The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-11-07
CHICAGO.
fanhaitan Insurance Company I'm
Bank ruptcy-A Test Question.

Bankruptcy-A Test Question.
! CHICAGO, November Ga petition il
bankruptcy has been filed in the Uni
ted States Court in this city, asking tba,
the Manhattan Insurance Company, o.
New York, be declared bankrupt and
that an assignee be appointed to take
charge oil its assets, for the benefit oi
it's creditors. This has been done to
testt the question, whether foreign
corporation, doing business in this
State, is amenable to the Bankrupt
Courts of this State. This is done
under authority Of an Act OF the Gen.
eral Assembly, passed March llth,
1869, in which it is enacted, that any
Insurance companies, incorporated or
organized under the law OF any other
State, desiring 10 do business in this
State on whom process OF law can be
served and filed in the office OF the
State Auditor, and it is claimed
under this act that any foreign
insurance company that should come
into this State to do business, should be
amenable to the laws of this State, and
to some extent as private citizens, and
that the creditors of such company
should not be obliged to apply to the
judicial powers of any other State for
the enforcement of their rights or
claims. The Manhattan Insurance
Company, in entering this State to do
business, complied with the statutes re-
ferred to, by appointing an agent who
still resides in the city OF Chicago, and
upon whom service can be had if pro-
cess is issued 10y any court in the county.
On Saturday afternoon, near Ply.
mouth, Indiana, David Tellers, we'll
known farmer, discovered two strange
men asleep on his haystack, and two
strange horses near by. Supposing the
men to be horse thieves he procured
assistance from the neighbors and
attempted to arrest them. The men
attempted 10 escape, and man named
Henry Cook was shot dead, and his
cor,rade ran away wounded, but effect
ed his escape. The man Cook has
had the reputation Of thief for several
years.
A party of men living near, or in
Wood county, Illinois, went out coon
hunting last Saturday night, and while
returning home at late hour three Of
them sat down on the railroad track to
await the arrival of the rest Of the party
and verv soon fell asleep. A train sooE
came along and struck John Grear and
threw him sixty feet, causing instant
death. Robbins was badly hurt, but
| il is hoped not fatally. The other man
was unhurt. =. =,
The Board of Trade to-day adjourned
until Wednesday, in order to devote all
day tomorrow to the election. Nearly
every member of the Board Of Trade
will be at the polls tomorrow, working
for the election OF the Union Flreproof
ticket. 1t is believed that this ticket
will be successful, though great exer-
tons are being made by its opponents
The committee on Employment reports
having given work Saturday to thirty
four laborers, twenty-five carpenters,
four masons, two upbolsters, one book
binder and others. The total number
proyided for during the week was oso'
The committee are in need OF tools 10
Give applicants the means Of earning
| their own living. Donations OF this
Kind will be thankfully received.
| NJ CV Over, an old, wealthy and
bonored citizen, has been sued by Thos.
sutherland for SIS, 900 damages, the
Doctor having given him Gaming tor
abusive language in connection with
the rent of a building. DR.. Dyer gave
$1,000 bail to appear.
The Republic Insurance company
has called in the eight per cent unpaid
stock in monthly installments OF ten
per cent. The Circuit Court this morn
ipg appointed Receivers for the fire-
men S and Equitable Insurance nee comPa'
MES of Chicago, bonds 500, 900 each
Two boiie: were found yesterday.
One was tina, of a man, picked up BY a
turbost. about mile north OF the crlo'
One Of the bodies was burned and char,
red so that it could not be recognized
in sex.