Connecticut western news., 1907-01-17
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Of the Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railway company and the Pacific Express company and to revoke the licenses and charters of the express company, American Refrigera- tor Transit company. Western Coal and Mining company, Rich Hill Coal Min ing company and the Kansas Missouri Elevator company were filed in the Missouri supreme court by Attorney General Hadley. The petition alleges the stocks of the companies named are owned by the same interests, the Goulds, in violation of the provisions of the constitution and laws of Mis- souri.
 In the superior court of Massachu- setts 1t was ruled that labor union has right to fine any member who does not accede to the demand of the union and quit work In an establish ment where a strike is In progress. It was also decided that no officer or member of union has a right to threaten the imposition of a fine upon a member in order to force him to leave his employment, even though strike should be in progress.
 The Hancock county (O) grand jury has reported 939 separate indictments against tue Standard oil Company of New Jersey, the Standard Oil Compa- ny of Ohio, four subsidiary companies, John k. Rockefeller, II. H. Rogers, Wesley Tiiford. John D. Archbold, Frank Q. Barstow, William Rockefel- Ter and F. T. Cuthbert. The inaict- ments charge the Standard Oil compa- ny and its subsidiary companies with being members of trust.
 Athole B. Reader, husband of Mrs. Ella Rawls Reader, the woman finan- cier, was arrested in New York on charges of perjury. The arrest was made as the result of Readers testi- mony in a suit to recover $250,000 com missions alleged to be due from James B. Haggin on the purchase of copper mines in Peru. In letter to a friend Reader declared that his wife was about the cleverest and most fascinat- ing woman In the world
 Now it is w. I. Oliver, contractor. who will build the Panama canal. Bids
 
 construction and the bid of Oliver and Anson M. Bangs, his partner, was the lowest of them all They offer to do the work for compensation of 6.T5 I per cent of the money expended by the | government in the work. The next lowest bid was 7.19 per cent. Oliver X Bangs are big as to firm, responsible and experienced.
 James ]. Hllrs announcement that the railroads of the country must have $5.500, 100000 to put them in working order has aroused widespread com ment The stupendous figure mention l ed by the veteran railroad man. amounting, as it does. to twice the bonded debt of the United States, took the breath away from even the most progressive financial men who com nented upon it.
 James Anderson, eleven years and | two months old, died in Minneapolis of old age. The doctors say he was at least sixty years old so far as the condition of vital organs determine the age of a person. When the child was six years old his hair began to turn T
 gray, his sight began to fall, and he walked with the deliberate care of a person we'll advanced in years.
 Regarding a statement made by Dun. can Campbell Lee of Ithaca, N. Y., an editor, that William R. Hearst had fail. ed to pay POO state editors for papers circulated during the recent campaign at Mir Hearst's orders and for his ben eft, Max F. Ihmsen, Mir. Hearst's rep. resentativc, said 1t was not true that Mr. Hearst had guaranteed the bill.
 The New York World declared that after careful investigation of the Brownsville riot of last August, which resulted in the dismissal by the presi- dent of Companies B, c and D of the colored Twenty-fifth infantry, its cor respondent was convinced that plot actually did exist among the soldiers to commit wholesale murder.