Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 3

STRANGE TRANSACTION I8 RE-| VEALED BY INSURANCE IN- VESTIGATION. PUTS CHECK IN ITS PLACE TREASURER OF THE NEW YORK LIFE GETS SECURITIES WORTH $700,000. PERKINS EXPLAINS DEALS NYLIC FUND PROFITED BY BOND TRANSACTION — GOOD TO HAMILTON. New York, Nov. 29. — One of the most interesting features of the life insurance investigation developed only a few moments before the adjourn- ment. of the Armstrong committee yesterday, when Theodore F. Banta, cashier of the New York Life Insur- ance company, testified that about the beginning of 1901, Edmund D. Ran- dolph, treasurer of the company, opened the vaults of the company, re- moved New York city stock valued at $700,000 and put a check on the Cen- tral National bank for $700,000 in its place. Mr. Banta said he helped to open the yaults at the order of Mr. Randolph, and that he supposed Mr. Randolph acted for the finance com- mittee. The stock was Kept Out for a Few Days and was then returned and the check withdrawn. The transaction was not recorded on the books of the com- pany so far as Mr. Banta knew. The effect of the operation would be that any one having the stock would have $700,000 worth of taxable property ‘at the end of the year. Mr. Banta did not know who received the stock. Mr. Randolph is expected to be one of the witnesses to-day. George W. Perkins, vice president of the New York Life Insurance com- pany and member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., bankers, yesterday de- tailed to the committee the transac- tion which resulted in his receipt of $40,193 from Kidder, Peabody & Co. of Boston, as Half the Profits of the sale of $2,000,000 worth of bonds of the Mexican Central Railway company. Milton M. Mattison, a book- keeper of the New York Life Insur- ance company, had previously testified that $930,000 of the insurance com- pany’s money was used in the transac- tion and that Mr. Perkins got the profit. Mr. Perkins said yesterday that he went into the transaction for the Nylic fund, which is owned by the agents of the New York Life Insurance com- pany, and that he invested the profits for that fund. The life insurance com- pany, he said, profited to the extent of 5 per cent interest on the loan of $939,- 000. He stated that the company had no right to the $40,193 profits. Took Up Hamilton’s Notes. Mr. Perkins said also that J. P. Mor- gan & Co, had taken up notes of An- drew Hamilton and BH. E. McCall, for- merly justice of the New York su- preme court, amounting to $56,310, at the request of President McCall of the New York Life Insurance company, and the amount, with interest, was paid to Andrew Hamilton by the in- surance company from the proceeds of a sale of United States Steel stoock. President McCall said the New York Life Insurance ¢ompany owed Hamil- ton $56,310, and took the steel stock to pay him. The result was that the transaction did not appear on the in- surance company’s books. The reason was that he wished to keep Hamil- ton’s expenses duwh. Tells About U. S. Steel Deal. Much evidence was given by Mr. Perkins and Mr. McCall .about the New York Security.and Trust com- pany’s participation in the United States Steel company’s syndicate to the extent of $3,250,000, having the de- posits of the New York Life Insurance company for about that amount. The insurance company got 75 per cent of the profits, and Mr. Perkins con- tended that it was a safe and profita- ble venture. President McCall said the life insur- ance company should have participa- ted directly instead of indirectly. OPEN SEASON’S DEATH ROLL. Increase in Northwest This Fall in Hunting Casualties Over 1904, Milwaukee, Nov. 29. — With three days left of the 1905 hunting season, the list of direct and. indirect casual- ties in the ranks of hunters of Wiscon- sin and Northern Michigan shows a startling increase over last year. The total number of dead so far this year in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan is ttwenty-six, and fifty-one were Point, and though armed parties have, apparently, free access to the town, the authorities that the roads leading to it were blockaded, dispatches re- ceived yesterday from Vice Admiral Chouknin, commanding the Black sea fleet, present the situation in an optimistic light. These dispatches, which were read at an extraordinary council of the admiralty, declare that most of the mutineers have decided to surrender with their arms, thoough such action involves trial for mutiny before-a court-martial. Mutineers Weakening. This is confirmed in part by a ‘dis- patch to the Novoe Vremya which Says that the spirit of the mutineers is failing and that several bodies have already surrendered. On the other hand, dispatches to the Associated Press from Sebastopol say that revolutionary orators succeeded yesterday in winning over a battalion of reservists and that, in spite of the arrival of reinforcements to the num- ber of several thousand the authori- ties did not dare to interfere with a review held by the mutineers by the Cathedral of St. Vladimir, which is in the very heart of the town. - Demands of Mutineers. So far as known, most of the de- mands of the mutineers have to do with service conditions, including the release of the reservists who have served beyond their time, increase of pay, increase in the allowance of food and the removal of alleged incompe- tent and brutal officers. Beyond a determination to proclaim martial law, nothing of a definite na- ture has transpired regarding the de- cisions arrived at by the admiralty. council, but it is reported that the council agreed as to the justice of many of the demands made by the mutineers and would Recommend to the Emperor that immediate steps-be taken to ameliorate the conditions of the sail- ors. The latest dispatch from Se- bastopol says that the mutineers forced the officers and crew of the cruiser Otchakoff to leave the ship. The crews of the battleships Rostislav and Tria Sviatitalia, so far as at pres- ent known, have not mutinied. One reserve battalion, however, has joined the mutineers. Several companies of the Vilna regiment have arrived at Sebastopol from Theodosia. Martial law has been declared in the fortress. Several Officers Killed. é Odessa, Nov. 28. — Gov. Gen. Kaul- bars has received the following dis- patch from Vice Admiral Chouknin, commanding the Black sea fleet: “The mutineers left the Kniaz Po- temkine to-day and the vessel is now in my hands. The’ sailors, together with the soldiers of the Brest regi- ment who mutinied, have shut them- selves in the Lazareff barracks with some guns. When fresh troops arrive I shall attack, though I fear the. artil- lerymen may join the mutineers. A very serious state of affairs prevails to-day. Several officers have been killed.” OUSTED BY PRESIDENT. William S. Lieb, Assistant Treasurer of Philadelphia, Is Dismissed. Washington, Nov. 29. — President Roosevelt yesterday morning removed from office William S. Lieb, United States assistant treasurer at Philadel- phia, for violation of civil service rules. Among other things, Roosevelt said in his letter: “It appears to me very clear that there has been a constant and consis- tent effort on your part to evade the provisions of the civil service law, to hamper its workings, as far as possi- ble, and to obstruct in every way the action of the commission. In your case it seems to me clearly established that you have sought continually to take advantage of every kind of technical- ity in order to avoid carrying out the law in good faith. By taking advantage of technicalities you have kept upon the roll in almost continuous positions certain of your own relatives, and at least one person whose appointment was evidently pressed merely for po- litical reasons, instead of making a proper effort to carry out tlie law as it applies to appointments within classi- fied service.” ST. PAUL DEPOSITS BIGGER. Washington, Nov. 29. — Individual deposits in the St. Paul national banks | have increased about $3,000,000 during the last year, now aggregating $20,- 001,781. This fact is brought out in the report on the condition of the na- tional banks in St. Paul at the close of business Nov: 9. © Compared “with ‘the corresponding statement in 1904, loans and discounts haye increased from $17,763,000 to $21,202,000, and cash re- sources from $34,900,000 to $39,216, 000. The percentage of legal reserve to deposits is 23.03. WARNER IN THE CABINET, Reported That Pension Commissioner Will Succeed Hitchcock. Washington, Nov. 29.—It was unof- ficially leaked out that at a recent cab- inet meeting Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior, expressed a desire to retire at the end of the pres- ent fiscal year. The cabinetmakers are already busy and have almost agreed upon the selection of Vespa- tian Warner, now commissioner of notwithstanding the announcement by. FIERCE STORM SNOW AND COLD SWEEP EAST: WARD FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. IS FIRST TOUCH OF WINTER BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND _IN- TENSE COLD IN THE NORTHWEST. St. Paul, Nov. 29.—Throughout the Northwest a blizzard-like storm has hurtled, the first real herald of winter. leaving a broad trail-of snow and cold to mark its passage eastward from the Rocky mountains. St. Paul last night felt the first real touch of winter, The snowfall was not heavy, nor was the cold intense, but the high wind made the night a thoroughly disagreeable one. Reports from different points in the Northwest, mainly in Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and North and South Dakota, tell of blizzard condi- tions. Sleet followed a light fall of snow in many places. Along the North Atlantic coast gales prevailed and shipping was imperiled. It is feared that lives have been lost. Heavy damage resulted from the storm, a number of ¢raft going down. Coast towns of Great Britain have suffered heavily from storms in the last two days, and many seamen lost their lives in the wrecking of a num- ber of vessels. Thanksgiving Weather. Snow for Thanksgiving, accompa- nied by the biting, old fashioned win- ter weather that whets the appetite for turkey and. cranberry sauce, is predicted. Railroads, commission merchants and other corporations and individuals, particularly interested in the trend of the weather have been notified and they in turn expect brisk Thanksgiving week business. “A severe storm was located this morning in Colorado, extending prac- tically to the Rocky mountains,” said Observer Williams yesterday after- noon. “The effects of the storm are being felt over this entire section. As it moves eastward it should cause con- siderable snow, due to high area of barometic pressure prevailing over the British Northwest, where the tem- perature ranges from zero to efght de- grees above that figure. The zero tem- perature extends south as far as Dev- ils Lake, and this temperature, slight- ly moderated, should affect this entire section by to-morrow. The present outlook here is for good, wintry weath- er, with the temperature down to 10 or 15 above zero.” Wind Is Furious. Stephen, Minn., Nov. 29.—Snow has been falling all day and the wind is blowing from the north with the fury of a blizzard. Storm Is Terrific. Aberdeen, S. D., Nov. 29.—A severe blizzard raged here. Light snow fell yesterday, but toward night a_ sleet storm set in. The wind blew the snow and ice with blinding force. Train Traffic Is Delayed. Osceola, Wis., Nov. 29. — A terrific snowstorm raged throughout this sec- tion of Wisconsin. Train traffic was seriously delayed. Shipping Is Imperilled. ~ St. John’s, N. F., Nov. 29.—A fierce gale swept the coast last night, com- pelling all shipping to remain in the harbor. The schooners Elbro and Venus are ashore in Placenta bay, both badly damaged. The schooner Amethyst went ashore at Burin and is a total loss. A number of Herring ves- sels were forced to shelter in harbors at Bay of Islands. North Sea Is Perilous. Cuxhaven, Germany, Nov. 29. — A great storm, accompanied by lightning and hail, is raging in the North sea. The regular English service is overdue and shipping from this port has been entirely stopped. There has been great damage. Britain Suffers Heavily. _ London, Nov. 29\—Great aggregated damage was done to the coast towns of Great Britain by last night’s storm. Many small vessels were driven ashore, but thus far only a few lives are reported to have been lost. Accidentally Shot. Norway, Mich., Nov. 29.—Davie, the il-year-ola son of J. F. Jackson, gen- eral agent for the Wisconsin-Michigan railway, was accidentally shot with a rifle by a boy companion. The shot en- tered the left side near the shoulder. * Ground to Pieces. Houghton, Mich., Nov. 29. — Zacha- N GRASP OF “WOMEN SECURE CLAIMS. Party of Four From Sioux City Take ‘ Up Government Lard. Rapid City, S. D., Nov. 29. — Four well known women of Sioux City have just returned from a sixty-mile trip east of this place, where they have taken up claims on ‘government ground. They are Mrs. M. A. Wilson, Dr. Harriet Comstock, Miss Anna Sieh and Miss Hattie J. Elliott. Their claims are in the best part of the farming and grazing district, and they report that early in the spring they will return and make good their loca- tions and bring back several friends to start a colony there. BOY STRIPPED OF CLOTHING. Cedar Rapids Alarmed Over Antics of a Mad Man. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nov. 29. — “Jack the Hugger” has been at. work here for ,the past two months and scores of women and girls have been assaulted by the fellow, who rides a wheel, jumping off when he meets them alone and attempts to force his attentions upon them. He operates early in the evening and has managed so far to evade arrest. Last evening he caught a small boy returning home across a vacant lot, stripped him of his clothes and then allowed him to go. It is believed he is insane and will commit a terrible crime unless apprehended. SUES ADAMS FOR $80,000. Uncle Sam Trying to Recover From Alleged Embezzler. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 29. — United States District Attorney Frye yester- day. served papers on George Edward Adams in a civil suit for the recovery of $80,000, a portion of the amount al- leged to have been embezzled from the assay office by the former cashier. Adams is denying that he made two full confessions. He is trying to secure counsel to defend him. Mrs. Adams has retained counsel to protect her property in the proceedings. CHILD HAS NARROW ESCAPE. Infant Rescued From Burning House at Marshalltown. Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov. 29.—Fire at 2 o’clock yesterday morning | de- stroyed the residence of B. A. Church and Dr. C. C. Cottles, one of the finest in the city. Defective wiring is sup- posed to have started the fire. The families were asleep and one child had a narrow escape, its bed being on fire when the room was reached. The loss is about $12,000; partly insured. areal GUILTY TO BRIBERY. Chicago Man. Is Fined $1,000 in Mil- waukee Court. Milwaukee, Nov. 29.—Charles Mader of Chicago yesterday pleaded guilty in the municipal court to giving a bribe of $1,200 for a contract for roof- ing an addition to the county hospital in 1901 and was fined $1,000. Mader at the time was agent for a Chicago roofing firm. He was indicted by a grand jury about two years ago. PISTOL DROPS; MAN KILLED. South Dakota Town Marshal Wounded While. Playing Violin. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 29. — Town Marshal George Joslyn of Geddes, S. D., died in a hospital here yesterday from an accidental pistol wound re- ceived Sunday at his home while he was playing a violin. Joslyn’s revolver dropped from his hip pocket, caught oon the chair, and was discharged, the bullet entering the abdomen. ~ KILLED ON WAY TO FUNERAL. Prominent lowa Falls Man Is Thrown From Carriage. Iowa Falls, lowa, Nov. 29.—While on his way to attend the funeral of A. Page, a railroad conductor, yesterday afternoon, Patrick J. Brando, a well known business man of this city, was thrown from his carriage and instant- ly killed. Fall Is Fatal. Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 29. — James Usher, an engineer on the new Sim- mons Hardware company building, who was struck by a falling derrick boom, is dead. An operation which was performed in a heroic effort to save his life, disclosed the fact that his spine had been broken. Conductor Accidentally Shot. La Crosse, Wis., Nov. 29.—Conduc- tor Jerry Callahan of the Burlington, was shot through the leg at his-home by the accidental discharge of his re- volver. Callahan was changing ‘his trousers when the revolver dropped to the floor and was discharged. Three Shot in Quarrel. Milwaukee, Nov. 29.—During a fam- fly quarrel last night Frank Alliota was shot.in the head, an infant son was shot through the body and his wife’s arm was broken. The police are searcing for Alliota’s brother. Miner Killed. Custer, S. D., Nov. 29. — August riah Jacques, an old pioneer settler of _ Fisher, who has mined for years in the Copper country, was mangled by) this section, was almost instantly two empty box cars running over him killed in a delayed mining blast at at Dollar Bay. His body was literally | the Ideal mine, two miles from this £round to pieces. this city. The receipts of the Hastings post- Office for the fiscal year show $8.748, an inerease of $1,404 over the pro- ceding year. Ake Anderson, a farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn near Litchfield. A daughter found his body suspended, from a beam. O. P. Miller, for four years post- master and one year village recorder of Welcome, leaves in a few days to accept a responsible position at Eagla Lake 3 Frank Jackson, thirty-five years old, was instantly killed while driving from Red Wing to his home. The wagon struck a stone, throwing Jack- son out. James Humphrey, a stranger in Redwood Falls, who pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny on a pre- sentment filed by the county attor- ney, was sentenced to three years and six months in Stillwater. Leon J. Rafidal, charged with man- slaughter in the first degree, as a re- sult of the coroner’s finding in the T. D. Merrill inquest at Brainerd, waived examination and was held to await the action of the grand jury in December Joseph Kersonitch, timber foreman at the Adams mine, at Two Harbors, was killed through falling a distance of 110 feet into a shaft. He was re- turning to the surface in company with other workmen, when he lost. his balance and fell. Robert Brown, a fireman in the employ of the Omaha railway, was instantly killed in the company’s yards, in St. Paul. His neck was broken and his right arm severed. He was riding on the platform of a switch engine and fell off in front. Notice has been given that United States Indian Agent Simon Michelet will resume the reallotment of land to such of the White Earth Indians who are entitled to and who have not yet received land under the Steenerson re- allotment measure, Monday, Dec. 18. The Barnett & Record Co. of Min- neapolis is the successful bidder for the construction of the new No. 4 ore dock for the Duluth, Missabe & Northern at Duluth. The dock and approaches will cost about $1,000,000, and will be one of the largest in the world. In the United States court at Fer- gus Falls, Maria Boutin secured a verdict for $5,000 damages against the Crookston Lumber company on account of the death of her husband, Frank Boutin, who was cut in two by a saw in the company’s mill. The case occupied four days. “Not guilty’ was the verdict re- turned by the jury at St. Paul in the case of Harry Laramie and Dick Tay- lor, indicted as James R. Egan, charged with the murder of Special Officer Peter Raverty in the office of the W. W. Johnson Lumber company at about 3 o’clock on the morning of May 3 last. State Treasurer Block, who has been out with a hunting party in Itasca county since the opening of the season, has sent in a fine black bear, killed by himself up in the big woods about fifty miles north of here. He also has a monster male moose hung up in the woods that will be brought in later. H. J. Ward, colored, who pleaded guilty to theft at the John D, Ruther- ford furm residence, near Stillwater, was committed to the state prison for four years and eleven months. Fred Goinyer, the Foft Snelling deserter, who pleaded guilty of stealing from the Wilson house, was taken to the St. Cloud reformatory. August J. Timmerack, a farmer of Kent, Wilkin county, has filed a peti- tion in bankruptcy in the federal court in Fergus Falls, placing his as- sets at $428, of which $214 is exempt, and his liabilities at $5,371. Lyle R. Brownell, an engineer of Moorhead, also filed, placing his assets at $150, all exempt, and his liabilities at $873.87. At a hearing before Judge Watts at Crookston, at which the Great Northern was ordered to appear and show cause why the line from St. Hilaire to Wylie, over which there has been some controversy. should- not be maintained and the present service continued, Col. Wilkinson for the road agreed to continue the present service from St. Hilaire to Dorothy via Wylie. and the case was dismissed. Sudden death was the fate of Pedro Pigniatellai because he failed to no- tice that the cage at No. 3 shaft at Eveleth was not at his level as he pushed a car of iron ore to the open- ing. He was tramming on the first level while the cage was at the bot- tom. The sudden lurch of the heavy ear as it went over the precipice drew the man with it, and he stuck the bottom of the mine 200 feet below and was instantly killed. The Freeborn County Poultry asso- ciation is arranging for a big show to be held at Albert Lea Jan. 19-23. Among the prizes for special exhibits will be two incubators, a silver cup, subscriptions to poultry journals, etc. Charles McClave, the poultry fancier of New London, Ohio, will be the judge. t The fair given by the members of St. Henry’s parish for the benefit of the new $40,000 Catholic. church at Perham was the most successful in the history of the parish. The net , cash receipts amounted to $2,208: % N Editor—Oh, no, I’m sure he isn’t. Ascum—Why, he gives the impres- sion by his talk that he knows all about how a newspaper should be con- ducted, and— ; Editor—Exactly; that’s why I’m sure. Her First Trolley Ride. A group of traffic managers and aa- ditors at the convéntion of street rail- way men in Philadelphia were telling stories of street railwaying. Irwin Fuller of Detroit said: “A pretty Irish girl, fresh from the old country, sat in a trolley car, look- ing at the strange American country with modest interest. “She had soft gray eyes, a face like roses and lilies, beautiful hair and white teeth. “*Your fare, miss,’ said the conduc- tor, pausing before her. “She blushed and bit her lip. “Your fare, miss,’ he repeated. “‘Sure,’ aid the girl, ‘an’ what if I be? You must not be repeatin’ it like that before folks.” idaho Joins. Fraser, Idaho, Nov. 27th (Special)— Mrs. Martha J. Lee has given for pub- lication the following statement, con- cerning Dodd’s Kidney Pills: “I was down with Rheumatism three times,” she says, “and each time Dodd’s Kidney Pills helped me. 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