Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-10-25

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the case brought by the United States
! attorney general last summer in
Cleveland against the General Elec-
tric company and about forty subsid-
iary companies controlled by the Gen.
eral Electric company under the Sher-
man antitrust law. The decree, in
effect, orders the General Electric
company to conduct all its business
undSr its own name, and the dissolu-
ion of the National Electric Lamp
company and about thirty-five sub
sidiary corporations.
! In the United States circuit court
at Baltimore Judge John c. Rose rem
dered decision favoring the govern
ment in its dissolution suit against
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company and others, the so-called
Bath Tub" Trust. The decision is
most sweeping in its character. Fed
eral counsel declared that the decis-
ion supports the governments con-
tention in every point. In case OF an
appeal it will go direct to the United
States Supreme court.
Fighting for the possession OF the
little town of Chiapalla, Mexico, held
by insurrectos, whose strength was
estimated at 900, a force Of volun-
teers numbering but 100 killed 13O
rebels and then captured LOG, eigh-
teen of whom were wounded. The loss
to the government force is given as
less than a dozen killed. Early re-
ports were that the state troops met
with little opposition, but it is now
known that the encounter was the
fierces since the beginning of the in
suffection.
James B.. Mcnamara went on trial
for murder at Los Angeles, CAL, be-
fore Judge Walter Bordwell in the
superior court. District Attorney j.
D.. Fredericks, for the prosecution,
elected to try him for the murder OF
Charles G.. Haggerty, a machinist,
who, with 20 other men, met death
in an explosion and fire which wreck
ed the Los Angeles Times building on
October l., 1910. This case was pick
ed from nineteen indictments for muir
der found against the prisoner, his
brother, John j. Mcnamara, and six
others who are at large.
The armistice between Italy and
Turkey for which German diplomacy
has been striving for some time, it is
believed in Berlin, has practically
been concluded, although not yet an.
nounced officially. It is understood
that the transportation of the Italian
military expedition will not be inter
fered with, but that hostilities in all
quarters will cease. This is consider
ed by Berlin as equivalent to the end
ing of the war, or at least the war
like movements
A decision of worldwide import
ance was handed down by the United
States circuit court of appeals at
Philadelphia, when it dismissed four
suits brought by the Krupp company
of Germany against the MidVale Steel
company of Philadelphia to restrain
the Pennsylvania corporation from IN
fringing on patents for process OF
manufacturing armor palte. The de-
cision was given by Judge Joseph
Burlington and sustains the opinion
of the circuit court.
With returns from little more than
one-tenth of the state at hand, the
indications are that California has
refused to grant equal suffrage to
women, but had by an emphatic vote
made the initiative and referendum
and the recall, the latter including the
judiciary, part Of its organic law.
Twenty-three proposed amendments
to the constitution Of the common
wealth were voted on. Of these the
three mentioned overshadowed the
rest in public interest.
Questions of the ministers salary
entered largely into the opening ses-
sion of the state convention of Bap-
tist preachers at Duluth, MINI. To
get the proposition down to work
ing basis, salary committee made
the following report: Baptist minis
ters are underpaid. Those OF the
Northern Baptist convention average
s2.61 a day. They receive less and
more is. required to qualify for the
pulpit than for any one of the several
general lines of labor"
The cotton market was weak and
unsettled, and another set of new
low records was established with
October and January contracts SELL
ing below 1-2 cents level. The
close was barely steady at net de-
cline of 13 to % points. The opening
was steady at a decline of l to e.
points, in response to over-Sunday
selling orders from the south and the
Indifferent showing of Liverpool, but
there seemed disposition among
speculative shorts to cover.