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Settlement Negotiated by
B. & 0. and It’s Men
Averts Eastern Strike
BALTIMORE, March 12.—Ami
cable settlement last night of the con
troversy between the conductors and
trainmen of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad and the officials of that road
relative to wages and service condi
tions, is understood to be of far
reaching importance.
The lerms of the settlement were
effected by the good offices of Labor
Commissioner Neill. They are not dis
eased, but both sides have made ma
terial concessions. The settlement
does not bring the men in the east to
a parity with the railroad men of the
west, but it represents a substantial
increase In their earnings and gives
what the men value even more high
ly, for it seems to insure a standard
ization of wages.
It has been tacitly understood that
whatever was done by the Baltimore
& Ohio would be taken as a basis of
settlement by all of the railroads east
of the Mississippi river at present
interested in negotiations with their
employes' organizations.
MEET WITH RE FES A L.
Western Railroads Turn Down De
mands Made l>y Western
Enginemen.
CHICAGO,' March 12.—It Is un
officially announced that the commit
tee of railroad managers today re
fused In substance every concession
demanded by the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Engineers,
representing 25,000 men on 49 dif
ferent railroads running through
the west excepting arbitration of the
wage question.
The men had voted an overwhelm
ing majority to strike and this vote
was laid before the railroad manag
ers’ committee yesterday by the com
mittee representing the men. The
men are more Insistent In the appli
cation of the senior rules than they
are for the wage advance. An aver
age of 17 1-2 per cent advance Is the
final demand of the firemen. They
declare the schedule submitted last
November has been modified In the
hope that an amicable adjustment
could be made.
AIDS FRENCH SEAMSTRESSES.
French Minsister of I,al»or Puts a
Stop to Overwork.
PARIS, March 12.- Night work by
French seamstresses and other work
ing girls will cease on June 30 by
decreee of the minister of labor. The
sweating system In France, especial
ly in Paris, has resulted in great
abuse.
In many fashionable dressmaking
establishments the girls have been
In the habit of working until 10 or
11 o’clock at night, and during the
rush of the American season they
are often retained all night, working
In four hour shifts.
Hid ELEPHANTS HUN AMt'CK.
Scalier Spectator* ami Hough House
Itutclicr Shop ami Winery.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.—
Three elephants owned by a show
man broke away from a street parade
yestrday, anrl for 30 blocks ran
amuck. With crowds scampering In
pursuit the elephants took to the
sidewalks and many persons had
narrow escape from being trampled.
Swerving Into a butcher shop, the j
big beasts paused long enough to
half wreck the place then headed
for a winery, where they tossed
barrels and kegs about. They were
finally cornered In a vacant lot.
• report indicates •
• LILLIS IS ALL THERE •
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• KANSAS CITY. March 12.— •
• After nearly a week spent at •
• St. Mary’s hospital, waiting •
• for the knife wounds Inflicted •
• by .T. P. Cudahy to heal, Jere •
• F. Llllla, president of the West- •
• ern Exchange bank, in this city, •
• was removed to his home last •
• night. •
• The nurse at the Lillis real- •
• dence, replying to an Inquiry •
• over the phone today, said Lillis •
• was getting along “splendidly.” •
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Dos: of
OFFICE BILL VICTORY
WASHINGTON, MARCH 12.—
THE McCALL BILL. CALLING FOR j
THE PUBLICATION OF CAM
PAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, WAS RE
PORTED FAVORABLY TODAY BY |
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
TERRITORIES AS TO THE PRESI
DENT AND REPRESENTATIVES
IN CONGRESS. THE DEMOCRATS
VOTED SOLIDLY FOR THE BILL,
WHILE THE REPUBLICANS WERE
DIVIDED.
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MS LIFE
WASHINGTON, March 12 - Pres
ident Taft left this evening for Pitts
burg, where tomorrow he will at
tend the funeral of his brother-in
law, Thomas K. I.aughlln, who died
late yesterday at that place. Mrs.
Taft will not accompany him.
'1 ne death was first reported as
due to cerebral hemorrhages, ac
cording to the statements of two at
tending physicians, who said they
"arrived too late, as death had been,
evidently, instantaneous.’’
According to authoritative Infor
mation, I.aughlin’s body was found
by servants in the basement of his
home, with a gaping wound in his
head. Occurrence of the death was
not reported to the coroner until
last night. For months, Mr. I.augh
lin has been a sufferer from nervous
trouble.
The coroner's report, Issued this
afternoon, gave the cause of death
of Mr. l.aughlin as "suicide by
shooting." It was 1 ■ irned at the
inquest that Mr. l.aughlin had been
suffering severely for some days
from nervous troubles and that dur
ing the last few days of his life there
had been fear for his mind.
_
WASHINGTON, March 12.—01- |
reel examination of Chief Engineer j
A. I’. Ilavla, of the reclamation ser
vice, before the Haliinger-Pinchot in
vestigation committee ended at the!
morning session today and cross-ex
amination was taken up when the
committee resumed this afternoon, j
Mr. Davis continued today to flat-|
ly contradict the statements made by
Secretary Ballinger. Referring to a'
letter in which the secretary had i
stated he had certain words on a
sign at Toluca, Mont., painted out,
Mr. Davis dec lared no such order j
had been Issued and that the words
had never been erased.
Mr. Davis' testimony has been ta- ;
ken up almost wholly with contradic
tions of Mr. Ballinger, but at the end
of Ills direct examination he declar
ed that he did not wish in anything :
he had said to insinuate that Mr. Hal
linger had been guilty, intentionally
or consciously, of any wrong act.
G LA YIN GIVEN OWN MEDICINE.
■■
Clarence Cunningham Makes Hitter
Attack on Former Field Agent.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 12.—
A bitter attack upon Louis R. Glavls
oy Clarence Cunningham was the
feature of today's inquiry by United
States Commissioner William J. Mc
Gee into the so-called Cunningham
coal claims in Alaska.
Mr. Cunningham was on the wit
ness stand all (lay and under direct
examination by the attorney for the
claimants charged the former land
agent with having trapped him into
signing an affidavit under false pre
tenses and of having pretended a de
sire to have the Cunningham entries
cleared for patent when he was real
ly endeavoring to have them declar
> ed fraudulent.
I
OIL CASE
History of Litigation of
Vast Importance Now
Before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, March 12.—The
most serious legal battle that ‘‘Stand
ard Oil ’ has ever faced will confront
it next Monday.
That is the day set by the Supreme
court of the L’nited States to hear
arguments on the appeal of the
Standard 01* company of New Jersey
from the adverse judgment of the
United States Circuit Court for the
Kastern District of Missouri, which
ordered the dissolution of the New
Jersey corporation as an illegal com
bination and monopoly in restraint
of interstate commerce. To point out
the alleged errors of the circuit
court in its findings and in its de
cree, the keenest intellects within j
command have been procured. To |
argue for the affirmative of the decis- j
ion of the lower court, Mr. Wicker- j
Bham, the attorney general of the |
United States himself will head a j
brilliant array of counsel for the gov
ernment.
The Circuit court announced grave
findings against the seven individ
ual defendants, John D. Rockefeller,
William Rockefeller, Henry M. Flag
ler, Henry H. Rogers, John D. Archi
bald, Silver H. Payne and Charles H.
Pratt, the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey and other defendant com
panies.
The court found that In 1899, by
an exchange of stock by the seven
individuals, the Standard Oil Com
pany of Virginia acquired the legal
title to a majority of the stock of
19 companies, which in turn con
trolled a large number of others, all
but one engaged in the oil business.
\\ hat it found as to this combina
tion was that:
That since 1899 the affairs of all
these companies have been managed
by the principal company as the
business of a single person, so as to
fix for them tue price of crude oil, the
rates for transportation and the sell
ing prices of its products.
That the par value of the combined
capital stock in 1899 was about
$100,000,000, and that in 1903 It
was $150,000,000.
That 12 of these companies owned
54,565 miles of pipe lines.
That six- of these companies had
3,57 4 selling stations throughout the
ITnited States.
That these companies from 1899 to
1907 produced more than one-tenth
of the crude oil obtained in this coun
try.
That they owned and operated
more than one-half of all the tank
cars used to distribute its products.
That they manufactured more than
three-fourths of all the crude oil re
fined in the United States.
That they transported more than
four-fifths of the petroleum derived
front the Pennsylvania and Indiana
oil fields.
That they marketed more than
four-fifths of all the illuminating oil
sold in the United States.
That they exported more than
four-fifths of the illuminating oil
sent forth from the United States.
That they sold more than four
fifth of all the naphtha sold in the
United States.
That they sold more than nine
tenths of a'l the lubricating oil sold
to railroad companies in the United
States.
On this finding the court decreed:
That the organization of 1S99 was a
combination or conspiracy in re
straint of interstate commerce in pe
troleum and its products, such as the
first section of the Sherman anti
trust act declares is illegal; that the
seven individual defendants, the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey and 39 other companies had en
tered into a combination or conspir
acy to monopolize and had in fact
monopolized a substantial part of in
terstate commerce in violation of the
second section of the Sherman anti
trust act; that 33 other companies
accused were proven not to be In this
combination.
The court enjoined the principal
company and its directors from exer
cising nny control over the subsidiary
companies; it enjoined the subsid
iary companies from declaring or pay
ing any dividends to the principal
company, but not from distributing
ratably to the shareholders of the
principal company the Btock of the
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FIS VALUATIONS
IN ADVANCE OF MERGERS, SAYS AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, MARCH 12.—
A RADICAL AMENDMENT TO
THE ADMINISTRATION RAILROAD
BILL, PROVIDING FOR THE
VALUATION OF RAILROAD PROP
ERTY IIY THE INTERSTATE COM
MERCE COMMISSION AS A CON
DITIOX PRECEDENT TO THE
MERGING, CONSOLIDATION OR
REORGANIZATION OF THE PROP
ERTY OF COMMON CARRIERS
SUBJECT TO LAW, WAS ADOPTED
HY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
INTERSTATE COMMERCE TODAY,
HARVARD HOUSE AT
I It was chiefly through the efforts
at Stratford-on-Avon was presented t<
tlon with the presentation recently wi
ever taken place in the historic tow
United Stales and the trustees of 1
I Harvard House was originally the r
mother of John Harvard, and from t
vard of Southwark. From this union
• THE MARKETS. •
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;• NEW YORK. March 12.— •
1 • Lead easy, $4.55 at $4.65. Cop- •
• per 13.62 Vi to 13.87%. Sil- •
• ver 51%. •
i • •
[• CHICAGO, March 12.— •
| • Wheat closed at 13%. •
• GOVERNMENT dismisses •
• HI.EACHED FLOCK CASES #
• - •
• COUNCIL BLUFFS, March •
I# 12.—What are known as the •
• "bleached flour” cases were •
• dismissed in the Federal •
• court here today by Special •
• Counsel Butler for the govern- •
• ment. Four seizures of flour •
• belonging to the Updike Mill- •
• ing company, of Omaha, and •
• the Shawnee Milling company, •
• of Topeka, were involved in •
• the suits. •
LONDON, March 12.—James A.
Patten, the Chicago speculator, who
was jostled and driven out of the
Manchester cotton exchange yester
dny, sailed today from Liverpool for
New York on board the steamer
Mauretania.
The English press, generally
strong for law and order, extends no
sympathy for Mr. Patten in Ills Man
chester experience. The Westmin
ster Gazette expresses astonishment
lhat Patten had the “Impudence",
considering the injury which his
operations had done to the Lanca
shire cotton industries, to presume
on the courtesy generally accorded
visitors from across the Atlantic.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
of Marie Corelli that Harvard House
> America. The celebration in connec
ts one of the most impressive that has
a. Ambassador Reid, representing the
Harvard university, accepted the gift,
taiden home of Katherine Rogers, the
hence she went to marry Robert Har
sprang the founder of the university.
CHICAGO, March 12.—In a news
article today tne 'tribune says: “An
inquiry into alleged grafting opera
tions in connection with the equip
ment and repairing of cars has been
carried on by the officials of the
Illinois Central railroad for the last
two weeks.
“The amount involved in the al
leged graft has been variously fig
ured from $100,000 to $5,000,000.
The latter figures were reported from
St. Louis as the probable right fig
ures, as indicated from discoveries
made by Comptroller M. H. Blau
velt.
“While Chicago officials denied
last night, that any such shortage
as $5,000,000 had been uncovered,
they admitted they had been on a
still hunt for grart, »nd that the
search being made -*s wide and goes
into every department of the road
having to do with car repairing and
equipment. It was said that sus
picious circumstances had been un
covered, l<ut that no direct evidence
of guilt had been found.
“The road owns 65,000 cars, and
these are scattered throughout the
country, so it will require weeks to
(heck up all repaired cars and tell
whether materials bought and paid
for have been used.''
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
Rivers in the Northwest are falling
rapiid y and the floods are regarded
as being over.
“Red” Adams, convicted of using
(he malls for fraudulent purposes,
was sentenced at New York to four
and one-half years’ imprisonment
and a fine of $1500.
A Are orginating in a German
waiters’ rooming house at St. Louis,
resulted in the death of two of the
inmates and two others are not ex
pected to recover from their injuries.
l
Employers Expect Men
Back in Philadelphia
Shops-Leaders Say No
PHILADELPHIA, March 12.—
This was the twenty-second day of
the street carmen’s strike and the
eighth of the general walkout In sup
port of the trolley men's cause, and
neither side to the controversy shows
any disposition to yield. All plans
so far devised for arbitration have
failed.
The belief is general that If Presi
dent Taft should see his way clear
to attempt to bring about a peace
plan, a way may be found that will
bring the warring elements together.
The employers hope that next Mon
day will see the breaking up of the
sympathetic strike, but the strike
leaders on the other hand declare
that they have no fear of disaffection.
After discussion of the strike
question, a large gathering repre
senting more than 30 business or
ganizations of the city today adopt
ed a resolution In which three separ
ate influences are invoked to end the
industrial war
The city’s banks are requested to
use their influence for arbitration or
an equitable settlement.
ihe resolution directs that a tele
gram be sent at once to Seth Low,
I president of the National Civic Fed
I eratlon asking that the Federation
offer its services as arbitrator. The
traction company, many thought,
would not lightly cast aside an offer
from that body to act as mediator,
and strikers already have announced
that they would welcome arbitration.
A petition to President Taft, pre
sented by Alfred H. Love, of the uni
versal peace union, was numerously
signed by the business men at the
close of the meeting. It was sug
gested that the commission for the
promotion of Industrial peace, which
has at its disposal the funds donated
by Theo. Roosevelt from the Nobel
Peace prize, be asked to act In the
crisis here.
Tonight the company through
President Kruger, announced its will
ingness to comply with Mayor Rey
burn’8 request for concessions to
men willing to return to work. In
his letter to Mayor Reyburn, Presi
dent Kruger said:
“I take the responsibility of say
ing that, as far as there are va
cancies we shall receive the men
back, until March 16, 1910, under
the terms of our resolution of Febru
ary 25, and believe in some way we
can give them the financial asisst
ance that you request. Of course,
we must loyally guard the rights of
the men who have been loyal to us
and we think it only fair to point out
in this connection that we are now.
rapidly filling our ranks."
FEAR DEADLY CIGARETTES.
The One Thing Xeedful to Put Foot
pads to Flight.
CHESTER, Pa., Mch. 12.—Ingenu
ity on the part of young Edward
Price, of the Seventh ward, prevented
his being robbed by two footpad
who held him up on his way to *P"
land with a young woman friend la8t
night.
As the pair walked along, uncon
scious of approaching dan^'r> two
strange men approached anddeman“*
ed their valuables.
Price pulled a box rf cigarettes
wrapped in tinfoil and pointed it at
the men. In the darkicss the tinfoil
shone like the gliste'lng barrel of
a revolver, and with a grunt of sur
prise and disappoirttnent the foot
pads fled. _
• METHODIST BISHOP •
• DIES SUDDENLY •
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• ATLANTIC CITY, March 12. •
• —Bishop Hsnry W. Spellineyer, •
• of St. Louif. who was here pre- •
• sidinK over the annual New •
• Jersey Methodist Episcopal •
• conference, died suddenly at •
• the Hotel Dennis today. Death •
• was pronounced due to heart •
• disease. •
• The news of the death of the •
• bishop created consternation in •
• the conference, which was ad- •
• journed for the day. *