The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-09
The .Fat Contrlbutor'' ON Accldeni

The "Eat Contributor ON Accident
Insurance.
The "Breakneck Accident Insurance
Company" wrote to the 'Fat Contribu-
tor" not long since, to work up a col
umn or so of ofinducements for people to
take out policies. This is the way he did
it: ... ....
Everybody should get insured against
accidents. No matter If ynu belong to
one of the "best of families''-accident
will happen in them. =E7r
Get policy. The old proverb says:
Honesty is the best policy" but that
was all before the Accident Insurance
Company started. Now the best policy
is policy in the "Breakneck."
The other day a man in Chicago fell
out of a fourth story window. He had
no insurance, and consequently was
killed. Another man on the same day
fell out with his wife. He was insured
in the "Breakneck," and is ready to
fall out again.
A woman driving a spirited horse in
st. Louis was run away with. Being
insured against accidents, she wasn't
alarmed bit, stopped the horse, and
came back safe. Her policy running
out, she neglected to renew 1t. Shortly
after she was run away with again.
Her husbands partner run away with
her this lime, and she hasn't come
back vet. Don't fail TO renew yonr pol
icy, particularly II 1t Is In the "Break-
neck"
AT Dubuque, Iowa, n man was kicked
by a horse. The horse wasn't insured
and he got kicked back. .iH
Near Paris, KY, a man while engaged
in running a circular saw had his arms
taken of. They consisted of a cavalry
sabre and a double barTeled shot gun
The man who carried them off had an
accident insurauce-Andh he hasn't been
caught yet.
A Philadelphia man fell from the
scaffold and broke his neck. II he had
been insured in the "BreRkneck," !" his
sentence might have been cOmmuted 70
s.imprisonment for life." Why will
men neglect these things?
Our agent at Penn Yam, New YORK.
i writes: ssOne of our neighbors, whom
had solicited to take policy, laughed
at me for thinking he could not take
| care ofhimself The very next day he
| fell from the roof OF his house. ana
wasn't hurt n biti"
In Utica, New York, man accident
ally got married. Being insured in the
| "Breakneck," )" he will receive Sl5 a week
until he recoyers-
A man was sentenced TO solitary con-
fnement for life in the Michigan State
Prison. Policy in he "Breakneck," !"
SIS a week as long as he is confined TO
his room. llalatH
A gray headed old man was insured
in the "Breakneck.n The very next
day he bought bottle Of hair dye
and dyed. His family received a hand
some sum, on the black board.
Two cattle drovers started with a
drove of cattle TO New York. One had
a policy and the other had none. There
was n collision, and the one who had a
policy wasn't hurt bit-and the other
wasn't either. Insure in the Break
neck" hfHElF 5E- l-ess s1i- t-r
Near Portland, Maine, a poor man
fell from a loft and broke his neck. BE
received his insurance 5000, from the
s'Breakneok," !" with which he was enR-
bled to set himself mp in business, and
Is now doing well.
Our agent at Cleveland, Ohio, writes:
"a lnmberhorse ran away with a bob
tailed wagon and tipped the street over
onto a small woman and six elderly
children. The horse began 10 cry ana
the wagon bled freely at the nose, p1t
otherwise the street is doing we'll no
Insurance..
a boiler exploded at Memphis, blow