The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-11
UNITED e SUE
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Damages
Demanded of observation-disclosures
of Complaint.

Demanded of Northumberland
of Complaint.
NEW YORK. June ~5.-Clayton Nc
Michael, proprietor of the Philadelphia
North american and director in the
Associated Press, was served with a
complaint in this city this morning, IN
the libel suit brought by the United
Press, in the Supreme Court, the
amount sued for being 800, 600. The
The publication complained OF appeared
In an issue of the North American dated
June LIST.
After summarizing the points which
are libelous, the complaint concludes:
THAT said article, matter and words
as aforesaid, in SO far as they stated or
insinuated that the plaintiff propCsNd
to give up it's business to the Associated
Press or to any other person or persons,
or that the plaintiff proposed to repud1
ate it's contracts, abandon It's TRENDS
and allies. and turn over it's business
to a rival organization, or to any other
person or persons whatsoever, or that
the plaintiff business was organized
and conducted as a stock jobbing con
Germ, and not legitimately, or that the
plaintiffs were dishonesty
and unlawfully obtained OF that news
furnished and delivered by the plaintiff
to it's clients and subscribers was mac
Curate and untrustworthy, or that the
plaintiff has been guilty of lying, deceit
and libel, and of using improper and
unlawful methods to discredit and inA
jure the Associated Press; or that the
plaintiff is b~ehindhand in obtaining it's
news and delivering same, and hence
that it is of little, if any, value; or that
the plaintiff is or was, on June 1st,
1895, doing practically no business be-
yond Rlcky Mountains, and that the
business which it was doing was with
three or four papers of no financial
standing Or respectability, al d which
had been refused admission or dis
carded by a rival organic alton, or that
the only source from which the plain
tiff derives its foreign news was Gen.
tTGL NeWS, of London, and that the
news of said Central NeUCS was I'M
trustworthy and inaccurate, and that
foreign news dispatches of this plain
tiff obtained from said Cen trGL NeOUs,
also likewise untrustworthy and mac
curate; OF that the plaintiff, now sub
jected solely to financial burden of
supporting said Central NeC8, or that
the plaintiff is now, or eve has been,
in a state of panic, believed itself fnan-
Clally unable to continue its business,
and desired to az Jciate itself with or
merge it's own business in that of q
rival; or that the plaintiff was willing
to agree to surrender control and man
agement of its bushes to the rival or
~ganization, or to any other person or
persons whatsoever; or that the plain
tiff was ready and willing to ~repudiate
and abandon its obligations and con
tracts, to forsake its allies and to re
modil and revolutiOniZe its entire bust
ness, or any part of it; or that the
plaintiff was ready to agree to coerce,
and to use it's il fuence with its mem
bers, clients and allies into paying
money to others which they were I'm
der no legal or moral obligation to pay
at all, or that the plaintiff Was willing
TO give up it's name and organization
and to go out of business, or that the
news service of the plaintiff was of in
ferior character, and net worth the
price paid f. it, and that Il
plaintiff was in receipt Of NJ revenue
from any uTc other than four New
York newspapers, were false, scandal
GUS, defamatory ard Iibell0us, and the
plaintiff AYERS that it was guilty
of eny Of the infamous and diegraceful
acts that are stated or insinuated in
the said article"
AGAINST THE EDITOR OF FOURTH
ESTATE"
NEW YORK, June ERNEST F. Biz
mingham, editor of the Fourth Estate,
was arrested this morning on a charge
of criminal libel brought by the United
Press, He was taken before Justice
Mcmahon, and upon examination be
ing waived, he was paroled in the Gus
tody Of his couLsl until 2 o'clock,
when he promised to furnish $500 bail.
The libel complained of the United
Press was printed in the Fourth Estate
Of May 40th.