The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-26
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He went there to recuperate from an at
tack OF pneumonia and recovered rapidly
till two weeks ago when he suffered from
urRmic commissions. From that relapse he
never fully recovered, His body was sent
to Washington. He was sixty years old.
The House committee on post-offices has
reported favorably on the Sperry bill for
rural free delivery. This projects differs
from the general rural delivery proposition
in that 1t depends on the petitioning OF one
or more persons from each town or place
where there is now no free delivery and the
compensation OF the carriers or collectors to
be derived from private agreements be-
tween them and the citizens served The
scheme IL substantially like the old penny
post system.
The boycott OF the newspapers OF Denver,
Col, by the fourteen department stores
lasted ten days, and resulted In an uncon-
dtional surrender by the stores. They
made the demand that the papers reduce
their advertising rate thirty per cent, or
they would cease to advertise. The fight
stirred up the community greatly, the re-
suit being that the stores were almost for
saken by purchasers and the proprietors
had to surrender or 90 out of business La
Dor unions held meetings to contrive plans
to spread the agitation and keep the people
away from the department stores.
THE inventory of the real estate and per-
sonal pfoperty of the late George M. Pull
man was filed last week in probate court at
Chicago. The total of the personal assets
is So, 1896, 446 60 The real estate has val
uation OF 81 806, 1689 81. The cash assets
were given as $13S, 1870. The list includes
Al, 233 shares OF stock. of which II, 9S2 shares
are held as collateral for open accounts.
Bonds and mortgages to the number OF $50
have valuation of 1922 500. Doubtful
bonds" amount to $405, 900, and those styled
desperate" amount to $15 900. The good
In hn inv
and the doubtful" to S36 205. The house
hold property in the Prairie avenue home
stead was appraised at S47 225.79.
REPRESENTATIVE HEPBURN OF Iowa in.
trOduced a bill in the Honse last week pro-
viding for the construction of eight vessels
for the revenue cutter service, four to take
the place of the revenue cutters Seward,
McLane, Cofax and Boutwell,. One of the
Others is for service about the Columbia
river bar on the Pacific coast, to cost not
over $250,000; the three others, to cost
$4,000 each, are for hsrbor service in Phil
adelphia, replacing the Washington, in Bos-
ton, replacing the Hamlin, and in New
burd also offers bill increasing the pay of
chief engineers of the revenue cutter ser
vice to $2.100 on duty and 81 500 on leave
or orders, and grantings pensions to the
seamen.
THE statehood convention held recently
at Kingfsher, o. K, brought together over
1000 delegates The convention, which
was wholly harmonious, adopted unani-
mously resolutions petitioning the present
Congress to pass an enabling act providing
for the admission of Oklahoma as a State
There was no strife as to the question of
singl or double statehood. The resolution
simply petitions for statehood, with such
boundaries as Congress may direct, with
the simple recommendation that il the
Indian Territory shall be included, the resi-
dents on each of the civilized tribes and Ok
lahoma shall vote separately upon the accep-
lance or rejection of a State Constitution,
which shall be operative for such Of said
sections as accept 1t.
Dyspepsia-bape of human existence.
Burdock Blood Bitters cures 1t, promptly,
permanently. Regulates and tones tie
stomach.
In United States supreme court last week
Justice Harlan handed down an opinion in
the case of A. Fl. Ritter, executor of W. M.
Runk, against the Mutual Life Insurance
Company OF New York, involving the ques-
ton of whether the heirs of a man who com
mits suicide when in sound mind can re.
cover an insurance policy. The court held
that they could not. The sum of $75, 900
was involved. In deciding the case, JUS
tioe Harlan said that when an insurance
company entered into contract to insure
mans life, neither party to the contract
should be supposed to have suicide in con-
temptation, and it was not intended in en-
tering into such a contract that the life OF
the person insured should be at the option
of either Of the parties. In fixing the pre-
MUM the company would naturally take
into consideration the circumstances bear
ing upon the duration of life and no COM
pany would undertake to insure against
suicide. II any should make such an At
tempt it would, he said, be against public
policy and would not be allowed. Con-
GLIDING, he said explicitly that no insured
person committing suicide and found to be
of sound mind could recover upon his pol
icy.