The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-11-13
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ployed by the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad company were
adjusted at a conference between Pres
Ident w. H. Truesdale and the repre-
sentatives of the engineers. The en-
gineers were granted ten hour day
and increases in wages. Polling of the
members Of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen employed by the Erie
railroad resulted in an almost unani-
nous decision in favor Of strike. The
firemen on the ferryboats and tugs Of
fhe Erie have formulated demands for
an increase in pay of 500 q month and
a decrease In the working hours. There
Is a widespread feeling among en-
pIoyees of every class on every rail-
road entering New York that they
should get a share of the prosperity
the companies are enjoying. The en-
gineers and fremen of forty-two lines
west OF Chicago have made demands
for better pay and shorter hours.
There is every reason to believe that
the government will soon institute
proceedings against the Standard Oil
company. The proceedings viii be
brought under the Sherman antitrust
net with the view of dissolving the
company and restoring to each Of the
seventy-five or eighty constituent com
panies its proportionate share Of the
stock and also to compel the OBJ
seryance of the law prohibiting them
from entering into any contract OF
agreement with each other to maintain
the price Of oil 1t ID believed that
John D. Rockefeller, H. HI. Rogers,
John D. Archibald and other Officials
of the Standard Oil company may be
CTiminally prosecuted on the charge of
maintaining a combination in violation
OF the penal clause of the Sherman
antitrust act.
1t became known in Wall street that
practically all the great railroad and
Industrial corporations Of the country
have decided to increase the prevailing
rate Of wages to their employees. II
was predicted that this would follow
the action Of the Pennsylvania railroad
management in increasing the wages
of its army of 10000 men nearly $12--
100000. One reason for the action
was brought out by trade agency
which reported that the cost Of living
Is now the highest in twenty years.
The Pittsburg federal grand jury in.
dicted Frank L. Emmett, James Joy
Dunn and Charles L. Close, employees
of subsidiary concern Of the United
States Steel corporation. They are
charged with defrauding the United
States by passing defective boiler
tubes. Some of these tubes, accord
ing to the jury, are in use on the bat
tieship Louisiana, on which President
Roosevelt is now being carried to Pan
anna, and on other warships.
Unprecedented in the history of the
army Of the United States is the &C
tion of the president in dismissing in
disgrace an entire battalion of colored
troops because Of their failure to dis
close the Identity of some Of their
number who were guilty of violence
and murder at Brownsville, Tex, last
August The president also censures
Colonel Pitcher, a, white officer, charg
ed with casting slurs upon the negro
soldiers.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
will retire from President Rooseyelts
cabinet March 4, and James r. Gar
field, at present commissioner of corpo
rations, will succeed him. The presi-
dent also announced the appointment
of Attorney General Moody as justice
of the supreme court Of the United
States to succeed Justice Brown. Mr..
Moody will probably retire from the
department of justice next month.
President Roosevelt started on his
trip to Panama, to which he is makins
the voyage on the battleship Louisiana
the finest vessel in the navy and second
as fighting machine to none in the
world except perhaps the British Dread.
nought. This is the first time that
president has gone on visit to coun-
try beyond the United States borders.
The president is accompanied by Mrs
Roosevelt
]. L. Harahan was elected president
of the Illinois Central railroad in place
OF Stuyvesant Fish, against whom a
fight was made by E. H. Hartman. II
IL believed that Mr.. Hartman, who
controls the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific, desires to make the
Illinois Central part of his proposed
transcontinental railroad system.
W. r. Hinshaw, former Indiana
clergyman, who was convicted in 1895
Of wife murder and was sentenced to
prison for life, but was paroled in
1905, was convicted before Governor
Hanly on the charge Of wrecking the
home Of an Indianapolis man. Hin
shaw was sent back to prison for life
According to The proposed Philippine
election law, the coming Philippine as
sembly will consist Of eighty one mem
bers, each one representing a popula-
ton Of 10000. The election Of mem
bers Of the assembly is to be held July
J. 1907, and the assembly is to convene
within ninety days after election.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman
In the United States, Is against the
trusts. She thinks them as ubiquitous
as lawyers, the limit Of her condemna-
ton There IS going to be revoIu-
ton in this country said Mrs. Green.
ssThe people are going to revolt against
the expressions Of the trusts
The trial Of Chester Gillette OF Cort-