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VOL. XII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902.
NO. 45.
FAVOR ARBITRATION.
Plans Are Discussed By The Pan
American Congress.
IIS TO BE BitCUGUT TO AN ISSUE
the delegates Who Favor the Com
pulsory Plan Are Determined That
It Shall Ba Adopted.
Mexico City, Special. It is thought
'owthat the arbitration question la
the Pan-American Conference will hg
-determined one way or another at an
arly day. Whether, or, not the. solution
'1U he the disruption of the conference
"will depend on whether then ten dola
gallons who favor compulsory arbitra
tion will iBdoept a compromise measure
to be offered to them tomorrow on the
lines suggested by W. J. Buchanan, of
.the United States delegation. The Mexi
an delegation will, however, present
. ihe compromise. Monday after
noon some of the extreme advo
cates , of compus3ry arbitration were
somewhat , afraid of the ; defec
tion ; of ; the Mexicans, andv it
is a - matter of fact, almost certain,
that the compromise to be offered by
. the Mexicans will Involve some modi
fication of their own 'attitude,
jjflt Ls pointed out that when the M.ex-
1, Jean delegation proposed a plan whero-
by all, the delegations were to apply
for admittance to. The Hague Coofer-
- ence, while those favoring compu sory
Arbitration were to s-igja an agreement
among themselves embodying that
principle, they wece under the impres-
. sion that this solution was agreeable
to all the delegations, including the
Chilllans. Now the Chillltans claim that
they did not understand the. matter 'n
that light, and the Mexicans were mi
ller an erroneous impression. The
Chillians say they were never agree
able to this compromise. The Mexi
cans therefore feel that as the compro
mise van suggested under an erroneous
Impression on the pact of Chilli's atti
tude, it is incumbant upon them now
to suggest some other . plan with the
hope tnat it will be agreeable to all. It
is again pointed out. thai.on splr.rion
Is that the dliejatjtts- Vqrl ag.-: tiiV
compulsory plan of: arbitratloplsaould
present it in .anope',ss'ionytf tlx?
conference' and, 'not ' ;throu jh' the-, com
mittee, lit is by no means certain that
I! Jthis KOlutiori, '-'already reflected and
oflnred once by the ten; is, offered again
It trill be', accepted. In any event' the
ten delegations' favoring compulsory
arbitration are determined to bring tbe
matter to an issue this week.
I flood-IJye to Two.
Washington, Special. Secretary
Gage's letter of resignation, dated De
cember ISth, aud President Roosevelt's
reply, were made' public at the White
House. Mr. Gage thanks the President
for coafldehce bestowed and expresses
earnest :;deslre' ior the h'ighejt success
of the, administration. In his reply the
President, says:
"Your'eervlcd to the nation has been
rendered at tho; cost of losi to your
Sieavy loss, from a material standpoint
as must ever be. tho case with a man
like yrfa,' who deliberately abandons
comparative ease and the high pecuniary-
rewards of a ' largo private
business for the exhausting work of
the position you have so honorably
"Jled durtngthe last five years,'!. In a',
letter to Postmaster General Smith
. accepting the latter's resignation, the
President says: "I deeply regret that
we are no longer to serve side by side,
and I earnestly .wish- you t well in the
future and bid you God-speed in your
new auUes'fbr wherever you may be.
the weight of. your Influence is sure to
ho potent on the side of . clean and
- koaest government"
Wages Increased.
Philadelphia. Special. The Penn
sylvania Railroad announced to its
train and yard mci that with few ex
ceptions their wages had been adjusted
to date, from 'January .1. This nolle
means ; an Increase in' most, instances.
Tho increase -will Teqyire tht payment
of several hundred thousand dollars
a month more than is now paid on the
jile, and effects SS.000 men.
IN SESS TON AGAIN.
Congress Gets Down to Work After
The Holiday Recess.
Congress resumed Monday. The
Philippine revenue bill Is the most im
portant work at hand. The Senate will
probably act upon it this week.
Both the House and Senate commit
tees on naval affairs is in possession of
blll3 and resolutions bearing on the
Schley controversy. Compromisa oa
the matter is hoped for by a favorable
recommendation.
The Penrose and Pcarre bills re
creating the grade of vice admiral and
promoting to the rank Rear Admiral3
Sampson, Schley and Clark In the or
der named. The attendance In both
Houses was light. The chaplain of tho
Senate referred to the death ofSenaior
Sowed. ' - . .
The principal item on the House pro
gramme for the week I3 the Hepburn
isthmian canal bill, "which is the spe
cial order for . Tuesday. No limit h:i3
been fixed as to the. time for debate,
upon this measure, but Mr. Hepburn
does not contemplate a prolonged dis
cussion of It. It 13 surmised in some
quarters, however, that of tho propo
sition if the Panama Canal Company
to sell its property and franchise for
$40,000,000 should be made tomorrow,
as promised, thi3 may have the ef
fect of opening a wider field of discus
sion than at hist seemed probable, and
if this should prove to be the case th
bill may be before the House for a
longer time than is now contemplated.
Mr. Burton ha3 given notice of a
speech on the bill and it 13 understood
that", there will be other speeches in
criticism of special features of the
measure, but its friends are very san
guine not only that the bill will pass,
but that it will pass speedily. Mr. fUp
burn, the author of the bill, thinks
that only a few days of debate will be
neeessacy.
HOUSE.
Nineteenth Day The debate upon
the Nicaragua Canal bill in the
House developed sentiment In favor
of giving consideration to the recent
offer of the Panama Company to sell
its franchises and property for $40,
000,000 and this sentiment took the
form of advocating the Morris amend
ment to empower tho President to
select the latter route if the canal
commission, upon considering the
company's offer, recommends it and
the required concessions can be ob
tained from Colombia. Of 16 mem
bers who spoke today, nine favored
the Morris amendment. It . w3
agreed that general debate should
close tomorrow at 2 o'clock, after
which -the, bill-will be open to amend
ment under the five-minute rule. The
final vote, probably will .., be taken to
morrow. The' speakers . todav vere
Messrs. Shackleford, --of. Missouri;
Parker, of New -Jersey;' Lovering, of
Massachusetts, and iLittlefield. of
Maine, in favor of the Morris amend
ment,' and Messrs. Burgess, of Texas;
Bell, of Colorado; Cooney,- of Mis
souri; Cummings. of New York; Gib
eon, of Tennessee, and Lacey, of
Iowa, for the bill in its present
form.
Twentieth Day Tbe c'ay wa3 spent
in further discussion of the canal
treaty. ,
Twenty-first Day The House pass
ed the canal bill, but no selection of
routes ha3 yet been made. The' c wa3
much lively discussion during the ses
sion. , The House adjourned at 4:30 p.
m.
SENATE.
Eighteenth Day The first notea of
the contest between the Nicaragua
canal were heard in the Senate.: AUter
an hour had been spent in routine busi
ness, Mr. Morgan offered and se-u-eJ
tho adoption of a resolutoin which in
dicated his purpose to have tho com
mittee on inter-oceanic canals InquLe
into the relations alleged to exist be
tween the trans-continental railroad
companies of the' United States and
Canada and the Panama Canal Com
pany. Nineteenth Day During the con
sideration of the Senate of private
pension legislation, in response to an
inquiry from Senator Bacon, some
important statements were made bv
Mr. Gallinger,. chairman of the com
mittee on pensions. In respect to re
gulations adopted by the committee
to govern it Ja .the consideration and
recommendation of private pension
bills. He announced that none but
absolutely meritorious cases would
be presented to the Senate for Its con
sideration and that the closest scru
tiny would be given by the committee
to every bill Introduced. He said that
no pension exceeding $30 a 'month
would be recommended by the com
mittee for the widow of a general of
ficer and that pensions for the widows
of other officers would be scaled down
proportionately.
Twentieth Day The session of the
Senate wa3 brief, and mostely devoted
to routine business.
Twenty-flist Day The Senate passed
the Philippine tariff bill and then went
Into executive session.
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
New Enterprises TUat Are Enriching
Our Favo-ed Section.
Southern Progress.
The more Important of the new in
dustries reported by the Tradesman for
the week ended January 4, include a
$30,000 barrel and truck factory at
Louisville, Ky.; $30,000 brick works at
Rome, Ga., $10,C00 brick weeks at Abi
lene, Texas; $30,000 brick works' at
Beaumont, Texas; a coal company at
Richmond, Va.; a coal and coke com
pany at Bayard, W. Va.; a coffin fac
tory at Cleveland, Tenn.; a copper
mining company at Bisbee, Texas; cot
ton g.ns at Pari3 and Wootan Wells,
Texas; a $10,000 cotton mill at Green
ville, Miss.; a cotton mill at Charlotte,
N. C; a $100,000 cotton mill at Fair
mont, S. C; a cotton mill at. Vermont,
Texas; $45,000 creosote works at Hous
ton, Texas; a $25,000 development com
pany at Clark&ourg, W. Va.; an elec
tric power plant at Huntsville, Ala.; a
$20,000 electric railway and power com
pany at Elkeabeth City, N. C; an ex
cels.or factory at Milan, Tenn.; a $60
000 flour spar mining and manufactur
ing company at Paducah, Ky.; a $50,
000 company to manufacture food pro
ducts at Louisville, Ky.; a gas plant
at El Paso, Texas; a $ 10,000 company
to manufacture glass and electrical
supplies at Houston, Texas; a $50,000
glass factory at Mannington, W. Va.;
a $300,000 gold mining company at
Waynesville, N. C; a $5,000 hardware
company at Birmingham, Ala.; a $100,
000 ice factory at Shreveport, La.; a
$'5,000 Incandescent lamp factory at
Owensboro, Ky.; a $50,000 knitting
mill at Cedactown, Ga.; a $30,000 knit
ting mill at Tarboro, N. C; a $10,000
land company at LeafMlsa.; a $30,000
lumber, company at L.ttle Roc,; Ark.;
a $15,000 lumber company at Memphis,
Tenn.; a $10,0CO lumber ' company at
Big Spting3, Texas; a $23,000 mining
and prospecting company at Lewis
burg, Tenn.; an oil company.. at Bren
ham, Texas; a $250,0-00 oil and pros
pecting company at New Orleans, La.;
an oil mill at Stamford, Texas; a pea
nut oil plant at Petersburg, Va.; a $15,
000 overall and clothing fa:tory at
Birmingham, Ala.; a $100,000 railway,
light and ice company at Winchester,
Ky.; a $24,000 rice mill at Pierce, Tex
as; a $30,00 lice and Irrigation com
pany at Bay City, Texas; a $30,000 rim
and veneering company at Petersburg,
Va.; roofing and cornice works at New
Martinsville, W. Va.; a $25,000 com
pany to manufacture wire buckles at
Weatherford, Texas, and a $50,000
wood-working plant at Norfolk, Va.
Southern Knitt'ng Industry.
Progress in textile manufacture In
the South has not been limited to the
spinning and weaving of cotton and
woolen products. The manufacture of
knit goods has also made marked ad-
V2?f,e. .
The Soulhern knitting industry made
coomcauable progress in the year just
ended, the establishment of new mills
and the enlargement of existing plants
indicating an aggregate expenditure or
$584,000. The mills manufacture a
variety of products, mainly the lines
of underwear garments most commonly
in demand for domestic use, although
some mills are making shipments to
fci e'gn countries, one plant having re
cently filled orders from Australia.
The total of new mills annpuncea
during 1901 was twenty-six, with an
aggregate capital of $589,000 (five of
these mills not slating the amount of
their investment). The State of . Ala
bama leads with five mills, four of
wbich have an aggregate capital of
$293,000. ,One of the latter ls a $200.
000 enterprise, owned by experienced
knitting manufacturers, who operate
mills in New York State, and i3 the
lacgest reported during the year.
Textil j Notes.
Franklin Mills of Greer Depot, S. C.
will increase capital from $45,000 to
$65,000.
Hope Mills (N. C.) Manufacturing
Co. states that the report of .its intend
ing to build a new mill is. not correct
It is underslood that Aberdeen Mill3
of Poulan, Ga.. will be put in operation
again soon. This Is a 5000-spindle and
ISO-loom plant.
Bivlngville Cotton M il has been
chartered, with capital stock of $100,
000, at Farmoat. S. C. The incorpora
tors named are Messrs. C. P. Mathews,
John H. Montgomery and Walter S.
Montgomery. . v
Voorhees Manufacturing Co., J. V.
Pomoroy, president, Graham, N. C
states that its cotton mill, reported
last week at length, will be a weaving
plant, and is not to be built ,. until
spring; capitalization $100,000.
Pennant Knitting Co., of Philadel
phia, Pa,, -previously reported as re
moving Its plant to Shepherd3town
W. Va,, now has eighty-eight knitting
machines operating on the production
of cotton ribbed seamless hosiery for
ys and girls.
Chas. Lane Poor sf New York and
associates have purchased thirty-two
acres of land at Huntsville, Ala., for
$7500, and will use the tract as site for
the erection of a number of cottages.
These cottages are to be occupied by
operatives in the mill3 of the Lowe
Manufacturing Co. and the Eastern
Manufacturing Co., which recently
completed textile mills.
Mathis & Davis Co. of Chattanooga,
Tenn., has been purchased by the Rich
mond Hosiery Mills of Rossvillc, Ga.,
which latter company recently consoli
dated with the Ocoee Hosiery Mills of
Chattanooga. W. B. Davis will have
charge of the sales department of the
Richmond Company. The newly-acquired
plant has ninety knitting machines,
and capitalized at $50,000.
A. T. Stocks of Gadsden, Ala., Is
said to contemplate the erection of a
knitting mill, and he has asked for
Information and prices on knitting
mill machinery.
Messrs. Geo. A. Howell, Jasper Mil
ler, A. L. Smith and Wm. . Cook of
Charlotte, N. C, have completed the
erection of a large two-story building,
and anounce that they will install an
equipment for cotton manufacturing,
probably for cotton batting. A large
stock company will be organized to
own and operate the plant.
RIvervlew Knitting Mills of Tarboro,
N. C, exepcts to rebuild its plant, re
cently destroyed by fire at a loss of
about $50,000. The company will not
make arrangements until the winter
has pansed, and the new mill will prob
ably make finer grades of goods than
was produced by the burned plant.
Tavora Cotton Mills of Yorkville, 3.C.
has purchased about twenty-four acres
of land near its plant in order to pro
vide better railroad facilities and ob
tain a supr.'y of water.
A committee has been named at Ver
ncn, Texas, to solicit subsci:iption for
a cotton-mill compony.
Long and Short Haul.
Washington, Special. The United
States Supreme Court - rendered r.n
opinion holding 'a3 valid the S.'aie
constitution of Kentucky, concerning
long and short hauls by railroad com
panies, and the statutes enacted under
that provision Ci the constitution. The
case on which the decision was ren
dered was a proceeding against the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany, which company wa3 indicted
under the law upon the charge of mak
ing a greater charge for a short than
for a long haul, and a fine was assess
ed. The verdict of the lower State
courts was favorable to the State law
and constitution and this finding v as
affirmed by the Statp Court of Appeals.
Gorman For Senator.
Annapolis, Md., Special. Hon. Ar
thur P. Gorman and Chairman Murry
Vandiver, of tbe Democratic State
central committee, wece select .ul a3
the Democratic nominees for Unke
States Senator and State Treasurer,
respectively, at the Democratic cau
cus, held Wednesday night. Senator
Gorman's selection was unanimous
and enthusiastic. There were 64
members present and the question of
the next UnHed States Senator and
State Treasurer Is reg A ed as set
tled. The Republicans aeld their
caucus In the afternoon and nomina
ted Congressman Wm. P. Jackson, of
Wicomico county, for United States
Senator, and General Thomas J.
Shriek, of Baltimore city, for State
Treasurer. . .
Southeastern Securit'es Company.
Trenton, N. J., Special. The South
western Securities Company, capital
$100,000 was incorporated. This com
pany ls given practically the same
power as these that were conferred
upon the Northern Securities Compa
ny, which was organized to assume
control of the Northern Pacific an I
other railroads. The incorporators of
the company formed today are David
H. Taylor, Edward R. Otheman, of
New York, and K. K. McLaren, of
,ersey City.
Capt Carter AutStay In JaU.
Washington, Special. The United
States Supreme Court refused to In
terfere In the case of Captain Oberlin
M. Carter. The decision was rendered
in the proceedings instituted by Cap
tain Carter for the purpose of securing
a writ of habeas, corpus that would
release him from prison at Leaven
worth, Kan. The case originated in
the United States Circuit Court for the
district of Kansas, by which the peti
tion for a writ wa3 denied. Today's
opinion was delivered by Chief Justice
Fuller and affirmed the opinion of th
Circuit Court
The golf player who gets lost is anx
ious to locate the missing link.
FIFTEEN ARE KILLED
In a Disastrous Wreck in a New
York Tunnel.
ENGINE PLUNGES THROl'GI! A CAR.
J Train Was Crowded With Suburban
Passengers, and the Destruction
Was Frightful.
New York, Special. In the New
York Central Railroad tunnel that
burrows under Park avenue, this city,
two local trains collided Wednesday.
Fifteen passengers were killed and
twice that number were injured. A
dozen of the latter were seriously
hurt, and the roster of the dead may
be extended.
The dead: Albert M. Perrln, 43
rears old, recently from Chicago,
secretary and social vice president
of the Union Bag and Paper Company,
residence New Rochelle, N. Y.; B. D.
C. Foskett, 40, New Rochelle; A. E.
H. Mills, 25, Now Rochelle; E. C.
Hinsdale, 35, New Rochelle; Mrs. A.
F. Howard, 35, New Rochelle; Frank
Washburn, formerly of Chicago, presi
dent of the Union Bag and Paper
Company, residence New Rochelle;
Wm. Leys, 35, New Rochelle, general
manager B. Altman and Co., New
York; Theodore Forgardo, 0, New
Rochelle; Wm. Fisher, or Forbes, 25,
New Rochelle; William Howard, 18,
N'ew Rochelle; Oscar Meyrowitz, 60,
New Rochelle, optician In New York
and secretary of the New Rochelle
Yacht Olub; Franklin Crosby, 35,
New Rochelle; Ernest F. Walton. 30,
New Rochelle. broker in New York;
H. G. Diamond, New Rochelle, as-.
sistant general manager of the Amer
ican Bridge Company, this city;
Charles B. Mars, New Rochelle, em
ployed at. the new custom house.
A list of the seriously injured fol
lows: Ernest Coffin, 15 years old, New
Rochelle, serious wound on head,
taken to Woman's Hospital. Fiftieth
street and Lexington avenue; Alfred
Wadley, florist of New York city,
fracture of both legs, shock and scalp
wounds; Albert W. Adams, a carriage
builder, of 5Jew York, left leg cut
oft below knee: George M. Carter,
New York, leg fractured; George M.
Fisher. 46, East Port Chester, severe
ly injured; Mabel Newman, New
Rochelle, contusions of body and hip
fractured; Mamie J. Rice, New Ro
chelle, fractured nose, lacerated ear
and sprained ankle; Sadie Scott, New
Rochelle. left hand and left foot frac
tured; Richard Millineux, New Ro
chelle, compound fracture of thigh;
Thomas T. Murphy, New Rochelle,
both legs broken and internal in
juries, condition critical; Winfield
Schultz, New Rochelle, fractured legs
and burns; E. McRae, Now Rochelle. ;
leg fractured; Henry Keene. general
manager of the Siegel Cooper Com
pany, this citv, fractured rib3 and in
ternal Injuries; George W. Winter,
N'ew Rochelle, compound fracture of
left leg which was amputated; Wm.
BrookSj Erie, Pa., lacerated face and
possible fracture of skull, taken to
Roosevelt Hospital.
It was a rear-end collision between
a South Norwalk local tra'n that ran
In over the New York, New Haven1
and Hartford Railroad, and was halt
ed by block signals at Fie southern
entrance of the tunnel, and a WThite
Plains local that came by the Harlem
branch of the New York Central. The
wreck occurred at 7:17 a. m., at
which hour the trains were crowded
by suburbanites. Most of the deaths.
Injury and damage were wrought by
the engine of the White Plains train,
which plunged into tbe rear car of
the motionless train and was driven
through to the middle of the car,
smashing the seats and furnishings
and splitting the sides as It moved
forward. The victims were either
mangled in the mass of wreckage
carried at the pilot, crushed In the
space between boiler fnd car tides or
scalded bv steam which came hissing
from broken p?ps Pnd cvl'ne.rs. The
engine In Its final pbme of fortv feet
carried the rear car forward and sent
twisted iron, broken timbers and
splinters crashing: Into the coach
ahead. Lights were p-t!n?ufshed and
from the wreckage nd darkness came
the cries of the injured and calls for
assistance by those who escaped. ,
Judiciary Renor Ray.
Richmond', Special. Consideration of
the judiciary report was completed la
the constitutional convention Wednes
day, except that a motion to reconsider
the vote by which the paragraph was
adopted providing that judges of the
Supreme Court are to be elected by the
General Assembly, went over for action,
tomorrow.