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SIXTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 199.
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1913. TWELVE PAGES,
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ACTION FILED
tO BREAK UP
KODAKTRUST
Suit Entered by the Gov
ernment at Buffalo,
New York.
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MONOPOLY IS ALLEGED
Charged . That Competitors
Have Been Absorbed and
Retail Prices Fixed.
Buffalo, N. T., June 9. Dissolution
of the so-called Eastman kodak trust
as BBked In a civil anti trust suit filed
here tod-'y by order of Attorney Gen
eral Mcfieyno.ds. The federal gov
ernment seeks dissolution hy receiv
ership if necessary, of the Eastman
Kodak company of New Jersey, and
the Eastman Kodak company of Ne
York which are charged with monopo
Hzing the trade in photographic s'lp
plieg and violation of the Sherman
law.
It Is the aim of the government
obtain a division of the assets and
business tf the two comppnies con-
trolling 72 percent of Ue business la! Temperature at a. m.. 4. High
tbe United StaW-s into such parts as j PSt yesterday 52, lowest last night 41.
will effectually destroy the alleged ' Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 9 miles
monopoly and restore full and freo ' Pp:' hour.
competition. X petition in equity
asks for an Injunction forbidding the
fUing of resale price of cameras,
films and other patented photographic i
supplies. This markj the attorney
general's first application of tne recent
decision of the supreme court 1 nying
patentees ;ie rich to fix the resale
prices to re'ailers.
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The alleged monopoly was accomp
lished, the petition declares, by tiie
Eastman companies absorbing and ac
quiring control of a great number of
ompetltors in the United Sta'es and
foreign cf iintrieH. The bill which
war filed by United States Attorney
) lirien, ia tiie result f an extensive
invest .gption of "he "tru.t" by James
A. Fowler, assistant to the attorney
general. . .
The defendant are: Eastman Ko
dak company. New York; Eastman
Kodak company. New Jereey, George
Eastman, Henry A. Strong. Walter S.
Hubbell aud Frank S. Noble, all ot
Rochester. N. Y. j
ill x M iir.u u. 4n.
Complaint is iilbo made ;hat certain j
, . . ,
large retail or stork houses owned by
under the names of the original own
ers as conitietitor it th "fpimt" Thn I
Kastni.-m company of New Jersey, the
hoeing CLmpany has ati authorized
capital stock of $::5.000,000, of which
28.0uO,000 has be n itsued. The East
man company of New York, the oper
ating company of the combination, is
a $6,000,000 concern
manufacturing ;
and marketing photographic supplies, j chemist. who is alleged to have ne'ed chairman of the steel corporation, te's
Wll.l. xut l)ln)Ui:. ia?. advisor to the suffragels in their ; tified today that the corporation had
Rochester, N. Y., Jun- tv n.e :-:st- campaigns. i the power to drive comoetitors out of
toan Kodak company will s.djust its
methods of doing buslnd-s to mvet the
charges prctrrred ag.Uu t!i om
pany in the government's dissolution
suit tiled today at Uurfu'.o. Ce-'se
Eastman, president of the company, so
announced here upon receipt of tows
that the suit was Iwgun. Kastmai; in
dicated, however, the company vouiJ
refuse to dissolve.
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Washington. I). C.. June 9. Applica
tion for reconsid,ration of the rtrent
decision of the supreme court uphold
ing cut rates on patented art.!les was
filed today by an owner of patented
articles who figured In the recent de
cision. O.M KTIOX St'T WIUK.
Conviction of officials cf the Ameri
can Naval Stores company, the "tur
pentine trust," for alleged violation of
the Sherman law. today was set aside
by the supreme court.
ConvlrMon of five Officials of the Na
val Stores company of Savannah was
set ashle because of erroneous instruc
tions of the trial judg.-. Offi ials of
t.h department of Justice, however,
did not r gard the decision as or.e gen
erally unfavorable to the criminal sec
tion of the Sherman law. They never
considered they had a strong case.
While going on. the company has gone
in'o bankrupti.v. Its officers charged
the government's attack, among other
things, had impaired it credit. The
contention of officials that the crim
V:al sect, n of he anti-trust law was
unconstitutional because acts forbid
den wre too indefinitely stat.ed. was
disregarded entirely by the supreme
ecurt.
UTRKKT rR LINKS KIKMPT,
Street car lines are not subject to
the regulation of the interstate com
merce commission, the supreme court
decided today In annulling the cort
mission's order for 5 ceatjs reduction of
fare from Omaha to Council Bluffs,
low a.
Yaiparaiso, Ind.. June ?. Julius F. 1 committed suicide, blowing off tfce top ett. aged 6S, and Mrs. James Morrt
Kuehl. aged 3J. from Stockton. 111., ! cf his head. .Mrs. Knisely was at-sey, aged 72. were married yesterday
w as drow ned at Sager's lake while i home, but the husband mae ro at-j near Mineral, III. It was the third
bathing. He came hero a week ao : tempt cn her life. He is supposed to j matrimonial venture for the groom
to visit relatives. have bern insane. and the fourth for the bride.
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Mrs. Silas R. Barton.
Mrs. Silas R Barton is the only
daughter of Richard L. Metealf, the
governor of the Panama canal zone ;
Her husband is a new representative '
at Washington from Nebraska.
THE WEATHER
II
Forecast Till 7 p. m. Tomorrow, for
Rack Island, Davenport, Moline, !
and Vicinity. !
Fair tonight and Tuesday, slightly
rising temperature, moderate to brisk
winds.
Precipitation none.
Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 49, at
a. m. C6.
Stage of water, 8.1. a fall of .3 in
i last 4X hours.
J M. SilERIER, Iocal Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening star: Mercury. Morning
stnrs: Venus. Saturn. Mars. Jupiter.
The brilliant fctar Capeila of constella
tion Auriga seen abnut 9 p. in. low
down near the northwestern horizon.
MILITANTS BURN
MORE PROPERTIES
London. June 9. "Arson squads' ot
militant suffragc-ts once more are very
active Resides a $70,000 fre at Hum
park race coursw last night, which
was not extinguished until this morn
ing, they destroyed, early today, a
boHt house on the River Lea, also a
grandstand tit North Middlesex cricket
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which was saturated with oil.
The trial of sufl'rugot hcders charg-
L. ",n nni;,.rtv L I, i..,
i todjy in central criminal court. Old
i Bailey. The accused included Miss
I Annie Kenney, Miss Laura Lennox.
Mrs. ilea trice Saunders, Miss Rachael
llurrc-tt. Miss Harriet Kerr. Miss Ae-
nrii If,L and KHu-nrd rlavtnn
"General" Mrs. Drummi-nd did not :
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appear, her case having been postpon- career, but he had r.over approved
ed owing to illness. Little interest ! such a policy. Gary was on the stand
was shown by the public in the trial, j for cross-examination in the govern
There were few women spetators in ! ment's dissolution suit.
court, who. like the prisoners, were a!
bhick band on their left avn. in i STEAM ER 0LI N D A, WITH A
mourning for Misr Emily Wilding Dc.v- CIRC I hi Uni n IC DCCMICn
ison. who died yesterday of injuries rlnc nUL,U, Id ntJwUtJ
received at tiie Epsom race course. Charleston. S. C, June 9. Advices
T'neie was a big array of counsel when i rect'iVl'd here state the steamship
the cai.e opened. Olinda, with fire in the hold, was in
BREWER, FORMER
CHAMPION, DEAD
Hammotiton. N. J., June 9. Captain
John S. Brewer, ore time champion
wing si; t of the world, was found
dead today in his humble lodging here.
. . . .
u is not Known wnat caused ueatli.
Whining of one of his hunting dogs whom President Wilson offered the
led to the dUcoiery. Frewer was Co. i pobl ot ambassador to Turkey, afte
As a professional pigeon shooter he j a iOIlg conference with the president
probably won more money at the traps ; declined tiie post. It was understood
ipan any ouicr living man. lie took a
trip to Eisro;x and beat the best shots
of the cor.tinenL
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w.j(u ..j.i-inm ueao.
London. June 9. Gtorge Wyndham.
chief secretary for Ireland from 1900
to 1905 in Arthur J. Baifour's conser
vative cabinet, died today in Paris.
He waa 50 years cf age.
KILLS 2 CHILDREN
AND SLAYS SELF
MarshaHtown. Iowa, June 9. Benja
min Knisely, 4. a farmer living at
Beaman. Grundv county, last night
j shtt and killed two of his children.
attempted t kill the third, and then
Coldest Weather Ever Ex
perienced During Month
at Many Places.
VEGETATION INJURED
Frosts Predicted for Tonight in
Upper Ohio Valley and Great
Lakes Region.
Washington, D. C, June 9. The
coldest weather ever recorded during
June in the middle Atlantic, New Eng
land states, Ohio valley and great
lakes region was reported today to
the weather bureau. The gulf states
was the only territory east of the
urop.
"High barometric pressure of great
magnitude" is the official reason
frosts were reported from Vermont,
central New York, New England,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
Frosts are predicted for tonight in
the great lakes region, upper Ohio
valley,' north Atlantic states and the
mountain districts of the middle Atlan
tic states.
(.OTIUM SHIVERS
New York, June 9. Today was the
coldest June 6th in the history of the
local weather bureau, whose records
go back to 1870. The temperature was
', down to 47 this morning.
Montreal, June 9. Snow fell a short
time here today. The temperature
dropped to 35 in portions exposed to
the cold wind. Bleak conditions are
without precedent in 50 years.
Rome. N. Y., June 9. This section
suffered severely from frost last night.
The mercury was down to 28. Farm
and garden products were badly dam
aged.
Middletowa, N. Y., June 9. There
was a heavy frost in this vicinity last
i night. There was thin ice in some
places. There was considerable dam
ace to vegetation., .
Fiiovrs ix ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, June 9. The ther
mometer registered 37. breaking all
records for any June day. There were
light frosts in some sections of central
Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Mich., .Tune 9 Fruit
and vegetable growers throughout -this
section report considerable damage
from last night's frost. Temperature
dropped to 40 in many places.
STEEL TRUST NOT
MEAN SAYS GARY
New York. June 9. Elbert II. Gary,
business during the early days of its
the convoy of the I'nited States
ship Nashville and a steamer ct 10
o'clock today, and probably would
make Charleston by Wednesday morn
ing. The Oiinda left New York Friday
with a crew of 50 and six passengers,
four of whom were Cubans, bound for
Cuban ports. She carries considerable
freight.
Morganthau Refuses Office.
i wasnington. u. C, June 9. Henry
Mro,n',o,. ,k n-. ,
that he did not feel willing to give up
his practice in New York.
Patient Kicked to Dth.
Kankakee. II!.. June 9 In ti nmc.
ar.ro thr ,Mon,Mc i,.i
j gate ot Chicago kicked James Frankie
of Streator to deth Lere by blows in
the abdomen. .Both were patients In
the violent ward at the state hospiu.I-
Dr. Winslow, Alienist, Diet.
London, June 9. Dr. Forbes Wins
low, the widely known alienist, died
suddenly pt his home yesterday of
heart disease. Dr. Winslow, who was
69 years old. was the founder of the
British Hospital for Mental Disorders.
He is perhaps best known for the ex
haustive inquiry he made into the
notorious "Jack the Ripper" crimes.
Wedded at Threescore Ten.
Sterling, III., June 9. William Ever-
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HONORS HERE FOR
BRAZIL MINISTER
Washington, 1). C. Juue 9. Senator
Root, Major General Wood, Assistant,
Secretary of State Malone and a dis
tinguished party of officials left here
today on the government yachts May
flower, Sylph and Dolphin for Hamp
ton Roads to greet Dr. Lauro Muller,
Brazilian minister of foreign affairs,
who lands there tomorrow. The Bra
zilian minister comes to repay 'a visit
of Root to South America when he
was secretary., pf state.. An cJaborate
program ot official functious 'Haa been
arranged. 1
The battleships Florida and Arkan
sas and three destroyers w i'.I steam to
sea to meet the Brazilian warship. upon
which the minister comes.
A round of ceremonies will attend
his landing. Secretaries Bryan, Gar
rison and Daniels, John Barrett, direc
tor of the Pan-American union, and
Ambassador De C.ama of Brazil, will
be among the welcoming party.
CHARLES FAYE PASSES;
OFFICE BOY FOR GREELEY
Chicago, 111.', June 9. Charles Mont
rose Faye, for 15 years managing edi
tor of the Chjcago Daily News, and
one of the most widely known news
paper men of the middle west, died at
his residence in Aurora yesterday
morning. He was born in New York
on Sept. 4, 1851. and came west 40
years ago. He had been In failing
health during the last two years. He
resigned his editorial position last
December and went to Mississippi.
His condition did not improve and he
was brought back to Chicago several
weeks ago and taken to the Michael
Reese hospital. He improved slightly
GETS LITTLE CHECK
FOR WEDDING GIFT
Mrs. Sydney L. Berg.
A modest little check for $1,000,000
wrs one of the weddi- gifts present
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ea to Mrs. bvdney L. Berg, who before expedition which he will lead in the
her marriage a few days age was Miss -arctic this summer for scientific re
Lily Dorothy Magnus of Chicago. The search under the auspices of the Cana-
conor or tne cnecK w as Adolphus
j Busch of St. Louis, the bride's grand -
father.
f m fr Tv , -r4
aim weiu to ins resiuence in Aurora.
llr. Fay's first ' newspaper exper
ience was as an office boy for Horace
Greeley. He soon was made a re
porter, and after working in New
York for several years he came to Il
linois. He started a paper in Aurora
and made a success. He then became
interested in newspapers in Joliet,
Peoria and Glendora, 111. He sold out
his interests in these papers after a
few years and became connected with
the Daily News.
In 1907 he was president'of the Chi
cago Athcltic association.
Mr. Faye married Miss Annie Knick
erbocker. She survives him. He
leaves two sons, Harold Faye of Au-
rora and Stanley Faye of the DailxJ
ews. ine runerai v.ui be in Aurora
tomorrow afternoon.
HURRY TRIAL OF
INDICTED MINERS
Charleston, W. Va., June 9. John P.
White, president of the United Mine
Workers of America; Vice President
Frank J. Hayes, and 17 officials and
subordinate officers of district No. 17.
the local miners' union, indicted by the
federal grand jury Saturday night on
the charge of violating the Sherman
anti-trust law, will bo summoned to
appear before Judge Benjamin F. Kel
ler early this week. The government,
it is said, will ask that the trial pro
ceed at once. '
The indictments charge that there is
a conspiracy in restraint of trade and
commerce between the United Mine
Workers of America, and coal opera
tors of western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois, against the West
Virginia coal operators.
Coal operators of Paint and Cabin
Creek, where there lias been much
labor trouble, and former officials of
the miners' organisation, assisted in
gathering information for the indict
ment. Governor H. D. Hatfield of West Vir
ginia, in a statement, said: "The in
dictments against the Mine Workers'
officials came as a surprise to me. Ac
to conditions in the Taint and Cabin
Creek coal fields, the civil authorities
have absolute control and have had
for some time.
"The tonnage of" the coal mines is
rapidly returning to th. normal capaci
ty." FORCE MARSHALS
TRAIL MURDERER
Sault ste. Marie, Mich., June 9.
Lieutenant Raggett of the United
States revenue service took the rev
enue cutter Vigilant with l' armed
deputy marshals up the south shore
of Iake Superior today and joined in
a search for Joseph Tohious. a lumber
jack, who ehot and killed two deputy
sheriffs Friday night. - Government of
ficials fear Tobious wiil attempt to es
cape across the border.
Stefansson to Sail Soon.
Victoria, B. C., June 9. Vilnjalmar
Stefansson, the arctic explorer, ar
rived at Esquimau Saturday and took
charee of the work of nreciirlne the
; dian government. Mr. Stefansson said
j the expedition would leave for Nome,
j Alaska, in a few days.
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SPRINGFIELD, MO.,
HAS A BIG FIRE
Springfield, Mo., June 9. A fire that
started in the basement of a depart
ment store this morning within two
hours destroyed a row of buildings on
the public square, causing damages es
timated at $500,000. At 8:30 the fire
was still raging, but it was believed
to be under control.
The flames were first seea licking
from the basement wiudm.- of the C.
Ifa"4Ugr -departmenT." store. Fifteen
buildings, practical! a quarter of the
business structures o-i the public
square, were soon dectroy.'d with the
contents, and the nort'ietot Mi-lion of
the square was ia ru'ns. It was the
worst fire in the city's history. Fire
men were handicapped by low watei
pressure and wind. Telephone, pwer
and street car ser-ie tire ptimlyz-sd.
It is believed the fire started from
defective electric wKMns. Among the
heaviest losses eRti nr.t.ed are:
Heer Department store, $200,000;
Rep's Drygoods company, $35,000; Os
borne Jewelry company, $10,000; Nath
an Drygoods company, $25,000; Queen
City bank, $15,000; Weaver Shoe com
pany, $10,000; Ross Drug company,
$5,000. It is- estimated losses in of
fices on upper floors of tho tjurned
buildings will pass $100,000. A num
ber of smaller concerns are damaged
$5,000 to $10,000.
Fire caused a complete suspension
of trips of the street railway company.
There was heavy damage to cars and
other equipment. Half of the total
losses are covered hy insurance. At
10 o'clock the fire was out.
HANG NEGRO FOR
WOMAN ASSAULT
Washington, D. C, June 9. Nathan
iel Green, a negro, who criminally as
saulted a white woman within sight
of the capitol Christmas night, went
to death on the' scaffold today, the
first man to pay th death penalty for
such a crime in the District of Colum
bia. He confessed and President Wil
son refused clemency.
Almost in a state of collapse. Green
was assisted to the scaffold and was
dead in 10 minutes. "Rum and dope
did this," he murmured at the last
moment.
Green's victim, a government clerk,
will be an invalid for life.
Cody Wires, "Just Sneezed."
Chicago, June 9. L. E. Cooke of the
Auditorium hotel received the follow
ing telegram from "Buffalo Biil" yes
terday: "Knoxviile, Tenn., June 8.
Nothing serious. Only happened to
sneeje as I crossed the street and pa
pers had it I was dying. With exception
of bad cold, will be all right in few
days. I am just leaving for Atlanta.
W. F. Cody."
BOARD APPROVES .
WALDO REMOVAL
New York, June 9. By a vote of
five to four a special committee of the
board of aldermen today adopted the
Curran committee report on police
conditions, earning with it a recom-mendatif-i
fpr the removal of Police
Commissioner Waldo.
Restrictive Laws Expected
Also to be Recommend
ed in Report.
INQUIRY SOON TO END
President Says Townsend
Charge Against Him Is Un
worthy of Comment.
Washington, D. C, June 9 When,
the last senator testified today before
the "lobby" committee it was gener
ally predicted at the capitol that the
reporf of the investigators would sub
stantially uphold President Wilson's
declaration that powerful influences
have been at work in Washington in
attempting to affect congress on the
tariff bill.
Whether it will be shown that "in
sidious" methods have been used, or
improper influences ahve been exert
ed upon senators, will depend upon
the evidence of the next few days,
when the committee examines a score
or more ot men who called on senators
or directed publicity campaigns.
FOR STRUT I.F.CilSL VTIOX.
The committee undoubtedly w ill rec
ommend restrictive legislation of
strong character. It will attempt to
draw a clear distinction, however, be
tween an organized campaign to
change public opinion or influence sen
ators against their judgment and the
legitimate presentation of arguments
and facts by officers or representa
tives of industrial concerns affected
by legislation.
FOIXDKSTER CA I SKS STIR.
Senator Poindexter made the com
mittee sit up when he named several
former members of congress whom he
believed might be found to have prac
ticed lobbying here. He named for
mer Senators Dick of Ohio; Butler of
North Carolina; Dubois of Idaho, and
former Representatives Watson o In
diana, and Littauer of New York.
He did not accuse any of Improper
attempts to influence congress, but
suggested "they might know some In
teresting things."
"I think there has been some objec
tionable and scandalous lobbying
here," said Poindexter, "less now than
in 1909, but it Is here now. 1 don't
mean money has been used."
Poindexter told of a dinner about 18
months ago at which several senators
were present and at which conserva
tion was discussed.
OAI. IXTBHKSTS HOSTS.
"1 heard afterwards I don't know
now true it is that the dinner was
paid for by coal interests, although
given in another man's name," he said.
He preferred not to give the names
of senators present. He called the at
tention of the committee to dinners
given by Edward Hines, a Chicago
lumberman, and to the "successful
campaign" of Littauer, who, he said,
was able to hold the Payne-Aldrich
bill in conference many days and se
cure finally a compromise on the glove
schedule, in which he was Interested.
11 RI.IC'ITY Wl.l. All.
President Wilson told callers to.'.ay
he expected the lobby investigation
to have beneficial results through pub
licity given to conditions surrounding
the making of the tariff bill. Asked
his opinion of the charge made by
Senator Townsend as to his own influ
ence with reference to the legislation,
the president replied it needed no
comment.
HOUSTON'S AXE IS
STILL SWINGING
Washington, D. C., June 9. The
official axe fell again in the weather
bureau today for the third time since
Willis Moore himself was recently de
posed as chief because of activity in
trying to become secretary of agricul
ture. Secretary Houston today suspended,
pending further Investigation, J. War
ren Smith, professor of meteorology,
Henry B. Hersey, general Inspector.
Milwaukee; Ross Witte Pollock, sec
tion director, Trenton, N. J., and Nor-
man P. Conger, general inspector, De
j troit, Mich.
Secretary Houston has decided to
make a clean sweep and further action
is looked for.
The department of justice haB fin
ished investigation of tbe case of
Moore. The report has been placed In
the bands of the attorney general,
who will decide what action Is to be
taken.
Captain Major of Eureka Dies.
Eureka, 111., June 9. Captain Joseph
Major, a native of this place and ret
eran of the Civil war. dlel at i.i.
;home here, aged 78 veam. Ha
'one ot the largest landowners of this
section and retired from actual farm
jlcg four years ago.