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WILLIAM H. BBBUABD Xditor ul Pronrtotor. Fmdat, - October 31, 1902. Democratic State Ticket : i ' This ! the Democratic State Ticket, to be voted on NOTemoer n, w. Baperintondent of PubHeinitrnctlon : JAMES Y. JOYNER, Uuinora ueaniy. Member of the North Carolina Cor poration OommUaion: EUGENE O. BEDDINGFIELD, . Wake County. nhlf Jnitlce of the Supreme Court: WALTER CLARK, Wake County. Associate Juatlcea of the Supreme Court: HENRY O. CONNOR, Wilson County. ' PL ATT D. WALKER, Mecklenburg County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Second Judicial uisinci: ROBERT B. PEEBLES, Northampton County. Judge of the Superior Court of the Fourth J udiciai umrici : CHARLES M. COOKE, Franklin County. .TtidM of tha R interior Court of the Sixth Judicial District: WILLIAM R. ALLEN, Wayne County. Judge of the Superior Court of the ElgnlnJuaiciai umnci: WALTER H. NEAL, Scotland County. Judu-e of the Superior Court of the - Tenth Judicial District: BENJAMIN F. LONO, Iredell County. ; Judfl-e of the Superior Court of the Eleventh Judicial District. ERA8TUS B. JONE9, Forsyth County.! .in a of the fiunerior Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District: WtLLIAM B. OOUNOILL, Catawba County. Jtidire of the Superior OoufTf the- Fourteenth judicial District: MICHAEL H. JUSTICE, Rutherford County. Judpre of the Superior Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District: FREDERICK MOORE, Buncombe County. Judce of the Superior Court of - the Sixteenth Judical District: GARLAND 8. FERGUSON, Haywood County. For Congress Sixth District: GILBERT B. PATTERSON, of Robeson. 1 For Solicitor: ' Fifih District Rodolph Duffy, of Onslow. I Seventh District O. C. Lyon, of Bladen. ' LEGISLATIVE TICKET. Fop tha Houia Georre L. Morton For the Senate George H. Bellamj . COUHTY TICKET. Clerk Superior Court-Jno. D. Taylor. Sheriff Frank H. Stedman. Register of Deeds W. H. Biddle. Trtasuer H. McL. Green. . Coroner C. D. BelL Surveyor Alex P. Adrian. Constable, Wilmington Township W. B. Bayag e. BEHEVOLBHT ASSIMILATION. The beneyolent assimilation policy .that we have been pursuing in the Hawaiian islands hasn't boon the rifle and ball kind that we have been pursuing in the Philippines, bat in some respects it isn't much more of a success. For some time we have had reports that things are not in good shape oyer there, as the predominating element, the few thousand white people who rule, are divided into factions and are pull ing against each other, as they palled against the natives when they were "pooling their issues" to overthrow the monarchy presided over by the dusky and buxom Queen Lilioukilani. Last week there was held at Mo honk Lake, N. Y., the Mohonk In dian Conference. Among the ad dresses delivered was . one by Hev. Dr. Alexander Twombly, who spent some years in the islands, whose theme was their deplorable condi tion. He is thus quoted in sub stance: He said that conditions there were dark and depressing. The times are hard owing to unwise and demagogic action or tne local legislature, domina ted by the home rule Party. Crime. drunkenness, idleness, and other vices were on the increase. He attributed most of the evils existing to the nrac tlcally unlimited suffrage conferred upon the people, which had thrown political power so largely in the hands of the ignorant, incapable, and unre liable elements of the population, thus rendering the way easy for the greedy, aeiash, and corrnpt politicians and eir-seekers to further their own schemes. The worst elements in Hawaii to da. he declared, were the low-down Amer icans, carpet-baggers, adventurers, and other scram from the States who had drifted there In recent years. Borne of these men had obtained Federal ap- a i ai 1 1 1 1 puiukmeiiw iu me juuiciary ana oiner offices and had brought shame and scandal upon the administration of law and justice. Added to this element were the deserters from shins, nrofaa- lonal criminals, and many "ne'er-do-wells" from the States who had come there since annexation, but who were now voters. The dominance of elements like these in the politics and legislation of the islands constituted one of the gravest perils of the situation, said Mr. Twombly. A limitation upon the franchise seemed to be absolutely im- peranve u me local government was ever to oe administered on a wise, honest, and economical basis. An other danger was that the interests of Hawaii would be put more and more In the background in the future colo nial policy of the United States or subordinated to other interests which were antagonistic ' "History repeats itself." This reads like something that might have been written during the days of reconstruction in the South, for In some respects it Is a pen picture of the condition that prevailed in those days when carpet-bag ad venturers, leading 1 unprincipled white men and ignorant negroes ruled. As In Hawaii, some of them held office, both State and Federal, which, to quote Dr. Twombly, "brought shame and scandal upon the administration of law and jos tice." - Most of the oyils, he says, are at ... m , tributable to "practically unlimited suffrage, conferred npon the people, which threw political power so largely into the hands of the igno rant, incapable and unreliable ele ments of the population, thus ren derin'g the way easy for the greedy, selfish and corrupt politicians and self-seekers to : farther their own schemes". What an accurate description of North Carolina and other Southern States during the licentious reign of the unscrupulous gangs who used the ignorant rabble to further their own schemes. These were the con ditions and the elements that the decency and manhood of the South had to contend against zor years until they were finally overthrown and the adventurers, who if they had their deserts would have been put in the penitentiary, were put to tight or driven into oblmon. And yet how the decency and the manhood of the South were tra duced and threatened with force bills for wresting power from the hands of these unscrupulous adven turers and their ignorant following, as if they had committed some great crime by rescuing their States and themselves from the thraldom of venality and wickedness, and even to-day, after the lapse of a genera tion, they are misrepresented and slandered for insisting that there shall be no more rule of the igno rant, venal and vicious, but that white men, as the representatives of the intelligent, capable and State- loving white men, shall rule. It took thirty years to establish white supremacy, and it was not established in this or in any other Southern State until it became a recognized and fixed principle by the qualified suffrage, which elimi nates the ignorant and the vicious as a political factor. Even this was fought by "the greedy, selfish and corrupt politicians," who still hoped to nse, as they had been using, the ignorant and vicious elements "to further their own schemes." When with the view to perma nently eliminating such elements as factors from our State politics, an amendment was proposed to our State constitution how the self -seek ing politicians huddled together and howled in unison and denounced the proposition as an act of party tyran ny, which was to rob the black man of the right of suffrage confer red upon him and guaranteed to him by the constitution of the United States, an act prompted by political considerations without authority and without a shadow of justification, an act passed for the double purpose of establishing Republican party su premacy in the South and to punish andhumiliate the white men of the South who were then looked upon as "rebels" who deserved some sort of punishment. Like causes produce like effects, and as ignorant, incapable, suffrage in the South produced lawlessness, corruption, licentiousness and the rule of riot, so is the same thing producing the same results in the Hawiian islands, where the avenues are not so wide for them as they were in the South where the opportunities for, and the tempta tions to plunder were so much greater. In some respects the ex perience with unrestricted suffrage in the ' South served as a warning, and hence the laws of Hawaii pro vide for a sort of qualified suffrage, but it is a qualified suffrage, accord ing to Dr. Twombly, which is still too broad and leaves open the way for too much venality, injustice, scandal and corruption. But after all it is the natural re suit of the "benevolent assimila tion" which we have been introduc ing among alien races on the other side of the earth. Charles Meinel got himself in jail at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., be cause he wasn't as good a shot as he claimed to be. He was one of a company giving a show there. One of the acts was shooting an apple from a man's head, a la Mr. Tell. Meinel was the shootist. If no one volunteered, one of the company did the apple holding act bat on this occasion a town barber volun teered, and now the town is minus that barber. Meinel shot twice, missed the apple both times and the third time sent the bullet through the barber's head instead oi the apple. He was bound to hit something. Japan has the art of economical mail handling down fine. Pos tage in that country isn't more than about one-fourth what it is in this country. But they don't have to cover as much ground there as we do. Hon. Edward Butler, of St. Louis. has been twice nominated for Con gress, and twice indicted by the grand jury for bribery, which shows that Edward is something of a hustler. Deafness Cannot be Cured ' 53r.l2?i PPl'oaUons as ttiey cannot reach the uuxwjcu iwrwoa oi tne ear. There is only on ttonal remedies- De&taees is caasM by an ln flamed conOition ot tne mnoons lining ot the biuouiuuibui xuvBa vv itHTi Tenia w.Tt nsa is innamAii ton nave a rambllnc sound m iinn.rfnt lag, and when It Is entirely cImmi: nnfnau ia the result, and nnle-s the Inflammation oan bs tasen oat and this tube restored to its normal condition, bearing will ba iMtmnd fnnwr nine cases ont oi ten are caused by Catarrh! which is nothing bnt an Inflamed condition of the mucons serrloea. We will give One Hundred Dollars tor any case ot Deaf nesa jeansed by ehtarrb) that can not be cured by Ball's Catarrh C ore. Bend lor puuoiara, irwe. old bT all dmffcrtsta. Wo. 17 J. OHXAXT, CO.. Toledo. O. HaiKs ramuy mis are the best A STOUT OF PROGRESS. A-TftDreaentative of the New York Sun, who has been travelling through portions of this State, has written an interesting letter irom Charlotte, de scribing the industrial progress of that section, from which we cup we following brief extract, showing the progress made in the cotton manu facturing industry. Alter noting reconstruction and other obstacles against which the men of this sec tion had to contend, it says: fr mv 1R78 was the turning point m,.f marks tha low water limit of the reconstruction days' depres- ,l The only satisfaction the Southern Mnia had In tha beginning of that year was the sorry one that thiotrs could not very weu do any wu. i they changed at an, tney must enaoge for the better, . Here is where the statistics begin to tell their story. Cotton manufactur ing ma wall ha taken as the ba rometer in measuring the prosperity of the South ana tne statistics oi ooiroi manufacturing tell us that in all the flnnthnii R tat as there were in 1878 only ISO cotton mills with 825,000 spindles, tne lowest numoer since ov. when an attempt was made by several matrintta Hnnthfirn men to check the growing blight of slavery by the de velopment of Interna improvements, commerce and manufacturing. In that year, 1876, there were ia New England not many, if any, fewer than 500 mills wnn neariy ,wu,uw spindles. , Tint tha nnaiH movement in the South had br gun. It was slow enough at first as a matter or course. Tn iRfininall tha flnnth there were only 161 mills, but with improved de vies the number of spindles had in creased from 825,000 to 543,000. Be- tween 1880, the year wnen me uae oi Industrial revival really began to bo felt, and the year 1890 there was a leap upward. Tn ian thara vara in the Southern States 239 mills operating 1,554,000 M . A fit spindles, a gain or 78 muis ana over million spindles. Tn tMa vaar of 1903 there are over 500 cotton mills in the South operating . aaa. SI -el a AAA more than o.uw.wu spinaiw, ioi,wv lnnmi amnlnvinir over 150.000 OD6ra- tivaa ranranantinir an invested canital hjf over $115,000,000 as compared with barely a 10,uw,uuu in lao. me u, 000,000 bales of co.ton produced in tne year 1900, the mills of the South con sumed 1,650,000 as compared with about 65.UW in ioyo. Now or all this great progress North nnlin tha mnUp and thenivot. The Old North State in 1900 had 250 cotton mills as compared witn soa in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mis sissippi combined. All of these States together naa aos mills in 1900, or only 113 mora thaa North Carolina alone. At the present moment, although there are no accu rate statistics to refer to, it is certain that there are in this 8tate not less than 325 cotton mills, operating 2,000, 000 spindles and 85,000 operatives, rep resenting a capital of $45,000,000 and consuming a quantity of cotton an nually mat is just aooui me equiva lent of tha total nrodaction of the State, which is 550,000 bales. This would be a splendid exhibit of the enterprise and perseverance of the men who have accomplished so much, even if they had no seri- i obstacles to contend against, bat when we remember what they had to contend against it borders on the marvellous. - This progress began practically in 1876, and yet we have men going around the State, echoing Senator Pritchard's yawp, declaring that North Carolina owes her progress and prosperity to the Dingley tariff and the protection it gives our in dustries. THE "LILY WHITES." This is the aesthetic name which the whitewashed Bepnblicans of the South who have become tried of associating with the negroes have given themselves. Since the Clark son letter to "My Dear Mr. Per son," (colored), has appeared there has been more or less discussion as to how President Roosevelt stands on the negro freeze-out question, some of the organs which cater to the negro contending that he con demns it in toto, and ' point to Clarkson's letter as proof of it. If Clarkson didn't make a very free and totally unauthorized use of the President's name, he does disapprove it, bat how far Clark8onwas authorized to speak for the President is known only to these two gentlemen. That question has not yet been propounded to Mr. Boosevelt, or if so he has not seen fit to answer it. In as much as the negroes have a pretty strong vote in some of the Northern States it wouldn't be advisable to answer it in the negative before the election, and it might seriously demoralize the whitewashed Bepnblicans in the South to answer it in the affirma tive. The Washington Post comment ing upon this discussion, and the contention of the organs which side with Clarkson and the negroes, does not believe that Mr. Boosevelt "cherishes animosity against the so called Lily Whites" in the South, or that "he resents or even disap proves the temporary elimination of the negro from the Republican ma chinery in Alabama, North Garo lina, Louisiana and other Southern States." In this opinion the Post is in accord with thousands of in telligent people in this part of the domain, who have been watching this movement from its inoipiency a dozen or so years ago. It had the tacit consent and encouragement of ' the late President McKlnley, one of whose dreams was the building up of a white Republican party in the South, and it has had the encour agement of other Eepublican lead ers including President Boosevelt, who has gone as far as he could go to enconrage it without openly pro claiming that he is : in favoi of it. There isn't one of them who would not .gladly eliminate the negro from politics entirely if by so doing thev could Bepubllcanize - the South. IIS Are you indebted toTHE WEEKLY STAR? If so, when you receive a bill for your subscription send us me aiiiuuui juu una. g Remember, that a news-1 paper bill Is as much en-1 titled to your consIdera- tion asls a bill for gro- caries. ? -v BIQ CROWDS AT STATE FAIR. Aootul Meetlns of Horticultural Society. N. C. DivIsloB, U. C. V , Elect Officers. Special Star Telegram. '"' , Raleigh, N. O., Oct. 29. This, the second day of the State Fair, eclipsed all previous records In attendance even on Thursdays, which is always the bluest day of fair week, both In at tendance and completeness of exhibits. A. conservative estimate of the attend ance ia 15,000. . The street pageant at noon was a crowning feature, and con sisted of official, military, floral, indus trial and commercial divisions, it ex tended in a continuous line from the 3tate capitol to the fair grounds, more than two miles. The North Carolina Horticultural Society held its annual meeting to- ntK&t ana re-eiectea J. vinuiaajeT president and T. K. Bruner secretary. Addresses were made by ut. u. a. Bailer, of Cornell: Col. O. B. Brock- ett U. S. Nomologist; Prof.W. A.Tay- lor. Field PomoloffUt of tne u. . Ag ricultural Department, and Dr. F. W. Taylor, of St. Louis. At a meeting of toe JNortn uaroiina Confederate Veterans to-night Gen. J. 6 Carr was re-elected president; Co). W. P. Wood, of Randolph, and Ur. Ramsey, of Northampton, vice ptesi- dsnt, and A. B. Stronach; secretary. POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN ROBESON. QadzerSpoke to Small Crowd la Lamber- toa Fall Refistratloi of Democrats. Special Star Telegram. Ltjxbkbtok, N. C, Oct 29. Hon. H. A. Gudger spoke in the court house here to-day. He was introduced by Mr. B. Frank McLean, of Maxton. The crowd was made up of eighteen white, men several of whom were Democrats, and two negroes. The county campaign which has been a lively one closed to-day. Robeson baa a fall registration, and expects to give fifteen hundred to two thousand majority. Lnmberton town ship is thirty ahead of two years ago. Not over forty negroes are registered in the county. TheCroatans have res istered as well as the whites, and are almost solidly Democrats. QATTISKILQ0 SUIT. Sapreme Court Qrsited a New Trial ia the Damage Silt Special Star Telegram. RALXK3H, N. C, October 28. The Supreme Court handed down an opin ion this afternoon, granting a new trial in the Gattis-Kllgo damage suit. on the ground that it was improper for the judge of the lower court to allow certain excepted evidence to go to the jury and then even after argument was all in to withdraw it by telling the jury not to consider it Such evi dence the court holds would be bound to bias the minds of the jury. STOLE HIS CORK LEG. Ez'PoIlcemsi R. 0. Holmes All Bnt Lost His Artificial Limb Yesterday. Burglars are usually oat for the "long green," but not so in the case of one of whom a reporter waa told last night. About 4 o'clock yesterday morning some one entered the house of ex- Policeman R. G. Holmes, at- Fourth and Nixon ; streets. His purpose waa to steal Mr. Holmes' trousers' and what money there was in the pockets Mr. Holmes has recently had the mis fortune to lose a part of ; one of his lower limbs and just a few weeks ago he had an artificial one substituted The artificial ' member was left In one of the trouser legs by Mr.Holmesuoon retiring the night before and yester day morning, when the thief "swiped" the trousers, he took lear and all. A gentleman sleeping in another room heard the burglar and chased him, The cork leg dropped oat - of the trousers, in the yard and was recov ered, bat the trousers themselves and what money Mr. Holmes had in the pockets wtre taken. Died at the Hospital. Miss Edith Lee Merritt, daughter of Oapt Joe Merritt formerly of this city, now of Rose Hill, N. C, died at the James Walker Memorial Hospi tal Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. She waa 19 years of age and had been in bad health for some time. She had been at the hospital here for treat ment a little, over three weeks. The remains were taken to Rose HU1 Sun day morning for funeral services and Interment. Friends of the bereaved family extend sincere sympathy. Tha Bsst Prescription for Kmlana Chills and Fevers Is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic, it la simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure, no pav. Price. 60c. satu th arr srrar sixty Tsars Mas. Wnrstow'g Soothing Stbup has been used for over sixty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, soften the gums, and allays all pain ; cures wind colic, and ia the best remedy for diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately. Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. o as. REPUBLICAN SPEEGD. Col. Slocomb, Nominee for Con gress In This District, Spoke in the Court House. 1 ( ON NATIONAL ISSUES ONLY. Record of tne O. O P. la North Carolina Was Not Touched Less Taaa Sixty Persoas Were Present Intro- - daced by Mr. Wallace. When Chairman T. K. Wallace, of the Eepublican County Ex cutive Committee, called the meeting to or der in the Court House last night there were j ist 41 persons In the room to hear the speech of Col. A. H, Slo comb, Republican nominee for Con gress In this district Ten more came in while Col. Slocomb's speech was in its early stages, but at no time did the crowd exceed aixty. . The audleces waa made up of Republicans, Demo crats, "Independent" and "Citizens." but no "niggers." The colored brother, who used to enter: largely into the numerical strength of Republican meetings in New Hanover was pain fully absent And it is well that he was for Col. Slocomb in his way of declar ing that the negro question is dead, gave His auditors to . understand that the political demise of the "black and tan" Is for "keeps." . Mr. Wallace very gracefully pre sented Col. Slocomb; told of bis resi dence in the Cape Fear section for 85 years, his prominent Identification with the commercial interests of the State and the singular unanimity with which he was nominated at the Max- ton convention. Col. Siocomb spoke for an hour. He ia not a speaker to create enthusi asm and was applauded only when he arose to speak and when he sat down. He said he would discuss only living, practical. National issues. Not once did he hit npon the record of his party In the State, He aeemed to avoid this strenuously and took his Democratic opponent to task for making auch matters paramount to matters of the Nation. He briefly outlined the his tory of his nomination and told of the 25-minute convention at Maxton, which did the work. He made a bid at the outset for the "Independent" vote by saying it waa at the solicitation of Independents that he finally con sented to accept the Republican nomi nation, and later on he said that he waa their nominee and appealed to them for support .; The- history of his challenge by Mr. Patterson for a joint debate and the disagreement as to what Issues should be discussed, which precluded the pos sibility of a joint discussion, was re viewed and In the same connection he took occasion to say that the race Issue is dead and aa a conservative Re publican he did not propose to raise it. A little later he confessed that person ally he voted neither for nor against the Constitutional Amendment, which put the negro out of politics. As cus tomary with other Republican speak ers this campaign he did not say defi nitely whether or not the Republicans would accept the Amendment as it now stands. He prodded Mr. Patterson for his discussion of State Issues, and said that Mr. Patterson had been running for the Legislature' so long he was under the hallucination that he Is still running for the same office and can, therefore, talk nothing bat North Carolina politics. . He told a jdke in this connection, bat it fell flat In appealing to the "Independents" for support he said "we" will carry Cumberland county . by a very large majority, and will perhaps carry Robeson. , CoL Slocomb then entered into discussion of national issues, devoting 45 minutes to the Dingley tariff, which waa recommended as a tried panacea for all National ills. He declared him- aelf a protectionist and taunted the Democrata for their tariff -for-revenue ideaa and charged that the panio under the .Cleveland adminiatration after 1892 waa traceable to the fallacy of those ideas. The audience was told that beans, peas,' potatoes, rice and wool were all due their prosperity to the Dingley bill and paid that on al products the protective tariff saved to the Sixth District annually ' about 1900,000. He didn't mention mica at all, but aaid that the Dingley bill had wrought wonders in raising the price of peanuta. He charged Mr. Patterson with be ing a Bryanite and a free trader. In connection with Bryan he took a part ing ahot at aixteen-to-one and aaid he had perhaps better go into that a little bit Whether intended or not, he made a significant jesiure at Collector Keith, who sat just in . front of him and then went Into an argument against free silver. The closing-of the speech waa de voted to trusts and Imperialism. . The attitude of both parties to these ques tions was drawn in comparison, Pros perity was declared to be the one issue In this campaign and the Dingley tariff bill was given the credit for it al). Col. 81ocomb arrived last evening from Fayetteville. Many of the Re publicans and j ''Independents" called upon him at his hotel during the even ing. ., . Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Melton Watts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Watts, of Mt Tabor, Columbus county, and Miss Lizzie Camber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cum ber, of Wilmington. Vood Changed to Poison. Putrefying food in the intestines produces effects like those of arsenic, but Dr. King's New Life Pills expel the poisons from clogged bowels gent ly and easily, bnt sorely, curing Con stipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache, Fevers and all Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles. Only ?5 cents at R. R. Bkllamt'B drag store. t Basis tos Bigsstni at The Kind Yob Haw Always 0 SPEAKING TUESDAY MQHT. Hob' Dsn Haft-h MacLeaa Spoke a State Issues to Snail Crowd Scored T the Iadepeadeats. The crowd which heard Hon.- Dan Hugh McLean at Court House Tuesday night on the political issues of the day was necessarily small , on account of the great number of counter attract tions. However, the few -who were present, numbering about one hun dred and fifty, heard the simon pure Democratie doctrine expounded in the bold, fearless manner so characteris tic of the speaker. The meeting waa called to order by Chairman Geo. L. Peachaa, of the New Hanover Democratic Executive Committee, who asked Sheriff Frank H. Stedman to introduce the speaker. Sheriff Stedman was very graceful in his words of presentation and referred to the service of Mr. McLean to his party and to his wide popularity in the State. ' After expressing pleasure at meet ng a New Hanover audience and aay Dg that he came not so much as. a politician but as a friend, he went into a discussion of the issues, emphasizing the importance of the approaching election, because the State is just now entering upon a new ... era and it behooves Democrats to stand together and reap the reward of their efforts. His first sally was at the independent movement. ''When you scratch one of these 'Citizen','" said Mr. McLean, "you bleed a Republican." They are just like the late Popoulists, who all went over into the Radical camp. The Republican party and Populist party married in fusion and the devil offi ciated at the ceremony. The speaker next went into the Republican record in North Carolina and exhorted Democrats to rally id the support of the ticket from State to township. The Republicans before their over throw polluted everything tb-y touched, efren the penitentiary. He told of the mismanagement of that in stitution and the disclosures ms.de b? the investigating committee of which he bad the honor to belong. The Democrats upon assuming charge had to appropriate $59,000 to clothe the 900 convicts, who were all Radicals, for Taw afa t An naf 4 iKa ' no n " Governor Russell's removal of Jno. R 8mith from the penitentiary and bis appoinlment .of the same man to the head of the great agricultural in terests of the 8tate,- was denounced. The Jim Young scandal waa also touched up and other Republican mis deeds in the State called to the atten tion of hia hearers. - Mr. McLean incidentally paid a trib ute to Judge Clark for his historical work, in extolling the Democrats for their attitude towards Confederate pen sions. He also made a whack at "Judge" Hill, of Halifax, and passed on to a denunciation of Pritchard for hia deserters' bUL Mr. McLean concluded with a bril liant defence of the Democracy, and took his seat amid great applause. He spoke for a little less than an hour, de voting his speech entirely to State issues. ' BOY WOUNDED AT WINSTON, N C. Mrs. Jao. W. Harper Sammoaed oa Ac cooit of Accident to Her Brother. Mrs. John W. Harper left yester day morning for her old home at Winston-Salem, in response to a tele gram announcing a serious accident which bsfel her brother, young Mr, William Stroupe, Saturday afternoon The young man is but 16 years of age and waa hunting on the Nada place, about half a mile west of 8alem He stopped at a spring to get i drink of water and stood his gun against a tree. The weapon fell over and fired, the load of shot taking effect near the right eye. Two or three children saw the accident and has tened to town to report it. Physicians quickly went to the boy and removed him to the hospital, where surgeons picked out the shot. A special to the Stab last night from Winston says; "The condition of young Mr, Stroupe is much improved. He has rested easy since Saturday night. The wounds will not prove fatal. 6APT. LUCAS LEPT FOR MEMPHIS. Informal Farewell Reception to Him at Cape Pear Clob The Transfer. Capt E. W. VanO. Lucas, U. S A left last night for Memphis, Tehn . to which point he has been transferred to take charge of the corps of TJ S engineers at that point. Just before the hour for his departure a large num ber of Capt. Lucas' fellow clubmen in thelDape Fear Club tendered him an informal farewell reoeption at the club building on Front street. There were many expressions of regret at Capt Lucas' departure and not a few of the members accompanied him to the sta tion. Mrs. Lucas and son will not join Capt Lucas in Memphis until af ter the holidays. Oapt E. E. Winslow. who will suc ceed Capt. Lucas in Wilmington, will remain in Memphis two weeks to maae a formal transfer of the work. Then Capt Lucas will come with Capt. Winslow to make the transfer here. Campaigning in Oaplio. J. O. Carr, Esq., of this city, went up to Kenansville yesterday to resume his political canvass of his native county, Duplin. Mr. Carr is a candi date for no office but he has "his coat off and aleevea rolled op" for the county and legislative ticket and thsy do say be is really cruel to that small coterie of Independents that haa sprang up in Daplin to "reform" the government Mr. Bellamy la Bladen. Yesterday's Clarkton Express says: "Hon. John D. Bellamy, the present member of Congress from the Sixth District, spent Sunday night here. He spoke In White's Creek township Mon day, Carver's Creek yesterday and will apeak in Whiteville Friday. Mr. Bellamy la one of the State's ablest men and his speeches In these places will do much good for De m ocrar j" NEWS OF CARNIVAL. !ach Day Brings Encouragement to Committees in Charge of the Arrangements. THE VOTE FOR THE QUEEN. Oaly 105 Ballots Cast Yesterasy Con tract for Float Awarded-Newa from . the Country Word from the Midway at Raleigh. There la no let up in Pythian Carni val preparation and each day brings resh encouragement to the enterpris ing committees which are in charge. Travelling men aay the outlook for a big attendance. of people from the country is fine. Many of their cus tomers say they will be here during the week and one salesman wrote to hia house that he had as well come home, as hia customers were reserving their orders, so aa to make a personal visit to the oity, buy their go.xls and "take in" the fair at the same time. An abundance of interest ia . being taken in the election of a Queen of the Carnival. Yesterday there was a lul 1 in the voting and Only 105 ballot were cast, but those in a position to know say that it is only a calm before the storm which will break on the home stretch, so to speak. The contract has been closed with one of the best deco rators in the city to construct the float for the Qmeen and the design ia a baau- ful one, surpassing in elaborateness anything of the kind ever attempted in Wilmington before. The vote at the close of "hostilities" last night stood aa follows; Miaa Bertha Swinson 693 Miss Mamie McQirt 485 Miss Lillian Johnson 483 Miss Cornelia Fillyaw 83 Scattering 84 Mr. H. E. Bonilz, who is at Raleigh attending the State Fair, for which the' Lay ton Carnival Company is furnish ing the entire list of midway attrac tions, last night wired Chairman B. O. Stone, of the Advertising Committee as follows: "Animal show fine. Others tip-top. All are conoinr. Layton promises more." The Raleigh papers also speak in complimentary terms of the excellency of the mid way. The band stand in front of Gerken'a is completed and work will begin on the decorations to-day. Grace Street church is building a lunch room in front of the office ot the Consolidated Railways, Light and Power Co. The proceeds are for church purposes, and the booth ia given by the Pythians, privilege free. The country atore is being erected in the aame location aa last year in front of the postofflce. The handsome booth for Messrs. J. H. Rshder & Co., to which reference was made yester day, is next north of the country store. A trolley parade on the auburban cars "around the belt" will be a fea ture of each night of the Carnival week. The arrangements are now being made. . Mr. John W, Blommr, one of the Carnival advertising men, got home yesterday from Newbern after having been out several days. He brings en couraging reports. He visited the following stations and made them re splendent with posters 'and litho graphs: Baymead, Scott's Hill, Hamp atead, Allendale, Woodside, Wool vin station, Edgecombe, Hotly Ridge, Folk8tone, Dixon, Verona, Jackson ville, Polloksville, Maysville and Newbern. Monroe Journal'. Mr. S. J. Howard, registrar for Vance town ship, says only about twenty white men failed to register in his precinct, and that only one negro registered. He aaid none of the young negroes offered to register. Dr. W. B. Houston got hold of a few seed last Sprinsr of a corn of a peculiar color, dark brown, and planted them, and has a crop of brown corn. lis Kept His Leg. Twelve years ago J. W. 8ullivan, of Hartford, Conn., scratched hia leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood poisoning set in. For two years he Buffered intensely. Then the best doctors urged amputation, "but," he writes, "I used one bottle of Electric Bittera and H boxes of Bucklen's Ar nica Salve, and my leg was sound and well as ever " For Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders Electric Bitters has no rival on earth. Try them. R. R. Bellamy, druggist, will guarantee satisfaction or refund the money. Only 50 cents, t WONCDUE FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS "New Rival" "Leader" "Repeater" rm F you are looking for reliable shotguri am munition, the kind that shoots when vmi LLL point your gun, Loaded Shotgun Shells: Black powder; "I eader" and "Repeater," loaded with Smokeless. Insist upon having Winchester Factory Loaded Shells, and accept no others. ALL DEALERS KEEP THEM MQTT'S PENNYROYAL PILLS of menstruation." They womanhood, aiding development of organs and body. No known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm life comes a pleasure. 81.00PER BOX BY MAIL. Sold by druggists. DE. MOTTS CHEMICAL CO., Cleveland, Ohio. J- C 8HEPARD, Jr., Wilmington. DR.MOFPETT'n J LiCTCCTHING POWOERaJfcGi Costs Only 25 cents at Dmerists. Or HtJl 25 cent to c. ad trade MTprow!.TKfrHINLiTerthln ow amount to twooi thrL wlilSS' ur trade " TT haa K.v.a t. hot giving to Um mothm rf &.JT5 . "r WOB a nrr etronr eudenoeoi iu mentana ineaatisucuuu nn or orerooTii S5 SuUeiSn "2 (tc"'"r counteract, tu. effect, ot th. lummer THS LAMAR a RANKIN DRCQ CO.. Wholesale DruggUti. For a1a ell T1 i Yi Yi n th T T a TT" x1.n trade with T JTHtjta at Dr. Moffett'a FRENCH. WILL BE HELD. Killing of Negro I. Brooklyn Msy Not Hsve ACGiacniai woodsy Njgntt Ed. French, thfi vnnrt - ArmilMmi i . . " ' 'orea, m "Brooklyn" Monday night and h - ,, " na suoSfi quently surendered by his father to the authorities, ia .till being held at the r,w ""n na it Is said that it win Z f witnesses, who are yet to be Introduced, that th nm """u( tt mm not accidental The claim i. m.rf. before the ahootinir BWk . say to in reference to a guitar that had been taken from a box in which he Pt ms oeionglngs: 'Tm going to shoot some of you niggers yet about fooling with my box." Whether that threat was carried out In the shootine of Armstrong, the police are now try ing to determine. Policeman Leon George, who went up to Long CreekPender county, be fore the negro surrendered, came back last night. French will doubtless be bound over to the Superior Court which will convene next Wednesday. WHITE MAN MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT, Says He Was Fired Upon by Yonng Men Driving on the Turnpike. The Sheriff's office had a hurry call for deputies yesterday about noon. A. white man, living at Delgado and more or Jess under the influence of liquor, was shot in the iflflshy part of the left thigh and he charges the shooting to a young white man, who was one of a party of three whom the wounded man says he met driving out the turnpike on a hunting trip. Sev eral deputies went out in search of the young men described, but the wound ed man talked so incoherently of the disturbance that no clue to them wa found. Some of the officers are inclined to believe the drunken man shot himself accidentally.aa a pistol with two empty chambers was found on his person sud the ball ranged downward as if fired from a piatol in his own hand. The affair is being still further investiga ted by the authoritiea. Bellamy Shells the Woods. Hon. John D. Bellamy has returned from a partial canvass of Bladen cout ty, where he has been maaing straight Democratic speeches. He spoke at Carver's Creek Tuesday, where he was enthusiastically greeted bs 150 vo en and made a fine impression, lie leaves for Columbus county this afternoon and will speak at Whiteville to morrow. Prominent Horry Man Dead. Mr. H. J. Vereeo, a succ-siful mer chant and farmer at Little R;yer, -. C, died laat 8aturdy and was buried Monday. Ha was 53 years of age and leavea a wife, four daughters and nine sons to mourn their loss. He was well known in Wilmington and many will regret exceedingly to learn of his death. BANK ROBBERY. Safe Dynamited and Several Thoaeaod Dollars lo Money Stolen. Br Telegraph to the Morning Batr. Gardner, III., Oct. 29. Six men blew open the veult of the Exchange National Bank here early this morning and took several thousand dollars. They seised Town Marshal Edmund son at the engine house, tied him with ropes, took him to the bank and set Mm in a chair. The vault was blown ripen with dynamite, and the interior ' of the bank wrecked. The robbers are ( suppoEed to have f ecu red between three and four thousand dollars,' al though theeiaclamount is not known. The robbers took a train for Chicago. Peter Lingeid, a farmer of Scotts boo, Ga., 8urreudered yesterday to the sheriff, admmiou that he bad killed his hrother, J. P. Lingtld. Petfr L'oiieid said that he and hia brother were intoxicated atd hd quarrelled while on the way home from a circus. Thev began shooting ateacholl.tr ai.d J. P. Lin geld waa instantly kilieri ROTred Sp ch aad Hearing. Metsra Ely 'Bros : I commenced using your Cream Batm about, two years ago for catarrh. My voice' was somewhat thick and my hearing dull. My hearing has been fully restored and my speech bss become quite clear. I am a teacher in our town. L. G. Brown, Granger, O. The Balm doea not Irritate or cause sneezing. 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Oct. 31, 1902, edition 1
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