The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-23
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New York, Feb. 22.--The panic and the business depression that has fol- lowed 1t has had one good result in that it has given time for moral honse-cleaning that seems to have been badly needed.
 The number of multi-milIfonaires of & few months ago whose fortunes have vanished into the thin air from which good part of them were drawn, ia controllers who are likely to have a chance to study the architecture of the criminal courts--from the inside. For the general business welfare the most important effect as the breaking up of the relations between chains of paper owned banks and the speculative en- ferprise of their owners"
 The trusts have come in for certain share of official attention. Governor the appointment of special prosecutor for the Ice Trust case and there is growing feeling among certain trust agents that New York ia not the healthiest place for them just now. The plans of the Beef Trust for secur- ing its dominance of New York mar kets received what is generally regard cd as a body blow in decision handed down a few days ago aganst a man al-
 
 maintained for the purpose of elim- mating competing interests by absorp- tion.
 The decision in question: rendered by Justice Greenbaum of the Supreme Court. denied the petition of Frederick Joseph. now president of the New York putchers Dressed Meat Company, an association of the city's independent dealers, and formerly an officer of E.s4.e R. Gr.I-h t~A pendent concern. for a writ allowing him to examine the books of the lat ter company.
 Justice Greenbaum did not hesitate to indicate his belief that the writ was not sought in good faith but as part of devious trust methods for getting rid of competitors. saying in his opinion. 1T cannot resist the convection that the writ Is desired to further the ln- terests of the reiators in their rival company and for some ulterior pur- pose ,"
 Joseph is defendant in a suit brought Ny the minority stockholders of an- other concern who a1lege that he has Bold them out to the trust and the 100000 meat consumers in the city arc hoping that in the general clear ing up which is taking place 1t win be possible to free them from the tight @At-~%e1t eAAV VI AtAg AaG4S ttAOhODO4Is
 Just how near unexpected death iurks in the metropolis and obverse- " how difficult 1t may be to find it was never more theatricaI1y iilustrat- Ad than in several surprising happen ings this week calculated to instill into even the average person a certain amount of respect for the Eastern pro- verb. Unto every man his death at his appointed time"
 On one morning was chronicIed the strange death of Martin Sealxs who suffering from chapped face had pur- chased a bottle of lotion which he rubbed on at retiring. Rising in the night to get q drink he struck a match. That was his last conscious act for lis face immediately took fire and he was so badly burned that he died q few hours later. For him death lurked in the innocent seeming lotion.
 The following day came the third un- successful attempt of Iron JacIx'' Grant an ex-pugilist. to kill himself. Grant jumped from the Brooklyn bridge into the water nearly 150 feet below, missing a tug and an. fee foe by only few inches. The net result of his efkorts was not what he expected, death, but just one black eye.
 Previously Grant, who seems to de- serve the appellation of Iron Jack" had attempted suicide by drinking 1audanum and severing the arteries in both his arms. Any one of his three efforts ordinarily should have proved fatal. but he has now decided that death isn't so easy after all and that he win have to wait his turn,
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