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New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
A BIG GAIN N LAST YEAR.
FIFTY-sIxTH ANNUAL STATEMENT OF NEw-YoRK
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY GIVES IN
TERESTING FIGURES

The hfty-sixth annual statement of the New
York Life Insurance Company. Nos. S46 and SiS
Broadway, shows that the total assets on January
l. 1901 were 1852 1852. consisting of United States
State, city, county and other bonds S164 $50 973;
bonds and mortgages s3 s 9s2; real estate $685.
800; loans 10 policy holders their policies as
curity, s4 3S2 7G9; deposits I'm trust companies and
banks at interest. Sl4O79177; stocks Of trust and
railroad companies. s5471, goo: loans on stocks and
bonds, $2.S9i,000; quarterly and semi-annual pre-
miuns not yet due s2.575s43: premiums in transit
S2Ssol l3S; premium notes policies in force s2133-
Ss9; interest and rents due and accrued. 81 i05
The total liabilities s2e2. 1862
The total income was S58.9145l9 from new pre-
miume. renewed premiums. interest on bonds mort
cages. loans TO policy holders secured by reserves
on policies. other securities. rents from company
properties. dividends stocks and deposits on ac-
count Of registered bond policies. The total ex-
penditurss we're s5s.9l45i9.
The insurance account the ossis of paid for
business only showed total 55i los policies and
sl25S,s55.Gl0. Deductions of death. maturity sur
render. expiring. etc ade the paid for business
in force December 81 1900 81 policies and 81 902
1856 gain for 1900 Of 1884 policies and slo2s4
Insurance. certihes that the admitted assets are
62l955l2 the general liabilities 81 i75 59 the net
policy reserve l3.03z202, the for pay
menf OF dividends payable to policy holders 1891
ana subsequent years S3l 3S5,S and funds for
other contingencies as $l0,320.3l9.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
OBITUARY NOTES.

philadelphia. Jan. 2-James W. Priestly. founder
~ the James w. Priestly Carpet Mills. was
asnhyxisted by Illuminating gas last night at the
home OF his son. John ". Priestly. tie was eiShty-
two years Of age. Charles Prfestly grandson
was also overcome by the gas. but his life was
saved Mr. Priestly born in Yorkshire. Eng
land and came TO this country when young man.
Ne engaged in the manufacture of ingram carpets
before the war; and later established the PFlestiy
mills.
philadelphia Jan. 2-Samuel V. R. Hill. general
agent of the Adams Express Company in this city.
died to-day from pleurO-pneumonla; He was
about ifty-eight at age. and had Oeen thrty-
nine years In the service of the company
Cleveland Ohio. Jan. 2-Henry NJ Clafien. prest-
dent Of the CIafen Paving and Contracting Com
pany died last night in st. Nincents Hospital
westchester Penn. Jan. 2.-Captain Edward
Hoppey u. s A.. retired died suddenly from
apoplexy last night at his home. at Frazer, near
here. lie served in the Regular Army, and lost an
arm at the battle of Bull Run. He was one OF the
officers who detailed to guard the peniten-
tiary when Mrs Surratt and the other cOnspiratOrs
were hanged for plotting the assassinatiOn OF
President Abraham Lincoln He was also one OF
the officers detailed to guard the funer9l corteSe
that bore Lincoln's body 10 Springfield.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
OBITUARY.
!GNATIUS DONNELLY.

Ignatius DonneIly. whose death in Minneapolis
was announced yesterday. was born In Philadel-
phia in 1891. He received high school education
in that city was admitted 10 the bar in 1852, and
went 10 Minnesota in 1856. In 1859 he was elected
Observation-Disclosures of Minnesota the Repub-
lcan ticket, and reelected In lSol- lie was
sent to Congress in 1864 and in 1866, but was de-
feated two years later. after which he united MS
fortunes with the Democracy. In the Presidential
campaign of 1S72 he took the stump for Horace
Greeley. and in 1873 he chosen Democratic
State Senator and was afterward nominated by
the Democrats for Congress. In May, 1900. he was
nominated for Vice-Presidcnt by the Mddie-of-the-
Road POpuists
He wrote an Essay on the Sonnets of Shake
speare." Atlantis the Antediluvian World, and
"Ragnarok.' and later produced THE Great Cryp-
togrem,' in which he undertook TO show that the
works attributed TO William Shakespeare were the
product OF Sir Francis Bacon He wrote the pre-
amble 10 the Omaha platform of the Peoples party
which has since been regarded i'm the hght OF a
party creed.
Mr.. Donnelly twice married. his second wife
being his typewriter. Miss Marian Hanson. TO whom
he was married in 1888.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
SEQUEL TO WEDDING IN BROOKLYN LAST
SEPTEMBER.

George W Howard a consulting engineer. was
arrested in his room in the New-Amsterdam Hotel,
Twenty-first-st. and Fourth-ave.. last evening
warrant charging him with bigamy. The warrant
issued by Magistrate Brenner. of Brooklyn.
Howard Immediately taken to the Adams-st.
station. in Brooklyn
Howard had offices at Twenty y-ffth-st. and Lex
ngton-ave. He came TO this city from Boston
more than year ago. and soon became known In
certain Brooklyn social circles. He attended the
monthly dances at the Assembly Rooms. in Pierre
pont-st.. and became acquainted with Miss Helen
Hawkes. daughter Of Henry Hawkes. Deputy
Commissioner Of Highways, who lives at No. 20l
Prospect=st II a of love at first sight
Miss Hawkes. pretty and only seventeen years
old. After a courtship of few months the en-
gagement announced and September 10 last
was set for the wedding. The wedding was cele-
brated in st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church by
Father Joseph Farrell. Bishop Mcdonnell and
Vicar-Ceneral Mcnamara were also present. After
the ceremony there was a reception at the home Of
the brides parents The bride received from her
parents a handsome house in st. Johns Place,
completely furnished
After wedding tour Of several weeks the couple
returned TO Brooklyn and went to their new home
After living there a week two Howard said he
preferred TO live in the New-Amsterdam Hotel
Manhattan, il his business The
couple then came Manhattan. Howard fire.
quently pleaded press of business and went to Bos-
ton. remaining away Friday. Saturday and Sunday
for three weeks. The young wife's parents became
suspicious. and employed Detective Hamburger 10
shadow their son-in-iaw at the request of his wife.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
NEW CURATOR IN THE NUsEUH.

Professor Hennon Carey Bumpus. of Brown Uni
versity. has accepted the appointment assistant
TO President Jesup and curator of the department
ural History. His appointment dates from Tues
day. Professor II. +. Osborn. who has been caring
for the duties now to be assumed by Professor
Bumpus. will retain the curatorshp OF the depart
ment of vertebrate paieontology.
Mr.. Bumpus professor OF comparative anat-
omy at Brown, and is rated as a man Of marked
ability in his chosen field. He was assistant direo-
tor OF the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods
Hole. Mass from 1898 10 1895 and has been a mem,
Der OF the Board OF Trustees of the Rhode Island
Hospital a director OF the biological laboratory OF
the United States Fish Commission Moods Hole
and secretary OF the American Society OF Natural
lists He has written several books and papers IN
seientnc journals upon geological subjects.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
ARRTrALs FROM THE KLoNDrKE.
NEWS OF RICH STRIKE AT TANANA-BUsINEss
DULL AT DAWSON

Vancouver. B. c.. Jan. 2.-The steamer Victorian
arrived to-day from Skaguay. with forty passen-
gers and mails from Dawson. They started as late
as December 16 making quick time the ice
a. F. Lauder of Seattle. was the latest passen-
ger. and he came out a bicycle. Mrs. Ballinger,
wife of DR.. BaIlinger. who left Dawson De-
cenber for Skaguay and disappeared. also came
out by the Victorian She heard nothing of her
husband. who. it is feared, with foul play, and
she is her way TO seek assistance Of rela-
tives in Seattle. She will Immediately return
north TO prosecute the search. There is cew
The wrecked steamer City of Topeka is reported
to be in good shape. and will probably be success
fully raised
Victoria, B. g., Jan. 2.-The steamer Ameer
which arrived here to-day from Alaskan ports
brings news of great strike near Tanana, where
prospectors have taken out gold at the rate of
s14 pan.
Miners coming TO the coast from Dawson report
that wolves are becoming troublesome on the Daw-
trail.
Business in Dawson is less active than ever this
winter, owing TO the fact that claims are all worked
i'm the summer winter work being found unprofita-
BILE.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
BURNS FACTION NAY CONTROL.
ANGER AT sHERIFF"s ACTION LIKELY tn r,r.>,c,.
BALANCE OF POWER IN YONKERs CITY
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE

inc long drawn out fight between the faction OF
the Republican party in Yonkers led by ex-stata
Senator James Irving Burns and that led hy ay
Congressman William L. Ward has broken ont
afresh Burns. who is Platt man. was supposed
TO have lost the control Of the Yonkers CITY Com
mittee fonkers was the last place he controlled
IN the county. IL was expected that Mayor Leslie
Sutherland 10 whose popularity the defeat ~
Burns was laid, would be the new chairman of the
City Committee but he may not be-
The Ward faction had one majority In the conn
mittee Two of the Fifth Wards delegates an
houhce that they VIII vote with the Burns faction
hereafter. Sheriff Miller who took office ON T,uas-
day, is responsible for the change IL is asserted
that prior to the election he promised Solomon II
Oakley. of the Fifth Ward of Yonkers a % 0oo
clerkship Instead of giving it 10 Oakley he an
pointed MS own son TO that place and manned MI
Oakley for $500 place as watchman at the iail.
The Fifth Ward Republican Club stron~iy, 90. 80,
jected to this hence the determination Of lie two
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03

architecture viii be studied from the painters
rather than from the builders point Of view. After
the business meeting Arthur ". Dow spoke
THE Principles of Design in Some Ancient and
Modern Pictures illustrating the subject by pho
toGrapfs.
The notice that the Art Students League has de-
termined 20 open class in architecture is of spe
cial interest. The rapidly increasing demand for
mural decoration and architectural sculpture of
real artistic value has opened new field to paint
ers and sculptors. Amcng the architects the need
of such class has been much felt they found
that work which they would naturally turn
to the sculptors and painters had he done under
their own direction by architectural workmen.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
RUSSIA AND MANCHURLA.
TENT OF AGREEMENT FOR PROTECTION
OF PROVINCE OF FEN-TING.

London, jan Sin dispatch 10 ''The Times"
from Peking. dated December 81, DR. Morrison
gives the text of the Russo-Chinese agreement
for the Russian protection OF the Manchurian
Province OF Fen-Ting. Russia he SAYS. con-
sents that China shall resume the civil govern
ment on the following conditions:
First-The Tartar General Tseng undertakes
to protect and pacify the province and TO assist
in the construction of the railroad
Second-He must kindly treat. feed and lodge
Russians engaged in the military occupation
and IN the protection of the railway.
Thlrd-He must disarm and disband the Chi
nese soidiery. delivering to the Russians all
munluons OF war in such arsenals as the Rus
SLAMS have not yet occupied
Fourth-All forts and defences in the prov
lnce not occupied by the Russians and all
ficials
Fifth-Niu- -Chwang and other places now in
Russian occupation shall be restored 70 the Chi
nese civil administration when Russia is salts
ned that the pacitication of the province is COM
plete.
Sixth-The Chinese shall maintain law and
order by local police under a Tartar general
Seventh-A Russian political resident. with
general powers of control shall be stationed at
Mukden, to whom the Tartar General Tseng
must give all information respecting any inn
Eighth-In the event OF the local police being
;;I insufficient for any eInergency; General Isens
Russia to send reinfOrceznents-
Nfnth-The Russian text shall be the standard.
''The functions given the Russian Resident"
says Dr. Morrison. "are similar 70 those of the
Russian Resident i'm Bolzhara. or those of the
British Residents I'm the native States of India
"The agreement will necessarily be followed
by similar agreements with reference to the
other two provinces. Then Manchuria viii be
do factO a Russian protectOrate. Russia by
pre-existins arrangement having already the
right to maintain all troops necessary for the
protection of the railway
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
CENTURY OLD MINUTES READ.
ANNUAL. MEETING OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF
MECHANICS AND TRADEsMEN

The 115th annual meeting OF the General Society
of Mechanics and Tradesmen held last night
In the Mechanics Institute. in West Forty-fourth-
81. feature Of the meeting the reading by
the secretary of the minutes of the fifteenth annual
meeting of the society held on January e. 1900 The
minutes read from The original minute book
They stated that letter had been received from
Aaron Burr regretting his inability 70 attend the
annual dinner and meeting The minutes also
stated that at the dinner sixteen moral toasts
drunk. .au,..
AZ last evenings meefing the annual election Of
officers was held President Frank +. Conover was
reelected. The other officers chosen were: First
vice-p president. William NJ. Oliver: second vice
president. Charles W. Hoffman, and treasurer and
secretary, Richard T. Davies.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
RUMoR ABOUT THE ST. PAIL.

The stock OF the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Railway Company showed marked activity
yesterday, one OF the stimulating causes being an
unconfirmed rumor that the road was TO be leased
Jointly by the Great Northern and Northern Pa
eifc President James j. Hill OF the Great North
ern has recently been a large purchaser of ST.
Paul stock, and IL is understood his associates In
the Ownership of the Great Northern and the
northern Paclhc have Joined with him I'm invest
ments IN the ST. Paul road. In these facts, IL was
SAID In Wall Street, the rumor Of projected lease
mad lts origin, although. as one leading 81. Paul
interest remarked yesterday, nothing IS Impossible
Ia these days" 81. Paul sold yesterday as high as
1884, closing at iasI. net gain for the day Of lss
per cent. - 80
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
CHICAGO TO FEED THE czAB,s spur

Chicago. Jan. 1.-The Tribune saws. "ci,
lures affixed In this city yesterday IN = 80.
international contract. and Chicago packing arp,
VIII supply the Russian Government this year with
1900 barrels of a specially prepared meat 10 feed
the soldiers Of the Cars army. The terms of the
contract will exceed 100000 The vast aeIa "a,
supplies I'm Russia and Siberia has been opened m
Americans only lately, and IL is believed that the
contract completed yesterday is merely the fore
runner or Others which will amount 10 millions of
dollars and result in the introduction and com
Of the vast Northern Empire" f~''
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
CHARLES CONTRELL.

Charles ContrelI we'll known in Democratic circles
nearly half century ago, died on Tuesday in the
Brooklyn Hospital from pneumonia. at the age OF
eighty-five. His home at No. 2iO Dean-st..
Brooklyn. He had been Excise Commissioner
and later held important place in the CHARITIES
Department. He regarded before the civil war
as of the county leaders. and. il is said, dis
puted the leadership of Hugh McI-aughlin lie
made fight about forty years ago 20 get the
nomination for Sheriff. but unsuccessful after
a dispute with the Democratic leader once ne
wel-to-do. but in recent years had Kept little
and cigar stand in front of the County Court
house. He leaves
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
THE REV. F. w. wEIsKATTEN.

PbiIadeIphia. Jan s-The family Of the Rev. F.
W. Weiskatten, pastor OF 81. James's Lutheran
Church here has received a message announcing
the death and burial of the clergyman az sea on
December i5.
Mr. weiskatten went 10 India with his eldest
daughter Emile Louise at the request OF the
Board of Foreign Missions of the German Luth-
eran Church. He sailed September 4. reaching MS
destination On October l3 After SIX weeks m
spection OF the mission field he sailed from Bcn-
bav On December . he taken i'll with fever
and never recovered. He had been pastor oil 81
Iamess Church for nineteen years and was a son
of the Rev +. w Weiskatten OF syracuse Ete
was fifty-eight years of age. widow ana nVe
daughters survive him.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
NEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS.

The New-9ork Historical Society held its an
nual meeting last night in the society hail. Sec
ond-ave. and Eleventh-st. No action taken
in regard 10 the proposed occupation by the society
of the Lenox Building its possible amalgama-
ton with the Public Library
The following officers elected: President. the
Rev. Eugene A. Hofmans first vice-president. J.
Pierpont Morgan, second vice president, John
Kennedy; foreign corresponding secretary Nicholas
Fish; domestic corresponding secretary. rrederlc
Wendell jackson: recording secretary, sydney III
Carney, Jr.s treasurer, Charles A. Sherman and
librarian. Robert H. kelby.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
MORE REVOLUTIONS IN VENEZUELA.

PERAzA HAS FEW FOLLOWERS N MARA
CAIso AND ORINocO DISTRICTS
Caracas Venezuela. Jan. (via Haytian cahls).-
The revolution headed by former Secretary-Gen-
eraI Peraza ~ without echo in the country. He
is said be- with fifty followers. in the mountain
district.
San Juan de Porto Rico. jan 2-Passengers who
arrived here to-day on the Red d. Line steamer
Philadelphia. from La GUayTa. December 50. say
that a serious revolution has broken out in tho
REaracabc district Of Venezuela They add that the
Government troops have defeated the rebels and
arrested twenty of the leaders.
Another rising Is reported to have occurred IN ths
vicinity of the OrinOcO. The United States auxil-
ary cruiser Scorpion left here yesterday f0in the
Hartford az La GUayra.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
ARMOURS FIGHT THE SAT- TRUST.

GOING TO PORTUGAL BECAUSE OF THE T,re;,r
PRICES IN THIS COUNTRY
Kansas City, Mo-. Jan. (SpeciaD.-A large shin
ment of salt from Lisbon. Portugal for the Armour
Packing Company has just begun to arrive here
Thirty-fve cars came to-day, twenty-five are ON
the way, some at New-orieans and some on the
ocean. Each car is loaded with from thirty-fiye 10
forty tons of salt in bulk.
The purchase Of this enormous quantity of salt
by the Armour Packing Company was provoked nv
the high prices demanded by the Salt Trust in
this country Instead OF buying salt from the
Hutchinson Kansas companies. the Armour Com
pany sent across the Portugal for its salt
ABOUT nIteen carloads OF salt consumed every
week The Armours have tried in vain TO buy salt
IN this country at reasonable prices.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
FACTORY AND FIFTY HOUSES.

nEroRTED THAT BARON DE HIRscH rRrygrrrs
WILL START KEW TOWN IN NEw-JERsEY.
Cape May. y. j.. Jan. 2-The trustees of the
Baron De lsirsch fund, Now York oorDora tfo,,
have decided 10 develop another Soptb r.r..,,
Town. They now have thriving colonies AT Wood
bine Rosenhayn. Reliance and csrmeI The new
place VIII be Beilerlaino. in Cape May Comfy a
contract mas ooen Jet for the erection of a larse
factory and nfty dwellings for the beginning
N9ne or The trustees ot the Baron de Hrsch fund
could DC found ~ this city last night
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
MRS EMILE NJ. RANDOLPH.

Mrs Emile NJ. Randolph widow of Carman r
Randolph died at her home In Yonkers yesterday
at the age of eighty years Mrs. KahuOp" was
daughter of Thomas p. Mascne. who early in the
rIpeteenth century was a well known politician
and Controller of this city. She was descended on
her mothers side from tre Huguenots who settled
an New-RocheIe. Her huSi aud was well known
i'm New-Jersey as the son Of James k2ndosI'n "a
Navv-Tersev politician and nephew or united States
Ssnstor Thomas F. Randolph. Three dauShtefs
survive her-NIrs Charles RunyOn. OF TINS city;
SSrS walter C,raves and Miss Mary Randolph, OF
Workers The interment will be in EastOn. PENN
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
Ill, SIZE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

YoNKERs WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT. on Ac-
COUNT OF INSOMNIA. 1T is THOUGHT.
Mrs. Jane Neary fOrty-eight years Old of No 45
PaIsade-ave Yon1ers, tried to end her life yester
day by cutting her throat with bread knife She
was removed to ST. Johns Hospital. where Il is
said that she may Mrs. Neary Is a widow.
living with her and daughter and two nephews.
She has been under medical treatment for some
time and has been unable TO sleep for the last
three weeks. At a. m. she went 10 the kitchen
and cut her throat. Her daughter. who had
followed her down. found her standing on
the floor with blood streaming from the
wound and the bloody knife in her hand The girl
screamed bringing the rest of the family 10 her
aid. A policeman summoned who sent for
ambulance. No cause is assigned for the at
tempt except dependency at her inability to get
SloeD.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
NORWAY WANTS KING HALF THE TINE

Stockholm. Jan. captain TorkiIdssn has writ
ten strong article, published in the Norwegian
papers. urging members OF all parties in the Storth
ing to pass law compelling the King to live six
months yearly in Norway.
General BOrikOn Governor-GeneraI OF Finland
will demand. in the Finland Senate. a more strin-
gent censure law, in order TO prevent the peopls
from criticising the Government.
Private correspondence from Finland saws Cow
ernor BOrikOT Is about TO remove ive professors
of Helsingfors University for criteisns the Cow
-
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
TO sUpERINrEND A SCHOOL IN AFRICA.

Chicago. Jan. "A special to 1.-THE Record" from
Richmond Ind, says Bishop Hartzell. of the
Methodist Episcopal Church In Africa has ar
ranged with the Rev. George H. Reibodt of Indi-
ana. to so TO Zambes. Africa, TO conduct a school
at New-Ontolia in that country This being a
British country, the British Government gave to
the Methodist Episcopal Church $4,000 and $4,000
acres OF land for the purpose Of building a school
TO educate the English residents Mr. Reiboldt's
mission is to go to Africa superintend this
school. He will sail from New-YOrk the last Of
htS nrfh
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
DIES FROM HIS INJURIES.
FATAL RESULT OF AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING
IN THE HOME OF AN ACTRESS

Joseph GiIler. twenty-seven years old. cabinet
maker of No 600 Tenth-ave. who shot De-
Cember u in the home of Miss Sadie Dean. an
actress of the same address. died in Roosevelt Hos
pital last night Giller used 10 visit the young
actress. who was arrested suspicion of having
shot him. She was held without bail TO await the
result of his injuries. The night he shot Mrs.
Julia Lang, thirty-six years Old and Mrs. Mary
Lee forty-six years old. OF No 3ls West One
hundred nd thirty-third-s visiting Miss
Dean. She said a revolver had been presented to
her the day before. and she showed it TO Giller.
who accidentally shot himself.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
LONDON DAILY NEWS TO CHANGE HANDS

London Jan. 2-''The Daily News IL Is rsported
is about to change hands The proprietors have
not yet been disclosed. but the paper win continue
Liberal. probably without imperialist tendencies
Henry ". Massingham formerly Editor OF The
Daily Chronicle" may be the Editor OF The Daily
News under the ownership
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
RAILROAD INTERESTS.

PANAMA ROADS INDEPENDENT SERVICE.
The Panama Railroad Company. having estab-
lshed independent service, its steamer st. Paul
arrived yesterday at Panama and is discharg-
ing alongside the new pier at La Boca This Is the
first ship to handle coastwise travel at the new
terminal A chart OF the harbor from the
iiydrosraphe Office IS expected to be published at
any moment by the Navy Department whose yeri-
hcation OF previous surveys has just been COM
peted "
New-York tribune., 1901-01-03
MOSQUITO FLEET REACHES BERMUDA.

Hamilton. Bermuda, JAM. 2-Four United States
war vessels have reached here. They did not get
up IN time 70 enter the channel before dark.
The four vessels referred I'm the dispatch from
Bermuda are. in all probability the Annapolis the
Frolic, the Womapatuck and the Plscatsqua. They
sailed from Hampton Roads for Bermuda on sun
day, on their way TO Manila They all small
YES