NEW YORK A Grand Jury Indicts the Standard Oil Co. ALSO A RAILROAD. The Vacuum Oil Co., of Rochester, N. Y., Is Also Included in the Indictments for Rebating. Jamestown, *N. Y. The federal ■grand jury for the Western district of New York on Friday re turned indictments against the Stand ard Oil Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and the Vacuum Oil Co., of Rochester, for vio lations of the inter state commerce law. There are 24 counts in each indict ment of the Standard Oil Co. and of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and a smaller number again;* the Vacuum Oil Co. The specific charges allege that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. granted to the Standard Oil Co. special conces sions in the shipments of freight and that the Standard Oil Co. did "unlaw fully and knowingly accept from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. it conces sion in respect to the transportation of certain of its property in inter state commerce whereby and by which de vice that property was transported in such commerce at a less rate than tint named in the tariffs so published an 1 filed by said Pennsylvania Rail road C 0.." in violation of the statutes. The indictments are so specified that in case those found against one company are sustained on trial they necessarily must be sustained against the other companies. The various counts pertain to specific cases in .which these special rates were grant ed and accepted, and embrace a period of time from January 1, 190-1, to December 22, 1904. The indictment against the Vacuum Oil C'o. is on exactly similar grounds —that is charging that special con cessions were accepted from the .Pennsylvania Railroad Co. REVIEW Of TRADE. '.lncreased Activity Among Wholesat ers and Jobbers Is Noted. New York. —R. G. Dun & C'o.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: In some sections the intense heat facilitated retail trade In summer goods and improved the attendance at seaside resorts, but the most impor tant development in the business world was the increased activity o! jobbing and wholesale departments in preparing for autumn and winter re quirements. Crop reports are all that •could be desired, harvest and thresh ing returns surpassing all but the most sanguine expectations, the fow unsatisfactory statements being out balanced by the numerous encourag ing results. Failures this week numbered 174 in the United States, against 222 last year, and 13 in Canada, compared with 19 a year ago. WILL EMPLOY COOLIES. V Isthmian Canal Commission Intends to Hire Chinese Laborers. Washington, D. C. —Chinese labor will be given a thorough test on the Panama canal. Contracts calling for 2,500 Chinamen for canal work have been prepared and advertise ments will be issued by the isthmian canal commission in a few days ask ing for proposals from labor agents. If the initial 2,500 Chinamen prove a success it is likely that many more will be taken to the isthmus to do the work. Organized labor has offered much opposition to the use of contract Chi nese labor, but the Jamaican work men have proven inadequate, suffi cient Spaniards cannot be had im mediately to rush the work and the Chinese are the last hope of the com mission. BANK TELLER KILLED HIMSELf. An Employe of the Stensland Bank In Chicago Suicides. Chicago, 111. Frank Kowalski, for five years paying teller o! the Milwaukee Avenue state bank, which failed last Monday, shot and killed himself last night in his home, 340 North Carpenter street. Criticism by neighbors and friends, who accus ed him of a share in the downfall of the bank, is believed to have driven Kowalski to suicide. Kowulski's relatives assert their be lief that he was innocent of any knowl edge as to the mismanagement of the bank by President Stensland. When the bank failed Kowalski had S7OO of bis own money on deposit in the in stitution and bis immediate .relatives had in the bank nearly $50,000. Pulajanes Killed Five Americans. Manila, P. I.—First Lieut. John F. James and two privates of the Eighth infantry, with Contract Stir geon Calvin Snyder and Internal Revenue Collector Williams, of Illi nois, were killed Thursday in a hand to-hand fight with a force of Pula janes at Julita, island of Leyte. Wind Did $50,000 Damage. St. Louis. —A high wind which cut a path a mile wide and three miles long did damage estimat. Ed at $50,000 in St. LouU county Fri, day. FOR RECEIVING REBATES i The Standard Oil Co. Is Indicted by a Grand Jury at Chicago. Chicago, 111. —An indictment charg ! ing the Standard Oil Co. with receiving rebates in the form of non : payment of storage charges to certain | railroad companies, was returned Wednesday by I lie federal grand jury before Judge Belhea. The indictment ! came as a surprise, inasmuch as tho | grand jury has just begun the invest i j Ration. The Standard Oil Co. is the | only defendant, no officials of the company and 110 railroad companies ■ or officials being named. The bond of the defendant was fixed by Judge ! Bethea at $25,000. This is the case investigated by the grand jury in Cleveland, where it.was found that the grand jury had no jurisdiction. The testimony taken there was transferred to Chicago and the documents in evidence were iden tified by witnesses who testified in Cleveland. It was on this testimony and evidence that the indictment was returned so quickly. The* grand jury immediately resumed its session, to take up the investigation of the charge that the Standard Oil Co. was given direct rebates by some railroad. The indictment contains 19 counts, | each count constituting a separate -charge. The true bills come under the El kins law, which provides a fine of from SI,OOO to $20,000 for each vio lation. Under this Indictment should the government procure a conviction on the tvial of the issues, a line of $380,0»0 as a maximum under the Elkins law may be assessed. The indictment alleges that by a sys tem of granting the Standard Oil Co. certain concessions, the oil company benefited to tho extent of $8,506 dur ing a period of time from August, 1903, to February, 1905. The indictment, as explained by the government's attorneys, means that in l!i instances certain consignments of oil for the Standard Oil Co. were stored by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Co. and that the railroad company raceived no pay ment of five cents per ton per day 'rom the oil company for such storage, out that its competitors were com pelled to pay this amount. This is equivalent to granting a concession, it is charged, the non-payment of the i storage charges being practically a rebate in favor of the oil company. Each count sets up a discrimination of from S3OO to SSOO a month In favor of the oil company. It will be neces sary for officials of the Standard Oil | Co. to appear in court and present bond of $25,000 for the corporation. JAPANESE POACHERS ARE KILLED. Raid on Seal Rookeries at St. Paul Island, Alaska, Ends Disastrously. j Dutch Harbor, Alaska.—Five Japan ese were shot and killed on I i the island of St. Paul, of the Prlbyloff i group, by order of the agent of the de | partment of commerce and labor on July 17, as the result of a raid by four Japanese schooners on the seal rook , eries. The revenue cutter McCullough has reached here from St. Paul with 12 prisoners, two seriously wounded, j who were turned over to Deputy Marshal Harmon. The raiders were discovered lying near Northeast Point. St. Paul, by j native lookouts of the North Ameri | can Commercial Co., which leases tho , seal privilege front the government. | Word was telephoned from the patrol [ station near the rookery, for which the raiders were aiming, and Special j Agent Lenipke, of the department of | commerce on duty in the Pribyloff isl ; ands, arrived on the spot as the Jap | anese reached shore. He ordered the | boat's crew to surrender,' which thev ' did. On climbing the promontory at the j end of the cape, overlooking one cf j | the larger rookeries, a schooner was | j seen close in shore. Looking straight j j down over the cliff, the patrol saw a i j dozen or more Japanese skinning a I I great number of seal, which had been I I slaughtered indiscriminately. The raiders refused to surrender j when Lempke reached the scene and j tried to make off with their booty in small boats, several of which were drawn up on shore. The agent then | ordered his guard of natives to open tire. The Japanese offered no resis tance, being without firearms. 'I hree of the raiders .ell dead on the beach, a fourth was seen to be thrown overboard front one of the boats that ! escaped and a fifth body drifted ! ashore later in another boat. Washington, D. C.—Acting Secre tary of State Bacon has sent to Am bassador Wright at Tokio the sub | stance of a dispatch received from j Solicitor Sims at Sitka, Alaska, re garding the killing of Japanese fish ermen at St. Paul Island. In sending the dispatch the acting secretary states that it is forwarded for the purpose of giving information such as this government has of a regretable incident, news of which may reach Japan in distorted form. There is no intention of offering an apology. Seals are regarded as property by international law and the Japanese killed by American officials on St. Paul Island stand in the same position as burglars shot in the act of stealing. Killed His Daughter. Milwaukee, Wis. William Esler, of Downsville, killed h!s year-old daughter Tuesday night by striking her over the head with a jug. He says he killed the child because the mother did not want it. Before killing the child Elseer drove his wife from the house with an ax. Five Children Burned to Death. Omaha, Neb. Five children of Thomas O'Daniels, of Seymour Park, a suburb, perished last evening in a fire which destroyed the family resi dence. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1906. BUY SILVER. Order Issued by Treas ury Department. CAME AS SURPRISE For the First Fime in 13 Years the . Government Will Buy White Metal for Coinage. Washington, D. C. —For the first ! time in II! years the government an- | nouneed Thursday its purpose to pur- j chase silver for coinage purposes. | Tenders are invited at the ollice of j the director of the mint in this City on the 15th Inst, up to I o'clock p. m. : and every Wednesday thereafter until further notice. These tenders are to ; • be for delivery at the Philadelphia, \ New Orleans or Denver mints, settle- j ment to be on the New York basis of J I bullion guaranteed 999 fine. The ! treasury reserves the right to reject , all tenders or accept such part of any [ tender as may suit its convenience. It is understood that, anticipating that its reappearance as a purchaser | might temporarily disturb the market : unduly, the treasury lias obtained con trol of considerable amounts for fu- I ture delivery, so that it is in position ; to drop out of the market for several months if desirable. The average re quirenients of the treasury through out the year will probably not exceed 100,000 ounces per week. From llie resumption of specie pay ments in 1870 down to the year 1900 the constant increase in the stock of subsidiary coin required by the grow : ing population and trade of the coun try was supplied by the recoinage of old and uncurrent subsidiary coins I which accumulated in the treasury under the resumption act. In 1900, as this stock was running low, authority was granted in the monetary act of March 11 to secretary of the treasury to divert bullion, purchased under the act. of July 14, 1 S9O, for the coinage of silver dollars, to the colli age of subsidiary pieces. Under this authority about 000,000 lias been ccined since 1900. The stock of bullion in the treasury ! was exhausted more than a year ago j and since then no bullion has been i available for the subsidiary use. A CLEVER BOY IN NEBRASKA. He Thinks His Abilities as a Dyna- j mite Thrower Entitle Him to Be. come a Naval Officer. Washington, D. C. —Secretary Bona parte wrote a letter Thursday to an embryo Nebraska inventor which was designed to Interrupt some in- | teresting experiments in throwing ; explosives. John Sweeney, a 17-year-old boy of Ericson, Neb., wrote to the secretary j asking for a full statement of the re quirements for admission to the naval academy and outlining some experi ! ments he is conducting in throwing j dynamite, preparatory to beconrng a useful officer of the navy. At present the young inventor says he is able to throw .064 of an ounce of ! dynamite 150 yards with a Winchester ; rifle of 14 calibre, range 300 yards, j With a large siege gun he says he be \ lieves he could throw 100 pounds ot j dynamite six miles and asks if his i achievements will not assist him in j gaining admission to the Annapolis I academy. Secretary Bonaparte replied to the i woung man that his experiments were ! better adapted to taking him to a j cemetery than to the naval academy j and suggested that he abandon them and adopt some other means of pre- I paring himself for a naval career. HERIING IS ARRESTED. Cashier of the Stensland Bank in Chi cago Is Not Allowed to Give Bail. Chicago, 111.—Henry \V. Hering, j cashier of the Milwaukee Avenue j state bank, which closed its doors four days ago, was arrested in Chicago Thursday. He will be refused bail until his connection with the disap pearance of nearly $1,000,000 of the bank's funds is cleared up. Paul O. Stensland, president of the defunct in stitution, is still a fugitive and, al though nearly 100 detectives are searching for the missing president, his whereabouts is a mystery. Hering was arrested in the after noon, two hours later than the time he had announced for giving himself up. He was taken at once to the of fice of Chief of Police Collins and put through a thorough examination as to his knowledge of Stensland's alleged mismanagement of the institution. Hering declared he did not know where Stensland was. Hering strenuously denied any re sponsibility for the failure of the bank. Hering maintained that if he was guilty of breaking the banking laws of Illinois, President Stensland was responsible. Two Chauffeurs are Killed. New York. —Two cheauffeurs were killed, two injured and two escaped unhurt when a new racing car plunged into a farm wagon near the Winfleld crossing of the Long Isl and railroad in Queens borouigh last nisjht. The car is said to have been traveling 50 miles an hour. A Sham Battle. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.— Five thousand troops engaged in a sham battle Thursday, the maneu vers being the most comprehensive ol the present camp of instruction. HON. W. H. KELBAUGH Of WEST VIRGINIA Hon. W. H. Kelhuu'ch. " ' A Cold at Any Time of the Year. lis' fecially in Hot Weather, is Very I>e- , pressing to the System. Pe-ru-na is an Unequaled Tonic For Such Cases. \ Read What People Say About It. t Hon. W. 11. Kelbaugh, Ex-Member I J W. Va. Legislature, 204 Uth street, J iN. E,, Washington, D. C., writes: j ; " You c*n use my nit me and went 4 t at nil times for Peruna as a medi- * {t cine and tonic uncqualed. I have T tried it for a stubborn cold and 1 badly run down system. / tried all i x sorts of other medicines and paidk i several expensive doctor bills. 1 T Per una cured me, strengthened me * . more than ever, and saved me 1 | money." I I .. Mrs. Clara Littorst, Seafleld, Ind , Bays: '"Last fall I took a severe cold. I took Peruna, began to improve and kept on so until I was able to do my work." English the World Language. The new world language, Esperanto, iseras to have already won more advo cates than the older Volapuk. No manufactured language, however, j seems to have much chance in com- i petition with English, which long ago displaced French as the most useful j and widely spoken language and which ! Is gaining faster than ever In all parts j of the world. Quite recently the Ger man government has ordered that all rtilway officials and employes must learn to speak English. In Antwerp also the authorities are urging all classes to study Engllslr and are pro- I viding special facilities In the public schools; the city has become "almost j an English-speaking port." In Japan j all school children are now obliged to learn our language. A few years hence tourists from this country will be able to get along there as easily as on a trip at home. With Great Britain, India, Australia, Canada, the United States and large sections of Africa using English, what hope Is there for any other language? New Element In Commerce. Ramie, a species of gigantic nettle ; which produces, directly beneath its outer bark, a fiber that can be woven alone or in conjunction with either wool or cotton, and gives to the cloth j Into which it Is woven a beautiful : silky finish, Is being produced in ; China at the present time to ail extent ! that promises to make it an impor- j taut element in the world's commerce. 1 Unlike cotton, it is not an annual crop; once planted it will produce for a dozen years. It does not ripen j evenly, and as soon as one crop is pulled the plant goes on producing j again; occasionally, in fropical coun- j tries —and it is only in a very warm j climate that it can be grown—one | plant will give four crops in a year, j A good stand of plants will run from j two to three tons of fiber per acre. Ancestry of Dion Boucicault. The name of Boucicault is French j In origin. Dion Boucicault was the J son of a French refugee who fled to j Ireland and married an Irish girl. He | was named Dion after his father's j friend, Dr. Dionysius Lardner, a noted British writer on physical science. "NO TROUBLE"- To Change from Coffee to Postum. "Postum has done a world of good for me," writes an Ills. man. "I've had indigestion nearly all my life but never dreamed coffee was the cause of my trouble until last Spring I got so bad I was in misery all the time. "A coffee drinker for 30 years, it Irritated my stomach and nerves, yet I was just crazy for it. After drinking It with my meals, I would leave the table, go out and lose my meal and the coffee too. Then I'd be as hungiy as ever. "A friend advised me to quit coffee and use Postum —said it cured him. Since tilting his advice I retain my food ar.d get all the good out of it, and don't have those awful hungry spells. "I changed from coffee to Postum without any trouble whatever, felt better from the first day I drank it. I am well now and give the credit to Postum." Name given by Postum ' Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. Road the lit- I tie book, "The Road to Wellvllle," lo | pkgs. "There's a reason-" i Balcom & Lloyd, i 1 . I I I 1 ri I a "tij <1 jffl WE have the bast stocked a general store in the county jj 1 and if you are looking for re | liable goods at reasonable L if prices, we are ready to serve B you with the best to be found. =j) p Our reputation for trust- fij i worthy goods and fair dealing 9 is too well known to sell any ill H but high grade goods. I 1 g Our stock of Queensware and fij Chinaware is selected with ffi M!■ |p great care and we have some r } >. p of the most handsome dishes Jjj ever shown in this section, B both in imported and domestic jjj gn makes. We invite you to visit |jj us and look our goods over. I i I I I Balcom & Lloyd. J *** ******** ******** ** im w-m* "**' ■ »"» ** ** rflj IIi« || LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT I | Laß AITS If I M " M N II We carry in stock | 1 - 1 SI fcjj the largest line of Car- ~ n gggßggggg|' pets, Linoleums and fed 12 Mattings of all kinds <sj[ II f ver bro "s ht i° ; his ■>. f* town. Also a big line -s»V- irlin.nn.JHJiin.lHl PI jh» of samples. J^^jlilSLla , ] A very large line ot I FOR THE I ?? Lace Curtains that can- ..rrli;.. •112 112 m Xre e foX ;1c= a,y COMFORTABLE LODGING »< II ki * Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library 4 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- II kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase. ||, II est to the best. I Furnished with bevel French ll L II plate or leaded glass doors. M II Dining Chairs, j r °" »* LI °* II Rockers and GEO. I. LaBAR, £* Ihit Chairs. 8o!e Agent for Cameron County. fcgj * * A large and elegant I——_J : line of Tufted and Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. II II S3O Bedroom Suits, C*)C S4O Sideboard, qua r- tfOfi fcrf ' ? solid oak at tered cak 4)OU ||jj S2B Bedroom Suits, Ol $32 Sideboard, quar- C)C |f solid oak at 4>Z) tered oak 4)ZO *■ * f* 126 Bed room Suits, COfl I $22 Sideboard, quar- Clc *« II solid oak at I tered 0ak,... J> ,D II II A large line of Dressers from I Chiffoniers of all kinds and II $8 up. all prices. || II Eg The finest line of Sewing Machines 011 the market, kg [J the "DOMESTIC''' and "ELDRILGE.' All diop- gj N heads and warranted. £3 A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in ! II sets and by the piece. II As I keep a full line of evervthing that goes to || II make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to eiium- II II erate them all. II Please call and see for yourself that I am telling kg you the.truth, and if you don't buy, there is 110 harm fc* done, as it is no trouble to show goods. Sj GEO. J .LaBAR. 1 II TJISTDERTiIBLI]VG. 3
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