i mm Imposed on Standard Oil Company for Accept ing Rebates. LAWS TO BE ENFORCED stamp i liiT Sentence Pronounced by Federul Jude Luuiils at Cblcngo the Maximum on tho 1,402 CoanU ad the Lurgest Finn In the His tory of Jurisprudence. Chicago, Aug. 8. "It la the Judg ment and sentence of the Court that the defendant Standard Oil Company Sy a fine of $29,240,000. "It must not be ut.au mod that in this Jurisdiction thesa laws may be Ignored. If they are not obeyed, they will be enforced. The plain demands of justice require that the facta disclosed In this proceeding fee submitted to a grand Jar? with view to the consideration of the conduct, of the other pnrty to these 'jranaactlons. Let an order be en Jfcrred for a panel of sixty men re turnable at 10 o'clock on the morn ing of Aug. 14. Tho United Statos Olatrict-Attornoy is directed to pro seed accordingly." r In these words Judge Keneaaw fountain Londls In tho United States District Court fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana 119,240,000 for violation of the law against accepting rebates from milroads ntid ordered tho prosecu tion of the railroad tho Chicago und Alton accused of being a party iJq the crime. The fine is the largest ever asa asscd against any individual or any corporation In the history of Jurls jrudence and ).; sMf-htly more than one hundred and thirty-one times u great as the amount received by the company through Its rebating operations. The case will be carried to the Higher court:! by the defendantt company on appeal. Under tie" sovtn Indictments still pending ng'.i-ist tlx; Standard un ad ditional fine amounting to $88,440, 300 may be levied .iulnst tho com pany if it U found guilty on trial. There are In these seven indictments total of 4, lZ counts, aud the max imum fine In each count would be 320,000. penalty Imposed (lie Maximum. The penr.lty imposed by Judge Land is is the maximum permitted under the law $20,000 on each of f.he 1,462 counts. Tho amount of the fine is more tbuu Jefferson paid for the I-ouIslana Purchase, with Alaska thrown In; more than tho whole Philippine Archipelago cost the United States In money; greater Uiat the net income of five independ ent monarchies bordering the Dan ube and the Mediterranean. Great wars have been waged on leas sums. The fine is 50 per cent, of the ann ual income of the giant trust. All the wars that Athens and Sparta 'ought against invaders and against each other never cost bo much. The gigantic fine was announced by Judge Landia at the end of a long opinion in which the methods ot the Standard were mercilessly scored. The Judge declared: The men who thus deliberately violate this law wound society more deeply than does he who counter feits the coin or steals letters from the mall.". Judge Land Is commenced reading Ms decision at 10 o'clock and occu pied about an hour In Its delivery. Ha reviewed the facts in the case, task Bp the arguments of the at torneys Xor the defense and answer ed them and then passed Judgment nfon . the company, which he i de clared, violated the law for the sole purpose of., swelling Its dividend, Hat i j He Could Only Impose a Flue. The Court held that the railroads hare no more right to make a secret raV for a shipper than a board ot feasors would hare to make a secret assessment of any particular plee of .proper1'- i The Court expressed regret that tha. law failed to provide more serl ou punishment than a fine, but Insisted that the penalty should be sufficiently large to act as. a deter rent, and not ot sach a sice as .to. encourage the offender to persist In lawlessness. " .... It was, at the conclusion of,. his otfhilon. and , after announcing the amount of the fine, that Judge Lan dia, directed that special grand jury be called for the purpose , of lnf wiring Into the acts pi the phio-, agf. and 'Alton Railroad, It having tes proved in the case Just closed tbft the oil company accepted re bate from that corporation,. This Juaj la summoned for Aug.,, 14, , I " .Johnston Alabama Senator,'... Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 8. Jos eph,, Forney Johnston was here- el ectf d United States Senator In place ot the late Edmund Wilson Pettus. Senator Johnston received every vote Republicans and Democrats un iting on him. y ; Mrs. Logan's Gift to Illinois. Washington, Aug. 8. Mrs. John A. Logan baa shipped to Springfield, IlLl the splendid memorial collection of souvenirs of Gem. Logan and her son, Major Logan, thirty cases, glf to the State. Ct nA OFFICERS LOTAI Colonels Offer Aid to Governor Ma goon. Havana, Cuba, Aug. 7. Several colonels and officers of other rank la the late revolutionary army have written to Governor Magoon from Oulra de Melena, Havana Province, Indorsing the letter sent to the Gov ernor by veterans of La Maya, In Santiago. , They assure the Governor, as the veterans did, ot their loyalty, and offer their help in case of need, pro testing against attempts to disturb public order. They also declare the n.port of a revolutionary band In Gulra de Melena la absolutely false. Liberals ot San Lula ,ln Pluar del Rio Province, resolved In a mass meeting that the appointment of presidential candidates now la pre mature, and therefore they rejeot both Gomez and Zayaa. This la a result of the tour recently made of tho province by General Guerra, chief of the late revolution, pro claiming the same principals. It is reported the band In Santi ago has vanished. It Is aald its al leged leader, Sulguolro, Is concealed in a house in Santiago city. Three men, charged with belong ing to this band, have been arrested In Santiago and Indicted. The whole 'country Is very quiet. SXAKE IS BEER KILLS. Copperhead Crawled in While Keg Was in a Cooling Spring. Ashland, Ky., Aug. 6. A copper head snake which had crawled Into a beer keg and dlod, caused the death of "Red" Popham, Samuel Bigg. Will Simpson, and Carey Turney in an outing camp at Welch, fifteen miles distant, In the mountains, and probably will end the Uvea of Samuel Willis and Walter Johnson. Ralph Dunbar came here and re" turned to the camp with a doctor. "With seven other men I went to Welch Intending to remain one week. We took several kegs of beer. The journey over tho mountains Is rough and I presume tho beer accumulated an extra amount of gas. One keg was partly submerged In a spring and tho bung flew out. All who drank the beer became 111 and four quickly expired. An investigation re vealed a big copperhead snake In th keg and this explains the death of my friends." COHKAXS MAY INCITE REVOLT. 500 Soldiers Kseape to Mountains After Rattle With Japs. Seoul, Corea, Aug. 6. Of twelve hundred men, comprising two bat talions, participating In the West Gate fight with the Japanese troops more than five hundred have suc ceeded In escaping to. the mountains surrounding Seoul. The last reports show eleven oncers and nlnety-slx non-commissioned officers and men killed upward of one hundred wound ed and 516 'captured. Not exceed ing two hundred participated In the active fighting. It is believed the desertera are well equipped with arms and ammu nition and it Is feared they will either succeed in Joining the troops at the northern stations, from which nothing has been heard, or become a menace aa roving bandits. The search for them la actively proceed ing. Unverified reports indicate that a number or Corean civilians were killed by searching parties ot soldiers and hoodlums. SYRACUSE OUT $250,000. Local Improvement Taxes Pocketed In Treasurer's Office. ' T Syracuse, N. Y Aug. 8. -The de falcation in the City Treasurer's office will reach $260,000, It Is an nounced. The embezzlement are all from local improvement pay ments, most of them ten years back. When payment was made the money was pocketed by some ona In the offices, the charge against the property-was left on the books and when the property was advertised for sale the , property upon .which payment had been made was edited out of the advertisement, i , This practloe was followed for several years. While the books of the City Treasurer have been exam ined annually, the accountants have, never examined the local Improve., merit, books. .. The money abstracted, has been on amounts of from f 19 to . $1,000. t AMERICAN RUSH TO CANADA. Prof, Jeuks Visiting . the Canadian. Northwest to Learn, Reasons for it. . Winnipeg, . Man.. Aug. 8. Prof.:. Jeremiah . . W. Jenks of Cornell,: friend of President Roosevelt and.. member ot the United States Imml-i gration Commission, is on a tour of, the Canadian Northwest, .Investigate Ing the matter of American lmml-. gratloa, into Canada. He has visit-: ed - Winnepeg, Saaaktoon, Regtna, Edmonton and Prince Albert and, has now gone to the Pacific const. ' It Is said Prof. Jenkswlllmake a confidential report to the President cn the reasons aa he sees, them for the volume of Immigration Into Can ada from the Western States. Prof., Jenka la also looking Into the move ment of Asiatics to Br(tlU Columbia tind he says he expects this to as sume bigger proportions In Canada. Prof. Jenks's tour is said to be for tbe purpose of devising so mo schemed to turn the American current beck to tbe States. THE COLUMBIAN. IIBSOFIII Covering Minor Happen log from all Over the Olobe. HOME AND FOREIQN OnmpOad and Condensed for the Buy ITeadf A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Bverywbere Boiled Down foe Ilaety Perusal. Governor Comer and Alabama State officers regard the defiance by the Southern Railway of the revo cation of Its license as an act ot outlawry, and they are planning me thods to enforce the State laws. Judge Landia, of Chicago, issued a perpetual Injunction restraining the Funrlture Trust from doing any fur ther business. Judge Clark ruled In Bar Harbor, Me., thnt an automobile remained an automobile even when It was towed by a horse, and Fordham C. Ma honey, of New York, was fined $1 for riding over a forbidden road. Cooperstown, N. Y., began Its cen tennial celebration. Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad Company, was arrested of a charge of neglecting to provide proper safeguards at a crossing where two persons were kill ed by a train. Charles Appleby, a retired New York lawyer, of eighty-three years, exposed a plot Of swindlers who tried to rob him ot $60,000 worth of real estate by means of a forged deed. Stirred by the crime wave, Acting Commissioner O'Keeffe of New York demanded five hundred additional policemen, to be set at work exclu sively on the particular offences; as saults on women and little girls now causing so many sensations. John D. Rockefeller refused to discuss the Imposing of a fine on the Standard Oil Company. Augustus St. Gaudens, noted scul ptor, died in his home In Cornish, N. H. Tho navy Submarine Board re ported that the Octopus was the best boat in the recent tests at Newport R. I. Taft and ForaUer leaders in Ohio declare the political war between Secretary and Senator has "only Just begun." According to an expert, the State of Pennsylvania was charged $1,B00, 000 too much for $2,000,000 worth of metal furnishings for the Capitol building. During the three months prior to last March 31 there were 20,563 per sons hurt and 421 killed in railway accidents, according to the Interstate Commerce Commission's report. Rear Admiral Evans consulted with Acting Secretary Newburry re garding the coming cruise of his fleet to the Pacific waters. Cuban liberals and conservatives each accuse the other of getting up a "fake" revolution to Influence Am erican action In the Island. Suit was brought against tbe Long Island Railroad Company for $119, 800 damages caused by forest fires on Long Island. FOREIGN NEWS- Hostile Morroocan tribesmen were defeated in . battle at . Cascahlaaca end retired front the town. A.-despatch from Teheran reports that tha city la quiet, hut Persian cavalry .are aald to have Joined tha Turkish invaders jtad to be threat ening Urumlah. " General Karakoioff, former Gov ernor General of Odessa, was shot dead In a town of the Caucasus. ' That tha meeting of Tsar and Kai ser at 8wlnemunde emphasises the traditional friendship of Germany and Russia and makea for peace U St.! Petersburg's opinion. According to a despatch from Lon don, England has formed an alli ance with Russia to safeguard Jta Indian .frontier... Emperor: -William and the - Tsar met at Swlnemunde. , A despatch from Antwerp .says the Shipping Federation has reduced the wages of dock laborers and sent for British strike breakers t In I case the men should, quit... '; A despatch from The Hague says that the British proposal for the ab-. lition of .contraband was practically defeated In committee. Moorish tribesmen Invaded. Casa Blanc,, and 'killed- two port r guard lens and ten foreigners, among whom were six Frenchmen. Franca haa ordered war ships to the scene. Captain Amuadseii. is j very pees-. Imlstlc ot tha success of Mr. Walter Wellman's,irshlpi expedition to .tha roie.'rjr (;,t, ,V1"( German textile factory owners, are about to send buyers to the cotton belt here for supplies Instead of pur chasing In ,EngllBlr markets.: SPORTING NEWS. Jn the second game ot the series for .the. Rhode Island (Polo Cup, on tha ground ot the Point Judith O. 3.,' ct Naragansett Pier, Point' Judith BLOOMSBURG, PA. defeated Great Neck by 18 to 6H. The Newcastle Stable's McCarter and Running Water finished first and second In the $10,000 Saratoga Handicap. Dandelion, the favorite, was third. David Shaw's Alice Pointer won the $10,000 purse for 8:13 pacers at tbe Buffalo Grand Circuit meeting. W. H. Dubois' Charles Edward defeated his only opponent, J. L. McGlnnls' Frank GUI, In the $16,000 Brighton Derby on the closing day at Brighton Beach. C. Sherman Hoyt's sloop Capsicum took first prize in the race of the Beawanhaka Y.C. to and around Cornfield Lightship and return. Sailors of the fourth division, bat tleship division, United States navy, won the Old Guard trophy In the State rifle meet at Creed moor. THE PASHA SURRENDERS. Murines Shoot Down ISO Moors Who Attack Them. Paris, Aug. 8. French and Span ish troops are In possession of Casa blanca after a terrific bombardment and hand-to-hand fighting In the streets. The Moors perclpltated the conflict early Sunday by attacking a landing party on the way to the French consulate. The ensign in command was shot through both hands, but he gave tho order to charge. With fixed bayonets the marines cut their way through a column of native troops, leaving 150 dead and wounded in their wako. The murines reached tho consulate, and the news of the fighting was s'gnnlled to the French cruisers, which Immediately opened fire with all their guns. More than 2,000 shells were fired. The native quar ter of the city was wiped out and several hundred rebels were slain. Tho last despatch received by the Frnch Government it to the effect that the Pasha at Casablanca has formerly surrendered the town to tho allies. NEW DRY DOCK A SUCCESS. Rig Kearsarge ScltU'8 on Keel niock Without a Jar. Philadelphia, Aug. G. The battle ship Kcarsargo rode ponderously in to the new atone and concrete dry dock at League Island, thus formally opening the career of the greatest navy yard basin in the United State, and demonstrating that the $5,000 000 expended upon It by the Gov ernment was not spent in vain. So vast is the dock that although the Kearsarge is 3C8 feet long, with a beam slightly In excess of 78 feet, r.ne looked something like a child's toy boat In a pall of water. The length ot the basin over all from the O'uer groove to tno head ot tha dock la 760 feet. The width amidships is 134 feet. At mean high tide the water over the sill Is 30 feet deep, a sufficient depth to accom modate the largest battleship afloat. SOUTHERN RAILWAY INDICTED. Prosecuted for Doing Business in Alabama Without a License. Marlon, Ala., Aug. 8. A Grand Jury here returned an indictment against, the Southern Railway for doing bualnesa in Alabama aa a for eign company without license. This action was taken as a result of Sec retary of State Julian's action in re voking the charter ot the company because tha railway removed a casa from a State to a Federal court. Solicitor Thompson says tha pro secution will be pushed, and that other Indictments may follow for each day tha Grand Jury 1 In ton. WOMAN'S EYE SCRATCHED OUT. Strange CM Attacks Heir When She Tries to Drive ft Out. Washington. N. . J., Aug.. 7. Mrs. Thomas B. Gerard of Wood Glen, near Change water, haa lost the sight of her right eye by a cat's scratch. She saw a strange cat ' enter her house a day or two ago,- and en deavored to drive It out. Tbe cat ran Into a bedroom and sprang upon tha bed. When Mrs. Gerard at tempted to catch tha animal It Jump ed at her face. In addition to tbe loss of her eye, Mr; Gerard Is suffering from severe lacerations of the face. - Police Coward Dismissed. New York, Aug. 8. Policeman Stephen S. Walsh' of the East Fifty first'' Street ' fitatlon was formally branded a coward for running away from Warner, the murderer who kill ed Esther Norllus: and John C. Wil son last week. His' shield '-and' pre cinct number were torn trim rU cent and tn.j ha wis led to 'the door down tha long corridor, and pi out of the Police Department, ' A little throng of pollcemea" and citizens saw tha man's degradation, fifty hissed tar the! policeman1 who had disgraced his uniform was thrown out ot the gray stone build ling' which la tha headnqarters of the' forte i that Byrnes called "flneirt In the world." . .Dying Boy Gives Mother Rabies. Danville, 111.'. Aug. 8. MrsTChas. T. Davis Is suffering severely as a re sult! .of '.having been bitten on tha chin by her baby boy, who had con tracted rabies after an attack, by a dog.; The child Is dead and the'mc ther's death Is feared. PS National Conference of Leaguers to Discuss the Presidency next Month. FOR FIGHT IN 1908 Reaching For the West HI Agents Seek to Organize Haywood Senti ment There for Hearst Help From Murphy and Connors, Too Their Present Foothold in Many States. New York Aug. 7. Arrangements have almost been comploted by the political managers of William R. Kearst ,for a National conference of Independent League leaders from various States, which Is to be held In this city next month. At this conference, it Is understood, plans for the National campaign in 1908 will be very fully discussed. Democratic politicians who heard of this did not by any means receive the news with equanimity. They re garded it as indicating that Mr. Hearst, though he has publicly read himself out of the party .Intends to become a disturbing factor In Demo cratic National politics during the Presidential year, very much after the same manner that he was In 1904 in National politics and last year In New York State politics, only on a larger scale. Mr. Hearst now has Independence League organizations In a number of States. The league Is an element In politics in this State, In Connecti cut, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Cali fornia. It Is learned now that Mr. Hearst la harboring plans to Invade Colorado and Idaho to reap there whatever benefits can bo obtained through the acquittal of Haywood Mid the turn things have taken there generally as a result of that acquit tal In regard to tho relations be tween organized labor and the em ployers. It Is also known that Mr. Hearst's agents for some time have been at work feeling their way Into Missouri with a view of obtaining a foothold there for the Ideas rep resented by the Hearst Independence Ieague and building up some sort of an organization. At tho conference to be held next month ways and means for a further spread of the propaganda of unrest Mid discontent on which Mr. Hearst hopes to ride to political eminence will bo discussed, according to per sons in the confidence of the Inde pendence League leader. VOLIVA QUITS ZION CITY. Defeated in Court Ho Declares Ho Will Start Rival Organization. Chicago, Aug. 7. After hearing the denial of his petition that he be appointed a co-receiver with Juhu C. Hately, now in charge of the Zlon tity property, Overseer Wilbur Glenn Vollva, who usurped tho place ot John Alexander Dowle as head of the Christian Catholic Church, as serted to-day his defiance of the forces organlxed against him and declared that he would abandon Zlon City to establish a colony ot his own elsewhere. "I ahall abandon the old hulk, and she may sink, for all of me" de clared Vollva as he was leaving the court after his petition had been de nied and the sale of the lace fac tory for $880,000 had been ordered. "It Is my purpose now to gather my followers about me aa soon as possi ble and establish a new colony." BUILT SHIPS 800 YEARS. Data, Me Celebrates Anniversary of trst American Launching. Bath. Me., Aug. 7. The city ot Bath ' assumed this week an honor belonging to tha small town ot Pop ham; and celebrated the 800th anni versary of tha birth of American shipbuilding In a manner more ex tensive than would be possible for the town. Tha Brat launching In tha United Btatea took place at. Popham Beach when the Pinnace Virginia, product of the disheartened member of the popham colony, slid down the crude ways' to the ocean. The Celebration Included a recept ion of distinguished guests, a recept ion of officers of American and for eign war ships, a balloon ascension, bonfires along both sides of the Ken nebec River from Bath to the ocean and literary exercises In the even to. Latest In Postal Cards. I Washington, Aug. 8. A one cent postal card ot new deal got la about to be Issued by the' Post Office De partment. ' It is made of cream col-i ored cardboard, 1 14 ' by 6 4 Inches ln size, and Is printed In black' ink, A frame surrounds the' stamp. ' The portrait used upon the stamp Is a profile of McKlnley In a circular frame wltll the tiate f hit birth and death, '"litl,- McKlnley, 1001," en closed in a ribbon. ' '.. j Prohibitionist Sing Praise. Atlanta :Ga.,v Aug. 8.A Urge crowd of enthusiastic ' Prohibition ists watched Gov. Hooke Smith at tach "his official signature to the Pro hibition bill. " The1 he law Is eft: ec(ive Jan. 1, 1908. .' As the Governor affixed bis signa ture' the Prohibitionists sang "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow. luMltlNATION MMOKINU CASH Automatically Ilchnrges a Clgnr ctte and a Match. Novelties are nowhere In greater demand than among tobacco smok ers. Strange to say, the more nnlqne the novelty tho more Intereat It will arouse. A recent Invention In this line Is tbe comblnalon cigarette and match shown In the Illustration. It consists of a telescopic case, one side comprising a clgarotte receptacle and the other a match receptacle, with a partition between. On each side nf the parltlon are slots for tho auto- 'lino ! I 1 I tl ' - Difichurgea Automatically. malic discharge of a cigarette and a match simultaneously. The case Is first loaded by dropping tho cigar ettes and the matches In the respec tive slots. In the receptacles they rest upon an Incline which forces ono of them at all times on top of tho dischargers. To dis charge tho contents, the inner por tion of tho tolescopic case Is raised, which allows a cigarette and a nmtch to cotno in contact with the diu chnror. As tho cane Is lowered all tho cigarettes and matches naturally fall to the bottom of the receptacle except thoao on tho dltichartis, which are forced out through tuj slots In tho top of the case. Money Earned by Convlita. It is not generally known but it Is nevertheless a fact that convicts la the Ohio Penitentiary o;irn as hlh as $50 or $00 a month for themselves working overtime. They havo a cer tain task to perform In eight hours, and all work they get out above their tneks is credited to theta. In the bolt shop alone more than 200 mea divide every month $900 or work ac complished in overtime. Tho convii ta are not allowed to work more than eight hours a day. Ono man In the bolt shop earns nearly $C0 every month running what is culled a per fect mill. A largo number of convicts clear for themselves more than $30 a month. Ridding of Ants. Constant cultivation will, as a rule, dtscourago the presence of ants In a garden. But If this courBe doc-a not avail, try a treatment of carhoa bl-sulphide. Pour a little of this Into each nest of ants, closing each opening after troatmont by stepping on it. The fumes will penetrate the nest in every direction, killing both ants and larvae, but it soon evaiio ratoa and ao does not Injure the soil. Be careful, however, not to breathe or ignite the carbon bi-sul-phlde fumes, and do not let the li quid come In contact with vegetable or useful roots. Do not uncork the bottle in a house or In a closed room. The Ideal Cartridge. The Swiss military musketry ex perts are conducting experiments to solve a problem that has proved a difficulty for all armies. The object Is to find a cartridge which will be ot equal efficiency at short and at long ranges. Now. In France and Germany this end is not yet attained. The German bullet (Mark S) Is light and is good at short ranges, while not so precise at the long ones. Tbe French bullet (Mark D) haa the op posite defect It la weak at range shorter than 400Ayarda. The Swire Army authorities believe they have a bullet which will solve the problem. HrtUUnt Electric Signs. Brilliant effects for electric signs are now to be readily obtained with little cost by the use of mall colored transparent caps which fit over the rounded ends of tha Incandescent bulbs. This, ' says tha Scieatiflo American permits tha owner of a changeable electrle alga to alter tha legend at will and to Indulge In the use of colors without tha necessity of keeping on hand a largo supply of colored lamps some of which axe very expensive. ' Cotton Growing to Austalla. ' The cotton growing Industry m parts of Australia Is steadily pro gressing, ' the crop of 1805 having amounted to 118,098 pounds, the average rettrnrper" acre being There haa slaoe been a notable ex tension, In the acreage, aided by , Government expert. A, cotton-grow lng association, has been formed t eecura uniformity in the variety grown and to have the cotton graded and braada f&axfiort ' , -('' . ' 1 For Infanti and Children. T!)8 Kino You Kara A!wsf8 06stft:
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