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I ' BiT In more than 50 decisions the su?reme court of the United States ion day passed on the administration oJ^justioe as it had appeared in the yfa/0r federal courts and State taibuin more than half the StatdMi iMi Union. Many State laws Ires declared unconstitutional, more 'lield, and the laws of the Uniled States given a final interpretation. The Stute of South Carolina likewise won a victory ove rthe railroads in that State when the court adopted the view of the supreme court of South Carolina that the law requiring railroads to pa ya penalty of $50 for failure to adjust within 90 days claims for losses annlied onlv to in trastate traffic. The State of Alabama had its statute leyving a franchise tax on foreign corporations declared unconstitutional. Railroads brought the ease to the supreme court. The State of Georgia lost in most of its contentions in the attempt to levy on the Georgia Railroad and Banking company property for franchise taxes, despite charter exemptions. "Cotton Leak Scandal." Indicted in connection with the "cotton leak scandal" of the department of agriculture which occurred in 1905, Moses Haas, Theodore H. Price and Frederick A. Peckham, who have been fighting against their extradition from New York, must come to Washington for trial, according to a decision rendered Monday by the Supreme Court of the United States When indictments were made to twe Jurisdictions, as in this case the courl leld that the government may eleel where the accused shall be tried. Th< appeal to the Supreme Court -wu from the refusal of the circuit courl of the United States for the southerr jurisdiction of New York to releaw the men from the custody of th? United States marshal. Tar Heels Fighting Hard. The controversy over oleomarga rine is 'spreading in North Carolina Many letters, some for and soirn against, the 10-eent tax arrive lien daily. Senator Simmons and Repre sentative Kitclnn arc very pronounc + ed in their views on the subject Both oppose the tax and would dis continue it. Representative Smal has declared himself in opposition t< the law. All think that the labe should carry the name of the pro duct hut believe that the tax is dis criminatory and should be removed. In Memory of Francis Willard. Exercises in celebration of the fiftl anniversary of the unveiling of tin statue of Francis E. Willard in tht national hall of fame were held al the Capitol Tuesday under the aus pices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The sjieakers included Miss Bell Kerney, of Mississippi naitonal lecturer. Coffey to Lecture at University. Dr. Venable, president of the North Carolina State university, through Senator Overman, has secured the services of George M. Coffey of the United States soil survey for a seriei of lectures at the university the last week of April. Mr. Coffey, who is very capable, is a North Carolinian and a graduate of the university. Would Give Passes. Representative Taylor, of Ohio, put in a bill that will be good reading to the families of a lot of railroad men throughout the country. It is for the amendment of the Hepburn law to permit railroad companies tc give interstate passes to the widows and children of railroad employes. Lights Along the Coast. Senator Overman of North Caro lina got the board to approve his anc Representative Godwin's Kill ing $21,000 for bettar lights along the coast. Toxaway Hotel Co. Wins. The Toxaway Hotel Company mi Kcrth Carolina is a corporation mere lv foT conducting hotels, and so no' subject to the national bankruptcy acts, held the Supreme Court of th< ITiiited States Monday in deciding i ease from the United States aircui eourt of appeals for the fourth eir euit. Money For Immigration Commission The action of the house Monday assured an appropriation of $125,001 for completing the work of the im migration commission, this being th< full amount desired by the eemrais tfion for that purpose. The noil and climate of Arizom are adaptable to the successful grow ing of Egyptian cotton, according t< the announcement of the bureau o Indian affairs on the accomplishmen vx iih vipfrrimfium maiion a Saeaton, near Phoenix, Arizona. Hegro Would be Minister to Hayti A delegation of prominent Ken tueky negroes, headed by Dr. C. H Parrish, of Louisville, called upor President Taft Monday to urge tin appointment of Albert S. White, j negro lawyer of Louisville, as Min ister to Hayti. Henry Ulke, painter of the por traits of Presidents and statesmer of a past generation is dead. He wsj 80 years old and a personal frienc fc. "T flBL !?-- *v>vf 1P" E ins > While the boys in the East are i leaving the farms and seeking employi ruent elsewhere there is room for op! tnnism as to farm life in some parts of the country, said Secretary of i Agriculture Wilson Tuesday in disi cussing the protection of National I XJrange of West Virginia against the 1 ngures in his annual report relative to the value of the wealth of Ameri can farms. i The Secretary said the figures, $8,? 760,000,000, mentioned in his report ' as the value of farm products last year, merely represented the visible wealth of the farms of the country, i including stock, cattle, grain, etc., and had nothing to do with the cost of making the cropa. He added that I the department had not reached the point where it was able to give the net profits of the American farms, i "I know," he said ,"that some fari mere claim that the corn and grain should not be counted in, along with i the stock, as the grain is fed to the stock. But doesn't that make the , stock more valuable?" The grange complained that the figures were misleading and represented the farmer rolling in wealth, giving i no data as to the comparatively small . profit he made after the hardest sort i of work. i Last year, he stated, 12,500 boys on i Southern farms raised an acre of corn each, and some of them did splendid i work. This year the department is l giving instruction to the young men . in hog raising. "We are trying to . reach the old people through the > young ones," he said. t Labeling of Whiskey. J President Taft's decision in the ' liquor controversy that "whiskey is t whiskey" whether it b? blended or i straight, has been formulated in a si set of regulations prepared by the s board of food and drug inspection of the Department of Agriculture. The regulations were completed last week and approved, as required by - the pure food law, by Secretary Wil. son of the Department of Agrieul3 ture, Secretary MacVeagh of the 3 Treasury and Secretary Nagcl of the - Department of Commerce and Labor. In brief, the regulations declare . that all unmixed spirits distilled from - grain, prepared in the customary 1 ways, are entitled to the name a "whiskey" without qualification. 1 Blended whiskeys must be labeled as - such. -I inc term "whiskey," however, is restricted to distillates from irrain, and under the regulations, distillates from old substances, if labeled 1 "whiskey" are misbranded and the 3 person guilty of misbranding may be 3 prosecuted. t - May Have to Buy Mail Boxes. Persons who live in cities and have no mail boxes in front of their > residences are liable not to receive any mail at home after June 30, 1911. Certainly they will not if a provision of the Postofliee Appro1 print ion bill becomes a law. The 1 provision prohibits any letter car! rier fj-om delivering any mail at any > hpuse lyiless there is a suitable mail f on ihfc outside to receive it. It mean/ that .Uncle Sam is tired of 1 having, .hie nnifqrmed carriers wait for people to take their time in answering their aoor bjlls. To Abolish Pension 'Agencies. 1 The abolishment of seventeen out of eighteen pension agencies in the 'country is recommended to the bouse ' by the appropriations committee in 1 the report on the pension bill. The [ only agency will be located at Wash' ington. The seventeen agencies thus cut off are located in Augusta, Me.; Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, O.; Concord, N. H.; Des Moines, Ta.; J Detroit, Indianapolis, Knoxville, Louisville, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburg, San Fran' cisco and Topeka, Kan. Japan Raising Peanuts. ^ Japan is becoming a competitor of the Southern States in the raisintr ^ and delivery of peanuts to America. The exportation of Japanese pea7 nuts to this country during 1908 b aggregated 4,929,141 pounds, out of i 6,218,771 sent to all parts of the t world. On the island of Formosa . more thmi 50,000 acres of peanuts are undei eultivation. Overman Secnres Picture. Senator Overman af North Oaro" lina saw Oe chief of the lighthouse ) board last week and got him to donate a framed picture of "The Knuckles" at Frying Pan Shoals to e the city of Wilmington. The pic" tore was one of the most intreesting on exhibit at the Seattle exposition. i Foolish to Vote. Saturday before an audience of 9 young women at the fleorge Washf ington Memorial meeting. President t Taft told thern it was foolish for H women to want to vote in the Dlstr&ict of Columbia. Immigration on Increase. One million aliens ore due in the United States this year "to get their 1 sha.-e of our prosperity," according ? to a statement made by Coramis1 sioner of Immigration Kecfe to the " J House Committee on Appropriations. ' Wants Adjournment May 10th. J Members of Congress demand adI jonrnment by May 10 in order to get to work in the campaign. aMfc i i at THEFTS REACH $200,000. Geo. W. Coleman, $12 a Weak Bookkeeper Cannot Be Located. Boston, Special.?High living at a Back Bay hotel, where he appeared in company with a beautiful woman and registered for the past two months as "George W. Coleman and wife, of New York," with weekly bills that ranged from $100 to $150, it was learned Saturday was one of the causes of the downfall of George W. Coleman, the $12-a-weck bookkeeper of the closed National City Bank of Cambridge, who is now in police custody. Former Governor John L. Bates is in charge of the bank as receiver. It was learned that the loss may total $200,000, instead of the $144,000 officially given out. The continent is being searched by the police from i aceau to ocean ror Coleman. The name of the young woman with whom he appeared has not yet been mentioned in connection with the case. Her identity is a mystery. She is not known in Cambridge, nor has she lived there. Negro Makes Confession. Pittsburg, Kan.. Special.?-Giib Thomas, alias Ed Young, a negro aged twenty-six years, confessed at Sirard, near here, Saturday night, to the murder of William Bork, a white farmer, the latter's wife and hild, and another negro. Mrs. Bork was maltreated before being killed. Thomas was arraigned secretly, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and was taken to the penitentiary at Lansing, Kan. Thomas implicated Ed. Chailes, another negro, who was arrested with him. Chailes was hurried away to the jail at Fort Scott, for safe keeping. Besides the four murders. Thomas jonfessed that he and Chailes had committed numerous highway robberies. Laymen Elect Officers For Year. Dallas, Tex., Special.?At the concluding session of the laymen's conference of the Methodist church, south, the following ollicers were selected to serve during the ensuing I wo years. President. John II. Pepper, Memphis. First vice president, C. II. Ireland. North Carolina. . Second vice president. \Y. G. M. Thomas. Virginia. Third vice president, I). B. Aber.inthy, Pittsburg, Tex. Treasurjr, F. M. .Daniel, Little Rock. Ark. Secretary, W. It. Stnbbs. Georgia, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn. Executive committee, C. A. Sanford. Sherman, Tex.; J. S. Carr. North Carolina; T. S. Southgate, Yirrinin The executive committee will anlouncc later as to tlie place of the meeting of the conference in 1912. Give Young Men Better Show. Washington. Special. ? President Tal't Saturday sent a special message o congress urging legislation for tlie 'otnpletion of the personnel of the navy. The message outlines a bill prepared by Secretary Meyer which would reduce the ages of the senior officers rnd reorganize the regulars. The effect of the measure would he to promote officers to the grade of aptain at the average age of 47 rears and to the grade of rear-admiral at the age of 54 to 55 and make lie average of all rear-admirals about >8. The personnel of the navy would increased to 47,500 men, about 3,000 more than at present. Found Not Guilty. Poise. Idaho. Special.?William F. Ket ten bach. George H. Kester and William Dwyer, whose trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of valuable timber lands, was concluded Saturday afternoon, ind found not guilty bv the jury. To Make United States Naval Power. Washington, Special.?The building of a world record-breaking battleship of no less than 32,000 tons displacement at a cost of approximately $18,000,000, and the making of the United States the leading naval power of the world" are planned by Secretary of the Navy Meyer. Secures Control of N. & W. Philadelphia. Pa.. Special.? It was reported in financial circles Saturday that the Pennvlvania Railroad Company had acquired sufficient ot the stocks of the Norfolk & Western Railway Company to give it absolute control of the road. The Pennylvauia fiua mane no oninai unnoMneemeui ic that effect. The report, it is said, is not a surprise as it was thought when the Pennylvania Railroad Company took over the holdings of the Norfolk & Western stock which had been helfi by Kulin, Loeb & Co., of New York that some such plan was contemplated. Probably Lost in Sand Storm. Los Angeles, Cal., Special.?A res ?uc party left here "Saturday to searct the desert about Mecca, Cal., foi Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manson, ol K!??u Orlna 11 a aiii4 / 1 on roa ItvuLra* r\ i y,os Angeles, who are believed t< [have been lost in a furious saad I storm that raged Saturday in tlx Idesert. y (t "\ . . ( " i i ' ;>: * f. 0' ; fittMilttfiilU <7 fb* t fi Vi EOR GENERAL STRIKE Sympathetic Strike Will Take i Place Saturday. MOBS CONTINUE TO DO VIOLENCE. ' Oars Are Stoned, Motormen and Con- I doctors Beaten, and the Police Make Many Areets. Philadelphia, Pa., Special.?Action fraught with possible momentous | consequences to Philadelphia was . taken by the Central Labor Union j Saturday night when that body, rep- ' resenting 14U unions with a member- i ship of 125,000, it is claimed, voted J to begin a sympathetic strike next Saturday in aid of the striking street 1 railway employes. ] This action came at the end of a j secret session of about 700 delegates j in labor lyceum hall which Jasted i more than six hours. There was ap- i parently no question but that the del- 1 egates would vote to strike, the split being on the question of whether it , would be started immediately. The more conservative element prevailed, 1 however, and the walkout was put off 1 until next Saturday. Meanwhile there is hope that the street railway strike will be arbitrated, despite the repeated declarations 1 of the Transit Company, controlling all the lines in the city, that 4'there is nothing to arbitrate." Following the publication of a statement that was made by John J. to have been made by John J. i Murphy, president of the Central ' Labor union, that "a general strike < should be callled immediately and there are men in the Northeast who > can shoot as straight as any trooper < who ever drew a breath," a warrant 1 was issued Saturday night for the i labor leader, charging him with in- j citing to riot. Riots in West Philadelphia and in < the southern part of the city follow- ' ed the running of cars Saturday. ' Three ears were held up by an obstruction of the east end of the draw . bridge over the Schulylkill river. A , crowd of men showered bricks, J stones and pieces 01 wood at the motorman. conductors and policemen. , who were guarding the cars. A j policeman. with drawn revolver, forced his way through the crowd and draped the injured to a power house, i At the meeting of the board of di- ] rectors of the company Saturday it s was decided that any striker whose i previous record was {rood would be 1 taken back, providing he applied for i his position before March 1. A reply 1 was sent to the committee of elergvmeti politely refusing to submit to ( the proposed arbitration. This atti- ' tude of the company caused a re- ' newal of the plans for a general ' strike. '' 0. O. Pratt, the organizer of the carmen, who has been opposing this j plan, said: "A general strike will positevelv | be declared unless the company comes j to terms. We are prepared to fight for weeks or months. We are not ( whipped and the company will have to treat with us." 1 E. K. (Jreenwnlt, president of ihe | Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, nid: "The street car strike has ceased 1 to he a local issue. Tt is now a national one. The State and Ameri- 1 can Federation stand by to give whatever support is deemed necessary. The strike will be won." Augustus Belmont Married. New York. Special.?Augustus Belmont. sr., the banker and millionaire racehorse owner, and Miss Eleanor Robson. who recently left the stage, were unexpectedly married at 5 o'cloek Saturday afternoon in Miss Robson's house here. It bad been announced that the marriage would , not take place until some time is March. Collar Button Saves Life. Winston-Salem, Special.?A collar button saved the life of Greer Gray, 16-year-old son of E. E. Gray, Saturday night in the box office of tlia auditorium. Accidentally a 32-ealibrer revolver was discharged within a loot oi ins race, inc ounei smsiug the collar button squarely and being deflected to the rijrht of the Adano's apple and imbedded itself in the back of his neck. Militia Withdrawn From Cairo. i Cairo, III., Special.?The five militia companies that have been on duty I in Cairo since February 17 because ' of the fear of race riots were withdrawn. Government to Be Responsible. , Washington, Special.?In accordance with recommendations bv the , senate committee on finance the bill , providing for the issuance of $30,000,00 of certificates of indebtedness for . the benefit of the irrigation reclnimI ation service will be so amended as to make the government directly re sponsible foi the payment of the certificates. To Lift Vessel With $273,000 in Gold. Seattle. Special.?An ex|>edition has - been organized by an expert diver to raise the steamer Islander, sunk ten ' years ago in 320 fathoms of water near .Tnnean, Alaska, while honnd fit ;th $273,000 of Klondike f -r rong box. > I 1 - . : on of the steamer is b : M' ' tiM depth of water has ,?: > bidden salvage attempts * ' i M>sed is to life the veai se' w id. a n ge metal seine. t. NEWS^EVIFIES Condensed from Wide fields, ' Domestic and foreign. AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY 1 Suited to the Wants of Bus7 Readers ] Seeking a Knowledge of What is Going on. Announcement of a national "Tuberculosis Sunday" to be held April * 24, in 215,001) churches of the United ( sf atnc line lionn mo/in Kit f Ko \. ?i _ J tional Association for the Study and } Prevention of Tuberculosis. < Alleging that garbage dumped | by ttie railroad near bis home caused j bis family to be stricken with typhoid fever, James H. Overby, of At- * ianta, Ga., last Wednesday filed suit ] against the Central of Georgia Railroad for damages aggregating $02,- 1 500. 1 The Supreme Court of Ohio last , Wednesday held that all saloonists . selling near-beer in "dry" counties must pay the Aiken liquor tax of 11,000 a year. About $1,000,000 is 1 involved throughout the State and 1 (he decision is admitted to be a blow j at the liquor interests. Citizens of Granville county, North Carolina, have organized a | Fair Association. A warrant has been issued cliarg- 1 ing Dr. James R. Hull, of Munroe , City, Mo., with murdering Professor ^ J. P. Vaughn by strvthine poisoning. A serious wreck occurred Thurs- 1 lay near Medulla on the Winston 1 Sk Bone Valley railroad, iu Florida, i five miles south of Lakeland, as the j result of a head-on collision between a. passenger train bound to Fort Meade and an extra work train. Sev eral were badly injured, but all pas- ] sengers escaped. < The sand dimes in New Zealand, is stated in an official report by Dr. Cockayne, cover 24,000 acres in the South Island, and 200,000 acres in ' [he North Island, the dunes of west- 1 >rn Wellington stretching 170 miles ' nong tlie sen wrtli an area oL more lian 90,000 acres. The replies of (lie Southern railroads to the wajje demands of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen md the Order of liailway Conductors were opened at Cleveland, O., . ast Thursday. The refusal of the roads to meet the men's terms were unanimous. At Charleston, R. C., Friday the South Carolina Cotton Seed Association voted to continue the organization five years and four more months at least. That what is known as the "blacklisting" statue of Texas is not contrary to the Federal constitution, is live opinion of the court of civil appeals for the Fifth district of Texas in a case wherein a hrakeman was given a verdict of $2,500 against the 1 St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. ] The ease will probably he appealed ' to the United States Supreme Court. At Fayetteville, N. C., the family 11 of S. M. Beasley, road master of the 1 Atlantic Coast Line, had a narrow < escape from being burned alive in their home, which was set on fire by i an incendiary, evidently with the t purpose of robbery. ' Personal friends of Charles W. Morse. the convicted banker, are prepared to spend more than $1,000,000 , in working for his release from the 1 Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga. ] Officers were elected by the Na- ] tional Association of Cement users j in convention at Chicago, 111., Tlnirs- r day. Richard L. Humphrey, of Phil- t adelpbia, was re-elected president for t the sixth time. , From the records in the geological department of Hampton College, at Utiea. N. Y., it is computed that the , fall of snow there this winter thus ^ far has been 93 inches. This is a reaord for aeutral New York. * William Sevier was charged with | the responsibility for the death of Jane Adams, at Atlantic City, N. J.f ' by the coroner's jury last Tburs- 1 day, after a hearing that lasted 35 < minutes. J The agricultural appropriation bill was reported to the Senate Thursday. Jt carries $13,512,635, an increase of only $182,359 over the amount voted bv the House. Of ^ this amount $40,000 is an additional ] amount to be used in stamping the \ boll weevil out, making $225,000 ill all for this purpose. 1 l Edwin L. Quarles, secretary of the < Petersburg (Va) Chamber of Commerce, has resigned his position, in order to give his entire time to the ( field work of the Southern Coinme- j rcial Congress among educational in- i atitutioiis and commercial organiza- , Hons. I , More than a thousand hens from | the United States and Europe will ( meet in an egg-laying contest at Mcx- j ico. Mo., next fall if the plans of \ T. E. Quissenberry, secretary of the J Missouri State Poultry hoard, are 1 successfully carried out. 1 4 Woman's Day was celebrated bv t the Socialist party throughout the United States Monday and meetings J to boom the suflTrago movement were v held in many cities. 1 qjro.urnjjiaw \ " i' [RUST IS INDICTtD. Individuals and Companies are Named. HIE FINE IS 3 YEARS AND S1.000 i (few Jersey Grand Jury Charges Conspiracy in Limiting Supply of Meat. New York, Special.?The beef trust >f the United States, embracing sir ?reat packing companies and twen;y-one packers, several of then multi-millionaires, socially and industrially promient, were indicted t>" a grand jury in Rudson county, N". J., Friday, cha. ; racy in limiting the t md poultry. The indictment i> he | law of New Jers< . ss upon conviction a. y of 3 years in the penitentiary or a * $1,000 fine or both. The offense is extraditable, whicb means that practically all the meat barons of this country must either successfully resist extradition or ^ coine to Jersey City for trial. Pierre Garven, the public prosecutor of Hudson county, announced , that he would forthwith notify the the defendants of their indictment md would be ready to force extradition in each and every case where the ^ individual concerned is not willing tc ^ Pace trial voluntarily. None, he says, \ will be spared. The defendants as named are as follows: The National Packing Company, Amour & Co. Swift & Co., Morris & Co., Hammond Packing Company, G. H. Hammond & 2?. j 1 Want Peary's Proofs. Washington, Special. ? Peary's proofs must go befone Congress in all probability before any steps are takin to reward him for his discovery < jf the North Pole. The subcommittee of the House Committee 0:1 Naval Affairs, which las -charge of the various bills in- ' produced on tins subject, has adopted 1 resolution calling on the Secretary jf Commerce and Labor, under whose jurisdiction Peary was exploring in ;he Arctic Circle when he dropped in 311 the pole, to submit to the subcommittee any official reports or proofs that may have been turned in 1 by Peary bearing 011 his discovery. ** The Committee had merely "gen- s ?ral reports" that Peary had reached ' the Pole, and wanted to see something detailed, conclusive and official .< [jefore going 011 record or making auy move to reward him. R. F. D. Meeting. At the first meeting of the rural free delivery carrier's mutual benefit association held in Cincinnati, with representatives present from 37 States. Glenn O. Ohristal, of Muncie, [ml., was made president. A shortage of $144,000 in the individual deposits caused the closing of the doors of the National City Bank of Cambridge. Mass. Leroy Percey, of Greenville, was nominated United States Senator from Mississippi at Jackson in the 58th ballot. Reduction in Hours. On account of falling of in volume ?f traffic and consequent loss of revenue. the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company has issued orders reducing the hours of labor in ali ocomotive and ear shops to eight nours a day, beginning on Monday. This will effect a reduction in shop jxpenses of about 15 per cent. This mnouncement came while labor mot vere planning for an increase. Carlo Giro, convicted of the mur> ier of Hrs. Sophie L. Staber in1 Brooklyn last July, has been electro;uted in Sing Sing prison. He pr<^ tested his innocence to the last. Just before the current was turned on the condemned man murmured a prayer, and then cried: "Shame on yeu Christian people, who put me to ieatb when I am not guilty." Three Year Old Child Raped. Dallas, Texas, Special. ? Allen Brooks, a negro 58 years old, har> seen arrested charged with assaulting Mary M. Buvens, a white girl, ? years of age. The child was found in a barn in a critical condition. Tho negro was arrested in the basement if a house where he w.*?s Icek^d Interior Alaska banks, ?d have reduaed intei . no from 2 to 1 per cent | Seattle bankers attribute luced cost of living r.i 'ir.^ jxpenses in the north. Montgomery, Ala., . be 'otal collections under ,c , ax act declared unconstitutional i?y ;he I'nited States supreme court is 0136,945.45, all of which must be' returned. The payments in 1909, the llint??d tntnl hpinir fnr lw?? ??? <> j . n "" were: Louisville and Nashville, >244.027.29; Atlantic Coast Line, >0,258.11; Central of Georgia, $11.>71.44; Seaboard, $1,704.38; Southern >22,138.15; Nashville, Chattanooga, ind St. Louis, $3,004.09. 7 i" <i " ' iffriin