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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26
Tho Center of the Apple Industry.

The center OF the apple industry in
the United States and the county which
has more acres of apple orchards than
any other section of the world is Clay
county, Illinois. The largest apple or
chard in the country contains $40
acres. Within the corporate limits OF
Flora, the county seat, are found
more than 800 acres, and the major
portion of which is bearing. and from
an eminece on the northwestern boun-
dairy may be seen 1000 acres of the
best commercial apple orchards in the
state. Clay county has within its con-
fines a total slightly In excess of 40.-
900 acres of apple trees. On an average
30 trees are set to the acre, making.
therefore, a total of 100000 trees in
the county. The average age OF the
orchards is IL years, and consequently
another year will see them in their
prime. The Illinois apple belt extends
from Newton, in Jasper County, south
to Fairfield, in Wayne county. and
from Olney, Richland county, to Cen
tralia, in the extreme southwestern
portion of Marion county. The coun-
ties embraced in this territory contain
10000 acres of apple orchards. or one
half of the tolal areage of the state OF
Illinois. The soil seems peculiarly
adapted to the raising of the typical
tree. the prodution of the perfect ap-
pie.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

In the case of l.. A. Voley, indicted
for stealing money from registered let
ters at Parkersburg, his attorneys ask
ed for continuance on the ground
that witnesses were absent. District
Attorney Blizzard found out what he
expected to prove by them. and agreed
to concede 1t all. but voley still wanted
a continuance.
Hiram Irwin and Frank Jordan. two
Short Line negroes, quarreled at their
camp near Clarksburg Saturday. and
in the melee Irwin was shot dead. The
quarrel started over the amount Of
provisions which Irwin had purchased
to be used in the camp for the follow
ing week.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

bookkeeping are taught. Kings School of
Oratory has gained quite areputation as a first
class school,
The person receiving the third highest num-
Der of votes will be given $500 course in the
International Correspondence Schools, of Scran-
ton, Pa. A complete commercial course, steno-
graphic course, book keeping, complete teach
ers' course, coal mining mechanical drawing,
telegraIhy and 60 other courses are taught by
this school. The winner of this prize can take
up $35 90 course or can have the $500 ap-
piled as part pay on any course the winner may
select.
The person getting the second highest number
of votes can have their choice of the scholarship
in Kings School of Oratory or the Internaton-
al Correspondence Schools.
PREMIUM COUPoNs-Personsp paying their back
subscription, or in advance one year or more,
will be given premium coupon which will en-
title them to 36 votes for each dollar of subscrp-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

A decd has been entered for record
at Beaver transferring a tract of land
near Monaco from james w. Brown
and wife to the Colonial Steel com.
pnny, the consideration being $4,000.
Miss y. Il. Spring of New York who
was being taken TO a sanitarium. jump.
ed from u Lackawanna train near
Scranton and sustained serious in
iuries, Thursday.
John Devine, who is charged with
robbng and torturlng William Jackson
and wife, an aged couple living near
Derry, Westmoreland county. on the
night of May O. was arrested at Al.
toonn and taken TO Greensburg Thurs
1oy
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

The young lady or gentleman getting the
highest number of votes will be given one full
year at the Lock Haven State Normal School
free, including tuition, light, heat furnished room
and boarding. This is one of the best Normal
schools in the State.
The contestant receiving second highest num-
Der of votes will be given one term-12 weeks
at Kings School of Oratory, Pittsburg, where
oratory, elocution, dramatic culture, literature,
Shakespeare study, music, drawing, delsarte
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

Every other we'll dressed woman
sports a'boa of pale gray ostrich feath-
ers these balmy days, but almost as
pretty and soft and more becoming to
some wearers is the boa of cream white
faille. bordered by ruching of black
silk loops. and strands of silk cord
and jet falling in front in q sort of
airy lattice work.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

Write in the above lines the name and adj
dress of the person for whom you wish to vote
and send take the coupons to the secretary
l. p Haskins, the music dealer, where they
will be placed in the ballot box. Contest closes
at II NJ, August Sth, 1901. All business com.
munications and inquiries should be mailed
to THE STAR office Receipts and coupons will
be promptly mailed from THE STAR office to
patrons
RULES OF CONTEST.
Contestants must register their names at
The STAR office.
All coupons must be sent to the secretary
of the committee, J. p Haskins.
All money collected for new subscribers or
on subscription due must be sent to this
office weekly.
Each contestant will be furnished with
printed cards certifying that he or she is
contestant.
+. p. ALExANDER,)
THos. F. ADAM, : Com.
L. MCENTIRE,
J. p. HAsKINs, Secretary.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

tion paid ANY one sending or bringing in a
new yearly cash subscriber will be given cou-
pon equal to 60 votes.
Persons desiring to enter the contest should
begin as early as possible. AS soon as the
names are sent or handed in to THE STAR office
they will be published, but the number OF votes
will not be published until June 10th, when tn
vote each contestant has at that time will be
published opposite name, and from that to clos
of contest the vote will be published as counted
and returned by the judges from week to week
On Monday of each week (after June 19th)
the ballot box will be opened and the coupons
counted by judges.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26
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The Ernprcss'. snbles.

The Empress Dowsger Of Russia is
said to be the owner of the finest coll
lection of Russian sables in the world.
One of her cloaks has a lining worth
$4,000. and was made of skins gath
cred by the governor of a polar prov
ince where taxes are paid in furs.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

toa oAsn worries them into Insanity. Conssnp-
tioe or Death. Mailed sealed. Price tr per boz;
boxes. with iron.elad legal guarantee to cure o.
refund the money. $500. Send far free book.
For sale by h. Alex Stoke.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

South Australia allows no religious
instruction at public schools In ordin.
ary hours.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26

OF the inhabitants Of Budapest 23.t
per cent (lUU, l0S) are Israelites.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26
O WHEN IN DOUBT. TRY

stood the tss,ofye.rs.
and have cured thousands OF
cases Of Nervous Diseases. such
asDebility. Dizziness, Slsepisss-
ness and Varieocele, Atrophy, &c
They clear the brain. strengthsa
the circulation, make digestion
perfect, and impars q healthy
vigor to the whole being. All
drains and losses are checked
fsymasssfiy. Unless patients
are properly cured. their cosdi-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-06-26
THE STAR
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
DEAD BODY IN A TRUNK
Found on a Public Pier In New York.
The Throat Cut.

New York, January 16.-The dead
body of a man, with his throat cut
from ear to ear and showing other
marks Of violence. was found in a
trung on a nile of skids at the bulk
head of Pier No. IL. East river, just be-
forenoon today. 1t W a identified two
hours later Dy a woman as the body
OF Michael Weissberger, or Weissberg.
an Eastside Hebrew, who was employ
I'd by a jewelry firm to sell jewelry
on the inStallment plan. Police Cap
tain Titus declared that the native for
the crime was robbery, and animated
that at least two men were concerned
in the murder. Attention was called
to the trunk by some io~ngshoremen
working on The pier. 1t lay within fifty
feet of the rear end Of the Old Slip sta
ton house, and in a busy thorough
fare. There was a spatter of blood On
the trunk. Patrolman Reilly opened
the trunk. Lying on its left side, n
with knees d~oubled'up. was the body
of a man, the upper part completely
drenched in blood. An examination of
the body showed, in addition to the
terrible cash in h throat. a number OF
bruises on the abdomen, forehead, chin,
nose and lips. and three Of the victims
front teeth had beer knocked out.
The body had been partially undress-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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ments of their accounts to all its sub
scribers. 1t is to be hoped that every
one who receives the statement will
promptly respond to our request to re-
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There uay be mistakes in some OF
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70 call our attention to the error and
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and make prompt payment as we are
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

New York. January 15.-The trial OF
the action brought by Mrs. Margaret
j. Plant IN the supreme court TO upset
the will Of her husband, Henry Brad
ley Plant. the railroad and steamship
capitalist, was begun in the supreme
court today before Justice Leventritt.
Mortimer F. Plant, the son OF the
plaintiff. joints with her in efforts TO
upset the viii. although for the pur-
poses OF the action he IS named as a
defendant.
Mr.. Plant left an estate of $40. 000. 900
and being apparently OF the opinion
by him after he had attained his 50th
year might be dissipated by his inn
mediate heirs. he had a will drawn,
with the object of keeping his estate
intact for at least sixty years. His
widow n son left al income OF
$50, 900 a year each for which a special
fund was created. The residue u
son of Mortimer +. Plant, who is now
s years old, and he is not to receive the
fortune until his youngest child is or
age. The Plant millions are thus left
in reality to a gr~eatgrandson OF the
t~eStatOr, and he cannot recover a cent
of the property until his youngest
brother or sister has reached majority.
The estate will. it is estimated by that
time be worth $100. 600, 600.
The will was probated in New Haven,
Conn, where the Plants had a summer
home, and that state was claimed by
the teStators as his legal residence.
The will was drawn by Joseph Lynde
Harrison, of New Haven, who is named
as one of the trustees. Mr.. Harrison
is named as. n of the defendants by
Mrs. Plant, as are also the other trus-
tees, her son. Mortimer Freeman Plant.
George l.. THley and Robert G. Err
win. Mrs. Plant asks that a receiver
be appointed over certain property by
the New York courts n that the
courts mere take entire charge of the
estate. She prays hat the will n
codicils be upheld only as far as they
are consistent with the laws of this
state, and that the defendants be d.
rected to bring back into the iurisdic-
ton of the New York courts all Sc
curities and property removed to on
necticut. She further asks that all
proceedings taken there in view Of the
probate of the will be declared null
void.
Mrs. Plant claims that her husband
shortly before his death went to Con-
necticut and Unexpectedly claimed a
residence there with intent TO ctrcum-
vent and evade the laws of New York
of which state he had been a resident
for many years.
The Defendants contend that the New
York state courts have no jurisdiction
and that the suit should have been
brought in the United States courts
'er defense is that the will II
codicils W. been admitted to probate
in Connecticut and h a this put an
end to any proceeding of Mrs. Plant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
THE MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE
SOUTH.

The twenty-second annual edition of
The TradeSmen. published at Chatta-
nooga, indicates age, progress and use
fulness. 1t is an excellent publication
semi-monthly-of it's kind. and has done
much for the south's material interest.
Like all trade journals it is republican
in pOliticS@that is. favors and advo-
Gates republican leading measures. But
it is valuable and important and there
is no discounting that fact.
The first paper in the issue of the LIST
of January, is very elaborate and in
structive. 1t is headed-"The Devel-
opment of h Mineral Resources of the
Southern States" and is by Mr.. Ed
ward w. Parker. statiStician. United
States Geological Survey. 1t would fill
nearly two pages of the Messenger per-
haps.
Within twenty years the mineral pro-
ducts OF This country have increased
500 per cent. The total in 1899 was
1915 Goo, 900. the south produced $117,-
900. 900, or II per cent. The total pro-
duct is 21a times more than it was in
1880. The south produced of iron in
1880. s7.769.05 5 worth. In 1890, s2S, 6S7,-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

Charlotte Observer: Visitors from
Pineviile Yesterday gave the gruesome
particulars of the death of a negro
named Grier which occurred in Provf-
dence township, near Davenport, last
week. He had pneumonia and for some
time before death came he was deliri-
Gus. He had set great store by cards
and his revolver, and he cried unceas-
ingly for both. And he was gasping
and struggling and begging for the
cards until he died. The preacher in
attendance colored phflosopher-di-
rected hat the cards and the revolver
be put in Grier's coffin, as a mockery
of his last ~profane wish. This was
done. Grier's brother coveted the pis-
toll and cribEed it while the night
watchers dozed. He left the cards, his
considerable brother. and they Were
buried with the corpse. The medicine
bottles from which Grier had been
dosed We're put on top of his grave,
this being in pursuance of custom
among the colored people in Provi-
denee.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST.
The Defendants NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
Two Introduced.

Paterson n. J.. January 1s.-Counsel
for b defense In the Jennie Bosschie-
ter murder trial today practically
closed their case. william A. Death.
Walter L. McAlister and Andrew
Campbell, the three men on trial for
h murder. told their versions of the
events OF the night Jennie Bosschieter
met her death while in their company.
Their testimony varied but little as to
details.
The plea set up by counsel for the
three defendants was q general and
specific denial of. all the accusations
made against the men. He opened
with an attack on the moral character
Of the dead girl and claimed that the
prisoners We're in no way responsible
for the death of Jennie Posschieter.
He denied that she had been drugged,
and he denied that she had been ILL.,
treated and assaulted.
McAlister. Death and Campbell Were
each on the stand. Their testimony
was ON the line that they were acting
on a generous impulse when fhe~ took
the girl out of the saloon to the hack.
They claimed that She was Jolly
DRUM" for a time in the back room OF
SAILS saloon: said she was joking n
laughing after the first drink; that she
became "dopey" after taking the alb
sinthe and hen became dead drunk.
They had thought a drive in the fresh
aid would do her good and had taken
her across the river out into the DUN
try. The assault was denied. They
had lifted the girl out of the hack be-
cause she was sick and they a con-
Quoted themselves like humanitarians
in their efforts to bring her back to
her senses. They had taken her to the
brook to obtain water. They would
have taken her home after h was
dead, but when they had reached the
neighborhood they saw persons about.
They We're frightened at the dead girl
and did not want to get mixed up into
the canda
The story as told by each appeared
plausible, explanatory and reasonable,
but conflicted with the testimony of
the hackman and the alleged confess
sions of Death and Campbell, as in
troduced by the state and admitted as
evidence. The state which was beaten
yesterday in the effort to introduce
the confession said to have been made
by Campbell succeeded in getting it all
in, i'm even more detailed a name
than would nave been possible yester-
day. -
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

5S1 In 1899, $50. 1885,. 972. OF coal in 1899,
the product was $50. 100000 in the south.
In nineteen years the coal product in
creased six and a half times. West vir-
ginfa leads in the south. and in the
union is third, Pennsylvania and Ohio
lonly SURPRISING ii. 1t is interesting to
note that while the coal product OF the
southern states in 1898 was seven and
lone-half times as much as Ii was in
1850, total bituminous coal product
lof the United States in 1899 was only
five times that of 1880. In 1880, North
lCarolina produced but S525. 600 in min
ERALS. In 1890. it did but little better
1856. S3s. In 1899. IT was ess. but $523,-
liz. In 1890. twelve southern states had
AN output OF coal amounting to $685.
ia. In 1893, 5,430.0 53-not 20 per cent.
more. BUT little phosphate rock was
mined in North Carolina IN 1899. Flori-
Ida, Tennessee and South Carolina
produced nearly all in the order named.
The total product Of petroleum in 1899.
was SIS sos, 400 Of which SIS. ola. 766 worth
came from W.. Virginia and Tennessee
contributed $473, 443. A small amour
was produced in Kentucky. The first
year in which the product Of Texas
assumed any considerable Importance
was in 1898. 1t has been due to the de-
velopments at Corsicana- The product
lof crop in 1899, was 9,097 900. Alabama
lead, and West Virginia w a close
second. Building stone was produced
in thirteen southern states. In the lit
tile census but five Of these produced
any. The combined output in 1890 was
s5,430.053.
The GRANTEES and marbles of Georgia
and Maryland make them first and
second respectively in producing i'm
portance. Virginia claims third place
lon account of it's value in granite and
Limestone, and Tennessee is given
fourth place through its marbles and
Limestone. +.
Natural gas is produced only in West
Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and
Texas, and in only one of these, West
Virginia, is the industry of any real
Importance. The value of the natural
gas produced in 1899 was 81 All, 6O9, of
which West Virginia produced $685.
IS64. Maryland is the smallest southern
state in area. but is fifth in mineral
products. Hhere is a table of mineral
poducts in North Carolina for 1899:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
Inter-IslandsFree Trade-Layfng Tele-
graph Cables-MunfcfpaI Klections.
Troops to Sail.

Manila, January M-The Philippine
commission has passed acts giving. in
domestic products. the JoIo archipelago.
free trade with all Philippine ports
and providing for n issuance OF IL
censes to masters and mates OF seago
ing vessels.
The United States cabieshfp Burn
side has finished the work of laying
he cable connecting the island of Me-
gros with northern Mindanao. Fam
boanga and Joio will soon be. con-
nected.
Mr.. H. Phelps whitmarsh, recentIy
appointed governor OF the province OF
Benguet. reports hat several towns In
the province have heid elections and
organized local governmental.
The United States transp0rt Bufaxd
arrived here from vigan on the north
west a OF the island OF Luzon. this
evening with the Thfrty-sixth regiment
Of infantry. u. s. v. The soldiers win
land tomorrow, camp on the Iunetn.
and sail on the transport P~ennsyrva-
MIA for San Francisco January 18th.
This regiment was the earliest organ
lied OF the present volunteers Some
OF the men will join the new Manila
police. under Provost Marsha1 General
j. Franklin Bell. the ORIGINAL colonel OF
h Thirty-sixth regiment. The United
States transport Indiana viii sail for
San Francisco with sick soldiers. on
the return Of the hospital ship Relief
from APART.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
A VICIOUS OLD BOOK NAILED

The white people in the south know
something of the vicious and SANDER
Gus character of Mrs. Stoves novel.
l"Uncle Toms Cabin" that made all
Yankee Doodledom go crazy, and had
Ia tremendous influence in bringing OF
the bloodiest n greatest war of mod
lern times. Mr.. HopkinSon Smith is a
successful writer in the north. Sew
ieral of his stories have had a wild &C
Iceptance. He is not a Yankee, but was
born and reared in the south. The
Boston Transcript gives this interest
ling statement:
Uncle Toms Cabin said F. Hop
kinson Smith. in an address before the
Newton Club last night, lis the most
vicious book that eve appeared. 1t
compares with Kennan'S first book on
Russia. 1 could go into the prisons Of
the north today and write a similar
book. The book precipitated the war,
and made the north believe nothing but
the very worst of the south. We are
mot an inhuman people,; we are all
we are Americans. 1t was an
outrage to raise the north against the
south. The book was an appalling,
lawful INC criminal mistake"
This devilish book poisoned the mines,
|of ignorance and intensified slumbering
|pregudices. 1t worked something of a
revolution and held up the south to be
as vile and cruel as a picture of min
ling in England would impress h read
ier of the character of the British peo-
lple. Mr.. Smith is quoted as saying:
TT was an outrage to draw a line
across the country and say that people
lon one side were kind-hearted and that
THE people on the other side were cru
eel! But that is what the book did. Do
you wonder that the southerners In
congress were not much inclined to-
ward compromise after that?
When the book appeared, it was
useless to try to reply to 1t. No north
Iern magazine was open for a reply,
Most of the learning was in the north,
as we'll as all the influential pub,ica-
tions, and a southern reply could do
little good in the columns of a country
newspaper"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18

As we understand the question Judge
him are not opposed ito increasing the
salary Of the governor if it a be done
legally and properly. If it is unconsti-
l~tutional to do so upright n perpen-
Idicular men viii be compelled to an
Itagonize. But the question is. can II
he done constitutionally, legally? That
AN increase is needed no n can doubt
Starving an official is no part of sound
wise economy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-18
The poseomce Appropriation Bill

Washington. January 1.-THE house
committee on postoffices and postroads
today practically completed the post
office appropriation biz. The appro-
priation for rural free delivery is in
creased from S1..50,0 900 to g. 500 CO., The
usual provision for special facilities
between New York and New Orleans
is included. Nc provision is made for
pneumatic tube service.
The bin aggregates $122. 4 S.SS8. COM
pared with an appropriation of s113.-
65S, 23S for the current fiscal year. The
amount allowed for the Philippine
postal service is $50. 900 as against $780,
060 for this year.