Connecticut western news., 1906-11-22
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The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, John D. Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller. John D. Archbold, Oliver II. Payne. Charles NJ. Pratt and seventy-one corporations and partnerships were indicted in St. Louis for violation of the sherman antitrust law. It is asserted that the method by which the combination has practically stamped out all competition Is by ob- tainlng from the railroads enormous rebates. That nearly every great rail road in the United States had secret rebate agreements with the Standard is asserted and backed up by a mass of evidence. Deadly discrimination by the railroads against all independent oil producers is charged. and 1t is as serted that this secret rebate system covered the entire country. In cir cular to the stockholders the directors of the company asserted that the com pany's position Is unassailable, legally and morally.
 The San Francisco Chronicle says that many sums of money, large and small, that were sent from different states to San Francisco for the relief of the sufferers from the calamity nev- CT reached the relief committee. Some of these amounts, which aggregated a large sum, were mailed to the care of Mayor Schmitz. The mayor and Boss Abe Ruef were indicted by the grand jury on charges of extortion in con. ss restaurant keepers for large fees for influencing the police commission. CTS to restore licenses that had been revoked on the ground that the restau. rants were improper places.
 Senator Thomas C. Platt and his wife, formerly Mrs. Lillian T. Jane way, have signed a deed of separation. While there have been a series of diff ferences and disputes which seem to make separation advisable. there has been no conduct upon the part of either which could possibly be the foundation of divorce action." says the deed Ac- cording to one story, raid led by Mrs Platt in the heart of the Tenderloin, New York city. resulted In surprising the senator and handsome young wo man. The present Mrs. Platt Is the ried to her in 1904.
 President Roosevelt. accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, made a thorough in spection of the work being done on the isthmus of Panama. paying especial attention to the quarters of the work mormon and conditions a,nono thaYn He inquired of the men themselves how they were fed and listened with pa tience to their complaints. The presi- dent was warmly welcomed by the government and people of Panama, the school children turning out in force to greet him with the Star Spangled Banner" and other songs. He is on his way home.
 John D. Rockefeller. IT.. in an ad- dress to his New York Sunday school class declared that the man who has to work hard for living and Is thus too much occupied to sin Is the happiest man of all. Mir. Rockefeller also said: q know what it Is to need friends. I never had more occasion to seek the sympathy of friends than I have had in the last few months. All the money in the world will not take the place of friends"
 Tt would seem well to encourage early trial marriage, the relation to be entered into with a view to perma. nency, but with tine privilege of break. ing it If proved unsuccessful, and in the absence of offspring without suf. fering any great degree of public con demnation," says Mrs. Herbert Par. sons, wife of Congressman Parsons and daughter of Henry Clews of New York, in a recently published book.
 Public gambling in New York city is doomed if the blows now aimed against 1t prove effective. Poolrooms, gilded places of chance, even the race tracks. intrenched behind the Percy. Gray law, are menaced by the anti. gambling crusade, In which the lead CTS are District Attorney Jerome, Judge Rosalsky. Police Commissioner Bingham. the Rev. pr. parkhurst