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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
INSURANCE MAN CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
ADMITS MAKING OUT A BOGUS APPLICATION IN
ORDER TO SECURE PROMOTION

ADMITS MAKING OUT A BOGUS APPLICATION IN
ORDER TO SECURE PROMOTION.
John Ferner thirty-six years old. Of Tompkins-
Vile Staten Island an assistant superintendent Of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of this
city was remanded bv Magistrate Meade, in the
Centre Street Police Court. yesterday on the charge
OF forgery Ferner has offices In New-Brighton.
Staten Island. He wes arrested by Detective Carey
OF the Central office. at the instance OF the man.
ayers Of the insurance company, who accuse him
Of presenting a fraudulent application for $1,000
Insurance on the life Of Adolph Roth, uphol-
iumbus- ave and lives at No l,o4 Ffth-ave.
The applica ton presented few days ago
On investigation Roth denied that he had applied
for life Insurance. Ferner was called to
pain and said that there must be some mistake.
but promised that the applicant would be at the
ONCE on Monday. On that day Ferner reported
that Roth did not appear. He afterward admitted
having used Roths name and having made out the
replication himself Roth's wife being relative
o} Ferner he had been able TO MI out the blank.
knowing all the circumstances Later he went be-
fore DR. c. d. W. Van Dyck, Of No. AZ West Nine.
ty-third-st one Of the companys physicians. ana
was examined under the name OF Roth.
DR. Van Dyck identified Ferner as the man he
had examined as Roth. Ferners reason for perpe-
trating the frauu II was said was 10 secure $780,
00 worth OF insurance In order TO obtain promo
lion He had already secured $4,000 worth Of In
surance and lacked only $1,000 to secure tho COW
ed promotion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
ROBBED DIR. M'BURNEY.

Leroy Thompson, a coiored lad. was arraigned
before Magistrate F1ammer in the West Side Police
Court yesterday a charge Of robbing the house
vi Ut CHARLES McBurncy. at No. % West Thirty
se'enth-st. on Monday OF sS5 DR.. McBurney said
ne iert the front door Of mis- house openN and
thompson entered, and going to desk in his
private once. abstracted $35 He was seen by the
poi'er as ne went out and the porter gave chase.
aul.cehsh Raw. Of the West Thirtieth-st. station.
me boy Thompson had the money IN his
&sos I 1vn "hen arrested. Mrs Schwab. OF NO. ts
49, rrhiIty-seventh-st.. who in court. &C
EeS,nrn Thompson Of having robbed her house last
re.tudiy thompson denied this, saying he was
of 1he pcnt1h'iary at the time. He was held In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
HAMMERsTEIN FINED FOR CONTEMPT.
He AND HIS WIFE MUST PAY 500 JOINTLY FOR
FORCING AN ENTRANCE TO OLYMPIA
SALE LEFT A DEFICIENCY

SALE LEFT 4 DEFICIENCY.
Justice Russell in the Supreme Court yesterday
handed down a decision IN which he imposes a fne
OF 800 Jointly Oscar and Malvna Hammerstein.
whom he adjudges guilty Of contempt In failing
to obey an order Of the Court in connection with
Olympia Theatre. The contempt consisted in the
Hammersteins having forced their way into the
playhouse in defiance Of the orders OF A. Freed
man, the receiver for the property
About q month ago Justice Russell decided that
the receiver had the right Of possession Of tho
property as representing the Court. At the time
the Hammerstens adjudged guilty Of con-
tempt Of court but 1t not until yesterday that
the punishment fixed. In his opinion Justice
Russell says: II DO not think the damage was so
great as 10 subject the defendants to the expense
Of reference The submission to the views OF
the Court upon the duty Of the defendants since
the decision of the motion 10 punish and the mis-
fortunes suffered by them in the loss OF their prop
erty even though II may have been caused by
want Of foresight considerations 10 be weighed
in the determination OF the intent of the wrongful
act and the character Of the punishment
The referee appointed by the Supreme Court In
the foreclosure proceedings for the sale OF Olympia
reported yesterday that the property had been sold
for $3.50 900 and that after all expenses connected
with the sale had been paid there would be de-
fciency against Mr. Hammerstein of sl0sO& Tho
referee allowed the New-York Life Insurance Com
pany the plaintiff IN the foreclosure proceedings
and the purchaser at the sale. the sum OF $A 900
which II had expended IN paying taxes which had
become due the property.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
AN ALLEGED BOGUS PICNIC.
MANY DOWNTOWN BUSINESS MEN BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN swINDLED


Several hundred downtown merchants and bro
kers have purchased tickets In tho last few days
for so-called messenger boys picnic. which the
police assert Is fraud, and yesterday Detective
Sergeants O'Bren and Collins arrested Patrick
OGorman twentyseven years DID, who gave his
address No 25S Grant-st. Brooklyn. on a charge
Of obtaining money under false pretences In
necton with the scheme
O'Gorman hal book showing that hundreds OF
dollars had been collected He also had a book
purporting to show subscriptions collected last
year, with a total Of 5000 He IL said to be only
one of dozen solicitors. Among the names Of
subscribers were Henry Allen Co, the Realty
Trust Company. Hermann Oelrichs Co.. Frank p
Sturgts. j. & w. Seligman Co. A. Dayton & Co.
the Pacific Coast Borax Company. Rollins e. Rol-
Inns the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
II. b. ClafL Co. Lexow. Mackellar Wells and
others. All these had subscribed from So TO IS
each O'Gorman arraigned IN the Centre Street
Police Court and was remanded until to-day to
able tho detectives to investigate the further.
He said that the festival to be given, and that
It was not a fraudulent scheme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
4 QUESTION or PATENT RIGHTS.

Judge Iacombe. In the United States Circuit
Court, yesterday denied the application OF the
Wesbach Light Company for preliminary In
junction restraining the Apollo Incandescent Gas
light Company from manufacturing or selling in
candescent mantcs or hoods for burners. The
Apollo company in answer 10 the motion con;ended
that the Welsbach patents had been anticipated by
prior foreign patents ana that consequently there
was no infringement.
In his opinion Judge Lacombe says Upon this
applc alton the question is raised whether not.
by reason OF the circumstance that n prior foreign
patent for the same invention lapsed Subsequent 10
the application. but before the issue OF the United
States patent. such United States patent was I'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
RAISED BILLS IN CIRCULATION.

The Sub-Treasury has received recently num-
Der OF raised s. Treasury notes. The wv had
heen changed TO an *" and the word Five" 10
Ten" with II pen and had been done in so bung-
ling a manner that only extremely careless persons
would fail TO detect the ink marks They have.
however, been taken by some banks The loss upon
them is the difference between the real and the
ate cd fare
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
ATTACHMENT AGAINST J. E. ADDIcKS

Deputy-Sherin Sullivan received attachment
Yesterday from Buffalo against the Queen City
Construction Company and j. Edward Addicks
for $4,000 In favor of John Laughn. Joseph
f. Eweu and WILDER +. Houpt for professional
services Ii obtained on the ground OF nom
residence the company being Philadelphia
poration and Mr.. Addicks living in Delaware. The
Sheriff served the attachment on two persons here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
EDISON SUES A VITAGRAPH COMPANY

Thomas a. Edison has brought three suits in the
United States Circuit Court against j. stuart
BIackton and Albert r. Smith individually and
as copartners In the Commercial Advertising Blu
rtau and the American Vitagraph Company for
alleged violation Of copyright In printing and SELL
ing photograph entitled Transport Whitney
Leaving Dock" and for using In apparatus two
patented inventions for producing pictures Mr..
Edison asks for preliminary intuncuon and rem-
bursement for damages sustained
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
JUDGMENT AGAINST ST THOMASS CHURCH

Robert G. rsol of No 23 Broadway as attor-
ney for ex-Mayor William J.. Strong. entered Judg-
ment by default for S5G59 80 yesterday against the
directors wardens and vestrymen OF st Thomas's
Church. The action was brought BY Mr. strong;
as executor OF the will OF William !. Peake, FOR gVU
alleged have been lent by Mr.. Peake TO the
church in 1872 for the completion OF the chapel. In
East Sixtieth-s st. and tor interest on the loan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13

Minertzhasen, No . Silva agt Whitman: No. 3. McCor-
mick agt Murphy, No. T. Van Beuren agt Woherspoon:
No 5. Post ag Nadeau. No. q. George w Iederer Com
pany Jordan: I. (iioe Gioe; No y. matter OF
Hurry; No o. People ex rel. Consumers Brewing
pany ast. Fromme No. 10. Hasnsck agt. Hasack: No.
II. agt Etenbell: No IL. Enrght agt. Franklin
publishing Company No. 49, Miller ast Fuchs; No -.
Gildersleeye same. No. 6. Wlmek Second Ave
Railroad: No H. OF Dolllnser: No. 10.
Walther agt Engel: No. 49, city OF Ncw-Yo ast Ran
dolph; No. 20. Kammerer agt Gilbert: No. II. Henry
Salisbury. No %. Milbury Iertzberg No %.
Bells Asbestos Company ag II. W Johns Manufacturing
Company; No "a Koel America vstiferes Jerusalem sgt
Eliach; No. -. Beetle Manhattan Railway Com
pany; No ~ matter Of Henderson, No 9. Pss'ers,ein
agt Hoes, No. IS faag Mathesen. No. D. People
r." Dittmar agt County Clerk Of New York County:
No. 30 Clark Grening No. 81. simpson agt MaAxa-
chusctts Benefit Life No. 30. Itzkowz axt
I,zkowitz: No 30. Field agt 0Connor; No; - ka!msn
agt Do Boer. No 81. Qun agt. Gold and stock Teis-
graph Company. No 49, Levi agt Kuhn No. 81. Spencer
agt Spencer; No rs Mcbride james. No 80 matter
Of Arksi No. 10. knickerbocker Trus: Company a6I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
NEW CORPORATIONS IN THIS STATE.

Albany. July l2-The following stock companies
have filed certificates OF incorporation with the
Secretary OF State
Brooklyn Bill Posting Company Of Brooklyn capital,
5000 Directors-E X. Butler Of Yonkers. and Thomas
Armltage "A ld Margaret Armitage OF Brooklyn.
Empire Loan Company II Nev-fork CITY; capital.
5000 Drectors-lsidor Schoemberg and Albert Blume,
OF baltimore Louis F. Solomon |. X. Edwards and -
l.. COIN OF York.
The Machine Typewriter Company OF New York city;
cnpal $1,000. Directors-E y. Hess. Oaf Tyborg and
] VI stoughton. OF New York. .
can,ai SOS 900 Directors-N NJ Wood. \ W. Barnard
and T. " Mullett. Of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
LOCAL BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS.

Justice Giegerich. of the Suprem, Court has APP
pointed John J. Vause receiver for the National
Smoke Consumer Company. Of No. lib Broadway.
on the application of Charles A. Pratt. surviving
mariner OF Pratt & Smith. judgment creditor for
s4g7 The company was incorporated in July,
1895 under New-Jersey laws with a capital stock
Of $500 900 10 manufacture a smoke-consuming de-
vice to he attached to boilers Charles H. boyer
is president and Louis NJ. simpson treasurer. The
only assets in the hands OF the treasurer are two
natents and 10 shares OF stock of the Ohio Ma
tional Smoke Consumer Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13

prerne Court there is muck doubt as TO
the correct to this question that II
should not be decided upon preliminary motion,
but upon final hearing 40 that the party
who may he defeated upon appeal may Ice In posi-
ton apply TO that court for certiorari, should
IL be SO advised"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13

Judgment for s23.573 entered yesterday
against Ronald T. Mcdonald. OF No. lis Broadway
IN favor OF Miles O'Brien and j. c. Cannon as
receivers of the Madison Square Bank for balance
due on q note made by him February IL last
for s25 900 1ayable TO the order OF the receivers
TO the Sheriff
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13

Transcripts OF judgments from Otsego County.
New-York were entered here yesterday against
c. & L. Heidenheimer (corporaton). dealers In
hops and malt at No 80 Soonest. this city. for
ali in favor OF the National Central Banking Com
pany. of Cherry Valley.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
european Advertisements.

A"fS"" ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
WIZ - '@'f(f ~ mn ~/r>N~ ~~-~~.~.
EUROPEANS AND TRAVEL
LERS will find the London office of The
Tribune 149 Fleet Street, q convenient
place to leave their advertisements and
subscriptions for The Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13

An order Of Judge Hurd OF Brooklyn. was nled
in the New-York County Clerks office yesterday
appointing w. H. Good receiver for Bernard b.
X,dun NJ K,,duH a. Corrigan builders OF Brook
lyn on the application Of Walter I. klots & Bros.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-13
cOURT CALENDARS FOR TO-DAY.

Appellate pivslon-Supreme Cotrt-Adjourne1 until
Tuesday. August o. at 10 A. m 80
supreme Cour-specia Term-Part I-B.fore Giege-
rich J-Court opens q 80 - No !. Franklin
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
Looking Both Ways.

Nature has enabled some animals to
see objects behind them as we'll al in
front without turning round. The hare
has this power in a marked degree. It's
eyes are large, prominent, and placed
laterally. Its power of seeing things
in the rear Is very noticeable in grey
hound coursing, for though this dog is
mute while running, the hare is able to
judge to a nicely the exact moment at
which it will be best for it to double.
Horses are another instance. 1t is only
necessary to watch a horse, driven in
variably without blinkers, to notice
this. Take, for instance, those on
tramways. Let the driver wen at
tempt to take the whip in hand, and If
the horse is used to the work, he will
ct once increase his pace. The giraffe,
which is a very timid animal, is ap-
preached with the utmost difficulty on
account of its eyes being SO placed that
it can see as well behind as in front.
When approached this anne faculty en-
ables it to direct with great precision
the rapid storm of kicks with which it
defends itself.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
SHOULD BE
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Prompt Treatment Necessary.

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Every family should have a bottle
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
A Musical Prodigy.

Auburn, N. Y, has a musical wonder
in little Modena Scovill, s years old,
who plays the piano with wonderful
skill, both by sound and by note. She
has just given a recital at her home
which was attended by a score of mu-
steal people, who were astonished at
the child's proficiency. She began to
play when only 2 years old and already
has appeared in public several times.
When four and a half years old she
played for the State Music Teachers
association meeting and was highly
complimented.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
A Young Man Milliner.

n IounR MAI mllilheTs
While it is true that men have been
making women's fine gowns and bon
nets for some years, yet an instance
of a genuine American man milliner
has been thus far almost unknown. Ma
tive born young men have been free
monopoly in the business, but now
the country is to have at least one
male artist in feminine %headgear. Any
one who does not believe 1t has only
to ask the mother of a Brooklyn young
man, who has had three new bonnets
this winter and all her sons handi-
work. They are pretty bonnets too.
She wouldn't wear them If they were
not. The headquarters of the young
artist in hats is just at present Pratt
institute. Any one who visits the
evening millinery class will be inter-
ested to see, first of all, a number Of
girls, each of whom is bringing into
shape a skeleton of a hat which grad
ually takes to itself a covering Of some
kind of stuff which the expert knows
to be canton flannel. That Ia the ma
terial which the millinery experiment.
er uses in lieu of velvet. But by this
time the visitor has discovered that
there is a young man in the room. He
is making a hat with all the engrossing
interest that is to be seen in the young
women. And America may have a first
class nan milliner. They have never
had men students in this line of work
before at Pratt's, though they have had
applications. The present pupil is TAX
ing evening lessons and comes twice
a week and has now taken thirty or
more, beginning at the A. B, G Of mil
1inery work. The girls did think it
was rather funny at first to have a
young man of IS taking millinery les
som with them, but as he did not mind,
they came to think it was quite nice
after all. The young man says, 81 am
learning the business. am going into
the wholesale business, but you have to
understand every part of it and know
how all the work is done to be success
full. Oh, yes, l like 1t. l take A fash
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three bonnets for my mother already"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30

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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
A Wooden Watch.

The most curious timekeeper, perhaps,
that has ever been made In America
was the work of one Victor Doriot, who
lived at Bristol, Tenn, about 20 years
ago. This oddly was nothing more or
less than a wooden watch. The case
was made Of briar root, and the inside
works. except three of the main wheels
and the springs (Which were OF metaD,
were made from a piece of an old box
wood rule. The face, which was pol
ished until 1t looked like a slab of finest
ivory, was made from the shoulder
blade of an old COW "Dorlot's queer
watch" as 1t was called, was an open
faced affair, with a glass crystal, and
was pronounced a fine piece Of work
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see.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
Some Gigantic Nests.

The largest, heaviest and most pecu.
liar nests are to be found in Australia.
The jungle fowl build their nests in the
form of great mounds, some having
been found Is feet in height and $50
feet in circumference. They are erect
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leaves, grass, and other vegetable mat
ter. The T~alegallus, or Brush turkey,
adopt nearly the same system in build
ing their nests-but they work in COL
onies-and they are much extensive,
and the shape pyramidical. The nests
OF these birds are so large that If re-
moved, would require the services of
six or seven carts. and the material
would weigh upwards If five tons at
the least. The brick houses of the
Scotch Mission House on Lake Nyassa
have all been built out of a single ants
nest, and the quarry from which the
materials have been derived forms a pit
beside the settlement some dozen feet
in depth.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-30

Very interesting experiments have
eecently been made at Cornell Univsr-
s3ty by Professor Atkinson on the eff
ekct OF the X-rays on growing plants
nnd seedlings. 80 much has been said
or the injurious effect Of these rays on
the human body, when exposed to
shsm for Photographic purposes. that
Professor Atkinson was prepared to
see his plants seriously injured ia the
experiments: but the results showes
that even delicate seedlings, after an
exposure to the rays of many hours,
we're entirely unframed. Sensitive
plants. like the mimosa, exhibited the
same indifference. Among the photo
graphs showing the interior structure
Of plants were pictures of the seeds of
h~ickory-nuts, almonds and peanuts
taken through the unbroken shells.
end Of peas and beans still enclosed
within the pods.