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Life insurance and Suicide.
Minneapolis Tribune, Sept. /

Minneapolis Tribune, Sept. i.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has de-
cided that q Life Insurance Co. must pay
Kerr was insured in the Minnesota Mutual
Benefit Association Company for the benefit
of bis wife. The insured, in order to escape
arrest for the crime of forgery In this state
fled to Canada, where he was discovered and
apprebended by detectives; and in order 10
avoid being brought back to Minnesota for
trial, shot himself. The company sought to
resist payment of the insurance on the ground
that the criminal code of Canada forbade
murder, and That as the suicide died in the
very violation of that law it amounted to a
violation of the terms of the policy contract.
This evidence was rejected by the district
court. The title of the case and syllabus of
the supreme court is as follows:
Sarah E. Kerr, respondent, vs.. Minnesota
Mutual Benefit Association, appellant. Syl-
labus. A policy of insurance provided that
'if the assured shall die in consequence of
the violation of any criminal law Of any
country, state or territory in which the assault
may be, this certificate shall be null and
void" Held that suicide committed by an
alleged fugitive from justice to avoid arrest
and trial for 8 crime committed by the as
sured is not to be considered as the proxi-
mate result of the alleged crime, and that
his death by suicide is not within the proper
meaning of the policy to be considered as
the violation oflawtherein referred to. Sui
eide is no defense to an action on a policy
issued for the benefit Of C. third person, where
there is no stipulation to That effect in the
policy. Un,ler the contract Of insurance set
forth in the opinion, held that the defendant
association were liable, absolutely, to pay
the plaintiff, who is the beneficiary of the
assured, a sum equal tn $3.50 for each Ger.
tifcate of insurance in force when the in
surance money became due, according to
the terms of the policy or contract of insur-
ance herein, and at q ratable proportion
with other policies, out of any moneys in
the assessment fund applicable to some
claims.
The plaintiff in this case is entitled to re-
ceive the sum of 1856, with interest from the
commencement of this action. The case
will be remanded and the judgment of the
district court modified accordingly.
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate Thurman
was ostensibly stumping last week for Presi-
dent Cleveland. Thurman undoubtedly did
the best he could, but it must have been
painfully apparent to all his hearers, as it is
to all readers, that it was q sin to drag the
old gentleman into q political campaign.
His intellectual fires are burnt to blackening
embers, and his place is at the domestic fire.
side, tended by kindly hearts and hands
rather than in the turmoil of politics, at
tempting to grasp again the cares of State.
1t is more than could be expected that he
would survive the term, if by the barest &C,
cident he should be elected and there is a
pathetic appeal in his speech of September
list: "God knows I would rather be at home
with my dear old wife than in any office in
the world, but I have been chosen by the
Democratic party to help fight this campaign
and I mean to do it to the best of my ability
It is fortunate indeed for him that the even.
ing of the 9th of November will rid him Of
the cares that were pressed upon him.
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FOR PRoTECTloN.
Secretary Lichtman, of the K. Of L., States
the Case.

WASHINGTON, August 30.-Senator Quay,
Chairman of the Republican National Com
mittee, furnishes q long letter for publica-
ton from Charles s. Lichtman, Of Phlladel-
phia, Secretary of the Knights of Labor, in
which he says: "Whatever votes may be
shown for separate political parties, the fact
remains that the candidate of either the Re-
publican or Democratic party will be the
next President. Therefore to him who has
the welfare of the people of the country at
which of these two party organizations shall
be given aid, either directly or indirectly,
by voice or vote. While it may be that
neither party offers all that labor organiza-
lions desire, I believe that the Republicans,
in adopting and advocating IN American
system of encouragement and protection to
labor and wages in our land is the nearest
declarations and desires Of organized labor
than its free trade opponent, the Democratic
party. The theory Of protection advocated
by the Republican party is the same as the
underlying principle upon which labor
organizations are founded. The friend to
organized labor that believes in organization
as a means to enhance and maintain wages
cannot consistently oppose the party that
supplies to all labor the same principle Of
protection from unfair competition that in
dividual trade organizations do to q single
trade. l do not hesitate to say that the
triumph of the Democratic party dominated
by intolerance in the South and British free
sentiment In the North, would be q serious
blow to organized labor. I cannot remain
inactive in such a conflict, therefore to you
and your associates on the National Repub'
lican Committee as representatives of the
Republican party, I offer my. services in any
position or capacity where they may be de-
sirable or be thought most useful in securing
the election of Harrison & Morton, the rep.
resentatives in this campaign of the Ameri'
car idea of protection to American labor.
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Blaine Says "Trusts" are State Issues.

DOVER, Me-, August 31.-Hon. James G.
Blaine spoke at Fox Craft this afternoon.
In opening he proceeded at once to the con-
sideration of trusts, charging that they -four
ished to a greater extent under the free trade
policy of England than under the protection
policy of the United States. He said the
President should have known when he ar
Ranged trusts in his message to congress
that congress coul not dissolve them when
their charters were from state legislatures or
their charters or their organization under
state law. Vt had been confessed by the
Democratic House ways and means COM
mittee, by Chairman Mills and every man
that stood as an advocate of free trade that
trusts had no possible legal connection with
the tariff. The Presidents charge that
trusts had their origin in protective tariff has
not a foot OF ground to stand upon and was
contradicted in every line of free trade Ak
perience. Trusts have no place in the ma
tional campaign. These are state issues and
the Republicans Of Maine, at least, can be
depended upon to look after these in their
own state.
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SAN FRANCISCO, August 29.-The will of
the late Charles Croker, second vice presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific companv. wac
filed in the Probate Court this afternoon
Mrs. Mary A. Croker, widow of the de-.
ceased, was appointed executrix. The estate
is worth something over twenty-five and a
quarter million dollars, divided as follows.
Real estate, S $780, oe; stocks aud bonds
$l2,oO0,0OO; accounts, S. 1900, 900; promissorv
notes, $500, 600; cash, $500, ooo.. The too.
tator declares the entire estate of community
property and his wife is entitled to halt. In
addition she is bequeathed two Residences.
one in this city and one in Sacramento. A
number OF relatives and family servants ara
provided for.
The testator leaves to his son. Georoo
Croker, all he had advanced to him f.,
business. One quarter of the residue ia ,of,
to two sons, Charles F.. and William ~ y
Crocker. The remainder is to be- inras, :;
for the benefit of deceased's dauphtar NJ.
H. V. Alexander, Of New York, ~'''
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Where is the Line, Anyhow?

WASHINGTON, September 4. Senator
Cullom's resolution of inquiry offered and
adopted by the Senate to-day, calling upon
the Secretary of Wa for information as to
whether the St. Clair Flats canal lies in the
whole or in part of the Canadian territory,
is based upon unofficial but Trustworthy in
formation which has come to him as chair
man of the committee to investigate our
commercial relations with Car ada.
Though the resolution refers only to 81.
Clair Flats canal, the Senator has informa.
ton which leads to the grave suspicion that
the Detroit river near Amherstburg and
Sault Ste. Marie canal are also in part in
Canadian Territory. The fact, if it be a
fact, has an important incidental bearing
upon the matter of retaliation.
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BRiGITTE, HI SAINT.
The Story as Told at Leinster-The Iris
w0rnan IF Tni1ov-

The Story as Told at Leinster-The Irish.
woman of Today.
The Irishwoman of today is the worthy
daughter Of the sweet St. Brigitte nov
spelled Bridget OF thirteen centuries ago,
and whose story, as told at Leinster, may not
be known to some of you.
When young, Brigitte was SO strangely
beautiful that lovers from all over the coun-
try and across the seas came to kneel at her
feet. In fact, they were SO persistent and
ardent that, wearied of them, she prayed for
some disease to destroy her beauty that she
might uninterruptedly devote herself to the
service of God. Instantly she was smitten
with smallpox, which, however, only dis
figured one side of her lovely face, leaving
the other quite as perfect as before. Then
she took the veil and instituted a religious
order, which many young and noble maid
ems Joined. When her followers became nu-
merous she applied to the king of Leinster
for a piece of land or which to build a nun
merry.
Brigitte, the saint, was then submerged in
Brigitte, the m who begged the favor
with the beautiful side of her face turned to
the monarch, who, it is needless to add. sue
cumbed at once and granted her request.
Now it happened the queen was not Gin the
pantry eating bread and honey" and being
old, ugly and jealous, by a subterfuge forced
Brigitte to expose the d%isfigured side of her
countenance to the king, who, in true royal
fashion, at once took back his promise, and
IL was only after many prayers and entreaties
that he consented to bestow as much land as
her shawl would cover.
NOW Brlgltte became every inch o woman.
as the sequel shows. Six months after her
petition she appeared at court to claim the,
kings promise, and in the presence OF a
grand assemblage removed q snow white
shawl from her innocent shoulders, woven
by her W hands. Four of her maidens
seized it by the corners, and ran respectively
east, west, north and south. Behold, the
shawl was of some silky, weblike stuff, that
stretched and spread and spread and
stretched until it covered what is now the
Curragh of Kildare. The outwitted king
submitted as gracefully as he could. On the
green undulating meadows Brigitte's nun
merry was built, and the pilgrims and mendi-
cants who gathered there formed the nucleus
OF the present town of Kildare.
The Arlshwoman Of today has many Of
the qualities that distinguished St. Brigitte.
she IS good, generous and without reproach.
She knows the value of her CHANGING eve. her
perfect skin, the tendril twist of her hair
and the charm of her little foot and hand.
When her beauty fails her ready wit puts
every time q man at a disadvantage. AS far
oack as history goes the Irishwoman has
oeen famous for the beauty of her needle
work, and fine needlework demands patience
industry and taste.-Mrs. Robert r Porter
IN New York Press.
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Ecceutricities of n millionaire.

"There goes a man" said a passenger on Q
Third avenue street car, a day or two ago,
as he pointed to the occupant of a handsome
carriage rolling rapidly along behind two
noble looking steeds, "whom a good many
people, if they knew his peculiarities, would
call a crank"
'How 500" said me who had often noticed
the gentleman riding by with folded arms
and impassive face.
"Well he is special partner and principal
owner in n of the largest cigar factories in
the western part of the city, and resides in
palatial residence about half a mile distant.
Every night exactly at 9 o'clock, rain Or
snow, winter or summer, he visits this fac
tory with a lantern and scours the hugo
building from basement to top floor to see
that everything is properly placed.
"1n the most freezing cold of winter and
the most ~suffocating heat of summer the
same journey and examination arc accom-.
plished. Should any workman be careless CT
unfortunate enough to mislay his tools or
put anything combustible in proximity to
danger he is speedily reprimanded, and often
Eummarily discharged. This odd task he has
performed nightly for nearly fifteen years.
"He pursues a similar course with regard
to his home. Generally he sits reading in
his library until midnight, and Immediately
before retiring he makes a thorough inspee'
ton, of the house. Every nook and corner Is
faithfully scrutinized, and woe unto the serv.
ants, to whom he is ordinarily very kind and
indulgent, if they have been remiss in Their
duties.
"But his peculiarities do not cease here
Although he is very w~ealthy-the rumor CIR
culates that he has so much ready cash that
he is at a loss to know what to do with it
he has not and will not invest one cent IN
railroads. He owns and is erecting hand
some and substantial buildings in all parts
Of the city; he is adding improvements &c
them continually; he is purchasing deslra0s
and central sites, and all for the purpose OF
decreasing his large bank account. But rail-
road stock is severely Stunned. Yes, he gos
further than that. have heard some OF hE
friends say that he has never ridden on q
railroad train in his life, and very, very Sell
dom does he board a street car."-Aew 1of1
Graphic.
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The Contract Labor Law.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31.-This afternoon
United States District Attorney Bashaw
filed twelve suits against Harry A. Smidt,
the leading st. Louis tailor, for the sum Of
$1,000 each, the cause being an alleged vic.
lation of the United States law forbidding
the importation of contract labor. One OF
the charges is that Smidt imported Peter
Leowald, who arrived in St. Louis April
81, 1885. The others are for the importation
of eleven j%ourneymen t~ailors, who arrived
here July Fl, 1883. Smidt deuies he violated
the law, but admits the advanced passage
money to the men who came over, because
they had no friends and he needed workmen.
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H Inter Mountain makes q savage attack
upon Will Kennedy, who has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans Of Jefferson Coun-
ty for the Council. The ground Of the
attack is that be voted against the registra-
ton bill at the last session Of the Legislature.
Whatever we may think about that measure
there can be no doubt that when Mr.. Ken
nedy voted against it he did so honestly and
conscientiously.
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1T is stated that ex Governor Sam Hauser
and President Broadwater, of the Central,
who have been alleged to be violent personal
enemies tor some years, have buried the
Ratchet, touched bumpers, and are good
friends again. It is hoped by the Democracy
that this restoration of old relations will
benefit the party. Not a bit of it. They
had, pending this enlargement, to demon
strate their party fealty by putting up more
ducats and cat-hops than they will have to
now. At any rate they can't do any more
than they have done, and Montana will elect
q Republican Delegate in November any
how.
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"The Evils of a Dnty o n Wool"

New HAVEN, Conn.,, September 1.-The
Democratic State Convention was called to
order by Chairman Dooley, of the State
Central Committee. Congressman r. j.
Vance was made Cha irman. Judge Luzon
B. Morris, of New Haven, was nominated
for Governor.
The platform endorses the President and
his tariff message in particular; congratula-
lions to Democrats of the House upon the
passage of the Mills bill; %denounces any
duty upon raw material as a burden upon
both manufacturer and consumer; devotes
an entire plank to the evils of a duty on
wool, and endorses the President for "plac-
ing the commercial relations of the people
of the United States and Canada upon an
equality"
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A Crisis Approaching.

PARIS, September An. Ferry, in q
speech at Remiremont, admitted that the
next general election would be a struggle
between the Republic and everything anti.
republican-monarchy, empire and Dictator
ship. He said he was in favor of returning
to the former method of voting, but it de-
pended more upon union among the Repub-
licans to defeat B~oulangerism.
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Many supporters of CLEVELAND are be-
ginning to feel and to admit, guardedly and
in private, that if the policy of a revenue tar
i'll does not gain supporters in the Northwest
as fast as it is losing them in the Northeast,
their candidate Is likely to be beaten in No
vember. It is not a week since the President
undertook by his fisheries message to turn
attention from the tariff issue to the fisheries
question. The day the message was sent to
Congress, BR1CE's man TOWNSEND in Ohio,
chairman of the Democratic State Commit
tee), sent out the following dispatch:
"Have prominent Irishmen send conerat-
ulatory kilograms to the President on his
message On the fishery treaty, and get up
demonstration If possible"
This appears to have been barren of re-
suits. The somersault was too sudden, and
the Democrats, who have been told for three
or four years that the President is better
than his party, seem contented to permit him
to paddle his own canoe. At least there
have been no popular demonstrations of ap-
prevail, and no kilograms of congratulation
from prominent Irishmen.-SaH Lake Tri-
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AND now Chamberlain is accredited with
saying he never expected the United States
Senate to ratify the fishery treaty with
which he took in Secretary Bayard. He is
like the Evangelist, 90 fisher of men," and
knows when he has q catch too strong for
his seine.
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Tho Poppy as a Bank I,rotec+or

The Manufacturers Record, in an article
recommending opium culture in the south
says that, once sown, the poppy is self per,
petuating, and is, in fact, hard to e1termi-
nate reci&ng the fact that within tho last
TWO or three years eminent French engineers
have undertaken the sowing Of railroad en-
oankments with poppy seeds, as, when once
established. that prolific plant would cover
Inc soil with a network of roots that would
prevent it from washing away during heavy
rams or from upheaval when frost was com.
ing out OF the ground in the spring.
Inc suggestion seems good enough to war
rant a trial. Surely a bank of poppies would
present advantages in an nsthetical point Of
view over a bank Of pig weed. thistles and
tomato cans.-Scientific American.
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DELEGATE CHARLES VOORHEES, was re.
nominated by acclamation by the Democrats
of Washington Territory Tuesday. As
Voorhees, had announced he was not a can.
didate, and Mr.. Toole has done the same, it
seems not impossible the latter may be in
duced by his Democratic brethren of Mon.
tana to stand the racket just once more.
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The New Colored Policeman

An amusing occurrence is reported Iva
Philadelphia. A newly appointed eu !s1rsr,
policeman entered a street car. HIS ui'ii w.
wa spotless; his brass buttons shone bi17nt' ,
and he carried himself with the ar Oh F"
Spanish lidalgo. AS he gazed arousi'l l,rsJ
car his glance fell upon an aSe'' ut rsr
woman, who was carrying home a gfea'
of clothes from the laundry. Inc re g; IL,
ton was mutual. "Why, fob de Lof' WIN
exclaimed joyously, eff dis amt IN. hays
chile, I sca'sely knowed ye. 1lo" you ~at,
growed.. Is de ole man at de ali'shou'S On
Ell?" There was no answer to hef qu.s nn
Eli had fled with an angry eSpies sn;noro
his previously placid countenance.
Herald,
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IT has been alleged, on apparently good
authority, that J. ]. Hill would yesterday
retire from the Presidency of the Manitoba
road. Other changes in the management
were reported probable at the stockholders
meeting,
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Good for High License.

ST. PAUL, Aug. 30.-The Pioneer Press
review the first year of high license in Min
nesota. It finds the system has proved all
its friends claimed for it. There are in the
State only 1867 saloons against 2s06 when the
law went into effect. There Is decreased
consumption OF liquor in nearly every coun.
ty. Low %groggeries sre closed; the liquor
business is under better police supervision.
Then the cost of licenses averaged $500, with
total income of $s5o,000; now, $3.50 and ST..
100. 600.
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An Easy One.

"Hey, Chairman Brice! What's the differ.
ence between P. T. Barnum and Grover
Cleveland?"
Mr.. Brice-Give it up.
MI. Quay-Why, Barnum has the greatest
show on earth and Cleveland has no show
at all. -Juniata Herald.
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The Fergus County argus says the wool
clip and shipments from Montana this year
will exceed 10000 0 pounds. 1t has prob
ably averaged about 16 cents, or 1920, 900.
The abolition of the s cents protective tariff
would naturally reduce the receipts therefor
TO $16O, 600; but as the same expenses would
be attendant for grazing, feeding, shearing,
bagging and shipping at 8 cents a pound as
At 16 cents per pound, the net receipts would
be proportionately lessened. There would
be no money in growing Montana wool at
8 cents per pound.
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THE Sunday Record, Helena, publishes .
panoramic View of Deer Lodge" under
There are about GO buildings in sight, In
GLIDING three churches, the penitentiary,
and the smallest Of the three college build
ings, and the town is credited in the descrip.
ton with 5000 people. This would pack US
closer than sardines or tenement house oc-
cupants. The sketch must have been taken
when this was LIE Barge City and Helena
was Last Chance Gulch. We are ever 80
much obliged, Mr.. Mollinelli, for good in.
tentions, but please kill your artist and
charge up funeral expenses TO other IN
sketched beautiful Cities" They should
put up without 4 murmur.
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He Was q Little vax.d

"0 SN8B y Little V0XeQ.
-Adolphus, dye know that I'm a little
vexed at Miss Simmons7n
WHAT happened. Arthur, old boyg"
wen, you know, I pride myself on NV
singing. We were at the piano. III sing
"Was it late2"
about midnight
"And what did she sayw
"she said, Can't you 60 home drstr"
"And did your
ve IVES, Adolphus! / tell you I'm q Little
e about &."-Harper's Bazar. '
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THE idaho Republican Convention at
HALEY, Idaho, last Thursday, renominated
Fred T. Dubois, the present delegate. He
Is = thorough Republican and has made a
first rate delegate.
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TIE calls for the Democratic County
Convention to be held tomorrow, and the
Republican County Convention to be held
week later, will be found on the first page
of this issue.