The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-06
UNITED PRESS SUES FOR LIBEL.
Clayton HcNIchaeI Accused of Max
ing Dcrogatory Statements.


New York. June 5.-Clayton McAiichael.
proprietor Of the Philadelphia North
American. and a director in the Associated
Press. was served with a complaint in
this city this morning in a libel suit
brought by the United Press in the SUI
prcme court. the amount sued for being
$1,000 The publication complained or
appeared in the issue or the North
American dated June J. After summariz-
inc the points which are libelous. the COM
plant concludes: That said article. mat
ter and words. as aforesaid. insofar as
they stated or insinuatei that the plain
Tiff proposed 10 give up its business TO the
Associated Press or TO any other person
or persons, or that the plaintiff proposed
10 repudiate its contracts abandon its
friends and allies and turn over its bust
ness % a rival organization, or 10 any 9TH
81 person or persons Whatsoever. or that
the plaintiff business was organized and
conducted as stock jobbing concern and
not Iegitimately. or that the plaintiff
revenues were dishonesty and unla Wfully
obtained. OF that the news furnished and
delivered 10y the plaintiff TO its clients and
subscribers was inaccurately and untrust-
worthy or that tie plaintiff has been
guilty Of lying, deceit and libel and Of
using improper and unlawful methods 10
discredit and injUre the Associated Press;
or that the plaintiff is behind hand in OBJ
tanning its news and delivering the same.
and hence that 81 is of little, II any. value.
or that the plaintiff is. or was. on June I,
1895, doing practically no business
beyond the Rocky mountains, and
that the business which IL was
doing was with three or four papers OF no
financial standing or respectability, AMI
which had been refused admission or dis
carded by the rival organization, or that
the only source from which the plaintiff
derives its foreign news was the Central
News Of London, and that the news Ct
said Central News was untrustworthy ana
Inaccurate. and that the foreign news dis
patches Of this plaintiff. obtained from
said Central News, were also likewise
Enthusiastically and inaccurate, or that
the plaintiff is now subjected solely 10
the financial burden OF supporting said
Central News, or that the plaintiff is
now or ever has been in a state of panic
or believed itself financially unable 10
continue its business and desired to IS
sociate itself with or merge its own busl-
ness ia that Of a rival; or that the plain
tin was willing TO agree 10 surrender
the control and management Of its busl-
ness to a rival organization, or 10 any
other person or persons whatsoever. or
that the plaintiff was ready and willing
70 repudiate and abandon its obligations
and contracts, to forsake its allies ana 10
remodel and Tevolutonize its entire bust
ness or any port of Il, or that the plain
tiff was ready 10 agree TO coerce and to
Use its influence with its members, clients
and allies into paying money to others
which they were under no legal or moral
obligation 70 pay at all; or that the plain
th was willing to give up its name and
organization and TO go out of business. or
that the news service Of the plaintiff was
OF an Inferior character and not worth
the price paid for it. and that the plain
tiff was in receipt OF no revenue from any
source other than four New York news
papers. were false, scandalous, defaml-
tory and hbelous, and the plaintiff AYERS
that it was never guilty of any of tho
Infamous and disgraceful acts that are
stated or insinuated in said article"
New York, June 5.-Ernest +. Birming-
ham, editor OF the Fourth Estate, was ar
rested this morning on charge of Grim
inal libel brought by the United Press.
He was taken before Justice Mcmahon
and upon examination being waived, he
was paroled in custody OF his counsel
until O'Clock, when he promised to fur
nish $500. The libel complained OF by the
United Press was printed in the issue Of
the Fourth Estate of May 90.