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TRUST OONTROLED COURTS.
Federal Court in St. Paul, Minn.,
Decides That Tobacco Trust's
Rule
Prohibiting its Customers From Buying
From its Competitors is not in Re?
straint of Competition. .
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 12.-The
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
. today handed down an opinion in the
suit for treble damages brought by
Joseph P. Whitwell, a local tobacco
dealer, against the Continental To?
bacco Company, known as the Tobacco
Trust, in . which judgment is rendered
in favor of the Continental Company.
The opinion affirms the judgment of
the United States District Court,
which held that the refusal of the To?
bacco Trust to sell its manufactured
product to Whitwell, did not consti?
tute a legal injury, was not in restraint
of Inter-State commerce, and does not
violate the national anti-trust law.
Whitwell alleged that the Continen?
tal Tobacco Company charged prohibi?
tive prices for certain grades unobtain?
able elsewhere, and attached as condi?
tion to the sale cf such goods that its
customers should not buy of compet?
ing companies of the Continental Com?
pany.
Whitwell had done business with the
company on this basis for some time.
On May 18, 190*2, however, he refused
to obey the requirements of the com?
pany, and, being unable to procure
goods elsewhere, he brought an action
to recover treble damages under the
National Anti-Trust Act.
The sole ground for the action was
the company's refusal to sell him goods
at a price which would allow him to
make a profit on his sales unless he
would refrain from handling other
goods.
The Court says the action of the to?
bacco company did not restrict competi?
tion between that company and the in?
dependent manufacturers, who are
the trust's competitors, because it left
the latter free to select their purchases
and to fix their prices and terms. The
Court says :
* 'The tobacco company and its com- j
Petitors were not dealers in articles of
prime necessity, as corn, or veal, nor
were they rendering public or quasi
public service, like a railroad com?
pany. Each of them, therefore, had
the right to refuse to sell its commodi?
ties at any price." The Court goes
further, ard says that the acts of the
tobacco company are nothing more or
less 'c than the lawful exercise of their
unquestioned rights, which are indis?
pensable to the existence of competi?
tion or the conduct of trade."
COTTON ?Gilli ACTIVE.
Sales Estimated at 800,000
i Bales, Closing Net 14 to 21
Points Higher. -
New York, Nov. 12.-The cotton
marker- opened firm at an advance of
1 to 6 points in spite of lower cables,
better weather than predicted
and continued heavy receipts, but,
following the call? ruled very irregular,
showing alternating periods of strength
and weakness, with' prices fluctuating
with 4 or 5 points either way of yester?
day's finals. The morning's advices
from-JPali Biver, while confirming the
reduction in wages, spoke reassuring?
ly of the outlook for a strike, and this
aided in the rallies, while the heavy
estimate for - to-morrow's receipts at
Houston and fears that the market
was overlong encouraged sales.
. Thd market during the late trading
became very active and excited. After
opening higher and declining to a
level, net 5 to 8 points lower, it was
rallied by a renewal of bull support
and by a scare of shorts, chiefly as a
result of smaller receipts than estimat?
ed for tomorrow, and sold up to 11.09
for December, 11.10 for January, 11.16
for March and 11.18 for May.
The closing was firm within a few
points of the best and net 14 to 21
points higher. Sales estimated at SOO,
OOO bales.
The receipts of cotton at the ports
today were 71,217 bales, against 56,7S0
last week, and 49,720 last year. For
the week, 440,000 bales, against 412,217
last week and 346,583 last year. To?
day's receipts at Nsw Orleans were 21,
070 bales, against 17,163 last year, and
at Houston 20,S54, against 14,5S4 last
year.
Don't ask us about "Fewer gallons
wears longer."
Gorman and McClellan.
The New York Herald says that
Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama,
takes the ground that the result of
last week's elections forecasts the
nomination of Gorman and McClellan
as the Democratic Presidential ticket
next year.
"The result in Maryland,' said
Senator Morgan, is a great satisfaction
to Senator Gorman's friends, and it
does not seem probable now that he
can be beaten for the nomination*.
Mr. McClellan's great victory in New
York makes him a national character
in the Democratic party at once. With
a good clean administration of the
city's affairs, which I have every rea- j
son to believe he will give, he will be
a strong man for Mr. Gorman's run- j
ning mate. Senator Gorman now has
the South almost solidly with him,
the indorsement which he received in
his own State on the race issue, a
question close to the hearts of the
Southern people, puts him far in the
lead for the head of the Democratic
ticket."
Ask the postmaster about "Fewer gal?
lon4; ; wears longer." .
Only Makes a Bad Matter
Worse.
Perhaps you have never thought of it
but the fact must be apparent to every
one that constipation is caused by a lack
of water in the system, and the use of
drastic cathartics like the old fashioned
pills only makes a bad matter worse
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
are much more mild and gentle in their
effect, and when the proper dose is taken
their action is so natural that one can
hardly realize it is the effect of a medicine.
Try a 25 cent bottle of them. For sale by
China's Drug Store.
THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL.
!
j lt Has Destroyed Millions of Dol
! lars Worth of Gotten This
; Season.
Washington, Nov. J2.-Repr?senta?
tive Slayden of Texas does not agree
with Secretary Wilson's conclusion that
the boll weevil cannot be exterminated
and that the only recourse southern
cotton planters have is early planting.
In discussing the announced conclu?
sions of the secretary of agriculture
Mr. Slayden says: "I have profound
respect for the ability and ch racier of
Mr. Wilson, and therefore I regret to
have to differ from him. What he sug?
gests is not practicable-at leasC not
entirely so. Whether cotton is planted
early or late in Texas does-not, as a
i rule, depend upon the will of the plan?
ter. The season regulates that, and
the season in Texas cannot be regu?
lated. The weevil did millions of dol?
lars of damage this year in August
and September, during which months
cotton continues to bloom and to fruit.
In my opinion, the State of Texas has
adopted the right course in offering a
reward for a complete remedy for this
distressing situation. Our State has
offered a reward of $50,000, open to
the world, for the discovery of any
practical method of destroying the
weevil.
Suppose the federal government
were to offer five times as much, would
it not stimulate men of science to
even greater exertion? I am told that
when the vineyards of France were in
danger from an insect a reward of
$100,000 was offered for the finding of a
remedy, and that it was found.
Whether that is true or not I don't
know. But it doesn't matter. We can
make precedents in this country.
''Such a course would not reflect on
the able corps of scientists in the de?
partment of agriculture, whose time
is so fully occupied with other mat?
ters that what study they can give to
the cotton boll weevil is a mere inci?
dent. Mr. Hudson, president of the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Rail?
way company, in Texas-and it is not
one of the very important cotton
hauling roads-told me a few days ago
that approximately 100,000 bales of
cotton had been eaten up on the line
of his road alone this year. That
means a loss of $5,000,000 to the
farmers and proportionately large
sums to the transportation lines,
ginners and others.
" Half a million dollars would be a
trifling sum for the government to
pay to exterminate this pest, and if
no exterminator were found no . re?
ward would be paid. Then, by con?
tinued scarcity and high prices in the
United States the cultivation of cotton
will be fostered in other parts of the
world and we may lose a market we
have almost monopolized for so long.
The situation is very serious."
OEOBGI? COTTON SEEO.
Secretary Wilson Buys 300 Tons
of Cotton Seed tc be Distribut?
ed in Texas.
1 Washington, Nov. 12.-Secretary
Wilson has purchased three hundred
tons of Georgia cotton seed for early
planting in Texas. The Secretary of
Agriculture talked interestingly and
earnestly today of his recent trip to
Texas to investigate the cotton ques?
tion and the ravages of the boll weevil.
"The Texas cotton growers," said
Secretary Wilson, "are great sufferers
from the weevil, and as the weevil does
not attack early maturing cotton the
Texas planters will have to try their
luck at planting their crop ealier than
heretofore. The up-country of North
Georgia raises a very superior grade of
cotton seed, and the department has
purchased a large quantity, about 300
tons, for distribution exclusively in
Texas. We are going to try and help
the Texans get ahead of the weevil by
sowing early the finest grade of North
Georgia cotton seed. If we can ob?
tain any better or as good eslewhere
we wil? buy it. North Georgia and
South Carolina plant eariy and gather
their crop, earlier than some of ?the
other cotton growing States, and for
that reason we are able to get the seed
to send to Texas at this time."
Secretary Wilson says in Texas thnre
is plenty of room for the planting of
more cotton and diversified crops, and
there are also admirable natural ad
. vantages for raising more cattle than
is now raised in that great State of al?
most unlimited resources. He would
have liked to stop in Georgia and
South Carolina on his return, but was
pressed for time. Besides he knows
what kind of cotton they are raising
in these two States. He has a very
high regard for the quality and the
quantity of Georgia grown cotton. It
is not difficult to imagine Representa?
tive Adamson's enthusiasm today
when he returned from a visit to the
agricultural department with the in?
formation that the Secretary had just
purchased thousands and thousands of
bushels of cotton seed from bis dis?
trict, "the glorious and prosperous
fourth."
Ask E. T. Windham about "Fewer gal?
lons ; wears loDger."
It has been said that thc Democratic
farty is without a man and a principle,
thas both. There is abundant ma?
terial in the party for a presidential
ticket which will command the con?
fidence of the country. The trouble
with tiie pax ty is not a lack of princi?
ples, but a departure from them under
unwise leadership. The safety and
welfare of the country depend largely
upon an opposition party, strong and
patriotic'-Baltimore Sun, Dem.
Abk your blacksmith about ''Fewer gal?
lons ; wfr^-rTlo?ger."
Union, Nov. 13.-Krown Roder was
hanged here at 12.0~> today for the
murder of Rodger Fant, son of D. B.
Fant, county superintendent of educa?
tion The deed was committed on
April 5 of this year.
The ?fovember issue of the "Purple
Folder" of the Atlantic Coast Line con?
tains an accurate map of the State of
Florida in addition to the map of the sys?
tem, which adds to the attractiveness of
this folder. Nov 20
Ask your druggist about "Fewer gal?
lons ; wears longer."
! SERIOUS ll Iii CHICAGO.
J Street Railway Tied Op hy Strik
I mg Employes.
j No One Killed, but Many Person^
Were Hurt.
j The City Administration Will Seek to
Enforce Order, but V/iil not Take Sides
for or Against the Men.
Chicago, Nov. 12.-Constant scenes
of disorder over a district, approxi?
mately fifty square miles in extent,
resulted today from the inauguration
of a strike by the employees of one of
th? two principal surface street rail?
way companies in Chicago. All along
the line wherever cars were started,
strike sympathizers made desperate
onslaughts on the crevas, beginning at
dawn of day and continuing as long
as cars remained on the tracks. The
,t?9-np was made complete.
A number of cars were .wrecked and
tb at no person was killed is no fault
of the rioters. One man had his back
br oken and the first shot of the strike
was fired at Wentworth avenue and
West 69th street, where a mob rt)f
several hundred persons tried to hold
up a train.
Many persons, chiefly non-union
street car men, were injured by flying
stones or splintered glass. Two women
were among those hurt.
Excepting a few dozen passengers,
who had to flee from the cars, the three
hundred thousand daily patrons of the
company were forced to all sorts of
other methods in order to get down?
town and back.
With faces and hands bleeding from
the attacks of the strikers, motormen,
gripmen and conductors, who tried to
run trains, returned to the barns, and
refused to go out again unless the
trains bore platoons of police or patrol
wagons were alongside.
The police confined their efforts to
seeing that the passage oscars from
tlie barns was unobstructed, and that
crowds and blockades in the streets*
were quickly cleared. This was done
under orders from Mayor Carter H.
Harrison, whose announced purpose
was to preserve an impartial attitr?e,
taking sides neither for nor against the
strikers nor the street car company
which, though known as the Chicago
City Railway Compny, is a private
corporation, the lines of which extend
through the south side of the city,
radiating from the business centre.
Developments regarding the attitude
of the municipal administration hinge
largely upon a new official, Herman F.
Schuettler, who today, under appoint?
ment from the mayor, assumed the
duties of assistant chief of police. He
will be in direct charge of police
arrangements during the contest.
Sch.settler is the man who tracked
and arrested the Anarchist, Louis
Lingg, after the Hay Market riot, and
subsequently sent Adolph Luetgert,
the wealthy sausage man, to die in the
penitentiary under conviction for wife
murder. Schuettler has a remarkable
record for personal daring and astute?
ness.
Possibilities of Federal intervention
under certain contingencies are being
discussed. The situation in this re?
spect was outlined today by Postmaster
Coyne. Be said :
"Thus far there is no cause for alarm
as to mail service, lt is true trains
have been delayed, but that is not
serious enough to report to Washing?
ton. The street car company owns
the mail cars, and by contract is oblig?
ed to run them in separate trains and
deliver mail at specified points. There
is no ground for objections against the
company sending out mail trains
between passenger trains. What else
can the company do? If serious delay
occurs we will report the fact to Wash?
ington and act on instructions from
the postal department." Before night?
fall President Hamilton and General
Counsel Bliss, of the railway company,
after endeavoring to operate cars in
defiance of the strike of its trainmen,
announced, after a conference with
Mayor Harrison, that the attempt
would be abandoned for the day. The
railway officials say that 30 per cent
of their employees are loyal, and that
if accorded sufficient protection by the
police department they wiH be able to
man and operate their cars. A further
effort to run cars, each car accom?
panied by a squad of police in a patrol
wagon, will, it is expected, be made
tomorrow.
The strike is the outgrowth of per?
sistent efforts for increased wages and
exclusion of'non-union employees. To?
day about 3,000 men, practically the
entire force of the company's wage
earners, were idle, the number of men
at any time running cars being but a
small fraction of the number usually
at work. The company's stationary
firemen, who also have .presented
demands upon the company for in?
creased wages and to whom the train?
men looked for assistance, have de?
clined to go out.
Derogatory remarks regarding the
union by an armed non-union employee
of the company caused a riot at 36th
and State streets to-night. The man
was-cbased into the engine house near
by and before the poilce could reach
the spot a mob of 2,000 persons sur?
rounded the place, howling for the life
of the refugee. A squad of policemen I
after great difficulty quelled the distur?
bance and removed tho man to a place
of safety.
Chicago, Nov. 13.-Twenty-five carf--,
run on the Wentworth avenue line with?
out damage to cars or injury to the
non-union employes operating them,
was what the Chicago City Railway
company was able to accomplish today
with the assistance of the police de?
partment.
Tlie cars were run at three different
times, five leaving the Seventy-seventh
street barns at 8.40 a. m. and ten at
10.40 and ten at 3.40. In the first two
runs the round trip was made in about
three hours; the third in about one
and one-half hours.
While there as no active interfer?
ence with the handling of the cars
such as attended the attempts to run
them yesterday, the crowds that lined
the streets jeered and hooted the police
and the non-union men almost without
intermission. But two stones were
hurled at the cars during the day; one
being thrown by a woman wbn made
I her escape in the crowd before the
! police could reach her, and the other
1 being hurled from the new post-office
building now being built. Neither
stone did damage worth mentioning.
At nightfall the officials of the car
company were inclined to view the
day's work as being successful and on
the whole satisfactory. They announc?
ed that cars would be run tomorrow on
the Wentworth avenue line at the
same hours as today and that attempts
would be made to operate other lines
which, however, were not specified.
Shortly after this decision was an?
nounced thc situation was complicated
for the company by a sudden strike of
the firemen employed in all six power
houses owned by the company. The
firemen's union made an agreement two
days ago with the company which was
to last for a year. There was a clause
in the contract which gave the fire?
men the discretion to go on a sym?
pathetic strike if the company declin?
ed to arbitrate with the employes now
on strike. The company explained its
attitude on arbitration and said it had
been always willing to arbitrate the
question of wages. The firemen then
signed the contract which was re?
pudiated this evening. The officials
of the fireman's union declared that
they had ordered the strike because
the company had declined their offer
to nqediate between the company and
the employes now on strike.
When the news of this strike came
to Manager Mcculloch he was indig?
nant. "An agreement with a Chicago
union," he declared, "is worth' noth?
ing. Oar contract calling for one
year's work is just two days old and
it has been broken. We will go right
along, however, and this strike will
not cripple us."
The calling out of the firemen in?
volves oilers, water tenders, coal pass?
ers, ash handlers and coal supply men,
250 in all. The real danger in this
last strike lies in the attitude of the
teamsters. They may decline to de?
liver coal to the company if non-union
firemen are employed and the company
has but three days's supply on hand.
On this point General Manager Mc?
culloch was undisturbed. "We will
get all the coal we need," he de?
clared, "and we will run right along.
We have shown today that we can
operate the cars if we are given proper
police protection. As long as we are
given that we w?l be able to conduct
our business as usual."
During the afternoon an effort was
made to bring about a peaceable set?
tlement of the strike. The members
of the State board of arbitration call?
ed on Manager McCulloch and on the
latter's suggestion went into confer?
ence with E. R. Bliss, counsel for the
company, with the hope of arranging
a settlement or at least a conference be?
tween, the strikers and the officials of
the road. Nothing definite was ac?
complished at the conference, but an?
other meeting has been arranged for
tomorrow, when a second attempt will
be made to have the controversy sub?
mitted to arbitration. After today's
meeting one of the arbitration board
said that the indications were that
the management of the company would
agree to arbitrate all ;the demands of
the men with the exception of recog?
nition of the union.
DEFENDING THE D!GK UW.
Acting Adjt. Gen. Hull, of the U.
S. Army, Defends This Imperial?
istic Scheme.
Washington, Nov. ll.-The annual
report of Acting Adjt Gen. Hall, of
the army, was made public today.
It deals with every phase of the mili?
tary establishment. R The actual
strength of the army on October 15,
1903, was 3,681 officers and 55,5C0 en?
listed men. Over half of the report is
devoted to the militia, <md it gives a
detailed account of t?G workings of
the Act to promote the efficiency of the
militia, passed at the last session of
Congress. Regarding the dependable
strength of the militia in time of
national peril the adujant general
states that "Although the obligation
of officers and men cf the militia to
respond promply to a sudden call of
the President has been on the statute
books more than a hundred years, and
of the organized militia, or National
Guard, for nearly forty, and the
neglect to so respond is punishable by
snell penalties as a Court-martial may
direct, experience has shown that this
obligation is a theory rather than a
fact. Without going farther back than
the late war with Spain, the propor?
tion of the membership cf militia or?
ganizations who have actually re?
sponded to such calls of the President
bas borne a very small proportion to
those actually borne on the companv
rolls."
The adjutant general comments
at length on the opposition
developed in some quarters to the
militia law, which, he says, is less,
on the whole, than was anticipated.
He says it is true that certain radical
leaders of the labor unions regard the
militia as a menance to their pur?
poses, although it is doubtful, he,
adds if this enmity extends to any con?
siderable portion of their membership.
Continuing, the adjutant general
states that there is an inexplicable
opposition on the part of employees,
who are members of the National
Guard, to leave their work to partici?
pate in drills, encampments and target
practice, as well as in responding to
calls for service from the State for the
suppression of disturbances. "Busi?
ness and professional men connected
with the organized militia of some of
the States, ' ' the adjutant general adds,
feel that they cannot waste their time
in riots or labor troubles, while they
would be perfectly willing to respond
in case of war. In some cities of Vir?
ginia, Georgia, and Louisiana the
newspapers have prejudiced the minds
of the militiamen by their distorted
views. The fear is expressed in some
Southern communities that under the
President's orders white National
Guardsmen might be compelled to
serve under a colored commander, and
still others believe that they are State
troops, and should not be ordered for
duty outside the State. All these
exampies, however, are to be regarded
as sporadic rather than contagious,
and as the intent of the law becomes
better understood, With perhaps some
further legislation, it is believed that
all opposition will be confined to such
irreconcilable elements as are n^t to
be satisfied with anything less than
the abolition of all agencies that make
for the preservation of law and order.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
are becoming a favorite for stomach trou?
ble* and constipation. For sale by China's
Drug Store.
Anti-Trust Bili in Virginia. | Russians and Chinese Fight.
Richmond, Va. Nov. IO.-The Gen?
eral Assembly met here in adjourned
session today.
An attack on the trusts marked the
opening of the session. Senator Barks
dale presented a bill which provides
that any corporation of any kind and
organization that shall enter into any
agreement, contract or association for
the purpose ox fixing the price, or con?
trolling or limiting the production of
any article of manufacture or mer?
chandise or product of agriculture,
shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy
to defraud. It defines monopoly in
sweeping terms and provides heavy
penalties therefor.
Roanoke, Va., Nov. ll.-J. R. Henry,
an Ex-Confederate soldier and a great
grandson of the famous orator and
statesman, Patrick Henry, was struck
by a Norfolk and Weston freight train
at Elliston, ten miles west of Roanoke,
today and killed. His son, Daniel
Henry, was killed by an enigne blow
Lag up on his first trip as a fireman on
the same road several years ago.
Laredo,. Tex., Nov. 13.-The yellow
fever situation shows no improvement.
The official bulletin issued tonight
shows: New cases, 31; deaths, 4;
total cases to date, 841 ; total deaths,
81. M ote rey reports 15 cases and 7
deaths on Wednesday ; Nuevo Laredo,
which had had no new cases of yellow
fever for four days, yesterday reported
two deaths and two new cases.
Charlotte, N, C., Nov. 12.-Fleet
Wilkins, a merchant at Kicks siding,
two miles from Roxboro, died this
morning from the effects of an assault
committed upon him by a negro named
Adam Hunt. The negro had demand?
ed money, which being refused he
literally beat Mr. Wilkins to death.
He was arrested and lodged in jail.
Tien Tsin, Nov. 13.-It is reported
here that Russian troops marching
towards Shan Hai Kwan encountered
a fcrce of Chinese troops and that
fighting ensued, the Russians, it is
asserted, pretended that the imperial
force was a band of Chinese robbers.
Altogether over IO, OOO imperial
troops have crossed the frontier into
Manchuria.
New York, Nov. 13.-Andrew H.
Green, the "father of Greater New
York" and one of the city's oldest and
most remarkable citizens, was shot
and instantly killed on the steps of
his home, on Park avenue, today by
Cornelius M. Williams, a negro who is
believed to be insane. The shooting
was evidently the outcome of an in?
sane delusion on the part of the
negro that Mr. Green had slandered
him, for when he was asked why he
had committed the murder he replied:
"I did it to save my character."
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 12.-Two heavy
freight trains, one of them a double?
header, collided in a dense fog, near
New Hope, Ky. on the Knoxville di?
vision of the Louisville and Nashville
early today Engineers Graves, Connor
and Sturgis, and Firemen Reynolds,
Layden and Leach were killed, Head
Brakeman R. E. Hume, fatally injur?
ed, and Brakeman Abner Winklef,
badly hurt. .
Lexington, Ky., Nov. 12.-Over 300
tobacco growers, representing tbe
White-Burley districts of Ohio and
Kentuckey, are holding a secret meet?
ing here today, for the purpose of ar?
ranging details of a loan of ten million
dollars offered by the New York Se?
curity Ware House Company, to
handle the crop, so as to wrest the
control of the product from the To?
bacco Trust.
J. D. GRAIG FURNITURE
Has the Largest Stock of Furniture
That has ever been in Sumter and the most
complete assortment. This stock was bought
months ago, in car load lots, when all classes
of Furniture were 25 per cent, cheaper than
the present prices, hence these goods can be
sol4 as cheap as any Furniture house in the
south. We invite you to call and inspect our
immense stock, consisting of
Bed Room Sets, Wardrobes, Iron Beds, China
Cupboards, Sideboards, Safes, Extension Ta?
bles and thousands of Chairs and Rockers, Pic?
tures, Easies and Mantle Mirrors, Window
Shades, Mouldings, Glass, etc.
And, in fact, all classes and prices, too numerous to men?
tion Will be pleased to have you call and inspect whether
you buy or not.
We call special attention to our Undertaking department,
whieh is complete in every detail. Always open, day and
night. Oct 14-Jan 1
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