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"state rights
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Upheld in Two Trust Cases by the Federal
Supreme Court.
STATE COURTS RIGHT
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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.
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! 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
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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]
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 $1.- 0
>0,000. The fire was caused by a ^
>lt of lightning, whioh struck the ('
igpole on top of t'he dome, contain- c
g the big clock. The entire upper
irtion of the building was consum*
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The spring coining this year sc 0
rly and unexpected seems to have C
tight the spring poets napping, ii
Us may account for the welcome v
ortage of spring poetry. le
F HOKHY,
iv. S, C.
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$ 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. ^
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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. *
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ltUtMOl) WITII TIIN IIOUSK.
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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.
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( 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.
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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.