tost His Life. SPARK FROM ,AN tNQINE. Thought to Hare Started Blase a Com press Ice Factory, cottok andpther BoUdlags Went Up Is Snske. Covered by lasnraace. f - ' Hamlet, a. C, one hundred miles from Wilmington on the Seabokrd Air Line, was visited by a deatruclire fire Sunday at noon. The railroad com press at tbat, point, leased bj' C. EL Johnson, of R&lelgb, together with the ice plant, one of the largest in the 8ute, 2,400 bales or cotton and a vast quantity of burlaps and bagging,wen up in smoke, causing a property' loss of $200,000. J.TI. Wilsoo, of Qarks ville, Ga., bookkeeper at the com press, and a nephew of the lessee. Mr. Johnson, lost his life. The railroad authorities succeeded in saving the car-shed, a short distance away, with engines and a bucket! bri gade, and many cars on the side ttacks near the press were saved, but six imp ly cars alongside the press platform were burned. When the fire started, from a cause not yet definitely determined, the watchman was on duty in the middle of the building and says he threw on buckets of water, placed close by and all around the building for safety, while Mr. Wilaon, the book keeper attached a hose and played on the fire, but so rapidly did the flames spnad that the watchman cried: "We cm do .noth ing; run for your life." The fire was coming on so fast that tbe watchman ran through the office and jumped through a raited window, but Wilson was caught ii the flames and burned beyond recognition. His body was found in tbe afternoon about 5 o'clock within, a few feet of a rear entrance to the building. His head, limbs and shoulders hid been con- turned and only a charred mass re mained. He was identified by his watch, keys and his beh buckle. He had only been in Hamlet this season and was very popular ever the State, being from' one of the leading fami lies. 1 The compress covers five acres of ltnd and Jn season did a large busi ness. It furnished employment to about 75 people. Rajleiqh. N. C. Oct. 20. Chas. K. Johnson, lessee of the Seaboard Air Line cotton compress at Hamlet and director of the 8. A. L. Company, re turned to day from Hamlet. He went to Investigate the fire and on account of the horrible burning of bis nephew. Jno. M. Wilson. Mr. Johnson says all the property damage by fire was well covered by insurance. He thinks the old compress here In Raleigh, now out of use, ; will be moved to Hamlet. The loss by the fire is estimated at $190,000. The general opinion seems to be that the fire started from a spark out of tne engine of a wreck train. which passed a few minutes before the fire was discovered. The engine had been recently changed to a wood bur ner. - CITIZEN OP PENDER DEAD. Mr. Jao W. Ormsby, of Ashtoa, Passed Away Yesterdsy la Thli City. Mr. John W. Ormsby, a well known citizen of Ashton, Pender county, died yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the residence of his brother, Mr. J. O Ormsby, 918 North Fourth street. He was66 years age and leaves a wife and eight children, all grown. The children are Messrs. D R, J. K, William, G. N., A. C, and Edgar Ormsby and Misses Gertrude and Bettie Ormsby. He also leaves a brother in Florid, Mr. G. M. Ormsby. The remains will be taken on the 9:80 northbound train to Ashton this morning and the funeal will be preached at noon by Rev. G. B. Web ster, who will accompany the remains with members of the family. SEABOARD AIR LINE ALL RIQHT. Reports Ensnstlsg from Norfolk as to Coal Shortage Are Contradicted. The general agent of the Seaboard Air Line In Wilmington is in receipt of information from General Manager J. M. Barr that the recent ramore, ema nating from press dispatches at Nor folk, Va., in regard to shortage of fuel on that system are absolutely without foundation. No freight nor passenger trains have been annulled, nor failed to make their usual schedule on this account, and complete arrange ments have been effected to provide fuel for its use. The S. A. L. is all right Oyster Will fet Assert Itself. Speaking of the oyster prospect, prominent dealer is quoted as having said that all this talk about the oyster outlook is mere speculation and guess work. The season hasn't opened yet, and until the oyster men go into the beds nobody can tell what the pros pects are. The weather has been too warm for oysters, and the beds haven't been touched, as the oyster fattens only in cold weather. The same gentleman said a Biump Sound man told him this week that he believed there are more oysters there than there have been in ten years.' i Thrashed and Seat to Roads. To receive a sound thrashing at the hands of his mother and then begin straight npqn a thirty days sentence to the roads, was the punishment received by Clarence Williams, a colored boy in "Brooklyn," who was tried by Mayor Waddell yesterday for the larceny o a fine pistol from Mr. John Yopp, who works for Westbrook & Co., at Fourth and Bladen streets. The charge was clearly proven.. The weapon Was stolen out of a bureau drawer at Mr. Westbrook's home Taia But Preaerlptlaai for BxaJatf I Chills and Fevers is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No euro, no pay. Prion. KOev satuth PRETTYvWAIXACfi WEDDING Miss Battle Qlbboas tf estiroek Married Yesterday to Mr Robert ; r ''This City Their fiooeymooa. Yesterday at 1 "Sunshine Cottage," tha nrettv home of Mr. And Mrs.' J. B. Westbrook at Wallace, N. a, their charming voung daughter. Miss Hat- tie Gibbons Westbrook, was joined In l man-Ufa la Mr. Robert Buark, a pro minent young lawyer of .this Isity. The ceremony was performed in tbe presence of a large number of friends by the Rev. a. B. John, pre- aidlne elder of this 'district of the Methodist Episcopal church. The home was tastefully decorated for the event. i Misses Virginia and Charlie West brook . were maids of honor and they were dressed in white and carried i bouquets of pink carnations and asparagus fernr. Tbe bride was fashionably dressed in a golng-away gown of dark blue cloth. After the ceremony the bride and groam came down on the evening train and will spend their honeymoon n Wilmington and Bouthport. Among the out-of-town guests at the wedding were Miss Margaret St. George, of Bouthport and Mr. J. B. Ruark, of Bouthport, ; father of the groom. t Manv handsome presents were re ceived by the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Ruark will make their home in Wil mington, j DEATH OF MRS. J. -ALTON MclVER 1 ? ' Daaxhter of Late Col. L. C. Jones, of Wil . T minrton, Passed Away at Joaesboro. Friends in Wilmington and else where in the State will regret exceed ingly to learn Of the death of Mrs. J. Alton Mclver, which occurred after a lingering illness at her home in Jonesboro, N. C, at 11:45 o'clock Tuesday night. Mrs. Mclver was the eldest daughter of the late Col. L. C. Jones, of this city, at one time gener al superintendent of the Carolina Cen tral railway, before it passed into ex ecutive control of the 8eaboard Air Line. Mrs. Mclver was a most estimable woman and lea es a husband and four daughters and two sons. She is also survived by her mother, a sister, Miss Flay, and two brothers, Oapt. Landon C. Jones and Mr. Selden Jones. Mrs. Mclver was in the 35th year of her age. . ELIZABETH CITY MAN DROWNED. Prominent Merchant Knocked Orerboard Into a High Sea on Hunting Trip. Special Star Telegram. Elizabeth City, N. O, Oct. 23. News reached this city to-night of the death by drowning of David O. White- hurst, a prominent merchant of this city and a. member of the firm of Fulmer & Whitehursf, fancy grocers. He left here Monday with a party of friends to go on a hunting trip at Stumpy Point." He was In the act of reefing the jib of the boat, when he was knocked overboard by the sail The boat was tacked to the rescue, but the body could not be found. It was a bright moonlight night but there was a high sea. The city is In gloom. A searching party lea res to-night The drowned man was educated at Hor ner'sand was very popular. It wil be remembered that W. J Griffin, i prominent lawyer, met death similarly a few years ago. White Mai Stole t duo. Malloy Ross, a young white man, wno some time ago gained police no toriety for wholesale bicycle stealing and was sentenced to a term on the county roads for the same, was again before the Mayor yesterday This time he is in the sporting line, and answer ed to the charge of stealing a gun from the houte of his cousin, C. O. Russ, with whom he boarded. He swapped the gun for a pistol and received 42 to boot. Fifty cents of the money he had spent when he was arrested Mayor Waddell bound the defendant over to the Superior Court, and in de fault of bond he went to jail. Mr. Bellamy Win Sneak. Hon. John D. Bellamy, will speak at Whiteville, N. O., on Friday, Oct. 31st Mr. Bellamy also expects to speak at several other points before election, but tbe appointments will be announced later. It is hoped to have Mr. Bellamy make a speech in Wil mington in the near future. Children Have Diphtheria Two children of Mr. and Mr. W. H. Sprunt have diphtheria and their resi dence, at the corner of Third and Grace streets, Is quarantined in conse quence thereof. ! Friends sincerely hope for the early recovery of the little patients New Atlantlc'Bank Directors. At a meeting of the Board of Direc tors of the Atlantic National Bank, held recently, Messrs. Duncan Me Eachern and R. Aubrey Parsley were elected directors of that institution. Political Speaking la Brunswick. Hon. Fsanklin McNeill and Hon. Dan Hugh I McLean will speak at Shallotte. Brunswick county, Oct. 24tb, and Bouthport, Nov. 1st A dm) Hrnsrr. It la a mystery why women endure Backache, Headache, Nervousness, RlBAnlannaH . MAla.np.hnl v. Fainting? and Dizzy Spells when thousands have proved tbat ttiectno uniers wiu quicx fv mM nrh tmnhlaa. "I suffered for years with; kidney trouble," writes Mrs. Jffcebe uneriey, ot reierson, xa. 'mil lam hank- nainAd me an that '. couldn't dress myself, but Electric Bitters wholly cured me, and, al though 73 years years old, I now am abla tn do all mv housework." It overcomes I Constipation, improves Appetite and gives perfect Health. Only 50 cents at R. R. Bellamy's drugstore. ; , t 4 Bears th Bignatua, of Kind Yon Haw Always Bacgjit WRECKS . ON THE SEABOARD. Flafmsa Killed aid Two Others Hart at Rocklsihsn-Another at Wsdesboro. - Delayed tbe Circus Trains. Sunday there were numerous re- nnrti nf wracks on tha Seaboard Air Line in connection with the arrival of tbe circus trains.' ." . The truth of all the reports is inaj Sunday morning as the vestibuiea train came toUocktngnam rrom nm- t it ran Into an open switch ana struck a freight engine and one car. This engine In turn struct: anomer engine which had a number of freight ears behind it, and badly damaged it. The engine of- the vestibule was damaged beyond repair while the others In the collision were likewise smashed up. Herbert Holland, of Sanford, flag man on the extra freight and formerly of this city, was killed, and Obarley Crump, a colored brakeman on the same train, was dangerously hurt. These two men were asleep in their cab. Jim Roberson, engineer ou the vestibule, was also badly hurt, and it is not thought either he or the negro will live. The fireman on the vesti bule saw what was going to happen and climbed out of the window, wbtle tbe engine went down 'a space of 25 feet on a fill. No passenger on the vestibule was seriously hurr,but sev eral were bruised and badly shaken up. The two last sections of Fore- paugh & Sells Bros.' circus were held up on a siding at Lilesville until 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon and they did not reach Wilmington until well in the morning of circus day. There was another wreck the after noon previous at waaeanoro. a through freight for Monroe was pass ing that point at a speed of abcut 15 miles an hour. The wooden cross bar over the truck of one car broke loose and after running 200 yards or more the car was ditched, the next car ran by and-was considerably ploughed into by tbe up-turned bottom of the ditched car. Another car was derailed and turned over. No one was hurt. DIED IN HOSPITAL. Victim of a Mysterious Assault in Wssh- loftoo, D. C , Lsst December, sv Telegraph to tbe Horning Star Washington, Oct. 22. After hov ering between life and death since last December, Mrr. Ada Gilbert Den nis, the victim or one of the most mysterious assaults in the history of the District of Columbia, died at the Garfield Hospital in this city to-day. With her death the last hope of a solu tion of the mystery has disappeared. Mrs. Dennis came here from Gettys burg. Pa. and married Walter Dennis, a Washington actor. She was found, December 10tb. insensible in her bed room. Her skull was crushed. Va rious theories were ad van ted as to the motive of the crime, but no definite clue was ever obtained. Bobbery was suggested but rejected, as $100 on the table had not been taken by her assailant. In one of her semi-rationa! moments she exclaimed It's a wo man." Subsequently she made con tradictory statements.- 8he never re covered sufficiently to talk rationally A BLOODY RECORD. Little Mlalnc Towa la Virginia the Scene of PIve Murders. 87 Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. Bristol, Tknn., Oct. 22. The little mining town of Dorchester, Vs., has recently been the scene of five mur den. occurring one after the other. John Slayers killed Mark Boston, with whom it is said he had differences over a young lady. Tbe slayer was about to escape when he was shot and killed by James Boston, Mark's brother, who then fled to tbe moun tains. A negro woman killed a man. putting Winchester bullets into his body. A pistol duel was fought be tween two white men, oae of whom fell dead. Their names are not known. GEORGIA'S REPRESENTATIVES. la the Statoary Hall at tbe Nstlonsl Cap itol In Wseblnfton. Br Telegrapb to the Morning Btai Atlanta, , Ga , Oct. 22. The com mittee appointed by Governor Candler to designate two of Georgia's promi nent citizens whose statues shall be placed In the statuary hall in the Na tional Capitol at Washington, to-day agreed upon- Alexander H. Stephens as one of the two to represent this State. At a former meeting of the commis sion. Dr. Crawford H. Long, the dis coverer of anaesthesia, was chosen as one of the Georgia representatives. SEABOARD AIR LINE. No Troth la tbe Statement Tbst Traffic Is Crippled by Coal Sbortsr e. Br Telegrapb to tbe Morning Btar. Washington, Oct. 22. With refer ence to a recently published statement that the freight traffic of the Sea board Air Linn is almost crippled by the scarcity of coal. Vice President J. M. Barr, of the Seaboard, said to-day: "There is no truth in the statement. There have been no trains annulled ; no failure to move freight, nor amy loss of time on any freight or passen ger train on this account All neces sary arrangements have been made to prevent any shortage," . PATAL ACCIDENT. Two Men Killed and Three Otbers Were . Seriously losred. By veiecrapb to tbe Morulas: star Haeeisbueg, Pa., Oct. 23. Two men were killed, one was fatally in jured and two others seriously injur ed to-day in the bridge and construc tion department of the Pennsylvania steel works at Steelton, near here to day. The men were painters and were working on a row of steel girders; weighing about ten tons apiece. The girder on which they were working fell with them and the others piled on top of it . Lenoir Topic: Mr. Jos. Sharp raised six crops this year on one piece of land. This land was put in rye, mowed early and afterward put out again making a good crop; then a crop of corn was planted with potatoes be tween the rows which made a crop of corn, another of potatoes and another of fodder, the corn stalks were then made into molasses. How's that for intensive farming. GREATER CARNIVAL. Addition of Animal Shows to Layton Company Will Be a Drawing Card. ARE NOW AT G0LDSB0RO. Reports from There Are Thst the At tractions Are First Class A List of Them Go Neit Week to State Fair General Notes. Encouraging reports come from Goldsboro where theNLayton Carnival Company, recently augmented by the big trained animal show from Rich mond, is furnishing the attractions for the Elks' fair in that city. Sun day the Layton Company will pull up stakes, figuratively and literally speak ing, and leave for Raleigh to provide the midway the following week for the State Fair. Then Manager Lay- ton will bunch the lot of shows again. hitch on all the other meritorious at tractions he can, and head for Wil mington to furnish amusement for the thousands that wili be here for the great Pythian Carnival and Mer chants' Fall Festival, beginning Nov. 3rd and continuing through tbe 8tb. The company now travels in 18 cars and the trained animal show includes 200 wild and ferocious beasts from all parts of this terrestial sphere. Every animal is trained to perform in some way. There are lion, tigers, leop ards, panther r, wolver, bears and others too numerous to mention. Tbe show comprises twenty cages, the most beautiful and artistic ever made There were one million paid adorn sions to see this show at the World's Fair, where it covered an acre of ground. The company also iictudss tae Streets of India, which b for the first time in Witaiirufvic. tf n It is better than any circuf, aud omprises acrobat?, barrel jumpers, knife throw er, slack and high wire po formers, juggler-, bicycle riders. Theraareten big acts in the big ring, including Co lumbus, the largest elephant in tbe world. He weighs five and a half tons and is educated to perform miuy clever trickr. Th streets of India will give two shows daily. Columbus, the big elephant, will be in the great K. of P. parade on Wednesday night of the Fair. Aside from the many midway fea tures of the animal show, the Layton Company has five free acts and four teen paid shows. They are aa follows: Professor Wm. Lotto, high diver, diving from a one hundred foot Udd-r iato a net, twice daily. Professor Baldwin's balloon ascen sion and parachute leap, going to the dizzy height of 7,000 feet. Mr. Harvey Castello, fifing trapez9 artist, the most neat aDd novel act of its kind in America. Mr. William Sulzer, single balanc ing trapeze act and slack wire artis', doing two of the most thrilling acts before the American public. The double team, the Adams' double aerial artists, has pleased thousauds, its first season in America. List of paid shows: 1. Statue turn ing to life, a beautiful marble statue turns to life. 2nd. Old Plantation, the South before tbe war, twenty perform ers. 3rd. Osal, "eats snakes alive" before your very eyes. 4th. Wild man, alive! alive I the strangest thing oa the face of the eartb, the talk of all the cities where exhibited. 5th. "The girl from up there," society's latest craza. 6tb. Tbe largest snake in the world, weighs 290 pounds. 7th. Cjcle whirl, Madison Square Garden success, oirect from Greater New York, dare dev.! act. 8tb. The Merry Go Round, the children's delight. 9th. Trained wild animal show, wild and ferocious blasts from all parts of the globe 10th. "8ireetsof Cairo," from the Orient, showing life aa in the Orient, lllb. Electric Theatre, in Poses Plastiques 12th. The War show, reprodueiug ail the latest events of the day. Battles of the land and water fought over again. 13th. Ferris Wheel. Take a trip sixty feet in tho air and see all the sights as you whirl around. 14;b. Ocean Wave, first time in this city. THE PUBLIC LAND'. Illegal Occupation by Stock Raisers in Colorndo and Other States. By TelearaDh to the Morning Btar. Washington, Oct. 22. -Col. John S. Moaby, special agent of the In terior Department, called upon the President to-day and laid before him the result of his investigation of the illegal occupation of public lands in Colorado and other Western States by stock raisers. CoL Mosby told the President tbat millions of acres of public land that ought rightfully to be open to the homestead settler were oc cupied by stock raisers. After con cluding the investigation it is making, the Interior Department, it is ex pected, will take measures to oust such stock raisers as are not occupying the public lands lawfully. Tot Causes Right Alaranu "One night my brother's baby was taken with croup," writes Mrs. J. C. Snider, of Crittenden, Ky. "It seemed it would strangle before we could get a doctor; so we gave it Dr. King's New Discovery, which gave quick re lief and permanently cured it. We always keep it in the house to protect our children from Croup and Whoop ing Cough. It cured me of a chronic bronchial trouble that no other rem edy would relieve." Infallible for Coughs, Golds, Throat atd Lung troubles. Price 50 cents and $1.00 Trial bottle free at R. R. Bellamy's drug store. f BR. WOFFETT'S Llii (TEETHING Costs Only 25 cents at Druggists, Or aafl 26 eeata to C. J. MOFFETT. M. aYVLI'- "SSL" TEETHINA (Teeth n? 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ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO KILL PRESIDENT L0UBET. Reports Said to Be Exstrerateo-Denled i nai tne msn Arrested Is an Aa. archist Said to Be Insane. - Bv Cable to tne Morning star. Paeis, Oct. 22. The Police enmmt., ssry attached to the Elvsee p.i.M saja the report published in the Figaro mis morning or the alleged attempt of a dangerous anarchist to seek an opportunity to assassinatA p.;,i Lioubet, is much exaggerated. Th facts are tbat a man of unbalanced mind, on Monday morning, tried to climb the railingin front of one of the gates of the Klysee, beside a sen- 7 , Ane sentry ordered him away. The o.an talked incoherently and finally had to be removed. No re volver or poignard was found on him The police deny that LeBissonet is an anarchist. They claim he has only an alcoholio record. Another version of the affair, diif er nir from that of thn Police, is as follows: The incident occurred at 7 o'clock Monday morning. When, in disre gard of the sentry's summons to go away, two detectives attached to the Elysee say, the man who had attempted to climb the railing, resisted, punching uu hickiuk; tueueiecuves anacneering for anarchy. He was overpowered and taken to the lockup, where he gave the name of LeBissonet. When asked what he intended to do at the Elysee, the prisoner replied: "Wait for the President in the gardens and strike him down. I am the enemy of all tyrants." The man's mind , is evidently de ranged. He only recently left a hos pital after attempting to commit sui cide at the St. Lazare railroad station. THE GERMAN REICHSTAG. Debste on the Grain Schedule of the New Tariff Bill Continued The Ministry Determined In Its Opposition Br Oabla to tbe Momma star Berlin, Oct. 22. Neither Chancel lor Von Buelow nor any minister at tended today's session of the Reich star. The debate on the grain sched ule of the new tariff bill was contin ued, but the speakers faced a row cf empty seats in the ministerial tribune. VonBuelow has suggested that the cabinet show its entire indifference to the majority's treatment by simply staying away, for the present at least. All the L iberal newspapers demand that tbe government dissolve the Reichstag, and the Socialists jeer at iht proceedings in the Reichtag as far c'cal. Some members of the Agrarian party threaten to introduce amend ments reducing the industrial duties. Altogether the situation is greatly confused, but the ministry seems de termined to preserve its independ ence towards Parliament and de nounce the existing commercial trea ties in December, preparatory to fresh negotiations for treaties. CRAZED BY JEALOUSY. W. J. Tarlton Cots the Throats of His YouDf Wife sod Son and Then Kills Himself. Br Telegraph to tbe Morning star. Pkksacola, Fla., Oct. 22. Crazed, supposedly by jealousy, W. J. Tarl ton to-night cut the throat of bis young wife and four-year-old" son, then slashed his own throat from ear to ear. Tarlton is dead, but his wife and child are yet living. The wife will recover, but tbe child is in a critical condition and its wounds may prove fatal. Tarlon first attacked his wife, then grabbed the child, using a small pocket knif. Thinking his ghastly work successful, Tarlton sat on the side of the bed and deliberately sawed through the jugular, falling upon the floor in a pool of blood with his head almost severed from bis body. Tarl ton was about sixty years and bis wife only twenty-one. The physicians are now at work in tbe hope of saving the child's life. NORFOLK AND WESTERN. Orders Placed for Forty New Locomotives for the Freight Department. ff TeiettraDh to tne nomine ftar. Roannke, Va , Oct. 22. The Nor folk and Western Railroad Company to-day placed orders for forty new lo comotives The engines contracted for are what are known as class "W" freight engines, and the work of build ing them will be divided between the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the American . Locomotive Works, each concern erecting half of the number demanded. This makes 139 freight en gines and six passenger engines con tracted for by the Norfolk and West ern during the last month. PIRB AT BUFFALO. Docks and Freight Shed of tbe Union Stenmshlp Compsny Destroyed. Br Teiegrann to tne Kerning star. - Buffalo, N. Y., October 22. The docks and freight shed of the Union Steamship Company were destroyed by fire to-night The fire is still burn ing, but is now under control and will be confined to the Union Steamship Company's docks. The International Phosphate Com pany has sold tbe Arrow mine, near ML Pleasant, Tenn.. to the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company for $450, 000. 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