Connecticut western news., 1906-10-18
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The remarkable fact that the Man lattan oil company of Ohio is now un- der British control, Its stock being held by the General Industrial Develop ment company, limited, of London, which fact has been developed i'll the prosecution of the Standard Oil con- pany at Findlay, O., under the Ohio antitrust laws, has aroused the great est interest among corporation men and their attorneys. "Why cannot all corporations which fear the stringency of laws in the United States escape some of their harshness by moving to London?" they ask.
 Juan NJ. Ceballos & Co., one of the largest Cuban American banking houses in New York, has failed for from $3,0OO,OO0 to $4,OOo.000 as a re- suit of the alleged theft of $1,0o0,0o0 in cash and property by Manuel Sil- veira, head of the firm of Silveira & Co.,, bankers and merchants of Ha- vana, who for several years have rep resented Ceballos & Co. In Cuba. Sil- veira, with lis family, has left Ha- vana on his own steamer for parts un- known, and every effort is being made to find him.
 The plan to complete the Panama ca nal by contract was made public by Chairman Shonts of the canal commits sion. Each bidder must undertake the i entire construction. Bidders will not be considered who do not have avail able capital of S5,OOO,OOo. All proposals must be in before noon of Dec. 12, and sixty days after the signing of the con tract actual work is to begin on the isthmus. No American employee is to work more than eight hours.
 John F, Shipp, sheriff of Hamilton county, Tenn, of which Chattanooga Is the seat, and some twenty other de- fendants appeared before the supreme court of the United States to show cause why they should not be pun ished for contempt. It is alleged that the sheriff permitted q mob to take I from the Chattanooga jail and hang a negro to whom the supreme court had granted stay.
 | The first important proceeding to be brought i'll New York against large corporation for breaking the anti-rebate law began In the federal court. The case is that of the government against the New York Central railroad charged with granting rebates to the sugar trust. The latter corporation and vari- ous transportation companies have also been indicted.
 Announcement was made in Steuben- ville. O.. that Frederick Cole Fair banks, son of Vice President Fair banks, had eloped with Miss Nellie Scott of Pittsburg and had been mar ried to her there. Vice President Fair banks opposed the match, saying his son, who Is twenty-five, was too young to wed. He himself was married at twenty-two.
 The supreme court has decided | against the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad as defendant i'll the suit brought by R. H. Wescott and others. Wescott entered into q contract with the railroad to develop the milk business along Its line. It was alleged that President Truesdale broke the contract because Wescott's profits were | too large.
 William E. Hammond young man of Wilmington, Del, has received $S,- 1 Philadelphia. Three years ago when Hammond was news agent on the Pennsylvania railroad Draper became seriously i'll on a train. Hammond cared for the patient until the latter reached his destination.
 Former Governor Van Sant of Min nesota, speaking before the national farmers congress In Rock Island, H., declared that the agriculture of the country had not kept pace with indus trial progress, this being shown by the fact that the United States had been forced to import cereals during the past few years.
 The prosecution rested its case against pr. Frank Brouwer of Toms River, N, l.. charged with having poi soned his wife The state argued that Mrs. Brouwer came to her death from | the effects of arsenic administered by her husband, while the defense is that the woman died from ptomaine poison In food.
 Henry H. Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate, Is being sued in Boston for $5O,O00OO0. Mrs. B. F. Greenough says the company owes her as heiress to her father that sum as royalties on secret process discovered by the late Captain Greenough for the refining of crude oil, making It nonexplosive.
 'I kept life in the body of dog for ten hours after 1t was decapitated' was one of the statements of pr. c. k. de M. Sajous of Philadelphia in a paper read before the Medical Association of New York in describing his expert ments with "adrenalin," of which he Is the discoverer.
 Governor Folk of Missouri declared In a speech that he opposed the gov ernment ownership or operation of rail roads apd favored q government con. trol similar to that exercised over the national banks. He suggested the ere ation of the office of comptroller of railroads.
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