Darrow
CLARENCE S., an American lawyer, born in Kinsman, O., in 1857. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1875. He was for some time attorney of the Northwestern railroad, but was chiefly identified with cases against monopolies in which he took the part of the people against the trusts. He was chief counsel of the anthracite miners in the anthracite coal strike arbitration in 1902-1903. He was also counsel in the Debs strike case and in a large number of labor injunction and labor conspiracy cases, taking the side of labor. He served in the Illinois State Legislature in 1902. He won special prominence as counsel for the McNamara brothers in the Los Angeles "Times" dynamite case in 1911. He was counsel for Eugene V. Debs for conspiring to hinder the operation of the draft law in 1917. He was the author of a volume of essays and many pamphlets on social and economic questions.
DARTER. (1) an order in McGillivray's classification of birds, containing the kingfishers, bee -eaters, and jacamars, so called from their habit of darting onto their prey. (2) A genus of web-footed swimming DARTFORD birds belonging to the Pelicanidæ. The neck in all is exceedingly long. Plotus melanogaster is the snake-bird, so called from the serpent-like form of the neck and head. The darters are natives of tropical America and Africa, and of Australia.