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? I. V .".V.-n. . I' "V v i r ii i - WILLIAM II. BEHXT ARD Bdltov and Proprietor. FftlDAT, March 27, 1903. HOVX 07 YOUS PXTTT CRUMBS. ' That's what Bishop Derrick, of the African Episcopal church, of "New York, said in a mass meeting of negroes a few days ago. He wasn't talking of Oram bnt of the the Charleston Hanna ex-slave pension bill. " It was a meeting called to raise funds for Morris Brown College, a negro school in Atlanta. There -were speeches made by Bishop Der rick (who is a sort of oratorical lifter) and Bev. D. D. Stinson, com missioner of the Atlanta College, and a letter was read from Dr. Parkhurst. In the course of his re marks the bishop hit Mark Hanna's ex-slave pension bill, (which Mark says was introduced "by request") a dab thus: . . "That proposition was an insult Give us the Blair Education bill and we'll take it gladly. It's what we want, but this pension bill why, there's nothing; In it! It's a sop! If It was a law, whenever a black man went to draw his pension they'd re mind him that he'd been a slave. We don't want to be told what we were what we are interested in la what we are. "I tell you that the men who offer edthat pension bill made a mistake when they done it; they sounded their death knelL The black race wants none of your petty crumbs like the lave pension bill." "This sentiment," the reporter informs us, "elicited a chorus of ' loud amens." How does Hon. Mark Hanna like that after doing the grand stand act to play.to the negro that Hon. Thedore Roosevelt had been angl ing for with Charleston Crams, In dianola postoffioes and Boston oc toroons? It wasn't what he antici pated to be thus told that his bill was an "insult to therace," "a sop," and that be "sounded his death knell" when he "done it," when he confidently believed he was making a ten strike with the Afro-American legions. While the bishop seems to have caught on to the true inwardness of the bill, all the negroes are not en dowed with the same intuitive power, for there are thousands of the un sophisticated brethren in the South who threw up their hats when Mark Introduced that bill and . thought they saw the pensions coming right along their way, and they held several mass meetings, too, lauded their friend Mark and resolved that he was their candidate for the Pre lidenoy. But they were not as sagacious as Bishop Derrick and couldn't see through an inflated bladder as easily as he can. He sizes up that scheme about right if he does get on stilts and put on some strutting airs when he waves the thing aside as "an in suit" and informs Mr. Hanna et al. who are playing thus for the col ored brother that he doesn't want - any of those "petty crumbs." We are nnder the impression, however, that the bishop would discover how much, mistaken he is about those crums if the bill were to pass and he saw the black folks who could - come in for the crumbs tumbling over each other to get them. There is a magnetic attraction in pensions that draws. It has drawn about a round million of names to the sol diers' pension list, and there would , be very few of the colored brother hood and sisterhood who could crowd m that would fail to get upon the pension roll, whether it be "an insult to the race," as the bishop calls it, or not. But he nn derstands the methods of some, at least, of the politicians. He might have incidentally and prophetically remarked while he was about it that tbii bill would go to sleep in one of the plgeon-holea to which such fakes are committed, as similar bills have been doing for ten years since the pioneer of this kind was introduced. He was followed by Rev. D. D. Stinson, Commissioner of the Col mm m m lege, wno taucea sense ana among other things said: "We are solving our problem while others are going about the country - saucing anout una tool thine and that fool thing. The negroes are an Infant race, but our time will come ir we are patient If the colored and the white people of the North will help us, we'll solve the problem all right and not by shot and shell, liner. This man. who is an educator of negroes, talks sense and in doing so administers a rebuke to "others who - are going about the country talking about this fool thing and that fool , thing," a pretty pointed way of tellj ing the negro rights agitators in the North that they are on the wrong track and are making fools of them selves. He believes they can solve the problem with encouragement - from people who are true friends of of the negro and . solve it in a dif- ferent way from that advocated by Incendiary Hayes, of Bichmond, without "shot and shell" er knife or torch. They must 'be patient," &e tells them, straggle onward and upward. That's better, more sensible and safer than arousing their pas sions,' working them into a state of desperate excitement, making them believe there is no hope for them end no future if the whito . man . rules. - .. It ia somewhat remarkable that whan it comes to diicnjsing the race problem the negro educators cf the South, with rare if any lexcep- tions, discuss it from a conserva tive, sensible standpoint, in striking contrast to the negro leaders in the North, who pursue directly the op posite course and discuss it from the firebrand standpoint. After he closed his speech a letter . . t T.t-i i Was read IrOm UT. jmrauurs, m part as follows: The question of the education ana lrvatlon of luc uecro i one which every earnest man, especially if ha be sUbristlan, is called upon to face. We cannot, as patriots, arroru io nave ia our midst a srreat body ol poor, Igno rant and uncbrlstlanfsfd people, either black or while. The negro question is therefore a question cor North, 8outh, East and West, and not one for the South alone. The . negroes, now ever, must always remember that la the matter oz tneir eaueation ana ele vation the greater part of the work will have to be done by themselves. The whites will guide them, but the whites are not goiog to carry them. The valuable suggestion in this ii that the negroes must, in their ef forts at education and self elevation, and wilTbave to depend mainly upon themselves, and that while white people will guide them they are noc going to carry them. When they get that through their skulls there will be less foolishness on the colored side of the fence. WHY TICS WAS BOUNCED. The Wilson poBt office squabble has ended in the bouncing of Post master Vlck, colored, and the ap pointment of H. T. Person, white, as hia successor. This has been foreshadowed for some time and hence the announcement of the bounce does not come as a surprise. The reason assigned, however, may come somewhat in the nature of a surprise to those people who took President Eoosevelt for a civil ser vice reformer who did not believe in the spoils system as a part of the governmental machinery. Yick seems to have stood the test as to efficiency and faithful service, and from the endorsements he received from the people he Berved they didn't seem to have any objection to him, although they, no doubt, did not like his color. But all this did not figure in the case, because it is given out that "after careful investigation the de partment came to the conclusion that Yick had not supported the Republican ticket and had conse quently forfeited his claim to party recognition." This was the "lily white" ticket that Pritchard put up which thousands of negroes in the State refused to support, and which no negro with any sense of self re spect could support. Didn't Oen. Clarkson, who posed as the spokesman of the President, speaking for him, tell the negroes of this State in his letter to the Secre tary of that negro anti-Pritchard convention at Baleigh that drawing the color linn as Pritchard had done was an insult to the manhood of the Republican party and a trampling upon the principles of the party? And now Yick is punished for doing the very thing that Clarkson's letter encouraged him to do, that is rebuke the men who he (Clarkson) said were putting the party m a false position and ignoring one of its fundamental principles. Logically this reason for Yiok'g turning down means that Federal office holders, white and black, must have no opinions of their own, nor judgment of their own, but must be dumb and submissively obey the bosses by supporting any ticket they may see fit to name, whether it be a straight Republican or a mongrel ticket, such as was put up by the Pritchard machine at the last election. Yick lost lost his head because he refused to obey the boBs who shut the doors of the convention against his race. How do the negroes of the State like it? A fellow Earned Chapman, who was convicted of murder in London a few days ago, the police of that town believe is the veritable chap who figured as "Jack, the Ripper" in those Whitechanel murders in 1888. He ii a Pole, whose real name is Kolsowski. After leaving London he came to Jersey City and opened a barber shop. During his stay there a number of mysterious mur ders were committed similar to those in Whitechapel. Some time ago a man got a license to open a saloon in Brooklyn. The neighbors who didn't want a saloon there, thought they would block it by taking advantage of a law which prohibits the opening of a saloon within 200 feet of a church, and they built a little church. The saloon man went to law about it and the courts decided that the "church" was not a bona fide church and didn't count, was an ex pest facto I sort of a church, so to speak. Jack Costa, an Italian gentleman, struck it rich In the Klondyke. He has claim on which twelve holes have been dug, and haa in sight, according to Lieut.' Gibbs, of the 17. 8. signal service, $2,000,000 worth of gold in sight. Btati or Ohio, City of Tolido. I . LUCAS OOCHTT. f raurx J, OHiin makes oth that he I sen ior partner ot tb Arm of r. J. Ohikit& Oo., doing buslneM in the City or Toledo, Gouty ana Btate aXoreeald, and that said firm wUI pay the inm of ON hundred DOLLab for each anl eTory caso ot Oatakrh that cannot be curea dj iae rum oi haws uitakh uttm. FBAUK J. OHISCT. worn to Derore me ana nDeonoea In y resell oe, uus tn aay oi veosmoer, a. D. i - i A. W. GLBASON.. . HaJl's Oattarrh Onra la taken Internal! and acts directly on the blood and mneooa eurfaces oi toe system nena tor teatunouais, iree. T. 3. ORIKET A OO . Tolndo. n told byanDniOTiata, 760. . , - I uau's i mmuj ruis are us oest CAll'T BE SEPARATBD Soma People Have Learned How to Got Rid of Both. . Backache and kidney ache are twin brothers. , Yon can't separate them.- And vou can't - get rid of the backache nntil you cure the kidney ache. If the kidneys are well and strong, the rest of the system is pretty sure to be in vigorous health. Doan's Kidney Pills make strong, healthy kidneys. Mr. Henry Murphy, ol 64 isroaa- way, Memphis, xenn., proieasionai nurse, says: "For a year or two pain and weakness across the loins and difficulty with the kidney secre tions indicated that my Kidneys ware either overtaxed or weakened. All'mv knowledge failed to bring relief, and ever anxious to get nd of the trouble before it became chronic, I got a box of Doan's Kidney Fills at Hamner & Ballard's drug store. They performed their .work very satisfactorily, l know ox a great many others in Memphis who have been benefited by Doan's Kidney Bills. For sale by all dealers. Price, 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, TC. Y.. sole agents for the United States. - Remember the name Doan. s and take no substitute.; mr 22 lw 1 HAY WOOD-SKI NNER TRAGEDY Deleadsst Arraigned aad Case Coatlaaed. Sensational Affidavit Presented Al leglag latlaldatloa of Witnesses. ' Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. O., March 24. Ernest Haywood was arraigned in Wake Su perior Court to-day on the grand jury bill of indictment charging murder in the killing of Ludlow Skinner, and. after a lengthy tilt between counsel over a prayer ny me aeienaant lor oontinnanee, Judge Justice ordered continuance until the July term, with the stipulation that it come up first on toe calendar lor tne nrst day oi me court, that the venire be drawn men. and the case go to trial on Thursday. Ha y wood, through counsel, pre aented a rather sensational affidavit of fourteen type-written pages, setting forth grounds on which continuance is asked. Six points were made, the moat notable briefly stated that counsel bad not had time to prepare for nis defence and a number of witnesses were absent: that owing to the solid tor's declining to prosecute it had been impossible to obtain an agreement with any one of the prosecution as to a posi tive purpose to have ma iriai at mis court: tht the case ought not to be tried now because of the prevalence of a temporary and wrongfully created public sentiment against him, caused by untruthful newspaper publications and false reports assiduously circula ted by persons interested in the prose cution. Several or these publications are cited, and News and Uoservertt ports, the Charlotte Observer i Monday morning!artlele by Avery.and the Pro- m i.i o. J - clares that at least one man, Oeorge McOullen, has been employed by the prosecution to go about the county and stir up sentiment against nim. us ae Clares that a. a. Bimms. principal wit ness lor the defence, haa been persis tently villi fled and slandered by these same agencies, since the character of his evidence was published, and mum' idation used to prevent corrobsrstire witnesses from consenting to testify. So bitter was this feeling that persona threatened to boycot Tabernacle Bap tist Sunday school and church because or Bimms' prominence mere, names of intimidated witnesses are given. In conclusion, the affidavit declares Haywood' belief that witnesses hare been intimidated and run off or in duced to conceal themselves and he could not now have a fair trial. But that at the next term when the man agement of the prosecution is in the hands of a solicitor appointed by the court, who will say authoritatively that the BUte wants me truth in the matter and that witnesses, white and black, humble and high, ahall be pro tected in telling what they know, then "I will not have my witnesses run away from Raleigh or advised to say nothing or told that this was white people's business, or that if they made statements in my behalf, they would have their mouths masbed or any thing of that sort." Judge Justice, in continuing the case, named W. K. DanleL of Weldon. as solicitor for the prosecution. In the stead of Armlstead Jones, who was excused because of relations to Hay wood. Among the opinions handed down by tne Supreme (Jourt were: Davis vs. juumber uo.. from if ew Hanover, peti tion allowed : judgment below affirmed. In re Anderson, from Pender: affirmed. State vs. Vlck, from Wayne: no error. uaiiroad vs. Stewart, from Harnett; remanded ; costs against plaintiff. Pre vatt vs. Harrelsonr from Columbus; new trial, wiiiougbby vs. Stevens. from Robeson: affirmed. McKinnon per curiam affirmed. Hugglns vs. Bail- rota, irom Kobeson; per curiam order. House vs. James, from Duplin; defend ant's appeal docketed and dismissed under rule seventeen. Liquor Movement ia SfatesvIIIe. The Charlotte Observer remarks editorially: "The Morally Stunted were completely overwhelmed In the prohibition election in Statesville laat weer. ana mat is a funny situation the. Landmark pictures as having grown out of the election. As the Pure in Heart have lined uo at the counter since and asked for their usual allowance of aowpaw, the barkeeps have said No, and turned them thirsty away. It is tough, my masters, but it demonstrates that there are lots of peo ple wno aon't propose to be prohibited i inemseives, nut who only 'want to prohibit Qid Jones.' " It StT4 HU Lh. P. A. Danforth. of LaGrrancf . Oa.' j suffered for six months with a fright- iui running sore on nis leg, out writes that Bucklen's Arnica Balra wholly curea u in nve aavs. jror Ulcers. Wounds and Piles it's the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only a cents, ooia oy u. K. JUELLaXY, uruggisi. . t Jadre Peebles Will Preside. Judtf e Robert B. Peebles, recognized as one of the ablest Judges on the Su perior Court bench of North Carolina at the present time and who is hold ing court in Wilmington this week,: will preside at the July term of Wake Superior Court when Ernest Hay wood will be tried for the murder of Ludlow Skinner at Baleigh. The trial will start on July 16tb, when a special venire will have been tailed by Judge. Peebles, Judge justice is at present 1 on the district embracing ttaleigb. BAKER - BASS KILLING. Broiher - Lawpf DecMsar- boro PhvsiciM Makes SUK-v I merit ol Late Tragedy. ' WHY: THE VlMt OCCURRED. Ues'l Mae Said te Havs Been Exasperated y Certain Aaoeyaois Letters la -. Which Reflection Was Made ... Upei Mrs. Bsss' Chsrscter. 'J - Regarding the intricacies which led up to the shooting o' , Dr. H. T. Bsss by Dr. Baker, at Tar boro, a few weeks ago the Charlotte Observer of yester day prints the following special from its correspondent in that city: Tabboho. March J4V-Frauk Dancy, brother ia-law of the late Dr. H. T. Baas, maxes tne following state ment of the cause of the Bass-Baker tragedy: ' t- ' - VThe assault made by Dr. Baas on Dr. Baker a few months ago grew out of a letter which Dr. Baker wrote to a patient of Dr. Bass. The Alice Powell matter was decided - by the board of managers of the Pittman Sanatorium against the contention xa ur. cass out he stated tome that he was satisfied that his friends understood his position in the matter and it was ended so far as he was concerned. There was no trou ble of the slightest nature between them oo this account. At a subsequent meet ing of the ' board of managers of the Pittman Sanatorium angry words am pass between them but there was no personal encounter, though each made the motion of drawing weapons, im mediately after this Dr. Bass told me be would Jet that matter oropanuu Baker took no further action about It he would not. These matters were all ended and nothing more was heard of them, so far as I know. The real trou- ble between mem was mis: juwy February it came to my knowledge, and between the 7th and 10th of Feb ruary to the knowledge or Dr. hum. that Dr.-Baker had stated that be had received several ' anonymous letters, that he was showing them to people and -alleging that Mrs. Bass was the author of them. These letters reflected upon the character of the writer. About a week before this Dr. Bass had heard from a detective of Norfolk that he had been hired by Dr. Baker to come to this town and . discover a person alleged to enter the Pittman Sanato rium at night, that Dr. Baker bad stated to him that he suspected the son of Dr. Baas. About the 15th I went to Dr. Baker, asked him about the anonymous letters and requested him to show them to me. ho wouiu neither admit nor deny that he-had re ceived them, but advised me not to push an investigation, insinuating that it would bring to light something awfu! and terrible. This made me more determined to get at the bottom of the whole matter in order to pro tect and defend the lair name of my wife's sister. "After making all the investigation I could without any tangible result on 8. Naab, a mutual friend of both, to go to Dr. Baker and ask him to let btm (Nash) have the letters, so that Dr. Bsss and myself might Inspect them, stating to Mr. Nash that I felt abso lutely sure that if it could be proven that Mrs. Bass wrote them the matter would be dropped and Dr. Bass would throw around his wife the neceMary safeguards. On Friday, the l&tn, I asked Nash if he had seen Baker and he said he had and that Baker said he would think about it. The following day, Saturday, I again aaked Mr. Wish it he had seen Baker. He said be had, and that Baker said he bad heard nothing from him. Dr Bass was aware of all these negotiations and approved of what I was doing to aid him and at the same time he was making an in vestigation himself. "On Monday, the 16th. the tragedy occurred. In my opinion the tragedy was caused by Dr. Baker's course in regard to these anonymous letters and the other matters were onlj cumula tive, having no direct, or Immediate bearing upon what happened on me 16th. Dr. Baas was a man of noble and chivalrous nature, passionately attached to his wife. Baker's procras tination and delay in regard to the ex hibition of these letters was exceed ingly exasperating to him when the fair name of his wife was at stake. Baker's conduct in this matter was the cause of the attack by Bass, wnicn would never have taken place If the former had been candid and fair. ' I will ask any fair-minded man, 'What would you have done under the cir cumstances l' " ,. ... DEPUTY HELD UP A STREET. Jarors Asxloas for DIsier Qot Away Yes terday, Hit Were RecallesV -A street full of people hurrying home to dinner from the Court House end their places of business down town were brought to a stand still yesterday about 3 o'clock by the sight of a deputy sheriff in the vicinity of the jail, bare-headed, "wildly gestic ulating and calling to some one or many to come back. Some thought there was a jail delivery; others lea sensational were of the opinion that it was a good business transaction they were likely to lose, and all trooped back to the excited deputy. The cause was easily ascertained. A jury had come in after court had taken a recess for dinner and Judge Peebles had Inadvertently ..re ceiyed the verdict without the pre sence of the defendant in court He discovered his error just after the jury had been allowed to depart for the mid-day meal and it was In an effort to corral them again that the deputy rushed out In obedience to orders and literally "held up" the street When court convened after dinner Judge Peebles admitted his mistake, but for tunately every juror was again back In his seat, repeated their verdict In the presence of the defendant and no harm was done. Attacked by Dogs. ' A little 8-year-old son of William Evans, a well known colored dray man, was attacked by a bull terrier and another dog at Eighth and Woos ter streets Saturday and was severely bitten through the fleshy, part of the U lgh and other parts of the bo y. The dogs set upon him without cause and had the child down ' when hia father came and drove the canines off. The boy has been laid up ever . since under the bare of . a .physician. The matter has been ' reported to the police au thorities, with what result is unknown. Yew Know Wtut Tea Are TkintT When von taka firavai Taat1aa ikin Taie because the formula Is plainly printed on erery bottle ibowln that it la atmpiy Iron' I and Qninlne la a tasteless form. Ho Cure, Ho ray. pw. .. . ; -. .t SAFE JJLOWH OPEH. Postcffice j&t Mount Olive yisited by rTOiessiqnai unrxutra . Yesterday Morning. STAMPS STREWN ALL ROUND; I Betwee? t$20 aatf $309 Stolei ; as the ' BaUslBfjPanislly Wrecked-Attesipt te Steal Horse sad Baxgy ky. Wklck te Escspe-A Clsr. ; . U3peeial Star Telegram. :.. RaLKiQH, N. Cs March 83 The postoffice at Mount 4)Jive was broken into last night and robbed of a con siderable sum of money and stamps. The wrecked safe, together with other Surroundings, . Indicate that the work was done by , prof easionals. .; Two sus nicious looking characters! went to Mount Olive Saturday, They had each a small bundle : under the arm,, and claimed to be telling chairs. They made Inquiry about a night policeman, the - meaning of which can now be easily, understood, Tbey were, both fairly well dressed. They got between 1300 and $500 In money and stamps. The safe Is supposed to have been blown open with dynamite about 3 o'clock this morning. The stamps were scattered along the street quite a distance. It is understood that the thieves in tended to steal the horse and buggy from OL B. Hatch, but that they could not find the harness.. The lock on the stable door was torn oft and a bridle and saddle were left on the ground. The thieves took $300 la money, $300 in stamps and dropped $100 in stamps near the railroad depot. The safe was blown open by knocking off the dial and inserting dynamite. The brick wall of the building was badly damaged by the explosion. THE CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION.' It Will Be Costissed by Ooveraor Aycock and Otters Plan Oatllsed. ' ISpeeial Star Telegram. Ralegh, a, lMarch 35 Gov ernor 'Aycock, State Superintendent of Public Instruction J. Y. Joyner and Dr. Chas. DC Mclver, constituting the executive committee of the North Carolina Educational Conference, held a meeting to-day , regarding the pro posed educational campaign for the coming Summer and Fall. They pre pared a circular letter to all county superintendents, asking for information as to tee sentiment . in their counties. regarding local taxation, consolidation of school districts, improvements of school houses, etc., the special purpoie being to ascertain the best localities for concentrating the agitation on these subjects to the best advantage. As soon as tbis information ia procured the campaign will be mapped out as was the ease last Summer Anumber of prominent men in public life as well as those engaged in teaching have volunteered their services for the cam paign, their expenses to be paid by the Southern Educational Board. Prof. E. a Brooks, of Monroe, will be in charge of the campaign, arrang ing dates for the various speakers and puoue meetings. The Tabernacle Baptist church to night extended a unanimous call to Rev. Jasper OL Msssee, now pastor of the First Baptist church at Mansfield, Ohio, to become pastor to succeed Rev. W. d. Hubbard, resigned. Rev. Massee Is a native of Georgia, a graduate of Mercer College and the Southern Baptist Theological Semi nary. - xne ehureb has assurances mat he will accept. DIED AT HOSPITAL TBIS MORNINO. Yousg J. Lee Moore Saccasrii to a Severe Attack of AppeadlcHIs. Mr. J. Lee Moore, the popular young assistant ticket agent at the A. C.L. passenger station in this city, died this morning a few minutes be fore two o'clock as the result of a severe attack of appendicitis for which he underwent an operation at the James Walker Memorial Hospital Sun day afternoon. The news will bring sorrow to hund- ; reds of young Mr. Moore's friends in Wilmington where he was well known and liked by hundreds. He would have been 30 years of age In May and was a clever, courteous little gentle men who was rapidly forging bis way to the front in his chosen Tocatlon. At first It was hoped that the young man would recover and the operation was deferred until the laat moment. Even then the indications were that the patient would survive the effects of the operation, but It came too late and he 1 passed away at the hour indicated. His father and mother, Mr. -and Mrs. J. B. Moore, of Burgaw, were with their son when he died and have the aln eerest sympathy of the community in their sad affliction. ! Civil Service Exialiatlos. The Uirll service uommisslon an nouncea a special examination for the purpose of establishing a suitable reg ister of eligiblea for clerks and exami ners. It is expected that a number of additional positions of this kind, pro vided by Congress for the United 8tates Civil Service Commission, will be filled from this register on July 1, and the register will also be available for vacancies in the Department of Commerce and Labor and other de partments and offices. Probably one hundred or more vacancies will be ! thus fUled if eligible with suitable qualifications are secured'. This exam ination will be given on April 31. Persons who desire to compete should apply at once to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washing ton, D. Ol, for application forms 304 and 805, which, when properly exe cuted, should be promptly forwarded to the United Statea Civil Service Commission. : Applicants should be careful to indicate in the applications the optional subjects desired. v Working Overtime. . Eight hour laws are . ignored by those tireless little workers Dr. King's New Life Plll. Millions are always at work, night and day, cur- i ing indigestion, Biliousness, Uonstl- patlOD, Sick Headache and all Stom ach, Liver and Bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe and sure. Only 35 centf, at K. B. Bxxlajct'b drug 'store.. ' . , . .. -.-. s'.v.j TDE SOPEOIOItCCOPJ Negroes : Confessed Recent At- lintic Cosst Use Robbery at Castle Haynes. BURGLARY CASE SE r TO-DAY. i Billiard Will Be Pat ee Trial for ttis Life Hasch Balks, YtatblsJ Crla . iial. Received Pear Years lor ; 1- Eatertsg Uty ResidescesC , Only a few cases were disposed of in the Superior Court yesterday but all of them were of more or lets impor tance. The morning session was prin cipally taken up with a -trial of Hunch' Hullen and Wash McNeill, the color ed youths arrested by Constable Sav age several weeks ago charged- with entering a number of residences In the city and stealing therefrom 'various articles, Including several gold watch es,' a pocket book containing an amount of money, hats, etc. McNeill was represented by Herbert McClam- my, Esq'.,'and' succeeded In establish ing his innocence to the satisfaction of the jury. Hullen was less fortu nate and was sentenced t four years on toe county roans, cub attorney, Brooke Q. Empie, Esq made motions to set aside the verdict and to grant a. new trial but Judge Peebles overruled them both, whereupon an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court .Notice of appeal was waived and the defend ant was required to give a bond of $300, defaulting which he was remand ed to jail until the November term of court in this city. ... v The Afternoon session was taken up with a trial of tbe negroes charg ed with the robbery of goods from At lantio Coast Line cars in the vicinity of Castle Haynes last December and January. The caie waa worked up by A. O. L Detective H. Y. Searboro and the arrests were made by Consta ble M. G. Chad wick, of Cape Fear township. Solicitor Duffy was as sisted in the prosecution by Mr. Junius Davis, attorney for the Coast Line. The principals in the case were Charles Sinclair, Walter Williams and Thos. Harrell, who have been in jail for a month or more. The last named defendant was represented by Wil liam J. Bellamy, Esq , who contended against a consolidation of the cases, at least in so far as hia client was con' eerned. Upon this demand tbe pros ecution said that it would be willing to enter nol proa as to Harrell, and he was discharged. The other two principals In the case said that they had no attorney; that Harrell was not implicated ' and Ahey would plead guilty to all the charges except the one which charged them with a sepa rate offence in December. They frankly said that they had secured all the goods on the night of Jan. 15th. Judge Peebles reserved a sentence in their ciss until this morning, when they will be brought out first thing and made known tbe consequences of their evil doing. The authorities are or the opinion tbat the two negroes had a valuable confederate In the rob bery, but all efforts to get them to dis close hia identity have been .without fleet The real atruggle in the whole affair eame in an attempt by tbe prosecution to convict the mother of one of the de- fendanta and a relative of the other of the charge of receiving the stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. The defendants were An Ice Williams, who was represented by Uaraden Bellamy, Eq , and Annie Harrell, who was represented by A. J. Marshall, Esq. A number of witnesses were lntrodueed from which the whole story of the robbery was obtained. The goods were consigned for the most part to Mr. M Braddy, of the Paris Millinery Btore, on Market street, and they were Identified by him after their recovery from the house of the two women near Wrightabora Other goods were identified by Mr. J. Weil, on Market street, and Detective Scar boro and Constable Chadwiek told how they had found the goods at the houses of tbe defendants and that the negroes who had just- submitted were arrested down by a swamp near the house and were found engaged in burying other goods that had been stolen. ' Oapt - Landon OL Jones, con ductor of the train from which they were stolen, related that the ear from which they were taken was left on the aiding at Castle Haynes while the en glneand other cars were run up the spur track at that point for the pur pose of bringing down road'materia for the county work: that he had ex amined the car from which the gooda were taken and it was securely fastened as far down the road as the next station above Castle Haynes;-. tbat when the train reached Wilmington, the goods were missing. Other A. O. L em ployes testified to having checked up the freight In this elty and of having found the goods missing. The property stolen consisted of a large amount of dress goods in original packages, silk skirls, shoes, hats and cigarettes to the value of about $300. Much of the ma terial was brought into court yester-. day and piled In front of the jury. The case was concluded at 6 o'clock and a verdict of not guilty as to the women waa brought ia about twenty minutes later. Qua. Hill, the colored A. O. L. fire man charged with the larceny of saws and other tools from the shops of the company In this city, eame into court during the afternoon and the for feiture of bis bond for non-appearance on Tuesday was stricken out The de fendant then pleaded guilty through his attorney, Marsden Bellamy, Esq., and having established a previous good character, he was let off upon payment of a fine of $35 and cotts. This morning the court will begin the trial of A. F. Blixserd, white. charged with burglarising the houses of ex-Policemen William B. Brown, Andrew J. Walker, colored, and others about a month ago. The prisoner is In jail and a special ventre of 75 men has been , summoned from which to select a jury. The defendant la represented by Herbert McClammy, Esq., and Clyde Allen, Esq., of Bladen county.. To morrow the other bur- glary ease, foVwhIch another special venire of 75 has been summoned, will be taken up. Allen Jones is the de- fondant . and he will - be rep resented by-Geo. L Peeehau and B. Q. Ktnple, Etqt. Court met at 10 o'clock and the sheriff returned the talesmen ordered, summoned for the day with the excep tion of J. H: Alford Jno. D Buss and Robert L. Sanford, who' ' were ' not bund. Excused by the judge": F. T. Hills and W. H. Bernard. Unimpor tant eases were disposed of as follows : Primus Johnson, carrying concealed Weapons: judgment nisi set fa. and capias stricken out and defendant re cognised until next criminal term. (eorge Pigford. larceny: continued by consent Son Lucas, larceny: verdict not guilty. , . ., :. Huneb Hullen and Wash McNeill larceny; eases consolidated; verdict guilty as to HuIIsd, not guilty as to McJNelll; : Hullen sentenced to four years on county roads; appeal taken. THE VEGETABLE MOVEMENT. Solid Express Trala Scat Oat freai WU- calsftea Yesterdsy Early Sprlsg a ; Boss te Trackers-Prices Good. The Southern Express Company yesterday handled its first solid vege table train out of Wilmington thia sea son. It consisted of five cars nrincl- pally laden with lettuce, one thousand baskets having been sent to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York by East. Wilmington truckers. It was expect ed that an additional thousand crates would be picked up between here and Ooldsborev The lettuce season this year Is said to be fully two weeks ahead of last and tbe prices have held up remarkably well. The quotations now range from $3 35 to $3.75 per basket and the quality Is said to be fine. No finer weather up to this time could have been , asked and growers are happy. The acreage in this vicinity is some what larger than usual and is growing each year. The shipments yesterday morning for that reason were the heav iest ever handled by the Southern Ex press Co. from this point Shipments are also made by the Seaboard train which leaves here at 4:30 o'clock each after noon. , ' The atrawberry season Is very for ward on account of the mild 8pring and the moremenfthis year will begin earlier than usual. The plants are all in fine condition and the quality of the fruit promises to he very fine in deed. Many of the schools in tbe strawberry belt are closing their terms early on account of the ruah incident to the movement. CUMBERLAND SUPERIOR COURT. lllseis ef Jsdfe Ceeke's Disfkter Cslls Him Hone Rsilread Csaes. By consent of members of the Faj etteville bar yesterday morning, all cases on the calendar for trial at this term of Cumberland Superior Court, except those set for Monday, were cot tinned In order to permit Judge Cooke to leave for hia home in Louisburg to night, on account of tbe serious Illness of his daughter. The ease ia bearing yesterday was that of Nancy J. Kellr, adm'r, vs. A. 0. L. R R. Company. This is an action for $5,000 damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, who was run oyer and killed by a shifting engine at 8anfprd. The.Fayetteville Observer says tbe most Important case set for trial this term, and which is continued. Is that of A. H. Blocomb vs. 8. A. L. R. R. Company for $340,000 as a penalty for failure to receive freight as prescribed by law. Major Jno. D. Shaw, of Rock ingham, attorney for the Seaboard Air Line, and Mrs. Calvert, of IU Wgb, who was to act as official court stenographer in the caje, returned to their respective homes yesterday. Remains Seat te Barf aw. : The remains of young Mr. J. Lee Moore, whose death occurred at the James Walker Memorial Hospital after an operation for appendicitis, were taken yesterday morning to his old home near Burgaw, N. O , for in terment They were accompanied by the young man's grief -stricken parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moore, of Burgaw, and the following young gentlemen friends of the deceased who acted as a funeral escort: Messrs. R. Q. Grady, J. D. Edwards, W. R. Taylor, Jno R. Han by, Jr., B. a 8hepard and E. E. Datley. The funeral was con ducted at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Dr. A. D. McCIure, pastor of 8t Andrew's Presbyterian cau-cb. The floral tributes by frienda in Wil mington were many and very pretty. Midshlposs for Naval .cidein,y. Hon. G. B. Patterson, of Maxton, writes that there wili be an examina tion in that town on April 7th for the selection of midshipman ' for the U '8. Naval Academy. Mr. Patterson saya he is sorry that he eanaot give longer notice but be haa just been notified of the fact that - he was entitled to an appointment. Three men In an automobile yester day attempted to ride up the step t the east front of tho oapitol In Wash ington. The reached tbe second land ing, sixteen steps from the street, when the chain of the vehicle broke and it ran back, but without accident The ehaffeur was arrested, bnt later released oa ten dollars collateral. Cbdab Blutt, Va., Nov. 13. 1808. We have sold Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonie for the past 10 yeara. We know it has saved hundreds of long cases of fever and heavy doctors' bills and has aaved the Uvea of hundreds of our own people. We keep it in our households. . Cedar Bltjtt Woouts Co. Agency of this wonderful medicine will be placed with good men. Ad dress A. B. Girardeau, . Savannah. Ga. f MOTT'S PENNYROYAL PILLS m. wmAKm. iri-1 a ansa iisimh of menstruation." They are " LIFE SAVERS" to girls at womanhood, aiding development of organs and body. No known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm life becomea apleasnre. 1.00 PER BOX BY MAIL. Sold OJ drnesuta. PR. MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO., Cleveland, Ohio, 'JK'rV;) J O 8HXPABJ), Jx., Wilmington. I Which ? I A lean and potash-hungry soil, wasted seed, wasted labor and idle gins A MORTdAQB. , Or plenty of jn the fertilizer, many bales and a busy gin A BANK ACCOUNT. Writ ns (ot our books. Tbtjr are caoaey wis. aers. We send them jrt to farmer. ' OEKMAH . KALI WKES eSUaawaa, XtwTwk. . NEGRO WOMAflfUDLY BURNED Risked late Street, at Second ssd Brnna. wick, Her dsrnests la Light Blase. She Will Probably Die. At Second and Brunswick streets yesterday evening about 6:80 o'clock the community was alarmed and hor rified at the sight of a colored woman, who, screaming at tbe top of her Toiep, rushed out of her house with her garments in a light blase and the flames lspplng around her body. 8he proved to be Ann Eliza Holmes. '50 years, who Uvea with her sister on second between Hanover and Bruns wick streets. How she caught Bre waa not known to tbe crowd of a hundred or more which gathered about the scene after the flames had been ex tinguished by tearing off the hissing garments and wrapping the suffering woman In a blanket Deputy Sheriff Harvey Cox, who was In the vicinity summoning wit nesses for court, waa among the fin: to hear the agonising ahrieks and to rush to the woman's assistance. H at first saw her run from the house iu a blase and ha first impulse was to (urn In a fire alarm, but a second thought prompted him to attempt to ave the life of the burning victim. That be assisted in doing as indicated and a little later be telephoned for tbe patrol wagon in which the woman, wrapped in blankets, was traos'emd to the Hospital., She was found by Dr. Akerman, surgeon in charge, to have been bdly burned all over thu body, with the exception of her handi and face. At a lata hour she was not expected to live through tb night The woman ia aufj ct to piltp c fits and the popular hory U Lti while abvUl the fire in her h..u-- -tiu had an attack and fell on the n-nh, afterwards gaining her feet and ruin ing into the s.reet. jjf A telephone mesasge from the bos-' pital this morning ssid tbat the wo man died at 8 -SO A M Ladles Isterested la Temperance. The W. O. T.'U. met yesterday after noon at 4 o'clock in the lecture room of tbe First Baptist Cburcb. The tt erne for tbe evening was "Truth," and was given out as a guide to mothers for in structing children for truthfulness and explaining bow often in-infancy their thoughta were ruined by making them false promises or letting them catcb their mothers in stories. Mrs. 8. F. Thompson read a poem entitled "Cup." "A Teachers' Story" was rendered by Miss Bessie Hankins, and by request Mr. Blair led in prayer. Refresh ments were then served by the ladies to a good number present Mrs.' J. M. Loftin beautifully aung "A Wife's Appeal to a Drunken Husband." Tbe organisation sent some of its funds to the Francis Willard Memorial Fund, and other funds to J. W. Bailey. The ladlea had read to them a newspaper clipping on the New York State pro hibition movement. Salisbury Sun: The constitu tionality of tbe Watts law will be tested in tbe Federal court and the teat case will be made by a Rowan county distiller. This Information comes straight and the Sun is further advised tbat four of Norm Carolina's leadii.g lawyers have already been engaged by the distillers, who will give their support to the individual ease. The contention of the defence will be basd on section one of tbe four treats amendment to tbe con stitution, which Is as follows: All per sods bora or naturalised to tbe UH-d 8tatea aud sur jct to the jurisdiction thereof are cmsena of tbe United 8tares and tbe State wherein tby re side No State sball make or enforce any law which shall abridge tb privl lge or immuoitirs of ot sens of the United State, nor sball any eJiate de prive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Nor deny to any person within Its ju risdiction equal protection of the law. The heavy rainfall of the past week continued up to this morninr, and laat night two Inches of rain fell. All the creeks nod rivers are swollen to-day and out 6f their banks. At South River tbe water was ovr the dam at Lindsay's mill yesterday and was steadily rising. Tb s morning the Yadkin wsl within seven feet of the P.elmont toll bridge, just two feet tower then the high water mark. Much damage baa. been done to crops by the excrsive rains. Rushville, Ind. Messrs. ELY Bros. I hare been a great sufferer from catarrh and bay fever and tried many things, but found no permanent relief until I found it In Ely's Ore am Balm about eight years ago, and we have been fast friends ever since. . (Rev.) R. M, BK2TTIJBT. - Messrs. Ely Bros JTind enclosed 50 cents, for which please send me your Cream Balm. I find your reme dy tbe quickest and moat permanent cure for cold in the head, catarrh, etc. Yours truly, Dell M.. Pottxb, Gen. Mgr. Arizona Gold Mining Co. O JSa. S3 T O Xi 3: Basra tba mtar im m too Ha Always ww They overcome Weak ness, irregularity and omissions, increase vic- ' or and banish "pains Eotash if i. .V L V:.; Ii i f I 1 f: - 1 v;' ; k 4 9 t - r . a r.-
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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March 27, 1903, edition 1
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