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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
Same Line, Different Branch.

There is n man in Tennessee who,
no matter how many years pass over
his genial head as ex-Gov. Taylor, will
remain to the great majority OF his
friends simply Gov. Bob" His wit Is
al keen as his oratory is clear.
When DR.. Duncan, a noted Southern
divine of the Methodist persuasion, re-
signed from the conference to enter
the business world, it vas announced
that he would "go into insurance"
Insurance." repeated a questioner.
Life or ire?" = .r.
"Why, life, Of course" answered
Gov. Bob with his infectious chuckle.
Hasn't he just resigned from FIRE
insurance ?"-New York Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04

ried couples. The tendency of the
toward families of from four or five
to nine children. To an investigator
going directly from the fashionable
Fifth avenue locality to the crowded
regions where live the foreigners the
contrast in this matter Of child popu-
lation Is extremely striking and gives
force to the suggestion the President
makes in such striking language
New York Press.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
Ladx With Pink Teeth

The newest turn" in Partisan music
halls will shortly be the appearance
OF a lady with pink teeth. She Is a
native OF Canton, but born OF French
parents. Her teeth, which are perfect,
are of a semi-transparent substance
resembling ~pale-colored coral. A den
fist who has examined them say that
they will never decay. They are hard
as diamonds, and the latter gems are
the only material with which a mari
can be made on their surface
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
II. d. GAMBLE,
Notary Public, Ontario.
sTATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

Insurance Department.
], II. c.. Shober. Commissioner Of In
surance Of the State of South Dakota, do
hereby certify that the above is a true
copy of the original Statement now on
file at this office.
In witness whereof. I hav hereunto set
my hand and affiXe the seal of this Of
fee at Pierre, this 9TH day of February,
1903.
(Seal.) II. G. SHOBER,
Commissioner of Insurance.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
Inallrl hnnn ntnnAnt

1, H. c. ShOber, Commissioner Of In
surance of the State of South Dakota, do
hereby certify that the above is a true
copy of the original statement now on file
at this office.
In witness whereof. l have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of this Of
fee at Pierre. this 2nd day of January,
1903.
(Seal) II. G. SHOBER,
Commissioner of Insurance.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
STATE OF SOUTH DAKoTA-1NsUR.

dICt DtpdTINItHI.
/, H.. c.. Shober, Commissioners of In
surance of the State Of South Dakota, do
hereby certify that the above is a true
copy of the original statement now on
file at this office.
In witness whereof. I have hereunto set
flee at Pierre, this 18th day of February,
1903.
(Seal.) Fl. C. SHOBER,
Commissioner of Insurance..
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
Net amount of risks In

force .Sll3, 100, 762
COMPANY'S STATEMENT OF BUSI-
NESS TRANSACTED IN THE STATE
OF SOUTH DAKOTA DURING THE
YEAR.
Premiums on risks written. s. ,S46.18
Amount Of risks written 213, 1920
Losses incurred during the
year 32S235
Losses paid during the year.. 3.232.35
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
S19,737.04
100000
COUNTY
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
of ESSeX-SS-

of EsseX-Ss.
Frederick Frelinghuysen, President.
and Edward L. Dobbins, Secretary of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company,
beng duly sworn, each for himself de-
poses and says that they are the above
described officers of the said Company,
and that on the thirty-tirst day of De-
cCmber last all the above described as
sets were the absolute property of the
said Company free and clear from any
liens and claims thereon, except as
above stated; and that the foregoing
statement with the schedules and ex-
plantations herein contained, annexed, or
referred to, are a full and correct exhibit
of all the assets, liabilities, income and
disbursements, and of the condition and
affairs of the said Company on the said
thirty first day of December last, and for
the year ending on that day, according
to the best of their information, knowl-
edge and belief, respectively.
FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN,
EDWARD l.. DOBBINS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of February, A. d. 1903.
Notarial Seal.) SYDNEY N. OGDEN,
Notary Public.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04

Losses on ledger assets ac-
tuaily sold under cost....... 4e,1se.e GO
All other items. .............. 56,l74.57
Total disbursements ....... 81, 463, 9oo.5s
Balance 50, es7, 1888
w. ASSETS.
Book value of real estate aft
err deducting incun.brances.. $3.50. 10000
stocks owned ....... 4,7s2, 10000
Cash In company's ofice...... 25,309.28
Cash deposited in banks...... 209, 1895
Total SO, es7, 1858
Fidelity and surety .......... 1O2,s07.25
Total assets IS, 700. bG5.ss
v. NON-LEDGER LIABILITIES.
Total claims adjusted and not
In process Of adjIstmcnt.... $s'i74.SSS
Known or reported; proofs
Resisted by principals not ad- -
United by company. ......... 130, 9S9.0S
Aggregate .............. S197. 034.44
Total unearned premiums. III. 297.s7
Total amount of all liabll-
tiles, except capital stock. 1914, 1921
Joint stock capital actually
paid up in cash. 50, OO0, 100000
Surplus beyond capital and
other Liabilities ............ 2,ST6, 233.57
Risks outstanding at the
date Of preceding state
ment ................... $3.50. s74, $4,000
Risks written since preced-
ing statement amman. 10000 ,91S.00
Total risks ............ $50. ST., 65s.OO
Risks cancelled and expired
during the year. .......... j4,319, 964.00
BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH
DAKOTA DURING THE YEAR 1902.
Risks written .............. $3.50, $4,000
Premiums received ,.. 4Jl5.0O
Losses paid ................. None
Losses incurred .............. None
STATE OF MARYLAND, CITY OF
BaltinIore-ss.
Harry Nicodemus, Secretary, of the
Fidelity and Deposit Company, being duly
sworn. depose and say, and each for him
self says, that they are the above de-
scribed officers of the said company, and
that on the thirty-first day of December,
last, all Of the above described assets
were the absolute property of the said
company, free and clear from any liens or
claims thereon, except as above stated,
and that the foregoing statement. with
the schedules and explanations hereunto
annexed and by them subscribed, are a
full and correct exhibit of all the assets,
liabilities. income and expenditures and
of the general condition and affairs of
said company on the said thirty-tirst day
of December, last, and for the year end
ing on that day, according to the best Of
their Information. knowledge and belief
respectively.
JOS. r. STONEBRAKER.
HARRY NICODEMUS.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this
l4th day OF January, 1908.
(SeaD FRED s. AXTELL,
Notary Public.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. COUNTY OF

]. J. Kenny, Vice President, and p. II.
Sims. Secretary of the British America
being duly sworn. depose and say that
the foregoing is a full. true and correct
statement Of the affairs of said Company;
that the said Insurance Company is a
bona-fide owner of at least one hundred
thousand dollars Of actual cash capital,
invested in the State and United States
Stocks and Bonds, or in Bonds and Mort
cages of Real Estate unincumbered, and
worth double the amount for which the
same Is mortgaged; and they are the
above described officers of said Insurance
Company.
J. J. KENNY.
Vice President.
p. II. SIMS,
Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
23d day of January, 1903.
(Notarial Seal.) e
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04

For the year ending December 81, A. d.
1902. of the condition and affairs of the
BRITISH AMERICAN ASSURANCE COM.
PANY OF TORONTO.
Organized under the laws Of the Domin-
ion of Canada made to the Commits
sioner of Insurance of the State OF
South Dakota, in pursuance OF the laws
of said State. Attorneys for service Of
Information furnished by Commissions
er of Insurance). Organized OF incorpo-
rated 1888. Commenced business 1885.
PROPERTY OR ASSETS OF THE COM
AMY.
Accounts due from agents.. 1921, 397.46
Cash on deposit .............. los, 009.2S
Loans on mortgages, being the
first lien on real estate
worth at least double the
amount oaned thereon...... 100000
the company ......'....... s97 ,967.44
Interest due and accrued. -. Il, 401.54
Total assets ............. 81, 400, s65.72
LIABILITIES.
Losses yet unpaid ............ ss3,2s7.os
Losses resisted .............. 7,544.89
Amount of unearned pre-
miums on all outstanding
riSks COZ ,S0O.49
Commissions due agents ...... 6S,260.4S
Total liabilities ............ $T76,892.S9
INCOME OF THE COMPANY DURING
TIE YEAR.
Total premiums for the year. 81 ,352, 324.S9
Interest receipts .............. 3O,570.24
Total receipts ........... 81. $50, S95.13
EXPENDITURES OF THE COMPANY
DURING THE YEAR.
Losses paid ................ 1858. S33.74
Commissions and brokerage
paid to agents .............. IA, 1881
Salaries paid to officers and
employees 66, 12s.4e
Taxes and fees TO insurance
departments ............... 4O,467.59
Printing and advertising 500. ..........
Other expenditures ........... 105, 402.5S
Total expenditures ........ 81, 81, S0S.91
RISKS.
Risks outstanding at the date
of preceding statement. .... .$123,6 32, 755
Risks written since preceding
statement ................ 14O, 943, 325
-
Total risks .$264,5 76, $50
Risks CANCELLED and
expired during the
year ............. .S144, 419,45o
Risks reinsured dur
ing the year ...... 6,4OO,S 800
-- $50, 500, 1868
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04

NhaSc VI up HsuTdnC
and annuities .............
All other receipts from poll
icy holders ................
Amount of interest and rents
received ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Amount received from all
other sources
Total income ..............
EXPENDITURES DURING
Surrender values ...........
Amount paid for death
claims and additions ,.....
Amount paid for matured
endowments and additions.
Amount of other policy
claims paid
Amount OF dividends TO pol
Icy holders ................
Amount to stockholders 80.
Amount of commissions and
salaries paid to agents
and agencies
Amount paid to officers and
home office employees for
salaries and other perquis-
ties
Amounts paid for taxes.
rents, advertising and de-
partment fees
Amount of all other pay
ments and expenditures. 80.
Total expenditures 49,.
COMPANY'S STATEMENT
NESS TRANSACTED IN I
OF SOUTH DAKOTA DU
YEAR.
WhoLA smount of premiums
received in Or from the
State of South Dakota dur
ing the year
Amount paid for losses in
South Dakota during year
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-25

were making demand at this "oppor-
tune" time, when the company is en-
gagged with the conductors and train
men. They wish to have it understood
that they were considering demand
for increased wages and changes in
hours before the trainmen and conduc-
tors contemplated making their de-
mand. To dispel such Impressions they
have decided to wait. The freight
handlers feel confident that their petit
ton for more pay will be granted, as
they are the lowest paid employees Of
the entire system, the average pay E1r
nine hours being $3.50. Their work IS
the hardest of all employees and they be-
leve that they company will give due
consideration to what is asked from
them.
1t is more than likely that the answer
! to the freight handlers will be found
in the proposition that the directors
were celebrating on yesterday. This
| conclusion is reached from the fact that
| the directors have stated in their last
/ letter to the joint committee that due
consideration was to be given to all
employees. 1t is not unlikely that the
| schedule the directors will submit will
cover every branch of the entire system.
| In this manner the company would set
| tie at once any and all disputes Of the
present and restor peace and harmony
! for some time to come.
| The road has promised that the coun-
ter proposition shall be in the hands of
| the trainmen's grievance committee by
| or before ~ o'clock to-day.
| A new feature cropped out of the la
| Dor system on the road yesterday in
| the report that the trackmen are now
organizing 1t is stated that their or
ganization will comprise trackmen, flag
men and bridgemen, and that these
classes of men will be unionized all
| along the system. 1t is supposed that
| this determine ton on their part has
come about through the general scram-
! BILE of all the employees of the road to
get pull at the treasury receipts while
| such movement as the present is in
progress 1t remains to be seen just
how successful these men will be. The
initial lodge of the order was begun at
| Northampton Monday night, at the
| head of the Canal division of the Con-
| solidated system. 1t is being carried on
| under the direction of the International
| Brotherhood for the Maintenance Of
| Way of United States and Canada. The
| new lodge, it is stated, will have juris-
| diction over the Connecticut River di-
vision of the Boston and Maine and Of
the Hartford division of the Consoli-
dated. The men state that as fast as
| the organization of. the other divisions
is completed demands will be made for
increased wages.
1t is not known whether the new
schedule that has been made up in
cludes these workers or not, but if it
does, and an increase has been granted
to all of the ''kickers' who are looking
for more money. there is little wonder
that the directors regard the situation
as serious for the expenditure of large
amounts Of money will be involved
thereby,
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NO INKLING OF MURDERER,
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page)
written in similar melancholy mood. He
was very emotional man.
Mr.. Coatsworth read another letter
written by Pennell to Mrs. Burdick
from Boston in which he said:
Dearest Love: This is also a very
hasty note. I got your letter. I was
not surprised that your note was un-
happy. We seem to be powerless
against our fate. But we had our OPP
portunity and failed to take advantage
of it,"
What did he mean by we had our
opportunity and failed to take advan-
tage of it?' -
II don't know, unless he was refer
ring to the time we went to Atlantic
City and came back again."
| In another letter Pennell said his
heart dragged him to her and would so
long as the breath remained in his
| body, how long that was he did not
care Il am never happy now unless l
am with YOU
What did he ever say to you about
putting an end to his existence?"
Nothing definite"
well, what did he say Of an indefi-
mite nature that would lead an ordinary
| person to believe he contemplated sui
cide?"
He said he would rather be dead
J than crippled or MANNED"
Ell never told her that he would COM
nit suicide.
Tl1n4 t,n nh 1a RI
that you would be without defense
when he was gomez
II don't know
PennelI wrote another letter to her
from the Waldorf Astoria in which he
| said he would be in Buffalo on the next
| day and making an appointment with
her at his office.
This trip has not been happy trip
| for me-" he added. None are or can
be without you. I shall go on despair
ingly but calmly for I am not afraid
of a fate which only your coming to me
will avert I shall see you Saturday.
| If only I could meet you alone again
as I used to then I should be willing
| to die For an hour with you is worth
death or life.''
| When she went to Niagara Falls or
| December she had with her a key tc
| the outer door Of their house and she
carried that key to New York and At
| lantic City.
| "And Mr. Pencil also had a key tc
| the door,"
mot that I know Of
I Where is that key now?"
"At home"
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Local w Gather Report.
New Haven, March "A.


High water to-day, $40 p. m.
]. Opening at 3. Rogowski's March %
and 26.
s: Mrs. Oscar Dikeman and Miss Mil
dred return about April 1 from Rock
ledge, Fla.
Harper's Monthly for April and the
Ladies' Home magazine for April at
! the Pease-Lewis Co.'s.
To-day in Anderson gymnasium the
Hillhouse basketball team will play an
exhibition game with the .Branford
team.
Gilbert johnson, jr.;gof the New Ha-
ven house, was visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Gilbert Johnson, at the Dixon
house, Westerly, over Sunday.
Professor c. A. Lindsey, secretary of
/ the state board of health, was a caller
on DR.. James H. Naylor, clerk of the
Hartford board of health, yesterday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Clark of this city
who have been spending seven weeks
in the Adirondacks, have gone to New
town and are boarding there with Mr.
and Mrs. George w. Clark.
Fire Marshal Gladwin stated yester-
day morning that he had come to the
decision that the fire which occurred
last Saturday evening in the Atwater
homestead at No. so George street was
caused by mice and matches.
d The annual convention of the Work
ing Girls club will be held in Manga
tuck in the early part of May. Next
Saturday there will be meeting of the
directors of the state association with
Miss Peck of this city, and at that time
the date and programme will be def
nitely arranged. Miss Smith, president
of the local club, has just returned
from a. visit to friends and relatives
\ in Watervine, N. Y, and is we'll pleased
4 that Naugatuck has been chosen fol
the state convention.
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THE RAILROAD SITUATION,
CONTINUED from First Page.)

& CONTINUED from First Page.)
rolls and schedules, making transcripts
for the officials. The officials have also
received numerous schedules of other
roads, namely, the Pennsylvania, the
Baltimore and Ohio, and the New York
Central, and few others. On a COM
parison of the various rates of wages
paid it has been found that the present
b scale taken as a whole paid by the Con-
solidated. is a great deal higher than
that paid by any other road.
When the Pennsylvania and several
other roads a few years ago reduced
wages the Consolidated road did not.
The Pennsylvania has within year or
so. raised the wages of all the employees
about 10 per cent, but this merely put
the wage scale where it was before the
so-ealled hard times of 1892. Even with
this increase, which was also made by
some other roads, it was found the scale
of the Consolidated was higher
Should the statement to be sent to the
men to-day call for an increase of from
5 to Is per cent. as some believe it will,
the rate paid by the Consolidated will
be the highest in the United States, and
will prove quite an increased burden to
the road The road is still expending
a large sum for coal contracted for at
high prices during the famine, which
contracts are not yet exhausted.
The freight handlers and car workers
have decided to let their matter rest
for another day or two, though the for
ner expect an answer from the COM
1,opv to-day re1a five to their da,3,o !, RI
for an increase of Is per cent. with pay
for Sunday work and overtime. If no
answer is Forthcoming they will not
press matters. No special meeting of
the men has been called and none is
likely, unless the company sends an an
swer.
The men of both organizations en-
phatically deny the story that they
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REORGANIZATION by Mr.. Coatsworth:
When Mr.. Burdick made you give
him the box containing your letters,
what did he do with it?''
He turned it over to my mother
without removing the letters.
Mrs. Burdick was then excused.
The next witness called with Carol
Burdick, the thirteen-year-old daugh-
ter OF the murdered man, a charming,
unaffected child. She remembered the
morning her fathers body was found.
She remembered the dinner the previous
evening and told of her fathers move
ments up to the time he came into their
room and kissed them good night. Her
sister Marion was in the hall and she
thought she had gone to sleep before
Marion came to bed. Marion had been
sleeping with grandma, but she could
not remember whether she did on that
night or Thursday night. She met her
grandma in the hall on the second floor
on the morning that her papa was
found dead. She did not think she had
her bathrobe on. She thought she was
in her skirts.
Alice. the ten year old sister of Carol,
was then put on the stand. She was
much more interested in what was go
ing on about her. She watched the
| swiftly moving hands of the stenog-
| raphers, took in the Judge with great
wide open eyes and occasionally favored
the district attorney with delightfully."-
pleasant smile. Mr.. Coatsworth asked
the witness a number of questions for
| the evident purpose of showing that a
bathrobe which Mrs. Hull had been in
the habit of wearing had not been worn
by Mrs. Hull for some time, but Alice
declared that she saw it on her grand
mother two or three days ago. Alice
said she did not know that her father
was dead until after breakfast on Fri
day morning when her grandmother
told her. Before she came down to
breakfast she had been told by her
grandmother that her father was lying
Ill in the den; that her grandma said
some one had been in the house and
hurt her father. Later Alice contradict
ed herself by saying it was not until
after beakfast that she learned he was
ill, her grandmother having told her
that papa was lying down on the couch
in the den.
After the examination of Alice the in
quest was suspended until Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock.
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DIAMOND WEDDING.

A Unique Ceremony in Hartford Sum-
day.
Hartford, March PA unique cere-
mony based on the marked character
istic of the Hebrew race, love for the
family relation, took place at the He
brew Institute, Pleasant street, Sunday
night. 1t was gathering of the de-
scendants Of David and Eva Tulin, of
Chomski. province of Grovno, Russia,
and was a celebration of the diamond
wedding of the old couple. who were
married in that town seventy-five years
ago Sunday. They were born in Chon-
ski. have always lived there, and
among their two hundred descendants
are seventy living in the United States,
most Of them in this city. 1t was the
Hartford contingent which gathered to
celebrate the remarkable event i'll the
lives of their progenitors, each of whom
is ninety-five years old.