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TARIFF C0HCESSI0H3 BUT BO
REVI8I0BT.
The Republican party's protective
tariff policy la based on the claim that
it protects, encourages and builds np
American industries and gives work
and living prices to the laborers of
the country. We have seen recently
that the inflated idea of prosperity
has resulted, in overproduction in
nearly every line of manufacture,
with the result that the supply is
greater than the demand. The con
sequence is that "prosperity" run
mad has caused the mills and facto
ries to shut down to stop this over
flow of production, labor has been
knocked off, or else wages have been
reduced, that result leading to dis
content, strikes and violence.
W hen the people are demanding
a revision of the present out of date
tariff, a great part of the demand
coming even from Republicans, the
leaders of the Republican party are
beat on making no concessions in
reducing the burdens of the Ding
ley tariff, 1 he Democrats in Con
groaa have been endeavoring to
draw from the Republicans what the
people may expect in the way of
tariff revision, but they have gotten
no satisfaction from the protection
party. The Hon. John Sharpe
Willilms, leader of the Democrats in
the House of Representatives, made
a practical test of the possi
bility of tariff revision a few
days ago when he proposed in
the House to reduce the duties on
irow- and steel. Of course, he failed,
as every Buch attempt in this Con
gress will do, for the Republican
party's policy was laid down au
thoritatively, and no doubt met the
approval of other leaders, when
Senator Mark Hanna declared at a
political meeting in Ohio, "We
Sta n! pat on the tariff." From this
deemration of the rotund Hanna,
all the stalwarts who favor no med
dling with the present tariff are call
ed "stand patters "
Despite the efforts of the Demo
crats, therefore, the stand pat pro
gram me will be carried out by the
Republicans through this Congress,
but jast what the Republi
can .party proposes to do
in the way of revision will possibly,
but not probably, be made known
in their national platform next year.
The protectionist party, however,
is throwing, out some sop in the way
of reciprocity, but it is along a
line that will make the sugar and to
bacco interests of the United States
howl. Reciprocity with Cuba is go
ing through, but while it is not yet
effective, we are told that the ad
ministration is already formulating
pU. s for granting special tariff re
dactions and privileges to the Phil
ippines. Such a bill, it is
said, will be introduced from a Re
publican source at the regular session
of Congress which meets this
mouth. There are some who advo
cate absolute freo trade with the
Philippines and with Porto Rico,
ani it is hinted that the radical
Boosevelt will make some such recr
omtnendation in the message which
he will send in at the beginning of
the regular session. This question
comes np here : Is the Republican
party, instead of protecting the
agar and tobacco industries of this
country, going to sacrifice them in
the concessions to be made for these
Products from the Philippines?
Speaking of the proposition of tariff
concessions to the Philippines, we
kko the following from the New
urieans Picayune, which champions
the cause of the cane sugar indnstry
wtne Southwest :
Toe President atd his advisers, of
'Vr. C0lnt upon even more for
midable opposition than they have
'"TOuoteredifUo Cubtn reciprocity
i'o'ure on behalf of the Bunr Trust.
0,et sugar Interests, cajoled Into
wpportine with much reluctance the
SW'iMMUff, now fiod themselves
k. . Dy lhe Administration and
th. f,C8 wltn another serious cut in
proucllon hitherto enjoyed by
" '1- dutry. Naturally they will
, 1 V. nht against this further
r ' bold,n bat "e sue
"JUlrj should nnt h. mmAm ia k
Bon'a SS;5 bu den of tbe Adminlstre
0Bk..lld colonisation scheme on tbe
On. k " j w'uniianon scneme on ine
ixlB"d "d provide for its campaign
E'Ws on the othA
tta "Wment advanced in favor
u iS!d9 wltb the Philippines is
tn..
Urt ni JT ,oa, re now Integral
Get. V.u,r do?Io which Is not a
Islands are conquerred ter-
VOL. XXXV.
ritory la every sense of the word, an h.
mlttlng to ui only through compul
sion and ready to throw off the yoke
at any moment. Tbe Filipinos are not
American citistns, although they are
American subjects and under Amer
ican protection; instead of being a
our ee of revenue to us, the Islands
are a source of constant expense.
8 jch being the case, we are under no
obligation to find a market for the
products of tbe islands at the expense
of our own industries.
"According to tbe Filipinos, the
pedal treatment with respect to tariffs
would be or no practical benefit to the
Filipinos themselves, but would prove
of inestimable value to the Bucar
Trust, which would ba able to import
uanua sugar iree oi amy or at jrery
low rates. Benued sugwr being tbor
oughly protected from the competi
tion of European refined, the . Trust
would be in a position to greatly in
crease its profits, and therefore able to
make a larger contribution to the Re
publican campaign fund.
"Tbe according of free trade to the
Philippines, or even a material reduc
tion in tbe duties on sugar, would be a
olece of .treachery, as tbe bill now
pending in Congress contains a clause
oreventing any further change in the
sugar duties for five years. It was on
the strength of this provision that tbe
upport of tbe beet sugar people was
ssenred for the Cuban reciprocity mea
sure. They now have a fair sample of
the value of administration pledges.
"Tbe beet sugar Industry can now
understand the policy of the Admlnis-
ration, which is to sacrifice sugar for
ihe benefit of the Sugar Trust. Tbe
desire to aid tbe Filipinos is merely a
pretext. A realisation of this fact
bould ioduce the beet growers to ac
cord the cane sugar producers a heart-
i -r support in their ngbt against a re
duction of the. tariff than was ao
corded in the fight against Cuban reel
rocity."
Tb Stab notes in this connection
that the Picayune opposed to Cu
ban reciprocity for the same rea
sons that it now takes np the cudg
els against the administration's pro
position as to the Philippines.
13 SOCIALISM AND PATERNAL
ISM GROWING
The Dowie scheme at Zion City is
the largest experiment on the social
istic line ever attempted in this
country. If a prophet like Elijah
III will go broke in carrying out
this theory of community existence,
tbe socialistic theory may get a
check in this country.
Socialism has, however, had con
siderable growth in the North, while
paternalism in . the theory of gov
ernment has had even a larger
growth in the JJouth. To a student
of political science, the rapid revo
lution in political theories in the
South takes en more of the appear
ance of evolution, when we consider
what the stride has been in a very
few years, despite the fact that most
of us would like to scout the fact.
The Richmond papers have been
excoriating the Western Union Tel
egraph Company for employing ne
gro messengers in that city. If the
white messengers in Wilmington had
continued their strike and their
places had been filled by negroes,
publio indignation would have forced
tbe withdrawal . of the latter within
twenty-four hours.
Before the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs at Washington, General
Brooke testified that Gen. Leonard
Wood had a pull with the Santiago
papers and induced, them to attack
Brake's administration. Brooke
wanted to stifle the papers by sup
pressing them. It looks as if both
Brooke and Wood ought to have
been at home.
Once when a province was seized
and added to the Indian Empire,
the- British General who did the
land grabbing justified it by saying:
"It was a necessary and salutary
piece of rascality." If Boosevelt is
looking for an excuse or reason for
the Panama canal scoop, the Stab
tenders him this good one.
A Charlotte man has written a
book entitled "How to Manage a
Husband." If he knows anything
about the subject he learned it from
his wife. The methods of manage
ment may differ, bnt the plans of
most women are effective.
Judging from 'the trial of the
pcBtoffice department grafters at
Baltimore, on Friday, the Washing
ton administration will not fill many
cells in the national penitentiaries
before the campaign year 'opens np.
At Washington on Friday Speaker
Cannon had to fire Herman J.
Schultela, chairman of the national
legislative committee of the Knights
of Labor. Is this the first gun in
the national campaign?
As the Winter is very severe in
Manchuria now Russia will go into
winterquarters and fix another date
for withdrawing -from winterquart
ers. ' 1
They call it the "cotton pit" on
the New York Cotton Exchange,
but the wild speculators there don't
have much pit-ty on each other.
The latest quotation from Gen
eral Reves at Washington is "Noth
ing Doing." There are no bidders
on his canal gift proposition.
Tonle Byrd was fatally shot by his
brother. Javan uyra, wnue nunwjisi
squirrels near Whaleyvllle, Vs., yes
terday. The affair was an accident.
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Dispensary Advocates Have Se
cured Required Number of
Signatures for Election.
A POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Notblor Will be Done Until After Holidays
sod Llqaor Deslers Will Get another
Term No High-License Com
promise Maaater.
Positive announcement was - made
to a representative of this paper last
night that considerably more than the
required number of signatures to a
petition asking for the calling of a
dispensary election In. Wilmington
had been secured by tbe Anti-Saloon
League. The petition, however, will
not be presented to the Board
of Aldermen for action ubtil
after the holidays when it is
proposed to Inaugurate the campaign
against saloons in earnest. There was
a report on the streets yesterday
that the petition would be submit
ted to the Aldermen to morrow night,
but such will not be tbe case, accord
ing to a dispensary leader with whom
a reporter for this paper talked last
ieht.
The Watts' law under which
it is proposed to call the election, re
quires a petition signed by one-third
of the registered voters of the city, but
tbe anti-saloon people are said to have
taken no chances and gone beyond
that 'limit by one hundred or more.
The names of several voters, who bad
not registered for the municipal elec
tion, were previously erased when it
became known that only registered vo
ters could sign, and it was in anticipa
tion of future contingencies of that
character that the additional number
of signers was secured.
Some time ago it was sought by
some to effect a high license compro
mise for the present, but sloce active
steps had already been taken by the
anti-saloon people to call an election
upon a dispensary, the liquor men are
reported to have refused to concur in
any such agreement, easing they were
willing to meet tbe dispensary istue
on us merits and abide a decision or
the people at the polls. Such a man
ifestation of confidence on both sides,
augurs a bitter fight and one which
will likely render the opening months
of the new year fully as lively as du
ring the most intense political cam
paigns. License of all liquor dealers expire
January 1st and will be renewed then
for six months; so that, in any event,
tbe dispensary cannot be established
here until after July 1st, 1904, the ex
piration of the renewed licenses. The
anti-saloon member, who gave the
facts above, so stated last night. A
prominent young Wilmington law
yer, wno was very active in securing
signatures to the dispensary petitions,
has been T aged to manage the cam
paign for the Antl 8aloon League.
Mao of Trsflc Career.
Mr. W. A. Farriss, who returned
yesterday from Henderson where he
attended the funeral of his brother-in-law,
Mr. Eugene Betts, who was the
victim of a fatal Thanksgiving hunt,
tells of the traeio career of Policeman
Bob Crockett, the accidental discharge
of whose gun caused young Mr. Betts'
death.- Mr. Farriss says Policeman
Crockett is a quiet, unassuming man
add within the lait two years, four
persons have fallen a victim to his un
intentional shooting. Daring tbe re
cent appearance of Gentry's show at
Henderson Policeman Crockett, in at
tempting to arrest an unruly negro,
accidentally shot and killed the negro
and also a white by-atander, both hav
iag died In Bex hospital, Balefgb.
Another time recently he was forced
ii shoot a man down on the streets of
Henderson in self-defence. Mr. Far
riss says no one ever took the killing
i f another man harder than did Mr.
Crockett the ahootinc or Mr. Betts. He
fctmply was born to have a tragic ca
reer and lately he's been having it.
His Sca'p Laid Opes.
Tom Wilsoo, a middle-aged colored
man, was arrested by Policeman H
P. Merrltt at Third and Hanover
streets Friday nightcharged with being
drunk and disorderly. He attempted
to resist the officer when he was given
the weight of the Istter's club across
tbe head, the scslp having been laid
open for several inches. Wilson
claims a gold watch had been stolen
from him and that be was raising a
disturbance on account of the loss of
bis property. At the police station
tbe negro's wound bled profusely and
he was taken to the hospital In the
police patrol wagon.
Position la Ssvsnsah.
Mr. Ernest M. Brogden, a popular
voueff Goldsborean who was em
ployed by the A. C. L. in this city for
several Tears and later graduated with
honor in stenography and typewriting
from the great business college at
Poaffhkeensie. N. Y.. arrived in the
city last night on his way to Savan
nah, Ga , where he will take an im
norUnt nosltion in the TJ. 8. Engi
neer's office. Mr. Brogden's hosts of
friends in Wilmington wish for him
unbounded success in bis Georgia field.
Her Age 105 Years.
Aunt" Dolly Larkins, an old col
ored woman whose age is given on tbe
death certificate at 105 years of age.
died last week at her home in HutafTs
ftlleT. She was born in Wilmington
and reared here, according to state
ments of her descendants, which, if
correct, made her for lone years the
oldest native Inhabitant of tbe county
WILMINGTON, N. C.; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,
corrosi mills curtailing.
View of the Market SitieUoa Iron Care
ful Sissy of the eosditloas.
Communicated ' : x i
Ii baa bsen announced that a con
vention will be held by the Southern
cotton mills looking to the curtail
ment of output until the next crop of
eotton is available. It Is understood
that curtailment is made necessary by
reason of the fact that mills cannot
sell manufactured products on a parity
of costs with raw materiaL The argu
ment appears to be specious. The law
of supply and demand should have
application to tbe cotton mill Indus
try as well as to any other industry.
Steel rails at one time were as . low as
$18, and $20 was the current price for
a number of years. For the past sev
eral yeais tbis article has been held at
$28, and the production of steel in
this country has doubled-witbin five
years. A short crop of corn, two years
ago advanced the price f gem S3 to 70
cents In Obicago, and every available
bushel was consumed, notwithstand
ing that the wheat crop of this country
was large and tbe prices of flour ruled
comparatively low. Tbe relation of
corn and wbeat la more intimate as re
spects the shifting of demand than that
ootaining between any other two sta
ples of commerce." Industrial skill
bas made more pronounced advance
ment in cotton manufactures than
in any other article of like
character, so that the demand for eot
ton goods long. since ceased to repre
sent the needs for low grade goods
only. Cotton fabrics are fast sup
nlanting woollens and silks.. Cotton
fabrics wild cottdn at 13 cU. would be
tbd cheapest article of wear known to
civilised man.
For years the farmers of the South
have been hewers of wood and draw
ers of water, while the cotton mills of
tbe Pouth have made most wonderful
development. It is granted that fab
ulous fortunes cannot be made out of
coiton spinning with cotton at 13 cts.,
and tha only means that such for
tunes have been made heretofore at
be cost of tbe farmer and consumers
tre&traity. A millionaire who had
lott nine-tenths of bis fortune com
plained tbat he was a pauper. Cotton
milis which have been making forty
per cent, dividends when confronted
with the necessity for working on a
legitimate basis of 10 per cent, profit
cry out that tbey must curtail produc
tion because tbey cannot sell tbe
manufactured product on a parity with
present cot of raw material. The cot
ton industry, probably more than any
other, rqiires skilled labor, and tbe
value oi a cotton mill punt is its
ability to operate and bold Intact its
custom and labor no lets tban Its
pa f sical properties. If tbe American
mills cannot spin at ruling prices for
raw coiton tne Kogiisn ana uonu-
neotsl mills will have a veritable
wiodfall. Foreign trade is built up
by much labor and retained by tne
most atsiduous attention. If tbe
American mills wish to throw away
all tbat tbey have done in tbis line, no
doubt tbe European mills stand ready
to accommodate tbem.
Tne farmer bas just come to his own :
and since more tban 75 per cent of
the population of the South Is rural,
tbis Southland of ours is unques
tionably tbe gainer by high prices for
cotton. Tbe cotton growers are, for
tbe first time In two generations, in
position to protect their Interest. They
know that the present high prices for
their product are the legitimate result
of tbe law of supply and demand.
They cannot be bluffed. COTTON.
XMAS TIMES FOR POLICE.
Number of Arrests sad Court Appearances
. locresslsg With Approscb of Yiletlde
- Festivities -Dologs Yesterday.
Business in police circles is "pick
ing up" with the advent of the yule
tide holiday. Yesterday the Mayor
bad a number of offenders at the bar
of penitence. James P, Davis, a col
ored youth, who prematurely used
fireworks on Bladen street, was let off
with a sound thrashing by his mother.
Fred 8bafer and Geo. Wood, two
wbite vagrants "picked up" the night
fteforeby Officer O. E. Wood, were
sent out to the rock pile for SO days
eacb. and Tom Wilson, the middle-
aged colored man, whom Policeman
H. P. Merritt had to club into sub
mission at Third and Harnett streets.
was fined $10 and costs for drunken
ness and disorderly conduct and was
required to buy the officer a new over
coat to replace one he had torn. Wilson
olanked over $3170 and nursed a badly
swollen head as tbe result oi nls en
counter with Policeman Merrltt.
E-.rly yesterday afternoon three
colored "bullies" sauntered up Front
street in a maudlin condition, forcing
people to step out of their paths to
avoid tbem. Jim Teschey, of the
trio, first came to grief and was sent
up to the police station by Gateman
E. Piner. of the A. O. Ls, and Elliott
Williams and Wm. Lockart followed
in quick succession, having been ar
rested by Policeman E. B. Chad wick
at Front and Red Cross streets.
Policaman Cbadwick about an hour
later arrested Melvin Peters, a colored
sailor, who was diuak and on his
way to the Marine Hospital. He had
razor on his person, and will have
to answer the double charge of being
drunk and carrying a concealed
weapon.
A dozen other arrests oi more or
less consequence were made. during
the remainder of the afternoon and
last night
i-MSBBJjTJ-flBBs1BBVBMSSMSB
City Editor of the Messenger.
Mr. James H. Cowan, city editor of
the Messenger, whose resignation, has
been tendered since September, will
sever bis connection with tbat paper
to-morrow and will be succeeded by
Mr. W. P. Mangum Turner, of Greens
boro, who has for some time been city
editor of Mr. R. W. Haywood's paper,
the Telegram. Mr. Cowan resigns to
devote his entire time to his duties as
one of the lessees and managers of the
Academy of Muslo and also to other
theatrical business which he has In
contemplation. Mr. Oowan is one of
the cleverest of the clever In the Wll
mington newspaper field and bis
hosts of friends will regret to have
him leave the circle. .
FINANCES Of THE STATE.
Report bj the Audllor-Si. Loots Exhibit.
Bosrd of Agriculture.
.Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. O., Dec. 3. A state
ment issued by the Auditor shows the
condition of the State's general fund
at the close of the fiscal year Nor. 80,
to be: Becelnts. $3,833,043.50: dis
bursements. 13.201.604.31: balance.
$130,138 19. Educational fund : Re
ceipts. $150,906.93; disbursements,
$180,799 83-, balance, $30,10709.
a. report to tbe State Board of Ag
riculture from the Governor shows
$7,500 In hand toward the $10,000 to
be raised by subscrintlon to make the
8tate appropriation of $10,000 for tbe
8L Louis Exposition available. The
Governor expects to have the amount
in hand within thirty days.
commissioners Patterson, Scott and
Allen, of tbe Board of Agricul
ture; are appointed a commit
tee to take In hand the erection
of a new rieuhural building at tbe
a. and Jtt. uolleee. The corner stone
will be laid next June. It will prob
ably be called the Aycock building.
xne isoard decided to buy another
experiment farm in the extreme moun
tain section of the State, making four
n an.
FIRST MET 1MPOSTEK HEBE.
Swindler Arrested la Ssvssnsh Oace Op
erated Is WIImlsgtouThe Csee.
Special to Augusta Chronicle.'
Savahnah, Ga , Dec 3. Rev. C.
A. Hamilton, a Methodiat evangelist
from Martinsville, Va., arrived here to
night and confronted an Im poster, who.
under the garbeof the minis ter.had been
seeking and receiving contributions to
a fund that he was raising to restore a
gospel tent that was blown down in
Augusta, Ga., last spring.
Harris confessed that he had no
right to wear the garb of a minister
but insisted tbat he had never stated
to anyone that he was a licensed
preacher. " His meeting with the real
Mr. Hamilton was not the first one.
Last April, in Wilmington, N. C, he
gained tbe confidence of tbe evange
list and secured the subscription list
tbat was taken from htm when he was
made a prisoner by Detective Murphy
Monday.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Salisbury Sun, Dec. 3rd: Last
night tbe unlocked safe of Mr. W. H.
Huff was opened and robbed of about
$300 in money.
W. G. Brown, a well known
printer at High Point, will soon
begin the publication of a new paper
there to be called the Weekly Ledqer.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth :
Last Friday night an old colored
man named John Webb was burned
in his house on the road near Mr.
B. D. Webb's. He was old and fee
ble, unable to walk and lived by
himself, some boys staying with bim
at night. The house was consumed
and the bones of the old man were
found near the door.
At Statesville on Thursday
afternoon Mr. James Patton, a gen
tleman about 72 years of age, was
killed by a west bound freight just
beyond Statesville. Mr. Patton,
who was very deaf, did not hear
the train as he was crossing the
track in a buggy. He was an old
Confederate soldier, and one of the
most gallant.
Fayetteville Observer Deo. 3rd:
Last night Tom Monroe, colored,
who had just been to the city and
sold a cow, was returning home,
and while near the Ayer place on
the Hope Mills road two negro men
approached him with pistols and
knives and held himnp, robbing him
of $9 in money, his coat, hat, a rope
and a pair of gloves. He did not
know either one of the men and
they escaped.
At Greensboro' on Wednesday.
says the Record, Carl W. Hobson, a
voung white man was arrested in
this city upon the charge oi stealing
a horse from a man, at cpray, .uock
ingham county. He denied when
fir8t arrested that he stole the horse
bnt later admitted it. If Hobson
had traded the stolen horse for one
equally as valuable, or gotten one
anywhere near as valuable, he might
not have been caught so easily, but
he traded the stolen horse, which
was worth at least one hundred dol
lara, for an old plug said to be worth
abont $5 and received $6 to boot.
Charlotte Observer , Deo. '4th:
Down on the wharf yesterday Char
lotte men gambled heavily and
won. 'Twas a red letter day in tbe
history of local speculation. One
suburbanite, it was said, won $38,
000. A resident, who is a well-
known business man, closed his con
tracts $1000 to the good. Many
were the men who won $1,000 and
above. The lowest estimate made
by any man among the large number
of men interviewed by an Observer
reporter yesterday indicated the be
lief that the smallest amount of cash
won bv the Charlotte people was
$175,000: while the conservate opin
ions of a number of leading cotton
men. as well as the reports from the
exchanges themselves, would lead
one to believe that twice the sum
mentioned would come to Charlotte
from New Xgprk.
- WadeBboro Mmenqer-lnteUv
aencer: Matthew McLendon, a full
blooded African, of Ansonville town
ship, will, we are sure, take the pre
mium for constancy. About this
time every year, for five years, Mat'
thew has been applying to the regis
ter of deeds of the county for mar
riage license. As soon as the year
for which the license was good ex
plred Matthew would return the old
license and plank down his two dol
lars for another one. Saturday the
license he secured last year expired
and Sunday he was here looking for
Register of Deeds Moore to have it
renewed. Matthew told Mr. Moore
that the girl. Ida Hasty, had prom
ised him that she would certainly
marry him some time between this
date and the first of next year, and
that he wanted to ' be sure to have
the license ready when she said the
word,
1903.
ROOSEVELT AND HANNA.
A Conference tost Aroused Keenest
Id-
terest Aoosg Senators and Repre
sentsttves ia Cosgress.
Br Telegraph to ths Morning Star.
Washington, Dec. 5. Senator
Henna's conference with the Presi
dent last night aroused the keenest
interest among senators and repre
sentatives in Congress and among
politicians generally.
it can be said tbat at last night's
conference only Incidental reference
was made to matters of concern to
the Republican national committee.
As to Perry 8. Heath's connection
with the national committee as sec
retary, it is understood that
the President " does not care
to assume a position.- Mr. Heath
Is an officer .of the committee and the
President thinks the committee amply
qualified to take care of its own affairs
without suggestion from bim. It is
understood definitely tbat Mr. Heath.
in any event, will hot be a candidate
again for secretary of tbe committee.
Senator Henna to-dav authorized
the Associated Press to state tbat the
President and himself "discussed a
number of things, legislative and po
litical. While they differ on tbe sub-
ct of the confirmation of General
Wood there is no misunderstanding
between them and nothing indicating
a break in their relations, auch as has
teen reported."
CONCERNING FREIGHT RATES
Only a Few Unimportant Changes Msde
by Southern Classification Committee
Isdlcstlsg sn Advsnce.
isy Telegraph to tbe Morning Btar.
Washington, Deo 5. The South
em classification committee, of which
P. J. McGovern is chairman, bas ad
journed after three days session at th
Raleigh Hotel. Nearly one hundred
items of classification were discussed
by tbe members of the committee, and
several representatives of tbe shipping
public were heard.
Ke ports tbat tbe classification ratings
were to be advanced as a result of tbis
meeting were erroneous. Ia a ma.
jarity of cases the ratings were reduc
ed, some changes being made in the
ording to prevent any mlsucder
standing as to the purpose of the class
ification. Out of a total of ninety-nine subjects
discussed, only three changes were
made which Indicated an advance, one
of these being on locomotives because
of the greatly increased weight of tbe
locomotives manu'acturea in recent
years. The other two advances were
unimportant.
Tbe chairman states tbat the tend
ency in considering classification ra
tings is in the direction of a reduction.
and tbis meeting was no exception to
the rule.
CONSPIRACY AT PANAMA.
Alleged Plot Against the Life of the Com
ossder-luChlef.
Br Cable to tbe Morning Star.
Colon;, Dec. 5. Throngh a let
ter tbe Panama government has
discovered what is alleged to have
been a plot against the life of Gen
eral Uuertas, commander in-chief of
the forces of the republic of- Pan
ama, and an effort on the part of a
few army officers to persuade the
garrison at Panama to revolt. If
such a plot really existed, it was
promptly nipped in the bud by the
apprehension to-day at Panama of
four alleged conspirators who were
immediately brought under guard
to Colon and shipped thence to Port
Limon, Costa Rica. The prisoners
were members of the Colombian
battalion which gave its support to
the new government when tbe re
public was .formed and which was
commanded by General Huertas.
They declare that the charge that
they were engaged in a conspiracy
is the work of personal enemimes.
ALLEGED SVINDLTR.
Former Msssger sf the White Commission
Co., Blroiaghsm, Als., Arrested.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
- Birmingham, Ala., Do. 5. F. B.
Wellons, formerly manager of the
White Commission Company, who ia
under arrest cbarged with embezzle'
ment of $700, was given a prelim
inary hearing to-day and his bond
fixed at $10,000. 8o far he has failed
to make it. Sensational evidence was
introduced which tended to show
tbat Wellons had accepted $1,200
or $1,600 in margins on blocks of
Brooklyn Bapid Transit and T. O. I.
stock, after tbe contract had been
closed out. T. D. Howard, the prose
cutor, presented checks for money
that he had paid as margins after Sep
tember 29. when the books of tbe com
pany showed that the stocks had been
closed out on that day.
Howard claims that he and the per
sons he represented would have made
$10,000 on thesejtocks if they had not
been closed out without notice. Tbe
White Commission Company is also
prosecuting Wellons.
KEQR0 LYNCHED.
Hssged by a Mob for Attempted
Asssolt
on a White Child.
Br Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Tampa, Fla., Dec. 5. Lewis Jack
son, a negro, charged with having
attempted to assault the three-year old
daughter of Superintendent R. F.
Ensev. of the government works at
Fort DeSoto, Mullet Key, last Monday,
bas been lynched near Tampa by a
mob of wbite men.
Jackson was brought here pending
an investigation. It was found that
there was no law under which the negro
could be convicted and he was ordered
released. The negro had barely got to
the outskrts of two when he was appre
hended by town whjtemen who placed
him in a cab and carried him to a spot
near the city where a mob of white
men hanged him.
Two hundred and fifty quail on
a single string were displayed in front
of the Dixie Care jester iay. They
were shipped to Wilmington from ML
Airy and are among tbe finest seen
hare this season.
NO. 7
PROF. LANQLEY'S AIRSHIP.
Another Experiment With the Machine to
be Msde la a Pew Days Near
Washington, D.6.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star.
Washington, Dec 5. The big sixty-
foot aerodrome of Professor Samuel
P. Langiey, the secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, which was
unsuccessfully launched a few
months ago, was prepared for another
experiment in the Potomac near here
to-day, but unfavorable wind condi
tions prevented the test. The machine
bas been put. in perfect order, and is
ready to be hoisted on the super
structure for another trial at the
first opportunity, possibly Monday.
No attempt will be made to hoist the
machine into position unless the wind
la less than twelve miles an hour In
order to avoid possible danger to tbe
men engaged - in the work. F. M.
Uanley, Professor Langley'e chief as
sistant in the flying machine research
es, was aboard the house boat all day
with his roroe or mechanics, trroressor
Manley made observations of the wind
velocity a number of times during the
day, but no time did conditions war
rant at an attempt'at flying. Profes
sor Langiey said that the time of the
next attempt now hinges on wind con
ditions. He credited the trouble with
the Isst experiment, to a metallic pro
jection on the launching track and
explained that tbe obstacle had been
removed. He said it was not likely
the experiment would be undertaken
again at Widewater where the wind
conditions proved ao unfavorable.
EDWARD L WENTZ.
Tbe Mlsslsf Millionaire Agsls Reported
to Have Been Found.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Richmond, Va., Dee. B. A Bristol,
Tqd., special says:
It is reported to-night that Edward
L. Wentz, tbe young Philadelphia
millionaire who has been missing
since Oct. 14th, has been found, and
bat he is probably demented. Ac
cording to the report, young Wentz is
either in Philadelphia or on his way
oere. His brother, Daniel wentz,
went to Philadelphia three days ago.
One of the Wentzs attorneys, when
ked about the matter to-night, would
iiot deny that Wentz had been found,
but said that it might be so. Further
than this he would not express him
self. It appears that Wentz has been in
biding in tbe mountains not far from
Finney, a station on tbe Clinch Val
ley division of the Norfolk & Western
railroad.
The Pearl of Peacemakers
Before the Spanish-American war
there were numerous conferences be
tween the leaders of the senate and
house in Washington, usually held
at the residence of some cabinet
member.
At the most exciting stage Sena
tor Allison of Iowa, the great com
promiser, came into a conference
where there were a dozen of the
biggest men in the government.
JWell, Allison," said Secretary
Hay, "which 6ide have you been
helping today those who want war
or those who do not ?"
Senator Allison rubbed his hands.
"I haye been doing a little for
both," he said. Saturday Evening
Post.
Steel Trust Row.
That portion of Fifth avenue,
New York, which is often referred
to as "Steel Trust row" attracts
attention because of the splendid
entrances on many of the mansions
recently erected there. Wooden
tloors have given way entirely,
bronze, iron and polished steel hav
ing been substituted. Many of these
homes have entrance ways costing
$10,000 or more. A well known
architeot says that $1,000,000 a year
is being Bpent in this way on fine
New York residences.
Make a Note of This.
Now look over your $5 billa and
see if you have any of them issued,
presumably, by the Fourth National
bank of Boston, check letter A,
series of 1882, Tillman register,
Morgan treasurer. If you find among
them any such, bearing -a few red
ink imitation lines instead of the
silk fiber of the genuine paper, you
may conclude that they are the pho
tographic counterfeit recently dis
covered and govern yourself accord
ingly. Boston Herald.
Rockefeller's Sport.
John D. Rockefeller's taste for
finance does not stop at his office
udoor. The favorite games which
enliven the home evenings of which
he is so fond are of a sort requiring
mathematical skill and quick think
ing. As both Mr. and Mrs. Rocke
feller are strongly opposed to mon
ey stakes, the oil magnate often of
fers little prizes instead to such
players as are clever enough to excel
m tnese nnanciai sports.
Don't Bite!
When you get a prospectus of a
mining scheme in an elegantly em
bossed cover, printed on high class
paper and in the most artistic fash
ion, giving the! names of prominent
financiers, statesmen and merchants
as references and the most plausible
and glittering inducements to in
vest, don't be fooled. Drop the bait
in the wastebasket and pursue the
even tenor of your way. t- Troy
Press. u
Horrible Thought.
"Here s an astrologer who pre
dicts that King Edward is shortly to
pass through a lot of trouble, a
dark cloud haneinsr over the empire
Some horrible calamity, don't you
know."
'Til bet Alfred Austin is writing
another ode' Life. ;
Tha Mmimanint nf . thn Norfolk
navy yard has been directed to place
. i - , . , si, I i .
me supply snip uriacwr iu GumaiiNwa
on tne iota instant, or as soon lucro-
after ss practical!?. '
Speaker Caosoa Ansousced Committees.
His Tresimest of, the Minority
Sharply Criticised.
Bt Telegraph to the Momnyt Btai. ;
Washington, Dec. r 5. Speaker
Gannon to-day completed the organi
sation of the House by announcing
committees, so that when the Bouse
reconvenes Monday it will be ready to
proceed at once with general legisla
tion. At the request Of Mr. Williams, the
minority leader, an hour was given to
general debate, during tbe course of
which Mr.' DeArmond, Democrat, or
Missouri, criticised the numerical rep
resentation accorded the minority on
the Important committees. . Mr. Payne
replied on behalf of tbe majority.. Tbe
greater portion of the time given to
debate was taken up In a discussion of
the tariff policy and its effects.
W hen tbe opeaker brought down tbe
gavel to day, upon the adoption of the
motion to adjourn, be merely an
nounced that the House stood ad-
ourned.
Mr. DeArmond said tbat on each of
tbe sixteen most Important commit
tees, each of which is composed of
seventeen members, the Republicans
have eleven members and tbe Demo
crats six. This, be said, was unjust
and unfair, and was an outrage to a
minority which he said is entitled to a
arger representation, lit. DeArmond
also charged that the committees were
made up for partisan purposes, lie
said he would propose a resolution
with a view to adding one Democrat
to each of tbe sixteen committees.
Mr. Omsted. Republican. Pennsyl
vania, said tbat Mr. Clark, whom he
designated as "the Democratic statisti
cian, wit and prophet," had already
predicted a Democratic president and
house in 1904, and added if this pro
phecy should prove true, it would
drive a hundred million dollars Into
hiding within thirty days. He char
acterized Democratic doctrine as "a
Happy Hooligan band of statesman
ship which brings disaster upon every -
Doay concernea."
Mr. Williams. Democrat, of Missis
sippi, challenged a statement by Mr.
Olmsted that wages were never higher
than now. He said the Republicans
were so insistent on the protective
policy that they want to give things to
people who do not want them.
air. Payne referred to the criticisms
ofthe committee assignments made
by Mr. DeArmond. He reviewed the
record fcto show that the Bpeaker had
not departed from precedents.
Messrs. Husseii, Democrat, of Ten
nessee, and Hepburn, Republican, of
owe, and Martin, South Dakota, dis
cussed the tariff.
NEW YORK BANKS.
Stetemeot of Averages of the Asso
ciated Banks.
By Telegraph to tbe Morning Btar.
New Yore, Dee. 5. The statement
of averages of the clearing house
banks of this city for the week shows:
Loans. 1883.002.800: increase, tl.-
163,600. 1eposlts, $843,900,400; in
crease, $1,848,400. Circulation, $46,
058,100; increase, $31,600. Legal ten
ders, $65,418,800; increase, $.146 800.
8pecle, $151,611,600; decrease, $629,
600. Reserve, $317,030 00; increase,
$517,300. Reserve required, $310,785,-
100; increase. $337,100. Surplus, $6.-
305,800; increase, $180,100; Ex-U. 8.
deposits. $15,505,575; increase.
$177,950.
STILL HARD ASHORE.
Wreckers Hsve Coatracted to Float the
Torpedo BoatMoccssIs,
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Norfolk, Va.,' Dec. 5. The sub
marine torpedo boat Moccasin Is still
hard ashore near Currituck, according
to advices over the coast wires to
night. At last accounts the craft Is
in an easy condition and is not dam
aged. The Merritt and Chapman Wreck
ing Company has contracted with the
government to float the stranded ves
sel at a cost, it is said, of $7,500. This
company will also have the assistance
of government vessels, probably the
Yankton and Vixen, which are yet at
the scene of the wreck. The wreckers
will leave Norfolk to-morrow.
Wrecked Newbern Bank.
Judge Moore has appointed W. B
Blades trustee of the wrecked Farmers
and Merchants' Bank at Newbern
The directors and stockholders agree
to pay off all uncontested claims In 80
days from date, and all contested
claims In 30 days after their legality Is
proved. Cashier Dewey's stealings
are found to amount to $110,690. The
liabilities exceed the assets by $30,000.
Stockholders and directors will have to
pay out considerable of their own
money.
An enterprising citizen of
Greensboro has "rigged up" a portable
steam engine and saw and goes all over
town sawing up wood for fifty cents a
cord. Wouldn't something "just like
that" pay In Wilmington I
A dispatch from Greensboro
under date of December 3rd. says:
Messrs. George Gould, and his two
sons, Kingdon and Jay, and Ferry
Lorrillard, the millionaire snuff
manufacturer, are at Mr. George
Gould's lodge, near High Point, on
a hunting trip. Each member of
the party paid the $10 tax required
on non-resident hunters ana saia
that they thought the protection of
birdsamo8t excellent law. Up to
the present time more than 100 non
resident hunters have taken out
license in this county.
Greensboro Record, December
4th: Mr. Charles W. Tate, who re
sides on Guilford Battle Ground
avenue, just beyond the city water
works, was the victim of a painful
accident yesterday afternoon. He
was out hunting near Reedy Fork
and a colored boy was with him
carrying his ducking gun for him.
Theboy was walking along a few
feet behind Mr. Tate when he slip
ped and fell, dropping the gun,
which was accidentally discharged,
5 art of the load taking effect in Mr.
'ate's right heel. , -f.
The Austrian eotton manufacturers
are seriously affected by the advance
in the American cotton market A
ms jorityjof the mahufacturersjwere en
tirely unprepared for the rise, carry
ing very small stocks, and conse
quently they will be obliged to re
strict their output to the lowest possi
ble amount. Some factories are ex-
pectea to snui uown wmpunuw
Women are bound to have the
last word-evettil they have to turn
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