Connecticut western news., 1906-07-19
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In Jamestown, N. T.. investigations were begun into the various charges of violations of the interstate commerce laws by the Standard Oil company and the Pennsylvania railroad relating to rebates ut Clean. The interstate commerce commission Is Investigating the Standard oil company in Wash ington under the Tillman- Gillespie res olution and in Cleveland. O.. the fed eral grand jury Is probing the relations of the company and the railroads. John n. Rockefeller has been granted a temporary respite from the troubles of the oil trust at Findlay. O. A motion to Quash the proceedings will be filed by his attorney. and the case was con | tinued until Aug. IS when the motion will be heard.
 The Hartje divorce case in Pittsburg. in which the husband. the rlaintiff. Is charged with conspiring to ruin hls wife proceeded to a new degree of sensatiouslism. and the discontinue of the millionaire plaintiff was visihly In. creased when his wife declared in court that she had been imposed upon in one of the letters which she pre- yiously had identified as oae she had written. R. F. McEiroy is In custody on charges of forgery and conspiracy for offering to sell to Attorney John Maron ore of Harue's counsel. five let ters alleged to have been written by Coachman Nadine to Mrs. Hsrtje. A final settlement of the strike of mine workers in the central PennsyL vania hituminous field. which began last April. was made in Philadelphia. ! The miners ret an increase. but con cede the open shop" The strike in the region of Dubois. Pa. has been set tied. About 3a.noo miners In Ohio are out as the result of the disagreement about the wage scale. Twelve hundred men employed at the mines of the United Fourth Vein Coal company at Linton. Ind, were called out as a re- suit of differences with the company regarding the loading of slate.
 Mrs, Mary s. Labaree, widow of the ary murdered recently by Persian fa- natics. has protested against the exac- < ton by the United States government of an indemnity of S50Oo0 for the mur- der of her husband Mrs. Labaree says the payment of the money will arouse native prejudice against mis- sionary work in Persia and the money will be exacted by the shah's govern ment from innocent persons. In spite ! of her protest S30,oOo has been paid ! to her by Persia.
 Secretary Bonaparte announced that the Carnegie and Bethlehem Steel com panies will be given the contract for the armor for one of the new 16.00o ton battleships at the price named by the Midvnle Steel company in it's bid. | The contract for the other battleship will go to the Midvale company. The i former companies had protested against the acceptance of the Midyale company's bid on the ground that the government several years ago had promised to deal with them alone for armor plate
 Judge Thomas R. Buskirk in Pnoli Ind. sustained the demurrer of the 2 Hotel companies, of which Thomas Tag | gart, Democratic natiou-, chairman. Is ] president. against the " te's petition ! for a temporary receiver for the prop critics and for a temporary injunction against gambling at the resorts. The hotel companies said that the allega- tions of the state in its complaint do not state facts sufficient to constitute ! a cause of action.
 ! In New York city the American Ice company. known familiarly as the Ice trust has raised the price of ice from l a5 cents hundred to 35 cents for each 100 pounds. In explanation of the raise ! President Wesley M Oler said that 1t was done in order to make the supply last all summer. The District of Co., lumbia grand jury has indicted the American Ice company and its Wash ] ington officers and local ice men for al- legged conspiracy to raise prices.
 Attorney General Mayer of New York state has denied the request of ! William R. Hearst for permission to test the title of George R. Mcclellan to the office of mayor os the city of 1 New York. This decision ends the mayoralty contest. The attorney gen. eral says MT. Hearst's charges of con- spiracy are unsupported. and he also says that only 666 votes, not enough to affect the result of the election. are called into question.
 Seeking 10 save one another. four girls of one family and three other lit tie girls were drowned near Cedar Rapids, la., in a deep hole at the end of a treacherous sand bar in the Cedar river. One after another of the chil- dren plunged into the water with the spirit of heroes. attempting to save the struggling sister. cousin or friend. and one after another sank in the en- Sulfing stream.
 Louis A. Gourdain of Chicago. con victed of conducting a lottery and sen fenced to four years imprisonment. in- sists on serving the term despite the efforts of counsel to free him. So anx- ious is he that he will build peniten- tiary annex at Joliet. III. It is said that he desires to complete the sen