STANDARD OIL COMPANY GUILTY OF REBATING Defendant Will Fight Against Decision of Judge Landis. WAS BITTERLY SCORED BY COURT. Officials Responsible For Alleged Viola- tion of Anti-Trust Law Compared With Counterfeiters and Mail Rob. bers—Special Grand Jury To Inquire Into Acts of Chicago and Alton. BLOW TO MILLIONAIRES. The fine imposed by Judge Landis is believed to be the larg- est in the history of the world and is the maximum that could be imposed. | The sum of $29,240,000 rep- resents a fine of $20,000 on 1,462 carioad lots of oil on which re- | bates were obtained i The Standard Oil paid but six- cent freight, while other indus- { tries were charged 18 cents Judge Landis said the methods | of Standard Oil were a greater ! menace than counterfeiting or { robbing the mails, and that fits officials resorted to erime to pro- duce dividends. He scored the trust for studied insolence ! culed their virgin guilt. The Judge instructed the jury to begin criminal ings against the Chicago and Al- ton road, which may involve E. H. Harriman. i John D. Rockefeller owns } per cent. of Standard Oil. i magnates and ridi- or g rand proceed- 0 a Chicago (Special).—Judge Kene- saw M. Landis, in the United States District Court, fined the Standard Oil Company of Indiana violations of the law against ing rebates from railroads. is the assessed agains any individual or any corporation in the history of isprudence, and is slightly more than 131 times as great the received by the company through its rebating operations. The will be carried to the higher courts by the defendant company. The penalty imposed company the maximum 28. 240.000 accept- largest ever as amount case upon is at the end of a long the methods and Standard Oil Company lessly scored. The Judge, declared in his that ficlals of the Standard Oil who responsible fi tices the found were n counterfeiters and act language being: Worse Than “We uation squarely deliberately society mo practic eg of the were opinion were of which corporati guilty 0 better Criminals, may as well look at this men who thu law wou re counterfeits from the The have n rate for ASLeISOTS cret ASROSRT piece of proper The c¢ law ous pun sisted sufficiently rent, encourage lawlessness, At the and after the the and fine, a ial the purpose acts the Ci road Company, ed in the oll company accepted re that corporat moned for 8 pq of Aving been pri I Case closed that bates jury is Tan ol ie the here, Gerard the 1 of al r from Caid § Harry Maclean, it Raisuli who holds him threatens to put him to death unless the the from the med Gabba ordered tions against ft root of withdrawn Moham- war, opera- of th ithe all Alabama, Too? Montgomery, Ala. (Special). general prohibition bill of Mr. ley, which reported advers by the House Committee on Temper- ance, was taken from the adverse calendar and placed on the favorable calendar for consideration, 1 was ily Bpeaker Carmichael, who vacated the chair, making the motion. Figured In Goebel Assassination. Georgetown, Ky. (Special) .—“Tal- flow Dick’ Combs, made notorious by the Goebel assassination, crossing a high trestle was run down and killed by a train. Combs was indicted with Youtsey, Powers, Whit- taker and Davis, and lay for months in jail here accused of assassinating Goebel. The case against him was dismissed. Lightning Strikes Four, Jacksonville, Fla. (Special). —— At Fulton, 156 miles from here, four per- sons were struck by lightning, one of them, Charles IL. Eddy, Jr., 14 years old, being killed. The bolt ran down the front of a building, and, entering a door, struck the boy on the neck, breaking the spinal cord. The three others in the bulld- ing who were struck were rendered unconscious, but all recovered with- in an hour. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Domestic. The hat of a Californian blew over- board from a steamer in San Joa- quin River. He leaped after It, res- cued it and, when hauled aboard, he displayed Fran under lining of the recovered derby. A Bristol (Tenn.) husband ployed a duplicate telephone by which he heard conversations be- tween his wife and her admirers. A suit for divorce is pending. Lightning set fire to the large plant of the Armour Fertilizer Com- pany in Jacksonville, Fla. 1.088, $100,000; covered by insurance. Nine politicians were indicted at Binghamton, N. Y., on charges of fraud in expenditure of state appro- priation for public roads Swift Tarbell, Edward L. Woode- and William Catchings were ser- fously injured in an automobile acc dent in New York. Newnporters will be disappointed to learn that the President will not come to that resort as it was rumor- ed he would Six snow-white have been engaged by the labor unions of Den- ver, Col., to draw the carriage which will take William D. Haywood from Union Station to his hotel. It is said that 50,000 will join In a great welcome to the secretary-treas- urer of the Western Federation of Miners. Fred Magill Graham Magill, grand jury at Clirton, counts charging them with der Maglll's first wife Actor Harry Woodruff, who reported as engaged to marry Gould before she wedded Coun Castellane, that he the Northwest is owing to Great Lakes being busy hauling iron ore. The roof an oil tank ablaze Edgewater, N. J., was hurled a explosion 15,000 em- s0On horses people Faye by a on six mur- his wife, indicted Iil.. the and were of was denies will heiress. The facing a ves. ! of an The ars in go coal district m will ine n ot on The York by against greatly the body of an eight-year-old girl in cellar of an East Side t child had been murdered throat, the little ‘Ongressman House expresses caused in atrocious crimes women and children was increased by the discovery of 1 excitement the recent the tenement, assaulted and There were marks indicating that, strangled chairman =, one was Jenkins, Tudiclary that a the North regulation « brings on aap { . : 5 of the Commitee, mise Carolina He civil regret 21 compro was reached in iiroad rate uch ase 3 a former Vice has retir 060 Railroad - 14 € Former G nt » n rat wa Peace Con American court the general of ry £s # > "ne cers dropped balloon weight at in of Russian « from a military to reduce the falling airship. the disorders have government of peasants have Serious agrarian in the where the estates, Hintze Robeiro, former premier and leader of the Portugese Conser- party, died suddenly in Lis- out bon. During the last few days nomadic bands of Tunguses have made fre- quent raids in Russian territory. The German government will send full blooded Trakhener stallions from royal breeding farms to stock farms at Field, Ky., which has been look- ed to for breeding of calvary horses. The Earl of Rosslyn will appeal decision of Scotch courts granting a divorcee to his wife, who was Anna Robinson, daughter of a Minneapolis hotelkeeper, American Rhodes scholars figure prominently in the list awarded In the finals of the School of Modern History at Oxford Troops have been withdrawn from the disaffected winegrowing districts of Southern France, The program was arranged for a meeting between King Edward and Emperor Francis Joseph at Isohl, Up- per Austria, on August 15 and 18. William Hitt, sald to belong in Washington, D. C., was acquitted in Karlsbad of the charge of running over o workman with his automobile, THE ~{artoon From Judge, Now York where City hisksy { Special) Ken- gtraight” was the rom 119 counties enumerates fgune of Terr ales Harper's Southern 8 that, together, cup Hee, ’h and except 1attanoogn most of the ural districts Carolina renounced the reve and last v by Hardman-Covington joined 1} bition banner Not cotton belt but | veok. er sisters movemen Kn temperance reproduces the Year fp ior iwo other With Saloons, iwo New Liquor Law Will Have Vast Financial Result. THE PROHIBITIONISTS ARE JUBILANT Great Scene in the *tatehouse When the Prohibition Bill Is Passed The Crowd Marches to Grady Monument and Sing Doxology Speculations Regarding Extent of Setback. Chaos affic in this foregone concin- for ab: 1 will Augusta, Ga. (Special) in the ince ft liquor tr gtate, = 2 a o g = Dispatches from Savannah and oth- er cities tell a story of financial loss that runs into many millions. Au- gusta will lose $2,500,000 in prop- erty values and license taxes. Co- Inmbus will loge heavily. Atlanta's loss will almost treble that of all other whisky-selling places in the state, Brunswick's loss will run above the million mark. Macon will suffer heavily in the loss of revenue from many saloon properties. . It was stated here that the roads have offered to transport brew- eries and stills to other states free of freight charges. Florida and Alabama are the states to which the whisky interests will move from Georgia. Tuesday night crowds of anxious 1 POT ! most in nain obdurately wet Politicians in seriousn tance rridor : dR # while were vot getting them to down ~ out the wi orde; get s doors of the it was ace 1g took pl t hae a an other stancl pt 1 b the from il thrown ghoulders the F proceeded where the speeches made by fight for after the upon taken capitol grounds the crowd monument, sung and of the night and House yim that to the Doxol- the place Grady OES all leaders Tuesday Was the sttfets to the Governor's man- gion, where he was giving a reception to the young people of the of Atlanta and teld them he would sign the bill just as soon as it reach- ed him, and the Governor was cheer- ed to the echo. He is not in favor lof prohibition; he prefers local op- j tion, but it was the will of the people iand he could not oppose them. | In Atlanta here is a brewing com- | pany, representing probably an in- | vestment of $1,000,000, and in Sa- ivannah there is another worth $500,- 000. There are 263 saloons in Sa- | vannah; there are 125 in Atlanta. iIn the remainder of the state there tare about 7560. All must close out iin about five months. This means {confiscation for the breweries, so {says Mr. Dunbar, of Richmond, lead- jer of the “antis.” Army Supplies For Philippines, San Francisco (Special). — Large quaitities of merchandise, ammuni- tion and supplies of every descrip- tion for use of the army in the Phil- ippines are being forwarded to the islands. Within the next few days four transports—the Logan, Warren, Crook and Buford--—will sail loaded to full capacity with military stores. In addition they will carry 3,000 men of the Twentyfifth and Twenty- ninth Infantry, IN THE FINANCIAL WOKLD, C. I. Hudson now says: “Buy stocks only on the sharp break and sell them on every bulge.” Another slump in the price of copper metal occurred which caused Amalgamated to fall two and one- half points, It was reported that J. P. Morgan & Co. had bought the unsold portion of Atchison's § per cent. convertible bonds, amounting to about $15,000, KOREANS PATHETIC FIGHT Hopeless Resistance the Japanese. Against Beoul (By Cable).—A Korean bat- talon mutinied against the disarma ment order and engaged In fight for several hours with the Japanese troops near the with rifles and a machine gun, Japanese troops surrounded the Korean barracks after an Imperial proclamation had been issued dis banding the Korean army, composed of 7,000 men hundred Ko reans, gathered the great building during a thunderstorm, were dispers- ed by company of Japanese diers outlets fi the Korean ded by ® consulate quarter Levergl several at a The army barrack: chine guns The troops sa diers According celved by 9 o'clock P. there alties among K riots growing of the Korea Om are gua ma ail nding ged will he 's granted ons to ofl General M the wer irean out n Marquis the E i | of his provided guards as The complete safety the ai foreign recau Japanese edit for outbreak, i all garris | sympathetic uprisi The fmpriso from Shiawa regin HER remainder the The distributed be Army country, ag the in Afr will iperial rent gt pated } ihe INSANITY HER MANIA. Studying Subject Caused Her To Be. come Lunatic. { Specia MINERS READY TO STRIKE. Alleged Violation Of Agreement, The Wage 11 be aff iver rn 1} Lia in id H0o0o yeni £ eo Will Anmunition. London {ool {By Cable) As a {of explosions on war ships of ibuted nagazines decided ali sh refrigerating the tem- of the in- estimated world, attr of inavies of the the overheating British admi equip the magazines the British navy to keep ralty has of ips in with machines down perature, The total gtallation of this device 2.500.000 4 cost is {Prowns In Half A Foot Of Water, Binghamton, N. Y. (Special). H. Morey, seventy-four years of the drowned at Tioga Center in the Sus- gquehanna River. It is supposed he wos drowned was only six inches deep. Madman Holds Up Train. Owosso, Mich. (Bpecial). — John Debraw, an escaped patient from the Pontine Asylum, held up a train with a pitchfork. The engineer stopped to avold running him down. Debraw thought he owned the rall- road, and had a right to stop the train. Governor Vardaman Injured. Jackson, Miss. (Special).—Gover- nor Vardaman was badly bruised about the shoulders in a rallroad wreck in the railroad yards at New. ton, Misa, The passenger train on which the Governor was traveling crashed into the rear of an engine standing on the main line coaling. His Injuries are not serious. The express messenger and three passen- gers were also more or less severely . ow C. W. BYRNE, FATH CURIST. SENT T0 JAL Six-Year-Oid Child Died of Pneumonia. NO FAITH IN MEDICAL DOCTORS. Believed in the Efficacy of the Re- ligious Faith to Which He Belongs Sent to Jail for Thirty Days for Not Calling a Physician While His Child Was 111, His New York (Special) SUICIDE PACT. Take ie. Girls Poison May Two Louisville One Korean Army Disbanded. Ts {*s ard AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happening: Eriefly Told. opening it { 0) lank . 0 be as Culgoa is Department ship Navy The supply fitted up by the 1 David T. Day, retired as chief Mining and sources in Geological was presented with a seal ring by the office force He will take up a study of the petroleum supply Chaplain Harry W. Jones, U. 8 charged with uttering worthless was arraigned for trial by at the Norfolk Navy who is a Mary- the Di Mineral Re- Survey He Dr of checks, court-martial Yard. President Roosevelt is the author ity for the statement that there has been no change in the plans to send the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific. Admiral Evang and Acting Secre- tary Newberry held a conference in regard to the Atlantic fleet move ments during the remainder of the summer, An accident bulletin issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission ghows that the total number of rail road casualties for three months end. ing March 21 was 20,663. Three thousand volumes have been purchased by the Isthmian Cana) Commission for the libraries for the four recreation bulldisgs on the fsthmus.
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