Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — GENERAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS

At New York Monday eighty-three wire manufacturers indicted June 29 under the anti-trust law on charges of restraining trade in wire products began their fight against the government by entering pleas of not guilty and obtaining a delay until Sept. 1 to enable them to file demurrers. Each indicted man’s bail was fixed at SI,OOO. Only thirty of those indicted made appearance in the United States circuit court, but District Attorney Wise said he had received assurances that the attitude of all would be practically uniform and that the rest would file formal pleas in a day or two and be included under the action of the court Neither Herbert L. Satterlee, J. P. Morgan's spn-in-law, nor Frank J. Gould was present. Mr. Satterlee Entered a plea through his attorney, but Mr, Gould was not represented. The district attorney said he hoped the cases could go to trial before the end of the year. The increases at Indianapolis, Ind., of 5 cents per hundred pounds by ice dealers on three consecutive days and the charge by one dealer that attempts were made to force him into the combination have caused the prosecutor to present the case to the grand jury under the state anti-trust law. An investigation will be begun. The companies claim that the con tinned hot weather has exhausted their surplus stock and that they are not able to supply the demand. The price of ice earlier in the season was 30 cents per hundred pounds, but it is now 45. Patrons are being served now' with only half the amount they order, the dealers saying they have not enough ice to meet the demand.

Clarence S Darrow of Chicaga, for many years one of the best known lawyers and radical thinkers of Chicago, who is now in charge of the defense in the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case, has given up his Chicago apartment, dissolved his law- partnership and has resolved on the completion of bis present case to retire from the practice of law and abandon Chicago as a place of residence. The firm of Danew, Masters & Wilson was dissolved a month ago it is learned The dissolution was due to Darrow’s ill health, advancing years and a desire to devote the rest of his life to study and literary work rather than to the drudgery of the law.

Senator Borah complained in the senate at the delay by the conferees of the seante and house on the resolu tion for the direct election of senators He asked when a report might be ex pected. Some of the senators had re ported that the resolution might gc over until the regular session in the fall. Senators Clark, Nelson and Ba con, senate conferees, assured Senator Borah that there was no purpose on their part to r elay or defeat the resolution. They blamed the house con ferees for the delay. There is a be lief that the matter will ge over.

There was hot fighting tn the harbor district of Amsterdam between rioters on the one band and police and troops on the other in the early hours of the day. The strikers stoned the police and the treops replied with rifles. The striking shipping men then pro duced revolvers, and in the fusillade that followed a number of persons received bullet wounds. During the riot the street lamps were extinguished. The troops ultimately routed the strikers and laiei patrolled the streets in strong detachments.

In New York city six persons are under arrest as the result of a raid by government agents on a series of moonshine distilleries in New York and Brooklyn. Besides the prisoners the raid yielded one large still found in a Brooklyn flat, one large still found in a four-story Brooklyn loft building, and 2,000 gallons of moonshine brandy from the gang’s wholesale distributing house on. Pitt street, Manhattan. Altogether th? .Jjpulwas the largest of its kind ever made in this district. “Not'guilty s*was 5 *was th 4 plda'at Los Angeles, Cal., of J. J. McNamara and his brother, James McNamara, to each of the nineteen counts charging 'them with murder, read separately in Judge Walter Bordwell’s department of the supreme court. J. J. McNamara also pleaded not guilty to a twentieth indictment charging him with dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron works. At Princeton, Ind., on learning that his father-in-law, John Miley, had filed an affiuavit against him for child desertion, Webb Slifer, thirty-two years old, is alleged to have fired his home and left it. Neighbors seeing the flames burst in the door and found coal oil had been poured on the floor of a closet where the fire was burning fiercely.

The first tariff vote of the United States senate was taken the result a victory for the president. The vote was upon the amendment of Senator Cummins of lowa to the Canadian reciprocity bill, adding meats to the free list provided in the measure. The amendment was defeated, 14 to 32. Because of bis conviction at Columbus, Ohio, for aiding and abetting bribery, Rodney J. Diegel is deprived of his office of sergeant-at-arms of the senate and also of the right to hold any office in this state. House Democrats started investigation of charge that President Taft connived with the Morgan-Guggenheim interests in railroad deal in Alaska. James Pettit, prominent board of trade man, was drowned in Lake Michigan, nekr the Moraine hotel at Highland Park, 111. Captain Faria of wrecked Santa Rosa accused of cruelty and blamed for many deaths by survivors.