Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
TALK OF MUTUAL INSURANCE
Committee Making Up the Program for the
National Convention.
EVIDENCE IN LEWcH CASE ALL IN
Present Plans Indicate state Normal
school VIII Have Model GYM
nRsium-ParOIes for the
I~nebriates.
(From a STAFF Correspondent

program committee Of the National Asso-
citation Of Cooperative Mutual Insurance
Companies held a meeting here in connec-
tton with the meeting Of the state Asso-
citation OF Mutual Associations. The last
national meeting was held in st. Paul
and a committee appointed to prepare the
program for the meeting in Chattanooga,
Tenn, in May next. This meeting was
held here today and the program COM
pleted. There is to be a welcome by the
governor Of Tennessee and a greeting by
the mayor OF Chattanooga, and an adj
dress by the president Of the Chamber Of
Commerce. James Milliken OF Mcpherson,
Kan, will respond. The president {. the
association is w. d. Forbes OF this city.
Among the papers and addresses arranged
for are the following: BEST Plan of Mu-
tual Fire Insurance in the South Atlantic
States" by J. r. Young. insurance COM
missioner of North Carolina; "Why State
Supervision of Mutual Cooperative In,
surance is Essential" Jefferson Johnson,
Texas; The Mutual Fire Insurance Con-
tract as Viewed by Law" w. G. NJ.
Thomas, Chattanooga; Limitation OF Ter
ritory and Restriction of Mutual Fire In
surance," E. NJ. Coffin, Lincoln. Neb
What Minnesota is Doing in Mutual In
surance," J. J. Furlong, Austin, Mimi;
What Mutual Insurance is Doing in the
Northwest" F. ]. Martin, Seattle; What
Mutual Insurance is Doing in New York, 3"
c. H. Stanton, Plymouth, N. Y; Best
Method Of Occupying the Entire Field for
Mutual Insurance" Joseph Saunders, An
derson. Ind; Should the Classification OF
Risks BE a Feature OF Mutual Insurance? %
w. B. Gasche, Topeka. Kan; What Mu-
tual Insurance is Doing in Missouri" J..
n G--g--aIl t. NH
Mutual Insurance is Doing in Wisconsin, =
C. A. Hamm, Waupaca, Wis. There will
be other usual reports and Entertainments.
The national association has been growing
in strength and the meetings are now at
tended by persons from nearly every state
in the union.
Evidence in Levich Case In.
The day was largely consumed in the
Levich murder case in rebuttal testimony
on the part Of the state, chiefly in the
nature of testimony to impeach the wit
nesses Of the defense or in contradictory
testimony as to the incidents which sur
rounded the death Of Isaac Finkelstein.
There is a great deal of contradictory ties.
timony in the case. During the day the
! defendant made a savage personal attack
on the city officials, who are prosecuting
the case, and denounced them harshly,
claiming that they are in a conspiracy to
send him to the penitentiary for the crime.
Just before the close of the testimony
the defense placed on the stand an i'm
portant witness whose evidence had not
been learned until today. A railroad man
named Wills swore he saw two men in
, the alley where Finkelstein was murdered
and that both we're negroes and neither one
was Walker. This is regarded as the
most important testimony yet given.
The taking Of testimony closed this even
ing and arguments were begun.
Normal School Gymnasium.
The trustees OF the State Normal school
are in session today at Cedar Falls and
Governor Cummins and State Superin-
tendent Barrett went to attend the meet
ing. The special purpose Of the meeting
at this time is to decide upon plans for
a new gymnasium, which is to be the first
of the new buildings to be erected by the
trustees out Of the appropriation made by
the last legislature. Preparatory to this
meeting President Seerley made a trip of
a month visiting the leading colleges to
gain information as to the best modern
gymnasiums. He has made an exhaustive
report on his observations. Plans have
been drawn for a gymnasium hall to
comprise two large rooms, one for women.
and one for men. and to have a partition
which will roll up and AFFORD a great hall
for the armory, and some such plan as
this will be adopted. The building of a
special gymnasium at the state normal
will be the first special building for that
purpose at any college in the state.
A requisition has been issued on the
governor of Colorado to bring back to Iowa
NJ. J. Brierton, wanted for embezzlement
of $500 in Davenport.
DR.. A. NJ. Linn OF this city has been
reappointed a member Of the State Board
of Health. He is now president Of the
board.
ParOIed from Hospital.
Five Polk county members of the colony
Of inebriates at the state hospital have
recently been paroled, namely: Truman
Wilson. Frank Pierce. Norman Mitchell,
Thomas Holland and William Ramey.
The following from other counties have
recently been paroIed: George Kidwell OF
Jones county. James White Of Chiekasaw
county, E. c.. Foster of Hardin county.
II. c. Low OF Linn county, Thomas Hewitt
Of Linn county, Arthur Clifford OF Jasper
county, Amos S. Hodge Of Jackson county,
H. w. Moore of WinneshIek county, Ed
ward Lyman of Lucas county, c.. Boetcher
OF hossuth county, j. A. Johnson OF KOS
suth county, E. J. Byers of Linn county,
and p. ]. Mally of Palo Alto.
Greek Trial Continued.
The trial Of the case of the State against
James Gregoris. the Greek, was to have
been held this week at Abel, and a number
Of witnesses were subpoenaed from Des
Moines, but the case has been continued
until the January term. Important deposit
tions had been sent for relative to the de-
tense in the case and these we're shown to
be OF vital Importance in the trial Of the
case. The defense claims that with the de-
positions sent for it will be easy enough
to dispose OF much Of the testimony con-
Meeting Gregoris with the killing OF Kolo-
mokis. The putting on the case will ne
cessitate a change OF lawyers. for f. z.
Nichols. who has been conducting the de-
tense, goes on the bench as Judge the FIRST
Of the year.