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: : : w si x s rr s j x 1 f ill I M i i i n r f , - r f f '( r sT ' ' JRRECTION IN ARGENTINA. viLairiGTQn, n. c, ' Reglotiti rrsops newsy ase Start for the Ci itsl-UprlalSfs 'rovlaces. I LO ' ii ii 1 w v ii i m yrjinv n 1 n - IrN V il H VI la f everst SI. CO A YEAR Hi . W . . W . . 1 " W lBBaaaasasBBBl -BaWSSBBaai CBMB BSF t3S I -hiwh n 1 8888S88888SS !!!!!!888888888si Issasassssssssggxs V-ow i 88888888882888888 8888888888888888 W9M. 82888888888888888 a""B'-0S533S5S8SS8a - 88888888888888888 i katarad at tha Peat roat onoa at .. ilatgtoa. SacoadOaai Marter.r ,H.C,u SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. ...si oo " OKmtW. H .... ..-.. oa ao ADVABTAOBOFLIBBBALTRADB &8LATI058. The satisfactory growth of onr business with Cuba sinoe the recip rocity treaty was entered into a year ago ought to be a lesson to the Be publican party in the way of demon stating that mutual, liberal trade re lations benefit two countries that desire to do bnslness with each oth er. The Bureau of Statistics has is sued a bulletin showing the an parent effect npon the trade of Cuba with the United States and with other countries of the recip rocity treaty during the year 1904, the treaty baring gone into force on the twenty-seventh of De cember, 19v3. While our imports from all countries in ihe calendar year showed an Increase . of only about $10,000,000, or 4 per cent, orer those of 1903, and 'those from all the West Indies, not including Porto Rico, advanced from 174,890, 69 to $s9,561,c26, or 20 per cent, oni Imports from Cnba increaaed from $57,228,291 to $4,950,99o, or 31 per cent. As will be seen, the increase was due in some measures to diverting trade from other West Indian Islands, and was no doubt caused by the reduction of duties, especially npon Cuba's chief export produot, sugar. On the export side the peicentage of increase ' was still larger The advance was from $23,5i4,417 to $32,644,315, or 38 9 per cent. The gain in onr total axrtorta to all nnnntriefl far the year was only 2.3 per cent. Going back over a period of fifteen years onr trade with Cnba has been sub ject to wide fluctuations, with a much larger growth in exports than In imports. The former rose from $13,329,493 in 1890 to $22,244,878 two years later, fell considerably below $8,000,000 in 1896 and came np again after 1899, but they surpassed all previous records last year. The imports from Cuba exceeded $78,000,000 in 1892, fell to little more than $16,000,000 In 1897, and the recovery since the Spauish war bad only reached $57, 000,000 by 1 9o3. Under reel procity there has been a substantial gain that onght to continue, demonstra ting the berefit of lower duties. It is natural that our Imports should exceed exports in any trade with a tropical country, bnt in the case of Cuba the export trade is far from satisfactory. Statistics of Cuba's general foreign trade cover only the first six months of the year. They show an in crease in expoits to all countries for tho half year from $44,120,- 812 to $60,(83,227 compared with the same months of 1903. This is an increase of 36.1 per cent. Ac cording to these Cnbah figures, which Inolode gold and silver as well as merchandise, and do not correspond very closely to our own, the increase in exports to the Uuited 8tates was from $36,046,328 - to $53,119,619, or 47.3 per cent. Tbere was a general falling off in exports to European countries with the exception of France, but in the Import trade tbere was a much larger increase in that "with European countries than in that with the United States, not withstanding the preferential duties With the United States the Increase was from $13,696,673 to $15,416,503, or 12 6 per cent.; with the United Kingdom it was from $4,910,910 to $6,6u7,480, or 34 5 per cent; with Spain from $4,928,555 to $6,099,994' 23 8 per cent.; with France from $3,249 167 to $3,337,081, or 48 4 per cent., and with Germany from $1,- 806,116, to $2,526,223, or 89 9 per cent. The increase In the entire im port trade of the island was from $32,458,362 to $39,872,456, or 22.8 Tier cent. Commenting npon the inorease of tmiineM with Cnba, thePhlla delnhia Record says: Ihere is no difficulty In inferring th rounn for the larger relative iMin in Arnorti to Cnba from En rnn. than from the United States in anftA of the reciprocity treaty. We can supply the Island with .tti. nrnTiaiom and breadstuns, mA .nmA other of the coarser and hnikv commodities to better advantage than Europe; bnt her manufactured VOL. XXXVI. articles, and it will be more and more so with time. In these, and especially in most textile fab rics, Imports can still be made from SlSS E'a,nc! lower cost than from the United ivnn uuit liiuli xriiiii Lnn nnuRn States, even with the difference in duty. So long as this is so trade win grow in that direction. It will be determined by the cost of obtain ing what is needed or desired in ex. change for exports. Onr foreign traae nereaiter must advance main ly through increased efficiency and tower cost m producing manufac tured articles. ABTI IBJUJTCTIOJJ BILL KILLER. The N:ew York Times gets edito rially gay and says: "They strangled the President's Anti-Injunction bill in the Uonse Judiciary Committee room Wednes day afternoon, and so mercifully that not a squall was heard in the corridor outside. There will be a simple funeral, with flowers upon a little casket, and at the head of the mourning train will march the Elder Statesmen from the other end of the Capitol. They loved that child,the Senators, with an affection appro priatie to its high parentage. Many a one among them had secretly hoped that his might be the hand chosen to draw the keen set sacrifi cial knife across its tender little throat. That would be a killing worth going miles to see. Had the inscrutable fates given to the Sen ate the opportunity to do the bill to death there would have been a high altar, filleted priests, tripod lamps aimiy onrning, ana all the . pomp and circumstance of publio ceremo nial, with here and there a high uuog neei 01 irreverent ioy "ifor one thing, the Senate would have liked to lay hands on the Anti-injunction bill because of rooted hostility to its principle and purpose; and for another in the hope that the exemplary fate of this measnre might be Interpreted at the wnite House as a formal lntima iion mat tne constitutional re sources of the Legislative Depart ment are adequate to the origina tion ot a volume of new laws com mensurate with the annual needs of the people. "This bill was the fruit of a din- ner conference at the White House, the President, Attorney General Sloodv. Commissioner Garfield. President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, and Commissioner F. P. Sargent being present. It provided that in trade disputes, that is, in differences arising between employers and em ployes, temporary injunctions Bhould not be granted to restrain strikers from following their bent and. disposition, except with due notice and the prm lege ox a nearmg. Tne bill was a being born into this world with a tore a in either eye, a dynamite bomb in each hand, murder In its heart, and anarchy in its blood. It singled out organized labor as the sole ben eficiary of this exemption from the restraints of the temporary injunc tion issued on application. All other acts threatening injury were to remain subject to the operation of the preventive writ; to strikers was to be preservsd inalienably the ght to burn, destroy, blow np, maim, and kin during tne twenty- four or forty-eight hours required by the notice or hearing. "ihere will be deep and general public satisfaction with the action of the House Judiciary Committee in putting the bill away, it was a new bnt startling Illustration of the white House disposition, observed npon other occasions, to overlook the general welfare while giving ready and hospitable attention to the interests and demands of class." Anti-injunction is more Demo cratic thunder and the Republicans in Congress no doubt wonder how President Soosevelt gets so many Bryan ideas in his head. Again, the working men of the North can see how they were taken in by voting the Republican ticket. This is not saying anything about the merits or demerits of antUinjunc tion. It Is stated that there is a New York man who has three legs. A fellow like that wonld be the whole thing when it came to make a kick but he would be an easy mark for the leg pullers. Astronomers have discovered that the Sun ha another new spot the largest ever discovered, as It is 80,000 miles wide. These are crooked times and it is hard to find anything spot less, isn't it, Senator Graftget? Mrs. W. S. Flower, of Pittsburg, Pa., came into possession of $30, 000.000 on Wednesday. It would be hard to persuade her husband that she is not a veritable daisy to be having lnck like that. General Kuropatkin says the Jap anese earthworks were frozen so hard that shells failed to damage them. Even Jack Frost seems to be on the side of the Japs. The backers who were swindled by Mrs. Chadwiok are to hold a meet- in sr. Mrs. Chadwick left them the bag to hold and we guess they want to go on a strike. The Chicago police have discov ered that Johann Hoch had thirty wives. He must have gone broke in wasting his time while sparking the girls. - The Republicans gloat over the fact that "John Sharp Williams has lost ground." That comes of throw log so much mud iu Congress. VAGRANCY DEFINED. StriDjient Law Passed Yesterday by House of Representa tives at Raleigh. STILL. ANOTHER LIQUOR BILL. Repnbllcsa Istrodnced New AatlJsg taw, The Qoveraor May Qraot f oadltloaal Psrdoo8"Otber Lezlslstlve Pr o ceedlof s Yesterday. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. O., Feb. 4, Represen tative Younr. Republican, of Ashe county, Introduced in the Bouse to day a bill to prevent, liquor being im ported into North Carolina. It pro hlbltt, first, the shipment of Intoxi cants from one pointy within, the State to another within the State, and then provides that In esses where railroads, express companies and other common carriers receive liquor at points with out the BUte for delivery In North Carolina, such packages shall be con veyed to the first station wltnln the borders of North Carolina and notice sent to consignee, and if he does not apply for It at that station within SO days, it shall be sold at auction. There are clauses exempting common car riers from civil action for stopping packages at the first station within the8tate Instead of delivering It at the shipping station of the consignee. THE VAGRANCY LAW. Thevserancy law. as reported fa vorably by the House Judiciary Com mittee last night was passed by tbe House to-day. It Is regarded as im portant and far reaching; In Its effect The bill repeals Section S8S4 of the Code of North Carolina and all laws amendatory and defines vagrants inus: 1. Perions - wandering or strolling about in Idleness who are able to work and have no property to support them. 2. Persons leading an Idle, Immoral or profligate life, who have no prop erty to support them, and who are able to work, and do not work. - 3. Alt persons able to work, navmg no property to support them, and who have not some visible and known means of a fair, honest and reputable livelihood. 4. Persons having a fixed abode. who have no visible property to sup port tbem, and who live by stealing, or by trading in, bartering for, or buy- Ins stolen property. 5. Protesslonailgambiers living in dleness. 6. All able-bodied men who have no other visible means of support, who shall live in idleness upon tne wages or earnings of their mother, wife or minor child or children. That the punishment for vagrancy as defined in this act shall not . exceed $50 fine or thirty days Impris onment for the iat offense, - and for tbe second and subsequent offenses tbe Justice of tbe Peace shall bind the ae fend ant over to the Superior court in the aum of two hundred dollars (1200) and noon conviction of said offense In the Bunerior court the defendant shall be sentenced to the puonc roaae or 10 the work house for a term not less than six months nor exceeding one vear. Toe only amendment 10 ins dui Be fore its Daasace was one by Mr. Bins. . am- 41 1 111 a of Durham, that tbe law not apply to fathers, who live off or the wages 01 sons over 18 years of age. Roatlse Proceedlsfs. None of the bills In the Benate elicit ed diseussion to-day. The sesslens were onened with prayer by Benstor Hector McLean, of Scotland. The bill to authorise tbe commissioners of New Hanover to establish a work-house in connection with the county home, pasiad final reading and now eoes to the House. Tbe bill of Mr. Sinclair, of Cumberland, to regulate condition al pardons, also passed naal reading In tbe Senate. Tbe bill provides that the Governor may pardon a man con dltionallv and upon violation of narola mav have him re-arrested. Other Benate bills which passed final retdlng besides those especially local ware: To amend charter of Bseford; to re mark boundary between tbe Oar- ollnas: to Incorporate Greensboro Hook &. Ladder Oo. : to amend cnarier of Durnam and Southbound railroad; to allow American Cotton Mfg. Asso ciation to meet In or out of the Biate. Home bills ptssed final reading in the Senate: To amend the corporation law so tbat In tbe absence of tbe secretary the atslstant secretary may attach the cornoratlon seal: to give town or South port power to deea a lot 10 Pythagoras lodge of Masons; for relief of commissioners of Robeson, paying them mllease. Bills Introduced: By Bragaw, to authorize executors and admimstra- tnra in nrovida flrrave stones lor ae ceased persons; amend charter 01 Henderson ville; Incorporate Citizens' Bank, of Klnston ; by Grady, to amend fwtion 179 of The Code, regarding the nrlorltv of croo liens and chattel martaaaea: also to allow Interest on costs; by KUer, a joint resolution 10 memorialize Oongreis to pronioii adulterated foods bv Inter-8tate Com merce regulation; by Sinclair, to pro- n bit public nuisances in Cross Ureek townshlo. Cumberland county; by Bryan, to Investigate certain charges of Arthur C Smith with reference to Soldiers' Home, calling for joint com mlttee of five to conduct inyeatlc tion: bv Empie. relative to stock law in Federal Point township.' In the House, Mr. Boney introduced bills relative to election of commis aloners bv people and stock law in Federal Point: bv Murphy, of Rowan, to amend Sec 11, Chapter 375, Public Laws of 1903, relative to Banks; ny McRill. for annointment of G. H. Thompson a magistrate in Cumber land; by Fisher, for relief of Martin McLean, Confederate soldier in Robe son county, utner ouis were ui a purely local nature. Mr. Wlnbourne sent forward a let ter, which he had received from the superintendent of schools of Hertford, and asked that it be read to the House. Mr. Wlnbourne said this was only one or many letters which was received endorsing his bill to allow each race to levy special lax for schools for terms above the regular four months' term, which Is now guaranteed to each race. The letter went on to say that the people of the Eut heartily en dorsed - the bill, and hoped tbat it would pass. Bills passed final reading: For es tablishment of graded school In Fre mont; to amend law relative to water supplies. The bill amending the vagrancy law oslltd for some dlicnsslon In the WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, House, bat was finally passed as re ported by toe ludielarv committee. Mr. Bailers bill providing for the election of school boards in all conn SBetfSW uS w.. rffiS lavoraoiy oy sue eommmn on euu- . .L ... CStlOD. FOUR BARRELS OP BEER. Masiclpal Authorities Hsve Pear Barrels They Wast to Diipsse of Ssstshow. The city has a white elehpant on Its hands. The aforesaid, proverbial ele phant consists of four barrels of beer purehased in connection with the re cent crusade against representatives of breweries In the city, who were not paying the license requlrei by law. Of course, the evidence had to be se cured before the indictments were made out, not throaghjSBOlee bat for the sake of expediency, the city had to boy this beer to clinch lis Four fall-atzad barrels, costing $13 a piece, were purehased and the same wss carried to the office of iChisf Far- Jong, where It waits disposition of some kind. Tbat is the question. The disposition of the bser occurred to the Mayor and Chief of Police yesterday, but It wss at once seen that the eity had no power to sell It and a sugges tion of giving It away went against tbe well known temperance views of those two officials. Toe question Is still agitating City Hall elrele. A suggestion -offered the Mayor last night by a newspaper man was not deemed expedient for the newspaper man. SEW SHRIER BUILDING. Work Will Befla This Week-Naw ,0HIce . for tke Slater People. If the weather moderates, work will be commenced this week on the new building for Mr. L Bhrter, on South Front street. The building will be supervised by Contractor W. E. Glenn and will be first class In every particular. A cut of the structure ac cording to plans drawn by Architect McMillen was recently, published In these columns. - The smaller of the two stores on the first floor of tbe new building will be occupied by the Singer Sewing Machine Co., after October 1st The stores will have solid plate glass fronts and will be well lighted, ventilated and heated. MARRIAGE IS PENDER. Hiss Edsa f . Deal and Mr. P. f . Oawsea Wedded at Hosso el Bride. Special Star Correspondence. Kooxt Pourr. N. Q. Feb. 8. A beautiful borne marriage was celebrav1 ed this week at the residence of Mr. JetseDeal, of Harrison Creek, Pender county, by Rev. Y. E. WrighL The contracting parties were Miss Edna 8. Deal and Mr. F. C. Dawson. Miss Olive L. Deal was maid of honor; Mr. Amos tsatson. beat man. Immediately after the happy event a fine dinner was spread for tbe guests. In the af ternoon the bridal party took the cars for Jacksonville, N. C, where they will be at home after Feb. Sad. The best wishes of many friends attend the couple In their future journey through me. After Smsllpox Pattest. Health Officer Bhepard Friday even ing hau a hard time to locate Dave Holmes, colored,-a smallpox patient known to be In a house at 830 Walnut street. He had orders to take the col ored man to tbe pest bouse but when he arrived at "830 Walnut" and thor oughly searched the premises there was no patient 4o be found. Finally Holmea was found crouched under a stair ease In an effort to elude the offi cer. He was hustled out to the pest house In spite of the snow and about a dozen others were quarantined where they were. Their Silver Weddiax. Col. and Mr. T. O. James delight fully entertained a large number of friends at their hospitable home, Second and Grace streets, last night. The occasion was the twenty-fifth or silver anniversary of their wedding and Col. and Mrs. James received the congratulations of their Very many friends upon that happy event in their lives. Among the out-of-town guests who were here for the silver wedding were CapL and Mrs. Thot. H. Haugbton, of Charlotte, Mrs. James being a sister of Mr. Haughton.. Real Estste Trsssfers. The following real estate transfers were filed for record yesterday: Wil liam B. Beery; and wife to John O. Brock, for $1,500, property on west side of Fifth, 66 feet north of Castle street, 66x165 feet In size. Woodle Bonham and wife to Gusile I. Bon ham, for $350, ten acre of land in Harnett township, on the Greenville road, adjoining lands of O. H. Bon bam and others. Wreck Near White ville. Nearly thirty log cars or a train be ing brought to tbe Cape Fear Lumber Co., in this city, were weecked before day yesterday morning near White vllle. An A. 0. L. wreck train was sent out from Wilmington and the track was cleared about 11 o'clock. No one was Injured In the wreck. Parties arriving on the Fay etteviUe steamer within the past few days' say that since the recent eold snap, the river has been teeming with wild duck, geese and other game of tbat kind. The number is unprece dented la the last few years, they say, the theory being that all still water In the up country is frozen over and the game is flocking over to the running stream. E(SLY A FATAL DUSK RUST. Mr. f. H. Beraenasa Had Very Narrow Escape al Vrlthtsvllle Yesterday. Mr. O. ,H. Bornemann, the well known grocer at Beventh and Orange streets, this city,' had a narrow escape from drowning or freezing to death yesterday evening about 6 o'clock at Wrlghtsvllle Bound, near the beach. Mr. Bornemann, with his brother-in-law, Mr. Plckard, of the Qaeen City Cycle Company, went , down to the sound yesterday afternoon for a duck. hunt. During the hunt Mr. Bornemann got out on an Island In the sound 10 do some shooting and Mr. Plckard continued on the hunt in the boat, expecting to come back later and get air. Bornemann. iu some way Mr. Plckard got lost from the Island and could not return to Mr. Bornemann, who in the meantime had been forced off the land by the rising tide. It was Intensely eold, snowing and sleet ing, and Mr. Bornemann took des perate chances to get to the maln lasdV wading la water onto his neck and s wimming part of the time. He finally reached the beach', nowef er. but had lost alt but consciousness. He was taken to a fire in the bouse of a colored watchman on the beach and soon came around all right, though he had - a very close call. Mr. Plckard and Mr. Borneman secured a ear from the Sound, as the schedule to the brach was not being run at that hour, and they came back home, reaching the city about 8 o'clock last night. LIEU TES INT COLONEL C H. WHITE. Appslstmest as Governor's Staff ss Assis tant Isspcctor, Smsll Arms Prsctlcr. Mj. Charles H. While, one of W1U miogton's popular mllltarlans, was pleasantly surprised yesterday upon his official notification by Adjutant General T. R. Robertson that he had been appointed on Governor Glenn's military staff as ssilatsnt Inspector of small arms' practice with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His commlislon will follow, a few days later. Mj. White had seen newspspsr notices of his appointment, but he was under the Impression tbat there was a mis take somewhere, as neither he nor any of his friends, to his knowledge, had msde any effort In behalf of bis ap poiatment. Maj. White Is the only Wilmlngtonlan retained on the Gov ernor's staff under the new adminis tration and his promotion to the high er omce is eminently proper and a source of pleasure to bis friends. Paaeral of Mr. lonoley. The remains of the late Mr. James W. Conoley, who died in Atlanta Thursday, reached tbe city Saturday, accompanied by tbe bereaved wldo her mother, Mrs. J. D. Love; his brothers, Messrs. John J. Conoley, ot Atlanta; Alex. Conoley aod Charley Ccxeley, of BrunaWk, Ga., and Mfi. John Conoley.: The funeral was con dnoted at a o'clock yesterday after noon from the lodge in Oakdale come tery.. the Rev. James Carmlchael, D. D., rector of Bt. John's psrlsb, offi ciating. The pall-bearers were Messrs. W. H. Green, W. A. Williams, D. O. Love, Jno, R. Turrentinr, J. F. Gause and J. C. Springer. BUILD PIERI AT I0UTHP0RT. Intsfesilef Report Thst Emssstes from Norfolk Big Cosllsg Itstlos. The following from Friday's Issue of the Norfolk Ylrglnian-Pilot will be read with wide interest in this section. "From an apparently authentic source la the shipping district It was learned yesterday that Philadelphia capitalists are Interested In the estab llshment of a coal nler at Bouthport. N. C which Is near Cape Lookout and near tbe extreme end of tbe Carolina coast. The plans are said to be yet la an embryo state. The same parties, it la said, are interested In the proposed piers and terminate at Bewails' Point. "It was stated in marine circles tbat coal could be hauled to Bouthport from the West Virginia mines as east ly as eoal la brought from Pocahontas to the Lambert's Point piers, and the claim is that 'vessels could not only save time by coaling at Bouthport but wonld also avoid the dangers of Hst teres. "It Is not known definitely if the piers at 8ewall's Point will be built, but It is said that engineers have re- & I . . 1 T . till comix oeen ai mo roiui. xvopun ihii has It that the Tidewater railroad will have its terminal at Be wall's Point. JAMESTOWN CELEBRATION. HoBse Committee Reports Bill lot Nsval, Marias and Military Exposition. . Bi Talegtapa to tha Morning star. ' WaSHIHOTON, Feb. 8. The House Committee on Industrial Arts and Ex positions to day. authorized by a vole of 7 to 4 a favorable report on the bill prepared by a sub-committee for the holding of an international naval, marine and military exposition In 1907 to celebrate the settlement of Jamestown, Ys. The amount of the appropriation to be hereafter made It the bill passes wss not named. The bill contemplates the appointment of an additional committee of five by tbe President. Foreign nations are to be Invited to participate In the military and baval features. A second feature of the plan Is government participation in tbe land exhibit and tbe construe' ion of either permanent or temporary bullngs for this purpose, In tbe discretion of the rtesident. Secretary Bhaw in formed the com mittee that tbe estimates for these purposes would be prepared and fur nished as soon as possible. The date of the exposition was fixed from May 17th so November 1st, 1907. F. E. McArthur and and W. R. MeArlhur, father and son, members of the tbe bankrupt firm of McArthur and Sobs Company, piano dealers at Savannah. Ga.. have been jointly In dicted la three special presentments by the grand iarj. A separate indict ment was also returned against W. R. McArthur. All of the indictments charge larceny after trusL The al leged misdirection of funds covers a nerlod frou Aueust. 1903 until June. 1904 Tbe elder McArthur has been arrested In Knoxville ord the other In Birmingham. 1905. THREE LOCAL BILLS. Proposed in General Assembly to Elect New Hanover Com missioners by People. ALSO THE MAGISTRATES. lections of Pedersl Pslot sod Mssosbero Want Exemption from Stock Law. Mr. Boney's Mesl Bill raises the Sesste Other Botes. Raleigh, N. a, Feb. 4. Iu the House to-day Representative G. J. Boney Introduced a bill providing that at the next general election and every two years thereafter, the coun ty commissioners of New Hanover shall be elective by the people. Tbe number shall be fire, and they are to be voted for In the same manner as- Other county officers. Mr. Boaey said to-night he would Introduce probably next week a similar bill making the magistrates of New Han over elective also by the people, the number to be according to the provi sions of the general law in that re spect, to be divided as directed be tween the several townships. As to the election of members of the Board of Audit and Flnancs by the people. Mr. Boney said he had never contemplated and did not now con template the introduction of any bill along that line; that he would oppose sucu a bill if one were Introduced. He regards his election as upon a plat form declaring for the election of the county commissioners by the people, and he said to night that he had al ways advocated that measure and would continue tosdo so. It is said among the Wilmington visitors to Ra leigb that there is a atrong probability of Mr. Emp introducing a bill in the Benate making members of the Board of Audit and Finance elective by the people, the same as the county com missioners. In the House to-day, Mr. Boney in troduced (by request), another bill re gardlng the stock law In certain sec tions of Masonboro and Federal Point townships, in New Hanover county. The act is the one desired by LL L Home and others of that vicinity and psrmits the qualified voters of the peo ple of Masonboro and Federal Point townships, of New Hanover county, living in certain territory in which the stock law haa been repealed, to. vote upon tbe question of Imposing .a tax up an the property of said terri tory, for the purpose of building a fence separating the said territory from the rest of the. county. The bill as referred tQ coVmlttee. and a dale for its hearing will bs set Monday at tbe regular meeting of tbe committee. Another bill, which is of local Inter est to Wilmington and of Importance In the Btate, is that Introduced In the House some time ago by Mr. Boney and which was passed to day In the Senate upon favorable renoit last nlgbt by the Judlcary Committee. It .is the bill to regulate the sale of corn meal and it's text is as follows: "The standard weight of a bushel of corn meal, whether bolted or unbolt ed, shall be forty-eight pounds. "It shall be unlawful for any per son or persons to pack tor sale or offer for sale, in this Btate, any corn meal, except In bags or packages con taining by standard weight two bushels, or one bushel, or one-half bushel, or one-fourth bushel, or one eighth bushel, respectively. Each bag or package of corn meal shall have plainly printed or . marked thereon, whether the meal is 'bolted or 'un bolted,' the amount it contains, bush els, or fraction of a bushel, and the weight. Provided, tbe provisions 01 this secdon shall not apply to the re tailing of meal direct to customers from bulk stock, when priced and delivered by special weight or meas ure. "Any person or persons guilty of violating either of tbe foregoing sec tions of this set shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by im prisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment, In tbe discretion of the court" The Mil now goes back to the House for concurrence in a slight amend ment and then it will become a law. It wss championed In both Houses by the North Carolina Retail Grocers' Association and by prominent mill men throughout tbe State. NEW JUDIIIAL DISTRIIT. BULReported la House of Representatives for One in tenth f srollns. By Telagnpn to tbe Horning Bur. Washington, Feb. 4. Represent atives Flnleyland Aiken, of South Carolina, discussed with the Presi dent to-dty the proposition to create a new judicial district in South Caro lina. The Houae committee on the judiciary haa reported a bill providing for the new district. The Congres sional delegation from the Btate Is anxious in the event of the enactment of the law, that the judge appointed should be a resident of the district. It Is quite probable, that the President, if tbe bill be passed, will accede to tbe wishes or the people of the district In that respect He told his callers he would be glad to consider recom mendations for the appointment from South Carolina Congressmen, mem bers of the bar and residents of the district. At Roanoke. Va.. yesterdav the iurr In the case of Charles B. Fishburn. tbe youog banker and broker and soci ety man, charged with the murder of Dr. Fred Lefew, a prominent young physician In October last, brought la a Verdict of voluntary manslaughter and fixed bis punishment at five years in the penitentiary. The tragedy was the reault of Fishburn'a slapping Lie Few's young step aon for calling "lea" at him, tbe word referring to a motor I cycle Fishburn had been riding. Flsb- ourn went to tne Lerew home and In formed tea doctor of the slapping, the men quarreled and Fishburn stabbed Lefew. NO. 15 SPIRITS TURPENTINE. At Sanford H. I. Thompson, J. F. Sweatt and others of Greensboro, N. C, have incorporated the Moore Lumber Co. with $10,000 capltol. S. W. Foulk & Son, Greens boro, N. C, are preparing plans for an $18,000 edifice for the First Baptist church of Fayetteville; structure to be of . brick, 75x123 feet, with slate roof, hot air heating plant, electric lights, etc. The Raleigh & - Western Rail way is reported to have graded 15 miles westward . from Cumnock to Harper's, N. C, while location sur veys are finished as far as Winston. S. A. Henszey, operating the coal mines at Cumnock, Moore county, is general manager. The Centaur Knitting Co , of High Point, N. O., has now com pleted the erection of a two-story building 00x100 feet and purchased machinery for a daily output of 600 dozen pairs of ladles' seamless cotton hoao. Manufacturing will begin with- half that output. Electric ?ower will be furnished by the High oint Electric Power Co. The Cen taur Knitting Co. is composed of New York capitalists, and has a paid-in capital of $25,000, with $125,000 authorized. A. P. Shaw, a pharmacist, of Windsor, committed suicide Friday about 10:30 A. M. by shooting him self in the right temple with a 32 calibre pistol. The deceased was the son of W. W. Shaw, and was a competent druggist and a highly esteemed young man. He married Miss Fannie Phillips, who survives him with a little boy about two years of age. She is the niece of the late Judge Phillips, of Tarboro. Melancholia, due to physical in firmities, is supposed to have been the cause of the deed. The Mecklenburg Cotton Mills of Charlotte, la now completing its plant and will soon begin to manu facture. The company was organ ized in 1903, and has erected a two- story mill building 110x180 feet in size. It is reported the building will be equipped with 15,000 spin dles and 450 looms for the produc tion of cloth. This will represent a capitilization of $300,000. When the company first announced its purpose it was the Intension to in stall only 9,500 spindles and no looms. The Fayetteville Planing Mill Co. has been incorporated, with an authorized capital of $25,000t J. C, McDiarmldand L.N.Whittedl on these Indian moneys being dls The Carolina Telephone & Tele-J tributed among the individual Indians graph Co. has seonred a franchise to operate a long-distance exchange In GoMsboro. Sherwood Bobbin Manufacturing Co., of Greensboro will increase capital stock to $50,000 to enlarge bnslness. The J, P.' Scales Cigar Co., of Greensboro, ias been incorporated with $50,000 capital. The Selma Cotton Mills, of Selma, N. C, has its buildings com pleted and the machinery la being installed with a view to beginning to manufacture yarns within 30 days. Main building is 75x236 feet, one story high; engine room 40x40 feet, boiler room 40x40 feet. The equip ment of machinery will be 5,280 spindles with the accompanying cards, lappers, winders, etc., for the production of No. 22 hosiery yarns. N. E.Edgerton is president; M. C. Winston, vice president, and R. B. Whitley, secretary-treasurer and general manager; capital stock $100,000. One of the leading manufac turing enterprises' of Charlotte, N. C, is the Southern Card Cloth ing and Reed Co., manufacturers of cotton and woollen mill supplies. This company has found it neces sary to obtain additional capital in order to take care of its rapidly growing trade, and has reorganized, at the same time Increasing its capital stock from $10,000 to $20, 000. It has ordered machinery for doubling the capacity of the reed department and will add plow-grinding machinery to the card clothing department. The South ern Company will manufacture card clothing for cotton and woolen mills loom reeds, slasher combs and vari ous other mill supplies. It at pres ent produces $50,000 worth of vari ous clothing, and the reed plant will produce $20,000 worth of goods when the additional machinery is Intalled. Mr. D. W. Richardson, gen eral manager of the Goldaboro Lum ber Company, writes from Dover, N. C, to the Manufacturers' Record that a charter has just been secured from the Legislature for the Dover !& Sonth Bound Railroad Co, to rnn rrom nunston, N. U, to Swansboro, N. C. The Dover & South Bound is now operating 25 miles of line from Dover to Richlands, N. C, and this will be part of the proposed route. The entire road when com pleted will be about 55 miles long. To reach Klnston it will be neces sary to build a branch from a point southwest of Dover northwesterly for several miles, while the exten sion to Swansboro will be from Rich lands. Connection will be made with the Atlantic Coast Line at Klnston, and also at some point be tween Newborn and Jackson ville,. N. C. Connection with the Atlantio and North Carolina Railroad will be made at Dover. Mr. Richardson says that it cannot now be stated when the road will be completed, but its construction will be carried on by the company's forces- The territory through which it will run is a fine farming section, although tbe region also contains well timbered lands With the expeuditure of a little money by the government at Bogue Inlet, near Swansboro, ono of the best harbors in North Carolina oould be Erovided. Tbe completion of the lover k Sonth Bound.Railroad will enable lumber enterprises along its line to make their water shipments via swansboro Instead of via New born, it will aiso provide a means for mills at Swans boro to ship their best grades of lumber via rail to Northern markets. tfi Telacraoh to ttw HoaHaa Stat. . Buenos Atses, AEasarTEHiA, Feb. 4. An Insurrection has broken out In this province. Several police posts have been attacked bv bands of about thirty men each but tbe assailants nearly e tery where were repulsed.Two posts which were surprised were re captured by the police. An attack on the arsenal wss also repelled. It i ruujtored that two regiments of troop bsvemuttned and are marehtng ou the capttal. The Argentine government which appears to have been acquainted with tbe plans of the leaders of the plot took timely measures to suppress tbe uprising and seems to have complete control or the situation. ' , As a result of the Insurrectionary movement, which broke out last night, not only here but In several other cities of Argentina, tbe govern ment has Issued a decree establishing a Btate of siege for 30 days throughout the whole republic and ordered tbe mobllzatlon of the national guard. Tbe Banta Fe police have succeeded In suppressing the outbreak at Rosarlo. Minister of the Interior Castillo declares he has the authority of President Qalntana for the state ment that order will be restored in 34 hours In the provinces of Mondona andOordobj, wbrre the rising occur red. The other provinces are quiet. The banks, railway companies and great commercial houses here have collectively cabled to Europe In order to allay any, undue anxiety. Presi dent Qalntana declares that the insur rectionary movement is directed bv persons who are Irresponsible and without Influence. INDIAN TRUST FUNDS. President Roosevelt Ssfs the Cootrsvarsy Short by sn Executive Order. By Teiecrapa to tne Moraine Btw. Waskihqton, Feb. 4. President Roosevelt has sent a letter to Secretary Hitchcock on the subject of authority for granting contracts for the educa tion of Indians in denomlnatlonsl schools. The President says that inas much as the legal authority exists to grant the request of the Indians un questionably they are entitled oy moral right to have their moneys used to ed ucate their children at the schools they choose. The President directs that tbe Interior Department continue the prac tice unless Congress direct otherwise or the courts hold that the decision of the Department of Justice to this effect is wrong. The President also urges the passage of the Lacey bill authorizing the allotment of annnlties in severalty to the Indians In the same wsy as their land Is alioted. The President in his letter says the question at Issue was wholly different from that originally raised as to the distribution of rations through mis sion schools, which was declared to be illegal. Tbe new question was "tbat where there were Indian moneys held in trust tor the Indians by the pAi.tai- nf the Interior, the Interest or In such other ways as the Secretary of tha Interior might direct, and where certain of the Indians petitioned that the moneys so distributed to them ahould be uaed for the support of the particular denominational school which they desired their children to attend, this petition should . . .'v... .... .1 i. - ee graniea. a.b w practice-ae Praatdant savs: "It la lnrmv onlnlon just and right that the Indians them selves should nave wishes re spected when they request that their money (not the money 01 tbe public) be applied to the support of certain schools to which they slre to send children." MINUTURE RACE WAP. tftiroes sod Whites Poorht Is Destb si a Mlse in Sooth farollos. By Teleeraob w me Morning Star. Langlet, S. C, Feb. 4. In au encounter late this afternoon at the Pagargon kaolin mines near here, between whites and blacks, one ne gro was killed and three white men dangerously wounded. It is believed that several other negroes were shot. The dead man was Newt. Hill, col ored, who was shot through the head and instantly killed. Tho wounded: Sim Cobb, seriously shot through tho body and in a critical condition. Williams, white condi tion unknown. All the the parties to the' shooting worked in the miacB. Yesterday they were paid off Cobb and the negro Hill became involved in a dif ficulty, the other white men took part and the shooting resulted. What the row was about could not be learned. The entire force of la borers employed in tbe mines were finally involved. It is said that sev eral other negroes are wounded more or less seriously. Those who es caped Injury are hiding out fearing a raid by white men. RECIPROCITY Willi NEW FOUNbLANI). OSl sod Fresh aod frozen Flsb lo be Admitted Free. ByTelegrapn ' tne Morning Btar. WASHIHGTON, Feb. 4. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to day authorized a favorable report on the Hay-Bond reciprocity treaty. It was amended in a number of import ant particulars. Ills understood the amendments provide for tbe ad m salon of fresh fish, frozen fhh and coal to the United States free of du'j and New Foundland gives a reduction of duty on all articles of Americsn manufac ture. 1 An amendment by Senator Bacon declaring that no change i.i the tariff can be legitimately made by a treaty, was adopted. It stipulates ;bat the provisions of the treaty cauuui go in to effect until tbe tariff laws of the United States bave been so amended by act of Oongreas so as to conform to the propoatd chaages m the tsrirr made In the treaty. Tbe treaty was reported to the eenie u uay by nr. Lodge. The Pamlico Oriental Wes ern Railway which has completed four miles of line out of Newborn towards Bayboro, is also under con struction as far as Reelsboro, which is eight miles from Newborn. A further extension is to be made to Holly Point, including a branch to Oriental, making a total of 48 miles. "Their pay is shockingly small for some of our public officials, , said the broad-minded . man. xes, answered the cynic;but it averages np. Some of the public officials are shockingly small for their pay. Washington Star. need is largely for