Connecticut western news., 1906-10-25
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child x SulZberger. MT. SulZberSer said his packing house had been in- vited to join, but had refused. The Schwarzchild & Sulzberger company takes this stand, he said, because such merger could be operated only in di- rect violation of the antitrust law. Sev- | eral prominent Chicago packers de- clared they knew nothing of the pro posed merger.
 Radcliffe Hicks, who recently died in Switzerland. left one-fifth of his S1,000.0O0 estate to be kept in trust for twenty-one years. Then the trustees are to establish in Holland, Conn, an | institute for the teaching Of scientific agriculture to the boys of Holland. J.. | Ogden Armour, the Chicago meat pack CT. is to give $5.000 year through the international live stock exposition for scholarships to be competed for by the state agricultural colleges at tue live stock shows
 Drafts of new insurance laws to be presented to the next legislature of New York are already being drawn as an outcome of the fight being waged between the various policy holders committees and the two big companies, the administrations of which are striv- ing hard to perpetuate their power. In addition, distribution of marked bal lots by the agents of the New York Life Insurance company will probably result in criminal proceedings.
 Charged with sending improper liter ature through the mails, James G. Ben nett and the New York Herald compa- ny through counsel appeared in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court in New York and pleaded not guilty to indictments. Manley w. Gillian, advertising manager, pleaded not guilty in person. The indictments grew out of the publication of the per sonap' column in the Herald.
 Lord" William Scully died in Lon don. He held 46,000 acres of land in central Illinois, 60,OoO in Nebraska. 50,OO0 in Kansas and 10000 In Mis- souri, Lord Scully was known as the most exacting landowner in this country, having introduced in several western states the rack renting" sys- tenn in use in Ireland. He was called Lord" Scully because of his vast hold ings of land.
 The grand jury of the special term Of the United States district court at Jackson, Tenn. returned an indict- ment against the Standard Oil compa- ny Of Indiana. The charge is the transportation of oil at rates discrim- mating in favor of the Standard oil company of Indiana. The maximum total fine upon conviction would reach S30, ,4S0. 900; the minimum would be $1, ,524, ,000
 The differences between Mrs. Her mann Oelrichs and her late husbands brother and sister, Charles NJ. Oelrichs and Mrs. William Jay. over the terms of Herman Oelrich's will are being ad- justed in a manner which will preclude a contest by the widow of the million aire clubman, who left the bulk of his property to his brother and sister.
 The National and Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance unions convened in Boston. Thousands of prominent members of the organization from all parts of the world were present. The Countess of Carlisle was chosen presi- dent of the Worlds W. c. T. U., to succeed Lady Henry Somerset, who declined reelection.
 Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Panama canal commission, said in Chi cago that work on the canal Is pro. gressing steadily. He denied that any Chinamen are employed as iahorers on the canal. The Spanish laborers brought to the isthmus are doing very well, not a single one of the 300 brought since January having died.
 Thomas F. Ryan, the New York cap- italist, has made an important trade agreement with the king of Belgium concerning the Kongo. MT. Ryan has, it is said, obtained firm foothold in the Kongo Free State for American enter prise in the raw rubber trade
 The New York court of appeals de. cided that the supreme court has a right to issue injunctions restraining the gas companies of New York city from cutting off the supply of gas to consumers who refuse to pay more than so cents a thousand feet.
 The government yacht Mayfiower is being overhauled in the Brooklyn navy yard preparatory to being fitted out for service in the West Indies as dispatch boat The president consid- cred that he had not sufficient work for the yacht.
 Although President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central railroad elected his own ticket at the annual meeting of the stockholders in Chicago, it Is by no means certain that E. H. Hartman will not wrest control from him in the near future.
 Friends of Miss Margaret Winhafer of Cheston, Ia., who was dragged from a train by soldiers in Russia recently because of defect in her passport, have decided to ask the state depart ment at Washington to investigate the case
 The advisability of cutting down the paper money now issued by the gov ernment Is being considered. The new phiIinnina uotaS meaSure inches hv