The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

tors of the Sugar Trust have been
caught defrauding the government
and one alone a refunded $685.
573.19. The Cudahy Packing Com
pany is now under Indictment. The
International Harvester Company pays
a 100000 fine in Kansas and offers to
form a partnership with that State.
The Supreme Court in January de-
cided against the Gas Company of
New York in favor Of reducing the
price and declared, I'm this case as
there is no possibility of competition
there should be no allowance for good
will"
Another notable decision of the SUI
preme Court established, III case Of
the Wal Paper Trust, has q trust
cannot collect for merchandise sold
under an illegal agreement in re-
straint of trade. In another decision
the Supreme Court while holding the
same time makes the clause prohibit
ing the carrier owning stock in a pro-
ducing Intellectual.
Included in the Payne tariff law is
a provision for a tax on corporations
with over $4,000 net earnings and the
submission Of an income tax amend
1ment to the constitution to the several
States.
The Federal Court of Appeals has
affirmed the jail sentences for con-
tempt of court of Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison in the Buck Stove case.
Chas w. Morse while out on bond
has paid back $500, 900 of the $4,000
600 s~quandered by him, but must soon
begin a fifteen ear sentence. In the
famous anama libel suit against The
New York World and Indianapolis
News h case was dismissed and the
publishers cannot be indicted in Wash
ington on the theory hat the libel
culated. In Tennessee eight night rid
culated. In Tennessee eight light rid
ers were convicted of murder, but the
Supreme Court has granted them a
new trial: the Coopers We're convicted
of killing ex-senator Carmack, but
have appealed. Tennessee adopted
State prohibition January l and Ala
bama by q large majority refused to
incorporate prohibition in her consti-
tuition. The Federal Circuit Court at
Richmond, Va, holds that shipments
of liquor into dry territory on o
fide orders are legal.
An intelligent, we'll organized cam
paign against tuberculosis has been
in~augurated throughout the country.
The Bureau of Science at Manila has
prepared leprosy vaccine DIR. Stiles
discovery Of the hook worm has led
John d. Rockefeller to beStOW 81, OOO,-
600 for the eradication of this disease
III l1IS @SA 9AF>N
81, 900, 900 for a hero fund in France
and increases his gifts for libraries
in the English speaking world to $780,
900 000.
The so-called race question appear
ed in California, Oregon and Nevada
where the Legislatures considered
measures to curtail the Japanese
there. None of these bills passed,
though since they were in violation Of
our treaty with Japan and might have
serious complications. A
white man and a negro were lynched
at Cairo, I'll. Employees on a railroad
in Georgia struck against hiring ne
groes as firemen. but the differences
were finally arbitrated. The attempt
to pass a disfranchisement suffrage
amendment to eliminate the negro
vote in Maryland was defeated at the
polls. Outside Of this little interest at
tached to the November election, Tam
many was defeated in e York eX-
cept that Judge Gaynor was elected
mayor: Tom Johnson lost in C1eve-
land, and the graft prosecutor, Heney,
was defeated in San Francisco. Wo-