J4+4444444 44444444444 ♦ T HEWEATHER TO-DAY ♦ For North Carolina: Fair Cooler. VOL. LI. NO. .103. — [} j f) r ~ Leads all Morth Carolina Dailies in Mews ana. Circulation PERM CENSUS BUREAU IS FAVORED Employes Should he Under Civil Service, HOPKINS BILL IN HOUSE It Makes No Provisions For so Pro tecting Employes. ERGO IT IS SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE A Bill is Passed Giving Mrs. McKinley the Free Mailing Privilege During Life. The House Then Adjourns Un til Monday. (By (he Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 10. —The House spent the day considering the Hopkins bill to create a permanent Census Bureau. While the general sentiment was in fa vor of a permanent bureau there was strong opposition, to the bill as drawn on the ground that it was not well ma tured. There also was an overwhelm ing demand for a provision to place the present employes of the Census Bureau i nder the protection of the Civil Ser vice law, and the bill was finally recom mitted with Instructions to report back a bill containing a plan for a detailed or ganization of a permanent Census Bu reau to include piso a projgsicu to place the present employes unner the Civil Service rules. The fight to recommit was made under the leadership of Mr. Bur kett, of Nebraska, the new member of the Appropriations Committee. A bill was unanimously passed to give Mrs. McKinley the free mailing privilege during the remainder of her life. The House then adjourned until Monday. In the discussion of the Census bill, Mr. Hopkins (Ills.), said that 3,480 clerkg had been employed in the bureau, 3,700 b'-ing still employed. If the pending bill passed, ho said, the force would be re duced this year to 800; next year to 750, in 1905 to 240 and thereafter until 1910 to 200. He was beseiged by members who wanted to know tl)e status of the present clerks in the event of the pas sage of the bill. He said that if the bill passed it was hoped the other depart ments could absorb the present tempor ary clerks. They could then be placed under the protection of the Civil Ser vice rules. Mr. Burkett. (Neb.), opposed the bill, saying it had not been matured. He pointed out that a salary of $7,500 was' voted to the Director of Census on the ground of the temporary character of the • mployment and the great responsibility. This bill proposed to continue this sal ary. He pointed out that the exports whose services it was claimed it was so necessary to retain had been detailed Horn the various departments. Mr. Maddox (Ga.), opposed in toto the 1 lan of a permanent Census Bureau. Mr. Fleming (Ga.), and others dis ussed the bill, and Mr. Hemenway (Ind.), offered an amendment to provide that persons now employed in the Census Bu reau, not including janitors, shall be eligible to appointment in other depart ments without, examination or certification by the Civil Service Commission upon the recommendation of the head of such department. The Hemenway amendment was adopt ed. The bill was then recommitted and the House adjourned. The Schley Resolution. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 10. —When the House Committee on Naval Affairs met today for organization Representative Rixey, of Virginia, proposed that the various measures relating to Admiral Schley be considered by the Committee as a whose instead of awaiting the considera tion of a sub-committee. The sentiment of th« committee wasbgalnst the prop osition and it was determined to allow these measures to take the usual course. There are ten resolutions and bills bear ing on the Schley case, and they will be in charge of the regular sub-committee on organizations, rank and pay, con sisting of Representatives Watson. Day ton, Cousins, Taylor, Meyer, Cummings and Wheeler- Working on the Ship Subsidy Bill. (By the Associated Press ) Washington, Jan. 10.—The sub-Com mittee on oCmmerce having in charge the Ship Subsidy 1 011 spent about three hours today in going over the report on that bill which has been prepared by Senator Frye. The report is a very vol uminous document, und the sub-commit tee decided to have it printed before acting upon it. it is expected that it will be held early next week and Sena tor Frye hopes to secure the favorable action of the full committee when it meets next Thursday. The report, in cludes a careful analysis of the bill and explains in great detail the effects of its various provisions- A Salary For Ex-Presidents. (By the Associated Press ) Washington, Jan. 10.—Representative Lovering, of Massachusetts, today in troduced a bill providing a salary for ex-Presidents of the United States. The ! The News and Observer. I l i salary is to be at the rate of $25,000 an nually from the date of retirement from the Presidency, and the bill is to apply to any ex-President living at the time the law was enacted. Bills For Public Buildings. (By the Associated Press ) Washington, Jan. 10. —The Senate Com mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds today authorized favorable reports on public building bills as follows: Dallas. Texas, $150,000; Huntington, W. Va.. $120,000; Blucfield, W. Va., $7,0,000; Wheeling, W. Va., $400,000- BAB “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN ” A False Picture of Southern Life That Should Not be Presented. (By the Associated Press.) Lexington, Ky., Jan.- 10.—Lexington Chapter United Daughters of the Con federacy has sent a written petition to Charles B- Scott, Manager of the Lex ington Opera House, asking that the play ‘ Uncle Tom's Cabin” never be played again at the opera house here. They gave as reasons that the best clti ens and old families living in and about Lexington were once slave owners, that the Incidents of Uncle Tom’s Cabin are not typical of slave life in the South, but of isolated cases; that the produc tion and its advertisement with blood hounds and pictures of an old negro in chains and a slave owner with a whip in j hand present a false idea of the history of the times to the children of the city and are in disrespect to the southern gentlemen and good citizen*! and their families in this part of the country. The petition is signed by four of the most prominent women of the Chapter and is indorsed unanimously by the members. It has created a sensation here. OHIO BANK ASSIGNS The Euclid Avenue Directors Say no Customer Will Lose a Dollar. (By the Associated Press.) Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 10.—The Euclid Avenue Trust and Savings Company, at 84 and 86 Euclid Avenue, made an as signment today to Attorney Frank H. Ginn. The latter's bond was fixed at $250,000 hv Judge Bloch; of the Insolvency cor "t. The assignee stated that tin* bank “lias been unable to realize upon its assets rapidly enough to meet the unusual de- I mauds, which have been made upon it ] recently. The directors state that no j depositor and no customer of the bank j will lose a dollar, and that the bank is solvent, and that its present embarrass ment arises from the fact that its pa trons have been unable to meet their obligations to the bank with sufficient | rapidity to take care of the unusual withdrawals.” According to the last published state ment of the bank, issued October Ist, 1901, the capital stock paid in amounted to $500,000; total resources $2,964,002, in dividual deposits $2,197,773; surplus funds $65,000. It is stated the bank carried about $120,000 in the securities of the Detroit and Toledo line, which recently passed into the hands of receivers. As a result of the financial embarrassment of the Eveiyilt-Moore Syndicate, it is under stood that the bank‘found, it impossible * realize upon these securities. AS GOOD AS CUBAN TOBACCO. Experiments Have Shown That Tobacco Grown Here is Second to None. (By the Associated Press ) Washington, Jan. 10. —At the Cabinet meeting today Secretary Wilson ex plained what had been done by his De partment in the way of experiments in raising tobacco. He stated that it had lain fully demonstrated that we could raise in this country all the wrapper to bacco necessary for domestic use, and of a quality second to none. In every ' particular it was as fine as couiil be grown in Cuba or any other country. Last year ten acres of filler tobacco had been successfully raised in Penn sylvania of a very high grade, and dur ing the coming season extensive experi ments, would be made in raising high grade filler In Ohio, Texas, North Caro lina and California- Last year the im ports of wrapper tobacco into the United \ States amounted to $6,000,000 and of filler $8,000,000. In a short time, the sc rotary said, we would he able to sup ply our own wrapper and filler of a grade would challenge the best grown anvwhere in the world. A few prospective appointments were talked over and it is understood that the only one decided upon was that of Mr. Elliott, Collector of Customs at New port News, aV., the present occupant of that office. Charleston Modifies Port Rules. (By the Associated Press.) Charleston, S. C.. Jan. 10.—The Health Department of Charleston has amended the port rules concerning the quarantine of vessels from South and Central American ports, so as to permit entries without detention of vessels from clean ports. Heretofore, in order to avoid de tention. vessels jjn the trade between' here and trooical ports were required to ■ carry a physician, who could give acer- j tifleate for each voyage. The modiflea- ' tion was made for the benefit of the ! fruit trade. RALEIGH. NORTH' CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 11. 1902. SLUMP LAST YEAR 111 COTTON MILLS Number Chartered in the State Only 15, BEHIND RECORD OF 1900 Past Year the Worst Financially Mills Ever Experienced. COMPARATIVELY FEW M\DE A PROFiT Such Was the Statement of a Prominent Mill Man Yesterday. List of the New Mills Irorp.rated by Stcrelary of State. Number Increased Capital. Fifteen nesA cotton mills were eharter ' ed in North Carolina last year. The cotton mill industry did not keep pace with the growth of the textile industry in 1900, which was the most remarkable in the history of the State. The past year has been the worst tin cotton mills of this State have ever ex perienced, and a gentleman who is in terested in a number of Targe mills, re marked yesterday that comparatively few of the cotton mills in th lance were adopted. | The body adjourned at 2p. m. pending . the consideration of the report. Hanged for Killing a Farmer’s Wife. Dallas, Tex., Jan. 10.—Anderson Nor ris, a negro, was hanged iu the McClel lan county jail at Waco today for the j murder of the wife of a white farmer ■ a year arro- ►44444444446 *444*4444^ ► THE WEATHER TO-DAY 4 ► For Raleigh: 4 | fai!r. j ►4444444444>444444444* PRICE FIVE CENTS ABOUT THE FIRE IT GRIMFSLAND Losers There Have Asked tor An Investigation. AND THIS WILL BE MADE —f- ■ Fanners Are Annoyed by Anonymon* Letters to Their Negro Tenants, / • POSTAL AUTHORITIES SHOULD NOW ACT Information is That There Was No Connection Between the Midnight Fire, and the Anonymous • Letters. The matter of the fire which occurred I.IKI Tin sday night at Grimeslatid is un (K'cnri »■'nee that will most probably he investigated. This is became there are minors that the the was not caused by an accident, Int that it was of incendiary origin, and thui perhaps this origin can bo traced to the animosity of certain parties against some of the losert in the con flagration. The lire began in the store of W. S. Holloway & Co. This was situated in the heart of the business community on the north side of Main street, where the con tiguous buildings are frame structures. The Haines spread so rapidly that, every building tm the block was consumcp cx icpt two dwelling houses and *he Chris tian church. Tho buildings across the street wore in danger, but. escaped. The entire loss will approximate $25,000, with perhaps $0,500 insurance. Certain farmers on the large farms on Tar Itiver in this neighborhood have been very much annoyed of late by their i negro tenants receiving anonymous let ters, threatening these negroes with whipping, hanging, burning end other t if they did not leave, in a dently by the same party, ns they are in the same handwriting and have been mailed from neighboring pout offices. The t art of Crimesland, that was burned ad joins the stock law lands and certain evil disposed persons are taking Hdvan- ' tage of the recent fire by frying to create a belief among the negroes, who are al ready very much excited by those anony mous letters, that this is the beginning of the thratened visitation of punish ment. and this ie adding to their panic, thereby working a great injury to the farmers on whose lands these negroes live. It is said by those in a position to know that there Is no possible connec tion between this lire and the threats of the anonymous letters, yet It is pitia ble that these negroes are being excited unduly in this way, by a miscreant who should be apprehended and punished. The sending of these anonymous let in's'is a violation of tho United States Postal Laws, and as complaint has been made to the proper authorities, it is to ho exported that the party guilty ot this violation will be apprehended and brought t , justice. Such an action Is demanded in order to protect those whose internets* are being put In Jeopardy because of these anonymous letters. WHEAT ACREAGE INCREASED. The Increase Over 1900 Estimated at Five and Six Tenths Per Cent (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 10.—The statistician of the Department of Agriculture esti mates the average yield per ucro ot wheat, in the United States In 1901 nf U.s bushels, ns compared with 12.fi bush ids in 1000, 12.3 bushels in 1890, 15,3 bushels in 1808, and 13.3 bushels, the mean of the averages of the last ten years. The newly seeded area of winter wheat is provisionally estimated at 32,000 000 acres, an increase of 5.6 per cent upon the urea estimated to have been sown in the fall of 1000. Elizabeth City Street Railway, I w> News and Lygrifl c jot gjjam t : id • §m _ ".-'pfC. , subsc I sUS f jjfl Elizabeth n- , • m J iv ■ ■'Vff <„ m J|i * the Louisfl Company H S wan and iH H ’-"CfSeSv