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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1907
Page
3
A promotional note offers a free cure guide for leucorrhoea ulceration and other female troubles. It claims a successful home treatment at about 12 cents a week and asks readers to contact Mrs. M. Summers in Notre Dame Indiana Box 425 to receive details and share with others.
In Chicago on June 29 Judge Landis refused to withdraw the subpoena for John D Rockefeller in the Standard Oil case, saying he must learn if Standard Oil of New Jersey owns Standard Oil of Indiana. He ordered subpoenas for Union Tank Line officials and for F. Q. Barstow of Standard Oil of New Jersey, asserting the need for clear answers in open court.
Chicago June 28 Subpoenas were issued in the US district court for officers of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Indiana. Names include John D Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Archbold, Rogers, Tilford, Pratt, Howe, White and J A Moffett, Cowan, Stahl, Felton, Wann. Subpoenas returnable July 6. The move follows attorneys refusal to provide Judge Landis with financial data on the company. The case concerns illegal freight rate practices with a possible total fine up to 29.24 million dollars. Subpoenas will be sent East for service.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company seeks to have the 2 cent fare law in Pennsylvania declared unconstitutional by filing an equity suit in Uniontown Fayette County. It asks the act be void and that Fayette County be enjoined from demanding penalties or suing for noncompliance.
Findlay Ohio June 29 The jury in the State of Ohio versus Standard Oil failed to agree and was discharged. Rumor says initial vote was six to six, then eight to four for acquittal, and finally seven to five in favor of acquittal.
Spring floods in northern Sweden have inundated hundreds of square miles of fertile bottom lands, the largest flood in fifty years. Log floating routes are damaged, threatening renewed famine conditions.
Bids totaling 1,500,008 dollars were received for New York City four percent bonds in a June auction. The competitive offering seeks funding for municipal projects and reflects investor demand for high yield.
Western railways will raise the minimum on carload shipments and advance freight rates 5 percent in the Mississippi to Rocky Mountain region. Many carload tariffs may be canceled while the plan aims to repeal all less than carload rates. A July 16 meeting of the Western classification committee will ratify rulings and revise minimum weights ahead of a September 1 1907 effective date. The American Ice company faced a strike as depots remained idle awaiting ice deliveries.
Fifteen hundred to two thousand ice wagon drivers employed by the American Ice Company stage a strike in New York on June 29 affecting city deliveries and ice supply.
The American Bankers Association presents a major Interstate Commerce Commission case alleging express companies abuse common carrier powers to the detriment of banks. It claims express firms use interstate facilities and railway ties to discriminate against regular banking exchange by misusing capital and facilities. The filing targets the Adams Fitness company and United around its scope.
States Express company the American Express company the Pacific Express company Wells Fargo Co the Southern Express company and the Great Northern Express company are listed in a historic shipping consortium document outlining a coordinated freight route network.
In New York on June 29, bonfires lit up East Side streets fed by garbage heaps from strike disruption. The protest centers on Deputy Commissioner Edwards. ash cart drivers and street sweepers, about 2,000 workers, may be called out if grievances remain unaddressed.
Hundreds of tons of rubbish, ashes and decayed produce clutter East Side streets as street cleaning drivers strike, endangering city health and sanitation.
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