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c rr fA 9 TREATY RELATIONS. President AlcKinley Transmits Trea ties to Senate. RECENT RECIPROCITY AGREEMENiS Measures by Which the DIngly Tariff Will Not Be Enforced Against Cer tain Governments. Washington, D. C, Special. The President has sent to the Senate a number of treaties with Great Britain, extending for a year the time for the ratification of the reciprocity treaties affecting the British West Indian pos sessions, which were sent to the Sen ate last session but failed of ratifica tion. He also has forwarded reciproci ty treaties with Nicaragua, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and the gov ernment of Denmark, the last named affecting the Island of St. Croix only. The reciprocity treaty with Nicaragua was signed October 20. 1S99, but for some reason was not transmitted to the Senate until the 5th of the pres ent month. It provides for a reduc tion of 20 per cent, from the rates of the Dingley tariff act on the following articles brought into the United States from Nicaragua: Cane sugar, not above No. 16 Dutch standard; molases, hides of cattle and of other animals except sheep with the wool on; indigo, coffee, bananas, rubber, crude; mahogany in the log or rough hewn. Nicaragua agrees to admit the fol lowing articles free of duty: Livo animals, grains, including, wheat, corn, etc.; agricultural seeds, live plants, corn meal, starch, all vegetables and fruits, hay and other forage, cotton seed oil, tar and turpentine, asphalt, quicksilver, coal, fertilizers, lime and cement, wood and lumber, marble, ma chinery, agricultural implements, wag ons and carts, railroad and structural iron and steel fence wire, motors, forges, water pumps, hose, sledge hammers, iron piping and lightning rods, galvanized iron roofs, printing materials, books, pamphlets, etc., sur gical and mathematical instruments, . boats of all kinds, gold and silver bul lion, bars or coin. There is to be a re duction of 20 per cent, upon the Nica raguan duty on American cheap wines and flour and wheat. The Ecuador treaty provides for the free admission of the following pro ducts of that country into the United States: Hides and skins of all ani mals except those of meat cattle and of sheep with the wool on; coffee, cot ton and eJo'tton waste; cocoa, crude; India rubber, crude; Peruvian bark, hat reeds, ivory nuts. On the follow ing Ecuadorian articles the United States grants a reduction of 20 per cent, in duties: Cane sugar, not above No. 1G Dutch standard, hides of me.it cattle, straw hats, leaf tobacco. Reci procity the following articles of Unit ed States origin arc to be admitted to Ecuador free: Agricultural imple ments and machinery of all kinds; machines for manufacturing purpose, locomotives, cars and materials for the construction and equipment of railroads, ircn in pigs or bars, coppe. lead, and zinc in heivy bars, coal, bran and maize, cheap wines, preserved fruits, oil, cake and oil meal, preserv ed salmon. A 20 per cent, reduction is granted by Ecuador on the following American articles: Sewing machines, wheat, flour, high-priced wires, timber and lumber, cotton seed oil. Case Against Oi! Trust Dismissed Columbus, O., Special. The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed theproceed ings brought by former Attorney Gen eral Monett, charging that the compa ny was in contempt of court for having failed io comply with an order issued In 1892 directing a dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, on -the ground that Its existence was against public poli cy. The six members of the court di vided eciuallv. liinglish War Funds Voted. London, By Cable. When the House of Commons went into committee of the supply. Wm. St. John Brodrirk, the Secretary of State for War, introduced the supplementary estimates of Iti. OOO.OuO pounds ($$0,000,000) io: the army. He admitted the government's expectations had not been over-sanguine and it is anticipated that the ex penditure to March 21 would be little short of the outlay the government had been ensuring during the whele finan cla year. lie said that the govern ment's policy was to puisue the war with the strongest possible force and a continuous stream o! supplies so -that peace may the more quickly be achiev ed. Te egraphic Briefs New York parties are endeavoring to consolidate in a $2,000,000 company 20 coal companies in Tuscarawis countv Ohio. Miners of the Simpson coal mines at Layfayette Colo., have struck for high er wages. The internal revenue collections for Cuba during the month of August !atf were $I39,56-j. BAPTIST Si ATE CONVENTION. Meeting at Raleigh Adjourns After Transacting Much Business. Raleigh, Special. Tho seventieth aa nual session of the North Carolina Baptist State convention came to a close Saturday night, shortly after 10 o'clock. Next year the convention will meet in Winston, and the introductory ser mon will be preached by Rev. W. C. Tyree, of Durham, with Rev. J. W. Lynch, of Wake Forest, as alternate. This was decided by the convention Saturday morning. The committ-e appointed to select the place of meet ing recommended Wilmington, but a majority of the -committee preferred Winston and the report was ro amend ed. The question of Periodicals was taken up early in the morning's ses sion and a lively, not to say sensation al, debate followed. The discussion lasted for more than three hours. The question before the convention was a special report recommending ownership and operation of the Re corder by the convention. Though Editor J. W. Bailey announced that if this report was defeated he would re tire as editor, and might possible leave North Carolina, the convention declin ed to adopt it. Instead, a substitute was adopted recommending the formation of a joint stock company -to own and operate the Recorder. To this end a committee of five was appointed to take the matter in hand and Try to raise such, a company. This committee, appointed by the president of the convention, is com posed of Rev. Livingston Johnston, Prof. W. I Poteat, Rev. J. E. White, Prof. J. B. Carlyle and Mr. W. N. Jones. They held a meeting and re ported to the convention that they thoucht they saw their way clear to form a company for the purchase of the Recorder, but that the North Carolina Baptist had not yet been con sidered in their plans. To buy the Re corder, they said it was necessary to raise $6,000, and that the plan under which they were operating was satis factory to both J. W. Bailey, editor, and Edwards and Broughton, owners of the paper. The main feature of the afternoon session was the reading by Dr. J. D. Hufham of a history nf tho North Carolina Baptist convention, from the first beginning of the church in 1T90 to the first meeting of representatives from the counties in 1S32, at Rives' Chapel. Chatham county. This is the first time such a history has been written, and it represents thirty years of work in sollecting date and records. The convention listened to the reading with fixed attention. The story was told with the graphic direct ness of true history, and was interest ing in the extreme. It was decided to appoint Mr. T. M. Pittman and Dr. T. E. Skinner a committee -to raise a fund to be devoted to historical inves tigation, with the end in view of em ploying Dr. Hufham as a special his torian upon a regular salary to conduct the work. Saturday night's meeting of the con vention was devoted entirely to the orphanage. A number of addresses were made and $2,200 was subscribed for a system of water works to be put in next spring. After the regular work of the con vention had been completed, a silver service was presented to Rev. John E. White, the retiring corresponding sec retary of the Mission Board. The pre sentation speech was made by Mr. J W. Bailey. North State Notes. The corporation commission meet! Wednesday. It will hear argument by the Seaboard Air Line's attorneys on that railroad's exceptions to the recent order of the commission reducing th-? freight rate on hickory, gum, dogwood and persimmon logs. An engine has been put in operation at the Soldiers Home, for supplying water to the various buildings. In a few days connection will be made with the Raleigh sewer system, as 1,200 feet of pipe is now being laid. Gen. Julian S. Carr will call a con vention of ex-Confederate Veterans, to be held in Kalelsli i" February, at which the legislature will be memori alized to increase the appropriations for the Soldiers' Home and for pen sions. More Victims of Colonization. Birmingham. Ala., Special. It ?s an nounced that the first shipment of ne groes from the South to Moravia Africa, will leave Birmingham Jan uary 30 for Savannah, from whicr point they will sail. The colonists gc under the auspices of the Liberia:! Colonization Company. There will b'.i 250 negroes in the shipment. Another ot will go within six or eight months Sentenced to be Shot. El Paso. Tex., Special. For the first time in many years, a citizen has been sentenced to be shot in Mexico. The sentence was imposed upon Bias Aguirre, by Juarex Tribunal, as the penalty for murder in the first degree. Aguirre was convicted of making a raid across the border and murdering Jauns Cadeja, a citizen of Mexico. He escaped to Texas, but was arrested by American officers and extradited eight mon-ths ago. He was tried and con victed. The sentence of the Juraez Court undooubtedly will be carried out, unless the President of the reipub' lie should interefere. FELL FIVE STORIES. Baltimore Fireman Has a ferraw Es cape from I eath. BfcSCUED WITH SLIGHT INJURIES. The Baltimore Bargain Mouse and Other Property destroyed Heavy Losses Sustained. Baltimore, Special. The extensive stores and stock of the Baltimore Bar gain House at 212 to 220 West Balti more street, were totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning and the stock and building of Grctjan, Lobe and' Company which adjoins it, were con siderably damaged. The fire was dis covered shortly after three o'clock a. m. and burned fiercely all the balance of the night and far into the morning, completely obstructing traffic in toe busiest part of the city during thi early morning hours. Several firemen made narrow escapes from death, but none was seriously injured. The Bal timore Bargain House, of which Mr. David Epstein is the Lead, is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the South and had a large holiday stock on hand. Mr. Epstein is as yet unable to give an accurate estimate of the loss on stock, but believes it will be $50,000. Grotjan, Lobe and Company estimat? their loss at $3,000, while the loss en the building will probably swell the total to be $300,000, all being covered by insurance. Fireman John Flynn bad a miracu lous escape from being killed. He fell five stories from the rear of the West ern section of the series of btiildings included In the Baltimore Bargain House. Flynn was cn the roof of the building. When overcome by s mo he lost his balance. His companions who saw him topple backward and fall felt sure that every bone in his body would be broken. In his fall the fire man struck three different times on a zig-zag arrangement of rain spout.-. Each section that he struck gave way, but each broke the momentum of this fall. As he struck the piece of rainspont nearest the ground, his foreman's hel met of aluminum fell off and he struck upon the helmet, mashing it as flat as a piece of pasteboard. When his com panions picked him up he was uncon scious, but revived shortly, when it was discovered that the only injuries he had received were a number nf bruises on his shoulders and a broke?? ankle. To Revise the Creed. Washington, D. C, Special. After two hours' deliberation the Presby terian Committee concluded its discus sion of the revision of the West minister Confession of Faith and ad journed. The committee find on examination of the returns from the Presbyteries the following farts: 1. That the returns plainly indicate that the church desires some changes in its credal statement. 2. The returns indicate plainly that no change is desired which would in any way impair the integrity of the system of doctrine contained in the confession of faith. These returns also indicate, that a large plurality desire that changes should be made by some new state ment of present doctrines. 4. The returns also indicate a desire upon the part of many Presbyteries for some revision of the present con fession. 5. It was therefore unanimously agreed by the committee to recommend to the General Assembly that some re vision or change be made in our con fections! statements. The committee will convene in this city on February 12th next to linally prepare the statement to the General Assembly in May. Superintended the Looting. Berlin. By Cable The Pekin cor respondent of The Deutsche Zeitr.ng writes that several German marine of ficers discovered Sir Claude MacDon ald. former British minister, at Pekin, and L?.dy MacDonald. personally su perintending coolies who were carry ing off treasures from the Chinese im perial palace to the British legation buildings. Telegraphers Strike. Chicago, Special. Six hundred tele graph operators on the lines of the At chison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad struck in sympathy with the operators on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, a branch of the Atchison sys tem, who went out last Thursday. The foregoing statement is according to ths best information obtainable from the company's officials to-night. The en tire number of operators on the system is 1,200, of whom 900 are said to be union men. Of the 900 members of the union, 300, It is stated, refused to strike, leaving the system with about one-half its men at work. I 1 MANY NEW CORPORATIONS. Over 250 New Companies Charte eJ During the Year. The State of North Carolna has this year granted charters to more than 230 corporations. The most impcrtai.t of these are, of course, cotton milH. The following is a list of these, with the capital stcck of each: Chadwick Manufacturing Company, $250,000; Arlington, $130,000; Nokomi, $100,000; Rhodiss. $00,000; Australia, $150,000; Scott-Mebane, $43,000; Cora, $100,000; Southern Import and Com mission Company, $25,000; E. L. Shu ford Manufacturing Company, $350,000; Borden Manufacturing Company. $100, 000; Oxford. $125,000; Dickson, $50,000; Enfield, $75,000; Harriet, $130,000; Greenville, $75,000; Clayton. $120,000; Capelsie, $150,000; Lumberton, $75 OJO; Smithfield, $50,000; Double Shoals, $:0, 000; Bonnie. $100.000 : Linn, $50.0 'J'J; Earnhardt Manufacturing Company, $50,000; Calmache, $100,000. The above spin or weave or do both. The follow ing are knitting mills: Tryon Hos iery, $50,000; Littleton Hosiery, $20, 00; Greenville Knitting, $10,000; Fayetteville Knitting, $10,000; Twin City Knitting, $12,000; Wennanahi $15,000; Lily, $10,000; Vivian, $20,000; Seaboard Knitting, $50,000; Tarboro Knitting, $20,000. A charter was also granted the Charlotte Waste Company, which will make cotton fibres. The total capital stock of the above milli is $3,317,000. Charters were granted to the follow ing lumber companies, or wood-working companies; High Point ManUl and Table, $12,300; Piedmont Shuttle $10,00); Lindsay Chair, $15,000; Rooky Mount Sash and Blind, $50.00U; Car thage Furniture, $4,000; Snow Limber, $100,000; Statesville Furniture, $10,000; Saw Mill and Lumber. $500,000; Cum berland Chair, $10,000; Oxford Furni ture, $20,000; Oakland Furniture $20,- 000; Brooks-Davidson Lumber, $23,000; Kinston Mantel, $2,100; Spreks Barrel and Crate, $3,000; Snow B.skot,$10.U"0; Northrop Lumber, $20,000; Wayncs ville Wood Manufacturing, $25,00'.i; Dixie Chair, $10,000; Goldsboro Table, $12,000; Cramer Furniture, $20,000; Western Furniture, $10,000; Transyl vania Chair, $20,000; Elkin Chair, $25, 000; Elm City Lumber Company, $15, 000. Among the miscellaneous industries Rocky Mount Oil and Fertilizer, $3 000; Goldsboro Traction, $15,000; Waynesville Telegraph, $10,000; Wel don & Norfolk Steamboat, $25,000; Goldsboro Navigation Company, $6, 000; Neuse Navigation Company, $2, 000; Charlotte Belting, $23,000; Gas tonia Oil, $25,000; Asheville Machin?, $5,000; Granville Mining, $20,000; An son Oil, $3,000; High Point Trunk, $3, C00; Lenoir Oil and Ice, $10,000; Hills boro Milling, $10,000; Lacy, $12,00 j; Southern Consumers' Brewery, $300, 000; Acme Machine, $10,000; Carolina Export. $50,000; Southern Carriage, $3, 000; Brick and Tile, $2.3000; Gaito.i Telephone, $10,000; Railroad Adveiti- er and Station Indicator, $30,000; Caro- J lira Telephone and Telegraph. $10,000; Os:-eola Cannery, $5,000; Elizabeth Citj Norfolk Telephone, $50,000; Carolina and Virginia Tt-lpphone, 10,000; Ral eigh Telephone, $15,000; Salem Iron Works, $50,000; Flanigan Harness, $G,C00; Hertford Buggy, $15,000; Tay-lor-Canaday Buggy, $20,000; Kinston Electric Light, $10,000; S. B. Alexander Co., $25,000; Winston Brick and Tile, $12,000; Montgomery Roller Mills. $4, 700; Eastern Tobacco, $50,000; Van story Clothing, $18,000; Asheville Tele phone, $8,000; Carolina Harness, $25, 000; Brevard Water. $10,000; Industrial Development Co., $2G,000; Kinston Tel ephone, $10,000; Salem Clothing, $7, 000; Forsyth Roller, $10,000; Southern Machinery,S25,000; Montauk Water and Electric, $10,000; Clement Ro-s Manu facturing, $30,000; Nantahala Mining and Milling, $10,000; Carolina Ice, $10, 000; Louisburg Oil, $15,000; Geo. B Hiss Oil and Supply, $10,000; Spiritim Manufacturing Company. $20,000; Granville Mining, $20,000. Three Deputies Injured. Latrobe, Pa., Special. A riot occur red here at the works of the Bessemer Coal and Coke Company. Three depu ty sheriffs were injured and as a result the borough prison is full of strikers. Thre? deputies were badly bruissd. A mob of 500 excited miners, who ar; striking, came to the wcrrks hooiirg and jearing, and then proceeded 'a camp there. Fighting became furious Ten of the leaders were arrested. President iMdver Has Undertaken a Good Work. President Mclver, of the State Nor mal College, seeing the need of a help ing fund for educating girls, has con cluded to made an effort to raise $100,000 as an endowment fund for ttat institution for this special purpose. The idea is to use the interest as a loan fund to girls who are unable to pay tuition, charging no interest until they complete the course and get employ ment, when Interest will be charged till the principal and all is paid, when the amount will be available for som? one else. $40,000,000 DECREASE o - No More Stamps on Telegraph Mesr safes aad Express Receipts. REPORT ON DECREASE OF WAR TAX Hie Commit (Iocs $1,000,000 Bca yond the rijjures of the fecre tary of the Treasury. Washingtcn, D. C, Special. Chair man Payne, of the days and means committee, late Friday afternoon sub mitted the report of that committee, signed by all the Republican mem bers in favor of the bill reducing the war revenue taxes about $40,000,000. The report says in part: "We find it still necessary to main tain an army of 100,000 men until law and order is fully restored in all our possessions. We find it alto ne cessary to provide troops to man the fortifications which we have been building the past few years, and aiso to provide a sufficient force in the navy to man tho vessels we have re cently added. The increasing navy, too, brings new necessities. 'The report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30 1DC0, shows a surplus of $79.- 527,000. His estimates for tho fiscal year ending June 30, leave an estimated surpl; :nlus of t ) 00.- 000. )0. For (the fiscal year endlnfyjune ), 1902, his estimates leave alf stl- 30, mated surplus of only $20,258,237. For 1902 there is an estimated increa.se in the revenue of $29,000,000 over tho previous year, and an increase of ex penditures of nearly $S3,000,000. Tho committee deems it .safe to make a re duction of about $10,000,000, while the Secretary of the Treasury, in his re port, suggests a reduction of only $30,000,000 in revenues. The commit tee has entirely abolished the mo?t vexatious taxes and reduced those which seemed to have proved a great burden upon the .several branches of trade to which they are applied. On beer a war tax of S5 cents a barrel was added to the tax of $1, a barrel pre viously imposed. Thi committee be lieves that the amendment proposed in section 1 of tho bill making a net reduction of 25 cents per barrel gives the beer manufactures all theyeliet to which they are entitled. Iiy the"-wfiT-revenue act the tax lupoid cigars, aver aging more than three pounds in weight to the 1,00(1, was made $ 3.60. This CO centts per Thousand was very onerous to the manufacturers, espe cially those engaged in a small way, and making the cheaper grade of cig ars. It has been. Impossible to dis tribute any of tbis CO cents in making a price to the consumer ,aud the fac tories have had to bear the entire tax of over $3.000,0(io last year. The com mittee have therefore reported an amendment reducing this tax at the rate of GO cent's per thousand." The report hen gives the changes in detail. Tl;c one-cent tax cn ex press receipts and telegraph mes sages has caied more wirlesprcaa annoyance- and,' trouble .than anything else in the act. The committee there fore have stricken these taxes from the law. It says: "After this reduction of $40,000,000 shall take effect, leaving a revenue of $6o.000.000 under the war revenue tax, that win bo. barely sufficient to meet the expenditures which came at the close of the war. We feel justified In maintaining the war revenues up to a point equal to the extraordinary ex penses entailed by the war." Sailors Rescued. New York, Special. The brig C. C. Sweeney, Captain -.lller, from Bruns wick, November 26 lumber laden, ar rived having cn board a shipwrecked crew consisting of Captain Charles Stephens and Wm. Von Batten, Reu ben Doran and Emanuel F. Idy, sur viving members of the crew of the tug John S. Deering, of Beaufort, S. C, which foundered November 27th off Cape Hatteras, in latitude 3o., longi tude, 73.33, with the loss of the en gineer, D. W. Douglass A New Dcctrine. Thf occult and esoteric citizens ol Chicago are much interested in a ne-w philosopher who has appeared among them and preaches the lofty dcctrine that. "Life is a vast circle, and life on earth ia only a small segment of the circle. Birth and death are not impor tant. They are merely points where the line crosses the circle the lin which marks the segment denoting our life on earth.'' industrial Convention Adjourns. New Orleans, Special. The South ern Industrial Convention was brought to a close by the re-election of H. H. Hargrove, of Louisiana, as presi dent, and N. F. Thompson, of Ala bama, as secretary, and the selection of Memphis as the next place of meetr ing. There was a session at night, but it was not largely attended and the only speaker who excited any in terest was Telsutra Inumaru, the at tache of .the Japanese legation, whe spoke cn "Who Rules the Chinese Em pire?" His paper was unique. L :v, I
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