The Springdale news., 1906-01-19
LESA AL RIN1TNAL

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 The federal grand jury at Chicago has indicted the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad. it's first vice preSi- dent. Darius Miller. and Claude C Burnham. q foreign freight agent on the charge of granting rebates The indictment contained twenty-six counts charging tLat rebates were granted to the United States Steel Products Ex- port company of New York, which is branch If the steel trust For each of the twenty-six offenseS alleged the Elkins act provides fine of from S1- 000 10 S20o6e All the shipments were to Vancouver. B. G.. and various roads over which the goods passed may he involved
 Bomb Kills Ex-Governor.
 Governor Gooding of Idaho has as- sisted actively in Investigating the kill- ing of former Governor Prank Steu- nenberg of Boise hv the explosion Of bomb as he was about 10 enter the front gate to hIs residence Suspicion was directed ae95nst= some memb her Of the Occur dsAiene dynamiters organi- zatioH which he prosecuted in 1889 while he waS governor.
 Both ex=Gayernor Peabody of Colo rado and General Sherman ReH gave out interviews saying that they had been threatened with the same fate thar overlook Steunenberg.
 Baltimore Bankers Indicted
 Wilcox Brown H. ]. Bowdoin and J Bernard Scott. former president. vice president and treasurer respectively of the Maryland Trust company, were in dieted at Baltimore on the charge of misrepresenting the condition of that institution. The presentments followed the collapse Of the trust company
 Missouri Pursues Oil Trust.
 The fight begun hY Governor Polk Of Missouri #ast year n enforce the ant trust law by driving the Standard 0a company out of the state entered on Hew aHd=as aggressive stage when A. torney General HadIey brought Vice President Rogers. William tf- Rocke- feller and ]. I1. Archbold. with their a. torneys. before Special Commissioner r. K SanhorH for the Missouri su- preme court for q hearing at New York The object was to show that certain oil companies alleged to he independent are in reality branches of the great trust Evidence to this effect Was gfv- en by former bookkeeper= If tHe Standard oil company but the oil com pany men refused to answer pertinent questions by advice of counsel.
 Labor Law lnvalidated
 The appellate division Of the New York supreme court iu the case against Harry Marcus. charged with eoercing all employee infa al agreement lot to become a member of any labor oreani- zatioH. has reversed the lower court and released the defendant holding that the section which forbids an employer to exact such an agreement is unconstitu- tionaL
 Decision Touching Trust Cases
 The United States supreme court de cided in the ease ef Ballnan. the Gin eiHnati broker who refused 10 testify for the federal grand jury. that he was right II refusing to answer certain questions on the ground that I would tend t0 incriminata him This is re- garded as a blow against the govern Iuents position regarding the right af the grand jury to insist upon the testi- mony of witnesses ln the antitrust cases.
 No Help For Goebel Murderer.
 The United States supreme court on Jan affirmed the conviction of James E. Howard Of Kentucky for the murder of Governor Goebel Jan 30, 1900, How ard having been sentenced 10 life i'm prisonment after three trials in Ken tuekv