Connecticut western news., 1907-07-11
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tTaI attraction ana other 0fncerS or the Standard oil company as satellites, distinct progress was made In Chicago by Judge Landis In his efforts to dis cover facts upon which to base the amount of fines to be imposed upon the convicted Standard oil Company of In- diana. Although MT. Rockefeller prov ed an unsatisfactory witness in that he could not give definite answers, the judge did manage to pin him down once or twice to answers which con- tributed to the sum total of lnforma- ton the Judge desires, but from the other witnesses more detailed informa- ton was obtained, and when the trial had adjourned for the day these facts had been sifted from the answers: The Standard oil Company of New Jersey holds S499,5O0 of the $1 100000 worth of the capital stock of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Outstanding capital stock of the Standard oil Con- pany of New Jersey amounts to S9S,- 100000. Net earnings of the Standard oil Company of New Jersey for the years 1903, 1904 and 1905 approximate S199, ,S00,000. Dividends paid on the cap ital stock of the Standard oil Company of New Jersey during those years ap- proximated 10 per cent of the amount of the stock. or nearly $40,0o0,000. The Standard oil Company of New Jersey holds ''by far the major portion" of the stock of the Union Tank Line con- pany. The Union Tank Line company, with u capital stock of $3,5o0,o0o, Is h, IaIt hnc idends since 1901. Sentence will be passed on the monopoly on Aug. 2. There are predictions from persons connected with the prosecution that the maximum fine of $29, ,240,000 will be assessed.
 Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of San Francisco, convicted of extortion, was sentenced to five years in the peniten- tiary. When the sentence was pro- nounced there was remarkable out burst of applause from the hundreds of persons who crowded Judge Dunne's courtroom. Sentence followed the re- cent conviction of Schmitz for extort- ing SLID from French restaurant keepers of San Francisco. As the last words of the sentence fell from the judges lips the great crowd that had stood throughout the dramatic scene sent up thunderous cheer. "Good for your shouted man in the back of the room. His ejaculation was ech- oed and re-echoed by one after another of the spectators Several threw their bats into the air; others scrambled up- oil chairs to look over the shoulders of the crowd, the greatest confusion pre- vailing The prisoner addressed num- Der of protests to Judge Dunne object ing to receive what he spoke of ns a lecture intended to humiliate and tc degrade him.
 James J. Hagan. Tammany Hall leader of the Fifteenth assembly dis trict of New York, came out squarely for the nomination of Bryan in 1O0S. Hagan, with some twenty members of his Amsterdam club; Harry Walker, Manton M. Wyvell and Norman E. Mack of the New York State Progress sive Democratic league and Alexander Troup of New Haven, attended the lec- ture given by Bryan at Chautauqua. At q late supper at the sherman House. Hagan presented to Bryan set of resolutions from the Amsterdam club highly laudatory and closed with this sentence. We hereby present his name to the Democratic national con vention as our first and only choice for president of the United States and do hereby pledge our untlring efforts to secure his nomination by that conven- tian "
 Because 1t is charged he went out of his way in his official capacity to at- tack the Catholic clergy in China In way that is construed as reflection on their honesty 1t has been learned in Washington that the efforts that are being made to have Judge l.. R. Wil- fey recalled as head of the new United States court for China have reached the stage where protests against him are on the way to Washington. Ad- dressed to the state department from the American merchants fin Shanghai, the protests say Judge Wilfey's asser- tions about the Catholic clergy have harmed their interests abroad.
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