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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
1
The record shows a $29,240,000 fine against Standard Oil with 6,428 counts originally, 1,903 sustained, 1,462 verdict basis, trial from March 4 to April 14, 1907, and August 3 1907 fines. Government witnesses numbered 143, defense 7, and total cost estimates cite $200,000 to government and $100,000 to defense. Indictments still pending and possible fines total $123,000,000.
Judge Landis fines Standard Oil company 29.24 million dollars for illegal rebates tied to railroad rate deals. The verdict accuses the oil trust of deliberate trade deception harming honest shippers and prompts a special grand jury for August to pursue conspiracy charges against railroad and oil officials.
Judge Kenesaw M. Landis criticizes Standard Oil and allied executives for knowingly abetting a six cent per hundred weight shipping scheme from Whit ing to East St Louis, despite a legal tariff of 18 cents. He rebukes defense claims of mob gossip and privat e contracts as dangerous, alarming, and unthinkable for a major corporation.
Bangor Maine potato crop peril tops early wire. Aroostook county faces a 35,000,000 bushel harvest at risk. Railroad bills killed in congress reflect transport policy tensions.
Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith released a Roosevelt administration report charging Standard Oil with manipulating oil prices and margins for 25 years. It claims profits rose by over 27 million annually since 1896, with total earnings and dividends suggesting vast wealth built on low initial investment and unfair competition.
In New York on Sunday a woman named Ellen Bulger was assaulted in her Bronx apartment, badly beaten and left helpless as her attacker fled. Earlier, George Kestner a Russian accused of attempted assault on an eight year old was rescued from a mob and Hylo Saloda an Italian palmist narrowly escaped lynching after a similar accusation.
Three well known young men were severely injured when their automobile was struck by a surface car in New York. After being shoved about 30 feet, the car was crushed against an elevated railroad pillar. The victims are Swift Tarbell son of Gage E. Tarbell former Equitable Life vice president, Edward L. Wood son, and William Catchings.
In Angers France a local train derailed entering a bridge over the Loire at Ponts de Ce. The locomotive plunged 50 feet into the river dragging the tender and a third class car with it. Forty passengers perished in the accident.
The piece muses on why many wash on Mondays tracing to Moon day and Pilgrim era habits. It recalls the Mayflower voyage of about 63 days, the landing near Plymouth Rock, and discusses the cramped ship size and sanitation needs aboard.
President Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Company addresses policyholders detailing a plan rooted in strict economy broad publicity worldwide presence and sustained growth under law while prioritizing the policy holder as the paramount interest.
A weary hobo asks to sleep in a farmer’s barn. the farmer cites a ten cent magazine claiming open air sleeping boosts health. The farmer welcomes him and offers use of the potato patch under a clear sky.
An Oregon attorney argued before the Oregon Supreme Court over a disputed cold storage plant title. He pleaded that the decision affects a human life, saying the client’s life and livelihood are tied to the plant and its future.
A pale man in a large bathing suit stands knee deep in water and sighs that the sea is the grave of his first wife. He explains he remarried but his second wife refuses to go near the water.
A local testimonial claims coffee caused headaches nervousness and stomach trouble while switching to Postum brought relief for the speaker and family. The writer notes a neighbor formerly bedridden by coffee symptoms also improved after adopting Postum.
Paris reports prompt joint action by France and Spain over the Morocco crisis. A warship from each country is in Casablanca harbor, with three French and one Spanish men-of-war en route. France plans landing of troops at Casablanca and has prepared transports at Toulon to move 2,500 men and 300 horses to Morocco. A Tangier bank pillage and a British consular employee seizure are alleged from Oran, though Tangier confirms none. Madrid says Infanta Isabel has arrived and Don Alvaro de Bazan is ordered to the Moroccan coast.
Judge Cochran sustained a motion to quash the sixth count of both indictments against Fred Magill and his wife. He overruled the motion to quash the other indictments. The defense seeks consolidation for joint trial. November 8 was set as the earliest possible date, with further ruling to follow on next steps and trial timing. The defendants pleaded not guilty.
Olga Lundell a 17 year old Sac City Iowa girl linked to the Holy Jumpers sect at Fountain House was taken into custody by the Waukesha sheriff on court order. She testified she wished to stay with the Jumpers but the judge ruled she must return home amid crowded courtroom approval.
In Jackson Michigan a suburban trolley car struck an automobile Friday night killing three women and injuring two others. The deceased were Mrs Levi Palmer Miss Bernice Oliver and Mrs Pulver. Mr and Mrs Oliver were among the injured.
A bill was filed before Chancellor Magrì on Friday in Trenton on behalf of George Earle as receiver of the Pennsy group. The measure seeks an accounting of the sugar trust company’s business over the past four years by the American refining firm.
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