TENS OUTS
THE OIL TRUST
And Fines It Over a Million and a
Half Dollars.
FIVE STATES ARE AFTER TRUST.
Jury in Texas Fines Corporation $1,623, -
000 for Violation of Anti-trust Laws
and Cancels Permit of Waters-Pierce
Company to Do Business in That
State,
Washington (Special). The de-
cision of a Texas jury Saturday, find-
ing the Waters-Pierce Oil Company
over a million and half dollars
fts violations of the anti-trust
and cancelling its permit to do bus-
fness in the state, is considered here
to be a body blow to Standard Oil
The action is of deep signi-
ficance. It comes at a time when
the Supreme Court of Missouri has
before it the report of its special
commissioner, which finds that
same Waters - Pl Oil Comp
has been violating anti-trust
of that and
its permit do
celled,
Although there has
tle doubt as to what action the
souri Supreme Court will take,
believed that the Texas decision
prompt quicker action.
The Ol] Trust is treading a perfect
labyrinth of legal prosecu Ohio, |
Texas and Missouri Rave attacked it
under state anti-trust laws. The
federal government is prosecuting fit
under the Elkin Law in |
noig, Te i and
York has guil
Chics: and
awaiting the infli
by Judge 1
minimum
000 if
Standard
000.000
a for
14%
IAW
one
ree
the law
recommends that
business be can-
state,
to
1it- |
Mis-
it
will
been very
is
tions.
11i-
Now
ite
nnessee,
It
20
the las
1
fines must reach $1.0
imposed
Andis
circuit
on the
Waters-FPler«
Saturday 1
state
granted
the com
in Texas
he asked
appeai
Lie defense
COLDEST ON RECORD,
April And May To
Weather Bureau.
D
11
an
According
ty
in
Wash
Weather
over
C. {Special} The
gion,
Bure
record
has lookin
for April and
creation of the bureau,
of
bee g
its Mas
since the
finds that the
May of this
make the
there is
more, tl
tions of
cold r
present
lar to
June, 1882,
fson. bnt
above the
there are
ing warm
month T}
and
April and
together
of which
further-
few indica-
June. The Ia
1882, and
eather is very
record
warmer, in ec
ature
months
taken
coldest spring
record, and.
Be 4
ina
yOar,
spring was ir
3
Il of w
that
spe simi-
of
was
the
i
that year
temper was not
and at
ine tions of
ather for
average
no
ien
approach-
oming
record
we
e coldest Aq
was 187 and, like 1882,
and early summer made a record for
uinseasonabla weather
the «¢
on
the spring
Annihilated By Pretender,
Oran, (By Ca
vices
Algeria ble) Ad-
received Morocco
gay that the
to the throne
hilated the
chica, that
tans’ uncle,
ed, and
tured
here from
troops of the pretender
surrounded and anni-
Sultan's forces at Mar-
Muley Bou Bekir, the Sul-
and two kaids were kill-
that 300 women were cap-
Work
Portland,
hundred and forty
by the
On Forts Stop,
{ Special)
laborers employed
Government
tion of fortifications
Cow and Diamond
Portland artillery
Maine One
on the construc
at Cushings,
Islands, in the |
district, struck for |
increased wages, They demand $2 a
day and free transportation to and
from the islands and assert this
amount is allowed in other distriets.
Killed His Daughter,
Uniontown, Pa. (Special). —
ander Boyd. of Coolsprings,
here, aceldentally shot
his daughter Helen, RK years old,
while cleaning a shotgun, The
charge entered the girl's side, eaus-
ing alm ont instant death. The fath-
or says he did not know the gun was
loeded. A similar shooting occured
in the Boyd home several years ago,
when Boyd killed his grandmother.
The old woman had been out of the
house and returning late Boyd mis-
‘took her for a burglar and shot her.
Alex
near
and killed
1
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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.
The appellate division of the Su-
preme Court of New York has order-
ed a new trial for George Burnham,
Jr., former general counsel of the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com-
pany, ruling that the evidence did
not justify conviction and that errors
were committed in admitting evi-
dence,
Marie Berke
from Austria to
a man she had
pulsed because she was not
looking as her photograph.
A gang bogus messenger
18 been making money in New
by delivering fictitious death
SUKES,
traveled
to wed
was re-
good
who
New York
not seen,
feld,
as
boys
York
mes.
Of
killed and
trolley collision
Seven
eight
at
were
the
persons
injured in
Elyria, O
Andrew Grady, father of Eliza-
beth Grady, the school girl who ac-
Policeman Hess from
York to Baltimore, . attacked
bluecoat and tried to strangle
him during a hearing in a New York
New
the
court.
Seven priests J in
‘rash of a platform that carried down
60 persons at the cornerstone laying
of a Greek Catholic Church
Wilkes-B Pa.
Because they were refused
camp stools while on duty
of Shamokin and
Electric Rallway went «
the
were
at
arre,
the use
the em
Mount
mn
yf
loyvees the
rike
Citizens
ring a plan
| Kinley home
it into a
0., are consid-
ving the Me
and converting
like Mount Ver
of Canton,
for
intact
preser
memorial,
ndend
J. H.
the Dani
On rone
h
Hege
tro, of Venezu
thea T°
conference
Ambassador
wl 141
ould like
Roosevelt
nited State
nt
Mexico,
wi
of ays
ending and no rea-
Mexico
sothi
no
4 § 4
war
pe
80ND fear
Guatemala
Rev. Young J
dist Episcopal
nt Shanghal,
to between
of the Metho
South, died
the
Allen,
Church,
China, at
1
i
of
ago
mo
13.
captured a gang
coiners who has put £20,000
counterfeit coin in that city
The French cruiser Chanzy, which
went ashore on one of the Baddle
Islands, will be a total loss
King Haakon and Queen
left Paris London.
Herr Muehlberg, the German un-
der secretary, told the visiting Eng
journalists in Berlin that
was surprised at the constant charges
jermany
The Paris police
out
Maud
for
warlike motives
Queen Maud of Norway had a
Narrow escape from death or serious
at Versailles while
the horses drawing her
carriage having bolted
The preliminary debate
agrarian question in the
closed,
a continuance
on the
of the discussion
The Congress of the Association
international Academies opened
Vienna. Delegates from nearly
the American academies were
present
The revolutionary movement in
{China against the Manchu dynasty
has attained serious proportions and
missionaries are worried,
A number of survivors of the ty-
phoon in the Caroline Islands were
rescued after having spent several
nights in the trees.
King Edward's new turbine yacht
Alexandria was launched at Glasgow,
Negotiations are under way by
which the bandit Ralsuli may become
the Sultan's military adviser,
Chulalongkorn I., King of Siam,
arrived at Baden-Baden, Germany,
to take the waters.
Reqguelem mass was sung in the
Carmelite Chureh in Dublin In mem-
ory of Michael Davitt,
The Portugese are objecting to
King Charles’ reigning without a
parliament,
The strike of dockworkers at San-
tiago was settled provisionally.
in
OPTIMISTIC SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WILSON
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Cartoon 1}
RATS COST MILLIONS
Damage To Cereals May Reach $100,.
000,000 a Year.
in the Ww ashing’ on Star,
y Berryman,
All Kind
Stroy
Millions,
Rats Destroy
CONTROL
2oosevelt Defines Attitude Towards
Qailroads--No Persecution
Intended.
» conch
ilies of the
="
and
»r RE SIDE NT'S SPEECH.
have bef e ug is to preserve
pres
and
SALIENT POINTS OF
that we 1!
be
One great shlem
woe remember that
property. 3
ypardy
of wealth
There
vision and the
many respects analogous to
i cises over the national banks
! We ask for such laws as In
| Commonweal) ith of Massac husetts:
As a matter of course, we
Snder the law: but have
and the guilty fow by any
Anat an from the pre
jeay jeg
gted in the Federal Governme: y fu
doing Inters
that
must he ve il power of super
x a power
Government
tate busineas
the
in
railways
nd as com
control over
piete as exer-
their the staid
anch laws as now obtain in ind
shall punish any eriminal whom we can
no intention of confounding the innocent
iil-judged and sweeping scheme of ven-
Our aim Is primarily to prevent these abuses in the future
favor the railway manager who keeps in close with
line rather than in close touch with the speculative market
that the great mass of our raliroad secu
if they fall in ‘any degree to command
fsolated instances of unconscion
arouse suspicion, which naturally
long simHar practices are
essence now obtain old
Engl
con-
fet we
an
geance
We
Vv
ry
i
touch th= peo-
The evidence seems ample
rest upon safe and solid foundations:
complete public confidence, it is because
stock-watering and kindred offenses
extends all other corporate securities
possible
Ample provision should be made
» * a
to 80 HE
by Congress to enable the
to undertake the physical valuation of
whenever and go soon as in the opinion of |
road would be of value to the com-
Interstate
and any road in the country,
a valuation of any
each
| the commission such
mission in its work.
The public interest requires guaranty against improper multiplieation
Reasonable regulations for their issuance should
be provided
We hope as one of the chief means for
cure as complete publicity in the affairs of
regard to national banks
The conditions of railroad activity,
state commerce, are such as to make the central Government alone com.
potent to exercise full supervision and control.
There can be no question as to the desirability of doing away with re.
bates or any methed of favoring one shipper at the expense of a eompetitor
The most effective way to lessen demands for unreasonable legislation is
for the railroads * * * to remedy as many as possible of the abuses
and shortcomings for which there really are remedies.
Demand honesty-—absolute, unflinching honesty--together with courage
and common sense, in public servant and in business man alike,
betterment of conditions to se-
rallroads as now obtains with
-
£10,000 To Capture Kidnappers,
Trenton, N. J. (8pecial).--Gov-
ernor Stokes signed the Gebhart Bill,
which providea for the petitioning
of Congress to take steps toward the
adoption of a constitutional amend-
ment providing for the election of
United States senators by popular
vote, The Governor alro signed the
bill extending the Child Labor Law
to mercantile establishments, and
the bill placing a fund of $10,000
at the disposal of the governor for
the apprehension of kidnappers.
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD.
Better weather and better crop
news helped stock prices,
Since the ’longshoremen’s strike
began the port of New York has lost
over $10,000,000 of exports,
| Gold to the amount of $2,000,000
was engaged for export, making $2.-
350.000 this week, Paris is getting
One hig Wall Street trader bought
20,000 Union Pacific, which other
traders sald was to cover a short
sale,
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PREFER SUICIDE TOWORSE FATE
Four Wealthy Guatemalans Kill
Themselves,
Me
firmation of
xico City (By
he
Guatemalan;
ull con-
proms-
Cable)
suicide of four
inent and the impr
ment and sentencing death
of complicity
der of Pres
this mot , was
through official
Tuesday
Departmen
to
men sus
attempted
pecled
mut
brera, early
iden
ceived
channels
The
legram i
people
ie
tence
that Presi
that the
f (
ndir g
Saved A Bishop's Life,
MRS. McKINLEY AT REST.
Last Wish She
the
Was That
fartyred President.
rove to i
Marke
ite black cas-
flower-embower
fe
aign ol-
d
North
its
so-called camp
the identical
body las
Flowers
ned te
roses
President McKinley's aft
the Buffalo tragedy
pieces and merely faste
ribbon, with the
McKinley favored i
filled the room, while
which there was not
were sent to Westlawn
of the cortege
nt sovell., Vice Presi
Fairbanks and Cabinet Mem-
Wilson and Cortelyvou oc
fed seats in the parlor across the
In this room also were Gover-
nor Harris and former Governor Her.
rick. Relatives and immediate
friends of the family were seated
in the hall and adjoining rooms
in
iredomi
many
room
house
metery ahead
Presi de nt Roo
Flooded.
Kev
New Orleans Streets
New Orleans, La. (Special).
to heavy rains, Nearly all
rainwater has to be pumped out of
the city streets hecause of the low
level of the land. Although big un-
derground ditches have been built
and an expensive pumping plant has
heen established, the rainfall is so
unprecedented that the pumps can-
not handle it.
Hammered A Duke.
Paris (By Cable). —-- A woman
named Mme. Guggenheim was fined
$20 in a civil eourt for having com«
mitted an assault upon the Duke of
Galleria, husband of the Infanta Eu
lalie, aunt of the present King of
Spain. Mme. Guegenheim recently
awaited the Duke outside of a store
in the Rue de 1a Paix and when he
eame out she belabored him with
her parasol, much to the edification
of the passersby.
WAS ROASTED ALIVE
IN A FURNAGE
Man Had Revealed Ppiot To Kill
President.
THE VENGEANCE OF ANARCHISTS.
Widow of Man Says He Started Out
Days Ago to Notify Police That As-
passing Plotted Life of the President,
but That Husband Never Resched
Authorities or Returned Home,
Becca
Was
Anarchists’
DRED-YEAR CLUL.
omist Says Present Gene
Wiley
eration Will Live Long.
Refused Millions For Her ( Child.
Detroit. Mich { Special)
gational divorce f
Mills,
turer,
case «
millionaire stove
will no furthe:
It is annon that
has been reached
go
courts. need
tlement
Mills
div
Mrs
thia,
agrees to his wife
orce and ends the
Mill the cu
the girl
of
proces ding
gtody of Cyn
28 the
ntion,
gets
little who «x
cause the
slice of Mille’ mo: it
Mrs. Mills was once offered
ight if she would sur.
y
cont
Caly oY
child, but declined
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Told.
A medal of honor
od to Miss Mary Guinan,
N. Y.. by President
distinguished daring in
own life to save that of John ©
Runyon, an aged man, who was in
imminent danger of being run down
by an Erie Railroad train.
Secretary Root and Ambassador
Jusserand had a consultation respect.
ing the framing of an agreement be
tween the United States and Franoe :
reguiating tariff duties
According to statistics, there has
beer a phenomenal growih in the
volume of manufactured products of
the United States since 1850,
Protests are being received at the
War Department agninst the propos.
od abandonment of ‘military garri-
gona in the West.
The Treasury Department purchas-
ed 100,000 ounces of sliver for eoin- -
age purposes,
¢ been award-
Middictown,
loorevelt for
risking her