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of Interest Gleaned frc Arranged Foi Watch ; the Fond Grow. Columbia, Special.-The State in \is issue of the 7th gives the follow amounts contributed by counties the Woman's Monument fund: tibeville...'_$184.75 Eken .;. .... 321.75 Merson .. 42S.55 iberg. 32.25 {Barnwell ...... 91.50 ?aufort .. ..... 10.00 Berklev. Calhoun. 90.02 Charleston. 16-00 Cherokee. 73.25 Chester_ .;.119.00 Chesterfield. 197.00 Clarendon. 26.50 ! 'C?lreWr. 12.0C Darlington ... 235.2c Dorchester ... 16.5C ?dgefield. . 8S.5C .Fairfield .... 160.75 I ^tireaca ?.. .. . V: ;.'.. . ...... - 53.0t Georgetown. ...... 25.0C Greenville .. .... .uv.,. 152.6c [ Greenwood .. .. .. ...V .. 183.74 -Hampton .. ... 10.0C "Horry.' 40.0C 'Kershaw..' 132.2c 'Lancaster.121.2c Laurens. 46.0C Lee.164.2c" [ Leadngton.143.9S ' Marion. 403.2c Marlboro. 443.4? Newberry .. ..<.216.20 Oconee._ 20.0( Orangeburg ..... .. . 36.0? Pickens .'.. 1.0( Richland .. .. .. .. ....... 581.0? Saluda. 18.0? Spartanburg ... 249.0( Sumter.I 399.75 Union .. . 37.0( Williamsburg ... 26.5? York .. .. . 60.8; Winthrop Gets Gift Proa the Inn ' Haster. Kock Hill, SpeciaL-^Dr. Johnsoi of "Winthrop has received a lette: from Andrew Carnegie's secretar] statins: that Mr. Carnegie would do nate $15,000 to the building of Win throp'a model school. It will be re membered that this S tate .appropri?t ed $20,000 for this purpose with th understanding that President John son should raise $25,000 more. Mi Johnson has raised $65,000 more in stead. It is his intention to ge $100,000 for this school, which h 'proposes to make a model school second to none anywhere, lt will b remembered that Mr. Carnegie gav $30,000 for the iibrary several year ago and this las; gift brings his do natl ona to Winthrop to the generou sum ol' $45,000.; ; 'Mm '.. Greeiir;. thori t??.'s from State at Greenville._, The local au ved instruction officers giving ther power to act for l;he State board ii regard to the meat which was pu under water m v:Le ware house x o Swift ?fe Co., by ;he heavy rain o Friday night. City Meat Inspecto Smith condemned the meat.and rumo had it that meal; would be shippe from this city to other parts of th State for use, but the Swift Con pany, it is not bought locally,, ha that in mind. It is understood tha after a thorough invesigation, if th meat is pronounced unfit for use, i will be properly disposed of by: th meat company. About four thousan dollars was the value' of the mea covered bj; water rising in a nearb stream and backing into the basemen ?? the ware house. Good Thing For Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.-The Soutl ern Power Company will make Spaj tanbnrg a distributing point, and wi ' open offices here SDme time in the fr ture. 'A statement to this effeci; wa made to a commit tee of the charmbt of commerce, which went to Oha lotte to confer with. J. B. Duke, Ti S. Lee and Junius Parker. . Work on Power Plant.' Gaffney, Special.-Work on ti Southern Power company's big plai at the Ninety-Nine Islands is makic --splendid progress under the mai age ment of Mr. Jamison, who is i charge of the works. Gaffney pei pie who. have visited the plant recen ly say that a fdrcu of about 3c hands is at work, and this force wi be augumented just as soon as tl work makes a little more progres The buildings. are situated on tl north bank of the river and ha^ the appearance o*i quite a large toi from a distance, and. at night, whe the electric lights are turned on, reminds one of a city. Fortune Por Child. Aiken, Special.-Willie Rosenbur the 8-year-old son of Mrs. X>tk Rose?burg, who resides near the eil is made heir to a large portion of h father 's large estate, by his wt made before his death several dal ago, and the sum of $57,500 is le to luna. A telegram was received i the city mforming little Willie of h father's death in Atlantic- City, ax of the provision made in his wi] leaving his son this* sum. Little Girl Killed. Greenville, Special.;--Eugenia Gi reath, the sixtecn-monihs-old dang ter of Kt. and Mri. "Ska Gilreathi < Greers, wa? rion over Friday aft? noon by" a delivery wagon ana" 1 skull fractured., death resulting once. A young white man named Bi Glenn, was driving the delivery wa on, and while looking over an ord took, ran over the little girl, who w in tha street. He did not know of ti aecidenfc until he had driven a coup of blocks. m AB Sections of the State and 'Busy Readers righting White Plague. , Saluda, Special.-The Saluda County Anti-tuberculosis association J held a brief session here Tuesday with Dr. Kirksey, the county chair man, presiding. The following con stitute the* executive . committee at ; large to '^cooperate1 with the couny officers in the distribution of litera ture and such, other natter.as .will subserve the'-interest of the associa tion : Mrs. W. S. Crouch, Mrs, E. E. Buser, Miss Mary Lester, W. H. B;are, W. K. Shealy, Miss Elsie Car wile, Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp, W. F.'. Whittle, F. P. Johnson, Mrs. J. G. Mayson, Mrs. H. H. Ellis^Mrs. Dor? Mickler^Mrs. C T.'Carson and Miss Ola Derrick. About 40 new : members were en i rolled. The executive committe will hold a business meeting here on the first, Saturday in June. The asso ciation adjourned to meet at the. call of the county chapman. , Considerable interest is being mani fested, in the work of fighting the* "white..plague" and with the ap pointment Pf the executive committee from ail sections of the county new life will be injected into the work of the association. Bluff Failed to Work. Columbia, Special-Pope Howard, a Saluda fanner who appealed to the Governor last week to send blood hounds to his place near Harvards ville, to hunt down the person or persons who a few days before in attempting to assassinate him, shot and killed his mule while he was plowing in the field, has gotten un expected results. The Saluda sheriff placed Howard in jail to await trial at Edgefield next month for a par ticularly atrocious murder of a negro named Tom Scurry about ten years ago. The sheriff says it is believed in Howard's .neighborhood that there is nothing in the alleged attempt at assassination of Howard, that How ard shot his own mule to create' sym pathy for himself; and to divert at tention from charges brought against him. Fruit- and Grain Damaged. Gaffney, Special.-It has just been learned here that on Friday night the northwestern section of this coun ty was visited by a very destructive hail storm. Full particulars could not be learned, but the vegetation which was growing on quite a. large area of farming lands was totally destroyed. As very little corn and no cotton at all was growing, the damage was confined ' to- the small grdn and fruit crops. The same section" was visited twovyears ago by a storm which destroyed large crops ofv both cotton and corn, several farmers losing their entire crops' of cotton, and their crops of corn being badly damaged. Florence ''Drys" on War Path. Florence, Special-The Prohibi tionists in Florence, County are be gining to align their'forces and are mapping out a number of campaign meetings for the weeks ahead and. be fore the election in Auguat. It is stated that Governor Glenn, or North Carolina, and other fine speakers are being engaged to do some "hot shot" work down here, and, once the work is opened, there will be no let up. It is stated that every Christian voter in the county will be accounted for when the day of election rolls around and he will be ?''marked" should he fail' to stand by the "Prohibs." Mistrial in Harrison Case.. Greenville, Special-A mistrial was the result of the trial of Jesse Harrison, charged with murder. He was accused of killing Fred Rubie, an Englishman who was'an attache of the Jones carnival, which was here on October 15 last. The 'jury .was seven foi acquittal and five for man slaughter. To Improve Roads. Gaffney, Special.-The people ol Gaffney are becoming very much in terested in the proposed automobil? route from New York to Atlanta, and aa Gaffney is on the direct line be tween the two points, a special ef fort will be made to put Cherokee's roads in the best condition possible by .next November. Supervisor Lip scomb has been having some fine work done on the roads of the county since he assumed the duties of office, and it is probable that he will be will ing to have some special work done or., the road through the county which is on the proposed automobile route, Farm Work Backward. Lexington, Special.-All farm worli in this county is rather backward Corn is late and but little cotton has been chopped out, and in most places it is just now coaling up. The small grain will not be near as good as il was thought a few weeks ago. Es pecially is this true of the oat crop, Good rains have fallen in nearly ev ery section of the county during las' week, bat the weather, was very coo! and unfavorable to growing crops Old Hotel Burned. Edgefield, Special.-Saturday morn mg at 5 o'clock Ed gefiel d's mos ancient landmark, perhaps, was burn ed to. the ground. - This was the ok "Palmetto Hotel, on a very prominem isomer in .the heart of the town, i ? was a very large, rambling, woodei Building, erected about 1815. Fo: many years before the eivil war i .vas ever a popular and busy house the scene of many splendid Bar sup pers and the stopping place of man: low country notables. ?tLIEF W?RK^?T ADANA Armenian "Representatives Assured That the Authorities Will Prosecute With "Vigor the Investigation Into the 'Armenian Massacres' and That . .the'Quilty Will Be Dealt With., Summarily. Constantinople, By Cable.-The government is taking hold of ihe re lief work in Adana province with vig or. It was. announced that $150,000 had been sent, there. The Grand Vizier and Ferid Pasha, the Minister of the Interior, received a deputation of Armenian clergy and laity Saturday, he?ded by Ar sohai?ni, provisional representative of the patriarchate, who was assur ed tlie government would inquire thoroughly into the Adana massacres, and severely punish those guilty of inciting them. A number of notable Armenians met here Sunday and submitted to the government the following re quests: Fhsi. that the murderers of Chris tians be punished; second,-that stolen property be returned, and indemni ty be paid for property destroyed; third, that the women and girls who were stolen be returned, and also that men and women who wer? com pelled forcibly to adopt Mohammed ism be allowed to resume their origi nal faith; fourth, that the investiga tion conducted under the chairman ship of the .governor general be sus pended and that a new investigation of the disorders from their com mencement be made by a military commission; fifth, that Christians be permitted to participate in the local police establishment, and sixth, that Armenians be allowed to participate hi defraying the' cost of erecting a monument to those who have fallen in the army of liberty. The agricultural bank has arranged to loan $75,000 without interest to the farmers of Adana province, to aid them in planting new crops. Practically all the refugees at Lata ka, Syria, .-have returned to their homes or are ready to go. The weath er in fine and warm and crops are ripe. John C. Davis Arrested. Washington, Special.-There were sensational developments Saturday in the case of John C. Davis, a member of the local bar, who was arrested Frida}' on the charge of having ob tained money under false prtenses. The amount, which Davis is alleged to have misappropriated in transactions with his clients, mostly women, was thought at first to have been small, but Saturday notes, aggregating $50, 000, said to have been given by Davis, were exhibited to United States Dis trict Attorney Baker, and it is ru mored that the amount finally may reach $100,000. Martin C. Davis, a brothel of John and secretary of a local building and loan association, was arrested Saturday en a charge of conspiracy. . A dispatch from Haleigh, N. C~, says: Davis, created a sensation iri this State in the early ninties, result ing in his incarceration in the S'tate insane asylum here from May 34, 1892, to November 30,-1897. He was a lawyer in Wilmington, and a promi nent and a zealous member of the Methodist church. He fnrnished the money to build a .Methodist church and placed in it costly chimes. He spent money freely. Then came pom plaints from clients involving money matters, said to aggregate about $30, 000. He was arrested and the case was a noted one in the judicial an nals of the State. His counsel set up the plea of insanity. The jury found the accused insane. He was then sent to the insane asylum here. Upon his release some years later he went to Washington and in many ways since tried to make i. reparation in some of those from whom he was charged with fraudulently obtaining money. During the past two years he has been send ing occasibnal remittances to those with who he had dealings in Wilming ton. His defense will be insanity in the present trouble. Mrs. Boyle Convicted. Mercer, Pa., Special.-Mrs. James H. Boyle, formerly Helen Anna Mc Dermott, of Chicago, was convicted Saturday on a charge of aiding, as sisting and abetting in the abduction of Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Pa. Two ballots were taken by the jury in the case of the woman. . The second bal lot was unanimous for the conviction of the woman on the seond count ?harging her with being an accessory. Demurrers Are Overruled. Muskogee, Okla., Special.-Federal Judge Campbell Saturday overruled the demurrer of the defendants in the so-called Mott civil Creek Indian land suits, brpught by the government against Governor Charles Haskill and other prominent Oklahomans. The decision involving as it does the legal ity of millions of dollars' worth of lota, created great consternation here. Not only is Governor Haskell and as sociates involved in the charge of fraud, but about 1,500 subsequent purchasers of lots are vitally interest ed. Newborn Paper Mill in Pull Blast. Newbern, N. C., Special. - Saturday's issue of the morn ing paper, The , Newbern Jour nal, is printed on paper manu factured at the plant of the Car olina Paper & Pulp Mills, located at Newbern. The paper is about the usu al grade of newspaper and shows up very Well for the new plant. The ca pacity of the plant when in full oper ation will be from 75 to 100 tons per day. Nine Pennsylvanians Drown. Wilkesbarro, Pa., Special. - Six men, a woman and two children were downed Sunday afternoon in the Sus quehanna river near this city by the capsizing of a rowboat in which they had started far an outing. As the boat drifted into the swift current it began to dip water. The occupans be came panic stricken and called franti cally for assistance. Boys at play on the bank heard the screams but be fore a boat coula be secured the row boat in mid-stream had filled and sank. j WASHINGTON NOTES , The most important happening :he nation's capital Monday wei Eollcws: ' The important "conunod liante" case was decided by tho preme Court of the United St which while. sustaining the go\ ment's contention that the Hep rate law was not unconstitutii held that a carrier may own stoc % producing company and at the $ time transport the product of , company. Representative . Hollingsworth, Ohio, presented in the House Moi a resolution protesting against placing of the. picture of Jeffe Davis on the silver service to be sen tod to the battleship Missie by the people ,of her t patron] State. -, The appointments of Oscar Straus, as ambassador tb Turkey W. W. Rockhill as ambassador Russia were announced. Tarin! discussion was continuel the Senate, Mr. Pyles, of Washing speaking in defense of the Din rates on lumber, and Mr. Borah Idaho, strongly advocating an inc tax. Tribute to the memory of the Alexander R, Shepherd, former ( ernor of the District of Columbia, paid by citizens of the District at unveiling of a statue erecte~d in city in his honor. . . . Senator Dolliver spoke upon tariff Tuesday and enlivened the ceedings of the Senate. Mr. D ver said he had been accused, in ; suing the course he had taken support of lower tariff duties, o '''mere cowardly acquiescence to sentiment in Iowa." -He read an torial criticism to that effect, sa] he would not have done so "wer not an authentic echo from the ? ate chamber itself. He said course was in pursuance of a cont; entered into with the people of .State nine years ago, when he first elected to the Senate. "W Mr. Dolliver declared, as he said the authority of Mr. Aldrich, that schedules of the pending bill v, made by officers of the''1 New Y customs house and not by the ci mittee on finance. Mr. Aldi promptly denied thal; he 'had mad statement on which such an as; tion could be based. . . . . *, Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, Wedr day continued his tariff speech i again he secured the undivided tention of the Senate. 'Recalling that Mr. .Aldrich had s Tuesday that it would be; shown the Senate that no changes increas the cotton rates had be& made the Senate committee on ?nance, ] Dolliver said that if'thafrwas a c rect- s tatement,- he would^ expect of the it??cs carrying Senate ame ments to be stricken from the me ure. The fact was, he said, t these cotton rates were increased, then read from a New York ne paper, which he added had "twenty years been watchful of spiritual side of the Senator, fi Massaohuetts" (Mr. Lodge), sU ment to the effect that Mr. Lo< had said, that as reported from committee on finance, the cot? schedule, as amended by. the Sen committee, was "of/gre'-t value Massachusetts."_The s.roo -srti" he said, also paper. ... Mr. Dollivei quoted as sayii rate in cotton Mr. Lodge s a misquotation said, "the ad been increased. Mr. Bailey < no schedule exemplifies the of the entire well as the wc plying to a sug Mr. ' Aldri-eh vi that within 20 tives of the Soi be voting with protection. . Two Demoora of Colorado, am iaua, voted wit] fix the duty on 1 bearing ores at "Uncle .Joe" the House of ] brated. his sevei his desk at the his official dutii congratulations < Rear Admiral has been appoin reau of navigati partm?nt to uucc E. Pillsbury, reti A Southern m to succeed a So missioner of int dent Taft havin Royall E. Cabel in place of John Carolina, Diplomatic an v. vu.wi?i m?, joined to do honor to the mer... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at tl unveiling cf a statute of the gre American poet located in the heart i the fashionable district. . . ? Continuing his speech on the incon tax amendment to the pending tari bill Tuesday, Senator Borah, of Idah again referred to the legal status < the Pollock case in which the Supren Court of the United States decide that the tax was not constitutions combating the idea that the constiti ion's framers did no know what wei direct taxes. He believed that thc hud in mind a definite idea of the n? ture of such taxes which did not app] to such taxes as was proposed on h comes. THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION :.' r .;. i What Was Said and Done on May 20, 1775-So Far Ahead as to Seem Pr?matur?. ? We publish the following that read ers may see a copy of the famous Declaration of Independence that was more than/a year in advance of that of the Continental Congress of July 4, 1776. It will be noted that the delegates met on fhe 19th and that the declara tion bears date of the 20th. This is to be accounted for by the fact that the delegates deliberated all the night and the results were promulgated on the morning of the 20th : It was on the 10th of May, 1775, that a delegation of two representa tives from each militia company of Mecklenburg county, then comprising the present county of Cabarrus, met in the town of Charlotte, N. C. Agreeably to the arrangements made by the most respectable citizens of this county, Col. Thomas Polk is sued an order to tho captains of each militia company to elect two persons and delegate to them ample powers to devise ways and means to assist their suffering brethren in Boston, and generally to adopt measures tb extricate themselves from the impend ing storm-and to secure unimpaired their inalienable rights, privileges and Uberties from the dominant grasp of British imposition and tyranny. In conformity to said order on the 10th day of May, 1775, the said dele gation met in Charlotte, vested with unlimited powers, at which time of ficial news arrived of the battle ol Lexington on that day of the preced ing month. Every delegate felt the value and importance of the news, and the awful and solemn crisis which had arrived; every bosom swelled with indignation at the malice and in satiable revenge developed in the late attack at Lexington. The universal sentiment was, let us act with energy and as brethren lead to preserve out property, our lives and what is still mora endearing the liberties of Amer ica. Delegates preseqt were: Col. Thom as Polk, John McKnitt Alexander, Ephraim Brevard, Hes. Alexander, Hezekiah J. Balch, Adara Alexander, John Phifer, Charles - Alexander, James Karris, Zacheus Wilson,' Wm. Kennon, Wrightstill Avery, John Ford, Benj. Patton, Richard Barry, ^Matthew McClure, Henry Downs, Neal Morrison, Ezra Alexander, Robt. ]?rwin, Wm. Graham, John Flenniken, John Query, David Reese and Abra ham Alexander. Abraham Alexander was then elect ed chairman and John McKnitt Alex ander, clerk. After a free and full discussion of the various objects for whioh the delegation had convened it was unanimously ordained: ll Resolved. That whosoever direct ly or indirectly abets or in any way form or manner countenances the in vasion of our rights as attempted by the Parliament of Great Britain ia en enemy to his country, to America, ens eby >ioh ;her j-om wn, nth Sled in im de ?en . fcht \>ov }od jin we our bur >r. or uct ind r>an )ld us. oth be vera and ?ion and . the ?ter law, j in ,n to of bet lenl ..ese ress ital nia ?ed - ~ attested and Capt. James Jack of Charlotte was deputed as exorcss to Congress then sitting in Philadelphia, accom panying said proceedings with a let ter addressed to Richard Caswell William Hooper and Joseph Hughes our then representatives from thit province enjoining our said represen tatives to use all possible means tc have the said proceedings sanctioned and approved by the general congress On the return of Capt. Jack the dele gate6 learned by a joint letter fron .?said three representatives that then proceedings were individually approv ed by the members of Congress, but ii war deemed premature to lay then before the house; recommending per serverance, order, energy and si forth. Cooperation of the archs of the Wor Own I London, By Cable.-Seventy per cent of the entire world's lead supply is to be brought under absolute con trol of one group of separate corpor ations, working together in harmony. Prices are to advance from $68.75 s ton, as at present, to $95 or $100 a ton. iii )The immense interests concerned comprise the Guggenheims and other iarpe American producers, the Span ish Association of Producers, the Broken Hill interests of Australia and the German Lead Trust. Thei* interests combined control 75 per cent, of the world's lead supply. Their' position in the world's markets will enable them to make what prices they please. For five years the German Lead Trust has been trying to obtain com plete control of its own and adjacent European markets; but the competi tion of American and Spanish inter ests has upset the trust's pains. About a year ago th'e German inter ests made overtures to the Broken Hill people, and a temporary working agreement was patched up, but this was not eu?ugh to secure the control needed to raise prices to a profitable basis. The Guggenheims and other. SENATOR CLAPP SAYS REV! Washington, Special.-Mr. Clapp, of Minnesota, in the Senate Friday,' commented upon the policy bf protec tion and referred to distinctions be tween a protective teriff and a tariff for revenue only. The promise of the Republican party, Mr. Clppp declared, was that the tariff should be revised downward, and he asserted that this promise had been made in response to a positive demand. He said that the position on the part of protective interests was that we should let well enough alone and on the part of consumers that the tariff should be revised. j "You can't tell me," he said, "that the latter demand did not mean that the tariff should be revis ed downward. To take any other pos itibn is mere boys' play, nothing less than a farce, and if I did not bellievc the duties were to be lowered in re sponse to this exaction, I would pack my grip and go home, for ?s a Sena tor I am not required to participate in such a farce as the mere re-enact IMPORTANT DECISION OF Richmond, Va., Special.-In an opinion handed down by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Wed nesday morning in the case of Max Cohen against the United States, the United States Court for the District of South Carolina was reversed. It holds that a man indicted on the charge of criminally concealing cer tain portions of his property, as he seeks protection from his creditors in bankruptcy, cannot be convicted on the evidence given by himself. Max Cohen was indicted for know ingly and fraudently concealing cer tain personal {Property which should have been returned and delivered to his trustee in bankruptcy. When brought to trial the prosecution pre sented as evidence, and,it was ad*rut ted, the schedule of assets which Cohen made out and delivered to the referee in bankruptcy as all of his CROP REPORT BE LCM Washington, Special.-An average condition of 83.5 per cent, for winter wheat and 88.1 for rye, on May 1 last, against a 10-year average qn that date of S6. and 89.1, respectively, was announced in Friday's crop re port of the Department of Agricul ture. Area of winter wheat to be harvested was about 27,871,000 acres. The area of winter wheat to be har vested was 2,478,000 acres less, or JAMES BOYLE CONY! Mercer, ta. Special.-^James Boyle, charged with kidnapping "Billy" Whitla, was convicted Thursday after a trial lasting but a few hours. No defense was made and the jury was out only a few minutes. Mrs. Boyle, indicted under the name of Mary Doe, with half a dozen aliases, was immediately placed upon trial, charged with aiding and abet ting the kidnapping. Hardly had. the jury sworn in the woman's case when the lawyers became engaged in a legal argument regarding the admis sion of certain testimony and thc SEV^.N GRAFTERS S Pittsburg, Pa., Special,-In crim inal court Wednesday seven persons convicted within the last few weeks in the municipal graft cases, were sentenced as follows: W. W. Ramsey, former national bank president, convicted of bribery, one year and six months imprison ment and a fine of $1,000; Capt! John F. Klein, councilman, two years and fine of $1,000 on the bribery convie HAS NO OBJECTION ' Charleston, Spacial.-Capt. John C. Fremont, commanding the United States battleship Mississippi does .not object to the placing of the por trait of Jefferson Davis upon the sil ver service which the war vessel ii now on her way,up the Mississippi to receive from the State in whpsc honor she is named . Responding t< a telegraphic request as to whethoi he and the other officers of the Mis? issippi were in sympathy with th< Great Lead Moa id Will Fix ?heir *rices Amanean interests were approached, and they agreed to come into the com bine if the Spanish association would do the same. The Spanish interests have now given their assent. The American interests have carried ont their part of the agreement, and tba 1 deal is complete. No trust or controlling corporation is to be formed. The deal remanas merely as an agreement upon which the most vital interests of all parties' concerned are absolutely dependent. Thii profits to the combine from the increase in prices will vary from $125,000,000 to $225,000,000, provid ing the price does not go above $10j3 a ton. i John , A. McDonald, of New York, who has arranged the v deal between the German and Spanish interests, left Wednesday morning ?by the Kron ! prinzessin Cecilie for New York to ar range the' final details with the Amer- . ican interests prior to the German trout initiating the advance in prices, which advance will be followed throughout the world. Mr. McDonald said the smaller producers would be affected only in a beneficial way. They woulr* et the benefit of the advance in prices and without harmful .compe tition or squeezing tactics. ?SETHE TARIFF DOWNWARD ment of the Dingley rates. The peo pl? understood that we were to have a revision downward; the men who made the platform understood it; we understood it. Everybody understood it and no amount of sophistry can otherwise,explain the popular demand and the party's promise. "If this promise," he said, "was for a revision that would mean- the maintenance of the Dingley rates,, then we are confronted by the ridic ulousness of the Chief Executive calling Congress together to revise something that should stand unchang ed until the end of time. "When the people made the de mand for a tariff revision downward, there was'no suggestion that there interests were not sufficiently pro tected. If the demand for revision did not mean changing the duties downward it did not mean anything and we are indulging in a farce now.19 He declared that if Congress should fail now to lower the tariff rates, the Democratic party would be put in position to revise it two years hence. THE U. S. CIRCUIT COURT property. Investigation showed that certain personal property was not listed in the schedule, and this fact was enough to convict Cohen on the indictment. Cohen carried the case to tho Appellate . Court, where Wed nesday the lower court was reversed. Judges' Goff, Pritchard and Morris heard the argument in the case dur ing the last term and decided that by the Constitution every man is protect ed against , self-incrimination in crimi- ? nal cases. The admission of the schedule of property which Was made up by Cohen' .?as considered such self-incrimination, and on this point the lower court was reversed. The case is considered one of prime importance in regard to the influence it has on bankruptcy cases out of which criminal proceedings arise and settles for good the question as to the admissibility of the schedules o? property which are presented to the court in such cases. N TEN YEAR AVERAGE 4 8.1 per cent than the area harvested in 1908, and 2,163,000 acres, of 7.2 ' per cent less than the area sown last . fall. The average condition of winter - wheat a year ago was 89 per cent, Rye averaged 90.3 on May 1, 1908. The ten-year average on ??av 1 for winter wheat and the same for rye, by States, shows: Texas 77, rye 76; 1 , Tennessee 86. rye S7: CTED FOR KIDNAPING case was adjourned utnil Friday morning. Mrs. Boyle took a promi nent part in the selection of her jury Thursday, prompting her attorneys in numerous cases and evidencing a preference for young, unmarried jurors. That Boyle's trial came to such au abrupt ending, immediately after the State had rested, .was due to the fact that so strong a case had been made against him. From the i night before the abduction, wheu he was seen in Sharon, till the time of . his arrest in Cleveland, almost every - movement he made was testified to ! by one or more witnesses... ENTENCED BY COURT ? tion, and one year and six months' on the conspiracy conviction;. Jos. C. Wasson and Wm. Brand, former ! councilmen, each one and six months and a fine of $500 for conspiracy; H. . M. Bulger, hotel keeper, two years. i and a fine of $500 for bribery; . Charles Colbert and ' John Colbert, convicted of attempting to bribe a juror in the Ramsey bribery case, - J two years and a fine of $500 each. TO DAVIS' MONUMENT i antagonism which the placing of the I 'ikeness of the dead chieftain of the , Confederacy upon ine silver service has aroused,.Capt. Fremont wired the " Charleston News and Courier as fol - lows, his dispatch being dated New > Orleans : i "The navy is without sectional ; prejudice and its patriotism knows ) no boundaries save those of the great f country at large." This meets the contention of Rep ? resentative Hollingsworth of Ohio.