Show THROUGHOUT THE LAND Two Negro Murderers Jerked into Eternity This Morning Dr Douglas Rather Equivocal Upon the Condition or Grant A Strong Stock Market on the Reviving Reviv-ing War News Sitting Down on the German Band NEW YOBS May 14A suit was recently brought by the Musical Mutual Protective Union against the North German Lloyd Steamship Company to prevent the landing in this country of a band of forty foreign musicians This is the first case that has come up in court under the act of Congress prohibiting > eihb importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States It was alleged in the complaint that William Brown of Philadelphia had employed a band of forty musicians resi dents of Germany and that one of the North German Lloyd steamships was about to land them in this port An injunction restraining re-straining the steamship company from land ing them was refused but an order commanding com-manding the defendant company to show cause why they should not be restrained from violating the act in question was granted The court said that inasmuch as there had been no adjudication under this law he was unwilling to prevent the men from landing The final decision in this casewill affect the arrangements of the proprietors pro-prietors of several summer hotels who are in the habit of engaging foreign bands to furnish fur-nish music dug summer The penalty for violating the Foreign Contract Labor act is a fine not to exceed I 1000 A Buoyant Stock market NEW YOn May 15 Stocks were strong at the opening th morning and most of the active listdisplayed decided strength dug the first hour of advance activity the being led by Lackawanna which advanced to 101X Late in the hour New York Central also showed strength on small transactions The final settlement of the war in the west and the announcement this morning that the situation in Europe is somewhat less favorable to a final peaceful adjustment of the differences between England and Russia aided the bulls in their effort to advance prices Lake Shore St Paul and Louisville and Nashville were steady There was not a single stock on the active list that was weak at 1 oclock The market is somewhat some-what feverish and a shade lower Lacka wannajleading i the decline with loss Bar silver 1083g Stocks quiet prices generally gen-erally heavy without any very great change in quotations |