Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
.S6.644.232 S3.163.441

Total .S6.644.2 .232 81. 1894
The companies doing a fidelity, casualty,
plate glass surety, employers liability and
burglary business, received premiums ag
gregating $323, ,302.77 and paid losses ag-
gregating $110,S9S.49.
There we're 1877 companies doing business
in the state last year under chapter which
includes all except the mutual assessment
companies. These were divided as fol-
lows: Fire insurance. 1O7; fidelity and
surety, s; accidents and employers liza
bility. 6; plate glass, 4; accident. q bur-
glary, 2; hail. 2; health and accident, 2;
credit, /; fidelity, /; steam boiler. /; surety,
/. The fire companies were divided as fol-
lows: Iowa joint stock companies, IL;
Iowa mutuals, Z; non-Iowa stock COM
panies, Sc; United States branches foreign,
%.
There were 1856 companies organized
under chapter 8, which provides for the
mutual assessment system, as follows:
County mutuals. fire, 1854; state mutuals,
fire, II; tornado exclusively, 3; hail ex-
clusively, Il; plate glass exclusively 1.
The following companies were authorized
to do business in Iowa during 1902: Anchor
Fire, Cincinnati; Bankers Surety, Cleve-
land National Union, Pittsburg; Ameri-
can Credit Indemnity. New York; German
Fire, Peoria; United States Health and Ac-
cident, Saginaw. Mich. The following with
drew from the state during the year: Buff
falo Commercial Buffalo; Buffalo German
Buffalo, Colonial Assurance, New York.
German Fire. Pittsburg; Imperial, United
States branch, New York: United States
Fire, New York. The following are the
new assessment companies authorized to
do business during the year: Farmers
Livestock, Perry; Home Mutual. Des
/
nado. Munterville, Ia: State Farmers Mu-
tual Fire and Tornado. Des Moines; Mutual
Horticultural. Des Moines; Iowa Plate Glass
Mutual, Shenandoah.
The insurance companies paid in fees
last year 345,OOs25 as against $4s. .2O7.5O the
| year before. They paid in taxes 1924, ,567. sc
as against 1197,o74.7O the year before.
Hunter Taken TO the Pen.
Secretary Treat Of the State Board of
Control returned last evening from a visit
to the state penitentiary at Fort Madison
on ofhcial business. While he was there
| he saw Matt Hunter OF Mt. Ayr, brought
| in to begin his twenty -hve-year sentence
| for the murder OF Homer Holland. Hunter
is a spare built man in not very good
! health. BY his second trial he obtained
reduction from life sentence and II he is
good will get out in less than fifteen years
| Hunter ls assigned 10 work on the shoe
contract and while in the prison before
was a model man.
Nurses VIII Get Diplomas.
| The graduation exercises for the train
ing school for nurses at the Institution for
Feeble Minded at Glenwood will occur next
! Thursday. There will be fve who will get
diplomas. as follows: Claude NJ. Van Zandt.
Bertha z. Adams. May Ackerman, Grace
Anderson and Herbert Sanborn. The train
ing schools for professional nurses at the
state institutions are quite popular
The report OF the industrial school for
boys for the month Of May shows an
average attendance OF SIS. Thirteen we're
paroled and six discharged who we're out on
parole. one reached majority and one es-
| capped.
Insurance Examiner Resigns.
C. L. Pennington. state insurance eE-
sminer. today rendered his resignation to
State Auditor Carroll. Mr.. Pennington lives
in Bloomfield and was appointed by Mr.
Carroll on assuming his once the hrst OF
the year. He stated in his letter OF reslg
nation that he found that he could not
afiord TO DO the work Of examining for the