Connecticut western news., 1906-07-26
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f1cuIl II. IkOpeES anu W ulitilll IOth- efeiler have both resigned from the board of trustees of the Mutual Life. In a letter to President Peabody. MT. Rogers makes absolute denial of the assertions that have been made of a Standard oil control of the Mutual Life Insurance company. In an effort to disrupt the International Policy Hold CTS committee the administration of the Mutual Life nominated for trustees, without their consent four of the most prominent members of the internation- al committee-Judge Gray, General Benjamin F. Tracy. Harlow N. Higin- botham and Colonel Alfred NJ. Shook. Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the committee. protested to the state insur- ance superintendent. Andrew c. Fields. head custodian of the yellow dog" fund of the Mutual Life Insur ance company. Vas served with com- plaints in two suits for the recovery of about $2.90O,000. Fields, who got a salary of $10.000 year, is worth about $GoO.0OO.
 In New York the municipal bureau of weights confiscated seventy-eight sets 
 being accused of giving short weight. The Ice trust is accused In Philadelphia of throwing ice overheard and permit ting 1t to melt in schooners rather than reduce the price. St. Louis and Sche- nectady, \. Y.. are proceeding against ice men. Great Neck, x. Y., put into operation an ice plant fitted out by resi- dents when they learned of the trusts intention to run up the price of ice. Mayor Codd of Detroit announced that he has under way plans for the estab- lishment of a municipal plant in that city. Sixteen indictments on charges of restraint of trade in advancing prices were returned by the Cincinnati grand jury. Ten individuals and five ice firms were indicted.
 Louis Gourdain, a wealthy banker of Chicago. is trying to break into the Joliet Qll) penitentiary. At his trial for conducting lottery he announced that he would not appeal if convicted. The verdict was against him. and his lawyer, unknown to him, as he alleges, obtained a writ of supersedeas. Gour- dain signed his bail bond, but says he regrets that act. as he declares him. self bound in honor to serve his term. After the lower courts refused to ra- commit him to jail he appealed without avail to Justice White of the United States supreme court. He now says that he will build for himself ''peni- tentiary annex" in Joliet and serve his four years sentence
 Before sailing for home John n. Rockefeller, nettled by stories of his wealth in Paris newspapers, said his fortune barely exceeded $3O0.O00,O00, which Is total smaller than that gen orally credited to Andrew Carnegie No attempt will be made to arrest John D. Rockefeller when he lands In New York. In FinGlay, O., Attorney Troup. representing MT. Rockefeller, secured ! the permission of Prosecutor David and Probate Judge Banker to enter Rockefeller's appearance in the latter's court, and this was accordingly done Mir. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil are charged with violating the Ohio antitrust law.
 Without finding ground for bringing in indictments the federal grand jury which has been in session in Cleveland Investigating alleged violations of the interstate commerce laws and antirail- road rebate laws, adjourned. The in- vestigation was directed particularly toward the Standard Oil company and the Lake Shore Railroad company. The failure to return indictments was due to the fact that the investigation de- ] ,-nIA Ahn foa hot without jurisdiction.
 San Francisco will lose SSOO0.OO or S9,000,000 if the British insurance con- panies carry out the present determina- tion of their local agents not to pay losses on fires caused by earthquakes under the earthquake clause of their policies. Within about three weeks of the fire on April IS fully 335,000 per sons left San Francisco. Now there are in San Francisco 365,OO0 persons. with 50,0OO more waiting in nearby cities. According to this showing, 100000 per sons have returned.
 The American Federation of Labor has made good its decision of sev- eral months ago to enter the field of politics in the interest of the trades un- ion movement and to exhort all mem- bers and friends of organized labor to work for the election to political of flee of men known to be favorable to labor's cause. From the headquarters of the federation the council has issued it's campaign programme" addressed ito all organized labor and friends in the United States"
 After being driven from Philadelphia and Baltimore by the authorities George Rossett. a Syrian of Elkins, W. Va, who is afflicted with leprosy, was com pelled to take refuge in box car of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Goldring. Md. Rossett, who is wealthy, was trying to reach the hospital on North Brother island, New York city, and the communities through which he passed feared contagion. The people threw food to him as to a wild beast
 In Philadelphia twenty slaughter houses, recently condemned as insan- itary, have closed permanently. Six teen other establishments were i'm proved by order of the board of health.