Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1916 — FINANCIAL [ARTICLE]

FINANCIAL

Jan. 16 —President Wilson ordered federal Inquiry (nto high price of wtyeat. March 9.—Goulds lost control of Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain system. March 13—Dayton Cash Register case. Lower court reversed and remanded for new trial by U. 8. circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati. March 16.—Trade commission organized at Washington, Joseph R. Davies, Wisconsin, chairman. March 16.—Charles C. McChord elected chairman interstate commerce commission vice James 8. Harlan. April 3.—lnternational Mercantile Marine company put in receiver’s hands. April 9.—J. B. Greenhut company. New York department store, failed for $12,000,000. April 21.—Receivers appointed for Rock Island railroad company. May 15.—Interstate commerce commission decided railroads owning and operating steamship lines on great lakes must give them up. May 24.—Pan American financial conference opened In Washington. Aug. 11.—Interstate commerce commission denied most of requests of- western roads for increased freight rates. Aug. 12.—Interstate commerce commission ordered big reductions in freight rates on anthracite coal. Aug. 17—Interstate commerce commission found Moore-Reid syndicate guilty of plundering Rock Island road ana throwing it Into a receivership for its own purpose. Aug. 24.—Eastman Kodak company declared a monopoly in restraint of trade by federal court at Buffalo, Y. Oct. I.—U. S. court at Philadelphia ordered moving picture trust to dissolve.