Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-01
DOWN WITH TRUSTS.
The Whisky Monopoly Called
to Account.
Warrants Issued for the Ar
rest of Its Officers.
Indictments Rendered by the Fed
eral Grand Jury at Boston.
Papors Served on the Officials in vari-
Gus States-President Greenhut
and His Partners Placed
Under Bonds.
Associated Press Dispatches.

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CHICAGO, Feb. 29.-It is definitely
known that the federal grand jury at
Boston, February 2lst, indicted all the
officers and directors of the Cattle Feed
ing and Distilling company (the whisky
trust), for violation Of the Sherman
antitrust law. Today United States
Marshal Hitchcock's deputies were en-
gagged in serving the warrants for the
arrest of the indicted men. The follow
ing have been indicted: Joseph B.
Greenhut, Peoria, president; Herbert
L. Terrell, New York, vice-president; !;
William N. Hobart, Cincinnati, treas
urer; Warren H. Corning and Julius
E. French, Cleveland; Lewis H. Greene,
Cincinnati; Nelson Morris, George J..
Gibson and Peter J. Hennessey, Chi
cago, directors.
Hennessey is also secretary. He was
arrested this morning.
The indictment is of an omnibus
character, making its charges against
the officers and directors in a body. 1t
is returned as of date the second Tues
day in December last. The violations
are charged as having been continuous
since February II, 1890. 1t charges that
during 1890, the defendants purchased,
rented or leased the properties of COM
peting distilling companies to the num-
be1 of seventy; from August l, 1890, up
to the time OF the finding of the indict-
ment, they controlled the output of
these distilleries and sold $4,000 900 gal
Ions at prices fixed by them. This they
did unjustly, unlawfully and oppres-
sively to monopolize the distilllng and
cattle feeding of the companies afore-
said. The indictments then set out the
agreements between the trust and Dexter
T. Mills, Erastus G. Garfield and John
Joyce, whereby, in consideration OF their
purchase of trust goods, they are to re-
ceive rebates of 2 cents per gallon. The
prices charged, the indictment says,
were largely in excess of the usual
prices at which goods of the kind were
sold previous to the organization of the
trust. The defendants, in so doing, it is
alleged, did it to unlawfully and op-
pressively prevent and counteract the
effects of free competition on the prices
of said spirits, and did unlawfully exact
and procure great sums OF money in said
district from said Mills and Garfield. as
co-partners, from said Joyce and from
divers other parties.
A deputy has been sent to Peoria to
make arrests.
Papers will either be forwarded the
federal authorities in California for
service on Morris, or he will be notified
and allowed to make his way to Boston
and give himself up to be admitted to
bail.
Word is received from Peoria, saying
Greenhut has been arrested and given
bail in $4,000 to appear in court in Bos-
ton next Monday. Hennessey did like
wise.
1t is understood that the defense of
officials of the trust will be that they
are legally incorporated company on
large scale, and doing business under a
charter from the state Of Illinois, and
that one company cannot combine to
create trust or monopoly.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 29.-Treasurer Ho-
bart and Director Greene, of the Cattle
Feeding and Distilling company, were
arrested here today, by being requested
to appear before Commissioner Hooper.
The warrant requires their appearance
at Boston forthwith. Hobart says some
dealers in Boston, who handled some
rebate, have also been indicted.