Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-26

from the time Of issning any policy Of in
surance, the company shall be thereafter
estOpped from setting up, as q defense to
its payment, the fraud or falsity Of any OF
the answers made by the insured, upon
the faith Of which the policy was issued,
but that such answers shall thereafter b.
regarded and considered as true.' That
is to say, If company does not discover .
fraud practiced upon it within two years
after issuing q policy it cannot at any
later poriod avail itself of the proof of
such fraud as q defense to the payment of
tho policy. Is not this setting premium
upon fraud by declaring that the more
adroitly and covertly it is planned and
carried out the more sacred it shall be
By this bill, if fraud is so stupidity and
blunderingly executed that it can be de.
tected in two years, then it can avail its
perpetrator nothing. II, however, it be
conceived SO craftily ana hidden so ingen
iOusly as to prevent discovery for longer
time than two years, then it becomes in.
viOlable and nothing can prevent the
wrong.doer from gathering the fruits OF
his evil conduct. Such bill," he says,
"creating statute of limitations in favor
| OF fraud, is SO at variance with all our
| ideas of right and such wide departure
from the principles of our Jurisprudence
that refuse to give it validity by my ap
prevail"
| Crime ana Calamity.
Near Hartsboro', Alabama, yesterday,
Joseph Broom, white, expostulated with
Rena Polite, a colored woman, for insult.
ing his wife, whereupon she stabbed him
with butcher knife. He wrenched the
knife from her hand and stabbed her to
the heart, causing her to fall dead
Broom's wound is likely to prove mortal.
mo duel was fought yesterday between
the Virginia editors, Messrs. Elan and
Beirne, but a telegram from Richmond
says cit is now pretty certainly ascertain
ed that the fight will take place some time
tomorrow" ."-Great distress is reported
among the fishing population along the
coast of Labrador, owing to the detention
of their supplies by the ice jam along the
shore. It is feared that several deaths
from starvation have Occurred.-A. H.
Hinkle, . prominent member of tho Gin
cinnati chamber of commerce, died yester-
day in AndOver, Massachusetts,, where he
had gone to attend the graduation of his
son. He was GO years of age.-William
H. Harrison, q we'll known cOttager of
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and resident
Of Philadelphia, died suddenly at Ocean
Grove yesterday morning.
Killed with a Islacksmith's sIedge.
Colonel B.L. Farinholt, of Essex county,
Va, was killed on Saturday. Early in the
week he had a misunderstanding with :.
blacksmith, and fight ensued in which
the blacksmith was wOrsted. On Satur-
day Colonel Farinholt, hearing of threats
made by the blacksmith, went to the lat
ter's shop armed with q five pound weight
but before he could use it his opponent
assaulted him with q sledge hammer and
crushed his skull, killing him instantly.
Colonel FarinhOlt was man of consider
able prominence in Essex county, where
he had large monetary interest.
Elail NIscelIany
The Washington monument at Wash.
ingtOn, has now reached height of $40
feet.
The Kaaterskill railroad was opened
yesterday for business. With it's connec.
tions it forms an all rail route from Rond-
out to tho top of the Catskill mountains
The farmers in the valley of Virginia
are now harvesting the wheat. The crop
throughout the valley counties will bo un
usually large, and the quality is good.
Killed by q Toy Pistol.
Several little girls living near SOmer-
vile Mills, Ga, found q small toy pistol
and commenced playing with it. Ono of
the children named Minnie Shrip, was
handling tho weapon when it was dis
charged. The ball first struck Minnie's
little sister on the cheek, inficting flesh
wound, and then struck another little
girl named Mamie Stoen in the stomach,
producing wound from which she died
within an hour.
Base isall Yesterday.
At Providence Providence, 12; New
York. 3; at Buffalo Buffalo, 2; Detroit,
o; at Boston Boston, Is; Philadelphia,
z; at Cincinnati Allegheny, 9; Cincin-
natl, 4; at Louisville Metropolitan, 6;
Eclipse, 1 ; At St. Louis; St. Louis, 4 :;
Baltimore, 9; at Columbus Athletic, 8 !;
Columbus, 9. The game was called at the
end of the seventh inning on account of