Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-18
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are heavily insured also. Nine. Patti
was one Of the originators of this kind
of insurance. Her voice-the most in
tangible Of subjects-is insured for
$4,000, at a premium of $125 for each
performance. Paderewskfs hands are
underwritten for s50,000, and for each
Of his concerts temporary policy for
$500 is taken out. Josef Hofmann
goes even farther and sets a price of
$500 on each finger of both hands. AS
a precaution against accident prevent
ing his performance, Kubelik's right
hand Is insured for $4,000 for each
concert and for s5O,0OO against total
disablement-
The steamer bearing ten wounded
and the bodies Of nine of the seamen
who were killed in the Port Arthur
fight on the 10th instant has reached
Sasebo. The wounded and dead were
chiefly participants in the battle be-
tween the Japanese and Russian de-
stroyers. The survivors unite in
praising the desperately heroic attack
on the Russians and tell a story Of a
personal encounter between Japanese
sailor and the captain of the Russian
destroyer, Stereguschtchi. When the
Japanese closed on the Russians, the
sailor sprang aboard the enemy's vessel
and met her commander emerging
from the cabin. Sailor and captain
sprang at one another, but the seaman
30 ha fu fallaH
the Russian officer by striking him on
the head with cutlass. The Russian
endeavorad to rise, but the Japanese
sailor kicked him overheard and he
drowned.
The gist of the supreme courts
findings in the Northern Securities
company case is: A combination by
means Of this holding company was
formed in restraint of commerce, Vio-
lating the anti-combine act. The COM
monopolize interstate commerce in the
localities the subsidiary railways ira
versed. When the natural effect of an
agreement is to prevent competition the
agreement Is in restraint of trade, and
prohibited by law. To prove that a
combination or monopoly, exists with
in the meaning of the law 1t is not
necessary to show that the immediate
effect is to suppress competition or es-
tablish a monopoly. 1t is sufficient to
show that they tend to bring about
these results. Ownership of majority
Of its stock constitutes the control of
corporation, when the inquiry is wheth-
er a combination has been formed to
restrain trade.
Bennett E. Siegelstein, member Of
the assembly, this week introduced in
the New York legislature bill amend
ing the divorce law so as to permit
instead of the present offences, chief
among which are cruel and inhuman
treatment" and such conduct on the
part of the defendant toward the plain
tiff as may render it unsafe and i'm
proper for the former to live with the
latter" Cruel and inhuman treat
ment" has been often defined in the
New York courts. 1t may mean that
a husband has laughed at the literary
aspirations of his wife: that he per-
sistently read a newspaper through be-
fore breakfast; that he told his spouse
that she dressed in bad taste; tina: he
refused to permit her to keep a pet
dog, ETC., without end. If this law
passes the inadvertent batting of an
eyelash on the part of the husband
will make him eligible for the alimony
club.
The Daily Chronicles military cor
respondent in his comment on the
military situation last Wednesday
morning said: "The difficulties of the
Russians at Port Arthur and Niu
Chwang are very serious. 1t is stated
that it is Russia's intention to fall back
indefinitely till she has 100000 troops
enothing Of 10000 more to watch the
Chinese frontier. That is all very
magnificent. But how about their po-
sition when Russia's army has fallen
back indefinitely? Then if Port Ar
thur has not already given way it
must mean the surrender of that
place. as we'll as Niu Chwang and
Vladivostok with or without a strug-
gle. 1t will probably involve the sur
render Of Mukden as we'll, not to speak
Of Harbin. But the Japanese will hard
ly need to follow the Russian retire
ment as far as that. With those points
In their hands, with Korea occupied
and command of the sea assured they
could calmly await developments"
New York dispatch of March IS:
The Hamburg American liner Mluech-
er, which arrived today. brought 1,765
steerage passengers, the majority of
whom were refugees from Russia, who
fled the country to avoid serving in
the army. Many of them gave ac-
counts of their escape across the Rus
sian frontier similar to those related
by the men who came last week on the
Grafwaldersee. Some of them we're
camped for two weeks near the from
tier waiting for chance to get away,
one relater saying that his party, con-
sisting Of 127, waited twelve days in
a thicket, a short distance from the
line, while negotiations were in prog
ress with the customs guards to let
them cross the frontier. Another said
that his party Of ten were concealed
for four days in the hay and straw
stacks of the frontier post, where they
into