Show united states steel voluntarily advances pay of men new york april 1 official notices hao been sent out by tho various companies of the states steel corporation informing thousands of workmen of an increase in wages beginning today it Is estimated that the increase will amount in round angures to no details have been made public here but it i said that those who will cecelie the increased pay will be the laborers skilled mill hands and the class of mechanics now receiving moderate wages agreement with tin plate sheet steel and other workers which expire on june next will not be changed at present it is expected that higher wage will go into effect in these departments after the present agreements hae expired ANSWERS ROGERS dr ladden replies to standard oil official columbus ohio april 1 dr washington G ladden today again vigorously answers H H rogers vice president of the company in regard to the gift of john rockefeller lie says w sir rogers says that he would not trust tho ten commandments for ten days with the deacons of my church because they would surely break soma of them and bend others I 1 surely would not I 1 hope that these commandments are to brouger tr power than the deacons of any church a power in which they will not be twisted tor the benefit of mr rogers or anyone else mr rogers aa that under mr Lincol ns emancipation proclamation slavery was legal in certain sections but it was just as much an abomination and a curse in those regions as in the regions where it was abolished mr lincoln did not touch it there be he had no power the methods of the standard oil company were just aa outrageous before the law was passed for controlling them as it WAS afterwards ter wards and ahe method of the standard oil company li now overpowering its competitors in the same way MARBLE IN TOKIO teijo april 1 lieutenant prank marble formerly secretary of he general aaril of tac avy at washington has relieved lieutenant glidis aa naval of the american legation in this city |