Washington sentinel., 1901-05-04
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bondhOlders' committee oftbe MARYLAND
Brewing Co. was completed and mad,
public last week a contract was alsC
entered into, it is understood, betweel
the committee and the new GOttlieb-
% Bauernschmidt-St Brewing Co
under which the properties in the ole
Maryland Brewing Company, which the
committee proposes to buy under the
foreclosure proceedings, are to be turned
over to the new concern and operated
by practical brewers.
Under this plan the fixed charges for
the first two years will be only SI68, 7So
and thereafter $225, 600, whereas in the
old company the fixed charges were
ASo, 900 year. Interest on the new
incomes, which would be paid only il
earned, would make a total Of $4oo. .ooo
interest an, ually
The financial plan provides for the
issue of the following new securities:
Ss,62s,ooo first mortgage bonds, to
bear per cent interest the first two
years and per cent thereafter,
$500, 600 noncumulative S per cent
income bonds.
SIS ooo. 900 common stock
Indiana has law intended to hold
liquor dealers pecuniarilY responsible
TO innocent victims of the traffic."
The Supreme Court OF that Common
wealth has just rendered decision in
case coming under that law which sus-
tains the VALIDITY of the law,
This suit was brought to recover
$4,000, The plaintiff is the wife OF
George Homire, of Lebanon, who is
now IN the penitenfiary under a life
sentence. The defendant is John Half
nan, a saloon keeper. Homre went
home in an intoxicated condition,
picked a quarrel with and killed South
Nease, who was boarding at the house.
He was tried, convicted and sent to the
pententIary Tor life. Then the wife
sued the man in whose house the hus-
band had purchased the liquor that
intoxicated him 1t was shown in the
trial that Homire was a kind husband
and OF good temperament when not
intoxicated When under the Influence
Of liquor he was i'll natured, though not
considered dangerous, On the night in
question he had been drinking freely
and, his vile alleges, had purchased
liquor and drank it in the saloon of John
Hallnan after he had become intOxi-
Gated. The lower courts sustained a
demurrer but the Supreme Court has |
reversed the judgment. The court gives |
the reason for the enactment OF the law |
and explains its application to this case
1t holds that the homicide committed |
by Homire was a crime punishable by /
prisonment, and that a showing that
the sale OF liquor TO HIM while intoxi-
Gated caused the crime sufficiently |
established the fact that il caused the
Imprisonment and the wite's consequent
loss OF support. The court holds it
necessary only that two facts should
concur outside of the sale OF the liquor
by the defendant to constitute a cause
for action The first of these is the in.
tOxication caused in whole or in part by
the sale ot the liquor, and the second is
the loss of support in consequence Of
such intoxication. "And this is true"
says the court, "whether this loss Of
support is a direct or a remote result Of
the intoxicatiOn
Under this decision it will be neces-
sary for saloon keepers to do some
things that are next to impossible. For
example, il is impossible to draw line
between sobriety and inebriety. Some
drinkers appear sober when they are
not far from "full" A single glass
;uffices to make one man drunk, while
another can take dozen without show !
ng the effects OF his libations. II a
saloon keeper must be held responsible 1
or all the damage inflicted by the con- '
umers Of his bevera Ses, why not hold ]
he seller ot pistols to the same account {
lbiitY2 :
Few persons would refuse an offer c
If 81 ,ooo, 900 cash for an invention. But,
according to the statement OF John A.
'auer, oI No. 3I8 East Second street,
Del, this is what he did, 9
nd more, too, for $I,soo, 900 worth Of =
took was included in the offer for the g
ole right to his patent. il
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nent on the style of beer keg now in i
use. A refrigerating COM t.
in the centre of the keR is the 4
imple device which promises to make Z
he old style keg a thing of the past ii
,hen the new keg is put on the market. n
realizing the value of the Invention the Z
irewers' Association attempted to a
ecure control of it. Their offer was h
I 200. 900 IN cash and 81, 500, 600 in stock. Ct
'hough the sum offered by the Associs. A
on was immense it was refused after
riei delIberation. The men have Wis
1ns of realizing even more than
? 500. 900 from the new keg. A number
other offers of large sums have been
efused.
The compartment extends through
lie centre of the keg. 1t is conical in
lape and is composed of malleable
on Ice or liquid air may be used for +
polling the beer. The arrangement 10
converts each keg into a o'
the compartment and sur al
lunding space being air tight The =
impairment has a self locking cover, =
lie opening being in the head OF the keg. al
may be packed without admitting air p'
Ito the keg. II
Whether or not there are millions to -.
e gotten out OF the invention il looks eI
ke a money maker. It's advantage pl
YER the keR now in use is apparent To pl