Standard Oil

CHICAGO, July 22, 1908 (UP) - The $29,240,000 fine assessed against the Standard Oil Co. has been set aside. The case will be tried all over again.

WASHINGTON, May 16, 1911 (UP) - In accordance with late dispatches printed yesterday, the United States Supreme Court has upheld the government in its legal fight with the Standard Oil Company and has ordered the dissolution of the great monopoly within six months.

WASHINGTON, May 16, 1911 (UP) -- "Unreasonable restraint of trade" is the act forbidden by edict of the highest court in the nation. The decision of the United States supreme court in the Standard oil dissolution suit, yesterday hailed as an unqualified victory for the government, today, after more careful study, is seen to be one of the most revolutionary decisions in the history of the court.

WASHINGTON, May 16, 1911 (UP) -- Here is what an individual shareholder is the Standard Oil Co. may expect to happen to him in the dissolution of the trust.

WASHINGTON, May 16, 1911 (UP) - The oldest member of the Supreme Court of the United States, both in years and in point of service - John Marshall Harlan of Kentucky - stands in a class by himself to-day as the most progressive member of America's highest judicial body.

NEW YORK, May 16, 1911 (UP) -- One effect of the government's decision in the Standard Oil case, and the one is which the public will be most vitally concerned will be, according to business men here, a probable advance in the price of all oil products to the ultimate consumer.

LONDON, May 16, 1911 (UP) -- No serious effect of the decision in the Standard Oil case was felt in the English markets today. The unexpected stability is due to the fact that the decision had already been discounted, and to the further fact that there is a general feeling that the decision does not mean a real dissolution.