Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-14
WILL HELP TRAFFIC.
MOnOngahela Connecting Railroad to
be Extended to Braddock,
INSURIEG LIVELY COMPETITION.
Right Of Way Obtained in GlenwOOd. and a
Large Foundry to be Built.
AN IMPORTANT INSURANCE DECISION

Brief mention has been made IN THE us
PATCH of the extension Of the Mononga-
hela Connecting Railroad to Glenwood. IN
regard to which additional information was
obtained yesterday. Although the road
has been laid out only as far as Glenwood,
that ia not Its objective point. 1t is the in
tention to extend It to Braddock. The road
starts at Laughlin's furnaces, and extends
down the river as far as Soho and up to
Frankstown, connecting with the Linden Steel
Works. Moorhead, Mclean & Co.'s works,
Pennsylvania Tube Works and the works Of
the Elba Iron and Bolt Company, giving these
establishments switching facilities with the
Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio
and junction Railroads. 1t is in the fullest
sense a common carrier for those railroad
systems.
Heretofore the great iron plants on the
north side of the Monongahela have been linn
tied to one railroad which, in the absence OF
competition, had it in its power to make its
own rates. The Connecting road will not only
afford healthful and necessary competition,
but greatly increase the facilities for Shipment
and stimulate industry in district which has
always labored under the disadvantages Incl
dent to oppressive railroad charges
The recent purchase by Mr.. Laughlin OF
about six acres in Glenwood was with view to
securing the right of way for the Connecting
Railroad at that place. Ground not needed for
the road will be sold. This purchase will bring
manufacturing sites at Glenwood into active
demand, as it will insure much-desired addi-
tion to the shipping facilities Of the place, and
consequently competitive rates, the want Of
which has kept that section of the city in the
background. That the new road will stimulate
industry may be seen in the fact that a large
manufacturing site adjoining the old Glenwood
Steel Works was sold few days ago to a gen.
tleman who will build foundry on it at once.
This will be valuable addition to the indus
tries of the Twenty third ward.
1t is thought there will be no great difficulty.
In securing the right of way to Braddock by
purchase or otherwise.
AEE
A decision of some interest to those inter-
ested in cooperative or mutual benefit tnsur-
ance companies has Just been rendered by the
general term of the New York Supreme Court
Fifth Judicial Department. in the case of
Shay versus National Benefit Society. 1t ap-
peared that the plaintiffs husband five years
ago took out policy of insurance on his life
in the defendant company for $4,000. He paid
his dues and assessments promptly until Sep
tember, 1885, when he failed to pay an assess
ment after due notification within the time
prescribed by the contract of insurance. The
defendant company, however. in common with
other similar companies, permitted the issue of
a second official notice to members 'in lapse"
advising delinquent members that if they
would pay arrears within 30 days after default,
they would be reinstated to membership,
though providing that the company should not
be liable to the delinquent or any beneficiary
named in policy for any claim to benefits that
may have accrued while he was in lapse.
A second notice of this kind was received by
the plaintiffs husband, and payment of arrears
was made to the company after he had been
taken sick with the disease of which he died.
The company refused to pay the policy on the
ground that the last payment was made by the
defendant with full knowledge of the excep-
tiohal risk he was imposing on the company,
and that be was guilty of fraud, which EA~al-
idated the policy. The trial court, however,
held that the effect of the compsny's second
notice was to extend the period Of insurance 80
days without regard to the delinquent's phys
ical condition, and that payment of the arrears
within the time specified would bind the com
pany, even if made By the beneficiary after
the defendants death. This judgment has
just been affirmed by the general term Of the
Supreme Court
The Commissioner OF the General Land Office
recently rendered a decision in the case Of
Mary Barr, formerly WATSON, . resident of the
Mitch ell, Dakota, land district This is one of
the most unique land cases on record. 1t ap-
pears from the testimony that in July. 1882,
Mrs Barr, then a resident of the State of Iowa.
went to Dakota on a visit, and while there took
up so acres adjoining tract then recently en-
tered by Michael Barr. She purchased house
and had it moved on her claim, broke one acre
and made other improvements. At that time,
SHIT says In her testimony she had no intention
of marrying Mr.. Barr, but later they married
when they moved their houses up close to-
gether on the line and sodded them up all around
on the outside, making one house; that they
were then married; that Barr put his bed
stove table, etc., in his house and she put her
bed, stove, table ETC., in hers; that there is no
means of communication between the two diff
ferent parts of the house except by going out
side, each having an outside door; that she
acted in good faith in making the entry, not
knowing Michael Barr at the time, and having
no understanding with the Barr family; that
she complied with the homestead Law fully. ; sss;
Mrs. Barr's claim is rejected on the ground
that h husband and wife cannot MAINTAIN
separate residences at the same time, and in
the same house, SO that each, by virtue of such
residence, may perfect an entry under the
homestead law. 1t is said that there are a num-
ber of cases in the general land Office similar in
all important respects to the case of Mrs. Barr.