The Yale expositor., 1910-06-03
The Standard OIL company has IN

retroactive and became effective May
/. II is estimated that the company
will add from 100000 10 s10,000,OOO
to its annual pay roll expense. The
new scale affects employees engaged
in the company's works and factories.
but the Office men will not be bene-
flied by this increase. Most OF the
employees who will get the increase
are laborers. and the advance applies
10 all the subsidiary companies In the
United States. The company has ap-
proximately 10000 employees. The
Standard Is one of the very few big
concerns OF this country which has
never had a strike among Its employ
ees.
oliver Splitter, former superintend-
ent of the docks of the American Sugar
Refining company in Williamsburg, ex-
planned In court at New York why he
did not confess during the trial which
ended last February with his being
sentenced to two years at Atlanta.
Such a confession, he declared, would
have carried him to cemetery" In
other words, he would have implicated
dead man, Henry o. Havemeyer, late
head of the sugar trust
After he had moved the grass on
his own burial lot in preparation for
Memorial day at Battle Creek, Mich,
William e. Painless, seventy-five
years of old, fell dead, rake in hand.
Commissioners OF the Presbyterian
general assembly at Atlantic City, N.
j., object to Speaker Cannon having
the power Of appointing the proposed
federal commission for the investiga-
ton of the liquor traffic in the United
States.
Motion for a new trial for DR.. Hal
dane Cleminson, convicted of the MUIR
der of his wife, was overruled by
Judge McSurley at Chicago. A motion
in arrest of judgment was granted and
sentence deferred to allow appeal.
A union of washerwomen has been
formed at Orange. N. j., with a men,
bership of 800. The officers announce
that the standard of wages will be
raised from S1.25 to 50 a day and
the hours of labor will be reduced
from nine to eight.
Illness of a son Of H. Clay Pierce in
st. Louis prevented Pierce from be-
ing present to testify in the custer
filed by Attorney General West of
Oklahoma against the Waters-Pierce
Oil company and the case was con-
tinued until June 10.
After falling four stories down an
elevator shaft and landing in four
| feet of water, in which he was nearly
drowned, John J. Sloggart, a carpen-
ter of New York city, escaped with 2
broken arm and many scratches.
AS a result of what the Chicago
| police charge was a fight among
! thieves over the division of their
spoiis. one man was shot and killed.
another is believed to have been
wounded, and third is under arrest.
Bitten by his pet dog, which he had
been teasing, Jackson Edwards, seven.
ty-four years old. of Denver, Col, be-
came alarmed over the thought that
hydrophobia might set in. Two hours
later he was dead.
Beaten by woman with a cuspidor
burglar, fell out of a third-story win
dow in a New York house which he
had entered and was dashed to death.
! Belle Moore, the negress convicted
| in New York Of placing two girls for
immoral purposes, was sentenced to
the Auburn prison for women for not
less than two years and six months
nor more than five years.
States Attorney Magill has sum.
moned an army of witnesses in the
Rock Island Qll) grand jury investi-
cation Of fraternal insurance scandals
1t Is now said that $4,000 members OF
the societies involved are affected by
the alleged entertainments. The states
attorney feels confident that indict
ments and convictions will follow the
grand jury investigation.
James A. Patten was forced to take
the count" In one of the liveliest bouts
he has ever had with the bears on the
Chicago board of trade. The big spec
ulator acknowledged defeat by
throwing on the market sever
al million bushels of September
wheat at quotations said to aver
age fully ten cents a bushel under the
purchase price. Many of his follow
ers likewise suffered losses which In
the aggregate amounted to a large
sum.
Word received at New York from
Atlanta. Ca, indicates that Charles
w. Morse. the convict banker, is III
and has been removed to the hospital
of the federal prison. He is said to be
suffering from kidney trouble.
Fire destroyed the downtown cal
barns of the City Railway company al
Des Moines, Ia, burning 20 street cars
and Gripping the service. The loss IL
$160, 900.
Because she refused to give her age
to the census taker, Miss Sarah 4
Peck, head of the normal department
of Union college, has been indicted by
grand jury in the United State.
district court at Lincoln, Neb.
James M. Anderson, formerly con
fdential secretary TO Emil Winter
| nrosfdont of the Workin0rnan,o Go