The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-12-31

brought against the Lehigh Valley road
under the charge that 1t was monopoliz-
ing The anthracite coal industry through
subsidiary companies. In this month. also,
the department of justice announced that
! n plan for breaking up the transportation
monopoly practiced by the New York.
New Haven and Hartford had been ar
ranged satisfactory to all parties.
& Early I'm April the government met with
Fdcfeat in its attempt to prove that the
! Delaware LaCkawanna and Western road
and the coal-mning company of the same
name existed an Illegal and monopolis-
itic combination on April the commits
tee appointed for the purpose announced
tthat it had selected twelve federal re-
1serve dist riots. with their central bank I
ing cities under the new currency law.
On June S the American Thread com
| pany, which was prov ed To be a combina-
| tion of manufacturers which practically
controlled the output forestalled the ac-
tion contemplated by the department OF
Justice by dssolving In June. also, the
! United States supreme court affirmed the
| powc. OF the Interstate commerce COM
mission to fix rates. and held that pipe
lines are common carriers and must carry
| products at rates fixed by the commission
On June 15 the president made public
La charge that big business interests had
been trying to force congress TO adjourn.
He declared that he should do everything
! in his power To keep congress In session
+, until TIE proper business legislation had
been enacted
In July the commission found that the
| former management OF the New Haven
road was CriminallY wastcful and negi-
/ gent President Wilson directed the at
tornev general July g. to begin civil and
criminal proceedings against the New
York New Haven and Hartford road, and
| two days later the suit WAS begun In the
United States district court at New York.
| On the first day of August the interstate
commerce commission denied the petition
OF the eastern railroads for a general in
crease of per cent in freight rates. but
allowed certain increases In the middle
West On August T. the dissolution of the
| international Harvester company, desig-
| mated as monopoly in restraint OF trade.
was ordered by the United States district
court at ST Paul. MINI.
| The Panama Canal was formally opened
for world traffic on August 15 The steam
er AnCon, belonging to the Panama rail-
road. passed from ocean to ocean in ten
hours In September the railroad rate
case showed Increased activity. The roads
east of the Mississippi and north Of the
Potomac again petitioned The interstate
commerce commission for permission 10
| advance freight rates per cent. and the
commission consented TO reopen the case
with certain exceptions. on December lS
In October the court dismissed all but
one of the governments charges in its
suit to dissolve the Atlantic steamship
trust. Final argument in the suit 10 dis
solve the Steel trust was made at Philh-
dclphia. and the discussion of increased
railroad freight rates was resumed before
the interstate commerce commission.
At the elections held on November the
Democratic majority in the house OF rep
resontatives was reduced from li1 10 -,
although the Democratic ma joritY In the
senate was increased from 10 to 16 Con
stitutional amendments giving the suf-
frage To women were carried in Nevada
and Montana and prohibition trinmphed
. in Washington. Oregon. ARIZONA, and
| Colorado. In Missouri the so-called full
crew law passed by the legislature was
rejected
Politics in Other Lands.
, On January ~ Michel Oreste. president
, Of Haiti. warned Of the approach OF a
large body Of revolutionists. abdicated has
1 : tily and took refuge on q German cruiser.
on February orestes Zamor was elected
president of Haiti. and on the same day
Jose Vicente Concha was elected presi-
dent of Colombia, ---.-.-.---.--
, On March Il, as the finale To a bitter
! political and personal controversy. the
I wife Of the French minister Of finance,
Nine. CaillauN. shot and killed the editor
Of Figaro Castor Calmette. Her hus-
+ band resigned his office at once and a
new cabinet was formed. The trial Of
Nine. CaillauX resulted in her acquittal
on July 2s On March IA a treaty OF peace
between Turkey and SerVia was signed at
COnstantnorle, a sequel TO the Balkan
war. On May the new Chinese consti-
, tuition was published. 1t abolished the
premiership and gave increased power to
he On, G yD,f,
, der of TeCl. Queen Mars brother. was
appointed governor general OF Canada.
On May II Colonel Benavides leader
OF the Peruvian faction which expelled
, President Rillinghurst. was elected pro-
, visional president Three DAYS later a
group Of senators and deputies declared
f, Roberto Lcguia provisional president. The
Peruvian supreme court however. rocog-
nized Benavides. On July Il Ahmed Mir
"a, sixteen years of age, crowned
shah OF Persia. On August T the French
cabinet was reconstructed on a commit
tee Of national defense basis. Rene Vi
viani Socialist. remained premier
On September % the Albanian senate.
which had driven its recently elected ruler
Prince William OF Wicd-out OF the
country. chose Turk for king-Prince
Burhan-E Eddn. son of the depOsed Abdul
Hamid OF Turkey The European powers
protested, but their wishes were dsre-
garded. On October 4. after four months
exile. Essad Pasha accompanied by an
armed force. entered Albania and took
possession Of the government On the
day following the death of King Charles
Of Rouma MIA his nephew. Ferdinand, took
the oath OF office as sovereign.
Industrial Tri ais and Triumphs.
The Ford Motor company at the begin
ming Of the year dopted sharing
plan by which s10y0oOoo is 10 be dstrb-
uted annually amo',g the 26Go wage-earn-
ers OF that concern The great South Afri-
can railroad strike came To an end. on
January 10 n strike Of the Delaware and
Hudson railroad me n, as a protest against
! the discharge Of two employees, was set
lied within sixteen hours by the federal
board of mediation and Cancellation.
! Two great labor controversies had been
left over from the preceding year-one IN
! the Michigan coppe- mines. which began
July 23 1913 and arOther in the Colorado
coal fields where II coo men had been on
strike since Septenl er % Of the previous
} year. Violence ems led and federal aid
was demanded. On April 20 the striking
! miners clashed with the state militia near
Trinidad Colo, anC twenty-five persons
were killed or burn d to death in fire
which followed. Pre- sidont Wilson ordered
federal troops to Il q scene. II was not
until September Is that the strikers and