The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-24
WEEK IN THE WORLD
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

BY unanimous opinion OF the United
States court OF appeals Tor the seventh
| district the famous case OF the govern
ment against the Standard Oil company
in which the latter was fined s29,2i0,O 600
| by Judge Lands in the district court
must be retired. This opinion, concurred
in by Judges Baker and Seaman, was de-
livered in Chicago "Wednesday by Judge
Grosseup, who wrote the opinion. The
concluding sentence OF the opinion reads:
The Judgment OF the district court Is re.
versed and the case remanded with IN
| structions TO grant new tflal, and pro-
coed further III accordance with this opin.
ion" The court of appeals differs with
the trial court on three vital points, hold.
ing that Judge Lands excluded evidence
for the Standard Oil company OF Indiana,
which should have been admitted to show
proper intent in the rate the company
paid on oil; that he erred in considering
each car lot a separate offence; and that
in imposing the maximum fine for first
offence he abused the discretion vested
in his court. 1t is strange doctrine, says
the opinion, whereunder million dollar
corporation such as the defendant--the
Standard Oil company OF lndiana-may
be fined 30 times the amount OF its capi-
tai stock in order to punish defendant
not even under indictment. BY this lat
ter is meant the parent company, the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey.
Eleven people were shot Wednesday
night, one OF them fatally and two prob
ably fatally, by two desperadoes who,
pursued by policemen and crowd OF
citizens. fled for two miles through a
thickly settled district of Jamaica Plain,
Mass, firing madly hight and left, dis
appearing later in the woods near Frank
lin park The men are believed to be
two of the gang OF three who Tuesday
night robbed a saloon IN Jamaica Plan,
after shooting and killing one man and
wounding two others. 1t is believed that
the desperadoes lay concealed IN Calvary
cemetery while the police were hunting
for them on account OF the holdup and
robbery. Driven frcm their hiding place
by hunger and fearing that they would
be surrounded by the police the two men
appeared on Charles street in Jamaica
Plains at about dusk and proceeded to
shoot up" the town. They looked like
foreigners and were roughly dressed. Some
citizens who had been assisting in the |
hunt for the robbers, saw the men and |
tried to intercept them, whereupon the |
two started to run and with a revolver |
in each hand fled along Charles, South,
Lee and Keyes streets, firing at every per-
son in their path.
Plans have been drawn for l0OO-foot
tower as the striking feature of an eenor-
building in Broad street, New York.
The proposed structure would overtop the
titfel tower, whose skeleton frame
'eaches $50 feet skyward would overtop
he 9O9-foot tower planned for the new
Equitable building, would rise 300 feet
higher than the Metropolitan building,
md would look down on the 6l2foot
Singer building. The plans for this tall
,st building ever conceived of are<in the
preliminary sketch stage. The cost of
he structure has been estimated at ST.
000foot tower would be visible far out
t sea, and would be a conspicuous land
mark by day and beacon by night. Al
owing for the curvature Of the earth,
he tower could be seen from the deck
f an ocean liner over 100 miles east of
andy Hook. The area of the new tower,
t the base, would be 100 by 800 feet. {
he Singer tower is IS feet square, the {
Metropolitan 70 by 80. {
Henry Goldman Potter, "A, seventh Prot /
slant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of q
few York, died at his home in Coopers-
own, N. Y, Tuesday evening after an G
lness of several weeks. He had been Il
cad of the New York diocese since 1887, S
nd in addition to his arduous duties as o
cad of the largest diocese in point of Il
opulation in the country had taken an
ctive part in movements of national i'm t
ortance He had done much toward G
Improving the standard of municipal gov "
'nment in New York and the part he a
,ok in calling attention to the immoral il
,nditions that existed on the East side h
as largely responsible for the victory p
Seth Low over the Tammany organiza- u
on. A few years ago he came into prom ii
ence as a participant in the dedication
the subway tavern on BECKER street,
here it was proposed to sell intoxicants
lder regulations that would promote tenn
rance. re
Five balloons assembled from st. Paul, al
inn, Saturday, in an effort to surpass Y,
e worlds distance and endurance rec ga
DIS but the farthest distance covered by SO
Y of the competitors was 70 miles. The pi
lure of the aeronauts to cover greater st'
stances was due, it is said, to the small
ting power of the gas used it being i'm
sslble In consequence to carry the an
lount of ballast necessary for long OPP
,hts. Ia
quebec is in the throes of 90Oth ami
'sary celebration this week. Her guests =
honor are the Prince of Wales, who ms
lived from England Wednesday on the laN
.tleship Indomitable, and Vice Presi- cu'
1t Charles w. Fairbanks. Nearly
BOO soldiers from every portion of the =
minion are participating in the festivi- fo =
, while fleet Of IN boftlaob;nc IN -,