The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1906-10-18
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der British control, its stock being held
by the General Industrial Develop
ment company, limited, of London,
which fact has been developed in the
prosecution of the Standard Oil COM
pany at Findlay, o., under the Ohio
antitrust laws, has aroused the great
est interest among corporation men
and their attorneys. why cannot all
corporations which fear the stringency
of laws in the United States escape
some of their harshness by moving to
London 2" they ask.
Juan NJ Ceballos & Co., one of the
largest Cuban American banking
from 100000 to 100000 as re-
suit of the alleged theft Of 100000
in cash and property by Manuel Sill
veira, head of the firm of Silyeira &
Co., bankers and merchants of Ha-
vana, who for several years have rep
resented Ceballos & Co. in Cuba. Sill
veira, with his family, has left Ha-
vana ON his own steamer for parts I'M
known, and every effort is being made
to find him.
The plan to complete the Panama ca
nal by contract was made public by
Chairman Shonts Of the canal commits
sion. Each bidder must undertake the
entire construction Bidders will not
be considered who do not have avail
able capital of $1,000, o0O All proposals
must be in before noon of Dec. u, and
sixty days after the signing of the con-
tract actual work is to begin on the
isthmus. No American employee is to
work more than eight hours.
John P. Ship, sheriff of Hamilton
county, Tenn, of which Chattanooga is
the seat, and some twenty other de-
PENDANTS appeared before the supreme
court of the United States to show
cause why they should not be pun
ished for contempt 1t is alleged that
the sheriff permitted mob to take
from the Chattanooga Jail and hang
negro to whom the supreme court had
granted stay.
The first important proceeding to be
brought in New York against a large
corporation for breaking the anti-rebate
law began in the federal court The
case is that of the government against
the New York Central railroad charged
with granting rebates to the sugar
trust. The latter corporation and vari-
Gus transportation companies have also
been indicted.
Announcement was made in Steuben-
vile, o., that Frederick Cole Fair
banks, son of Vice President Fair
banks, had eloped with Miss Nellie
Scott of Pittsburg and had been mar
ried to her there. Vice President Fair
banks opposed the match, saying his
son, who is twenty five, was too young
to we'd He himself was married at
twenty-five.
The supreme court has decided
against the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad as defendant in
the suit brought by r. H. Wescott and
others Wescott entered into contract
with the railroad to develop the milk
business along its line. 1t was alleged
that President Truesdale broke the
contract because Wescotts profits were
too large
William E. Hammond, a young man
of Wilmington, Del, has received S.
600 by the will of S. G. Draper OF
Philadelphia. Three years ago when
Hammond was news agent on the
Pennsylvania railroad Draper became
seriously i'll on a train. Hammond
+ln nr1ft a Iaffpr
reached his destination.
Former Governor Van SAINT of Min
nesota, speaking before the national
farmers congress in Rock Island, Ill.
declared that the agriculture of the
country had not kept pace with indus
trial progress, this being shown by
the fact that the United States had
been forced to import cereals during
the past few years.
The prosecution rested its case
against DIR. Frank Brouwer of Toms
River. n. j.. charged with having poi
soned his wife. The state argued that
Mrs. Brouwer came to her death from
the effects of arsenic administered by
her husband, while the defense is that
the roman died from ptomaine poison
in food.
Henry II. Rogers, the Standard Oh
magnate. 10 being sued in Boston fol
$50, 900 900. Mrs. B. F. Greenough says
the company owes her as heiress to heI
father that sum as royalties on a secret
process discovered by the late Captain
Greenough for the refining of crude oil
making it nonexplosive.
~ kept life in the body OF dog fol
ten hours after it was decapitated
was one of the statements of DR.. c.
de NJ. Sajous of Philadelphia in paper
read before the Medical Association OF
New York in describing his expert
ments with "adrenalin," of which he Is
the discoverer.
Governor Folk of Missouri declared
In a speech that he opposed the gov
eminent ownership or operation OF rail-
roads and favored government con
troll similar to that exercised over the
national banks. He suggested the ere
ATTAIN of tho otf7ce of COMPTROLLER OF