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t * Jwi h The on'3 made from g Mo Alum? "state rights ?. Upheld in Two Trust Cases by the Federal Supreme Court. STATE COURTS RIGHT o Decides Mint Mississippi lias I/egul ltight to Disband Lumber Dealers and That Kentucky Had the High! to Oust the Standard Oil from that' State. The hands of the State in their fight against "trusts" were upheld Monday by the Supreme court of the United States with telling effect. The association of Retail Lumber Dealers in Mississippi and Louisianna was disbanded by affirmance of the decree of the supreme court of J Mississippi and the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was ousted from Tennessee by the approval of the decree of the supreme court of ! Tennessee. Moth, the state courts 1 .had held, violated the anti trust act | of the respective states. Justice Lurton announced the opinion of the court in the Mississippi , cnse. It was his first utterance from ' the supreme court bench 011 the ^ "trust" question. He said the members of the association .had obligated . themselves not to deal with any man- j ufacturer or wholesaler in lumber who sold to consumers in the localities in which they conducted a busi- ^ ness sufficiently large to meet the demand of t.he public. He accepted the findings of the c state courts, and declared that it is ^ an illegal combination and conspir- ' acy under Mississippi statute. j The proceedings in the Standard Oil case were begun in 1 907 under the Tennessee anti-trust act. The ^ charges against the standard originated out of a transaction at Galla- * tin, Tenn. The Standard of Kentucky .had oil stored in tanks in Tennessee, j. from which it procured a supply to serve merchants throughout various ) k . sort ions of the state. The Evansville Lw Oil Company of Hvansville, Ind., sent J i lA a salesman to Gallatin to sell oil. He obtained a number of orders j? whereupon the agent of the Standard Oil offered to give t.he merchants ten j. gallons of oil per barrel to counter- ( I- mand their purchase orders with the Ij Evansville oil company. Four of ^ them accepted. . , The Standard and two of its ag 'its ^ L were indicted under the State amitrust act. One of the agents was ? convicted, but the Standard escaped j punishment on t.he ground that it ' could not be fined under the act, but f , i could only be ousted. ? v ! Ouster proceedings were then be- ri } gun against it, the charges being j based on the Gallatin transactions. c mho statn courts issued an ousting p f ? i decree from which an appeal was a taken to the Supreme Court of the s United States.. t Justice Holmes announced the t< opinion of the court. All the conten- d tions of the company wore disposed of favorably to the State. Made Big Haul. T At Charleston on Friday the disijf pensary constables captured three I luarrels of half pints and 50 quarts J, J of whiskey, hidden among a lot of ^ meat in the market. The constables a also captured about 5 0 gallons of ;j iliquor at a farm, in the suburbs of ^ the city, making a total of about 100 gallons which the force has pick- ^ j ed up in two days. ^ ( They Are. Held. ^ (The Servian government has re- p, eeived a dispatch from Uskub station that a number of foreign newspaper men reporting the war In Al- tc bania were seized by the Albanians is at Katchan'1' ^ass some days ago and a< carried off to a lonely and almost it inaccessible place in the moun- d tains. bi Heathful Qualities to the Food m onomizes Flour, I tatter and Eggs M W4LI r baking powder p Royal Grape Cream i f Tartar jg a^Llmo^Phosphatos^^^ WANTED IT BADLY MARK TWAIN WHITES ABOUT THE PENSION THAT ? ? He Fuiieil to i?c;t I localise He Had Served as a Soldier in the Confederate Army. A section chief in the pension bureau has preserved a copy of a characteristic Mark Twain letter, addressed to Gen. John C. Black, now president of the Civil Service Commission, but at the time this communication was received was commissioner of pensions. Senator Hawiey had called up the case of Samuel Clements, a soldier w.ho had disability from "rheumatism and sore yes," incurred in the military service. When the pension was alloWed Senator Kawley, in accordance with the usual custom, was notified. He had probably never neard of the soldier, the request for a call up and the filling of an inquiry slip being, is a rule, a part of the duty of a senator's private secretary. When he circular from the pension office < ame under his eye he could think oi 10 soldier named Clements. i He jumped to the conclusion tha* :he pension was intended for his 'riend and fellow citizen, Samuel L. Jlemens of Hartford, Conn., and ad- ; d?ed him accordingly. The genial in mo i is t said that there had been a i 'mixup" and inclosed Senator Haw- 1 ey's note in the letter to Comniisdoner Black given below: Hartford, Conn., July 8, '85. Ion. John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions: ' Sir: I have not applied for a pen don. I have often wanted a pendon?often?ever so often?but, inismuoh as the only military service t ever performed during the war was j n the Confederate army I have al- : vays felt a delicacy about asking you > or it; however since you .have suggested the thing yourself, I feel ] itrengthened. I have not any very i >ensionable disease myself, but I can * urnish a substitute?a man who is ust simply a chaos, a museum of r l 11 tlve different kinds of aches and s >ains, fractures, dislocations, dis- n empers, distortions, contusions and a naiformations t.here are; a man who vould regard "rheumatism and sore yes" as a mere recreation and rereshnient after the serious occupaions of liis day.. If you grant me the pension, dear ir, please hand it to Gen. Ilawley, Tnited States Senate?1 mean .hand dm the certificate, not the money? nd lie will forward it to me. You s vi 11 perceive by bis postal card here- i vith enclosed, that he takes a friend- 3 y interest in t.he matter. He thinks v have already got the pension, n whereas 1 have only got the rheu- p uatism, hut I did not want that? ? had that before. I wish it were 'i atching. 1 know a man that I would | oad up with it pretty early. We $ 11 feel that way sometimes. I have e een the day when?but never mind ,> hat; you may be husv; just hand it t o Hawley?the certificate, you un- e erstand, is not transferable. Very truly yours, (Singed) S. L. Clemens. Known to the police as "Mark wain." 11 Gen. Hawley's postal card read: Dear Sir: I am informed that your elision is allowed, and I congratuite you. Very truly yours, J. It. fj lawley." / C] S; Shot for Ten Cents. ^ In a dispute over ten cents, which d; rose w<hi 1 e the parties were gamb- T ng, Mel Wicker Sunday morning pi lot and probably mortally wounded H noch Bridges in the St. Phillip's in action of Newberry county, both b< Firties being colored. c? ' , H Taft's friends had better not put rc >o much confidence in Teddy's prom- w ;e to stand by the President and his ^ministration. On occasion, when was to his interest to do so, Ted- ol v has been known to have a very F ad memory. 4 d: A LIVELY CORPSE WERE MOST AUHKEAIILY Sl'KPHISEI) ON TKA1N AIUtlYAL Went to Meet Ihmd Body of Brother, but Siuv Him Get i if Train Well and Happy. Through a misunderstanding in a long distance telephone message relitives of T. C. Chandlers of Washing:on, D. C., went to the depot at Wadesboro, N. C., the other night expecting to meet the dead body of dr. Chandler, and were most hap?i 1 y surprised to greet him well and happy. T.he Messenger and Intelligencer tells the story: (T. C. Chandler of Washington, D. C., John W. Chandler of Virginia, and It. W. Chandler of Manguin, Richmond county, are brothers. They are all getting to be old men, and, thougJi their paths through life have been divergent, they nevertheless, have preserved an unusual affection for each other. John W. Chandler has for some time been on a visit to R. W. Chandler at Mangum. T. C. Chandler attended t?he reunion at Mobile and cached Charlotte Saturday on the return trip. From Charlotte he telephoned R. W. Chandler that he would pay him a visit and to meet him in Wadesboro, witfi a wagon Saturday afternoon to carry his trunk to Mangum. Mrs. It. W. 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 remains that evening. 'Immediately there was consterna- j tion in the household and John W. Chandler at once made preperations to come to Wadesboro. He hired ? ream and reac.hed town in time to meet the seven o'clock train from Charlotte. It was his intention to take charge of the supposed corpse ana take it to Virginia and deposit it heside the remains of his ancestors. With this end in view lie went to 'he express car as soon as the train stopped and asked the express messenger if he had a corpse aboard. The messenger answered in the negative, 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 standing before him alive and well, he fell m the supposed corpse's shoulder and wept. The good news was ijuickly telephoned to the grief-stricken family, it Mangum, the brothers spending he night here and joining their irother at that place nt-xt day. SAYS TEDDY IS A HOOK Air Not Meeting the Pope Says Catholic Arch Kisbop. Theodore Roosevelt's action in not neeting Pope Pius 011 the former iresident's recent visit to Rome, was ailed insulting and a violation of f?. nrinninlo of a Sdliare ill , i vvy?/ ov ? v/? v w |y. ...w.j.-v, ? - , leal by Most Rev. William H. O'Conlell, archbishop of Boston at a pubic meeting of the American Federaion of Catholic societies of Uie dioese, in Lowell, Mass., Tuesday. J no. Lallan O'Loughlin, former assistant ecretary of state, who conducted the tegotiations between Mr. Roosevelt nd the Vatican, was severely castigated by the archbishop. SIX 1XIUlT.MKXTS SKiXKl). lovei'iinient Agent Rays Negress $CJO for WIiito CiirL A dispatch from New York sa^ i ix indicinients signed by John O ' tockefeller, Jr., as foreman of" Lie pecial grand jury that has .)>en in- 1 nodcitiiKT tlio t rn fTi c in wnmon. vsiie ' UO I 1 * I ? V VI v? * ? " ; nade public Tuesday, giving Die rices at which it is charged niri-^ 1 iris were sold into lives of &n.ine. 1 'he state will seek to pro ye that 5 telle Moore, a negroes, accepted 1 120 from George A. Miller, a gov- 1 rnment agent, for Belle Woods ami s Jice Milton, little girls so young 1 hat they wept when they were part- ' d from their dolls. 5 BROTHKB KILLS HBOTIIKH. 1 i a Family Bow Over the Boundary ( of Some Ijand. 1 Peter Kennedy, a prominent young c irmer who lived on Fair Forest c reek on the line, between Union and n partanburg counties, was shot and ^ illed by his brother, David Kenne- * \ y, Friday afternoon about 1 o'clock. Wo shooting occurred over a disato about a land line. Edward ayes and Peter Kennedy, brothersi-law, wore disputing about a line 0 jtween t.heir land. David Kennedy v ime by and took the matter up. b e went home and got his pistol and E 'turned and shot his brother. Death ti as almost instantaneous. * ii Teddy has worked off a good deal r hot air on those (unsuspecting c renchmen. It reads well, but Ted- y y does not mean a word of it. ii STORK IN YANKEELAND ALIEN HACKS SHOW MAKKKI) INCKKASK IN CONNECTICUT. Ilirth Hate Antony Native Stork Is in the Decline.? Latins Lead ah Foreign Hares. 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 foreign community. Study of the tabulations concerning births reveal that the native stock of the coin-, moil wealth is being overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the invading races from oversea. Italians, Slavs, and Austrians are beginning to ligun prominently in the payrolls of Connecticut factories, and they are also raising crops and families on worn out farms on which Yankees find it diflic 1111 to provide a decent living. The extent of the injection of imported blood and the shifting proportions of new racial elements are creating marked changes in the population and the citizenship of Con necticut. In its Connecticut rounds t.ho stork prefers to visit alien households. In 1908 there were 26.694 births in the state. The number of cases is which both parents were foreign born foots to 14,130, establishing a new high record. The percentage of foreign births in the past decade has increased from 41.7 to 52.9 per cent Meanwhile the percentage o f birth where both parents 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 as native born and the | other foreign born was 12.3 in 1 908, 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 number of foreign children born in 1908. Of the total of 14,130, just 4,421 were of Italian origin. Russian born parents, most of whom are Jews, contributed 2,364 babies in 190S. The decline of the immigra tion of Irish and German stock is also noticeable. In 1899 the Irish led the percentage. In 1 908 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 birt.hs for the year 1 908. In most of these the old native stock predominates and the infusion of foreign blood haf> ' been small. In the rural town of Andover, for example, three birth certificates were filed during the year. All t.he births were of American parentage and all the decedents were American horn. Of the 10 births which occurred in the farming town of North Stoningham in i New Tvondon county, all were from ' Yankee born fathers and mothers, while 22 out of 25 decedents were native Americans. In Nort.h Bran ford, to cite one more illustration, eight of the eleven, babies born during the year were of purely American parentage and 17 of the 19 persons who died were of native stock. AXOTEIIU <jI0Olt<jlA KILLING. ? One Prominent Parmer Shoots Anotlier Al?out 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 from that ntv, 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 jj the dispute arose and Napier went to Deason's home to collect the bill ? md a quarrel resulted. DoUi men used pistols, according to the report, and information at hand. Deason is in a dying condition. Napier is a member of a prominent family and well known over the date. Furniture Factory Iltirned. T.he Ramseur furniture factory, ocated at Ramseur, N. C., was enirely burned by fire Thursday, th* ire originated in the dry kiln. The F oss is about $80,000 with insurance >f $25,000. This is one of the larg st woodworking plants in the State nd was operated by Mr. E. C. Wat- c, :ins, as secretary and treasurer, who ,N lad been very successful in mauag- ?() ng the business. if * ?1{ Name is Ryder. re "Mrs. John \V. Snow of Savannah. 0( !a.," w.ho shot herself in the sidt be ,it.h suicidal intent at t.he Hotel flu Knickerbocker, New York, is Miss in ^stelle Ryder, 22 years old, daugh k; pr of Chas. Ryder, a farmer, of Oss ed ng, N. Y. Act as tho you were the lead* ea r of the universe and you'll find ca ourself in a forsaken corner watch- T1 ig the parade go by. fch KAiNK oj Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLt S LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDER? SECURJIY TO DEPOSITORS ! DIkl: Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, Oeorge .1. Holiday, VVe < o111inue to } a) f> [t-r cent inter it youraccouut -tOBKBT H. BCAKHORi I 1 H KS 11 NT. I'S | FIRST HATH ? CAPITAL STXH*K SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASS EST S ?I>IRK( J. A. I.YU'I)ormott. John ' i|W 13. (J. Collins, H. L. 1 ^ M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu jwk Successor to the Rank o Horry County, and a pioneer (VS lv allied with the recent <ie\ 1 epuhlic. Racked hy t he j|C Unit' d States Honds, we are | ii-rtoiMirtuic civi/i/m A\ II. A. SPIYKY, $ Cashier. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, H. H. WOODWARD \ttoriiey and Councelor At La> CONWAY, 8. C. K. B. 8CARBKOUGH CONWAY, 8. C Attorney at Law. d. II. BP R KOlXiHS Physician and Surstwa j CON WAV, 8. C. V B. WOFFOHI) WAIT. * r . Attorney at Ii? . Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. C. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEW1N6 MACHINE k J-IGHT RUNNING ^ rvou want oil nor ft vinninngssnuuio. itomry Shuttle or a Single Thread [ Chain Stitch} Sowing Machine write to HE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Ornnge, Mass. [any sewing machines are made to sell regardless ot quality, bat the Xow Homo is made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out JSolft by authorlKod doalertt on lye FOR SALB BY BURROUGHS A COLLINS CO., Conway. S. C. i STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ire Partially Destroys Chattanooga Court house. iAt Chattanooga. Tenn., the county aurt. House, valued at $180,000. as damaged by fire Saturday night ' the extent of at least $75,000, and 1 the valuable records are found to c ivo been destroyed the loss will ach in tiho neighborhood of $1.- 0 >0,000. The fire was caused by a ^ >lt of lightning, whioh struck the (' igpole on top of t'he dome, contain- c g the big clock. The entire upper irtion of the building was consum* .? .? v The spring coining this year sc 0 rly and unexpected seems to have C tight the spring poets napping, ii Us may account for the welcome v ortage of spring poetry. le F HOKHY, iv. S, C. %> 7 $ 50 00T 10 00* 5 50 001 110 (XX CIOKS W. R. Lewis, W. A. .Johnson, \N ill A Freeman. est on yearl) deposits. m>< we solicl L HOOK, WILL A. FRF KM AH Nice Lrksiiunt. Cahhikb j 3NAL BANK | $25,000.00 ;jj 2.500.00 ffij 125,000.00 ifk 1 C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, hick. W. R. Lewis, D. ^ attlcbaum, I). A. Spivey. f Ccnway, t.he oldest Hank in dik in Kastn rn Carolina. Close- J' ,'elopment of the Independent fp (rovernnieiit and secured by /IV prepared to extend to our cus- lit modations. CO H. G. COLLINS, A President. ^ ~ ? % III NG IIY 11 Kit IIKKLS. Terrible Fiendish Act of Cruelty Reported from Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle says laet Monday morning a negro girl, 12 years old, was found hanging by her heels to a pine tree in Lincoln county. The girl had been missing since Saturday two weeks ago. 'When discover <1 she was almost dead. She had been beaten terribly and- showed evidences of other ill treatment. After being attended by doctors, she regained consciousness long enough to tell who had treated L ..11., ml. _ - # it- - iicr zsu c i ih'i i) . i lit* iiitmt's ui tnc parties are not given, but it is learned that two negro women and a negro man are in jail at Lincolnton, changed with the crime. /Nothing is known as to how long the girl had been hanging to the tree. She had been tied up with wild grape vines. The t.hrongs had cut into her flesh a nd blood poisoning has set in. She is not expected to live. Sheriff Wright, of Lincoln county, who was in Augusta, says that he has been unable to find out the cause of the girl's treatment, but understands that it grew out of some contention over work on a farm in that county. * ? ltUtMOl) WITII TIIN IIOUSK. ? . Voting Man Hefused to .lump fiom Window aiul Is l/ost. At Hickory, N. C., Mr. Clarence, Seabnch, a 20-year-old youth, was. Minted to death Friday night in a second story room of his father's louse. The hoy went home at I 1 /clock and at 12.10 the alarm was turned in. The old man went to ho window and cried to his son. vho was screaming for help, to jump. It was only about fourteen feet to he ground, but the young man seem*d to be dazed. He went back into \ho room and not long after his agonized parent saw him, fall to his ineea and the Ilames blotted out 11 y further vision. A man climbed on an improvised scaffold to the .vindow a little later, but was too ate. The charred and unrecognizable emains were found in the ashes. Voting Seaboch went home at II o'clock, and, as he smokes it is supposed that he may have dropped a spark or left a lamp too near some inflaniahle material. The city is shocked over the holocaust and there is a general awakening to the importance of tire escapes. ? ? ? ( H\H(,i:i) WITH CONTKMPT. date Senator (lifton Clashes With Magistrate. State Senator John H. Clifton, of hunter County, is under $2,50( tond, on an appeal to the supren v ourt, following a ruling for eonenipt by a magistrate In nis home ounty. The fine for contempt wa? :5 and the cause was t.he allegetl onduct of the Senator in arguing a ase before the magistrate. ? ? Killed by Train. Jack Hall, white, aged 83 years, /as killed by a south-bound Central ( Georgia passenger train at Ivey, la., at an early hour Friday morntig. Mr. Hall had been fishing and /as caught on the trestle cod knockd off, dying instantly.