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The independent., 1905-12-07
MccURDY's RESIGNATION

McCuRDY'S RESIGNATION
President McCurdy and family surrendere
heir control of the Mutual Life Insurance com
hey held. Mccall still controls the New Yorl
Life and the Equitable has not been mutuazet
,ut public sentiment may yet force out Mccall
Ind place the Equitable under the control of tn
The announcement of the resignation
of President Richard McCurdy General Man
ager Robert H. McCurdy and General Agent
Louis A. Thebaud of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company is welcome to the policyholders
of the company, for it removes from the
management those who are mainly respon-
sible for the Mutuals troubles and makes an
opening for reorganization on better lines
than have been followed in the past Robert
Fl. McCurdy is the son and L uis A. Thebaud
the son-in-aw of Richard McCurdy Each
of these three men have been drawing APP
proximately $1500O0 a year in salaries and
commissions from the company besides their
indirect profits in financial transactions
with the company's money. AS they have
had these soft snaps for many years they
have grown immensely wealthy. A few days
ago President McCurdy asked the trustees
OF the company to cut his salary of $150000
in half but they refused because they were
convinced that the welfare of the company
demanded an end Of the McCurdy regime.
1t is now the duty of the trustees to select
honest and caf able men, in whom the public
can place the most implicit faith and con-
f1dence, to be the successors of the men
who have resigned. This is vastly important
and we trust is realized. President Mccall
of the New York Life and others who have
profited with him at the expense of policy
holders in the same manner that the Nc
Curdys have should at once follow the lead
of the Mutuars officers and make way for
others better qualified for the positions they
hold-Buffalo Evening Times.
McCurdy's concept of that duty has been
unmasked. 1t is to put his relatives and
his relatives-in-law at the crib until this one
family draws 1000 day from the Mutual
1t is to debauch legislators In the Mutual's
House of Mrth' In Albany II Is to waste
trust money in ''yellow-dog funds" 1t is to
buy moral obligation" upon political
parties by contributing to campaign funds.
1t is TO give false testimony under oath.
What relief to know that this view OF duty
In great public trust Is 10 be rebuked
Justice Peckham and EldrIdge Gerry, upon
whom the World called to rid the Mutual
of McCurdyism. are leading the honorable
movement TO that end among the trustees.
IL is most crcditable TO them and 10 those
who are working with them II II real trus.
teeship. not dummy trusteeshlp York
World.
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OLD MAN KILLS eRorHE.s.
James r. York, Beloved for His ri
ness, Murdered While Asleep.

James r. York, Beloved for His Eia.s
ness, Murdered While Asleep.
Lawrenceburg. KY, Aug. "a. Will
lam II. York, up to q few days ago one
of the most highly esteemed mell in
Anderson county, was arrested on his
seventy-second birthday, charged with
the murder of his elder brother, James
r. York, one Of the county's oldest and
wealthiest men, beloved for his unos-
tentatious charity.
j. r. York was killed on Friday last
at the home Of niece, Mrs. Anna
blown off with a shotgun as he lay
asleep in the hall. the assassin firing
thru the front door, which was slightly
ajar.
Only short time before HIS death:
Mr.. York had divided two-thirds OF hts
100000 estate between his two nieces.
and William n. York, now under arr
rest, their titles to be absolute at his;
death. At night Mrs. Wallace and her
children returned from the fair here
to make the awful discovery Of her un-
cle's murder.
When Mrs. Birdwhistle, another
niece, and her family reached home and
learned Of the murder, she was hOrri-
fed to find that her husbands shotgun
which had been left loaded in its ac-
customed place in corner near tho
fireplace, had been taken out and both
barrels discharged. The gun. had been
used in an attempt to put the crime ON
Mr.. Birdwhistle.
From the first, suspicion, backed up
by bloodhounds, pointed to the MUIR
dered mans brother. He is now in jail
at Shelbyville.
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terfere with or prevent private enter
prise from building reservoirs and 9th :
er works for reclaiming arid lands In
order to encourage beet sugar produc-
ton in the United States the congress
asserts its opposition to granting fur
ther concessions to tropical islands.
Congress favors early reclamation ot
small tracts of land, whenever the cost
per acre of reclamation does not ex-
ceed the cost per acre of larger en-
terprises of similar character. Fed
eral congress is urged to enact suca
laws as will enable the national gov
ernment to exercise the rights OF emil
nent domain when necessary to carry
out the purposes of the national 1rri-
CATION law The congress endorses lhe
effective and business like adminlstra-
ton Of the agricultural department ana
the weather and forestry bureaus for
their efficient work in the reclamation
service, but recommends reclamation
service and its representatives cooper
ate with state officers in matters af-
fecting the states landed interests.
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the Japanese exchequer, but further
than that Witte has as yet no instruc-
tions TO go. So the situation stood
yesterday when the conference ad-
journed until Saturday. But the pres
ident did not surrender. He carried
his appeal for peace to the throne of
the Romanoffs. Ambassador Meyers
three-hour audience with Emperor
Nicholas yesterday may have proved a
deciding factor. There is yet no clue
to the response here received from the
emperor, but it is already in Roose-
velt's possession and he is in a position
today to determine his next step. If
the emperor declined absolutely to yield
there may be still time to turn to To-
kio for the last appeal to forego $780,
100000 rather than protract the war
indefinitely at cost of millions in
money and thousands of lives, with
no surety that she will ever be able,
whatever her military successes to
force tribute from hen burly adver-
sary.
Financiers May Take Hand.
Now, too. in the final struggle, the
influence of neutral powers and the
threats of financiers can be brought to
bear to force the combatants to cease
the bloody strife The money mar
kets of the world have already shown
disposition to close their doors to
Russia unless she makes peace In con-
sequence Russia. only the other day
sought to raise an internal loan of
$lOO,0OO,000. It met with little re-
sponse, altho there is plenty of idle
money in Russia. Yesterday a cable
brought the report that as the ATTEMPT
was failure the treasury had resort
ed to issue of paper. Failure to re-
spond to Japanese appeals for loans
would probably place Japan in even a
worse position. These consideration
IN the next few days will prove ALL
powerful
IL is reported the president will send
some one to Magnolia to communi-
cate direct with Witte and Rosen dur
ing their stay there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
Claim Made That Estate Offered
Bribe to Have Strychnine
Verdict Changed
THE PHYSICIANS REFUSED
Representatives Of the Estate Thsn
Rejected the Bill. Of the Doctorsi
for Performing the Autopsy-Physi.s
clans Interested viii Publish Their
Statement Soon.

Honolulu, Aug. 24-The tragic deattfl
of Mrs. Leland Stanford has been ri
called by a sensational story publish
here to the effect that representatiNil
of the Stanford estate offered none
tary inducements to local physicians TO-
change their opinion that strychnines
caused the death of Mrs. Stanford. 4
is alleged that the bill for $3.50 Of Dr.
Wood, who performed the autopsy on;
the body of Mrs. Stanford, had been
refused payment by the estate on the,
ground that the territorial authorities
should have performed the autopsysSS
Wood decided he was employed on be5
half Of the estate by DR.. HumphrieS
and the latter said he considered rel
fusal to pay DR.. Wood to be a1na1lngs
as he considered employment OF q pri-s
vate autopsy physician to be proper.
The Star in its story indicated that in
different interviews, representatives. of
the estate indicated to physicians II
would be satisfactory to the estate II
they could revise their findings OF
poisoning and in such event their bills
were not to be questioned and Drs
Humphries, Day and Wood be paid the
amount Of their claims. All three doc
tors are preparing a statement to place
their version Of the scientific facts be-
fore the public in final justification
of the decision concerning the cause
Of the death Of Mrs. Stanford.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
THE RUSSIAN POSITION.
How They Look Upon the japanese
Compromise.

''oW 1Hey LOOK Upon the Japanese
Compromise.
portsmouth, Aug. 24.-The report is
lnelustriously circulated here that EN-
peror William is responsible for the
attitude of Emperor Nicholas and ev.
erything is traced back to the meeting
OF the two emperors on board the Ho
henzollern in the Finnish gulf. In sup-
port OF this it is positively stated thai
after the interview NJ. Whites instruc-
tlons were made stronger and more un-
yielding. The following authoritative
statement of the Russian position with
regard to the phase of the negotiations
created by the presentation Of the jap
anese compromise today, is made to
The Associated Press:
Statements have appeared in prom
lnent American and English papers
which, while eloquent, studiously mod
crate, and well intended, are unhappily
calculated to rnislead the world as to
the prospects of peace and the genera ]
character Of Japan's so-called new
proposal with which it is contended
Russia can close without loss Of dig
nifty. The regrettable mistake into
which the representatives of those
journals have undoubtedly fallen is OBJ
iviously the result of misleading data
leavened with real but secondary facts.
Thus it is quite true, as those papers
predicted, that the ENJOYS of japan
came forward at yesterdays sitting
with a proposal which was new in
form, but old in substance. It is
equally true that that proposal lacks
the two contentious clauses stipulat-
ing that Russia shall surrender to
Japan her disarmed ships and limit her
naval strength on the Pacific and that
1t reduces the differences between the
two powers to the compass of what is
in appearance single question, the
sale of Sakhalin.
Seemingly, therefore, Japan has also
struck her pen thru the most obnox-
ious clause Of all-that which deals
with indemnfty-and all that she now
asks Russia to do in addition to the
terms already agreed upon is to pur-
chase the northern half of Sakhalin for
a sum of 100000 and 100000 600 yen
(s1.20O,000), and this alleged simplifi-
cation of terms is supposed to provide
Russia with an acceptable basis for a
peace treaty
"At first sight the offer may perhaps
seem new to some. but closer exam
inatfon will show it to be in all essen
tials identical with the proposal al
ready rejected by Russia's plenipoten-
tiaries. Only a person unfamiliar with
war in love with rumanitarianism, for
eign to Russia and incompetent to
judge of Russia's national honor and
dignity, could decry in those terms the
source of new impulse given to the
peace negotiations. But grevious
mistake was committed by those who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24

but got nothing but a shake OF the
head Finally when hard pressed he
again assured the man he could choose
his own work when the man says:
well, believe I'll take tending bar"
One Of the masons who is doing the
work of laying the stone prison wall al
Fort Madison was in the penitentiary
some years ago and worked on a wal
on another side Of the prison. lie is
one of the best masons In ss;le state
but declares that he never saw fine
team Of horses but he had an irresisr-
able desire to own it.
Recently in one of the institutions
a plasterer was doing some work wher
in order to finish the job before his
time expired in the penitentiary, he
worked over time, till about IL o'clock
in order to get the work completed.
It is claimed by the superintendent
and wardens that prisoners and pa
tients will become SO interested in thet,
work that they give their very best
efforts to it and the penitent;aries very
seldom lack workmen of the different
trades to do any work there is on hand
The new hospital at Fort Madison is
now complete and ready to be decorat-
ed, and for the heating and plumbing
to be installed. It Is found that the
institution has an exec ieas artist, who
is anxious to get at the work Of fres-
Going the interior.
The new wall at tire Fort Madison
penitentiary is about fifty feet high
half Of which is in the ground. The
stone is brought in this instance from
Illinois, but most Of the stone used
in the erection of the public institu-
tions is from the Anamcsa peniten-
tiary, where it is quarried from the
state quarries by the prisoners. Many
of the buildings are erected with 1t, the
saving in the purchase Of the stone
making it possible for the approDria-
tions to go very much farther. The
capacity of the quarries, however. J;
not large enough to supply the mater
ial for all the institutions.
The contract for the plumbing and
heating of the new hospital at Fort
Madison has been let to Ed Vollers OF
Fort Madison for $3.50 all the material
to be furnished by Vollers, except some
of the plumbing fixtures
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
FRENCH ULTlMATUM
Premier Rouvier Demands Immediate
Release Of Franco Algerian Citizen
Under Arrest at Paris.

Paris. Aug. 24-At the conclusion of
a special session of ministers today,
premier Rouvier sent instructions to
the French minister at Fez, Morocco
to demand immediate release of the
F'ranco-Algerian citizen now under ar
rest there, informing him a military
demonstration would be made in case
the demand is not complied with. The
foreign office is confident the sultan
will yield before military operations
begin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
WHITE EARTH LANDS.
Petition That the MicheIot Allotment
Stand Is Received.

Washington, Aug. PA petition has
been filed at the Indian office, thru
Senator Clapp, asking that the
recent allotment of White Earth lands
made by Indian Agent Michelet, be al
lowed to stand. The petition is num-
erously signed and follows closely the
statement given out in Minneapolis by
Gus Beaulieu early in the present
month. The petition has been filed to
await the receipt of the report of
Special Agents Downs and Davis, who
have been appraising land on the res
ervation with a view to making an
equitable distribution among the full
blood and mixed blood members of the
tribe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
lenrosx Entirely Cured.

Manila, Aug. 24.-What appears to
he a we'll authenticated instance OF the
cure of. leprosy by the X-ray treatment
has been found here. A few weeks ago
q natient who had been afflicted with
leprosy and who had been under treat
ment for that disease died Of liver
complaint. After the patients death
every part of the body was subjected
to a, searching microscopic examina-
tion, but not the slightest trace of lep-
ROSY could be found.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
ROOSEVELT HAS NOT GIVEN UP.
sss Ha. the Russian Answer, in Re-.
sponse to Appeal by Meyers.

< re mas SO0i uOOotdu SNssovSl -
sppnse to Appeal by Meyers.
Portsmouth, Aug. z4.-The PERSONAL
ity Of President Roosevelt looms lar.
ger and larger in the crisis. He stands
oetween the warning countries insisting
that thu. peace conference shall not fail
Had not he stepped into the breach the
conference would probably already
have gone to pieces. Such hopes as re-
main that It will end In a peace and
treaty, rests upon it. The strength OF the
presidents position is that he COM
mands the confidence Of both sides.
He has already accomplished much, US
ing his good offices to impress upon
each side the necessity of mutual con-
cessior. and both sides have already
yielded. great deal to his persuasion.
Only d single point still separates
them. Int 1t is, as 1t has been from the
beginning. the crux.
It was Roosevelt's compromise prop
ositior. which Baron Komura formally
presented at yesterdays meeting IN
which Japan agreed entirely to with
draw articles 10 and II Surrender OF
interned warships and limitation Of
Russia's naval froce in the far easD
and to substitute for articles and
cessation of Sakhalin and indemnity
new article providing for an arrange
ment by which Japan should get legal
title to the southern half Of Sakhalin
which she possessed before the treaty
of 1875, while Russia should redeem
or purchase her title to the northern
half Of the island for a billion and two
hundred million yen, or six hundred
million dollars While it is Roosevelt's
proposition in substance, the Associat-
ed Press is Informed that as offered
Yesterday it varies slightly from the
terms OF compromise as the president
suggested it to both sides. In exactly
what particular cannot be ascertained.
Russia's Concessions.
sss Russia. it can be stated, while re-
4ect,ng the compromise because it in
cl,ded remuneration for cost Of the
war under another name, was willing
and indeed offered the island of SAX
halin by not only restoring the status
quo existing before the treaty OF 1873,
but to delilnit the frontier and for
eyel. renounce all claim to the southern
hall. Under the financial head, Rus
sia offers to pay literally for main-
ten,ance Of Russian prisoners in Japan.
He, cession of the Chinese eastern
sailroad also VIII place . tidy sum in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
90, Man Unite Against Labor.

Cleveland, Aug. 24.-The Iorllalioii
Of a gigantic federation OF oleuml1ous Us
coal operators to fight the demands ol
the United Mine Workers OF America
will. it is said be the outcome OF the
meeting yesterday at Columbus. The
. association consists of representatives
from all the coal fields in the United
states from Pennsylvania to Missouri.
This is the third meeting of the associa-
tion which was formed in indianapolis
in January. 1t met in Chicago in May
and there advocated the formation OF
a national federation of coal operators.
to have its inception at Columbus yes
terday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
ANOTHER BAD STORM
Three Storms in Week Do Immense
Damage to Railway Property in tho
Vicinity Of Lacrosse.

Lacrosse, Wis, Aug. 24.-The resaslt
of another disastrous storm to the
north and west of Lacrosse today, rail-
road traffic on the Burlington and
Milwaukee roads is again badly demor-
allied, trains running several hours
behind schedules. This was the third
storm within al week, each of which
did immense damage to railroad prop
erty and demoralized traffic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
TAFT AT TACL0BAN
Parade Of the Natives Picturesque
Feature Of the Celebration in Honor
Of the Visiting Americans On samar
Island.

Tacloban, Aug. 24.-The transport
Logan arrived here this morning with
Secretary Taft and party on board.
The distinguished visitors witnessed
great parade of citizens of Tacloban,
who showed every sign of business
prosperity. Governor Curry of Samar
island, introduced the delegation of 500
natives from that place, whose appear
ance constituted one of the most pic
turesque features of the festivities.
The transport sails for Legaspi, island
of Luzon, tomorrow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
Bio Boom in Iron Trade.

New York, Aug. 24.-The total pro-
duction Of anthracite and coke pigiron
in the present month is estimated at
1,7OO,0 tons as against 1,l67672
tons in August, 1904, and 1,741.935 tons
in July of this year. This estimate
would make the total anthracite and
coke pigiron produced in the first eight
months Of this year 14,434,351 tons. as
against 10,2sO.361 tons in the first eight
months of 1904
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
PACKER GIVES BOND
General Counsel for Swift & Co. Re-.
turns to Europe to Give Govern
mont Opportunity to "Prove It's
Charges"

Chicago, Aug. 24.-In pursuance Of
the announced policy of the big pack
ing firms "To give the government a
full opportunity to prove its charges
of violation of the interstate commerce
law, Albert H. Veeder general coun-
sci for Swift & Co., today filed bonds
upon the Indictment returned against
him by the federal grand jury July l..
Veeder returned from Europe to take
this step and furnished bail in the sum
of $4,000.
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Invaluable.

'.In what way could you be Of any
use to an employment bureau?" said
the proprietor.
Simplest thing in the world" re-
piled the shiftless looking applicant.
.You are always in need Of mep to
fill positions, and I'm always out Of a
job.''-Detroit Free Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
GERMS THRIVE ON RADIuM.
New Element Worthless in the Treat
ment Of Diseased Tissue.

New Element Worthless in the Treat
mont Of Diseased Tissue.
New York, Aug. 24.-1t may be that
the market value of the rare element
radium, will be reduced.
Professor Wendell C. Phillips, sur
geon in the Manhattan eye and ear
hospital and visiting surgeon OF the
post graduate hospital, has proved the
utter worthlessness of radium as a
stimulant of diseased tissue, or a de-
stroyer Of the bacteria which made
that condition possible.
A report to that effect In the hanas
of the county medical society is bound
to carry great weight, especially amona
those who have been experimenting
with radium as cure for cancer.
Professor Phillips found that the
germs thrived under radium treat
ment.s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
MORE TINE FOR HOCH
Writ Of supersedeas Issued Today, ths
Case to be Reviewed at the oelobes,
Term Of Court.

Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-on an or-
der from Judge Magruder, of Chicago.
the clerk Of the supreme court issued
today a writ Of supersedeas in the case
of Johann Hoch, convicted Of murder-
ing his wife and sentenced to be hung
tomorrow.
Review of Hoch's case will come up
at the october term Of the supreme
court.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24

New Orleans. Aug. 24.-New cases
of yellow fever at noon, IL; total to
date, 1.56s; deaths, 3; total to date,
222. The educational campaign in the
yellow fever situation is showing itself
in many phases and can be readily no.
ticed in the decrease Of cases under
treatment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.

Tragedy Follows Attempt to Open
Tennessee Mines.
Tracey City, Tenn. Aug. 24.-Today
when the Tennessee Consolidated Coal
Company attempted to open its mines
after shut down of over fourteen
months, j. B. Rust, Dick Henley, John
McGovern and another man were shot
from ambush. Rust and Henley are
dead, and McGovern is mortally
wounded. The company had refused
to recognize members Of the miners
union.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-24
YELLOW FEVER
IN MICHIGAN
A Case of the Disease Discover
ed In Ottawa County,
Brought From South
FEWER DEATHS NOTICEABLE
Educational Campaign in Yellow Fever
Situation is Showing Itself in Many
Phases and is Noted in Decrease Of
Cases Under Treatment-other Cen
eraI News.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Aug. "a. = A
case of yellow fever has been discov-
cred in ottawa county. ten miles from
here The patient is Godfrey Limburg.
telephone lineman, who left New Or
leans week ago last Tuesday.