The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-20

Mr.. NJ. Sheridan has been appointed as
sistant superintendent of the Sun Life.
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Mr.. l.. L. Hill has been appointed man.
ager of the Home Life for central Indiana.
Incendiarism has been rampant in Texas,
and Dallas alone reports losses Of sixty
dwellings, valued at 100000, in the last six
months.
The authorities in Tennessee, not salts
fed with the recent examination OF the
Anchor Fire of Ohio, are going to re-
examine the company.
Mr.. George Eldridge, vice president Of
the Mutual Reserve Life, has written a
novel, which Is published by Lewis, Scrib-
ner & Co., of New York.
Joseph A. De Boer, president of the Ma
tional Life of Vermont, will again deliver
lectures on life insurance at Dartmouth
College during the coming academic year.
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Mr.. ]. A. Mcfarland, state agent of the
Michigan Mutual Life, has returned from
Martinsville, where he has been taking the
mineral water baths for muscular rheuma-
tism.
Recent agency appointments for Indian
apolis are: John Lovett, for the Delaware
Fire; Frederick H. Taylor, for the Hartford
Life, and James u. Hunter, for the United
States Casualty Company.
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The recent increase in rates on buildings
in Cincinnati, in which the electric wiring
was not up to standard. has had the effect
of causing the owners of some of the the
aters TO begin rewriting.
August has been one of the best months
of the year for the fire insurance COM
panies. 1t has been the only month of the
year in which losses less than ten millions
ave been recorded for the United States
and Canada.
Mr.. Van Arsdel. manage Of the New
York Life for Indiana, has returned from
New York. The company expects to do a
very large business in this State this year
on account of the good crops and the gem
eral prosperity.
A statement in this column ir regard to
the Union Casualty paying its last liability
claim in this State has been misunder-
stood. The company has not gone out of
business In this State, but has simply
ceased to insure employers against claims
arising from injuries incurred by their en-
ployes.
The Seventh Day Adventists have placed
life insurance under a ban by a recent de-
cree. Since there are many of the Advent
lists near Battle Creek, Mich, the agents
there are much disturbed by the action,
and fear that their business may be seri-
ously affected thereby.
Employers liability is one of the least de-
sirable m most unsatisfactory risks to
be insured against. The temptations to
fraud are great and fraud is hard to guard
against. The Fidelity and Casualty had
two suits in Pittsburg last week against
companies for returning false pay rolls.
Some of the life insurance companies are
expecting to be called on for loans on their
policies this winter to meet the demands
of policy holders for sums with which to
speculate. The craze for speculation, which
grown to larger proportions and has spread
among those who would be least expected
to be led into risky investments.
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The insurance companies in Ohio are
rightfully making a vigorous protest
against the law requiring them to be taxed
for the support of salvage corps. The fact
that the companies have found IL advisable
TO support such corps has misled some leg
i~slators, and they have concluded that the
fire companies were the only ones who prof
tied by them.
Automobile insurance is not favorably re.
garded by casualty insurance companies
some of which refuse to have anything tc
do with the machines. The Employers Liza
bility, the Maryland Casualty and the Trav-
elers, however, will accept them, but they
are rapidly increasing the rates. The diff.
to form narrow reverS Of fur. A really
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