That the government was a year too late in bringing its suit against the Standard Oil Company for accepting secret rebates, and the suit in which Judge K. M. Landis imposed the $29,000,000 fine, was brought out yesterday in the government suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey under the Sherman Anti-trust Law, before Special Examiner Franklin Ferris in the Custom House.
(3)
Fraudulent scales were used to
weigh raw sugar on the Brooklyn
piers of the Sugar Trust, according to
the testimony of Special Agent Richard
Parr of the United States Treasury
Department, this morning in the
preliminary hearing of the government's
suits against the American
Sugar Refining Company before Commissioner
Shields in the Federal
Building.
(4)
How suddenly and how radically a
woman can exercise her inalienable
right to change her mind was shown
yesterday before Judge Thomas in the
probate court, when in the hearing on
the contested will of Mrs. Jane L.
Whiting it was shown that she had
made one will at 3 o'clock on July 4
last, and another at 7 o'clock in the
evening of the same day.
(5)
"Go home and serve time with your
families," was the sentence imposed
on two men charged with being
drunk and disorderly, by Judge Wilkinson
in the police court this morning.
