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Smyrna times., 1894-05-16
A Bad Fire Insurance Year

In his annual address before the Ma
tional Board of Fire Underwriters,
President SkiltOn made the disQuiet-
ing announcement that the year 1898
was the most prolific in fire losses, so
far as the stock companies of the
United States are cOncerned,i in the his
tory of the fire insurance business.
There are a multitude of mutual COM
panies in the country having no con-
! nection with the National Board of
Fire Underwriters. What their losses
were in 1898, relatively to other years,
have not been reported fer the entire
country, ewing to the want of com
plete national organization.
The year 1871 has heretofore had the
bad distinction of being the worst fire
year, owing to the Chicago coufagra.
ton, which broke out Sunday night,
October Sth, burned over an area of
three and half square miles, and in
hicted loss on insurance companies
of S8S, ,634 ,122, followed year after
ward by the memorable Boston fire, by
which a further loss of $50 600, 900 was
entailed upon the insurance companies.
The statement of President Skilton
that the losses of 1898, not the result of
any such vast destruction of property
in any one city as marked the years
1871 or 1872, exceeded that of all for
mer years, is significant, and call for a
minute search for causes and remedies
Among the twenty principal causes
of fires reported in the year 1892, "de
fective flues" stand at the head of the
list, and when the returns for 1898 are
completed, it will be found that this re-
mains one of the principle sources o.
fire losses. II is u preventable cause
and might be removed by more rigid
inspection of buildings in course o
construction. In 1892 electric wire
and lights and other electric apparatu
ranked low on the list of reported
] causes of fires, as compiled by the In
surGnce Chronicle, but President Skiltoi
AYERS that there is abundant evidenc
collected during the past three month
that fires traceable to this origin ar
growing very frequent, and that in
IF surance companies, for self-protectio
q must at once formulate some metho
a. to compel owners of insured prOpert
using electricity to introduce the mo!
G modern and secure wiring.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16
Harper's Weekly.

Mr.. Caspar w. Whitney has just re-
turned from his pilgrimage to Great
Britain, where he spent ten weeks Wis
iting the various sport centres. Mr..
Whitney's mission on the other side
was a study of the systems and ira
ditions that obtain in amateur sport in
the mother country; and his impres
sions, profusely illustrated, will b'
given in the series of articles now run
ming in Hnper's WeeHytouching upOr
the general sporting spirit of England
track athletics, boating acd foot bal
both in and out of the Universities
cricket or cycling, wolf, and stag hunt
/ ing
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Thomas Coxey, the father of the
Commonweal commander, is in Phila-
delphia, ON a visit to a daughter who
resides in that city. The elder Coxey
is described as a quiet, unassuming
man of 65 years, with no nonsense about
him. He is uncompromisingly opposed
to the cranky crusade in which"Jake,"
as he calls his son, is engaged, and
tried to persuade him out of it. But
Jake, he is reported as saying, was a
stiff-necked, cranky, pig-headed boy,
and he would have his own way. ThOs.
Coxey was born near Philadelphia, as
was also his son. He moved to Mas
sillOn, Ohio, where he has made fair
fortune in quarrying. The elder Coxey
is Democrat, but cares very little
about politics.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Coney Island as part of Brooklyn, is
now under the direction of Mayor
Schieren and the Brooklyn police, and
so long as the former is in power the
Sunday laws will be enforced in Coney
Island as in the other parts of Brook
lyn. Coney Island will be u different
kind of a place especially at the West
End, than it has been IN the past.
The fake shows. the gambling places
aud the variety performances in saloons
will be abolished. Mayor Schieren
hos the idea that he can make Coney
Island as quiet and as law-abiding as
Asbury Park without destroying its
popularity.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Secretary Carlisle is quoted as say
ing "If the country is to wait for tariff
reform until every Senator and Repre-
sentative is satisfied, our promise will
never be kept, "and yet this seems to be
about the only hope the Democrats
have of getting any kind of a tariff
measure through Congress. Their war
cry has been "protection is fraud, "
and yet if all the protective features
were eliminated from the Wilson bill,
with all their majority they could not
pass it if they continued in session all
summer.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

The losses and expenses of fire in
surance companies in the United States
for the year 1898 exceeded by II per
cent. the gross income from premiums.
President SkiltOn, of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, in speak
ing of the frequency of fires caused by
electricity, insists that the insurance
companies, for their own salvation
will be obliged to adopt measures tC
compel more careful wiring and insula
ton as safeguards against losses from
| this source.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

The earlier symptoms of dyspepsia
such as distress after eating, heartburn
and occasional headaches, should mol
be neglected. Take Hoods Sarsapa
rilla and be cured. Hoods Pills are
the best family cathartic and livel
! medicine. Harmless, reliable, sure.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Mr.. Coxey, who has been treated
like any other citizen while in Wash
ington-arrested when he violated law
and allowed to as he pleased on other
occasions - has, like other citizens,
been given a hearing by a Congress
ional committee. The event is made
much of, so far as the reports show, is
that Coxey had absolutely nothing Of
value to tell the committee.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Bimetallism can be accomplished
only by international agreement. The
people of the United States have in-
dulged in single-handed experiment to
their hearts content. They will be
ready for joint trial when other Govern
ments shall be agreed.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16
A VETERANS VERDICT.
The War is Over. a Wel-known Sol
dier, Correspondent and journal
ist Makes a Disclosure.

Indiana contributed her thousands Of brave
soldiers to the war and no state bears bet
ter record in that respect than it does. In
literature it Is rapidly agquirins an
cnviable place. In war and literature
solomon YeweE, well known as a writer as
SOL" has won an honorable position; Dur
ing the late war he was member OF Co. NJ,
2d. \. Y. Cavalry and Of the 18th Indiana In
fantry Volunteer. Regarding an important
circumstance "a writes as follows
several OF Us cd veterans here are using
Dr. Miles Restorative Ncrvine Heart Cure
and Nerve aud Liver Pills, all of them giving
splendid satisfaction. In fact, we have never
used remedies that compare with them. vi
the Pills We must lay they are the best COM
bnatiOn OF the qualities required in a prep
aration of their uaturc we have ever known
We have none bat words ui praise for them
They are the outgrowth of new principle II
medicine, AMI tone UP the system wonder
fully. We say TO all, try these remedies;
solomon YcWeil, Marion, Ind, Dec. D, lS9Z
These remedies are sold by all druggists 0I
positive guarantee. or = mt direct Dy TN
Er Mites Mcdi':il TO-. ElkEart. Ind. ON re
ccipt of pri ;, per bottle, six bottles 50, eX
press preIsiid. iil., positively contain neithe
| Opiate., iior dan /, rous drugs.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage in
preaching his twenty-ifth anniversary
sermon spoke of the many changes in
the world since his ministry in this
church began, quarter of century
ago. Not ten men prominent in the
world then are alive and prominent
now. OF the nineteen men who signed
the call for DIR. Talmage TO come to the
Tabernacle, only enc is now living and
be was present. Not more than ten
persons who heard his first sermon
twenty-five years ago were alive to
hear the anniversary address. But
DR.. Talmage said his sermon was not
to be dirge but an anthem, and he
proceeded to speake in language OF
gratitude and congratulatiOn of the
many things that had been accom-
plished fer God during his ministry.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16
Each Day.

Each day the world is born anew
For him who takes it rightly;
Not fresher that which Adam knew,
Not sweeter that whose moonlight dew
Entranced Arcadia nightly.
Rightly? That's simply: it's to see
Some substance casts these shadows
Which we call Life and History,
That aimless seem to chase and flee
Like wind CLEANS over meadows.
Simply? That's nOblY It's 20 know
That God may still be met with,
Nor groweth old, nor doth bestow
These senses fine, this brain aglOw,
To groyel and forget with.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16

The cable steamer Faraday yester-
day successfully landed the American
shore end of the new Atlantic cable of
the Commercial Gable Company at
Causo, Nova Scotia. The other end of
the pieces Just landed is buoyed up in
shallow water 4O0 miles out. On leav-
ing London the Faraday's cargo con-
sisted of 500 miles of cable, 100 miles of
which were laid Off the Irish coast and
carried to the shore before proceeding
to the work referred to above. There
still remain, however, 1900 miles of
cable to be laid in deep sea in order to
complete the line.
Smyrna times., 1894-05-16
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SURPLUS, = S1OO,OOO.OO.
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Company.
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interest PAID on deposits of money as fol-
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SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the accounts of
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
THRICE MARRIED TOONEMA
The Last Ceremony Per-
formed in State Prison.
A ROMANCE OF LOVE AND CRIME
The Groom Twice Guilty OF
Deliberate Bigamy.
Three Times IIe Was Married to Ono
Woman and Only the Last Ceremony
Was Lcgat-Murriod in Prison, where
He is Serving Sentence of Seven Years.

COLUMBUS, o., May 24.-There was
an unusual event in tho study Of Chap
lain Winget OF the State prison, last
evening. 1t was wedding in which
the groom was convict with the greater
part of seven years' sentence yet to
serve, and the bride the daughter Of ono
of Cincinnati's most prominent families.
Twelve years ago b. +. Conrad came
to Cincinnati from Minneapolis, where
he had left wife and two children. AT
Cincinnati he married Miss Emma
Eberle. Ten years they lived together
happily and three children were born to
them. Then the fact that he had another
wife living became known. He was
peuitont and Mrs. Conrad No. 2 forgave
him.
1t was agreed that he should go back
10 Minnesota, acquire citizenship and
secure Il divorce. Then he could legally
marry his Cincinnati wife. This he did
and about year ago returned, announc.
ing that he had been divorced, and was
for the second time married to Miss
Eberle.
Soon afterward it transpired that
while it was true that he had been
divorced in Minnesota, he had fallen in
love with a Milwaukee girl on the way
back to Cincinnati and married her, SO
his second marriage to Miss Eberle was
as illegal as the first. She then de-
terminedto prosecute him and heis now
serving sentence for this act of bigamy.
She has now married him for the third
time, on the advice of her lawyer, in
order to make her children legitimate.
The Milwaukee wife recently secured a
divorce and therefore this marriage is
leral
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
Deafness. cannot BE Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inAamed condition of the
mucous lining of the eustachian tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored TO its
normal condition. hearing will be de.
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inilamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free,
+. j. CHENEY d co., Toledo o.
FB-So!d by druggists, 70 cents.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
n4cK " n.aSHINGroN.


WAsHGNGToN, May 24,-President
Cleveland, Secretaries Gresham and
Carlisle and Captain Robert ID. Evans
returned to Washington to-day from
their shooting and fishing trip in North
Carolina waters.
Private Secretary Thurber met the
party, who apparently were in the best
Of health and spirits when they discm-
barked from the little lighthouse tender
Violet, on which the trip was made.
President Cleveland showed the effect
of exposure 20 the weather more than
the remainder OF the party. His face
was much tanned and he must have
been in open air most Of the time he
was away.
The party at once went to their car
riages and were driven to their respec-
tive offices. ..z-"..... ."1....
Captain Donncll of the Violet, in
speaking of the trip, said the party had
u good time and were better for the
outing. The President, he said, was
very companionable and sociable with
the men on board the vessel and those
he met when he went ashore. He had
taken advantage Of all the opportunities
for fishing and making the most of the
trim
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
NERER SLEEPS.
A Man who Has Been Awake for Twenty
Two Years.

Two ledrss
New Orleans States.
j. g. Suite, contractor and builder
at 1928 Virginia avenue, claims to have
gone without wink of sleep for more
years than Rip Van Wrinkle snored
away in the Catskills. There are many
cases on record of prolonged trance or
coma, but it. would be safe to say that
no incident OF insomnia like that haunt
ing Mr.. Suite could be cited He is u
hale, hearty, well built man of Ga, and
appears to have 10 hours slumber every
night Of his life. But this he denies
emphatically. He never gets that "tired
feeling" never has desire to relax
into forgetfulness and the repose of
sleep, for noise in his head disturus
him. But let Mr.. Suite explain his
peculiar case in his own way. He says:
This insomnia commenced in 1872,
when | was very low with severe at
tack of the smallpox. The attending
physician, like all physicians, knew
nothing. He gave me 33 grains of
quinine, and it was this drug that routed
slumber and has kept me sleepless for
these % years. 1t set up a buZzing in
my head, which still continues like the
eternal whirr of innumerable wheels,
aud mingled with this awful whirr is
the noise as of steam rushing from
small vent. 1t is this noise that keeps
me awake and will not let me sleep.
When | lie down in the evening it
grows louder, shriller and more terrific
until am forced to arise and occupy
my mind.
Many night, Mr.. Suite says, he
has courted the drowsy goddess by long
rambles from the city far into the coun-
try. But his WEAKNESS failed to bring
about slumber. He tried everything
except narcotics, but of no avail. This
sleeplessness at first alarmed him, but,
as he suffered no evil effects from it, he
came to regard il as matter of course,
and threw the whole burden on the
shoulders of the doctor who had given
him the quinine. In consequence
ofthis antipathy thus engendered against
the physicians, he always goes to the
undertaken when any of his family send
for physician. The work of the day
does not weary his brain, so he does not
care for sleep that brings peace TO weary
minds, nor does he need its invigorating
powers to recuperate the lost strength
of the day.
At night when all the world is still,
and ordinary mortals arc resting, Mr..
Suite is reading his paper, perfecting
plans of houses, or ;humbing his favor
tic copy OF Napoleon" who used to
sleep four hours of the "a. He thinks
that Edison's idea of sleep is correct,
and holds himself up as living verif-
cation. 1t is the great inventors theory
that sleep is habit formed by our bar
barous ancestors, who had nothing else
to occupy them in the darkness except
sleep. And now that electricity has
given the world perpetual day the nat
ural state Of affairs could and is being
restored.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
HASTINGS EOR GovERNoR.
Tho Rest of Quay's Slate in Pennsylvania
Also Goes ThrouSlI-"Jnck'' Robinson
Bowled Out.

Tho Rest of nuay's Slate in Pennsylvania
Also Goes ThrouSlI-"Jnck'' Robinson
Bowled Out.
HARRISBURG, May Ex-senator Quay
learned his lesson of defeat well four
years ago and to-day nominated the
man for governor whom the Republi.
cans wanted nominated then and wanted
nominated to-day. General Daniel II.
Hastings of Bellefonte, the "hcro OF
JohnstOwn," was named by the Repub-
lican convention to-day unanimously
and by reclamation for governor. Quay
wasn't here, but his lieutenants were,
and they did his bidding. By this norli-
nation to-day Quay not only held his
own in the party, but actually gathered
in the Independents, and it was an
interesting sight to see Charles Emory
Smith, Quay's old enemy and ex-
minister to Russia under Harrison,
mount the platform and second Hast
ings' nomination.
Before the nominations were made
the platform was adopted. The plat
form favored an expansion Of currency
to the amount Of $40 per capita, and the
use Of silver and gold as money; talked
tariff vigorously from protection stand
point, commended the effort to delay a
vote on the Wilson bill, and had this to
say on the foreign policy of the admin
istration:
We denounce the unpatriotic and un-
American management of our foreign re-
lations by the Democratic national admin
istration. which surrenders American
treaty rights and vital interests in Samoa
and which has unjustiiiably planned and
labored to uphold and restore an odious
monarchy in Hawaii, and prevent the
establishment there of a sister republic, in
conflict with that principle of self-govern-
menU upon which our own republic is
founded.
The platform closed:
The Cleveland administration has veri.
fled the worst apprehensions of those who
opposed its election. 1t has shown inca.
pacity to govern alike in foreign and do
nestle affairs, incapacity to wisely advise
even its own party followers, so that Demo-
cratic Congressman are adrift upon all
questions where the power of public
patronage does not compel them to act
alike. Immediately upon its accession to
power the Democratic party repudiated
the principles which its platform an.
nounced, betrayed the confidence which
the American people had reposed in it,,
and since then it has continually shown
itsell 81 tHOlouSuly -ullequdl 10 anu laltIl-
less in discharge of the high trust COM
mitted TO its care that its history eXcites
the contempt and distrust of every thought
full citizen.
Walter Lyon of Allegheny and Con-
gresham Robinson of Delaware county
| contested for the nomination of lieu
tenant-governor and Lyon won by a
vote of 1913 to 63. Amos II. Mylin was
nominated for auditor-general and Gen.
j. IL. Lolita was named for secretary of
internal affairs. Galusha A. Grow was
renominated for Congressman at large
and George +. Huff named as the other
candidate for ngressman-at-large.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-31
WATERSPOuTS IN THE BAY.
Thrilling Experiences of Pilot Hughes and
Others on the steamship Fonar.

Thrilling Experience of Pilot Hughes and
Others on the steamship Fonar.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
New CASTLE, May 25.-pilot Robert
L. Hughes of the Pennsylvania pilot
boat Il. G. Knight, which passed up
yesterday in charge of the North At.
lantic, Trident Line steamship Fonar,
Captain Willis. from London ami Swan
sea, reports thrilling experience early
yesterday morning with waterspouts
just below Ship John Light. At one
time three huge spouts were heading
directly for the ship and the course was
steered as far to the eastward as possible
to prevent them striking the vessel. All
three passed within a few hundred feet
of the steamer and the noise they made
was dcafening. Water was hurled on
the decks and all hands were terrified.
Pilots who have been on the bay and
Delaware river for 50 years say that
untiLyesterday they never heard of such
u thing us waterspouts in these waters.