Connecticut western news., 1907-01-31
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Strong charges against the methods of the Standard oil were made by the interstate commerce commission in a report presented to congress. It Is de- clarad that the company has used dis reputable methods to destroy its com | petitors, that the ruin of independent dealers has been a distinct part of it's policy, and 1t is suggested that the rail roads with which it has dealt have aid ed in this policy. It is declared that there is little to show that the great profits of the company are due to its economies. The report Is the result of the Tillman-Gillespie resolution of March ', in which the commission was ordered to make an investigation | of the business of the great oil com pany. The report declares that the methods of the company have been so long pursued that the only remedy to of pipe line rates by the government | itself
 Lieutenant Ralph W. Drury and Pri- vate John Dowd of the Ninth United States infantry were placed on trial In Pittsburg charged with the murder of William Crowley, eighteen years old, who on Sept. 10, 1903, was killed near the United States arsenal by Pri- vate Dowd, acting under instructions from Lieutenant Drury. Crowley and other boys are said to have been caught stealing inside the arsenal grounds and were pursued by soldiers. Crow ley was shot after he had got a con siderable distance outside the arsenal limits. The question at issue Is: Has a United States soldier the authority to kill outside of government proper ty a man who Is suspected of a crime within government property?
 Theodore F. Shonts, chairman of the Panama canal commission, was elected president of the Interchangeable politan company, replacing August Bel mont as the executive head of the sub way, surface and elevated roads of New York city. AS chairman of the canal commission his salary was S20,- GOO. As president of the transportation lines his salary will be S50,000. The resignation of Mir. Shonts was accepted by President Roosevelt, who praised bis services Announcement was made at the war department that the offices of chairman and chief engineer of the isthinian canal commission would be combined and that John r. Stevens, the present chief engineer, would be given the appointment.
 Following conference at the White House, it was announced that the con tract for building the Panama canal had been awarded to William J. Oli- yer, who, with Anson M Bangs, was the lowest bidder in the recent compe tion, provided that within the next ten days he associates himself with at least two independent contractors whose skill and experience, combined with his own, shall cover the entire field of the work. MT. Bangs was found unsatisfactory by the govern ment. The Bangs-Oliver bid was 6.75 per cent of the entire cost of the canal.
 The second vote In joint session of the New Jersey legislature to elect a United States senator resulted in no change from the separate vote in the two branches so far as Senator Dry den, candidate for reelection was con- cerned. Mir. Dryden received thirty five votes, forty-one being needed to elect The eight Republicans who are opposing him continue to hold out. The leading Democratic candidates are President Woodrow Wilson of Prince ton university and Colonel Edwin A. Stevens of Hudson county.
 Next summer may see an Ice famine, according to a statement by Wesley M Oler, president of the American Ice company, commonly called the trust. The head of the trust would not predict q famine because. he said, he was hoping for the best But the win ter has been so open that now, at the close of January, he declares, less than one-quarter of a normal crop had been harvested.
 At the Gridiron club dinner in Wash ington President Roosevelt and Sena- tor Foraker are said to have had a lively argument concerning the for mer's attitude toward big corporations and also toward the dismissed negro soldiers. The president is also said to have addressed a solemn warning to J. r. Morgan and H. H. Rogers, who were present at the dinner.
 With two votes to spare, one cast by William S. Clifford, the alderman who is under $10,000 bail for the alleged selling of his own and the votes of ten colleagues, Francis S. McAvoy, the Tammany candidate, was elected re. corder of New York city by the board of aldermen. There is considerable doubt about the aldermens legal right to elect a recorder.
 A protest against further presenta- ton of "Salome," the sensational Bib licaP' opera by Richard Strauss, has been made to Director Conried of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, by the directors of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate company, own CTS of the opera house. The opera has been withdrawn by MT. Conried.
 That the price of coal in New York and elsewhere was raised because of a