The Penn's Grove record., 1904-07-22
EMMANUEL
A Severe Storm.

While the rain on Sunday night wa
only a light shower in the region Of
Penn's Grove, a severe electric STORM
passed over the lower part ofSalem couu.
ty.
In Alloway township lightning struck
III three places within a radius OF a hall
mile Ill each instance singular as it may
SEEM, a cedar tree was struck. Nine
COWS and bull were killed out of a
herd OF thirteen registered dairy COW
owned by John l.. Richie, near AIloway.
The COWS were insured for $50 each and
the bull for $40 i'll the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company. There were
no marks on the cattle but the cedar tree
was slightly burned.
Two fine driving horses owned by Day
id Harris, near Alloway, were killed. A
large cedar for many years all old land
mark was shattered to the ground and
partly burned.
At Quinton the iron bridge across AL
loways Creek was struck and a founda-
ton stone moved where the bolt disap-
peared in the ground.
At the residence of Joseph Finlaw a
bolt followed the inside of the chimney
and came out a fue in the kitchen.
Kitchen utensils were strewn over the
floor and a handle melted off the tin
ware.
During the storm lightning struck a
barn belonging to Joseph Shoemaker. on
the Lewis Hires farm, between Roads
town and Shiloh. The barn was fired
and burned to the ground; also another
barn and wagon house.
Thov ci1ocoo5a1 -, ,o+t;,-4Lo l:a
out OF the barn except IN calf, which
was burned to death. Seven hundred
bushels of wheat, this years hay r
and a lot of farming implements were
all destroyed.
The Prudential Insurance company
has on view at the Worlds fair at
st. Louis an exhibit of life insurance
methods and results in advance of
anything hitherto attempted by the
insurance companies.
The location is in Palace of Educa-
ton, where the company occupies a
space OF 30X50 feet. The exhibit in.
cludes a large model of the home
office buildings at Newark, a stained
glass reproduction of the rock .ot
Gibraltar, illuminated by electricity.
and us charts, diagrams, photographs.
ETC., which explain on a large scale
the inner workings of the life insur.
ance business.
The charts exhibited cover the en-.
tire range of life insurance manage
ment from organization and admins.
tration to the resultsto policy-holders
mortality experience, medical stats
tics, etc.
The exhibit brings out the fact
that at the beginning of 1903 there
were over 1900, 600 life insurance
policies in force with ordinary and
industrial companies, as compared
with 100000 homes owned in tn,
United States 5000, 900 savingsbanl
depositors, 1900, 900 fraternal orde
certificates, and 1900, 600 buildins
loan certificates.
The increase in the number of in
dustrial policy-holders in the United
States during the decade ending will
1900 is shown to have been 189 pe
cent which compares with an increas
of 40 per cent. in the wealth of til,
United States; of 43 per cent. in tn
number of savings-bank depositors
and Of % per cent. in the population
during the same period. Other in
teresting diagrams illustrate tb
VIDE extent of industrial insuranc
In different parts Of the world
showing that there are now NOR
than 100000 900 industrial policies i
force in the different countries. adv