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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
BY WHICH INSURANCE COM
, PANlEs WERE DEFRAyDED.
GAVE NAME or DYING MAN
Then Sent One in Robust Health to
Take misunderstanding
Operated for Years.

New York, Feb. IAN exposure
of the methods of the conspirators in
the recently discovered Italian life
insurance frauds was made yesterday
by confession of one of the men con-
cerned. 1t appears that the frauds
have been in operation for ten years,
during which time the insurance COM
panies have been defrauded out Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. In !
one instance, a company paid out
100000 on one fraudulent risk.
The head of the conspiracy, it il
said, was Bartholomew Cirino, who
was recently arrested and released
undey $4,000 bonds. Cirino is said to
nave disappeared and his bond will
be ordered forfeited. The usual plan
Of operations was to make application
for insurance in the name of some
person in a practically dying condi-
ton, a healthy substitute being pre-
scented for medical examination.
In cases where the original risk
fingered too long to satisfy the con
spirators a substitute body was used
on which to collect the amount of
the policy.
These bodies are said to have been
furnished by Joseph Tripan, an IatliaA
undertaken, who is now awaiting trial
in the Tombs. In some instances
false death certificates were present
ed, said to have been signed by Cir
inc or by two italian doctors who are
now under heavy bail.
So we'll organized was the scheme
that there was a regularly appointed
board of directors that used to e
every week to discuss the payments
of premiums falling due and pass
upon the matter OF the substitution OF
bogus bodies in the case Of risks on
persons who did not die until the
payment of premiums became too
heavy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
EAGLES TO ENTERTAIN.
LEGISLATORS Invited to Smoker a
Great Falls.

Great Falls, Feb. 1.-THE state
legislature will probably visit Great
Falls in a body February 81 and %.
There are about 25 members of the
legislature belonging to the Fraternal
Order Of Eagles, and the local aerie
proposes to give a public smoker in
their honor, Washington's birthday.
All members of the legislature and
their friends will be invited. A large
number of legislators to whom the
subject has been preached have sig
nified their intention to attend.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
NO MAkEsHIFT.
In This Case the Work Was Properly
none

Any Billings reader who has had
backache and found relief by rubbing
the back with liniments and lotions,
understands that relief obtained is but
a makeshift, for the ache returns
There's a way to do it SO the ache will
not come back.
P. r. Wilson, clerk at Hulbut's
Grocery Co., 1928 Tenth street, resi-
dence 1915 Fifteenth street, Denver,
Colo. says: Some time in the sum-
mer of 1899 a gentleman called to see
me and asked for my opinion OF and
experience with Doan's Kidney Pills.
I told him they had proved OF meal
culable benefit and I allowed him to
make that fact known publicly
through our Denver papers. Some
time previous to his visit l went to a
! drug store for a box and its use
/ brought such benefit that l continued
1.-The treatment until l had taken four
boxes when the aggravated attack OF
backache which had annoyed me fo1
two or three months absolutely stop
ped. 1t is now over three years since
gave my original statement for pup
LEGATION and what I then thought
about Doan's Kidney Pills has un
doubtedly proved to be true. car
only add to what l said at my origina
interview and it has appeared scores
of times in the Denver papers, that w
to late there has not been a sign o
anything wrong with my kidneys
Plenty more proof like this from
Billings people. Call at the Chappl
Drug Co.'s store and ask what thel
customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price D.
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,, N
Y, sole agents for the United States
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no substitute.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
WAGE INCREASE is GRANTED.
Twelve Per Cent Agreement Has Been
Signed by One Road.

st. Louis, Feb. 1.-THE wage in
crease agreement of IL per cent to
passenger trainmen and Is per cent
to freight trainmen was signed yes
terday by the st. Louis Southwestern
Railroad company.
A similar agreement has been sign
ed by the Missouri Pacific, Frisco and
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
roads.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
WEAK AND LOW SPIRITED.
A Correspondent Thus Describes His
Experience.

81 can strongly recommend Heroine
as a medicine of remarkable emcacy
for Indigestion, loss of appetite, sour
taste in the mouth, palpitation, head
ache. drowsiness after meals with
distressing mental depressions
low spirits. Herbine must be a unique
preparation for cases such as mine.
for a few doses entirely removed my
complaint. l wonder at people going
on suffering or spending their money
on worthless things, when Herblne is
procurable, and so cheap. a DOT
tie at Holmes & Rixon's.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
c. D. Peacock Dead.

Chicago, Feb. PC. D. Peacock,
head of the jewelry firm of that name
died today of pneumonia. Mr.. Pea
cock had resided in Chicago contlnu'
ously for 81 years and comes OF
long line of jewelers..
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Peace Reiqns in Salvador.

Washington, Feb. 12.-The state de-
partment has been advised by United
States Minister Merry that the pres
ident of Salvador has informed hin
that complete tranquility prevails in
Salvador and that the rumOred declar
alton of war is false.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Only Peasants.

Lemburg, Austria, Feb. IA ferry
boat crossing the Visloke river has
sunk and so peasants who were
aboard persisted.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Wanted.

Wanted.
Ranch for rent. Address c. A, Ca
zette office. Oh
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
cURlo OF VALUE.
New Yorker Has a Big Meteor;te
Containing Diamonds.

Containing Diamonds.
New York, Feb. 12.-In the private
collection of George Frederick kunz,
now on exhibition at the museum OF
natural history. is a doamond imbed'
ded in the center of a forty-pound
meteorite. The diamond is of the
purest and hardest carbon, but dark
in color. With several other small
particles of diamond dust it rests in
a small Jagged area CT less pure car
bon about the size of a large marble
The area is surrounded by soho
meteorite iron from four to five inches
thick.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17

Miss Maude Segur will entertain
about 80 of her young friends at .
valentine party this evening, at hel
home in North Thirtieth street.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-17
Cured Consumption.

Mrs. B. w. Evans, Clearwater, kan.'
writes: my husband lay sick TOT
three monts: the doctors stated he
had quick consumption. We procured
a bottle of Billiards. Horehound Sy'
rim and it cured him, That was SIN
years ago, and since then we always
kept a bottle in the house. We can
not do without it. For coughs ano
colds. it has no equal" 25c. 5Oc ano
81 a bottle at Holmes & Rixon's.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
THREE KILLED ~ PANIC.
Are Crushed to Death in Rush from Cigar
Factory.

New York (SpeciaD .-In a panic fol-
lowing a fire on the third floor of the TO-
story factory building at Crosby and
Houston streets three women were
crushed to death and others, it is be-
lieved, were fatally injured, while many
persons sustained less serious injury
The third floor of the building, where
the flames broke out, is occupied by the
New Idea Pattern Company, employing
about 50 persons, mostly women. The
blaze was discovered by Albert Behan,
10 years old, of 300 Ninth street, who
attempted to extinguish it by smotherng
it with his own body. He was badly
burned. The flames spread rapidly to
the windows, and from the adjoining
cigar factory of Leopold Miller & Sons it
seemed that the whole building was ahre.
This factory, which is at I55 and I1
Crosby street, running through to Elm
street, employs about 500 persons, mostly
Italians, of whom $50 are women and
children. When they saw the flames
bursting from the neighboring windows
they became panicstricken and ran tor
the fire escapes on the Elm street side.
Many OF those who were unable to lind
foothold on the fire escapes dropped 10
and i feet to the ground
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
PLANNED A WHOLESALE ROBBERY.
Had Intended to Raid number OF Banks In
Montana Town.

Red Lodge, Mont. (SpeGal).-The
authorities OF Carbon county, have EVIL
dence In their possession showing that
the famous Bridger Bank robbery last
October was only intended as the first
step in much larger plot The state
ment is made by county official that
when the cases OF the Bridge Bank
robbers come before the district court,
the prosecution will prove that it was
intended by the gang, after the Sue.
cessful robbery OF the Bridge Bank. tc
assemble 20 men in western Carbon
county, make a raid on Red Lodge and
loot the three banks in that city.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
ABOUT THAT ALASKA LINE
England and This Country Will Refer
Dispute to Arbitration.
Mr.. HAY MAKES SIGNIFICANT MOVE.
Is Understood the Venezuelan Situation
Had Much To Do With The Signing OF the
Treaty, And 1t May Result Ia Auauiug the
Anglo. German Aliance-A Commission OF
Six.

Washington, D. c. (SpeciaD Sec
setary of State Hay, for the United
States, and Sir Michael H. Herbert,
Ambassador of Great Britain, for his
country signed at the residence of Sec
.etary Hay, treaty providing for the
adjustment of the Alaskan boundary
dispute between the United States and
Great Britain.
This may have a very important bear
ing on the Venezuelan question, leading
to a weakening of the alliance between
Germany and Great Britain.
The greatest secrecy has been main
tanned by the State Department relative
to the negotiations Western Senator's
have been consulted by the President and
Secretary Hay, and it is believed that the
terms of the treaty now signed will meet
with the approval of those most inter
ested The Alaskan boundary is at pres
ent governed by modus vivendi agreed
IN by Great Britain and the United
States on October 20, 1899.
The basis arranged for the adjustment
of the dispute is that the entire queS-
ton shall be submitted to a mixed COM
mission of six members, three of whom
will be chosen by the United States and
three by Great Britain. This even Num-
Der OF commissioners has been chosen
so that there will be no odd member
who could cast the deciding vote and
actually settle the entire question. To
any different arrangement the State De-
partment feels assured the Western
States would not agree, and it is also
felt by Sir Michael Herbert that it would
be opposed by Canada. ,
Of course, the State Department and
Ambas sador Herbert see the possibility
of deadlock in the commission.
The treaty, besides providing for the
appointment of this commission, stipu-
lates that the commission shall begin its
sittings as soon as the treaty is ratified
At the State Department assurances
have been received from prominent Sena-
tors cognizant of the terms of the treaty
that there will be little difficulty in OBJ
tanning the favorable action of the SEN
ate at an early date.
Although the personnel of the COM
mission has not been decided upon by
either this country or, as far is known
at the State Department, by Great Brit
ain, it is practically assured that eX-
Secretary of State John w. Foster, who
is particularly we'll versed i'll the que,s-
tons to be considered, will be one OF the
commissioners for the United States.
The commission will doubtless meet IN
Washington.
The modus vivendi is still in opera
ton. In case the commission shall be
unable to reach any agreement there Will
be a continuation of the present. status
as governed by the modus vivendi.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
ForeigH.

Arguments in the court-martial OF
Major Glenn, charged with unlawfully
killing prisoners of war, have been sub
mitted and the verdict of the court is
believed to be acquittal. though it has
not yet b en- made public
The reciprocity treaty between Cuba
and the United States threatens to raise
one of the most serious differences OF
opinion between Great Britain and the
United States that has occurred for
years.
The German Foreign Office is much
aggrieved over American press COM
ments on the bombardment of Fort Sar
Carlos They claim that the Panther
was fired upon first.
Professor Braun, of Strasburg, who
gave Marconi the clue to his method OF
wireless telegraphy, has now discovered
method vastly superior to that of Mar
coni.
Count Won Ballerstrem has resigned
he presidency OF the Reichstag, being
orced thereto by opposition to his rul.
ng gagging the socialists. who wanted
o criticise the EmperorS utterances.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
he government was interpellated on
he charge that the socialists were try
ng to cause INSTRUMENTATION and dis
satisfaction among the soldiers.
Col. Arthur Lynch, member of Par
lament Tor Galway, was convicted Of
reason in London and sentenced to be
hanged.
Two high officials OF Roumania have
been arrested for defrauding the gov
eminent through drawings of govern
nent bonds.
The Pope received Monsignor
O'Connell, rector OF the Catholic Uni
yersity In Washington, in private au'
iience. .. =,
NJ. Cambon, former minister to the
United States, is the recipient OF I'M
usual honor in Madrid.
Timothy Harrington, NJ. P, was re-
elected lord mayor OF Dublin. :.
All who can are eavlng AndJan,
Prussian Tuskestan, which was devas-
lated by an earthquake, and great desti-
ution is prevailing among the survivors
still there.
Dr. Won Holleben, on his arrival in
Paris said he was too i'll to make his
farewell call on President Roosevelt.
The second anniversary Of Queen
Victoria's death was observed at var
Gus places in England.
Lieutenant General Miles and his
,artv left St. Petersburg after eXchang-
.ng official calls.
NJ. Cambon, the new French minis
or presented his credentials to King
Alfonso in Madrid.
Pietro Mascagni has again been made
director of the Rossini Lyceum at
Pesaro.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
EYnreSs Wrecked.

Kansas City, Mo. (SpeciaD.-The St
Louis and San Francisco northbound
express. which left Memphis, Tenn, at
o15 a. m, was wrecked near South
Greenfield. Mo. Fred Fisher, the en-
eincer. was killed and Fireman Ed Gil
bert seriously injured. Several passen-
gers were slightly hurt. A switch had
Been turned to indicate clear track,
possibly by would-be robbers, and the
passenger crashed into a freight on a
siding. The engine rolled down 4
steep embaEkment,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
Three Killed In EXPLOSION,

New Orleans Especially AS the re-
suit of rear end collision between two
south-bound freight trains on the Illinois
Central. forty miles above this city, Fire
man Robert Landry was instantly killed
and Conductor Thomas Moore and Flag
man c. B. Kelley were severely injured
The trains met in fog and thirteen
cars, the locomotive and caboose were
entirely wrecked.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30

scalp wound was inflicted, rendering
him unconscious.
r. R. Griffith, owner OF the Crater
farm, in Prince George county. where
one OF the bloodest battles OF the Civil
War occurred, died of Brights disease.
He was known by thousands OF North
ern people, who since the war has visit
ed the Crater, and had large collcc'
ton OF relics found on the battlefield
Wyatt K Witt. a young carpenter
aged p years, dropped dead at the
supper at his home in Roanoke. His
death was unexpected. He was all in
veterate cigarette smoker, and his
death was probably due to heart dis
ease superinduced by the lIabt.
The tobacco barn OF NJ JOlifs-Cs.
Turpin, of Jonesboro, was burned, with
a large quantity of tobacco and 25 bar
rels OF corn.
The special grand jury OF Tazcwell
County Court declined to indict Moses
Dills, charged with burning so bushels
OF corn and three fodder stacks belong
ing to J. S. and S. a. White, near
Snaps
Commander E. Lee Trinkle, OF the
Second Brigade, United Sons OF Con
federate Veterans, has announced the
appointment of his staff as follows:
Robert Sayers, Jr.. brigade adjutant
and chief OF staff, Wythevile; J. A. I.
Griggsby. brigade quartcrmaster. Ber'
ryville; Louis B. Spence, brigade III
spector, Richmond J. V. Bray, West
Point; E. c. Martz. Harrisonburg: B
V. White. Leesburg: H. K. Jones, Wy
thevlle, and H. T. Taliaierro, Hot
Springs, aids.
William Robinson, North Carolina
negro tramp, was killed by train on
the bridge at Petersburg.
Frozen roads enabled heavy machin.
cry to be hauled from Bedford City to
the asbestos mines, IL miles distant.
Rev. A. ]. Wescott has resigned as
rector OF the Episcopal Church at Da-
rascus, and has accepted an appoint
ment at the rectory OF st. Stephens
Church, Waterloo. Wis.
The First Virginia Regiment, Uni
formed Rank, Knights Of Pythias,
elected w. H. Wilcox, of Petersburg
colonel. and w. C. Corbett OF Ports
mouth, Northumberland.
The dwelling and two OuthOuscs. as
we'll as the household effects, Of Mr.
Jesse Whitehead, who lives near Mas
sanadox creek, Northampton. were
burned. Tie loss is estimated at $4,000,
with no insurance.
William w. Farrow, Richmond, has
been elected class orator by the senior
law class OF Washington and Lee Uni
versity to deliver the annual address at
the commencement exercises next June
James Harvey aged IS years, sta
!ionary engineer. was found frozen TO
death on the Norfolk and Western
racks near Norfolk. Harvey had been
out OF employment some time.
Fred Monroe is on trial at Clarks.
burg for the murder OF his sweetheart,
Pearl Massie. at Glen Falls, IS months
ago. There are many witnesses. Con-
gresham B. B. Dovener IS assisting the
defense.
Fire damaged the Hotel Sherwood,
Old Point Comfort to the extent OF
1000. The blaze started from the fur
mace in the basement and climbed the
hue almost the entire height OF the
building. which is a frame structure.
The Fort Monroe Post Fire Depart
ment got the fire under control in a
short time.
The American Bridge Company has
at Parkersburg instituted suit against
the Lucius Construction Company for
$4,000 damages on a bridge contract.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
Financial.

United States Rubber's past year was
the best one it has had ior decade.
Erie is contemplating extensive I'M
provements. including considerable dou-
bic tracking. -,
Gould and his friends will soon con
troll = per cent. OF all the railway bust
ness of the Southwest.
Crude oil has been reduced ? cents
a barrel to $I.52. 1t gradually rose with
out a halt from $I22 to $I.54.
Railways Company General, for De
,cmber, showed gross earnings OF Sao,-
10, against $I7,37i the previous year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
No Time for New Books.

In answer to the academys annual
,question~to eminent Englishmen as to
the new books they have read with
the most pleasure the past year Her.
bert Spencer writes that he has not
read any new books, while Prof. Skeat
lof Cambridge university says that he
has read none, having quite enough
to Go to read the old ones"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

Detective Sergeant William D. Welsh
attached to the office of District Attor.
ney Jerome, of New York, died from
wounds received in the Black Cat res
taurant, and Mrs. Cherriere, wife of the
proprietor, is under arrest, charged with
firing the shot that killed him
An investigation made by reputable
lawyers of Philadelphia proves that there
are no American heirs to the fortune OF
James Tyson, an Australian MINER who
left property valued at $4o,oOoCoo.
The big transatlantic shipping combine
has decided to carry its own risks. This
will take an insurance of $6o,Ooo,Ooc
away from the companies.
Four of the six molders on trial for
conspiracy to injure nonunion workmen
during the labor troubles of 1902 were
found guilty at Chicago.
A new alignment of railroads in the
South and West is announced, with the
Pennsylvania combination as the domi'
nant factor
Rev. E. c. Hirsch, of Chicago, made
fervid denunciation Of Sunday school
books.
There is unusual activity at the naval
training station at Newport
Fire damaged factory building at the
coroner of Crosby and Houston streets,
New York, adjoining a fve-story tenc-
nent, the occupants of which got out on
sle fire escapes. Three women were
tilled during a panic in an adjoining
:igar factory. A number of persons were
also severely injured.
Three Italian women were killed and
I number of men and women injured by
fire panic in the cigar factory of Leo
pold Miller & Son, I53-I57 Crosby street
New York. The fire was in an adjoining
building and the cigar factory was in no
danger.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has negotiated a loan approximatlng
100000 in the New York market at
IL per cent The loan is to run for
six months, with the privilege OF renewal
for like period.
A statement was issued by commit
tee of the Clan-na-Gael showing how the
soldiers of the Irish brigade were cared
for by the association upon their return
from the war in the Transvaal.
William Marconi, the demonstrator OF
wireless telegraphy, arrived in New York
A dinner was given in his honor by the
directors of the Marconi Wireless Iele-
graph Company of America.
Archbishop Ireland has addressed a
communication to the French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, protesting against the
forcible dispossession of the PaSSlonlSt
Fathers in Paris.
In his annual report John Mccullough,
state superintendent of elections in Few
York. charges fraud at last primary cleo
ton in that state.
Susan M. Beers and her son, Elijah,
we're convicted in Belvidere, n. j., OF IN
human treatment of the woman's aged
husband.
THE New Orleans Special was
arecked at Memphis, Tenn, by an open
witch. The engineer and fireman were
ulled.
AT Pittsburg three men were killed
and three badly injured by an explosion
At the eastern end of tie Wabash tunnel
The Adams Express Company has OBJ
aimed control of the Morris European
Express Company
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30
in THE CHINA SEA
A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.
BY SEWARD w...HoPKINs.

BoNxERs soSs3 QT
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-01-30

Colorado Fuel has declared the usual
>cmi-annual dividend Of 4 per cent.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-30
The Russian Amsterdam.

st. Petersburg is one of the few great
cities which have been made and not
born. During his residence in Holland
Peter the Great was so impressed by
Amsterdam, perched upon the waters,
that he determined to abandon Moscow
and build new capital which should
have canals for streets. In his cam
paign against Sweden in 1902 he noted
an island situated in the midstream of
the Neva. Here is my Russian Am
sterdam!' he exclaimed and immedi-
ately began the building Of city there.
The site was a marsh in summer and
frozen morass in winter Two mis-
cradle huts were the only buildings.
The erection Of the citadel, a great fort
in the shape Of a hexagon, with tow
er 800 feet high, on the north bank of
the Neva, was his first care. The cot
tage in which Peter lived while laying
out the city still exists.