Connecticut western news., 1906-12-06
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Bearing out his complaint against the Standard Oil company, David +. Davis of the Preston S Davis Oil com pany, Brooklyn, told the interstate commerce commission in New York that the Rockefeller concern had been instrumental in having the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western railroad stop delivery of oil in tank cars to his com pany. The railroad officials denied that the road was influenced by the Stand ard oil company and said their action was caused by danger of fire from the Preston x Davis cars. The Standard oil company issued an appeal to the public declaring that ''in the prosecu- ton of Its aggressive industrial policy the Standard Oil company believes It. self to be fairly entitled to the encour- giving to similar business interests" /" Australia may take action against the company under the commonwealth's antitrust law.
 Nothing that has happened in year, it Is reported, has aroused President Roosevelt and the members of his cab inet more than the stories that there is friction between this government and Japan. The suggestion that this friction might in the end make a war cloud is secuted. It is true, however, that the United States and Japan are concerned because of the attitude of the San Francisco local authorities on the school question.
 William R. Hearst said in the City of Mexico that he had no desire to run for office again and would not seek or accept congressional nomination. He modified the utterance recently at tributed to him to the effect that he by saying that if circumstances made it imperative he would once more be a candidate for office. He did not des- ignate the office
 The supreme court of the United States decided adversely the habeas corpus cases of Mover, Haywood and Pettibone of the Western Federation of Miners, who are held in prison in Idaho on the charge of complicity in the murder of former Governor Steu- nenberg. The effect of the decision will be to continue to hold the men in confinement for trial in Idaho.
 In Richmond, Va, with many of the most distinguished Catholic prelates in this country participating in the splen- did ceremonials, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, the $350,000 gift of Thomas F. Ryan, was conseerated in the presence of an audience representa- tive of both the Catholic and the Prot estant spirit of the south.
 Tt would appear that we are on the threshold of practical and successful aerial navigation" declared General William Crozier, chief of the ordnance department Aerial warships, armed with a new explosive more deadly than any previously known, will, it is ex- pected, soon be in the service of the United States.
 An investigation made at Bilibid, Philippine Islands, where twelve pris- oners who had been inoculated from the cholera serum recently died, has disclosed traces of plague germs in the dead bodies. Ii is asserted that tubes containing plague germs and others filled with cholera serum were mixed by error.
 The price of milk in New York went up again Dec. 1. The farmer received from the trust and the other big deal- CTS in New York one-quarter of cent more a quart. The grocers and dairy storekeepers raised the retail price of loose milk-that which is ladled out of the can-1 cent quart, to ' cents.
 The equity suit of Philadelphia, in volving $5,OO0,0OO, against the con- tracting firm of D. J. McNichol and others in connection with the construc tion of the municipal filtration plant was called for trial. The city charges that the money was obtained by the contractors by fraud and 'collusion.
 John Alexander Dowie has gone ray ing mad. His mind is now a wreck, and it is believed that his end Is near. Zion City, built up by Dowie after years of strenuous effort, will, it is believed, be left to its creditors by Overseer Voliva, who will lead his peo- pie forth to found another Zion. Professor Edward Henry Strobel, professor of international law at the Harvard Law school. is to assume a | position permanently with the govern ment of Siam as general adviser. Pro | lessor Strobel was formerly connected with the United States diplomatic serv- | ice.
 The Jewish Congregation of Kene- seth Israel, Philadelphia, dedicated d memorial window to the memory of John Hay in recognition of his services in behalf of the downtrodden and op- pressed members of the Jewish race in | Roumania and other lands.
 Coal Mine Inspector Fenton of the I Twelfth Pennsylvania dis. tt reports three fatal accidents for the month | ended Nov. 30. For the year the rec ords show twenty-three fatal and thir- teen nonfatal accidents. This is the best record for many years.
 Abraham Ruef, "boss' of San Fran cisco, and Chief of Police Jeremiah