Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — SITSFORACOLLEAGUE [ARTICLE]

SITSFORACOLLEAGUE

Judge Landis, Who Has the Record for High Fines, Presides at Indianapolis. IT HEARS AN OIL CASE THERE, TOO » w ' ■■.,' XtvijfcAlso Met An Old Friend—Coal Miners Who “Kinked” Conclude to Pay Their Fines. x Indianapolis, Aug. 7. Federal Judge Landis, who fined the Standard Oil company the enormous sum of $29,240,000, sat in the federal court In this city In the place of Judge A. B. Anderson, who Is on a vacation. By a coincidence Judge Landis had an oil case before him. The case was that of the Mount Pleasant Oil company, of Delaware county, liul., vs. John S. Nelson. The company is in the bauds of a receiver, who was asking authori ty to dispose of the property, while the stockholders were against disposition. Judge Landis ruled iu favor of the sale of the property. Talks with an Old Friend. Late in the afternoon Judge Landis had a long talk with Charles H. Boynton, who is an old friend. Boynton was formerly one of the best-known Associated Press men in the country, but recently retired from the newspaper field to enter'tile hanking business. He was on his way to New York anu stopped off here a few hours. Landis and Boynton, it Is said, talked about the days when Landis was attached to the department of state under the late Secretary Gresham. It was then that the queen of Hawaiian islands was .dethroned and was a busy time at Washington. Judge Landis would not discuss the Standard Oil company ease, declining to talk of it in any way. Argument of a Rate Case. Indianapolis, Aug. 7.—A demurrer and a brief in support of the demurrer have been filed in the federal court by the defendants in the case of the Louisville, New Albany and Corydon Railroad company against James Bingham, individually and as attorney general for Indiana, and J. W. Ewing, individually and as prosecuting attorney for the Third judicial circuit of Indiana. The complainant had asked that the defendants be enjoined from enforcing against the Louisville, New Albany and Corydon Railroad company the provisions of the 2-cent-rate law. The brief argues that the contention of the railroad that the 2-cent law is unconstitutional, as a usurpation of judicial functions, is clearly untenable. “Jack the Smearer” Arrested. Indianapolis. Aug. 7. The most important arrest from the standpoint of the police that has been made in this city for-many years was that of William R. Gadd, 30 years old, who has just been captured. Gadd Is called “lack, the Smearer.” by the police and during three years that he operated he has ruined fine dresses worth thousands of dollars in the aggregate by smearing filth on them, and he now cooly admits that he si guilty. MEN WILL PAY THEIR FINES Struck in Violation of the Agreement _ and at First Kicked at tbe Consequence*. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 7. The miners at the New Summit mine. In Greene county, from whose pay deductions were made at the rate of $1 a day for each day they were on strike while trying to force the removal of a mine boss, have reconsidered their purpose to carry the disputed pay into the court, after President Van Horn told them they were clearly In the wrong. The wage contract has a clause providing that when they eease work pending the stipulated process for the settlement of a grievance they shall be fined $1 a day, “and this agreement Is the company’s authority for making the deduction,” and that “all money collected as fines shall lie equally divided between district No. 11.U.M. W. of A., and the Indiaua Bituminous Coal Operators’ association.” There is a provision for fining the company when men are needlessly called to work and are not given work that day.

Gondola Cara Wreck a Factory. Anderson, Ind., Aug. 7. While a Pennsylvania railroad switching crew was at work near the factory of the Gedge Bros.’ roofing works four gondola cars were sent with such speed into the factory siding that they plunged off the end of the sidetrack into the factory, wrecking one end of the building and smashing four machines inside the plant. Several workmen had narrow escapes when the cars came flying through the end of the building. I Act of an Insolent Tramp. Lebanon, Ind., Aug. 7. A tramp went to the home of Mr. and Mr*. Harry Stevens, a farmer, and after driving Miss Osborn away, be feasted on what suited his appetite and then deliberately wrecked the furniture and fixtures, breaking whatever be could lay his hands upon.