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BIG R. R. TRUST OVERTHROWN. Final Decision By the United States Supreme Court Against the Northern Securities Company. Washington. Mlarch it'.-In the United States Supreme Court, on Monday an (pinion was delivered in the merger case of the Northern Securities Company versus the United States in favor (f the gov ernment's contention that the mer ger was illegal. The opinion uif the court was handed down by Justice Harlan. and it upheld the decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Minnestota in every particular. Four of the Justices dissented from the five constituting the majority. The division in the Court was due to a difference of opinion as to the right of Federal control of state corporations. The majority opin ion preceeded on the theory that Congress has a right under the con stitution to control inter-state com merce, no matter by whom conduci ed, while the minority or dissent ing opinoion was based on the the ory that in the present case the effort is to regulate the ownership of railroad stocks by state corpora tions, and that such ownership is not inter-state traffic. The case decided to-day was brought by the United States against the Northern Securities Company. a corporation of New Jersey; the Great Northern Rail way Company, a corporation of Minnesota; the Northern Pacific Railway Company. a corporation of Wisconsin; Jas J. Hill, a citizen of Minnesota; William P. Clough. D. Willis James, John S. Kennedy, J. Pierpont Morgan, Robert Bacon, George Baker and Daniel Lamont. citizens of New York. Its general object was to enforce, as against the defendants. the pro visions of the statute of July 2, i8go, commonly known as the Anti Trust Act, and entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopolies." Justice Harlan practically indi cated the decision of the Court in the first sentence of the opinion proper. In that sentence he said: '"In our judgement the evidence fully sustains the material illega tions of the bill, and shows a vio lation of the Act of Congress, in so far as it declares illegal every com bination or conspiracy in restraint of commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, and forbids attempts to monopolize such commerce. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. A negro boy was lynched, near McHenry, Mliss., on Sunday night. for attempted nmrder. Forty thousands acres recently sold in~ Taylor county. Fia.. for S240,ooo are to be entirely denuded of woods. In the national house of rep)re sentatives on Wednesday Hon. Wvatt Aiken advocated an in crease in the salary of rural car riers to S900.. The 297th anniversary of the first permanent settlement of English speaking people on American soil. which occurred on the James river in 1607, will be celebrated in \Vir ginia on May 13th. The cruiser Montgomery ran aground on a Florida beach on Sunday night. but was floated on Monday and an examination re vealed "that no damage had been done. The accident was dueW to the fact of a dense fog. - V. E. Mc8ee, receiver of tne Atlantic and North Carolina rail roadI has b)eeni arrestedl in Raleigh. N. C.. charged with conspiracy against the State. McB3ee was releasedl onl a bond in the sum or S2,ooo. The special commission named by local insurance companies to investigate the cause of the Balti more fire have reached the conclus ion that the fire must have been caused by a lighted cigarette or ci gar being thrown in a cellar. A great deal of excitement was caused in the Akmerican theatre. in Newv York, on Monday night. by wvhat appears to have been the delib erate attempt to shoot an actor. A\s soon as the shot was fired two men ran out of their box and disap peared. Several persons were killed and a number injured in Chicago. on Tuesday. by an explosion of toy pistol caps in a building occupied by a novelty toy comnany. ( )ne hun dred people were at 'work in the building at the time.- The build ing. c-aught fire immiicIately after tile exlo)sion. Sheriti .\!eClellan. f \\'are C itV. ( iL.. and Attinlery (rawley. f tle \Vavcro'Ss. ( ;a.. har. are ill licteI-d ,n th charge uf selling ne gr'oes tobe held in pconage. Ar grumneits were subigitted in the L. S. district ctourt in Savannah. on Monday. upon tite coiistittitionality of the federal acts against peonage. The decision of the court was that the Act was con.,itutional and the cases were ordered to be tried. One hundred members of the Citizens' Alliance. of Telluride. Colo., on Tuesday. after a meeting. armed with rifles and revolvers. scoured the town and took into cus tody between seventy and eighty members of the miners' unions and the union sympathizers. The mei were herded in a vacant store until all those desired had been captur ed, when they were marched to the depot and placed on the cars and sent out of the town. I SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. Abbeville has let the contract for putting in a system of sewerage. The price to be paid is $19260. In the municipal primary held in Columbia on Tuesday T. Hasell Gibbes. cashier of the Bank of Co lumbia, was elected mayor. Senator Latimer made a good roads address before the New York and Chicago Road association. in Erie. Pa.. on WVednesday. Fire at the Eureka cotton mills, in Chester, on Tuesday. destroyed ten houses of operatives. entailing a loss of about $4,ooo. Two men were arrested in Char leston on Wednesday charged with being implicated in the safe ,crack ing and robbery at Mullins last November. Twelve schools in Laurens coun ty have already raised the necessary amount to avail themselves of the opportunity offered by the recent Aull Library Act. Mr. C. D. Barksdale. a member of the Laurens bar, has been ap pointed assistant to Col. E. J. Watson. the new commissioner of immigration. Bethune was visited by a small cvclone at an early hour on Mon (ay morning which ldid consider able damage. destroying entirely the presbyterian church. a hand some new building. andl destroying a barn about a mile out of town and killing the stock within.. G overnor Hey cwardl has p)ardon ed thiree negroes convictedl of mur der in Florence county andl serv' ing a life sentence in the peniten tiarv. It had been discovered that the'man who actually did the kill ingo had (lied in the penitentiary, as had two others, six men being sent tp for life for the crime. DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FROM SOUTH. A Member of Congress Says Be Would Not Lose a Single Electoral Vote to the Party. Thie national house of represen tatives on Mlonday apl)Iauded1 a po itcleogy of ex-President Cleve landl by Alr. Patterson iTenn. ) and a mnienlt later an eulogy of the late, President 'lcKinily also by Mlt. Patterstt. P~1reiden lt t'leveland. he I o litial other adlvice frm the tith and President \!eKinley had done" much to heal the breach be twee the north and south. "Althoug'h IPresident Cleveland imake mistakes," declaredl Mr. Pat terson. "he certainly did not make them against the interests of the south and whatever mistakes he madle were like specks upon the sun as compared to his great character. his true Americanism and his un b)lemished honor." The blight of the 1-;th amiend met to the constitutioni had revers ed the previouts great record of the south )i odutcting presidlents, bt 3r. I attersonl expressedl the belief that a Democratic nomi,nee from electoral vote to the party. in this connection he mentioned as possi ble candidates John ( . Carlisle. Representative \Williams. the mi norv fo(~r leader and Senator P)ailv (f TexaZ. The latter tw naics were applalded. WILL THEY DICTATE LEGISLATION? Rural Mail Carriers Telegraph Congress men to Increase Their Salaries. nacker Rep.) f InIana read a letter from F. -. Cunningha. president of the National Carriers association. urging rural free de livery carriers to telegraph immed iatelv to their members of congress to vote to increase the salaries of rural free delivery carriers. Mr. Crumpacker said he believed this a fulfillment of the prophecy of ex-Representatiye Loud that the carriers would organize a great po litical machine and dictate to con gress. Mr. Maddox (Dem.) of Georgia wanted to know if the civil service regulation did not prohibit inter fering in legislation. Mr. Crumpacker remarked that his purpose was to advise the prop er authorities. Mr. 'Maddox declared hotly that he had received a number of such telegrams. T-re-ny-ve vars practical ex i d the fact tht: we do e Jargest business in Seeds in the Soithern States, enables us to sup ply every requirement in SARDEN AND FARM SEEDS to the very best advantage, both as regards quality and price. Truckers and Farmers requiring large quantities of Seeds are requested to write for special prices. If you have not received a copy of WOOD'S SEED BOOK for 1904, write forit. There Is not another publication anywhere that approaches it In the useful and practical Information that it gives to Southern farmers and gardeners. weWs Sed Book win be man free sn request. Write to.day de ot day. T.W. Wood& Sons, Sedsinen, EIUUaONI, - VItitlA. "A True Bill." A Fine Line of Fruits: Apples, Or anges, Bananas, Lemons, &c. A nice line of Canned Goods and Staple Gro ceries. Finest Cheese in the city 15c. the pound. 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