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SECRETARY SHAW 05 THE
TARIFF AND TRUSTS.
Since Secretarj Shaw has been in
the Cabinet he has done more stamp
speaking than any other member of
it. He seems to like it, too, and it
matt be said of him that he has a
shrewd and deceptive way of patting
things which is well calculated to
mislead the average person who can't
tell jait where the deception is. He
has a way of stating things of his
own knowledge which cannot be dis
proved because the statement is
based on information on which he
seems to have a pre-emption. In
nearly every speech he makes he in
corporates some such statement as
an answer to those who contend for
something to which he and the in
terests for which he speaks are op
posed. He doesn't want any tariff revi
sion and he doesn't want the trusts
curbed by reducing the monopoly
which the Dingley tariff gives them
in the home market. He so de
clared in his speeches previous to and
during the campaign last Fall and he
so declares now. He and the inter
ests ho represents do not propose to
have tbe Dingley tariff modified If
they can prevent it, and they are be
ginning thus early to check public
sentiment which is turning in that
direction and are trying to nullify
the efforts of those Republicans who
are advocating tariff revision, at
least on articles and manufactures
controlled by combinations which
take advantage of the protection
they have tn extort high prices and
large profits from American consum
ers. They are trying to forestall that
demand by telling the people that
such tariff redaction would not be
- effective and that if it were it would
be nt a coBt inestimably more than
thu American people pay the trusts;
in other words a cost that would
mean the destruction of these trusts
and the paralyzing of the great in
dairies which they keep in motion,
Tbe Kickapoo Club, of Peoria,
111., gave its annual banquet a few
nights ago. Secretary Shaw was
the principal speaker there. He
devoted his speech mainly to the
question of tariff revision, especial
ly as a means of breaking trust
monopolies. He is thus quoted in
part:
'The Democratic demand for a re
vision of the tariff at a remedy for
monopolies la not a new invention
nor a recent discovery. Bills, amend
ments to bills, and res)lutions em
bodrlng this thought have been of
fered without number, certainly by
tbe score, by Democrats standing high
and Democrats standing low in tbe
councils of tbat party. The remedy,
however, ii oa a par with many other
Th'j all-important question whether a
giv-n industry is controlled by a mo
nopoly mutt needs be established be
fore tbe proposed remedy can be ap
plied.
"The present prohibitory law against
trusts has generally been found ade
quate whenever the evidence attain
able has been found sufficient to estab
lish the ultimate fact. Recent legis
lat'oo does not provide new remedies
so much as new methods of discover
ing a ad establishing facts and ezpedlt
ing judicial investigation. Tbe Sher
man Jaw contains quite drastic provi
sions, applicable botn to persons ana
corporations when once proven to bave
. combined or to have conspired for the
"purpose of monopolizing a business or
a trade privilege.
"I would like to have our Demo
cratic friends who are advocating this
remedy explain why they would re
move protection temporarily or per
manently from monopoly produced
goods. Shall the protection be re
moved until tbe alleged monopoly
goes into bankruptcy and then be re
stored, or shall it be removed perma
nentlv and our industries, one by one.
turned over to foreign competitors?
And if the removal of protection is to
be temporary, who is to say when it
shall be restored I
"If, in point of fact, the iron, the
steel, the glass, tbe paper, or any
other industry has been monopolized,
as is claimed, and if the producers
are now robbing tbe American
people by extortionate prices, and if
no one dare build factories in com
pelioa with tbesa octopl, will Ameri
can courage be extended by the re
moval of the tariff so as to Invite these
products from abroad! It seems to me,
but I may be wroog, tbat American
enterprise would be quite as likely to
build a factory and compete in the
American market under protection.
uoder free trade. In point of fact. I
hsppen to know independent steel
plant?, glass factories, and paper mills,
not simply projected but actually in
process of construction, but I believe
no one of them would be completed if
It were known their products were to
be placed on the free list.
This is very Shaw-like, but it is
not honest. You must first estab-
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VOL. XXXIV.
lish the fact, he says, that there is a
monopoly before yon oan apply an
anti-monopolf law to it. What
better proof oonld be asked that a
combine is a monopoly than when
it absorbs or strangles other estab
lishments in the same line, either
by baying them or by underselling
them and driving them oat of busi
ness, and then patting its own prices
upon what it sells and bays because
it has nooompetition in the buying or
selling market? What better proof
is needed that it is a monopoly
when it ships to foreign markets
where it must meet competition and
sells at from twenty-five to fifty
per cent, less than it tells in the
home market, where it has no com
petition? Are not these facts known
to every reader of the newspapers?
And yet he talks about establishing
the fact that there are monopolies
before they can be proceeded
against.
"The present prohibitory law
against Trusts." he ftajs, "has gen
erally been found adequate when
ever the evidence attainable was
found sufficient to establish the ul
timate fact." What a big handful
of dust that was to throw into the
eyes of his Kickapoo friends. How
many trusts were ever brought to
taw nnder the present law, or how
many were oyer proceeded against
before acting General Knox was
forced by newspaper exposures and
by the evidence furnished by news
papers to proceed against the Beef
Trust, and then it took him and his
legal assistants abont twelve months
to secure an injunction to restrain
the Trust from doing some things
complained of.
This is not the only Trust. We
have the Steel Trust, the Glass
Trust, the Copper Trust, the Lead
Trust, the Barbed Wire Trust, the
Cracker Trust, the Sugar Trust and
dozens of other trusts, trusts that
control every article in common use,
and yet he tells his Kiokapoo au
dience that the present laws are
sufficient to hold them down and
protect the people from extortion.
If they be, why not enforce them,
and if they be not, why does he say
they are? He knows better.
The whole speech as it applies to
the tariff and Trusts is a piece of
cunningly framed sophistry, in
tended to misrepresent the position
of those who demand tariff revision,
to misrepresent the effect that such
revision would have upon our Indus
tries and the prosperity of the coun
try, holding oat the idea that our
industries and prosperity are abso
lutely dependent not simply upon a
protective tariff, but on the amount
of protection which the Dingley
tariff gives.
ROOSEVELT OH THE TRUSTS.
At Milwaukee, where Mr. Boose
velt spent Friday, he chose as the
subject of his speech the Trusts.
This, like his speech, in Chicago,
the day before, on the Monroe Doc
trine, was practically a defence of
the course the administration has
has pursued on the trust question
It was substantially a reiteration of
much that he had said in previous
speeches, about the only difference
being the review of the steps taken
to enforce the anti-trust laws, and
the new legislation enacted by the
last Congress, which he thinks suffl
cient for the time being and about
far as that kind of legislation
should be attempted for the present,
at least, until it is seen how it
works or whether any more may be
necessary.
It is a well known fact that the
legislation which hai been enacted
did not go as far as he thought it
should have gone, but he was pre
vailed upon for party reasons, and
for others, of a different kind in
which he had a more personal in
terest, to, accept the compromise
and declare himself "satisfied."
Now he says this is the best that
could be done, all that ought to
have been expected in the experi
mental stage of proceedings, and
that in his opinions it meets all the
present requirements, which is sim
ply another way of telling the Trusts
that they need not be apprehensive
of any further hostile legislation, as
a result of any recommendations
that he may make Henceforth he
and the trusts will be friends while
they keep within the prescribed
limits as laid down by the Sherman
law and the new legislation, He is
thus endeavoring to placate the
trusts,' and make friends of them.
He took occasion to pay high
tribute to thje faithfulness, and de
votion to duty shown by Attorney
General Knox in t prosecuting the
Beef Trust cases, for his successful
management in the Northwest rail
road merger case, and for his action
against the Salt Trust, which he
cited as illustrations or the scope
and effectiveness of the laws now on
the statute books.
As in previous speeches he de
clared his opposition to tariff reduc
tion on trust controlled articles ex
ported, as not only totally useless,
bat as calculated to do more harm
than good, another assnxanee to the
HE
trusts that they had nothing to fear
on that line from him.
The whole.drift of the speech was
to persuade the trusts that they had
nothing to fear from him or from
the Republican party, a studied
effort to placate them and allay the
resentment his former aggressive
attitude had aroused.
WHAT DID EE MX AH?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, like many
of our cities, and especially oitles in
the West, has a large number of
citizens of foreign birth, and of
numerous nationalities, a circum
stance of which President Roosevelt
took occasion, in response to the ad
dress of welcome, to ingratiate him
self with those elements of the popu
lation by making a speech on ances
try, in which he declared "woe will
beset a country, if, we draw lines of
distinction between. class andLclaas,
or creed and creed, or draw any
other line save that which divides
good citizenship from bad citizen
ship." As a sentiment at first sight that
may read all right, but what did he
mean in the concluding declaration?
Was he speaking from a purely po
litical or from some other point of
view ? There was no special appli
cation of these remarks to the local
ity in which ho was speaking for the
different classes and creeds are not
only recognized there politically but
also socially, and hence that declara
tion must have had its bearing more
especially on the South, where a line
is drawn on color.
He virtually says there should be
no such line, and that good citizen
ship should be the only test of
treatment and recognition, which
logically means not only in matters
appertaining to citizenship, but in
social and other matters, in other
words, that there is no room for a
race line, and where it exists it
should be wiped out. The negro
who is good enongh to hold office
and to whom white people must look
for the transaction of official busi
ness, is good enough to associate
with those white people outside of
his omcial walks, and to be recog
nized by them as equals, which sim
ply and logically means social
equality between whites and blacks,
as there is in the West between dif
ferent classes and creeds. If it
didn't mean this: it was totally irrele
vant and out of place on that occa
sion. -
One of the coolest performances
we nave read ox lately is tola in a
Berlin dispatch, abont a bank clerk
who after a service of 27 years cool
ly informed a meeting of the di
rectors that he had stolen 170,000 of
the bank's money, and gave as a
reason that they had lied to him
three years ago when they promised
to make him a director, and he was
after vengeance. He compromised
with them, however, on their agree
ing to pay him 16.250 cash and
an annuity of $900 for life,
whereupon he went into another
room and lugged ont the stolen $70,
000, counted out his $6,350 and
turned over the remainder.
What is getting into the Supreme
Courts, anyhow ? A short while ago
the Massachusetts court set aside a
verdict for damages in favor of a
woman because her beauty influ
enced the jury, and now the Su
preme Court of Wisconsin has done
likewise because the jury was hoo
dooed by the eloquence of the conn
sel. Are the legal lights going to
freeze oat beauty and eloquence?
Hon. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta,
doesn't think that Mr. Roosevelt
will have smooth sailing for the
nomination for the Presidency, bat
thinks that Governor Odell, of New
York and Hon. Mark Hanna, of
Ohio, are strong possibilities. But
being in, unless something unex
pected happens, Teddy would seem
to have the inside track.
The Roosevelt family is spread
ing over a good deal oi territory
about this time. He is on his West"
erning jaunty Mrs. Roosevelt and
some of the children are takings
cruise along the coast, Miss Alice) is
on ner way nome irom a visit to
Porto Rico, and some of the boys
are fishing up in Maine.
In noting the fact that Noah
Baby, formerly of North Carolina,
bat for the last hundred years or so
a denizen of New Jersey, celebrated
his 131st birthday last Wednesday,
the Philadelphia Press presents his
picture and publishes a sketch of
him.
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The new Chinese Minister thinks
the best thing he can do is to "fol
low the example of his predecessor"
The Ting-fang, and has therefore
already begun to make friends with
the newspaper boys. He is begin
ning right.
A Cincinnati iudge has granted a
warrant to compel a faith ourist
to take medicine for the grip. This
looks like giving a fellow a double
)se of Cincinnati law and grip sons.
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1903.
AN ECA OF BUILDING.
Upwifd of im fm CoMiTUC.
lion is Now in Progress
in Wilmington.
INDICATION OP CONFIDENCE.
People Are Willi sr. to Pot Their Money
Isto Hemes sad Bosiaess Hoosts.
MssyFlseResldeaces-Atlaatlc -Coast
Use Offices, Etc
From time to time daring the past
several weeks the Stab has taken oc
casion to refer to the great amount of
building now in progress In Wilming
ton, and has cited that as an Instance
of the confidence of the people la tbe
future of the city Yesterday a re
porter of the Stab had a very inter-.
eating interview with Mr. H. K.
Boaitz, the well known architect, and
gathered from him some actual figures
as to what his clients and others are
doing in the way of putting money
into mortar and brick, lumber and
ahingles.
Mr. Bonitz said that he now has in
process of construction and Is drawing
plans and specifications, for $53,800
worth of buildings. In addition to
this be has also completed a number
of other buildings since Jan. 1st,
which with the figures of other archi
tects, runs the total amount or con
struction up to $130,000. Among the
buildings now In process of erection
Mr. Bonits gave the following:
Howard Relief Company, club build
ing northeast corner of Front and
Oradge, $7,500.
Wilmington Tobacco Warehouse at
intersection of old Seacoast and W. Jc
W. railroad tracks, $6,500.
Mrs. E. Vollers, store on Front
street, $7,500.
Mrs. EL Vollers, southeast corner of
Walnut and Nutt streets for McNair
& Pearsall, $6,500.
Geo. O. Gaylord, store on Front
street, $8,000.
Willard Bag & Mfg. Co., new build
ing and repairs to factory on South
Water street, $5,500.
Oicar Pearsall, three-story brick
apartment dwelling for family hotel at
northeast corner of Third and Market
streets, $7,600. It is understood that
the building has been leased by Capt
W. EL Northrop, Sr.
Geo. C. McDougal, residence, north
west corner of Ninth and Obesnu
streets, $3,000.
TJ. O. Ellis, residence, north side of
Ohurcb, between Second and Third,
$1,800.
Some of the other buildings by Mr.
Bonitz and others axe the following:
Brooks 6t Taylor, store on west side
of Water, between Market and Dock,
$3,000.
Capt J. W. Harper, residence on
South Front street, $7,000.
L. B. Pennington, residence on Mar
ket, between Sixth and Seventh streets,
$3,000.
Jamea A. Montgomery, residence at
Ninth and Market streets. $1,600.
Jno. E. Taylor, two residences next
to northeast corner of Sixth and
Grace streets, $3,600..
8. W. Banders, store building on
North Fourth street, $1,2C0.
L Behder, residence on Ninth and
Red Cross streets, $1,600.
J. F. Rulff, Sr., residence on Wal
nut, near Fourth street, $3,000.
D. L. T. Oapps, four cottages at
Seventeenth and Market streets, $?,-
500.
Mrr. Bf. EL Munson, residenoe next
to northwest corner of Fourth and
Walnut street, $1,800.
Hugh MacRae, rebuilding of resi
dence on Market, between Seventh
and Eighth streets.
S-F. Harmon, residence on Fourth,
between Princess and Chesnut streets,
$3,000.
Consolidated Railways, Light and
Power Co., power bouse at root or
Castle street, S10.000.
Atlantio Coast Line, office building,
passenger station and enlargement to
original office, $30,000.
Angola Lumber Co., dry kilns, $$,
000.
Other contracts that have been
awarded or will be awarded very
shortly may have been left out of the
above account inadvertently, but the
exhibit is enough to show that perhaps
never before in the history of Wil
mington has the city experienced
such an era of building.
THE CAPE FEAR IMPROVEMENT.
Return of Fayettsvllle CommltteeScheme
Entirely Practicable.
Yesterday afternoon's Fayetteville
Observer says:
"The River Improvement Commit
tee returned last evening from Wil
mington eminently pleased with the
result of their mission. The lock and
dam sites will be located and purchas
ed in time for the new Congress which
meets in December.
"It is. perhspt, worth saying, in
correction of misapprehension in some
quarters, that the Government has al
ready adopted the' scheme of canaliza
tion of the river at a cost of $1,850,000,
and that the $50,000 appropriation was
all that was necessary for the prelimi
nary work. The only uncertain xeai
are is the appropriation of money in
the future. That Is a matter of legis
lation. Capt Wlnslow, of course,
laughs at the suggestion that the en
gineering scheme is impracticable."
Wanted ia FIoreacef S. C.
John Bishop, colored, was arrested
this morning by Policeman O. K.
Wood on a warrant from Florenee,
8. C charging him with burglary. ..
Is stated that he was implicated with
John Cooper, who was carried to
Florence last week, in tbe robbery of
the house of the well known old col
ored waitress at the. A. O. L.
ger station at Florence.
THE SCHOONE2 JitO.'ff. BUTTR1CK.
Castaia Sprigs ssl Mr. C. D
Mafflil
Back frost Us Wreck,
Kr. a D. Maffitt and Cast. Charles
W. Sprague returned yesterday after
noon from a trip along tbe coast in
search of tbe body of. CapL 8 Prague's
brother, First Mate E. EL Bprague,who
was drowned last Monday morning in
the wreck of th schooner Jno. H.
Buttrick oSTrjiaK Pan. They found
no trace of the mas and Cs.pt. Sprague
hopes to lean for home the first part
of this week. Mrs Sprague who was
with her husband In the' wreck, was
not so well yesterday and that forbade
their leaving on tbe New York steamer
as was expected.
Capt. Sprague and Mr. Mafltt char
tered a sharpie at South port Friday
and went out to the wreck of Capt
Sprague Ifi-fataL vessel. The only
thing the; found above water was
the main and . mlsEtn masts and
the deck load of lumber. The
wreckage is constantly washing
away and much lumber ia strewn
along the coast. Mr. Maffitt is of the
opinion that a part of the lumber Is
from another Teasel than the Buttriok.
One piece picked- up on Bald Head
bears the following mark "8,920-95."
and is 8x6 inches in size and about 80
feet long. Three notches were cut at
one
end with a knife. Mr. Maffitt
says the wreck Is dangerous to naviga
tion in that it is liable to mislead ves
sels and he would advise tbat the
gorernment take steps to remove It.
Friday night Capt Sprague and Mr.
Maffitt rode the gale out in the shar
pie inside Corn Cake Inlet Mr. Maf
fitt says the storm was very severe.
Tbe wind reached a velocity of about
45 miles an hour.
SOME NEWS OP THE BUILDING
Over S108.se Ceastnctloa Work Now ia
Profress Nw Front Street Store.
Hotel oa Market Street
A well known architect remarked
last night that, Including the Atlantic
Coast Line additional offices, there is
now going on in the olty more than
$100,000 In new bindings. The show
ing thus made is a remarkably fine
one. Nearly as much additional build
ing is also said to be ia immediate con
templation. Within the next few weeks work
will be commeneed on a new three
story brick store, with basement for
Mr. George O. Gaylord next south
of the present building occupied by
him on North Froat street. Plans for
the store are being drawn by Architect
EL E. Bonits and the contract will be
let wht n all bids are in. The size of
the structure will bs 85x130 feet, and
it ii rumored that it will be occupied
by Mr. N. F. Parker, the well known
furniture dealer oa Market street
It is said that the new hotel which
has been talked of for some months
will be erected on the northeast cor
ner ef Third and Market streets. The
building on that site one of the land
marks of tbe city is now being
moved, and It is said that $10,000 will
be invested in a neat little hotel of S3
rooms. It is not known who Is behind
the movement
SUDDEN DEATH OP MAIDEN LADY.
Aa A pat of Mr. R. P. Gore Passed A way
Ssdiesiy Iiteraeit Near Wirsiw.
Miss ZUphia 8. Gay, 48 years of
age, died suddenly at 4:30 o'clock Sat
urday, morning at the home of her
nephew, Mr. Et F. Gore, No. SOS
North Tenth street A member of the
family heard the lady moving about
In the room at -the unusual hour and
going to Investigate, ho found that she
was dying Tbeeoroner was sum
moned and it was ascertained tbat
death was due to heart failure. The
deceased Is survived by a brother, Mr.
D. T. Guy, ; of Warsaw, and two sis
ters, Mrs. 8arah A. Parker, of War
saw, and Mrs. Mary F. Gore, of Wil
mington.
The remains were taken Saturday
morning to Warsaw and interred In
the family burying ground three
miles from that place. The pall-bearers
to the station here were Messrs. A. W.
Allen, Jake Mohr, Joseph Benton and
Ben j. Hewlett
SAFE BLOWItfQ NEAR RALEIQH.
Store at Career Broke Opea aad Aboat
$48 Stoles-Pottofflce Folds.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. a, April 3. Hal
Rand'a store at Garner, ton miles
south of Raleigh, on the Southern
railway, was entered at 8 o'clock
this morning. The safe was blown
open and forty dollars In cash taken.
A large quantity of stamps and a
number of-neifstetttawletters be
longing to the postofflce, whkh Is in
nearby building, were not taken.
Rand allowed the postmaster to use
l his safe. There is no due to the burg
lars. Cspt W. R. Ketai'a Ceadltloa.
A telegram received yesterday by
an intimate friend of the family an
nounced that the operation upon Capt
W. R. .Kenan had been successfully
performed in Baltimore and that no
trace of a cancer wis found, as had
been feared. The news will be re
ceived with-great -joy-by hundreds of
Uaptara Kenan's friends in Wilming
ton, who have Anxiously inquired from
day to day concerning his condition
since be has been in Baltimore.
During the month of March,
there were recorded in the office of the:
Superintendent of Health -43 deaths
(17 white and 81 colored) and 6$ births
(18 white and 34 colored).
Star.
A BANK CLERK
AN EMBEZZLER.
The Capital City National of At
lanta, Ga., Robbed by a
Trusted Employe. .
DEFALCATION NEARLY $94,000.
abstracted at Varloas Times, Extending
Back Several Yesrs-Isstltstioa Aft
solate Safe .Clerk Admitted
His Quill Prosecitloi.
Br Tsiacrann to tne Momma star.
Atlanta, Ga., April 4. G. 'Hal
Urn Sims, collection clerk for the
Capital City National Bank, has been
placed 'under arrest by United States
Deputy Marshal Bcot', upon a warrant
sworn out by President Sneer, of the
bank, charging Sims with embeziling
a sum estimated at nearly $94,000.
Sims is now held at tbe Piedmont Ho
tel by the deputy marshal. He refuses
to talk about the affair.
The first suspicion of a shortage in
8lms' accounts arose yesterday. Ex
pert accountants immediately began
work on the books and it was soon
disclosed that large sums had been
abstracted at various times extending
back several years. The warrant was
then sworn out by tbe president of
the bank. Bims has been in the ser
vice of the bank for eight years and
was regarded as one of its most re
liable employes. He moved in tbe
most exclusive circles of Atlanta so
ciety and was popular as a "Young
Man of Fashion."
Prominent outside bankers have
made a thorough investigation of the
bank's condition and have given out a
signed statement that it is absolutely
safe. A portion of the defalcation Is
covered by Sims' bond, and he also
owns some property which will be
turned over to the bank. The directors
state that the amount of the defalca
tion has already been charged to un
divided profits. National Bank Ex
aminer Deaaussure also states that the
bank Is in no danger.
Sims, who has admitted his guilt
will be prosecuted by the United States
government. He is unmarried and is
the son of Thomas T. Sims, a promi
nent resident of Kirkwood, one of At
lanta's suburbs.
P1RB KAQINQ NEAR POINT CASWELL.
Heme of Mr. W. W. Malpross Destroyed
and Other Damsf e Wroafht
Special Star Correspondence.
Point Caswell, N. C, April 3.
To-day about noon, while members of
tbe family were cooking dinner at the
home of Win. W. Malpaif , the bouse
took fire and before help could arrive
the house with everything Inside was
completely deatroyed. There was a
high wind at the time and the nre
soon spread to the pine woods, and
this afternoon at 4 o'clock a terrific
fire is raging, going in a northeasterly
direction. As tbe wind is blowing a
gale there is no telling what damage
will be done.
The loss falls very heavy on Mr.
Malpass, who is quite an old man
and an old Confederate veteran. He
was a gallant soldier, and was with
Lee's army from tbe beginning to the
end of the war. The loss falls partic
ularly hard on the family, consisting
of wife and six children, who lost
everything they had except the clothes
they wore.
Died Pridsy Nlibt.
Mrs. Henrietta Green, wife of Mr.
G. W. Green, No. 614 Castle street,
died at 10:85 o'clock Friday night, after
a long illness with cancer. She leaves
to mourn their loss, her husband,
and three daughters, one brother, Mr.
William Bhew, of Marion, S. 0., and
three sisters, Mrs. Rillie Burnett of
Myrtle Grove, Mrs. "Rebecca Spooner
and Miss Sue Bhew, of this city.
A MESSENQFR BOY ROBBED.
Held Up by Two Men la New York City and
$1,400 la Mosey Taken from Him.
bt Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Nnw York, April 4. Under the
walls of the Tombs prison, Warren
8mitb, aged 14 years, employed as
messenger by Sargent & Co., hardware
manufacturers, was held up by two
men to-day and robbed of $1,400 be
longing to his employers. The boy
was returning from the Mercantile Na
tional Bank, where be had been sent
to eaah a $1,400 check, and was carry
ing the money in a large leather wal
let chained to his waist -
The boy's story as told to the police
is that the robbers, after holding him
up, dragged him into the rear room of
store near by, pointed a revolver at
him, took the money from him and
tied his hands with a handkerchief and
his feet with a toweL As soon as they
left him he managed to free himself and
notified his employers of it,
CHATTAN00QA SENSATION.
Two Promlaeat Citizens Asssalted by Stste
Senator Walter J. Peak.
By Telegraph to tbe Mornlns Btar.
Chattanooga, Tex., April 4.
State Senator Walter J. Peak to-day
assaulted John EL Cantrill and Wm.
Dowling, prominent citizens, on the
principal thoroughfare, lie carried
heavy stick with which he struck
Mr. Dowllng upon the face, seriously
injuring his eye and it is said breaking
the bones in one of bis hands. This
assault occurred at a drug store. where
many ladles were seated and caused
great excitement Cantrill was as
saulted while he was walking upon
the street- Peak struck him several
blows in the face.
The trouble is theoutoome of arti
cles published over the signatures of
Oan trill and Dowllng, attacking
Peak for; his position oa the water
works question.
The City Gas Company, of Norfolk,
Va., has just filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission a petition
against the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, alleging excessive and unreason
able rates, and mat me defendant is
receiving more for transporting coal
for the Olty uas company than it de
mands or others ror nxe service.
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SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Lumberton Argus: Mr. Lewis
Jenkins, aged 65, died last Thursday
evening at his home near Ashpole.
Thu death was unexpected, he having
just come from the field where he had
been to see about some work.
Fayetteville Observer: Besides
the increase in the post office receipts,
a still greater sign of tbe prosperity of
Fayetteville and Cumberland county
ia in the great decrease in the number
of delinquents as published by Sheriff
Cook to-day. The list contains ex
actly half the usual number of names
heretofore advertised for taxes,
Statesville Landmark: It is
stated tbat Judge Howard, of Tar-
bore, haa given $4,000 for the erection
of a cottage at the Barium Orphans'
Home in memory of his wife. -
About $50,000 of the $100,000 stock
of the proposed new cotton mill has
been subscribed and tne promoters oi
the enterprise are encouraged to hope
hat their efforts will be crowned witn
success.
. . Monroe Enquirsri A little
two year-old daughter of lr. Charlss
Strawn, who lives on Mr. J. O. Bikes'
farm, about a mile east of Monroe, had
an almost miraculous escape from
death yesterday. She fell Into a well
65 feet deep and remained for half an
hour or more before she was rescued,
but was unhurt except being slightly
blistered where she struck the water.
There was about 85 feet of water in the
well.
Newton Ent&rprise: Straw
berry growers say a good many young
berries were killed by the frost last
week, but new blooms are coming on
every day and they expect an early
and full crop. Mrs. P. O. Shu
ford of this place has a Plymouth
Rock hen that up to last Thursday had
laid 100 eggs. The hen began to lay
November 15th and is still at it.
Mr. M. M. Cliae says he has the best
wheat this year he ever saw. It was
knee high a week ago and as thick as
it can stand. Ail the farmers we have
talked with are jubilant over the wheat
this year,
Sanford Express: The Balelgh
and Cape Fear Railway has filed a
mortgage to secure $310,000 of 5 per
cent bonds to provide for the exten
sion of the road to Fayetteville, which
is about twenty-five miles beyond
LUling ton, to which place the road is
now being extended. The P. H.
Laufman Gold Mining Company, of
Southern Pines, was chartered by the
Secretary of State Tuesday, with an
authorized capital stock of $1,000,000,
of which $970,000 is subscribed by P.
H. Laufman and George Hutchison,
of Southern Pines, and W. K. Jack
son, oi (Jarthage.
Rockingham Headlight: Quite
a number of our farmers tell us that
they have planted some corn, and
some of them have planted their en
tire corn crop. . - The country
around Laurinburg will plant 8,000
acres in melons, cantaloupes, Irish
?otatoes, beans and tobacco.
he result of Our inquiries among the
farmers from different sections of the
county, is that the cotton acreage in
the country has not been greatly In
creased this season. Red Springs
has a charter for an oil and fertilizer
company with a capital of $50,000 of
which $20,000 has already been sub
scribed. GEORGIA PEACH CROP.
Said to Have Been Bsdlj Damsged by the
Freeze la February.
8v Teiegrapn to tbe Mornlns Btar.
Atlanta, Ga., April 4. Reports
from the vicinity of Fort Valley, Ga.
the headquarters of one of the richest
sections of the fruit belt In this State,
are to the effect that the prospect there
is discouraging for the peach crop and
in some instances the outlook is
gloomy for fruit growers.
it is stated that the freeze oi ecru-
ary damaged the peacn crop to a
greater extent than was at first real
ized. Excessive - rains during the
blooming period have alao left their
detrimental effects. In some sections
it Is reported that the brown root, or
momlia dlsease.has attacked the bloom
and a considerable percentage of the
blossoms were killed.
BURNED IN THEIR HOME.
Poor Children of a Colored Family Near
Fraakllntoo, S. 6.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Btar.
Raleigh, N. O, April' 4. A special
from Franklinton, N. C, says:
A tenement house on the land of
Mr. L H. Kearney, about two miles
west of here, was destroyed by fire
about 9 o'clock last night. The house
was occupied by Rums Daniel, col
ored, his wife and seven children.
Four oi tne children, wno were sleep
ing up-stairr, 'were bnrned to death.
The roof was falling in before the oc
cupants of the lower room were awak
ened. There were no windows in the
un-atsira room, and the children be
ing cut off from tbe atair-way by fire
were unable to escape a terrible death.
Bids were opened in Washington
yesterday for the construction of
steam engineering shops at tne
Charleston, S. O, naval station. The
bid of the Uiarx construction uom
pany, which was the lowest of the
five presented, was $297,751, the build
ing to be completed within eighteen
months.
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TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGES
OF OCEAN STEAMERS.
DasMged fty Heavy Ssas Several Uvea
Lest Decks Swept Fere and Aft
Castas and Saloons Plesded.
, by Tsissrasb to tM BUurm&x star. .
Hautax, N. a, April 4. A dis
patch from Bt Pierre says that the
passage of the steamers Burgaadia
and Notre Dame de Balut from France
was tbe roughest ever experienced
One man was lost at sea and four
others were drowned In the harbor
of St. Pierre after the arrival of the
steamer oa Friday.
Tbe Notre Dame de Balut left Bt
Malo, March 18th and experienced
sixteen days continuous rough weath
er. On March 26th a tremendoua sea
boarded the ateamerl-and r swept fore
and aft, carrying three men overboard
besides a large quantity of deck gear
and other portable material.. Two of
the men were washed back again by
the next sea and a third was lost
During the height of the storm tbe
steering gear broke and the steamer
labored and plunget ia the trough of
the ses. The cabin and saloon were
flooded with water which continuous
ly broke over the steamer and several -
men were injured. The 1,800 fisher- r' V
men, passengers on the steamer .never
experienced such weather on the
banks.
The steamer Burgandia left Bt "
Malo a day ahead of the Notre Dame
de Balut and arrived a -day behind.
Bh was also consider bly damaged by
heavy seas on the. voyage. A ooat's
crew of fifteen men of the Burgandia
left the vessel ia the harbor ofBt
Pierre and was capsized; - Four were
lost The two ships carried a total of
8,600 passengers.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
Oermsa Press Treat Presldest Roosevelt's
Chlciro Speech Friendly.
BT Cable to tne Horning star.
Bbbun, April 4. The German
press treats President Roosevelt's
speech at Chicago on the Monroe doc
trine in a kindly way, tbe irritation
caused by the Dewey Interview hav
ing passed, and although one or two
of the commentators take the Presi
dent's reference to boasting aa being
an arrow shot at Admiral Dewey, the
foreign office informs the Associated .
Press that this Is not the view of the
German official world, where no one
attached an unfriendly impulse to the
admiral's remarks. The Taaeblatt. in
the course of a long and carefully
phrased editorial, avers that those who
are responsible for making German
publie opinion cannot say too often
that "Germany hu not even remote
aims for territorial acquirements, and
that she only wants opportunities to
employ her capital and sell her pro-
duats."
STEAM YACHT CZARINA.
Ssld to be the Strosiest Yscht Ever Msde
la This Coastry.
Bt Telegraph to tbe Mornlns star.
New York, April 4 Ohas. Bryan's
steam yscht Czarina was successfully
launched to-day from tbe Orescent
shipyards, Elisabethport. N. J. The
Czarina, designed personally by Lewis
Nixon and built under his super
vision, is said to bs the strongest
yacht ever built in this country
and probably in tbe world,
and will always be known as
the first vessel of the auxiliary
yacbt navy, a class built under the ex
acting specifications of the United
8tates government and which . the
Navy Department may convert into
warablps within a rew days. The new
yacht has a large double bottom, with
a capacity of fifty tons of water bal-
las', and ia structurally as strong as a
1,000-ton cruiser, though she measures
only a little over 300 tons. In speed
she will probably reach nineteen knots
or over.
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THE BALKAN TROUBLES.
Balfariaa Qovernmest Taking Active Steps
Aialnst Mscedonlan Bands.
By Cable to tbe Morning Btar.
Salonica, Euhojkan TtJBKET, April
4. It is reported that the Russian
consul at Mitrovitza, who was shot in
the back by an Albanian sentry there,
Is dead.
VieiTCa, April 4. Advices received
here from Bofia say the.' Bulgarian
government Is taking active' measures
against the Macedonian bands and has
seized a large quantity of their arms
which were hidden in Bofia. Bulgarian
gendarmes on the frontier near Dub-
nitza have fired upon insurgents who
were attempting to smuggle guns into
Turkey.
Fresh insurgent bands have ap
peared in the district of Djuma (Rou
mania) and a strong detachment of
Turkish cavalry, with artillery, has
started in pursuit, going towards tbe
Kresha Fais.
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' A M1SS1NQ STEAMER.
Believed to Have Been Blown Up oa Her
Trip to West Africa.
Bv Cable to tbe Morning Btar.
Lojtdon, April 4. It is believed
that the steamer Bambara, on her first
trip from Marseilles to Daks, French
West Africa, with a cargo of 90,000
pounds of gunpowder and two cases
of dynamite, has been blown up at sea
and has lounderea. Jioyas says mere
is reason to fear that this has occurred,
although no confirmation Is at hand.
The Bambara naa not been reported
from Gibraltar, although she should
hare been sighted there March 81st.
The captain of tbe French schooner
Assumption, or juarseuies, reports
that on March 28th. when sixty miles
off Palmier, he saw a brilliant flash of
light which was followed by a loud
explosion. The captain of the Nina
makes a similar report. The crew of
the Bambara numbered thirty-five men
and ahe carried six passengers.
RECEIVER APPOINTED.
Failure of AnltmsD, Miller Co , Mass-
f sctarers of Af ricaltorsl ImpUnJests.;.
bv Telecrapb to tne Morning Btar.
Akeoit, O., April 4. The plant of
Aultman, Miller & Company, manu
facturers of agricultural Implements,
was late to-day placed in the hands of
a receiver, on application of Hon. Geo.
B. Grouse, president of the company.
He andH. P. Mcintosh, of Cleve
land, were appointed receivers. The
liabilities are placed at IL800.000, with
assets exceeding that amount The
failure was brought about by a few
creditors refusing to grant an exten
sion of time. An amicanie aojusimcm
of tbe difficulties is looked for and ar
rangements have been made wnereny
I the company will continue at work,
pending a nnai adjustment.
nti.himnnA PMnnn. the newly ap
pointed American minister to Persia,
has arrived at Genoa, Italy. Ai2lp.
short slay In Italy he will proceed di
rect for Persia.
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