Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-02
FRATERNAL LEGISLATION.
Uniform Law Recommended for All stat
In the Union.

Uniform Law Recommended for All states |
in the Union.
At the 18th annual session Of the |
National Fraternal Congress, held in |
Detroit. Mich, recommendation was
made that each State Leg Stature pass
an act governing frat rnal organizations
paying sick and death benefits. the pro-
visions of which shall be uniform all
over the United States. the act drafted
provides that each society can de-
termne and adopt for itself such plan,
whether level rate, step rate or modiii
casion; provision for term insurance Or
during the so called period of deren.
dency, death assessment or other so
long as the results reached conform TO
the requirements OF the mortality
table, . which is given.
The table starts with persons ut the
age Of 20, showing that in 100, C0J there
is a liability of 80 dying at that age,
percentage of COS. The percentage ia
given fur each succeeding year up 10 IS,
when tho chances for life ana death are
even. BY decades the percentage is as
follows 30 years, .005552; 40 years,
.O0IlTl; 30 years, ,0ll44I; GO years,
.02215)l; 10 yenr:, .053 5489; 30 yeas,
.l3S5lG3: 80 years. ,36S1S35.
The recommendation ia made that this
uniform act become elective July LIST,
1893, and that all beneficial organiZa
tiOns he under the direct supervision OF
the insurance department oi each State,
hut eacn association shall be governed
by tina act itself and shall be exempt
from the insurance laws of this State.
.
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star" you are
indeed beautiful. hut not half 80 lovely es
the bloom on the checks Of all young ladies
who use Genn's Sulphur sta1.
IN GENHRAL.
DIR. ]. N. Bell, the ranking Pythian
in the world, is dead in Chicago
The town OF Safee, Morocco, was
deuged by a waterspout Saturday, and
| 2UO lives were est.
While repairing an e'eotrio motor,
Saturday, Robert L4eary, aged 10 years,
OF Philadelphia, was killed when he
touched wire carrying the current.
John Pinover, liquor dealer oil
Middletowp, N. L., jumped from the
BROOKLYN bridge Sunday merely Ia
see ii he could do it and live. lie was
unconscious when licked up
The standing committee of the
Protestant t.piscopal Diocese of Penn
sylvania has requested Bishop Whitaker
who has been seriously i'll, to rest for {
year ard permit coadiutot to bt
e.stted.
President Roosevelt has received in
formation from Andrew Carnegie thai
is expected to enable him to submit tt
Congress form OF gift of slO. coo, 0OC
to the United States for b CHER edu
cation.
-Four persons were killed and Is in
jued in o wreck on the Chicago
Northwestern railroad, al Malta, Ill.,,
Sunday. The Omaha Flyer ran int
freight tain which had taken {
siding too short to hold it.
Admiral schey has been in conference,
with his counsel cuncernipg lis futur,
course Of ton. 1t ia understood ha
civil suit for damages against tn,
publishers OF Mac ay story va
urged, but no dgcis on was reached
Or. j.. l.. Nj. Currey, who wa
minister to Spaid during Cleveland
. frs administration, has been selectet
by the President t. represent tho UnItet
States at Madrid during the coronation
Of Ming Alphonso, early next year.
S6U rs alHHHHueF EruGe HIPn
,, wa hman for contractors doing vol
at the cot of jacks n at eet, Philadel
Dhia was murdered Saturday nigh
v tn an ae he sat in a chair 10
Toulouse. Three men were arrested
hchb ~ ia 81 pcs to ha beec til,
motive for the Grim
a Washington dispatch infiIna es tina
if German uses force in col Getting tn,
claims of her subjects 10 enezuela
France, Great Britain and perhap
other nations may take similar actor
for the settlement of similar claims il
the republics of Central and South
America. The application of the Monroe
Doctrine, in the case OF Germany anc
also in other cases that may arise, il
receiving the careful afternoon OF tht
administration officials.