Abusive language, use of,319,485.Acme Oil Company, Samuel Van Syckelvs.,187.Adams, H.C., quoted on municipal monopolies,322.Adulteration of liquors,27.Advice of counsel,249.Alcohol in industry and politics,20.Allen, W.V., supplemental report on sugar-trust bribery,404.American, early, refiners of petroleum,39.American Transfer Company receives from 20 to 35 cents per barrel on all oil shipped by competitors,99;the South Improvement Company reappears in,100;false map of, before New York Legislature,101.Andrews, E. Benjamin, on prices under monopoly,428;on oil-trust prices,430n.Anonymous circulars, in war against Toledo,327.Artificial liquors,27.Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroadet al., William C. Bissellvs.,479.Atlantic and Great Western Railroad and South Improvement Company,48,50;war of 1877,88.Attorney-General, of Pennsylvania, management of tax-case against Standard Oil Company by,170-81;of United States, on monopoly,37;report for 1893,3,6;cases against the sugar trust,404.Austria, refineries of, consolidated,439.Bad oil,405-19.Baltimore and Ohio, and railroad war of 1877,88;closes Baltimore to independent shippers,102;withdraws rates,221;freight agent escapes from Congress,222.Baltimore closed to independent shippers by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,102;sale of refineries at,421.Bank of England's income compared with an American millionaire's,459.Bankers indemnified for withdrawing bids on Toledo bonds,336.Bankruptcy of oil refineries in 1873,60;1879-92,455-70.Baptist, theNational, quoted,341.Barrel shipments better for railroads than tanks,138,231;destroyed by railroads,138.Barrett, Judge, defines monopoly,3;on sugar trust,3,4.Batoum refuses Rothschild permission to lay pipe line,443.Baxter, Judge, decision on rebates paid oil combination,207.Bee, OmahaDaily, investigates oil inspection of Nebraska,414.Beef, combination of packers of,33,36;price of, under combination,35.Belgium,437.Bernheimer, Simon, testimony as to abundance of capital for early refiners,41."Big Four" combination,35.Binney, E.W., quoted,40.Biscuit Association,30.Bissell, William C.,vs.Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroadet al.,479.Black-mail, when competition is,215.Blind-billing,229;shippers benefited by, deny,231.Blount, Representative, on subsidies and bribery,394.Bolard & Dalevs.National Transit Company,165.Bonds not to refine,79,80.Books, natural-gas companies will not show,363;oil trust keeps none,469.Boston, South Improvement Company rates to,47;fire marshal on bad oil,411;prices of oil reduced from 20 to 8 by competition,422.Boycott, of butchers by packers' combination,35;how working-men were punished for,287.Boyle, P.C., Ohiovs.,324.Bread Union in London,30.Bremen, Congress of Chambers of Commerce,406.Bribery of jurors,286;of Congress by Pacific Mail Steamship Company,394.British government lowers test on oil,436.Brooklyn, consolidation of street-railways,5.Brundredet al.vs.Rice,239.Buffalo, explosion in Matthews' refinery,250;pipe line to, destroyed,291;prices reduced by competition,421.Buhl, Richardsonvs.,10.Bulletin, New YorkDaily Commercial, on oil-trust prices,430n.;on sugar trust,32,449.Burdick bill, Pennsylvania Legislature,126.Burial Case, National Association,37.Business, politics of,403;"this belongs to us,"432;golden rule of,495;runs into monopoly,512.Butchers, independent, refused cars by Erie Railroad,35;National Protective Association,34.Butterworth, Benjamin, represents Ohio before the United States Senate in the Payne matter,376.Buyer, the only, refuses to buy,106;only one, in Ohio,107.Call, San Francisco, on commercial treaty with China,449.Campaign contributions from trusts,403.Campbell, B.B., averts outbreak at Parker,106.Canada oil interests attacked by American combination,12;retail coal-dealers' associations,15;Grocers' Guild,30;Parliamentary debate on American oil prices,424;Parliament reduces tariff in 1894,435;finance minister favors American oil trust,435.Canadian Copper Company, litigation among stockholders,403.Canal, independent shippers escape by,96;tank-boats for,96;railroad war against,97.Cancer, hospital for, endowed,181.Capital, of combinations,4;easy for early refiners to get,41;of oil combination,457.Carlyle, Thomas, on literary freedom in America,529.Cars, refusal of, by railroads to independent shippers,12,91,94,106.Carter, J.J.,vs.Producers' and Refiners' Oil Company, Limited,164,446.Cassatt, A.J., testimony concerning railroad war of 1877,88;on lower rates to Standard Oil Company,94,472;on refusal of cars and rates,94;on cheapness of oil,428.Cattle combination,5,33;traffic, railroad preferences in,33;decline in prices of,34;shippers discriminated against by the railroads,36.Cattle Range Association, International,34.Census, United States, on petroleum,39;sugar trust refuses to answer questions,404.Charity decreases under monopoly,502.Cheapness of oil,420;under the trusts,431n.;how produced,464-65;analysis of,500.Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, charges for oil and cattle compared,481.Chicago, number of dry-goods stores in, in 1894,488;Union Stock Yards, secrecy as to ownership of its stock,487.China, commercial treaty with,449.Church and wealth,294.Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway, Ohiovs.,220;"mistakes,"234.Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railway, Ohiovs.,220.Circulars, anonymous, in war against Toledo,327.Clamorer for dividends,101.Clarion County, Pennsylvania, indictment of members of Standard Oil Company,170,258;Supreme Court of Pennsylvania interferes,180.Clark, Horace F., on South Improvement Company contract,50.Cleveland, disadvantages of, for the oil business,53,464;starting-point of the founders of the oil combination,44;South Improvement Company rates to,46;pipe line to,65;pioneer refiner,73;crude oil carried to, free for oil combination,85.Cleveland and Marietta Railroad, Handyvs.,206-8.Cleveland, President, on sugar tariff,404.Clinton, De Witt, on petroleum,38.Coal, combination, capital of,4;in Nova Scotia,5,11,461;State, national, and judicial investigations,9;bituminous lands bought by railroads,11;anthracite monopolized by railroads,11,14;freights on, higher in 1893 than in 1879,13;independent producers crushed by railroad discriminations,13;miners oppressed by coal companies,16,17;price of, advanced by combination,14,431n.;extortion of anthracite monopoly,14;combination between American and Canadian dealers,15;retail associations of dealers,15;dealers terrorized,15;miners, freedom under competition,16;miners' strike in Pennsylvania in 1871,16;policemen in Pennsylvania,18.Coffin combination,37.Coke, Lord, on monopolies,405.Collusion between oil trust and railroads,143,482-4.Colorado, oil war in,427;prevented by railroads from shipping its oil to Pacific States,427,481.Columbus, Miss., war on merchants of,300;Ohio, gas shut off,365.Combinations, capital of,4.Communipaw, monopoly of terminals at,142.Competition, impossible in the meat and cattle business,36;oil combination likes,87;when it is black-mail,215;cuts price,281,294;power for evil,422.Congress, investigation of South Improvement Company suppressed,45;bribing by Pacific Mail Steamship Company,394.Conspiracy, adoption of,277.Constitutional amendments concerning trusts,451;convention of New York, 1894,451.Contract to restrict refining,62;to shut down oil flow,153;between dealers and the oil combination,425.Corners,4.Cotton-seed oil, rates on,232.Court records gone in Cleveland,83;mutilated transcript for Congress,244,267;records mutilated in California,484.Coxe Brothers & Companyvs.the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company,19.Cracker-bakers' meeting,30.Dayton, experience with natural-gas company,364.Deaths from bad oil, in Michigan,416;in Great Britain from explosiveness of American oil,410.Delay, before Interstate Commerce Commission,147,149,150;in legal procedure in New York,285;of Pennsylvania Supreme Court in acting on appeal of independents,447.Democratic party and sugar trust,404.Detectives and coal-dealers,15;railroads as,48;in Wall Street,334.DetroitTimes, on reduction of oil test,416;Tribune, on reduction of oil test,416.Dewar, Thomas S., letter of United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue to,26.Discrimination in favor of oil combination, "wanton and oppressive,"207;of 333 per cent.,217;called "a vast discrepancy,"219;Supreme Court of Ohio on,219;against Rice, Interstate Commerce Commission on,227;charges of, sustained by Interstate Commerce Commission,235;by natural-gas company in rates for gas,365;no, by German railroads,438;inures to the benefit of one powerful combination,478.(See Freight Rates, Railroads, Rebates.)Dismantling of petroleum refineries,42,72;Joshua Merrill's refinery,188.Disorder, public, in oil regions,43,54;in Pennsylvania, 1878,105,106;in Pennsylvania and Ohio,456.Dividends of oil trust,246;of sugar trust,32,33,404.Dodd, S.C.T., on "parent of trust system,"8;in Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1872,55;on pipe lines,117;on pipe-line rates,125;on bonuses to railroad officials,486.Drake, E.L., strikes oil,40;pensioned,462.Dressed-beef men, railroad rates to,36.Dynamite, and the whiskey trust,21;in the "shut-down" of 1887,154;threats of, against Toledo City pipe line,357;oil that is as dangerous as,416.Electricity,9.Elevators, combination of Northwestern railroads with,5,31;State erection and operation of, recommended by Minnesota Legislature,31.Embargo on sales of oil, 1872,56.Emery, Jr., Hon. Lewis, testifies as to "immediate shipment,"104.Eminent domain, use of, by railroads,97.Empire Transportation Company,87.Engineers, Society of American Marine, protest against foreign engineers,399.England oil trade meets to protest against poor American oil,405.Equality, railroad idea of,86.Erie Canal used by independent shippers,96.Erie Railroad, refuses cars to independent butchers,35;New York Legislature investigates,43;and South Improvement Company,48,50;refuses rates to competitor of South Improvement Company,52;railroad war of 1877,88;its oil-cars owned by oil combination,92;payments to American Transfer Company,99;contract with Standard Oil Company,102;renews broken promises of equal rates,119;invites independent refiners to rebuild,119;refuses to ship independent oil to seaboard,140;sends armed force against independent pipe line,161;gives land to oil trust's pipe lines,162;destroys line by force,291."Evening" pool of cattle-shippers,33.Everestet al., People of the State of N.Y.vs.,244.Examiner, The, quoted,341,345.Expert testifies about pipe-line pool,86;false maps of American Transfer Company,101.Explosions, in distillery,21;during "shut-down,"154;in Buffalo refinery,250;Louisville,252;Rochester,252.Explosiveness of petroleum gases,282;of American oil compared with Scotch and Russian,410.Extradition treaty between Russia and America,448.False accounts,64.Fellowset al.vs.Toledoet al.,314.Field code of New York,285.Fires from bad oil, in Great Britain,410;in Boston,411;in Iowa,413;in Michigan,416;in San Francisco,416;at Oil City and Titusville, June 5, 1892,417;in Bradford refinery,447.Fish,32.Flour, dearer, wanted,30.Forbes, John M., speech on free ships,393.Foster, Charles, as Secretary of the Treasury favors retention of foreign captains,398;issues license to foreign engineers,399;his part in the war on Toledo,400.Fostoria, Ohio, Sunday raid on the flour-mill,348.Foucon, Felix, inRevue des Deux Mondes,39.France, manufactures coal-oil in 1845,38;government of, lowers oil tariff,440;oil refiners of, make terms with American oil trust,441.Free breakfast-table,32.Freight rates on coal,13;discriminations investigated by Ohio Legislature,44;8 cents a barrel less than nothing on oil,88;rates advanced by pipe and rail,122;rates increased at instance of oil combination,132;rate 88 cents to oil combination, $1.68 to competitors,210;increased 333 per cent. to one shipper,217.(See Rebates, Discriminations.)Freight-handlers strike,296.Fruit,32.Frye, William P., on subsidy to International line,391,395.Furnaces,9.Gas,9;natural,9,305.Geologist, State, of Ohio, takes sides in Toledo contest,329.Germany changes oil tariff,437;the German-American Oil Company,437;decline in prices,438;independents in,439.Gladden, Rev. Washington, on oil trust,344.Good society,527.Gospel Cars,237.Government and monopoly,311.Governors, steam-boiler,9.Gowen, Franklin B., on war against Tidewater,108,110;admits surrender of Tidewater Pipe Line,112;severs connection with Tidewater,114;speech before Pennsylvania Legislature, 1883,115;on Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,181;on yearly loss of railroad revenue by rebates,491.Grand Trunk saves independent oil refiners,136.Granger movement,371.Great Britain, Railway Commission of 1873,369;government lowers test of oil,408.Griffin, C.P., representative of Toledo in State Legislature,333.Grocers' Guild, Canadian Parliament on,30.Haddock, John C., testimony of,13.Hadley, A.T., on British railroads,370.