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STATE RIGHTS " Upheld in Two Trnst Cases by the Federal Supreme Court * b STATE COURTS RIGHT Pccldos that Mississippi Has I/rgal ^ ' Right to Disband Dumber Dealers a and That Kentucky Had the Right (' P to Oust the Standard Oil from that n State. n The hands of the State In their M fight against "trusts" were upheld ^ Monday hy the Supreme court of the ii United States with telling effect. e .The association of Retail Lumber v Dealers In Mississippi and Louisianna was disbanded by affirmance of ^ the decree of the supreme court of h Mississippi and the Standard Oil 8( Company of Kentucky was ousted a from Tennessee by the approval of K the decree of the supreme court of tl Tennessee. Roth, the state courts c had held, violated the antl trust act n of the respective states. Justice Lurton announced the opin- ' ion of the court in the Mississippi *' case. It was his first utterance from ( the supreme court bench on the % "trust" question. He said the members of the association had obligated themselves not to deal with any man- '' ufacturer or wholesaler in lumber 8' who sold to consumers in the localities in which they conducted a busi- " Bess sufficiently large to meet the demand of the public. He accepted the findings of the s| state courts, and declared that it is si an illegal, combination and conspir- 81 acy under Mississippi statute. The proceedings in the Standard ir Oil case were begun in 1907 under w the Tennessee anti-trust act. The charges against the standard originated out of a transaction at Galla- st tin, Tenn. The Standard of Kentucky P" had oil storod in tanks in Tennessee, from which it procured a supply to R serve merchants throughout various ai sections of the state. The Evansville P' Oil Company of Evansville, Ind., sent ^ a salesman to Gallatin to sell oil. 111 He obtained a number of orders ,y whereupon the agent of the Standard 03 Oil ofTered to give the merchants ten fr gallons of oil per barrel to countermand their purchase orders with the Evansville oil company. Four of 8j them accepted. The Standard and two of its agents ^1 were indicted under the State anti- ai trust act. One of the agents was w oonvicted, but the Standard escaped w punishment on the ground that it could not be fined under the act, but * could only be ousted. w" Ouster proceedings were then hegun against it, the charges being based on the Gallatin transactions. , lc The State courts issued an ousting ^ decree from which an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States.. tc Justice Holmes announced the cl( opinion of the court. All the contentions of the company were disposed of favorably to the State. T QUICK WIT SAVKI> THEM. Men dlimtx'd Cable to Avoid Shock P li .is Elevator Fell. j] Thanks to a rare presence of mind Otto Herold and F. Howard, structural iron workers, at Memphis, Tenn., escaped what seemed certain death with nothing worse than blistered hands, while C. Porter, a fellow worker, who was not so quick to grasp the situation, was painfully, s< if not seriously, Injured. w Completing their day's lai>or near s< the top of a 17-story building In d course of construction, the three a started to descend on a frail elevator. All went well until the 14tli p story was reached. Here something o happened to the engine which hoists t< the car and the elevator started a t< rapid plunge downward. M Howard and Herold, grabbing the ii steel cable, started a climb against c the rapidly descending lift, making t? such headway that they were several ii feet above the car when it reached the ground. Porter clung to the car and suffered several broken ribs and was badly bruised, w.hile his two com- \ panionB were practically unhurt. CONVINCING AHGl'MENT. T IjA*h Prove Efficacious in Georgia A Convict "Strike." o The strike of thirty long term con- n vlcts in the county camps, near Reid- >' ville, (la., has ended, and their threat 2 to die before returning to work prov- s ed baseless. Twelve able-bodied 1 guards, armed with whi|>s, gave the f thirty men a sound whipping, and > before the lashes had ceased to fall h upon the backs of the prisoners the n strike spirit oozed away. P Supervisor Tuggle superintended " the job, and it was well done. The ? wholesale punishment was administered Monday, and after it had ended thirty men went to their work with ? alacrity. They have promised net to 1 rebel again, , s WANTED IT BADLY IARK TWAIN WHITES ABOd THE PENSION THAT le Failed to Get Because He Ha< Served as a Soldier in the Oon federate Amijr. A section chief In the pension bu eau has preserved a copy of a char cteristic -Mark Twain letter, ad ressed to Gen. John C. Black, nov resident of the Civil Service Com lission, but at the time this com lunication was received was com lissioner of pensions. Senator Haw sy had called up the case of Samue lenients, a solJier who had dlBubil ly from "rheumatism and son vrs." innirroH In fho mlllinn. ice. When the pension was al!owe< enator Hawley, in accordance wit! he UBual custom, was notified. H> md probably never neard of tbi oldier, the request for a call up an< he filling of an inquiry slip being s a rule, a part of the duty of i enator's private secretary. Whei he circular from the pension ofiic< aine under his eye he could think o 0 soldier named Clements. He jumped to the conclusion tha he pension was intended for hi: riend and fellow citizen, Samuel L lemens of Hartford. Conn., and ad i??ed hint accordingly. The genia unto; 1st said that there had been ? ntixup" and inclosed Senator Haw ?y's note in the letter to Comnns loner Black given below: Hartford, Conn., July 8, '85. [on. John C. Black, Commission?' of Pensions: Sir: 1 have not applied for a pen Ion. I have often wanted a pec on?often?ever so often?but, in smuc-h as the only military service ever performed during the war w.ai 1 the Confederate army I have al ays felt a delicacy about asking yoi >r it; however since you have sug ested the thing yourself, I fee rengthened. 1 have not any verj ?nsionable disease myself, but 1 car irnish a substitute?a man who i; ist simply a chaos, a museum ol 1 the different kinds of aches and riiiB, fractures, dislocations, dismpers, distortions, contusions and aiformations there are; a man whe ould regard "rheumatism and sore res" as a mere recreation and reeshment after the serious occupaans of his day.. If you grant me the pension, deai r, please hand it to Gen. Hawley nlted States Senate?I mean hand m the certlfleute, not the money? id he will forward It to me. You ill perceive by his postal card hereith enclosed, that he takes a friendinterest in the matter. He thinkt have already got the pension hereus I have only got the rlieu at Ism, but I did not wnnt that? had that before. I wish it were itching. I know a man that I wouli tad up with it pretty early. \V< II feel that why sometimes. I havt en the day when?but never mini lat; you may be busy; just hand i > Hawley?the certificate, you un erstaud, is not transferable. Very truly yours, (Singed) S. L. Clemens. Known to the police as "Marl wain." Gen. Hawley's postal card read Dear Sir: I am informed that you: ension is allowed, and 1 congratu ite you. Very truly yours, J. It lawley." HAS TRAGIC SFQIKL. irl, Who Kluped With Her Uncle Dies in Childbirth. Ida Markham, the 16-year-ol.i glr siluced by her uncle, llilman iligh ho has since been convltc^ 1 an. antenced to the roads for six year ied Sunday night in Wak*. N. C. ftor becoming t.he mother of a child The young girl is reported by he arents as testifying in the lasr hc.ur f her agony that High force 1 he > yield to him at the point )f a pi* >1. She was a daughter of I r [arkham. a prosperous tobacco far1^ 1 Richmond. The burial ta'teaen-l r of Wake. The two eloped in Sep ?mber of last year and were cnti^h \ Richmond. DKCKMBF.K ANI) MAY. n Old Man Marries Young Womai in Romantic Way. The Spartanburg Journal 6ay 'homas C. Galloway, of Gadsden .la., and Miss iM. B. McCarroll o .sheville were married in the parlor f the Finch Hotel at 8:30 Tuesda lornlng. The groom is about 6 ears old and the bride only abou 5. The ceremony was witnessed b everal persons who were guests o he hotel at the time. Rev. L. M toper, pastor of the First Tlaptis hurch. performed the ceremony. Th ride came to this city Monday an net the groom at the Finch Th arty left immediately after the cerc fjony for their future home In Gad den, Ala. ? The latest abuse of the cold stor ge evil is the freezing up of al he young cotton and corn in th outh. A LIVELY CORPSE r WERE MOST AGREEABLY BURPRISED ON TRAIN ARRIVAL. j Went to Meet Dead Body of Rrotlicr, but Saw lUin Get off Train Well and Happy. Through a misunderstanding in a - long distance telephone message rel atives of T. C. Chandlers of Washingv ton. D. C., went to the depot at . Wadesboro, N. C., the other night . expecting to meet the dead body ol . Mr. Chandler, and were most hup. pily surprised to greet him well anJ 1 happy. T.he Messenger and IntelK gencer tells the story: e T. C. Chandler of Washington, 1"). - C., John W. Chandler of Virginia, and R. W. Chandler of Mangum, i Richmond county, are brothers. They l are all getting to be old meu, and. e though their paths through life have ? been divergent, they nevertheless, i have preserved an unusual affection . for each other. 1 John W. Chandler has for some t time been on a visit to R. W. Chand2 ler at Mangum. T. C. Chandler ati tended the reunion at Mobile and reached Charlotte Saturday on the * return trip. From Charlotte he tels e phoned R. W. Chandler that he . would pay him a visit and to m et - him in Wadesboro. with a wagon ! Saturday afternoon to carry his trunk ? to Mangum. Mrs. R. \V. Chandler, - who is slightly deaf, received the - message and she understood the person talking to say that T. C. Chandler had died suddenly in Charlotte " and to request that a wagon be sent to Wadesboro to meet his remaius that evening. Immediately there was consternation in the household and John W. ; Chandler at once made preperations s to come to Wadesboro. He hired a - team and reached town in time to i meet the seven o'clock train from - Charlotte. It was his intention to take 1 barge of the supposed corpse and r take it to Virginia and deposit it i beside the remains of his ancestors. 3 With this end in view he went to r 'he express car as soon as the train 1 stopped and asked the express mes senger if he had a corpse aboard. 1 The messenger answered in the negat tlve. and while they were talking > about the matter someone walked up from behind and slapped him on the - shoulder. Mr. Chandler was so overcome when he saw his brother stund ing before him alive and well, he fell . on the supposed corpse's shoulder 1 and wept. The good news was auleklv tele i phoned to the grief-stricken family, it Manguin, the brothers spending the night here and joining their brother at that place next day. SAYS TKIUtV IS A DOOR For Not Meeting the Pope Says Cutliolic Arch Bishop. Theodore Roosevelt's action in not t meeting Pope Pius on the former - president's recent visit to Rome, was called insulting and a violation of Mr. Roosevelt's principle of a square leal by Most Rev. William H. O'Coni nell, archbishop of Boston at a public meeting of the American Federa: tion of Catholic societies of the dior cese, in Lowell, Mass., Tuesday. Jno. - Callun O'Loughlin, former assistant . secretary of state, who conducted the negotiations between Mr. Roosevelt and the Vatican, was severely castigated by the archbishop. SIX 1NBIUT.MKNTS SICiXKI). Government Agent Pays Negress $12<? for White Girl. 1 A dispatch from New York say* s six indictments signed by John l) Rockefeller, Jr., as foreman of Lie special grand jury that has t?vrn in1 vestigating the traffic in women, *.-te p made public Tuesday, giving the r prices at which it is charged uin girls were sold into lives of ainue. The state will seek to prove :hat Belle Moore, a negroes, accepted $120 from George A. Miller, a gov* eminent agent, for Belle Woods an>i 1 Alice Milton, little girls so young r.nat they wept when they were parted from their dolls. KKOTHKK KILLS UitOTIIKK. a ? In it Family How Over the Boundary s of Some I?un<1. I Peter Kennedy, a prominent young farmer who lived on Fair Forest y creek on the line, between Union and f, Spartanburg counties, was shot and t killed by his brother, David Kenney dy, Friday afternoon al>out 1 o'clock. TVv.. ? V. " , . suuuuug occurreri over a dis[. pute al>out a land line. Edward t Hayes and Peter Kennedy, brotherse In-law, were disputlnR about a line [j between their land. David Kennedy e came by and took the matter up >. He went home and Rot his pistol and |. returned and '.mot his brother. Death was almost instantaneous. Teddy has worked off a Rood deal II of hot air on those unsuspecting e Frenchmen. It reads well, but Teddy does not mean a word of it. # STORK IN YANKEELAND ? ALIEN RACES 8HOW MARKED INCREASE IN CONNECTICUT. i Rirth Rate Anionic Native Stock Is in the Decline.?I>atlns U>ad ull Foreign Races. The report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Connecticut indicates that that state, once the home of the New England Yankee, is becoming a foreigu community. Study of the tabulations concerning births re veal that the native stock of the com- | monwealth Is being overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the invuding races from oversea. Italians, Slavs, and Austrians are beginning to tigure prominently in the payrolls of Connecticut factories, and they are also raising crops and families on worn out farms on which Yankees find it difficult to provide a decent living. The extent of the injection of imported blood and the shifting propor- ( tions of new racial elements are , creating marked changes in the population and the citizenship of Connecticut. In its Connecticut rounds the stork prefers to visit alien households. In 1908 there were 26.6,94 births in the state. The num'ber of cases in which both parents were foreign born 1 foots to 14,130, establishing a new high record. The percentage of foreign births in the past decade has increased from 41.7 to 62.9 per cent. 1 Meanwhile the percentage o f birth where both parerts are native born has undergone irregular decline. In other words the percentage of purely American births in Connecticut suffered a shrinkage of 7 per cent, during the ten year period, ' while the ratio of purely foreign births mounted 11.2 per cent. The , percentage of births when one parent is returned aB native horn and the ] other foreign born was 12.3 in 1908, while in 1.2 per cent, of the cases ] the nationality of the fathers and mothers was not given. The Italian race is supreme in the i number of foreign children born in < 1908. Of the total of 14,130, just 4,4 21 were of Italian origin. Rub- i sian born parents, most of whom are I Jews, contributed 2,364 babies In ' 1908. The decline of the immigra- 1 tion of Irish and German stock is also noticeable. In 1899 the Irish led the percentage. In 1908 that nationality was third in the list. Slavs. Hungarians and Canadians show an increase in population, especially in the manufacturing centers. Twenty-six towns in Connecticut show an excess of deaths over blrtJis ' for the year 1908. In most of these ( the old native stock predominates and the infusion of foreign blood has been small. In the rural town of ] Andover, for example, three birth , certificates were filed during the year. All the births were of American parentage and all the deced- | ents were American born. Of the ! 1(1 births which occurred in the farm- i ing town of North Stoningham in New London county, all were from Yankee born fathers and mothers, while 2 2 out of 25 decedents were native Americans. In North Tlranford, to cite one more illustration, eight of the eleven, babies born during the year were of purely Amer- j ican parentage and 17 of the 19 , persons who died were of native stock. ANOTKHR OEOIM1IA KILLINC. One Prominent Farmer Shoots Another About Oats. A special to the Augusta Herald from Milledgeville says Edward Napier, one of the most prominent farmers and business men of this section, living 12 miles front that city, was shot and killed by William Deason, at an early hour Thursday morning. Mr. Napier, who is an extensive farmer, sold Deason a quantity of oats last fall, about which t>.e dispute arose and Napier went to Deason's home to collect the bill and a quarrel resulted. Hotii men usee1 pistols, according to the re port, and information at hand. Deason is in a dying condition. Napier is a member of a prominent family and well known over the state. Furniture Factory (turned. T.he Rameeur furniture factory, located at Hamseiir, N. C., was entirely burned by fire Thursday, the fire originated in the dry kiln. The loss is about $80,000 with insurance of $25,000. This is one of the largest woodworking plants in the State and was operated by Mr. E. C. Wnt Kins, as secretary and treasurer, who had been very successful in managing the business. Name is Kyder. "Mrs. John W. Snow of Savannah. , (Ja.t" w.ho shot herself in the side . wit-h suicidal Intent at t.he Hotel Knickerbocker. New York, is Miss I Kstelle Kyder. 22 years old, daugh, ter of Chas. Ryder, a farmer, of Oss. ing, N. Y. I Act as tho you were the lendr or of the universe and you'll ilud . yourself in a forsaken corner watching the parade go by. The Chah of the Tsar. Among the possessions ot the i?ni1 eix r of Russia in a diamond of grc&t value, the history of which is as 10mantic as that of the famous Koliinoor. It is an Irregular prism in shape, of the size ami nearly the Umgth of the finger, and is called the Chah. This stone, which formerly belonged Po the tiophi. was one ot the two etiormouse diamonds which adorned the throne of Nadirchah and was called by the Persians "Mcon of the Mountains." When Nadir was assassinated his troasurc-s were pillaged and his precious stones were divided between ionie soldiers, who concealed U.exn. An Armenian named Shulras, who lived with his biotheis in the town ot Bassora, was one day accosted by an Afghan, w ho offered for sale a large diamond, with a hundred c her piece* ui k-js vault-, lor a small sum. Sayins lie hid not Liie nets ai> lands toi the purchase. Shatras asked the At ghan to call again. The diamond seller was evidently suspicious of Shatras. for he disappear'd from the town and could not he found for \4?irs. At last the elder 01 Shalras* brothers r-ame across him at Bagdad just af.er he had disixised of his gems, 'lhe purchaser, who was a Hebrew, refused double the amount he had jvaid for the stones, so the three hrothr^ conspired to kill him for the possession of them. When this had been accomplish they followed the Afghan. po:soned him and threw the bodies ol their two victims in-'.o the Ruphrates. Next the brothers disagreed among themselves, and the eldest disposed of the others in the same way they had rid themselves of the Hebrew and the Afghm. Shatras next appeared an the courts of Europe, offering his great diamonu for sale. Catherine of Russ-.a (Catherine 11.) had the man invited to court and put into communication with the court jeweller. The conditions offered Shafras were:?letters Df nobility, an annuity of ten thousand rubles, five hundred thousand rubles. payable In tenths from year to year. Shafras held out for six hundred thousand rubles in cuY Count Banein, who was Minister at the time, launched the Armenian in a style ot life which obliged him to contract large debts, and when he knew Nhat Shafras had no longer a sou with which to meet them he broke off negotiations. According to the laws of tie country, Shafras could not leave tin empire or even the town without paying his debts, so his position was painfully embarrassing. The jevsellt-r ot tho court was prepared to profit by the Armenian's distress, but the max. was too sharp for him. He secretly =old some inferior stones to his com na riots, paid his debts and dlsap [>eared. u >v?a miiv ien years DPiore hi was aguin heard from. Th?>ei he reap pearrd in Astrakhan on his way to Turkey. Negotiations were reopened and Catherine became ixiesessor of th< atones. The price paid was the letter* ;>f nobility, six hundred thousand silver rubles in assignats. Shafras, being unable to return ho his native land, settled in Astrakhan and married. Twenty years later hi was poisoned by one of his son-inlaws, who pained little by his death Tor the immense fortune was soon dissipated. Feveral of the prandehildren are now living in Astrakhan in abject pover.y. The Profit in Graphs. i n en h;isiast writes: "The grape is th-_* poor man's fruit, especially one v ho has only a house lot of the smallest possible dimensions. lie eat. piuait vines besade luis cottage and their roots will extend and profitab!> occupy every inch of ground underneath It, and from that small spaci prcxluee all the frui'l his family cat consume, while the vines afford shadi and protection and add beauty to his little home, occupying no space, eitti er above or below the gtound, to interfere with other interests. ai.d pro during more fruit in less time am. with less labor and attention than anj other thing that was ever planted." Growing of grapes in gi aperies fur nishes an important source of rev enue in some eoun.riea, notably B< 1 gium and the Channel islands, when large quantities are annually growt and exported. The. United States i; a good customer for them, as high a 35 cents to 7."? cents a pound wholesale and to $3 ami even more a pount retail, being paid for the fruit, drain growing in pots is mucii pracIced i parts of Euroi>e. and especially it Krance, where the yine-s ai- largel> used for decorative puri>oseH on festive occasions. Shipping and keeping grapes in cork dust, is quite an industry in some of the I&uropc&n grape districts. A consid crable quantity of such grapes, ship ped from Spain, is annually consumed in the United States. Gales are very rare in Rome, and never blow with extreme violence. The most striking peculiarity of tne rt< man climate is the abseiuve of high winds. The air is pure and clear, owing to the almost complete absence f?t smoke, even in the winter months. The Bverage yearly movement of the air is only five miles an hour. This Is of enormous advantage in winter, s ece the "tramontana" (north wind), which is the prevailing wind in this season. Is, if strong, decidedly cold and bracing, but when under eight miles an hotir is delightful for most people, including invalids. The south winds are essentially sea breezes. They frequently alternate with the tramontana. The sirocco (southeast wind), which fortunately does not often blow, is moist and enervating. It gives rise to languor In most individuals. In a small shop in New York City, managed by a woman, flowers of wonderful coloring are made from the scai^s of various hah. MANY ARE DEAD As the Result of an Earthquake at the city of Cartago, Porta Rico. A FEARFUL DISASTER , t A Ijargo Purt of the City Was Destroyed niul Five llundivd or More People Were Killed, and Many Hundreds More Were More or Less Injured. A dispatch from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, says a large part of Cartage, Costa Rico, was destroyed Wednesday night by a powerful seismic. movement. Details are very meagre, as the | telegraph wires have b*en levelled between San Jose and Cartago. The operators at the latter place were killed. The dispatch says it is known that at least five hundred persons are I dead and many hundreds aie Injured. Scores of buildings were thrown down, among them the Palace of Justice, erected by Andrew Carnegie. > iThe wife and child of Dr. llocanegra, the Guatemalan magistrate to the Central American Arbitration | Court, have been killel. Panic reigns >s t.hc earthquake continues. San Jose has also been shaken, some of the buildings being damaged, but no deaths are reported In that city. Some persons were slightly injured. Earth shocks were also felt at srver.il points in Nicaragua, near tho C-: sta Uican frontier. Reports reaching .here state that here is much suffering and destitution at Canago consequent upon tho disaster. JOHN MATH IS FOUND GUILTY. Slayer of l>r. C. W. Hickman Must Serve Life Sentence. John Mathis, a negro, was convicted of the murder of Dr. C. r?r. Hickman, at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday. The assassination of Dr. Hickman has been a sensatloa in Augusta for weekH. He was one of the most prominent citizens of ?j?at city, and a practicing physician of note. He called at the home of Ms brother, in Summervllle, on February 2, at night. leaving there, in his return to his residence, a abort distance away, .he was shot to death and his |>ockets were rifled. Among the articles stolen from his body was his watch. Two tnon'hs inter this negro Mathis, offered this watch in pawn. With this ciue to cuide them, the police threw a complete chain of circumstantial evidence about LMathis. During tho trial the Court gave :o the accused, as counsel, Kx-Con.ressnian W. II. FW milig and A. L. Franklin, a will known criminal lawyer. These attorneys by evidence in wdiich no name was mentioned. set it up that a "in> sterioua man" was seen to leave the scene of (lie murder the night of the assassination. The counsel held that tVIa "mys'.erious" personage was the murder r. in t.his way sultieient doubt was raised to secure from the jury tho recommendation to mercy. THK WAt.KS OF SIN. Fiend Killed II imself Because Ho Fcuii'd Being Lynched. . William Teet, a farmer who was arrested on the charge of attempted criminal assualt upon a young white girl, committed suicide by shooting himself. whilo b*ing taken in a imikk.v "y .>iarsiiui scurs 10 nrooKvtlle, Ky., for safe keeping. Marshal S'ars, hearing that threats had been made to lynch Teet, secured a buggy and started with his prisoner for the Rrockville jail. On the way* Teet drew a revolver from his hoot leg and shot himself through the heart. Whether he had the revolver on is person when Beached or secured it later is not known. Stove Kxplodes. At Philadelphia Mrs. Yette Friedman, GO years old, wiir killed Monday by an explosion of w.hat is believed to have been dynamite in the range of her home. Several other persons were injured and the house was badly damaged. It is believed that the explosive was placed In the fuel b7 enemies. Agrees With Ilryan. "I believe fifty per c* nt of the I seats in t.he United States senate can be said to have been practically purchased." This statement was made recently by former United; States Senator Wm. E. Mason in an interview in Chicago urging the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. s.ncis eqi jo juapfsoj,! papoio eq toil p(noo .tojacjitqti |rn>m siq* jo until ? a be 01 prja *>.ib da jnq 'pjBMpH jo qjBOp aqj joao ' op oj jb.?jX b ituiqirui sj ppio.w *qjj ft . i '^sii