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JuuSt heuSSdW NJ. OduulS, III INC
United States district court at Chi
cago, fined the Standard Oil com
pany S29,240,000, the extreme limit
of the penalty fixed for the acceptance
of illegal rebates under the conviction
of last April. This fine is by far the
largest ever assessed in any case in
the history of jurisprudence. 1t was
accompanied by a scathing criticism
of the oil trusts methods. Then the
judge instantly called for a special
grand jury for August II to follow up
the same violations of law from the
standpoint of conspiracy between the
Standard Oil, the Alton road and the
head officials Of both. This charge, If
proved, may land some of the railroad
and oil officers in jail.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, in his latest oil indus
try report, scored the methods of the
Standard Oil company as unfair and
not morally justifiable and denied the
trusts claim that it has reduced the
price of oil.
Swift Tarbell E. L. Woodson and
William Catchings, we'll known young
New Workers, were dangerously in
jured when their automobile was
struck by a trolley car and smashed
TO pieces.
The papers were prepared in a suit
TO enjoin the city of Milwaukee from
erecting a proposed million dollar
electric light plant, to compete with
the present private corporation, the
ground for the inJunotion being that
the city needs to invest one and one
half million dollars in bridges, via
ducts, schools and other necessary
improvements.
Forty passengers in a third class
railroad car and the engineer of the
train were drowned near Anglers,
France, when the locomotive and car
plunged into the Loire river.
Attacks on women and children
were continued in New York and sew
eral men were nearly killed by mobs.
Five thousand whites and blacks
in New York fought desperately for
several hours and two men were fatal
ly injured. The battle started in a
dispute over a ball game.
BY the bursting of a tire on an
automobile as it was racing through
Southport. Conn, Peter Henderer was
killed and William Mallory was badly
bruised.
Augustus St Gaudens, the noted
sculptor, died at his home at Cornish,
N H.
The large fertilizer plant at Jack
sonville, Fla, of the Armour Fertilizer
company was destroyed by fire which
was started by lightning. Lass $685.
600, fully insured.
j. M. Scott, city editor of the Helena
(Ark.) World, was found dead on the
sidewalk. Two bullets had entered his
head. 1t is generally believed the kill
ing was due to personal quarrel.
Robert Orr, of Dwight, ILL.,, was
killed, and seven others were seri-
ously injured in a collision of inter
urban cars near here.
Charles c. Smith, formerly of Au-
rora, ILL.,, was arrested at Honolulu on
arrival of the United States transport
Thomas, on instructions from Attor-
ney General Bonaparte. He is ac-
cused of obtaining money under false
pretenses in the Philippines.
Indictments have been returned in
Chicago against A. Booth & Co., the
New York, Chicago & st. Louis Rail-
road company nickel Plate) and the
Lehigh Valley Railroad company,
charging them with violating pro-
vision one of the Elkins law prohibit
ing rebates.
The Union Pacific railroad has or
dered the construction Immediately of
100 gasoline motor cars for use on
branch lines of the company.
The great potato crop of Aroostook
county, Maine, estimated this season
at 100000 bushels, is seriously
menaced by the continual wet weather.
The Peoples State bank of Browns.
town, Ind, was closed by the state au.
thorities, being found hopelessly in.
solvent.
o. A. Bryant. aged 60 years. vice
president of the Kaiser Lumber com
pany at Chippewa Falls, Wis, dropped
dead on the street. Death was due &c |
apoplexy.
David Christie Murray, novelist ane
playwright, died in London, aged sc
years.
Aloise r. Garze. said to be a mem
Der of wealthy family of bankers ip
Mexico City, committed suicide in his
boarding house in Brooklyn, N. Y.He
was 2S years old.
Several Koreans have been arrested
In Honolulu charged with counter
feiting $40 gold pieces.
In convention at Exeter, the British
Medical association has almost unani
mously supported a contention ad
vanced by member that sick people
should be treated ut public expense.
Jimmy Britt obtained the decision
over Battling Nelson at San Francisco
after 20 rounds of hard fighting.
Father Martoogessian, the Armenian
priest who is accused of being leader