Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-12-31

with overstatenlent Of income and other
| financial irregularities, and suit was
brought against the Lehigh Valley road
| under the charge that II was Enonopoiiz-
Ing the anthracite coal industry through
subsidiary companies. In this month. also.
| the department Of Justice announced that
| plan for breaking up the transportation
monopoly practiced by the New York,
| New Maven and Hartford had been ar
| ranged satisfactory to all parties.
Early In April the government met with
defeat in its attempt to prove that the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road
and the coai-nainlng company Of the same
1 name existed as an iiiegat and rnonopoiss-
tic combination. On April . the commit
! tee appointed for the purpose announced
that It had selected twelve federal re-
serve districts, with their central bank
| ing cities, rnder the new currency law
On jane the American Thread conf
pany, which was proved to be a combina-
! ton Of manufacturers which practically
controlled the output. forestaised the ac-
! lion contemplated by the department OF
| justice by dissolying. In Jane, also the
| United States supreme court affirmed the
power OF tho interstate commerce COM
| nlssfcn to TX rates. and held that pipe
| lines are common carriers and must carry
products at rates Axad by the commission
On June Is the president made public
| 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 the proper business legislation had
been enacted.
In July the commission found that the
former management Of the New Haven
road was criTminaiiy waatefaf and negh-
gent President Wilson directed the at
torney general. July 81. TO begin civil and
criminal proceedings against the New
York. New Haven and Hartford road, and
two days later the quit was begun In the
United States district court ut 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 ~ ths dissolution of the
international Harvester company. desig-
mated as monopoly In restraint OF trade,
was ordered by the United States district
court ~ 80 Paul MINI. w.
The Panama Canal was formally opened
for world frafAc on August Is. The steam
sr 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
commerce commission for permission to-
advance freight rates per cent, and the
commission consented to reopen the case.
The commission granted the increase.
with certain exceptions. on December IS.
Ill October the court dismissed all but
one OF the governments charges In It's
suit to dissolve the Atlantic steamship
trust Final argument In the suit 10 dis
solve the Steel trust was made at Phila-
delphia, 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
resentatives was reduced from Ia to Is.
although the Democratic majority In the
senate was Increased from 10 to 1d Con
stitational amendments giving the SUIT
fTage to women were carried In Nevada
and Montana and prohibition triumPhsd
In washington. Oregon, Arizona, and
Colorado. In Missouri the soseaIied "fuli
crew" law passed by the legislature was
rejected.
Politics In Other Lands.
On January "a Michel oreste. president
OF Haiti. warned OF the approach of a
large body Of reyoiutionists, abdieated has
tily and took refuge ON a 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 H. az the finale to a bitter
political and personal controversy, this
wife OF the French minister of finance,
Mime, Caillaux, shot and killed the editor
OF Figaro, CASTOR Calnette. Her hus-
band resigned his Office at once and
rev cabinet was formed. The trial of
Nine. Caillaux resulted In her acquittal
on July Is. On March Ia a treaty or peace
between Turkey and Servia was signed at
Constantinople, sequel to the Balkan
war. On May l the new Chinese eonsti-
tuition was published, II abolished the
premiership and gave Increased power 10
the president. On May Prince Aiexan-
der of Teek, Queen Mary's brother. was
appointed governor general OF Canada
On May IL Colonel Benaviaes. leader
of the Peruvian faction which expelled
President RillinghNrst. was elected pro-
Nisional president. Three days later a
group OF senator's and deputies declared
Roberto Leguia provisional president. The
Peruvian supreme court. however. recog-
nised Benavides. On July a Ahmed Mir
IN. sixteen years OF age. was crowned
shah of Persia. On August 2s the French
cabinet Was reconstructed on a commit
tee OF national defense basis Rene VI
viant, Socialist, remained premier.
On September Is the Albanian senate,
which had driven Its recently elected ruler
FRINGE NtiNan or Wteu--Dut OF the
country, chose a Turk for king-Prince
Durham Eddin. son OF tha deposed Abdul
Hamid OF Turkey. Tho European powers
protested. but their wishes were tiisre-
garded. On October g. after four fnonths'
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 Roumania his nephew. Ferdinand. took
the oath OF ONCE as sovereign.
Industrial Trials and Triumphs.
The Ford Motor company at the begin
ming % the year adopted a profit sharing
plan by which slO.eoo.0Cp IL to be Siistrfb-
uted annually among the 26,ooo wage earn
srs OF that concern. The great South Afri-
can railroad strike came te an end On
January 10 a strike OF the Delaware and
Hudson railroad men. as a protest against
the discharge Of two employees, was set
tied with.a 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 copper mines. which began
July "a 1914 and another In the Colorado
coal fields, where faso0a men had been on
strike since September Is of the previous
year. Violence ensaed and federal aid
was demanded. On April 20 the striking
miners FLASHED with the state militia near
Trinidad, Caln. and Twenty-Five persons
were killed or burned 20 death IN A ffre