Connecticut western news., 1910-12-01
CRUSH SUGAR TRUST, SAYS GOVERNMENT
Attorney Files Petition Charging t With Holding Up Trade.

t With Holding Up Trade.
 The hardest blow yet aimed at the sugar trust was struck by the govern ment when United States Attorney Henry A. Wise appeared in the United States circuit court in New York and filed petition for the dissolution of the American Sugar Refining company and its twenty-nine subsidiary con- cerns, on the grounds that the trust had been guilty of illegally restraining trade, of conspiracy to destroy competi- tion and of holding up prices by the ruthless destruction of independent re- fineries. Not only is the corporation attacked under the Sherman act, but the government asks that the indi- viduals in the companies be restrained from continuing what is alleged to be lawiess combination.
 In the petition presented by MT. Wise, who is acting under orders of Attorney General Wickersham, the his tory of the sugar trust and its methods of doing business are handled with out gloves. The action is the most important instituted by the govern ment in many years and means a long and bitter fight in the courts.
 Among the individual defendants named are Washington B. Thomas, president of the American Sugar Re fining company; Charles B. Foster,
 
 ury and elected treasurer of the trust; John D. Spreckels, Adolph Spreckels and John D. Spreckels, IT,, and Joseph F. Smith of Utah, head of the Mormon church.
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 NE>.,o world will agree to re- , gard the Panama ca- IN'N1o' nal as neutral terri tory then there would be no need for Notifications" declared Representative James Tawney in an interview pub lished in a Panama newspaper. MT. Tawney is now Investigating condf- tions in the canal zone. He is thor oughly opposed to the plan of outlay ing millions for the fortiication of the canal
 Miss Mary Lewis, twenty four years old and pretty, of Wilburtha, N. J., has surprised her friends by placing advertisements in papers in that sec tion for a husband, saying that none of her friends or acquaintances need answer. Her name appears in the ad- vertisements, which merely say that she wants husband with good hab- its, about twenty eight years old. who has sufficient income to keep wife In a conservative manner. h Accompanying the announcement that the state bureau of mediation and arbitration had failed to settle the strike of the New York taxicab chauf- feurs is a report that another express strike may be called on Dec. 1. The strike, the officials fear, will be called in an attempt to force them to provide for "closed shop" or, in other words, employ none but union men on the wagons and in the stables.
 According to the New York police the impersonation of two burglars giv- en by Abraham Holler. fifteen years old, and George Gleason. fourteen, was so realistic that stolen silverware was found in their possession. The two boys were dressed as ragamuf- fins, with long trousers and mems coats. while the greater part of their faces was covered with automobile goggles.
 John Hays Hammond of New York will sail soon for St. Petersburg, where he expects to remain several days on important business, and then hasten back home, arriving here Dec. 14. It has been said MT. Hammond was going to Siberia This is not the case. than St. Petersburg, where he has a big business matter to handle.
 The Wright brothers have filed in the United States circuit court in New York suit against Claude Grahame- White, the English aviator, alleging infringement of the Wright patent. The complaint says Grahame-W White imported several machines into this country, among them monoplane and biplane which embody the inventions co covered by the Wright patent
 There is grave fear that Edward H. Harriman's gift of 10000 acres of land for a greater Palisade park may be lost to New York state. Late returns of the vote i'll the up state counties show that in almost every instance the majorities against the state issuing bonds for $25OO,O0O were very heavy. The vote in Greater New York was in favor of the gift.
 < After a long debate the Arizona con- stitutional convention has adopted the educational qualification in the cleo tion law by vote of B to 21. Only the Democratic members of the con vention participated in the debate. The measure requires that all electors must he ahla to read the constitution in