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The San Francisco call., 1908-11-08
TOBACCO COMBINE
IS HELD ILLEGAL
Circuit Court Decides That the
American Company Violates
Antitrust Law
Order for Dissolution of Concern
Stayed Pending Appeal to
|, Supreme Court

NEW YORK, Nov. THE contention
of the government that the American
Tobacco company is a trust operating
in restraint of trade and competition
in violation of the Sherman antitrust
law was sustained today in decisions
handed down by Judges Lacombe, Cox
and Noyes in the United States circuit
court here. Judge Ward handed down
dissenting opinion.
E In the suit, which was prosecuted
by James C. McReynolds and Edwin P.
Grosvenor, special assistants of the
United States attorney general, the gov
ernment asked for an injunction dis
solving the combination. The govern
ment also asked the United States cir
cult court to appoint a receiver to wind
up the affairs of the allied corporations.
While finding that there was an lille
gal combination, as charged, Judges
Lacombe, Cox and Noyes in their opin-
ion say that injunctions should issue
against all the defendants except the
United Cigar Stores company and the
r. p. Richards Jr. company. The in
functions are, however, stayed. pending
an appeal to the United States supreme
court.
RECEIVER Is REFUSED
The petition asking for the appoint
ment of a receiver was refused as be-
ing 'impracticable and wholly unneces-
sary."
The Imperial Tobacco company and
the British American Tobacco company,
English corporations were included in
the governments suit, but the COM
plants against these companies were
dismissed
Judge Lacombe. in his decision. said:
There can be little doubt that the
federal statute has been violated Each
one of the purchases of companies COM
planned of in the petition was a con-
tract and combination in restraint of
competition existing when it was en-
tered into and that is sufficient to bring
1T within the ban of this drastic
statute
The suit has been in progress for
many months and great volumes OF
testimony were taken by the govern
ment and on behalf of the defendant
companies.
CONTROLS TRADE OF WORLD
In the course of these examinations
it developed that the American tobacco
company and its subsidiaries practi-
cally controlled the tobacco trade of
the world.
The American tobacco company was
formed under the laws of New Jersey
in 1904 when the old American tobacco
company, the Consolidated tobacco
company and the Continental tobacco
company were merged under a single
head.
The American tobacco company itself
is capitalized at s1S0,00O, 900. It's presi-
dent is James b. Duke, but Thomas F.
Ryan, the banker and capitalist, has
been regarded as the dominant force in
the great corporation.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-08
JAPANESE POACHERS
KILLED BY RUSSIANS
Nine Are Also Captured by
Guards at Copper
Island

VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. News was
brought by the Empress of India of
further tragedies at Copper island as
result of the raiding by Japanese
sealing schooners. Advices from Cop
per island by way of Vladivostok state
that nine members of the crew of the
Japanese Sealer BoSo Maru. We're Shot
and killed by the Russian guards at
the seal rookery on Copper island and
nine of the crew of the schooner Toyo
Maru, which attempted raid at Cop
per island when homebound from the
Bering sea, where the rookeries were
too closely guarded this. year to allow
of such operations, were captured by
the Russian guards.
The sealing schooner Boso Maru on
her return to Japan reported having
lost two boat crews at the Russian
rookery and those on board had no
knowledge of the fate of the men who
We're abandoned on the seal island
when the schooner slipped her anchor
and ran to avoid capture by the Rus
sian guardship Shilka.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-08
CONTROLS TRADE OF WORLD

Shiota's fine stock of japanese arts
and antiques being sold out al less than
cost. 1921 California st. at Polk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

ETHEL BRANDON, EVERETT eUTTERFIELD
THOMAS L. l. MURDOCH J. McouARRIE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

the matter, the thousand residents who
saw the first performance made the
evening unpleasant for William Far
mum, the ''bHlldog." and for Elita Proc
tor Otis, the society matron, by TAX
ing them for Jokes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

director Ga look at the program tells
me he is the William Seymour who
married Fanny DavenpOrt's sister.
May, who has insisted that the farce
be played as earnestly as though it
were an emotional drama. Would a
clown in a circus be funny if he
laughed at his own bumps? The per-
formers of Twenty Days in the
Shade wouldn't earn the wages for
themselves, or success for the play, if
they were permitted to look conscious
iy comic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

Armstrong is a newspaper reporter,
yet in his play he has a New York
evening journal take from a drunken
press agent, and publish under big
headlines, without veTificatiOn, an ac-
count of the fiascO of the Bulldog Min
ing company. That is the bulldog
mans device to test the social graft
ers. And then a wOolly western stock
holder goes to the editors office, -four
ishes a pistol, and frightens them into
putting out an extra edition to deny the
first article. After that burlesque OF
journalism, astonishing views of New
York society were to be expected,
and there was no disappointment The
bulldog man paid society" woman
900 to introduce his daughter at a
Sherry dinner at $50 per plate. and the
grafters guyed the girl, instead of
coddling her, until she denounced them
vehemently; yet she invited those very
same persons to a supper; and if the
showing of western camp manners in
this plays first act is as absurdly I'M
true as that of eastern drawing rooms
in the two other acts. then Nevada
ought to bring libel suit for misrepre-
sentatiOn. AS to New YOrk's feeling in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

The society shown in Society and
the Bulldog consists of some men and
women who desire to be more fashiona-
BILE than they can pay for: the bulldog
is a sudden Nevada millionaire whose
money, derived from the Bulldog mine,
they plot TO get; and the drama is
Paul Armstrong; appeal from the YER
dict of theatrical managers to the
judgment of audiences. Armstrong was
clever at writing out for stage use, in
"Salomy Jane" and 1.-THE Heir to the
Hurrah," the rough humor and crude
sentiment of wild western camps. He
has done that again in the first act of
Society and the Bulldog" with an art
less girl cooking for miners while her
father is off prospecting, with his re-
turn half-erazed by the discovery of
gold by the million, with her sorrow
nevertheless because a young mining
engineer whom she loves abandons
her, and with the fathers determine
ton to take her to New York, to there
buy her way into the kind of vainglor
ious society which her recreant lover
belongs to. The gold hunters are
rugged set, the girl is charming with
her frank sincerity, and during the
first hour the play is jolly with their
fun and pathetic with her sorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

Armstrong is a genius, surely, posi-
lively, and he may have the right of
his genius to be erratie. When he saun-
tered out nonchalantly on the stage,
after the second act of his new play,
with careless hands in easy pockets,
and no trace of the fright that almost
always stiffens authors responding to
first-night calls, he was the personifica-
ton of merit pinning a medal to its
own breast. The scheme and scope of
his play was TO let loose a human
western bulldog" on eastern society"
to tear it all to pieces. Producing man
ayers said that his idea was good, but
that the use he made of it was bad.
Thereupon, he hired a theatre and a
company with his own money to prove
that he was wise and they foolish. At
the time when he came out to thank the
audience for what he thought was its
acceptance of two-thirds of his work,
the applause for the first act was still
ringing in his ears, and the ominous 81
lence during the second had escaped his
attention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

r. T. PETTY, Division Superintendent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Wealth In State Forests.

An interesting compilation of the
wooded area and the standing
timber and its value has been COM
pleted by State Forester f. w.
Beasley. The figures show more
than 100000 acres of wooded
land over 100000, 900 board feet
of hardwood and 1000, 900, 900
board feet of softer woods. The
estimated value, according to
present market prices, is $2, ,S75, ,423.
The stumpage value of the lands is
approximated at nearly ST..
100000.
This table is said to be the first
of its kind prepared by any State
in the Union. Other States have
made estimates and approximations
of their wooded resources, but
Maryland is said to be the first to
make actual measurement and
classification of its timber.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Miss Matte Warren.

Miss Matte Warren, the 10 year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Johu
Warren, of near Blake, Cecil
county, died Friday evening at
Childs, where she had been for sew
eral months. The young woman
went to Childs to nurse her cousins,
who had typhoid fever, and con,
tracted the disease herself. After
an illness of six weeks she was con
valescing when heavy cold was
contracted, resulting in pneumonia,
which terminated fatally. De.
ceased was one of a family of fifteen
children, twelve of whom are still
living. Her funeral was held on
Wednesday, with interment at
Cherry Hill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Union Hospital Opening.

At meeting of the Directors OF
the Union Hospital of Cecil County
held Tuesday afternoon, it was de
cided to open the hospital at Elkton
for the reception of patients on
Tuesday, December L.
The physicians of Elkton, Drs.
Charles M. Ellis, John 81. lamar,
Howard Bratton, William ID. Caw-
ley, Ell. Arthur Mitchell and Win.
fred T. Morrison, were appointed as
a Local Medical and Surgical staff
with authority to increase the
number Of medical attendants by
the election of a visiting staff to be
composed of physicians, surgeons
and specialists from among the
doctors of Cecil county or the city
of Baltimore. 1t is provided by
charter that every doctor in Cecil
County is to have the privilege ol
treating his patient. in the hospital
in cases where hospital facilities are
required for the best interests of the
patient.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Cunning Accidents.

A serious cunning accident oc.
Cured near Fairlee Monday after.
noon, the victim being DIR. Owen
G. Smith, of Baltimore. In com.
pany with Barclay Kilbourne, he
went out after birds, but the two
became separated. Kilbourne flush
ed covey and, not knowing that
DIR. Smith was in range of his shot,
fired as the birds few into a thicket,
behind which the Doctor was
screened. The full load struck the
Doctor in the face and it is feared
that the sight of one eye, if not
both, is entirely lost.
Harry jackson, aged about 25
years, of the Seventh district, met
with a distressing accident Monday
He and VIM. Beck had been gun
ming on the Susquehanna flats and
on their return to Perryville in
picking up gun the weapon was
discharged, the entire load striking
Jackson in the left leg below the
knee, mangling the member so that
amputation was necessary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
James 6ayIey Resigns.

Announcement was made on
Wednesday of the resignation OF
James Gayley as first vice. presi.
dent of the United States Steel Cor
poration. 1t is said that Mr.. Gay.
ley has not been in good health fol
some time and that he has frequent
~ expressed determination to
retire. The formal statement OF the
resignation came. from William E.
Corey, president of the corporation,
who said:
"Mr. James Gayley, first vice
president, rendered his resignation,
which will be accepted. He had
advised US that he wishes to retire
from active business; he has con-
templated doing this for some time
and by resigning now gives time to
complete organization for the be-
ginning of the new year.3
Mr.. Gayley is well known in this
section, spending his boyhood at
West Nottingham and receiving his
early education at the Academy at
that place. He is a son of the late
Rev. s. A. Gayley, for thirty seven
years pastor of West Nottingham
Presbyterian Church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
The First Snow Storm.

The first snow storm of the season
came Saturday, and it was big
one. Snow flakes began falling
about noon, later changing to hail
and rain, but in the middle of the
afternoon it began to snow in real
earnest, the ground soon being
covered. The snow continued until
late at night, there being a fall OF
between five and six inches. A
few sleighs appeared Sunday morn.
ing, but while the mercury did not
mount very high during the day,
the sun soon converted the snow in
roadways into slush. In the eve-
ming it grew steadily colder and
Monday morning the mercury re.
corded 100, which is the lowest
thus far this winter. The change
from mild autumn weather to that
of snowy mid-winter came with
suddenness, and was keenly felt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Vincent S. Richards.

Vincent s. Richards, died Mon
day, 18th inst, at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Rebecca "a. Richards,
near Richardsmere, in the 63rd
year of his age. The deceased had
been a sufferer for months past from
heart trouble He was a native of
this section, being a son of Stephen
Richards, deceased, and Rebecca
Fl. Richards. He resided for a
number of years near Wakefield,
Pa, where his wife died some years
ago. His mother, two sisters
Mrs. Elizabeth Lincoln and Miss
Mary Richards, and one brother,-
Luther. Richards, survive. The
funeral was held on Thursday, with
interment at Penn Hill burying
ground.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Child Burned To Death.

The three year-old daughter Of
Fanny Kelley, who resides near
Woodlawn, was burned to death in
a fire which destroyed a small
dwelling on Thursday evening of
last week. The woman left her
home for work elsewhere Thursday
morning, the child being placed in
care of two older boys. The lads,
it is stated, went away during the
afternoon, locking up the house and
leaving a pet dog with the little
girl. 1t is not known how the fire
originated, as the building was
completely enveloped in flames
when the outbreak was discovered,
the house and contents being en-
tirely destroyed. The charred re-
mains of child and dog were found
in the smoking ruins.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Annapolis To Celebrate.

Annapolis will celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of the grant
ing of its charter on Nov. 21st,
22nd and 23rd. The celebration
will begin on Saturday afternoon
with historical exercises in the
State House. Special services will
be held in all the churches Sunday
On Monday morning the corner
stone of the memorial fountain on
Market Circle will be laid. At two
O'Clock in the afternoon the military
parade will move. In the evening
there will be a street parade and
carnival by Fraternal societies, and
a grand illumination.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Appeal Days.

The following dates were selected
to hear appeals from the Assessors
returns to the County Commits.
sioners, as a Board of Control and
Review in assessment of personal
property in the Odd Fellows
Reading Room, at Elkton: First
district, November 16 II; Second
district, November 10 20; Third
district, November % "a; Fourth
district, November 80 December 1;
Fifth district, December 3 A; Sixth
district, December 7 8; Seventh
district, December 1O-11; Eighth
district, December la 15; Ninth
district, December 1919.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
William T. Calvert.

William T. Calvert died at his
home in Perryville on the evening
of Nov. 8, from a stroke of paralysis
suffered that morning while at
Shipley's Point fishing shore. De-
ceased was about 20 years of age
and is survived by six children, all
grown; Hugh, William, Thomas,
Mrs. G. L. Cole. and Miss Sarah, of
Perryville, and j. Howard Calvert,
of Philadelphia. He was a member
of Perryville Council, Jr. O. U. A.
NJ, which Order had charge of the
funeral.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
PERSONALS.

Maurice G. Reeder is attending
the sessions of the National Grange,
which is holding its annual con
venlion in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Bouchelle,
of Mechanics Valley, celebrated the
twenty seventh anniversary of their
marriage on Monday evening of
this week.
Stewart M. Ward left Thursday
morning for Amhurst, Mass,
where he will join Mrs. Ward, who
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
William Lockwood, at that place
for some time
Mr.. and Mrs. James l.. News, oI
West Fallowfeld township, Pa,
celebrated the Goth anniversary OF
their wedding on Nov. 8. The
bride is in her SSth year. and the
groom trifie younger.
The Goth wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sharpless
was celebrated by this venerable
couple on Monday at their home in
West Grove, Pa. Mr.. Sharpless is
in his Goth year, while his wife is
in her SIND year.
The Missionary Society of West
Nottingham Presbyterian church
was entertained on Thursday after.
noon of this week at the home OF
Mrs. A. L. Dnyckinck, about
seventy five members and invited
guests being present.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Three Suits For Divorce.

Hollis Reynolds, formerly OF
Cecil county, but now of Baltimore,
has entered suit for divorce in the
Circuit Court for Cecil county, from
his wife, Mrs. Gertrude S. Reynolds.
Oscar Potts, of Elkton, has filed
a suit in the Circuit Court for Cecil
county, for divorce from his wife,
Mrs. Julia A. Potts.
George Dick, of Elkton, last week
filed suit in the Circuit Court for
divorce from his wife, Mrs. Bertha
NJ. Dick.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Mrs. Harriet Anna Moore.

While on visit to her grand
daughter, Mrs. Cameron McVey of
Mount Rocky, Mrs. Harriet Anna
Moore, widow of the lateA William
Moore, of Pleasant Hill, Cecil
county, was stricken and died
suddenly on Monday evening, 10th
inst. Deceased was 80 years of
age, and had made her home for
years past at Pleasant Hill with her
son, Miller Moore. A daughter,
Mrs, Anna Reed, of Penn Hill, Pa,
also survives. The funeral was
held on Thursday with interment at
Union cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Mrs. William K. Wrlaht.

Mrs. Susan Mcneil Wright,
widow of the late William Kirby
Wright, died at the home of her
son, David Wright, in Philada., of
paralysis, Thursday morning, 18th
inst, aged 76 years. She was the
daughter of Thomas and Belle Hill
Mcneil and for many years lived
in Elkton, with her husband, who
was publisher of the Appeal. Two
sons, several grandchildren and a
sister, Mrs. A. M. r. Price, sur
vive her.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Prize Winners.

The following pupils of Hickory
Grove school, near Mt. Pleasant,
received prizes for being present
every day of the fall term : Mary
Chids, Mary Hindman, Sherman
Hindman, Evelyn Dabler, Ray
mond McCardell, Esther Dabler,
Mary Pierce, Reba Pierce, Lewis
McCardell, Blanch Pierce, Charlotte
McCardell. There was an entire
enrolment of 81 pupils; the attend
ance average was excellent, number.
ing %.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
DEATHS.
Mrs. c. N. Reynolds.

Mrs. Emma Money Reynolds,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E.
Money, of Leeds, died November IL
at her home at Canton, Pa, of
typhoid fever. She is survived by
her husband, G. N. Reynolds, and
her parents. Mrs. Reynolds taught
at the Elkton Academy some years
previous to her marriage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
John NJ. Hopes.

After lingering illness from
tuberculosis, John M. Hopes died
Nov. 9th, at the home of his mother,
Mrs. John M. Hopes, near Lom
bard, where he had been living for
the past year. Deceased was SO
years of age and leaves a wife and
two small sons. The funeral was
held on the 18th inst, with inter-
ment at Rose Bank cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
Mrs. SalIle Shippers.

Mrs. Sallie Shippers died Thurs
day, Nov. 18th, at the-home of
Thomas Martin, near Greenhurst,
of general debility. She had been
confined to bed one month. De-
ceased was so years of age, and was
born near Blue Ball. Her sole sur.
viving relative is a son, who resides
in the South. The funeral was
held Saturday, with interment at
Ebenezer cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-11-20
A Chester County Inventor.

A recent issue of 'sThe Worlds
Progress" a scientific magazine
published in Washington, d. O.,
contains half tone portrait of In
ventor D. j. Pollock of West Not.
tingham township, and an illus
tration and description of his
patent match box, which is pre-
nounced simple and effective. 1t
delivers one match at a time.