Morris tribune., 1906-07-07
KEEPING TAB
ON THE WORLD
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up IS to 100 per cent, has been dropped
| from 80 to 40 per cent After spend
| ing three nights in the county jail the
sentence of two of the men, Beard and
| Lennon, was reduced one-half be-
cause they had reduced the price of ice
| almost to last years schedule. The
, others were expecting it on the same
ground.
| ILLEGAL Trust Can't Collect.
The unusual contention that trust
has no standing In court and cannot
| collect for goods sold to a voluntary
| customer was sustained by Judge Ryan
| in the United States circuit court at St.
Louis This contention was made by
Joseph e. Walsh, a plumber, who ad-
mitted that he had bought voluntarily
$24O worth of goods from the Cahill-
| Swift Manufacturing company. Walsh
| alleged that this company was a trust
and that he did not have to pay any
more than he would have to pay a
gambling debt. The courts decision
was in his favor.
Postal Fraud Cases Fail.
Former State Senator Green and W.
D. Doremus of Washington were
acquitted by a washington jury on
the charge Of bribery and conspiracy
to defraud the government in connec-
ton with the sale of canceling ma
chimes in the postoff1ce department.
This was Green's second trial, and an
other Indictment is still pending.
Standard Pensions Rivals.
Lawrence Nicolai, formerly proprie-
tor Of the National Oil company, in
Washington, testified before the ref
cree in bankruptcy in that city that the
Standard Oil company paid him an an
nual pension of $4,000 from 1895 to
January, 1905, for refraining from sell
Ing oil and gasoline in the District Of
Columbia. He says he went into bank
ruptcy when the Standard stopped pay
ing him the pension because it had
gained such a stronghold and had so
lowered the price of oil in Washington,
making it up in Baltimore that when
he resumed business he failed com
pletely. Nicolai said that two other
companies doing business in Washing
ton and claiming not to belong to the
trust are controlled by the Standard
and that number of smaller concerns
which have recently gone out of bust
ness are receiving pension from the
trust.
John D. Out of Trust.
John D. Rockefeller, when Informed
at Compiegne France where he now
is, that prosecutions of Standard Oil
officials were under way, said that he
knew nothing of the dOings of the oil
trust, as he had been out of it for
twelve years and had not been in it's
Offices for seven years. He repeated
his intention of sailing for New York
on July 90 and said that he would re-
ceive the subpoena servers on his ar
rival. He said the only reason he dread
ed to testify in court was because
Of the unpleasant notoriety.
Details of the prosecutions to be
brought were gone over at Washington,
when 1t was decided to prosecute the
trust under the discrimination clauses
Of the Elkins law and an old statute
aimed at conspiracy to commit crime.
The bulk of the work for the present
will be in the courts of Buffalo and
Cleveland.
Many Railroads Prosecuted.
By direction of Attorney General
Moody criminal actions have been
started against a large number of rail
road companies to recover penalties
for violation of the safety appliance
law through failure to keep their equip
ment in proper condition. The de-
PENDANTS will include lines of the Atchi-
son, Atlantic Coast, Burlington, Mil
waukee, Rock Island, Colorado and
Northwestern, Colorado and Southern,
Missouri Pacific, Northern Pacific Sea-
board, Norfolk and Western and 9TH
ers.
Millionaire Thaw Murderer.
Harry K. Thaw, the young Pittsburg
| millionaire who married Evelyn Mes
| bit, an artists model and "Florodora"
| girl shot and killed Stanford White,
| the noted architect, on the roof of Mad
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