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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
FIRE INSURANCE MEN NOT EXCITED.

Yesterday afternoon exciting article was pub
llshed on the fire Insurance situation, In which 1t
stated that insurance were mad and that
4" stockholders were threatening to throw companies
into liquidation" Anybody who knows anything
about fire insurance matters In this city is aware
that this story is Of the sensational order. In the
first place, 1t takes good deal to make insurance
men mad and In the second place stockholders who
have been getting dividends Of 10 per cent or more
for years are not likely to be foolish enough to
throw into liquidation the company companies
paying them these dividends. This story stated that
Franklin Webster, editor of insurance paper had
lot tho cat out Of the bag in instance and gave
away the secret that liquidation petition being
privately circulated for signatures.
A reporter for The Tribune called upon Mr..
Webster, who said al have not been the custodian
Of secret and consequently did not give any secret
away. In the published story the cat and bag are
both lacking Moreover, had no inter,l lew Of any
kind with any reporter on this subject. This whole
story In which have been made to figure prominently
comes to me as complete SURPRISE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
ARRESTED FOR STUMBLING FARMERS
THE COLLAPSE OF THE LIVE STOCK MUTUAL BESE

FIT ASSOCIATION RECALLED
dispatch from Birmingham, Conn, yesterday an
nounced the arrest there Of H A. Sterling, agent for
the New-York Live Stock Mutual Benefit Association,
Of 265 Broadway, charged with issuing fraudulent
policies. Sterling In default Of 81 900 ball was held
in jail The Live Stock Mutual Benefit Association
had Offices for year at No 265 Broadway, but three
months ago the concern collapsed and the officers dis
appeared. The president Of the company was Louis
W. Mckenzie, who formerly lived at No. "a Clinton
ave. Brooklyn and the secretary, George T. Keith, Of
olean, N. Y.
After their departure great many people called to
inquire about policies held by them, but got salts
faction. The company. however, still keeps lock
box at the Post Office and somebody collects good
deal Of mail for II. The Post Office authorities say
that they will Investigate to II the mails being
used for swndling purposes. The janitor OF No. 265
said yesterday that Mckenzie employed by Bloom
lngdale Brothers at Fity-eighth-st and Thlrd-aye,
but inquiry at that establishment failed TO show his
name on the roll Of employees 1t IS believed that the
victims OF the company number several thousand
There have been several live stock Insurance
panes started In this city recently said stock
yesterday, but they have all gone undcr with loss
their policy holders. The business Is peculiar one
II can't BIS done at reasonable figure ard profit the
farmer and the less farmers have do with such con-
Germs, the better OF they will boz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02

independence Of European support but also it,
strength in the face of unfavorabe local influence
The occurrence Of bank holiday in London
Merry Chimneysweeps Dsy-wss used a. o prs.
text for lower prices at the Newly Stock Ex.
change. small defalcation in q bank alwayu
above suspicion had little apprecable effect but
the ostentatious announcement that the PennsyL
vania Railroad had reduced its half yearly diyi.
dend from Q to 2 l-2 per cent had greater effect
II was forgotten for the moment that the declara.
ton OF per cent dividend six months ago was
excused by President Roberts tho ground Of
unusual prosperity. lie distinctly stated after
that meeting that the increase might not be main.
tanned 1t was reported that the increase was
made only to satisfy the European holders Of the
stock, who thought the profits from the business
had not been fairly divided. The rate of dividend
has not exceeded per cent for several years until
this extraordinary declaration haifyear ago,
lhc apparent reduction was used, however, fog
all IL was worth, and the bear faction insisted
strcnuousy thot the business OF all the trunk
lines was waning. There was less talk about
troubles over export rates, and the recent sug.
gestlon that the Vanderbilt interests were not
In full accord with the present movement vera
entirely Ignored. In spite Of the English holiday,
the reduction Of the Pennsylvania dividend and
other apparently bearish influences, the market
closed, on an average, from l-2 TO "a per cent
hi6iior' C@ Idul exceptionally gained per cent
and persons Of cynical disposition suggested that
the comparative depression in the general markcs
was TO enable the short interest In st. Paul to
protect itself 1t is doubtful, however IL the
advantage was used to its fullest extent
WHAT WAS DONE IN BONDS.
Government bonds were quiet at the Board,
but the bids for the As were advanced IA per
cent to correspond with the price at which the
Treasury buys them There practically is no
market for the sale of Governments at current
figures, except such as is furnished by the Treas.
ury. Annexed are the closing quotations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
WONDERFUL PROFITS.
THE LARGE INCOMES WHICH ARISE FROM THE
DISCOVERY OF NEW PRINoIPLEs-A CASE IN
POINT.
Tln6neial Exchanges

Tho returns which have come 10 scores OF great IN
ventors have been but the wealth which has 40
crued 70 hundreds others who shared in these inventions
has sti Edison's incandescen electric sht
has been greater than gold mne and the men who are
rolling wealth to-day result Of MI Edisons genius
are TO be found every hand But unQuestonaby tho
most ysuabe discovery ever made by Mr. Edison Is Poly
form Scientists physicians and others who have invest'
caed 1t declare II marks In age OF narcotcs
To-day opium morphine and other nervines are eagerly ao
sorbed by ovefaxed and people There nothing
more dangerous nothing fatal 1t is the beginning
OF living death But Edsons Polyform, being an ex'
erna application accompishes all the results OF an an
aesthetic and without the possibility OF an injury oom-
bloed With tep water rubbed upon the body II has
more soothing eject than any narcotic or than electricity
In the hospitals IN the government service and through
out the land Edisons Polyorm is spreading health ana
power and bringing wealth to all connected with It, II Is
not patent medicine but scientific discovery and is I'M
doubedy destined to become standard aid to human
ity as Quinino spirits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
FRANK MORDAUNT AND his TROUBLES.
HE EXPLAINS HIS FINANCIAL DISABILITIES IN SUP
ELEMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.


Frank Mordaunt the actor, lately Of Fanny Daven-
ports La Tosca' troupe. purged himself from COZ
tempt by appearing for further examination In supple
mentary proceedings in the Court OF Common Pleas
yesterday accordance with the order of Judge Book
staver. He questioned by Edwin r. Leavitt,
counsel for Miss Emma c. Woodbridge, who claims
$40 81 under judgment obtained against Mr. Nor
daunt for music lessons given to bis little daughter In
1882. Tho examination went as follows:
Q-How much salary you earned since your last
examns ton-sinco March 1917 A.-About $3.50. being
the Of salary paid under my contract with Mr..
Price
o.-IIave you received any Of the salsryi Al sup
pose have had few dollars TO spend
Q-Where did you get those few dollars spend
A-grom Mrs MordSunt Mr. Price has paid my salary
my wife each week from the beginning Of engage
ment TO the end. 1t paid TO her personally,
cept occssons. when drew it myself for
her. signing har the receipt for It and then at
once turned 1t to her.
o.-she has advanced you from time to time for
your personal expensesi Ayes whatever asked for
but then SIS at time.
The witness said he had paid the living expenses Of
his wife and himself from time to time, amounting
to from $40 TO S45 week HIS expenses, including
clothes and stage costumes, averaged $50 week
during his engagement with Miss Davenport's troupe
His engagement lasted eight weeks beginning on March
g
Q-Your expenses for yourself and wife being as you
have testified S75 week, you saved least e75 Of
your salary. What done with that's Al did not
save that As have said all my salary belonged to ny
wife under the assignment made her, and presume
that al that saved outof the salary sho sent 10 her
mother In Oakland California, for the $1,000 she had
loaned her, and which my wife gave to pay my
debts there.
Mr. Mordaunt said no paid $3.50 for two costumes
Aftcrward his wife sold to Mr. Price for s75. His
wife had the other. He went
had paste jewery which cost about as altogether.
I In employment at ali have property
Of any kind. 10 jewelSy or anything My wife has
watch she sometimes lets when ! want to
= swell" but nothing besides that
This closed the examination. Mr.. Mordannt
IN pentent frame of mind. He told the lawyer that
no had had great deal Of trouble and that at present
he totally unable to pay the debt but he promised
that soon as 1t was possible for him to do no
would settle IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02

Tho express business OF the Central Railroad of Now.
Jersey was transferred from the Adams 70 the United
States Express Company yesterday The general terms
Of tho have been published and the formal trans
fer did result explicit information Onieers
Of the railroad company expressed great sasfacon at
the increased that the change would bring 10 H.
President Pstt OF the United States Express Company
said that the yellow and red had seen no
Long Branch for tho arst time and for reason that
he aid explain. he seemed derive considerable sat
isfacon from hs fact Long Branch has been the
rtory Of the Adams Company and 10 is the home Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
TIE DE REvIERA FAILURE.

Justice Patterson, Of the Supreme Court has granted
an order for commission to examine Salvador Ros,
Macao, San Domingo, in behalf of tho defendants IN
the suit of tho St. Nicholas Bank against Henry C..
peReviera a. Co. to set aside their assignment on tho
ground Of fraud. Res Is one Of the firm Tho suit
was brought judgment of So, 900. II IS
alleged that ROs in executing the assignment, signed
the firm name without authority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
CLOSING PRICES OF PHILADELPHIA STOCKS

Actual sales

THE TREASURYS PURCHASES OF BONDS.
Tuesday, May l-p IN.
The Treasury to-day purchased si,4oo,ooo bonds
ST., 1850, 900 As at 2sal26 l-2 and $4,000 LIS
at lo7 5-s, rejecting offers Of 100000 4 LIS at
lO7 9-4-maldng the total amount OF purchases to
date s7,096,lO0 To-day's Washington Treasury
statement partially reflects the Sub Treasures pay
ments OF last week for purchased bonds; it shows
decline of s2,7is779 in the gold balance from
yesterdays figures -
The stock market today developed not only its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02

President Hoey OF that company It may DO presumed
that the advent Of the United States Company was sub
stantial victory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
THE BROKEN YBWBURG BANKERS.

Newburg, May 1 (spccaD.-An inventory and
schedule of assets and liabilities of the iefunct bank
Ing and Insurance firm OF John r. Wiltse Son were
to-day filed in the County Clerks Office at Goshen
They show nominal assets OF $3.50 900 and the claims
Of creditors about 100000. The asslgnees bond
fixed at only So, 000 Wlltsie Pollock, tho firm
members, yet In jail hero story IS told of one
OF their women victims having died from br0oding
over her loss.
SALES AT THE CONSOLIDATED STOCK AND
PETROLEUM. EXCHANGE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02

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CsI hs lS9 Icon 07 asl07 U g. es 1897 l23L
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u.a4s leY7con. l26 =, 26a Us. 6s. 1899 L SoS
US. % 1898 ..lglL.... dist Col 3-Jjs -. lit 800
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-02
CLOSING PRICES OF BOSTON STOCKS.
Boston, May i, 1888.

CLOSING PRICES OF CALIFORNIA STOCK
San Francisco, May ], 1853.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
Brief mention.

John T. Lafarge. a young man of @. prom-
nent Rockford family, has pleaded guilty 20 re-
ceiving stolen goods and was fined $50 and
given twenty days in jail.
john Bush, while on the highway Wednesday
night, between Danviile and Tillon, was sand
bageed into insensibility and robbed OF $75 by
three unknown assailants
Ex-Mayor James Davis. of Tuscola, who was
preparing to go 70 Eureka Springs for his health.
has suffered an attack of paralysis which has
made him helpless and rendered him entirely
blind.
Near Marshall yesterday. George Hensey, q
ditcheE in the employ of the Vandalia railway,
was accidentally killed by bullet from a re-
volver belonging to James Sullivan. Sullivan
was returning the weapon TO his pocket when in
some unexplained manner it was discharged.
George w VanLear, of Tolono, is locked up
1T Urbana, O.. charged with burning the Nc
Kelvy property and attempting to murder his
wife and three children, who were in the house
at the time The object is said to be en-
deavor get hold of the estate, he being som
in-law of Mrs. McKelvy.
The seventeenth annual session of the Won-
ans Presbyterian Board of Missions for the
Northwest is in progress az Freeport. Several
hundred ladies from Illinois and neiehboring
States are in attendance. The annual address of
the president. Mrs Benjamin Douglass, of Chi
cago, was delivered on Wednesday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
The Hired Glrrs Ideal Place.

chicago journal
The annual hegira of the pilgrims of the drag
gled skirt and the newspaper bundle in search
of "a steddy place. has begun, as view of our
residence streets will show. Where is the Mec-
ca of "a steady placed" Well, it is located on an
aristocratic boulevard, because every pilgrim
AYERS abe never lived 60 business street.
yet where conductors can see the kitchen win
dows; where the girl has door key and eight
nights out in a week, and Thursday afternoons
to herself; where the missus gets the Sunday
dinner and tea; where the girl never is asked to
go out of the kitchen, and the missus never
dares to set foot in it; where the master takes
his dinner down town, and the supper is early
aud cold; where there Is no baking, and the coll
lars cuffs and shirts sent to the laundry;
where there children. and cat is kept to
break all the dishes, drink the cream and carry
off the half-eaten roasts, where the postman is
genial, the milkman chatty. and the policeman
willing pound on the back basement-door aud
wake the girl at \. NJ; where the master looks
after the furnace, and is called in to
wash windows andscrub steps; where the church
is but few blocks off, and .'comraden works
next door; where the uissus has no company,
and the girl is allowed innumerable cousins.
Now, If could get good. steady place like
that, with the house-cleAninR all done. and two
in the family. I'd be willing TO work for less
wages, and take 81 week and put up with some
little things is the creed Of the pilgrim from
the intelligence Office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
Joint w. q. Il. u. Convention.
.c3aS 4o 4ba rpdiauanoyfa yoprrs,

Sp6CAaf To Lno 1nClanaDoils Jourudt-
MoNTEzUAiA, April 26.-The joint conven-
tion of Parke, yigo and Vermillion counties,
IN the interest of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, organized at Montezuma on
Tuesday afternoon by the election Of Mrs
Martha N. Lindley, of Sylvania. Parke county.
as president, and Miss Alice e. Lindley secre-
tary. Vigo county represented by the
president OF the county organization, Mrs. Dr.
Russell. Vermilion county had no delegates
present. Parke county was literally represent
ed from various unions. A committee was
appointed to perfect thorough organization of
Vermillion county tor the w. G. T. =. The
question Of orphans home for Parke, Yer
million and Fountain counties having been be-
fore considered, discussion was had upon the
best way to attain the desired end. Mrs. CalisJa
Davies of Bloomingdale. offered free of cost for
one year her commodious residence or
phans' home Joint COMMITTEES for and from
the three counties appointed to further con-
slider and aid in establishing permanent and
Christian home for the orphans of the counties
named. The convention lasted two days,
and all the phases of the work were
fully and ably considered Able articles were
read and discussed, and it is worthy to note
entirely without partisanship or political parties
being mentioned named during the entire
session.
The Parke county W. C. T. y. elected the
following officers: Miss Mary Hadley, of
Boomingdale. president; Mrs. E. T. Coleman.
recording secretary, and Mrs. Emily IL. Stark,
corresponding secretary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
Brave Deed of q Young schooima,am

NASHVILLE, Tenn. April 26.-Miss Mollis
Green is the heroine in o thrilling scene In Perry
county, Tennessee. Miss Mollie is an attractive
young lady of eighteen, who teaches school on
Cypress creek The father, Robert Green lives
across the Tennessee river, in Hicklin county.
The little log school-house was quiet and the
children busy with their lessons, when a shaggy
dog, foaming at the mouth, snappipg and biting.
dashed in at the door aud made toward one of
the children. The brave little woman thought
only of the children under her care. and spranR
between them and the intruder. telling them 10
was a mad dog. She kicked st 1t, her skirts pro-
teeting her. and by the aid of a heavy ruler kept
it at bay until all the children had fed. The in
furiated animal repeatedly sprang at her throat
bat she was agile and resolutely held her ground.
When all the little cnes were gone, she desper-
ately fought of the dog until she reached the
door which she pulled to after her and fell faint
ing outside The children in the meantime,
ran to the nearest house. eighth of Al mile dis
tant and gave the alarm. Two men soon came
and killed the dog, which had been terrorizing
the neighborhood for two days The grateful
parents of the children took up subscription
and gave the young woman o fine saddle horse.
Her clothes we're literally torn to ribbons during
her severe encounter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
TELEGRAPHfo BREyITIGS.

Gen. Abraham Merritt, fifty years old. of
Nyack, N. Y, committed suicide the Fifth
avenue Hotel, New York, Wednesday night.
The suicide a retired dry goods merchant.
He took dose of laudanum.
The Ohio Supreme Court last evening granted
q motion for leave to file a petition in error in
the case of VIM. George, sentenced to be hanged
at the penitentiary last night. The sentence
was suspended until nearing can be had.
Yesterday morning TWO empty coal trains col
lided on the Bound Brock branch of the Reading
railroad, at Woodburn Station. Charles Wesh-
erman conductor and George Warren, brake
man. were killed Seventy-fve cars were
wrecked.
The Missouri State convention of Homeop-
athists, in session at Kansas City. yesterday
passed resolution requesting Governor More
house to remove from the State Board of Health
Dr. Geo. M. Coz, of Springfield, No., who
achieved some notofiety some time ago by at
lacking woman in a hack and throwing vitriol
in her face.
At Chicago, last evening. some workmen en-
gagged in drilling hole under street punctured
q gas main One of the men iIt match TO see
what was wrong with the drill. An explosion
followed, which wrecked number of plate-glass
windows. and badly damaged q stock Of clothing
in a neghboring store. No one was seriously
hurt, but number of people received slight in
iurios.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
Minor Notes.

John Steickler, employed on the farm of Mr..
Nick Hirsch, in Armstrong township Wander
burg county, while clearing some ground, was
instantly killed by tree falling on him.
Frank, the nine-months-old son of Squire
Cooper. living ten miles south of Shelbyville,
crawled into the fireplace Wednesday, dur
ing the momentary absence of his mother, and
received injuries which caused his death.
Miss Minnie M. Shelley, fifteen year-old
girl of Galveston, Howard county, is reported
missing. She was last seen in kokomo last
Saturday She has short black hair, black eyes,
delicately built. and wore red delaine dress,
drab-coored cloak, trimmed in red, black hat
with white feathers in it,
Harriet Raglan. a lady eighty years old. living
$40 by a boy eighteen years old, named Clark.
who had been living with the family. Mrs.
Raglan was a pensioner. and has been years
saving the money in order to have enough to
bury her decently when she dies.
John Booher. the s'eas crank" selected the To-
cation for the gas-well now being drilled at An
drews, and announces that he is prepared to
stand or fall by the result. He claims never to
have failed, and il positive that gusher will ba
struck when the well is drilled in. which will
probably be next week. Much interest is mani
tested in the matter. and Booher will be on hand
when the drill touches Trenton.
The Womans Relief Corps, of Pendeton. pre-
scented to Major Henry Post, No 230, G.. A. r.,
at their last regular meeting. on the oath, very
sentation and accepta nee, the Corps gave thes
post genuine surprise in the shape of a fine
supper. About three hundred persons were
present Music was fur Finished by the Pendleton
orchestra, under the leadership of w. q. Silver.
Farmers throughout Wabash and neiehboFine
counties state that the wheat crop will fall con-
sderably short of one-third of average.
1t is very badly winter killed, and many fields
brown and bare and will hardly pay for har-
vesting. A. large area as been. broken MP by
the discouraged farmers and Will be put in oats
and corn. Not for years has there been such
complete failure of the wheat crop. and land
owners are feeling decidedly blue.
The six-inch pipeline now being constructed
By the Standard Oil Company between Marion,
o., and Chicago, on the line of the G. & A.
railway is being pushed forward to completion
rapidly as possible. Sixty-ive cars of pipe
have been received for the Huntington division,
and force OF one hundred and twenty. Ave men
is employed in laying the same. Nearly one
mile of pipe is laid daily, and it Is hoped 10 have
the main ell down not later than August.
The poles Of the Central Union Telephone
Company have been ordered out of the streets
OF Wabash by the Common Council. The COM
paDy some months ago. abandoned the exchange,
they alleging its inability to do business under
the restrictions imposed by the Indiana law.
Since then the property has been neglected and
is now so badly out of repair as TO bs menace
to public safety. The wires are down ii many
paces and the poles carsen and threaten to fall