SOME STADARD NETHOLS
-
Schemes by Which Great Profits
Are Made Divulged.
THE HEPBURN LAW NULLIFIED
Delivery Stations and Rates So Ar-
ranged as to Enabie Them
to Evade the Law.
Some of the inner workings of the
Standard Oil Co. were shown by
Special Attorney Kellogg in the
hearing of a suit. of the United
States to dissolve the oil trust. The
amazing process by which the trust.
evades laws and by which it is en-
abled to make the stupendous profits
of more than $4,000,000 annually on
one of its subsidiary companies which
is capitalized at only $500,000, was.
shown.
It was from the private reports
the Indiana Pipe Line Co. to the
Standard Oil Co. and from the un-
willing lips of the comptroller of the
Standard-owned pipe lines—George.
Chesebro—that Mr. Kellogg drew the
facts which he believes will material-
ly aid the government in proving its
contention that the oil trust is a con-
spiracy in restraint of trade.
It is the contention of the govern-
ment attorneys that the tariff rates
posted bv the pine line companies
with the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission in compliance with the re-
quirenients: of the Hepburn law are
exorbitant and practically prohibit in- |
dependent producers from using the |
pipe =lines.
The rates charged by the
companies are the same as
the railroad companizss and
profits to the corporations
them of from 400 to 1,000
annually.
These prohibitive ta 3 do
affect the Stanagard, Mr. Kellogg con-
tends. because that company owns
the pipe line companies and receives
all of the profits and the payment of |
any rate is simply taking money {rom
one pocket and placing it in another.
Mr. Chesebro and C.: N. Payne. the
vice president of the National Tran-
sit Co.. both testified that the pipe
linec had never carried any oil for in-
dependent producers, and that they
had never. been asked to carry any.
By their testimony Mr. Kellogg show-
ed that the Standard pipe line com-
panies had so arranged their deliv-
ery stations and rates that they had
succeeded in nullifving the Hepburn
law so far as it related to them as
eommon carriers.
Mr. Kellogg laid the foundation
for the disclosures of the immense
profits’ of the Standard’s subsidiary
eompanies by introducing as evidence
the reports of the Indiana Pipe Line
Co. to No. 26 Broadway. After he
had gotten them marked for identifi-
eation he called Chesebro to the
stand and selected the report of 1903,
about which he questioned him. The
witness gave the profits of the In-
diana Pipe Line Co. for the year 1903
as $4.196,664.13. The estimated
value of the plant and investment at
that time was $2,228,758.50.
of
pipe line
those of
result in |
owning |
per cent |
not
FAIRBANKS TURNED DOWN
Methodists Refuse to Elect Vice
President a Delegate to Gen-
eral Conference.
Because Vice President Fairbanks
served cocktails at a dinner given in
honor of President Roosevelt at In-
dianapolis last Memorial Day, he was
defeated at Columbus as a candidate
for lay delegate to the general confer-
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which meets at Baltimore
next May. The prohibition delegates
defeated him.
The defeat came at
nial meeting of the lav
ference held to select seven
10 the general conference
mere.
the quadren-
electoral con-
delegates
at Balti-
Spanish government, alarmaod
increasing emigration of Span-
borers, has entered upon a vig
campaign to stop thé exodns,
and is directing especial efforts to
prevent laborers going to Panama to
work on the Isthmian canal.
IN WEAPONS
The
at the
ish la
orous
DESTROY FORTUNE
Valued at $15,000
Into Atlantic Ocean.
Iv order of Commissioner Bingham
$15.000 worth of revolvers, knives
and some slungshots were taken
down the bay at New York on the po-
lice boat Patrol and dumped over-
board, far outside Sandy Hook. The
collection, which included 5,009 re-
wivers, were all seized by the police
within the last 15 menths. -
Seized weapons were frequently
disposed of at auction, but the last
Legisiature passed an act permitting
this property to be destroyed and the
commissioner hit upon the present
method of effectively carrying out the
provision of the act.
100 Lives Lost
Hundreds of houses and many
boats were destroyed by a fire at |
Wu Chow, China. About 100 lives
were lost, and property valued at
$250,000 was destroyed. The con-
flagration is said to have been due to
incendiarism growing out of the re-!
cent establishment of a new interior
customs station at Wu Chow, the in-
habitants of which bitterly opposed
any extra taxation.
Collection Are
Dumped
in Fire,
North Dakecta Honored.
North Dakota will be the name of
the battleship No. 23, one of the new
20,000-ton vessels, contracts for
which were recently awarded by the
Navy Department. The other vessel,
heretofore announced, will be called
the Delaware. President Roosevelt
bas decided that it would be untair
to name No. 23 the New York and
change the cruiser of that name to
the Saratoga. Utah now is the only
one of the states after which no war
vecsel has heen named.
| the siding.
{ freight
{ misunders
| swung
ENGINEER BURNED TO CRISP
The Smoker Telescoped and Every
One in It More or Less
Wounded.
Eight men were killed and 14 in-
jured, several probably fatally, at
Shicks, at the end of the Bellaire, O.,
freight yards, when the Wheeling and |
Chicago express on the Baltimore &
Ohio. crashed into a freight
which was moving slowly on a
ing.
The dead: Michael Hotize:
Fourteenth street, Wheeling: William
Shaw, 2811 Market street, Wheeling;
Carl Bereron, 1785 ey -seventh
street, Milwaukee; [ Galbreith,
freight engineer, i 0O.;“H. BE.
Motz, freight conductor, Newark; O.;
Harry Seitz, newsboy,
H. A Lipscomb, passenger
Newark, O.: F. 1. .Rose,
Cleveland, O. ia
Injured: -W. C. Dosant, D. R.
Kneer, E. J. Blubaugh, mail clerks,
Newark, O., will. die; T.. A. Dunlap,
passenger fireman; W. S. Johnson,
freight engineer, Newark, O.; Harry
English, Connersville, O.: Curtis Laf-
ferty, Cambridge, O.: H. Peterson,
704 Willow avenue, Hoboken, N. J.;
John Hawk, 693 Fourth street, not
known; Alfred Dalby, 419 West One
Hundred and Twenty-first street. New
York: William Terrell, Albaay, N. Y. |
F. Wilson, Patrick Elwood, 94 Eigh:
teenth street, Wheeling, W. Va.;-Den-.|
ny ‘Daily. Pittsburg. Pa.;: W. L.
mer, F. Jackson, Cambridge, O.: P.
Lawston, Weoston, W. Va.; C. John-
son and H. Addison, Cambridge. O.;
BR. E. Glover, Klee, O. A. Moottar,
Newark, O. =
"Phe. wreck
of an. cperator
westhound freight
yard and was
Vim,
the tower, directed
hannon at Shicks, one mile west, to
throw th2 passenger train to the east
track anil give the west track to the
The order apparently was
od.
point where the wreck oc-
is a very sharp curve,
enginsers of cast-
from seeing more than a
The passenger train
curve very rapidly,
late, and should
tv on the main
the siding. how-
turned, and the
and into the
time to
the
sid-
9
a
engineer,
Arcade,
was due to the
had thz Bellaire
moving slowly aleng
Morgan, operator at
Operator Buck-
At
curred
which prevents ti
bound trains
few feet ahead.
around. t
three hours
gone on in safe
The switch to
ever, had not bzen
train shot on the siding
freight. There was scarcely
apply the brakes and no time for
enginenmen to jump.
PROGRESS IN CHINA
Imperial Decree Promises a Ccnstitu-
tion and Representation in
Parliament.
Minister Rockhill reports to
State Departnient that a Chinese
perial decree w issued in July last,
ordering eztablishment of a
school for study of ceremonies,
or li Hsu and also ordering
the revision of the present
prescribed for the people
to sacrifices, funerals,
riage, etc.
The decree
words: = “We
mand the
try of rites
head of their
the
there
ne
being
have
line.
the
im-
the
tha
eh Kuan,
in
dress,
these
com-
with
further
ministers of the said minis:
to take the lead at the
subordinates in the said
school of national ceremonials, to
carefully go over ancient and modern
custon and to study the every day
life of the commonalty. select the
best among and bring them to
cur notice, order. that we. may
premulgate
as law to
closes
hereby
them,
in
theso
the people of the
This is a proof of our earnest desire
to prepare the ‘way for granting a
constituticn ; and parliamentary rep-
resentation to the country.”
FGUR DEAD IN WRECK
Washout Causes Collision on Seaboard
Air Line.
d in a eol-
train and a
Air
The
Hines
fireman and
unknown white
tramp.
ir 13 Jury
in
freight
the Seabeard
Alamp, Ga.
*harles
lision betwed
work train on
railroad near
are:
Americus,
gro hrakems:
man, supposed
The conduc
tho cab was
Wr was caused
d=ad
ginger of
the negro
and an
to he a
as
The
escaped
not
no
ior
der {
a ‘washout.
ck by
Cuban Cutiaws
hand of 14 brigonds
e “was dispersed
the exchange
government do
bandits were
conspiracy recently
which the toad were ar-
are helieved to be for-
have been working
on mines.
ed.
Santiago
by : rural
of several
snot be-
connected
discover-
Dispers
A in
proving
guards
shots.
lieve
with the
ed and of
rested. They
cign outlaws, who
in the Santiago
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
after
The
these
el
sten of the cir-
cuit court went to sleep on the bench
while a murder trial was in
at Hampton, Va. and the state press
is almost unanimous in demanding his
Judge WW. T.
i resignation.
Lae floods in Southern Frances have |
caused many million dollars damages,
ended hundreds of lives and destroy-
ed the wine crop. They are blamed
to the unrestricted denuding of
forests.
Purchase
railroad by
of the Chicago &
the Taledo, St. Louis &
Western was cificially ratified by the
directors of the latter. The new own-
ers propose making the Alton an arm
of a system covering several states.
Electricity for Railroad Terminals.
It is noted that the example set by |
in |
the New York Central railroad
providing electrical power to haul its
traffic into and out of the
Central station at New York city is
spreading. The Southern Pacific
railway is about to electrify its ter-
minals at Oakland, Cal. The Penn-
syivania railroad’s tunnel and
tion in New York city will be made
smokeless by the same means. Tho
contrelling purpose of the change i
to get rid cf the smoke in these ter-
minals.
train |
Massillon, O:; .
Zim-
failure |
to throw a switch. The |
customs |
regard |
mar- |
1ecommendations |
empire. |
Line |
ne- |
progress |
the |
|
Alton !
Grand |
sta- |
a,
FLOOD IN SPANISH PHEERS
Malaga and Other Towns Devas-
tated—Many Lives Lost.
|
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
Su
| ‘Many Towns Suffered and the Loss
. Is Placed at Millions of
Pesetas.
Great ilestriciion was. dona. about
‘Malaga, Spain by floods.
bodies have been found, a it. .is
“feared that many more remaimao be
found. .-.
The floods were caused Bye Serre
tial rains, which made the Guadaii-
| horce riser,. which flows into the sea
| about six miles tq the southwest.
overflow, devastating Malaga and
neighboring towns. Several” cHurches
and bridges and many houses” col-
| lapsed. Many families are homeless
and a famine is feared. :
Reports received from
towns in the district’ show that the
flood was very serious. A cloudburst
ed at midnight and fhe river
several
i
|
{
Faccurre
rose so rapidly that it: was=impossible-
to give a warning. . Reports. received
from several towns place the number
i of dead at 130. ils
The few police on the ®tgeet ts of
Malaga did tlreir utmost to rause “the
irhabitants. They rang an alarm on
| the church bells and fired revolvers.
They also aroused boatmen., who
tried to row through the flooded
streets and rescue people from
windows of their houses.
The doors and windows
| houses cellapsed from the
the water, which, in some places, was
10 feet decp. Furniture was washed
out and floated off.
The bodies of drowned people and |
| animals were seen floating among the |
debris. These scenes were followed
by the collapse of several houses.
Day revealed that every bridge had
been swept away, factories gutted,
the streets inextricably
cvery jmaginable domestic
sion, the gas and electric works stop-
ped, the telegraph destroyed and the
aqueduct wrecked, cutting off the
supply of drinking water.
Similar accounts were
from Velez, Malaga, ' Bemamargosa,
Campanilias and elsewhere. i.
Thousands of persons are ; home-
less.” The damage is placed at sev-
cral millions of pesetas.
NEW RULING ON POSTCARDS
| Postoffice Department
fulness by New Order.
According to a new ruling of
postoffice department the attaching
of sheets of paper bearing
writing or printing to a postal card
is no longer forbidden. by the
partment, Advertising,
writing may appear
and also on the left
face. Cards are to. be
[respects as sealed letters, except that
| when undeliverable they may not be |
| returned to the sender. @
In. .letting down the bars op this
| class of matter, the department has
| decided that postal ecards Wearing
| particles of mica, glass, sand, tinsel
or similar substances are unmailable
i except when inclosed in envelopes
i with proper postage attached.
I
ne
of many
on the back,
third of
treated in all
or
GASOLINE BOAT EXPLODES
Into Ohio Rives.
Blanch M., a 15- h@rse power
| gasoline yacht, exploded at Gallipolis
Island, in the Ohio river. There were
2 peeple aboard, including the Har-
isville, W. Va., brass band of 19
pieces. Several men were blown in-
:to the river and the balance were
I compelled to jump overboard.
All of the party are accounted for
except Willis Fiddler, a member of
the band, and John Edwards, chief
clerk in the Gallipolis postoffice.
The yacht was commanded by Cap-
tain U. G. Haines, of the Gallipolis
ferry boat Francis. The accident
caused by a laptern hanging to
roof of the yacht falling upon
engine,
Blown
he
[2
ri
vas
the
the
CUBAN AGITATOR ARRESTED
Magoon Cakles That He
the Trouble Well in Hand.
Three the ringleaders in the
threatened trouble in Cuba have been
arrested in jail,
cording from
Magoen.
Maso Parra, one
Gov. Has
of
and
to a
are now
dispatch
ac-
Gov.
of the disturbers,
| becoming angered because of tha
failure to bring about an uprising,
said to have threatened to dynamite
i some buildings in Havana. This
threat was conveyed to Gov. Ma-
goon, who ordered the arrest of Parra
| and two of his gang, Lara Miret and
| Ducasse. They are now in jail at
Havanna.
Gov. Magoon cables that he is ful-
ly cognizant of the efforts which are
| being made to cause an uprising and
is
Nineteen,
pressure of |
either | i=
Cne Result of the Erupticn of Moun!
de- |
illustrations |
| auspices
| mittee.
| titudes
tangled with |
posses- |
CASE AGAINST BORAH
Governor Steunenherg Alleged to
Have Been Implicated in
Land Frauds.
In the trial of United States Sena-
tor Wm. E. Borah, on trial at Boise,
Idaho, charged with timber land
frauds, Special Prosecutor Burch of
Detroit outlined the government's
case against the Senator.
He stated that the idea of making
money out of timber lands which the
United States threw open to settle-
ment in Idaho originated with State
Senator John Kincaid.
He is alleged to have induced sev-
eral men to go ‘into the scheme,
.among them the late Gov. Steunen-
berg and Wm. Sweét.
Steunenberg, .who- had exhausted
his personal resources, soon had a
bank actbtnt *of $38,000, 'it'is’ al
leged, which he checked from. as
“agent.”
. In connecting Senator Borah with
the conspiracy, Mr. Burch says the
government will show that all deeds
from “dummy” 4rustees tp the Bar-
ber Lumber Co. passed through his
office and were recorded at his re-
quest.
it is further stated that when four
or five’ fraudulent claims were held
up Mr. Borah went to the register
‘of the local land office and inquired
as to what was to be done concern:
,ing them. The register told him, it
is said, that the claims were fraudu
lent and had better be left alone
‘COLDEST ABOVE EQUATOR
Warm Strata of Air Above the Cold;
Facts Proved by Balloons.
At the meeting of the Congress of
German scientists at Dresden, Prof
Vergessell of Strassburg University
declared the atmosphere at high al
titudes is = the coldest over the
equator and the warmest above the
poles. ' This fact, he said, was proved
by balloon ascensions made during
July in various latitudes under thse
of the international com
Balloons which reached al.
of 11 -to 121 miles in _ th:
were found to have register
148. degrees below zerc
while in the latitude ¢!
the temperature wa:
below zerc at the
tropics
ed abont
Fahrenheit,
Central Europe
only 76 to 85
heights indicated.
received |
thal
at
is
upper
established
of the
Another fact
the greatest cold
{ mosphere is reached at heights fron
[6 to 634
| contrary
i tists hitherto,
| er.
{ duced
1
{ and lowest
| gessell
Extends Use- |
Ahove that height
assumpticn of scien
the air warm
This warmer strata or air is de
to be highest at the equato
at the poles. Prof. Ver
concludes the atmospheric
affecting the weather dc
miles.
to the
grows
conditions
[ not reach higher than seven miles.
the |
|
{
Ba
1
|
{
is keeping the peace disturbers under
| close surveillance.
Attorney Kellogg, for the govern-
ment, at the Standard Oil inquiry in
| New York, adduced the fact that the
| combine, by an ingenious
ment, blocked the jndependents at
the New Jersey state line from ship- |
| ping oil to the seaboard.
Confesses Terrible Crime.
Cyrus: Baldwin, 85 years old, one
of the wealthiest residents of Kane
county, Ill, Killed himself by
paris green, after he had confessed
{ that he had murdered his aged wife
| by smashing her skull ‘ith a ham-
mer. Mrs
Oklahoma to Be a State.
{ to
arrange- |
| man
taking
led in any dirigible balloon.
| four hours and 17
circumnavigating the lake]
Baldwin was found dead. |
{ different
President Roosevelt announced that |
accept the
the citizens
{he would
{ adopted by of
constitution |
Okla- |
{ homa and thus admit the territory as
{ the ferty-sixth state of the Union.
i
| nme
So
the | Seattle,
| cial reports the
i depth of three-eighths of
Two Men Are Drowned—RBrass Band
siructed
ISLAND APPEARS
Makushin in the Arctic Seas.
Capt. A. J. Henderson of the reve
cutter Thetis, who: arrived af
Wash, confirmed with offi
account of a violent
of Mount Makushir
the existence of a
from the sea, mak:
Bogoslov forma
addition is he
and with its appearance the
of the ocean has risen until
formerly sufficiently large
of ships, are. now
A 1kusghin volcano was
{ threatening six hours. Ashes heavily
impregnated with sulphur, fell to a
an inch.
The mountain is 25 miles’ from
Unalaska. Raports made to Capt
Henderson in the north sav that thre¢
other similar volcanic disturbances
have occurred along the Alaska coast
during the present sumnier.
Killed Three Children,
Liertha Mund, 27
her three
d 8S vedrs: Helen, a
and Ireda, aged 8 months, to
at their bome in Clinton street,
falo. N. Y. Immediately after. com-
nmiitting the deed she went to the
Pennsylvania railroad yards, whera
her husband, Frederick Mund, is om
ployed, and informed him of her ac
tion. The children were = sleeping
when their mother destroyed them.
WILL PROSECUTE RAILROADS
Hundreds of Cases eof Violaticn
Safety Appliance Law to
Be Taken Up.
district attorneys
the
voleanie eruption
Sept. 1, and
peak rising
a part of the
The latest
new
ing
tion.
fourth,
bottom
channels,
for the 13502¢
dry land. The
pa
aged
children,
Mrs.
strangled
Ve
~
L
topher, age oe
iis
deal
Dui:
a
n
of
United States in
various parts of
Attorney
country were in-
by General Tiona-
institute
of
to suits against a
large number railroad companies
to recover penalties incurred by them
for alleged vielations of the safety ap-
pliance law.
The Department of Justice and the
Interstate Commerce Commission
have ‘determined upon a rigorous en
forcement of this law. The facts upor
which the prosecutions are to be bas
ed were developed by inspectors o
the commission. The number of al
leged violatiens 2ggregate 287.
parte
6C0 Drowned in dopan.
Advices of a terrible disaster due
great floods prevailing in Japan
have heen received. Tha overfiow o!
the river Otcnashigawa, running
through the town of Fukuchiyama
near Kioto, caused the loss of the
lives of more than 600 persons, the
| river rising more than 50 feet.
Successful Air Trip.
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, the Ger
aeronaut, made the most suc
cessful aerial vovage hitherto achiev:
He spent
minutes in the air
complately
of Constance and passing over five
states. The spced of the
airship is estimated :to have been at
least 38 milés an hour. When both
motors were in operation, it easily
out-distanced the numerous steam
ers laden with observers that follcw-
ed on the lake.
COAL FOR PAGIFIC FLEET
American Vessels Unable to
Handle the Large Supply.
MANY BIDS WERE RECEIVED
Welsh Fuel is Rejected as Too Costly
for Big Sail to the Pacific.
‘Bids for supplying coal for
and proceed to the Pacific ocean were |
opened at the Navy Department by |
Rear Admiral Cowles, chief of the |
bureau of equipment. The offers to
furnish the enormous. supply of fuel
required to “enable thé fleet to make
its projected demonstration and for
carrying the coal to points at which |
the fleet will stop on its 14,000 mila |
voyage, varied greatly and it will re-
juire several days for the navy de-
partment to analyzas them.
“Naturally. the bidders who propose
to use foreign colliers to transport
the coal, were able to make lower
figures than those who have only
American vessels to offer. Compar- |
ad with the number of foreign ves-
sels, there were few: American ships
in the competition, and on the face of
the bids there could not be enough
American vessels to earry the coal re-
quired if every American merchant
ship offered which floats the Stars
and Stripes were granted a contract.
Owners and lessees of foreign ships
were alive to the advantage
2d to get the contract on equal terms
with American ships. Their - bids
were ‘much lower, both to price
per ton and the charter rates propos-
ed by them.
The examination made of the
indicates that wiil be cheaper
employ foreign vessels and unless the
legal and other objections that have
been raised to that purpose are heed-
ed by the administration foreign ship
cwners will get the benefit of
great amount of Unele
that “will be expended
coal for the ocean to
tion.
The
ment
forms.
125,000
specified
de Janeiro,
at the western
trance to the
present-
as
bids
it ae}
Sam's gold
in supplving
ocean expedi-
for the depart-
in three
sked
ned wera
On called for the detivery
tons of American coal
quantities at Trinidad,
unta Arenas, which
or Pacific coast
Straits. of Magel
Callao, Peru; Magdelena Bay,
and San Francisco, or Mare [s
vesseis of American register.
The second ealled for the
American coal at these
cof foreign register.
third called for supplving and
delivering 120,000 tons of Welsh
admiralty cogl in . various quantities
on specified dates at all the places
named, except. Trinidad and Rio de
Janeiro.: It was, or is, the purpose
of the department to have American
coal exclusively delivered at Trini-
dad and Rio, 6,000 at the first
port and 7.000 tons af the last nam-
ad. © For deliveries at all the other
stations, the competition was open
0 American and foreign coal.
After making a hurried examina-
iion of the bids the department offi-
cials expressed the opinion that it
aould be cheaper to employ foreign
vessels to carry American coal than
co purchase the Welsh ceal outright
ind have it delivered in foreign bot-
IONS.
of
ote 3
sland, in
delivery
of places in
vessels
The
tons
BOAT CAPSIZES:
Nhite Boy and i3 Negroes Perish as
a Result of Accident in Alabama.
A ferryboat crossing tho
Jee river at the government
it MceGrew's shoals,
Ala., was
white boy and 13 negroes.
Leslie Vernuille, aged
in Qaksdale, a suburb
14 DROWN
Tombig-
works
near Jackson,
cansized, drowning one
The boy
16, resid-
Mo-
Was
3610 of
sile.
The
an re
lace by
iccount
nmrrent
has long
danzorous
river, son
treachercus
there
the
as ‘a
scene of
garded
navigators of
of the ranid and
and the rocky shoals
HARDSHIP ON RAILROADS
Cost
accident
very
the
WVissouri Law Has
That State $1,500.000
Three Months.
rding to compiled }
by officials of the various ‘Mis.
sonri railroads, the cperation tho
wo-cent passenger fare law has cost
12 Missouri railreads $1,700,000 dirr-
the past three months. The
yecame effective in Missouri “on
me 17, and by agreement with At-
orney General Hadley the railrecads
lecided to reduce their fares and
0st the law until Oct. 1. It was an-
1ounced that the Atchison, Topeka &
lanta Fe, Wabash, Missouri Pacific,
3urlington, Chicago & Alton and
ther trunk lines have joined to fight
che further enforcement of the law,
ind will submit statements showing
‘he effect of the two-cent fare law
0 Federal Judge McPherson at Kan-
sas City, about Oct. 15.
Reports emanate from Washington
‘hat protests have been filed with the
State Department against the return
Acc
nade
of
ng law
the | that Mr. Morrison,
great fleet of battleships which will | Mr. Sims in office,
leave the Atlantic coast in December |
of Wu Ting Fang as the Chinese rep- |
resentative at the capital.
Boston Wool Market.
Leading domestic quotations are as
follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania
feeces—XX, 34 to 35¢; X, 32 to 33e
No. 1 washed, 39 to 40c: No. 2
ed, 38 to 39c¢; fine unwashed,
fine unmerchantable, 29 to 30c: med-
fum clothing, 28 to 29¢: half-blood
clothing, 27 to 28c; half blood comb-
Ing, 32 to 34c; three-eighths
rombings, 33 to-33l5¢;
combhings, 3lc; delaine washed, 38 to
B9c; delaine unwashed,
faine unmerchantable, 31 to 32c.
wash- |
27c: |
| that
blood |
quarter blood |
| cials,
21 to 32¢; de- |
| cided to prosecute the case.
IMMUNITY FOR ALTON
Judge Landis Instructs Jury to Drop
Inquisition.
It was decided by Judge Landis in
the United States District Court at
Chicago that the Chicago & Alton
railway shall not be further prosecut-
| ed for its connection with the Stand-
| ard Oil Co. of Indiana in the grant-
ling of rebates between W hiting, Ind.,
{and East St. Louis, II.
| Jt was claimed by Attorney General
| Bonaparte, whose letter was read to
| the court. by District Attorney Sims,
the predecessor of
had promised im-
munity to the Alton road, provided it
assisted, in good faith, in the prose-
| cution of the Standard Oil Co. The
| attorney general, therefore, claimed
| that it was the duty of the govern-
| ment to see that no further steps to-
| ward the punishment of the railroad
[for its part in the granting of the
rebates be taken.
The attorney general asked that
the grand jury, which had been sum-
I moned at the instance of. Judge L.
| dis to investigate the Alton railroad
| be discharged, and that the matter be
allowed to drop as far as tho Chicago?
& Alton was coneerned.
Judge Landis declined to discharge
the grand jury. but instructed its
(‘members that. they had no further
duty to- perform in connection with
the Chicago & Alton railroad. The
court: then called attention to. a
statement recently issued by Presi-
dent Mofrett of the Standard Qil Co
cf Indiana, in which it was claimed
that, if the Sfandard - Qil Co. was
guilty cf reecdiving rebates no = other
manufacturer was innocent.
The court directed the jury: to
vestigate the conduct of other ma
facturers and directed that a 1}
poenae issued for President Mof
fett,
n-
in-
nn
v
be
NEW RULING ON BUTTER
Responsible Water
When Sold on Commission.
Creamerics for
missioner of Internal R
has ruled .that where dealers
have produced the butte
manufacturer: d creameries,
found that tho butter con-
han 15 cent of water,
it is then adulterated or process but-
ter, and is liable to a special tax.
Where 1 assignments of butter
the ord aries are to the dealer
a ton merchant or sold
commission, manufacturer
held liable for
ial tax. YVhore the alers buy
Hutter He however, and as-
er Tr the outset, liabil-
ity upon such deale with special
instructions to have s dealers re-
pert from whom they aht, that
additional efforts made to fix
the special tax al the manu-
facturer.
Com
Capers
in butt
from
and is
tains more
ovenue
er
it
ner
by
a3
on
and
the
the
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+ 1 ig
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CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Roosevelt “has retur
from Ovst2r Bay.
Supreme C ourt sus
of the r i
Fngone 8.
President ned
Washington
California
“tained the validiiy
which indicted
Abraham Ruef and others.
The: Lehigh Valley
‘closed as contract with
vania Steel Co. for 2.250
semer rails on a basis of
An Italian bell ri killed a
ister, who had his
tying him to clapper of a
and beating him to death against
metal white ringing the chimes.
the
train,
to
The
railroad
the Pennsyl-
tons of
*
>
Bas-
’S
min-
frome, by
ngoer
ruin=d
the be!l
the
of a Southern Pacific
which collided ~ with a
ht {rain near the entranco tun-
nel (17, two miles west of Tehschipi,
Cal, eight Gv wera Killed I 29
injured.
In wroek
work
froig to
ae
I¢izh,
and Ra-
the Asiatic
commission
Mare Island
to bo thoro
Cincinnati
home. from
station, are to go out of
in about 10 days ot the
navy yard.: They are
ly rhauled.
Pe
cruisers
recentiy
OV«
The
Jamestown
and
offered
for: the
exhibit of
asylum was
mium
Exposition
most complete
‘kK dope in a L bind
\Westor
$10 by
tho
extra - §
heen
Governor
NOPOSes
th
I
e people Cr are
co! tro lL.
Ansa T.
Quakeress who gave
April for the education loz
in the South, ried: at the
boarding in Philadelphia
So cld.
extimated
Corporation for
quarter will in the
of $40,000,000, although esti
this time are not taken with
more than passing notice.
Government witness
tor-Elect Borah, at his
charge of defrauding the
out of timber lands, admitted that h=
was a perjurer and also said that a
federal official had promised him im-
munity for‘his testimony at the trial.
M. E. Ingalls, the Cincinnati finan-
cier and railroad president, in an ad-
dress to the National Bankers’ As-
sociaticn at Atlantic City, predicted
a recession of business prosperity and
urged the cultivation by statesmen
and lawmakers of a more conciliatory
spirit toward big business enter-
prises.
Jeanes, the philanthig
S1.060.000
uf
home
was years
ff
ti curr
naighborhoo
It is that
Stee]
be
mates
much
against Sena-
trial on the
government
Bank Cashier Missing.
Oscar Kondert, formerly cashisr of
the TIirst National Bank Jaton
Rouge, La., is missing, while United
States officers are searching sfor him
with a warrant charging him with a
defdlcation of $60,000. It is alleged
the shortage was discovered
over a month ago, but that Kondert
and his friends made good the great-
er part of the loss. The bank offi-
it is said. declared themselves
satisfied, but the federal officers de-
of