Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-22
PECULIAR INSURANCE CASE
Courts May Be Asked to Saw Whether Legal
Harging il an Accident
CONTRIBUTE FOR TIE OMAHA STRIKERS
lows ~COIIeEisns Are Not pleased with
the Manner In which Rhodes
Scholarship Commission
IL organized.
(From a stan Correspondent

DIES MONIES. Feb. 2I.-(Special)-A
Of peculiar nature, and one which
the Iowa courts have not been called on
to decide. will soon be raised in connec-
tion with a murder case. Harry HOFFMAN
was sentenced from Cherokee county to
hans and the date was fixed for March
-. II was practically understood when
he confessed to the murder Of his sweet
heart that he would be given a peniten-
tiary sentence only, but the Judge sur
prised him and his friends by directing
that he shall be hanged. But an appeal
has been taken in the case and this can
not be submitted until the May term, so
that he will not in fact be hanged In March.
In the meantime his relatives insist on
paying the assessments on a policy Of ac-
cident insurance taken out by HOFFMAN be-
fore his crime. They claim that inasmuch
as there is an appeal pending they desire
to keep the policy alive so that 1t will be
a good policy when he is cleared. IL he is.
An agent OF the accident insurance com
pany called on state officers today to find
out the status OF such a policy. 1t was
discovered that in a recent decision the
Iowa supreme court had held that where
an insurance company continues to receive
payments on a policy after the company is
aware that the policy is invalid or was
obtained by fraud and Misrepresentation
or in some other way had become void, then
the company Is liable. 1t is claimed that
IL the company continues to receive pay
ments on the accident policy up to the
time HOFFMAN is hanged for his crime, IL he
is hanged, an effort will be made to col
lect the insurance. Hortman is at An
amosa penitentiary and is in fact in such
poor health that it is doubtful il he will
live until he shall be hanged.
Money for the Machinists.
A committee Of the Union Pacific ma
chinists consisting of ]. D. Murphy and G..
E. Norman has made a thorough canvass
OF Des Moines and secured contributions
said to aggregate between $500 and $500
for the benefit of the striking machinists
at Omaha and elsewhere. The local union
men had but recently finished the long
telephone strike, which cost them over
$1,000, but despite this contributed freely
to the strike fund OF the machinfsts. 1t is
understood that the committee will VISIT a
number Of other cities Of Iowa. raising
funds for the strikers
Rhode Scholarship Troubles.
There is considerable feeling among the
young educators of the state over the man
ner in which the committee on Rhodes
scholarships was selected for Iowa. 1t
had been given out that the matter would
not be disposed Of now. Then a meeting
was held in Chicago and only a few Of the
Iowa colleges were represented. At this
meeting the committee was named. at the
head Of which is the president Of the State
university, and four heads Of denomina-
tional colleges in the state. The Iowa
state college and the State Normal school
were both ignored, and the friends OF
these institutions claim they were en-
titled to as great recognition as the de-
~nominational schools OF the state. AS a
result there is much dissatisfaction over
the situation.