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.