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Report to Congress.
ANTITRUST LAW DEFECTS.
Terms of the Act Are Too Vague—Tho
Neat Scheme of a Foreign Cable Com-
pany Thwarted by the Prompt Ao-
tion of the Government-
WASIIINGTON, Dec. 11,—Attorney Gen-
eral Eamon, in his annual report to con-
gress, expresses his satisfaction at the re.
sult, so far as obtained, of the new salary
system which displaced the old fee system
on July 1 of the present year. A very large
reduction is shown in every one of the
items which would naturally be afl
by the fee system. The f ', for Un ted
States marshals, for instance, show a re—
duction" for the year of about $400,000
from those of the previous year.
The attorney general points out two de-
fects in the criminal laWs to which the at-
tention of congress is invited. The first,
he says, is the unnecessary and unfertu-
nate confusion of criminal legislation. “1
think,” he says, “that a new crimes act
should be passed as speedily as possible,
which should contain provisions simple,
easily understood and general in their
scope. ” He also recommends the estab-
lishment by statute of different degrees of
murder, with corresponding appropriate
grades of punishment. The second defect
is the result of the present law governing
writs of error to the supreme court in
criminal cases. He thinks that a transfer
of the criminal appeals to the circuit court
of appeals, with the present system of per-
mitting important questions to be present-
ed to the supreme court by certification, is
highly desirable.
A Cable Company's Trick.
The attorney general says that last Sep-
tember complaint was made to him that
certain cable telegraph companies which
have in other countries reached by them
a monopoly which would exclude all Amer-
ican companies were about to land a cable
on the shores of Long Island. “It was rep-
resented to me that such foreign companies,
having failed, on account of the exclusion
of American companies above mentioned,
to secure authority to land their cables,
had resorted to the device of an American
cdmpany with a small capital, organized
and controlled by them,fwhich was merely
to lay its cable from our shore out beyond
the line of jurisdiction and thereby furnish
a means of entrance to the foreign com-
panies. Knowing that congress, at its last
session, had under considttation a bill to
regulate the landing of foreign cables, and
believing that the general sentiment favors
the exclusion of companies organized in
countries which refuse like privileges to
American companies, I deemed it my duty
to direct a suit to be brought in the south-
ern district of New York to enjoin the con-
summation of the plan above mentioned.
My chief design was to afford congress an
opportunity to act upon the matter before
this cable should be laid. ”
Antitrust Law.
On the subject of the antitrust law the
attorney general says:
“The restricted scope of the provisions
of this law, as they have been construed by
the courts, especially in the case of the
United States versus E. C. Knight com-
pany, makes amendments necessary if any
effective action is expected from this de-
partment. Besides, the fund at the dis-
posal of the attorney general which can be
applied to the investigation, preparation
and prosecution of cases under this law is '
Wholly inadequate.
"Many complaints have from time to
time been made by private citizens and
others of combinations in restraint of trade
and commerce and of alleged monopolies.
I have caused to be investigated, as well
as the means and force at my command
permitted, such of them as seemed likely
to come within the scope of federal author-
ity over interstate trade and commerce, to
which alone it extends. The only case,
however, in which sufficient evidence was
discovered to justify action was that of the
Joint Traffic Association :of Trunk Line
Railways, against which a bill was filed
by the United States Jan. 9, 1896, in the
circuit court for the southern district of
New York. Although] the case was ably
prepared and presented by Mr. Wallace
Macfarlane, United “States attorney for
that district, under my supervision, the
court, Judge Miller presiding, dismissed
the bill, holding that the articles of agree-
ment of the association were not in viola-
tion of the law. The case is now pending
in the circuit court of appeals for the Sec-
ond district and will soon be argued. ‘IThe
case of United States versus La Compagnie
Francaise, etc., is also to some extent af-
fected by this act. ”
- The attorney general than declares that
the antitrust law is entirely too vague in
its terms and provisions.
Lady Scott and Kant Critically 31!.
LONDON, Dec. 11.—-The condition of
Frederick Kast, co-defendant with Lady
Lina Scott, John Cockerton and William
Aylott in the action for criminal libel
brought against them by Earl Russell,
who is ill with pneumonia, is now regard-
ed as hopeless. He has suflered a relapse,
and his physicians say there is no likeli-
hood of his recovery. Lady Scott is also
ill with fever, and is in a critical condi-
tion.
~Willlam Steinway’s “'1“.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The will of Wil-
liam Steinway, executed July 12, 1895, was
filed for probate today. ' According to the
proponent’s affidavit, the estate is worth
500,000 in realty and $2,000,0001n per-
sonal property. The residuary legatees are
the testator’s children. The executbrs are
the testator’s hephews, one friend and his
wife.
Untrue Report of a Deficit.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—It was said at the
city hall today that a report was in circu-
lation to the effect that the park board had
taken an inventory of the material, vehi-
cles, tools, etc. , used by the department
and had found discrepancies amounting to
$100,000. Mayor Strong promptly denied
the story. '
City Clerk Wilmarth Held.
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 11.—The ex-
amination of City Clerk Frank H. Wil-
marth, on the charge of. embezzlement of
city funds, was concluded today. He was
held for the grand jury in hail of $10,000,
which was furnished.
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Half a Million Fruit Trees Killed.
TACOMA, Dec. 11.—Prune, peach and
apple trees on Puget sound and in eastern
Washington have been destroyed by thou-
sands by early cold weather. It is esti-
mated that fully 500,000 trees have been
killed.
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THE SHARKBY MUDDLB.
An Alleged Confession of Conspiracy by
n Trainer. ’
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.——A morning
paper publishes the following:
“George Allen, one of the men who
trained Tom Sharkey for his fight with
Bob Fitzsimmons, has made a confession
to the effect that Fitzsimmons was de-
prived of his victory through a conspiracy.
The trainer and the Sharkey management
have quarreled over money matters, it is
said, and in the heat of the moment Allen
made threats of what he would do. ' At-
torney Kowalsky, representing Fitzsim-
mons, heard of the circumstance, and he
employed private detectives to gather in
the irate trainer. He was run to the
ground yesterday and induced to tell the
Whole story.”
The Fitzsimmons-Sharkey injunction
use was called in Judge Sanderson’s
court this morning. It was down on the
calendar for a hearing a day later, but the
plaintifl’s attorneys besought the court to
take up the matter today, as they were
afraid that the valuable evidence in their
possession might not keep. They have
no particular faith in their men and pro-
pose to take no chances. The case was
then put off for two days. . g
It is claimed that Allen in his afildavit
named Wyatt Earp, Dan J. Lynch, Tom
Sharkcy and Dan Needham as the prime
movers in the plot. The whole scheme is
said to have been hatched at Sharkey’s
training quarters at Ocean Beach. It was
arranged that Sharkey was to make it ap-
pear that he had been fouled at some time
in the contest when he was in danger of
losing from Fitzsimmons’ blows; fur-
ther, that the signal was to be given by
Sharkey, who was to bend over and place
his hand on his groin, and ~that at that
moment Needham was to jump into the
ring and claim a foul. Then the referee
was to give adecision in fayor of Sharkey.
Olcott to Succeed Fellows.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—It is announced
today that all other candidates for the
office of district attorney have withdrawn
in favor of Alderman W. M. K. Olcott,
and that his appointment is assured. Gov-
ernor Morton will make the appointment,
and it is expected that he will fill the va-
cancy before the end of the week. Alder-
man Olcott has been indorsed for the place
by the leaders of the regular Republican
organization, by Mayor Strong and many
prominent members of the bar.
Monument For a. Murderous.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y., Dec. 10. —Raymond
Christman, a prominent business man and
trustee in the Baptist church, has created
a great sensation in this city by erecting
in his family lot in Green Hill cemetery a
handsome and costly monument for the
murderess, Florence Haun. It is inscribed:
‘ Florence Viola Christman. Erected to the
memory of a wronged child. Dead to the
world, but alive in Christ.”
Hanna Visits Reed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-—A ripple of in-
terest swept over the house today when it
became known that Speaker Reed was the
recipient of a call from M. A. Hanna.
The chairman of the national committee,
accompanied by General Horace Porter of
.New York, who is to be marshal of the
inaugural parade, dropped into the speak-
er’s room at the house at 1 o’clock.
An Expensive smoke.
WINSTON, N. 0., Dec. 10.—-The tobacco
manufacturing plant of the Brown Bros. ’
Tobacco company, one of Winston’s Oldest
firms, Was destroyed by fire today, entail-
ing a lost of $150,000, with $85,000 insur-
ance. Besides the factory and machinery,
350,000 pounds of manufactured tobacco
and 150,000 pounds of leaf were consumed
by the flames.
Shipbuilders on Strike.
SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 10.—Fifty of the
mechanics employed by Moran Bros., ship-
builders of this city, are on a strike, and
will leave on the next steamer for San
Francisco. The men have been employed
on two steam steel vessels. ’1'}? Morans
are building for the government a torpedo
destroyer and a government tugboat.
A Toledo Paper Sold.
TOLEDO, Dec. 10.—Thc Toledo Commer-
cial has changed ownership, Messrs. I-I.
I C. Vortriedc. S. M. Heller, .T_. H. Tyler,
W. V. Meltiakcn and R. A. Brinkerhofi',
selling their holdings of $100,000 of stock
in the company to Mr. Levi A. Cass, late
publisher of the Bloomington Leader and
associates.
County Treasurer Skips.
ROCHESTER, Dec. 10.—A special to The
Post-Express from Geneseo says: James
B. Hampton, county treasurer of Living-
ston, has resigned, and his whereabouts
are unknown. His accounts are in bad
shape, and there is a possible shortage on
his books of several thousand dollars.
Cheap Rates For Emigrants.
TACOMA, Dec. 10.—It is announced that
the Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railways have made a $25 rate for settlers
and members of their families from St.
Paul to the Pacific coast points. This is
equivalent to a reduction of one~half of
the present first class rate.
Big Factory Burned.
WESTPORT, Conn, Dec. 10.-—Fire early
today practically destroyed the large brick
factory occupied by Charles H. Kemper &
00., manufacturers of hatters’ leather,
etc. - The loss on the building is $30,000
and on the stock $20,000. The origin is
unknown
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One of the most remarkable , incl-
dents connected with the. telegraph
business was the burning of an opera-
tor at Minneapolis. It was when “The
Tribune” building burned down. The
Associated Press rooms were in “The
Tribune” ‘ building. There were a
number of persons burned in the build
ing, and among them J. Igoe, the press
operator. ' '
The interesting thing about it all was
that the operators along the line from
Minneapolis to New York City almost
witnessed the death of their compan-
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“It was about 10 o’clock at night, as
I remember,” he said, “and as it was‘
Saturday night, we were crowded
Igoe was a good operator, and seldom
broke connection. But he stopped ms
this night, saying that there was a
fire, and he thought he would go to
see what it amounted to. He came
back presently, saying that be guessed
it did not amount to anything, and he
would go ahead. We went along a
few minutes, when he broke in again.
This time he said, as I remember it:
‘Hold on, fellows. The fire is all
around me, and I have got to get out.’
Sam said, in jest, ‘Save the machine,"
meaning the typewriter. _.-'
“Then we did not hear anything for
quite a while. We supposed that he
would go directly over to the Western
Union office.
from him again we began calling up.
He had left the key Open and we
called him up repeatedly, and there
was no answer. By this time we be
ban to think the fire was something
serious. We waited a little longer,
and then we called up the \Vestern
Union, and from them we learned that
’The Tribune’ building was on fire. We
still waited for him, but as he did not
come the conviction began to grow
upon us that he had been killed. A lit-
tle later we learned that he was
among the dead. He had tried to make
his escape from the building by hang-
ing on to a wire stretched across the
alley from the building. As he felt
himself unable to hold to the wire he
called to the bystanders what disposi-
tion he wished to make of his family.
An Obliging Husband.
She was a thin, nervous little person
from Boston, whose gentle brown eyes
actually glared with uneasy terror be-
tIind her glasses as she came down the
gang-plank in the port of New York, and
he was a tall, thin, docile American
husband, Who walked like a major-
general on dress parade, though his
agonized expression much belied his
martial bearing. She was suspected
by the Customs people, but her lug.
gage went through; and, when the in-
ipectress advanced and made her
stereotyped inquiry in solemn tones,
Boston’s daughter declared so round-
ty that all was well with her, she was
perforce let go. Hardly were all the
passengers dismissed when the lady
:ame scurrying back. dragged the in-
spectress into the Office, burst into a
flood of tears, and owned up that her
stout New England training had reas-
serted itself, and she wished to con-
fess that on examination ten yards of
rich-flowered Lyons silk would be
found wound tightly around her hus-
oand’s body. The obedient gentleman
was taken ed by an inspector, relieved
of his strait-jacket that his wife that
morning had persuaded him to assume
for her sake, and on paying his con-
science debt, the pair went Off with
tight hearts, in spite of lighter purses.
The truth of it was, this worm of a
husband, through the pain and suffoca-
tion of his load, had threatened to
faint outside the ship’s covered pier;
a slight conjugal passage-of-arms had
ensued, his white face and reproaches
filled his wife's really tender heart
with frgrs. and she repentantly paid
the duty-charges out of her own little
allowance.
Ready for Emergencies.
A New Jersey maiden With cork-
screw curls boarded a way train a
few miles the other side of Trenton
the other day. She was accompanied
by her mother. When the train man
came through the car the maiden
stopped him with a touch of the arm
and a smile, and asked him if he
would reverse the seat in front.
“When on the cars,” she explained.
“I always have to ride reclining,” and
she stretched out, placing her feet on
the seat which the obliging train man
had turned. Then she placed a small
bottle of medicine on the window sill.
“I have this ready,’ she said, “to
take the moment I feel the least sick-
ness coming on; and when I ride hor-
izontally and have this bottle ready I
am never overcome.”
The train man explained the inci-
.tent to the reporter for the Mail and
Express, who sat in the rear of the
car.
“How far is she traveling?” asked
the reporter.
“Sixteen titties m. the line,” an-
swered the train main—Mail and Ex-
press.
Night Schools for Employees.
In one of the large dry goods stores
on Chicago free day and night schools
for the employee are maintained, with
competent teachers and all the mod—
ern accessories of a first-class school-
room. In Milwaukee there is a simi-
lar institution in connection with one
of the greatest breweries, and a free
library and reading room are also pro-
vided. Both schools were established
in the face of the protests of those
who said the advantages would never
be utilized, but both triumphed from
the outset, and are now being imi-
tated‘by a large New York house.
Edward Bellamy has earned $16,000
by “Looking Backward.” This is
better than Lot's wife, who merely
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