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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
MORGAN PLANS BIG
MOTOR CAR TRUST
Combined Capital Of Companies Men.
toned is sol 100000 and Year
ly Output 10000 Cars.

New York. N. Y, Mar. 17-Wall
street believes that j. p. Morgan is
grooming the automobile manufactur-
ing trade preparatory to leading IT into
a mammoth corporation that shall eN-
ercisc in the automobile field an inbu-
ence as powerful as that exercised in
the steel trade by his billion dollar
Steel Trust, and as that to be eNor-
cised in the copper markets Of the
world by his proposed billion dollar
copper merger.
This was indicated by the announce
ment that j. p. Morgan & Co. had pur-
chased the majority of the stock of
the Observation-Disclosures, or 7. NJ.
L. automobile manufacturing company
of Detroit, for the purpose of com
bining it with the Studebaker COM
pany.
The combination of these two com
panies. it was pointed out. would, with
the General Motors Company as the
unit for the Middle West and the
United Motors Company as the unit
for the East lend itself readily to any
larger combination that might be con-
templated.
1t is in this way, Wall street re-
called, that Mr.. Morgan forms all his
great industrial combinations. First
he forms independent concerns into
units and then amalgamates these
units into one big entity.
It is intimated that within n few
hA nv 70 ~ III n ~
business of the country will be as com
pletely monopolized as the Standard
Oil Company is. if not more so.
These units were suggested as like
ly factors in combination:
General Motors Company, control
ling about one dozen automobile manu-
featuring concerns. the principal be-
ing Rainier Oldsmobile, Cadillac,
Buick. Oakland and Rapid and Reli-
ance trucks; present capital, $50 ,O00,-
OOO
Estimated yearly output, 10000
cars.
United Motors Company, controlling
Maxwell-Briscoe. Columbia and Brush
present capital, $l6,OOO0O0.
Estimated yearly production, 10000
cars.
Studebaker Company. controlling
the e. NJ. F., Studebaker apd Flanders
cars present combined capital about
$15.OO0000.
Estimated yearly output, 10000
cars.
Total present capitalization, $751;
100000.
Estimated total output, 10000 cars.
Estimated output this year of all
| companies in the United States, 200,
900 cars.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
F|REMEN DISCOVER
A TRIPLE KILLING
Called to Il Blaze in New York
House Find Father Shot Two
Sons and Himself
A VICTIM OF MELANCHOLlA
Herman Il. Moritz, Real Estate Man,
Corners, Clubs and Shoots His Two
Bows Before Suicide Outbreak
Climax of MeIanchola.

New York, n. V, Mar. 17-Her-
man II. Moritz. a retired real estate
dealer. whose home was in No. 22l0
Aqueduct avenue, The Bronx, sent his
wife and servant away from home,
shot his two sons to death, set fire
to the house and then killed himself
Before he sent a bullet into his own
brain he left the house, saw to 1t that
a fire alarm was turned in and then
returned to his home and killed him.
self. The firemen were forced to push
his body aside to get the front door
open. The man had been suffering
from melanchola longer than year,
and his condition had become much
worse in the last week. Nothing had
been said by him up to the time OF
the shooting.
The family was wealthy and each
of the slain boys would have received
from the estates of their mother and
grandfather about S250000.
The victims were George, II years
old, q student in the Bordentown
Military Academy, in New Jersey, who
died in his school uniform after he
had been shot three times as he
crouched in Il closet in a bedroom, and
Walter - years old, who was chased
by the maniac from the second floor
to the cellar and shot down near a
coalbin behind which he had tried to
screen himself 1t was not until the
firemeu had eXtinguished the blaze
which the crazed man had kindled
that any one had any idea Moritz had
murdered his two sons. The body of
they opened the door to see if any
traces of fire could be discovered
there.
Before Moritz did the shooting he
took both his boys out for a long
walk which they enjoyed exceedingly,
having no idea their father in sending
their stepmother and the servant
away merely was clearing the way for
numbering them and killing himself.
Mrs. Anna Moritz, the wife, who
had gone to Englewood, n. j., at the
request of her cra2ed husband, was
informed there of the triple tragedy.
She returned hurriedly to New York
and is prostrated in the home of
friends in The Bronx. Borough Presi'
dent Miller of The Bronx, who was
counsel for Moritz and guardian of
his two boys, took charge of the
Moritz home.
Moritz retired from the real estate
having prospered. He owned, among
other properties the three-story frame
house in which the tragedy took place
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
TRENTON CAR MEN
WIN ALL DEMANDS
Business Men Force Settlement Af,.-
Day Of Riot Ending In Prob.
able Double Murder.

Trenton, ~ j.. Mar. IA double
shooting, as a result of which one man
will die, marked the ending of the
strike of employees of the Trenton
Street Railway Company. the men get.
ting practically all their demands.
At least fifteen men were injured
during the rioting Three strike.
breakers are in hospitals. one is sun.
posed to be drowned, having been
thrown into the Assanpiuk Creek by
q mob. and five are in Jail
Trenton business men brought
about termination Of the strike. The
men get increased pay twenty-thrco
cents an hour--the abolition of an oh.
jectionable swing system and the
substitution of a ten hour day; the
reinstatement of all employees dis.
charged for union activity and an
agreement to arbtrate all future dis.
putcs.
This ends n two days strike that
has been the most serious in the city's
history. The victory for the men is
due largely to the fact that public
sentiment was universally behind
them. Hardly any one rode in the few
cars that were operated during the
strike.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
STRIKE HARD ON MERCHANTS.
Philadelphia Business Men Plead for
Peace


Philadelphia Mar. 1.-THE United
Business Mems Association, which is
composed of merchants whose trade
has been hurt most by the general
strike, put several peace movements
in motion this afternoon.
They voted enthusiastically for
every plan suggested from an appeal
to President Taft to the threat C
receivership for the Philadelphia Rap.
i'd Transit Company
The big labor movement has result
ed in the granting Of certain conces-
sions to workmen in at least two o'
the big industrial plants of the city.
At Baldwins Locomotive Works,
where the sympathy strikers succeed
ed in bringing out 2,2ll men. accord.
ing to the cOmpany's statements. the
men have been granted a half holiday
on Saturday.
Cars are now running in greater
number than since the strike began
Washington. Mar. 1i.-President
Taft was appealed to to use his good
officers to stop the general strike in
Philadelphia. The appeal came in a
telegram from +. +. Greenwaldt
President of the State Federation OF
Labor of Pennsylvania.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17

Washington. Mar. 17.-Holding up
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey rs a danger to the country AMI
its organization as commercial pro-
cedent that must be eradiCatod from
the business world. Frank 3. Kellogg
vigorously arraigncd the corporation
before the supreme Court of the Unit
ed States. 1t was the Governments
turn to be heard in the argument on
the subject of the dissolution of the
Standard Oil" as decroed by the Cir
cult Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Missouri.
They have waved the black flag
over the land as others have dona
over the ocean. Do deny they have
demonstrated their ability? No. They
have competed with an ability un-
equaled in this country.
with its ramihcatons, its inhu.
encc and its money powers, give it
carte blanche, let it combine, as Mr.
Watson suggests, and let it cut prices,
as Mr.. Milburn speaks about, and
predict it will control every industry
in this country in ten years-yea in
five years.
What makes great country? Not
great corporations. II is the indiyi.
dual; the Independent proprietor with
the star of hope that has always been
held out to man before him. Your
Honors. it is but step from combina-
tion to socialism, and but another
from anarchy"
With a quiet emphasis. more i'm
preasive than mere noise or spectacu-
lar waving of the hand. Frank b. Kel-
logg, special counsel for the Govern
ment, thus suggested reasons to the
Supreme Court of the United States
why the Standard Oil Company should
be dissolved.
Following John G. Milburn, who
concluded his argument for the Stand
ard within a few minutes after court
convened, Mr.. Kellogg spoke for near.
ly four hours.
This company has been under
search as no other concern has ever
been" said Mr., Milburn, in closing
his argument. THE power of the Unit.
ed States Government as it exists has
| reached right into the vitals of this
| organization.
I'VE beg of this court, If we are
found to be doing wrong enjoin us
from doing that, but in the name of
justice do not destroy the organiza.
ton which has accomplished such re.
suits unless there is nothing else to
! do"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
ROOSEVELT ARRIVES
FROM THE: JUNGLE
Famous Hunter Is Warmly
Greeted as His Boat Steams
Into Khartourn
IS lSCoIIlD 70 TIE PALACE
E%.rrec'5crt5 we ard Daughter
Join She Farty-Enthusiasti About
tia TRIP, Roosevelt says az Was
SPLENDID"

Khar;oun, Mar. Looking the
picture Of health, and physical fitness
showing in every line, Theodore
Roosevelt came back from the long
trail over which he has spent nearly n
year in the pursuit of game. Thous-
anGs had gathered here to see him,
and they described from afar the IA
m.liar form aad smile. made so even
to those who had never before set
eyes on the eX.Prcsident of the United
States by tho many pictures of him
which have recently been published.
Col Roosevelt ard his son Kermit
both lco5iug Ga hard as nails, were
wearing khaki hunting suits. AS he
stepped ashore from the steamer that
had brought him down the Nile it was
rather y bored expression as he re.
garded the group Of British officers
that had gathered to greet him.
Their black soldiers who formed a
guard presented arms as the former
President stepped on land. The scene
was perhaps an unpleasantly abrupt
reminder of the Abandonment Of primi'
tive camp life for the formalities and
conventions of the modern world.
The incident, however, had no last.
ing effect. The Colonel soon was fair
ly beamins with good nature and
smiled broadly as he heard battery
Of cameras click around him.
Slatn Pasha. nspector-General OF
the Sudan. and others received and
escorted the Roosevelts. father and
son, to the Palace of the Sirdar, where
the introductions were made. An hour
later The two travellers crossed the
Nile TO meet Hrs. Roosevelt and Miss
Ethel As the train pulled into the
station Miss Ethel was looking out OF
& car window and Col Roosevelt and
Kermit were alongside before the
train came to a halt.
They ran joyously along the plat
form. shouting a greeting and waving
their hats frantically. Happy EN-
braces and warm words of welcome
followed.
When the party alighted all were
conducted back to the palace.
In an interview Col. Roosevelt
spoke repeatedly with the utmost en-
thusiasm concerning the trip which is
drawing to a close.
81 believe after ALL" he said, that
! am glad to be back. 1t was splendid
while it lasted but it lasted Ions
! enough"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
1000 IN PAPER TRUST STRIKE.
Third Brigade and a Troop Of Cavalry
Under Orders.

Albany, n. Y, Mar. 14.-Goy.
Hughes and Brig..Gen. James II.
Lloyd, commanding the Third Brigade.
National Guard, conferred regarding
the threatened situation caused by the
strike of the employees of the Inter
national Paper Company throughout
the State. II is understood that all or
ganizations in Gen. Lloyds brigade
are practically under waiting orders,
including the Second Battalion, Tenth
Infantry and Troop b Cavalry OF Al
bany.
j, T. Carey, President Of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Pulp and
Paper Makers, said at Watertown that
there were 1000 employees of the In
ternational Paper Company on strike.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
new YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Prices Of Farm Products
Quoted for the Week.

Quoted for the Week.
MILK-Per quart, 3%c.
BUTTER-Western extra, S2@33c.;
State dairy, 24@27c,
CHEESE Full cream, special,
17h @1Sc.
EGGS-State. Fair to choice, $50
24c; do, western firsts, 24Q25c.
APPLES-Baldwin, per bbl., $275Q
4.25.
DRESSED POULTRY-Chickens, per
b., 15@24c,; Cocks, per h., 14c.;
Squads, per dozen, $2,00@5.25.
HAY-Prime, per 100 lbs, S1.l5.
sTRAW-Long Rye. per 100 lbs, 700
SOC
POTATOES State, per bbl.. $l.37@
1.50.
ONIONS-White, per crate, 40@75c.
FLOUR-Winter patents, s5,6O@6.lO;
Spring patents, s5.60@7O5.
WHEAT-No 2. red, $1.26h; No. l.
Northern Duluth, $l.26H
CORN-No. 2, 60 u CO
Natural white, 5O@52c,; Clip
ped white, 501a @53c.
BEEVES-City Dressed, S@11c.
SHEEP-Per 100 lbs, S5,OO@6O0.
CALVES-City Dressed, 10@l6c.
LAMBS-Per 100 lbs, $S.50Q950.
HOGS-Live, per 100 lbs, $4,000
lO,40; Country Dressed, per h., llW
l3c.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
LIEUT.. JANNEY KILLS HIMSELF.
Wife of Infantry Officer in Manila Sees
Him Do It.

Manila, Mar 15.-Lieut. Clarence
l. Janney of the Twelfth Infantry
dlled himself with a pistol in the
lone of Lieut.-Col. Ames at Fort Nc
.,inley at a dinner party before a
lance. There were present at the
r,me Mrs, Janney, Lieut-Col. Ames
md other officers.
Lieut.. Janney, it is said, left the
1nner table, having become angry at
,omething, and left the house. He
eturned in short time and fired his
istol into the air outside. Then he
e-entered the house, flourishing his
evolver' and shot himself, standing
ear the dinner table.
Second Lieut.. Janney enlisted in
re regular army from Virginia in
J03, when he was 22 years old.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
LlLLlS is RECOVERING.
But II is Uncertain When He Can Be
Removed to His Home.

Kansas City, Mo-, Mar. 14.-Jere F..
Lillis. President of the Western Ex-
change Bank, who was assaulted Sun
day morning by John p. Cudahy at the
latter's residence, is reported to be
steadily recovering.
Attendants at st. Mary's Hospital
said, however, that it was uncertain
when Lillis would be removed from
the hospital to his home, Asked if
his injuries would be permanent, they
said that would require some time to
determine.
The physicians say there now is no
fear Of blood poisoning, suggested by
the fact that the kitchen knife used by
Cudahy was said to have been rusty.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
NATION WIDE STRIKE MAY BE.
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
Passes Resolution.

Passes Resolution.
New Castle, Pa, Mar. 14.-The
ninth annual convention of the State
Federation of Labor, in session here,
unanimously passed a resolution ask
ing that in the event of an arbitration
of the Philadelphia strike question
failing, the American Federation OF
Labor call a nationwide strike Of or
ganized and unorgani2ed workmen.
The resolution passed was present
ed to the delegates by w. d. Mahon,
President of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Railway
Employees.
The permission was granted and
Mr. Mahon in a stirring address ask
ed for the motion to pass the resolu-
ton. The motion was forthcoming
promptly and passed with a unani-
nous rising vote, the delegates cheer
ing.
The resolution was forwarded by
wire to President Gompers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE SON.
But Lewis Hopkins's Sacrifice Fails,
and Death Comes.

Washington, Mar. 15.-Francis Hop.
kins, 7-year-old son of Lewis Hopkins,
granddaughter of Johns Hopkins, found
er of the university that bears his
name, died of meningitis.
The boy had lain in Providence
Hospital seven weeks, and after sub.
hitting to two operations the physi-
clans decided that a third, with the
TRANSMISSION of blood, probably would
save his life. The father hurried here
on special train, and quantity of
his blood was transfused to his son.
After the operation the boy rallied,
but death resulted from exhaustion
following his long illness.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
BEEF TRUST GETS BLOW.
Must Produce Books in New Jersey or
Forfeit Its Charter.

Trenton, \. j., Mar. 16.-The Beef
Trust suffered another severe blow in
New Jersey when Supreme Court JUS
tice Sway2e, sitting at Trenton, decid-
ed that the minute books Of the direc-
tors meetings must be produced be-
fore the Hudson County Grand Jury.
An order was signed directing the
National Packing Company, Morris &
Co, Armour G. Co. and Swift & Co.
to produce the books desired by Prose.
cutor Pierre p. Garven, even though
they are kept outside the State. Fail
ure to do so will result in the Supreme
Court nul!ifying the charters of the
companies.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
TO END TRACTION STRIKE.
President Kruger and w. D. Mahon
Hold Conference.

Philadelphia, Mar. 16.-The first
step taken by the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company toward settling the
dispute with its striking employees,
and incidentally ending the sympathe.
tic strike which had then been in pro-
President c. O. Kruger of the Rapid
Transit Company conferred with w.
ID. Mahon, President of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Elec-
trio Railway Employees. The meet
ing of the labor leader and the Rapid
Transit official was the result of out
side influences.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
Jersey Auto Visitors, enI Dead.

Trenton, n, j., Mar, 1.-THE Sen
ate to-day defeated; Assemblyman
Edges automobile bin, which permits
nonresident automobiles to come into
the State for three periods of FIVE days
each without taking out license.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
REPRESENTATIVE PERKINS DEAD
Had Been III in Washington Hospital
for Several Weeks.

Washington, Mar, 14.-Representa-
tive James Breck Perkins. of Roches.
ter, died here at Garfield Hospital
after an illness of several weeks.
James b. Perkins was born at st.
CroiX Falls, Wis, Nov. 4, 1S47.
He was elected to the Fifty-seventh
Congress and reelected to the Fifty
eighth, Ffty-ninth, SiXtieth and Sixty
first Congresses.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS.
Central New York Village Elections
Show CHANGE In Vote.

Utica, n. y, Mar. 17.-Returns of
the village elections throughout Cen
tral New York indicate that the Demo.
Gratis won in majority of cases. In
Gouyernour it is said that many Re.
pnblicans voted the Democratic ticket.
The same condition is said to have
prevailed in Cauastota.
herkimer and Dolgeville have gone
Democratic, the latter for the first
time in five years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
INSURANCE AND BALlOONING
Claims May Be Collected If Flights are
Only a Diversion, Says Court.

Denver, Col, Mar. 14.-If ballooning
is INDUCED in as a diversion, insur
ance money may be collected in case
Of accident or death, according to a
Supreme Court decision to-day in a
case to recover $4,000 insurance upon
the life OF Frank Van Fleet, who was
killed in a balloon accident at Grand
Junction.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17

Denver, Mar. 15.-Colonel John !.
Rogers. prominent attorney of Phila-
delphia, and for twenty years the big
gest stockholder in the Philadelphia
National League Baseball Club died
here to-day of heart failure.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
For New Agriculture School.

Albany N. Y, Mar. 16.-The estab
lishment of another link in the chain
of State schools OF agriculture and Co
nestle science, to be in Middletown, is
provided for in a bill introduced by
Assemblyman Slivers of Orange. Fol
the purchase of the site $4,000 is ap
propriated
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
Volcanic Dust at Mlddau

New Orleans, March 1.-THE city
was dark at noon and the Government
photographer said it was because vol,
canic dust from Mexico thickened the
clouds.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
.ASSAILS STANDARD
OIL AS A MENACE
Frank B. Kellogg Gives Govern
ment's Side to the SUI
preme Court
CALLS ITS METHODS UNFAIR
Rockefeller Corporation, He Says, "
Let Alone. Would Control All Indus
tries in Five Years--hsserts II Has
Waved the Black Flag on Land.
The Chances Are 4 to 3 Against
Standard Oil.

Since only eight members OF
the Supreme Court are hearing
the Standard Oil case, owing to
Justice Moody's absence, there
are seven possible divisions of
the court three majority de-
cislous for or against the defend
ant corporation and an equal
division, which would affirm the
decision of the lower court. The
possible divisions are;
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
ARTIST TOOK MlLLET.
Wanted to Make Copy Of $4,000 Pic.
ture.

ture.
San Francisco, Mar 17.-Declaring
that he took the picture in order to
make copy of it, William Kunze. a
young artist, was arrested while hold.
ing in his possession the $4,000
painting, shepherd and Flock" by
Millet, which was stolen last Sunday
IRON the Golden Gate Park Museum.
Kun2e was arrested in his studio.
After he was booked on a charge
OF grand larceny the prisoner said
that he was led to take the picture by
his love of the beautiful and a desire
to make an adequate copy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17

Ems were passed appropriatng
$120O0,CG0 for the erection in WASH
ington OF buildings for the depart
mcuts OF State, Justice and Commerce
ara Labor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1910-03-17
MILLIONS FOR BETTER TEETH.
Z oston Man Pounds Dental lnfrmary
to Be Free to All Children,

to Be Free to All Children.
Boston, Mar. 15.--Thomas A. For.
yth, a wealthy resident of this city,
ans to give $2,OOO,OOO for the care
Z the teeth of Boston school children.
AS a perpetual foundation by which
very child in the city from birth to
70 age Of l6 years may receive the
ost expert dental services free of
barge this donation will prove a boon
; thousands Of school children who
e.3erwlse would never have this care.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-09
Observation-Disclosures OMEsOUT
FOR FEDERAL CONTROL, AFTER A FIGHT

trusted to the president of the Cniteu
States the appointing of the Ohlteu
States attorneys for the different as
tricts throughout the United States
rule has grown up in the senate Oh
the United States which has In eHect
robbed the executive of any real power
in that respect and has placed the APP
pointment of such officials III the
hands of the United States senators
from the respective states.
What is the result? The result Is
that if the lumber interests in par
ticular district are strong and nave
already succeeded in despolllng Inc
people of a large part of their timber
interests those lumber interests are
apparent to dominate the election OIL
United States senator and those Ium-
Der interests are also liable to dictate
through that senator the appointment
Of United States officials whose duty
It will be to enforce the laws OF the
United States against his benefactors.