Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-03-16


prosecution for granting and receiving
rebates aud for infractions Of the Inter
state Commerce law has been under
taken by the Federal Government.
Indictments will be asked, it is stat
ed, for score of high railroad officials
and for the heads of the American SUI
gar Refining Company. generally
known as the Sugar Tr@st. Subpoenas,
made returnable for today, are for hall
hundred witnesses and for papers.
A dozen specific charges hive been
filed with Attorney General Moody by
William r, Hearst, and it is partially
upon these complaints that the Attor-
ney-G General will ask for the indict-
ments. Among those whose names are
mentioned in connection with the pros
ecution are the following:
II. o. Havemeyer, president Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company.
A. j. Cassatt, president Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad.
w. II. Newman, president New
York Central Railroad.
w. II. Truesdsle. president Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
George +. Baer, president Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad.
Lowell M. Palmer, Palmer's Docks
Brooklyn.
Nathan Guilford, vice-president .
Pennsylvania Railroad.
John B. Thayer, first vice-president
Pennsylvania Railroad. 10
Charles S. Mellen, president New
York, New Haven, Hartford Railroad.
The Attorney General does not state
that indictments will be brought
against all the parties named above,
but these are the parties against whom
Mr.. Hearst has lodged information, it
il said.
Subpoenas are said to have been ant
out to half hundred prominent New
York men for appearance befole the
grand jury in New York to answer
ques tons that will show that rebates
were given the Sugar Trust, which con-
trolls about 10 per cent. Of the sugar
output of the country.
There 10 some talk that Attorney
General Moody may appear personally
in these cases, but this is not known.
President Roosevelt has decided to
appoint William H. Taft, Of Ohio,
present Secretary of War, to ill the va
cancy on the Supreme Court bench, &C
cssionsd by the voluntary rtirement
of Associate Justice Henry B. Brown
When Chief Justice Fuller retires, If
that event occurs during the admins
trstion Of Mr.. Roosevelt, it is thought
Mr.. Taft will be promored to his posi-
ion.
Charles E. Orr and John r. Mason
went fishing on Back Creek, last Fri
day and caught nine yellow suckers
agg-egsting % pounds in weight.
Charlie Orr says that the bait gave out
or they would have caught many
more. He also reports having caught
two at one pull.
Col. J u. Black, of Harpers Ferry, a
Government claim attorney together
with Mr.. Scott, a government Attor-
ney were in this city last Friday TAX
ing evidence in the claim, of Trinity
Episcopa! church, against the govern
ment, for the occupation of and dam
age done TO the building, during the
war, and which has never been push
ed to finish. The testimony given by
citizens who lived in Nartinsburg,
during the war,was very clear, and the
attorneys seemed to think there was
no doubt of its being allowed by the
Court of claims, of which Gen. G. w.
Atkinson of this state is the judge.
Three one-legged tramps, giving
their names as Henry Robinson, j abob
Boykin and Edward Burns, engaged
in a desperate encounter in the South
srn suburbs of Winchester Saturday
because Of the refusal, it 10 said, of
Burns to divide with the others money
he had begged on the streets. Burns
was knocked down and beaten over the
head with his own crutch, which was
broken and was found lying on thepike
in a pool OF blood. The other mon were
captured some distance away,washing
blood from their faces and hands. Burns
injuries are not regarded as fatal, un-
less unforeseen complications arise.
A Bunch of Money