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te A mld up the got too hard man Wilson amfidavit,” He eaid he hed been expecting it. “I have been prepared for this,"” de- cleared Mr. Kelly, “I have seen signs att. If he recants ne alone will suffer, “As for his statement that I lstened to his story the more readily because I wanted to hold my job, I desire to retary of the Citizen's Union for 1906. Tam also a director in the Parkhurst Soclety. Recently I turned down an advantageous offer to- perform some other work.’ The Accused Not Afraid. Magistrate Wahle called the Joon Doo ing this afternoon. Shiels and lan were present. District-Attor- Mey Jerome appeared at the hearini accompanied by his assistant, Mr. Hart, Superintendent McClintock, of the Parkhuret Soclety, and Mr. Kelly Before the Magistrate took his seat Bergt. Shiels said that the whole thing looked foolish to him. “Why,” he said, “I've known of this ola dub Rogers for years. He's a ping Hendler. If 1 was going to enter into @ conspiracy to put anybody cut of the way does it occur to you that I would employ a_doddering, blabby old skate like this Rogers?’ When Magistrate Wahie called the roceedings to order District-Attorney Berome susgested that Shiels and Phe- lan had better be represenied by coun- > gel, He salg that Assistant Distri Attorney Hart had reduced the test! Mony to devositions. Neither Shiels nor Phelan er in court. Magistrate Wah reeees to allow them to go out Fetain counsel. ‘When the proceedings were resumed Rogers repeated on the witness stand ‘he confession that he had already made privately. Admits Perjury in Court. Replying to Disirict-Attorney Jerome. Rogers told how he had detailed his concocted tale to Clarence J. szearn, to Frank 3 to Dr. Parkhurst and to the Divirict-Attorney himself. He dinanged Kelly with Instigating the manufacture of the lurid yarn, “Kelly told me," said Rogers, “that I would be a made man for life and that his job would also be safe, Keily's Principal object, however, was to get en with Sergeant Shiels, Detective Eddie Reardon, Capt. McDermott and Sergeant Hahn.” “At this juncture the District-Attorney Moved the dismissal of the proceedings against the policemen and asked that Rogers be committd, for perjury. Beret Sta ‘Bhi the affidavit charging Rog- with the ‘crime, In less than five minutes Rogers! Weudden,y switched from the role of Switness to that of defendant. had beon arraigned and ‘hefd for the Grand Jury. (is bond was fixed at the sum, almost unprecedented in such a casi Rogers 1s widely known in re of $50,000. ew York. was discharged from Jefferson Mar- prison tor selling whisky to prison- He ‘was discharged from Police Headquarters for stealing counterfeit ‘money that was being held for evidence. rs didn't know the money was counterfeit until he tried to pass it. Rogers hus been heard to declare funy times that he intended to black Ww some night, waylay Dr. Parkhurst jand kill him. His idea in blacking up ‘that ‘was la SET NT TENET TT PURSLED WRECK OF BRITISH KIN Survivors of Lost Steam- ship Brought Here by Rescuing Veessls THRILLING STORM TALE The Mannheim’s Crew Risked Their Lives to Save Sailors on Doomed Craft. ne German tank steamship Mann- im, with eleven survivors of the lost Phoenix line feeighter British King on board, arrived in port to-day. Capt hau, of the Mannheim, tells In detal! of the foundering of the British King off Cape Suble last Sunday, when twen- ty-elght of the crew of fifty-six lost their lives, “In a long career at se: Schau, “I never saw such an awful sight. We were unable to get a boa! to the doomed ship because of the high seas and the terrifle gale. From our ks we could see men going over- b rd from the British King, fearing to be sucked down to the bottom with her when she went under, and hoping to catch hold of a piece of wreckage and keey afloat until we could pick them up. “To add to the horror of the scene, a school of sharks appeared, Ito not know if any of the sailors who jumped from the Britis King, or went down with her were caught by the sharks, but I do know that these terrors of the sea pursued and killed a number of cattle that were swimming after our vessel when we left the scene of the wreck.” “A short time after noon on March 10 we sighted a vessel flying signals o distress. She proved to be the British King, By signal her captain told us that he was in need of assistance and asked us to stand by. He said he hoped to repeir his damages in six hours The eeu was high, but we could have launched bouts and taken off the whole crew of the British King at that time without much trouble. Of course, we had no means of knowing that her con- dition was so desperate. Asked fcr Help Too Late. “We stood by exchanging occastonal signals all afternoon. Toward night the Britiah King’s officers signalled that they would have to abandon the ship, but said that they could use gheir own said Capt. to make it appear the crime committed by a negro. Scarcely ® lawyer in. police court practice has Jescaped contributing an occasional dim; or quarter to Rogers, who appear fo be perennially in need of carfare. CURB BROKERS BID FOR GIAL'S BOOKS ‘Bought Her Ten-Cent Maga- zines for Charity at Ad- vanced Prices. ‘A rather pretty young woman who !s engaged in the work of selling a month- ly publication for a charitable organi- wation caused considerable fun on the curb market this afternoon. . She entered into the roned inclosure of the curb brokers, and without asking permission from any one, started to sell her magazine. An elderly broker, coat, took the youne nd escorted her into the middle of the market, where he started to bid up the coplés of the 10-cent publication which she had with her. The bidding started at % cents, and for each copy which was offered the bidding for it was very spirited. Several of the maga- gines sold up as high as 35 cents. ‘The young woman greatly enjoyed the sport and helped along the bidding un- til a policeman ordered her from within the lines. By that time she had obtained a very Udy sum of money, and about all her magasines were sold. SWINDLED, HESS QUT OF S300 CAS Vandewater Causes Arrest of President Nugent, of Equit- able Guarantee Company. dressed in a fur womar in hand | | Frederick F. Nugent, president of the “Equitable Title Guarantee Company, ‘once doing business at No. 52 Broadway, (Wea arrested this afternoon by Detective Pioed, of District-Attorney Jerome's office, upon a warrant sworn out by P gid G. Vandewater, of Cedarhurst, Vandewster charges that ho invested in the company Dec. 27, 1905, under promise that he was to recaive $3) @ week as a general mrainager for the _eampeny. He got no stocks and he did not get igp._ae the company f= now sald to Nugent was held by Mag- 1@ Wahle in $1,600 bat! for a fur- “ther hearing to-morrow dn the Centre {Direct Police Court. : ORTH GERMAN LLOYD -LINER BREAKS RUDDER. HALIFAX, N. 6. March 18.—The boats. It appears that they tried to Jaunch the boats only to have them smashed. Later on they asked us to send a boat, but darkness had settled down and we were unable to do so, “We were steaming after the British King, which was under way and mov- ing at a good rate wkh the gale. I signalled to the captain to stop, mean- ing to take a chance at rescue in the dark. The signal, I find, was misun- derstood. ‘They took it to mean ‘stop oo board,’ and Kept on moving unui their fires were put out by the water, “During the night the gale increasod and the seas became more dangerous. We stood by, however, and about da: break saw a large eamer approach- ing from the eastward. This proved to be the Leyland liner Bostonian, bound for Boston. The British King signalled to her for assistance, and the captain of the Bostonian signalled back that he would stand by. “Phe captain of the Bostonian wanted to make an attempt to take the British King in tow, but the officers of the rippled ship ‘signalled that it would be of No Use as she must sink before long. At 2.80 o'clock in the afternoon we were Signalled that the British King ‘was xoing down, and that we would have to Send" boats. SHOAL OF SHARKS | . seep ‘THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1906, SCENES IN BABY BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Seene JA. WesESTreOr AL Gorcioy, BURGLARS SLID DOWN SHAFT TO POLICE HANDS Ryan Waited at Bottom as Trio Came Down Dumbwaiter. Caught In the act of footing a Har-| lem flat to-day, three young crooks | elld down the dumb-waiter shaft, only to be scooped in at the bottom by Po- lUceman Miuhael Ryan, of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street sta- tion. Ryan's club played a quick tat- | too on the knife and revolver drawn by tow of the trio and the three werc | marched to the station. | Ryan was approached on post by James Brady, of No, %% West One Hundrea and Thirty-third street, who sald that while assing the apartment house at No. 34 Lenox avenue he was softly hailed by a man leaning out of & third-story window. This man, who was Joseph Malamphy, a tenant, told) Brady to run for a policeman, as he} heard burglars in the apartment ad-| Joining. | hurried back with Brave Attempts at Rescue. “I callea for volunteers to man a lifeboat and every man of the crow stepped forward. “I picked out at ran- dom enough to form a crew and wo put a leboat overboard. It was smashed to splinters against the hull. We lowered another boat and the crew managed to get away tn dt and to the British King, “They took of eleven men and brought them back to the Mannheim. As the lust man stepped from the lie boat it was An- bout nade up our minds that {t would be Useiess for us to try to get a small boat to the British King again, “Meantime the Bostonian had also sent a boat, but we were Unable to se it moon came up, It was almost as light as day. We could see the British King, low In the water, wallowing in the seas and knew there Were men on board bes cause we could see moving lights. The cries of the eattle sounded above the raging of the storm, Kept Firing Revolver, “It was a frightful thing to have to be there, utterly helpless, and wait for that snip to go down with those brave men aboard of her. Scmebody on the bridge kept firing @ revolver at inter- vals of about a minute, We could see the flash and occasionally neard the re- bor, L moved the Mannhelm to wind- Ward of the stricken steamer to protect her and the captain of the Bostonian did the same, but the danger of a col- n forced Us to kee e en to ‘p away from each “Shortly after midnight the British King went down. She faded out of sight all at one, We stood by all night Ustening for cries for help. Dozens of cattle were swimming around in the Waves uttering blood-curdling shrieks of terror, Its ‘ems that they tumed tho cattle loose just before tha gv gan e tha #iip went When daylight broke the surtace of the sea was strewn with wreckage, and many cattle were still afloat. Three of them swam after us for eight miles, From our after-deck we could sec sharks swim to the poor beasts and kell them, There were no men or human bodies in sight, but I understand the Bostonlan picked up some survivors from a plece of wreckage, Bostonian Saved Eighteen. “The captain of the Bostonian sig- nalled us that he had rescued elghteen men, including Capt, O'Hagan, and I algnalled that [ had saved eleven. Then we parted. The last I saw of the wreck was a blue oll barrel floating on the crest of @ wave cloke by a cow that was odming after us, swimming des- perately ‘The shipwrecked sailors were taken off the Mannheim at Quarantine and hurried to Hoboken, where they were put on the British Empire of Konigin Luise, of the North Lioyd line, bound from New @na Genoa, t into lay with her rudder stock Luise is in command of wi she sailed Phoenix Ine for Antwerp. Before leay~ ing the tank steamer the eleven men Ined up on deck with bared heads and wet eyes am) gave three cheers for Capt. Schau and his crew, ‘The Bostonian survivors, seventeen in number, came down from Boston this mornipy. ‘They were on board the British Empire when the men from the Mannhelm reached her and = eMedia ee ware row | Durkiess settied down und then tae} The policeman Brady, to be met b Malampay, who told them he had heard a soft crash |like a door giving way, and then heard | footsteps in the apartment of ene | Kurtz, next to his, Suspecting burglars, | jhe had called to Brady, who was pass: | ne Ryan found that the door had been jimmied, but the place was empty. Then }he heard the rate of dumbwaiter ropes jand ran down stairs. The three mor | were comered, One drew a pistol and nother a knife | Ryan disarmed them and Malamphy | jand Brady helped march them to th station. gave their names as eighteen years old, of | No. 210 Bast One Hundred and ‘Twenty- | first street; Richard Walsh, seventeen, 6 Third avenue, and Willan eighteen, of ‘No. red and Forty-elghth street, | Wuraherg had a diamond brooch, a |stickpin and a pocketbook, all valued at $200. FEAR LITTLE GIAL HAS BEEN STOLEN Woman Who Said She Was Child’s Mother Carried Her Away. Whether or not Mamie Smith, an un- usually pretty and well-developed girl of twelve, the forter child of aged Mrs. Relzzak, of No. 25 Fifth street, was really reclaimed by the mother who loft her to tho care of the kina old Hungarian woman ten years ago, or was kidnapped, the police of the Fifth street station will have to solve. A rather show!ly-dressed woman and @ man met the child on the street be- fore her bome yesterday, embraced her as thelr daughter and hurried away with her without any word of explana- tion to her foster parents. It is true that later In the day old Mrs, Relz- zak and Mrs, Julla Daly, with whom the little girl has lived since her baby- hood, received a telegrain atating that Mamie was safe with her parent in Philadelphia, and that the telegram bore the name of the mother. ‘Nevertheless, the two women, who have reared and loved the lttle girl as thelr own. are fearful that some harm may come to the child, and will ppare no effort to probe the truth, axe Seis Stone ‘ ishie Aabiot, Bae iadnete ‘on iegue' Sarees | Btta You: jin death. LOCKED UP W HFR RIVAL AND HIMSELF (Continued fro’ months Pierepont two ago. tenants knew little < them, exeont that Nosser hag been a race track oper- ator, having had an interest In Gutten- burg in the palmy days of that course The couple took sulte 2, a handsome set of rooms on the ninth floor, over- looking ‘Phirty-second street. Their domestic life, as fat as outs!d- ers miglt judge, was happy until yes- terday afternoon, when a good-looking blonde about ten years younger than Mrs. Nosser came to their suite. She was Mrs. Estelle Young, of No. 319 West Thirty-fourth street, the first victim of the pistol Jn to-day"s tragedy, A quar- rel, in which all virce took active part, vegan as soon as she entered the door of Sulte No. 92, Nosser Takes Poison. The climax to the quarrel came when Nosser. declaring that the latest com- plications had made his life unendura- ble, ran into the bathroom and swal- lowed part of the contents of a bottle of laudanum. It appears that both women joined in saving him. ‘They got a physician, and arassed man was quickly relieved o poisonous dose, but wus left very IL from its effects. Mra, Nosser says she herself asked oung to stay through the nigh: and help her nurse her husband, It ts explained that the presence of Mrs. Young seemed to have a quieting effect upon him: Wife Threatens to Leave. Mrs. Nosser took the initiative in de- cisive action this time, She announced that If her husband meant to again iouintaia friendly relations with Miss Young #he would leave him. Kepeadng this declaration, she went into the bathroom, opening off her own jress herself for the street. and, weak ana white from of ‘the laudanum, followed ad. wonds—excited words, in seemed to be lashing himself nays u into a Sudc mit bolted the do a pris ner He must have hurried dire y to the front room, snateaing up as he went a revolver from a dresser in the middle voom, Mos. Nosser, lmmmering upon the nels of the door, says she heard iilm vs his mind had been up to some di te course, he from the bathroom and locked behind him, leaving his wite ” 8Y might as well end the whole thing cow!” "Then there was a scream from Mrs. Young, In that second, she must have caught, the gleam of in Nosser's han The wife, pe In, heard a ehot, two more screams from the last 01 trailing off into a anotsoer ot, and the sound of a fall, 5 ‘Then. Mrs. Nowser remembered the other door—the door leading into the public hall, She opened i: and ran out, Other; Nosser, IFE, KILLED m First Page.) | was one of the most familiar | figures’ among the gambling crowd in |the ‘Tenderloin. ‘The young woman had been well-known at Jack's and Mock's| ever since sne came from New Orleans! a few years ago. She is sald to have belonged to a good Southern family. A few years ago she sang in the chorus of "The Wizard of Oz.” Nosser's wite was also an actress, with the stage name of Eva Vaughan, when he met her seven years ago. Noseer a Gambler. Until Jerome raided Canfield’s and other gambling houses Nosser ran a Dlace In West Forty-first street, jusi Gast of the Criterion Hptel. Later, after coming “Into some money, he |Slarted @ place in the Rossmore ' that | was well patronized. But it was ill- managed, for Nosser soon found that more money was going out than com- ing in. This was due largely to the fact that he spent with both hands and wined and dined his patrons more lib- erally than thelr contributions to the bank warranted. He lived first at the Rogsmore and then at the Vendome. Vie establishment went up with a/ bare last November, when a mob of/| creditors besieged the gambiing rooms and demanded pay:nent for wines and other suppiles Shortly afterward Nos- ser filed a petition in bankruptcy, giving: Mis abilities as $15,419, with no assets beyond his wearing ‘apparel and a gold! waton and fob worth $0. Among his creditors were Louls L. Todd; $700 for | board at ihe Hotel Vendome; New Am- jsterdam Bank, $1.800: Acker, Merrall & Condit, John” Kelly (Honest Jonn),” $1,500, “with the remainder for cab hire, ‘mineral water and wines, These are some of the various pro- prietary clubs (rather, gambling rooms) that rran: Tae Wall Street cub, , . 5 West Thirticth street; the Petro- lium Club, ac No. 139 West Forty-fira street, and the Sa Club, on’ West Porty“third street. The Slain Woman. Mrs. Young lived with hor sister, Mrs, Ida, Morrison, sometimes called’ Mrs Eichler, {nan apartment on the sixth floor the Baltimore (t old ‘Tecum: sch). ‘They moved In there about two eats ago and settled down amid sur- | roundings of luxury and comfort. At| that th ser ‘was spending with | some lav’ a legacy that had beon | ft to him. He wis almost as regular) jin his attendanc the Young flat{ aa he was at his own and it is said spent $10.00 in jewelry gifts to Mrs. Yeung. He had her at the Arion ball this year, buying wine Ilke a Pitts- [burger Strangely enough his wife was along, too. Mrs, Momson. the sister of the stain woman, fainted when she reached the| | Plerrepont and saw her sister's body. | She sald the dead girl's real name was | Stella Reynolds, and that they came | originally ‘from New Orleans, Even after his gambling ventures met shipwredk and he seemed engulfed in | debt, Nosser continued to spend money shrieking, {freely, though he had begun to take Hertha Murphy, with her pass key. | opium in large quantities. A few months came a moment Jater and the tragedy ago, while visiting Mrs, Young, he had was revealed, The young woman had been shot while in but the horror of her last conscious moment had twisted her features into a mask whioh endured She was still beautiful, de: @pite the wound Jn her temple a powder burn upon the white was a blonde, tall and gra expresvive, big eves and fe most classic in thelr regularity, Wife Overcome by Tragedy. After the discovery of the two dead bodies, Mra. Nosser collapsed. She is a rather gootlooking ‘about thirty-five years. old. ‘grew what calmer she told this story: hen I discovered what my bus- band's relations with this woman were I grew jealous and we had some un- happy scenes. He knew her before our marriage, but broke off with her after our wedding. Some time ago I learned that be Was again visiting her. “She came here yesterday to get some money from him, saying she was going to sail to-morrow for Europe, f up- braided both of them. He sald life was not worth living uniess he could live with her, although he swore he loved me too. It was then he took the poison, He had been taking drugs for some time. “We both workal to save him, for- getting the breach between us, We gave him an emetic and then walked him back and forth between us, until the effects of the poison wore off. Dr, Townsend, who lives in the building attended him. “We feared that he might renew his attempt at suicide, yo at my request Mrs. Young stayed all night. “We slept together in the front room. My hus- hand alent ona couch in ‘the narlor. To-day when I threatened to leave he locked me in the bathroom and the shooting followed. ‘Noaser, Whe a bare excape from death, after crowd- ing his system with oplum, Dr, Lewis Stern, who lives at the Baltimore, ad- ministered antidotes and saved his life, warning him then that another such | dose would kill him. Some Jowels Micsing. On the body of the murdered woman were five diamond rings, but there Was no trace of a diamond brooch and diamond necklace which her sister sald Mrs, Young wore when she left home yesterday. This discovery was made when Cor- joner Acritelll came to the apartments to examine the bodles. He permitted thelr removal to an undertaking es- tablishment on Fourth avenue. The police of the Tenderloin station finally decided this afternoon to take Mrs. Novser into custody, although there was nothing go disprove her story of how the tragedy occurred. She twas arraigned on the technical charge of being a “suspicious person,” in the Jefferson Market Court, ‘The sister of Estella Young gave the nolice a letter which she sald Mra. Young received by messenger yesterday from Mra, Nosser. which contained the cause of her going to the Nossers’ apart- ment. It reads; “Pardon me for taking the Iberty of writing. T write you to ask os an act of justice to give Loula badk to me. You have made his life miserable for the last six weeks, If I thought for a moment that you were slncere 1 would not hesitate to give him to you. “Ae for myself, | love ‘him, I am in- stigatea to communicate with you in onder to Interrupt Louis's proposed Eu- ropean trip, of which I have been in- formed. I await an imnediats, reply py the bearer, Yours, VA In answer to this dettor, says the ter, Mre. Young went to Nosser's with a horse’ end this to the trag- SKULL BROKEN, HE ACCUSES POLICEMAN Hospital Patient Declares He Was Clubbed During a Quarrel with Officers, Frank C, May, twenty-seven years of, age, @ conductor, living at Morris Park, L. 1, is !n St, Mary's Hospital at Jamaica with a badly fractured skull, as the result of an altercation ‘he hag with a spectal policeman of the Long Island Rallroad the sta- tion in Jamaica to-~lay, May and the officer, Charles E. Fitz- simmons, had words and it is alleged by May that the officer struck him over the head with his club. ‘The officer was locked up on a charge of assault, OIL STOVE FInES APARTMENT -HOUSE Old Woman Rescued in Time} Nearly Overcome from Smoke. ‘Two rescues nvere made at a fire to- day that gutted the four-story apart- ment-house at No, 497 Ninth street, Brooklyn. The fire engines were blockel3) by snow and before they could reach ‘whe fire & tad done $10,000 damage ana tled up the Smith street car line, Frank Springler, a janitor, saw the smoke coming from the apartment or F. 8. Nemo. An oll stove had been left in the store-room of this apartment, and becoming overheated it hail set fire to the place. The flames burst Into the alrshaft and soon communicated to all floors, Springler called to William Anderson moterman on the pintform of a Smi street car passing. The two rushed to second floor, where Springler_ knew ‘ gies Kennedy e invalid, who < alone a The two men curried the oman to an ad= Joining house, yhat the worse for found and he Swan, a thre nen, who arrived after fighting through the ‘anowdrifts, formd the pull wll ablaze and confined their efforts bo suv ing the ehell. Everything on all floors was rulned. PUPILS HALF FARE BILL FAVORED IN ASSEMBLY. (Special to The Evening World, ALBANY, March 15.—The Assembly | Rallroad Committee ‘to-day reported favorably the Hartmann bill compell- ing the railroads in Greater New York to carry school children at halt fare, penetrates the protection provides weather-strips makes the body warm animation in the blood. days. GET INSURANCE SLAUGHTER OF UITE A SNOWSTORM. Heavy going under foot and a small sized blizzard overhead. Weather like this shows where the weak places are in the body. way of good, healthy flesh and pure blood, you're down with a cold, at least. Scott’s Emulsion Emulsion to fortify the body against cold, stormy SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pear! St., New York. OFFICIALS OUT, SAYS UNTERMYER Legislators Are Asked to Change Bill to Provide for Earlier Elections. ALBANY, March 15.—Insurance men again stormed the capital to-day at the second hearing on the Armstrong Com- mittee bills now before the Legisia- ture, Samuel Untermyer, representing tha Independent Policy-Holters’ Commit- tee; Henry W. Taft, for the Mutual Life and James H. McIntosh, of the New York Life, were the principal speak- ers scheduled. “1 belley sald Mr. Untermyer, “that the sooner the trustees are re- Ured the better it will be for the policy- holders and the cor.anies,” At the opening c/ the hearing this ufternoon Chairman Armstrong asked the speakers not to cover ground gone over last Friday. R. Burnham Moffett, nt New Yori, representing certain pol- -holders. was the first sepaker, Ho ras Introduced by Timothy E, Wood- ruff. He urged the committee to consider the insurance bills carefully, and not to cut Into the insurance system for the sake of cutting. He opposed the provision for putting out pf office next November the trustees of all the in- surance companies. He said unmerited grace would be visited upon the trustees if they were summarily sald that the expenditure of t ke" funds by Andy Hamilton an ntributions to poliiical organt{zi tions Were authorized by the executive | officers of the Insurance companies and not by the trustees.” He further de- fended the discredited trustees by say ing that they had immediately set about to remedy the evils when thelr atten- |tlon was called to them by the investi- | Sating committee. | "Mr. Moffett named some of the pres- Jent ‘trustees, giving them all a_ fine eertificite character, He said that the | millions now controlied by the trustees of the New York Life would be turned jover to Wall street sharks if the ex- | g boards were hurried out of o: lise. He asked that the trustees be divided into four classes, one to be re- tired each year. Asked how many policy-holders he sented Mr. Moffett sald he didn’t He ared for a committee of holders composed of prominent busl- hess men of Brooklyn. Chairman Armstrong potnted out that the agency force of an insurance com- Piny would be utilized to keep in. con- uol the present directors if the existing ele. em were continued, He rem the trustees were elected Y real participation by the pel Henry Taft, counsel for the Mutual Life, safd that the Mutual Com- pany would cheerfully comply with the provision as to the limitation of busi- ness In the new bills. He, however, did object somewhat to the proposition to compel the Insurance compantes to ect rid of thelr stock holdings. | There would be a cbnsiderable loss to }the policy-holdera if this provision should be carried Into effect, he arguc | He belleved, however, that insuran companies should not be allowed to hold the stocks of moneyed conporations but that was far from saving that the Legtstature should comoel the com- anies to absolutely dispose of stocks In five wars, The time, he thought, was not long enough. He held that unless dome conservative provision was enacted, to the effect that @ certain percentage of the stocks be retired each year, there would be a shock to the Market and a great de- preciation In the value of the securities. The Mutual Life regarded the pro- | vision, retating to the contingency re- ‘serve. ag of vital Impotance, ~ The inciple on wile hthig povision wi sed, said M. Taft, waa that the com- pany ‘holding larger amount of secur!- ‘tles’ need a smaller margin of safety. ‘This idea was erroneous. 80 far as the large companies were concerned, the margh proposed was not large enough. He asked In conclusion that the com- mitte deal with the question of the | election of new trustees in a broad [spirit of public policy, He advised that [thitry days be given to examine the signatures of polley-holders voting by Proxies and that hoards shall be elect repr know | ted In three differant classes. J. H. Melrtosh, of the New York | Life, attacked the provision throwing jout of office the trustees of the big Insurance companies INSURANCE LORRY ‘ACTIVE, SAYS LAWSON, | Boson, March 15.—Thomas w. Law- json to-day forwarded a telegram to Chairman Armstrong, of the Insurance Investigating Committee of the New York Legislature. In It allegations are made to the effect that interested parties have received assurances that The. proposed insurance legislation can be killed, The telegram concludes: assure your committee its work wav never in greater danger than at present. I have in custody Insur- Ane: podctes Issued within a few days signed by new reform officers, and affi- | davits from the insured thet they re- | ceived them for nothing by proxy, and |In some cases with large rebates, If the weather your body requires in the for these weak places; and puts new life and None better than Scott's Coffec Sale MOOS A BLOT On COUNTRY Wood’s Action and Roosevelt Attitude Stirs Senate and House. WASHINGTON, March 15.—Congress- man Jones, of Virginia, said in th House to-day that notwithstanding the close relations between President Roo#e- velt and Gen, Wood, he could not un- derstand how the President could ine dorse the killing of women and chil- dren. The affair was a blot on this coun- try. “In my Judgment," he continued, “this action on the part of the commanding General of our forces in the Moro prov- inces cannot be condoned or excused.”” “It would only have required a wait of a few weeks to have starved out the Moros, when they would have surren- dered," he added. The despatch from the Secretary of War to Gen, Wood showed that ho thought an explanation necessary. The despatch from Gen. Wood he charac- terized as a most remarkable document. The President's message on the sub- fect of the battle between United States troops and Moro insurgents in Sulu Islands, was read in the Senate and Senator Culberson asked whether it was intended as a reply to the resolution recently adopted by the Senate at his instatice and Mr, Bacon replied that it could not be a reply to the resolution as it failed to cover the ground. “What we want especially to know,” he sald, ‘is what provocation there was for this wholesale slaughter, for we must call it such, In view of the fact that none escaped, regardless of age or sex." He hoped, he sald, that the facts would show that there had been extreme provocation. He regard- ed the affair as most regrettable. Mr. Lodge replied that so far no news had been received, except by cable, and he had no doubt that as soon as news should be received it would be supplied AB a matter of course. “When the facts are received,” he went on, “it will be time enough to talk about slaughter and massacre, if the facts justify such wk, which I don’t believe they will.” Mr. Culberson replied that the only purpose of the resolution Was to get the facts. “There haye been official Teporis and responses,"’ “and we want copies of hem.” he sald, “Is there anything indicating an in- disposition oh the part of the Secretary of War to. supply the information,” asked Mr. Spooner, and Mr. Culberson replied in the negative, adding that Mr. Lodge had been under a misapprehension as to the purpose of his inquiry. nOFTT, SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY, ieee vide, eee {POUND 10c -rounp 102 ASSORTED iD NUT - CHOCOLATES. :.....Pounp 1Sc AT Tite SODA FOUNTAIN. 5° FRIDAY--Ciam Bou! 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