Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-03-16

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! tion for Miss Nesbit and It's unsettIing
! effect on his mind and how she had ac-
copied the inevitable when marriage
was insisted upon. Much to her sur
prise and disappointment Mrs. Thaw
was not allowed to tell Of the heredi-
| tary faint of insanity Several times
she broke down, and the court waited
for her to recover her composure. Her
| testimony ended the defense.
| Central Held For Wreck.
After the New York coroner's jury
had found the New York Central Rail-
eoad company, it's president and board
Of directors culpably negligent in hav-
! ing failed to safeguard its passengers
| in the recent wreck of the electric ex-
| press train. when twenty three persons
| were killed. the case was laid before
the grand jury, and an indictment
| against the company was made out,
but not against the officials.
Capital Punishment Abolished.
| The legislative assembly Of Porto
! Rico adopted the bill abolishing the
death penalty, thus saving the lives of
| several persons awaiting execution.
| Letter 10 Found Guilty.
Joseph Letter. the millionaire oper-
| ator Of the famous Zeigler colliery, the
scene of numerous labor conflicts dur
| ing the past two years, was found
guilty in the Franklin county court at
Benton. Ill., of violating the state min
| ing laws and will be assessed NOM
inal fine of from $500 to $500. The
charge was that of employing a mine
examiner who did not hold a certifi-
| cate issued by the state mining board
at the time Of the disastrous explosion
| in April of 1905 in which sixty men
lost their lives either outright or by
being asphyxiated in recovering the
dead bodies. Letter will appeal.
Herald Pleads Guilty.
The New York Herald company
pleaded guilty in the United States dis
trict court to the charge of circulating
lewd lascivious and obscene matter in
its personal column. The indictment
contained eight counts, and a fine of
5000 on each count may be imposed.
| or an aggregate of $4,000. Sentence
| was suspended until April 2. This
| case involved the newspaper corpora
! ton only. James Gordon Bennett the
principal owner, and his advertising
| counsel Manly NJ. Gillian. are both
under indictments on a similar charge.
Standard Oil Loses Point.
In the federal court at Chicago the
motion of counsel for the Standard Oil
company to quash 1.O17 of the 1903
counts in the indictment charging VIC
lations of the anti-rebate law was de-
MED; also the court refused to- keep
from the jury copy of the Chicago
and Alton freight schedule, which the
Standard is charged with evading. The
testimony of E. s. HOllfns, tariff clerk
of the Alton. that copies of this sched.
ule had been sent to hundreds Of ship
pers. including the Standard, when-
ever new rates were adopted went to
prove that the Standard officials were
not ignorant of the legal rates.
Public Utilities Bill Stolen.
In advance of its official introduction
into the New York legislature the sub
stance Of the new Page Merritt public
utilities BILL designed to carry out the
recommendations of Governor Hughes
for the concentration of all state and
city utilities under one commission of
ten at $4,000 year each, became
known to the public and was used to
nfTn ot fpo nfi ST. Iyn4
Two lobbyists in the employ of the
Ryan-Belmont interests were suspect
ed of having stolen copy of the meas
ure from the committee room or from
the public printer. The corpora tons
are preparing to fight this bill.
Virgnia's Unwritten Law.
The trial of James and Philip Stro-
Their at Culpeper, Va, for the admitted
murder of William T. Bywaters, who
had wronged their sister and tried to
desert her after a forced marriage,
ended in a prompt acquittal by the
jury on the strength of the so called
''unwritten law Notwithstanding that
at the last moment the defense made
the plea Of temporary emotional insan-
ity. Although Judge Harrison had i'll
structed the jury to disregard any such
thing as the unWritten law, after the
verdict was rendered he said to the
jury: Il thank you for verdict which.
think will be approved by the pub
lie. 1t is an established precedent in
the state of Virginia that no man tried
for defending the sanctity of his home
should be found guilty"
Pittsburg Councilman Sentenced.
The sentence of $500 fine and three
years imprisonment was imposed upon
W. A. Martin, a common councilman
of Pittsburg, who had been convicted
of soliciting a bride in connection with
the Tube City railroad franchise grant.
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