The log cabin Democrat., 1908-04-16
4 Cincinnati wholesale tobacco


 more might riding in the Kentucky White Burley tobacco district. He claims to have information of sec ret meeting of representatives of the American Society of Equity with the American Tobacco Company at Winchester, Ky, the result of which was the declaration of a truce, the tobacco company agreeing to pay $14, ,O00,00O and purchase the entire corps of 1906 and 1907, and the planters, on their side, agreeing to raise no crop this year. This decis- ion on the part of the planters was the cause of the secrecy, and the agreement has already been denied, but Robert R. Ross of Cincinnati claims to have substantiation. The two year crop which will go to the American Tobacco Company will ap- proximate SO,OO0,0OO pounds, and it is understood that the price will range from 16 to IS cents per pound. There has been no agreement between the Planters Protective Association and the trust in the 'Black Patch" as that portion of Kentucky and Tennessee is known that produce the dark tobacco. This was the first sec ton in which was inaugurated the system of night raiders.
 By the judgment of, the Supreme Court of Tennessee, in an exhaustive opinion delivered by Justice M M. Neil, the Standard Oil Company is busted from the state of Tennessee for the acts of this company at Gal latin, Tenn, in restraining trade. By the judgement of the Supreme Court, the Standard Oil Company can only engage in interstate com- merce, as far as Tennessee is con- cerned, and the court holds, in af- frming the decision of Chancellor J; "; Stout at the trial of the case at Gallatin, that the Standard Oil Company violated the provision of section 1 of the acts of 1903, chapter 40, and the punishment imposed in section 3 of that act should be im- posed, viz: That the Standard Oil Company be denied the right to do business in this state
 Rev. John D. Jordan, pastor of the Jackson Hill Baptist church, at Atlanta, Ga., formerly pastor O. the Second Baptist church at Little Rock, was found dead at his home on East avenue early Thursday after noon. It is said by those who found the dead man that two gas jets in the room were turned on, and that the windows were closed. Dr. l.. c. Fischer, who was called, stated that Dr. Jordan has been using gas to relieve pain in his head, and his friends are of the opinion that the minister was overcome by the gas and became unable to turn it off.
 Secretary Hester has issued a statement of the average weight of 7,974,614 bales of cotton handled at ports and across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers overland to American manufacturers outside of the cotton belt from September to March, inclusive, showing an average of 511.91 pounds per bale against 521.16 last year.
 Two old tenement houses in Cas- tie street, Oxford, England, collapsed early Tuesday. Eight dead bodies have been taken from the ruins, and it is believed sevc~al others are still buried in the debris. Tewnty per sons have been taken out alive, but none of them are seriously injured.
 The United States steel corpora ton, it is reported, has about com pleted preparations for the purchase of Corrigan Mckinney X Co.,, of Cleveland, and probably the wealth. jet iron interests not in the trust. The Cleveland company has prop erty valued at $50000,000.
 In spite of protests and over the conIention that it has no such right, the Alabama Railroad Commission has assumed control over the rivers of the state by the promulgation of rates which can neither be raised or 1Ouaro1 without ,1nrn1i cCiOn Of the